MISC. 1920'S NEWSREELS #6

FS23 WH MCAULIFFE EVENT HEAD ON POOL 3 1845 CBS POOL TERRY MCAULIFFE [19:44:24] MCAULIFFE>> What a great day. Let me thank Dorothy for being such a great first lady. 13 million more meals were served and 90 -- served to needy children when she was first lady. I would like to thank congressman don buyer, our speaker, our majority leader for the great work they have done. I also want to thank great campaign that has done a great job for the commonwealth of Virginia. And I want to say on behalf of all of us, I want to get a great offer of thanks to our great [19:45:30] governor and first lady Pam Northam. Thank you for everything you have done for the commonwealth of Virginia. And a huge thank you to our democratic ticket. We have the first woman lieutenant governor in Virginia's history right here. [Applause] And we have got with her our great attorney general is going to defend Virginia going. I thank you for the. The press are really going to with amazing team we have in place but to all of you here today, let me say thank you. I cannot think of a better place to be thin on the beautiful man with our beautiful president Joe Biden. [19:46:30] [Applause] Let me just say this. It is amazing how far can you has come over the last eight years. I remind everybody in this audience that when we took office we were facing the most anti-women anti-gay anti-environment, pro-gun legislation and the united States of America. We inherited a state in crisis. But it is going to take time. Time to move forward and to lift all jillions of. -- All virginians up. It is what I did as the 72nd governor of the commonwealth of and it is what I am going to do as the 74th governor of [19:47:32] Virginia. I woke up every single day trying to make life better for all rigid. We created new jobs and new people going to work. Personal income went up by 14% when I was governor and I was very proud that unemployment crashed from 5.8 down to 3.3 percent in every city and county in the commonwealth of Genia. In -- of -- of Virginia. I was willing to work with reasonable Republicans to bring jobs to every single corner of the commonwealth. We linden -- leaned in on clean [19:48:36] energy, expanded education to thousands of our children here in Virginia. And speaking of education, I would like to give a shout out to the best professor we have at northern Genia college. Our own Dr. Jill Biden. And she is doing a great job representing our country in the olympics, but working together we came so far but we have a long way to go. Covid has been so tough for so many families. We must take this opportunity to bring a stronger Virginia where every single Genia can thrive. -- Virginian can thrive. [19:49:38] That is why I have released pages of detailed policy plans so everyone knows I will do as coven -- do as governor. We will create thousands of new high-paying jobs here in Virginia. I promise you we will make sure virginians have high pay and benefits and we will get paid sick days here in the commonwealth of Virginia and we will get family radical lead here in the commonwealth of Genia. -- Of Virginia. And I will raise the minimum wage to $13 in the next three years. We will reduce health care costs, and that starts by taking down drug who have raised drug prices. I will renegotiate and I will get upgrading sunlight laws [19:50:41] expose greater price increases I promise you I will not allow tolerant pharmaceutical is coming into Virginia and ripping off our citizens. I will hold them accountable. My plan will lift up every child Russ Virginia by focusing on preparing our students for jobs of the 21st century and I promise I will raise the teachers pay above the national average for the first time in Virginia's history. And I promise you as governor, I will look at rod band access to every single Virginia home. Folks, that is why I am running for governor. I am running for you. My opponents, he is not running [19:51:44] for you. He is running for Donald Trump folks, don't take my word for it the man has said so himself. He has said, and this is a direct vote, Donald represents so much of why I am running. He said he is honored to have Donald Trump's endorsement. In fact, he has endorsed him three times so you have got to ask yourself why is it that Glenn young Kim and Donald Trump are so close -- that he and Donald Trump are so close? Because they share an agenda, an agenda that is completely out of touch virginians. [19:52:45] -- Touch with virginians. He launched his campaign on an election campaign based on Donald Trump's conspiracy. About the election and for five months that is the only plan he had on his website. He called it the most important issue. I just want to clear it all up for you, Joe Biden won that election fair and square. Right? [Applause] [Chanting Terry] President Biden: Thank you -- Terry: Thank you. And weeks ago, we saw a shocking video in which Glenn admits behind closed doors what he [19:53:45] wants to do as governor. He was caught on tape saying that when he is elected governor , he will go on the offense and defund planned parenthood and defund abortions in Virginia. We have seen this playbook for. These style of Republicans tried to shut down every single one of our facilities for women, and then they tried defund planned parenthood. Bill after bill came to my desk. I vetoed those bills, I stop them before, I will stop them again, and I will do everything I can to be a brick wall that protects women's rights in Virginia. But the worst part of the video, he is caught on tape admitting that he is lying to the voters. He is saying to this tape he [19:54:47] cannot tell his voters his real agenda because if he does, he will lose his election, and this is what people hate about politicians lying directly there -- directly to their face. Let's take the economy. He lies about the Virginia economy every single day. He says we are in a ditch. A ditch? Governor Northam and I give this private equity guy little fact on economics because just last week, Virginia was just named the top state in America for business for the second year in around and the only state to get it twice. So with lies like that is no surprise that he is the first candidate in 36 years to refuse [19:55:52] to debate his opponent at the Virginia bar association. Think about that. He is scared to debate me. He is a chicken. [Applause] Glenn, I will debate you anywhere you want, anytime you want. Let's go. But instead of debating him tomorrow, which has gone on for 36 years, I am here tonight to tell you about Virginia's plan to move forward. We will create jobs and we will give every single child a world-class education. The election is just over 100 days away between now and November 2. I need your help, I needed to work every single day and night. Sleep is way overrated I need you in the game because we can [19:56:54] take Virginia to the next level. We can do it. Let me say this when Joe Biden was sworn in on January 20, Joe Biden was hard at work adding our country back on track. Thanks to our efforts, we have gotten over 9 million shots in the arms of. -- Virginians. The American rescue plan has injected new life into our, keeping small businesses afloat and providing them $3 billion -- $3 million in funding for our Virginia schools. Right now, the families of 1.5 million children in Virginia are now receiving a little extra help and that is all thinks Joe [19:57:54] Biden's child tax credit. What did my opponent Glenn Duncan have to say about the American rescue plan? Do you know what he called it? Unnecessary. I have got to tell you, I can't think of anything more necessary than having a president and governor who are committed to lifting up all region. Strengthening our economy that's what we can. President Biden is always been a great friend Virginia. -- Friend to Virginia. He was a great ally. He leaned in on critical issues and worked with me when we saved the port of Virginia. He helped initiatives for historically black colleges and universities. And when I needed help to unclog [19:58:55] all of these Virginia road, who did I call? Joe Biden, and he helped me secure the largest transportation loan in the history of the United States of America. And he worked with me and made Virginia the first state of America to help and veteran homelessness. He has been her time and time again and can you imagine what we will get done for Virginia? Folks, this state is going to take off like a booster rocket. Ladies and gentlemen, our president Joe Biden. ?? ?? PRESIDENT BIDEN [20:00:15] BIDEN>> Hello Virginia. So great to be back. It goes without saying, how much I appreciate Ralph Northam over there, by the way. Because of the hard work of the American people, we put ourselves in a position to control the virus instead of it controlling us. Here in Virginia, covid-19 debts and hospitalizations are down 90% since January. 54% of your population is fully vaccinated. 82% of your seniors, both of which are above the national average. This did not happen by itself. It is due to the heroic vaccination programs, one of the greatest, most complex challenges in American history. It happens when we work [20:01:29] together. The federal government, state, cities, the private sector, and all Americans. It happens when you have governors like Ralph, a key partner in coordinating FEMA and the National Guard to move resources around the state to get shots in arms. It happens when you are honest with people. I know folks are watching the number of cases rising again and are wondering what it means for them. Here is the truth: If you are fully vaccinated, your Seyfert with a higher degree of direction. If you're not vaccinated, you are not protected. What we have now is a pandemic of the unvaccinated. By the way, you know the old expression. Our conservative friends have finally had a call. They have seen the lord. [20:02:30] Whether it is on Fox News or it is the most conservative commentators or governors. Thank got the governor of Alabama had one of the lowest vaccination rates in the country and is now, I am genuinely complimenting her. That's ok. That is all right. Let him talk. [Indiscernible] >> That is ok. Look. It isot a trump rally. Let him holler. Nobody is paying attention. [Applause] [20:03:32] >> With all the covid-19 debts and hospitalizations are among young vaccinated people. I know it has gotten a bit politicized but I hope it is starting to change. It is not about blue or red states or guys like that hollering. It is about life and death. I know the governor will work like the devil to finish the job. Thank you. Look, we have another great friend. They've been around a long time and I get to campaign for somebody who I have agreed with more on basically everything. We go back all the weight to roots in Syracuse New York. [Applause] >> And before that, I'm Ashley talking about Dorothy. [Laughter] >> Look, she has always been [20:04:33] there for me and Jill when we needed her most. She was in incredible first lady of Virginia as she will be again. She is the very best. Dorothy, speaking of first lady, I'm Jill husband -- Jill's husband. She want to be here tonight, but if you turn on the olympics and watched dmsa, you will see her standing there cheering with them. The Japanese prime minister who I invited as a first person to come to the white house as head of state made it clear. He didn't want me. He wanted her to go. He is a man of incredible judgment. [Laughter] >> It's great to be with my friend and your once and future governor. [Applause] [20:05:33] Think about this. You will not find anyone who knows how to get more done for Virginia than Teri. That is a fact. You don't have to wonder what kind of governor he will be. You know what he was and what he will be again. He was a great governor of Virginia and he will be greater this time because he is more going for him. Virginia, you got to elect him again. [Applause] >> I mean this. Not just for Virginia but for the country. The country is looking. This is a big deal. 200609 Terry and I share a lot in common. I ran against Donald Trump, and so is Terry. [Applause] And I whipped Donald Trump in Virginia, and so will Terry. [Applause] [20:06:37] >> I tell you what, guy he is running against is an acolyte of Donald Trump for real. I don't know where these guys come from. I really mean it. Above all, we shared the same vision about these results. Maybe more importantly, why we got involved in politics in the first place. The very wealthy, and I respect people who make a lot of money. You should be able to be a millionaire or billionaire as long as he pay her fair share, but here's the deal. They don't need me to protect them. I got involved in politics because of the neighborhood I came from. The towns I came from. [20:07:38] Deliver results for hard-working people if you just give them a chance. Just a chance. They never let the country down. [Applause] >> You know, I really mean that. That's not hyperbole. I have been in office now for six months as of a couple days ago. [Applause] >> I think the administration has a lot to be proud of. We vaccinated over 160 and million Americans. -- 160 million Americans. We credit 3 million more jobs than any administration has in the entire presidential history. It's never happened before. We are now estimated to be on track for an economy that outgrew three .5%. [20:08:43] Everything from Wall Street suggested we would build this economy just 7% this year. That is the highest growth in more than four decades in America. In fact, it is the best job growth in the world right now. [Applause] >> One of the biggest tax cuts in the history for families in America, it went into effect just last week. [Applause] I really mean this. It is about time that ordinary hard-working people get a tax break. [Applause] >> Seeing that money going into your bank account right now. I'll tell you what it means for Americans. We will cut tired -- child party [20:09:44] in half because of it. [Applause] -- Child poverty. Trickle down has never worked. Let's build an economy from the bottom up in the middle out. That's who we are. By the way, the wealthy have never done poorly when the middle class and working class people do well. They do well. Teri understands -- Terry that it starts with the American rescue plan to give relief to those needed to most. People were on their heels, a lot of them not down. Those rescued checks went to 80% of the adults in Virginia that provides a little bit of breathing room for people. That is to say and I really mean this, my dad said it's on about your paycheck, it is about your dignity. It is about respect. It is about your place in the [20:10:44] community. It's about having Joey. When we left everything in skin and moved to Delaware, he said Joey, it is about a little breathing room. That's all people ask for people -- ask for. Just a little extra room. Aid for small businesses. It helps them higher and open doors. Excuse me. [Applause] >> Cities and counties can keep their police, firefighters, and first responders on the job. Educators on the job. The American rescue plan lowers health insurance premiums for those buying the affordable care act by 40% on average. It saves people $600 a year. [Applause] >> He knows that the work [20:11:45] continues that health care should be a right, not just a privilege. As I said, when I was running with the both of them, it's not enough to build back. I mean it sincerely. America is the only nation where it has faced a crisis and come back stronger than before the crisis. Only one. I'm not joking. We have to build back and build back better. It's amazing how that has caught around the world isn't it? We know along with mark Warner and Tim kaine. [Applause] >> We are working on this in congress. It means modernizing our physical infrastructure. Folks, we use to invest than any other country in r&d. We had the number one infrastructure in the world. Best roads, highways, roads, ports. It's about replacing lead pipes [20:12:47] that are poisoning our kids in the water system. Delivering high-speed internet to every single virginian, whirl and urban. Making sure to buy American so when we invest in jobs and we invest in jobs and repurchase all this, American workers are doing the work. It's not that complicated. We share the belief that building back that are means investing and also our human infrastructure. That is my plan. These are all the things he is fighting for. We believe that if we educate our children earlier, they do better. [Applause] >> No matter what background they come from, all the studies in great universities and this one pointed out that if a kid goes to not daycare but preschool beginning at age three, they increase by 58% to [20:13:50] go all the way on through school and community college. That is why we support universal pk for three and four-year-olds. [Applause] >> If we get a gun -- if we get it done, you won't have to pay for it in Virginia. We believe 10 years in education is enough to compete in a 21st-century economy. That's what I want to make two years of community college available to every single American [applause] >> We can afford to do this. I do have one concern. My wife Jill is teaching full-time still as a community college professor. [Laughter] [Applause] >> But Terry's gonna be her boss again. She teaches at northern Virginia community college. By the way, since the time she [20:14:53] started working there, she has never stopped teaching when we got election, -- elected, she thought I would object to her still teaching. I strongly supported it. Teaching is that what she does, it's who she is. Folks, look. The fact is, the idea that we are able to bring together people and give them great opportunities is totally within what key -- we can afford to do this. At the very wealthy just start paying their fair share just a little bit. We both know how hard the pandemic has been on working families, especially women. 2 million women are still unable to go into the workforce during this pandemic due to things like not being able to afford childcare. Look, when I got elected to the senate, I was 29 years old. Between the time I got elected and before I was sworn in, there [20:15:54] was a car accident and my wife and daughter were killed. My two boys almost died. By the way, I think all firefighters who took the jaws of life three rc get them out on top of their dead mom and sister. They save their lives. I needed help. I was a senator making $42,000 a year. I could no longer afford daycare and someone to take care of my kids and fly. Thank god, I have a sister who is my best friend. She and her husband without my asking moved in and help me raise my kids, my mom and brother as well. I got lucky. Look, the idea as a single mom or dad working and having young children is awful hard. That is why Teri and I want to expand paid leave and childcare in this country. [Applause] [20:16:56] >> By the way, we have been talking about this for a long time. We have been talking about high drug prices. How incredibly high they are and how we keep getting ripped off. We pay more for drugs than any other major country in the world. Here's the deal. There is a way to do it. Let medicare negotiate drug prices. [Applause] >> Guess what? All prices will come down. It will pay for itself. I promise you, I will get that done. [Applause] >> Look, here's the deal. We both know how it will be paid for. We support asking the wealthiest 1% who got that $2 trillion tax cut, not a penny was paid for with trump tax cuts. Guess what? [20:17:59] Just beginning to pay their fair share, I come from the corporate capital of the world. More corporations are registered in Delaware than every other state combined. I have been elected 36 years there because I was honest with them. Look, 50 of the biggest corporations in America on the fortune 500. 50 of them do not pay single solitary any in federal taxes. Not one. They made over -- I'm not doing this to get that reaction. I want to make it clear to you. [Applause] >> They made over $40 billion. If they paid a minimum tax of 15%, they raise dollars we need to do all this education were talking about here. Look, when I was vice president and the president asked me to check out what major [20:18:59] corporations knew the most, along with the secretary of commerce, we reviewed that over 350 CEOs and major corporations said they need a better, -- better educated workforce. Guess what, they are not spending any money to make that happen. If we want to make sure America runs the world, and means the most powerful economy in the world, we should make sure that we have a chance, these millionaires and billionaires, I am not one of these guys who said you can't it or millionaire. Just pay your fair share. [Applause] Look, all told, experts in the world bank like Wall Street like moody's, estimate that my plant will grow the economy and create [20:20:02] 2 million more jobs over the 16 million they said in 10 years. Good paying jobs. A significant amount is jobs will pay 30-50 dollars an hour. 90% of the jobs in our infrastructure plant go to those without a college degree. We have a blue-collar blueprint to rebuild America. Once in a generation investment. American jobs and families will position us to win the competition in the 21st century. We have got to get it done. We need a partner like Terry who is not only respected in the state but is respected all across America who knows how to get it done. Folks, the lesson he was governor, the Virginia economy bloomed. An appointment went down in every single county including [20:21:03] rural Virginia by nearly 50%. He attracted major companies to the state. Look how it grew? And if you in the business note that the first thing you try and attract -- do to attract a company to your town is they ask what is the highway system? Do have access to an interstate is the port available? Do I have broadband echo all the things we will build. Look, he resident public works. By the way, Virginia has a whole bunch of veterans and active-duty military members, more than almost any other state. And guess what? [Applause] >> American rescue plan marks one of the biggest investments in veterans health in a long, long time. The world va hospital's that are 50 years old that have shortages of doctors and nurses. No veteran from my son who [20:22:05] passed away should pick up a phone and say or have a relative say I need help and say we cannot see you for a while. We owe them immediate action. Immediate. [Applause] It is a sacred obligation. >> I note no governor who set up for military families more than this guy. A blinder good skills to the jobs. Like cybersecurity and health care. He also worked with the general assembly to fund more veteran centers. He understands, he knows. He knows about crime prevention as a trying -- top rarity. He knows how to use funding to provide law enforcement personnel with more resources and not fewer resources. Look. [20:23:06] We need to help him in a lot of ways. We need to do away with chokeholds, all those things, I agree. We also need them to have more social workers, more psychological help. More psychologists. And where it happens, it works. These keep communities safe and he is taking on the gone -- gun lobby without infringing any second amendment rights, including keeping guns out of the hands of domestic abusers. [Applause] >> Here's what else. He will get a $15 minimum wage. Think about it, folks. Maybe some of you know people. Anybody working 40 hours a week, making less than $15 an hour is in fact living in poverty as defined I poverty in America. [20:24:08] It should not happen. Period. [Applause] >> An amazing number of American people who are struggling have rental costs and housing costs that are at least 30-35% of their income. How do you do that? How do you make it? Especially if you have a child? Look folks, housing that is affordable will be in this plan. When he thinks about the climate crisis, if it's about three things. Jobs, jobs, jobs. [Applause] >> There is a reason why we will lead the world. I will close with this. I'm getting wrapped up in this. Sorry. [Applause] >> Look, this election and in [20:25:11] 2022, the question that the American people will ask is whether or not we are helping them and their families. I've we are giving them a shot. We're doing them and even shut. We understand what they are going through. Can we deliver for them? As Democrats, we gotta show that we understand. We are delivering for them. We are keeping our promises. We just need to keep making the case just as the Republican party today offers nothing but fear, lies, and broken promises. Just think about it. Turn on the television and sing a replay of what happened on January 6. And saying I was told there were a lot of peaceful wonderful people? Think about it. It is bizarre. We have to keep cutting through the Republican fog that government is the problem. [20:26:13] We gotta show that we the people are the solution. We are the most unique country -- think about this. We are the most unique country in the history of the world. Not a joke. Everyone -- every other countries put together by race, religion, backgrounds, except for the U.S. We are based on the only country in the world based on the proposition that we hold these truths to be self-evident because all women and men are created -- equal. Life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness. We have never walked away from it the Republicans have. Never walked away. [Applause] >> Every administration, we move that needle further and further. You will have to go out and win this thing. When races up and down the ticket. We gotta protect your majority and house of delegates. [20:27:13] We gotta elect Mach 2 attorney general. We need her back as era lieutenant governor. We have been here before. He knows what to do. He knows how to get things done. Virginia. We did it in 2020 and in the battle for the soul of America, people voted. We had to do this again. Time and again, no matter what, you can never stop the American people from voting and they are trying like hell. The power and assault, -- the power in all American people. Our children and grandchildren will look back and know that it was at this moment that America one the 21st century again. It starts now. Virginia, it starts with Teri. [20:28:14] It starts with you. God bless you all and may god protect our troops. Thank you, thank you, thank you. [Applause] ?? [end]

FS24 WH MCAULIFFE EVENT CUTS POOL 4 1855 CBS POOL TERRY MCAULIFFE [19:44:24] MCAULIFFE>> What a great day. Let me thank Dorothy for being such a great first lady. 13 million more meals were served and 90 -- served to needy children when she was first lady. I would like to thank congressman don buyer, our speaker, our majority leader for the great work they have done. I also want to thank great campaign that has done a great job for the commonwealth of Virginia. And I want to say on behalf of all of us, I want to get a great offer of thanks to our great [19:45:30] governor and first lady Pam Northam. Thank you for everything you have done for the commonwealth of Virginia. And a huge thank you to our democratic ticket. We have the first woman lieutenant governor in Virginia's history right here. [Applause] And we have got with her our great attorney general is going to defend Virginia going. I thank you for the. The press are really going to with amazing team we have in place but to all of you here today, let me say thank you. I cannot think of a better place to be thin on the beautiful man with our beautiful president Joe Biden. [19:46:30] [Applause] Let me just say this. It is amazing how far can you has come over the last eight years. I remind everybody in this audience that when we took office we were facing the most anti-women anti-gay anti-environment, pro-gun legislation and the united States of America. We inherited a state in crisis. But it is going to take time. Time to move forward and to lift all jillions of. -- All virginians up. It is what I did as the 72nd governor of the commonwealth of and it is what I am going to do as the 74th governor of [19:47:32] Virginia. I woke up every single day trying to make life better for all rigid. We created new jobs and new people going to work. Personal income went up by 14% when I was governor and I was very proud that unemployment crashed from 5.8 down to 3.3 percent in every city and county in the commonwealth of Genia. In -- of -- of Virginia. I was willing to work with reasonable Republicans to bring jobs to every single corner of the commonwealth. We linden -- leaned in on clean [19:48:36] energy, expanded education to thousands of our children here in Virginia. And speaking of education, I would like to give a shout out to the best professor we have at northern Genia college. Our own Dr. Jill Biden. And she is doing a great job representing our country in the olympics, but working together we came so far but we have a long way to go. Covid has been so tough for so many families. We must take this opportunity to bring a stronger Virginia where every single Genia can thrive. -- Virginian can thrive. [19:49:38] That is why I have released pages of detailed policy plans so everyone knows I will do as coven -- do as governor. We will create thousands of new high-paying jobs here in Virginia. I promise you we will make sure virginians have high pay and benefits and we will get paid sick days here in the commonwealth of Virginia and we will get family radical lead here in the commonwealth of Genia. -- Of Virginia. And I will raise the minimum wage to $13 in the next three years. We will reduce health care costs, and that starts by taking down drug who have raised drug prices. I will renegotiate and I will get upgrading sunlight laws [19:50:41] expose greater price increases I promise you I will not allow tolerant pharmaceutical is coming into Virginia and ripping off our citizens. I will hold them accountable. My plan will lift up every child Russ Virginia by focusing on preparing our students for jobs of the 21st century and I promise I will raise the teachers pay above the national average for the first time in Virginia's history. And I promise you as governor, I will look at rod band access to every single Virginia home. Folks, that is why I am running for governor. I am running for you. My opponents, he is not running [19:51:44] for you. He is running for Donald Trump folks, don't take my word for it the man has said so himself. He has said, and this is a direct vote, Donald represents so much of why I am running. He said he is honored to have Donald Trump's endorsement. In fact, he has endorsed him three times so you have got to ask yourself why is it that Glenn young Kim and Donald Trump are so close -- that he and Donald Trump are so close? Because they share an agenda, an agenda that is completely out of touch virginians. [19:52:45] -- Touch with virginians. He launched his campaign on an election campaign based on Donald Trump's conspiracy. About the election and for five months that is the only plan he had on his website. He called it the most important issue. I just want to clear it all up for you, Joe Biden won that election fair and square. Right? [Applause] [Chanting Terry] President Biden: Thank you -- Terry: Thank you. And weeks ago, we saw a shocking video in which Glenn admits behind closed doors what he [19:53:45] wants to do as governor. He was caught on tape saying that when he is elected governor , he will go on the offense and defund planned parenthood and defund abortions in Virginia. We have seen this playbook for. These style of Republicans tried to shut down every single one of our facilities for women, and then they tried defund planned parenthood. Bill after bill came to my desk. I vetoed those bills, I stop them before, I will stop them again, and I will do everything I can to be a brick wall that protects women's rights in Virginia. But the worst part of the video, he is caught on tape admitting that he is lying to the voters. He is saying to this tape he [19:54:47] cannot tell his voters his real agenda because if he does, he will lose his election, and this is what people hate about politicians lying directly there -- directly to their face. Let's take the economy. He lies about the Virginia economy every single day. He says we are in a ditch. A ditch? Governor Northam and I give this private equity guy little fact on economics because just last week, Virginia was just named the top state in America for business for the second year in around and the only state to get it twice. So with lies like that is no surprise that he is the first candidate in 36 years to refuse [19:55:52] to debate his opponent at the Virginia bar association. Think about that. He is scared to debate me. He is a chicken. [Applause] Glenn, I will debate you anywhere you want, anytime you want. Let's go. But instead of debating him tomorrow, which has gone on for 36 years, I am here tonight to tell you about Virginia's plan to move forward. We will create jobs and we will give every single child a world-class education. The election is just over 100 days away between now and November 2. I need your help, I needed to work every single day and night. Sleep is way overrated I need you in the game because we can [19:56:54] take Virginia to the next level. We can do it. Let me say this when Joe Biden was sworn in on January 20, Joe Biden was hard at work adding our country back on track. Thanks to our efforts, we have gotten over 9 million shots in the arms of. -- Virginians. The American rescue plan has injected new life into our, keeping small businesses afloat and providing them $3 billion -- $3 million in funding for our Virginia schools. Right now, the families of 1.5 million children in Virginia are now receiving a little extra help and that is all thinks Joe [19:57:54] Biden's child tax credit. What did my opponent Glenn Duncan have to say about the American rescue plan? Do you know what he called it? Unnecessary. I have got to tell you, I can't think of anything more necessary than having a president and governor who are committed to lifting up all region. Strengthening our economy that's what we can. President Biden is always been a great friend Virginia. -- Friend to Virginia. He was a great ally. He leaned in on critical issues and worked with me when we saved the port of Virginia. He helped initiatives for historically black colleges and universities. And when I needed help to unclog [19:58:55] all of these Virginia road, who did I call? Joe Biden, and he helped me secure the largest transportation loan in the history of the United States of America. And he worked with me and made Virginia the first state of America to help and veteran homelessness. He has been her time and time again and can you imagine what we will get done for Virginia? Folks, this state is going to take off like a booster rocket. Ladies and gentlemen, our president Joe Biden. ?? ?? PRESIDENT BIDEN [20:00:15] BIDEN>> Hello Virginia. So great to be back. It goes without saying, how much I appreciate Ralph Northam over there, by the way. Because of the hard work of the American people, we put ourselves in a position to control the virus instead of it controlling us. Here in Virginia, covid-19 debts and hospitalizations are down 90% since January. 54% of your population is fully vaccinated. 82% of your seniors, both of which are above the national average. This did not happen by itself. It is due to the heroic vaccination programs, one of the greatest, most complex challenges in American history. It happens when we work [20:01:29] together. The federal government, state, cities, the private sector, and all Americans. It happens when you have governors like Ralph, a key partner in coordinating FEMA and the National Guard to move resources around the state to get shots in arms. It happens when you are honest with people. I know folks are watching the number of cases rising again and are wondering what it means for them. Here is the truth: If you are fully vaccinated, your Seyfert with a higher degree of direction. If you're not vaccinated, you are not protected. What we have now is a pandemic of the unvaccinated. By the way, you know the old expression. Our conservative friends have finally had a call. They have seen the lord. [20:02:30] Whether it is on Fox News or it is the most conservative commentators or governors. Thank got the governor of Alabama had one of the lowest vaccination rates in the country and is now, I am genuinely complimenting her. That's ok. That is all right. Let him talk. [Indiscernible] >> That is ok. Look. It isot a trump rally. Let him holler. Nobody is paying attention. [Applause] [20:03:32] >> With all the covid-19 debts and hospitalizations are among young vaccinated people. I know it has gotten a bit politicized but I hope it is starting to change. It is not about blue or red states or guys like that hollering. It is about life and death. I know the governor will work like the devil to finish the job. Thank you. Look, we have another great friend. They've been around a long time and I get to campaign for somebody who I have agreed with more on basically everything. We go back all the weight to roots in Syracuse New York. [Applause] >> And before that, I'm Ashley talking about Dorothy. [Laughter] >> Look, she has always been [20:04:33] there for me and Jill when we needed her most. She was in incredible first lady of Virginia as she will be again. She is the very best. Dorothy, speaking of first lady, I'm Jill husband -- Jill's husband. She want to be here tonight, but if you turn on the olympics and watched dmsa, you will see her standing there cheering with them. The Japanese prime minister who I invited as a first person to come to the white house as head of state made it clear. He didn't want me. He wanted her to go. He is a man of incredible judgment. [Laughter] >> It's great to be with my friend and your once and future governor. [Applause] [20:05:33] Think about this. You will not find anyone who knows how to get more done for Virginia than Teri. That is a fact. You don't have to wonder what kind of governor he will be. You know what he was and what he will be again. He was a great governor of Virginia and he will be greater this time because he is more going for him. Virginia, you got to elect him again. [Applause] >> I mean this. Not just for Virginia but for the country. The country is looking. This is a big deal. 200609 Terry and I share a lot in common. I ran against Donald Trump, and so is Terry. [Applause] And I whipped Donald Trump in Virginia, and so will Terry. [Applause] [20:06:37] >> I tell you what, guy he is running against is an acolyte of Donald Trump for real. I don't know where these guys come from. I really mean it. Above all, we shared the same vision about these results. Maybe more importantly, why we got involved in politics in the first place. The very wealthy, and I respect people who make a lot of money. You should be able to be a millionaire or billionaire as long as he pay her fair share, but here's the deal. They don't need me to protect them. I got involved in politics because of the neighborhood I came from. The towns I came from. [20:07:38] Deliver results for hard-working people if you just give them a chance. Just a chance. They never let the country down. [Applause] >> You know, I really mean that. That's not hyperbole. I have been in office now for six months as of a couple days ago. [Applause] >> I think the administration has a lot to be proud of. We vaccinated over 160 and million Americans. -- 160 million Americans. We credit 3 million more jobs than any administration has in the entire presidential history. It's never happened before. We are now estimated to be on track for an economy that outgrew three .5%. [20:08:43] Everything from Wall Street suggested we would build this economy just 7% this year. That is the highest growth in more than four decades in America. In fact, it is the best job growth in the world right now. [Applause] >> One of the biggest tax cuts in the history for families in America, it went into effect just last week. [Applause] I really mean this. It is about time that ordinary hard-working people get a tax break. [Applause] >> Seeing that money going into your bank account right now. I'll tell you what it means for Americans. We will cut tired -- child party [20:09:44] in half because of it. [Applause] -- Child poverty. Trickle down has never worked. Let's build an economy from the bottom up in the middle out. That's who we are. By the way, the wealthy have never done poorly when the middle class and working class people do well. They do well. Teri understands -- Terry that it starts with the American rescue plan to give relief to those needed to most. People were on their heels, a lot of them not down. Those rescued checks went to 80% of the adults in Virginia that provides a little bit of breathing room for people. That is to say and I really mean this, my dad said it's on about your paycheck, it is about your dignity. It is about respect. It is about your place in the [20:10:44] community. It's about having Joey. When we left everything in skin and moved to Delaware, he said Joey, it is about a little breathing room. That's all people ask for people -- ask for. Just a little extra room. Aid for small businesses. It helps them higher and open doors. Excuse me. [Applause] >> Cities and counties can keep their police, firefighters, and first responders on the job. Educators on the job. The American rescue plan lowers health insurance premiums for those buying the affordable care act by 40% on average. It saves people $600 a year. [Applause] >> He knows that the work [20:11:45] continues that health care should be a right, not just a privilege. As I said, when I was running with the both of them, it's not enough to build back. I mean it sincerely. America is the only nation where it has faced a crisis and come back stronger than before the crisis. Only one. I'm not joking. We have to build back and build back better. It's amazing how that has caught around the world isn't it? We know along with mark Warner and Tim kaine. [Applause] >> We are working on this in congress. It means modernizing our physical infrastructure. Folks, we use to invest than any other country in r&d. We had the number one infrastructure in the world. Best roads, highways, roads, ports. It's about replacing lead pipes [20:12:47] that are poisoning our kids in the water system. Delivering high-speed internet to every single virginian, whirl and urban. Making sure to buy American so when we invest in jobs and we invest in jobs and repurchase all this, American workers are doing the work. It's not that complicated. We share the belief that building back that are means investing and also our human infrastructure. That is my plan. These are all the things he is fighting for. We believe that if we educate our children earlier, they do better. [Applause] >> No matter what background they come from, all the studies in great universities and this one pointed out that if a kid goes to not daycare but preschool beginning at age three, they increase by 58% to [20:13:50] go all the way on through school and community college. That is why we support universal pk for three and four-year-olds. [Applause] >> If we get a gun -- if we get it done, you won't have to pay for it in Virginia. We believe 10 years in education is enough to compete in a 21st-century economy. That's what I want to make two years of community college available to every single American [applause] >> We can afford to do this. I do have one concern. My wife Jill is teaching full-time still as a community college professor. [Laughter] [Applause] >> But Terry's gonna be her boss again. She teaches at northern Virginia community college. By the way, since the time she [20:14:53] started working there, she has never stopped teaching when we got election, -- elected, she thought I would object to her still teaching. I strongly supported it. Teaching is that what she does, it's who she is. Folks, look. The fact is, the idea that we are able to bring together people and give them great opportunities is totally within what key -- we can afford to do this. At the very wealthy just start paying their fair share just a little bit. We both know how hard the pandemic has been on working families, especially women. 2 million women are still unable to go into the workforce during this pandemic due to things like not being able to afford childcare. Look, when I got elected to the senate, I was 29 years old. Between the time I got elected and before I was sworn in, there [20:15:54] was a car accident and my wife and daughter were killed. My two boys almost died. By the way, I think all firefighters who took the jaws of life three rc get them out on top of their dead mom and sister. They save their lives. I needed help. I was a senator making $42,000 a year. I could no longer afford daycare and someone to take care of my kids and fly. Thank god, I have a sister who is my best friend. She and her husband without my asking moved in and help me raise my kids, my mom and brother as well. I got lucky. Look, the idea as a single mom or dad working and having young children is awful hard. That is why Teri and I want to expand paid leave and childcare in this country. [Applause] [20:16:56] >> By the way, we have been talking about this for a long time. We have been talking about high drug prices. How incredibly high they are and how we keep getting ripped off. We pay more for drugs than any other major country in the world. Here's the deal. There is a way to do it. Let medicare negotiate drug prices. [Applause] >> Guess what? All prices will come down. It will pay for itself. I promise you, I will get that done. [Applause] >> Look, here's the deal. We both know how it will be paid for. We support asking the wealthiest 1% who got that $2 trillion tax cut, not a penny was paid for with trump tax cuts. Guess what? [20:17:59] Just beginning to pay their fair share, I come from the corporate capital of the world. More corporations are registered in Delaware than every other state combined. I have been elected 36 years there because I was honest with them. Look, 50 of the biggest corporations in America on the fortune 500. 50 of them do not pay single solitary any in federal taxes. Not one. They made over -- I'm not doing this to get that reaction. I want to make it clear to you. [Applause] >> They made over $40 billion. If they paid a minimum tax of 15%, they raise dollars we need to do all this education were talking about here. Look, when I was vice president and the president asked me to check out what major [20:18:59] corporations knew the most, along with the secretary of commerce, we reviewed that over 350 CEOs and major corporations said they need a better, -- better educated workforce. Guess what, they are not spending any money to make that happen. If we want to make sure America runs the world, and means the most powerful economy in the world, we should make sure that we have a chance, these millionaires and billionaires, I am not one of these guys who said you can't it or millionaire. Just pay your fair share. [Applause] Look, all told, experts in the world bank like Wall Street like moody's, estimate that my plant will grow the economy and create [20:20:02] 2 million more jobs over the 16 million they said in 10 years. Good paying jobs. A significant amount is jobs will pay 30-50 dollars an hour. 90% of the jobs in our infrastructure plant go to those without a college degree. We have a blue-collar blueprint to rebuild America. Once in a generation investment. American jobs and families will position us to win the competition in the 21st century. We have got to get it done. We need a partner like Terry who is not only respected in the state but is respected all across America who knows how to get it done. Folks, the lesson he was governor, the Virginia economy bloomed. An appointment went down in every single county including [20:21:03] rural Virginia by nearly 50%. He attracted major companies to the state. Look how it grew? And if you in the business note that the first thing you try and attract -- do to attract a company to your town is they ask what is the highway system? Do have access to an interstate is the port available? Do I have broadband echo all the things we will build. Look, he resident public works. By the way, Virginia has a whole bunch of veterans and active-duty military members, more than almost any other state. And guess what? [Applause] >> American rescue plan marks one of the biggest investments in veterans health in a long, long time. The world va hospital's that are 50 years old that have shortages of doctors and nurses. No veteran from my son who [20:22:05] passed away should pick up a phone and say or have a relative say I need help and say we cannot see you for a while. We owe them immediate action. Immediate. [Applause] It is a sacred obligation. >> I note no governor who set up for military families more than this guy. A blinder good skills to the jobs. Like cybersecurity and health care. He also worked with the general assembly to fund more veteran centers. He understands, he knows. He knows about crime prevention as a trying -- top rarity. He knows how to use funding to provide law enforcement personnel with more resources and not fewer resources. Look. [20:23:06] We need to help him in a lot of ways. We need to do away with chokeholds, all those things, I agree. We also need them to have more social workers, more psychological help. More psychologists. And where it happens, it works. These keep communities safe and he is taking on the gone -- gun lobby without infringing any second amendment rights, including keeping guns out of the hands of domestic abusers. [Applause] >> Here's what else. He will get a $15 minimum wage. Think about it, folks. Maybe some of you know people. Anybody working 40 hours a week, making less than $15 an hour is in fact living in poverty as defined I poverty in America. [20:24:08] It should not happen. Period. [Applause] >> An amazing number of American people who are struggling have rental costs and housing costs that are at least 30-35% of their income. How do you do that? How do you make it? Especially if you have a child? Look folks, housing that is affordable will be in this plan. When he thinks about the climate crisis, if it's about three things. Jobs, jobs, jobs. [Applause] >> There is a reason why we will lead the world. I will close with this. I'm getting wrapped up in this. Sorry. [Applause] >> Look, this election and in [20:25:11] 2022, the question that the American people will ask is whether or not we are helping them and their families. I've we are giving them a shot. We're doing them and even shut. We understand what they are going through. Can we deliver for them? As Democrats, we gotta show that we understand. We are delivering for them. We are keeping our promises. We just need to keep making the case just as the Republican party today offers nothing but fear, lies, and broken promises. Just think about it. Turn on the television and sing a replay of what happened on January 6. And saying I was told there were a lot of peaceful wonderful people? Think about it. It is bizarre. We have to keep cutting through the Republican fog that government is the problem. [20:26:13] We gotta show that we the people are the solution. We are the most unique country -- think about this. We are the most unique country in the history of the world. Not a joke. Everyone -- every other countries put together by race, religion, backgrounds, except for the U.S. We are based on the only country in the world based on the proposition that we hold these truths to be self-evident because all women and men are created -- equal. Life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness. We have never walked away from it the Republicans have. Never walked away. [Applause] >> Every administration, we move that needle further and further. You will have to go out and win this thing. When races up and down the ticket. We gotta protect your majority and house of delegates. [20:27:13] We gotta elect Mach 2 attorney general. We need her back as era lieutenant governor. We have been here before. He knows what to do. He knows how to get things done. Virginia. We did it in 2020 and in the battle for the soul of America, people voted. We had to do this again. Time and again, no matter what, you can never stop the American people from voting and they are trying like hell. The power and assault, -- the power in all American people. Our children and grandchildren will look back and know that it was at this moment that America one the 21st century again. It starts now. Virginia, it starts with Teri. [20:28:14] It starts with you. God bless you all and may god protect our troops. Thank you, thank you, thank you. [Applause] ?? [end]

