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PLEASE CHECK FOR ACCURACY BEFORE TAKING TO AIR.**\n\n--SUPERS--\nWednesday\nChicago \n\nJosh Kaul \nAttorney General \n\n--VIDEO SHOWS--\nWe're so lucky to be here at this moment.\n09:23:57;08\nAnd can you imagine how frustrating it must be to be Donald Trump at this moment and watch this convention and think how, how completely outclassed you are by Democrats at this moment.\n09:24:10;26\nAnd now we're here for another amazing Wisconsin Democratic Party breakfast.\n09:24:16;23\nUh I wanna start with a couple of quick announcements and then introduce our first speaker who I could not be more excited about.\n09:24:23;10\nUh We have uh a, we had a, an amazing night last night.\n09:24:28;21\nWe have as I'll, I'll, I'll mention again, we have a limited number of seats in the arena.\n09:24:34;01\nWe're able to accommodate some guests and seats.\n09:24:36;13\nIf there are people that are not in their seats, as we go to these final two nights, there's every possibility that every single delegate will be there and, and wanting to be in their seats in the delegation.\n09:24:45;20\nSo two things that means one is if you're a, a guest and uh if, if, if there's some uh person from another delegation, someone who's around and they're in the Wisconsin area.\n09:24:57;22\nIf we start getting close to capacity, we will ask folks to move so that we have all Wisconsin delegates in those delegate seats.\n09:25:04;20\nOf course, we're happy to accommodate friends if there's, if there's open space, but we wanna make sure our delegates are in those spots.\n09:25:10;18\nAnd the second thing I'll say is that tonight and tomorrow night, uh the, the if for any guest that doesn't get their name pulled out of the box, the box and it wants to make sure they're watching the speeches.\n09:25:22;14\nThere's a wonderful space with a, with a watch party that's happening every night.\n09:25:26;27\nIn fact, it's open every day from noon until 10 p.m. And then until the, until the end of the convention, it's called into action and it is not far away.\n09:25:37;19\nIt's at 2226 West Walnut Street.\n09:25:41;10\nSo if you're looking for a place to gather with fellow Democrats and friends and you're a guest of this delegation, that's a great place to go.\n09:25:47;16\nThey also have programming all day every day.\n09:25:49;12\nThey have amazing speakers.\n09:25:50;22\nIf they have an art exhibit, it's a really cool, a cool space and the cool thing if you haven't checked it out, so we'll send that information out, but wanted to make sure to flag that.\n09:25:58;13\nThere are great places to watch the convention if you're not in the hall.\n09:26:01;14\nAnd if you are in the hall, it is, it is really an amazing, amazing experience.\n09:26:07;11\nOk.\n09:26:08;20\nWith all those uh pieces laid out, I am so thrilled.\n09:26:12;13\nTo introduce our next speaker.\n09:26:14;02\nWe talk a lot about how President Biden and Vice President Harris are leading the most pro union administration in the history of the United States of America.\n09:26:26;27\nThey lead with their values.\n09:26:28;14\nThey walk the walk, they walk the walk on picket lines, running a pro union pro worker administration because this party is anchored by our eternal core partner, the labor movement, it means having a policy, a Department of Labor, a leader in the Department of Labor who champions the voices and the fight of working people every single day.\n09:26:52;02\nAnd today she is bringing that championship directly here to the Wisconsin Democratic delegation breakfast.\n09:26:59;08\nLet's welcome Biden Harris Department of Labor Secretary, Julie Sue.\n09:27:09;07\nYes.\n09:27:11;06\nOk.\n09:27:17;16\nHello, Wisconsin.\n09:27:21;14\nHold on.\n09:27:22;01\nI just got to get a photo of what I get to see.\n09:27:24;03\nJust looking at all of you makes me very happy.\n09:27:28;23\nAll right.\n09:27:29;10\nThank you all so much.\n09:27:30;15\nI see that the cheese heads are either at the on the table or back in the hotel rooms, but it was awesome to see them last night.\n09:27:37;20\nUm So I'm so happy to be here with all of you as some of, you know, I am a daughter of Wisconsin.\n09:27:45;19\nI was born a badger born right in Madison.\n09:27:50;27\nSo it's so good to be with all of you.\n09:27:53;08\nAnd of course, I'm here today in my personal capacity as a um a as original Wisconsinite.\n09:27:59;16\nUm And as somebody who is, could not be more excited about this moment that we are in and I don't need to tell Wisconsin Democrats how to get it done.\n09:28:07;27\nYou guys are doing it every single day and I'm just so proud to watch it.\n09:28:13;00\nI'm so proud to cheer you on and I will see you all again in your home state.\n09:28:16;29\nBut for today, I wanna say a little bit about another um daughter of Wisconsin, our next president, Kamala Harris.\n09:28:28;02\nSo I was actually with her, um, one day, a couple of months ago when we were, we were both back in Wisconsin and we, she visited her, uh her original home as you may have seen.\n09:28:39;29\nAnd we all know that this is a candidate, a future president who represents the best of Wisconsin and the best of this country.\n09:28:50;05\nAnd I've known her for a little over a decade, about a dozen years because of our time together in California when she was the attorney general, I was the California labor commissioner, fighting to end wage theft, fighting to protect working people.\n09:29:06;03\nThank you.\n09:29:06;22\nAnd we worked together.\n09:29:07;29\nActually, we collaborated on combating wage theft on making sure the most vulnerable people in our communities knew that the government had an ally and had somebody on their side.\n09:29:18;09\nAnd that's the kind of person that Kamala Harris is right.\n09:29:20;16\nShe's somebody who's gonna fight for people who aren't represented.\n09:29:23;05\nShe's somebody who has taken on um, abusers on behalf of women in Children.\n09:29:28;12\nShe's somebody who has protected, um, working people from abusive corporations and she's somebody who's fought for homeowners, um, against big banks.\n09:29:37;06\nAnd that's what I have seen in her, um, as my home state, us senator and what we have all gotten to see from her as our United States vice president.\n09:29:46;24\nAnd it's what's embodied in her opportunity that she seeks to build right a place where every child is going to um grow up and know that there's real opportunity um uh in which no child grows up in poverty uh in which we actually protect our communities and our climate.\n09:30:06;05\nAnd so you all know who she is and this is such an exciting time where we get to work to elect her.\n09:30:11;13\nI also wanna say something about the other guy.\n09:30:15;20\nYeah, in a lot of elections, you've got somebody who's basically, you know, the incumbent party and then somebody who's the challenger, right?\n09:30:23;28\nAnd you don't really know exactly what they're gonna do when they get into office.\n09:30:29;10\nWe know exactly what he's going to do when he gets into office because he's been there already, right?\n09:30:35;05\nWe know what that looks like.\n09:30:36;16\nWe all remember the, the, the sense of dread, the sense of anxiety if it wasn't about something he was gonna do to uh you know, in, in a policy way to make things worse for us.\n09:30:46;19\nIt was though some way he was gonna embarrass us, uh, on the national stage or even the international stage.\n09:30:52;02\nAnd let's just be clear, someone with a record like his seeking to get that same job again.\n09:31:01;10\nCan you imagine anybody actually having done what they did in that job once getting the job again?\n09:31:09;26\nRight.\n09:31:10;20\nWhen you leave that job and there's fewer jobs in the country than when you got there.\n09:31:17;15\nWho says you get another chance, right?\n09:31:21;03\nWhen you were president during a global crisis and you not only had no idea what to do but denied that it was a crisis.\n09:31:29;19\nDo you get that job again?\n09:31:32;01\nI don't think so.\n09:31:33;13\nRight?\n09:31:34;16\nAnd when you spent the entire time that you were there stomping on demeaning, belittling women, do you get that job again?\n09:31:44;06\nI don't think so.\n09:31:45;29\nWhen you spent that entire time there rolling back the clock, turning back civil rights, denying voting rights.\n09:31:54;22\nDo you think you get that job again?\n09:31:57;12\nI don't think so.\n09:31:58;20\nSo this man has said, look, I get to do what I want, right?\n09:32:01;20\nI get to make fun of Kamala Harris.\n09:32:03;02\nI get to say what I want because that's my way, folks, we have 76 days to tell him that his way is not our way.\n09:32:12;04\nIt is not the Wisconsin way and it's not the American way and we're gonna get that done.\n09:32:19;13\nAnd you know, I am here in my personal capacity.\n09:32:21;09\nSo I'm not gonna talk about all the great work that we have done together with you all in Wisconsin, together with Governor evers to build our infrastructure, to protect working people.\n09:32:31;14\nBut I do wanna say one thing in my personal capacity because the other ticket is trying to say that they are the ticket and the party of working people.\n09:32:42;16\nYeah, give us a break, right?\n09:32:45;11\nYou can't be against overtime pay and say that you're a pro worker, you can't be anti-immigrant and pro worker.\n09:33:01;10\nWe are not going back to a time where immigrants were vilified and where policies of the border were based on race and religion and calling countries shithole countries.\n09:33:10;02\nWe're not doing that.\n09:33:14;09\nYou cannot be pro sexual harassment and pro worker doesn't work like that.\n09:33:23;00\nYou can't be anti voting rights and pro worker working people.\n09:33:29;13\nUnions are the fight about the basics of democracy, right?\n09:33:33;09\nHow we vote, how we participate, how we look out for the common good over the individual good, right?\n09:33:39;12\nYou cannot be pro Elon Musk and pro worker and you definitely cannot be anti union and pro worker.\n09:33:54;20\nSo Wisconsin, we got 76 days to elect a real pro worker, pro women, pro civil rights, pro voting rights person into this office.\n09:34:06;09\nWe're gonna make history because it's high time.\n09:34:08;29\nWe have that woman of color lead our country, right?\n09:34:14;29\nAnd the most qualified person on the ballot.\n09:34:18;25\nLet's elect Vice President Harris and governor Walls to be the next president and vice president of the United States of America.\n09:34:26;15\nWe're only gonna do this when Wisconsin gets it done and you are gonna do it because you know that the best way to get people out to vote is not through polls, it's not through commercials as important as those are.\n09:34:44;13\nIt's not even through conventions as great as this is for us to be together here.\n09:34:49;18\nIt's through talking to individuals and so each of us, each of you, I know this.\n09:34:55;28\nMy team knows this.\n09:34:56;20\nWe are in it.\n09:34:57;11\nI'm not gonna ask anybody to do anything.\n09:34:58;18\nI'm not willing to do.\n09:34:59;21\nSo, we've gotta be in it and we've gotta have a plan to reach every single person that we know and not take anybody for granted, right?\n09:35:06;17\nOur family members, our friends, our neighbors, the parents of the kids at our schools, right?\n09:35:13;02\nEverybody we know we should be talking to them, we should be telling them why it's so important to vote.\n09:35:18;17\nWe should remind them why somebody who failed so miserably at their job once, should never get another chance to do it.\n09:35:27;11\nAnd we should be talking about why the America that we love should be an America of opportunity, of joy, of hope of a president that reflects all of those things.\n09:35:38;09\nSo make a plan for everyone, you know, to get to the polls and let's do this, Wisconsin.\n09:35:42;25\nThank you so much for everything you're already doing and I will see you back in Wisconsin.\n09:35:51;13\nRight.\n09:35:54;01\nAnother round of applause for fellow Wisconsinite, our great Secretary of Labor here in her personal capacity, Julie Su ah, before I introduce our next speaker, I wanna share something.\n09:36:13;21\nI'm wildly wildly excited about, which is that tonight on the conventions stage, we are going to be hearing from Milwaukee's own mayor Cavalier Johnson.\n09:36:26;17\nLet's give him a round of applause and let me ask, let me ask everyone here to take extra special care to be in their seats at six o'clock PM tonight.\n09:36:37;28\nSo that when we see him in the six o'clock hour, we can bring down the roof of the United Center with our cheers and applause with our chief heads waving in the air to welcome Mayor Johnson to the national stage here at the convention.\n09:36:52;19\nSo mark your calendar.\n09:36:54;05\nIf you haven't already, let's make sure we're there ready to rock and cheer as loud as we can.\n09:36:59;23\nAnd let's prepare those cheering voices by welcoming another Wisconsinite, another Wisconsin champion for workers, another Wisconsin champion for the progressive causes to which all of us have devoted so much of our lives.\n09:37:14;20\nMy congressman, a champion for all of us.\n09:37:18;03\nThe great, the one the only mark.\n09:37:26;19\nGood morning.\n09:37:29;16\nThank you.\n09:37:30;10\nThank you very much.\n09:37:31;08\nThank you Ben.\n09:37:33;02\nAnd let's give another round of applause to Julie Sue.\n09:37:35;16\nShe is an amazing labor secretary.\n09:37:39;28\nAlthough I think I should just say the honorable Julie Sue by the official rules.\n09:37:44;05\nHow are we doing this morning?\n09:37:46;14\nAll right, by show of hands who's got six hours or more of sleep?\n09:37:50;14\nThat's what I thought.\n09:37:51;21\nI'm gonna get 4 to 6. All right.\n09:37:54;16\nHow many are under four H?\n09:37:57;07\nThose are the honest ones.\n09:37:58;17\nThank you.\n09:37:59;09\nAll right.\n09:38:00;03\nWell, it is amazing.\n09:38:01;14\nYou're here this morning.\n09:38:02;24\nUh, first off, I wanna thank, and we all need to thank the staff volunteers and everyone involved with the Wisconsin Democratic Party.\n09:38:13;23\nWe have the best party in the country and that's because of our chair, Ben Wickler and his amazing team.\n09:38:21;24\nSo let's give them some rousing.\n09:38:23;22\nThanks for having a terrific week.\n09:38:30;11\nAnd what a great week.\n09:38:31;18\nIt's been so far, although it's been two days, it feels like a week.\n09:38:34;25\nUh but we'll soon go back home and the real work will begin because we live in a purple state.\n09:38:42;19\nThat means we have some red and maroon areas.\n09:38:45;21\nWe have some beautiful indigo blue areas, but overall, we are purple and no one knows that more than the people in this room that we do not make politics a spectator sport.\n09:38:58;12\nUh We are in the game.\n09:39:00;03\nWe are getting sweaty occasionally.\n09:39:02;05\nWe'll pull a calf muscle, but we get right back up, but that's what it takes to win in a state like Wisconsin.\n09:39:10;03\nAnd we know there is so very much at stake.\n09:39:14;01\nFirst of all, let's thank our great governor Tony Evers and a just state Supreme Court for Fair Maps in Wisconsin.\n09:39:42;05\nLook as someone who ran the Assembly Democratic campaign committee back in 2008 when we took the majority back for the first time in 14 years.\n09:39:50;20\nAnd then we faced the 2010 depressing election cycle.\n09:39:54;13\nHundreds of state legislators lost across the country in a GOP wave.\n09:39:59;25\nWe had a gerrymandered State of Wisconsin as well as other states in the country.\n09:40:04;28\nSo to finally have fair maps that give us a real chance to get the majority a long overdue priority.\n09:40:12;23\nWe have to give special thanks to Governor Evers Maggie and others in his office for all that they helped us do to get those fair maps and I haven't heard it said yet.\n09:40:25;18\nSo I'm gonna say it now.\n09:40:27;02\nThree term.\n09:40:28;03\nTony sounds really great to me.\n09:40:35;27\nHey, so we've got to help in the assembly and the Senate districts across the state.\n09:40:43;08\nWe can pick up the State Assembly this cycle and get us to the net with the state Senate for 2026.\n09:40:51;06\nSo is anyone I've had when I was in the assembly is one of the favorite jobs I've ever had in my life.\n09:40:57;14\nI can tell you how important it is to give that back up to the governor so they can get some real things done.\n09:41:03;22\nWe're gonna do all we can to elect more Democrats to the state legislature.\n09:41:07;13\nRight.\n09:41:12;14\nWe also have to keep our Democratic US Senate majority.\n09:41:16;23\nAnd the only way you do that is to keep our amazing us Senator Tammy Baldwin.\n09:41:26;17\nYou know, over 30 years ago I got elected to the Dane County Board and at the time there was this recent law school graduate on the board named Tammy Baldwin.\n09:41:36;15\nI think the best compliment you can say and maybe it's a Wisconsin compliment after I heard the New York and New Jersey delegations show their bravado last night, uh, in the roll call, you know, to say someone hasn't changed in all that time despite going from the county board to the state legislature, to Congress, to the US Senate, I think is the greatest compliment that you could say about anyone.\n09:41:59;14\nAnd that truly is our Tammy Baldwin.\n09:42:05;08\nYou know, she doesn't just win in an election year.\n09:42:08;16\nShe wins in the five years prior to the election year by getting around the state and working hard and doing everything she can.\n09:42:16;10\nAnd in Washington, she is a workhorse, not a show horse.\n09:42:21;11\nAnd we have to make sure that this guy who's come from California to offer his sage advice.\n09:42:29;08\nRemember that first video of him when he cracked a hole in the ice and he jumped in the water because he thought that's what you do if you're from Wisconsin.\n09:42:36;17\nI don't know.\n09:42:37;06\nI saw that and, and I thought that's what a California banker would think you do if you're from Wisconsin.\n09:42:43;15\nI know plenty of people who fish above the ice, but I don't know many people going below the ice in winter.\n09:42:48;28\nSo I think that says all you need to know about Eric hub deep, but this is a no brainer and we're gonna reelect Tammy Baldwin.\n09:42:55;29\nRight.\n09:42:59;19\nI'll tell you super close to me is obviously the US House and we have four seats to pick up to have the majority and to make Hakeem Jeffries, the next speaker of the House of Representatives, Hakeem came in my class to Congress and I was fortunate enough to be one of his seconding speeches for when he became leader.\n09:43:22;21\nAnd I can tell you he's the real deal.\n09:43:25;15\nUh He's a real friend.\n09:43:26;24\nHe's an amazing order and he holds our caucus together so well that we are gonna be able to get a lot done if we pick up those four seats and guess what state has a number of swing seats that we could potentially pick up uh to get that majority.\n09:43:44;13\nRight.\n09:43:46;06\nLook, we have great candidates.\n09:43:48;22\nUh Kirsten Lely who is in the eighth district, have an ob to have an OB there.\n09:43:57;09\nShe is to have an OBGYN running against the guy who's using a dinosaur to define his business.\n09:44:06;29\nSpeaks volumes about the difference between the Democratic Party and the Republicans.\n09:44:12;21\nWe also have a swing, one of the swing seats in Wisconsin, one and our good friend, a former member of Congress, former Democratic assembly leader, former Secretary of Revenue for Governor Evers and former uh midwest administrator for the Small Business administration.\n09:44:30;08\nPeter Barker is the candidate in the first district.\n09:44:37;09\nLook, I have known Peter since I was 14 years old.\n09:44:42;15\nI grew up in Kenosha with Peter.\n09:44:44;16\nUm My mom a a quick story because I don't see the next speaker here yet.\n09:44:48;05\nSo I'm gonna, I'm gonna tell this story.