TVU 28 JOE BIDEN CONWAY SC COMMUNITY EVENT ABC UNI 022720 2020 CONWAY, South Carolina -- Former Vice President Joe Biden drew one of his largest crowds in the Palmetto State on Thursday evening, holding a community event at Coastal Carolina University with 650 people in attendance (thought local police say it was likely over 700) and another 71 in an overflow location (numbers that still remain relatively small compared to the rest of the front-runners). Biden briefly addressed the overflow crowd but the press was not present. During his stump speech Biden took a veiled swipe at Sen. Bernie Sanders, saying: "This nation isn't looking for a revolution. It's looking for results. It's looking for results to improve people's lives." (18:46:53) Biden also name-checked Sanders a few times, again blasting his record on gun control and saying later that while he likes the Vermont Senator, he resents him over his consideration of a primary challenge against President Barack Obama during the 2012 election. On Bernie/guns: "But guess what? With the Brady bill, which I got passed, that was when I was -- Chairman of the Judiciary Committee. And I know people disagreed, Bernie voted against it five times. He didn't think there should be background checks for that. But I think look what's happened. It's kept the hands out of the -- guns out of the hands of terrorists," Biden said. (18:55:03) On Bernie/Obama primary challenge (also talks about Obamas post-White House): "I like Bernie, one of the reasons I resent Bernie though, is he wanted to primary Barack in 2012. He said he should be primaried. People are disappointed. Doing a lousy job. I fundamentally disagree with that. And here's the deal. You know, I -- how can I say it? Michelle, as they say, has given it the office. She's done a great deal and she's still doing a great deal for people. And I think that the fact that they're out of the White House is something they find somewhat liberating after 8 years. No, I really mean it," Biden said. (19:27:22) Biden also brought up the misleading television advertisement run in South Carolina by a pro-Trump group that takes Obama's words out of context to make it look like he is criticizing Biden. The former President has demanded the group take down the ads, sending them a cease and desist letter last night. "But here's -- take what's going on right now. Right now Barack Obama has sent letters to all the television stations, 'Take down that ad where it says that I'm criticizing Joe Biden. Because it's a lie.' No, look at this...Can you ever think of any time in a primary the incumbent president of the other party has spent, in my case, well over $14 million dollars. And for -- just for the South Carolina primary, they spend $125,000 bucks putting up ads that are flat lies to keep me from getting the nomination. I wonder why. Because if I get the nomination, I will beat him like a drum," Biden said. (19:17:02) Asked if he would consider Michelle Obama as a running mate, Biden said he would "in a heartbeat," if he thought there was any chance of her accepting the position. 192533 Q>> Just wanted to ask you whether you've asked Michelle Obama to be your running mate? (applause) 192550 BIDEN>> I'd do that in a heartbeat if I think there'd be any chance of her doing it. Biden was also asked a question by a young woman about how he spent time in South Africa as an example of his work in the Civil Rights Movement (NOTE: the woman did not ask about the questions surrounding whether or not Biden was arrested, a subject of recent controversy). Recounting the story of meeting Mandela in Washington as a Senator, Biden called him the most "Christ-like" figures he's ever met, but made no mention of an arrest in his answer. "[Mandela] came to Washington. And I hosted him. And he came to my office to say thank you. And I looked at him, and I got to tell you this story, it'll just take a second. I said, President Mandela, I said, what you said it was incredible, I don't know how you cannot feel hatred for the people who kept you in solitary for 7 years among other things. Know what he said to me? If you excuse the expression, I'm not proselytizing here, but the most Christ-like figure I've ever met. He said, quote, "they were just doing their job." They were just doing their job. And then he said when I left, they each grabbed my hand and said, 'Good luck Nelson. Good. Luck. We wish you luck.' This is -- imagine that they had a man who came out full of hate. There would have been a civil war. There would have been carnage. But what did he do? He reached out. He reached out and he brought that country together," Biden said. (19:20:15) Biden also gave an interesting answer when asked how he plans to reach out to Trump voters if elected, going in-depth about the demographic groups he considers to be his base, and how the Democratic Party has stopped talking to the white and black working class voters who used to be it's heart. "The basis of my winning over the years, and one of the reasons Barack was able -- picked me to be his vice president, was because I've always had overwhelming support from high-school educated blacks and whites. As well as overwhelming support in the black community. That combination. That used to be the base of the Democratic Party...One of the things that happened was, the Democratic party stopped talking to that base. That was the base that we always had. I've never stopped talking to them. The reason why the president asked me to be on the ticket was the polling data showed, with me on the ticket, we win Pennsylvania. We win Ohio. We win Virginia. We win Colorado," Biden said. (19:11:50) Biden said the way to win back those Trump voters that may have supported Democrats in the past is to go out and talk to them, recounting a conversation with a Trump supporter outside of tonight's rally. "We stopped talking to them. And so, that is not going to happen with me. And the way we do it is, we go in and we listen. You listen to people who strongly disagree with you as well. I ran into a young man outside, all those folks were waiting outside. And he said, I had a Trump hat on, they wouldn't let me in. I said, well, you should be able to come in. I don't -- because I want to speak to the Trump supporters. I want them to know. He said he was going to take care of the forgotten man. And then he forgot them," Biden said. (19:14:30) HIGHLIGHTS The Nation's Not Looking for a Revolution 184629 And we have to regain the soul of this country, because everything that has made us special has been the fact that we are as diverse and as consequential as we are. We're the most powerful nation in the history of the world. The world of fact is built on our diversity, and that's what we're about. And it's got to be restored. The second point I'd like to make too, is that, you know, there's an awful lot -- this nation isn't looking for a revolution. 184653 It's looking for results. It's looking for results to improve people's lives. I got involved for three basic reasons. One, to restore the soul, to bring back decency. Decency. Or -- my dad would say our children are listening. It matters. Our silence is complicity. We must speak out against hate. We must speak out against division. We must speak out up against prejudice. Bernie Voting Against Suing Gun Manufacturers. 185503 But guess what? With the Brady bill, which I got passed, that was when I was -- chairman of the judiciary committee. And I know people disagreed, Bernie voted against it five times. He didn't think there should be background checks for that. But I think look what's happened. It's kept the hands out of the -- guns out of the hands of terrorists. 185519 It's kept the guns out of hands of people who do bad things. Over a couple million of them. But it hadn't kept the guns out of the hands of people who in fact, have good records and they're not in trouble and they're not a threat to society. So there'd need to be a balance. Need to be a balance here. 185534 And one other thing I want to make clear to you. The only -- if I stood here before you all today and said by the way, I got a great idea: let's exempt the drug companies, the same ones that put 9 billion opioid pills out on the market in a short period of time without warning about the problem, but we should exempt them from being able to be sued. 185555 I don't imagine I'd stay on this stage very much longer for all y'all. But guess what? In 2003, there were Democrats including Bernie and others who voted for, and other Republicans, voted to exempt the gun industry. They can not be sued. You ever wonder why they're not being sued for the carnage out there in the street? 185617 The only major industry that's exempt from being sued, is the gun industry for false advertising. By the way, all of you need an extra silencer on your weapon, don't you? Oh, I mean, come on. Come on. So my point is, we can make people a whole lot safer. How many of you sent your children off to school or your grandchildren in September, and they were scared? Because they learned how to cower under their desk? Duck and cover. Zigzag running down a hallway. Talk about our soul. A sick soul. Q and A 1 191117 Q>> When you get elected in November that you're gonna have quite a challenge ahead of you to bring on President Trump's 35%. What are you going to say to those people bringing them around? 191140 BIDEN>> That's a really important question. Look, the 35 percent of the population that is very strongly supportive of Donald Trump, I think some -- look. The basis of my winning over the years, and one of the reasons Barack was able -- picked me to be his vice president, was because I've always had overwhelming support from high-school educated blacks and whites. As well as overwhelming support in the black community. That combination. 191207 That used to be the base of the Democratic Party. The base of the Democratic party was hard working people, who weren't college educated, as well as the African American community. Now, what this President was able to do is split that. Make it so that, convincing hardworking high school educated folks in states like Pennsylvania and South Carolina all across the country that we didn't care anymore. 191230 One of the things that happened was, the Democratic party stopped talking to that base. That was the base that we always had. I've never stopped talking to them. The reason why the president asked me to be on the ticket was the polling data showed, with me on the ticket, we win Pennsylvania. We win Ohio. We win Virginia. We win colorado. Because I have never left where I came form, And there's no inconsistency -- no, I really mean this. 191255 There's no inconsistency for overwhelming African American support as well as support from basically white working class folks. Because guess what's happened? They've figured it out by now. They in fact, we didn't -- you know, I went out and campaigned in 2018. I went into 24, quote, purple states. The states that were toss up states or leaning, could go either way. 191312 I campaigned for 65 candidates in those 24 states. And I said we were gonna win back the House of Representatives. Including a guy named Cunningham here in this state, won one of those races. Well, look. Here's what happened. We won back 41 seats. 191342 Because my dad used to have an expression, he said, "Joey, I don't expect the government to solve my problem, but I at least expect them to understand my problem." We stopped talking to people. We stopped talking to people where they live. Dealing with the problems they had. The problems they have are how do I maintain -- I lost everything in the crash. I no longer have my house. How do I build wealth again? 191402 Because that's how most people build their wealth, in the value of their home. It accrues. How do I get access to capital? How do I -- we stopped talking to people. We stopped talking to them. And so, that is not going to happen with me. And the way we do it is, we go in and we listen. You listen to people who strongly disagree with you as well. I ran into a young man outside, all those folks were waiting outside. And he said, I had a Trump hat on, they wouldn't let me in. 191430 I said, well, you should be able to come in. I don't -- because I want to speak to the Trump supporters. I want them to know. He said he was going to take care of the forgotten man. And then he forgot them. TRUMP ADS 191702 But here's -- take what's going on right now. Right now Barack Obama has sent letters to all the television stations, "Take down that ad where it says that I'm criticizing Joe Biden. Because it's a lie." No, look at this. Think of -- you folks are a little bit older, and been in more than one election. 191723 Can you ever think of any time in a primary the incumbent president of the other party has spent , in my case, well over $14 million dollars. And for -- just for the south carolina primary, they spend $125,000 bucks putting up ads that are flat lies to keep me from getting the nomination. I wonder why. Because if I get the nomination, I will beat him like a drum. SOUTH AFRICA (Q and A 2) 191804 Q>> There are a lot of candidates touting their Civil Rights background because they want votes. And I consider them allies. Because they say they stand with African Americans but don't necessarily stand with African Americans. But with you, I consider you an accomplice. Meaning, you don't just tell me you're gonna stand with me, you stand with me. And one of the stories I don't think you tell enough is about when you went to South Africa with African American delegation with Amb. (?). If you could tell us how you stood with me on that. 191846 BIDEN>> Well, look, one of the things that -- I was on the foreign relations committee. And I was a maybe one of themost vocal opponents of apartheid. Because I believed it was criminal. If you wonder whether that's true or not, I'm not saying you don't believe me, but go to Joe Biden.com and look at JoeBiden.com George Schultz, the secretary of state. 191915 Where I got into -- and just check it out on your phone. And you'll see how deparately concerned I was about the failuire of the Reagan administration to take on apartheid. It's a criminal enterprise. And I talked about how when they were not going to push apartheid, because we needed South Africa. I made the case, and unfortunately got in a shouting match with my hollering at and George Shultz hollering back at me. 191943 Saying, as -- I pointed out, they fill up tires, empty tires, fill them with gasoline and put them around the heads of young people, on their necks, and then light them. It is criminal. And one of the greatest honors I had was as the chairman of the foreign relations committee, when one of the most incredible men that I've ever met, he's a fella who was held in jailed for 7 years on Robin's Island. HE was led out finally ebcause we killed apartheid. 192015 And the -- organized the world to do it. And he came to Washington. And I hosted him. And he came to my office to say thank you. And I looked at him, and I got to tell you this story, it'll just take a second. I said, President Mandela, I said, what you said it was incredible, I don't know how you cannot feel hatred for the people who kept you in solitary for 7 years among other things. 192040 Know what he said to me? If you excuse the expression, I'm not prostetizing here, but the most christ-like figure I've ever met. He said, quote, "they were just doing their job." They were just doing their job. And then he said when I left, they each grabbed my hand and said, "Good luck nelson." 192059 Good. Luck. We wish you luck. This is -- imagine that they had a man who came out full of hate. There would have been a civil war. There would have been carnage. But what did he do? He reached out. He reached out and he brought that country together. And he had peace. So I thought everything we tried to do with regard to apartheid, was worth it. Last point I'll make on this. Ladies and gentleman, if the united states no longer speaks out on human rights, who will? RUNNING MATE 192533 Q>> Just wanted to ask you whether you've asked Michelle Obama to be your running mate? (applause) 192550 BIDEN>> I'd do that in a heartbeat if I think there'd be any chance of her doing it. Look, Michelle and Jill, my granddaughters and their daughters, are each others best friend. For example, every year, at -- on Valentines day, my, two of my granddaughters, a young woman who's a freshman at Penn now, two team all state in 2 different sports, and my other granddaughter who's a junior, her name is Finn -- we named her Finnegan Biden after my mom's last name. 192626 But she lives up to the name, at an rate. She is, Malia and Sasha's, they're each other's best friend. They've been going to school together in the same small school for 11 years. They're each other's best buddies. And so every Thanksgiving, for example, I mean, excuse me, every Valentines Day, my daughter in law and my 2 granddaughters and Michelle and her 2 daughters, they go off skiing for 4 days. 192658 And they, oh yeah, and I'm not kidding. They don't invite barack. They don't invite me. I mean, they go out for two days. But all kidding aside, look, this is a -- one of the great things and I must tell you, I'll be just straight with you, one of the reasons I like Bernie, one of the reasons I resent Bernie though, is he wanted to primary Barack in 2012. 192722 He said he should be primaried. People are disappointed. Doing a lousy job. I fundamentally disagree with that. And here's the deal. You know, I -- how can I say it? Michelle, as they say, has given it the office. She's done a great deal and she's still doing a great deal for people. And I think that the fact that they're out of the White House is something they find somewhat liberating after 8 years. No, I really mean it. TRINT [18:39:07] Thank you. Look. Right. Come on. People said it is hard for me. [18:39:15] I had no idea what I was going to get in the parking lot. Okay, man, I apologize. It up for you to say. Obviously. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. My mother's. As my mother would say, please excuse my back, I apologize. I vote. Let me get to a point. [18:39:48] What I want to do is get to some of your questions right here. First of all, you know, talk about reduction, actually, nurse. She's going to. [18:39:59] Bottle vodka. Thank you, very nice. Out. You know, I also want to thank the congressman for being you're up with anything. You do see me out here earlier today. I want to get right to it. You know what? I wanted to. The other day to see one of the most powerful endorsements ever received. I'd say the Santa Margherita excuse a point of personal privilege. [18:40:29] Flatworms loves the nurse with me. A great deal to me just because we've been friends for so long. It was so heartfelt. And I want to publicly argue for one day. Jeff says, We're at an inflection point in history, quite a ways that if we don't get things straight, they're going to be changed for a long. [18:41:00] Long time for years about drunk. With the right nominee, we could, in fact, turn that four years of an aberration in American history. So that's not who we are. Thirty eight years ago, from the fundamentally changing nature of who we are. But the very moment that stands in absolute terms of division globally, we're coming down. As we talked about rabies vaccines, where you treat African-Americans, the way he deals with people with disabilities makes one of the great talks about people with language uses that. [18:41:41] What do you parents. I'm not I don't think I. Exactly. And it's our parents. Grandparents actually pulled your children or grandchildren away from the television. The bar, you know. I thought that you were making the most of our address. I can not surprise my state by state. He was there. It was like North South Carolina where I stated to say that it was Gordon Brown versus Board of Education. The same. It's safe to say that it is the largest African-American population in the country, my state is 20 percent. I find myself in a position where I got involved as a kid. Civil rights was as a young kid. [18:42:29] I had to decide to make a long story short, I. When I got home from law school, I had a job with a fancy law firm. I want to because no one was compelled to talk. I went away to serve at the University of North Carolina. [18:42:49] I knew you'd be buried as a. Look, what happened was I gave all my job with a fancy offer, with a good offer. [18:42:59] I was happy to have had the job. But what happened after that? It was a year out of the assassination of Bobby Kennedy. Ever assassinate an active role? [18:43:10] I see city burned around about 25 percent where the L.A. city workers occupied the military successes of the war for 10 months. Back, that's everything. After I got home with his dog, I realized that I was doing. I wasn't paid for that job. I became a public defender. I used to I used to get every my clients down on the train station for the northeast corridor. You walk through all right on Amtrak. [18:43:41] And what happened was that I found myself in a situation where I did that. And then in January, after I went into the bar 40 years later, moved into the bar, I would stand on a same platform, looking out all the same parks and see even a burned out girl. I thought at the time it happened. Blacks and whites last time would never be able to get together. Yeah, things would never be the same, but they're being rebuilt and the city is thriving. [18:44:14] Things are moving. And I was riding. That January, January 17, waiting for a BlackBerry, 21 March. Philadelphia decision to pick me up on the screen. One hundred twenty seven miles for me and I was sworn in as president of W3C United States. And I thought to myself, I had my three children with me. One passed away. One was the attorney general's daughter. And my son will bring my daughters, a social worker and my other son, who's 10 in the World Food Program USA. And I got all the help. I said, don't tell me things can't change. [18:44:49] Here I am, 40 years. Right. I think there should ever be forced to happen. And we don't know what's going on. Ten thousand people on the tracks waiting for us to get on in Delaware where we need for us to go and make sure we, in fact, got to abortion. [18:45:06] But then I thought he could be defeated. I thought you can defeat him so he could make it go away. [18:45:14] But hang on. A vise. Hey, don't. Hi. [18:45:17] And when I applied in real life, I thought I a lot when those folks came out of the of Georgia to carry torches carrying torches, photographs around the scene. [18:45:28] Their veins, balls deep with hay candy, the same anti-Semetic Wild's candidate streets of Berlin and Germany all through the thirties. [18:45:39] And then the young man was killed. What happened? The was asked. He said, quote, A very fine people on both sides. No president. I say Americans that have said anything like that ever. This guy or George Wallace of George Washington and. [18:45:56] And draw. He's going out. After that, I said I said at the time, I said America. [18:46:12] America will lose its soul. We know are from a magazine that maybe this was not what we are not. We are not there. Americans are concerned about America. Everybody to eat. That's not who we are. We have to regain the soul of this country because everything has made us special, has made the fact that we are diverse. And as a consequence of this powerful nation in history, the world. We're a nation that, in fact, is built on our. And that's how it's got to restore. [18:46:48] The second point I'd like to make to you is that, you know, there's an awful lot of the station, a motive for a revolution, just looking for results. It's looking for results. By. I two basic reasons, one, they're of the of bringing back decency. [18:47:09] These are ours and our children are listening. [18:47:13] In matters of our silence is complicity. We must speak out and entertain. We must speak out against the regime. We must speak out against rather. [18:47:28] For the middle class, middle class, but the economy is, by the way, here is Ross. We've created more jobs in the last two years by. [18:47:44] Let's go to the middle class and working folks left behind. Go back to your old neighbor. Go back to your neighbors. Ask yourself the question first. First time for the first time is the life you want in this room about how old you are. [18:47:59] America is no longer as the wealthiest middle class in the world. We're no longer the wealthiest. [18:48:05] Americans believe you have 55 percent of people leaving. Their job will never achieve the same standard. They cheat. You find yourself in a position where it's harder and harder and harder to make a service. [18:48:21] If the average worker received $400 a month, you have to borrow the money to pay for or sell something. [18:48:30] That's not that's not access. [18:48:33] I call middle class Joe and not say because it's a compliment. They think I'm not sophisticated, but I'm pretty hard to say. But America, ordinary, hardworking people. [18:48:51] Right now, we have to rebuild it. We have to fight. Look, my dad had mixed reactions. Everyone's entitled to be treated with dignity. [18:48:58] How can a parents say that he did he got a job as an illness, that a preexisting condition could be covered. How do he look at the job opportunity? Know they don't have the money to help him get to college or to go beyond school. It's not dignity. Everyone's entitled. Everyone can rebuild this in a way that, in fact, would rip the Band-Aid off. Everybody knows what's wrong. There's no more secrets. About a second flashpoint is I said earlier. And at that point is that people will know what's happening. I mean, he didn't really roll that one, boy. Not about our tax code. [18:49:41] Really good shape. Right. Really? You did good. Laughs You're doing well. All right. And I guess, what did you been going to have with your taxes? [18:49:52] Redgrave's I get it if you're in this now. Folks like we don't have to we don't have to hurt anyone to get this economy back on track. For example, we can provide health care for everybody everywhere and we provide as a right. [18:50:18] What option? You can choose if you want to. You don't have to make that choice. You don't have to act on that. But we can't afford to do that without hurting anybody who actually is making a very good Taxco. No great quarterback package making it real. Look, if you have a capital gain and you're in a 20 year pay at a rate of 20 percent and your capital gains, your income taxes at 30 percent, guess what? You're going to have 30 percent. [18:50:48] But somebody whose income taxes at 32 are 35 or 37 percent. They get to top 35, 37 percent. They didn't go back up. We just made for everybody who. Eight hundred really dollars just to be able to take a capital gains option. Right now, the taxes you pay their employees, there's a lot we can do without hurting anybody. Speaking of taxes, fair, how are you hearing this great verse? By the way, I came across a lot of what you want to keep your handicap. Your girlfriend of golf drivers was this forty-one-year-old? [18:51:26] I got to reach out to 6O press conference. Don't run for President Bush all with golf. Or she he spend. Look, here's your focus. You know, the third reason, Ibraham is that we've seen what we can do. We haven't any to this. I know my colleagues run around. They say, well, you know, you can unite the country. You can't do that. I refuse to accept the proposition. You can't be right. If that's the case where no job democracies require consensus in the census. [18:52:11] Otherwise it's an abuse of power by a person. Or on the referees can't generate consensus and say, well, I know Joe's done a lot. Joe was able to make the bosses. No. Then we had a 9 billion dollar recovery act fast. And Ron, let's keep taxes one percent ways. Joe was able to do the kind of welcome street job, but that was before after a long time ago, three years ago, and called stale. Our politics become too wild, too based, Bernie. [18:52:44] Too bad you don't have to identify Greek voters every time our administration had a problem. One of the capital facing me. And the reason I did, I learned the lesson early on. It's always appropriate to question the manner in which those moves out, but it's never broken into question. Important, because you don't know the motives. And once you start questioning mode and say you're in the market or you go off to hear this, you're that. And in spite of us work out infrastructure, let's build more and grow on it. [18:53:17] But if you saying we disagree and see where we can work out, you get it wrong a lot. And there's so many opportunities. We have somebody got opportunities sitting right here and saying, you know, I support the Second Amendment. I do a great job of joining a job that I couldn't escape to. I haven't done it a long time. It's the same way. The burnout. But nobody needs an assault weapon. No. [18:53:48] Nobody needs a cliff. The thing that goes up on is the guy in the bar that carries 100 rounds of ammunition. [18:53:55] Who in God's name needs that? By the way, the Second Amendment didn't say anyone could own any kind of weapon. And I know rich people in my state, which is the gun lobby, say and here will say, well, the theory of living here is water with a blood of pictures, if you need to save yourself, doesn't need F15 with Hellfire missiles. You ain't going to do it unless they are 50. OK. [18:54:21] And never, ever, ever has been absolute. You could own anything you wanted. You can't. Well, no bouzouki, no running through it again on Machito. Roy Firebag. That's when the case ended. And not anybody can the. For example, someone stood up all of a sudden yell, fire, fire, fire. [18:54:39] Here in this room with the First Amendment free speech right now, you yell fire. People get hurt. There's nothing. Absolutely. [18:54:46] Any one of the amendments. The second thing is we gotta make sure we have background checks. You know, the. [18:54:55] Because bad folks who have weapons. The vast majority of people who pass a background check. But guess what? With the Brady Bill, we're talking about pass. [18:55:05] I was asked to read and I know people disagree. Bernie voted against it five times. You didn't think you should read background checks. But I think what happening if get the hands out of the gun down. His parents have got out of hand. People who do bad things or Columbine, but had kept in God's hands. People all in Baghdad. Good renters. [18:55:27] And they're not in trouble and they're not there in the society. So there need to be a balance in balance. And you want to be clear that the only advice would hate you for your old age. By the way, you're a very I. Let's exempt drug companies. The same ones put a 9 billion opioid pills out on the market in a short period of time without warning about the problem. Well, we should exempt them from being able to be sued. [18:55:55] I don't have time to say saying very much longer. But guess what? In 2003, there were Democrats, including Bernie, others who voted for and others voted to exempt gun industry. They hated not being sued. Ever wondered why not be sued for the crack down their industry? Well, the only major range students exempt from being sued. The second is the false advertising by which all rights of silence are interrupted. Ha ha ha. So our point is we can make people a whole lot safer. No, you send your children off to school, your grandchildren, never. [18:56:38] And they should be making it interesting because they learn about the power of the desk. Duck and cover zig zag running around a hallway talking about our soul. Sick soul, my. [18:56:52] What do we do? So folks go in talking about health care reform, a project founded on climate change. [18:57:09] I don't want it together black for the Chinese. [18:57:14] We got 200 nations agree. What if this guy comes along and takes us out of the crowd and says we have no problem? [18:57:23] Well, you know what, folks? Folks. So someone who you do. First thing I'm going to do is. Maybe Regina for a hundred days, some of the day for myself. [18:57:40] Because here's the deal, folks, here's the deal. The deal is that we make up 50 percent of all the world's problems. Eighty five percent of the rest of the world. We get to zero emissions in the United States. Zero emissions. Guess what? Still with only just over the horizon. Life's a dollar. Eight years we've gone to war. Whatever the long seacoast, we're going to fight, literally not for you, but not for you. Look what's happening in a. [18:58:11] But talk about having to move the capital because it's going to sink into the ocean. You know, we've got to the United States Senate. The first thing, as best I can tell you, the first thing that, in fact, we were three broken president, Long Island over to depending on the Gulf attack to meet with the Joint Chiefs. Notice the degree of problem facing America was climate change. You know what? Population shifts in communities, people. [18:58:38] What happens? What happens is the sea level rises to more feet. And you have 30, 40 million people leaving the islands in the Pacific war starting on the mainland. Look what happened in Africa. Dar for what was that all about? Was about Black Haribo land, because with climate change you couldn't grow anything anymore. [18:58:59] So you had people killing one weather and massacring folks. This is a big deal. Last one to think about climate and make America. You know, right now it requires someone who not only understands the environment, but is able to generate international support. You know, right now you read about all the time Amazon's farming is burning. Why is she clearcut so they can use it over agriculture? All right. [18:59:29] Years ago, Republican nominee Dick Lugar, we're used to this legislation saying we if you maintain your force, we forgive your debt. Because in everybody's interest to do that. Well, there's more. And a thing called a carbon sink being what it takes, carbon in the air, more carbon stored from here on farms and all the pollutants that stack sound in the air from every source in the United States of America, daily basis there. [19:00:00] Say again, if we eliminate every single solitary contaminant going into the air in the United States of America for a year, it would in fact be no more than what it is absorbed by the Amazon. What are we know? Well, I tell you what, I'm going to do what I did before. I'm going to go down, make sure we have to alter all of our france-klm from ground zero. So here's the deal. I'll organize. [19:00:31] The world will pay 20 billion dollars. Not a clear cut. We'll help you invest in other activities so you don't have to, in fact, increase exponentially the likelihood that climate change is going to continue to be out of control. It's called international relations. It's called policy. Call me slanty. Call me able to put back together. Let me answer the questions. You know, there's much more education. It's a great universe. But guess what? Come on, man. Come on. I'm in graduate debt, right? Well, I know like it's in my right. [19:01:22] I was listed for my entire time as senators course and Congress. You were proud. What a shame. Oh, I'd like to welcome you, Enzo. Well, thank you. You're sworn in. And we're at 17 age to be eligible. So I'm supposed to make money. Why is it that it's hard to feel when I got elected when I elected vise president. [19:01:48] I did. My financial soldier, by the way, I reached 21 years, my tax rate. One of the press outlets said when I got when I did my financial, the vise president, it said, quote, It's probable no man is ever assume the out of the vise president with fewer assets. And Joe Biden. I assume they were speaking intellectual assets. My theory is this, folks, you know, there's so much. So I actually had an opportunity to do if we just decided we were going to do it together. America and the United States. America is in a position where when my kids got off to school, I the good news was that the housing market was going up. So I was able to get three mortgages on my house to pay for school. [19:02:40] I'm working right now with a degree in Jersey, 19 years. Right. But. They began shot in. Georgetown dessert use Georgetown and Yale University of Pennsylvania Center accuse Tulane and Graduate School. But guess what? [19:03:01] The Graduate has never missed payment or anything that could force against the house. They worked 30 hours a week full time playing football. Well, guess what? So graduated with an enormous debt. The average person graduated from a private and public university. He's graduating with somewhere around 28, 30 miles an hour to you go to public and private universities. Local public university graduates to solicit $75000. All right. Everything you. And so we have to make sure we make it available. [19:03:36] First of all, one of the ways to do that is to make sure we provide all Judy Collins for free. Make sure everybody is done cutting costs. Gosh, a lot of money. It six billion dollars a year. You know how much we have? Tax expenditures, tax loopholes. A trillion. Six hundred forty eight billion. Find me an economist in this university. No matter how concerned are you? Can, Tony, justify any more than one trillion, 400 billion? That is a lot of money after we just eliminate a few taxes? Well, we raise horses right off. We do it. Well, I mean, my point is, is there's nothing beyond our capacity. [19:04:23] So we get questions about everything, about all of the things in government that we do this. Know who we are. This is the United States of America. We're all walking around with our heads on woe is me. What are we to do? How can we compete? What's going to happen? Most Democrats already voted. This was. Donald Trump, think about. [19:04:49] In the United States, America, the wealthiest after see the world. If we continue to invest in our people, invest their education, invest in research, invest in technology, invest in medical science. If we do that, we'll maintain that position for far as I could see. I said I was like as a kid. He told me, characterize the ideas of opportunity go by. I don't often hear about American tax evasion and racketeering. We did it all for the 21st century. [19:05:19] The rest of the world needs us to do it. We have the greatest research universities, a more great research universities rather than all the rest of the world combined. And you only have one by one with every major fundamental change in humanity has occurred as a consequence of discoveries. No universities. Number two, most productive workers are workers at three times as productive, factual as workers nation three times. [19:05:48] But we're in a situation where I know I know that every major world leader the last week for not being an absolute Morgenthau's of age. Macko International relations, national security. I live in a city where one would trade places in a heartbeat because a person might say it's America. I remember debating that. A word of school with university. Fascinating about it. It was Japan. Nuti Our land should never have Japan anyway. [19:06:17] Not on notice. Russia. Russia is the bad folks going the right way. All the stuff about the European Union is. What's it all about as well? Goodbye. Come on. He's worried about. Raise your hand. And here's the last point. If you say look at China. China is not China. I decide. I'm happy about this. China doesn't have enough water to go to me. TGR We're talking about spending tens of hundreds of billions of dollars to try to turn around the rivers sort of population, have potable water, drink 40 percent or Wangs Blue with Kagami that can grow things around a situation where that too many Edwina's lawsuits against in the mountains. [19:07:10] You saw it see you see what's happening in Hong Kong and now what they're trying to do with my retirement books. No idea. Yeah, I did. There are competition there in the Reader's Bazaar. Remember who we are, who we are. Finally, get up and take it back. We go with that. [19:07:59] Safeguard our lives. [19:08:03] Some of these questions a little bit earlier today, he was like, bring it down. I'm asking you about this. [19:08:10] This is a experience. This is what we need. Back in the White House, someone I know. Go, go, go. I know you bake cookies, but I'm going to open this boy. You like us? [19:08:37] Yes. You know, it didn't say that you were going to have a 70 bill. Would it be your budget or HBCU universe? And I just thought that was love. But tell us, how is that going to happen? There are things I want to do right here. [19:09:00] I don't know why we have an historic black in the universe. We see use because black folks weren't allowed to go to university. That was the converse. That's why I have no one. Number two, they don't have the endowment that other universities that he's nominated would even make new wealth. [19:09:25] And what that means is they don't get to actually compete for these giant government programs or technology research. For example, if you're able to compete as cabinet personnel through an engineering school, they are one of the leaders from hundreds of millions of times as many dollars invested in university research departments have been dealing like winning medals. So you can make aircraft carriers and let me make plans to go fast and all those kinds of things. [19:09:55] Well, there's a lot of those kind of Darfur out here, in fact, aren't had me down that you could compete for that, but there is no down the track. And speaking of various CBC News and other minority universities. So what I'm doing over 10 years, a 10 year program is making sure that we invest 70 billion dollars, so dollars a year to better us and make sure that they're able to compete, to be able to generate the kind of professors and the kind of research options that universities have. [19:10:30] And it will change the face of the country in many ways, because one thing we learned is that if you give people a chance, no matter what their background, they do well, they did well. And that's what we're going to do. We're going to make sure we have these machines. [19:10:53] So I think my question is going to happen, if you answer yes. [19:11:00] You're not asking questions. I think that I can take a lot more than two. OK. [19:11:05] OK. So we have the next question. Wait, wait. OK. Oh, yes. Yes. [19:11:18] We know you don't like that. We're going to have we're going to have quite a challenge ahead. [19:11:28] The threat on President Trump's heard about and what do got to say, those people bragging, bragging about it? Well, that's a real important first look. Thirty five percent of the population that is in this version of the world takes on the basics in my 24 years. [19:11:52] You wonder if his baroque zeal to be vise president wasn't because I've always had overwhelming support from high school educated blacks and whites as well as overwhelming support of the black community. That combination I used to be the base of the Democratic Party base in that regard. [19:12:10] Hardworking people for college educated as well as the have work. Now what the stress and they will do is split it and make it so that the busy, hardworking, high school educated folks in states like Pennsylvania and South Carolina all across the country that we didn't carry. One of the things that happened was that credit card shop walk into that. That was a fake. So we always have. I have every shop rouges. [19:12:38] When a president asked me to be out. He was pulling that show to the ticket ramparts. We wouldn't know why we went there. We went to Colorado because. Never left our. And there was no consistency. No, I mean, there's no consistency or overwhelming African-American support as well, support from basically white working class selves, because they go all out right now. They in fact, we did. No, I. I went out and campaigned in 2000 and 18 to 20 for, quote, purple states, say seven toss up states and maybe go ahead it. I can't pay for 65 candidate diverse. [19:13:27] And I said we're going to win back the House of Representatives, including the guy coming in here to say one deserves. [19:13:35] Would make you happy you won back 41 seats because my dad was 70 expressions. Joey, I'm want to start the government and my boy expect to understand my problem. [19:13:47] We stopped talking to people who stopped talking to people where they did dealing with the problems they had. But the problem is they have a high gravity. I lost everything in the crash. I no longer have my house. I don't want to walk again because that's what people who are often value on a cruise. How do I get access to capital? We stop. We've stopped talking. So that's not going to happen with me. [19:14:16] The way we do it is we go in and we listen. You listen to people who strongly disagree with you as well. I ran into the young man outside of sports and wait outside and he said, I drop in on you with a little business. We I up because I want to speak to the Fox Sports. I'm not going to alone. He said he going to take care, man for God. No, I'm not joking. [19:14:41] You're a farmer. Going to help farmers. Yes, say farmers are in America today. But what's happened to manufacturing is saying no doubt one of the things that's happened is that we had debt that was simply lost our support around the world. I mean, I sincerely thinking about losing race because of race. [19:15:01] Every thug in the world who stands on a stage not like this saves, he says, with to standing here and say that side of the world, he says. Why would Vladimir approved 100 in our elections? [19:15:17] Rich, why? Well, because 17 intelligence agencies told you and made up. He said not. No president, sign this. Think about this. This email went to Kim Jong un, a thug in North Korea. He sends his love letters, gets them all, it says. I barely made it. That's it. I was, in his words, on my heels. The one thing he wants legitimacy without getting any bad advance. Nothing in advance. He just ripped out the State Department staff. Guess what? [19:16:00] And then comes home. Look, there's three things I learned last three, four months. One, Vladimir Putin doesn't want me to be president. No, no. Not a joke. Not a joke. Because he knows I know him. I've spent a long time with him. He knows me. I know him. He going to work with me. The official news agency for North Korea said you can do. My wife, oppressors, Sen. Joe Biden is a rabid dog and she'd be beaten to death on a stick. I'm very proud of that. [19:16:45] Rocco, he said. He got a love letter from Trump. [19:16:50] And Donald Trump doesn't want me to be president. That's pretty clear. He asked me to be impeached. He went to the big leagues and went down the courage to do it. They all said, no thanks. But here's what's going on right now. Right now, Barack Obama has said it all about his decision. Take down that ad.. We're not criticizing Joe Biden. These folks are a little bit older, but more than one election day, you never think of any time in a primary. The incumbent president of the other party has spent like a small over 14 million dollars in for just the US, just from the South Carolina primary. They spent one hundred twenty five thousand bucks putting up ads or flat lines to keep me from getting the nomination. [19:17:45] I don't know why he's vying for the nomination. I won't beat you. [19:17:59] The number two spot on the side of the stage, I'm noticing there's a lot of candidates right now who are out and about touting their civil rights background because they want goals and I consider them allies and that they say the African-Americans don't associate with African-Americans. But if active duty in an account with me. Just tell me, Kyrgyzstan. You with me a little bit. So. One of the stories I don't think is about when you went to South Africa with an American ambassador. But if you could have told us how so when we were one of the things that. [19:18:52] And I was a maybe one of the most vocal opponents of apartheid because I believe it was critical. You wonder whether that's true or not. I'm not saying, you know, not go to Joe Biden dot com and look at Joe Biden icon George Shultz, secretary of state. I got up and just check it out and see desperately concerned I was about the failure of the Reagan administration to take on apartheid is a criminal enterprise. [19:19:29] I talked about how they said that we're not going to push apartheid because we need to make the case. Course they got shouting matches my hollering at him and George Shultz on my back. And when I pointed out that tigers' appetite for little gasoline around the heads of people next, life is cruel. One of the various honors I had was as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee when one of the most incredible man that I ever met, his fellow. Held in jail for seven years. He was let up finally because he killed far more. Nice old to do it. You came to watch and I watched. Take my office to say thank you. [19:20:24] I got the story because it said I said no. I said, what did you do? I don't know how you can feel hatred, but people kept you soft for seven years. One of the things he said, excuse expression, I for the most Christ like figure I've ever, man. [19:20:47] He said. They're just doing their job and are just doing their job. Then he said, when I left, he grabbed my hand and said, Good luck. Good luck. We wish you luck. This man had a man come out for a vague word in a civil war. We word about the carnage. What did he do? You reach out, you reach out. And while that country together and yet peace. So afterward, everything we tried to do with regard to apartheid was worse. [19:21:26] Last Wednesday, I was lazy down. The United States no longer speak out on human rights. Who? Whose work to. [19:21:44] With your permission, you can read it. I'll take a couple more questions, I'll try to give you a yes or no. [19:21:50] Can anybody, I doubt go up in the back over there? We've got a microphone over that way. [19:22:03] Why is that? We're going to go right back here. Why? [19:22:11] I don't know why it should be. How about let's hear the song? No. How many plans? 83. Singing The first 100 days. My first hundred days pregnant. [19:22:28] I've already written the legislation I've sent to Godsakes Congress. [19:22:34] Pathway, which is the little known undocumented aliens right now, listen up on Dreamer, dreamers or not. [19:22:44] Yes, Hispanics for specific reasons, Asian-Americans, people who've been here, what they like to think about when you think about dreamers. Imagine your five year old mother. Father gets all her own across the country or overstay our visa, violating the law and saying, no, not take me down sandomir service. These young men have become Americans. They've been lost citizens. All of them will be protected. We will re save the dreamer exaction and put them on a path to. By the way, one more thing about immigration. One more thing about immigration. The only people who come here to do it voluntarily. The original sin of American slavery started here. By the way, in South Carolina. [19:23:40] Charles Kupchan. But everybody else. We act. We act like, you know, everybody is out there. There's somebody down in Guadalajara, Mexico City. I had a great idea. Let's sell everything we have. [19:23:53] Get the one he gave to cargo and things across the border. He was in the desert. He got lost. Won't that be fun? My great great grandfather during the potato famine. I'm gonna buy a coffin ship in the Irish Sea. He had no notion whether he made early history. We got same with all of you other than those who descended from slavery. [19:24:20] Guess what? The reason we're the nation we are. I think about this. I mean, I'm not trying to be patronizing any other thing about this. Why are we as a nation? Because we've been able to cherry to the best people from every single country in the world. What I mean by that, people decide to come home and take a risk and optimism. The reason they are fighters, they are ready. [19:24:46] They want to make it work. They think they can do anything. And they bring their families. They care. They care. Really, they could go back in your family history. You're the first people to gain the chance when you came to a. [19:25:06] Where you asked by authorities. It's smart. That's why I have the most beautiful country in all. That's why, I guess, character. That's why he was strong during the media has remained resilient. Offers to. [19:25:33] Just wanted to ask you what you asked Michelle Obama to be your running mate. [19:25:49] I do that in a heartbeat if I. [19:25:52] Go and look. [19:25:54] Michelle and Joe, my granddaughters and their daughters are each other's best friend. [19:26:02] For example, every year at the time, they lie to my granddaughters or young woman's version of bed. Now I'll say to you for sports and my granddaughter Junior and a spin night, know you're saying goodbye after mine. After my last name, when she was up to. Here she is. [19:26:29] She is lean and soft. She's going to his best friend and relative solely represents old school for eleven years. Best buddies every Thanksgiving, for example. We me every Valentine's Day. My daughter in law and my two granddaughters. And. Michelle and her daughters, Pavlovsky, for four days. Oh, yeah. It. They don't like Barack. [19:27:04] All kidding aside, this is one of the great things. First time. The state, one of the reasons I like learned is I resent zie when I was a primary Iraq 2004. He said it should be primary. People were disappointed that a lousy. I fundamentally disagree with that. And here's the deal. [19:27:32] You know, I'm not going to say. Michelle, as they say, is gaming the office. She's done a great deal. She's still doing a great deal. And I think that the fact that. Get out of the White House. It sounded like someone with roof after a really early meeting. So I consider the. [19:28:01] No look at all the presidential stories and various versions of stories and write about the relationship of presidents. On another recent writings of the main historians, presidential historians have pointed out that the two closest to the vise, president of President Bush's America, Mr. Meraki. Burov asked me to consider being vise president. [19:28:32] I said, no. I didn't want to. I really did because his mannerisms tradition is the same argument. And I honestly thought that I could go before our remaining. What was then characterizes our views. More of that, and he called me after it was clear he was the de facto nominee of was on abstract range in age from 36 years to see my boys. My kids, you know, I got a phone call and he said, I'd like you to consider me better. I want to be meaning to do that. [19:29:14] And I said, I don't know why me favor home in Florida with his family, but came back to me within 48 hours where I can be bad for my family and I found fascinating. I was really surprised by way too strong. That I should accept it. I have to see some balls and turn it down with some hot air. My barbecue medicine will give us she wouldn't move in me. Dastyari's either of us better long for. And she finally. [19:29:48] She was at to see backboards. And when I were there. Classic. I for those guys, like a lot of you who had warned not everybody. Everybody said I never worry about. Mean. Rob Danger. Well, if all my friends are surround the house and me in the kitchen, we walk through the door on the spot. You see her in the kitchen. I'm on my little round table there. [19:30:23] She looked at me base, you said Joe Jackson during the Senate last 40 minutes. What do you think? She's further objectionable. He said there are going to get to Syria. I called him about. A month ago, baby in the water asking about Iraq, and you said he's a man of great integrity and he's worth. [19:30:50] You're a kid. [19:30:52] Desegregating my care or securing our security in the neighborhood. Labor now industry is a rarity I servando a real Senate version that sold to black people. [19:31:09] I told you not to be down there and you got to be back here protesting with a black eye. I said, yeah, go ahead. Great job when you were in high school, as a said, Labor had a company called You Want to be an Employer, the side of the largest public swimming pool. You only were an employee. I've never had any pain go to school and you had a great job, but you put it and became a public defender. [19:31:42] What's your point? She looked at me to about. Shoujo first wagram minister has just reelected president, says we need to invest more in the lives of our cities. When you talk. I said, dad, mom, what are you doing? Let's pick up the phone. Okay. All right. Go ahead. Get me. Best decision I ever made. [19:32:11] One of the finest man I've ever known and one of the things I'm proudest of an eyewitness is they say, what do you what are you a proud, so proud of, sir? [19:32:21] We spent eight years together as ministers. There was not one single whiff of scandal. Thank you all for taking time to listen. [19:32:34] I'll stick around a little bit. Oh, my, sure. OK. ZARWAY Lest you notice to be Harbi, he's reading the questions to think about this now. A joke. Climate change is a very serious threat for the environment. But another serious issue that is less discussed in that environment is overpopulation. The majority of the world's population growth will take place in the poorest countries in the world where women are beaten. Howard, what will you do to help empower women in the world's poorest countries or women are dealing with a smile and a really good question. [19:33:11] Let's start off and set a couple record straight about population growth. Spurt 9 population is not right. And this is some small countries and it's in the back of the numbers backward there. Well, for example, the population has dropped strauch throughout the year, strong Japan across the board. The major countries population has gone from. [19:33:37] Exception because of a fear of what's going on. What kind of world? Well, one of the things I did when I wrote. Is incredibly poor. Is that what you're saying, it or not, the rest of the world looks to America, looks nowhere set of moral standards. I was in India meeting with Don, his daughter, in a hotel that he had been hiding out. [19:34:16] And they came to me and said, would you help us get them? You help us get a in this room. And after that law passed in our country. And what's happened since then? Because we rock. And I put enormous pressure on countries to change the culture to be women. What's going to happen for the first time ever? India has now passed a law that you can no longer chastise your wife. You cannot stop that. [19:34:47] You can do all the things you can do to help physically. The economies around the world, the rest of the world is moving in that direction. And I believe we should condition you should this share a very on basic civil rights and so little resistance, by the way. By that I mean those countries and those countries engage in behavior that is contrary to the basic human nature. [19:35:15] They should not forget the foreign aid and that to somebody you and I let you go. I strongly support the way they treat the HP, the the the the L, the LGBTQ community across the board. And that's why if you notice if you notice, we said that you would give the appearance and guess what? Every time our administration of country would, in fact, say continued debt down and when it a homosexual, we argued against it. [19:35:44] Guess what? Number of countries has already changed their policies because period now coming back, you know, is really critical. The critical point is that a lot of women are not in power at all in Unibomber. And you say, Scott, a lot of women around the world are not in power at all in their countries. So what we saw, we saw in our administration is a program whereby we provide for economic alternatives for women to be able to generate economic growth. [19:36:18] And we've had plants that put in place that allow women to start their own enterprises in their countries and be led to the country. In fact, they let women for 20 years in their natural. Yeah. The thing is, I strongly oppose limitations on the ability for the United States to contribute to organizations in these countries and in fact provide oneself alternatives or choice. [19:36:47] We should. As for the Mexico City, well, we should add that. But the best thing we can do is make a difference around the world. I mean, this is our first Japanese expression. It says, women hold up half the world. There's no there's no rule of physics. Finding out what economic physics. No country can succeed in the 21st century. Not go the. No country can see economic 21st century by continuing to keep the renminbi. [19:37:25] It's half the rate, Paul. Half of the past. It's more than that. I know. I know. We should all be just paying incredibly well. [19:37:37] I spent a lot of time there having a policy call it. I'll be a bit of a economics. It is. In Japan, women were as well educated as men. And the culture said once you had a child, you dropped out of the workforce. She couldn't even get to work. And guess what? Because Japan and even China is xenophobic. They don't like outsiders mixes. [19:38:04] They don't have a sufficient workforce. What have they done? They start in the top. Poll numbers, which encourages women and giving them incentives to stay in the job market after fact after fact, they have a job because they provide it also significant, they care enough to. And that's how they're grown. Mark my words, you will not find a single country in the world by the year 2030 that is able to grow economically and once it fully. I may not be able to fully gages half the rate fell at the initiative. [19:38:46] Have the courage to stop talking about starting off as a nation. It's a fact. It's a fact of life. It can not happen. So what is happening now is that if we said we have to say, don't look at the rest of us. What are we? What are they doing? What do I want to opportunism. I said two things that I got roundly criticized. One was I said, we have to change the culture in America. [19:39:20] You know, the phrase also means always expression, no consideration of that as he goes back to not some country that doesn't share our values or our values or it goes back to England, 13 late 13:00. Those who were lawyers obtaining taking law to take any classes in college. There was a thing called the second English Common Law Way of all about the need not to say, but legislate it. It's the courts continue to have are going to merge changes as well. [19:39:58] Well, prior to the late 13 nineties, so many, many more died at the hands of their husband. Literally his back died in the hands of their husband because an order is considered. In any case, still a. That's like a horse. But a pig, a farm. Not no problem. OK. Pinguin not. Breezier. Zambia. Yeah. England. Now so many more die beaten to death by their husbands that a bastard rule in the communal or state saying that you could not beat your wife with a rod thicker than the circumference of your thumb. [19:40:43] We have inherited a cultural culture of depravity that continues to exist in my world. Divorce rates are an out on a child because I say we have to physically change the culture. No man has any right under any circumstances. Marry a man to insist on being able to talk to you without her for that consent. [19:41:17] That's why one of the things I wrote, the legislation I had some really good in helped about right. And by the way, my sister is a brilliant woman and we went to the same university. She graduated. I graduated, she says jokingly. Joe wrote his own ball. I sat down and wrote that because, no, I didn't want to be branded misused in sport industry as a whole. It's going to come into choice. They thought I was going to steal the show on gender mainstreaming, gender preference, and so I couldn't get the story. [19:41:53] And when I wrote the law setting up shelters for women who were barred from the news, mainstream press and by in this setting up indoctrination centers for for women to learn feminist. No. By the way, you know, 75 percent of all the children around on Tuesday because their mothers interviews and looks like criminals know what thing? I have a. While the girls behind our president were there because they have been their mothers were victims of abuse and or ironically, they can agree that two things are based on race. [19:42:32] Those two things, because violence is about behavior. You think of the last thing the world would happen if you watched Mother being beaten. You never, never, never, never regime. But it's a learned behavior. And so. I asked my I asked only Cindy at Ogan is really worth working. The has of the past 17 past. [19:42:54] And I asked her, I said, Jack, you're just a statistic to see how it's working. That's the outfit that determines whether or not laws are made on a bill or not. This bothers me because the amount that went to the women over the age of 35. Violence against women had gone up 67 percent and 40 minutes was up. [19:43:19] Guess most disappointing news ever got. I really mean, this was when I found out she'd be back. She said it's really continue to work for women over 40. [19:43:30] For women between the ages of 15 and 25, nothing's changed. Nothing has changed. Some. [19:43:40] So I went we did a virtual town hall and he told me 30000 young women in high school, college age or halfof. I asked the question. I told you this is devastating. [19:43:53] I said, what would you want me to do? What can we do to fix this? Because what if for going to show up on a college campus in the first year, are raped or abused? The same number existed when we broke the law back in 1996. Same. And so I was embarrassed. Somebody inside, they said I shouldn't have. So better if I say go to this Web site. [19:44:22] Time over to the other to say better writing on campus, more police officers making sure that people in apartment garages can not be all things. In fact, you know, it was. Get men involved. Gay men involved. Rape's the truth of the matter is massive during the vast majority of men, no women. It gets worse the afternoon intervening. Not the same lunch. Same with women. [19:44:58] If, God forbid, you have shoes. When did you hear about abuse? College students as well. If you are abused in this college, what's the first version of. [19:45:09] You go to your female roommate, your best female friend and no supervisor. Very few. I thought you might not listen. That very few will tell you. [19:45:23] Let's go to the police. Let's go to report to the school. Let's go and do something about it. They all know what's available. And then me. What do they do? So I started when I saw this phone call. It's on us. [19:45:42] I went to college campuses all over the country and drew crowds in college campuses. Between 1000 and 10000 people. I said, I want to talk about what was inappropriate behavior to always I challenge the man. I'm sorry. I really hate football teams for the big guys, tough guys. [19:46:04] I say if you seen the interview that's already been of the war. Once a year for those to read to see if you see somebody to be an abuser. 30 Rock you in the first semester. The first month of school. [19:46:21] You have someone at school and you see if during your brother getting a go at drop, you drop out of line. He's walking up the steps. If you don't have the courage to walk over and say, not my house. You're an accomplice. You're an accomplice. By the way, out of respect, one hundred and five instead of one hundred twenty pound freshmen men to walk up to the attack over ways to honor 310 pounds and do it. [19:46:54] But you can call attention to would call attention to. So we started. I would say and so we saw our campuses is making sure that we took the pledge, they take a pledge that they would intervene or intervene by calling someone or calling out that person or saying something about it. So stop. Guess what? When the song a colleague of yours who had a song, the Academy Awards song, what happens to you if you've got any more? [19:47:30] Four years ago, she asked me to introduce her at the Academy Awards. And I did. She had very young people who had excellent views on college campuses. Guess what I saw? But I introduced herself for six minutes about the song on stage. You know how many people watching her grow on my hands? But like two hundred million people, 200 million people watched. But here's the deal, I think, as a need to get a result. But we changed the culture. This is our opportunity, an opportunity to change the culture. [19:48:11] I say no man has a right to way for any other reason than self self-defense. I need a any of those today. If someone in this room believes you walk out the door, nobody in his right to touch you could be arrested for indecent exposure. But guess what stands out? Now you ever see inner city sleaze departments? What you should be asking is so disastrous. Wrong. I got 150 college courses together. This is why you came off campus. Well, guess what? When they go down report, they still get the same questions asked. [19:48:55] What we were doing was wrong. Here's your headline shirt, sir. What did you say? How did you do it? Give me one example. Now, that young woman named Marla was in New York City. She was a mom and she was the only one to leave her apartment. Every time she was trying to get from having a utility, I did not know the area. You know, there's nobody else. Studio, studio, apartment, wanted or whatever working in this complex. [19:49:31] And while this midtown Manhattan upscale building, it's not going to ask about her bought. The owner, the language rehab. She says, I want my deposit back. I. She was on location in New York City University doing a shoot. She got a phone call on her cell from her landlord saying, I have a lot bad news for you if you'll stop yourself on the way back into the restaurant bar on the first floor, upscale restaurant bar. [19:50:06] The first floor of this is on. New York and being extremely sad. You sound like that. [19:50:15] So she's out walking in and he hit her again. She got up and walked out. It's not just gonna remember. You remember, it's hard to lose weight if all around. They slashed your face a phrase. So she said she was going to be going in and testifying last minute. I want to warn her. Did she become victimized by what happened? Anita Hill devised by. And I say, let me ask you a question. What did your mother say? She laughed. [19:50:49] My question is, why are we going to war? What does your girlfriend say? Your where we were going to war. I'm show you, sir. What did you say? It's never appropriate. Never appropriate for a man. [19:51:09] It's not it's not. It's like saying you man, you're go to a bad neighborhood and A.T.M. machine and it's drug infested and everything, you put the car in and you get your money out of it. [19:51:22] Hold up. Was I going to say you're stupid? You shouldn't have had that thing. You guys, excellent. Oh, my God. [19:51:37] Fort Bragg, our daughter was grilled by the guards blog about life, they are likely to do anything and the man didn't want her to do certain taxes and no one has the right to let down. Thank you all so very much.

TVU 22 JOE BIDEN DES MOINES IA EVENT ABC UNI 080819 2020 B ROLL, 2 SPEAKERS, THEN BIDEN 200341 Hello folks how are you? Thank you very much for having me here today my name is Joe Biden I'm Jill Biden's husband that's how I'm known in most places these days with good reason as Mary could tell you. And I want to say that you know I, it is true we talk about what's built this country, there's two things that built this country and I'll get into this in a little bit. 200412 One is immigration. You know the reason we're the country we are is we're a nation of immigrants. (claps) It's not because I'm standing with you but it's a fact it's a fact. We've been able to cherry pick the single best of every single solitary culture in the world from every continent in the world. 200432 That's why we're who we are. Because to get up and decide to come to the United States whether its 200 years ago or 2 days ago, takes a whole heck of a lot of courage, takes a lot of resilience, takes a lot of determination. Whether it's my great grandfather getting on a coffin ship in the Irish sea back in 1849 heading here without a family not knowing he'd make it, or somebody today down in Guadalajara, Mexico sitting there and saying let's sell everything we have, give it to a coyote he'd take us to a country that doesn't want us. Won't that be fun. 200503 You know people don't understand, they're not listening now, but I'll get back to that in a minute. The other thing I want to say to you is that that you know I know how to pronounce the word union. It's not labor its union no no for real. I have been a strong supporter of the unions my entire life. My grandpa his name was Ambroise Finigan he used to say Joey you're union from belt buckle to shoe sole. 200530 He used a little more colorful phrase than that but the truth of the matter is you know Wall Street didn't build this country, ordinary, hard-working Americans given half a chance built the country. Not a joke that's not hyperbole. That's simply a fact. A fact of life. And the middle class, the middle class was built by unions. Period. Without unions, there would be no middle class. 200601 Everybody who is not part of a union movement doesn't really under, they'll begin understand it now, but they didn't understand. The only reason they have a 40 hour week, the only reason they get paid overtime their own reason, the only reason there's safety on the job, the only reason that any of the protections exist, not a joke. Fact. Unions. 200618 That's the only reason it exists. None of it has come voluntarily, whether it was miners up in Scranton or people out here working as pipe fitters, it doesn't matter. It's been unions, but so folks look, you know, the fact of the matter is that Andy and the plumbers and steam fitters hosting us today have been my friends for a long, long time. 200640 Matter of fact, a former international chairman who's a close close buddy, Jimmy Williams and and so I, by the way he sends his best I told him I was coming out pal, and I was going to be here and so look, I've been a friend of labor my entire career, and I can promise you one thing. 200657 For those of you care about unions, if in fact I'm elected president you will never have a better friend in the White House than me, in terms of organized labor. So folks look, you all know in your gut, whether it's your first election or your 50th elect, well it wouldn't be 50th but, whether its your first or your 10th, 12th, 15th election for President of the United States this is different. You feel in your gut. 200727 There's something fundamentally different about this time out than any time in the past, not because I'm running or any one of us is running. Because what's at stake. There's more at stake in this election than any election, no matter how young or old you are, than any election you've ever voted it, period. 200741 And folks, you know, words of a president matters, matters what they say, they can move markets, they can send brave men and women to war. Their words can bring peace they can calm a nation in turmoil, and they can console and comfort in times of tragedy. They can literally inspire us to reach for the moon, which happened before. 200804 And folks, they can appear to our better angels of our nature, but they can also unleash the deepest darkest forces in this nation, which is what Donald Trump has chosen to do when in fact, he said after Charlottesville those folks coming out of fields carrying torches, contorted faces, anger, spewing hatred. Carrying Nazi banners acompanued by the Ku Klux Klan and a lovely young woman was murdered, they asked, they asked him what do you think he said there were quote good people on both sides. Good people, no president no sitting president has ever said anything like that. 200845 And ladies and gentlemen, he gave licenses, safe harbor to hate, hate is a consequence of that. White supremacists, neo nazis, the KKK, that's who they were, that's who they are, words that stunned the nation and I would argue, I know, shocked the world, international leaders spoke about it, you had people like Margaret That, excuse me you had people like the former chairman and leader of the party in in Germany. You had Angela Merkel stand up and say how terrible it was, international leaders looked at us like what in God's name is happening to the United States of America. 200921 And ladies and gentlemen in doing so when he assigned a moral equivalence between those spewing hate and those standing up against hate, it hadn't happened before. As I said at the time, and I did say at the time of Charlottesville, I wrote a piece saying that we're in the battle for the soul of America. And I truly believe we are I said it again when I announced the reason I was running for the president united states and I say it today, we are in a battle for the soul of this country. And that's not hyperbole. That's a fact. 200952 That's why I'm running for president. Charlottesville was not, unfortunately, not an isolated incident. Trump announced he was running for president as he came down those steps on his escalator in his gold plated building and talked about how Mexicans were rapists, as he walked as he came down that escalator. Days before the midterm, this last time out he formented actually the fears of a caravan heading United States saying that, quote, we are he said look at what's marching up it's an invasion. It's an invasion. 201027 He asserted that immigrants would could quote quote carve you up with a knife. President of United States saying this. How far is Trump saying that about this being an invasion when the El Paso shooter, who went out and said this attack is a response to a Hispanic invasion of Texas, how far is it from it? 201052 Presidents words matter. They matter a great deal in both clear language and code. This President has fanned the flames of white supremacy in this nation, the energetic embrace of this president by some of the darkest hearts most hate filled people in this country. Say it all, David Duke, former leader Ku Klux Klan after what happened is Charlottesville said quote that's why we voted for Donald Trump he said he was going to take our country back. White nationalist like Richard Spencer hail Trump by saying, this is the kind of white nationalism we elected him for. 201131 And what does he say? Did he reject any of them? Have you heard him condemn David Duke ever heard him walk away from any of this, folks? Our children are listening. Here's the point I want to make to you. Think about this. If in your public school or private school whatever school your child goes to, if the principal in the United State, if the principal of that school stood up at an assembly and said any of things this president said, what would you be doing? Not a joke. No joke, I'm being deadly earnest, you'd be calling for his resignation or her resignation. (YES from an audience member) 201208 You wouldn't stand for it. And folks I know everybody's tired of hearing me for the last, our children are listening. This has an impact. There's a profound impact. You know we can overcome four years of Donald Trump. But eight years of Donald Trump in my view will forever and fundamentally change the character of this nation. That's why we have to defeat Donald Trump in 2020. There's no option (applause) 201244 And that's why I'm running. Second reason I'm running is because I believe we have to restore the backbone of America. The middle class. As I said Wall Street didn't build a country, as they say in southern Delaware, y'all built the country. You really did. Ordinary people, hard working people given half a chance, have never, ever, ever, ever, ever let the country now. Not once. 201311 Give it a shot, not one single time. My dad used to have an expression. We moved out of Scranton, Pennsylvania when cole died, my dad. If you listen to Barack you'd think I've climbed out a coal mine with the lunch bucket in my hand. I had a great grand Papa who was a mining engineer from Lafayette College but I you know I never worked in the mines nor to my dad he was a white collar worker, High School educated guy well read decent man. And, but there's no work so we moved back to where he was raised for a while when he was between third grade and 11th grade in Wilmington, Delaware. 201344 There were real jobs back then, they were able to move. But he did the thing a lot of you have watched people have to do. He made what I call the longest walk a parent ever has to make up a short flight of stairs to say to the kid honey I'm sorry, you can't play in that ballclub and you can't play in the league, you can't, you're gonna have to stay with grandpop for a year or so dad's lost his job we can't we can't afford the house I gotta move. A lot of people did that. 201407 But he said it was going to be okay. And he believed it because back then if you worked like the devil and you had an even chance you could do it. But ladies and gentlemen, you know he used to say that this job, the job you have is about when we moved to Delaware and I find it interesting because I'm beating Trump eight or 10 points in Pennsylvania it's early that might not last but I think it will 201433 But here's the deal Trump went up to my hometown of Scranton an area that Democrats have a problem winning except when we ran and we won it overwhelmingly but my point is this. He said, you know, I know you like Joe Biden, I'm paraphrasing. But Joe Biden left you. It's true. I was in third grade I left them. 201452 I abandoned Scranton in third grade, even though I went home every single solitary summer for the summer. But my dad when we moved down to Delaware used to say because you know when there was a recession or the problem somebody in our family or the neighborhood would lose a job. And he said, Joey a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It's about your dignity. It's about respect. It's about your place in the community. It's about being able to have the notion that you can look your child in the eye and say, honey, it's going to be okay. I give my word (?) that was his expression. 201528 All my siblings heard that. And he meant it. Well ladies and gentlemen, the fact of the matter is, not many people can look their kids in the eye these days and believe that in fact they're going to everything's gonna be okay. For the first time in American history well, at least in the last 150 years, Americans look at one another and the middle class is shrinking, not growing, shrinking. 201551 We're no longer the wealthiest middle class, their studies show that if an average middle class person, average american got a bill for 400 bucks in a month they didn't expect it, they'd have to go out and borrow the money or they'd have to in fact not be able to pay it. 201606 Folks, you know, middle class used to be kind of basic. It's not a number. I have a lot of economists work for me they say 52,800 or what it is, it's a value set. It's being able to own your home if you wish to not have to rent it. Be able to send your kid to the local park and know they're going to come home safely, be in a position where you send them a local school and if they do well they can go beyond that school, they can go to high they can go beyond high school. And if they do, you'll be able to figure out how to get them there wherever it is, whether it's trade school, whether it's community college or beyond. 201638 Its being able to take your geriatric mom home after dad dies, and take care of her, and be in a position that you hope your kids never have to take care of you you pray, having a little bit of breathing room. A little bit of breathing room. There's not much breathing room, because these guys have changed the deal here. They've changed the way in which we move. 201701 You know, my North star has always been whether or not we can restore the middle class and this time when we restore it, is we got to bring everybody along, and I mean everybody, black, white, Asian, no matter what the background is, poor. Well, no I really mean it, we got to bring everybody along because the line the reason why I know I'm called middle class Joe all the time they say that, and it's not meant as a compliment it's meant that I'm not sophisticated. I'm pretty darn sophisticated about what makes this country tick. 201732 And the reason why we've been stable all these years when other countries in the midst of crisis have fallen apart, including other democracies, is because we've had a middle class that believed that the morrow would be better. There was a chance if you just work like the devil you could make it better. 201749 Well folks, if we don't restore that we have a real problem. And I said, I said middle class is more of a value set. It's about being able to have a good education, economic opportunity, have a job that you get, you know, there used to be this basic bargain in America. If you participate in an outfit, whether it's a corporation or company that did well, everybody shared in the benefits, if it did poorly, everybody got hurt. 201814 But, ladies and gentlemen, that's not the case anymore. I have a cartoon in my office from the New Yorker magazine that Barack, the president. The reason I say Barack is I don't want to confuse him with the President. That he used to, I had it on my mantle in the Vice President's office and I have in my office now when I was a professor at Penn, and it said, as a picture of a great big rotund guy with a black turtleneck sweater, a black mask, and a Black beret, and he's sitting on the end of a table like where you are and he's looking down, where my buddy from the CWA was sitting and he's being interrogated as a big bag on the table, burlap bag with $1 sign on it. 201855 And he's looking at the interrogators saying I'm sorry. How was I supposed to know he was a job creator? Well think about it. Think how much things have changed. We no longer give people credit for realizing and dealing with and in fact expanding the economy. And look how can you maintain your dignity? 201920 If you can't, if you have a child who has a serious problem, any kind of problem but a health problem, a pre existing condition. You know, as a parent there's nothing worse than being able to look at your child and know you can either help them in something that's an opportunity or help them when they're in trouble. Nothing worse. 201941 Well how can a person maintain their dignity in a job when they don't have adequate health insurance? I mean look at a kid who has a pre existing condition or has another problem and they can't do it they can't afford the insurance. How in God's name can you have you maintain your dignity? 202000 It's like when my son came home from Iraq as a decorated hero, the guy who was who was the Attorney General of Delaware volunteered to go to Iraq for a year, came home with a fatal brain injury, a brain disease states for glioblastoma they gave months to live. He knew he wasn't going to live. He knew it, I can't imagine looking at his wife and his kids at the same time, if I knew that God forbid, someone's going to walk in with four months of pain left and say you're on your own, were terminated you've out run your insurance. 202034 How can you maintain your dignity if that happens, how can you maintain your dignity? If you have a talented child who you know the stars are the limit for them. But you can't afford to get them to school. You can't afford to figure out if they want to go on whether its trade school or community college and beyond. And you can't do it. Think of all the people you know today are sitting around, or maybe as early as June sitting around the kitchen table, Mom and Dad looked at each other and said, who's going to tell her? We don't have the money to send her back this year. We can't afford we don't have the tuition. 202111 We can't do it, or she has to commute because room and board we can't afford. Folks, this is wrong. We're, we're so much better than this. We have so much more capability. Look folks, with Obamacare, I you know Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act i thought was, as I said at the time a big deal, or something to that effect. Thank God my mom wasn't around. But it was a big deal. 202146 The Affordable Care Act was a huge step for America and people. It was historic progress extending healthcare to 20 million Americans who didn't have it before. Obamacare dropped the uninsured rate for Latinos (claps) by 27% more than 4 million Latino adults gained coverage on Obamacare. Cut in half the number un insured to the Asian, excuse me Asian American Pacific Islander community, cut in half, maybe most important it provided for the first time protection for over 100 million people with pre existing conditions. 202223 And we have to finish this job. We have to finish it. We have to make health care, I believe it's a right not a privilege, how can we say education is right but healthcare is not a right in America? And ladies and gentlemen, we have to give everybody the peace of mind that it brings to have health care, everybody. Everybody's entitled to that. And for me, that means adding a public option to Obamacare. 202247 I'm against anybody who wants to start over again. I don't think it took us seven presidents to get to the pace, we can make this kind of breakthrough. Now we're in a position that we've debated this issue in the off year election, we can add a public option, anybody who is on qualifies for Medicaid would automatically be enrolled with no cost. 202308 Anybody who wants to buy into the plan can buy into a gold plan because we're going to subsidize the amount of money provided for those plans. We have nothing more than $1,000 copay. And look, and if you negotiated as, as some of the unions have, great plans with their employer and busted their neck and taking salary cuts to do it. They're able to keep their plan. And by the way, it costs a lot of money it costs about, 740, million billion dollars over 10 years, but it doesn't cost 30 to $40 trillion. 202343 It doesn't increase the taxes in anybody in the middle class, we can afford it by just eliminating beginning to treat treat work, reward work as much as wealth. There's no reason why a plumber should be paid at a higher tax rate than someone making 20, 30, 40 $50 million a year. It makes no sense. The capital gains tax should be eliminated. We're not punishing anybody by doing that. 202412 Folks look, education, we're in a position my wife Jill who just left, God love her, her planes are never on time she's supposed to be back in Delaware for an event by 7:30 tonight and she's been at the airport for six hours and now she has to transfer through Chicago still and I'm not sure she's going to make it but God I, I really over big. 202435 Anyway, she has an expression she, she teaches full time and has taught full time, she taught full time as the second lady she taught 15 credits a semester. She's never stopped teaching she's going back in two weeks to teach as well to continue to teach. She has her she has two master's degree and a doctorate. 202454 I became a professor at Penn and hoped that the mail would stop coming dr and Joe Biden. But it still does Dr. and Joe Biden you know what I mean, but all kidding aside, she has the expression any country that out- educates us will outcompete us, folks, we're, we think about it. 202514 Does anybody here think that 12 years of education is enough in the 21st century? I don't know anybody thinks that. That's why I propose we triple. we triple the funding for Title One programs. The title one programs are those in distressed schools, but we also make sure when we do that, the teachers get to get paid more, we have school psychologist, school psychiatry, we have social workers because right now all the difficulty when a teacher comes in, comes into a classroom every problem from home gets brought with them. 202546 But we have drastically cut back. We should have universal three, four, and five year old school not daycare, schools. Schools. Every single study those of you who teach or are economist or those who teach education in colleges, know that the statistics are overwhelming. It increases by more than 50% the chances they'll never get in trouble. They will graduate they'll be able to go beyond. And the other thing we should do is we should challenge the students. 202615 We should challenge students in these schools to have advanced placement programs in the schools. We have this notion that somehow if you're poor, you cannot do it, poor kids are just as bright and just as talented white kids, wealthy kids, black kids Asian kids I really mean it, think about how we think about it. We think no we're going to dumb it down. They can do anything anybody else can do give it a shot. 202640 And folks we're in a situation where if we do this, we will find ourselves in a position where another, by the way, you know, we talk about how how right now more than a quarter of our children in the United States in grades K through 12 are Latino. Well guess what 4% are AAPI as well. 202659 And so folks. I'm not, this isn't doing anybody a favor. This is building America, how could we walk away from right now close to 30% of every single child in K through 12, not give them an opportunity to succeed, and think we're doing anybody, a favor. America is better off when we have an educated public, and we have 30% of all the children in American schools today, primary, secondary schools, who come from backgrounds that are different, that this President keeps demonizing, folks, it's overwhelming the interest of the country. It's our future. 202747 Whether you like it or not, you are our future. I'm not trying to be nice to you. It's just a simple fact of life. No, no really. You got to think about it this way. No one's doing us a favor if we do this, we're doing the country of favor, a country of favor. And folks its imperative, not just for their future as I said, but every single solitary child who graduates with the skills they need to be able to compete the 21st century. 202816 We're facing another big problem and I'm going to hush up in a minute here. We're facing another big problem. We're in the middle of a fourth industrial revolution. Will there be a middle class, one of most difficult speeches intellectually ever had to give and I worked days on it was I spoke to the World Economic Forum on will there be a middle class in light of what's happening? The way in which the world is changing. 202839 Moore's law, the way in which we're moving so rapidly, industrialization is no longer what we used to think about it. But what are we doing, you saw how many people lost their jobs. Not because Amazon and Amazon are bad guys but all those sales people or 200,000 of them, making an average of 50 grand a year, average age 50, all of a sudden they wake up one morning and there's no more jobs. 202903 Look at what's happening across the board, what are we going to do we don't talk to these people's fears and their concerns they're real, but there's many things we can do about it. One of which is we got to get into position where there is continuing education available, that's free or affordable. 202920 We can put every single solitary person in community college those who have lost jobs now to get retrained, which is hard to do it takes a lot of courage to go back and those who qualify in the first place for $6 billion a year you said well there goes that big spending democrat Biden, gonna spend 6 billion. Well folks, I eliminate one tax loophole out of 1,600,000,000,000 worth. 1,400,000,000,000 worth. It's called stepped up basis means you make a capital gain, you're about to go cash it in God forbid you get hit by them figuratively hit by a truck and you die, you leave it to your son or daughter they pay no tax. 202955 Out of 1,400,000,000. It's hard to even say it is so much tax loopholes. That's one that costs 17 billion a year. I can put every single solitary kid who every person who qualified for a community college degree and or trade school and or a certificate for $6 billion a year and have eleven billion bucks left to reduce the deficit. Instead of giving tax breaks for race horses or God knows what else is out there. No, I'm serious. Think about it. 203030 Think about it,what are we doing and that would increase productivity. I'm going to get wonky here, productivity by two tenths of 1% a year. That puts us in a position where that's over a trillion dollars over 10 years the economy grows. What are we doing? What in God's name are we doing, and folks you know I, the idea of what was going on in El Paso, seeing Latinos and Mexicans at the same time that they were be murdered, there was a raid going on in the state of Mississippi, where an overwhelming number of families, ICE walks into a small Mississippi town and fact arrest hundreds of workers the second largest rip off of workers that existed ripping away from their jobs, their families or communities, leaving their children who are citizens fatherless at home. 203128 What are we doing? What are we doing? So you know, not only are the Latino families mourning the loss of loved ones. There are US born children as I said wondering whether or not they'll ever see their parents again. It's simply wrong. I speak just for a moment about immigration. You know, my plan will legalize dreamers, period. There are over 10 million of those people. 203156 And do that by order, I'm going to send this bill to the United States Congress that includes a roadmap for citizenship for 11 million undocumented in the United States who are already contributing to our community. 203209 By the way, they're not only not costing us any money they're saving they're saving social security they extended the life of social security, by almost 10 years, because we have replacement workers that don't exist in any other industrialized countries. Most people think Latino immigrants, when they talk about dreamers, but you all know that when President Obama adopted the DACA proposal in 2014 and offered thousands of thousands, thousands of AAPI dreamers as well. 203237 So it's not just for the Latino population. The reason we're the nation we are is because of immigrants, as I said, it's an incredible strength. It's a source of constant renewal and the reason why we're able to constantly remake ourselves over and over again. What does it matter what continent your family comes from, or whether they share the same, the same exact notions? 203302 You can't define an American for me based on ethnicity, race, religion, you can't do it. I'm being literal. I challenge you with a pressure anybody to give me a definition what constitutes being an American, other than being committed to an idea. An American idea. 203319 We hold these truths to be self evident that all men and women, etc. Or we, we, the people, in order to form a more perfect union. We've never lived up to it. We've never lived even Jefferson who wrote it didn't live up to it. But we've always always always every generation has made more and more inclusive progress as we got along. As Barack says you know we bent the arc, the curve toward justice. This is the first administration's ever abandoned the notion period, just abandoned the notion. 203357 So folks, you know, if the only way we're going to get anything done though and I'll conclude with this is we got to start working together. And I know I'm told by the 287 opponents I have in the race, by the way they're good people, a lot of really qualified people, but I'm told that, you know, well Biden's been around too long and then they tell me I'm naive now that's kind of interesting. 203424 I've been around too long and I'm naive, I hope at least that with time spent, you get a little bit of wisdom, watching things that have gone before you. And ladies and gentlemen, the fact of the matter is we can't we can't do what we have to do without two things happening. One, defeating Donald Trump, and two, bringing the nation together. 203444 We can't do a divided divided nation. Our system doesn't work that way. It requires us to reach a consensus. That's the limitations we put in three equal branches of government. The Congress the courts, and the presidency, they're equal. They're not they're not, one's not more powerful than the other. 203505 And if you notice what happens this President demonizes all three branches, including the courts, including the Congress even when they're run by Republicans. Why? So he can abuse the power. He says they're not acting so I'm going to use the executive power that he doesn't possess. We can't we can't function that way. 203526 And look, the American people finally figured out. Everybody knows who Donald Trump is, even those 30 something percent, think about it. They know who he is. Find me any Trump supporter that will attest to his character, say they want their kid to grow up with the same values as he has. I'm not joking. Think about it. 203547 They may be with him because they benefit from his tax cut, they may be with him because a very small minority share his view on supremacy of whites etc. It's a small number, that share that view. But the fact of the matter is that this is about who we are not just everybody knows who he is. We got to let them know who we are. 203610 We choose unity over division. We choose hope over fear. For real. We choose science over fiction. Haven't even begun to talk about global warming, I'm not going to do it to you now unless you ask me about it. 203628 But here's the deal guys, here's the most important thing, we choose truth over lies. (applause) You happen to see television before you got out, I got back to the room after the fair for about an hour and a half had CNN on and they're running a crawler at the bottom of the screen where he said he was got this warm welcome and received both in Dayton, Ohio, and his own staff said no it didn't go very well. 203701 And you had the, the administrator of the hospital say, we didn't want him going to see the patients etc or something to that effect, and he's standing there saying it was a great turnout. Man, I mean no, the last guy that did this thing about if you say the lie long enough people will believe it was the guy along, I won't even make the comparison because I'll get in touble. 203723 In another country. Anyway, folks. You know I hope, I hope you consider looking me over and supporting me. Because here's the deal. You know, as was pointed out, I was the fifth youngest person in history to get elected to the Congress, the United States Senate, and the second one properly (popularly?) elected after the 17th amendment. 203749 And when I got elected, I wasn't even old enough to be sworn in. I had to wait in order to be sworn in, I was sworn in, I was elected on a third, I wasn't eligible even sworn in till till the 20th of November, and I was always written about as this young, I was a guy anyway I was like I was the rare guy who got elected that year so was a lot written about me because I was so young. 203813 And they talk about me being an idealist and an optimist. My concluding comment is I've never been more optimistic about America than I am today. No, no, let me tell you why. Think about who we are compared to competing with any other nation in the world. Think about it. 203829 We have more great research universities in America than all the rest of the world combined, where every major breathtaking change has taken place and you own them the American people own them they're not federal agencies. They're not private institutions, they are public universities. 203849 We're also in a position where our workers are in fact not fiction, three times as productive as workers in Asia, we're in a position where we have a community, a community of people who are ready and understand that it takes a whole heck of a lot of work to get something done in terms of our educational backgrounds, we're in a position where we are better equipped than any nation in the world in terms of the scientists and the brains we have to break through and everything from dealing with major changes in healthcare and cancer Alzheimer's all these other things and we're walking around like woe is me. Oh in such bad shape. Ladies and gentlemen, think about it not a joke. 203937 No other country. No other country if you invest in our people can compete with us. I always get, I get criticized because they say how about China? I spent more time with Xi Jinping when I was vice president than any other world leader at the time because President Obama wanted me to get to know him, because it was clear he was going to be the next president, and it was clear that it wasn't appropriate for the president of the united states to spend all that time. I was in a city called Chengdu on the Tibetan Plateau plateau. Having a private dinner with him I had an interpreter and he had an interpreter and whispering in our ears he looked at me and he said can to define America for me. I said I can, and I mean this sincerely think about it. 204018 I say I can define America for you. One word- possibilities. Folks, anything in America is possible. We have never ever ever set a goal, we have not been able to meet. If we've done it together. That's why we have to unite the country. That's why we have to move together because folks, the rest of the world needs us as badly as we need to change. Thank you for listening and God bless you all, may god protect our troops. Q & A PORTION 204139 We have a few questions for you. Our first question comes from Polk County Sheriff Kevin Schneider on 204145 Didn't do it. 204151 Q>> Mr. Vice President, you've been involved, one way or another, in many issues, our country faces today, through your time is US Senate, as well as Vice President, as a law enforcement officer for 37 years in this community. I'm wondering what your thoughts are criminal justice reform. 20409 My thoughts on the criminal justice reform are multiple. Let me get to the point. First of all, you know, every time this guy walks out of the house for the last 30 some years not a joke. Every time a law enforcement officer pins on that shield, their spouse is waiting for the, every time. You never know. And so number one I, they owe, we owe them a lot of respect. There are good senators bad senators good cops bad cops good doctors bad doctors. 204240 But the fact of the matter is, the vast majority of the people that I know. I come from a neighborhood you either became a cop a firefighter or a tradesman or a priest. I wouldn't qualify for any one of them so I. So let me start off there but two, the fact of the matter is the circumstances have changed as you know better and I do Sheriff. 204301 Back when you go back and people go back and talk about well, you know in 1988, in 1992 and 1996 and so on so forth. What's different today is the circumstances are different. We should, for example when I wrote the crime bill I made sure that there was thing called drug courts, no one with a drug problem should be going into jail that should go into, they should be going to forced rehabilitation rehabilitation. 204328 It's cheaper, it has a greater chance of working, and it has more impact on society, then if you put someone in jail. Secondly, the problems I have is although 92%, of all people as the sheriff knows better than anybody, are locked up in the state local or city prison, not a federal prison, we reduce the federal prison population grew there by 38,000 folks. But here's the problem. The problem is that we're in prison, we've learned an awful lot through criminologists in the mean time and for guys. 204359 When you're in prison, there's a couple things people have in common, it's not based on their color. It's based on a couple things. The two most common things and one they can't read or write. And number two, their mothers were victims of abuse, and it's a learned behavior you think you'd be the exact opposite I held over 1000 hours of hearings on abuse of women. When I wrote the Violence Against Women Act. 204420 It's a learned behavior. You would think the last person who beat a woman or beat anyone, use violence would be someone who watched his mother get beat, wrong. It's a learned behavior. So what are we doing about it? What we do is, though they're the two things most in common. Why aren't we spending the money to teach people how to read and write while they're in prison. So when they get out of prison, they can be fully integrated back to society. 204447 We're not doing just them a favor, treating them fairly we're doing society of favor. Why are we in a situation when someone serves their time, are they, if they've served their time. Why don't they get fully reinstated it's a society? Right now, as you know, and you're probably only one knows about this the second chance act which I and another person wrote, right now what happens is they get $25 in a bus ticket, and they end up under a bridge. And so if we in fact allow them to be able to qualify for Pell grants to go to school, be able to move into public housing so they don't have to be under the bridge, a position where they can in fact actually have a chance to be reintegrated into society. It's a significantly greater prospect dealing with recidivism than anything else. 204532 There's a whole range of things we should be doing. And I will, and what I'm happy to do. Sheriff is give you a copy of my whole plan, but the bottom line is we should be focusing on prevention rehabilitation and reintegration into society. That's what we should be doing relative to the people that are in prison. And we should be only, not putting spending the money, putting people in prison for misdemeanors. 204601 That should require community service, not prison time, because it costs a heck of a lot less, and it has a greater impact exposing people to other opportunities. And so, there's a whole range of things, but you know I love this I love people going back and, you know, I know, the good news is the bad news. 204619 I started off and continue to be and I'm not counting on it. But, way ahead in the polls. Well that means, you see that target on my back there it's right there. I get it, I understand it, but I didn't if you watched any, I won't call them debates they're one minute assertions, you know. That's right. And, but you know there's an awful lot of significant things that have happened. As a consequence of the stuff we did, including banning assault weapons, including banning the number of of bullets that could be in a clip. 204654 I was the guy only guy that ever did that federally, Dianne Feinstein. We beat the NRA flat out on those two things. (claps) We also put the NRA and by the way, 57% of the, of the NRA members agreed with us. I don't, Delaware's a big gun owning state because we're a lot of hunters, duck hunters. TVU 22 JOE BIDEN DES MOINES IA EVENT ABC UNI 080819 2020 P2 (P1 ENDS AT 204716, P2 DOESN'T START UNTIL 205519) (TRANSCRIPT BELOW NOT ON THESE FEEDS) I grew up and down there there's this thing called the wild game dinner, which is sponsored by all the hunters for people who got injured or anything happened to their homes and or anything happened to them, and we raised money I go down I make the same case all in. When I took on the NRA back when I was running as a senator back in the early 90s, what happened was I go up and down the tributaries in Delhi if you know the insula is Virginia is that police is all about three feet above sea level not a joke, and there's all the tributaries connecting the, the Chesapeake Bay in the Delaware Bay etc. I'd walk up and down those bus these guys fishing I walk up and down and I get somebody said, say, Hey, Joe, what are you taking my shotgun for a job a picture of assault rifle I said you guys No worries. I said by the way you know they're mad at me because I want to eliminate Teflon tip bullets cop killer bullets. I said how many deer you heard that weren't Kevlar vest. You know, I'm serious. And I'd say, by the way, if you need 30 rounds in a weapon. You are dangerous to yourself. You should not be hunting. You should not be engaged in the process. So, two more things quick look if you came in here today. And you parked your car, sir. And I know state rep a member of the legislature not do that but here's Parker satin you left the key in the car and a 13 year old kid gets in the car and it gets in a crash, you're liable. You left the key in the car. Now if you I have I have shotguns. And I always not be shocked. My dad used to be a hunter. I'm not used for skeet shooting and target practice. But here's the deal, they're locked up or under lock and key or not out there. Why should this be the only thing out there that you cannot be held liable for if in fact you negligently leave it around, you go home and you leave your weapon on the counter. Okay, you should don't do, I'm joking. But think about what happened. I met with every single solitary family member up in Sandy Hook. And I met with every single one of them. And I keep in contact with them. They're nice, anyway. I also was down the Pulse nightclub and met with a mom. I also met with all those kids in Florida. I've been through all of them. And guess what, think of the number of people who have died because they didn't take care of their weapon. If you have a shot gun or any other gun, why shouldn't you have to have a trigger lock on it. When you're not used. I don't know, I don't know, sportsmen hunters, don't think that makes sense. Why all those kids at Sandy Hook were there because these weapons were left out the mother legally owned them. But there are the that down. The kid goes in and takes out all these kids. Little kids. And guess what, you know who came to me need the most help the state troopers because they Skype pile these children up in a pile. And then took out a weapon again and ran through them. And I met with the state troopers. They said we need help. Can you get us some psychiatric help our guys are in trouble, suffering post traumatic stress. What do we do, last thing I'll say about this. Think this. We now have the technology be able to do James Bond stuff. You cannot pull a trigger on a gun unless it's as your biometric marker on it. Your fingers. Society exists. Tell me how I deny anyone sec and I know this is a gun on the state like my state. Tell me anyone whose Second Amendment is violated. If in fact you have to pass a rational background check. And the only weapon you'd be able to own in the future is one that only you could pull the trigger on. Tell me now. Wearing a second amendment is to say that anyway violator you can buy the weapon. You can buy the gun. Well get folks I work without as a man here who is a very very prominent and significant philanthropist, I'm going to embarrass me standing against the wall over there. I went to Silicon Valley and met with the folks who in fact have this technology. So guess what they came up with it did not increase the cost of a gun ever happened to be pistols ever selling very very small incremental increase in the cost of the gun. So I think five or six outlets have started to sell it. And what happened the gun manufacturers came along and said we're going to shut you down. We are going to have everyone boycott you guess what they took them off the shelf, took them off the shelf. What tells it what this Excuse me, what does that have to do really truly with your second amendment right. What does have to do with it. Think of all the lives that would have been saved. So folks, it has to be rational rational care for the weapon you purchase you're entitled to own a weapon, the Second Amendment says so. But you have to be responsible. By the way, when we propose this stuff before. Three of those things past was 5455 56% only the accurate number of nra members agreed with it. They understand. They know not take anybody shotgun For God's sake. It's about being rational. And I think the public is had bought up the here right now. Anyway, it's more than one to no share. No Yes or No, thank you. And answers so we can get everybody a little shorter. So we can get all of our questions and. Our next question comes from Louis Sita Donna Thompson, the treasurer of the Asian and Latino coalition on immigration and Dhaka. Thank you. Good afternoon Mr. Vice President. Hello, immigration is a poor concern for the members of the Asian and Latino coalition. We've heard plans from the other candidates to move illegal immigration from the criminal court to the civil court siding the current administration's most interpretation of the law to separate families at the border. The most recent debate saw multiple candidates in supporting in support of shifting illegal immigration from a criminal to civil offense. Are you in support of this shift. No, also. Also, what is your plan to ensure only criminals are opposed to law abiding to law abiding undocumented immigrants. By the time we got the recession back out of the depths of the from going over the cliff. You will lose an 800,000 jobs a month when we started. Remember that time. By the time we finally got things moving and the President was able to focus on this. We did not send anybody back who in fact was not had not committed a felony number one under my administration three things will happen if in fact you make it a civil penalty the civil courts are already so overcrowded. So swamped that it would take years and years and years to get to the plate number two, it will create a giant magnet for the traffickers 205519 Bring people from, particularly the northern triangle and the rest of the country, the rest of Latin America and South America to us because they say, you know, not a problem I'll get you there, and it's no problem. 205530 going to happen is I met with the AAPI in Washington, the national organization, they say, what about us. I can't get from Vietnam to the border. I can't make it. How do I get, where do I get in line? And what we have to do is streamline extensively the whole notion of whether or not you're coming here, as a consequence of fear of persecution and or fear of being treated badly. 205559 Not merely because you're coming for economic opportunity, number one. Number two we did not separate families you, this President has abused that section of the law. He's abused the section. So I would send an amendment, amendment I would send a to the desk of the United States Congress and the United States Senate the following immigration bill. 205621 I would immediately make sure dreamers were made citizens, the idea, and by the way, think about it, why people oppose the dreamers from wherever they come from? It's like, you know, mom I'm not going to cross the Rio Grande I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna get off this plane mom, because you know I'm five years old I don't want to break the law. Come on, man. 205641 What are we doing? Secondly, there's got to be a pathway to citizenship for the 11 million undocumented people here in the United States. By the way, 63% of whom are here because they overstayed their visas, not because they crossed the border in terms of swimming across the Rio Grande or anything else. Number three, we should not and there's no rationale whatsoever to separate families. No rationale for it. And we did not do that. 205709 And thirdly if you are coming here and you're making the case that you should be admitted, you should be able to come into the country and have your case adjudicated. So I would flood the zone with officers who can make the initial determination of whether or not you qualify, you qualify immediately. And by the way you don't have to lock a single person up we didn't because guess what you give a person a return date they show up, they show up. 205737 And so folks, the idea that we have to change what has been the law for a long while, abused only by this guy that extremely did it, because of what the circumstance we're in makes no sense. And lastly, what I proposed is and everybody's now talking about it as if it didn't happen, is we need a Marshall Plan for the Northern triangle. I put together a Marshall Plan. 750 million dollars. I sat with every one of the presidents of the three northern triangle countries. And I said, here's the deal. 205810 We will do the following in terms of bettering your education system, and going through your police forces giving them the lie detector test, deciding who's good who's bad who you should keep, we would change the lighting on the streets, we provide alternatives to the crime, we would go after, and if in fact if in fact you do the things you say you'll do. And guess what you remember all that great surge of the board of unaccompanied children? Guess what it stopped. It stopped because we were in fact, going to the root of the problem. 205839 People would not be leaving if there was something to do, if in Guatemala in the mountains, you can't turn a light switch on and have electricity, you're going to leave. But in fact if you provide for the ability for those countries to develop the capacity to do that, it changes things change. So we got to go the source. 205900 And they are the things that I would focus on to get this thing done as quickly as we can. And we can do it because guess what this President has made it clear, just how abusive it's been. We have been shamed as a nation, ripping children from their parents arms, separating families like you saw in Mexico, you see little girl standing there crying where's my daddy. She's a US citizen. We should be uniting families, the priority should be keeping families together, they should be the first on the docket, to be able to get in and be able to become, get a green card and be able to stay. 205937 So there's a lot of things we can do. But I think if we eliminate that one provision, we just create an overwhelming opportunity for traffickers to be able to flourish. And that's the one way in which by making, keeping it still a crime although maybe a misdemeanor, that's the way we're able to deal with traffickers and those in engaging in slave trade for women. Because you can't go into the country and question and make the case, but the mere fact you think they're who they are, you can arrest them in the United States of America for having violated a crime and put them in jail, that's what we did. That's what we did when we were there. 210021 Q>> Thank you for your response. Our next question comes from a high school student, Vidya Ire, on gun control. Hi Mr. Vice President, so in the wake of two major mass shootings in Dayton Ohio and El Paso, Texas, you know with Parkland and Sandy Hook still fresh in our memories, I think it's safe to say that we have a lot of issues that we need to solve with gun control. So I've done lockdown drills since before I know that I knew what they were meant to like be for, and my school had a student to threaten to shoot up last year in May after a fight in the hallways so. Americans are almost desensitized to gun violence now that we've had 249 shootings in 215 days this year. So, if you become president, what will you do to stop the sale of guns to unfit individuals, and to protect high schoolers like me from the school shooting epidemic. 210120 Won't go back over it I already did about talking about dealing with rational gun policy but let, this is a perfect example. There is an outfit that does polling for the networks, out of Harvard University done by a guy named John Divolpe. And he tests on a scale of one to seven, ask questions if what is seven is the most urgent need to be dealt with. And one to be the least urgent need. And he asked the question of the so called Z generation people between 15 and and depending on who you talk to 24 or 30, but I think it's more like 24. 210157 The greatest concern listed by high school and college students is being shot in school, greatest concern. I was asked to speak to any of you in here not being a wise guy, any of you in here psychiatrist a psychologist? I spoke to the national Psychiatric Association. I was asked to go to London to speak to the international Psychiatric Association. You know the one group of people have the greatest anxiety of any group of people in the United States of America? People between the ages of 15 and 25. 15 and 25, because they understand what's at stake. They get it. 210237 They get it, but it's also one of the reasons why all those Parkland students have come to see me, me, me. I've met with them, I met with their families. A father who organized said the only guy that gave him real solace was me, because I understand what it's like to lose a kid. 210254 I've lost two of them. The fact of the matter is that your generation understands this better than anybody. And that's why it's going to change. It's going to change. You're the best educated, the most open the most inclusive generation in American history. And you've decided no more. I promise you, I promise you it's going to change, and large part because of you. (claps) 210320 So, you've just got to keep it going, get engaged, get engaged, you are obviously. It makes a big big difference, because there is a movement now. Some things, this has gone from a cause to a movement. There's a genuine movement in America that enough is enough is enough. That's going to be led by your generation. And I promise you, as your President, you will in fact, and all your generation, be welcome in my white house to help me get this done, because you can get it done, I promise you. Thank you, I mean that sincerely. Thank you. 210407 Q>> Our next question comes from Secretary and treasurer of the CWA local 7102, Mr. Mark Raja, and his question is about unions. Vice President. Welcome back. Good to see you. I want to thank you for your work, standing with CWA and other unions over the years, you've always been there for us. And when you say, we will have a president in the white offices because of labors, I believe, I believe you. So in order to do that, unions have to organize, card checks, dues NRB's not our fan either. What would you do in the finance space to make things easier for unions to organize? 210457 I'd change the guys in the striped shirts. They're supposed to have guys in the striped shirts calling balls and strikes. Well they're wearing all black shirts right now. I'm not, I'm being a bit facetious but I'm deadly earnest ou know this. One of the things that happens is I think card check is important that is there are a number of employees who are abusing their employees intimidating them. 210518 There should be incredibly stiff fines for them. And if they violate the law they should be subject to prosecution, depending on how much they intimidate people. I'm being deadly earnest, not a joke. And the way to do that is, there will be someone who is a union person, running the Labor Department, they'll be someone who understands unions, no I'm not being nice I'm being deadly earnest and you know I mean it. You know I mean it. 210545 The fact of the matter is, folks, we have to have a voice. You have to have a voice and let the people who understand the law, and are not in, this is not a fixed deal. The idea, look, not only have, the reason why I'm optimistic about the ability for us to come back and organize is this is following. It was up until now the vast majority of non union labor, in fact, kind of brought the arguments of the chambers of commerce nationally that unions are the problem. 210618 Well guess what, all of a sudden, people are finding out doc. that if in fact you're an hourly worker, and you're not a member of the union, you're getting screwed. The only reason why only reason why there's a 40 hour week is unions, only reason why there's overtime. Union. I'm not trying to be nice, this is just the fact. But here's what's happened. 210641 Not only did they declare war on labor's house, they declared war on the idea for bargaining for your own worth until until I started talking about it if you worked for Jimmy Johns, you had to sign as an hourly worker a non compete agreement. You could not walk across town or go within 50 miles and get a job at McDonald's paying 10 cents more you could not engage in the same business, an hourly worker signing non compete agreement. 210709 40% of all workers in America, have had to sign non competes it's one thing you have a thriving business that's a tech business and you sell it you agree you're not going to compete that makes sense. But the idea as an hourly worker, you're not going to compete trying to in fact better yourself just negotiating your own self worth. There's no reason for it other than to depress wages. 210735 Second thing, you know, what we did in our administration, and it got all wiped out is, was at and what are what the head of our, our Secretary of Labor did. He came along and said, guess what, you cannot be denied overtime if you're an hourly worker unless your management. What's happened? If any of you have anybody who works at a grocery store or in a big supermarket chain, as an example, and they control the people who run the forklift to bring out the spaghetti sauce the pile on the side you know stack it in on the shelves, all of a sudden your made labor, your made management. 210810 Last year. Last year 4 million hourly workers were cheated out of $1,200,000,000 in overtime wages. 1,200,000,000 fact. What's that about? It all went to the corporate entities, and what did they do with it? Did they really hire workers? Did they re train people? Did they raise wages? N they bought back over the cost of a trillion dollars worth of their own stock. 210844 Now, if we're one company we have every one of you own a share of stock, I go down the middle of buyback all of yours, their stock is worth twice as much if we have that money. Well guess what? CEOs get paid and not all of them agree with it but CEOs get paid, somewhere between 80 and 85% of all their salary is based on stock options. 210907 So you want the value of stock to go up since in fact short termism has become those of you who are corporate lawyers or those of you who understand all this which is kind of wonky again, guess what, the average tenure now for CEO is six years. So what's the deal? Make as much as you can as quickly as you can do it. Because you show up a wall street and you have as one chairman of the board of Dupont said to me and the Chairman of the Board of Astrozenic (?) I'm standing on a platform in Wilmington, Delaware I took the train every day, every day to because my come home to see my kids one day after. Anyway. 210944 Their sister and mom died, I used to come home every night just so I'd be there to kiss him Goodnight, at least in the no ozzie and harris stuff (?) but the fact is I'd stand there and have a cup of coffee while I'm driving to school. I'm standing on the platform, this is back in about 2000. And two CEOs of major corporations in Delaware heading up to New York. And I said, I won't mention names and I don't permission, but I promise you is true, and said, I said, what's going on guys we're going up and this one, chairman said I'm go up to speak with some little sniffle an sob, who has worked for a hedge fund company covenant. And they're gonna ask me what kind of gain we're gonna have the next quarter. If I don't tell them I'm going to have a gain next year they're going to downgrade my stock. And I'm going to be in trouble. 211034 As Vice president of the United States the Business Roundtable. The former president Michigan. Governor of Michigan, who was the chairman of the business came to me with the head of Blackstone and five other of the six of the top 20 corporations in america. They wanted me to help them move from short termism to long termism. We got to change corporate culture they're arguing, because people aren't investing in long term. 211101 They're not investing long term anymore. It's not in their benefit to do it how many people have opened totally new enterprises, retrain their workers, etc. And so what happens now is we're in a situation where this is where there's no real investment. And it's all about being able to gain more of everybody's money. I went up to campaign for a group of restaurant workers and others in Boston and they were and they were picking in a company the parent company made $1,200,000,000, and they were about to this was just five months ago, and they're about to have their, their wages cut, they wanted to cut back in their pensions, etc. 211143 They made over a billion bucks, parent company. So I went up and I walked the picket line with them and asked me to speak to them and they're a couple thousand people in this great big parking lot in front of one of these stores that there were boycotting. I looked out in the vast majority of people weren't even union workers. 211159 But guess what they figured out, man without these guys and organized labor we're in real trouble. So that's what's changing here. That's why I think we're going to do so much better. In, the ability to organize and we have to hold employers who engage in illegal activity to try to intimidate workers from being able to organize hold them accountable. 211226 Q>> Thank you for your response. We just have time for two more questions, so let's keep our responses a little short.Thank you. 211245 I'll give a short response and you tell me if you want me to start. Okay. 211250 Q>> Our next question comes from a business professional and community leader named Shayma Ali, and her question is about refugees and asylum seekers. Yeah, because I'm not born here. One of the major challenges that you will face when you become a President is the horrible treatment for our asylum seekers and refugees are having. It's not only that, it's topped with hate outrage started by Trump in 2015. What's your plan, not only to end the horrible miserable situation in the detention centers, private and government owned and to help reunite families and help these kids recover from the trauma that they have to live with for years to come? 211342 Yes. You want me to answer it or not, no I'm not being facetious I don't know how to please. It's a passionate question and I feel really strongly about it. Look. Right now, the idea that we insist that he's changed the law on asylum he can't do it. The law has been changed relative to asylum seekers, the country you pass through, you have to seek asylum there before in fact you get to seek, every asylum seeker in the coming to the United States should be able to come through port of entry and have on the spot, a member of the community that is the immigration making first cut as the whether or not it meets the minimum requirements that constitute asylum. If so, you should be put in the queue, to be able to have the case heard in terms of your asylum, there should be zero, zero family separation in this. 211442 None. None at all. And in fact, that's why I would surge, surge lawyers to represent these people, look. One of the things I was able to do in the violence against women act . The reason why it worked is I was able to convince the American Bar Association, some of you are knodding you know what I did to get them to volunteer to represent women who are in civil suits after like, for example, they're victims of violence but in fact, what happens is they're seeking a custody case for their child. They have no money they have no one to represent them. 211515 This is the same thing we should be doing with asylum seekers we should be providing for them, lawyers, we can work out with the American Bar Association, the ability to get them to volunteer there's so many people who are willing to volunteer. It should be able to be done in the country, in the country, there should be absolutely no, there's no need and there I oppose private prisons in any circumstance, prisons for profit. 211539 Number two, what we have demonstrated is if you give a person a time to come back, they come back for their hearings. That's what we found, you don't have to lock anybody up, they come back and we should change the priorities in terms of whether or not, who is able to get in line. We should be uniting families. We should be uniting families, we should also be looking at the whole idea of what's going on in terms of diaspora that's occurring all across the world. Here we are look what's happening in in you know its called, you know, temporary status in the United States, what's happening in Venezuela? 4 million people are fleeing Venezuela, what are we doing? 211625 We're not allowing temporary status at all. Number one, like we did in Haiti or you did when the volcano, all these things. We look. Let me put another way and I'll stop. We could afford to take in a heartbeat another 2 million people. The idea that a country of 330 million people cannot absorb people who are in desperate need and who are justifiably fleeing oppression is absolutely bizarre. Absolutely bizarre. 211700 I would also move to increase the total number of immigrants able to come to the United States, but also the deal is all those migrants those migrants, local, look what happened in Europe. What brought down the social stability of Europe? The migration that was occurring from Afghanistan and Iraq, and and and also North Africa. What happened? And so what did we try to do?I was one sent over to try to work it out, we in fact said, look, here's what you gotta do everybody's got to take their share, everybody has to do something everyone has to participate. That's what almost caught the woman who is a woman of significant principle, living behind the Iron Curtain I know what it was like to have a woman who is the Chancellor of Germany, agree to absorb significant number of people coming into her country. 211753 In fact, it's made the country, but it caused the chaos. It's one of the reasons Brexit has occurred. And so folks we gotta deal with it there's more people who are migrants in the world today, since World War Two. So what do we do, what do we do, we walk away. We don't try to lead the world I don't mean absorbing everybody, but making sure everybody participates everybody participates. The idea what's going to happen in Ecuador what's going to happen in Colombia, what's going to happen in other countries where they have this in in Brazil, with this incredible migration, leaving necessarily fleeing fleeing Venezuela. 211833 It's not our job to accept everybody but we should be part of the solution. What are we doing? It's crazy. Look, folks. Either we lead the world or the vacuum will be filled. It will be filled by the bad guys it'll be filled by China, it'll be filled by Russia, and we all have to take all the burden. We have to organize, closing example. What happened when you had the outbreak of a very very serious dilemma in Africa? 211908 With Ebola. Who was it that took care of it? The United States military.Not with arms, because the World Health Organization couldn't handle it. America stepped in and saved hundreds of thousands of lives. Hundreds of thousands of lives because we stepped in, because the best organized outfit in the entire world was the United States military. We set up those hospitals, we set up those hospitals, and guess what else we did, we prevented the spread of Ebola coming to the United States of America because it is contagious you get on a plane, and it comes it follows. 211945 We did a significant amounts of research, dealing with the idea how we could in fact contain it once the disease started. United States doesn't have to pay the whole bill. United States is not going to be the, take the burden of the whole world on it, but guess what, we have to organize the world. No one else will do it. I said God love you I'm gonna leave I'm sorry I got you kept you so long. But I, I apologize, I don't apologize for my passion. 212014 I, folks, I mean so much we can do. My generation in the 60s late 60s and graduated 68 and I only had two political heroes. Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy, political, they were both killed the last semester I was in law school. Bobby Kennedy was a real hero of mine, got killed the day before I graduated that morning, the putative nominee of the Democratic Party. 212051 When Dr. King was killed mycity was the only city in America Wilmington, Delaware occupied with the National Guard since a civil war with people in the national guard with drawn beignets on every single corner. I came back from law school with a job with a great Law Firm, a very oldest and prestigious law firm. After three months I quit became a public defender, because I couldn't stand to watch what was going on. 212116 But guess what prior to that, prior to my walking across that stage the generation just before me, it was drop out, go to Haight Ashbury, don't get engaged, don't get involved. Stay out. Don't trust anybody over 30. It sounds like a joke now. None of you women are old enough to remember, some of you men are old enough to remember, the war in Vietnam was raging. And guess what, and I remember they said you know there's light at the end of the tunnel or is a ry and very raw comedian named Lenny Bruce he said yeah there's light at the end of the tunnel. It's a freight train. 17,000 more in my generation were killed between the time we started, and the war. 212159 But what happened? Our generation I walked across that stage, coming from very modest background, determined I was gonna, I didn't know I was going to run for office. I loved reading these biographies how everybody knew I was always going to run for president. I didn't, I wasn't gonna run for anything, but I wanted to get engaged, engaged. My whole generation did. 212220 We ended the war in Vietnam, we moved the women's movement into front and center stage. I'm the first person to enter and go to real politics.com and you'll find I entered the first major global warming provision back in the 80s. It was all about the environment at the time, things began to change and we changed things. But then, like all of history, it repeats itself. 212243 So I think what's happened now, I think Donald Trump has done for your generation what the loss of Kennedy is done for mine, because now people have realized they see what's down the road. They see what's happening. And I'm not joking folks, eight years of this policy will fundamentally change the nature of who we are as a country. We can't let it happen. God love you all. Thank you. 212317 Q>> We just have the time to squeeze in one more question. One more question. Our last question comes in from Cathy BIDEN>> I don't mind. I'm keeping you though, by the way, I will not be offended if some of you get up and leave. I'll stay as long as you want me to. 212333 Q>>Our last quick question comes from Kathy with Bold Iowa on climate change. Mr. Vice President, I'm the one who's going to ask you about global warming. You knew it was going to come. So thank you for being here and thank you for your climate plan, and for your comments about climate at the State Fair. I've already heard those in fact Bold Iowa has already posted those on the, on their Facebook page. As someone who lived on the route of the Dakota Access Pipeline. I know all too well the threat that infrastructure like that poses not just to farmers and landowners, but to indigenous populations to minorities and to marginalized people in the US, and worldwide. So my question for you. After I after I read a quote from you on May 1 at a rally. Okay, so, on May 1, talking about climate you said "North America is now energy independent. It's not the Saudi Arabian peninsula, it's not Nicaragua. It's not somewhere in South America it's not Africa. 212456 Q>> It's the United States of America, Canada and Mexico and the United States is soon going to be the largest producer of energy in of any nation in the world. By the end of the 2020s, my Lord, what are we afraid of." So again, my question is, considering that by energy producer. You seem to be talking about oil and gas, do you stand by your statement from May 1 and if so, why or why not? 212525 BIDEN>> My stand is, I was taken out of context. what I was making the point was when the context being told that we were going to be in a position where we could be blackmailed, as we have been in the Middle Eastern countries by the Saudis and others by. In fact, the, the, everyone from Nigeria, to Iraq. And my point was, we don't have to be blackmailed by anybody. Number one. 212550 The rest of what I said since then, as well, and before then, was that we are in a position to be able to in fact remain energy independent by moving to complete total elimination of fossil fuels by the year 2050 - starting now. Ending all -- (Biden stops the starting applause) No, no, let me explain: starting with the fact that no more subsidies at all for any fossil fuel industry. Number two: my climate plan, as you know, cause for a 400 billion dollars. 212629 It's not, it's not new, my plan. 400 billion dollars in investments in technologies and research to be able to fundamentally alter the way in which we can capture carbon, and we can move to, for example, we can place 555,000 re-charging stations on our highways and every new road we build, so that we can own the electric car market and save hundreds of millions of gallons of gasoline and oil. 212702 Number three, I've been opposed to that pipeline from the beginning, you're talking about. For three reasons. It's among the dirtiest oil in the world. It, in fact, has the highest sulfur content of most any oil in the world. It's the dirty crude, not the cleaner crude. 212719 Number two -- From transcript, video cuts out [it also we I usually say go through indium is that, you know, the people who have been maybe there then we] 212729 -- those who were brought over on slave ships and continue to fess (?) up under Jim Crow is Native Americans. Guess what, there's Indian nations. They're a nation. A nation. They should have control over their own territories. That's when I wrote the Violence Against Women Act. And so, even, even if it was. 212753 The other thing I talked about is of the existing pipelines we have. We have several million miles of pipeline United States to natural gas right now. The problem is they're leaky. They're in fact, causing great damage. The methane is coming through the ground. We're causing serious environmental problems. The last time most of those pipes were put in the ground was in the 1960s. They should be replaced. They should be replaced. We can create about 2 million jobs - good paying jobs doing it, clean up the environment, prevent the escape of this, of this material into the atmosphere. 212833 And so folks look. As I said in the beginning, about why I'm optimistic about where we are. We have the most advanced science in the world. We should become the net exporter of the new technology to deal with the suppression and capture of carbon into the environment. 212856 The idea that it out here in Iowa, for example, that you, in fact, don't become the first state in the union and farmers the first group of Americans to be able to be in a zero carbon capture area, where we pay you to capture carbon, rather than to, in fact, and make carbon. It's all within the capacity of us to do this in terms of science and technology. 212921 And that's why if we take a -- Look, I remember when I came out here early on and said we should move to win. We in our administration had the largest wind farm in the world, and also the largest solar in the world. Okay, brought down the price of those two sources of energy. So they compete with the BTU of coal. No one's going to build a coal fired plant again. Not because the nice guys. That because, in fact, it doesn't pay. It's too expensive. It doesn't work. So you can now do it by having renewable energy. Look at the number of jobs you created here in the state of Iowa, and it didn't cause anybody cancer. 213003 It's called windmills, you know. (audience laughs) So my point is that, that was in the context of whether or not we can continue to be blackmailed. Remember the rationale why: why, why we said we had to go in and take on these countries in the Middle East. Because of the access of oil. Ladies and gentlemen, we were flat blackmailed by, the oil industry held us up. 213031 You saw what happened. The point is that there are a lot of things that we can do to move to a carbon - having no emission of carbon, and the net effect of it. Folks we can, we should be able to triple wind energy offshore. Normal offshore drilling I've been that position for five years, seven years. 213054 No more offshore drilling. We don't need to do that, it is cheaper for us to go offshore. And by the way, remember, I remember when I was out here making a case with then-governor Culver. The fact of the matter is you all: (pitching voice, mumbling as if a crowd) "Oh, jeez, I don't want those windmills on my land, it's going to be a big problem, and all those birds are going to get killed." 213117 (normal voice) C'mon man, look at all the jobs it's creating. And people are coming out just to see the damn windmills. (crowd laughs) No, I'm not joking. Think about it, not a joke. So folks, you got to think differently. You got to think differently. That was in the context of being blackmailed by Middle Eastern countries who would hold us up because the truth of the matter is, there was no cold turkey. There's no ability tomorrow you say: Bingo, not another bit of fossil fuel can be burned or sold the United States of America. Guess what. 213153 The economy collapses, completely. We find ourselves in the circumstance, but guess what, investing in advanced biofuels. There are the things that can allow us to be able to transport, our aircraft at speeds that we are not able to do before. Without near the emissions that exists now. New biofuels to deal with it. Same way, in terms of steamships and, I mean, excuse me, cruisers and ships on the high seas. There's a lot of answers. There's a lot of answers. 213226 We don't have much time. We don't have much time. And all of you out here, you're looking at me when I say, you know, for example, we have to build a green infrastructure. And I talked about recharging stations. You go: "Aw, God I don't --" Have you been any major big city lately, real big one? What are those things called scooters. I'm not joking. If I told you, or you told me 10 years ago,if that would be the case, you look at me like I was nuts. You just plug it in, man. That's all, you leave it wherever it was. 213257 Period. Nothing. Nothing. What are we doing? Why aren't we doing that with automobiles? Why aren't we doing it? And guess what, it'd be a gigantic economic growth for us. Look at General Motors. We bailed out General Motors - you bailed out General Motors. UAW workers took a gigantic hit. I know I got blamed for it. Okay. Now I know that I'm the guy who insisted the administration "We cannot let General Motors die." 213331 And the same with Chrysler, when I was in it. I was a kid raised on Chevrolet's because my dad didn't own a dealership and he sold it and got me through school. The point of the matter is, what happened? You bailed them out, first year out of bankruptcy to make 10 billion bucks. What'd they do? They invest in new plant and equipment? No, they got a 194 million dollar tax break last year, from the Trump tax cut. 213357 What they do? Nothing with it. What happens? What happens now is we find ourselves officially laid off 17,000 workers. Why? Because, guess what, some of the products weren't selling. I get that, but it's not the workers fault. It was bad management decisions. So I understand why you got to cut out some of the products, some of the lines that they're making. But what are they doing? They decided they're going to go make electric vehicles in another country. 213427 Come on, man. What are we talking about? What's going on? The severance pay with that hundred and $90 million in tax cut they give everybody a $10,000, the 17,000 people that are left off those to be able to get a new start somewhere. They should be rebuilding those facilities here.But they say no no no, we can't do it. Folks we got to own this. 213454 We got to own this change. Every major change that occurred in every revolution that's been a technological revolution, for the past hundred and 50 years, the United States has owned it. Why did we become the country we did? We became the country we did because we decided, at the turn of the 20th century, that we the United States were the ones who were going to fundamentally alter the way we dealt with education in America. First nation in the world saying, non-means tested, completely free, 12 years of education in America. The first major country. 213532 That's why we are who we are. What are we doing now? We're doing - you're saying Joe, go hell home. I'm leaving. Thank you very much. (Biden walks off stage) 213605 (Biden comes back) Folks, I've just been asked - Not my idea. But I'll make closing remarks. I'll make one closing remark. I didn't know I was supposed to close anything. Here's the deal. Every time I walk out of my Grampa Finnegans house up in Scranton, Pennsylvania, He'd yell "Joe Joey. Keep the faith." And my grandmother would go, "No joey, spread it." Go, spread the faith. We have to win this thing. Thank you. ########