\n09:44:49;24\nUh my mom uh lived to be 93 the last few years were in Dane County, but she lived for 91 of those years in Kenosha.\n09:44:56;25\nAnd towards the end, she wasn't following politics quite as close when she was in Kenosha.\n09:45:01;06\nSo she'd go over who was running and she'd go through the whole ballot and one year she did it and she skipped over Peter Barka and I said, mom, you forgot Peter Barka and her response was, well, of course, I'm voting for Peter Barka.\n09:45:14;03\nThat is how people feel about Peter in places like Kenosha and Racine.\n09:45:18;26\nAnd we're gonna help Peter Barka win that seat.\n09:45:21;12\nRight?\n09:45:26;01\nLook, Brian's style isn't a bad guy who represents the district, but he takes a lot of really bad votes and he tries not to take a lot of positions on any issues.\n09:45:35;28\nHe, he's probably the human equivalent of like flavorless jello, right?\n09:45:40;09\nWhatever he's next to on the plate.\n09:45:41;25\nHe'll taste like a little bit.\n09:45:43;19\nI would rather have a democratic leader who's got a record of accomplishments like Peter Barker.\n09:45:48;21\nRight.\n09:45:52;18\nAnd in the third congressional district, we have one of America's worst members of Congress and I serve with Marjorie Taylor Green.\n09:46:04;12\nRight.\n09:46:07;09\nThere's the belligerent beer filled, bloviating business, failing misogynistic book writing, insurrection, attending librarian and senate page harassing State of the Union speech yelling Trump fir an embarrassment to the state and nation.\n09:46:26;00\nDerek Van Orden and I'll quit sugar coating him.\n09:46:33;12\nLook, we have to upgrade to get that four seats we need in Congress and we have a great opportunity in Becca Cook.\n09:46:48;04\nThis was our dear friend Ron kind seat uh for 26 years and we just have to make sure that this temporary tenant doesn't have more than a twoyear lease, right?\n09:46:59;13\nAre we gonna defeat Derek Van Norden this fall?\n09:47:05;17\nLook and finally, Wisconsin is gonna be the deciding state for Democrats with the White House this year and we can do it with vice President Harris and governor walls.\n09:47:17;06\nWe have a ticket that's real and authentic and is upper midwestern as you can get with the right values and the right moral compass and Trump, don't you feel that when we look at this race, it's like watching an old black and one black and white rerun versus a brand new fall color, uh TV show.\n09:47:39;20\nThis is whether you're gonna go back or forward.\n09:47:45;01\nI know it's not fair to Joe Biden, but he became president very late in life and the reality is that night of the debate.\n09:47:53;24\nMo many, many Americans weren't happy with either candidate on the debate stage, but one of those candidates is still running for president and that's Donald Trump and the other candidate we now have running is the vice president, Kamala Harris and Trump has a terrible roadmap for the future.\n09:48:17;08\nHe and his project 2020 25 would have devastating effects on people in Wisconsin.\n09:48:25;25\nAnd there's a reason why Donald Trump, by the way, is running away from project 2025.\n09:48:30;17\nUm 100 and 40 of his administration officials and Lackeys wrote project 2025.\n09:48:37;15\nThe Heritage Foundation is a sponsor, a major sponsor of the RNC convention, not the DNC convention and they're the ones promoting it, but we have to make sure that we do not see this country take that negative turn that's outlined in the 920 pages of Project 2025.\n09:48:58;27\nAnd for those of you who live uh near the, the second CD next Wednesday night at six o'clock, uh We are having a town hall on project 2025 at the South Central Federation of Labor.\n09:49:11;04\nIf you can make it, we love to make sure everyone knows in depth just how bad that plan is.\n09:49:16;23\nBut I'll tell you they've polled many parts of this.\n09:49:19;20\nI serve on a special uh house Democratic task force on project 2025.\n09:49:24;05\nAnd this thing stinks to high heaven and we just need to make sure that people know those details and what's gonna happen.\n09:49:32;16\nSo we know that the Harris Walls administration will do an amazing job if we can help, make sure they win in November.\n09:49:42;10\nAnd let's remember what Kamala Harris has done.\n09:49:45;01\nAs part of the Biden Harris administration.\n09:49:47;11\nThey got this country out of COVID.\n09:49:50;13\nThey passed the infrastructure bill that four presidents have talked about, but Joe Biden and Kamala Harris got it done.\n09:50:02;17\nWe're making things again in America through the Chips and Science Act, creating tens of thousands of new jobs by making things in our country.\n09:50:13;27\nAnd we reduced the cost of things like prescription drugs and other health care and energy costs through the Inflation Reduction Act.\n09:50:22;00\nThat's the record of Kamala Harris, but there's more to do and I love the fact that they're describing their campaign as a joyous campaign.\n09:50:32;04\nI would much rather be talking about the future and joy than the gloom and doom and the cartoon of Donald Trump.\n09:50:40;01\nAnd the path to the White House is gonna go directly through Wisconsin and we are going to get that done right this fall.\n09:50:51;13\nWe have a really great opportunity to make Wisconsin Central by electing a democratic legislature by keeping Tammy Baldwin in the US Senate by picking up seats in the US House and making sure that Wisconsin is in the blue column for the White House.\n09:51:08;02\nOnce again, I look forward to traveling the state, uh, in the remaining 76 days I believe we're at, uh, to get things done and I look forward to spending a whole lot of time with you all.\n09:51:19;14\nThanks for being here this week.\n09:51:21;00\nI don't agree with Tim Wells on one thing.\n09:51:23;06\nI don't think we're gonna sleep when we die.\n09:51:25;06\nI think we'll sleep on Friday.\n09:51:26;26\nBut until then, thank you very much, Congressman Mark Hoan from Wisconsin.\n09:51:43;25\nSecond.\n09:51:44;27\nSoon to have a lot more friends than the democratic congressional delegation to Washington DC.\n09:51:51;02\nWe have other amazing speakers coming up this morning, but we wanna give everyone here a chance to speak to each other for a moment.\n09:51:59;28\nSo we're gonna take a little break before we resume our programming.\n09:52:03;06\nPlease meet someone new, greet someone you already know and love and enjoy the delicious breakfast and I'm gonna have some more coffee.\n09:52:11;26\nThanks so much.\n09:52:12;20\nLet's do this.\n09:52:20;13\nOh, oh, man.\n09:52:53;06\nNeed a break.\n09:52:55;06\nTake the chance to get out all the time.\n09:53:03;17\nWe're gone.\n09:53:08;09\nBest thing.\n09:54:03;25\nThe best thing.\n09:54:19;15\nOh man, gyw, I RT Z hyphen Olsen.\n09:56:13;15\nI'm a teacher and I'm the president of the, of the Wisconsin Education Jack.\n09:56:31;20\nTry it again.\n09:56:35;14\nCan you say your first name and last name again?\n09:56:37;22\nMy name is Peggy Pe Ggyw, I RT Z hyphen Olsen.\n09:56:43;15\nI'm a teacher and I'm the president of the Wisconsin Education Association Council or we a perfect.\n09:56:49;13\nSo obviously here at the Democratic National mentioned day for the theme today is a fight for our freedom.\n09:56:54;16\nSo what does that exactly mean to you?\n09:56:56;24\nFighting for our freedoms for me as a teacher?\n09:56:59;24\nDefinitely really means fighting for the freedom for my students to learn.\n09:57:06;16\nAnd so I guess, um what are some things that you are looking forward to for the rest of the Democratic National Convention?\n09:57:12;27\nWell, I am looking forward to today know that Governor Walls as a fellow teacher speaks to me and my colleagues about the importance of education, the importance of decency.\n09:57:28;04\nAnd so I'm looking forward to tonight's program where we're going to be welcoming him and hearing from him.\n09:57:34;22\nAnd I know as a teacher, there are probably, you know, different demands, concerns that they have, what are some of those demands and concerns that people in your field are worried about heading into this election.\n09:57:45;26\nSo that theme of fighting for our freedoms is so important to teachers because we're fighting for that freedom for students to learn.\n09:57:54;03\nWe've been facing things like book bans and you know, other attacks on, on not just learning that freedom to learn, but our freedom for our students to be who they are.\n09:58:04;27\nAnd so educators like me want uh America where everyone is free to be who they are uh to learn to love.\n09:58:15;14\nAnd um our students can be themselves and comfortable in our society and it's great that, you know, you're from the Madison area.\n09:58:23;05\nSo, what does that mean for people like from our area?\n09:58:25;27\nWhat do you think that means?\n09:58:26;24\nI mean, just to be here in representing Madison.\n09:58:28;22\nWhat does that mean?\n09:58:30;00\nYeah.\n09:58:30;09\nWell, it's the honor of a lifetime to be a delegate.\n09:58:33;18\nThis is my first time as AD NC delegate.\n09:58:35;28\nThis has been an amazing, joyful, energetic convention and I can't say enough how important for a teacher like me it is to be here.\n09:58:47;09\nAnd could you say your first and last name one more time for me?\n09:58:49;11\nJust to make sure I have it.\n09:58:50;25\nYeah.\n09:58:51;00\nYeah.\n09:58:51;03\nMy name is Peggy Wes Olsen and I'm a high school, art and English teacher and I'm the president of the Wisconsin Education Association Council.\n09:58:59;10\nThanks so much.\n09:59:01;14\nYou're so sweet.\n09:59:02;06\nThank you.\n09:59:03;06\nDo you have any questions you guys or uh you know, I was kind of wondering if you're talking about 3 to 2 year students, if they ever really come to the text.\n09:59:10;26\nNow, what do you tell me?\n09:59:14;24\nYeah.\n09:59:15;01\nSo when I talk with my students about freedom, right?\n09:59:18;04\nI, I talk with them about the freedom of ideas that in an, in a democracy, in an America that I want to live in and I want my own Children and my students to live in.\n09:59:31;12\nWe have those opportunities um to be who we are, to love, who we love and to be ourselves and our authentic selves.\n09:59:42;26\nThank you.\n09:59:45;10\nWelcome to Madison.\n09:59:46;12\nI I love it here.\n09:59:47;18\nI'm, well, I'm there.\n09:59:48;21\nNot here.\n09:59:50;04\nI'm so glad.\n09:59:51;16\nUm, I, I was watching you say, you know, the, the working through the winter kind of thing.\n09:59:58;18\nUm, I'm a little, I'm a little concerned.\n10:00:00;10\nNo, it's gonna be good.\n10:00:01;21\nYou're gonna, you're gonna do great.\n10:00:04;02\nYeah.\n10:00:05;07\nWhat?\n10:00:06;26\nYeah, I guess.\n10:00:08;07\nYes.\n10:00:09;01\nUm, I hired so some.\n10:00:43;00\nSo thank you.\n10:00:59;18\nTurn in, yes.\n10:01:08;16\nUsed for, ok.\n10:01:15;22\nWisconsin Democrats.\n10:01:19;10\nI can tell from the hum and the murmur in this room that people are making friends.\n10:01:23;16\nHow many people here have made a new friend in the course of this convention so far on the count of three, shout out the name of someone that you've met that you want to stay in touch with 123.\n10:01:38;13\nOh, we can do better than that.\n10:01:40;15\nAlright.\n10:01:41;03\nWell, if you've made a new friend, I want to hear you say, yes, that is what I'm talking about.\n10:01:48;26\nAll right, we have a next speaker who is a champion for all of us and I consider a personal friend.\n10:01:58;23\nHe's also someone who brought me enormous embarrassment because in 2020 on a Zoom with the Wisconsin Democratic Party staff, unannounced, unannounced to me, he shared with my team that I had committed to shaving my head if we defeated Donald Trump in November.\n10:02:21;04\nAnd this created an enormous sense of motivation on top of the already great motivation within our team.\n10:02:27;10\nAnd as you might remember, we did defeat Donald Trump that fall.\n10:02:31;20\nAnd on another zoom call my kids shaved my head with my entire team watching and Senator Cory Booker laughing his head off.\n10:02:39;24\nHe brings joy.\n10:02:41;01\nHe brings surprise.\n10:02:42;13\nHe brings deep, deep convictions.\n10:02:44;19\nHe brings a voice of moral clarity.\n10:02:47;07\nLet's give a giant round of applause to honorary badger and friend of Wisconsin.\n10:02:52;06\nSenator Cory Booker.\n10:02:59;09\nOk.\n10:03:00;24\nIt was fun.\n10:03:03;29\nWis so you all gotta help me.\n10:03:10;03\nI, I made a mistake yesterday.\n10:03:11;25\nI, uh, the last two days I've been doing state party speeches, just, just giving up the mic running into the middle crowd yelling my remarks and now I've lost my voice and I have to speak on the stage tonight.\n10:03:24;27\nBut I have a feeling that the energy that we're seeing in that arena will lift my heart, lift my spirits and lift my voice.\n10:03:36;17\nSo look, I, I want you all to know and I know this is about to get me in trouble.\n10:03:42;03\nBut I think the best party leader in all of America is your party leader, Ben.\n10:03:52;02\nAnd he, and he's standing next to my almost girlfriend, Thelma, my home girl, she's married to a great man.\n10:03:59;23\nSo I can't get myself in trouble, but she's had me over at her house.\n10:04:03;09\nShe's fed me.\n10:04:04;03\nSo I'm in love with her.\n10:04:07;01\nSo all I'm gonna do instead of, uh, a booming speech, I'm just wanna, I wanna make a confession.\n10:04:12;07\nI figure I feel with like such family here when I'm campaigning for Baldwin, who is one of the greatest senators.\n10:04:19;20\nIii I feel like I'm at home when I come to your communities and it's such an honor to serve with her.\n10:04:28;00\nAnd, and, and so I thought you all would be accepting enough for me to tell you a confession.\n10:04:34;18\nAnd so here's a confession.\n10:04:36;25\nThere was a day on the senate floor where all senators was there.\n10:04:42;23\nUsually we're not all in one place, but this is one of those rare moments like a presidential impeachment.\n10:04:48;07\nWe had a couple of those during Donald Trump's time.\n10:04:51;19\nBut this time we're there for a moment that has so many of us joyous because we're about to make American history and put Kanji Brown Jackson on the Supreme Court and, and, and I'm, we're all waiting 99 senators there.\n10:05:08;00\nWe're waiting for the last senator to vote Republicans keeping us there for a long time.\n10:05:12;20\nAnd now I start pacing and, and I'm, I'm, I'm emotional and I'm trying my best not to cry because my staff will only let me have one public cry a month and, and, and I had already exceeded my quota and, and Michelle almost made me cry again last night, but I was like, I gotta save it.\n10:05:33;15\nAnd then Raphael Warnock walks up to me and says, brother book.\n10:05:37;27\nIt looks like you're struggling a little bit.\n10:05:41;24\nHe's like you need some prayer.\n10:05:43;16\nBrother Booker and I'm like, Lord knows I do.\n10:05:47;14\nBut at that moment, this urgent looking staffer runs over to tell us that the presiding officer was asking us to approach the front of the room.\n10:06:01;14\nNow, Rafael Warnock and I both growing up in powerful matriarchal families.\n10:06:06;10\nWhen a woman calls us, we reflexively like go towards.\n10:06:10;00\nBut this wasn't just like uh uh another staff or another senator.\n10:06:14;01\nThis was the presiding officer on that day who happened to be there to break a tie.\n10:06:20;20\nThe vice president of the United States of America was Kamala Harris.\n10:06:25;13\nAnd so now picture this, I don't know how it is in your State Senate, but in the United States Senate, the, the presiding officer has to be the highest person in the room.\n10:06:33;15\nSo when you walk up to talk to them sitting there, you can't stand, you have to like lean over.\n10:06:38;16\nAnd if those of you c span Watchers, all six of you might see, might see people sort of crouching when they're talking.\n10:06:45;07\nBut this time, it was like both Raphael Warnock went over us and we bowed down at the altar of Kamala Harris.\n10:06:53;05\nAnd so now she's sitting on high and looking down at us kneeling before her and she says, fellas, this is a historic moment.\n10:07:00;22\nNow, I know she was talking about Katani Brown Jackson, but I'm one of those political nerds and I knew this was a historic moment because it's the first time in American history.\n10:07:09;09\nThree black people ever got together at the Senate floor.\n10:07:16;25\nRight.\n10:07:17;05\nThere is three of the seven of us who had ever been elected to the United States Senate.\n10:07:21;25\nAnd so I'm, I'm, I'm standing there waiting for what Kamala Harris wants to talk about.\n10:07:25;19\nAnd she's like, listen, fellas, this is a really historic moment.\n10:07:29;10\nYou all should do something to mark this moment.\n10:07:32;14\nAnd she says, why don't you all write a letter to a little girl about what it meant to be here at this moment.\n10:07:42;01\nAnd then she didn't seem to trust that we would do it.\n10:07:44;17\nSo she goes over to her binder, opens up this beautiful leather, bind her and right there, the only thing other than her schedule that I saw were two pieces of her stationery, the big Vice Presidential seal on it and, and, and her name and she hands us both these two pieces of stationery and says, write your letter to that little girl on my stationery.\n10:08:12;12\nAnd at that point, Raphael Warnock grabs me and says, hold on, Booker, hold on, don't cry.\n10:08:20;08\nSo now I want you all to know something about Raphael Warnock.\n10:08:23;06\nHe is disciplined, he is dutiful, he is determined.\n10:08:28;12\nAnd so he went right back to his desk and penned a letter to his five year old daughter to tell her about this.\n10:08:37;19\nNow, I am one of those people that JD Vance talked down about.\n10:08:42;29\nI'm one of those childless cat people.\n10:08:50;28\nI think we're perfect.\n10:08:55;27\nI think we're fantastic.\n10:08:59;25\nOh, my gosh.\n10:09:00;27\nWhat do you tell, tell a guy like me who has no kids that tells dad jokes a faux pas.\n10:09:07;18\nHey, hey, hey, hey, hey, I'm here all week.\n10:09:10;29\nI'm here all week.\n10:09:14;06\nSo unlike Warnock, I didn't go back to my desk and, and write the letter.\n10:09:19;27\nKanji Brown Jackson gets put on the highest office of the land.\n10:09:22;05\nI'm holding on to this precious stationary.\n10:09:24;12\nAnd I didn't write my letter in the next week, another week passed and I still didn't write my letter.\n10:09:29;09\nI told you all this was going to be a confessional.\n10:09:32;09\nAnd then one of those early mornings, I know you've all had this feeling where you wake up before your alarm goes off and you're lying there in bed and you just have some really deep thoughts.\n10:09:45;05\nAnd really this is not just my confession, but what I want to leave you all with you, see, I'm lying there in bed.\n10:09:51;17\nI realize that what Kamala Harris sent me to do was not a literal task, but a spiritual one.\n10:10:05;07\nLet me tell you what I mean.\n10:10:06;29\nI grew up in a, in a little church in, close to New Jersey where the pastor used to preach faith without works is dead.\n10:10:14;25\nYou know, he would always say you can't preach right and walk left that it's not about what you say in life that defines you.\n10:10:23;11\nIt's what you do.\n10:10:25;18\nI love what Frederick Douglass says.\n10:10:27;10\nHe said, he said, I prayed for years for my freedom and I was still a slave.\n10:10:31;28\nIt wasn't until I prayed with my hands and prayed with my feet that I found my salvation.\n10:10:38;28\nWhat Kamala Harris was asking me to do.\n10:10:42;00\nYes, a beautiful literal thing.\n10:10:44;02\nBut spiritually, she was saying, Cory Booker, write your letter every day by what we do by how we show up by the energy and the work and the effort we do.\n10:10:56;14\nWe are writing a letter and let me tell you something.\n10:10:58;27\nEvery single one of us in this room, we are the descendants of the letters, the love letters that our ancestors wrote and they didn't write with ink.\n10:11:09;01\nThey wrote in tears, they wrote in sweat, they wrote in blood, they wrote us a letter of suffrage, they wrote us a letter of civil rights.\n10:11:20;15\nThey wrote us letters about Roe V Wade.\n10:11:24;05\nThey wrote us letters.\n10:11:27;03\nAnd so now Wisconsin, it's your turn right through the next 80 days.\n10:11:34;02\nWrite your letter with love with work with struggle with sacrifice.\n10:11:40;06\nOh Make Yeah, of life.\n10:11:44;20\nMake your democracy.\n10:11:48;28\nMake your letter a story of how you worked to get.\n10:11:54;01\nYes.\n10:11:55;15\nHighest office was caught.\n10:11:59;25\nWrite your letter, Cory Booker Wisconsin.\n10:12:21;05\nLet's give another giant round of applause but fired up.\n10:12:34;26\nOh my gosh.\n10:12:39;02\nYour napkin can be used to adjust any moisture that may be appearing on your face just welcoming everyone to take full advantage of that opportunity.\n10:12:53;23\nAll right, I'm gonna bring it down a little bit with some announcements which I'm very excited about.\n10:12:59;09\nThe first announcement is if you didn't get one yet and you're a Wisconsin delegate, we have old fashioned T shirts here for you to pick up.\n10:13:10;28\nIf you got your T shirt.\n10:13:11;25\nCan you hold it up so people can see your beautiful Wisconsin delegate, old fashioned shirt.\n10:13:17;13\nLook at those, look at those beautiful, beautiful shirts.\n10:13:22;14\nThe second day is the giveaway closing moment is 9:30 a.m. It's 913.\n10:13:30;13\nNow.\n10:13:31;09\nSo if you have a guest who you would love to be able to get into the arena tonight with a guest pass or if you hope to be entered in the giveaway drawing for some nice prizes, get your tickets in in the next 17 minutes and those are again at the check in table.\n10:13:50;15\nI just wanna make sure people know about that.\n10:13:59;05\nThe third announcement is that Wisconsin's elected DNC member, Alex Lasry is throwing a party tonight to appreciate the Wisconsin delegation.\n10:14:11;23\nSo after the speeches, you are all fired up, you're full of energy.\n10:14:15;26\nYou want to go to a party.\n10:14:17;15\nI recommend that you go to Alex Lad's party tonight from 10 p.m. till 1 a.m. at Barrio, which is at 65 at Kinsey in Chicago.\n10:14:28;13\nEveryone got a message about this, but I just want to make sure everyone here knows that they are invited and it's going to be a blast.\n10:14:36;12\nAnd my last note is that as we prepare for our next speaker and I know that folks are, are quickly moving through, some folks are, are meeting the amazing Senator Booker.\n10:14:49;08\nI wanna ask everyone then to go to their seat and stay in their seat.\n10:14:54;02\nOh, not quite yet.\n10:14:56;14\nYou don't need to do that yet.\n10:14:57;19\nAll right, when we see our next speaker, we're going to invite everyone to be in their seats and on their feet.\n10:15:05;05\nUh, but we're gonna take a second to enjoy this pause.\n10:15:08;01\nWe're going to continue to consume our caffeinated beverages and we'll be back with more programming in just a minute.\n10:15:13;02\nThank you so much, everyone.\n10:15:29;16\nSo.\n10:15:31;15\nYes, something.\n10:15:45;07\nOk.\n10:15:48;16\nYes.\n10:16:25;10\nOk.\n10:16:46;10\nYes.\n10:16:58;02\nYes.\n10:17:44;00\nCheese.\n10:17:52;06\nYeah.\n10:18:08;29\nYeah.\n10:18:10;02\nOk.\n10:18:20;26\nTwo that.\n10:18:48;07\nOk.\n10:19:11;07\nTwo think it's, he's like doing more here at the right time because now it's getting cold.\n10:19:51;12\nYeah, I know, but I'm from the Midwest, so I think I'll be able to handle it maybe.\n10:19:57;09\nOk, for the record of you said your first name, your last name and your title.\n10:20:00;17\nDavid Crowley Crowley Milwaukee County executive.\n10:20:05;06\nSo I obviously there's a lot to do Wisconsin Battleground State.\n10:20:09;07\nWhat do you think Wisconsin kites need to do to make this happen in the next, less than 80 days?\n10:20:14;12\nWell, I'm, I'm just gonna quote Michelle Obama from last night.\n10:20:17;00\nWe all have to do something.\n10:20:18;06\nNot every role for everybody to be playing.\n10:20:20;17\nBut I do think that everybody has a role when it comes down to saving our democracy and making sure that we get as many people out to the ballot box.\n10:20:27;07\nAnd so whether you're making phone calls knocking on doors, helping to fundraise or just using, utilizing your talents to help encourage and bring awareness to what is going on this upcoming November.\n10:20:39;11\nThat's how you can get involved.\n10:20:40;19\nWe all have something to do and we all have to do something and we're coming from Blue Cities, Madison, Milwaukee.\n10:20:47;01\nSo what efforts are you trying to make leading up to the election?\n10:20:49;27\nListen, we're gonna be talking to everybody again, we're gonna be continuously knocking on doors.\n10:20:53;22\nWe're gonna be hosting different campuses all across Milwaukee County.\n10:20:57;14\nBut again, it's about how do we step outside our geographical comfort zone at the exact same time.\n10:21:02;06\nAnd so as Milwaukee County executive, yes, I am responsible for Milwaukee, but that doesn't mean that I can't go rally the troops in Racine in Kenosha, in Beloit, in Sheboygan, in Green Bay, in Madison or wherever they need me to be at.\n10:21:16;20\nBut I just think that again, when it comes down to what I'm going to be doing, every single thing I need to do to make sure that we make history in electing the first woman president of the United States.\n10:21:29;25\nOk.\n10:21:30;04\nAnd then Oh, ok.\n10:21:32;18\nOk.\n10:21:33;02\nI, OK.\n10:21:34;27\nWait, just one more thing and then like, ok, what does the, what does today's theme mean for you as I fight for our freedom?\n10:21:40;04\nWhat does that mean?\n10:21:40;18\nI mean, that's what we're doing every single day.\n10:21:42;12\nWe are fighting for democracy and protecting our democracy means that we are protecting our freedom.\n10:21:46;17\nAnd as a person of color, understanding the role in the, in the generations of trauma that we all come from, we know that there's so much roadway ahead of us and there's so much prosperity ahead of us.\n10:21:57;13\nAnd so as a person of color, when I hear the fight for freedom, it lets me know that I'm not just fighting for my freedoms.\n10:22:03;02\nI'm fighting for the freedoms of other people of color or those who are coming behind me.\n10:22:06;16\nBut more importantly, I'm fighting for the freedom of my daughters.\n10:22:09;12\nI want them to have the same level of opportunities if not more than I have been afforded.\n10:22:14;06\nAnd I think that that's what America is about and that's what we are fighting for.\n10:22:17;01\nThat is the freedom that we are all looking forward to.\n10:22:21;19\nThank you uh 6 1670 her on stage.\n10:22:34;11\nSo the good thing about this is that I am due a small payment from my senate colleagues because they are violating that stipulation.\n10:22:41;24\nBut give it up for one of the best speakers.\n10:22:44;08\nThe best rabble Rousers Cory Booker.\n10:22:46;21\nAwesome.\n10:22:48;21\nUm Hey, listen, I just want to say this to you.\n10:22:51;07\nThere are so many contrasts in this campaign.\n10:22:54;19\nAnd I'm gonna talk to you about one of them a contrast on how seriously we take our kids' safety.\n10:22:59;16\nBut actually, the, the contrast that I think America is seeing every minute of this, of this convention, the contrast that they, they saw loud and clear last night is a contrast of just dourness and joy.\n10:23:14;13\nRight?\n10:23:15;08\nThere is just enormous joy in this city in that convention hall and there are big problems in this world.\n10:23:23;18\nThere are all sorts of people who are upset and feeling powerless and lonely.\n10:23:29;17\nBut we should still feel a sense of joy every single day, right?\n10:23:35;11\nWe should understand how unique it is, how special it is that we are living in a nation that is doing something that no other civilization has ever done for as long as we have done it, right?\n10:23:50;08\nIt's not just democracy, right?\n10:23:52;25\nThere's never been a democracy that is spread the vote and the voice as widely as we haven't done it for as long as we have done it.\n10:24:00;12\nBut it's multicultural democracy, right?\n10:24:02;16\nIt's this idea that everyone belongs, that everyone can find a home here and that when you find a home here, we, you know, still hold on to a little bit of where we came from.\n10:24:12;27\nBut then we join hands and we make decisions together 250 years in this is still an experiment.\n10:24:21;14\nThis thing is still fragile.\n10:24:23;20\nThis thing still needs to be nurtured, but we should absolutely wake up with joy, with unreserved joy every single day that we live in the United States of America and we have to fight for it every single day.\n10:24:37;01\nThat's what this convention is about, right?\n10:24:38;27\nIt's about loving the fact that we live in America, accepting the fact that we have to fight for her.\n10:24:44;05\nAnd Kamala Harris is gonna do that when she gets on stage tomorrow night.\n10:24:47;18\nAnd I'm so excited for her.\n10:24:53;15\nLet me tell you about 11 thing that I care deeply about.\n10:24:56;26\nSo I feel really embarrassed that I spent the first half of my political life not working on the issue of gun violence.\n10:25:04;15\nAnd then something truly awful happened in my state in 2012, just as I was getting elected to the United States Senate, I've been trying to make up for lost time since then, but we ran up against roadblock after roadblock in the 1st 10 years after Sandy Hook, those parents, the parents of those who have been killed in Milwaukee and Racine and Madison, they came to Washington and they hit those same roadblocks.\n10:25:29;27\nBut we had faith that in a democracy eventually, 90% of the people, if they want something, we'll eventually get it.\n10:25:38;17\nAnd so we built power year after year, right?\n10:25:42;18\nWe had faith that one day our movement, the anti gun violence movement would be more powerful than the gun lobby.\n10:25:49;21\nMost people told us it couldn't be done.\n10:25:51;27\nIt would never happen that the NR A was the most powerful interest in Washington in the United States of America.\n10:25:58;05\nBut we had faith that our cause was so righteous that eventually one day it would prevail Joe Biden.\n10:26:05;10\nAnd Kamala Harris had faith that our cause was righteous after Parkland happened.\n10:26:10;12\nThe first one of my colleagues who called me to say, what are we going to do was Kamala Harris days after.\n10:26:21;03\nAnd by the way, and by the way, Kamala, the true measure of a leader is not what they do in front of the cameras.\n10:26:26;01\nIt's what they do behind the cameras.\n10:26:27;16\nAfter, after right after Parkland, Kamala Harris methodically helped me organize the anti gun violence groups who up until then hadn't always been working together around a mission to be organized and co ordinated in the 2018 elections.\n10:26:44;11\nShe raised more money for anti gun violence candidates running that year than any other of my colleagues.\n10:26:50;19\nShe never raised her hand and for credit for it, she never did a press conference to talk about all the work she was doing behind the scenes.\n10:26:56;24\nKamala Harris just believed that we had an obligation to save people's lives.\n10:27:00;22\nShe didn't care if she people knew she was doing it or not.\n10:27:04;02\nShe believed in her heart that we should not accept that 100 people die every day of gun violence in this country and she went to work to solve it.\n10:27:15;04\nAnd then 2022 came around and we saw an opportunity after that awful shooting in Eovaldi.\n10:27:19;27\nAfter that awful shooting in Buffalo, we saw an opportunity, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris saw an opportunity.\n10:27:25;03\nA lot of their advisers told them you're never going to get this done.\n10:27:27;29\nDon't put any political capital into trying to pass a bill at the nr A opposed for 30 days, we negotiated the bipartisan Safer Communities Act.\n10:27:37;11\nTammy Baldwin was a huge part of those negotiations.\n10:27:40;14\nAnd 30 days later, we passed, we passed the first major anti gun violence bill in 30 years.\n10:27:52;12\nWe beat the gun lobby for the first time in 30 years.\n10:27:55;24\nAnd now two years since we passed that bill, gun violence rates in our city, all across this country have dropped by 20% right?\n10:28:06;25\nWe have delivered.\n10:28:10;03\nThat means that there are young men and women who are alive today that wouldn't have been alive if we hadn't passed that bill.\n10:28:16;20\nThat means that there are parents and brothers and sisters who are not grieving because we were able to break through and beat the gun lobby.\n10:28:23;08\nAnd it is just a reminder of what happens if you have thoughtful effective compassionate leaders in the White House who care about us.\n10:28:32;05\nAnd so I enjoy us about living in this democracy because I've seen it work because I have seen us change political realities on the stickiest, toughest issue that exists.\n10:28:42;00\nThe issue of guns.\n10:28:42;28\nI have seen our ability to change lives and I am just so so excited to see how many new people, how many young people are coming into this movement.\n10:28:53;08\nI'm so excited to be here with you because state parties all across the country are learning from the model that you are creating.\n10:28:59;22\nAnd I'm gonna be so excited to be in that hall tomorrow night to nominate Kamala Harris and Tim Wallace to be the next president and vice president of the United States.\n10:29:06;05\nThank you, Wisconsin Dens.\n10:29:07;06\nThanks for having me.\n10:29:24;09\nLet's give another round of applause to Senator Chris Murphy for your words and for your work, what an extraordinary week, what an extraordinary privilege it is for all of us to be here in this week in this moment.\n10:29:47;14\nAnd let me pull back the camera and say what a privilege and an honor it is for all of us to be Democrats to be Americans in this era in American politics, some of the lowest lows, but some of the highest highs, some of the most historic pieces of legislation and some of the most extraordinary leaders over the last couple of decades, we have seen people come onto the national stage that not only have made history but have defied what people thought was possible and I want zero in on one person who has shattered people's expectations for what they could imagine, effective leadership could be like because Democrats are not always easy cats to herd.\n10:30:34;19\nDemocrats don't always agree on everything, but there's one Democrat leading the People's House in two different terms.\n10:30:45;13\nAs the speaker who did not lose a vote, who organized Democrats around historic momentous pieces of legislation that passed into law and changed people's lives.\n10:30:59;21\nA speaker of the United States House, a speaker Emerita of the United States House, who has been a central figure in the history of America in this story of us becoming a more free and fair and just nation.\n10:31:15;03\nI'm so thrilled to welcome our next speaker, a dear friend and mentor the leader twice and now the leader Emeritus of the Democratic and of the entire United States House.\n10:31:28;23\nLet's give a giant Wisconsin.\n10:31:30;08\nWelcome to Nancy Pelosi.\n10:31:37;20\nThank you.\n10:31:39;25\nGood morning, everyone.\n10:31:44;05\nI think I don't have to tell you how blessed you are with political talent.\n10:31:49;08\nI saw the governor as soon as I came in governor.\n10:31:52;00\nThank you.\n10:31:52;18\nThank you for your leadership.\n10:31:54;20\nHe's talking to my son-in-law who's Dutch and his wife is Dutch.\n10:31:57;26\nSo they're having their personal conversation there.\n10:32:00;21\nThat's here for the governor.\n10:32:04;23\nGood.\n10:32:06;17\nHe still isn't watching us.\n10:32:12;00\nMark Pohan, who's chair of the co-chair of the uh where's Mark?\n10:32:16;08\nI thought I knew Mark was here earlier.\n10:32:18;16\nBut anyway, co-chair of the progressive caucus in the House of Representatives, a wonderful Wi Wisconsin delegation.\n10:32:25;28\nOf course, Glenn Moore from Milwaukee.\n10:32:28;13\nShe's so remarked.\n10:32:29;20\nThe list goes, the list goes on, but we want the list to grow.\n10:32:33;02\nWe want that list to grow.\n10:32:35;23\nYou know, that Big Ben is recognized nationally as a pre eminent state party chair.\n10:32:50;28\nEvery time I compliment him on being a great party chair.\n10:32:56;01\nHe compliments all of you for what you do to make that possible.\n10:33:02;19\nSo let's hear it for you.\n10:33:07;12\nHe galvanized support all over the country in support of what you were doing to, to win the supreme court seat.\n10:33:16;01\nWasn't that something quite remarkable?\n10:33:22;07\nHis reputation is a great one.\n10:33:24;07\nThat's why we call him Big Ben.\n10:33:28;13\nWhen he was working at the grassroots level nationally, he said I'm going home to Wisconsin.\n10:33:35;27\nIt's the best place, it's my home, but it's also the best place to raise a family.\n10:33:43;04\nWhat better thing could he say about his state?\n10:33:46;27\nAnd then he came and became the state chair and now everything's riding on Wisconsin.\n10:33:55;13\nYeah.\n10:33:58;28\nSo we have to hold the Senate with Tammy Baldwin and this is too magnificent and wonderful.\n10:34:08;16\nWe have to win the house and we want to grow our numbers here in Wisconsin.\n10:34:13;23\nWe have to elect Kamala Harris and Tim walls, president and vice president of the United States.\n10:34:25;18\nI know you heard from some of the senators, Senator Booker Chris Murphy.\n10:34:29;23\nThey make us so very, very proud in terms of the issues that we are focusing on the rest but we must, we must hold the Senate.\n10:34:39;17\nBut let me just tell you why it's so urgent also to win the house.\n10:34:44;06\nYou know why?\n10:34:44;23\nFor every issue, every kitchen table issue and the rest.\n10:34:47;26\nBut in terms of our democracy on January 6th, we must have Hakeem Jeffries with the gavel as Speaker of the House.\n10:34:58;29\nOh, nice.\n10:35:01;12\nBecause just think of this is very self-serving what I'm going to say right now.\n10:35:06;18\nSelf-serving sign is up.\n10:35:09;20\nI warned you.\n10:35:11;17\nBut just think of what have happened if we did not have, if I did not have the gavel on January 3rd, not me, a democratic speaker did not have the gavel on January 5th.\n10:35:26;14\nSo, so everything, everything, everything is uh is, is at stake in this election.\n10:35:33;10\nWhat do we have to do?\n10:35:34;17\nNobody knows it better than Ben.\n10:35:36;22\nAnd, and again, he's a model to the country, but we have to make sure we win.\n10:35:42;00\nPeople say to me what you know, Kamala, what advice would you give her?\n10:35:46;10\nNo, be yourself, show your values, show your vision for America, show what's in your heart, the empathy for the American people, show your knowledge of the issue, your judgment of perspectives, your strategic knowledge of how to get things done.\n10:36:02;01\nShe has all of that.\n10:36:04;04\nI know her well, for a long time personally, Pamela Harris is a person of deep faith.\n10:36:11;10\nThat's what encourages her to care for people in the community and in our civic life officially.\n10:36:21;11\nShe's a person of great strength, knowing her, knowing again, the priorities, the issues, the, uh, the path that we have to go on and politically, she's very, very astute.\n10:36:34;13\nShe has, she has won hard races for district attorney Attorney General Senate, then Vice president of the United States.\n10:36:43;05\nAnd you saw how quickly politically she wrapped up this nomination.\n10:36:47;14\nSo she's prepared to lead the way for us to win the win the White House.\n10:36:54;13\nShe and Tim Walls.