TVU 20 JOE BIDEN NEWCASTLE NH GLADHANDING AND MOS ABC UNI 090619 2020 172033 My name is Joe Biden and I am Beau Biden's dad. I'm putting a hat on here.The Beau Biden foundation---I'm not allowed to talk about anymore because we had to put it on hold, I can't raise the money for it---but my son when he passed away he had been working really hard on making sure that abused children were taken care of. And so it's the Beau Biden foundation and I want to...and it's a good time to wear the hat, by the way, I'm from near the other New Castle. Newcastle, Delaware---over 360 years old now. 172108 And just as damn cold off the water as you all are. It sits the same way. I could be a Newcastle, Delaware looking out on the Delaware River. But anyway, thank you all very much. Harold, Thank you for the introduction and I can't tell you how proud I am for the support of the firefighters and the endorsement of the IAFF. Folks,You know it's often said all men and women are created equal. But then a few become firefighters. [laughter] I was raised in a neighborhood...Clermont, Delaware after we moved from Scranton, a little steel town, lived across the street. there's little school I went to the cross in the fire hall. And in my town you became one of three things. A cop, a firefighter, or a priest. 172155 I wouldn't qualify for any of the three, so. Well I can tell you something. Firefighters are incredible group of women and men, and I mean it sincerely, I'm not just saying because Harold's here. You know they, I owe them in a way that I can never repay, not just for their help all through my career, they're the first outfit to ever support me back in Delaware, along with the steel workers, but folks, you know, it's, they literally save my family's life. When my son and daughter were struck by a tractor trailer. My two sons and my daughter, my wife, my wife was killed and my daughter was killed, my two boys were pinned in that automobile on top of their sister and their mom. 172245 And it took the fire fighting company, my company near me, it took them about three hours (?) to save the lives of my sons. And then, I ended up having, I was campaigning, and I ended up with what they call a cranial aneurysm, I had to be rushed to a hospital in the middle of a snow storm .And the fact is, although the president was nice enough to offer a helicopter to get me there, I couldn't go up because the altitude, my fire company got me down in time for the thirteen hour operation that saved my life. 172320 And then when I was -- these guys do everything, these women do everything. Then when I was in a situation where I was doing Meet the Press and one of the last shows that the original Meet the Press was all about. We -- I got a phone call, lightning had struck my home, and my home was on fire with my wife inside and everything and I was, it was in Delaware, I was down in Washington. The smoke was so thick you could not literally see two inches inside the window. They saved my family, they saved everything and. And so I owe these folks. 112358 They're there whenever you need them. No matter what. And the interesting thing about here in New Hampshire, I've been working on, as well as you have with the opioid crisis, look at what they did. They stepped off the firewalls, they said, come, Come, we'll step in, we'll take care of you. We'll help you. And so we owe you big. We owe you big. Folks, you know, they set up those safe stations, the program that makes people suffer from addiction get the help they need. And it's not what they would ordinarily do. But they're all about saving lives. And ladies and gentlemen, it's great to be back in New Hampshire with Mary Carey Foley. 172434 She owns -- Mary Carey's mom is a great friend of mine, the former mayor of Portsmouth. But she owns the hotel here, Mary Carey. I'm only joking, the manager is standing next ot her there. But so many friends. So many friends are here. And Tom Marr and Pam Yokem and Michael King, thank you for being foolish enough to support me. I appreciate it. 172500 Hope it doesn't your reputations, but I appreciate it a great deal. There are so many critical issues facing us today from health care to education to advancing social justice reform and the criminal justice system, and even gun epidemic and violence is going on in this country, taking on the NRA and taking away the exemption that the gun manufacturers have. the only industry is not able to be sued by law. Imagine if we had done that when I was up here not long ago, I was talking about the opioid crisis that we had to go after. We had to go after that and go after the drug companies who distributed over 9 billion opioid pills. 172540 Never acknowledging that five days you can hooked, and look what's happening now. we're making enormous progress by being able to take them on. my point is that, you know, we're also meeting at a time, and no one knows who knows this other than those along the sea coast and along waterways, that we're at an existential crisis. It's called global warming. Climate change. And ending, as well, the epidemic of violence against women. There's so many things to talk about. 172612 And I know that this week is, one of the proudest things I ever did in my career was write the The Violence Against Women Act, it took me four years to get it passed. And by the way, the reason I mention it, and I want to get to questions, but the reason I mention it, it has it has to be reauthorized. 25th anniversary is a week, this Friday. next Friday, and has to be reauthorized or it falls apart. It's had a gigantic, gigantic impact on safety for women and girls in America. It's been the passion of my life. It's a passion that has...seems like everybody because I'm so passionate about my whole career. Everybody thinks it's because someone--- [FEED PAUSES] 172753 ...the proudest moment of my career in Washington DC. And 20 years following the passage, over 20 years, following the passage of that---67% drop in annual rates of partner violence. We saved tens of billions of dollar in reduced medical costs and services, and expenses. We got major corporations to step in when third time woman came in and said, "No, I ran into the door jam, that's why I have a black guy," to step up and say, "no no no, you are the victim of abuse." We've trained courts and we've had Police Department set up SVU units, and so there's so much that's worth---but the work to reauthorize, three times we expanded it every time---providing housing, expansion of tribal lands, protecting LGBTQ survivors, changing the circumstances for survivors, home and abroad. 172845 That's why, I'm just going to say it, the republican senate and the president of the United States have to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act. It would be a sin to let it fail. Period. And we gotta talk about it. Look, the fight to end the culture of blaming the victim, blaming the victim. How many times did you hear, 25 years ago, well, she asked for it, or her shirt was, her skirt was too short and she said something or she was drunk. It's never appropriate, never appropriate, never appropriate, whenever a woman says no, no matter what stage, what place, what circumstance, it means no. 172928 And if you're not -- if you're innebraited, you can't say yes, it's rape, it's a crime if it occurs. And we gotta remind people. We gotta keep this going. Look, folks, the fact of the matter is, there's an awful lot, an awful lot we have to do. We can, you know, the words of presidents matter, they matter a great deal. And in order to change this toxic culture in our society which as been promoted by the folks in the White House, I want to address some of those topics. But let me begin with a brief statement and then get into questions. 173004 And the statement is, I think what's at stake for this country is literally the soul of the nation. And I'm not engaging in hyperbole. We know in our gut what Harold said, and that is that this election is different. And the words of a president matter. No matter who the president is, president's words can make markets go up or down, presidents can send women and men to war. They can bring peace. They can appeal to our better angels. But they can also, they can also unleash the darkest and deepest fisions in our nation. 173041 Ladies and gentlemen, that's what Donald Trump in my view has chosen to do. His misogynistic behavior justified by the president demeans descriptions of women, the public assertions that he can do, what he can do, and the implications that somehow, if a woman acts and looks at him a certain way, he's entitled to do things. Our children are listening. People are listening. People are listening. Words matter. When he said Charlotessville, when you saw those people coming out out of the field carrying torhces with contorted faces, their veins bulging, talking about singing the same, chanting the same anti-semitic bile that was chanted in the streets of Neuremberg and all through Germany in the 30s. 173125 Carrying Nazi falgs accompanied, accompanied by the Ku Klux Klan and white supremacists. And when when a young woman was killed down in Charlottesville, and he asked, what do you think, Mr. President, he said, there are very fine people on both sides. Very fine people on both sides. No president in our history, you have to go back before the Civil War, maybe to Andrew Johnson, who has ever said anything remotely as repulsive. It stunned the world. It stunned the world. And ladies and gentlemen, in doing so, he assigned a moral equivalence between those spewing hate and those who had the courage to stand against it. And folks, at the time, I wrote an article for the Atlantic magazine, saying that we were in a battle for the soul of the nation. I said it again when I announced my candidacy. 173217 And I say here today, we are in a battle for the soul estate nation. And the first and foremost reason is, that's why I am running. We all saw the direct line between President Trump's "Immigrant Invasion"---Remember in 2018 off-season elections, off-year elections. He said there's an invasion coming. They're about to invade us. How far is that from the line that was used by the killer in El Paso who said "the reason I'm doing what I'm doing is ot stop the Hispanic invasion of Texas." Ladies and gentlemen. The more he feels the pressure of an economy in a recession, moving toward a recession. 173257 You saw what's happening---he's become more erratic. The more he thinks. I promise you it's going to get worse. He inherited a pretty good economy from President Obama. And just like inherited everything in his life [laughter] and now he's in the process of squandering it, just like he squandered everything in his life [applause] Look, I believe and worries he's gonna double down on his worst instincts, to take our eye off the ball what's happening. He's gonna attack immigrants even more, enflame racial divisions to try to tear this nation apart. That's how he stays in power, dividing us based on race. The Muslim Jews, etc. downline, folks. This can be a campaign to beat Donald Trump. It has to be a movement grounded in the values and ideas that define us as a nation, it has to include everyone, the values that we in fact say we care about honesty decency treaty error today giving everyone a fair shot, maybe know what it is, understanding those things that are bigger than yourself. And it's always been. It's always been a dark underbelly of society, and constantly has to be kept in check. When it rises to the end, we can overcome it as I said we've done before, but everyone has been engaged. And it's not just one accord. Everybody has to rise enough people in our communities, public schools, churches press presidents have to say, Enough. 173434 Everyone knows Donald Trump is. We have to let them know we are. We choose what we're fear. We choose unity over division. We choose truth over lies. And maybe equally important, we choose science over fiction. Now look, I know there's a lot to talk about. So let's get right to it. Brody is an old fella. He's a ninth grader, god love him, starting his ninth grade, and he's smarter than I was when I was 19. Brody, I think they're going to start us all off, right? Well, Q&A 173558 Q: .What will you do, as President, to help stop and prevent gun violence. (mic goes) 173622 BIDEN>> Okay. Now, it is, alright. The reason I'm walking out -- (goes out again) 173635 Look, folks. Hello. It's interesting. I just spoke to the International Society of Psychiatric, the International Organization Of Psychiatrists, I forget the formal name of it over in London, because they did a, they've done a study. You know the generation that's suffering from the greatest anxiety of all generations is American people between the ages of 15 and 19. And you know what their greatest fear is, measured by the Harvard study? Is that they rate it on one to the 10, that this is concerning them the most. 173712 The greatest concern is being shot in school, shot in school. We have a gun epidemic going on. I come from a state like yours where gun ownership is revered, the Second Amendment is something people care a lot about, but I want to make it clear. The Second Amendment does not say, anyone can own a weapon. The second amendment does not say you can own anybody weapon you want. The Second Amendment, in fact, like the First Amendment, all has limitations. You can't shout fire in a crowded theater, because people will get killed or hurt in the process. 173745 That's not freedom of speech. And so what we have to do is go back. I'm the only guy that has taken on the NRA nationally and has beaten them twice. Number one. Number one. We find ourselves in a circumstance where in fact, we were able to pass an assault weapons ban. Recent major study done pointing out the assault weapons ban was in place, there were considerably fewer mass murders in the United States of America. And by the way, again, I come from a state where a lot of gun owners. The matter is any of you men or women when you go out hunting you need a clip that can hold 100 rounds, you shouldn't be hunting. You're a danger to yourself. And so I was able to get also a limitation on the number of bullets could be in a clip of a gun. 173832 Anybody who needs more than 10 rounds, you should be doing something else. You shouldn't be hunting. And the fact of the matter is, folks look, the assault weapon, you know ,you guys all, you will hear the phrase from the folks who are on the extreme end of the NRA, because the majority of NRA members agree with me on this. If you in fact take a look, they say, well the tree of liberty is watered with the blood of patriots, meaning you have to be able to defend yourself against the government. 173900 If that's the case, guys, you need an F-15, you need bazukas, you need a whole range of things you know you cannot own and no one suggests you could. If we can say you can't own a machine gun, if you can say you can't own a bazooka, a flame thrower, why is it you can't say you can't own an assault weapon. That has no other purpose. No other purpose unless you're engaged in target shooting. So, folks, look, look, we can do this because one thing has changed, Brody. One important thing. This has become not, it's no longer a cause. It's become a movement. 173936 Just like Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Mothers for Rational Gun Policy are changing things. Your generation has fundamentally changed things. I was, I met every one of the families up in Sandy Hook when that all happened. I was, I met with the people who are in fact down from Florida who came up and were campaign against gun violence and trying to get their senators and congressmen to deal rationally with it. Folks, things have changed. The vast majority of people agree with us. And so we have to make sure that universal background checks. 174012 We have to make sure that you also, if you left, if you left a key in your automobile out here today, while you're here, and a young kid comes along and gets in the car and ends up crashing it or hurting someone, you are civilally responsible. Why in the hell shouldn't you be responsible enough to lock up your gun. Why shouldn't you, we have trigger locks requirement. Why shouldn't you have to be responsible that way. And so folks, there's a lot of things we can do. The public is ready to do it. But what's changed, it's gone and become a movement. 174044 You have over 90% of the American people agreeing something needs to be done. And those in fact folks who will not move on it, we just do something real simple. We're going to go to their districts, campaign against them and beat them, and still maintain your right to own a gun responsibly. 174235 Q: My question is, the differentiation and why I'm with you is that I believe the biggest problem we have is this disconnection with the global community. And furthermore, that we've got to do that quickly. And I believe you've got the relationships, you've got the network, you've got the trust, and you've got the integrity of the global leadership in our allies, who are losing that with us. My question is, what would be the first two or three things that you would do to connect us and jumpstart us back into the global community. 174312 BIDEN>> Well thank you for the question. And thank you for the compliments. If my father were here, he would believe you, my mother would be wondering, she'd think you're talking about my brother. But thank you. Look folks, I think there's a lot of things, and I'll get into them if you want to talk later. If anybody wants to go into the detail of health care or education or a whole range of issues, rebuilding the backbone of the country---the middle class. But folks, I think that one of the reasons I decided to run is that I think the things I've worked on my whole life---I hadn't planned on running again. 174351 The things I've worked on my whole life are the things that sort of are front and center right now. And one of them is to be able to reestablish our place in the world. Folks, this president has done enormous damage to our alliances around the world. He's embraced bullies, he's embraced dictators. He's cost us our legitimacy in parts of the world. Four more years of Donald Trump, I guarantee you there will be no NATO. You think I'm exaggerating? I'm not. There will be no NATO. 174425 He has embraced our enemies. He has, in fact, pushed a finger in the eye of our friends. This is a guy who talks about, he doesn't understand why at the G7 meeting we don't invite Putin back in, Russia back in to the G7---a guy who has actually annexed a giant part of the...he's taken back the Crimea, he's gone after Ukraine, he still has his little green man trying to topple the government. And he's invading our election process and they still are, I guarantee you. They did it last time. My generic point is, this is a guy that also goes out and he embraces Kim Jong Un who's a thug, had his uncle's brain blown out sitting across the table. Had his brother assassinated in an airport. Etcetera. 174515 And so, folks, think what it does to the rest of the world. When they look at us and they rely on us. And we says "Well I'm not sure." He treats NATO likes its a protection racket. That if you don't come up with more money, we're not gonna support you. No president has ever walked away from what they call Article X, an attack on one is an attack on all. And what he's doing is he's having significant impact on diminishing our ability to hold the world together, literally. And by the way, let's get it straight. Either we lead the world or the world is gonna be lead by China and Russia. It's a really simple proposition. and we need alliances. We need to have a place for our own security. [17:46:00] Lastly it used to be you know we had the most powerful military in the history of the world are fighting for forest with the greatest warriors has ever been created. Not a joke. This is reality. But here's the problem. The problem is that that's not how we've been able to lead the world. We've led the world not by the example of our power but the power of our example who we are that shining city on a hill. [17:46:25] And we are losing that kind of respect all around the world. You see what's happening in Iran now what's happening in the Gulf what's happening in the South China Sea and the list goes on and on and on. [17:46:38] So the first thing I would do would make sure I'd be on the road making sure that it's something that I've done my whole career and a chair of the Foreign Relations Committee doing national security for President Obama. I won't be back calling NATO meetings back together assuring them that we are reliable when we're in making sure that everybody is doing it by the numbers. I agree sadly our relationships in the Pacific we are a Pacific power. That's who we are. That's what we use 70 percent of our fleet to the Pacific to make clear that's where things are going likely to happen. There's a whole range of things the first thing I would do though would be bring the leaders of our allies as nations together in Washington to reassert our commitment our commitment to joint security. That is the basis upon which we're going to be reduced to. 174742 Q: My question is, how can we trust that you're going to act on the climate crisis if you're still attending fundraisers that fossil fuel executives like Andy Goldman are at? 174756 BIDEN: There are no executive there. I made a commitment--- Q: At that one a few days ago, though? BIDEN: Yeah, last night. But the point of the matter is, what we agreed to...we all signed a pledge saying we would not accept any funding, any funding at all, from any executive or anyone involved in the management of any energy company. No one is involved in the management of any energy company. AUDIENCE MEMBER: Andrew Goldman founded a fossil fuel company 174820 BIDEN: He did found a fossil---but he's not on the board or any of it. He does not run it at all. And, by the way, if you have a 401K, do you have any investment in an oil company? Does that disqualify you to be engaged? [applause] Look, here's the deal, folks. I've never taken money from the industry, number one. Number, two---I'm the first person to introduce the major climate change bill in 1987. Check PolitiFacts, it said it was a game changing event. I have been deeply involved in making sure we take on everything from Arctic drilling all the way across to make sure there's no0 offshore drilling. 174855 I've been deeply involved in these issues relating to climate change and relating to the environment. I have taken on the folks in my state, asa young councilman, I'm the guy that eliminated the ability to build and oil facility along the Delaware River, ending up with what they call The Coastal Zone Act, which says no facility can be built in the Wetlands all along the Delaware River. And it's the first major change that's ever---I can go on and on. 174924 I'm incredibly proud of my record and I have never, never, never, never, never, said anything I haven't done. [applause] And so, the fact of the matter is---and if you take a look at my climate plan, it';s gotten rave reviews from the vast majority of all the major environmental groups including the Sierra Club and everyone else. So, I promise you like I've always done. I keep my word. This plan is going to go into effect because it is the existential not to your generation, but to the entire planet. And it goes into effecting people in ways that, in fact, do not have to worry. 175002 When you talk about glaciers melting and seas rising, people kind of look at you like, "Well, that's someday." Guess what? It's happening now. I grew up in a little town called Claimont where we'd get up in the morning, not a joke, to go to the school that I went to school at---I used to work at school too, but anyway. And, you know, when it was a misty morning in 3rd and fourth grade you'd turn on the windshield wiper and there'd be an oil slick. 175029 More refineries in the Delaware River and Marcus Hook and Chester than any---including Houston at the time. And guess what? All that soot would land on us. I understand it Maybe that's the reason I have asthma, that's what they said. The point is I've been affected by it. A lot of people have been affected by it. And so we have to fundamentally change and we only have, we only have somewhere between---depending on the science---between 6 and 12 years before it becomes irreversible. And there's things we can do. And the good news about this is, it also presents an enormous opportunity to create jobs---good paying jobs, 25 dollar an hour jobs. 175110 I'm gonna make sure that before 2030 we have 500,000 charging stations. We're gonna own the electric vehicle market. We're gonna be in a position where we create thousands and thousands of new jobs, in terms of automobiles. We're gonna make significant changes. I'm the guy that did the Recovery Act which put more money into renewable energy than all of 175134 Anything in all American history. Creating the largest wind farms in the world, creating the largest solar facilities. So folks, we should look at this as an opportunity, not just a problem. Not just a problem. Every other time we've gone through significant technological change, we've been able to turn it to our benefits and we're going to become the net exporter of the new technology to control the environment. Folks, I propose spending and we will, I promise you. 400 billion dollars in research and technology to deal with climate carbon capture, climate change and so on. So there's a lot of opportunities here. 175222 But, kiddo, I want you to just take a look. Okay? You don't have to agree, but I want you to look in my eyes. I guarantee you. I guarantee you we're gonna end fossil fuel [Biden takes girl's hand] and I am not going to [unintelligible due to applause] but before 2050, god willing. No, it can't be done by 2030. No there's not one single person who's arguing it can be done by then. 175248 But it can be done by 2050, maybe 2045, but as the science increases, we may be able to do it more quickly. But we have to. We can fundamentally change things in the next 10 years thought so that we set a path. I promise you. I promise you. Okay? [lets go of hand] [applause] 175320 Q: Vice President Biden. Yes. What are you going to do about the families live in separate cages. There are thousands. How are you going to handle that. [17:53:34] I'm going to make sure that we in fact do what we do in our administration. [17:53:38] Absolutely. And family separation period reunite families. And what we found is that you need not a separated family for seeking asylum to that side and show for hearing they show up. [17:53:52] You don't have to like come on. You don't have to do any of that number one. [17:53:55] Number two I'm going to make sure that within the first month I send to the desk of the House and the Senate proposal on immigration. [17:54:05] I'm going to make sure that all of a sudden all those dreamers. They're going to be able to be legally here period and earn her way. [17:54:13] I find it fascinating you people say put to a central bank and you imagine you're four years old her dad said let's cross the Rio Grande says No Dad leave me here the liberal. I don't want to go. These kids just turned out to be a great American. [17:54:27] What what. Well I want to see an bearer of the values that these kids have done well. These kids have gone on to do wonderful things in school and beyond. So the idea that we should reject them is absolutely not number one. Number two we should provide a pathway to citizenship for the 11 million undocumented people in America. They have to earn our way just like everyone else did in terms of learning the language etc.. But they should have a pathway to citizenship not a pathway. In fact in fact earn their way to be able to become a citizen based on the census by the way. And based on the aggregate probably guess what. [17:55:05] The reason we are the nation we are is because we are a nation of immigrants. We've been able to cherry pick. The. Thing about. I was with. Anyway. When. A world leader in our nation who who was is a guy who is extremely well known and referred to as the Henry Kissinger of Asia he's written extensively about the way you were written extensively on the whole issue of the future China. [17:55:36] Russia India United States because I spent more time teaching and paying a world leader and when we were in office he wanted to meet with me I was in a book by Lee on community in India on the way to come from ministry on the way to go to Korea and then to Beijing. And he asked where I stop and talk to him. And I said I would do that 90 some years old. And when he spoke perfect English and he was very very good. My mother would say mind I'm sharp as a tack. And so former president he sat there and asked me about wanting me to explain to him what I knew on the new Chinese leader who just became president because I spent so much time. [17:56:22] And I started his plan and he said something on it. I looked at him and said What's China doing now. Did you do see to use the future. [17:56:30] And he was pretty accurate about the development. Is as part of the world. He said the United States looking through the buried black box. And this is when that airliner down you know you remember they couldn't find a black box. And I looked at him like they were looking at me and I said I beg your pardon Mr. President the former president said Mr. President I beg your pardon but what do you mean. [17:56:51] So we're looking for the box that contains the secret that allows an American the only country in the history of the world ever to constantly to be able to remake itself. [17:56:59] Think about that constantly being able were you made so let's go and I said Mr. President get it no one wanted to be able to give you this. I said there's two reasons why that occurs. One we're the only nation in the world where we do not we do not worship at the shrine of orthodoxy. The reason we're able no kid gets us in trouble for challenging orthodoxy no matter how good and bad the school is so much went to Catholic grade school like I did a long time. [17:57:26] But all kidding aside nobody does. [17:57:29] That's why America will make new things we break old things. We move on. As I said the second reason is from the early seventeen hundreds we have been a nation of immigrants in ways interrupted by xenophobia that lasted anywhere for a couple of years to over a decade. [17:57:45] But always overcoming it. He looked at me said Why is that important. And I mean it's silly to think about. I just. We've been able to cherry pick the best of every single culture in the world thinking I wanted to tell us from your ancestors. [17:57:59] Did you get in a boat or walk anywhere in the world to leave everything they knew to go to a little place where they weren't sure they were wanted. My great great grandfather going for getting in on a call for the ship off the of the of the Irish Sea during an event. [17:58:16] Coming to the United States. And it took a just to look after this isn't just a curry. The determination every single solitary man I want to contemplate came from whence they came a slave ship which is the original sin of America unless I had occurred. These are the people who re resisting this. That's what we are. [17:58:34] We are a nation of people who came to be because they had courage. That doesn't make sense better than any other nation in the world. [17:58:41] And I still think in a rational ordered way that is it is still the key to why we're going to be who we are. I didn't say. Yes or no. [17:58:54] Not first. No. Question. All right well I'm gonna give you the last question and you're gonna wrap it up so. Sorry it looks like you're just very excited. [17:59:08] Just wanted more so that occurred in administration recently took steps to undo regulations put in place by yourself and President Obama to regulate methane leakage from places tanks. This is just to the most recent step backwards that the administration is taking to dismantle the EPA in an hour. What will you do as the next president of the United States to reverse what President Obama has done to loosen regulations on the environment and then appoint that kind of breathing in the right direction everything. [17:59:52] What could I suggest guess a couple questions quick. GUY PARKER black. Not. [18:00:03] And it is a sought after high end by just passing by art. I am great. So are you back. In. 1988. I owe Boston University one hundred two thousand dollars for medical school. [18:00:20] And your campaign. But first I'm pretty sure I've ever been to a political game. [18:00:28] It didn't work out very well. What's your education. Wow. Yeah. [18:00:35] Well. But I gotta tell you this time it's good to really pay off big. [18:00:43] I want to ask you one question when you're seeing the debate. He uses the word person from what do you do when he lies cheats steals data for decades. [18:01:02] What. How are you going to respond in a way that is kind of free. [18:01:07] We'll see you not as an antagonist but as somebody trying to save portfolios. [18:01:15] Thank you sir. Nice. Look what I don't want to do. [18:01:20] I think that the biggest mistake was made and everyone underestimated the last time bout President Obama. [18:01:27] But the place he's most comfortable is there's a gun to your argument but a place most comfortable with things that in fact you wouldn't dare. You think of any other the president said it automatically disqualify him. [18:01:39] I didn't grab a woman anywhere I want. [18:01:41] I can't do this I miss you know they think what happened was it took me a while I did a 3 4 campaign events for Hillary Clinton and I thought she would have been a really good person. And here's the deal I didn't realize all of that about. Left and after the first of the after Labor but this time in the election after Labor Day I was going I think it was too close and I realized all of a sudden. [18:02:09] This is a tactic he's used his whole life because he doesn't know the answer to any of the questions not to be a wise guy. He doesn't know the answer which is a soldier. He's more comfortable talking about so won't. Like. [18:02:24] What happened. Example Remember when Martha Raddatz did a second debate she was questioned right after that Access Hollywood came out and I would meet on other side is the one who is wanted to campaign and they asked me where they wanted me to go where they have more support than Hillary had with Labor or mercurial or whatever they thought of it. And. [18:02:50] I remember at the time saying you know the first question is going to be asked is going to ask him about his comments the access Access Hollywood. I said I really think what should be done is that they're going to determine if they're going to turn to. The secretary of state and say what's what. What's your view. And I said I respectfully recommend she said there. And it takes that everybody knows who Donald Trump is. [18:03:18] Let me tell you what I'm going to do for the country and not get in the debate because this is it drives down the pretentious deal. What happened at the Kennedy School. [18:03:30] I don't know what you acknowledge is it was not far from here. Harvard's at Harvard the Shaughnessy school did a study after the election was over and they asked the following question. [18:03:44] They looked at everything that was said about the campaign and everything written about Hillary. And they said how much is related to issues that were discussed as an issue. [18:03:55] Four percent. Therefore you are not being done if it was a tactic. [18:04:03] The tactic is talking about the one place that you're always comfortable. It's like a big lie. Everybody says OK well look everybody knows Donald Trump even his supporters they know about it. [18:04:17] They do it because they think he's going to do A B or C thing that appeals to their concern whether it's a tax cutter or whatever that his and his colleague white supremacy whatever it is. [18:04:30] But it's not because they think that they think that they give to a lot of we're not arguing about us. OK. [18:04:38] And so what I wanted to do is if anyone God willing you help me to get the nomination and the debate I want to do is focus on what we didn't get to do. But at the moment what I will do as president. [18:04:54] Why. Why is such a gigantic opportunity. Think about where we are. MAN It's time for us to pick our heads up. This is the United. This is America. There's nothing we've been unable to do if we set mind to hyperbole. True never never never never. [18:05:12] We decided that we're going to do something we're not able to do it if we do it together. We've never that hasn't occurred. No I'm not writing this to let you go home get a fire or something. [18:05:24] But all kidding aside I think about this all of you no matter your age young or old and we're in a situation where everybody had to study or learn about a Kennedy speech about going on the moon. [18:05:38] There's one sentence in that speech that stuck with me even at the time I was a kid and my colleagues that I work with and my family uses heard repeatedly how many times he was explaining to the question that I was too simplistic with right. [18:05:53] Why are you doing this. He said because we refused to postpone. [18:06:00] I refused to postpone it any longer. Leaving this country in a way that we can't change the whole damn world. Think about it. Imagine. This. Imagine if we invest like a Defense Department you go to great people but the vast vast right is a cold cold dark Applied Science Center. [18:06:20] Third I wanted to came up with a set of technologies to the ones that came up with the Internet at all. I thought we had an after age meeting and a health department and we decided that the best people in the world again said we're going to focus on going forward and I want to spend what it takes to find the answer to how we're going to in fact deal with Alzheimer's care. I ran into Cancer Foundation. We manage an enormous program because we decided to cooperate and start to work together. We could not do a hundred million billion calculations per second if we can afford to go out and take a cancer gene sequencing to know exactly what cancer you have why you have it Senator. [18:07:02] There's so many things that are hard to reach. Imagine what we could do. [18:07:06] All kidding aside this is enormous losses an enormous losses. So I say your putting your heads up. This is the United States of America. We're on the cusp of being able to do enormously enormously powerful things for people for everything from curing disease to reunite we. Without us without the United States. Nobody can organize and maintain Senate progress in the world. We don't have to be anyone to keep writing. The generation is dead have gone. Stop being the world's cops. Ok well guess what. [18:07:45] We need the rest of the world to deal with same stairs. We need the rest of the world to deal with all of the things that we're going to be facing including including climate change. [18:07:54] We are responsible for the 50 percent 1 5 percent the problem with regard to the environment in terms of the warming of the planet. [18:08:05] The rest of the world is responsible for 85 percent. We need a president on the first day that he can call every one of those nations and we put together the Paris accord. The president and our administration. [18:08:15] Call them the better. They signed off the air. Guys we gotta go we gotta go. Let me do it. No one else is going to do it. [18:08:25] So folks we got to gain respect for the world again. We got to take advantage of the enormous opportunities we have. [18:08:32] We're the wealthiest nation in the world. We're the most powerful nation in the world. We reward very research universities America and all the rest of the world combined which cannot be funded. Major changes occurred in those universities modern times. Bye bye bye. Businesses and corporations. We haven't gotten productive workers our workers are three times productive they are in Asia. [18:08:53] Why we work with our heads down. No I really mean it. [18:08:58] So folks I walk I learned about infinity it's all Southern Strategy. Yo Joey keep the faith in my driveway No no Joey shredded it. Go spread the faith. Thank you thank you thank you thank you. TVU 20 JOE BIDEN NEW CASTLE NH GLADHANDING AND MOS ABC UNI 090619 2020 REBECCA (?) and LILA KOHRMAN-GLASER, with 350 New Hampshire Action 182144 Q: Can you just talk a little bit about the question you asked Joe Biden and the response that you got, he came up really close and sort of got, you know, looked you in the eyes. Talk about that question and talk about sort of your response to what you heard. 182153 REBECCA: Sure. So I asked Joe Biden why he, how we can trust him to put the climate crisis at the forefront and to take action on climate if he's still attending fundraisers that big fossil fuels executives like Andrew Goldman are at. And his answer was a little bit of an excuse. He was making excuses that Andrew Goldman isn't on the board anymore, but if you're someone who founded a fossil fuel company, your interests are going to stay there, even if you're not a direct part of it anymore. 182224 So him going to that fundraiser is just as good as receiving a check from a fossil fuel executive. 182232 LILA: We're standing here in the New Hampshire sea coast, which is where we both live. And homes here are slated for chronic flooding by 2045. 1010% renewable by 2050 is too late for the New Hampshire sea coast, and it's too late for communities who were just hit by Hurricane Dorian. It's too late for our generation. We need a candidate who will support a just transition to 100% renewable energy by 2030 and a candidate who isn't afraid to stand up to the fossil fuel industry and to not take their money. 182301 We need a candidate who will stand with us. Q: Are there any other candidates, there's gonna be another debate upcoming next week, what is your sense of the field in general, especially when it comes to the climat echange issue and who have you heard from that you either prefer or think have an impressive stance on climate change? 182317 LILA: We're looking for candidates who have strong support for a Green New Deal with a federal jobs guarantee for workers who want to get back to work, building the renewable energy economy. We're looking for candidates who don't take fossil fuel industry money. And we're looking for candidates who support a just transition to 100% renewable energy by 2030. Q: Can you again just kind of talk about that sense when the vice president Biden came directly up to you and said look me in the eye, you know, believe me, trust me. What was going through you head in that moment and just kind of what were your impressions of that exchange. 182356 REBECCA: I don't trust that Joe Biden is going to have my interests at heart if he is still going to attend fundraisers and accept money from people who have interests in fossil fuels. I just don't trust that he's going to do that. It doesn't matter how he says it.

TVU 20 JOE BIDEN ROCK HILL SC TOWN HALL REMARKS ABC UNI 082919 2020 CAME IN ON TVU 20/FS3 Apologies for the delay on this note-but it's been an eventful day with Joe Biden on the trail. Biden is running late to his final event in Greenville-ALL INFORMATION IS FROM EARLIER TODAY. As he finished his morning event in Rock Hill, SC, the Washington Post story broke. Despite media crowding the rope line, Biden did not take any questions and hurried backstage after talking to voters on the rope line. Biden was supposed to have a Local Stop at a Diner in Greenville, SC but it was canceled around 4p-the time press was slated to gather. Press was told this was due to the VP hitting bad traffic (there was quite a bit coming from Rock Hill) But still-not a good look for the campaign. Before the story broke, Biden held his third town hall of his two-day South Carolina trip in Rock Hill, SC and was clearly loving the interaction with the crowd, interrupting his answers a few times through the event to take pictures with or hug members of the audience and (literally) kiss a baby. Just before the event, Biden's campaign released a statement about the Trump administration ending medical deferred action for immigrants in the U.S.-which Biden talked about in his opening remarks. " [11:49:08] I mean sincerely his newest target is children. Children are on life support. Children dying of cancer children with serious serious diseases. Taking away. In addition to that taking away automatic citizenship of children of some of our military members serving overseas our servicemen and women give everything for this country. And this is the respect. That President Trump shows through the service. And now he's canceling medical deferments for undocumented aliens canceling now. He's seeking to deport six kids sick kids seeking lifesaving medical treatment in the United States like every bully. He's trying to make himself seem stronger by picking on the most vulnerable among us. I never said this about a pregnancy book. But it's sinful what's happening. It's not who we are," Biden said. Biden took questions during the event on Healthcare, Immigration, the budget crisis, education, gun control and foreign policy. None of Biden's answered were out of the ordinary from his usual bits on the trail, but the last question of the night provided a nice moment. 10-year-old Marcus LaFranko asked Biden "As president, how will you fix the damage Donald Trump has caused?" The question got a long round of applause from the audience, before Biden responded "By making you VP. Honey." (12:40:46) Earlier in the event, Biden had spotted Marcus and his 9 year-old-brother, Josh, and the signs the two had made in the car to the event. The VP gave them hugs and kissed Marcus on the top of the head. I spoke to the brothers before the event, and when asked why they were interested in politics, Josh said "trying to help the world out and having racist people not racists." TVU 20 JOE BIDEN ROCK HILL SC TOWN HALL ABC UNI 082919 2020 [11:41:38] Before I began I got to be straight with you. I'm a Delaware State man. Start. I tell you what we're pretty good. We're pretty good. I didn't get to go there but I've gotten. [11:41:52] No honorary degrees in there as that old expression goes in Delaware we have what most of you don't know we have the eighth largest African-American population in the country as a percent of population and Delaware State has a say in up in Scranton where I was born. Delaware State brung me to the dance and so I've been mentioned these youth since then but you know. You you're dealing with some really Golden Bears are dealing with some real problems you know you can you can always tell them Morehouse mamas you can't tell them much. And. You know. Mr. President. I mean. But I want you to see my co-chairman is a Morehouse man. He tells me a whole heck of a lot. He's usually right. His name is Cedric Christian a congressman from. [11:42:39] Louisiana from New Orleans. And. In the former chair of the Black Caucus in the United States House Representative. And he's a Morehouse man. [11:42:54] So you'll figure out what you can tell the Morehouse man. Let me know will you. Because I'm having trouble. [11:43:03] It's great to be back in South Carolina and being a campus of a historic HBC you know. I've been a longtime supporter of HBC use Mr. President. I mean it sincerely. Because you you instill in your students a sense of a sense of purpose. You know everybody forgets because things have gone a long long way. We have to do a lot more to help HBC use. The reason being everybody. No one remembers why they're all started. Most people out there is because you couldn't go anywhere else. And it's the reason why. And it's instilled instilled an enormous sense of pride in so many people given people hope. And so I want to say here at Clinton if I'm elected your president my promise help's on the way. [11:44:00] Deep fry history and traditions of Black Black Community United States or reside in the powerful soul of these universities. And I think it's important. [11:44:11] There's so many critical issues facing the nation today from health care to education to advancing social justice to in fact guaranteeing that Social Security is there for everyone in this generation as well making sure that we deal with gun violence and I saw are some moms here where. [11:44:35] You're going to change it. [11:44:37] You and the kids I met with from all those god awful tragedies whether a Sandy Hook or down in Florida. The fact of the matter is this has become a movement. Everybody understands this is. Irrational. What's going on now this epidemic. [11:44:51] And by the way there's an epidemic in major cities in African-American communities every single day of gun violence. We don't even talk about it very much. [11:45:00] And it's got to stop. And we have to day and look. The fact is that. I don't want to get off and get on that but I want to talk about you know we also wanted. I want to talk about if you want to talk about it the Violence Against Women Act which I'm proudest having written. Climate Change which is an existential threat to our. [11:45:25] I want to address this man these topics as we can this morning. But let me begin with a brief statement about what I believe is most at stake in this election. I really believe what's at stake in this election and that's not hyperbole is the soul of this nation. You know we all know on a gut this election is different. [11:45:43] The words of a president matter and matter. [11:45:53] Words of oppression matter who he or she is can move markets that can send brave women and men to war. [11:45:58] They can appeal to our better angels of our nature they can but they can also release the deepest darkest forces in this nation. And that's what President Trump has chosen to do in my view. [11:46:09] He said after Charlottesville when people coming out of the fields carrying torches contorted faces. I come out of the civil rights movement as a kid I never thought I would see the time when that occurred again and chanting anti Semitic bile carrying. Flags and Nazi flags. And at the same time accompanied by Klu Klux Klan and white supremacists. And he was asked when that young woman was killed what he thought. [11:46:34] He said there are very good people on both sides. No president has ever said something like that. No president Democrat or Republican. And folks. The idea of giving made making a moral equivalence between the KKK and white supremacist and neo-Nazis and people who were fighting against hate is just. [11:46:56] Not tolerable and doing so. To assign. Moral equivalence between those spewing hate and those with the courage to stand against it. [11:47:13] I said at the time that we're in a battle for the soul of America wrote an article Hellenic magazine because I really truly believe that's OK. Babies are allowed to cry. OK. Best thing in the world man. Hold tight. Tight. And look. [11:47:30] I said it when I announced her in this band I say today we are in a battle for the soul of this nation. And that's why I am running for president. [11:47:37] First and foremost we saw in all the direct from the language that the president is used to dividing everybody. What did he say. And you off to your election to try to change the 18th election to prevent the loss of the house and him by his party. [11:47:51] He stood there and he said remember he said we're being invaded invaded. He pointed to those folks in Mexico. We're moving we're being invaded. It's an invasion. Well guess what. The manifesto was written by the shooter in El Paso. What did he say. He said I'm doing this because we're paraphrasing We're being invaded by Hispanics in Texas. There's not much difference. Again people listen to what presidents say. And now he's feeling the pressure of an economy that's teetering on a recession. And he's getting even more irrational. He inherited a pretty good economy from President Obama and me. [11:48:34] He's in the process of squandering it like everything else he's inherited. [11:48:44] But here's the problem here's what worries me and I mean this sincerely. In order to take our eyes off what's happening to the economy I think he's going to double down on his worst instincts attacking immigration assuming attacking immigrants inflaming racial division trying to continue to tear this nation apart. Just last few days we've learned something that I never thought that I would see in America. [11:49:08] I mean sincerely his newest target is children. [11:49:12] Children are on life support. Children dying of cancer children with serious serious diseases. [11:49:20] Taking away. In addition to that taking away automatic citizenship of children of some of our military members serving overseas our servicemen and women give everything for this country. And this is the respect. [11:49:32] That President Trump shows through the service. And now he's canceling medical deferments for undocumented aliens canceling now. [11:49:42] He's seeking to deport six kids sick kids seeking lifesaving medical treatment in the United States like every bully. He's trying to make himself seem stronger by picking on the most vulnerable among us. I never said this about a pregnancy book. [11:50:01] But it's sinful what's happening. It's not who we are. This is not. Who we are. I would have thought. Even he would understand that kids with cancer cystic fibrosis were off limits. [11:50:16] But literally. I know what you saw on television this happened today. [11:50:20] I just got off the all off the phone with one of the best senators I've ever worked with. Senator Markey up in Massachusetts. Guess what. Everyone from the ACLU to all the human rights groups are trying to change what's happening. They're literally giving notice to these families that they've got to unplug their kids and get them out of hospitals. And take them out of America. What is that ever happened in the United States where 300. Plus. Million people have no idea we can't call it tolerate saving the lives you're trying to help save the lives. Of hundreds of children. In deep need. [11:50:57] It's just wrong. It's wrong. It has. To stop. [11:51:07] What. Well. Like so many others have said. [11:51:14] Cruelty is the point here. It's their only point. [11:51:19] It's all I have to run on. Fear anger division cruelty. [11:51:25] So this just can't be a campaign about Donald Trump. It has to become a movement it's not about me winning the nomination and the presidency. It's so much bigger than it really is. Woodrow Wilson once said former president that a party's worth no more than that for which it stands. [11:51:42] That was his stance. [11:51:44] This has to become a movement grounded on our values and our ideals that define us as a nation the best we have to be the America that once again values honesty decency leaving nobody behind helping people who are in real difficulty through no fault of their own. Treating everyone as my dad would say he say Joey everyone everyone's entitled to be treated with dignity no matter who that. Everyone. Everyone. [11:52:18] Giving everybody a fair shot not leaving anybody behind. [11:52:21] Look folks we've been here before in a struggle like this you've seen it in South Carolina. I saw it in my state of Delaware. [11:52:28] It's always been a problem in America there's an underbelly in America like there is America is not a fairy tale. It's not a fairy tale. There's always been a struggle between a distinct minority that this dark underbelly in every society and it's a constant fight to keep it in check. We can overcome it. We've done it before but everyone has to be engaged not just our partner. Everybody has to rise up and say enough enough. [11:52:58] Enough. This is not the America we know enough. Ordinary people in their communities. Public officials the press presidents they have to say enough as well. Everybody knows who Donald Trump is. Even his supporters make no illusion have no illusions about who he is what his characters. [11:53:26] But we have to show them who we are who we are. [11:53:32] No I really mean it. [11:53:35] We have to demonstrate and I mean this sincerely because every time we've gone through periods like this in the 20s when the Ku Klux Klan was on the rise over three thousand people marching down the streets of Pennsylvania Avenue hooded in their capes and there were something like 30 some members of Congress were open members there were six seven members of the US Senate. There were people who were about. [11:53:56] What happened. It wasn't enough. [11:53:59] Wasn't enough that just some people spoke up everybody spoke up. Republican presidents Democratic presidents leaders of the communities organizers of every stripe community folks. And guess what. [11:54:14] We took it back. We took it all back. We have to let them know who we are. We have to let the rest of the world know who you are. [11:54:23] His statements have shocked us and they've stunned the world. [11:54:28] Not a joke. [11:54:30] We've always been able to lead coach by the example of our power not just the power. [11:54:35] I mean to me not just by the example of our power but the power of our example. [11:54:40] That's how we've led the rest of the world and it's been shredded it's been shredded together on who we are. We choose hope over fear. We choose unity over division. We choose truth over lies. [11:55:03] And we choose science over fiction. [11:55:16] Sure I get a little passionate about this sometimes but based on that news last night that I saw I just could not believe it can unplug these kids and make them leave by the 16th of September. [11:55:33] I can't imagine. [11:55:35] My son came back from Iraq is a decorated veteran a major in the United States military after a year. [11:55:41] Conspicuous Service Medal. Also Bronze Star. More so. He got back a year later as he was diagnosed with stage four glioblastoma a cancer that gave him just months to live. It wasn't whether he can name it just how long. I can't imagine if I were the father but even if I were an immigrant or I were undocumented my son was getting help. It came along and said. [11:56:16] I can't imagine you can imagine. [11:56:19] We've got to speak up. So folks look. There's a lot we have to talk about today. So I'd like to turn to the boss and just get the questions. OK thank you very very much for being here. Q&A 115701 Q: What would you do to enhance American health outcomes beyond health insurance? 115707 BIDEN: What would I do to deal with American health outcomes? Folks, let me begin my saying, I believe healthcare is a right, not a privilege. [applause] Everyone is entitled to have healthcare and I think the quickest, best, and surest way to get it done is to build on Obamacare [applause] The Biden Plan, I will immediately, if I'm your President, restore all the cuts made on Obamacare, number one [applause] Number two, I will add, what they call, "a public option," available Obamacare. 115747 [Biden spots a young man in the crowd] Hey, man. How are you? Good to see you. Thanks for being here [Biden embraces the boys] [applause] 115758 Well, I'll tell you what, here's the deal: you know, right now what Obamacare did---I'm against anybody who wants to get rid of it, Democrat or Republoican, but here's what it did. Number one, it made sure that over 100 million people who had preexisting conditions were able to get coverage, were able to afford coverage because it costs so much with a preexisting condition to get coverage. Number one. Number two, it got 20 million people who had no coverage at all, none at all, and allowed them to get immediate coverage. 115836 Number three: it changed what constituted a---we expanded---you didn't do it in your state, unfortunately, but we expanded and the government said for the first 7 years we'll pay for all the Medicare expansion in your state. A lot of states didn't do it and left a lot of people behind, tens of thousands, millions of people in America. So what I'd do is eveyrone who qualifies for Medicaid---not Medicare, Medicaid---everyone who qualifies for it will automatically be enrolled in the public option, in my plan, with no cost. They'd all be covered. 115912 Secondly, those folks who have insurance that they like and they have it with their company, you negotiated for it, you fought hard to get it and you like what it is, and they're ready to keep it like the teamsters and others have that dea, you're entitled to keep it. 160 million people have private insurance that they very much want to keep and under my system, you'd be able to keep it. On all the other systems, you'd have to give it up. You don't have to keep it if you don't like it. You can sign in and become part of the public option. You can decide that's what you want to do. 115947 Thirdly, what it does---it makes sure that women can no longer---by the way, what Obamacare did [addresses audience member fussing with their baby] you can no longer, under Obamacare, charge a woman more money for a procedure than a man which is the case [applause] It also makes sure that pregnancy is no longer a preexisting condition [applause] 120018 [Father and baby, from before, stand up to take a selfie with Biden] [Biden laughs and kisses baby's head] [cheering continues] 120029 [to audience member] Pardon me? Oh, you wish you could hug me? I wish I could hug you too [cheers] [they hug] 120040 Anyway, look, look, here's the deal: I've got some really good candidates I'm running with---we're running against each other, but look. Anyone of them is more qualified, Father, to be POTUS than the guy we have there, number one. [applause] Number two, we do have a disagreement on the health care piece and I'll summarize it because there's a lot to talk about on healthcare but look, in order for me to make sure that what you can do is you wanna buy into the marketplace there, you can buy what they call "a gold plan," the best plan, meaning that you do not have to have any co-pay more than $1,000. Period. That whenever it comes up, it's minimum of $1,000 co-pay. 120122 But, hgere's the deal. The fact is, it's gonna cost money, but my plan, over the next 10 years, would cost $740B, but everybody would be covered. They'd have all the healthcare they wanted. They could keep it, what they have, or they could decide to get in and you can make the choice, but here's the deal. It is, in fact, cost 1/30th of the other plans. The other plans are well intended but they take forever to get there and, by the way, Medicare for all is, in fact, cost 30 trillion dollars. Okay? Now make no bones about it, I get it. And Bernie's been totally honest about it. It's gonna be another, in a sense, a FICA tax another 5% tax, thereabouts, on your salary in order to pay for it. 120209 I don't think we have to go there in order to get what we need to get, which is thorough total coverage for everyone in the USA, that's affordable. So that's my answer. There's a lot more to talk about, but I'm talking too much about it already. 120223 Q: If immigrations detention facilities cannot guarantee the safety of the detainees and, in particular, vulnerable populations---what is the justification to continue incarcerating immigrants and expanding the detention system, like what would you do to improve and help the immigrants reunite with their families? 120247 BIDEN: Close them down [applause] No, no, no ,no. By the way, we don't need them. We found out, when we were in office, in fact, if you decided we've finally got things under control. We finally said, if you would say, "you have to report back for a hearing on such-and-such a date," people show up. You don't have to keep kids in a cage. There should be no justification separating a parent from a child. [applause] No, I really mean it. And, by the way, I'm not engaging in trying to appeal to your emotions, just practically speaking you don't need to do that. 120324 The other thing we have to do is we have to find a pathway for Dreamers [applause] I love people who say, "let's send them back." Can you imagine you're 4 years old, your mom says "we're crossing the Rio Grande," "No, mom. I don't wanna go. I'm gonna stay here."? Come on. Come on. And these kids who come and they end up doing well, the become Americans before a lot of Americans become Americans [laughter] No, I'm serious. They get in school. They do well. They contribute to the community. They contribute to the country. So, number one, we legalize the Dreamers. Number one. 120401 Number two: I would send, immediately, an Amendment to the desk of the US Senate and House of Representatives---a bill to the desk that said the following: We have to find a pathway to citizenship,earned citizenship, for the 11 million undocumented. And, by the way, you know what most undocumenteds are? Most undocumented people are people who have overstayed their visas. They've flown in, okay? They have a visa. They overstay. That's the biggest portion here. 120430 And thirdly, the idea that we are changing our nature as a people by not allowing the notion of people seeking asylum here. What's that Statue of Liberty all about? It's about asylum. Asylum and the idea that I would be surging asylum judges to the border to make sure these people had hearings and if they, in fact, don't qualify for asylum what I'd also do---and when I was a US Senator and then as the VPOTUS when the President asked me to deal with the surge, remember, of unaccompanied children at the border? I was in Ukraine. He asked me to come back from Turkey and take it over. 120511 And what happened was, what did we do? We were able to put together a bi[artisan effort of $740M to the 3 states where most of the people were coming from: Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala, and said, "Here's the deal: you got ahead and you improve your police force. Stop the corruption. We will pray for that happening to you. You go ahead and provide for jobs for people. We will help you organize---you make people pay taxes who have the money. We will, in fact, help you." 120541 But, look, the thing is we know, the one way---it's not like everybody says, " I have a great idea. Let's sell everything we have, give it to a coyote, and they'll take us across the border, leave us in a country that doesn't want us. Won't that be fun? Let's go ahead and do that." It takes all your ancestors, with the exception of those of you who are African American who were taken here forcefully which is the original sin of America, taken here forcefully---everybody else here. What happened? When my great great grandfather, Owen Finnegan, got on a coffin ship, they used to call them, in the Ivory Sea to come to the US in the middle of a famine in 1848, he didn't like, "Oh, this is gonna be really fun. I know I'm gonna make it." 120620 The people who've come are people who have courage, people who have resilience, people who have optimism. I had a long discussion, I'll divert for one second, with a guy who was a leader of Singapore---a guy who, in fact, was referred to as "the Henry Kissinger of Asia," and he was asking me, he wanted to meet with me because he was dying. He was in his 90s. He wanted to meet with me because he had written extensively about the future of China, India, the US, and Russia, and what was gonna happen. He was viewed as being very far-sighted on it. 120700 And I was in Mumbai, India for the POTUS and he asked me whether I'd stop and meet with him, and I did. And, about midway through our conversation, he was very ill. It was when that aircraft went down. They couldn't find the black box in the Indian Ocean, remember that? And he turned to me, and he wanted to see me because I'd spent more time with Xi Jinping, now President of China, than any other world leader had at the time. And he wanted to know what I thought about him, what I thought his objectives were, etc. And, midway through the conversation, I looked at him and I said, "What's China doing now?", meaning what's happening in China as a consequence of this change of power? 120739 He said, "They're in the USA looking for the buried black box." And I said, "the buried black box?"---like you looking at me like what are you talking about, Joe? He said, "They're looking for the box," I'm being very serious. He said, "They're looking for the box that contains the secret that's allowed America to be the only country in the modern world to be able to constantly remake itself." And I said, "Mr. President, I've been around long enough to give you an answer to that. Number one: the USA is the only country I know, including our allies in Europe and other places, where no child gets in trouble for challenging orthodox. They don't get in trouble. That's how we make new things. We break old things. 120824 That's why we're the leading entrepreneurial nation in the world. That's why we've done so much." I said, "Secondly," I said, "Since the early 1700s, there's been a constant, unrelenting wave of immigration met by xenophobia, 3 or 4 times, lasting for anywhere from a year to sometimes longer, but it's always being overcome." He looked at me and he said, "Why is that important?". I said, "Because look at the people who had the courage to come. They had the courage to these everything they knew. It wasn't like it was a lark. Give up everything and take a chance. Take a chance on something new. Take a chance on...because they had resilience." 120904 They were able to recover from pain and sadness. They were able to... they had optimism. That's what all your ancestors did. Every one of them me because we've been able to cherry pick the best of every culture in the world no matter what continent they're from. That's why we're different [applause] We have to have an orderly process. We should protect our borders have a right to the last thing we need is a wall from sea to shining sea. My God. I'm not here night and I hear you say now...an Eagles fan? they allow you to be an Eagles fan here? [laughter] Oh I'm an Eagles fan. I'm gonna lose all your votes. You know. [laughter] But I got to tell you, I am. You know, I mean I'd be sleeping alone if I weren't. My wife's a Philly girl. 120956 There's a lot we can do and still protect our borders, still deal with modernizing it. You know, we have the technology now that these big freight, these trucks come through the natural ports. We have essentially overstated by. to use the technical terms. we can put a giant x ray machine on top to tell you everything is inside of it. We know how to deal with this. We're not spending the money to do the things we could do to fundamentally alter the real concerns we have or whether it's terrorism or the concern, which is minimal, orwhether it is dealing with drugs or weapons or, you know, coming through. There's a lot we can do. I'm not suggesting we don't have to maintain. Every nation has a right and a necessity to protect their border. And I will do that. But the idea we're treating immigration the way we do now is just it is not who we are as a country. 121103 Q: Hi there. I'm really concerned about our fiscal sanity. Can you tell us when we ever might balance our budget again? [laughter] 121116 BIDEN: No. [laughter] All kidding aside, look. Don't you find it fascinating that the Republican Party, which is the party of fiscal responsibility, has ballooned the budget beyond anything that is even remotely recognizable? Just by that tax cut. Which has not generated a whole lot of anything except additional wealth for the very wealthy the top one tenth of one percent. That increased the deficit by another two trillion dollars. OK? we now have the highest deficit to GDP we've ever had in American history. So, I tell you where it starts. It starts by taking back that tax cut for the very wealthy. [applause] 121159 Number two. We have a total of 1 Trillion, six hundred, I think it's 40. Don't hold me to the exact number but one trillion six hundred billion dollars and above [worth of] Loopholes in the law. Loopholes that are tax loopholes, some of them rational. First time home buyer, you're able to deduct your mortgage rate, charitable deductions, etc. But they do not make the VAT, there's at least---those your economic professors here. I challenge you to find any justification for any more than a trillion dollars of that and you're gonna have a hard time doing that. But for example: why do we only reward wealth and not work? [applause] 121253 No, I mean---This is not a demagogue. This is just flat truth. Think about it now. If you're a fireman, a school teacher, a police officer, a middle class taxpayer you pay less. You pay a higher percentage of taxes on the money you earn. Than a person making a billion dollars or ten million dollars or a hundred million dollars. Because the significant portion of that is a capital gain. Capital gains. capital gains are now at 20 percent. 20 percent. That's the tax they pay. And you've heard a lot about this from a couple of billionaires who've spoken up and said "Why should I pay a higher a lower tax rate than my secretary pays?" 121336 Folks, if we just change the capital gains rate back to what your rate should be that you pay on your income. We would raise hundreds of billions of dollars over time. We would be able to do that to deal with the things we really need to do like paying for tripling the amount of money we'll spend on Title 1 schools, that's distressed schools from 15 to 45 million dollars [applause] A Health care bill. So the point I'm making is we need a rational policy. Why is it that if you live in a large city in this state or other states and you're working, you're a single parent like I was for five years. Why are you in a circumstance---after my wife and daughter were killed. Why is it that in fact you get no tax credit or help for child care? 121430 Right now it cost, if you're in Atlanta, it cost about 22 grand a year for one child to have decent childcare. Now, there's no tax break for that but you get a tax break for race horses and a whole lot of other stuff [laughter] No no no no I'm not joking. I'm not trying to be mean to anybody but think about it. If we gave every single parent who was working. If We gave them a tax credit of eight thousand dollars a year. They can deduct off their bottom line. There'd be over seven hundred thousand more women in the workplace. Increasing the gross domestic product by almost 1 percent a year, increasing over a period of 10 years by over trillions of dollars. 121516 What's happens in growing the country. But folks that's one of the reasons why in my, in my plan for education, I think every single child age 3, 4, and 5 should be able to go to preschool. Everyone. And it costs not nearly that kind of money. We can do it. And by the way those of you who are a child psychologist or in fact teach education, you know the fact is that if a child, in fact, no matter what their economic circumstance which they come how poor of the household they come from, if they're exposed to education early it increases exponentially their possibility of going through school, staying in school, and never getting in trouble. 121602 And folks the other thing we should be doing, we should be increasing the number of social workers and child psychologists and others who work in the school system. How many of your teachers? raise your hand. Every problem in the household comes to your classroom. Every one and you recognize it. But guess what. The number of folks who have child psychologists in school now, it's one child psychologist for every fifteen hundred kids. What are we doing? Why aren't we sending into---last point I'll make about this---Why are we sending into homes of economically distressed families, whether they're of color or otherwise, why aren't we sending on the home social workers who help single moms or single dads know what they should be doing in raising their children? 121655 Those are your teachers, and my wife is in the classroom today teaching---she's been taught her whole life here---teaching is not what she does, it's who she is. The fact of the matter is when people from minority communities or poor communities come and don't show up for parent teachers meeting, why don't they come? [audience shouts out] Bingo. It's about trust and it's about being embarrassed because they don't know what to do. I was a relatively good athlete, not like some of the people here, but I got opportunities to visit a lot of colleges to go to school. My dad never went to college. He was a well read gentleman but insisted I was going to college, so I thought when I got to visit these schools he would in fact want to come with me but he wouldn't come with me. 121741 And I remember saying to my mom Mom, why won't he come? She said, "he's embarrassed Joey. He doesn't know what to say. He doesn't want to be in a college campus. he's never been on and them say well how about you Mr. Biden did you do A, B, or C?" People are embarrassed. We can give them so much help. We can let them know there are things they can do. Do you realize a child coming from an economically deprived home is going to hear four million fewer words spoken by the time they get the first grade than a child from middle class home? Not different words just words spoken. So, you're going to need to teach young moms that if you just keep the radio on, play music, let people hear, and---by the way I know you can't read but maybe we can help you learn how to read. It changes things we can do this and it doesn't cost much money. Guess what? It helps everyone in the community. 121838 The last thing people want is children who are raised and end up in a circumstance where they can't take care of themselves. They don't get an education, they get in trouble. And so folks there's so much we can---I am so excited about the possibility of what we can do if we can change this administration [applause] 121900 Q: I'm a proud second generation Jewish American. And I would like to know how you would handle anti-Semitism and hate that's growing in this country? 