\n10:36:55;21\nIsn't he wonderful?\n10:36:56;26\nHe served with what hes just remarkable.\n10:37:02;10\nSo when they say, what advice would you give her?\n10:37:04;22\nI just say, be yourself.\n10:37:07;00\nBut what we have to do is be ourselves in doing our political work.\n10:37:13;22\nWe must, we must, she's out here.\n10:37:17;14\nWe're on the ground.\n10:37:18;14\nWe must own the ground.\n10:37:21;08\nNobody knows that better than Ben Wickler.\n10:37:23;26\nThat's on the ground.\n10:37:26;13\nWe must own the ground.\n10:37:28;01\nWe must mobilize because if you don't mobilize everything else you do is just a conversation, whether it's on TV, or the mail and blah, blah, blah, own.\n10:37:38;02\nGet out that boat, the message.\n10:37:41;13\nAnd tonight Christine, my daughter tells me that we are going to be approving the platform.\n10:37:46;11\nSo that will be the message of our party.\n10:37:49;22\nProgressive, bold, unifying, not menacing, unifying, not menacing.\n10:37:57;21\nAnd I can say that as a person from San Francisco, California, what works in Michigan Millbrook in San Francisco who works in San Francisco may not work in an electoral college state like Michigan.\n10:38:12;11\nSo let's win, baby.\n10:38:14;01\nThat's just what we have to win.\n10:38:20;13\nMobilize, fuel that with a message of, of hope in that and the money to get the job done.\n10:38:29;21\nAnd that's coming in because of the path that Kamala and Tim are, are.\n10:38:34;19\nSo, I guess we'll be calling them Mr President, Mr Vice.\n10:38:37;23\nMm.\n10:38:39;03\nHow about having a woman president of now?\n10:38:49;25\nI know that's exciting but that's not why she should be president.\n10:38:54;14\nShe should be president because she's the best person for the job, the best person for the job who happens to be a woman.\n10:39:04;08\nAnd that's icing on the cake but make no mistake, man or woman, man or woman, best person for the job.\n10:39:12;00\nAnd I think that that's what we have to make sure people understand when I was running for speaker.\n10:39:18;13\nI said don't vote for me because I'm a woman but don't vote against me because I'm a woman.\n10:39:23;19\nYeah.\n10:39:27;12\nAnd then I had my three nos, my three nos.\n10:39:30;13\nI had the three M si got the three nos, no wasted time.\n10:39:34;09\nRight.\n10:39:34;12\nThen no wasted time.\n10:39:36;14\nNo underutilized resource or that's organization mobilizing messaging and no underutilized resource and no regrets the day after the election.\n10:39:48;13\nWe just could have done more, we just could have done more.\n10:39:55;18\nSo I'm a, I was former chair of the party before I went to Congress.\n10:39:59;23\nI had never had any intention of running for Congress.\n10:40:02;14\nYou never know what's out there.\n10:40:03;21\nBen?\n10:40:03;28\nYou have to be ready.\n10:40:06;07\nMhm.\n10:40:07;12\nBut, but, but Kamala Harris is ready.\n10:40:15;14\nTim Walls is ready.\n10:40:17;26\nSo in any case, you again, we know what is at stake.\n10:40:21;08\nWisconsin is in uh the lead in so many ways, whether it's leading in our, our biggest product uh globally is our agriculture.\n10:40:33;24\nIt's so very, very important.\n10:40:36;04\nUh uh I see a cheese head.\n10:40:37;25\nOh, I see a lot of cheese heads but for the, for this and so many reasons, I thank you all for your leadership.\n10:40:46;21\nNow, in this, these two races, Peter Barca was a member of Congress.\n10:40:52;03\nWe want him back again.\n10:40:58;10\nHe's so wonderful.\n10:40:59;23\nWe want him back again.\n10:41:01;04\nAnd Rebecca Cook in Wisconsin three here.\n10:41:05;15\nThis is very, so you can't add by subtracting, you will reelect the members who are from Wisconsin and starting in the Senate with Tammy Baldwin.\n10:41:18;04\nTammy Baldwin started in the house.\n10:41:20;17\nI campaigned with her in Madison and the suburban, the urban rural areas in her district as well.\n10:41:27;14\nCould see this woman of Great grace.\n10:41:31;02\nNow, she was going to be the first lesbian member of Congress that we knew the first lesbian member of Congress who better than Tammy Baldwin.\n10:41:40;14\nComing in with her commitment, her values, her vision and the rest, her graciousness, her just goodness that emanated from her.\n10:41:52;25\nAnd then she went on to the United States Senate and that's where she has to go again.\n10:41:58;12\nSo thank you for all of that.\n10:42:01;24\nSo are you ready?\n10:42:02;29\nAre you ready to just win?\n10:42:05;10\nSo I won't sing the national anthem for you.\n10:42:08;04\nBut I just left the Maryland delegation.\n10:42:10;03\nThat's where I'm from.\n10:42:11;13\nAnd um originally I've been in San Francisco for 50 years raising our family.\n10:42:16;24\nMy daughter, Alexandra is here with her husband, Neil.\n10:42:19;22\nThis is a family visit for us.\n10:42:21;11\nMy daughter Christine, active in the Democratic Party keeps reminding me the platform is coming out tonight.\n10:42:29;07\nThat will be our message.\n10:42:31;10\nBut when I was in Maryland, I said to them, I brag about the fact that the national anthem was written in Baltimore, Francis Scott Key, the the war of 1812.\n10:42:43;02\nAll of that.\n10:42:43;29\nNow when you're at a game, Green Bay didn't do too well.\n10:42:49;15\nLast night when you're at a game, you get to the end land, the free home of the brave everybody.\n10:42:55;22\nCheers.\n10:42:56;09\nRight.\n10:42:59;02\nI hear before that when it says proof through the night that our flag was still there, proof enough that our flags are still there.\n10:43:14;07\nWe are in the night in some respects in terms of the assault on our democracy that the other side, that other guy is making.\n10:43:22;08\nIt's appalling.\n10:43:23;21\nIt's horrible how the Republicans could even accept such an unpatriotic thing.\n10:43:28;28\nBut it is what it is.\n10:43:30;05\nAnd as I say, we don't agonize, we organize, we unionize, we just win baby.\n10:43:35;27\nThat's what it is.\n10:43:38;20\nYeah, but we have to prove through the night that our flag was still there.\n10:43:45;12\nAnd as Joe Biden has consistently said and done as President of the United States, still there with liberty and justice for all.\n10:43:55;13\nAre we ready to just win baby, elect Kamala Harris and Tim walls, President, vice President of the United States, Tammy Baldwin to the United States and Peter Barker and Rebecca to the House of Representatives.\n10:44:10;03\nThank you for the honor of sharing some thoughts for you as a former party chair, recognizing the work that you, that you do that is running for these positions, the grassroots activity of it just to own the ground, baby.\n10:44:25;20\nAnd that's our message.\n10:44:26;17\nThat's how we're gonna win.\n10:44:28;01\nThank you all so much.\n10:44:34;09\nThank you, Wisconsin.\n10:44:39;06\nYeah.\n10:44:41;15\nRight.\n10:44:45;29\nSpeaker Nancy Pelosi author, I might add of the new book must read and she reads the audio book in her own voice.\n10:44:59;04\nThe Art of power, a true artist.\n10:45:02;20\nOur amazing speaker, Emerita Nancy Pelosi, Wisconsin.\n10:45:10;01\nAre you ready to own the ground?\n10:45:14;02\nAre you ready to just win, baby?\n10:45:17;17\nLet's give another giant round of applause and thank you to Nancy Pelosi for joining us this morning.\n10:45:22;25\nHoly smokes.\n10:45:30;01\nAh, I'm thrilled to be able to welcome this morning's final guest speaker.\n10:45:39;22\nI'm so pleased and proud to introduce someone who has brought case after case after critical case forward to advance the cause of justice, freedom and accountability in the state of Wisconsin.\n10:45:53;18\nSomeone.\n10:45:54;03\nI'm proud to call a friend and neighbor.\n10:45:56;11\nOur one and only attorney general of the great state of Wisconsin.\n10:46:00;18\nJosh.\n10:46:08;05\nThank you.\n10:46:09;08\nHello, Wisconsin.\n10:46:11;26\nHoly cow.\n10:46:12;27\nWhat a week this is.\n10:46:14;15\nYou know, at first I got, I have to tell you a story and, and you're all gonna wanna hear this.\n10:46:18;28\nUh, just a few minutes ago.\n10:46:20;23\nI had what I think will be a, a lifelong memory, which is, somebody came up to me and said, um, Nancy Pelosi's schedule has shifted a little bit.\n10:46:28;26\nIs it ok if she goes ahead of you, the Obamas weren't available.\n10:46:36;28\nUm, uh, the greatest speaker in American history just spoke to this audience.\n10:46:43;19\nWhat a day and by the, and, and what a week this has been and what a month this has been.\n10:46:52;25\nUm, I have a lot to say about that.\n10:46:54;27\nThere's a lot to talk about right now, but I actually want to start with some Wisconsin business because there is a lot going on at the state level right now.\n10:47:03;13\nWe, I think deserve a round of applause for all the work that you have done that the state party has done because last week and it's hard to believe this was just last week.\n10:47:13;18\nWe had a primary in Wisconsin where Republicans put two amendments to grab power away from Governor Ebers and give it to our legislature.\n10:47:23;15\nAnd Wisconsinites organized, they got information out about the stakes of that vote and we overwhelmingly defeated those Republican amendments.\n10:47:33;10\nGreat work, Wisconsin.\n10:47:39;02\nAnd I, I don't know if you saw Robin Voss remarks when he was asked about these amendments and what was coming in the future?\n10:47:46;27\nHe said that he's going to double down on constitutional amendments.\n10:47:53;17\nNow.\n10:47:53;26\nI, I don't want to bring up bad memories, but you may remember that after Governor Ebers and I were first elected in 2018, Robin Voss began his power grab spree by bringing the legislature into special election and having them vote to take authority away from the governor's office and the A GS office.\n10:48:12;29\nBut you know, I have a point I want to make about how things have gone with with Robin Voss as speaker.\n10:48:19;08\nWhen Robin Voss was elected, speaker, Republicans had overwhelming majorities in the state legislature.\n10:48:26;06\nRepublicans controlled the governor's office.\n10:48:28;29\nRepublicans controlled the A GS office.\n10:48:31;13\nRepublicans had a clear majority on the state Supreme court.\n10:48:36;20\nWell, now Governor Evers is in his second term as governor.\n10:48:44;01\nI am proud to be in my second term as attorney general.\n10:48:48;07\nOur state Supreme court majority has flipped Robin Boss's power grab with the amendments has gone down.\n10:48:56;08\nRobin Voss has seen defeat after defeat after defeat, but we've got one more defeat to hand him because this fall, we have the opportunity to vote with fair maps for the first time in more than a decade.\n10:49:12;03\nSo this fall, let's flip the majority in the assembly and let's end the speakership of Robin Vos, we, we've got seats to gain in the Senate as well and we have a clear path to a majority in the Senate if we put in the work in this election and the next election and think about what it would mean in Wisconsin to have Republic to have Republican majorities gone and to have Democrats in the majority.\n10:49:44;01\nIt means common sense, gun safety legislation get past, like Chris Murphy talked about it means expanding Medicaid.\n10:49:51;28\nSo more of our residents are able to get access to the health care they need.\n10:49:56;20\nWith a democratic majority, we can codify reproductive rights into Wisconsin law and we can finally fully fund education in Wisconsin if we have a democratic majority.\n10:50:14;01\nAnd of course, we've got critical congressional races.\n10:50:17;18\nThe two that Speaker Pelosi mentioned, I also want to highlight the eighth congressional district where our outstanding candidate Kristen Lyerly Kristen, are you here?\n10:50:27;03\nIs running, is running to win that district and flip that blue.\n10:50:32;28\nNow, I don't need to tell anybody here about the stakes in the senate election and how critical it is that we reelect Tammy Baldwin.\n10:50:39;18\nThis is somebody who fights every day for Wisconsinites.\n10:50:44;20\nTammy Baldwin has gone to bed for us.\n10:50:47;11\nShe's fighting for Buy America.\n10:50:49;13\nShe has succeeded in protecting same sex marriages.\n10:50:53;05\nShe is fighting to codify reproductive rights at the federal level.\n10:50:57;27\nTammy Baldwin has expanded access to affordable health care.\n10:51:02;05\nShe is a champion for us on issue after issue and her opponent is in Wisconsin sometimes.\n10:51:11;16\nWell, she has been talking to communities to people across our state.\n10:51:16;11\nEric Hovde has been, I think doing beach is the phrase for that.\n10:51:22;25\nThe contrast could not be clear, but he has talked about ending the Affordable Care Act.\n10:51:27;21\nHe's talked about how he's wanted to overturn Roe V. Wade.\n10:51:32;16\nThe stakes could not be more clear.\n10:51:35;03\nAnd speaking of races where the stakes could not be more clear.\n10:51:38;20\nWe have all been hearing about the presidential election for the last few days.\n10:51:43;11\nI just want to add a few points to some of what we've heard first.\n10:51:47;09\nI, I believe that this is the most important election in any of our lifetimes.\n10:51:53;04\nThe difference in the path that Kamala Harris and Tim walls have laid out and the path that Donald Trump and JD Vance have laid out is as big a difference as you can possibly imagine.\n10:52:04;15\nBut let's talk about competence, you know, the values, the principles matter, but let's talk about competence and I'll just give you one example.\n10:52:12;16\nI spent a lot of time as your attorney general thinking about public safety.\n10:52:16;27\nWe've held big pharmaceutical companies accountable for their role in the opioid epidemic.\n10:52:21;20\nWe fought to strengthen our sexual assault kit laws.\n10:52:24;29\nWe have stood up against gun violence and for common sense, gun safety measures and when it comes to public safety, I don't know if you saw JD Vance's remarks last week in Milwaukee, but in talking about his approach to public safety, I'm not making this up.\n10:52:41;03\nHe pointed people to the movie, The Gangs of New York for how we should think about public safety in Kamala Harris.\n10:52:49;20\nWe have the former attorney general of the largest state in the country who has taken on people responsible for mortgage fraud.\n10:52:57;01\nA former prosecutor from one of our largest counties who put dangerous violent offenders behind bars.\n10:53:05;16\nAnd on the Republican side, you've got one guy who's seen gangs of New York and another guy who's seen Silence of the lambs.\n10:53:12;19\nThis is not a tough choice.\n10:53:15;22\nI will say if there's one movie I associate with Donald Trump, it's actually a Jim Carrey movie.\n10:53:21;23\nIt's called Liar, Liar.\n10:53:29;04\nBut we also see the impact of that expertise in the results we've gotten when Donald Trump was in office.\n10:53:34;27\nAs president, violent crime went up, shootings went up, homicides went up including in Wisconsin and with the Biden Harris administration in office, shootings have dropped.\n10:53:48;24\nHomicides have dropped at historic levels.\n10:53:52;15\nThey have been investing in and supporting the FBI and the US DOJ while Donald Trump has been attacking them and claims that if he's elected president, he will weaponize them.\n10:54:04;25\nThat is not an approach that is going to make our communities safer.\n10:54:08;09\nIt's not an approach that's gonna make our community stronger.\n10:54:10;25\nWe cannot afford another four years of their incompetence in the White House and when it comes to our values, the contrast could not be clear.\n10:54:20;11\nI wanna tell you a quick story about Kamala Harris.\n10:54:23;16\nShe is fighting to strengthen our middle class.\n10:54:26;05\nShe's fighting to expand access to affordable health care.\n10:54:29;14\nShe's fighting to protect our natural resources and she has made our freedom a centerpiece of her campaign.\n10:54:36;11\nWell, when the Dobbs decision was pending at the Supreme Court, we had a good sense of where that case was going.\n10:54:43;19\nAnd Kamala Harris herself, a former A G convened several A GS including me from around the country asked us to come meet with her at the White House.\n10:54:54;10\nSo several of us went there.\n10:54:55;25\nSome of us showed up by Zoom and Kamala Harris wanted to hear from us about what we needed in our States.\n10:55:02;04\nIf the Dobbs decision came out the way we feared, she wanted to hear about how we were elevating the concerns that people were having about their own reproductive freedom, about the health of their families if access to abortion was lost and she wanted to know how she could help.\n10:55:18;25\nWell, it turned out that was the day before the Dobbs decision came down.\n10:55:23;20\nAnd you may remember four days after that decision, Governor Evers and I announced a lawsuit to block enforcement of our 1849 ban and we have now restored reproductive freedom in Wisconsin.\n10:55:40;21\nBut, but the fight isn't over, it is still going on in the courts, it's going to go on in our state legislature and it's going to go on at the federal level.\n10:55:49;00\nKamala Harris is a leader who understands the importance of protecting our freedom and who's going to put in the work to get it done.\n10:55:56;11\nOn the other side have, how many of you have heard about project 2025?\n10:56:02;11\nThe secret is out, right.\n10:56:04;04\nThe secret is out 900 plus pages that I can boil down.\n10:56:09;17\nActually, I can save you a lot of time.\n10:56:11;11\nIt's about attacking our freedoms.\n10:56:13;16\nIt's about attacking the middle class and it's about attacking equality of opportunity.\n10:56:20;05\nSo with those 40 hours, we just saved, let's make sure that 2025 project doesn't go into effect in Wisconsin or anywhere in this country.\n10:56:30;11\nIt's a, it's a project about fundamentally taking our country backwards, taking us backwards in some cases, hundreds of years.\n10:56:40;09\nBut as Vice President Harris likes to say about going backwards, we're not going back, we are not going to go back, but we know what it takes in Wisconsin to make sure that we move forward and not backward.\n10:56:55;17\nWe know what it means to put in the kind of work we do to get elections across the finish line and to win.\n10:57:01;17\nAnd if you need any extra motivation over the next 76 days, let me just say this.\n10:57:07;14\nI don't know how many of you had the chance to hear from Hillary Clinton, uh on the first night of the convention.\n10:57:14;04\nBut it brought back a lot of memories for me from that 2016 election.\n10:57:18;05\nAnd one thing that I will always remember is the videos that were going viral on election day of people who had cast their ballot, had those I voted stickers and put them on Susan B, Anthony's gravestone.\n10:57:32;11\nAnd what we all thought was going to be a celebratory night as those election results rolled in became a nightmare.\n10:57:39;25\nUh And we have now lived through years and years of Donald Trump's divisiveness and even now with Joe Biden, the White House, Donald Trump casts a pall over what is happening in this country.\n10:57:53;09\nHe brings division, he encourages Republicans to obstruct.\n10:57:57;02\nHe has stood in the way of progress.\n10:58:01;21\nBut in 76 days, we can fundamentally change that narrative.\n10:58:07;16\nWe can elect Kamala Harris as the next president of the United States.\n10:58:11;13\nAnd think about what that will mean for little girls across this country, not just to be told that they can do anything but to see it in the highest office of our land.\n10:58:23;16\nAnd as the father of two boys, let me tell you think about what it means for all of our Children to grow up in an America where equality of opportunity is not just something we say, but is something we can show is true for every American when we stand up for equal justice under the law.\n10:58:41;08\nWe all benefit when we speak out against hate against the transgender community.