121922 BIDEN: You may know that I have been listed as the single most supportive person in the United States Senate, when I was there after Abe Ribikoff and Scoop Jackson and others left, of support of both Israel and the Jewish community andthe Anti Defamation League. When I was chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, I held hearings which caused a lot of trouble saying talking about the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe at the time. I was told I was gonna hurt us but I learned a lesson from my father who was a righteous Christian. 121957 We were the people, and that's a term of art in the Jewish community, a righteous Christian. My dad, we'd sit down and have dinner. He'd come home from work and then go back after dinner but dinner to him was really important. we all sat down and had dinner and it was a place we had conversation and incidentally ate. And my dad used to rail against the fact we didn't bomb the railroad trackstoward the end of the war. Used to rail against what happened in the Holocaust, he was a student of the Holocaust. 122026 And here's the deal. The fact of the matter is that we're in a position today where if, in fact,we don't deal with---there's a phrase that came out of the Holocaust and it was "never again." And the second phrase was that "our silence is complicity." Silence is complicity. I'll shorten this answer and we can talk more about it if you'd like, but that's why when my deceased son Beau turned 15 I put him on an aircraft and I flew directly to Dachau. So he would see when you walk through that gate it says "work will set you free." That's not what I wanted him to understand. I didn't want him to see the ovens. I wanted him to see those beautiful homes that were up against the fence and people pretended they didn't know. Their silence was complicity [applause] I have taken every one of my children to Dachau. 121221 My son Hunter who's the brightest person I know. My daughter who is a social worker. I've taken my granddaughter, Naomi, when she was 15, who is a senior in law school now. I took my number two granddaughter who's a junior in college when she turned 15. I took my Maisy girl as an all state athlete. I took her. She's a freshman in college and I'm gonna take my two youngest children because I want them to see and understand. Silence. Silence. Silence is complicity. And I will never ever be silent [applause] 122209 Q: I'm a college student and current student teacher. I want to get back on education and see how you want it to improve public education and teacher pay because South Carolina is raneked one of the lowest things or teacher pay, based on experience and degree. How can we improve outreach programs in school and, for a student like me, I didn't have a lot of teachers that looked like me I understood what I went through. So how can we improve having more black teachers within the black community and still being diverse? 122236 BIDEN: OK. Number one. Under my proposal for Title 1 schools, the first thing in order to qualify for the money they have to increase teacher salary and make you competitive with the rest of---by the way teachers and social workers are the two degrees in four year colleges that get paid the lowest of all four year college degrees. We are running into a gigantic shortage of teachers across the board. We're gonna see this gigantic exodus of a generation of teachers and we're not attracting new people of any background into teaching. Number one. 122313 Number two: there's evidence this shows that if you teach, if you have an African-American and or man or a woman even more if it's a man quite frankly, in a classroom where there are African-American students, their performance increases markedly just the mere fact that someone the same color is in is in the school. So we should be encouraging, making sure in high schools you're able to get credit before you even graduate, cooperating with colleges as well as with community operations that let you qualify to get college credit before you go. Thirdly, we got to deal with the cost of the education. 122356 It's unaffordable for most people. And so, I propose that everyone everyone who wants to go to a community college, you can cut in half there for years and HBCU should be getting roughly five hundred million dollars a year in aid, as well, but you end up with making sure that you have free community college. It cuts in half the cost of a four year education. But there's a number of programs that are community based programs where you bring in businesses and you bring in, from the beginning in high school---you bring in businesses and you bring in folks within the community, including colleges and other organizations, to make sure you have challenging programs in the high school where you can qualify and get college credit before you go on. 122428 So that by the time you graduate you already are there, not just Advanced Placement, you're already there. you're already moving. I can go on. I'm going on too long. But let me give you a copy of the entire education plan. But, it rests upon attracting qualified teachers, particularly minorities, into our school systems to be able to teach. Now here's the last part of it. the last part of this is that we're in a situation where we also---I want to make sure that we have a program. There's a program that exists federally. if you borrow federal money to go, where there's a debt forgiveness program. I changed that program to make sure that if you are engaged in public service, and that includes teaching. You are in a position where in the first 10 years, you will get ten thousand dollars of your debt cancelled. [applause 122551 And if you do it for a period beyond that, guess what, your entire debt is canceled. By the way if you're engaged in public service. You want to do you know Teach For America program. You want to get in and be a social worker and volunteer in areas where there --- We should be rewarding people who engage in public service. But there's a lot more we can talk about. I'm gonna get in trouble by my staff and the press. They're gonna say Biden talked for 18 hours. I answered questions on my. My problem is I try to answer them thoroughly, but I'll try to do it more quickly. 122632 Q: Hi I'm Laurie Freeman and I'm the local group leader for Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America. We know that women and people of color are more likely to be impacted by gun violence. And I wanted to know what policies you would champion to end the epidemic and what your priorities would be to stop gun violence in America? 122701 BIDEN: Well, first of all. I want to thank Moms Demand Action. The fact of the matter is the reason why---I'm the only person that's ever nationally beat the NRA, flat out. I was able to get assault weapons banned. I was able to get the number of bullets that could be put in the clip limited to 10. I was able to change the Brady Law so background checks were changed, etc. But the problem was, the only way I could get it done was to agree it'd have to be reauthorized in 10 years and then we lost an election, and we ended up with hanging chads costing us, in Florida, costing us the elimination because President Bush let the ban expire. Now what happened was---let's get something straight. I think the Second Amendment, in fact says people have a right to bear arms, but here's the deal. The deal is like every amendment---for example, first Amendment free speech. No one in here can stand up and yell fire because it'll cause damage. People will rush out of here. People will get hurt. Every single solitary amendment has a limitation on it. 122817 Now the limitation that exist on the Second Amendment is, nowhere does it say you can own any kind of weapon you want. Nowhere does it say anyone can own a weapon and those who say, maybe some do and I know that," the tree of liberty is water with the blood of patriots" meaning you've got to be able to have enough power to take on your government, well you need an F-15. You need an M1 tank, you need flame throwers, you need bazookas you need. No I'm serious. If that's the rationale. Now, that has not been the rationale for the Second Amendment in most scholars' view. 122855 But here's the deal. We've always been able to say certain people should not own a weapon a person who in fact beats and abuses wife and is convicted of it should not be able to get a weapon. [applause] A person who is engaged in violence should not be able to get a weapon, a terrorist should not be able to purchase...I could go on the list. That's why universal background checks are absolutely required. They do not violate anyone's Second Amendment right. Secondly, you can---the type of weapon you can own. I took on the NRA in my home state and, at the time, back when I was a senator, Delaware was one of the highest percentage of gun owners in the country because of a lot of duck hunters a lot of hunting in the Delmarva Peninsula and the like. 122947 And so I went to make a point. I'd show up, my dad used to always say "Joey half a win is showing up," so I go to gun shows, I go into the communities, I'd go I'd walk along the estuaries in Delaware where the streams that---you know if you know anything about my state, the Delmarva Peninsula, look it up on a map. It's a very low lying area in the southern part. And people would be fishing. They's say, "Damn, Joe, what you taking my gun for?" I'd be walking in hip boots right. Well not hip boots, but boots walking along and I'd show a picture of an assault weapon. I said you need one of these to duck hunt? What do you think? They gom, "No no no, I don't." I said, Well let me tell you something. I'm not taking your shotgun. 123023 I have foreshock five. I have two shotguns, a 20 gauge and a 12 gauge. my son who died had three shotguns. we were skeet shooters. he used to duck hunt with my son but I'm not a hunter. And so what happened was that I'd say "I'm not taking your gun but I'll tell you what. The fact of the matter is, I said, you need a hundred rounds to go deer hunting man?" I said, "You must be one hell of a lousy shot." [laughter] you need an AR-15? "But I need to protect myself." I got in trouble, you may remember for saying this, I sometimes get in trouble because no one ever doubts I say what I mean. Sometimes I say all that I mean. That's the problem. But here's the deal. 123108 I said, "you want to be protected in your home. You don't need an AR 15. you don't need an assault weapon you do not even know how to fire it very well." By the way, more people who have guns in their homes get killed by intruders with their own guns than people who don't have them. Now I'm not saying you shouldn't be able to have a gun in your home. I'm not saying that. What I'm saying is, it takes an awful lot to say "I'm going to shoot you." You know, the gun is taken and you get shot. But here's the deal. 123135 If you want to keep someone away from your door and you're coming, have a 12 gauge shotgun blow hold your door. I promise they'll go away. It's not going to...an assault weapon is not the thing to do it for him. But my generic point is that I think what's happened is two things. One. It's what we have talked about as a cause, has become a movement.. I was up in Sandy Hook. I met all the parents and the kids. I actually had state policemen coming to me asking me if they can get psychiatric help because they saw those bodies piled up. Anyway. And, you know, in Florida. 123218 Press accurately pointed out, I said when I was vice president, I met with the students of Parkland. Well I wasn't vice president but I met with the students of Parkland on Capitol Hill. They asked me to come up to the Rotunda and meet with them and their parents as they were about to go off and lobby. I was a former vice president and it was 2018. And I met with them when they marched on congressmen and senators offices and I watched those congressmen senators, who were shaking. They didn't want to see these kids. They didn't have to look at the kids and say "No, I'm not gonna do anything. My point is these young people and the moms are out there demanding action which turned to no movement. 123258 The vast majority of the American people believe this. the vast majority of NRA members support what we're saying in terms of assault weapons and background checks. The fact of the matter is, our problem now is not just the fact that we have the NRA but gun manufacturers. They just want to sell guns. Last point I'll make: we're in a situation where we now have the technology like James Bond that you could not pull a trigger without your biometric marker on it. And they did. They made pistols that way. They put them in certain outlets. And guess what? The gun manufacturers said with the NRA, "we're going to boycott you and shut you down. If you continue to sell them." So they all took them off the shelves. It's ridiculous. 123345 How could I violate anyone's second amendment right saying the gun you qualified to purchase, you're the only guy who can pull the trigger---does that affect your? But guess what. Look at how many people are killed because, and children are killed on a regular basis, because the gun owner does not lock up their gun. If you came to this meeting today and you left your car and your keys in the parking lot and a 13 year old kid gets in it starts it up,, crashes into another car or hurts somebody, you're liable. Why if you have a weapon in your home and you don't have a safety lock on it, why is it you are not responsible? There should be mandatory requirement for trigger locks. So that this is not violating anyone's second amendment right. You still have access. 123452 Q: I have a foreign policy question for you. So, in 2007, as chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee you endorsed the UN's law of the Sea Convention and we're seeing five point six trillion dollars in trade threatened right now by actions by Iran in the Strait of Hormuz and by Xi Jinping's China in the South China Sea. as President will you endorse the on close agreement once again. And will you fight to get it signed? 123515 BIDEN: Yes but here's the deal guys. One of things that's happening is that, it gets down to a simple thing. Look, the world is changing rapidly because of Moore's Law. Technology changes---the vast thing that's going on in terms of how we're dealing with artificial intelligence and and all the rest. It affects two things. What we did right after World War Two, our fathers and our grandfathers, what they did they set up rules of the road in terms of trade and what constituted international space and international waters. And the fact of the matter is, the way it happened is, we were able to put together alliances in Europe and in Asia to say, for example, you do not have control of the oceans three miles off your shore. You cannot do that. 123604 So that's why when you try to shut the Straits of Hormuz, there is an international consortium that says you're not allowed to do that. It's beyond your capacity to do that legally but more and more nations are doing more and more places. Look what the Chinese did in the South China Sea. They set up these air identification zones, meaning you can't fly through without checking with them. And I met with Xi Jinping in China with my delegation and the national security team and I said, "we're not going to pay attention. Would you expect us to say we're not going to do it." I said, "No here's what I expect you'd understand. We're not going to pay attention to it. We just flew B-52s through it." 122643 Period. We have to make it clear, we will not let individual nations set the international rules and the ones who want to change the international rules are basically Russia and China. Because it is designed to keep people from threatening the rest of the world. But it requires one very important thing. I know this is a big essay question. I'm not going to give the whole answer. It's like a seminar class [laughter] but here's the deal. It requires us to regain the confidence of the rest of the world again. [applause] It's something that's in my wheelhouse 123722 If you notice, during our administration, any time we had a problem internationally, I was the guy that got sent with the secretary of state because everybody knew when I spoke, I spoke for the president. No one had to wonder. there was nothing missed between the cup and the lip. It was I spoke and they knew it meant the president spoke. Everybody else, Secretary Defense and everybody else, they said well you get to go back and check it. I didn't have to check anything. Here's what I was able to do. Because I had that authority the president gave me. 123750 I was able to put together large coalitions. Concluding comment on foreign policy: Folks, if I'm your president we're gonna get our combat troops out of out of Afghanistan and we're gonna get them out of these places [applause] And I know a lot about it. But here's the deal folks, we can not be the policemen of the world. we need to have coalitions and stateless terrorism is gonna remain a serious problem for America and we're going to be in jeopardy if we are not able to keep together those coalitions. I was part of being able to put together a 67 nation coalition dealing with the Taliban and dealing with al-Qaeda. 123829 But we need we can't be---put your hand down honey. I promise I'll let you guys talk--But here's the deal. The fact of the matter is we need help. America. I come out of a generation where we tried to be the policeman of the world. That's why I opposed and I wanted to end the war in Vietnam and the rationale for it and a range of other things. But here's the deal. We can't be the policeman of the world, but we need the world to be policed. We needed to be policed, dealing with stateless terrorists and nations that are rogue nations. And it requires us to be able to put together back these alliances and coalitions starting with, once again, making sure NATO is coherent again. Number one. 123914 Number two: and Our administration, what we tried to do---we tried to make sure that we in fact were engaged in Asia, making sure everybody knew the presence of the United States of America in Asia was real. And look what's happened now. Now you have South Korea and Japan not talking to each other. Australia having to work out its own deals with China. We have squandered what, in fact was, we need to do. But I'm going to say something outrageous. But it's true. I'm the only one running for president who has significant experience. I know every one of these leaders except I don't know of the new prime minister of England. He looks like Donald Trump. I don't know--- 124001 But, and by the way, I know the good ones and the bad ones. I know how to deal with---I've done it. This is this thing that's in my wheelhouse but it's a gigantic issue determining what our foreign policy will be, how rational we will be. We need to maintain our alliances. I'm gonna let these two young men have the last word and I'm leaving. 124023 Q: As president, how will you fix the damage Donald Trump has caused? [applause] 124046 BIDEN: By making you VP. Honey, it's a really important thing. The first thing we've got to do is remind everybody in America what's America's all about. We're all about being decent and honorable. We've never met the standard---maybe this is the best way to close--- you know folks. I said it's been a constant battle. America is not a fairy tale. It's been a constant battle between good and evil in our country. But here's the deal. Here's the deal. The fact of the matter is, that the reason why we've been able to be who we are is that we've never walked away from the commitment---we've never met it. The reason my final announcement was in Philadelphia. The reason I picked it was, there were the words that were written. 124138 "We hold these truths to be self-evident. That all men and women are created equal, endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights life liberty etc." Or starting off with, "We the people in order to form a more perfect union." And boom. Well folks, that's our founding documents Thomas Jefferson wrote them. He didn't live up to them. We didn't live up to them but every single generation has moved the arc of justice just slightly, little bit every single time. we've moved it. And here's where I am and I believe this with all my heart. I got elected and I was twenty nine. I was talked about being not old enough to take office. 124222 I was the guy who was the young idealist and I was optimistic. I'm more optimistic about America than I've ever been in my whole life and it's not hyperbole. Let me tell you why. We have never met that standard but we have never ever ever walked away from it. We've never walked away from it like we have now. And here's the deal, because of everyone from that brilliant young man to the oldest person in this room. Here we are. We are in a position where everyone's now understands what the dark side looks like. [applause] No. They get it. And there's a greater consensus to do the things they know we have to do than we've ever had in my lifetime. Folks, we are better situated than any nation in the world to own the 21st century. 124317 We have the largest economy in the world. The largest economy in all the world. We're in a situation where we have most powerful military in the history of the world. We're in a situation where we have more great research universities than all the rest of the world combined. And every major earth shaking changes come out of one of those universities and been monetized by corporate America, but not invented by corporate America. We are in a situation where we have the most productive workers, as I mentioned before. Folks, it's time we lift our heads up remember who we are. This is the United States of America. [applause] 124358 And there's never never never been a time, when we have set our minds to it, that we haven't been able to accomplish whatever we decided. Every one of us remembers what John Kennedy said about going to the moon. Even kids today study it. there's one line in it I've used and my friends have had to hear me say for the past 40 years. He used the line, that was the most moving line to me and where I am right now. He answered the unstated question: why are we doing this? He said, "because we refuse to postpone." I refuse to postpone any longer the opportunities exist in this country because we can do this. I promise you. I promise you. I promise you. I promise you. God love you all. Thank you for your time. Thank you. #####

TVU 20 JOE BIDEN ROCK HILL SC TOWN HALL ABC UNI 082919 2020 CAME IN ON TVU 20/FS3 Apologies for the delay on this note-but it's been an eventful day with Joe Biden on the trail. Biden is running late to his final event in Greenville-ALL INFORMATION IS FROM EARLIER TODAY. As he finished his morning event in Rock Hill, SC, the Washington Post story broke. Despite media crowding the rope line, Biden did not take any questions and hurried backstage after talking to voters on the rope line. Biden was supposed to have a Local Stop at a Diner in Greenville, SC but it was canceled around 4p-the time press was slated to gather. Press was told this was due to the VP hitting bad traffic (there was quite a bit coming from Rock Hill) But still-not a good look for the campaign. Before the story broke, Biden held his third town hall of his two-day South Carolina trip in Rock Hill, SC and was clearly loving the interaction with the crowd, interrupting his answers a few times through the event to take pictures with or hug members of the audience and (literally) kiss a baby. Just before the event, Biden's campaign released a statement about the Trump administration ending medical deferred action for immigrants in the U.S.-which Biden talked about in his opening remarks. " [11:49:08] I mean sincerely his newest target is children. Children are on life support. Children dying of cancer children with serious serious diseases. Taking away. In addition to that taking away automatic citizenship of children of some of our military members serving overseas our servicemen and women give everything for this country. And this is the respect. That President Trump shows through the service. And now he's canceling medical deferments for undocumented aliens canceling now. He's seeking to deport six kids sick kids seeking lifesaving medical treatment in the United States like every bully. He's trying to make himself seem stronger by picking on the most vulnerable among us. I never said this about a pregnancy book. But it's sinful what's happening. It's not who we are," Biden said. Biden took questions during the event on Healthcare, Immigration, the budget crisis, education, gun control and foreign policy. None of Biden's answered were out of the ordinary from his usual bits on the trail, but the last question of the night provided a nice moment. 10-year-old Marcus LaFranko asked Biden "As president, how will you fix the damage Donald Trump has caused?" The question got a long round of applause from the audience, before Biden responded "By making you VP. Honey." (12:40:46) Earlier in the event, Biden had spotted Marcus and his 9 year-old-brother, Josh, and the signs the two had made in the car to the event. The VP gave them hugs and kissed Marcus on the top of the head. I spoke to the brothers before the event, and when asked why they were interested in politics, Josh said "trying to help the world out and having racist people not racists." TVU 20 JOE BIDEN ROCK HILL SC TOWN HALL ABC UNI 082919 2020 [11:41:38] Before I began I got to be straight with you. I'm a Delaware State man. Start. I tell you what we're pretty good. We're pretty good. I didn't get to go there but I've gotten. [11:41:52] No honorary degrees in there as that old expression goes in Delaware we have what most of you don't know we have the eighth largest African-American population in the country as a percent of population and Delaware State has a say in up in Scranton where I was born. Delaware State brung me to the dance and so I've been mentioned these youth since then but you know. You you're dealing with some really Golden Bears are dealing with some real problems you know you can you can always tell them Morehouse mamas you can't tell them much. And. You know. Mr. President. I mean. But I want you to see my co-chairman is a Morehouse man. He tells me a whole heck of a lot. He's usually right. His name is Cedric Christian a congressman from. [11:42:39] Louisiana from New Orleans. And. In the former chair of the Black Caucus in the United States House Representative. And he's a Morehouse man. [11:42:54] So you'll figure out what you can tell the Morehouse man. Let me know will you. Because I'm having trouble. [11:43:03] It's great to be back in South Carolina and being a campus of a historic HBC you know. I've been a longtime supporter of HBC use Mr. President. I mean it sincerely. Because you you instill in your students a sense of a sense of purpose. You know everybody forgets because things have gone a long long way. We have to do a lot more to help HBC use. The reason being everybody. No one remembers why they're all started. Most people out there is because you couldn't go anywhere else. And it's the reason why. And it's instilled instilled an enormous sense of pride in so many people given people hope. And so I want to say here at Clinton if I'm elected your president my promise help's on the way. [11:44:00] Deep fry history and traditions of Black Black Community United States or reside in the powerful soul of these universities. And I think it's important. [11:44:11] There's so many critical issues facing the nation today from health care to education to advancing social justice to in fact guaranteeing that Social Security is there for everyone in this generation as well making sure that we deal with gun violence and I saw are some moms here where. [11:44:35] You're going to change it. [11:44:37] You and the kids I met with from all those god awful tragedies whether a Sandy Hook or down in Florida. The fact of the matter is this has become a movement. Everybody understands this is. Irrational. What's going on now this epidemic. [11:44:51] And by the way there's an epidemic in major cities in African-American communities every single day of gun violence. We don't even talk about it very much. [11:45:00] And it's got to stop. And we have to day and look. The fact is that. I don't want to get off and get on that but I want to talk about you know we also wanted. I want to talk about if you want to talk about it the Violence Against Women Act which I'm proudest having written. Climate Change which is an existential threat to our. [11:45:25] I want to address this man these topics as we can this morning. But let me begin with a brief statement about what I believe is most at stake in this election. I really believe what's at stake in this election and that's not hyperbole is the soul of this nation. You know we all know on a gut this election is different. [11:45:43] The words of a president matter and matter. [11:45:53] Words of oppression matter who he or she is can move markets that can send brave women and men to war. [11:45:58] They can appeal to our better angels of our nature they can but they can also release the deepest darkest forces in this nation. And that's what President Trump has chosen to do in my view. [11:46:09] He said after Charlottesville when people coming out of the fields carrying torches contorted faces. I come out of the civil rights movement as a kid I never thought I would see the time when that occurred again and chanting anti Semitic bile carrying. Flags and Nazi flags. And at the same time accompanied by Klu Klux Klan and white supremacists. And he was asked when that young woman was killed what he thought. [11:46:34] He said there are very good people on both sides. No president has ever said something like that. No president Democrat or Republican. And folks. The idea of giving made making a moral equivalence between the KKK and white supremacist and neo-Nazis and people who were fighting against hate is just. [11:46:56] Not tolerable and doing so. To assign. Moral equivalence between those spewing hate and those with the courage to stand against it. [11:47:13] I said at the time that we're in a battle for the soul of America wrote an article Hellenic magazine because I really truly believe that's OK. Babies are allowed to cry. OK. Best thing in the world man. Hold tight. Tight. And look. [11:47:30] I said it when I announced her in this band I say today we are in a battle for the soul of this nation. And that's why I am running for president. [11:47:37] First and foremost we saw in all the direct from the language that the president is used to dividing everybody. What did he say. And you off to your election to try to change the 18th election to prevent the loss of the house and him by his party. [11:47:51] He stood there and he said remember he said we're being invaded invaded. He pointed to those folks in Mexico. We're moving we're being invaded. It's an invasion. Well guess what. The manifesto was written by the shooter in El Paso. What did he say. He said I'm doing this because we're paraphrasing We're being invaded by Hispanics in Texas. There's not much difference. Again people listen to what presidents say. And now he's feeling the pressure of an economy that's teetering on a recession. And he's getting even more irrational. He inherited a pretty good economy from President Obama and me. [11:48:34] He's in the process of squandering it like everything else he's inherited. [11:48:44] But here's the problem here's what worries me and I mean this sincerely. In order to take our eyes off what's happening to the economy I think he's going to double down on his worst instincts attacking immigration assuming attacking immigrants inflaming racial division trying to continue to tear this nation apart. Just last few days we've learned something that I never thought that I would see in America. [11:49:08] I mean sincerely his newest target is children. [11:49:12] Children are on life support. Children dying of cancer children with serious serious diseases. [11:49:20] Taking away. In addition to that taking away automatic citizenship of children of some of our military members serving overseas our servicemen and women give everything for this country. And this is the respect. [11:49:32] That President Trump shows through the service. And now he's canceling medical deferments for undocumented aliens canceling now. [11:49:42] He's seeking to deport six kids sick kids seeking lifesaving medical treatment in the United States like every bully. He's trying to make himself seem stronger by picking on the most vulnerable among us. I never said this about a pregnancy book. [11:50:01] But it's sinful what's happening. It's not who we are. This is not. Who we are. I would have thought. Even he would understand that kids with cancer cystic fibrosis were off limits. [11:50:16] But literally. I know what you saw on television this happened today. [11:50:20] I just got off the all off the phone with one of the best senators I've ever worked with. Senator Markey up in Massachusetts. Guess what. Everyone from the ACLU to all the human rights groups are trying to change what's happening. They're literally giving notice to these families that they've got to unplug their kids and get them out of hospitals. And take them out of America. What is that ever happened in the United States where 300. Plus. Million people have no idea we can't call it tolerate saving the lives you're trying to help save the lives. Of hundreds of children. In deep need. [11:50:57] It's just wrong. It's wrong. It has. To stop. [11:51:07] What. Well. Like so many others have said. [11:51:14] Cruelty is the point here. It's their only point. [11:51:19] It's all I have to run on. Fear anger division cruelty. [11:51:25] So this just can't be a campaign about Donald Trump. It has to become a movement it's not about me winning the nomination and the presidency. It's so much bigger than it really is. Woodrow Wilson once said former president that a party's worth no more than that for which it stands. [11:51:42] That was his stance. [11:51:44] This has to become a movement grounded on our values and our ideals that define us as a nation the best we have to be the America that once again values honesty decency leaving nobody behind helping people who are in real difficulty through no fault of their own. Treating everyone as my dad would say he say Joey everyone everyone's entitled to be treated with dignity no matter who that. Everyone. Everyone. [11:52:18] Giving everybody a fair shot not leaving anybody behind. [11:52:21] Look folks we've been here before in a struggle like this you've seen it in South Carolina. I saw it in my state of Delaware. [11:52:28] It's always been a problem in America there's an underbelly in America like there is America is not a fairy tale. It's not a fairy tale. There's always been a struggle between a distinct minority that this dark underbelly in every society and it's a constant fight to keep it in check. We can overcome it. We've done it before but everyone has to be engaged not just our partner. Everybody has to rise up and say enough enough. [11:52:58] Enough. This is not the America we know enough. Ordinary people in their communities. Public officials the press presidents they have to say enough as well. Everybody knows who Donald Trump is. Even his supporters make no illusion have no illusions about who he is what his characters. [11:53:26] But we have to show them who we are who we are. [11:53:32] No I really mean it. [11:53:35] We have to demonstrate and I mean this sincerely because every time we've gone through periods like this in the 20s when the Ku Klux Klan was on the rise over three thousand people marching down the streets of Pennsylvania Avenue hooded in their capes and there were something like 30 some members of Congress were open members there were six seven members of the US Senate. There were people who were about. [11:53:56] What happened. It wasn't enough. [11:53:59] Wasn't enough that just some people spoke up everybody spoke up. Republican presidents Democratic presidents leaders of the communities organizers of every stripe community folks. And guess what. [11:54:14] We took it back. We took it all back. We have to let them know who we are. We have to let the rest of the world know who you are. [11:54:23] His statements have shocked us and they've stunned the world. [11:54:28] Not a joke. [11:54:30] We've always been able to lead coach by the example of our power not just the power. [11:54:35] I mean to me not just by the example of our power but the power of our example. [11:54:40] That's how we've led the rest of the world and it's been shredded it's been shredded together on who we are. We choose hope over fear. We choose unity over division. We choose truth over lies. [11:55:03] And we choose science over fiction. [11:55:16] Sure I get a little passionate about this sometimes but based on that news last night that I saw I just could not believe it can unplug these kids and make them leave by the 16th of September. [11:55:33] I can't imagine. [11:55:35] My son came back from Iraq is a decorated veteran a major in the United States military after a year. [11:55:41] Conspicuous Service Medal. Also Bronze Star. More so. He got back a year later as he was diagnosed with stage four glioblastoma a cancer that gave him just months to live. It wasn't whether he can name it just how long. I can't imagine if I were the father but even if I were an immigrant or I were undocumented my son was getting help. It came along and said. [11:56:16] I can't imagine you can imagine. [11:56:19] We've got to speak up. So folks look. There's a lot we have to talk about today. So I'd like to turn to the boss and just get the questions. OK thank you very very much for being here. Q&A 115701 Q: What would you do to enhance American health outcomes beyond health insurance? 115707 BIDEN: What would I do to deal with American health outcomes? Folks, let me begin my saying, I believe healthcare is a right, not a privilege. [applause] Everyone is entitled to have healthcare and I think the quickest, best, and surest way to get it done is to build on Obamacare [applause] The Biden Plan, I will immediately, if I'm your President, restore all the cuts made on Obamacare, number one [applause] Number two, I will add, what they call, "a public option," available Obamacare. 115747 [Biden spots a young man in the crowd] Hey, man. How are you? Good to see you. Thanks for being here [Biden embraces the boys] [applause] 115758 Well, I'll tell you what, here's the deal: you know, right now what Obamacare did---I'm against anybody who wants to get rid of it, Democrat or Republoican, but here's what it did. Number one, it made sure that over 100 million people who had preexisting conditions were able to get coverage, were able to afford coverage because it costs so much with a preexisting condition to get coverage. Number one. Number two, it got 20 million people who had no coverage at all, none at all, and allowed them to get immediate coverage. 115836 Number three: it changed what constituted a---we expanded---you didn't do it in your state, unfortunately, but we expanded and the government said for the first 7 years we'll pay for all the Medicare expansion in your state. A lot of states didn't do it and left a lot of people behind, tens of thousands, millions of people in America. So what I'd do is eveyrone who qualifies for Medicaid---not Medicare, Medicaid---everyone who qualifies for it will automatically be enrolled in the public option, in my plan, with no cost. They'd all be covered. 115912 Secondly, those folks who have insurance that they like and they have it with their company, you negotiated for it, you fought hard to get it and you like what it is, and they're ready to keep it like the teamsters and others have that dea, you're entitled to keep it. 160 million people have private insurance that they very much want to keep and under my system, you'd be able to keep it. On all the other systems, you'd have to give it up. You don't have to keep it if you don't like it. You can sign in and become part of the public option. You can decide that's what you want to do. 115947 Thirdly, what it does---it makes sure that women can no longer---by the way, what Obamacare did [addresses audience member fussing with their baby] you can no longer, under Obamacare, charge a woman more money for a procedure than a man which is the case [applause] It also makes sure that pregnancy is no longer a preexisting condition [applause] 120018 [Father and baby, from before, stand up to take a selfie with Biden] [Biden laughs and kisses baby's head] [cheering continues] 120029 [to audience member] Pardon me? Oh, you wish you could hug me? I wish I could hug you too [cheers] [they hug] 120040 Anyway, look, look, here's the deal: I've got some really good candidates I'm running with---we're running against each other, but look. Anyone of them is more qualified, Father, to be POTUS than the guy we have there, number one. [applause] Number two, we do have a disagreement on the health care piece and I'll summarize it because there's a lot to talk about on healthcare but look, in order for me to make sure that what you can do is you wanna buy into the marketplace there, you can buy what they call "a gold plan," the best plan, meaning that you do not have to have any co-pay more than $1,000. Period. That whenever it comes up, it's minimum of $1,000 co-pay. 120122 But, hgere's the deal. The fact is, it's gonna cost money, but my plan, over the next 10 years, would cost $740B, but everybody would be covered. They'd have all the healthcare they wanted. They could keep it, what they have, or they could decide to get in and you can make the choice, but here's the deal. It is, in fact, cost 1/30th of the other plans. The other plans are well intended but they take forever to get there and, by the way, Medicare for all is, in fact, cost 30 trillion dollars. Okay? Now make no bones about it, I get it. And Bernie's been totally honest about it. It's gonna be another, in a sense, a FICA tax another 5% tax, thereabouts, on your salary in order to pay for it. 120209 I don't think we have to go there in order to get what we need to get, which is thorough total coverage for everyone in the USA, that's affordable. So that's my answer. There's a lot more to talk about, but I'm talking too much about it already. 120223 Q: If immigrations detention facilities cannot guarantee the safety of the detainees and, in particular, vulnerable populations---what is the justification to continue incarcerating immigrants and expanding the detention system, like what would you do to improve and help the immigrants reunite with their families? 120247 BIDEN: Close them down [applause] No, no, no ,no. By the way, we don't need them. We found out, when we were in office, in fact, if you decided we've finally got things under control. We finally said, if you would say, "you have to report back for a hearing on such-and-such a date," people show up. You don't have to keep kids in a cage. There should be no justification separating a parent from a child. [applause] No, I really mean it. And, by the way, I'm not engaging in trying to appeal to your emotions, just practically speaking you don't need to do that. 120324 The other thing we have to do is we have to find a pathway for Dreamers [applause] I love people who say, "let's send them back." Can you imagine you're 4 years old, your mom says "we're crossing the Rio Grande," "No, mom. I don't wanna go. I'm gonna stay here."? Come on. Come on. And these kids who come and they end up doing well, the become Americans before a lot of Americans become Americans [laughter] No, I'm serious. They get in school. They do well. They contribute to the community. They contribute to the country. So, number one, we legalize the Dreamers. Number one. 120401 Number two: I would send, immediately, an Amendment to the desk of the US Senate and House of Representatives---a bill to the desk that said the following: We have to find a pathway to citizenship,earned citizenship, for the 11 million undocumented. And, by the way, you know what most undocumenteds are? Most undocumented people are people who have overstayed their visas. They've flown in, okay? They have a visa. They overstay. That's the biggest portion here. 120430 And thirdly, the idea that we are changing our nature as a people by not allowing the notion of people seeking asylum here. What's that Statue of Liberty all about? It's about asylum. Asylum and the idea that I would be surging asylum judges to the border to make sure these people had hearings and if they, in fact, don't qualify for asylum what I'd also do---and when I was a US Senator and then as the VPOTUS when the President asked me to deal with the surge, remember, of unaccompanied children at the border? I was in Ukraine. He asked me to come back from Turkey and take it over. 120511 And what happened was, what did we do? We were able to put together a bi[artisan effort of $740M to the 3 states where most of the people were coming from: Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala, and said, "Here's the deal: you got ahead and you improve your police force. Stop the corruption. We will pray for that happening to you. You go ahead and provide for jobs for people. We will help you organize---you make people pay taxes who have the money. We will, in fact, help you." 120541 But, look, the thing is we know, the one way---it's not like everybody says, " I have a great idea. Let's sell everything we have, give it to a coyote, and they'll take us across the border, leave us in a country that doesn't want us. Won't that be fun? Let's go ahead and do that." It takes all your ancestors, with the exception of those of you who are African American who were taken here forcefully which is the original sin of America, taken here forcefully---everybody else here. What happened? When my great great grandfather, Owen Finnegan, got on a coffin ship, they used to call them, in the Ivory Sea to come to the US in the middle of a famine in 1848, he didn't like, "Oh, this is gonna be really fun. I know I'm gonna make it." 120620 The people who've come are people who have courage, people who have resilience, people who have optimism. I had a long discussion, I'll divert for one second, with a guy who was a leader of Singapore---a guy who, in fact, was referred to as "the Henry Kissinger of Asia," and he was asking me, he wanted to meet with me because he was dying. He was in his 90s. He wanted to meet with me because he had written extensively about the future of China, India, the US, and Russia, and what was gonna happen. He was viewed as being very far-sighted on it. 120700 And I was in Mumbai, India for the POTUS and he asked me whether I'd stop and meet with him, and I did. And, about midway through our conversation, he was very ill. It was when that aircraft went down. They couldn't find the black box in the Indian Ocean, remember that? And he turned to me, and he wanted to see me because I'd spent more time with Xi Jinping, now President of China, than any other world leader had at the time. And he wanted to know what I thought about him, what I thought his objectives were, etc. And, midway through the conversation, I looked at him and I said, "What's China doing now?", meaning what's happening in China as a consequence of this change of power? 120739 He said, "They're in the USA looking for the buried black box." And I said, "the buried black box?"---like you looking at me like what are you talking about, Joe? He said, "They're looking for the box," I'm being very serious. He said, "They're looking for the box that contains the secret that's allowed America to be the only country in the modern world to be able to constantly remake itself." And I said, "Mr. President, I've been around long enough to give you an answer to that. Number one: the USA is the only country I know, including our allies in Europe and other places, where no child gets in trouble for challenging orthodox. They don't get in trouble. That's how we make new things. We break old things. 120824 That's why we're the leading entrepreneurial nation in the world. That's why we've done so much." I said, "Secondly," I said, "Since the early 1700s, there's been a constant, unrelenting wave of immigration met by xenophobia, 3 or 4 times, lasting for anywhere from a year to sometimes longer, but it's always being overcome." He looked at me and he said, "Why is that important?". I said, "Because look at the people who had the courage to come. They had the courage to these everything they knew. It wasn't like it was a lark. Give up everything and take a chance. Take a chance on something new. Take a chance on...because they had resilience." 120904 They were able to recover from pain and sadness. They were able to... they had optimism. That's what all your ancestors did. Every one of them me because we've been able to cherry pick the best of every culture in the world no matter what continent they're from. That's why we're different [applause] We have to have an orderly process. We should protect our borders have a right to the last thing we need is a wall from sea to shining sea. My God. I'm not here night and I hear you say now...an Eagles fan? they allow you to be an Eagles fan here? [laughter] Oh I'm an Eagles fan. I'm gonna lose all your votes. You know. [laughter] But I got to tell you, I am. You know, I mean I'd be sleeping alone if I weren't. My wife's a Philly girl. 120956 There's a lot we can do and still protect our borders, still deal with modernizing it. You know, we have the technology now that these big freight, these trucks come through the natural ports. We have essentially overstated by. to use the technical terms. we can put a giant x ray machine on top to tell you everything is inside of it. We know how to deal with this. We're not spending the money to do the things we could do to fundamentally alter the real concerns we have or whether it's terrorism or the concern, which is minimal, orwhether it is dealing with drugs or weapons or, you know, coming through. There's a lot we can do. I'm not suggesting we don't have to maintain. Every nation has a right and a necessity to protect their border. And I will do that. But the idea we're treating immigration the way we do now is just it is not who we are as a country. 121103 Q: Hi there. I'm really concerned about our fiscal sanity. Can you tell us when we ever might balance our budget again? [laughter] 121116 BIDEN: No. [laughter] All kidding aside, look. Don't you find it fascinating that the Republican Party, which is the party of fiscal responsibility, has ballooned the budget beyond anything that is even remotely recognizable? Just by that tax cut. Which has not generated a whole lot of anything except additional wealth for the very wealthy the top one tenth of one percent. That increased the deficit by another two trillion dollars. OK? we now have the highest deficit to GDP we've ever had in American history. So, I tell you where it starts. It starts by taking back that tax cut for the very wealthy. [applause] 121159 Number two. We have a total of 1 Trillion, six hundred, I think it's 40. Don't hold me to the exact number but one trillion six hundred billion dollars and above [worth of] Loopholes in the law. Loopholes that are tax loopholes, some of them rational. First time home buyer, you're able to deduct your mortgage rate, charitable deductions, etc. But they do not make the VAT, there's at least---those your economic professors here. I challenge you to find any justification for any more than a trillion dollars of that and you're gonna have a hard time doing that. But for example: why do we only reward wealth and not work? [applause] 121253 No, I mean---This is not a demagogue. This is just flat truth. Think about it now. If you're a fireman, a school teacher, a police officer, a middle class taxpayer you pay less. You pay a higher percentage of taxes on the money you earn. Than a person making a billion dollars or ten million dollars or a hundred million dollars. Because the significant portion of that is a capital gain. Capital gains. capital gains are now at 20 percent. 20 percent. That's the tax they pay. And you've heard a lot about this from a couple of billionaires who've spoken up and said "Why should I pay a higher a lower tax rate than my secretary pays?" 121336 Folks, if we just change the capital gains rate back to what your rate should be that you pay on your income. We would raise hundreds of billions of dollars over time. We would be able to do that to deal with the things we really need to do like paying for tripling the amount of money we'll spend on Title 1 schools, that's distressed schools from 15 to 45 million dollars [applause] A Health care bill. So the point I'm making is we need a rational policy. Why is it that if you live in a large city in this state or other states and you're working, you're a single parent like I was for five years. Why are you in a circumstance---after my wife and daughter were killed. Why is it that in fact you get no tax credit or help for child care? 121430 Right now it cost, if you're in Atlanta, it cost about 22 grand a year for one child to have decent childcare. Now, there's no tax break for that but you get a tax break for race horses and a whole lot of other stuff [laughter] No no no no I'm not joking. I'm not trying to be mean to anybody but think about it. If we gave every single parent who was working. If We gave them a tax credit of eight thousand dollars a year. They can deduct off their bottom line. There'd be over seven hundred thousand more women in the workplace. Increasing the gross domestic product by almost 1 percent a year, increasing over a period of 10 years by over trillions of dollars. 121516 What's happens in growing the country. But folks that's one of the reasons why in my, in my plan for education, I think every single child age 3, 4, and 5 should be able to go to preschool. Everyone. And it costs not nearly that kind of money. We can do it. And by the way those of you who are a child psychologist or in fact teach education, you know the fact is that if a child, in fact, no matter what their economic circumstance which they come how poor of the household they come from, if they're exposed to education early it increases exponentially their possibility of going through school, staying in school, and never getting in trouble. 121602 And folks the other thing we should be doing, we should be increasing the number of social workers and child psychologists and others who work in the school system. How many of your teachers? raise your hand. Every problem in the household comes to your classroom. Every one and you recognize it. But guess what. The number of folks who have child psychologists in school now, it's one child psychologist for every fifteen hundred kids. What are we doing? Why aren't we sending into---last point I'll make about this---Why are we sending into homes of economically distressed families, whether they're of color or otherwise, why aren't we sending on the home social workers who help single moms or single dads know what they should be doing in raising their children? 121655 Those are your teachers, and my wife is in the classroom today teaching---she's been taught her whole life here---teaching is not what she does, it's who she is. The fact of the matter is when people from minority communities or poor communities come and don't show up for parent teachers meeting, why don't they come? [audience shouts out] Bingo. It's about trust and it's about being embarrassed because they don't know what to do. I was a relatively good athlete, not like some of the people here, but I got opportunities to visit a lot of colleges to go to school. My dad never went to college. He was a well read gentleman but insisted I was going to college, so I thought when I got to visit these schools he would in fact want to come with me but he wouldn't come with me. 121741 And I remember saying to my mom Mom, why won't he come? She said, "he's embarrassed Joey. He doesn't know what to say. He doesn't want to be in a college campus. he's never been on and them say well how about you Mr. Biden did you do A, B, or C?" People are embarrassed. We can give them so much help. We can let them know there are things they can do. Do you realize a child coming from an economically deprived home is going to hear four million fewer words spoken by the time they get the first grade than a child from middle class home? Not different words just words spoken. So, you're going to need to teach young moms that if you just keep the radio on, play music, let people hear, and---by the way I know you can't read but maybe we can help you learn how to read. It changes things we can do this and it doesn't cost much money. Guess what? It helps everyone in the community. 121838 The last thing people want is children who are raised and end up in a circumstance where they can't take care of themselves. They don't get an education, they get in trouble. And so folks there's so much we can---I am so excited about the possibility of what we can do if we can change this administration [applause] 121900 Q: I'm a proud second generation Jewish American. And I would like to know how you would handle anti-Semitism and hate that's growing in this country? 121922 BIDEN: You may know that I have been listed as the single most supportive person in the United States Senate, when I was there after Abe Ribikoff and Scoop Jackson and others left, of support of both Israel and the Jewish community andthe Anti Defamation League. When I was chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, I held hearings which caused a lot of trouble saying talking about the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe at the time. I was told I was gonna hurt us but I learned a lesson from my father who was a righteous Christian. 121957 We were the people, and that's a term of art in the Jewish community, a righteous Christian. My dad, we'd sit down and have dinner. He'd come home from work and then go back after dinner but dinner to him was really important. we all sat down and had dinner and it was a place we had conversation and incidentally ate. And my dad used to rail against the fact we didn't bomb the railroad trackstoward the end of the war. Used to rail against what happened in the Holocaust, he was a student of the Holocaust. 122026 And here's the deal. The fact of the matter is that we're in a position today where if, in fact,we don't deal with---there's a phrase that came out of the Holocaust and it was "never again." And the second phrase was that "our silence is complicity." Silence is complicity. I'll shorten this answer and we can talk more about it if you'd like, but that's why when my deceased son Beau turned 15 I put him on an aircraft and I flew directly to Dachau. So he would see when you walk through that gate it says "work will set you free." That's not what I wanted him to understand. I didn't want him to see the ovens. I wanted him to see those beautiful homes that were up against the fence and people pretended they didn't know. Their silence was complicity [applause] I have taken every one of my children to Dachau. 121221 My son Hunter who's the brightest person I know. My daughter who is a social worker. I've taken my granddaughter, Naomi, when she was 15, who is a senior in law school now. I took my number two granddaughter who's a junior in college when she turned 15. I took my Maisy girl as an all state athlete. I took her. She's a freshman in college and I'm gonna take my two youngest children because I want them to see and understand. Silence. Silence. Silence is complicity. And I will never ever be silent [applause] 122209 Q: I'm a college student and current student teacher. I want to get back on education and see how you want it to improve public education and teacher pay because South Carolina is raneked one of the lowest things or teacher pay, based on experience and degree. How can we improve outreach programs in school and, for a student like me, I didn't have a lot of teachers that looked like me I understood what I went through. So how can we improve having more black teachers within the black community and still being diverse? 122236 BIDEN: OK. Number one. Under my proposal for Title 1 schools, the first thing in order to qualify for the money they have to increase teacher salary and make you competitive with the rest of---by the way teachers and social workers are the two degrees in four year colleges that get paid the lowest of all four year college degrees. We are running into a gigantic shortage of teachers across the board. We're gonna see this gigantic exodus of a generation of teachers and we're not attracting new people of any background into teaching. Number one. 122313 Number two: there's evidence this shows that if you teach, if you have an African-American and or man or a woman even more if it's a man quite frankly, in a classroom where there are African-American students, their performance increases markedly just the mere fact that someone the same color is in is in the school. So we should be encouraging, making sure in high schools you're able to get credit before you even graduate, cooperating with colleges as well as with community operations that let you qualify to get college credit before you go. Thirdly, we got to deal with the cost of the education. 122356 It's unaffordable for most people. And so, I propose that everyone everyone who wants to go to a community college, you can cut in half there for years and HBCU should be getting roughly five hundred million dollars a year in aid, as well, but you end up with making sure that you have free community college. It cuts in half the cost of a four year education. But there's a number of programs that are community based programs where you bring in businesses and you bring in, from the beginning in high school---you bring in businesses and you bring in folks within the community, including colleges and other organizations, to make sure you have challenging programs in the high school where you can qualify and get college credit before you go on. 122428 So that by the time you graduate you already are there, not just Advanced Placement, you're already there. you're already moving. I can go on. I'm going on too long. But let me give you a copy of the entire education plan. But, it rests upon attracting qualified teachers, particularly minorities, into our school systems to be able to teach. Now here's the last part of it. the last part of this is that we're in a situation where we also---I want to make sure that we have a program. There's a program that exists federally. if you borrow federal money to go, where there's a debt forgiveness program. I changed that program to make sure that if you are engaged in public service, and that includes teaching. You are in a position where in the first 10 years, you will get ten thousand dollars of your debt cancelled. [applause 122551 And if you do it for a period beyond that, guess what, your entire debt is canceled. By the way if you're engaged in public service. You want to do you know Teach For America program. You want to get in and be a social worker and volunteer in areas where there --- We should be rewarding people who engage in public service. But there's a lot more we can talk about. I'm gonna get in trouble by my staff and the press. They're gonna say Biden talked for 18 hours. I answered questions on my. My problem is I try to answer them thoroughly, but I'll try to do it more quickly. 122632 Q: Hi I'm Laurie Freeman and I'm the local group leader for Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America. We know that women and people of color are more likely to be impacted by gun violence. And I wanted to know what policies you would champion to end the epidemic and what your priorities would be to stop gun violence in America? 122701 BIDEN: Well, first of all. I want to thank Moms Demand Action. The fact of the matter is the reason why---I'm the only person that's ever nationally beat the NRA, flat out. I was able to get assault weapons banned. I was able to get the number of bullets that could be put in the clip limited to 10. I was able to change the Brady Law so background checks were changed, etc. But the problem was, the only way I could get it done was to agree it'd have to be reauthorized in 10 years and then we lost an election, and we ended up with hanging chads costing us, in Florida, costing us the elimination because President Bush let the ban expire. Now what happened was---let's get something straight. I think the Second Amendment, in fact says people have a right to bear arms, but here's the deal. The deal is like every amendment---for example, first Amendment free speech. No one in here can stand up and yell fire because it'll cause damage. People will rush out of here. People will get hurt. Every single solitary amendment has a limitation on it. 122817 Now the limitation that exist on the Second Amendment is, nowhere does it say you can own any kind of weapon you want. Nowhere does it say anyone can own a weapon and those who say, maybe some do and I know that," the tree of liberty is water with the blood of patriots" meaning you've got to be able to have enough power to take on your government, well you need an F-15. You need an M1 tank, you need flame throwers, you need bazookas you need. No I'm serious. If that's the rationale. Now, that has not been the rationale for the Second Amendment in most scholars' view. 122855 But here's the deal. We've always been able to say certain people should not own a weapon a person who in fact beats and abuses wife and is convicted of it should not be able to get a weapon. [applause] A person who is engaged in violence should not be able to get a weapon, a terrorist should not be able to purchase...I could go on the list. That's why universal background checks are absolutely required. They do not violate anyone's Second Amendment right. Secondly, you can---the type of weapon you can own. I took on the NRA in my home state and, at the time, back when I was a senator, Delaware was one of the highest percentage of gun owners in the country because of a lot of duck hunters a lot of hunting in the Delmarva Peninsula and the like. 122947 And so I went to make a point. I'd show up, my dad used to always say "Joey half a win is showing up," so I go to gun shows, I go into the communities, I'd go I'd walk along the estuaries in Delaware where the streams that---you know if you know anything about my state, the Delmarva Peninsula, look it up on a map. It's a very low lying area in the southern part. And people would be fishing. They's say, "Damn, Joe, what you taking my gun for?" I'd be walking in hip boots right. Well not hip boots, but boots walking along and I'd show a picture of an assault weapon. I said you need one of these to duck hunt? What do you think? They gom, "No no no, I don't." I said, Well let me tell you something. I'm not taking your shotgun. 123023 I have foreshock five. I have two shotguns, a 20 gauge and a 12 gauge. my son who died had three shotguns. we were skeet shooters. he used to duck hunt with my son but I'm not a hunter. And so what happened was that I'd say "I'm not taking your gun but I'll tell you what. The fact of the matter is, I said, you need a hundred rounds to go deer hunting man?" I said, "You must be one hell of a lousy shot." [laughter] you need an AR-15? "But I need to protect myself." I got in trouble, you may remember for saying this, I sometimes get in trouble because no one ever doubts I say what I mean. Sometimes I say all that I mean. That's the problem. But here's the deal. 123108 I said, "you want to be protected in your home. You don't need an AR 15. you don't need an assault weapon you do not even know how to fire it very well." By the way, more people who have guns in their homes get killed by intruders with their own guns than people who don't have them. Now I'm not saying you shouldn't be able to have a gun in your home. I'm not saying that. What I'm saying is, it takes an awful lot to say "I'm going to shoot you." You know, the gun is taken and you get shot. But here's the deal. 123135 If you want to keep someone away from your door and you're coming, have a 12 gauge shotgun blow hold your door. I promise they'll go away. It's not going to...an assault weapon is not the thing to do it for him. But my generic point is that I think what's happened is two things. One. It's what we have talked about as a cause, has become a movement.. I was up in Sandy Hook. I met all the parents and the kids. I actually had state policemen coming to me asking me if they can get psychiatric help because they saw those bodies piled up. Anyway. And, you know, in Florida. 123218 Press accurately pointed out, I said when I was vice president, I met with the students of Parkland. Well I wasn't vice president but I met with the students of Parkland on Capitol Hill. They asked me to come up to the Rotunda and meet with them and their parents as they were about to go off and lobby. I was a former vice president and it was 2018. And I met with them when they marched on congressmen and senators offices and I watched those congressmen senators, who were shaking. They didn't want to see these kids. They didn't have to look at the kids and say "No, I'm not gonna do anything. My point is these young people and the moms are out there demanding action which turned to no movement. 123258 The vast majority of the American people believe this. the vast majority of NRA members support what we're saying in terms of assault weapons and background checks. The fact of the matter is, our problem now is not just the fact that we have the NRA but gun manufacturers. They just want to sell guns. Last point I'll make: we're in a situation where we now have the technology like James Bond that you could not pull a trigger without your biometric marker on it. And they did. They made pistols that way. They put them in certain outlets. And guess what? The gun manufacturers said with the NRA, "we're going to boycott you and shut you down. If you continue to sell them." So they all took them off the shelves. It's ridiculous. 123345 How could I violate anyone's second amendment right saying the gun you qualified to purchase, you're the only guy who can pull the trigger---does that affect your? But guess what. Look at how many people are killed because, and children are killed on a regular basis, because the gun owner does not lock up their gun. If you came to this meeting today and you left your car and your keys in the parking lot and a 13 year old kid gets in it starts it up,, crashes into another car or hurts somebody, you're liable. Why if you have a weapon in your home and you don't have a safety lock on it, why is it you are not responsible? There should be mandatory requirement for trigger locks. So that this is not violating anyone's second amendment right. You still have access. 123452 Q: I have a foreign policy question for you. So, in 2007, as chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee you endorsed the UN's law of the Sea Convention and we're seeing five point six trillion dollars in trade threatened right now by actions by Iran in the Strait of Hormuz and by Xi Jinping's China in the South China Sea. as President will you endorse the on close agreement once again. And will you fight to get it signed? 123515 BIDEN: Yes but here's the deal guys. One of things that's happening is that, it gets down to a simple thing. Look, the world is changing rapidly because of Moore's Law. Technology changes---the vast thing that's going on in terms of how we're dealing with artificial intelligence and and all the rest. It affects two things. What we did right after World War Two, our fathers and our grandfathers, what they did they set up rules of the road in terms of trade and what constituted international space and international waters. And the fact of the matter is, the way it happened is, we were able to put together alliances in Europe and in Asia to say, for example, you do not have control of the oceans three miles off your shore. You cannot do that. 123604 So that's why when you try to shut the Straits of Hormuz, there is an international consortium that says you're not allowed to do that. It's beyond your capacity to do that legally but more and more nations are doing more and more places. Look what the Chinese did in the South China Sea. They set up these air identification zones, meaning you can't fly through without checking with them. And I met with Xi Jinping in China with my delegation and the national security team and I said, "we're not going to pay attention. Would you expect us to say we're not going to do it." I said, "No here's what I expect you'd understand. We're not going to pay attention to it. We just flew B-52s through it." 122643 Period. We have to make it clear, we will not let individual nations set the international rules and the ones who want to change the international rules are basically Russia and China. Because it is designed to keep people from threatening the rest of the world. But it requires one very important thing. I know this is a big essay question. I'm not going to give the whole answer. It's like a seminar class [laughter] but here's the deal. It requires us to regain the confidence of the rest of the world again. [applause] It's something that's in my wheelhouse 123722 If you notice, during our administration, any time we had a problem internationally, I was the guy that got sent with the secretary of state because everybody knew when I spoke, I spoke for the president. No one had to wonder. there was nothing missed between the cup and the lip. It was I spoke and they knew it meant the president spoke. Everybody else, Secretary Defense and everybody else, they said well you get to go back and check it. I didn't have to check anything. Here's what I was able to do. Because I had that authority the president gave me. 123750 I was able to put together large coalitions. Concluding comment on foreign policy: Folks, if I'm your president we're gonna get our combat troops out of out of Afghanistan and we're gonna get them out of these places [applause] And I know a lot about it. But here's the deal folks, we can not be the policemen of the world. we need to have coalitions and stateless terrorism is gonna remain a serious problem for America and we're going to be in jeopardy if we are not able to keep together those coalitions. I was part of being able to put together a 67 nation coalition dealing with the Taliban and dealing with al-Qaeda. 123829 But we need we can't be---put your hand down honey. I promise I'll let you guys talk--But here's the deal. The fact of the matter is we need help. America. I come out of a generation where we tried to be the policeman of the world. That's why I opposed and I wanted to end the war in Vietnam and the rationale for it and a range of other things. But here's the deal. We can't be the policeman of the world, but we need the world to be policed. We needed to be policed, dealing with stateless terrorists and nations that are rogue nations. And it requires us to be able to put together back these alliances and coalitions starting with, once again, making sure NATO is coherent again. Number one. 123914 Number two: and Our administration, what we tried to do---we tried to make sure that we in fact were engaged in Asia, making sure everybody knew the presence of the United States of America in Asia was real. And look what's happened now. Now you have South Korea and Japan not talking to each other. Australia having to work out its own deals with China. We have squandered what, in fact was, we need to do. But I'm going to say something outrageous. But it's true. I'm the only one running for president who has significant experience. I know every one of these leaders except I don't know of the new prime minister of England. He looks like Donald Trump. I don't know--- 124001 But, and by the way, I know the good ones and the bad ones. I know how to deal with---I've done it. This is this thing that's in my wheelhouse but it's a gigantic issue determining what our foreign policy will be, how rational we will be. We need to maintain our alliances. I'm gonna let these two young men have the last word and I'm leaving. 124023 Q: As president, how will you fix the damage Donald Trump has caused? [applause] 124046 BIDEN: By making you VP. Honey, it's a really important thing. The first thing we've got to do is remind everybody in America what's America's all about. We're all about being decent and honorable. We've never met the standard---maybe this is the best way to close--- you know folks. I said it's been a constant battle. America is not a fairy tale. It's been a constant battle between good and evil in our country. But here's the deal. Here's the deal. The fact of the matter is, that the reason why we've been able to be who we are is that we've never walked away from the commitment---we've never met it. The reason my final announcement was in Philadelphia. The reason I picked it was, there were the words that were written. 124138 "We hold these truths to be self-evident. That all men and women are created equal, endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights life liberty etc." Or starting off with, "We the people in order to form a more perfect union." And boom. Well folks, that's our founding documents Thomas Jefferson wrote them. He didn't live up to them. We didn't live up to them but every single generation has moved the arc of justice just slightly, little bit every single time. we've moved it. And here's where I am and I believe this with all my heart. I got elected and I was twenty nine. I was talked about being not old enough to take office. 124222 I was the guy who was the young idealist and I was optimistic. I'm more optimistic about America than I've ever been in my whole life and it's not hyperbole. Let me tell you why. We have never met that standard but we have never ever ever walked away from it. We've never walked away from it like we have now. And here's the deal, because of everyone from that brilliant young man to the oldest person in this room. Here we are. We are in a position where everyone's now understands what the dark side looks like. [applause] No. They get it. And there's a greater consensus to do the things they know we have to do than we've ever had in my lifetime. Folks, we are better situated than any nation in the world to own the 21st century. 124317 We have the largest economy in the world. The largest economy in all the world. We're in a situation where we have most powerful military in the history of the world. We're in a situation where we have more great research universities than all the rest of the world combined. And every major earth shaking changes come out of one of those universities and been monetized by corporate America, but not invented by corporate America. We are in a situation where we have the most productive workers, as I mentioned before. Folks, it's time we lift our heads up remember who we are. This is the United States of America. [applause] 124358 And there's never never never been a time, when we have set our minds to it, that we haven't been able to accomplish whatever we decided. Every one of us remembers what John Kennedy said about going to the moon. Even kids today study it. there's one line in it I've used and my friends have had to hear me say for the past 40 years. He used the line, that was the most moving line to me and where I am right now. He answered the unstated question: why are we doing this? He said, "because we refuse to postpone." I refuse to postpone any longer the opportunities exist in this country because we can do this. I promise you. I promise you. I promise you. I promise you. God love you all. Thank you for your time. Thank you. #####

TVU 15 AMY KLOBUCHAR DOVER NH TOWN HALL ABC UNI 122919 2020 121130 And I appreciated that wonderful introduction because it laid out my case which I'll get to at the end, but I mostly want to talk about, as we head into the new year, the moment that we are in. Because of course, in the coming week or two weeks or three weeks depending on what mitch mcconnell decides, when he wants to have an actual trial. We are going to be heading into a very important proceeding. An impeachment hearing in the United States Senate where I serve as one of the 100 jurors. 121200 And the questions I get on that sometimes is "well how are you going to campaign for precedent" And I always say you know these four early states, their voters understand. They get that if we're doing our constitutional duty, we may not be able to be here every single minute or go to every single thing we planned, which is one of the reasons I just did 30 counties in the state of Iowa in 5 days. In 5 days. 20 -- I did 27 hour long town halls, basically in 3 and a half days. That actually happened. 121249 But the second question of course is "what is this all about?" And to me this is about the simple idea of why this country was founded, something New Hampshire is well aware of as the first state in the Union, to have a state constitution, is that in America, the President is not King. The law is king. The law is king in our country. And you cannot have a president that puts his own interests or his private interests or his partisan interest in front of the interests of the United States of America. 121325 And that is really, at its core, what this is all about. And of course we want to have witnesses. It is a hearing. It is a trial. It is a chance for the President to make his case, and what has stunned us, actually after all this talk and all these tweets about how he wants to have people and have this fair trial, he will not call the very people, he will not allow them to testify, the very people that have the facts. 121353 Hs acting chief of staff who is the one that the order that the aid be withheld, right, from the fledgling democracy of Ukraine. Or the guy that worked for him Mr Duffy, who mysteriously sent out an email 90 minutes after the President of the United States called the president of Ukraine and in that email said, basically, hold the aid and this is sensitive, hold this tight. We can't question that person. And so that is what's going on right now in that debate. But there is something bigger going on in our country and this may be a check, based on provisions in the constitution that there is another check going on. 121435 And that is this election. And that's where you come in. You won't be sitting in that jury in the senate. I get to sit next to my friends, Senators Casey and Coons and Senator Sharon Brown. We always sit together, which is only amusing because you can't talk, and it is really hard for Sharon not to talk if you've ever seen him on TV. But we will be sitting in those chairs. But you're going to be sitting out here. 121502 And you have a bigger job actually, and that's the 2020 election. And so when we hear the debates and you are listening to all of us, a lot of it is understandably about economic issues right? It is about the fact that nothing has happened to bring down the cost of prescription drugs, when it should. 122153 Okay, so remember that. That was an issue. But at its core, for a bunch of the moderate Republicans and independents that joined Democrats and voted in that race, at its core, it was an act of patriotism for them, because, guess who had come there that night before, and he had also gone to Louisiana the night before. Donald Trump went there the night before. 122215 So my -- in both states the night before the election, he went and campaigned for the opponent so my question is, where can we send him the next? But that happened in those states. So those are my proof points so we just have to remember this, as you who do -- have the obligation on your shoulders of basically the country, that you think about yes what's best for New Hampshire, but that you also think of what's best for this country because we got a whole lot of stuff going on in this primary. 122242 I don't have to tell you. We have got billionaires who have done great things, but they're running ads around the clock. So, I know they're not on the ballot here but you guys have to basically decide, well is that what we want to have happen in our country? Is that the best thing -- well, one of them's not on the ballot, that's not fair. Tom is on the ballot here. But the question is, what is the best thing for this country? Is that how we should run our elections? That is not how you run your elections in New Hampshire. You have given us two incredible senators in Jeannie and Maggie. They are the best. 123126 And what that bill does -- maybe it's 34. Well, I'm, you know. Little exaggeration, 34 co -- do you like this compared to the 15,000 lies of Donald Trump? That I correct myself on number of co sponsors. Thank you. Thank you. And what that bill does, it simply takes that ban away. 130429 I just think it is really important that we have someone that can bring people with her, because I have won every race, every place, every time, every one of those rural congressional districts, suburban congressional districts, northern Minnesota districts, not even by a tiny margin, by a big win. And I've done it all the way back to fourth grade. Ok. 130451 I didn't win the congressional districts when, but I did win my race back then and I had the, the sloga, which I've since abandoned, "all the way with Amy K." But I don't think that would be -- that's not, we're not gonna bring that one back. It might be good for the debate stage though, maybe an ad, maybe go viral. 130838 Okay, so, since that time I've continued to see what's going on and I actually just questioned the FBI Director about this and the Judiciary Committee, there has been a dramatic increase in hate crimes in this country since that Matthew Shepard thing in the last few years. And this, you know I know they're still I haven't heard the latest, I woke up this morning and read about what happened at the rabbi's house, a Hanukkah celebration. Where some(?) guy comes in and starts stabbing people. 130906 We've seen a rise in anti semitism, of course, in this country in a big big way. We've seen, community centers be targeted. And we've also seen a rise in crimes against all faiths, really. In the Muslim faith, we've seen it all across the country. And I asked the FBI Director, "well why have we seen this increase?" Have my own themes and theories and he said "well you know we have to figure out, we don't quite know and whatever." 130933 So I think first of all this starts at the top. You do not have a president that goes after people because of the color of their skin or because they belong to certain groups. You have -- you do not have that in our country. Secondly, you have the resources at the Justice Department, that should be given to states when they need them to investigate these cases and to take them very seriously. 130956 The third thing that helps, of course, is education. I have always made a point to - we have the biggest Somali population and by the way we grieve the over 70 people that were killed in a car bomb in Somalia, just this last two days. They are working so hard, there's so many people trying to do good in that country and they continue to deal with terrorism in the form of Al Shabaab. 131022 And the -- that community and our Jewish community have worked really hard to find some common ground and understand each other's religions to the point where at, when Ramadan happens so many synagogues, Catholic churches and some conservative churches have happy Ramadan signs, lawn signs in front of their churches and that means a lot when you see that happen. 131052 When our, two of our Jewish community centers were targeted a few years ago, and threats were made and they had to call everyone out of there and one of the cases there were kids in a swimming pool and seniors and it was cold, and they all had to go, in their words "wander in the wilderness." When they got back, the first call on their messages, was from a group asking if he did a place to meet, if they couldn't go back to their center and it was the Islamic center. 131121 And so to me those things are progress, and you harold that progress, and you talk about how you can make that work, and how people can work together and you respect the right of people to worship, or not worship. It is enshrined in our Constitution. And you remember that and remember that sacred duty you have as a president to uphold that right. All right? TRINT TVU 15 AMY KLOBUCHAR DOVER NH TOWN HALL ABC UNI 1.Sub.01.wav [12:08:36] Thank you so much. Wow. [12:08:39] Thank you so much, Isaac. That was an extraordinary introduction. I did not know the days until the inauguration. That was cool. And it was wonderful to see your wife and your brand new baby out there was adorable. So thank you for that. And I had no idea we'd see this many people on a holiday week. [12:08:59] Thank you for that. [12:09:01] I feel right at home with these New Hampshire sweaters and with the snow on the way. Of course, ever since I announced the weather follows me everywhere. It's part of my themes. But it is great to be here with all of you. And I think we also have. I'm so proud to have the endorsement of Rochester Mayor Carolyn McCarthy. Where are you? Carolyn, are you here somewhere? [12:09:26] I think you're back there. There she is. She's done an incredible job there. Thank you for being there. [12:09:34] And I think we also have a former state senator. Iris Easterbrook is here somewhere. Where are you, Iris? You somewhere. [12:09:42] OK, thank you. [12:09:45] And maybe the other state reps and local officials want to stand up if you want to see you here. [12:09:52] There we are right there in the front. Thank you. Thank you, guys. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you, everyone. [12:10:00] I really appreciate it. So we're pretty excited. I got a text from a friend about after the last debate in Los Angeles. If you saw that and she said it was a bit of an auto correct problem and it said congratulations on your insurgency and it meant congratulations on your surge. But we have been picking up everywhere. And right now for the next debate, I'm one of only five people that are making it on that stage. [12:10:34] And I think that. [12:10:42] And you know, we just call that the preliminary to the New Hampshire debate. Right. But that is really exciting. And we have a great organization here headed up by Scott Merrick. Where are you, Scott? Back there, who's a former state representative who worked for Jeannie for a long time currently and forever engaged and soon to be married to the daughter of your former attorney general. You see, Mr. Foster. So McAleer. So we're pretty excited. OK. I won't go on and on about his political pedigree in New Hampshire. [12:11:23] So let me talk a little bit about what's been going on here and what I think this moment in time is about. And I appreciated that wonderful introduction because it laid out my case, which I'll get to at the end. But I mostly want to talk about as we head into the new year. The moment that we are in, because, of course, in the coming week or two weeks or three weeks, depending on what Mitch McConnell decides when he wants to have an actual trial,. [12:11:51] We are going to be heading into a very important proceeding, an impeachment hearing in the United States Senate where I serve as one of the 100 jurors. And the questions I get on that sometimes is, well, how are you going to campaign for precedent? And I always say, you know, these four early states, their voters understand. They get that if we're doing our constitutional duty, we may not be able to be here every single minute or go to every single thing we planned, which is one of the reasons I just did 30 counties in the state of Iowa. [12:12:25] And if this 20. [12:12:30] I did 27 hourlong town halls basically in three and a half days that actually happened. [12:12:37] And why we're doing these seven town halls, which are actually much bigger events in New Hampshire, because I think it is really important to get out there when I can, and that is what I'll keep doing. But the second question, of course, is what is this all about? And to me, this is about the simple idea of why this country was founded, something New Hampshire is well aware of. It's the first state in the union to have a state constitution. Is that in America? [12:13:07] The president is not king. The law is king. [12:13:10] The is king in our country. [12:13:13] And you can not have a president that puts his own interests or his private interests or his partisan interests in front of the interests of the United States of America. And that is really at its core what this is all about. And of course, we want to have witnesses. It is a hearing. It is a trial. It is a chance for the president to make his case. [12:13:37] And what is done does actually, after all this talk and all these tweets about how he wants to have people and have this fair trial, he will not call the very people. He will not allow them to testify. [12:13:51] The very people that have the facts, his acting chief of staff, who is the one that the ordered that the aid be withheld. Right. From the fledgling democracy of Ukraine or the guy that worked for him, Mr. Duffy, who mysteriously sent out an email 90 minutes after the president of the United States called the president of Ukraine and in that email said basically, hold the aide and this is sensitive. [12:14:18] Hold this tight. We can't question that person. And so that is what's going on right now in that debate. But there is something bigger going on in our country. And this may be a check based on provisions in the Constitution, but there is another check going on and that is this election. And that's where you come in. You won't be sitting in that jury in the Senate. I get to sit next to my friends, Senators Casey and Coons and Senator Sherrod Brown. [12:14:48] We always sit together, which is only amusing because you can't talk. And it is really hard for Sherrod not to talk. If you've ever seen him on TV, but we will be sitting in those chairs. [12:14:59] But you're gonna be sitting out here and you have a bigger job, actually. And that's the 2020 election. And so when we hear the debates and you are listening to all of us, a lot of it is understandably about economic issues. Right. It is about the fact that nothing has happened to bring down the cost of prescription drugs when it should. [12:15:20] It is about that this president is moving backwards on climate change and not really focusing on how we're going to help students and their families in New Hampshire afford an education. We know all of that. That is a check. But there there's something else that's going on and that is a values check that. Is a patriotism check that is a decency check. It is the idea that we have a president who's out there at the G 20. [12:15:48] And a reporter asks him about interference in our election. And he basically looks at Vladimir Putin and makes a joke about it. Now, Russia may not have used missiles or tanks, but what they used was a cyber attack on our country. And he makes a joke about it beyond all the facts that his own security people have said that this happened. You think about it, hundreds of thousands of Americans, thousands of people from your state have lost their lives on battlefields standing up for this simple idea of democracy. [12:16:23] That's what World War 2 was about. We were fighting to hold on to people's right for democracy. He makes a joke about it, four little girls lost their lives at the height of the civil rights movement in that church in Alabama, innocence because people were trying to take that democracy away from people or people were trying to make sure that it applied to them. They lost their lives. And he makes a joke. That's why this is a patriotism check. [12:16:52] It is the words of a guy that this is the first sign I had if this was a guy in northern Minnesota. He was a cattle rancher and he took me out on his ATV to see these big cows. And I thought, what a way to die. [12:17:08] For me, it was like, oh, we're going. And so when it ended, we went into his house. [12:17:13] Everyone had left. And he said to me, you know, we voted for Donald Trump. And I said, what do you mean, your family? No. I mean the cattle ranchers. He said, no, we. He said, I don't like to call myself. I. He said, we voted for Donald Trump and because we were mad about health care. And then I said, well, well, let me talk about the health care. He goes, no, no, I don't want to talk about that. [12:17:40] I want to talk about what happened after. He said, right the day after the inauguration, I saw him stand in front of that wall. And then I say, well, the wall really wasn't built. He said, no, it was the CIA wall. He said it was the wall of all the anonymous stars of the agents that had died in the line of duty. And anyone that remembers this, it was a pretty shocking moment because Trump gave a very partisan speech about the size of his crowd at the inauguration in front of that sacred wall. And if anyone had that moment where we thought, well, maybe it's going to be OK when he's president,. [12:18:16] You knew that it was not OK to do that in front of that wall of men and women had given their lives for our country. And then this guy says, and then there was the Boy Scout rally. He remember that because he was a Boy Scout and he saw the president give this incredible political speech to a group of young men. And he said that was it for him. That was it. And he started to cry, said it wasn't patriotic. [12:18:45] I'll never do it again. [12:18:47] Then there was in New Hampshire, actually, in Conway, where we're going. Today we had an event there and there was a line of voters and they all happen to have these stickers on in a very New Hampshire happy way. That said, I'm a Supreme Court voter. One said I am a climate change voter. And another one said, I am ever reproductive rights voter. And this guy comes up and he is wearing a brown jacket. And I said, sir, you don't have a you don't have a sticker on a happy boy. And he goes leans down. [12:19:22] That's because I was a Trump voter. [12:19:28] They are my neighbors and they don't know. I do not say anything about it, but I am not doing it. I can. That is what we are talking about. [12:19:41] That is what this is about. [12:19:43] And if we forget if we forget that this is a values check and a decency check and a patriotism check for a lot of people out there, people that you probably know, people who are in this room right now. If we forget that, if we forget that maybe some people don't agree with us on every single economic point or every single social point. But there are people that believe in our country so much that they hate deeply, deeply agree with us on that. [12:20:15] They do not want to have a president anymore when they see him on TV, that they have to basically mute the sound because they are afraid of what their kids or their grandkids are going to hear. Many in this room remember times where the president would give an address. And even if you didn't vote for that president or you didn't like that president or you didn't even like what he was probably going to announce, you still listened because you knew it was important as a citizen of this country to listen to the president. [12:20:47] We are losing those days. So that is what I want us to remember. And if you think I'm just making this up, I've got my proof points big time. Look at what just happened in Virginia, where a diverse group of candidates, a whole bunch of women, by the way, all across that state, one in House and Senate state districts, they won and they flipped it. Or how about Louisiana and Kentucky, where in Louisiana we reelected a Democratic governor. [12:21:16] And in the state of Kentucky, Mitch McConnell now has a Democratic governor. And that is because. [12:21:28] That's because of if you think that's because of a fired up Democratic base. Yes, that is because people were pissed about health care. And by the way, for people that think we should blow up the whole Affordable Care Act, the Affordable Care Act, which was a major issue in that race, and Medicare the Affordable Care Act is now 10 points more popular than the president of the United States. OK, so remember that that was an issue. [12:21:55] But at its core, for a bunch of the moderate Republicans and independents who joined Democrats and voted in that race, at its core, it was an act of patriotism for them because guess who had come there the night before? And he had also gone to Louisiana the night before Donald Trump went there the night before. So my men in both states, the night before the election, he went and campaigned for the opponent. So my question is, where can we send him next? [12:22:23] But that happened in those states. [12:22:25] So those are my proof points. So we just have to remember this as you who do have the obligation on your shoulders. Basically, the country that you think about. Yes. What's best for New Hampshire. But you also think of what's best for this country, because we got a whole lot of stuff going on in this primary. I don't have to tell you, we have got billionaires who have done great things, but they're running ads around the clock. So I know they're not on the ballot here. But you guys have to basically decide, well, is that what we want to have happen in our country? Is that the best thing for one of them? [12:22:59] Sound on the ballot? That's not fair. Tom is on the ballot here. But the question is, what is it? What is the best thing for this country? Is that how we should run our elections? That is not how you've run your elections in New Hampshire. You have given us two incredible senators in Jeannie and Maggie. They are the best. They are the best. [12:23:22] And yes, as mentioned, there are only a handful of states that had the wisdom to send two women to the United States Senate. One of them is yours and one of them is mine. And I always like to point out, if you don't think a woman can beat Donald Trump. I have two words for you. Nancy Pelosi does it every single day. Every single day. Day. And gets under his skin in a big way. So how do we approach this? The first thing is that I think a lot of us think about him as a bully. [12:24:00] He you know, he is like that, right? He is one. But you also have to remember four people out there in your state who are maybe working one and two jobs who are in this gig economy. [12:24:10] One third of our workers right now, they don't get four or one case. They don't have pensions. We need to keep both of those things very strong. By the way, and also Social Security. And they look at this and they think, you know what? I hear all this about the stock market going up, but it's not helping me because there is not shared prosperity in this country right now. And yet we have a president that literally is in his job and he's got the best job in the world and lives in this nice house. This is what they're thinking. [12:24:42] And what does he do? He gloats about the work that this is them talking that I'm doing every single day. It's the workers and businesses, especially the small businesses in this state that got us out of this downturn, got us out of it to a better place. And then this guy comes in having nothing to do with it and gloats about what they did instead of rising to the challenges that we have. And when things go wrong, when you see a 25 percent increase, say, in farm bankruptcy, when you see these prescription drug prices going up and up and up,. [12:25:16] When there's huge problems with flooding and there's huge problems with climate change, you can see it with the oyster business off the coast of Maine. And some of the other things that you've seen when all this happens, what does he do? He blames other people. He blames Barack Obama. OK. That's a nice thing. He blames the head of the Federal Reserve. He was doing that all last summer. Right. [12:25:39] He blames the city of Baltimore. He blames the entire country of Denmark. Who does that? He does that or when he's at the international conference and those leaders at NATO are caught on tape making fun of him. I have a very different take than some of my colleagues. I have heard literally probably once a month other senators make fun of other senators in ways worse than that. Even senators they like. I don't think that was that big of a deal. [12:26:08] But what does our president, the leader of our country do? He quits. He walks out of that thing and whines. He walks out of that conference while they're still making decisions. America does not quit. And that is what this guy does. So when you think about all these things together. Yes. OK, he's a bully, but to a lot of people out there that are just trying to get by. He is a whiner. That's what he does. Things go wrong and he whines about it. [12:26:36] He whines. He whines. I'm telling you, that is what he does. [12:26:40] And when you start thinking about it that way, it kind of opens up your eyes and thinks about it in a different way. So that's the first thing we have to do, because it's very important to the people like those states in Pennsylvania and Michigan and Wisconsin and Ohio and Iowa and my home state of Minnesota, that he almost won and all those other states that he did win, that we reach out to the workers there and make that case. [12:27:04] We have to make that case. And that comparison to what their lives are like. And the best example of it is when he passed the Republican tax bill and was all celebrated about that. Where did he go? He went down tomorrow, Lago, to remember this. And he had a whole room of his friends there. So was anyone there in here? [12:27:24] I just because I just didn't want to embarrass you. If you want to raise your hand, if you were in the room. [12:27:30] I bet there was no one from your whole state practically in that room, because what he did is he looked at everyone in that room and he said, you just got a lot richer. That tells it all. That tells where he is and what his friends are now. The reason I want to debate him is because I want to be on that stage with him, because I'm going to be able to say, first of all, the middle of the country is not flyover country to me. I live there because that's where he goes and tries to get votes in the heartland. [12:27:58] Every single time. And I also want to be able to say, you know, you started your career when your dad over your lifetime gave you four hundred and thirteen million dollars. That happened. Me, my grandpa saved money in a coffee can in the basement after working in the underground iron ore mines his whole life to be able to send my dad to a two year community college. That was my family trust. And four hundred thirteen million dollars would not fit in a coffee can. That's what he did. [12:28:28] So, I mean, is he you know, when you are given an opportunity like I got because my grandpa saved that money and grandpa never even graduated from middle school because he had to go to work because he had nine brothers and sisters and his parents were sick and died very young. He gave that opportunity to my dad. Then my dad gave that opportunity to me, as did my mom, who taught second grade until she was 70 years old. [12:28:52] And when you are given an opportunity by a parent or by a grandparent or by a coworker or a neighbor or some a teacher at your school, you do not go through life with a sense of entitlement. You go through life with a sense of obligation and obligation to lift others up, an obligation not to hoard that for yourself. And that is not what this guy does. So what are the challenges that we must rise to as a community and as a country and at the state that he's not doing? [12:29:26] You know what they are. And this is where we get to this optimistic economic agenda, because I think without that, we lose people and we have to bring them with us. The optimistic economic agenda means no one doing something about rising healthcare prices, and that means bringing the premiums down for everyone. I think the best way to do that, it was with a nonprofit public option. [12:29:52] That is what that is what President Obama wanted to do from the very beginning. [12:29:58] But we were denied that we have gotten to the point now where we know that would work. And by the way, there's other steps on the way. Jeanne has done incredible work leading a bill on reinsurance and cost sharing and other things. And that would be I know that sounds boring and it doesn't sound good on a how about this bumper sticker passed Jeanne's bill on reinsurance and cost sharing. [12:30:19] But I promise you that this has worked in other states and it would be a very good way to do it. Other things we need to do to improve the Affordable Care Act, take on those farmer prices in Minnesota. I can see Canada from my porch and I see I see those cheaper prices. And actually, this is something where Bernie and I have worked together. It was the Kobe show Sanders amendment to bring in less expensive drugs from Canada. We got 14 Republican votes on that. And that was a long time ago. [12:30:52] So and now I actually read that bill with Grassley said, don't tell me that we can't get that done, unleashing the power of 43 million seniors to get better deals under Medicare. [12:31:05] Right now, the pharma companies got written into law that you can't negotiate for cheaper prices. It's a ban. It's in law. It's in statute because they have two lobbyists for every member of Congress. [12:31:18] That's what they have. And I have led that bill from the very beginning. We now have Ferd. Forty three co-sponsors. And what that bill does in it's 34. Well, I'm know. Little exaggeration. [12:31:31] Thirty four quote. Do you like this compared to the 15000 lies of Donald Trump that I corrected myself on the number of co-sponsors. Thank you. Thank you. [12:31:42] And what that bill does, it simply takes that ban away. You can do things like put a cap on the costs of the most expensive drugs, things like insulin and where there's no competition. [12:31:55] That's a bill that's in the House right now. That's a really good idea. And you think about what you've seen here, what you've seen here with insulin prices, every one of you probably know someone that's had to pay some outrageous, outrageous amount for their prescription drugs. I promise you, we can get this done. Building on the Affordable Care Act by finally doing something about mental health and addiction. [12:32:19] I will be the first president that comes in that is willing to talk about this in a big way when one in five Americans suffer from some kind of mental illness sometime in their life. But no one has really taken it on. [12:32:33] And I have gone to numerous, numerous meetings here with people in New Hampshire about some of the issues and the. Funding issue. You can combine this with the money that we need for addiction. Opioid money in a much bigger wave and then we have now. And I know how this has torn your state apart. And also making sure we're covering other forms of addiction, making sure insurance companies are really covering addiction like they're supposed to and covering mental health parity like they're supposed to. [12:33:04] Making sure we have enough mental health beds, making sure we have the counselors and we're doing the research that we need. And the best way to get off these addictions. For me, this is personal. My dad struggled with alcoholism all the time. I was growing up. And by the time I got married, he had three DWI eyes. He just got his third right before the wedding. And the judge basically said to him, OK. Now you've got two choices. [12:33:35] You've got jail or you've got treatment. That's your decision. And he chose treatment and he had the insurance that helped him get that treatment. And he got good treatment in our state. And it basically changed his life. In his words, he was pursued by grace because of his family and his faith, because of the work that he got and the treatment that he got and the people around him. It changed his life. And that led me to do a lot of work in this area, both when I was a prosecutor and in the U.S. Senate. But it's also led me to believe that everyone can be redeemed. And sometimes it's not the first time, by the way, a little. [12:34:19] Thank you. The little a little note on that. Always the holidays for anyone that has alcoholism or addiction or mental health in their families. [12:34:30] It's a hard time. And I have very strong memories of when I would be in college driving up with him up north. Kind of like up north here where we're going to go see my grandma and we would drive up there and I would look in the back and he would be at a gas station. It was drinking out of the trunk of the car. And then I'd take the keys away. We'd have this big fight so I wouldn't let him drive. And after he got that treatment, everything changed. And he is now 91. We went to visit him. Our family did is in assisted living now. He was in good spirits. And literally about a year ago, he said to me, you know, his age group still visits him in the assisted living. And then he said. [12:35:17] And anyway, it's hard to get a drink around here anyway, but he is doing incredibly well. [12:35:22] And that's a story that should be everyone's holiday story. Other things, long term care, the elephant that wouldn't even fit in this big, beautiful room. And that is that we're seeing a doubling of our senior population for all the young people here. It's going to affect you, too. For all the people that have kids and aging parents, you know, it affects you. You are in the in the sandwich generation. And so what do we do? [12:35:47] We keep Social Security strong by lifting the cap. Right now, the payroll taxes go up to one hundred thirty three thousand in income. You could put a in again at 250000. That's a bill again that Bernie has that I've been on for a long time. You put it in a 250000 Social Security stays solvent. Number two. Number two, you keep Medicare strong. You don't mess around with Medicare. You keep it strong. You can make it more efficient, of course, all the time. [12:36:17] But the third thing that you do is you actually start making it easier for people to get long term care, get their insurance with my dad. He bought that insurance a long time ago. Thank God, because I know exactly when that's going to end. And I know exactly when the Medicaid is going to kick in. And I know exactly what he has left in his account, which you after three marriages maybe isn't that much. [12:36:40] And so I have figured this whole thing out like a lot of families have done. [12:36:46] And so what you want to make sure is that if people want to buy that long term care insurance, that they can and that means help with premiums. It also means help with basic long term care. How would I pay for this? I got the idea from a really rich guy in Boston. So right now, people set up trust funds for their kids. Mostly wealthy people do it even if you took trust funds that are over. This isn't charitable ones over five hundred thousand dollars. You don't tax them as a whole, but you tax the appreciation what they gain on it in the market, even doing that. You get in over one hundred billion dollars. [12:37:24] That's a conservative estimate. In 10 years, that is a concrete way to pay for something that could go help people with their long term care. I would the last thing I'd say about this is Alzheimer's. 14 million people are going to have Alzheimer's by the. Year 2050, it is the most expensive disease and there is big research going on, including in my state. We want to continue that research and help caregivers. So those are things they are hard challenges, but there are things that we have to get ahead of. We just can't wait and see this doubling of the senior population and do nothing about it. [12:38:01] Related to that is workforce and making sure we're getting people to go into the jobs that we know are available. There's gonna be over 100 million openings for home health care workers. We are going to have over 100000 openings in this country that we have no plans of filling right now for nursing assistants. We are going to have over 70000 openings for electricians. We are not going to have a shortage of MBA is in this country. We're gonna have a shortage of plumbers. And so our goal should be to get kids the right educations, let them pursue their dreams, but also make sure that we are creating incentives for people to go into these jobs. [12:38:41] Some of these jobs are HD jobs, technology and in medicine, some of these jobs are a four year degree jobs. But a lot of these jobs are also one and two year degree jobs. When I visited Manchester Community College, they told me that something like nearly 20 percent of the students that their college already had four year degrees. So a lot of this is figuring out to not put the cart before the horse and figure out how we can incentivize kids who are not sure what they want to do to go get some of those 1 and 2 year degrees. And many of them go on to get four year degrees. That's what my dad did. [12:39:19] That's what my sister did. She didn't get graduate from high school and she ended up going down, getting her manufacturing, doing manufacturing for years. Then she got her GTD. Then she got a two year degree and then she got her four year degree. So I think understanding that there are many paths to success and that's why all of my plans involve. How do you get to match what's happening in our economy? [12:39:44] And that means making it easier where New Hampshire has a record number of student loan debt, making it easier for kids to pay back their student loans and families. I figure if millionaires can refinance or yachts, student should be able to refinance their student loans, making it easier to making that public service loan repayment program work for people that go into teaching. [12:40:09] Thank you. One person in that program. But there should be a lot more people in that program making that work by. First of all, firing Betsy device on day. [12:40:20] And secondly, making it work. Making it work faster, actually. By phasing in when you get the loan repayment and then expanding it. [12:40:32] And we can do this by simply paying for this by changing the capital gains tax rate. Expanding this into things like in demand occupations like nursing and other things where we need people and some of these things that I've mentioned. It's actually a really good idea if I do say so myself, doubling the Pell Grant so they can be used at public and private colleges, doubling the income levels, and then also making sure those 1 and 2 year degrees are affordable. I am not someone by actually those are the ones I'd make free. I think you've maybe noticed that I'm not someone that does. Everything should be free. Oh, thank you. [12:41:11] I think what I said in one of the debates is that I'm not going to be for something just because it looks good on a bumper sticker. I'm not going to throw in a free car. And that is I mean that because I want to do things that are real. I think it is much better to have a plan than a pipe dream and to make things real, to make things real. [12:41:36] You have to get people behind you so you can get it passed. You have to be able to know how to do that. And you also have to be able to know how you're going to pay for it. Because this president, as we think about people in New Hampshire who many of whom very fiscally aware, one of the reasons Gene has this amazing bill that as president I will get done, which is for a two year budgeting cycle. [12:41:59] So the first year you do the budget and the second year you look at things and say, well, does that work? Should we have put that money there and does it work? It's really makes a lot of sense. The one of the reasons I think is so important is that we have a president that doesn't care what debt he puts on our kids, on our kids shoulders, including yours right there. He doesn't care. You're going to have. He just added another trillion dollars with his tax bill. He treats the people of this country like poker chips. [12:42:28] And one of his bankrupt casinos. And I think one of the parts of the things that I've put aside from that crazy tax bill that he went down, told the other his wealthy friends, is to put aside some money from that to start paying down on the deficit. I think it is really, really important that we do that. [12:42:47] OK. Last. And then I want to take a few questions. I hope. Right. Climate change. Climate change. And I cannot tell you this is an existential crisis of our time. This is an issue, of course, as we see the rising sea levels. I've been to Greenland. I've seen that ice sheet and the change in that ice sheet, ice sheet and the effects that that and other melting of our glaciers and melting is having on our world. We've seen the hurricanes that have affected every single state. [12:43:17] I think it's also important to make the argument for the middle of the country, because that's where we haven't had the vote. We're seeing record flooding all the time. We're seeing farmland that can't be planted or can't be harvested. Nationwide, we're seeing a 50 percent increase in homeowners insurance. Making those economic arguments because that always gets thrown back at us is going to be key. What would I do on day one? Get us back into the international climate change agreement. That is, they applaud. [12:43:50] When Donald Trump took us out of that agreement, there were only two countries not in Nicaragua. In Syria, they are now in that agreement on day to bring back the clean power rules that the Obama administration had negotiated over many years. [12:44:07] Day three, bring back the gas mileage standards that will make cars go longer for less money. [12:44:15] That is something that the car companies had pretty much agreed to. And then Trump blew it up. [12:44:21] All of these roads, by the way, many of his roads lead to Vladimir Putin. All these roads lead to the oil companies, which he has cozied up to from the very beginning. And then the next thing we do is sweeping legislation to get done in the first year, which would help us with everything from building efficiencies. I call it building a fridge to the next century. It's really hard to find climate change jokes. And, you know, I'm gonna get a new one all the time. But is things like that, it is putting a price on carbon. There's many ways that you can do that, but that is critical. But the one thing I do want to mention is to really get this done. [12:45:00] We're gonna have to big time explaining to people who have trouble paying for things right now anyway how this is going to work for them. And it will because you can bring in literally trillions of dollars by putting the carbon fee on. But then that money has to come back in dividends to help people to pay for any changes that you see to their heating costs, especially in cold weather, places like ours. That is core to me, as well as helping people in areas that are going to see a transition in their economy. [12:45:31] I my relatives I mentioned from northern Minnesota, I remember driving up there. And when I was growing up, we would see this billboard they put up for a few years. And it literally said last one, this is coming out of Duluth because they would have up and down. Some mines would open. The mines would close. Kind of what you see in places in northern New Hampshire with the mills and some of the things that you've seen there with Berlin and other places. [12:45:57] They had a billboard and instead last one to leave, turn off the lights that stuck in my mind because they said to my parents, what is it? What does that mean? Was that mean? Well, we know what that means. And so when we look at these things, by the way, Duluth came back big time because they got small businesses and epicurean. [12:46:16] They started making jets. They have beautiful investment in tourism, just like you guys have done. OK. It's not quite your leaves, but almost. And they built up infrastructure along the lake. And now they are a beautiful place to be under 22 inches of snow. [12:46:32] But they they have done that. So I've seen that happen. [12:46:35] But I have also seen the opposite. And so it is not just with my head that I look at this. It's with my heart that there is a way to do this. And we have to bring people with us instead of shutting them out as we make the case for moving on climate change. And then we will get it done. [12:46:51] So I'm going to save. [12:46:57] I'm going to save the rest of this for questions, but I just want to end by thanking you for caring about our democracy last week when we were at our church for Christmas Eve. [12:47:14] My daughter, who is now 24, was with us and it brought back a memory of her at that same church when she was 4 years old. And she was the angel in the Nativity play. And she was in the pew with me. And it was the practice. And she would not go out to practice. She had this drooping wings on and she's sitting there. [12:47:34] I'm like, why won't you go out there? And she goes, Because I want to be the donkey. [12:47:40] And I go, No, no, no, you cannot be the donkey at Timmy and Joey. They're the donkey these hot teenage boys are. And they say, Hey, no, no, no. She goes, Well. [12:47:50] Well, I want to be Mary. I don't know. Mary is 14 years old. You you can I said, I don't understand this. You have the coolest part in this whole thing. You get to go at the end and spread your wings. And she finally looked at me, looks way off the top of the church. [12:48:05] She goes, Mom, I don't know how to tell them. I don't know how to fly. [12:48:13] And I said to her that day, You know what, honey? Not all angels fly. [12:48:18] You are the guardian angels for our democracy right now. You are. You may not have those big droopy angel wings, but you're gonna give other people the in the wings to fly. People that may not even know who you are voting in your primary in New Hampshire, trying to diligently figure out what we can do to have the best candidate to lead the ticket. [12:48:41] And you are the guardians for our democracy because we have someone in there right now that doesn't care about democracy or Bretton Woods or everything that this state has stood for when it comes to dealing with the rest of the world and being a beacon of democracy and making sure that people can have a say at the table in a state where you, like, every single person is elected to something because you have such a strong belief in our democracy. [12:49:07] So I want to thank you for that. [12:49:09] I ask that you join us because we have a true grassroots campaign. I pick green because one because of what's happening with our climate. But two, because that is the color of grassroots politics to me. [12:49:24] And that is also the color of one of my political mentors, Paul Wellstone, who went around and who went around in his green bus and defied every pundit in the nation who said that he could not win in a U.S. Senate race because he didn't have enough money. And so he had less money than everyone else. [12:49:44] So he talked really, really, really fast in all his ads. That was a joke because he had less money. So a talk really, really fast. And he ran back and forth really fast in the parades. [12:49:53] And at the very end of his life, when he died so tragically in a plane crash with his wife right before the election, right after he took the right and brave vote against the Iraq war. Right at that moment when he died going down in that plane, that was the year he had told our state that he had M.S. and he was in so much pain and he could not run anymore in those parades. But what he did instead was he stood on the back of his green bus and he waved. [12:50:21] And here was the amazing part about it, because I didn't have an opponent that year. Sounds nice. And I was with him all the time that summer. [12:50:30] And I saw what the magic that happened because he had so many people in green shirts running around that bus that no one even noticed he wasn't running himself. That is what grassroots politics is about. That is what New Hampshire politics is about. So please join our team, because I'm telling you, we are in a big insurgency and we are going to win this. [12:50:55] Thank you, everybody. Thank you. OK. All right. [12:51:07] Okay. Go ahead. Oh, this is cool. Meredith. [12:51:14] Meredith from Concord. You like how I can pronounce all the New Hampshire names correctly? What is your decision making process? What goes on internally when you have to make a serious decision? [12:51:26] OK, that's a really good question. Where are you married? Mean somewhere around here. OK, very good. Very good. So I think that when you are president of the United States, you must surround yourself, not with sycophants. So let's start with that. [12:51:45] That is one of the things that's gone wrong with this president. He had people like Mattis and others that I supported. By the way, when I vote, I voted for him and a few of these other people because I thought it was very important that you have some voices that are different for a president to have some competent people around him. And what's happened over time is he has more and more people that are sycophants, that are. Yes, men. [12:52:13] They're almost all men. Right. So I think it is important to have and I'll start with a cabinet that reflects the diversity of our country, a diversity on race and ethnic grounds, of course, but also on gender, but also diversity when it comes to thought. So you hear different voices around you and you have people that are willing to say, no, I don't agree with you. I think that is really, really important. [12:52:40] And I think that's important when you make big decisions that you get the information and the evidence. Former prosecutor, you get the evidence and you make a decision based on that. You don't make a decision by tweet in your bathroom at 4:00 in the morning, which is exactly what we have been seeing. So that's very important to me. And then the second is, before you announce a decision and sometimes you don't have the time to do this. It depends on if it's a crisis or not, that you discuss it with people and you reach out to people. [12:53:12] And so people are not surprised. I keep comparing this to the president. Like when he made that precipitous decision to withdraw those 150 troops from the border in Syria, where there were so many people that didn't know he was going to do that in the Middle East and in our own country. And basically, then what happens is what you would predict to begin with, which is the Turks come in, they slaughter some of the Kurds. I ran, gets even a bigger foothold in Syria. And those are just all kinds of examples. Listening to the experts, believing in science when making decisions. [12:53:53] I think there is just one of the things that I have done and put out there is a 100 day plan and you should look at it on our website and it is 137 things that a president can legally do without Congress. And they are all legal. Let me say, because I think it is really going to be important to jump start things right away. So for me, that document kind of lays out and it's been decisions I've already made. [12:54:21] What you want to do so that people are going to see that your friends, your enemies, everyone, they've got to be able to know what you're going to do. And then the other piece of it is those longer term things that we have to do in the first year, gun safety legislation, all the things that that need to be passed. [12:54:39] And, you know, you do that by, you meet and go reach out. Someone asked me the other day at another town hall what is, you know, the first calls you make the next day? And I said, well, the first call I take is from Donald Trump when he concedes. But the first the next day, you've gotta start reaching out to the leaders in Congress and you got to start reaching out to every governor in this country,. [12:55:05] Because you have to set a new tone for our politics, because this is about policy. But it's also about changing immediately the tone in our politics. And I truly believe we can do that. [12:55:24] Let's see. [12:55:28] Please comment. Paul. How can we you. I like that. We need to connect better to voters only focused on basically those what they believe a perceived view of the economy and too young. [12:55:45] I think you mean young climate change focus. Yeah. 18 to 30 years. OK. So first of all, I think we've gone through some of these. My views on the economy. I really think that there is not shared prosperity right now. And there's a lot of people he promised things to everything from infrastructure, which we know we dearly need in New Hampshire, from the roads to the bridges to making sure that we've got that Manchester rail project and some of that moving the commuter rail and all the work that needs to be done. [12:56:19] And we have to make very clear that he has not kept his promises. And this economy has not been shared with everyone. And for way too many people, it is too hard to get by. The other argument that we have that strong and people know this because of his trade war, because of a bunch of the things he's done that we and his immigration policy, which has made it so that we don't have enough workers in your state, in my state, other places in our nursing homes and our hospitals, in some of our factories, in our fields in the middle of the country, and that we have to have a much smarter immigration policy. [12:56:58] We can make all those arguments that are long term. The fiscal arguments that I just made that I believe people are going to listen to because they know very well what's going on in terms of the younger voters there. I think that young people right now are incredibly cause driven and they have been for a long time. They've literally led the way are the young generation, including my daughters, led the way on gay marriage. That is true. They talk to their parents and their grandparents and asked why not? They are doing the same thing right now on gun safety. They are. When you think about the. And I just use that as an example. And by the way, the causes, you know, there's plenty young people here. They can tell me what they care about. [12:57:43] But the causes that I've seen, they care a lot about climate change. It is education and then it is, of course, gun safety. And I think this is the issue of their time. Why? [12:57:55] Because I've been out there on this since way back when I was in law enforcement. We tried to get the assault weapon ban reinstated back then, all these police chiefs and as prosecutor, we couldn't get it done. Then I got to Washington and Sandy Hook happened. And those families were simply trying to get universal background checks, which, by the way, is now is now supported by the majority of gun owners. [12:58:27] It is now supported by the majority of Trump voters. Universal background checks. And there's absolutely no reason this should get done, except for the fact that the president of the United States has folded to the NRA. And I say this coming from a state just like New Hampshire, which is a proud hunting state. [12:58:46] I say this, getting votes. Vast majority of votes in northern Minnesota where I am from. That has a proud hunting tradition. I literally look at all of these proposals in my head, as always. Does this hurt my Uncle Dick in the deer stand? They don't. They don't. And so when those families tried to get this change after Sandy Hook, I still remember them being in my office. And this mom, when we told her we didn't have the votes to pass the mansion to me, Bill, which was to a rated NRA legislators who are willing to go out on a limb and say we can have universal background checks and we failed. [12:59:22] We didn't have the votes. And this one mom just crumpled in my office and she started to cry. She said, you know, the last time that I saw my son, he was headed to school. She said he is severely autistic. He couldn't speak. He would always point to the picture of his school aid on the refrigerator door. And that's what he did that last morning. And then I kissed him and he went off to school. And the next thing I know, I was in that firehouse with the other families waiting, waiting for my kid to walk in that door. [12:59:52] And one by one, the kids came back. And at the end, all the parents left there knew they would never see their babies again. And as she sobbed, she said she had this momentary memory of that school aide because she knew that he she would never leave her son's side. And when they found them shot up in a closet, that woman had her arms around that little boy. So you think about the fact that that mom had the courage to come to Washington to try to. A bill that actually would not have saved their kids, but would have saved so many lives for people who are suicidal or for people who are victims of domestic abuse. [13:00:33] The Senate didn't have the courage to pass that, but then you fast forward something happened, Moms Demand Action got involved, which was huge. [13:00:41] And then those Parkland kids, those Parkland kids. [13:00:46] To me, that tipping point was those Parkland kids after another school massacre. They stood up and there was something about them that was iconic in Florida and other kids all around those country. They watched him and they thought, you know what? I can ask those same questions. And it was a lot of boys. And the boys started talking to their dads and they started talking to their grandpas. [13:01:09] They started talking them in hunting families all over the middle of the country and all over New Hampshire. And something switched. Something changed. So that what happened in that midterm election, first of all, those kids voted in record levels than they had ever voted for decades in a midterm election. That changed. [13:01:28] And the second thing the second thing that changed is some of their parents started thinking about it differently. [13:01:36] That is how we turned the House of Representatives back into the people's house again. What was the result? It's democracy in action. The result was the House of Representatives pass a universal background check bill. They passed the closing of the Charleston loophole, which simply allows cops to have another week to vet people to make sure if they should get a gun or not under the law. [13:01:58] And they passed my bill that I've been leading for years to close the boyfriend loophole, which means that a convicted domestic abusers cannot get AK 47. That's all it says. [13:02:11] Now, where are those three bills? You know, are those three bills? All right. Now they're sitting on Mitch McConnell's desk along with 400 other bills. [13:02:23] Because right after all this happened, after Parkland, I sat across the president and at the White House nine times, nine times he said he wanted universal background checks. I still have the evidence. I have the piece of paper. [13:02:36] Maybe I'll pull it out at a debate where he said he wanted you. And I kept it down. I marked it down with hash marks on a piece of paper. And the next day, he met with the NRA and he folded. Well, Mitch McConnell has been folding the entire time and those bills are sitting on his desk. So that gets me to my other political argument. We cannot just afford to eek by a victory at 4:00 in the morning in this election. You know, I know if we do, that genie will still make it because she's so strong and so good and she'll win her election and your House members will. But guess where we are going to lose? [13:03:10] We're going to lose in those Senate seats that we should win. And if we just eke by a victory at 4:00 in the morning, we have this opportunity like no other. When you say don't tell me we can't win in Colorado when we just won in Kentucky. Right. Or in Arizona or in any of these other states. We can do this, but we have to have a candidate that can bring people with us and not shut them out. [13:03:34] And you heard my story. I have done this every place. [13:03:39] I have won every place, every race, every time. No one has refuted it. I am the only one on that debate stage that has won by bringing in rural voters. I have one in the one poll where everyone knows me in Minnesota. Just recently, I was beating Donald Trump, who literally barely won our state. [13:03:57] Hillary had her lowest percentage of victory in the percentage of vote in the country. [13:04:02] And in a separate Donald Trump, I was ahead of him by 17 points in the state of Minnesota. I was ahead. [13:04:13] I was ahead of every other of our great Democratic candidates in the race by eight points. I was way ahead with men. I've always won big time with men. [13:04:22] And I just I like say that. There's a bunch of men here, but I have eyes ahead with women, too. But I was ahead with men. [13:04:29] I just think it is really important that we have someone that can bring people with her, because I have won every race, every place, every time, every one of those rural congressional districts, suburban congressional districts, northern Minnesota districts, not even by a tiny margin, by a big win. And I've done it all the way back to fourth grade. OK. [13:04:51] I didn't win. The congressional districts win, but I did win my race back then. And I had the slogan, which I have since abandoned all the way with Amy Kay. But I don't I don't think that would be. That's not we're not going to bring that one back. [13:05:04] It might be good for the debate stage. Maybe an ad, maybe go viral. OK. So this was OK. This is this is from Diane, the forty first from Portsmouth, 40 first mass shooting in 2019. [13:05:21] Where are you, Diane? And I thank you for pointing this out. [13:05:26] Oh, this was actually this I think it was maybe. Was it a shooting or a stabbing? I'm not sure of the facts in the rabbi's. Mm hmm. Yeah, it was a stabbing, but that's outside of New York City. How do we as a community communicate with supporters of Donald Trump about the crisis in our country? So I just talked about guns and but what I will talk about is just the hate. And I actually when I was the prosecutor in my old job, I did a lot with hate crimes. [13:06:00] And they were things like a guy who actually was hit over the head with a two by four by the foreman in a plant for speaking Spanish. We had that one or another guy who went out and said, I'm going to shoot a black kid on Martin Luther King Day. And he did. And thankfully, the kid didn't die. But he got shot. So I actually did a lot with hate crimes. And I then got invited because of that work. I was just the local county attorney in Minnesota. [13:06:31] But I got invited when Bill Clinton was president to the White House. And I got invited to introduce the president when he at the very last minute, when he introduced the hate crimes legislation, the Matthew Shepard bill, of course, named after the young man. That was basically strung up on a post. And the first person that saw him passer by thought it was a scarecrow for being gay. [13:06:59] And his parents were there and the investigators were there in the White House, by the way. I'd never even been in the White House before and then not even on a tour. And there I was as a local person the night before. They asked me to introduce President Clinton at this big formal thing when he introduced the bill. And just as a side note, I remember standing outside of the East ROOM and I had Bill Clinton on one side and Janet Reno on the other. [13:07:26] And Eric Holder was her deputy. And he was there, too. And they're all really tall. Right. So I'm standing there and all of a sudden they start and I just had these old notes I'd written and they start playing Hail to their military band and they played Hail to the Chief, you know, doo doo doo doo. And all of a sudden I start walking in because I got my introduction to do and I feel this big hand on my shoulder. [13:07:50] And this voice says, I know you're gonna do great out there, but when they play that song, I usually go first. [13:08:00] All right. Julie, that happened. [13:08:03] He remembers that. But I was. That was my first time in the White House. But it will not be my last. [13:08:17] So out of that, I kept getting involved in that. And then it was the most amazing thing is by the time I get to the Senate, I don't know what it was 10 years later or something like this, less than that. [13:08:29] Six, eight years later, we passed the Matthew Shepard bill. [13:08:32] They didn't have the votes until we came in and took this. It was a very cool thing. So, OK. [13:08:38] So since that time, I've continued to see what's going on. And I actually just question the FBI director about this in the Judiciary Committee. There has been a dramatic increase in hate crimes in this country since that Matthew Shepard thing in the last few years. And this you know, I know there's still I haven't heard the latest. I woke up this morning and read about what happened at the rabbi's house, a Hanukkah celebration where same guy comes in and starts stabbing people. [13:09:05] And we've seen a rise in anti-Semitism, of course, in this country in a big, big way. We've seen community centers be targeted. We've also seen a rise in crimes against all faiths, really the Muslim faith. We've seen it all across the country. And I asked the FBI director, well, why have we seen this increase my own themes and theories? And he said, well, you know, we have to figure we don't quite know, in my words. So I think, first of all, this starts at the top. You do not have a president that goes after people because of the color of their skin or because they belong to certain groups. [13:09:43] You have you do not have that in our country. Secondly, you have the resources at the Justice Department that should be given to states when they need them to investigate these cases and to take them very seriously. The third thing that helps, of course, is education. I have always made a point. We have the biggest Somali population. [13:10:04] And by the way, we grieve these over 70 people that were killed in a car bomb in Somalia just this last two days. Now they are working so hard, there's so many people trying to do good in that country and they continue to deal with terrorism in the form of al-Shabaab. And the that community and our Jewish community have worked really hard to find some common ground and understand each other's religions to the point where at. When Ramadan happens, so many synagogues, Catholic churches, even some conservative churches have happy Ramadan signs, lawn signs in front of their churches. [13:10:48] And that means a lot when you see that happen. When our two of our Jewish community centers were targeted a few years ago and threats were made and they had to haul everyone out of there. And one of the cases that were kids in a swimming pool and seniors and it was cold and they all had to go, in their words, wander in the wilderness when they got back. The first call on their messages was from a group asking if they needed a place to meet, if they couldn't go back to their center. [13:11:20] And it was the Islamic center. And so to me, those things are progress. And you herald that progress and you talk about how you can make that work and how people can work together and you respect the right of people to worship or not worship. It is enshrined in our constitution. And you remember that and remember that sacred duty you have as a precedent to uphold that, right? All right. [13:11:53] This was probably a good way to end here. This is Kim visiting. Should we still let someone from Massachusetts ask the last question? Is that okay? Where are you? Kim from Foxborough. Where are you? [13:12:06] Okay. Okay. We're gonna be nice to Massachusetts right today. Everyone okay? [13:12:11] Kim, what is your position on Citizens United and what would you do to get big money out of politics? [13:12:18] So. Okay. This is, I think, a really fitting way to end this because I began talking about our democracy and how the president is not king. [13:12:28] To me, these reforms and the things we need to do to make our democracy work is the most important thing that we can do for future generations right now, because it is the key. It unlocks so much of what we've been talking about today in terms of climate change and immigration reform and all the economic things that we need to do. So we have people's backs. The answer here is to, first of all, make it easier and not harder for people to vote. [13:13:00] I cited an I cited on the debate stage one thing that is going on ever since the Supreme Court ruled in the Shelby decision to overturn parts of the Voting Rights Act. The horror of what's happening right after that happened, dozens of states started doing really bad things, making it harder to register to vote, making it harder to vote, purging people from voter rolls. And maybe you've been reading about that, purging people from voter rolls. [13:13:33] What does that mean? Well, that means you voted your whole life, say, and then maybe you don't vote for a few elections, you're sick or something, and then they use that as an excuse to take you off the voter rolls. [13:13:44] And I thought Stacey Abrams, who should be the governor of Georgia, said this fast when she said she said, you know what, you don't lose your right to worship under the Constitution just because you don't go to church or synagogue or a mosque or temple for a few years or even for three months. Hey, you don't lose your right to assemble just because you don't go to meetings like this for a year. I guess we have to exempt New Hampshire because everyone goes to meetings all the time. [13:14:15] But you don't lose your right to assemble and you shouldn't lose your right to vote just because you did not vote in a few elections. But that is exactly what purging is about, because you might say, well, you don't lose your right to vote. You could reregister. Not in a lot of these states. They show up the day of the election and there is no same day registration like I have in my state. Do you have in your state? I think yes. OK. Well, they don't have that right. So you show up and you don't know you're purged because you didn't get the voicemail or you didn't get the notice in the mail or they. Senator, you're you're sunk. [13:14:52] You can't register. Stacey uses the example of a woman who is 92 years old, who had voted her whole life and missed some last election or something happened. And she shows up ready to vote for what she thought would be the first African-American governor of the state of Georgia. She is someone who had voted back way back to the 60s, and she found out she couldn't vote. [13:15:13] It was done and she couldn't vote. So stopping that practice, Sherrod Brown and I have a vote, have a bill to stop that practice. [13:15:20] As president, I could get it done automatically registering every kid when they turn 18 in the United States of America. We can do that. [13:15:31] That. That is my bill. I leave that bill. As president, I can get it done. [13:15:39] Think about this. This is not think of our modern technology. Everyone gets a Social Security number. Target can find a pair of shoes with a SKU number in Wolfeboro. I don't know if there's a store there. I made that up. I'm go in there for a town hall mix iPhone. But you can they can they can find this stuff and we can find a way to do this. [13:15:59] We just have to have the will making sure that we get. And this is a Citizen's United. Question the big money out of our politics. [13:16:08] And I I. By passing a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United, which I brought up on the debate floor. So some people say. [13:16:21] How are you going to do that? OK. Well, there was a woman that got elected in a super red district in Minnesota when I was leading the ticket last time. Her name's Angie Cregg. You should check her out. She was the first openly gay person. I was elected to Congress in our state. And she's a very cool person. And she ran an ad that I will never forget. It showed people on bales of hay. This is in 2018 trying to talk. [13:16:48] And it looked it could be from a very rural area. It could be from a very I would say it looks like a libertarian ad. They're standing and they're trying to talk. And everything they say is drought. There's no sound. They're just the. Their lips are moving. They're not saying. And the point of the ad was big money is drowning out. You're right. You can't talk because big money, you don't have a say because of big money. And when I saw that ad and that she was running it in that hard district and she ends up, of course, winning in that hard district, I thought, yep, this is what this is. [13:17:21] This is a civil rights, civil liberty argument that goes across party lines. And it's a case we have to make. I don't think we should be surprised, despite some pulling back of your voter rights here in New Hampshire because of your governor recently. I don't think it's a surprise that New Hampshire, Minnesota and some of our states here have these incredibly strong election laws that have allowed a lot of people to vote because of the traditions in our state. [13:17:48] Interestingly, we both have really, really strong sense of independent voters. And by the way, if you don't believe me about Minnesota, I have three words for you. Governor Jesse Ventura. [13:17:59] And so we have that tradition and we have kept on to it. It's hard to hold on to. But we have. [13:18:06] And so I think one of the things that works is when you have the people that are actually kind in the middle and they're saying, wait a minute, I don't want to be drowned out from this, I want to be able to have a say. I don't care what party I belong to or how I vote. So I think how do you get this actually done with this constitutional amendment? I think you go on this national crusade based on those arguments of having your voice drowned out and make it actually a rallying cry. [13:18:32] But I can only do that if I'm heading up the ticket now anyway. So thank you for that question. [13:18:39] And last thing, I just want to mention something very relevant right now, and that is protecting our elections from outside invasion. I lead that bill to have backup paper ballots and audit. [13:18:53] I and I have there's several versions of this bill. [13:18:58] I have one with Ron Widen. That's my favorite one. But then there is another one that I did with Senator James Lankford. Similar but different in its intensity. And that bill was headed to the floor. And it basically said you're not going to be able to get federal election money if you don't have backup paper ballots. It wouldn't hurt New Hampshire at all, but basically pushed those states to do it. New Jersey has no backup paper ballots. If you think Russia doesn't know that. Oh, they do. And so that's what we were trying to do. [13:19:29] We got got punched. And no one has ever, ever denied what happened. The White House made calls to Republican senators. And by the way, on this bill, this isn't some crazy bill. Lindsey Graham is on the bill Burr Warner. Carmela is on the bill. We have this incredible group of people that are coauthors of this bill. And what happens? It's headed to the floor. We're going to have the markup in the Rules Committee where I'm the ranking member. [13:19:55] And they stopped it in its tracks. They made calls to Republican senators, asked them not to support it. And then guess who else made calls? Mitch McConnell made direct calls. So you know how he has that nickname that Joe Scarborough gave him. It's this bill that is the story. So that's the first thing. [13:20:15] The second thing is social media companies with these paid political ads to make sure we know where those ads are coming from and who is paying for them or that they even exist. So right now, as you know, Twitter announced they're not going to run political ads. Facebook is are trying to disclose them. But there's a whole bunch of other platforms out there that literally billions in Hillary election, one point three billion dollars was spent on online political ads. And so TV, radio, all your stations are right here, newspaper. They all have to put the disclaimer and they have to keep the ads on file. [13:20:56] There is no rules for the social media companies. It is the Wild West. They can do whatever they want. And the kind of things we're gonna see are fake ads, all kinds of things. It won't get at the box. This, won't it? But it will at least get at the paid political ads. [13:21:10] If we pass this honest ads bill and all this does and I had the bill with Senator McCain, who I miss dearly. And now Senator Graham is on this bill with me. But. There is no advancing this bill. It is just sitting out there. And so I'm telling you, this would be one key thing we could do right now is to make sure that those companies it makes no rational sense. And if you think it doesn't matter. Let me leave you with the image of one of the images that played during 2016. It was African-American woman's face, innocent woman. [13:21:42] She called Dick Durbin's office when the when the ad showed up in the Judiciary Committee. Her face was put on an image that went on Facebook pages, in African-American Facebook pages, in swing districts and swing states. And it said this. There was a fake Hillary logo. And it said, why wait in line to vote for Hillary? You can text your vote at something like 8 6 1 5 3. It's a lie. It's a crime in my mind. But that's the kind of thing we're talking about. [13:22:16] So to think that these social media companies who claim they're not like, oh, we're just a hub of information when they're trillion dollar companies, it's great. They're great things for America, the innovation. [13:22:28] But there's no rules that control no privacy rules. None of this. And so when you think about what we can do for our democracy. Yes. Constitutional amendment and Citizens United. Making it easier to vote. Taking on the social media companies to at least have rules of the road to that. [13:22:45] We can have the democracy. And the democracy is ours. And what? [13:22:58] Yeah. Exactly. OK. So that's the Electoral College. Yes, exactly. So I would favor changing that, too. I'm just trying to take us one step at a time here of what we can do. [13:23:08] I love that I did single you out because you're wearing purple, which is the color of the Minnesota Vikings and Prince. And so, you know, I I couldn't really turn her down. But I just want to thank all of you for being willing to turn out on this beautiful day in this beautiful room. [13:23:26] I really don't want to leave, but we are literally going to seven seven town hall. Where's my card? I was going to say where it is. Where? Oh. Oh, thank you for watching out for me in person in the front. [13:23:38] OK. So we are going we started here in Dover and then we're going to Wolfeboro. [13:23:44] We're going to Conway. We're going to Gorham. We're going to Littleton. We're going to Claremont. I've already been a little more tuned to that candy thing at Easter. We're gonna have been diving first, but we're going to clamor and we're going to keep. So that'll be good. And I. [13:24:05] And we are doing all that because we're going to go every place, every way's every time, and what are we going to do? We're going to win big. So join our campaign. [13:24:14] Thank you, everybody. Thank you. We do. We're going to do anyone that want photos. We're going to do photos up here. Be patient. We'll try to go really fast. [13:24:28] And anyone that can't come up here. I'll come down to you. All right. Thank you.