\n10:58:47;02\nAll of us become safer when we speak out against racial injustice.\n10:58:51;22\nAll of us get to live in a society that is more equal when we come together.\n10:58:57;02\nWhen we are united, we are as strong as we can be and we all benefit no matter what.\n10:59:03;16\nDonald Trump and JD Vance say as they try to divide us.\n10:59:07;08\nSo in 76 days, let's get engaged.\n10:59:10;20\nLet's make sure we knock on doors.\n10:59:12;28\nLet's make sure we pick up the phone.\n10:59:14;18\nLet's have those difficult conversations with our friends and our family and our neighbors and let's elect Kamala Harris and Tim walls as the next president and vice president of the United States.\n10:59:26;12\nLet's do it.\n10:59:27;01\nLet's go.\n10:59:27;19\nThank you, everybody.\n10:59:29;09\nThank you, Attorney General, Josh Cole.\n10:59:40;00\nLet's give him of applause fighting for all of us.\n10:59:46;21\nOh, what a breakfast.\n10:59:49;08\nWhat speakers?\n10:59:50;08\nWhat a day we have got.\n10:59:52;23\nWe have one final order of business before we get, which is the drawings for the guest masses and the prizes for today before I introduce our executive director, Cassie Felli and our deputy executive directors, Abel for the drawing.\n11:00:08;04\nLet me say a couple of things, a reminder first to make sure tonight if you are in, if you have a delegate pass or a guest pass that you are in your seat by 6 p.m. So you can cheer on Mayor Cavalier Johnson.\n11:00:21;01\nWhen he addresses our convention tonight, we are so excited, so excited to show what Wisconsin sounds like when we cheer.\n11:00:31;11\nSecondly, if you do not have a pass tonight, there are many places you could go to watch.\n11:00:36;00\nOne of them is the into action reception area where there's beautiful screens and snacks and food and art.\n11:00:41;22\nAnd everybody is invited there throughout the day.\n11:00:43;20\nAnd then after the gavel drops, everyone is invited to DNC committee man, Alex Lasry special party to celebrate the Wisconsin delegation.\n11:00:52;03\nSo make sure you go to that party tonight and lastly be thinking about your stuff.\n11:00:59;06\nI know of at least one phone that has gone missing in this very room this morning.\n11:01:03;06\nIf you find that room, bring it to the reception table so that its owner can claim it, but make sure you have your phone.\n11:01:10;19\nMake sure you have your cheese head.\n11:01:12;07\nLove seeing some cheese heads here this morning, be there tonight.\n11:01:15;20\nReady to go.\n11:01:16;13\nYou might want to have some extra water and some snack bars.\n11:01:18;29\nIt's gonna be an amazing, amazing night.\n11:01:21;16\nAnd with that, let's give a giant round of applause.\n11:01:24;12\nLet's give a round of applause to everyone working here at the Sheridan Riverwalk today.\n11:01:29;08\nEveryone on the Democratic Party of Wisconsin team who's working here today and let's give a big Wisconsin.\n11:01:34;24\nThank you and welcome to Cassie Felli and Sarah Abel for today's drive.\n11:01:39;24\nThank you.\n11:01:46;06\nHello, I'm back again.\n11:01:47;17\nMy voice is dying.\n11:01:48;18\nSo Sarah is gonna do the talking 10.\n11:01:53;18\nAll right, we have 10 guest passes to give away.\n11:02:03;11\nUm.\n11:02:03;26\nOk.\n11:02:04;05\nFirst we have Madeline Buckles guest of Henry Freeze Madeline.\n11:02:11;28\nAre you here?\n11:02:15;05\nWe hold it till the end.\n11:02:16;06\nReminder of the rules.\n11:02:17;10\nYou have to be in the room to win your ticket.\n11:02:20;14\nWe will hold it um until the end and then we will redraw P A Yeah.\n11:02:32;17\nUh Stephanie Begat guest of Arvia.\n11:02:40;10\nOh, ok.\n11:02:41;03\n

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Allies Advance, Aug 44; German forces surrendering to Allied Forces near Falaise; Allies approach borders; Canadian or British troops Russian laborers freed women collaborators get heads shaved in Chartres; Sniper footage in Paris

Allies Advance, Aug 44; German forces surrendering to Allied Forces near Falaise; Allies approach borders; Canadian or British troops Russian laborers freed women collaborators get heads shaved in Chartres; Sniper footage in Paris. ""BRITISH ARMY ADVANCING IN FIELDS WOW BRITISH TANK PASSING, EXPLOSION, BRITISH SOLDIERS BEING SHOT AT SOLDIER RUNNING, BULLETS RICOCHET OFF WALL AS HE GOES BOMBED TOWN WOW ALLIED TANKS ATTACKING GERMAN FORTIFICATION MORTER FIRE OUTSIDE CHURCH AT FALAISE GERMANS SURRENDERING GERMAN SOLDIER SURRENDERING TO BRITISH TROOPS TANK ROLLS THRU BOMBED SHELL OF A TOWN ALLIED ADVANCING THROUGH FRENCH TOWNS RUINS CAT CLEANING IT'S FACE IN RUBBLE RUSSIAN WOMEN SLAVE LABOR IN WESTERN EUROPE LIBERATED YANKS GREETED BY RUSSIAN WOMEN SIGN: CHARTRES TAKING COVER FROM SNIPER FIRE FROM CATHEDRAL TOWER WOW US SOLDIERS AND FRENCH CIVILIANS TAKING COVER FROM ENEMY SMALL ARMS; US SOLIDER RETURNS FIRE SNIPERS BUSTED MARCHED THRU TOWN GERMAN SOLDIERS SURRENDER TO US ARMY WOMAN'S HAIR CUT OFF FRENCH WOMAN COLLABORATOR PUBLICLY HUMILIATED IN PUBLIC WITH AIR CUT OFF FRENCH WOMEN COLLABORATORS TAKING OF ST MALO WOW ARTILLERY FIRE WOW BATTLE; US SOLDIER RUNNING IN RUINED FRENCH TOWN WOW US SOLDIERS FIRE FIGHT IN FRENCH CITY ST. LO DEAD BODY: GERMAN SOLDIER? WOW ALLIED AIRSTRIKE; GROUND EXPLOSIONS COASTAL CARPET BOMBING GERMAN SOLDIERS SURRENDERING TO US SOLDIERS CAPTURED GERMANS GERMAN POWS HUNDREDS OF GERMAN POWs PACIFIC THEATER HOME FRONT"". WWII in HD

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A group of male resistance fighters hold the head and pull the hair of a blonde woman, apparently a Nazi or French Nazi collaborator, and mock her, shaking her head back and forth. Other female Nazi collaborators, women surrender with their arms up in the air. French who collaborated with the Nazis face the mobs of angry Parisians as they try and leave the city. Female Nazi collaborator with her head forcibly shaved bald, humiliated, forced to walk through streets, shamed. Men forcibly pulled to trucks by armed French police. Nazis or French Nazi collaborators. Crowds in the streets of Paris celebrate the liberation of France from the Nazis at end of WWII.

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WOMEN COLLABORATORS GET HEADS SHAVED

Unissued / unused material - exact dates and locations unclear or unknown. Liberation of France. Various shots of women collaborators having their heads shaved - crowd of civilians and some GIs watch. Shots same or similar to those in UN 928 E, film ID 1883.11 from which following description is copied: Various shots of members of Maquis shaving heads of women who have collaborated with Germans during occupation. The shaving takes place outside the Mayor's offices, a large crowd watches including many children and American GIs. C/U hair falling on ground. The French resistance men then parade the collaborators through the streets to humiliate them. One of the men forces a woman to look at the camera, he makes a "v" sign behind her head.

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French women collaborators stand before a large crowd in France.

Heads of French women collaborators are shaved in France. The collaborators stand before a large jeering crowd. The women collaborators with shaved heads stand in a group. The women collaborators are marched on a street. The civilians jeer. Location: France. Date: August 31, 1944.

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HAS of women collaborators, their heads shaved, being escorted through jeering crowd.

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NO_OF_ITEMS = 2 ITEM_NO = 1 DESCRIPTION : FORWARD IN NORMANDY - In Caen the inhabitants were quickly finding out the many advantages of British occupation, American biscuits, French cheese and butter were being distributed. In Cherbourg French girls who had collaborated with the Germans had their heads shaved. Beyond Caen the big push forward began with a Montgomery style barrage. CARD_FILE = 44963 CARD_TITLE : Forward In Normandy SHOT_LIST : Cut story - AFU - Dawn shot of Churchills passing hedges. French civilians receive biscuits, butter, cheese in town of Caen. French evacuate town, on lorries, & hand carts. Various shots of cloister of Caen Cathedral crowded with people, who sleep there. Central kitchens supply them with hot meals. Shots of partisans wearing uniform openly. CU Cross of Lorraine on uniform. AFU - Stacks of cases of beer, case pushed along conveyor, various shots of bottles of beer. Soldiers lined up receive beer from CSM. CU soldier drinks bottle of beer. The above is in the Caen/Brettevillette areas. On the Yanky front Russian in jeep, walks away from camera back to German lines (Russian prisoners). He has promised to bring in his platoon, shots of him walking down railway track, next shot shows him coming back with his platoon, various shots of same, each one brought his rifle bolt. In Cherbourg, French girls (collaborationists) (or collaborators) have their heads shorn, various shots of girls, also as they walk off. AFU - GV of Sunday Service. British troops attended, Monty reads lesson, part of his recorded speech over same. French kids hand Monty bouquets. Monty talks with kids & mothers. Dawn shots (silhouettes) of Shermans past hedges, also in background, church steeple. Night & dawn shots of gun barrage. Day shots of Shermans over cornfields. Various shots. Aerial shots of Brettevillette shows tanks moving along roads. Ground shots of Shermans fitted with flails. Cuts - APS - French enter Notre Dame at Cherbourg. Crowds gathered in Place de la Republique for ceremony for changing name in honour of de Gaulle to his name. Various shots of crowds & American band playing. French girls dance. French women get heads shorn. Various shots of 75mm howitzer firing, loaded etc. Howitzers mounted on tank chassis. Shots of General Roosevelt's funeral at Ste. Marie Eglise, shots of procession. MS Captain Quent Roosevelt attending funeral. Shots at graveside, including firing salute, & sounding 'Last Post' (silent). In Cherbourg, girls who have heads shorn, this is classed as Bastille Day celebrations. Various parades through streets of partisans, & allied troops. Crowds sing, Mayor of Cherbourg (Dr. Rehault) makes speech (silent). Pathe-Gordon: Shots of fire brigade in Caen, flags fly on buildings. View of Red Cross in grounds of Lycee Melherbe. Various scenes in Caen. CAFU - In a village, French & Canadian soldiers celebrate Bastille Day, various shots of Service in progress, also shots of French/Canadian Regiment march into church. Flowers placed at base of War Memorial. Shots of crowds. AFU - At Craully, stacks of cases of beer. British deal with evacuation in Caen. Celebrations in Caen, wreath laying, hoisting Tricolour over buildings. At Brettevillette, Fusiliers march through Fontenay-le-Pesnel. POW brought in. 5.5 field guns in action. Shermans cross cornfields. Dawn artillery barrage - flashes of guns. Transport & Brens move up, also anti-tank guns etc. Shots of aircraft over Brettevillette, guns fire at enemy, smoke rises from eney positions. Advance towards Verson, Churchills silhouette behind hedges, German reccy car burning. Infantry move forward, Shermans with flails on move, cause considerable dust. Shots of abandoned anti-tank mines (German). Reccy car crosses stream, followed by DRs. Shots of wrecked railway. Stretcher case receives attention from RAMC. Montgomery decorates several soldiers & Airbourne troops. Shots of Broadcast Church Service held in open, Monty reads lesson. KEYWORDS : Occupied Countries; Military Alliances; France; Military - Active; Environment; Vehicles; Food, Drink and Cooking; Buildings, Landmarks and Monuments; International Aid (Military); Military - R&R; Munitions and Armaments; Prisoners of War; Propaganda; Railways; Young Adults; Crime and Punishment; Religion and superstition; Ceremonies - Religious; Personalities - Armed Forces; Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery of Alamein; Children; Ceremonies - Miscellaneous; Military - Ceremonial; Music and Dance; Deaths; Ceremonies - Funerary; General Roosevelt; Personalities - Relatives; Celebrations - National Days; Personalities - Local Government; Ceremonies - Memorial; Aviation; Airforce - Active; Air Raids and War Damage; Medicine and Health COMMENTS : General Roosevelt - Could this be Colonel Kermit Roosevelt? MATERIAL : Neg 7890 Lav 7813 Can 8588 Flemish Dupe 6772 Dupe of Cut Story 7887 Keys 8245 Indian Sound Lav 7834 sent to Mr. Perrin 13.9.44 & will not be returned complete but will return as part of the MOI Short. Track & Neg 7827 Monty reads lesson TWTD tape 71 Cuts: CAFU Lav 7822 - Monty Pathe Lav 7812 - Refugees AFU Lav 7812, 7825 APS Dupe 7813 - Haircuts APS Dupe 7813 CAFU Lav 7817 APS Dupe Cuts 7856 AFU Lav 7842 APS Uncut Dupe 7910 Uncut APS Dupe 7868 - Burial Graves AFU Lav 7874 - A.700/83/4-6 - Bombardment LENGTH_SHOT = 422 DATE_SUBD = 07/00/1944

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**ATTENTION AFFILIATES: BELOW IS A ROUGH TRANSCRIPTION PROVIDED BY AN AUTOMATED SERVICE. THIS MAY NOT BE EXACT. PLEASE CHECK FOR ACCURACY BEFORE TAKING TO AIR.**\n\n--SUPERS--\nWednesday\nChicago\n\nRep. Nancy Pelosi\n(D), California\n\n--VIDEO SHOWS--\nWe're so lucky to be here at this moment.\n09:23:57;08\nAnd can you imagine how frustrating it must be to be Donald Trump at this moment and watch this convention and think how, how completely outclassed you are by Democrats at this moment.\n09:24:10;26\nAnd now we're here for another amazing Wisconsin Democratic Party breakfast.\n09:24:16;23\nUh I wanna start with a couple of quick announcements and then introduce our first speaker who I could not be more excited about.\n09:24:23;10\nUh We have uh a, we had a, an amazing night last night.\n09:24:28;21\nWe have as I'll, I'll, I'll mention again, we have a limited number of seats in the arena.\n09:24:34;01\nWe're able to accommodate some guests and seats.\n09:24:36;13\nIf there are people that are not in their seats, as we go to these final two nights, there's every possibility that every single delegate will be there and, and wanting to be in their seats in the delegation.\n09:24:45;20\nSo two things that means one is if you're a, a guest and uh if, if, if there's some uh person from another delegation, someone who's around and they're in the Wisconsin area.\n09:24:57;22\nIf we start getting close to capacity, we will ask folks to move so that we have all Wisconsin delegates in those delegate seats.\n09:25:04;20\nOf course, we're happy to accommodate friends if there's, if there's open space, but we wanna make sure our delegates are in those spots.\n09:25:10;18\nAnd the second thing I'll say is that tonight and tomorrow night, uh the, the if for any guest that doesn't get their name pulled out of the box, the box and it wants to make sure they're watching the speeches.\n09:25:22;14\nThere's a wonderful space with a, with a watch party that's happening every night.\n09:25:26;27\nIn fact, it's open every day from noon until 10 p.m. And then until the, until the end of the convention, it's called into action and it is not far away.\n09:25:37;19\nIt's at 2226 West Walnut Street.\n09:25:41;10\nSo if you're looking for a place to gather with fellow Democrats and friends and you're a guest of this delegation, that's a great place to go.\n09:25:47;16\nThey also have programming all day every day.\n09:25:49;12\nThey have amazing speakers.\n09:25:50;22\nIf they have an art exhibit, it's a really cool, a cool space and the cool thing if you haven't checked it out, so we'll send that information out, but wanted to make sure to flag that.\n09:25:58;13\nThere are great places to watch the convention if you're not in the hall.\n09:26:01;14\nAnd if you are in the hall, it is, it is really an amazing, amazing experience.\n09:26:07;11\nOk.\n09:26:08;20\nWith all those uh pieces laid out, I am so thrilled.\n09:26:12;13\nTo introduce our next speaker.\n09:26:14;02\nWe talk a lot about how President Biden and Vice President Harris are leading the most pro union administration in the history of the United States of America.\n09:26:26;27\nThey lead with their values.\n09:26:28;14\nThey walk the walk, they walk the walk on picket lines, running a pro union pro worker administration because this party is anchored by our eternal core partner, the labor movement, it means having a policy, a Department of Labor, a leader in the Department of Labor who champions the voices and the fight of working people every single day.\n09:26:52;02\nAnd today she is bringing that championship directly here to the Wisconsin Democratic delegation breakfast.\n09:26:59;08\nLet's welcome Biden Harris Department of Labor Secretary, Julie Sue.\n09:27:09;07\nYes.\n09:27:11;06\nOk.\n09:27:17;16\nHello, Wisconsin.\n09:27:21;14\nHold on.\n09:27:22;01\nI just got to get a photo of what I get to see.\n09:27:24;03\nJust looking at all of you makes me very happy.\n09:27:28;23\nAll right.\n09:27:29;10\nThank you all so much.\n09:27:30;15\nI see that the cheese heads are either at the on the table or back in the hotel rooms, but it was awesome to see them last night.\n09:27:37;20\nUm So I'm so happy to be here with all of you as some of, you know, I am a daughter of Wisconsin.\n09:27:45;19\nI was born a badger born right in Madison.\n09:27:50;27\nSo it's so good to be with all of you.\n09:27:53;08\nAnd of course, I'm here today in my personal capacity as a um a as original Wisconsinite.\n09:27:59;16\nUm And as somebody who is, could not be more excited about this moment that we are in and I don't need to tell Wisconsin Democrats how to get it done.\n09:28:07;27\nYou guys are doing it every single day and I'm just so proud to watch it.\n09:28:13;00\nI'm so proud to cheer you on and I will see you all again in your home state.\n09:28:16;29\nBut for today, I wanna say a little bit about another um daughter of Wisconsin, our next president, Kamala Harris.\n09:28:28;02\nSo I was actually with her, um, one day, a couple of months ago when we were, we were both back in Wisconsin and we, she visited her, uh her original home as you may have seen.\n09:28:39;29\nAnd we all know that this is a candidate, a future president who represents the best of Wisconsin and the best of this country.\n09:28:50;05\nAnd I've known her for a little over a decade, about a dozen years because of our time together in California when she was the attorney general, I was the California labor commissioner, fighting to end wage theft, fighting to protect working people.\n09:29:06;03\nThank you.\n09:29:06;22\nAnd we worked together.\n09:29:07;29\nActually, we collaborated on combating wage theft on making sure the most vulnerable people in our communities knew that the government had an ally and had somebody on their side.\n09:29:18;09\nAnd that's the kind of person that Kamala Harris is right.\n09:29:20;16\nShe's somebody who's gonna fight for people who aren't represented.\n09:29:23;05\nShe's somebody who has taken on um, abusers on behalf of women in Children.\n09:29:28;12\nShe's somebody who has protected, um, working people from abusive corporations and she's somebody who's fought for homeowners, um, against big banks.\n09:29:37;06\nAnd that's what I have seen in her, um, as my home state, us senator and what we have all gotten to see from her as our United States vice president.\n09:29:46;24\nAnd it's what's embodied in her opportunity that she seeks to build right a place where every child is going to um grow up and know that there's real opportunity um uh in which no child grows up in poverty uh in which we actually protect our communities and our climate.\n09:30:06;05\nAnd so you all know who she is and this is such an exciting time where we get to work to elect her.\n09:30:11;13\nI also wanna say something about the other guy.\n09:30:15;20\nYeah, in a lot of elections, you've got somebody who's basically, you know, the incumbent party and then somebody who's the challenger, right?\n09:30:23;28\nAnd you don't really know exactly what they're gonna do when they get into office.