TVU 20 2020 CANDIDATES GALIVANTS FERRY SC STUMP HEAD ON ABC UNI 091619 2020 KLOBUCHAR 182256 Thank you. Thank you, South Carolina, thank you john It is so great to be here. What a beautiful, beautiful sight, with all of you. So many democrats gathered in one place. I want to thank Sally Howard, the Holiday family, and the PD farms general store for hosting this world famous stuff. I guess this is your year 143, and that is pretty impressive. I want to thank a number of people. One of them is not here -- two who aren't here I want to start with Congressman Cliburn, who is such a champion for your state. 182333 Also I got to see Joe cutting him, which was incredible, earlier today. We're so proud of him, and someone else I got to meet just a little bit. I visited him a few times when I was here to help candidates over the last decade, and that's Fritz Hollings who we miss so much. And there's a funny Minnesota- South Carolina connection, and that is that my mentor Paul Wellstone who sadly died in a plane crash. He used to tell the story of his very first speech on the Senate floor. He was so proud of himself and Senator Hollings comes over and approaches him. 182414 He was there, and Senator Hollings in his inimitable way, says to Paul Wellstone "Young man, you remind me of Hubert Humphrey. " [laughter] Paul is overjoyed. He's so honored and he says, "OhSenator Hollings, Thank you so much." 182432 And he says, Hollings says, Let me finish young man. You talk too much. So I want to thank my opponents who are here tonight, Buttigieg, Biden and de Blasio okay what do they have in common? B. B names, and I say one thing. "A" comes before "B". But I am going first. 182459 I'm going first a good story about going first, a bit involving the south, and this was the first time I ever got invited to the White House. I hadn't even been there on a tour. I was the local prosecutor in Hennepin County Minnesota, and I got invited because I'd done work on hate crimes. Very important. Bill Clinton was the president, he was unveiling the big hate crimes bill, the Matthew Shepard Bill, and I got invited and at the last minute they invited me to introduce the President. This very formal thing in the East Room, never even been there, standing outside with my little piece of paper. 182533 I've got Bill Clinton on one side, I've got Janet Reno on the other side, the band starts playing Hail to the Chief you know, do do dodo. I start walking in and all of a sudden I feel this big hand on my shoulder and his voice says, "I know you're gonna do great out there, but when they play that song. I usually go first." This is a true story. That is a true story. President Clinton remembers that story. 182600 He will -- you can ask him, and I can tell you this, my friends in South Carolina, that might have been my first time in the White House, but it won't be my last. 182616 Our states actually have more in common than you might think. You know, you've got southern hospitality. We've got Minnesota-nice. You in South Carolina are home to the world's largest roller-skate. Minnesota is home to the world's largest hockey puck. You have a former governor who hiked the Appalachian Trail. We don't have a governor that hiked that trail...Oh, that's right you don't either. 182646 You have the Rice Museum in Georgetown, and we have the world's only---world's only museum entirely devoted to Spam or as we call it the gugen-ham. And we share something else and that is a tradition of independent voters, people that maybe will change and vote differently from time to time, which is what we're betting on in this election. For people like Jamie, and if you don't believe me about Minnesota---I have three words for you, Governor Jesse Ventura. All right. 182721 So, what do we need to do in this election? Well what you did in the first congressional district, over there. You did the right thing when you elected Joe Cunningham, right? And we made the House of Representatives the people's house again. And we need to bring those voters with us, so that gets to my argument here for my candidacy. And that is that in 2020, we don't just need to win, my friends, we need to win big. We need to win big. We need to win big in the White House, why? Because that is how we bring back the US Senate. 182801 That's how we win here in South Carolina in the senate race, and that is how we send Mitch Mcconnell packing , by winning big. That's how we do it. That's how we do it. And I can tell you right now, I don't want to be the president for just half the country. I want to be the president for all the country, and you want to have someone heading up that ticket that understands rural, that is able to bring along not just our fired up base that we see out here, but also independents and moderate Republicans, and I've done it every place, every race, every time. 182838 Yes, South Carolina democrats, I have won Michele Bachmann's district three times. Okay. You do this by winning big. I think you all know how high the stakes are, what a big deal this is, how we can't afford to lose because right now we have a president who is running this country like a game show. Right? He would rather lie than lead. He seems to only care about himself all the time, his own business interests. I said the other day, I sent out a tweet that did better than all his tweets a few weekends ago, and I said, "What's the difference between Donald Trump and Greenland? Greenland is not for sale." 182928 And you know why he does that stuff? You know why he brings up things like Greenland, why he talked -- He wants to distract us. Right and he does it in the meanest ways. He uses immigrants, as political pawns. He belittles people including in his own party that don't always agree with him, destroying our democracy with dark money and voter suppression and allowing a foreign country to make mincemeat out of our democracy. 182954 Well, I think we can be different. I think we need a candidate that understands that what unites us as a country, whether it's the south, the Midwest, whether it's the east, whether it's the West, that what unites us is bigger than what divides us. That's what we need and that was the message I sent out if any of you watched the debate. Right. That was what I was saying to people. That we need to do. Now, we've got a president right now, where literally when he goes on TV, you know how you used to watch your president maybe with someone you didn't vote for someone you don't agree with, but when he was on TV or when she will be on TV, you listened out of respect. 183035 Right, you listened because they had a message for the nation. You had your kids listen. You had your grandkids listen. Well we are at a point in our country right now, when parents see that President coming up at a rally or somewhere else what did they do? They turn the volume down. They can't even hear what he says, and I will promise you this, when I'm president you will not turn the volume down and you will be proud of the President of the United States. 183100 And my message to you out there is that if you feel stuck in the middle of the extremes in our politics or you are tired of the noise and the nonsense. You have a home with me. Because, South Carolina, the stakes are high. We have a president who literally said there were two sides after Charlottesville. Well there are not two sides when one side is the Klu Klux Klan. There is only one side and that is the American side. 183130 We have a president that has let all these tax cuts go to the wealthy. Right? Think of what he's done. How he's built up this debt, make that argument to your friends, independent, moderate, republican, friends that he has added to the debt daily. That he gave us a tax bill that those republicans voted for that added a trillion dollars to the debt. So you asked what party has been fiscally responsible when you look back through time. 183159 When you look at President Clinton and President Obama, it is not the Republican Party, and it is not - It is not Donald Trump. He is literally right now, treating our farmers and we are in a big rural community here, treating our farmers and treating our workers, like they are poker chips in one of his bankrupt casinos and if we're not careful, he is going to bankrupt the country. 183225 And one thing that I think we need to emphasize more and we haven't even been asked a question about world issues in a big way in the debate. I think we have to be the party, this time, of rural America. You know why? It is the democratic party that is worried about your rural hospitals that are closing in South Carolina. right? it is the democratic party that is standing up for education. It is the democratic party that's standing up for no lead in your water and yes, it is a democratic party that standing up when it comes to climate change. That's what we need to do. 183301 I am proud to have the support of Collin Peterson, who heads up the Agriculture Committee in the House of Representatives, and that is because I'm the only candidate that was up on that stage at that debate, who asked to be on the Agriculture Committee and has served on it through many farm bills, who has stood up for farmers, who stood up---and this will help South Carolina---for that exemption to allow hemp to be grown as we move forward with our agriculture community in this state. 183332 I believe that food doesn't just magically end up at the table, right? It doesn't. Someone works hard and someone makes that food, and that's why we have to work so hard to make sure that we have a president that looks out for rural America. And when it comes to climate change, this is my plan. On day one, I will sign us back into the international climate change agreement. [applause] We can do that. We can do that, South Carolina. We can do that without Congress. Day Two, bring back the Clean Power rules, day three bring back the gas mileage standards, day four, five, and six introduce sweeping legislation, and on day seven, you're supposed to rest but I won't. 183413 Gun safety, you ever proud hunting state. I come from a proud hunting state. Well we have reached the point in our country where the majority of hunters actually want to see background checks. The majority of Trump voters want to see background checks. And that's why, when we go back to Washington, when I go back tonight, we've got to push Mitch McConnell to allow that bill, and closing the Charleston loophole and closing the boyfriend loophole to get on for a vote, because if we get a vote, we win. The public is with us. That's what we need to do. [applause] 183452 So, what do you tell those voters in South Carolina who voted for Donald Trump? And you know some of them are ready to change. You tell them, we don't want a whiner in the White House, out of South Carolina. Literally, what has he done? He came in and our economy was resilient because of our strong workers, because of our union workers, because of our businesses, and we got out of that hole that we were in, and he inherits that economy. What does he do? He gloats about it, pretends he had something to do with it. And then, when things get challenging, when the long term outlook's bad, when because of his trade war we have an all time trade deficit of $791 billion. 183532 What does he do then? He blames other people. He blames the head of the Federal Reserve. He blames his own people that want to see some change in the trade agreements. He blames the President Obama, seriously, he did that. He blames the entire country of Denmark, right. That is what a whiner does, and you got to explain to these people who voted for him---a lot of them thought we were going to get infrastructure. We haven't gotten infrastructure. A lot of them thought they were going to get change. It hasn't happened. 183601 So this is how I think we beat this guy. One, we cross the river of our divides. That's why I announced in the middle of the Mississippi River, in the middle of a blizzard with four inches of snow on my head, because I wanted to make that point. Secondly, we have an optimistic economic agenda for this country where we bring people with us. We bring down the cost of health care, and the way I think you do it is with a public option. So we have a way to compete with the insurance companies. 183631 We take on pharmaceutical prices by allowing our seniors to negotiate Medicare to get a better deal. I lead that bill in the Senate. And yes we bring in less expensive drugs from other countries like Canada. In Minnesota, we can see Canada from our porch. All right, so I see those prices over there, and we bring in less expensive drugs from other countries. That's what we do. We take on climate change, we take on the challenges, we take on education. 183701 My mom she taught second grade until she was 70 years old. I am a proud product of the public schools. My daughter went to public schools, and my mom was a teacher. We need to respect our teachers, and the way we do that is by increasing teacher pay. We need to make it easier for kids to go to college, free two year Community College along for refinancing. If millionaires can refinance their yacht, students should be able to refinance their student loans. 183733 That's what we need. Last thing I want to talk about here is voting rights because all of these things we've talked about that are so important for South Carolina: infrastructure, doing something about health care and by the way that includes mental health and addiction and check out on our website, Amy Klobuchar.com, for my own personal experience with my dad had three DWIs. Right. 183756 The week before I got married, or a few weeks before I got married, he got that last one, and he had a choice. Was he going to be, go to jail, or was he going to go to treatment. He picked treatment, and he had insurance that covered that. And because of that, in his words and his faith and his friends and his family, he was pursued by grace. Everyone in this country should have the same right to be pursued by grace. What do we do about voting so that everyone has a seat at the table so we don't have a situation where 53,000 ballots and 53,000 voter registrations, were held back in Georgia? 183833 Where if they had changed those voting laws in Georgia and made it easier to vote, Stacey Abrams would have been the governor of Georgia. What do we do about South Carolina, what do we do about North Carolina, where the court actually said that they had discriminated with surgical precision. Well what do we do? We reauthorize the voting rights act. That's what we do with a new president and a new senate. We pass my bill to allow every kid to automatically register when they turn 18 in this country. 183803 And we pass a citizen amendment, a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United. That;s what we do, Democrats. I am someone that comes at this race with grit. I don't come with a lot of money, my family - my husband grew up in a trailer home. 5 brothers in 1 trailer home, that was something. Triple bunk beds, okay? 183930 His mom had 4 boys, she wanted to have girls, she got pregnant again and had identical twin boys. That's true story. My husband, as was mentioned, I'm the granddaughter of --(?) --- I'm the daughter of a union teacher and a newspaper man. I'm the first woman elected to the SEnate from the state of Minnesota, and a candidate for President of the United States. That's what shared dreams are about in this country. And if we want to win, as I said, if we want to win big, we've got to make sure we win those states. 184001 The states of Pennsylvania that we lost last time. I'm going on this blue wall tour after we leave here. The state of Wisconsin, right? The state of Michigan. Those are states that we lost and we have to do so well that we bring Jamie and we bring Joe Cunningham and we win in the state of South Carolina. So how do we do this? We do this by uniting by a candidate and not giving up. And if every moment that you feel like you want to give up because this guy says something that you can't believe in the morning or he tweets something out to divide people, and you want to put the blanket over your head, you remember the March that we are on. 184039 You remember that the day after the inauguration, that dark day, that millions of people across this country, including in this state, peacefully marched. You remember that day. And you remember that day after that, 6,000 women signed up to run for office. That happened. And then, on day 9 when that mean spirited refugee order, what happened? People spontaneously showed up at the airport to protest that order. They showed up at non-international airports on a Saturday night. 184113 And then you fast forward to my favorite march, the March for Science with my favorite sign. What do we want? Science. When do we want it? After peer review. [laughter] Then you go to the summer, where the fighting 48 democrats stood together. 184129 Then three republicans joined us cause we stood together and we defeated their effort to repeal the Affordable CAre act and push people off their insurance when they had pre-existing conditions. We did that. They didn't go to the fall (?) The first glimmers of hope, this is a year ago, last fall, when there were those races in Virginia and in New Jersey and legislative districts an we put out this diverse set of candidates that no one thought was going to win in these red districts. This is a lesson to you, South Carolina. And you know what happened? 184157 They won. And my favorite victory was in New JErsey where a guy the day of the women's march said I hope they're home in time to make dinner. That guy got defeated by an Afrifacn American woman. That happened. Then you go to the spring where after that tragedy in Parkland, people joined with the people of Charleston, they joined with the people all over this country. And those kids, they stood up there in Florida. They became icons. 184228 And kids all across the country talked to their dads and their grandpas and said We love hunting to, and our family, but we can have universal background check.s we can do something about magazine limits, and those kids didn't just talk. They marched. And then they voted in record levels in the midterm. And then comes the midterm, with the election of Joe Cunningham when we made the House of Representatives the people's House again. That is the march that we are on. That's the march that's going to lead us right into November of 2020. 184255 And South Carolina Democrats, I want to lead this March because I know how important it is to win in states like yours because I have the track record to do it. And because you, at my side, are the people that have made this arc of justice even shorter. You are the welders that got us through this. Let's go ahead. Let's win this race and let's send Donald Trump back to where he came from Thank you, South Carolina! ### BUTTIGIEG 184814 Thank you, you know how to make a guy from South Bend feel welcome in South Carolina. I appreciate it. And thank you to Walter and all of the organizers like him who are empowering the ground game that is going to help us win this election. Everytime I come to this state I think about the first time that I saw those tall trees. It was out the windows of the bus that was taking me to Fort Jackson. I was a Navy guy so I wasn't exactly sure what I was supposed to be doing in Fort Jackson, but when you sign up for the needs of the Navy are what comes first. And for some reason, the Navy decided they needed me to go do army stuff. 184857 So they sent me here to South Carolina. In other words, the first time I came here it was in order to prepare to serve. And now, I am here once again prepared to serve and asking for your help in making that happen [applause]. Friends, I'm running for President because I believe that our country is running out of time. Our country's in a crisis. The American people are divided, discouraged, and doubtful at the very moment we need to be rising to meet some of the toughest challenges we've ever known. 184935 And everyday, we've got a President tweeting out a new outrage in order to distract us from the fact that he's not capable of doing the job. Within a decade, we're going to reach a point of no return on our climate. And yet, the President thinks you can change the weather by taking out a Sharpie and rewriting the map [applause] Our economy is so out of whack that the stock market and the gross domestic product are going up at the same time that life expectancy is going down in this country. 185009 That shouldn't even be possible. And yet, when we first got news that we might have a recession coming, we spent the whole week talking about whether we were going to keep upsetting Denmark over a proposal to buy Greenland. We oughta be more worried about how to buy groceries at a time like this. And if you think this first time has been problematic, imagine what would happen if we had to get through a second one. [boos/groans] 185042 What's he gonna do? Pick a fight with Switzerland, maybe? Move the White House ot the Trump Tower. I don't know. We can't let it happen because our infrastructure, our health, our safety cannot wait. 185101 And if that doesn't happen the world will finish doing what it's already starting to do, which is to prepare for a century without American leadership and we just can't let that happen. Now, the chaos is so mesmerizing that it has us all doing one of two things, I think. Either we can't watch anymore and we get depressed, and we just tune out, or we can't look away, which is how we respond sometimes when there's a wreck. We can't look away. 185132 But we've got to do something different from either of those things. We got to recognize the urgency of the moment and we got to summon the courage to act. Because what's at stake in 2020 isn't just the outcome of one election, I believe it is the future of the American project, and that depends on us. That means we got to summon the courage to change the trajectory of this country not four years from now, not 10 years from now, but right now. 185202 These problems have been brewing for years. Certainly where I come from growing up in the so called rust belt in northern Indiana, passing collapsing Studebaker factories and empty houses on the way to school, not knowing that was unusual in a city until I moved away to go to college. I've seen how politics affects us in our everyday life, how a chain of events that starts in one of those big white buildings in WAshington winds up reaching into our lives, into our home, our paychecks, our family. 185235 There are people in my life who have been saved by the Affordable Care Act. And people I cared about killed by the opioid crisis. My family's finances were saved by the existence of Medicare, and right now, they're under pressure because of the existence of 6 figure student debt. The very course of my life was changed by orders that sent me to a foreign war and my marriage exists by the grace of a single vote on the US Supreme Court. 185308 All politics is personal. Nothin about politics is theory, not for me and not for my city. But instead of a politics that is about our day to day lives, right now in Washington, we're seeing a politics that's about the day to day drama of the politicians. About who's up nad who's down. And who looked good in a committee meeting and who got the best zinger off in the debate. 185232 We're sending politicians to Washington in order to fight for us and when they get there, they seem more interested in the part about fighting than the part about us. That's got to change. We can't let our political leaders keep pitting us against each other. They speak of patriotism. But we know that patriotism lies in speaking up for what you believe, not telling somebody who disagrees with you to go back to where they came from. 185403 Especially iof where they came from is Michigan. They speak of faith, but what faith would condone, a budget that cuts food going to hungry hungry children. 185425 What faith condones taking children out of the arms of their parents at the American Border? What ever happened to "I was a stranger and you welcomed me"? Let's talk about faith. [applause] They speak of freedom. We know that freedom is more than just the freedom from taxes for a company like Amazon. We're talking about freedom to organize for a good day's pay for a good day's work, which is why we stand with organized labor. 185459 We're talking about the freedom to be treated equally regardless of your race, or who you are or your gender and yes, freedom means the freedom to control your own body and make your own medical decisions. Not have politicians do it for you. Don't let them divide us around the very values that are supposed to hold our country together. Cause rihgt now we see an America gripped in a crisis of belonging. 185527 Prices so profound that people are self medicating and deaths from dispair are on the rise. That wall on the border is never going to get built, but real walls are being built within our families and our communities and our churches to where Thanksgiving dinner is starting to feel like a minefield. Our anxiety is going up and our trust in our fellow Americans is going down. Instead of having each other's backs, they've got us at each other's throats. 185555 But there's good news. And that is in a few short months you all have the chance to change it. You have a thumb on the scale on the future of this country, and the future of this party. You get to vote, not only to defeat this president, but to do something about the conditions that got him here in the first place because under ordinary circumstances, someone like him never gets within cheating distance in the Oval Office to begin with. We have a chance to do something about that. 185627 You get a chance to be part of an American majority that will come together to deal with our challenges, not just diehard Democrats, but people coming across the aisle, I see one right there, independants, people who were under no illusions about this president but may have voted, just to do anything for a change now we got to actually make sure that change is in the American interest. And that's not going to happen if we act like Donald Trump is just an aberration, it just happened out of the blue. It's not going to happen if we try too hard to play it safe. 185658 Or pretend that we can go back to normal. It's also not going to happen if we water down our values of paper over our differences so you got to squint hard just to tell the difference between a Democrat and Republican. Nor will it happen if we get so trapped in the purity tests that we turn off half the country before we even get to next November. This is the time to unify the American people. This is a time for ideas that are bold enough to get the job done andcapable of bringing us together. 185727 And if you think about it, that's how Democrats win. From john f kennedy to Jimmy Carter to Bill Clinton to Barack Obama. We win when we offer leadership from a new generation with new ideas, calling America to be better than it's been. That's where we are at our best (?) And that means, offering that new generation with a politics that is grounded in our everyday lives. So when I'm the nominee, this president can call us socialists all he wants. 185802 But I worked in the private sector and I partnered with the private sector to bring jobs and investment into our community. We know what it takes to create economic growth. When I am your nominee, this president will do all we can to paint us as the party of Washington, but I spent my career in South Bend, Indiana, serving a city that was told that we were dying and bringing real solutions to improve real people's lives. When I'm the nominee this president can talk tough, throw himself military parades, hug the flag every now and then. 185835 But I've faced worse kinds of incoming than a tweet full of typos. And I don't mind reminding a guy who was getting ready for season seven of Celebrity Apprentice while I was out here figuring out how to use a rifle, I don't mind having a debate with him about who's going to be a better commander in chief. 185907 When I'm the nominee we're gonna work to make sure not only that we win but then we deserve to win and set the stage for a presidency, that will put forward solutions, bold enough to actually meet the challenges of our time. I want you to picture that presidency with me. 185929 Of what you imagine what would it be like to have a presidency that offers Vision Without decisiveness. A president who gets up in the morning, not thinking about who hurt his feelings on cable, but about how to make your life better. I want you to picture what it would be like to turn on the news and see what's coming out of the White House and feel your blood pressure going down instead of up. 190000 And that means delivering for the American people, bold and unifying means things like what I call Medicare for All Who Want It. (points) And thank you to those who are raising their voices on the affordability of prescription drugs right now. 190028 Soo the way I see it, when we create that public alternative, empowered to negotiate drug prices, and available to every American. It's going to be better. It's going to be better than those private options out there, but if I'm right, then you're going to be able to decide that on your own. So instead of kicking you off your plan, we're going to create a new one. Let you vote with your feet, and let you decide if and when that's the right thing to do. 190050 Instead of showing tax cuts on the wealthiest, we're going to build an economy that actually works for everyone. And that means lifting wages, empowering workers, respecting unions and investing in rural economies that are not getting enough support right now. We're going to see to it that we treat mental health in such a way that it is a routine to get seen by a psychologist as it is to go in for a physical, and we're going to break the stigma around dealing with addiction too. 190127 I want you to picture a presidency where your head of environmental protection actually believes in climate change and feels responsible for protecting the environment. And where we make dealing with climate into a national project that enlists the energies of every American. Whether you live in a city or work on a farm or serve in the military. It's going to take all of us. 190156 And as your president, you can expect me to appoint a secretary of education who actually believes in public education. I think it;s about time. We will tackle systemic racism with the Douglass Plan for black america as ambitious a shte marshall that rebuilt Europe, but this time right here at home to make sure that systemic racism does not ruin the prospects of a future generation. 190237 And that means not only tearing down things like the prison industrial complex but building up things like entrepreneurship in the black community that's creating jobs and opportunity for the next generation. And thinking back to my time in uniform and how I learned to trust and repsect and like people with totally different backgrounds, from different regions and with different politics than mine. 190304 We're going to create a million paid national volunteer service opportunities a year that Americans can sign up for, serve, get to know each other, and make a difference in their country. Because what we need more than anything is that fabric, that bonding, and you shouldn't have to go to war in order to get it. We need to come together as one. 190330 And I believe that is the purpose of the Presidents. I think that's what the presidency is for. The function of the presidency is not the glorification of the President, it is the unification the people around dealing with the biggest challenges that we face. And as much as we need to get better policies in this country, the presidency is about more than that. 190357 I don't think we appreciated the unwritten job of the presidency and still be -- until we started having to live without it. But that is the moral leadership, the responsibility to call us to our highest values. That is part of what the presidency is for. That is how we build up a sense of belonging in a country where right now we're feeling only isolation. I keep thinking about a young woman in Iowa, maybe 13 years old who came up to me recently and told me what this campaign meant to her. 190426 She told me because of this campaign, I feel like I can be myself now I feel like I can go to school, and be who I am, and talk about my values and share my beliefs and not be ashamed. And I thought I knew exactly what she was about to say. Because so many young people inspire me by expressing that, when I have shared the truth of who I am, it's made it easier for them to do the same. But then she said something I wasn't expecting. She went on she said, I know that I can come forward, I don't have to be ashamed that I have autism. 190458 And I thought, Now we're getting somewhere as a campaign. Because everyone means everyone. And we got to build up a country where everyone belongs, everyone can contribute. And everyone ought to be proud to be who they are. That's what we have the opportunity to do, to enlist all of us in a better vision for what this country can be. To knit back together one country, one American story where every one of us belongs. 190527 And if we do that, the future doesn't have to be such a bleak place. So here, at an event that traces its roots, to just a little while after the Civil War, we got to remember that some of our dark moments sometimes bring out the best in us. What is good in America, dare I say what is great in America. And I can't wait to tell our future children what we did now, to give them a better world. To tell them, we set up an economy where we protect workers as well as jobs and see to it, that a rising tide really does lift all boats. 190600 Starting in 2020. I'll tell them, you woulnd't believe, once upon a time we got to where the electoral college could overturn the American people twice in my lifetime. But then we had the vision to see to it that in this country, we give the presidency to whoever gets the most votes. We're going to tell them displayed tweeted about a day where your race had no bearing on your health, or your wealth, or life expectancy or your relationship with law enforcement in this country. Once upon a time to change your learning active shooter drills before they learn how to read. But then we saw on the courage to get weapons of war off of our streets. I'll take such pride in telling them how we beat the odds and God ahead of climate change before it ruin their opportunities in life. running for office is an act of hope. And so it's helping somebody run for office not naive hope. It is the hope of those who cannot afford to go back. It is the hope of those who insist on something better than trying to be great again, because there is no again in the real world. It is about some realize that the future is where we are going to spend every minute of the rest of our lives. So we better make sure that it is better than the present. We believe we can do that believing is so much better. So are you ready to make sure that that's a reality. Show pick up and change something man. asking your support in this journey with open our hearts and with fire in our belly. Let's go forward all the way to the White House and beyond. Thank you. And now we got Joe 36 years go by himself is a leader in Beijing some of our nation's most important United States chobani continued his leadership on the board issues facing the nation fighting to raise living standards of middle class Americans finally reduce gun violence fighting to address violence against women. And through the Cancer Moonshot be level headed is to output cancer as we know it. This is my favorite. BIDEN 191124 Great to be back at the stump. I'm Joe Biden, I'm Jill Biden's husband. Folk,s before I begin, on a slightly serious note, I know that our friend, your friend, my friend, Jim Fiverr (?) was going to be doing some introductions today. But he couldn't be here. He was -- I know, you all know him not only as a great congressman, he;s a great husband, great dad. And he's leading his family through a very, very tough time right now. 191157 And I think I can speak for all of us when I say that all of us, all of us here are for him. And of course we're praying for Jim and miss Emily. Folks, you know, I can't come to South Carolina without thinking of my buddy Fritz Hollings. He;s the guy, as they say up my way he's the guy that brung me to the dance. I didn't want to go to the Senate after the accident involving my family when I got elected when I was 29. 191233 And he and he gathered up 5 other senators, 4 other senators and came up amd talked me into coming and I remember him saying Joe, only 1700 and two people ever been sworn in, your wife worked like the devil to get you here, and you owe it to her. And just come and stay for six months. 191256 Six months turned into a long, long time. You know, he was, you know some people are their state. You can look at them and you can pick which state they're from before you know where they're from. Fritz was South Carolina through and through. And he always made it a point to come to this great event and encouraged me to do it. I did very early on. And for the Holiday family. I want to say thank you. Thank you, thank you, because they have kept this tradition, which should never die. 191328 Should never die. And Russel has been a great friend to my sisters as well and Sally Howard for organizing this event. I telll you what, it seems to get better and bigger every year I'm here. You know, yesterday I had an incredible honor of speaking at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. It was the 56th anniversary of the murder of those four lovely young women. 191358 And we're getting dressed to be in the choir. It was there in remembrance of the bombing that stole their lives. But more than five decades after that horrible day, for all the progress we've made. We also have to acknowledge that there can be no realizations of the American dream, without grappling -- continuing to grapple with the original sin of slavery brought to these shores over 400 years ago. 191429 A century long campaign of violence, four centuries worth, that, in fact, fear and trauma brought upon black people this country. Domestic terrorism and white supremacy have been the antagonists of our highest ideals from our very beginning. Lynch mobs, arsonist, bomb makers, lone gunmen, and we all now realize that violence, violence does not live in the past. If you give it oxygen, it comes back. The same poisonous ideology that lit the fuse at the 16 Street, pulled the trigger at Mother Emanuel, and by the way, the pastor at Mother Emanuel was there at the 16th Street Church. 191516 It also has unleashed anti semitism in Pittsburgh and Poway. We saw a white supremacist gun down innocent Latinos in El Paso parking lot with a military style weapon, declaring it would stop, quote, "the Hispanic invasion of America---of Texas." You know, the President's words matter. They matter. They can move markets, they can send our brave women and men to war, that can bring peace. They can appeal to the better angels of our nature. But they can also unleash the deepest, darkest forces in this nation. 191557 When he said after Charlottesville---when President Trump said and that's what he's done, he's unleashed those darkest forces. When he said after Charlottesville there were, quote, "very fine people on both sides," he gave license and safe harbor to hate, to white supremacists, neo nazis and the KKK. And in doing so, he assigned the moral equivalence between those spewing hate to those who have the courage, like all of you, to stand against it. I said at the time that we're in a battle to the soul of this nation. 191633 I said it the day I announced and I say it again here today, we are in the battle for the soul of this nation. That's why I'm running for president united states. [applause] The country can overcome with difficulty four years of Donald Trump, but give him eight years in the White House with his administration, I believe will forever and fundamentally alter the character of this nation. 191704 In both clear language and in code, this President has fanned the flames of white supremacy in this nation. Our children are listening. Our children are listening. And our silence is complicity. That's why we must speak out, all of us. When President Obama was president, our children could indeed look up to him. No parent walked up and turn the TV off while he was on the television. 191740 Is President Trump the role model we want for generations to come? [crowd answers "No"] Look, he's trafficking some of the ugliest forces that have long run through the history of this country. So this just can't be a campaign to beat Donald Trump, this has to be a movement grounded in the values and ideals that define this nation at it's best. This has to be a moment, that we stand up and let the world know who we are and what we believe. 191814 And Democrats. The Democrats have an obligation to do more than just win. The New York Times columnist David Brooks wrote about a year ago. He said it was "an invisible Moral fabric that holds up every society. And it's being shredded." It's being shredded. It's being shredded by this president. Not only by his embrace of prejudice in America, but his embrace of the Vlademir Putin, his embrace of Dictators around the world. 191849 When he stands on the world stage across from, on the same podium with the guy who allegedly is the elected president---he is elected President but I---he's a kleptomaniac. The guy named Vladimir Putin. And he says the whole world, "I believe Putin did not interfere in our elections. I don't believe our intelligence agencies." It does us Irreparable damage around the world. 191924 Ladies and gentlemen. The fabric of the society, we all know, is made up of honesty, decency, treating everyone with dignity and respect, giving everyone a fair shot, leaving everyone behind. Demonizing no one---not for the poor and the powerless, the immigrant, the other. Folks. Leading by the power of our example. We're the most powerful military [FEED PAUSES] 192005 ...we understand, we keep our word, that we're a part of something bigger than just ourselves. Folks, the second reason I'm running is to restore the backbone of America---the middle class. Folks. I know I'm Called middle class Joe and It's not meant as a compliment. It meant that I'm not sophisticated, but---excuse my expression---I'm pretty darn sophisticated about who built this country. Wall Street did not build this country. Ordinary Americans doing extraordinary things and who had the chance, are the people who built this country 192044 Working families, middle class families in South Carolina and all of America built this country. Folks. The fact of the matter is my dad used to have a saying. He'd say "Joey, a job's about a lot more than a paycheck. It's about your dignity. It's about respect. It's about your place in the community. It's about being able to look your child in the eye and say, 'honey. It's gonna be okay. It's going to be okay.'" Think now. Go back to your old neighborhoods or right here, we you live now. 192116 Ask the people you know. Do they think they could look their child in the eye and say, "Honey, it's gonna be okay." Over half the American people think their children will never have the standard of living they have. We're no longer the wealthiest middle class in the world. This time, when we rebuild the middle class, we gotta bring everybody back, everybody along. Black, White, everybody. Folks, it doesn't matter your race, your gender and ethnicity or religion. 192149 For me, it's all about restoring the dignity of work. Being able to provide for your family. How can you---You all know personally, when you look at your child or your grandchild. You know they have a problem or they had an opportunity, and there's nothing you can do to help them. How can a parent maintain their dignity looking at a child who has a preexisting condition and knowing they can't afford to insure that a child? Or a child lying in the bed. Or a loved one who has only months to live. And the insurance company coming along to say "you've run out of your coverage. Suffer in peace." 192232 How can that be allowed in America? How can you have dignity, in fact, if you cannot deal with that? Folks. That's why, that's why we need health care for everyone. Everyone in America, as a right, not as a privilege. Folks, the same exists with regard to education. The fact of the matter is. Fact of the matter is that a community can maintain its dignity, it its schools are substandard, when the house you live in is the same as the one across the street, but because you're in a minority neighborhood it's value is less because you pay higher car insurance, because you live in a black neighborhood instead of a white neighborhood. 192318 For the same automobile with the same car record. When the poverty rate for black Americans is twice that of the white Americans. Folks. That's why we have to rebuild the middle class. Start by rooting out the systemic racism that exists, brought into our laws, our politics, our research institutions and, in many cases, our hearts. That's why we have to protect the sacred right to vote. The right from with all other rights flow. We need to support Jim Klawburn's (?) Anti-Poverty initiative that changes the way the federal government uplifts persistently impoverished communities by focusing on those who've been left behind the longest. 192356 It's long past time we end the legacy of systemic racism that make up our neighborhoods and our housing patterns neighbors. Employment, and access to transportation. Being middle class is not a number. It's a value set. It's being able to send your kid to a park and know they're gonna come home safely. Being able to send your kids to a school. If they do well, you know they'll be able to go beyond high school if they able. It seems to be---you're able to have, take your geriatric mom home when your dad dies and hope your kids never have to take care of you. 192428 It's a value set. It's not a number. And folks, The Affordable Care Act was a huge step forward in this country. We made historic progress by extending health insurance to 20 million americans who didn't have it before. And the most important part, for the first time, we provided protections for over 100 million Americans with pre-existing conditions. Now is the time to finish the job; make health care a right, not a privilege. Give everyone a peace of mind they deserve. And that means adding a public option to Obamacare. 192501 It's the fastest, most cost effective way to make sure everyone is covered. We're gonna make sure every person in America, every poor person who otherwise would be covered by Medicaid will automatically be covered with health insurance under our plan. And quite frankly, folks, I'm just gonna say it. I don't think we thanked Barack Obama enough for the job he did as president. 192527 And folks, when it comes to Education. The fact of the matter is---does anybody here think twelve years of education is enough in the 21st century? No, I really mean it. Think about it. Folks. We can easily provide free community college for everyone, in fact, that's eligible and qualified. It cost 6 billion dollars. But guess what? There are 1 trillion six hundred and forty billion dollars of tax loopholes that exist out there. Eliminate just one, a thing called Stepped up basis." You, in fact, have 70 billion dollars back in the budget. And you can reduce the budget by another 11 billion dollars. 192605 Folks, we can do all these things. Ladies and gentlemen, when it comes to education, we have to focus on where the need is the most. The needs is the most where we are in schools that are, in fact, in---Title I schools, education districts that are under stress. If we change the funding from fifteen to forty five billion dollars a year, we can raise the standard of all the teachers in the average national standard. We can put every three and four and five year old in pre-school, Increasing the chance for them, exponentially, that they will succeed. 192641 And it's all within our capacity to do this. Ladies and gentlemen, we have to put forward an ambitious and doable agenda. The super wealthy, in fact---if I'm elected president, you're not going to get a tax cut you got. I think we should be rewarding work as well as wealth. That's why I---i don't know why a firefighter or a police officer I met in the back, or a school teacher, pays a higher tax rate than somebody making 20, 30, 40 million dollars. That will end on my watch, with capital gains. I promise it will end on my watch. 192718 Folks, third reason I'm running is to unify this country. Everybody says that's too hard to do. Let me tell you something, what's broken in America is our politics. That is what's broken. It's not Americans. Americans agree overwhelmingly on all the things have to do. We agree we need to deal with health care. We need to deal with the idea of making sure we have a modern technology to deal with the green economy. We have to---it goes down the line. There's very little they disagree with. 192748 But folks, we have to let the American people know---everybody knows that Donald Trump is. Everybody, even people who support him. But here's the deal. We gotta let them know who we are. Who we are. We stand for hope over fear. We stand in for unity over division. We stand for truth over lies. And stand for science over fiction. Look, folks. We're better prepared than any nation in the world to lead the world. We have the largest economy. 192826 Our workers are three times productive as workers in Asia. There are more great research universities in this state and in America that all the rest of the world combined. We have the greatest scientists of the world. Why in God's name don't we pick our heads up and remember who--- This is the United States of America. There's not a single thing we can't do. I mean it. So let's get up. Take it back, and lead the world again. God bless you all and thanks for letting me come back to the Stump. Thank you, thank you, thank you. ### DE BLASIO [19:32:02] Every. Night. Oh well you know that we are in. The center of the political universe right here in Galveston. This is. [19:32:16] The place to be. None of us in South Carolina in the entire United States of America. We are where it is at right now. And please everybody. Let us think about it let us sincerely and passionately thank the whole family for keeping in this beautiful tradition alive. Well I must tell you. That for the very first time in my life. [19:32:45] I tasted a ticking time bomb. Tonight. I. Spoiled here too. And. I want to know I'm going to. [19:32:58] As a side hustle as a job just a little one on one side and I'm going to open it and see that I'm taking it on and working on the restaurants in New York City. Think about it. Not again. New York City I'm going to bring it here. Make it happen. [19:33:16] But everybody. This is an amazing exercise for democracy right here. Right here. Everyone came out tonight because you care. [19:33:27] Hundreds of people who are ready to do something to make the state of South Carolina better to make the United States of America better. This gives me hope gives me inspiration when I see all of you here. Do me a favor and look around because everyone around here cares everyone is involved and everyone is there all. Do me a favor. Give your neighbor a round of applause. [19:34:00] Now usually when someone gives a stump speech. Yes I have some to go with it. I got to school and get a selfie. [19:34:09] They talked about a lot of policy ideas but I think it's too important to talk about who we are as human beings. I want to tell you. Something about my family and me. [19:34:21] First of all I'm very proud to say this year my wife Shirley. [19:34:24] I celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary. I want to tell you a very very story. [19:34:36] About how things went. Well we started out. We got together. We were in love. We got married. We had our daughter. We had our son. Two beautiful children and they were blessings. And actually I worked two full time jobs. We've all had was great. There's a lot to do. We call and it was great. And then when I'm just explicitly on my mom felt well. And we had to take care of her. We believed that it was the right thing to do to be cared for. We moved her right to our neighborhood one block away. And then my wife's Julie's mom fell ill about a year later and we moved her to our neighborhood to. Living in the same house one grandma on the first floor one grandmother said before. The kids got to spend time with their grandma eyes. And. Even though our moms were going through a lot we were still counting our blessings. [19:35:28] Because everyone was just to go. But I got to tell you honestly. Trying to juggle. Two young children. [19:35:37] Two full time jobs two elders need a lot of help and health care got to be very tough. And. [19:35:44] Sometimes we didn't know how to pay for everything. Sometimes we get to know where to find hours of the day sometimes we felt. [19:35:52] It was getting pretty overwhelming. And I tell you I say that because I think a lot of people go through their own version of those kind of towns because they love their family and trying to make it work because if you want to do the right thing by yourself. So I ask you if you write a story like this and I ask you for questions. First question. Have you ever had time to raise your hand. [19:36:20] Do you have you ever had time where you have to just drop everything and be there for a loved one no matter how tough it was you had to do the right thing and help someone in your life need your help. Look at all those guys. God bless you all. [19:36:34] Have you ever had time. [19:36:36] Let's be honest here. Never had time to pay all bills and start to make ends meet. Have you ever had that feeling. In recent years and never had a few. [19:36:50] Things are more stressful than they used to be the end do is more stress and anxiety like. What more. [19:37:00] Can you say about the way the world is changing. [19:37:03] You ever worry whether there's gonna be enough jobs for you for your family for your kids. January 1 has done a good job and you to be able to live on your family to live on. Well I tell you. What you have said tonight. [19:37:21] Folks all over South Carolina I talked to raise their hands. Yes. All those questions folks all over the school trying to talk to I had to be honest with you. People all over the United States of America. They are working hard. [19:37:36] There is no lack of hard work in the United States of America. Don't you agree. People are working hard. [19:37:45] People working hard working two jobs while working three jobs. There's no one I. [19:37:51] Have committed. But if he was struggling to make ends meet. That's what I hear everywhere I go. And I got to be honest with you. I wish I could tell you this happened by accident. I wish I could tell you something about the witnesses. One of my friends there is an agenda. Let's get into play here. For the last 40 years. And. This is the one that this election has to be about this reality for the last 40 years the rich got richer and America. For the last 40 years the middle class and working class into the Soviet place. And the wealthy pay less and less in taxes. That doesn't sound like America to me. Doesn't sound right to you. That's not what we signed up for. So what we've got to do is start investing in people. You've got to start making people working people. [19:38:46] The top priority in this country. [19:38:49] They have to make it a priority in Washington D.C. right now. Unfortunately people are coming to one very clear conclusion that the federal government is. [19:38:56] Oh and by and for the elite of the by and for the wealthy and the connected not us. [19:39:05] And he cannot go on that way. It cannot go on that way in America. So we have to invest in our people we have to invest in our communities. We have to invest in small towns and rural areas just like. Big cities. And every time you talk about investing in people investing in communities you're going to hear all those voices that tell you we don't have enough money can't afford to do it there's not enough money. Well here's why I say wherever I go in the United States of America I say there's plenty of money in this world and there's plenty of money in this country. It's just in the wrong hands. And. I. Want to tell you about something. That I experienced this very morning. That makes this reality what our priorities need to be. CAUSE THIS MORNING. I WENT TO THE BOARD OF TOWELS. AND. MET WITH A longshoreman. [19:40:05] And these are people who work very very hard. These people give their all for their families. And they had to worry for years and years that their jobs will be taken away from them because of automation. They have had to worry that everything they have devoted their lives to could be gone soon. And if you talk to the people who are not sure whether there are a lot of windows down either a few years it's a sobering experience. If you talk to the people you talked to the truckers anyone in the trucking industry they'll tell you. They're worried about whether their job is going to be there in a few years. And anyone in this country who works in a warehouse people working in the food service industry. Look what happened to all the automobile workers no matter what we used to have. Millions and millions of automobile workers and now you see those images of the robots that do all the work. [19:40:59] My friends this isn't a conversation we have to have. Automation is coming at us. It's coming as hard as it has fast. We're not just talking about potential loss of millions of jobs and talking about a potential loss in the tens of billions of dollars in the next decade or two. And we've got to talk about this campaign. [19:41:20] And we've got to make sure we are ready because right now our federal government is not doing anything to prepare us for the state is overtaxed working people. And that's not acceptable. [19:41:34] Big companies love automation. They love getting rid of workers. Machines don't talk back. Machines they're very easy. And they cost a lot less money. So what is happening more and more about corporate profits. Not about the needs of the working people. Now let me tell you what I can do about it and I want to say upfront. [19:41:57] I have a lot of spend from my colleagues in this race. One of them Andrew Yang. He talked about automation and command and he talked about something I disagree with. Called Universal basically on the whole idea is just that people in charge. They want a job and when they get checked check they don't have to work anymore. They just get a check. It's not enough to live on but you get a check. [19:42:16] I want to give you a very different idea. I believe in a future where working people will actually get to work. I believe in a future where people have that dignity and that value. And this is security because you know what. I know about here but I don't know. You can always depend on the government to send you that check. They're supposed to send you. Some people will need. [19:42:42] Somebody they can believe in. They need work. They need a career. [19:42:46] And let me tell you how we can make sure that all of the nation does not rob millions of American workers under a lot of these but we can make sure that we are masters of our own destiny. First of all right now. Know what. [19:42:59] The Trump tax bill. First of all we should repeal the Trump backs just out of hand. [19:43:04] Repeal it take a bath Davis giveaway to the wealthy and corporations and a generation take it back. But you know what they snuck in there. It's not a little provision that rewards big companies when they put American workers out of work. They snuck in a provision that actually gives them a tax break when they put it in a machine and throw away a worker. Does that sound right to you. That's happening right now. Our federal government with our tax dollars is rewarding companies that put American workers out of work. And that is not acceptable. So when you hear an appeal that it's a tax bill we need to take that money back from companies. We need to say that you never get a tax break from putting an American out of a job. There is one thing we do is that actually Bill Gates of all people came up with this idea and it has a great name. This is all a robot tax. It's. Literally a robot tax. A company puts in a robot to replace a human being. They need to pay money to make sure that that human being gets not only more training but a new job. [19:44:34] We have seen American workers promise for years and years. Don't worry we'll train you and then nothing happens it happens. [19:44:41] That new job isn't there. I don't know about you but I do not trust big corporations to look out for everyday Americans. So we robots have to make them pay. [19:44:53] Their fair share to make sure that our people are actually taking care of our workers. Actually have new work to do. By the way there's plenty of work we need. [19:45:04] Who believes that we should have a future on renewable energy in this country. You believe in that. Millions and millions of new jobs. Who believes that we can clean up our environment and make it beautiful again. It's only jobs. Who believes that we can actually take care of our children given an early childhood education all over South Carolina all over this country. Selling. [19:45:34] And selling the jobs we need education. By the way. [19:45:39] Americans need not just health care. They need mental health care. We need millions more Americans have to get the care the people deserve it. So that's going to be a future with a lot of work. But someone. [19:45:57] Has to pay their fair share to make sure that those jobs and there for American workers and the companies that take the jobs and wages that have to be the same companies that pay for those new jobs in those fields we need. That's how we to do it. Now. I got to tell you. I can tell you that having traveled this whole country listening to Americans. [19:46:20] I am fairly optimistic tonight as I've gotten with you I'm optimistic about looking at all of you. [19:46:27] I'm optimistic because we care so much. But I'm optimistic. Because I think. [19:46:38] We are not as divided as we are told we are. [19:46:47] I talked to people all over South Carolina Nevada New Hampshire Iowa all over it. I've got to tell you people. They don't like. [19:46:56] This division. They don't like this. They don't like this is confusing this anxiety. They want to be proud. Of being happy and being together. And that makes me hopeful. And as Democrats we need to speak to Americans in every corner of this country for decades and decades. Democrats were the party of rural America and we need to be that party again. [19:47:25] Decades and decades Democrats were the party of small towns and we need to be that again. And we love both coasts but we need to be the party of the heartland just as much as the party on both coasts. And I've got to tell you something a. [19:47:48] Lot of things that I've been working on in the nation's largest city. I think they matter just as much to me galvanized. Very small towns and rural areas all over this country. Let me give you an example. [19:48:01] Right here. People need jobs in small towns. People need jobs in rural man who know how to get a job. A lot more people who make this company do better. The Green New Deal. The Green New Deal is. A great way to get out. You know when. You find out potentially. A lot of jobs need to be in rural America. You know how we strengthen. [19:48:24] The hand of small towns in rural America. [19:48:26] We made sure that if a hospital started closing that there's health care and people need it. You want people to have a livelihood. They deserve it every part of every state then we need universal health care so everyone knows that if get it wherever they live. And one of my greatest passions. [19:48:50] Is the inherent part of this country and actually small towns and rural America would benefit the most. Every child in America you shouldn't have to struggle. You said. [19:45:00] Actually he had new work to do. By the way there's plenty of work. [19:45:04] Who believes that we should have a future of renewable energy in this country. You believe in that. Millions and millions of new jobs who believes that we can clean up our environment and make it beautiful again. Millions of new jobs. Who believes that we can actually take care of our children given them early childhood education all over South Carolina all over this country. And. So many jobs we need education. By the way. Americans need not just health care they need mental health care. We need millions more Americans to help us to get the care the people deserve it. So that's going to be a future with a lot of work. But someone. [19:45:58] Has to pay their fair share to make sure that those jobs and therefore American workers and the companies take the jobs and wages and that have to be the same companies that not going to pay for those new jobs in those fields we need. That's how we should do it. Now. I got to tell you. I have to tell you that having traveled this whole country listening to Americans. [19:46:21] I am fairly optimistic tonight as I've gotten with you I'm optimistic about looking at all of you. [19:46:27] I'm optimistic because you care so much. But I'm optimistic. Because I think. [19:46:39] We are not as divided as we are told we are. [19:46:48] I talk to people all over South Carolina and Nevada New Hampshire Iowa all over it. I got to tell people. They don't like. This division. They don't like this. They don't like this is confusing this anxiety. They want to be proud. Of being happy just being together. [19:47:05] And that makes me hopeful. And as Democrats we need to speak to Americans in every corner of this country for decades and decades. [19:47:16] Democrats were the party of rural America and we need to be that party again. Decades and decades Democrats were the party of small towns and we need to be that again. And we love both coasts. But we need to be the party of the heartland just as much as the party on both coasts. And I got to tell you something. Lot. Of things that I've been working on in the nation's largest city. I think they matter just as much to me galvanize very small towns and rural areas all over this country. Let me give you an example. Right here. People need jobs in small towns. People need jobs in rural man. Know how about getting jobs a lot more people to make this company better. That green no deal. The. Green you no deal is. Great with God. You know and you find out. [19:48:17] That a lot of houses need to be in rural America. You know how we strengthen. [19:48:24] The hand of small towns in rural America. We made sure that at a hospital started closing that there's health care and people need it. You want people to have a livelihood. They deserve it. Every part of every state then we need universal health care so everyone knows they can get it wherever they live. And one of my greatest passions. [19:48:51] Is the inherent part of this country and actually smaller towns and rural America would benefit the most. Every child in America you shouldn't have to struggle. You shouldn't have to only get a good education. You've got a big bank account. [19:49:06] You shouldn't only be able to fulfill your God given potential if you live someplace that's a big say. Every child in America deserves pre-K for free. Every single. [19:49:20] Time. [19:49:25] When we did New York they said it couldn't be done. There were many many doubting Thomas's and as this election proceeds people will tell you what we can't do. You will hear all the time what we can't do. What we can't afford what is not possible. I tell you we're Americans. Everything is possible. And to fulfill. [19:49:49] Our values as Americans and imagine every good young child every beautiful young child in this country starting at the same starting line and having all their lives ahead in to field their potential. Isn't that what we want as Americans.