\n09:30:29;10\nWe know exactly what he's going to do when he gets into office because he's been there already, right?\n09:30:35;05\nWe know what that looks like.\n09:30:36;16\nWe all remember the, the, the sense of dread, the sense of anxiety if it wasn't about something he was gonna do to uh you know, in, in a policy way to make things worse for us.\n09:30:46;19\nIt was though some way he was gonna embarrass us, uh, on the national stage or even the international stage.\n09:30:52;02\nAnd let's just be clear, someone with a record like his seeking to get that same job again.\n09:31:01;10\nCan you imagine anybody actually having done what they did in that job once getting the job again?\n09:31:09;26\nRight.\n09:31:10;20\nWhen you leave that job and there's fewer jobs in the country than when you got there.\n09:31:17;15\nWho says you get another chance, right?\n09:31:21;03\nWhen you were president during a global crisis and you not only had no idea what to do but denied that it was a crisis.\n09:31:29;19\nDo you get that job again?\n09:31:32;01\nI don't think so.\n09:31:33;13\nRight?\n09:31:34;16\nAnd when you spent the entire time that you were there stomping on demeaning, belittling women, do you get that job again?\n09:31:44;06\nI don't think so.\n09:31:45;29\nWhen you spent that entire time there rolling back the clock, turning back civil rights, denying voting rights.\n09:31:54;22\nDo you think you get that job again?\n09:31:57;12\nI don't think so.\n09:31:58;20\nSo this man has said, look, I get to do what I want, right?\n09:32:01;20\nI get to make fun of Kamala Harris.\n09:32:03;02\nI get to say what I want because that's my way, folks, we have 76 days to tell him that his way is not our way.\n09:32:12;04\nIt is not the Wisconsin way and it's not the American way and we're gonna get that done.\n09:32:19;13\nAnd you know, I am here in my personal capacity.\n09:32:21;09\nSo I'm not gonna talk about all the great work that we have done together with you all in Wisconsin, together with Governor evers to build our infrastructure, to protect working people.\n09:32:31;14\nBut I do wanna say one thing in my personal capacity because the other ticket is trying to say that they are the ticket and the party of working people.\n09:32:42;16\nYeah, give us a break, right?\n09:32:45;11\nYou can't be against overtime pay and say that you're a pro worker, you can't be anti-immigrant and pro worker.\n09:33:01;10\nWe are not going back to a time where immigrants were vilified and where policies of the border were based on race and religion and calling countries shithole countries.\n09:33:10;02\nWe're not doing that.\n09:33:14;09\nYou cannot be pro sexual harassment and pro worker doesn't work like that.\n09:33:23;00\nYou can't be anti voting rights and pro worker working people.\n09:33:29;13\nUnions are the fight about the basics of democracy, right?\n09:33:33;09\nHow we vote, how we participate, how we look out for the common good over the individual good, right?\n09:33:39;12\nYou cannot be pro Elon Musk and pro worker and you definitely cannot be anti union and pro worker.\n09:33:54;20\nSo Wisconsin, we got 76 days to elect a real pro worker, pro women, pro civil rights, pro voting rights person into this office.\n09:34:06;09\nWe're gonna make history because it's high time.\n09:34:08;29\nWe have that woman of color lead our country, right?\n09:34:14;29\nAnd the most qualified person on the ballot.\n09:34:18;25\nLet's elect Vice President Harris and governor Walls to be the next president and vice president of the United States of America.\n09:34:26;15\nWe're only gonna do this when Wisconsin gets it done and you are gonna do it because you know that the best way to get people out to vote is not through polls, it's not through commercials as important as those are.\n09:34:44;13\nIt's not even through conventions as great as this is for us to be together here.\n09:34:49;18\nIt's through talking to individuals and so each of us, each of you, I know this.\n09:34:55;28\nMy team knows this.\n09:34:56;20\nWe are in it.\n09:34:57;11\nI'm not gonna ask anybody to do anything.\n09:34:58;18\nI'm not willing to do.\n09:34:59;21\nSo, we've gotta be in it and we've gotta have a plan to reach every single person that we know and not take anybody for granted, right?\n09:35:06;17\nOur family members, our friends, our neighbors, the parents of the kids at our schools, right?\n09:35:13;02\nEverybody we know we should be talking to them, we should be telling them why it's so important to vote.\n09:35:18;17\nWe should remind them why somebody who failed so miserably at their job once, should never get another chance to do it.\n09:35:27;11\nAnd we should be talking about why the America that we love should be an America of opportunity, of joy, of hope of a president that reflects all of those things.\n09:35:38;09\nSo make a plan for everyone, you know, to get to the polls and let's do this, Wisconsin.\n09:35:42;25\nThank you so much for everything you're already doing and I will see you back in Wisconsin.\n09:35:51;13\nRight.\n09:35:54;01\nAnother round of applause for fellow Wisconsinite, our great Secretary of Labor here in her personal capacity, Julie Su ah, before I introduce our next speaker, I wanna share something.\n09:36:13;21\nI'm wildly wildly excited about, which is that tonight on the conventions stage, we are going to be hearing from Milwaukee's own mayor Cavalier Johnson.\n09:36:26;17\nLet's give him a round of applause and let me ask, let me ask everyone here to take extra special care to be in their seats at six o'clock PM tonight.\n09:36:37;28\nSo that when we see him in the six o'clock hour, we can bring down the roof of the United Center with our cheers and applause with our chief heads waving in the air to welcome Mayor Johnson to the national stage here at the convention.\n09:36:52;19\nSo mark your calendar.\n09:36:54;05\nIf you haven't already, let's make sure we're there ready to rock and cheer as loud as we can.\n09:36:59;23\nAnd let's prepare those cheering voices by welcoming another Wisconsinite, another Wisconsin champion for workers, another Wisconsin champion for the progressive causes to which all of us have devoted so much of our lives.\n09:37:14;20\nMy congressman, a champion for all of us.\n09:37:18;03\nThe great, the one the only mark.\n09:37:26;19\nGood morning.\n09:37:29;16\nThank you.\n09:37:30;10\nThank you very much.\n09:37:31;08\nThank you Ben.\n09:37:33;02\nAnd let's give another round of applause to Julie Sue.\n09:37:35;16\nShe is an amazing labor secretary.\n09:37:39;28\nAlthough I think I should just say the honorable Julie Sue by the official rules.\n09:37:44;05\nHow are we doing this morning?\n09:37:46;14\nAll right, by show of hands who's got six hours or more of sleep?\n09:37:50;14\nThat's what I thought.\n09:37:51;21\nI'm gonna get 4 to 6. All right.\n09:37:54;16\nHow many are under four H?\n09:37:57;07\nThose are the honest ones.\n09:37:58;17\nThank you.\n09:37:59;09\nAll right.\n09:38:00;03\nWell, it is amazing.\n09:38:01;14\nYou're here this morning.\n09:38:02;24\nUh, first off, I wanna thank, and we all need to thank the staff volunteers and everyone involved with the Wisconsin Democratic Party.\n09:38:13;23\nWe have the best party in the country and that's because of our chair, Ben Wickler and his amazing team.\n09:38:21;24\nSo let's give them some rousing.\n09:38:23;22\nThanks for having a terrific week.\n09:38:30;11\nAnd what a great week.\n09:38:31;18\nIt's been so far, although it's been two days, it feels like a week.\n09:38:34;25\nUh but we'll soon go back home and the real work will begin because we live in a purple state.\n09:38:42;19\nThat means we have some red and maroon areas.\n09:38:45;21\nWe have some beautiful indigo blue areas, but overall, we are purple and no one knows that more than the people in this room that we do not make politics a spectator sport.\n09:38:58;12\nUh We are in the game.\n09:39:00;03\nWe are getting sweaty occasionally.\n09:39:02;05\nWe'll pull a calf muscle, but we get right back up, but that's what it takes to win in a state like Wisconsin.\n09:39:10;03\nAnd we know there is so very much at stake.\n09:39:14;01\nFirst of all, let's thank our great governor Tony Evers and a just state Supreme Court for Fair Maps in Wisconsin.\n09:39:42;05\nLook as someone who ran the Assembly Democratic campaign committee back in 2008 when we took the majority back for the first time in 14 years.\n09:39:50;20\nAnd then we faced the 2010 depressing election cycle.\n09:39:54;13\nHundreds of state legislators lost across the country in a GOP wave.\n09:39:59;25\nWe had a gerrymandered State of Wisconsin as well as other states in the country.\n09:40:04;28\nSo to finally have fair maps that give us a real chance to get the majority a long overdue priority.\n09:40:12;23\nWe have to give special thanks to Governor Evers Maggie and others in his office for all that they helped us do to get those fair maps and I haven't heard it said yet.\n09:40:25;18\nSo I'm gonna say it now.\n09:40:27;02\nThree term.\n09:40:28;03\nTony sounds really great to me.\n09:40:35;27\nHey, so we've got to help in the assembly and the Senate districts across the state.\n09:40:43;08\nWe can pick up the State Assembly this cycle and get us to the net with the state Senate for 2026.\n09:40:51;06\nSo is anyone I've had when I was in the assembly is one of the favorite jobs I've ever had in my life.\n09:40:57;14\nI can tell you how important it is to give that back up to the governor so they can get some real things done.\n09:41:03;22\nWe're gonna do all we can to elect more Democrats to the state legislature.\n09:41:07;13\nRight.\n09:41:12;14\nWe also have to keep our Democratic US Senate majority.\n09:41:16;23\nAnd the only way you do that is to keep our amazing us Senator Tammy Baldwin.\n09:41:26;17\nYou know, over 30 years ago I got elected to the Dane County Board and at the time there was this recent law school graduate on the board named Tammy Baldwin.\n09:41:36;15\nI think the best compliment you can say and maybe it's a Wisconsin compliment after I heard the New York and New Jersey delegations show their bravado last night, uh, in the roll call, you know, to say someone hasn't changed in all that time despite going from the county board to the state legislature, to Congress, to the US Senate, I think is the greatest compliment that you could say about anyone.\n09:41:59;14\nAnd that truly is our Tammy Baldwin.\n09:42:05;08\nYou know, she doesn't just win in an election year.\n09:42:08;16\nShe wins in the five years prior to the election year by getting around the state and working hard and doing everything she can.\n09:42:16;10\nAnd in Washington, she is a workhorse, not a show horse.\n09:42:21;11\nAnd we have to make sure that this guy who's come from California to offer his sage advice.\n09:42:29;08\nRemember that first video of him when he cracked a hole in the ice and he jumped in the water because he thought that's what you do if you're from Wisconsin.\n09:42:36;17\nI don't know.\n09:42:37;06\nI saw that and, and I thought that's what a California banker would think you do if you're from Wisconsin.\n09:42:43;15\nI know plenty of people who fish above the ice, but I don't know many people going below the ice in winter.\n09:42:48;28\nSo I think that says all you need to know about Eric hub deep, but this is a no brainer and we're gonna reelect Tammy Baldwin.\n09:42:55;29\nRight.\n09:42:59;19\nI'll tell you super close to me is obviously the US House and we have four seats to pick up to have the majority and to make Hakeem Jeffries, the next speaker of the House of Representatives, Hakeem came in my class to Congress and I was fortunate enough to be one of his seconding speeches for when he became leader.\n09:43:22;21\nAnd I can tell you he's the real deal.\n09:43:25;15\nUh He's a real friend.\n09:43:26;24\nHe's an amazing order and he holds our caucus together so well that we are gonna be able to get a lot done if we pick up those four seats and guess what state has a number of swing seats that we could potentially pick up uh to get that majority.\n09:43:44;13\nRight.\n09:43:46;06\nLook, we have great candidates.\n09:43:48;22\nUh Kirsten Lely who is in the eighth district, have an ob to have an OB there.\n09:43:57;09\nShe is to have an OBGYN running against the guy who's using a dinosaur to define his business.\n09:44:06;29\nSpeaks volumes about the difference between the Democratic Party and the Republicans.\n09:44:12;21\nWe also have a swing, one of the swing seats in Wisconsin, one and our good friend, a former member of Congress, former Democratic assembly leader, former Secretary of Revenue for Governor Evers and former uh midwest administrator for the Small Business administration.\n09:44:30;08\nPeter Barker is the candidate in the first district.\n09:44:37;09\nLook, I have known Peter since I was 14 years old.\n09:44:42;15\nI grew up in Kenosha with Peter.\n09:44:44;16\nUm My mom a a quick story because I don't see the next speaker here yet.\n09:44:48;05\nSo I'm gonna, I'm gonna tell this story.\n09:44:49;24\nUh my mom uh lived to be 93 the last few years were in Dane County, but she lived for 91 of those years in Kenosha.\n09:44:56;25\nAnd towards the end, she wasn't following politics quite as close when she was in Kenosha.\n09:45:01;06\nSo she'd go over who was running and she'd go through the whole ballot and one year she did it and she skipped over Peter Barka and I said, mom, you forgot Peter Barka and her response was, well, of course, I'm voting for Peter Barka.\n09:45:14;03\nThat is how people feel about Peter in places like Kenosha and Racine.\n09:45:18;26\nAnd we're gonna help Peter Barka win that seat.\n09:45:21;12\nRight?\n09:45:26;01\nLook, Brian's style isn't a bad guy who represents the district, but he takes a lot of really bad votes and he tries not to take a lot of positions on any issues.\n09:45:35;28\nHe, he's probably the human equivalent of like flavorless jello, right?\n09:45:40;09\nWhatever he's next to on the plate.\n09:45:41;25\nHe'll taste like a little bit.\n09:45:43;19\nI would rather have a democratic leader who's got a record of accomplishments like Peter Barker.\n09:45:48;21\nRight.\n09:45:52;18\nAnd in the third congressional district, we have one of America's worst members of Congress and I serve with Marjorie Taylor Green.\n09:46:04;12\nRight.\n09:46:07;09\nThere's the belligerent beer filled, bloviating business, failing misogynistic book writing, insurrection, attending librarian and senate page harassing State of the Union speech yelling Trump fir an embarrassment to the state and nation.\n09:46:26;00\nDerek Van Orden and I'll quit sugar coating him.\n09:46:33;12\nLook, we have to upgrade to get that four seats we need in Congress and we have a great opportunity in Becca Cook.\n09:46:48;04\nThis was our dear friend Ron kind seat uh for 26 years and we just have to make sure that this temporary tenant doesn't have more than a twoyear lease, right?\n09:46:59;13\nAre we gonna defeat Derek Van Norden this fall?\n09:47:05;17\nLook and finally, Wisconsin is gonna be the deciding state for Democrats with the White House this year and we can do it with vice President Harris and governor walls.\n09:47:17;06\nWe have a ticket that's real and authentic and is upper midwestern as you can get with the right values and the right moral compass and Trump, don't you feel that when we look at this race, it's like watching an old black and one black and white rerun versus a brand new fall color, uh TV show.\n09:47:39;20\nThis is whether you're gonna go back or forward.\n09:47:45;01\nI know it's not fair to Joe Biden, but he became president very late in life and the reality is that night of the debate.\n09:47:53;24\nMo many, many Americans weren't happy with either candidate on the debate stage, but one of those candidates is still running for president and that's Donald Trump and the other candidate we now have running is the vice president, Kamala Harris and Trump has a terrible roadmap for the future.\n09:48:17;08\nHe and his project 2020 25 would have devastating effects on people in Wisconsin.\n09:48:25;25\nAnd there's a reason why Donald Trump, by the way, is running away from project 2025.\n09:48:30;17\nUm 100 and 40 of his administration officials and Lackeys wrote project 2025.\n09:48:37;15\nThe Heritage Foundation is a sponsor, a major sponsor of the RNC convention, not the DNC convention and they're the ones promoting it, but we have to make sure that we do not see this country take that negative turn that's outlined in the 920 pages of Project 2025.\n09:48:58;27\nAnd for those of you who live uh near the, the second CD next Wednesday night at six o'clock, uh We are having a town hall on project 2025 at the South Central Federation of Labor.\n09:49:11;04\nIf you can make it, we love to make sure everyone knows in depth just how bad that plan is.\n09:49:16;23\nBut I'll tell you they've polled many parts of this.\n09:49:19;20\nI serve on a special uh house Democratic task force on project 2025.\n09:49:24;05\nAnd this thing stinks to high heaven and we just need to make sure that people know those details and what's gonna happen.\n09:49:32;16\nSo we know that the Harris Walls administration will do an amazing job if we can help, make sure they win in November.\n09:49:42;10\nAnd let's remember what Kamala Harris has done.\n09:49:45;01\nAs part of the Biden Harris administration.\n09:49:47;11\nThey got this country out of COVID.\n09:49:50;13\nThey passed the infrastructure bill that four presidents have talked about, but Joe Biden and Kamala Harris got it done.\n09:50:02;17\nWe're making things again in America through the Chips and Science Act, creating tens of thousands of new jobs by making things in our country.\n09:50:13;27\nAnd we reduced the cost of things like prescription drugs and other health care and energy costs through the Inflation Reduction Act.\n09:50:22;00\nThat's the record of Kamala Harris, but there's more to do and I love the fact that they're describing their campaign as a joyous campaign.\n09:50:32;04\nI would much rather be talking about the future and joy than the gloom and doom and the cartoon of Donald Trump.\n09:50:40;01\nAnd the path to the White House is gonna go directly through Wisconsin and we are going to get that done right this fall.\n09:50:51;13\nWe have a really great opportunity to make Wisconsin Central by electing a democratic legislature by keeping Tammy Baldwin in the US Senate by picking up seats in the US House and making sure that Wisconsin is in the blue column for the White House.\n09:51:08;02\nOnce again, I look forward to traveling the state, uh, in the remaining 76 days I believe we're at, uh, to get things done and I look forward to spending a whole lot of time with you all.\n09:51:19;14\nThanks for being here this week.\n09:51:21;00\nI don't agree with Tim Wells on one thing.\n09:51:23;06\nI don't think we're gonna sleep when we die.\n09:51:25;06\nI think we'll sleep on Friday.\n09:51:26;26\nBut until then, thank you very much, Congressman Mark Hoan from Wisconsin.\n09:51:43;25\nSecond.\n09:51:44;27\nSoon to have a lot more friends than the democratic congressional delegation to Washington DC.\n09:51:51;02\nWe have other amazing speakers coming up this morning, but we wanna give everyone here a chance to speak to each other for a moment.\n09:51:59;28\nSo we're gonna take a little break before we resume our programming.\n09:52:03;06\nPlease meet someone new, greet someone you already know and love and enjoy the delicious breakfast and I'm gonna have some more coffee.\n09:52:11;26\nThanks so much.\n09:52:12;20\nLet's do this.\n09:52:20;13\nOh, oh, man.\n09:52:53;06\nNeed a break.\n09:52:55;06\nTake the chance to get out all the time.\n09:53:03;17\nWe're gone.\n09:53:08;09\nBest thing.\n09:54:03;25\nThe best thing.\n09:54:19;15\nOh man, gyw, I RT Z hyphen Olsen.\n09:56:13;15\nI'm a teacher and I'm the president of the, of the Wisconsin Education Jack.\n09:56:31;20\nTry it again.\n09:56:35;14\nCan you say your first name and last name again?\n09:56:37;22\nMy name is Peggy Pe Ggyw, I RT Z hyphen Olsen.\n09:56:43;15\nI'm a teacher and I'm the president of the Wisconsin Education Association Council or we a perfect.\n09:56:49;13\nSo obviously here at the Democratic National mentioned day for the theme today is a fight for our freedom.\n09:56:54;16\nSo what does that exactly mean to you?\n09:56:56;24\nFighting for our freedoms for me as a teacher?\n09:56:59;24\nDefinitely really means fighting for the freedom for my students to learn.\n09:57:06;16\nAnd so I guess, um what are some things that you are looking forward to for the rest of the Democratic National Convention?\n09:57:12;27\nWell, I am looking forward to today know that Governor Walls as a fellow teacher speaks to me and my colleagues about the importance of education, the importance of decency.\n09:57:28;04\nAnd so I'm looking forward to tonight's program where we're going to be welcoming him and hearing from him.\n09:57:34;22\nAnd I know as a teacher, there are probably, you know, different demands, concerns that they have, what are some of those demands and concerns that people in your field are worried about heading into this election.\n09:57:45;26\nSo that theme of fighting for our freedoms is so important to teachers because we're fighting for that freedom for students to learn.\n09:57:54;03\nWe've been facing things like book bans and you know, other attacks on, on not just learning that freedom to learn, but our freedom for our students to be who they are.\n09:58:04;27\nAnd so educators like me want uh America where everyone is free to be who they are uh to learn to love.\n09:58:15;14\nAnd um our students can be themselves and comfortable in our society and it's great that, you know, you're from the Madison area.\n09:58:23;05\nSo, what does that mean for people like from our area?\n09:58:25;27\nWhat do you think that means?\n09:58:26;24\nI mean, just to be here in representing Madison.\n09:58:28;22\nWhat does that mean?\n09:58:30;00\nYeah.\n09:58:30;09\nWell, it's the honor of a lifetime to be a delegate.\n09:58:33;18\nThis is my first time as AD NC delegate.\n09:58:35;28\nThis has been an amazing, joyful, energetic convention and I can't say enough how important for a teacher like me it is to be here.\n09:58:47;09\nAnd could you say your first and last name one more time for me?\n09:58:49;11\nJust to make sure I have it.\n09:58:50;25\nYeah.\n09:58:51;00\nYeah.\n09:58:51;03\nMy name is Peggy Wes Olsen and I'm a high school, art and English teacher and I'm the president of the Wisconsin Education Association Council.\n09:58:59;10\nThanks so much.\n09:59:01;14\nYou're so sweet.\n09:59:02;06\nThank you.\n09:59:03;06\nDo you have any questions you guys or uh you know, I was kind of wondering if you're talking about 3 to 2 year students, if they ever really come to the text.\n09:59:10;26\nNow, what do you tell me?\n09:59:14;24\nYeah.\n09:59:15;01\nSo when I talk with my students about freedom, right?\n09:59:18;04\nI, I talk with them about the freedom of ideas that in an, in a democracy, in an America that I want to live in and I want my own Children and my students to live in.\n09:59:31;12\nWe have those opportunities um to be who we are, to love, who we love and to be ourselves and our authentic selves.\n09:59:42;26\nThank you.\n09:59:45;10\nWelcome to Madison.\n09:59:46;12\nI I love it here.\n09:59:47;18\nI'm, well, I'm there.\n09:59:48;21\nNot here.\n09:59:50;04\nI'm so glad.\n09:59:51;16\nUm, I, I was watching you say, you know, the, the working through the winter kind of thing.\n09:59:58;18\nUm, I'm a little, I'm a little concerned.\n10:00:00;10\nNo, it's gonna be good.\n10:00:01;21\nYou're gonna, you're gonna do great.\n10:00:04;02\nYeah.\n10:00:05;07\nWhat?\n10:00:06;26\nYeah, I guess.\n10:00:08;07\nYes.\n10:00:09;01\nUm, I hired so some.\n10:00:43;00\nSo thank you.\n10:00:59;18\nTurn in, yes.\n10:01:08;16\nUsed for, ok.\n10:01:15;22\nWisconsin Democrats.\n10:01:19;10\nI can tell from the hum and the murmur in this room that people are making friends.\n10:01:23;16\nHow many people here have made a new friend in the course of this convention so far on the count of three, shout out the name of someone that you've met that you want to stay in touch with 123.\n10:01:38;13\nOh, we can do better than that.\n10:01:40;15\nAlright.\n10:01:41;03\nWell, if you've made a new friend, I want to hear you say, yes, that is what I'm talking about.\n10:01:48;26\nAll right, we have a next speaker who is a champion for all of us and I consider a personal friend.\n10:01:58;23\nHe's also someone who brought me enormous embarrassment because in 2020 on a Zoom with the Wisconsin Democratic Party staff, unannounced, unannounced to me, he shared with my team that I had committed to shaving my head if we defeated Donald Trump in November.\n10:02:21;04\nAnd this created an enormous sense of motivation on top of the already great motivation within our team.\n10:02:27;10\nAnd as you might remember, we did defeat Donald Trump that fall.\n10:02:31;20\nAnd on another zoom call my kids shaved my head with my entire team watching and Senator Cory Booker laughing his head off.\n10:02:39;24\nHe brings joy.\n10:02:41;01\nHe brings surprise.\n10:02:42;13\nHe brings deep, deep convictions.\n10:02:44;19\nHe brings a voice of moral clarity.\n10:02:47;07\nLet's give a giant round of applause to honorary badger and friend of Wisconsin.\n10:02:52;06\nSenator Cory Booker.\n10:02:59;09\nOk.\n10:03:00;24\nIt was fun.\n10:03:03;29\nWis so you all gotta help me.\n10:03:10;03\nI, I made a mistake yesterday.\n10:03:11;25\nI, uh, the last two days I've been doing state party speeches, just, just giving up the mic running into the middle crowd yelling my remarks and now I've lost my voice and I have to speak on the stage tonight.\n10:03:24;27\nBut I have a feeling that the energy that we're seeing in that arena will lift my heart, lift my spirits and lift my voice.\n10:03:36;17\nSo look, I, I want you all to know and I know this is about to get me in trouble.\n10:03:42;03\nBut I think the best party leader in all of America is your party leader, Ben.\n10:03:52;02\nAnd he, and he's standing next to my almost girlfriend, Thelma, my home girl, she's married to a great man.\n10:03:59;23\nSo I can't get myself in trouble, but she's had me over at her house.\n10:04:03;09\nShe's fed me.\n10:04:04;03\nSo I'm in love with her.\n10:04:07;01\nSo all I'm gonna do instead of, uh, a booming speech, I'm just wanna, I wanna make a confession.\n10:04:12;07\nI figure I feel with like such family here when I'm campaigning for Baldwin, who is one of the greatest senators.\n10:04:19;20\nIii I feel like I'm at home when I come to your communities and it's such an honor to serve with her.\n10:04:28;00\nAnd, and, and so I thought you all would be accepting enough for me to tell you a confession.\n10:04:34;18\nAnd so here's a confession.\n10:04:36;25\nThere was a day on the senate floor where all senators was there.\n10:04:42;23\nUsually we're not all in one place, but this is one of those rare moments like a presidential impeachment.\n10:04:48;07\nWe had a couple of those during Donald Trump's time.\n10:04:51;19\nBut this time we're there for a moment that has so many of us joyous because we're about to make American history and put Kanji Brown Jackson on the Supreme Court and, and, and I'm, we're all waiting 99 senators there.\n10:05:08;00\nWe're waiting for the last senator to vote Republicans keeping us there for a long time.\n10:05:12;20\nAnd now I start pacing and, and I'm, I'm, I'm emotional and I'm trying my best not to cry because my staff will only let me have one public cry a month and, and, and I had already exceeded my quota and, and Michelle almost made me cry again last night, but I was like, I gotta save it.\n10:05:33;15\nAnd then Raphael Warnock walks up to me and says, brother book.\n10:05:37;27\nIt looks like you're struggling a little bit.\n10:05:41;24\nHe's like you need some prayer.\n10:05:43;16\nBrother Booker and I'm like, Lord knows I do.\n10:05:47;14\nBut at that moment, this urgent looking staffer runs over to tell us that the presiding officer was asking us to approach the front of the room.\n10:06:01;14\nNow, Rafael Warnock and I both growing up in powerful matriarchal families.\n10:06:06;10\nWhen a woman calls us, we reflexively like go towards.\n10:06:10;00\nBut this wasn't just like uh uh another staff or another senator.\n10:06:14;01\nThis was the presiding officer on that day who happened to be there to break a tie.\n10:06:20;20\nThe vice president of the United States of America was Kamala Harris.\n10:06:25;13\nAnd so now picture this, I don't know how it is in your State Senate, but in the United States Senate, the, the presiding officer has to be the highest person in the room.\n10:06:33;15\nSo when you walk up to talk to them sitting there, you can't stand, you have to like lean over.\n10:06:38;16\nAnd if those of you c span Watchers, all six of you might see, might see people sort of crouching when they're talking.\n10:06:45;07\nBut this time, it was like both Raphael Warnock went over us and we bowed down at the altar of Kamala Harris.\n10:06:53;05\nAnd so now she's sitting on high and looking down at us kneeling before her and she says, fellas, this is a historic moment.\n10:07:00;22\nNow, I know she was talking about Katani Brown Jackson, but I'm one of those political nerds and I knew this was a historic moment because it's the first time in American history.\n10:07:09;09\nThree black people ever got together at the Senate floor.\n10:07:16;25\nRight.\n10:07:17;05\nThere is three of the seven of us who had ever been elected to the United States Senate.\n10:07:21;25\nAnd so I'm, I'm, I'm standing there waiting for what Kamala Harris wants to talk about.\n10:07:25;19\nAnd she's like, listen, fellas, this is a really historic moment.\n10:07:29;10\nYou all should do something to mark this moment.\n10:07:32;14\nAnd she says, why don't you all write a letter to a little girl about what it meant to be here at this moment.\n10:07:42;01\nAnd then she didn't seem to trust that we would do it.\n10:07:44;17\nSo she goes over to her binder, opens up this beautiful leather, bind her and right there, the only thing other than her schedule that I saw were two pieces of her stationery, the big Vice Presidential seal on it and, and, and her name and she hands us both these two pieces of stationery and says, write your letter to that little girl on my stationery.\n10:08:12;12\nAnd at that point, Raphael Warnock grabs me and says, hold on, Booker, hold on, don't cry.\n10:08:20;08\nSo now I want you all to know something about Raphael Warnock.\n10:08:23;06\nHe is disciplined, he is dutiful, he is determined.\n10:08:28;12\nAnd so he went right back to his desk and penned a letter to his five year old daughter to tell her about this.\n10:08:37;19\nNow, I am one of those people that JD Vance talked down about.\n10:08:42;29\nI'm one of those childless cat people.\n10:08:50;28\nI think we're perfect.\n10:08:55;27\nI think we're fantastic.\n10:08:59;25\nOh, my gosh.\n10:09:00;27\nWhat do you tell, tell a guy like me who has no kids that tells dad jokes a faux pas.\n10:09:07;18\nHey, hey, hey, hey, hey, I'm here all week.\n10:09:10;29\nI'm here all week.\n10:09:14;06\nSo unlike Warnock, I didn't go back to my desk and, and write the letter.\n10:09:19;27\nKanji Brown Jackson gets put on the highest office of the land.\n10:09:22;05\nI'm holding on to this precious stationary.\n10:09:24;12\nAnd I didn't write my letter in the next week, another week passed and I still didn't write my letter.\n10:09:29;09\nI told you all this was going to be a confessional.\n10:09:32;09\nAnd then one of those early mornings, I know you've all had this feeling where you wake up before your alarm goes off and you're lying there in bed and you just have some really deep thoughts.\n10:09:45;05\nAnd really this is not just my confession, but what I want to leave you all with you, see, I'm lying there in bed.\n10:09:51;17\nI realize that what Kamala Harris sent me to do was not a literal task, but a spiritual one.\n10:10:05;07\nLet me tell you what I mean.\n10:10:06;29\nI grew up in a, in a little church in, close to New Jersey where the pastor used to preach faith without works is dead.\n10:10:14;25\nYou know, he would always say you can't preach right and walk left that it's not about what you say in life that defines you.\n10:10:23;11\nIt's what you do.\n10:10:25;18\nI love what Frederick Douglass says.\n10:10:27;10\nHe said, he said, I prayed for years for my freedom and I was still a slave.\n10:10:31;28\nIt wasn't until I prayed with my hands and prayed with my feet that I found my salvation.\n10:10:38;28\nWhat Kamala Harris was asking me to do.\n10:10:42;00\nYes, a beautiful literal thing.\n10:10:44;02\nBut spiritually, she was saying, Cory Booker, write your letter every day by what we do by how we show up by the energy and the work and the effort we do.\n10:10:56;14\nWe are writing a letter and let me tell you something.\n10:10:58;27\nEvery single one of us in this room, we are the descendants of the letters, the love letters that our ancestors wrote and they didn't write with ink.\n10:11:09;01\nThey wrote in tears, they wrote in sweat, they wrote in blood, they wrote us a letter of suffrage, they wrote us a letter of civil rights.\n10:11:20;15\nThey wrote us letters about Roe V Wade.\n10:11:24;05\nThey wrote us letters.\n10:11:27;03\nAnd so now Wisconsin, it's your turn right through the next 80 days.\n10:11:34;02\nWrite your letter with love with work with struggle with sacrifice.\n10:11:40;06\nOh Make Yeah, of life.\n10:11:44;20\nMake your democracy.\n10:11:48;28\nMake your letter a story of how you worked to get.\n10:11:54;01\nYes.\n10:11:55;15\nHighest office was caught.\n10:11:59;25\nWrite your letter, Cory Booker Wisconsin.\n10:12:21;05\nLet's give another giant round of applause but fired up.\n10:12:34;26\nOh my gosh.\n10:12:39;02\nYour napkin can be used to adjust any moisture that may be appearing on your face just welcoming everyone to take full advantage of that opportunity.\n10:12:53;23\nAll right, I'm gonna bring it down a little bit with some announcements which I'm very excited about.\n10:12:59;09\nThe first announcement is if you didn't get one yet and you're a Wisconsin delegate, we have old fashioned T shirts here for you to pick up.\n10:13:10;28\nIf you got your T shirt.\n10:13:11;25\nCan you hold it up so people can see your beautiful Wisconsin delegate, old fashioned shirt.\n10:13:17;13\nLook at those, look at those beautiful, beautiful shirts.\n10:13:22;14\nThe second day is the giveaway closing moment is 9:30 a.m. It's 913.\n10:13:30;13\nNow.\n10:13:31;09\nSo if you have a guest who you would love to be able to get into the arena tonight with a guest pass or if you hope to be entered in the giveaway drawing for some nice prizes, get your tickets in in the next 17 minutes and those are again at the check in table.\n10:13:50;15\nI just wanna make sure people know about that.\n10:13:59;05\nThe third announcement is that Wisconsin's elected DNC member, Alex Lasry is throwing a party tonight to appreciate the Wisconsin delegation.\n10:14:11;23\nSo after the speeches, you are all fired up, you're full of energy.\n10:14:15;26\nYou want to go to a party.\n10:14:17;15\nI recommend that you go to Alex Lad's party tonight from 10 p.m. till 1 a.m. at Barrio, which is at 65 at Kinsey in Chicago.\n10:14:28;13\nEveryone got a message about this, but I just want to make sure everyone here knows that they are invited and it's going to be a blast.\n10:14:36;12\nAnd my last note is that as we prepare for our next speaker and I know that folks are, are quickly moving through, some folks are, are meeting the amazing Senator Booker.\n10:14:49;08\nI wanna ask everyone then to go to their seat and stay in their seat.\n10:14:54;02\nOh, not quite yet.\n10:14:56;14\nYou don't need to do that yet.\n10:14:57;19\nAll right, when we see our next speaker, we're going to invite everyone to be in their seats and on their feet.\n10:15:05;05\nUh, but we're gonna take a second to enjoy this pause.\n10:15:08;01\nWe're going to continue to consume our caffeinated beverages and we'll be back with more programming in just a minute.\n10:15:13;02\nThank you so much, everyone.\n10:15:29;16\nSo.\n10:15:31;15\nYes, something.\n10:15:45;07\nOk.\n10:15:48;16\nYes.\n10:16:25;10\nOk.\n10:16:46;10\nYes.\n10:16:58;02\nYes.\n10:17:44;00\nCheese.\n10:17:52;06\nYeah.\n10:18:08;29\nYeah.\n10:18:10;02\nOk.\n10:18:20;26\nTwo that.\n10:18:48;07\nOk.\n10:19:11;07\nTwo think it's, he's like doing more here at the right time because now it's getting cold.\n10:19:51;12\nYeah, I know, but I'm from the Midwest, so I think I'll be able to handle it maybe.\n10:19:57;09\nOk, for the record of you said your first name, your last name and your title.\n10:20:00;17\nDavid Crowley Crowley Milwaukee County executive.\n10:20:05;06\nSo I obviously there's a lot to do Wisconsin Battleground State.\n10:20:09;07\nWhat do you think Wisconsin kites need to do to make this happen in the next, less than 80 days?\n10:20:14;12\nWell, I'm, I'm just gonna quote Michelle Obama from last night.\n10:20:17;00\nWe all have to do something.\n10:20:18;06\nNot every role for everybody to be playing.\n10:20:20;17\nBut I do think that everybody has a role when it comes down to saving our democracy and making sure that we get as many people out to the ballot box.\n10:20:27;07\nAnd so whether you're making phone calls knocking on doors, helping to fundraise or just using, utilizing your talents to help encourage and bring awareness to what is going on this upcoming November.\n10:20:39;11\nThat's how you can get involved.\n10:20:40;19\nWe all have something to do and we all have to do something and we're coming from Blue Cities, Madison, Milwaukee.\n10:20:47;01\nSo what efforts are you trying to make leading up to the election?\n10:20:49;27\nListen, we're gonna be talking to everybody again, we're gonna be continuously knocking on doors.\n10:20:53;22\nWe're gonna be hosting different campuses all across Milwaukee County.\n10:20:57;14\nBut again, it's about how do we step outside our geographical comfort zone at the exact same time.\n10:21:02;06\nAnd so as Milwaukee County executive, yes, I am responsible for Milwaukee, but that doesn't mean that I can't go rally the troops in Racine in Kenosha, in Beloit, in Sheboygan, in Green Bay, in Madison or wherever they need me to be at.\n10:21:16;20\nBut I just think that again, when it comes down to what I'm going to be doing, every single thing I need to do to make sure that we make history in electing the first woman president of the United States.\n10:21:29;25\nOk.\n10:21:30;04\nAnd then Oh, ok.\n10:21:32;18\nOk.\n10:21:33;02\nI, OK.\n10:21:34;27\nWait, just one more thing and then like, ok, what does the, what does today's theme mean for you as I fight for our freedom?\n10:21:40;04\nWhat does that mean?\n10:21:40;18\nI mean, that's what we're doing every single day.\n10:21:42;12\nWe are fighting for democracy and protecting our democracy means that we are protecting our freedom.\n10:21:46;17\nAnd as a person of color, understanding the role in the, in the generations of trauma that we all come from, we know that there's so much roadway ahead of us and there's so much prosperity ahead of us.\n10:21:57;13\nAnd so as a person of color, when I hear the fight for freedom, it lets me know that I'm not just fighting for my freedoms.\n10:22:03;02\nI'm fighting for the freedoms of other people of color or those who are coming behind me.\n10:22:06;16\nBut more importantly, I'm fighting for the freedom of my daughters.\n10:22:09;12\nI want them to have the same level of opportunities if not more than I have been afforded.\n10:22:14;06\nAnd I think that that's what America is about and that's what we are fighting for.\n10:22:17;01\nThat is the freedom that we are all looking forward to.\n10:22:21;19\nThank you uh 6 1670 her on stage.\n10:22:34;11\nSo the good thing about this is that I am due a small payment from my senate colleagues because they are violating that stipulation.