TVU 23 AMY KLOBUCHAR GORHAM NH TOWN HALL ABC UNI 123019 2020 Speaking to no more than 40-50 people in Gorham and later about 80 people in Littleton, who braved a winter snow/ice storm in the North County of New Hampshire, Sen. Amy Klobuchar twice told the crowd that they should consider her despite her low-name ID. "And I know that this is a lot on the shoulders of the people of New Hampshire, and I think you've also taken this obligation really seriously in the past. You always have not picked the easy candidate or the one that was always at the lead or the most well known. You actually went with the person that you thought was good for this state," Klobuchar told the crowd in Gorham. [123000] She later told the crowd in Littleton an almost identical line, but this time nearly name-checked former VP Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders. "I know I'm not as well known as the vice president, or some of the people that have one run for president before from several states. And so this is really my opportunity for people to get to know me," Klobuchar said on why she's visiting New Hampshire." [16:18:44] [from Littleton event] Seeking to further differentiate to Sanders and his socialist contemporaries in the race, Klobuchar said "First of all, I am a capitalist, I am not a socialist. I'm a Democrat, and I'm not a socialist. And I'm someone that actually was in the private sector for 14 years before being in politics and so I believe in entrepreneurship. But I also believe that government should be a force of good. That you need check and balance on things. And that's things like consumer rules." [130201] [from Gorham event] Notably, during the Q&A portion of the Littleton event, someone submitted a question about the impeachment trial and whether or not she thinks Senate Republicans will allow witnesses. Klobuchar said it's not looking promising but that she's encouraged by Republican Senators Lisa Murkowski and Mitt Romney raising red flags. "It doesn't look good right now, but you never know I was bullied by the fact that Lisa Murkowski another legislator from the North is in the independent minded republican US senator from the state of Alaska, spoke out and said that she thought this thing had to be fair and she didn't agree with some of the things that McConnell was saying that just happened a few days ago is you know Mitt Romney is also over the last few months really question, the President's conduct. And so, I don't know what he's gonna do he's gonna have to decide. But, and then we're going to keep making our case based on the law, I think that this is this game that gets that you had the first state constitution in the country," Klobuchar said. [165603] [from Littleton event] Repeating much of her remarks yesterday, Klobuchar was asked about the attacks on a Jewish community in NY this weekend. She said these attacks reflect the rhetoric at the top, i.e. President Trump. "So here are my theories of the case. First of all, we have seen an increase because of this hateful rhetoric that you're seeing from the top but also from other people in our country and from others around the world. And we have to have a president that actually doesn't just condemn those crimes when they happen, but also thinks about it ahead of time, and how they react to things." [131458] [from Gorham event] Klobuchar has two more events in NH tomorrow before continuing a fast-paced tour through multiple early primary states pre-impeachment trial. 12:30:11:17 Haven't always gone for the most well known candidate 122931 So, I think it's really important to put someone at this top of the ticket that brings people with her instead of shutting them out. Because if we want to really make some changes to this country and have more shared prosperity and have someone that is not just going to talk the talk about rural America but actually put in place policies that are going to make a difference, then we have to be very careful in this decision. 123000 And I know that this is a lot on the shoulders of the people of New Hampshire, and I think you've also taken this obligation really seriously in the past. You always have not picked the easy candidate or the one that was always at the lead or the most well known. You actually went with the person that you thought was good for this state. Yes. But also good for the country and there's numerous examples through history of that. 13:02:03:12 Capitalist and not a socialist, Democrat but not a socialist...gvmt should be force of good 130140 Okay from -- is this Todd Hall, is that right? Did I get that right? Right there? In the general election humbly distinguish your programs, from what will be Trump's charge about democrats being radical socialists? 130201 Okay, there's a pointed question. First of all, I am a capitalist, I am not a socialist. I'm a Democrat, and I'm not a socialist. And I'm someone that actually was in the private sector for 14 years before being in politics and so I believe in entrepreneurship. But I also believe that government should be a force of good. That you need check and balance on things. And that's things like consumer rules. 13:13:23:22 Woman asks question about Jewish attacks 131245 Okay. Jean? Let's see. She's from Lewiston, Maine. Should we allow a question to come in from Maine? (pause) Huh? You changed your question? OKay. Do you want a different one. Yeah. JANE>> (inaudible) 13:13:46:07 Answer about attacks AND 13:14:10:16 This is not an isolated event 131339 Okay. Yes, it's been -- it's, this is, this kind of thing happens all the time, where he'll make a statement after something, but then you look at all the hateful rhetoric before it, and it doesn't match up. So first of all about this tragedy, and this involved rabbis house, and people were celebrating Hanukkah, and some guy comes in who I thinks been arrested. I don't know if it's one person or more. 131407 (pause) Right. Okay and stabbed number of people that were in the house and I think you all know this is not an isolated incident. We've seen an increase in anti semitism in this country in a big way. There was a horrible shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue where many people died in Pennsylvania. And we've seen this across the country. 131434 We have also seen record hate crimes against other groups as well. Against immigrants, against Muslims and in fact, I questioned the head of the FBI about this back in the last few months, and he said that in fact there has been an increase so this isn't just, you know, she read something in the paper and is talking about it today. 131458 You are right. There has been an increase in the numbers, not just the stories. And I asked him why that was and he said "well they don't really know maybe more people are reporting them but there's definitely been an increase." So here are my theories of the case. First of all, we have seen an increase because of this hateful rhetoric that you're seeing from the top but also from other people in our country and from others around the world. And we have to have a president that actually doesn't just condemn those crimes when they happen, but also thinks about it ahead of time, and how they react to things. 131539 After Charlottesville, when the President said there were two sides to this, there's not two sides when one side of the Ku Klux Klan. When one side is white supremacist. There's only one side and that's the American side. The way he has treated our refugees. I don't think it's a big surprise you'd see a increase in crimes and hate crimes against Muslims or people who they think are people who are Muslims or against people of Jewish faith. 131611 That's what we're seeing all the time. And I use this as an example, After 9/11, President Bush -- I know this because I was a DA back then. President Bush actually instructed his US Attorney's after that horrific terrorism attack against America. He instructed his US attorneys and his US Attorney in my state who I'm friends with. We went out together and did this to go to mosques and go to community centers and tell people not to be afraid of hate crimes against Muslims. 131646 He had his US Attorney say we stand with you. Think of the contrast. That's what he did. And so I still remember those. Then, when Trump is running for election. He's going after people if hey look different, no matter who they are, and I think so many people in our country have had experience of being not maybe not direct violence but being bullied and other things when they look different. They don't even have to be of a different faith or anything. They just look different. 131715 This story came out of a couple in Minnesota, who were there through 9/11, had no experience with discrimination from our Somali community -- we have the biggest Somali community in the country. Maine has a number of Somalis. And this is a story. This couple now, years later, go during the height of the Trump rhetoric and with their two little kids. And this guy walks by and he looks at him and says " you four go home." They're at a suburban restaurant. 131746 You four go home. And the little girl looks at her mom and she says "mom. I don't want to go home to eat tonight. You said we could go out to dinner tonight." You think of the words of that innocent child. She only knows one home. That's my state, she only knows one home. It's your state. She only knows one home. That's the United States of America. So that in a nutshell is what we're dealing with. What do we do about it. Like I said, President with no mean tweets, less hateful rhetoric, stands up for democracy, stands against dictators and alike around the world by the way that makes a difference, it's not just what happens here. 131826 Secondly, an attorney general, and a Justice Department that sees this as a priority. I know a lot about this because when I was the local da, I did a lot of hate crimes. We went after a case where a guy was in a factory. Guy was speaking Spanish there, and his boss on the manufacturing floor hit him over with a two by four, the head, for speaking Spanish. And we prosecuted that case. We had another one on martin luther king day where a guy said he was going to go out and shoot a black kid and he did. Thankfully, the kid didn't die but he shot him. 131857 So I got invited when -- this is side light -- when Bill Clinton was President, I got invited to the White House and I'd never even been in there before I was a local elected, you know, pretty young. I get invited to the White House to a meeting about hate crime and at the of last minute, they invited me to introduce the President of the United States in the East Room, when he unveiled the Matthew Shepard bill, which was the bill named after that young man LGBT Q, who was slain and was hung up on a fence post, and the first passer by that saw him dead thought he was a scarecrow. 131934 And I met those investigators and the family. So, by the way, this is my first time in the White House story -- I'm standing outside of the East Room. I've got Bill Clinton on one side and Janet Reno on the other side, they're really tall right and she's with Eric Holder, and I'm ready to go walk in and they got the military band, they had this big formal event, all the media from DC is in there, and the military band starts playing Hail to the Chief, 132001 You know, doo, doo, do dodo and I start walking in and all of a sudden it goes big hand on my shoulder and this voice says, "I know you're going to do great out there, but when they play that song. I usually go first." That really happened. But I will say that was my first time to the White House but it won't be my last. So, so, I -- that's. So, I really believe strongly in going after these hate crimes, and by the way we ended up passing that bill when I got to the US Senate. What a story. 132036 It hadn't passed till then. And so I think enforcing them. I think there's a lot more that needs to be done in helping local law enforcement. They're the ones on the front lines that kind of figure out what's going on with people in their community. It's not always the FBI that's going to figure this out but some of this is better coordination with them, better monitoring of what's happening in schools and things. 132102 And I don't mean, you know, spying on people, I'm just talking about when people know there's a problem that they have someone to talk to about it and try to figure out what to do about it. And so I think that all of that would matter. But this is a horrific scourge that we're seeing at this moment in our society when we have -- our new generation is so cool. We have -- That's you. We have the most diverse generation that we've ever seen. 132132 We have the generation, this new generation that cares more about the world around them. We have become more and more integrated in our society, not at all perfectly. We still have huge race problems, but to have this happen where we're suddenly seeing this surge in hate crimes. You've got to look at inside each of us, but you also got to look at what's happening right now with the President of the United States. TRINT TVU 23 AMY KLOBUCHAR GORHAM NH TOWN HALL ABC UNI .Sub.01.wav [12:25:26] Thank you. Thank you so much, Henry. Thanks you. [12:25:30] This is his week because his name is Representative Noel. I thought that was pretty good. It is wonderful to be here with all of you. I see my husband John has arrived. I was trying to get him to sit down. You know, he can come and sit down. And it's fun to see all of you. We spent last night and Conway came up through the snow on a beautiful drive today. Glad to see that there's some business now skiing. [12:25:55] I know you had that rainstorm for a while and that was not helpful. But the really weird part about me coming to you from New Hampshire, which won't surprise you, I think we've been here 20 times now. But your last three snowstorms. I was here for them. The nor'easter, that nor'easter that came through. The one at the beginning of December. And now I am not kidding. So all our events, we've been going through the snow and we haven't missed one of them, which is amazing. And we have been really loving the work that we're doing in this state. Scott Merrick, our state director, is right over here. [12:26:33] He used to be the representative from Lancaster and knows know this area well, which is why we've been up here many times. And in fact, when we had a few days off over Easter, our family, John and I and our daughter Abigail, we actually chose to come up in this area. And it was really it was a little muddier then, but it's great to be back. And I also wanted to note a few others that are here with us. Brian, who is the county Democratic chair. Are you where are you, Brian? Thank you so much for being here. [12:27:09] Means a lot. And then also Paul, the Gorham Democratic chair. [12:27:15] Where are you? Right there. Thank you. The dumber town chair, Elizabeth Rigger. There you are. And thanks for your endorsement. [12:27:26] I truly appreciate that. [12:27:28] And then I also wanted to mention our organizer. Where are you, Sam? You are right there. [12:27:34] Thank you for being here. [12:27:35] So we have been actually we're doing seven town halls up into the new year. We've been in Dover, Wolf. Paul Conway. And here and then we're going to go to Littleton, Claremont in Keene in the snow. So this is going to be good. But I wanted to let you know that right now our campaign is in really good state since that debate in Los Angeles and actually the last few debates. [12:28:03] A friend sent me a text and she had an auto correct problem. And it said, congratulations on your insurgency. And I think I think she meant surge, but that's what's been happening. We raised over a million dollars in just 24 hours from regular people online in the 24 hours after that debate. We've doubled our staff here in New Hampshire as well as in Iowa and have multiple offices in both states. [12:28:33] And a lot of this has to do with my theory of the case from the beginning that people want someone different in the White House than the loudest voice. They want someone that can actually get things done and have their back and most importantly, win. This state has a history of putting people into office that actually go there to get things done. [12:28:57] Examples my two good friends, Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan, who are the first two women in the history of the United States of America that have served as both governor and U.S. senator. That's a big tribute to your state. And by the way, only a handful of states have sent two women to the Senate. One of them is New Hampshire and one of them is Minnesota. So one more thing we have in common besides snow and lakes and woods. [12:29:27] OK. You have mountains and we don't. [12:29:29] So I think it's really important to put someone at this top of the ticket that brings people with her instead of shutting them out. Because if we want to really make some changes to this country and have more shared prosperity and have someone who is not just going to talk the talk about rural America, but actually put in place policies that it's going to make a difference, then we have to be very careful in this decision. [12:29:59] And I know that this is a lot on the shoulders of the people of New Hampshire. And I think you've also taken this obligation really seriously in the past. You always have not picked the easy candidate or the one that was always at the lead or the most well-known. You actually went with the person that you thought was good for this state. Yes. But also good for the country. And there's numerous examples through history of that. And that's why I'm asking you to look at me and asking you to join me. [12:30:30] So I think people make a mistake if they think this election is just an economic check on this president. It is. It is an economic check. When you look at the fact that he's done nothing about prescription drugs in them, prices keep escalating. That he's done nothing about infrastructure to the extent that we need it. [12:30:53] As I came in here from Conway and couldn't even get cell phone service when in fact, I've gotten cell phone service in Iceland next to a volcano, or you can't get high speed broadband in so many areas. [12:31:08] It's true. [12:31:10] It's true the entire country of Iceland is hooked up, but not New Hampshire. And so that's why I went to my I first led with a infrastructure plan, was the first candidate in this race because I think it's so important. So there's a lot of economic issues we can probably discuss and we'll discuss today. But I want to start out with something else that's going on in this country. And that is a values check, a decency check, a patriotism check on this guy. [12:31:40] It is the image of him standing with Vladimir Putin at the G 20. When a reporter asks about the Russian invasion in our election, and instead of acknowledging what his own security people have acknowledged that this happened and it can never happen again. And being firm, our president looks at Vladimir Putin and makes a joke. Think about this hundreds of thousands of Americans and thousands of people from this state have lost their lives on the battlefield. [12:32:10] Standing up for democracy. That's what World War 2 was about. They've stood up for our own democracy and they've stood up for democracies across the world. And he made a joke for little girls, lost their lives in that church in Alabama on the way here when the cell phone service worked. [12:32:29] I actually was on the phone with Doug Jones, who is the new senator from Alabama, who is an incredible person whose dad just died. And that's why I was talking to him and his. He was the prosecutor who years and years and years later went after the people that did that. Four little girls lost their lives in that bombing in that church. Why? Because people were trying to make sure that democracy applied to them. [12:32:57] They were innocent and other people were pushing back at it. So many of the major battles in this country have been about democracy. And our president turned to Vladimir Putin and made a joke about it. So for a lot of people in this country, this election is that kind of patriotism. Check, values check. It is the rancher in Minnesota. This was my first glimmer of this after Trump had gotten elected about a year in or so. [12:33:28] And he took me on a tour of his cattle ranch on this ATV. Among these really big, big, big cattle. And I thought, what a way to die, man. [12:33:37] I'm out there or dodging them. [12:33:40] And then at the end of that, we go into his house and everyone I've left, the media left, and he says, you know, we voted. We voted for Donald Trump. And I said, do you mean your family that cattle ranchers? He said, no, no, no. I mean me. But I don't like to say the word I. And he said, we voted for Donald Trump because we were mad about health care. And he said and then I saw him stand in front of that wall. [12:34:07] And I said, well, the wall is really not built. He said, no, no, no. The CIA wall. He said it was the day after the inauguration. I remember this. And Trump gave this very partisan speech in front of this sacred roll that's covered with the stars of the anonymous CIA agents who have given their lives in the line of duty for our country. And he gave a speech about his crowd size. And for anyone that thought, well, let's see all this. That was a moment where you thought as someone who was in law enforcement before. [12:34:40] I don't think this is redeemable. What happened to this guy? He then goes to he says he's watching on TV and he says he sees the Boy Scout rally and he said, you know, I used to be a Boy Scout. And when I saw him gave this political speech to these young boys, he said that was it for me. It wasn't patriotic. He said what I did was not patriotic. Tier goes down as cheek. [12:35:05] That was the first guy. And since then, so many other people in this region. There was, um, I was at a cafe in Conway a few months ago and there was this long line of citizens and they had these old stickers on a lot of them that said, you know, I'm a climate change voter, I'm a Supreme Court voter smiling. And this guy comes by and he just has this brown jacket on. And I said, sir, you don't have a sticker on. [12:35:34] And he says, that's cause I was Trump voter. And these are my neighbors. They don't know. So don't say anything about it. And he goes, but I am not doing it again. [12:35:51] So I want us to not forget there are people out there from our own fired up Democratic base that stayed home in 2016. There are people who were independents and you have a lot of independents in this state. And if you think I don't know about independents. Three words for you. Governor Jesse Ventura, who got elected in the state of Minnesota. So I understand independent voters and there's a lot of moderate Republicans who look at things maybe don't agree with our party on every single thing,. [12:36:23] Not cross every t dot every I. It's good debt disagreement in our country. But one thing that they agree on is this country is the devotion to America is that there is something in the words of my friend John McCain, who I miss every day. There's something liberating about fighting for a cause larger than yourself. That's what this is. It is this decency check. And I've got proof points on it. Look what just happened in Louisiana where a Democratic governor got reelected in Kentucky,. [12:36:58] Where Mitch McConnell now has a Democratic governor there. There was a big issue about health care and the Affordable Care Act and the need to keep it in place and expand on it. And by the way, for people that want to blow up the Affordable Care Act, the Affordable Care Act is now 10 points more popular than the president of the United States. [12:37:18] So I do not think that that is a very good idea. [12:37:22] But in any case, what happened there in Kentucky, there were a bunch of independents, moderate Republicans that went voted for a Democratic governor. And the other thing that's interesting about that is that in those states, Louisiana and Kentucky, someone went down there the night before and campaigned for their opponents, both states. [12:37:42] Donald Trump. [12:37:43] So my question is, where do we send him next? But that happened. So when you look at those, those are proof points about change in this country. And so my profound words on this one is we better not screw this up and we better not screw this up by choosing a candidate that would push people away instead of bringing people with them. [12:38:06] The economic issues in this campaign and in our country are pretty profound and they are really what drives a lot of people to vote and to make decisions about candidates. And I think the first thing to think about is, again, people that supported the president or stayed home. And I'm particularly thinking about the middle of the country since that was the big surprise, right. [12:38:30] In 2016 when Trump won in Pennsylvania and in Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Iowa states that Barack Obama had done well. And he almost Trump almost won in Minnesota, my home state. [12:38:46] Hillary had her lowest percentage of vote of any state that she won in the country. But proof point comes back. Then two years later, we win the governorship, Wisconsin, Michigan, with a woman named Gretchen Whitmer, whose slogan was Fix the damn roads we win in Pennsylvania. [12:39:06] And this is, again, people that weren't celebrities. [12:39:09] You probably even haven't heard of the guy that beat Scott Walker. His name is Governor Evers. He's a good person. He fit the state. He had common sense ideas for that state. And so that is what happened in our country. What happened since Trump spent in and how do you talk to people who maybe voted for him like some of the carpenters I met with in Pittsburgh or the dock workers in Michigan or the dairy farmers in Wisconsin? They don't necessarily think of him as a bully. He is a bully. [12:39:42] But what resonates with them is something else. It's that they have to work really hard every day, get up really early. Some of them work extra jobs. There is not shared prosperity in this country. And when you talk about the fact that this guy passes the tax bill and after he does it, he goes down tomorrow, Largo, and is hanging out with his friends, with anyone here, there. [12:40:04] Oh, I just didn't want to embarrass you. I just I wanted to make sure that I mean, I'm sure you'd raise your hand. [12:40:09] In fact, there probably was like no one from this whole region that was in that room. But what he did is he looked at his friends and he said, you just got a lot richer. You just got a lot richer. That really says it all these workers. [12:40:24] And the fact is that Donald Trump came into office after these guys had worked so hard, including a bunch of workers and small businesses right here in Gorham have worked so hard to get us out of that downturn and to get us at least to a point of stability. So then he comes in and gloats about what they have done and does not rise to the challenges in front of us, like health care costs and funding of education and doing something about climate change or immigration reform. [12:40:54] And when anything goes wrong because of his trade, war or other things, what does he do? He blames everyone else. He blames the head of the Federal Reserve. That's one of the favorite guys he's likes to blame, even though he put them in plays. He blames Barack Obama. He blames the city of Baltimore. He blames the entire country of Denmark. Who does that? He does. And then when he goes to an international conference and some leaders are caught on tape making fun of him. [12:41:25] And by the way, I have a very different take on this. I've heard senators make fun of other senators in worse ways than that. People do that all the time. You probably heard that at work. Even people that they like sometimes. Right. That happens. But what is our guy do? Because he's so thin skinned, he whines about it. He quits. He's not there at the end when they make a bunch of decisions. America doesn't quit. [12:41:49] So the way when I am with these workers and rooms all over this country, I say, you know what he is? He's a whiner. And America is better than having a whiner in the White House. And what are those challenges that he hasn't been up to? We know what they are. The pharmaceutical issue. So I think what we should do is build on the Affordable Care Act. I don't think we should tear it down. [12:42:13] When you come to a river or lake here in this beautiful region and you need to cross it, you build a bridge, you don't blow one up. And to build a bridge to make that bill better. And it does a whole lot of good things like make sure people are protected from being kicked off their insurance for preexisting conditions. And that counts for everyone in this country. [12:42:36] It has a lot of good stuff. But we need to build on it. How do we build on it? First of all, a nonprofit public option, which I supported from the beginning, which would bring the cost of premiums down for everyone. [12:42:49] Secondly, taking on farm prices in Minnesota, we can see Canada from our porch. All right. So we see those less expensive prices over there. And how do you get there? Well, first of all, why not bring in less expensive safe drugs from other countries? Bernie and I did amendment together was Kobe Shah Sanders. And it actually ended up getting 14 Republican votes one night at midnight. It was kind of a test vote. [12:43:16] Remember, there's 100 senators only. So that's a lot of votes. And I know we'd be able to pass this. In fact, you wouldn't even have to pass it. A president could do this herself and get waivers in place to do that and would put enormous pressure to bring those prices down. Right now, I have a bipartisan bill with Senator Grassley to do just that, unleashing the power of 43 million seniors to get better prices under Medicare. [12:43:41] The pharma companies actually got something written into law that says that they cannot negotiate. There's a ban on getting a negotiation for less expensive prices. You say how could they get that done when the V.A. can negotiate, Medicaid can negotiate because they own Washington. [12:43:59] There are two lobbyists for every member of Congress. Well, they don't own me. And I've been leading that bill to lift that ban since I got to the Senate. We now have 34 co-sponsors on that bill. And as president, I can get it done. You can put a cap on drugs like insulin on the price that would save 350 billion dollars. [12:44:20] That bill that's over in the House right now, just by doing that for taxpayers, that just that's just a few of the examples to do something about this, because nothing has been done for decades. Building on the work of the Affordable Care Act by making sure we're covering addiction and mental health with New Hampshire being right in that target of the. [12:44:42] Epidemic and seeing what happened when people were sold a bill of goods and said, oh, why don't you take this drug in an emergency room and then got hooked for life. Whole towns where people have gotten hooked. We have put good money into addiction treatment now, but there's so much more that we can be doing. [12:45:00] And that's why I came out with a whole plan for addiction and mental health. One in five Americans deal with mental health issues sometime in their life. We've seen a 30 percent increase in suicides in 15 years in this country. Many of them in rural areas. For me, this is personal. [12:45:18] My dad struggled with addiction his whole life with alcoholism. He is a really successful newspaper columnists, sports writer. He covered the Vikings whole time. He wrote a book which is sadly still relevant today called Will the Vikings Ever Win the Super Bowl? And he struggled with alcoholism. [12:45:40] So when John and I got married, actually, he got his third DWI right before we got married. And then the judge said, you got a choice, treatment or jail. And he chose treatment. And it changed his life. And in his words, he was pursued by grace because of that treatment, because of his faith, his family and his friends. And I think everyone should have that same right. By the way, the happy ending to that story after decades of being sober now. [12:46:10] He is in assisted living. He's ninety one years old. And we just visited him over the holidays. And he had told me about a year and a half ago, that is a group still visits. And as he said, it's hard to get a drink around here anyway. So that's his story. But it really was a life lesson for me. And it's why I've been leading on drug courts and some of these other issues that I think is really, really helpful. Other ways we can build on the Affordable Care Act, finally, instead of relitigating that, do something about long term care, which is the elephant in the room that couldn't even fit in this room. [12:46:46] It's so big. We're seeing a doubling of our senior population in the next decade or so. I once called it the silver tsunami and then AARP told me that was too negative. So I call it the silver surge. And that means not just strong Social Security, which is going to start paying out less by 2034. If we don't do something about it and it's a really easy fix to that, and that is lifting that cap right now, you can only pay in or have to pay in if you make up to one hundred thirty three thousand dollars a year. [12:47:21] Well, you could do is start that again at 250000 and up and then that would keep it solvent. And there's a bunch of people on a bill to do that. So that's one thing. Next thing is long term care insurance make it easier to afford. My dad bought that. It's really good. He did. He doesn't have that much in savings. He had three marriages, whole nother story, but he had that long term care insurance. So I know exactly when that ends and when the Medicaid kicks in and when I talked to Catholic Charities so he can go live there. It is a complicated thing for so many families. [12:47:58] So making it easier to afford long term care is something we can do. How do I pay for it? Well, I got this idea from a really wealthy guy in Boston, and that is that people who are wealthy set up trust funds for their kids. That's fine. That's good. But if you save for the ones that are over five hundred thousand dollars that they set up in a trust fund, you could start taxing not the whole thing, but just the gain on the appreciation on it. You know how much that would bring in in just 10 years? Over one hundred billion dollars. [12:48:34] And that would be a big help to help people with long term care. And remember, it's not just seniors that get affected like this. It's caretakers. It's people that have their own kids and their aging parents. So I think this is something a new president could take on in a really big way. And I would do that. [12:48:52] Other challenges that we have, making sure that our education system is strong K through 12 fits the jobs that we're going to have open now and in the next 10 years, we're going to have over a million openings for home health care workers because of what I just talked about. We have no plans to fill them right now throughout our country. We're going to have over 100000 openings for nursing assistance. We're going to have over 70000 openings for electricians with no plans on how to fill them right now. [12:49:20] We are not going to have a shortage of MBA days in this country. We're gonna have a shortage of plumbers. And so how do you fill these jobs? Some of them are well-paying. Some of them are not as well-paying. Well, first of all, you make sure the ones that aren't as well paying that people are able to access child care and retirement and things like that. So they take the job so they have a good enough way. And that's something that the federal government should do and there's ways to pay for it. [12:49:46] The other thing you do is making sure that we have incentives to go into those areas. That's why I'm such a big believer in one two year degrees being free because those are the fastest growing areas for four year degrees. There's going to be a lot of those openings to be HD on. What I would do there is double the Pell Grant money. I wouldn't put everything free because I don't think we should be paying for rich kids to go to college. I would be doubling the Pell Grants. And if you do that, that kids up to 12000 a year. That would help people. And I would change the income level up to one hundred thousand a year. [12:50:20] To me, one, it's doable. And two, we can pay for it. That is the difference between a real plan with deadlines and a pipe dream. And I think Americans are tired of hearing about things that sound good on a bumper sticker. But aren't things we can actually get done. And they also known. No one's going to throw in a free car with that bumper sticker as much as they like it. OK. Other ideas. Doing something about immigration reform and making that part of an economic policy. [12:50:50] When we have openings in our fields and our factories and we need workers in our nursing homes and our hospitals. And there is a really sensible bill that passed in 2013 that would help us do it. On foreign policy being the beacon of democracy, we are again siding with our allies instead of dictators realigning with our allies. Having a president that doesn't make foreign policy by tweets in his bathroom about 4:00 in the morning bathrobe because that is what he does. [12:51:22] And having people that is going to basically having someone in place who is going to respect our military enough to realize that when we stood side by side with those Kurds and they lost 11000 people, that we stand with our allies, we don't precipitously withdraw 150 troops from the border and give I ran a bigger foothold in Syria. And at the same time, leave them out for slaughter. And that's just one example of many reentering international agreements like the Iranian nuclear agreement and renegotiating the new START treaty with with Russia. Those are all things that we need to be doing and understanding that climate change is a major threat. [12:52:08] When you get a bunch of weird weather events and you've got flooding and you've got the rising sea level and you've got problems for what goes on in the North Country, as well as issues with the oyster business off the coast of Maine. You know, it's not just coming in 100 years. It's happening now. It's happening when you see those wildfires in California. It's happening when you see the flooding in Florida. And it's happening in the middle of the country where you're seeing unprecedented flooding and farmers not able to plant their crops. [12:52:42] Homeowners insurance up 50 percent. That's why on day one, I would get us back into the international climate change agreement. Right now, the only two countries that weren't in it when Trump said we were getting out were Nicaragua and Syria. They have now gotten into the agreement. So we are the only ones doing something about the clean power rules and bringing them back and the gas mileage standards which the car companies wanted to do anyway. These are all things that are achievable. [12:53:13] But we have to have a president that makes it a focus and actually wants to get it done, doing something to help our rural areas. For me, that has always been my biggest mission because I grew up in the suburbs of the Twin Cities. But I also was very close to rural. In fact, my high school was kind of a combination of suburban areas and some rural areas. And then as I grew up and I started to get in politics and you always hear about this rural urban divide, it became one of my missions. [12:53:50] When I got to the Senate, I asked to be on the Agriculture Committee. And that is not just farming. Let me tell you, there are a lot of really important USDA economic development grants that can help towns like this. And that's got to be a major focus of our rural development. Understanding that food doesn't magically appear on people's tables and understanding the value of tourism. I head up the tourism caucus for the U.S. Senate. That's one weird fact you can bring home to tell people about me, especially in this area and like New Hampshire. [12:54:26] We love skiing in Minnesota. We just don't have any mountains. But we do have some really high hills. And it's a big part of our economy in northern Minnesota and other parts of our state. And to do that, you have to do everything to incentivize things like economic development and also international tourism. That sounds far away. But international tourists, when they come in and come to areas and ski, they bring in an average of five thousand dollars per person. [12:54:58] So I lead a bill called Brand USA, which allows our country and individual states that don't have as much money as like Vegas or New York to advertise. Now, that sounds like. What's that? Well, remember, when you see these ads on TV for the Bahamas or something, we weren't doing any of that. And because we got that done without any taxpayer money. But by taking foreign visa fees and leveraging it with private money, we're now advertising states like New Hampshire and Minnesota in targeted areas where it works to bring people in with really good results. And we just got a change. [12:55:34] And there's even more that we can do for that. So I believe in going out there and listening to people. That's why I've been in every county in New Hampshire three times and bringing back ideas and not just staying in Washington. I also believe in winning and winning big. I have won every single congressional district in the state of Minnesota, including Michele Bachmann's three times. Every time I've run and I have won in the most rural of rural districts, I've won in northern Minnesota, where the steelworkers are. [12:56:09] Many of these districts are held by Republican representatives. And I have done it not by selling out, but by simply meeting people where they are, by listening and bringing back good ideas. And I think that's a pretty important quality to have in a president of the United States. I've won 42 of the counties in this last election that Donald Trump won, because if we want to win big in this country and we want to actually make some of these changes we've talked about, we just can't win at 4:00 in the morning and eke by in the presidential election. We have to bring people with us. So I'll end with a holiday story and then take some questions. [12:56:52] I thought about this last week when we were at our church on Christmas Eve and there were some little kids doing this very cute nativity play. And our daughter was there with us. What did you do that, too? Oh, good. So our daughter was there and she's now 24, a little older than you. But this happened when she was 4 years old. [12:57:12] She was to play the angel in the in the play. And she was sitting out there for the rehearsal, sitting next to me in the pew with these drooping white angel wings. And she would not go out and practice. And I go, why won't you go out there? [12:57:27] And she said, Because I want to be the donkey. And I said, no, no, no, no. You, you, you, you can't be the donkey, the donkey, or these two teenage boys, Timmy and Joey, and they're all hot in their costume. And she said, well, then I want to be Mary. [12:57:45] And I said, no, Mary is 14 years old here in the front. You can't be Mary. So I understand you the coolest part in this whole thing. Get to God at the end and spread your wings. And she looked way to the top of the church and she says. [12:57:58] I don't know how to tell them. [12:58:00] I don't know how to fly, and I said to her that day, you know what, honey? Not all angels fly. So I want to thank you for coming out in the middle of this blizzard and being the guardian angels for our democracy. You understand how important your part is in this. I understand what I've got to do in the coming weeks as a juror in that impeachment hearing. Right. And part of this is what I like to be out campaigning. Sure. But I have a constitutional duty to do my job to make sure that we are following the law and to make clear that in America, the president is not king. [12:58:40] The law is king. And you have a duty to its citizens to help us decide who that candidate is, to lead the ticket that can bring people with them. That's going to do something for this country. That's going to get us to a point where you can have a president on TV, where if you remember those old days, even if you didn't vote for that president or agree with them, when the president went on TV, you would have listen, because you'd want to talk about it to people the next day or because it was your constitutional obligation. [12:59:10] . That's going away right now because people have to mute the TV, because they're afraid of what this president's going to say when he's talking out at one of his rallies. We are better than that. And so I ask you to join our grassroots effort. As I said, we are in an insurgency. [12:59:29] We are doing well. And we're bringing people with us everywhere we go. We're driving around when we can not in the windy roads here in our green bus. And I pick that color of that bus because that's the color of someone who is one of my political mentors. Paul Well, Stone, he was a senator from Minnesota who no one thought could win and he would do all of his ads by talking really, really, really, really fast. [12:59:55] So that because he would say, I don't have as much money as my opponent. So I'm going to talk twice as fast. And he would run back and forth and parade routes in the same way. And he got elected against all odds. And in the last year of his life, where he died in a tragedy and a plane crash with his wife by his side, he was facing his toughest election, but he was going to win. He took a brave vote against the war in Iraq and he was still going to win. [13:00:23] But that year, he had told the state that he had M.S. and that he couldn't walk like he used to. In fact, he was in a lot of pain. And what he would do that campaign year, I know, because I had no opponent sounds nice. And I would go with him in the parades and he would stand at the back of the bus and he would just wave with his wife. [13:00:45] But here's the coolest part about the story. He had so many people in green shirts running around that bus, that one no one even noticed he wasn't running himself. That is what democracy is about, that is what grassroots politics about, it is about giving the torch to others. It's about a group of people winning, not just one person. And that is why I view this not as a personal mission or what would be a personal victory. I view it as a national mission. So please join us. And I love to take your questions. Thank you. Applause. [13:01:40] Question. OK, from this top Todd Hall, is that right? I get that right. Right there in the general election, how will you district distinguish your programs? Well, what would be Trump's charge about Democrats being radical socialists? OK. There is a pointed question. First of all, I am a capitalist. I am not a socialist. I'm a Democrat. [13:02:07] And I'm not a socialist. And I'm someone that actually was in the private sector for 14 years before being in politics. And so I believe in entrepreneurship, but I also believe that government should be a force of good. That you need check and balance on things. And that's things like consumer rules. I actually got into politics when our daughter was born and she was really sick and it was a surprise and she couldn't swallow. [13:02:39] And back then, the insurance companies had a rule that you could be kicked out in 24 hours no matter what happened. So she was in intensive care. We didn't know she had a genetic disease or a tumor or whatever. And I had no sleep. We didn't know what was wrong. And they kicked me out of the hospital and I couldn't believe it happened. And I remember John wheeling me out in this wheelchair. And I did take this moment and I turned to him. [13:03:04] I said, I bet this wouldn't happen to the wife of the head of the insurance company. And then, of course, we were in and out of the hospital with her for weeks. And actually she was fed by tubes for a year and a half. [13:03:16] But sometime in that little of the time, I found out about how this had worked and that they had this rule. And as a mom, I wasn't elected. I went to the legislature and testified a number of times for one of the first laws in the country guaranteeing new moms and their babies, a 48 hour hospital stay. And I learned a few things from that one. If you talk about things that are embarrassing to male legislators like a P.C. Autumns sorry, Representative Noel, that they'll be like they were to pass the New Deal. [13:03:49] They're like, OK. But then the second thing that I learned was that we got to the conference committee and no one really wanted to say they were against it. And there were House members there and Senate members, and there were some lobbyists there. [13:04:06] So I brought six pregnant friends of mine to the conference committee. So they outnumber the lobbyists two to one. And when the legislators said, when should this bill take effect, they all raised their hands and said now. And that is exactly what happened. They didn't even wait until August. And so that was the first time that I got to see with my own eyes the positive role that government can play. That went on. [13:04:29] By the way, Bill Clinton ended up making that one of his main planks one year and got that passed as a federal law. So that was that story. And from there, I went to the Senate and worked on a whole bunch of consumer things. I really think that the big interests can pay for a lot of money to send people to Washington. And your job shouldn't be to help them. Your job should be to keep a strong economy in place. [13:04:57] But understand that there should be checks and balances. And that's what we should be doing, whether it's financial or whether it is making sure that we don't let someone have too much power or whatever it is, we should be doing what we can. And so that's my role of all that. All right. I think that the president would have a hard time labeling me that way, given my background and given my votes and other things that I've done. [13:05:26] I also want to say something about running against Trump. So I think I won. It's good to have someone from the middle of the country run against him just because I'm going to be able to look at him and say, this isn't flyover country to me. I live there. Secondly, I think my background is gonna be such a stark, stark difference to him. [13:05:50] He I'm going to be a look at him and say, you know, you started your career with 413 million dollars that you debt your dad gave you over your life. Me my grandpa worked fifteen hundred feet underground his whole life as an iron ore miner, and he saved money in a coffee can in the basement. He couldn't even finish high school because he had to go work to raise his nine brothers and sisters. He was the oldest boy. And then he saved money in a coffee can in the basement. Just send my dad to a two year community college, and then from there my dad got a four year degree. You can't fit four hundred thirteen million dollars in a coffee can. [13:06:30] But I figure no matter how you got an opportunity and I got an opportunity because of that family trust, that little coffee can that my grandpa had. [13:06:39] When you're given that kind of opportunity from a parent or grandparent, from a friend, from our coworker, from a neighbor, from a teacher, you have an obligation not to go into the world with a sense of entitlement. [13:06:54] Not a sense of been a vindictiveness, but you have an obligation to go into the world with a sense of helping other people and lifting them up instead of hoarding it all for yourself instead of slamming them down. So that's a debate I want to have. OK. [13:07:14] Let's see. Mr. Fortier. Right. From Berlin. I said it right, too. We were in Berlin in the middle of last. No storm or something. I enjoyed being there. If elected, how do you go about reducing the deficit? That's a great question. So the first is thing to do is to look at what's been going on right now. I truly believe when you look at his career, this president doesn't care about this. [13:07:45] He is treating all of you like poker chips and one of his bankrupt casinos, his tax bill, a loan added over a trillion dollars to the debt. And I believe we need to do something about the debt. My friend Angus King from your neighboring state of Maine probably said it best when he said it in a very apt description for Gorham. [13:08:12] He said it took us 30 some years to walk into this woods. It's going to take us just that long to walk out. So we want to be careful to do this in a way that doesn't hurt the very people that we're trying to help. So I think you start by making it a priority. [13:08:30] And for me, I'm the candidate that's actually put it in my plans and my budget in several ways. One. Everything that I've proposed, I've explained how I'm going to pay for it. That is everything from doing something about student loans by changing the capital gains rate, making it closer to the personal rate. And you could save hundreds of billions of dollars that way by paying for infrastructure, by reversing some of the corporate tax decreases that he put in place. He went solo with that every single point down to 21 percent from the mid thirties. [13:09:07] Every single point was a hundred billion dollars over 10 years. If you just take 400 billion of that, you'd be in a good stead for starting a major infrastructure package. [13:09:19] The international tax rate, if you go back to where it was under Obama, that's 150 billion in dollars. Taking the estate tax and putting it back to where it was under Obama, the exemption, which was something like 350 million dollars and putting it at 11 million dollars. He. That's what he did. He put it up to 11 million dollars. If you go to three point five, I said three hundred fifty three point five million dollars where it was before. [13:09:52] Ready for this? You say over a hundred billion dollars. Just doing that. That would greatly help us to finance K through 12 education. So that's one thing is to show how you're going to pay for things. Show your math. The second thing is to start a deficit reduction fund. And I would do it with two hundred billion dollars of the money from that corporate tax decrease. [13:10:17] If you bring that to say 28 percent, you could have two hundred billion of that can go to deficit reduction. Right there. And you explain to more fiscally minded people and to Republicans who are looking at that kind of proposal to change the tax bill. You always talk a good talk on the debt. Let's start working on it with this. And it would be a start toward deficit reduction, having all your cabinet members look at their agency budgets to make cuts. [13:10:48] And there's many things there's always ways you can find some changes or duplicative spending. I put in one hundred billion dollars that way. So that would be a start. There are so many other things you can do. Immigration reform alone. Brings in this is a Congressional Budget Office scoring 10 years, one hundred fifty eight billion dollars in deficit reduction because people come out of the shadows and start paying taxes, among other things. Grover Norquist had that is his top priority in 2013. [13:11:23] I called him as a friendly witness for immigration reform for a bill that was supported by the AFL CIO and the migrant groups that Chamber of Commerce. And no one ever thinks about it. It's deficit reduction, but it is. So there are so many things we can do. But you have to have a president that makes it a priority. Last thing I would mention is something that you were a great senator. Senator Shaheen has proposed and she has done this proposal,. [13:11:48] I think it was with Johnny Isaacson and it is a two year budgeting proposal. And what this means right now, it's every year in Congress, Jean's idea, which is such a good one. And as president, I would push it through and I think we could easily get the votes for this would be OK. The first year you pass this budget, but then the second year you can then spend that you're doing oversight and exercising your constitutional duty to figure out how this money is being spent. Is it really working? [13:12:18] What's happening then that instructs you for the next budget and gives people the opportunity to see what's working? Otherwise, you're just doing year after year after year or extending the year before. And there's no time to examine what makes sense fiscally. Of those are my three big ideas. All right. [13:12:38] Here, welcome. [13:12:43] Uh, okay. Jean, um, let's see. [13:12:48] She's from Lewiston, Maine, should we allow a question to come in from me? [13:12:55] How do you change your question? OK. If you want a different one. [13:13:16] Yes. And stab people. [13:13:36] OK, yes. [13:13:39] It's been it's this is this kind of thing happens all the time where he'll make a statement after something. But then you look at all the hateful rhetoric before it and it doesn't match up. So first of all, about this tragedy and this involved rabbi's house and the people were celebrating Hanukkah and some guy comes in who I think's been arrested. I don't know if it's one person or more. Right. OK. [13:14:11] And stabbed a number of people that were in the house. And I think you all know this is not an isolated incident. We have seen an increase in anti-Semitism in this country in a big way. There was a horrible shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue where many people died in Pennsylvania. And we've seen this across the country. We have also seen record hate crimes against other groups as well, against immigrants, against Muslims. [13:14:42] And in fact, I questioned the head of the FBI about this back in the last few months, and he said that, in fact, there has been an increase. So this isn't just, you know, she read something in the paper and is talking about it today. You are right. There has been an increase in the numbers, not just the stories. And I asked him why that was. [13:15:04] And he said, well, they don't really know. Maybe more people are reporting them, but there is definitely been an increase. So here are my theories of the case. First of all, we have seen an increase because of this hateful rhetoric that you're seeing from the top, but also from other people in our country and from others around the world. And we have to have a president that actually doesn't just condemn those crimes when they happen, but also thinks about it ahead of time and how they react to things. [13:15:37] After Charlottesville, when the president said there are two sides to this. There's not two sides. When one side is a Ku Klux Klan, when one side is white supremacists. There's only one side. And that's the American side. The way he has treated our refugees, I don't think it's a big surprise. You'd see an increase in crimes and hate crimes against Muslims or people who they think are people who are Muslims or against people of Jewish faith. That's what we're seeing all the time. And I use this as an example. [13:16:16] After 9/11, President Bush, I know this because I was a D.A. back then. President Bush actually instructed his U.S. attorneys after that big terrorism attack against America. He instructed his U.S. attorneys and his U.S. attorney in my state. I'm friends with. We went out together and did this to go to mosques and go to community centers and tell people not to be afraid of hate crimes against Muslims. He had his U.S. attorneys say, we stand with you. [13:16:49] Think of the contrast. That's what he did. [13:16:53] And so I still remember those. Then when Trump is running for election, he's going after people. They look different no matter who they are. And I think so many people in our country have had experience of being not maybe direct violence, but being bullied and other things. When they look different, they don't even have to be of a different faith or anything. [13:17:12] They just look different. This story came out of a couple in Minnesota who were there through 9/11, had no experience with discrimination from our Somali community, where the biggest Somali community in the country, Maine, has a number of Somalis. And this is this story. This couple now, years later, go out to dinner during the height of the Trump rhetoric and with her two little kids. And this guy walks by and he looks at him and says, you forgo home at a suburban restaurant and you forego home. [13:17:46] And the little girl looks at her mom and she says, Mom, I don't want to go home to eat tonight. You said we could go out to dinner tonight. You think of the words of that innocent child. She only knows one home. That's my state. She only knows one home. That's your state. She only knows one home. That's the United States of America. So that, in a nutshell, is what we're dealing with. What do we do about it? Like I said, president with no mean tweets, less hateful rhetoric, stands up for democracy, stands against dictators and the like around the world. By the way, that makes a difference. It's not just what happens here. [13:18:25] Secondly, an attorney general and a Justice Department that sees this as a priority. I know a lot about this because when I was the local D.A., I did a lot with hate crimes. We went after a case where a guy was in a factory. Guy was speaking Spanish there and his boss on the manufacturing floor hit him over with a two by four, the head for speaking Spanish. And we prosecuted that case. We had another one on Martin Luther King Day where a guy said he was gonna go out and shoot a black kid and he did. Thankfully, the kid didn't die, but he shot him. [13:18:57] So I got invited when the side light. Right. When Bill Clinton was president, I got invited to the White House and I'd never even been in there before. I was a local elected, you know, pretty young. I get invited to the White House to a meeting about hate crime. And at the last minute, they invite me to introduce the president of the United States in the East ROOM when he unveils the Matthew Shepard bill, which was the bill named after that young man, LGBTQ, who was slain and was hung up on a fence post. [13:19:29] And the first passer by that thought him dead, thought he was a scarecrow. And I met those investigators and the family. So, by the way, here's my first time in the White House story. I'm standing outside of the East ROOM. I've got Bill Clinton on one side and Janet Reno on the other side. They're really tall, right. And she's with Eric Holder. And I'm ready to walk in. And they've got the military band. [13:19:52] They had this big formal event, although media from DC is in there and the military band starts playing Hail to the Chief, you know, and doo doo doo doo. And I start walking in and all of a sudden I feel as big hand on my shoulder. And this voice says, I know you're gonna do great out there, but when they play that song, I usually go first. [13:20:15] I really happened. But I will say that was my first time to the White House. But it won't be my last. [13:20:22] So that's so I really believe strongly in going after these hate crimes. [13:20:32] And by the way, we end up passing that bill. When I got to the US Senate. What a story. No, it hadn't passed till then. And so I think enforcing them. I think there's a lot more that needs to be done in helping local law enforcement. They're the ones on the frontlines that kind of figure out what's going on with people in their community. It's not always the FBI that's gonna figure this out, but some of this is better coordination with them, better monitoring of what's happening in schools and things that I don't mean, you know, spying on people. [13:21:05] I'm just talking about when people know there's a problem, that they have someone to talk to about it and try to figure out what to do about it. And so I think that all of that would matter. But this is a horrific scoreboard that we're seeing at this moment in our society. When we have our new generation is so cool. We have. That's you. [13:21:27] We have the most diverse generation that we've ever seen. We have the generation, this new generation that cares more about the world around them. We have become more and more integrated in our society. Not at all. Perfectly. We still have huge race problems. But to have this happen where we're suddenly seeing this surge in hate crimes, you've got to look at inside each of us. But you also got to look at what's happening right now with the president of the United States. [13:22:01] All right. [13:22:03] I think I went over this, Brian asked health care for all pro or con y. I'm going to look at oh, answer that quickly. I promise. I promise I will. [13:22:13] And then I was just trying to get. OK. Democracy. [13:22:20] We're losing questions, democracy. Question. OK. So from Brian, first of all. Yes. Medicare for all. [13:22:32] OK, I love you guys here. This is hilarious. [13:22:38] You know what we say in the US Senate? Everyone's everyone has talked and everyone has answered the question by I haven't. So I'm going to do it, too. OK. [13:22:59] Who we adore. So thank you. And by the way, Annie and I should talk a little bit about this has been such a leader on mental health and addiction issues and aging issues, and she is an incredible leader for this area. [13:23:16] Thank you. [13:23:26] Hundred bills. [13:23:28] Yes. [13:23:40] Very good. So it's not contrary. I think it's the core of this whole election. So as our chair here has so smartly pointed out, what we did in the country and what you did in New Hampshire in electing reelecting any and electing Congressman Pappas made such a difference. That is why the House of Representatives became the people's house again. And as a result of that, they moved on things like gun safety legislation, which, by the way, for this area of the state, just like mine, proud hunting state, they don't hurt my Uncle Dick in the deer stand by any means. [13:24:19] That's how I always look at these things. They are smart moves, gun safety, some environmental bills, big, big democracy bill, an ethics bill, and make sure people are able to control their own destinies. All these things that were enacted by the house are sitting in one place on Mitch McConnell's desk. And by the way, one of the things that sitting on that desk, H.R. 1, which contains all of these election things, would be so helpful on things like stopping foreign invasion in our elections. [13:24:52] This is a bill that I lead which requires backup paper ballots for the 11 states that don't have it if they want to get federal election funding. The reason I raise this is it comes all goes back to the same place that desk, that bill that I did with a conservative Republican, James Lankford from Oklahoma, because he's worried he's on the Intelligence Committee. That bill that bill was stopped by one person, Mitch McConnell. And you know how Joe Scarborough, that nickname he gives for him. [13:25:24] Moscow Mich. That's because of that bill. So those bills, the 400 bills that were referred to our sitting on his desk and the only way we're going to get them done. I think we can put public pressure on right now, which we're doing, to try to get maybe a few of them done. But the only way we really win is by winning big. There is no other way. Otherwise, he is still going to be sitting there. Will we do better and get better judges? Yes. [13:25:54] We control the presidency. Well, all those things. But the only way we really win and change the direction we're going right now is to win big. And that means winning these Senate races all over the country and places like Colorado, where we are ahead right now with Governor Hickenlooper in the lead. We have so many good candidates throughout the country. And so that's what I leave you with. And one of my best arguments for winning and leading our ticket is that every time I've run, I've flip the state house in Minnesota. [13:26:30] Every time I'm not leading the ticket, it goes back to Republican. Then I come in and lead the ticket. Why? Because I think we should have a bigger tent and we should have a wider coalition and longer coattails. And to think like that means you go to areas that aren't just comfortable. You go to areas that are uncomfortable. You reach out to people. You talk to people who don't disagree. I agree with you. One of my arguments in this race is call anyone in Minnesota. We have over 5 million people there and ask for a job reference on me. [13:27:05] They may not have voted for me, but I think they're going to tell you I have people's back and I work really hard. And they're certainly going to tell you I know how to win, because if we want to win, we've got to win big. And there is every reason to think we can win in these state. We just won in Kentucky. We won in Kansas statewide. We flipped the state House and Senate. But we have to put people in charge of our ticket that bring people with them. [13:27:34] We also have to make sure that the candidates have views on issues that are consistent with the rest of the country in a big way that people in the country say that makes sense to me instead of saying your Medicare for all. Question. Oh, I don't think I want to lose my current health insurance in four years and be kicked off of it, which our bill says on page eight. And there are just many, many things that we need to do to be able to win big. And I think New Hampshire is such a great example of that because of the fact that you've put people in Congress that get that. [13:28:11] So it is it is a big thing. And I think I'll end with this. There was a democracy question there at the end. And that is that one of the major things the first bill I want to get done is this H.R. one that and had worked on, in fact, over 10 of the provisions in there are mine that I have authored in the Senate. I'm the ranking on the Senate Rules Committee and on president. I can actually get this done. This means making it easier for people to vote and not harder. Ever since the Supreme Court got involved and overturn parts of the Voting Rights Act, you've seen states do heinous things when it comes to kicking people off. [13:28:49] In fact, in North Carolina, judges, some judges, one of whom was a Republican appointee, said that they had discriminated against African-Americans with, quote, surgical precision in what their state had done. That's it. Things like purging people off of voting, wrote my friend. Stacey Abrams said it best. She said, if you don't go to a meeting every year, you don't lose your right to assemble under the Constitution. If you don't go to church or synagogue or mosque or temple, you don't lose your right to worship. So if you haven't voted for a few elections, you shouldn't lose your right to vote. [13:29:31] And that's exactly what's going on here, because while New Hampshire's like Minnesota, despite what Sununu is trying to do to mess up some of the elections here, New Hampshire's like Minnesota. You have same day registration. So we think, oh, well, guess if you were kicked off the voting, well, you would just go and you would register the same day. Most of these states, you can't do that. So if you think like this 92 year old woman in Georgia did, who had voted during the time of Martin Luther King, now wants to go vote for her first African-American governor in the history of Georgia,. [13:30:03] And she shows up and finds out she's been kicked off the voting roll. She can't vote. It's done. That's what's happening in these states right now. And so you can literally pass legislation, Sherrod Brown and I have this bill that we're leading together to stop the purging of the voting rolls. You can have independent commissions like we do in our states to stop that gerrymandering and to have better drawn districts. You can pass my bill that I lead to register every kid in this country that's eligible when they turn 18. [13:30:39] If you can get a Social Security number, why can't you be automatically registered to vote when you turn 18? Target can find a pair of shoes with a SKU number in the state of Hawaii. You should be able to automatically register people to vote. And yes, we need to get the outside money out of our politics and that means passing a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United. [13:31:04] So maybe that sounds good, but we can actually do this. [13:31:07] One of my favorite races last year in 2018 last time was a woman named Angie Craig, who won in Minnesota. And I helped her in a really, really hard congressional district, red district, rural and suburban. She ran an ad, people standing on bales of hay that were trying to talk. You could see their lips moving and it was completely muted. Their voices, you couldn't hear them. The message of the ad is outside. Money is stopping you from speaking your mind. [13:31:37] Outside money is stopping you from getting things done, like doing something on farm or prices. That ad was a libertarian ad. It wasn't really a democratic ad. It's an ad I could think could be really popular in the state of New Hampshire. The point of this is we have to bring people with us to make this case and not having these outside money influence our elections. And so I think we need to put someone at the top of the ticket that gets that that wants to lead this crusade. [13:32:07] So I'm asking you to sign our commit to vote cards today. It's a blizzard. You came out. Go for it. It is the holiday season. My funniest story along these lines is we had the mayor, the former mayor of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, who was the mayor during the floods. Her name's Kaye. And I had an hour long breakfast with her. And at the very end, she said, I got some great news for you. And I said, what's that? Okay. [13:32:32] And she said, I'm 78 percent with you. [13:32:38] So go for it. Get to 100. She did. She got to 100 percent. So I want to thank you. [13:32:43] I will never forget that you turned out in the middle of this big snowstorm when you could be doing so much else. Thank you. And let's go ahead and let's win big. Thanks, everybody. [13:32:54] Thank you.