\n10:22:41;24\nBut give it up for one of the best speakers.\n10:22:44;08\nThe best rabble Rousers Cory Booker.\n10:22:46;21\nAwesome.\n10:22:48;21\nUm Hey, listen, I just want to say this to you.\n10:22:51;07\nThere are so many contrasts in this campaign.\n10:22:54;19\nAnd I'm gonna talk to you about one of them a contrast on how seriously we take our kids' safety.\n10:22:59;16\nBut actually, the, the contrast that I think America is seeing every minute of this, of this convention, the contrast that they, they saw loud and clear last night is a contrast of just dourness and joy.\n10:23:14;13\nRight?\n10:23:15;08\nThere is just enormous joy in this city in that convention hall and there are big problems in this world.\n10:23:23;18\nThere are all sorts of people who are upset and feeling powerless and lonely.\n10:23:29;17\nBut we should still feel a sense of joy every single day, right?\n10:23:35;11\nWe should understand how unique it is, how special it is that we are living in a nation that is doing something that no other civilization has ever done for as long as we have done it, right?\n10:23:50;08\nIt's not just democracy, right?\n10:23:52;25\nThere's never been a democracy that is spread the vote and the voice as widely as we haven't done it for as long as we have done it.\n10:24:00;12\nBut it's multicultural democracy, right?\n10:24:02;16\nIt's this idea that everyone belongs, that everyone can find a home here and that when you find a home here, we, you know, still hold on to a little bit of where we came from.\n10:24:12;27\nBut then we join hands and we make decisions together 250 years in this is still an experiment.\n10:24:21;14\nThis thing is still fragile.\n10:24:23;20\nThis thing still needs to be nurtured, but we should absolutely wake up with joy, with unreserved joy every single day that we live in the United States of America and we have to fight for it every single day.\n10:24:37;01\nThat's what this convention is about, right?\n10:24:38;27\nIt's about loving the fact that we live in America, accepting the fact that we have to fight for her.\n10:24:44;05\nAnd Kamala Harris is gonna do that when she gets on stage tomorrow night.\n10:24:47;18\nAnd I'm so excited for her.\n10:24:53;15\nLet me tell you about 11 thing that I care deeply about.\n10:24:56;26\nSo I feel really embarrassed that I spent the first half of my political life not working on the issue of gun violence.\n10:25:04;15\nAnd then something truly awful happened in my state in 2012, just as I was getting elected to the United States Senate, I've been trying to make up for lost time since then, but we ran up against roadblock after roadblock in the 1st 10 years after Sandy Hook, those parents, the parents of those who have been killed in Milwaukee and Racine and Madison, they came to Washington and they hit those same roadblocks.\n10:25:29;27\nBut we had faith that in a democracy eventually, 90% of the people, if they want something, we'll eventually get it.\n10:25:38;17\nAnd so we built power year after year, right?\n10:25:42;18\nWe had faith that one day our movement, the anti gun violence movement would be more powerful than the gun lobby.\n10:25:49;21\nMost people told us it couldn't be done.\n10:25:51;27\nIt would never happen that the NR A was the most powerful interest in Washington in the United States of America.\n10:25:58;05\nBut we had faith that our cause was so righteous that eventually one day it would prevail Joe Biden.\n10:26:05;10\nAnd Kamala Harris had faith that our cause was righteous after Parkland happened.\n10:26:10;12\nThe first one of my colleagues who called me to say, what are we going to do was Kamala Harris days after.\n10:26:21;03\nAnd by the way, and by the way, Kamala, the true measure of a leader is not what they do in front of the cameras.\n10:26:26;01\nIt's what they do behind the cameras.\n10:26:27;16\nAfter, after right after Parkland, Kamala Harris methodically helped me organize the anti gun violence groups who up until then hadn't always been working together around a mission to be organized and co ordinated in the 2018 elections.\n10:26:44;11\nShe raised more money for anti gun violence candidates running that year than any other of my colleagues.\n10:26:50;19\nShe never raised her hand and for credit for it, she never did a press conference to talk about all the work she was doing behind the scenes.\n10:26:56;24\nKamala Harris just believed that we had an obligation to save people's lives.\n10:27:00;22\nShe didn't care if she people knew she was doing it or not.\n10:27:04;02\nShe believed in her heart that we should not accept that 100 people die every day of gun violence in this country and she went to work to solve it.\n10:27:15;04\nAnd then 2022 came around and we saw an opportunity after that awful shooting in Eovaldi.\n10:27:19;27\nAfter that awful shooting in Buffalo, we saw an opportunity, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris saw an opportunity.\n10:27:25;03\nA lot of their advisers told them you're never going to get this done.\n10:27:27;29\nDon't put any political capital into trying to pass a bill at the nr A opposed for 30 days, we negotiated the bipartisan Safer Communities Act.\n10:27:37;11\nTammy Baldwin was a huge part of those negotiations.\n10:27:40;14\nAnd 30 days later, we passed, we passed the first major anti gun violence bill in 30 years.\n10:27:52;12\nWe beat the gun lobby for the first time in 30 years.\n10:27:55;24\nAnd now two years since we passed that bill, gun violence rates in our city, all across this country have dropped by 20% right?\n10:28:06;25\nWe have delivered.\n10:28:10;03\nThat means that there are young men and women who are alive today that wouldn't have been alive if we hadn't passed that bill.\n10:28:16;20\nThat means that there are parents and brothers and sisters who are not grieving because we were able to break through and beat the gun lobby.\n10:28:23;08\nAnd it is just a reminder of what happens if you have thoughtful effective compassionate leaders in the White House who care about us.\n10:28:32;05\nAnd so I enjoy us about living in this democracy because I've seen it work because I have seen us change political realities on the stickiest, toughest issue that exists.\n10:28:42;00\nThe issue of guns.\n10:28:42;28\nI have seen our ability to change lives and I am just so so excited to see how many new people, how many young people are coming into this movement.\n10:28:53;08\nI'm so excited to be here with you because state parties all across the country are learning from the model that you are creating.\n10:28:59;22\nAnd I'm gonna be so excited to be in that hall tomorrow night to nominate Kamala Harris and Tim Wallace to be the next president and vice president of the United States.\n10:29:06;05\nThank you, Wisconsin Dens.\n10:29:07;06\nThanks for having me.\n10:29:24;09\nLet's give another round of applause to Senator Chris Murphy for your words and for your work, what an extraordinary week, what an extraordinary privilege it is for all of us to be here in this week in this moment.\n10:29:47;14\nAnd let me pull back the camera and say what a privilege and an honor it is for all of us to be Democrats to be Americans in this era in American politics, some of the lowest lows, but some of the highest highs, some of the most historic pieces of legislation and some of the most extraordinary leaders over the last couple of decades, we have seen people come onto the national stage that not only have made history but have defied what people thought was possible and I want zero in on one person who has shattered people's expectations for what they could imagine, effective leadership could be like because Democrats are not always easy cats to herd.\n10:30:34;19\nDemocrats don't always agree on everything, but there's one Democrat leading the People's House in two different terms.\n10:30:45;13\nAs the speaker who did not lose a vote, who organized Democrats around historic momentous pieces of legislation that passed into law and changed people's lives.\n10:30:59;21\nA speaker of the United States House, a speaker Emerita of the United States House, who has been a central figure in the history of America in this story of us becoming a more free and fair and just nation.\n10:31:15;03\nI'm so thrilled to welcome our next speaker, a dear friend and mentor the leader twice and now the leader Emeritus of the Democratic and of the entire United States House.\n10:31:28;23\nLet's give a giant Wisconsin.\n10:31:30;08\nWelcome to Nancy Pelosi.\n10:31:37;20\nThank you.\n10:31:39;25\nGood morning, everyone.\n10:31:44;05\nI think I don't have to tell you how blessed you are with political talent.\n10:31:49;08\nI saw the governor as soon as I came in governor.\n10:31:52;00\nThank you.\n10:31:52;18\nThank you for your leadership.\n10:31:54;20\nHe's talking to my son-in-law who's Dutch and his wife is Dutch.\n10:31:57;26\nSo they're having their personal conversation there.\n10:32:00;21\nThat's here for the governor.\n10:32:04;23\nGood.\n10:32:06;17\nHe still isn't watching us.\n10:32:12;00\nMark Pohan, who's chair of the co-chair of the uh where's Mark?\n10:32:16;08\nI thought I knew Mark was here earlier.\n10:32:18;16\nBut anyway, co-chair of the progressive caucus in the House of Representatives, a wonderful Wi Wisconsin delegation.\n10:32:25;28\nOf course, Glenn Moore from Milwaukee.\n10:32:28;13\nShe's so remarked.\n10:32:29;20\nThe list goes, the list goes on, but we want the list to grow.\n10:32:33;02\nWe want that list to grow.\n10:32:35;23\nYou know, that Big Ben is recognized nationally as a pre eminent state party chair.\n10:32:50;28\nEvery time I compliment him on being a great party chair.\n10:32:56;01\nHe compliments all of you for what you do to make that possible.\n10:33:02;19\nSo let's hear it for you.\n10:33:07;12\nHe galvanized support all over the country in support of what you were doing to, to win the supreme court seat.\n10:33:16;01\nWasn't that something quite remarkable?\n10:33:22;07\nHis reputation is a great one.\n10:33:24;07\nThat's why we call him Big Ben.\n10:33:28;13\nWhen he was working at the grassroots level nationally, he said I'm going home to Wisconsin.\n10:33:35;27\nIt's the best place, it's my home, but it's also the best place to raise a family.\n10:33:43;04\nWhat better thing could he say about his state?\n10:33:46;27\nAnd then he came and became the state chair and now everything's riding on Wisconsin.\n10:33:55;13\nYeah.\n10:33:58;28\nSo we have to hold the Senate with Tammy Baldwin and this is too magnificent and wonderful.\n10:34:08;16\nWe have to win the house and we want to grow our numbers here in Wisconsin.\n10:34:13;23\nWe have to elect Kamala Harris and Tim walls, president and vice president of the United States.\n10:34:25;18\nI know you heard from some of the senators, Senator Booker Chris Murphy.\n10:34:29;23\nThey make us so very, very proud in terms of the issues that we are focusing on the rest but we must, we must hold the Senate.\n10:34:39;17\nBut let me just tell you why it's so urgent also to win the house.\n10:34:44;06\nYou know why?\n10:34:44;23\nFor every issue, every kitchen table issue and the rest.\n10:34:47;26\nBut in terms of our democracy on January 6th, we must have Hakeem Jeffries with the gavel as Speaker of the House.\n10:34:58;29\nOh, nice.\n10:35:01;12\nBecause just think of this is very self-serving what I'm going to say right now.\n10:35:06;18\nSelf-serving sign is up.\n10:35:09;20\nI warned you.\n10:35:11;17\nBut just think of what have happened if we did not have, if I did not have the gavel on January 3rd, not me, a democratic speaker did not have the gavel on January 5th.\n10:35:26;14\nSo, so everything, everything, everything is uh is, is at stake in this election.\n10:35:33;10\nWhat do we have to do?\n10:35:34;17\nNobody knows it better than Ben.\n10:35:36;22\nAnd, and again, he's a model to the country, but we have to make sure we win.\n10:35:42;00\nPeople say to me what you know, Kamala, what advice would you give her?\n10:35:46;10\nNo, be yourself, show your values, show your vision for America, show what's in your heart, the empathy for the American people, show your knowledge of the issue, your judgment of perspectives, your strategic knowledge of how to get things done.\n10:36:02;01\nShe has all of that.\n10:36:04;04\nI know her well, for a long time personally, Pamela Harris is a person of deep faith.\n10:36:11;10\nThat's what encourages her to care for people in the community and in our civic life officially.\n10:36:21;11\nShe's a person of great strength, knowing her, knowing again, the priorities, the issues, the, uh, the path that we have to go on and politically, she's very, very astute.\n10:36:34;13\nShe has, she has won hard races for district attorney Attorney General Senate, then Vice president of the United States.\n10:36:43;05\nAnd you saw how quickly politically she wrapped up this nomination.\n10:36:47;14\nSo she's prepared to lead the way for us to win the win the White House.\n10:36:54;13\nShe and Tim Walls.\n10:36:55;21\nIsn't he wonderful?\n10:36:56;26\nHe served with what hes just remarkable.\n10:37:02;10\nSo when they say, what advice would you give her?\n10:37:04;22\nI just say, be yourself.\n10:37:07;00\nBut what we have to do is be ourselves in doing our political work.\n10:37:13;22\nWe must, we must, she's out here.\n10:37:17;14\nWe're on the ground.\n10:37:18;14\nWe must own the ground.\n10:37:21;08\nNobody knows that better than Ben Wickler.\n10:37:23;26\nThat's on the ground.\n10:37:26;13\nWe must own the ground.\n10:37:28;01\nWe must mobilize because if you don't mobilize everything else you do is just a conversation, whether it's on TV, or the mail and blah, blah, blah, own.\n10:37:38;02\nGet out that boat, the message.\n10:37:41;13\nAnd tonight Christine, my daughter tells me that we are going to be approving the platform.\n10:37:46;11\nSo that will be the message of our party.\n10:37:49;22\nProgressive, bold, unifying, not menacing, unifying, not menacing.\n10:37:57;21\nAnd I can say that as a person from San Francisco, California, what works in Michigan Millbrook in San Francisco who works in San Francisco may not work in an electoral college state like Michigan.\n10:38:12;11\nSo let's win, baby.\n10:38:14;01\nThat's just what we have to win.\n10:38:20;13\nMobilize, fuel that with a message of, of hope in that and the money to get the job done.\n10:38:29;21\nAnd that's coming in because of the path that Kamala and Tim are, are.\n10:38:34;19\nSo, I guess we'll be calling them Mr President, Mr Vice.\n10:38:37;23\nMm.\n10:38:39;03\nHow about having a woman president of now?\n10:38:49;25\nI know that's exciting but that's not why she should be president.\n10:38:54;14\nShe should be president because she's the best person for the job, the best person for the job who happens to be a woman.\n10:39:04;08\nAnd that's icing on the cake but make no mistake, man or woman, man or woman, best person for the job.\n10:39:12;00\nAnd I think that that's what we have to make sure people understand when I was running for speaker.\n10:39:18;13\nI said don't vote for me because I'm a woman but don't vote against me because I'm a woman.\n10:39:23;19\nYeah.\n10:39:27;12\nAnd then I had my three nos, my three nos.\n10:39:30;13\nI had the three M si got the three nos, no wasted time.\n10:39:34;09\nRight.\n10:39:34;12\nThen no wasted time.\n10:39:36;14\nNo underutilized resource or that's organization mobilizing messaging and no underutilized resource and no regrets the day after the election.\n10:39:48;13\nWe just could have done more, we just could have done more.\n10:39:55;18\nSo I'm a, I was former chair of the party before I went to Congress.\n10:39:59;23\nI had never had any intention of running for Congress.\n10:40:02;14\nYou never know what's out there.\n10:40:03;21\nBen?\n10:40:03;28\nYou have to be ready.\n10:40:06;07\nMhm.\n10:40:07;12\nBut, but, but Kamala Harris is ready.\n10:40:15;14\nTim Walls is ready.\n10:40:17;26\nSo in any case, you again, we know what is at stake.\n10:40:21;08\nWisconsin is in uh the lead in so many ways, whether it's leading in our, our biggest product uh globally is our agriculture.\n10:40:33;24\nIt's so very, very important.\n10:40:36;04\nUh uh I see a cheese head.\n10:40:37;25\nOh, I see a lot of cheese heads but for the, for this and so many reasons, I thank you all for your leadership.\n10:40:46;21\nNow, in this, these two races, Peter Barca was a member of Congress.\n10:40:52;03\nWe want him back again.\n10:40:58;10\nHe's so wonderful.\n10:40:59;23\nWe want him back again.\n10:41:01;04\nAnd Rebecca Cook in Wisconsin three here.\n10:41:05;15\nThis is very, so you can't add by subtracting, you will reelect the members who are from Wisconsin and starting in the Senate with Tammy Baldwin.\n10:41:18;04\nTammy Baldwin started in the house.\n10:41:20;17\nI campaigned with her in Madison and the suburban, the urban rural areas in her district as well.\n10:41:27;14\nCould see this woman of Great grace.\n10:41:31;02\nNow, she was going to be the first lesbian member of Congress that we knew the first lesbian member of Congress who better than Tammy Baldwin.\n10:41:40;14\nComing in with her commitment, her values, her vision and the rest, her graciousness, her just goodness that emanated from her.\n10:41:52;25\nAnd then she went on to the United States Senate and that's where she has to go again.\n10:41:58;12\nSo thank you for all of that.\n10:42:01;24\nSo are you ready?\n10:42:02;29\nAre you ready to just win?\n10:42:05;10\nSo I won't sing the national anthem for you.\n10:42:08;04\nBut I just left the Maryland delegation.\n10:42:10;03\nThat's where I'm from.\n10:42:11;13\nAnd um originally I've been in San Francisco for 50 years raising our family.\n10:42:16;24\nMy daughter, Alexandra is here with her husband, Neil.\n10:42:19;22\nThis is a family visit for us.\n10:42:21;11\nMy daughter Christine, active in the Democratic Party keeps reminding me the platform is coming out tonight.\n10:42:29;07\nThat will be our message.\n10:42:31;10\nBut when I was in Maryland, I said to them, I brag about the fact that the national anthem was written in Baltimore, Francis Scott Key, the the war of 1812.\n10:42:43;02\nAll of that.\n10:42:43;29\nNow when you're at a game, Green Bay didn't do too well.\n10:42:49;15\nLast night when you're at a game, you get to the end land, the free home of the brave everybody.\n10:42:55;22\nCheers.\n10:42:56;09\nRight.\n10:42:59;02\nI hear before that when it says proof through the night that our flag was still there, proof enough that our flags are still there.\n10:43:14;07\nWe are in the night in some respects in terms of the assault on our democracy that the other side, that other guy is making.\n10:43:22;08\nIt's appalling.\n10:43:23;21\nIt's horrible how the Republicans could even accept such an unpatriotic thing.\n10:43:28;28\nBut it is what it is.\n10:43:30;05\nAnd as I say, we don't agonize, we organize, we unionize, we just win baby.\n10:43:35;27\nThat's what it is.\n10:43:38;20\nYeah, but we have to prove through the night that our flag was still there.\n10:43:45;12\nAnd as Joe Biden has consistently said and done as President of the United States, still there with liberty and justice for all.\n10:43:55;13\nAre we ready to just win baby, elect Kamala Harris and Tim walls, President, vice President of the United States, Tammy Baldwin to the United States and Peter Barker and Rebecca to the House of Representatives.\n10:44:10;03\nThank you for the honor of sharing some thoughts for you as a former party chair, recognizing the work that you, that you do that is running for these positions, the grassroots activity of it just to own the ground, baby.\n10:44:25;20\nAnd that's our message.\n10:44:26;17\nThat's how we're gonna win.\n10:44:28;01\nThank you all so much.\n10:44:34;09\nThank you, Wisconsin.\n10:44:39;06\nYeah.\n10:44:41;15\nRight.\n10:44:45;29\nSpeaker Nancy Pelosi author, I might add of the new book must read and she reads the audio book in her own voice.\n10:44:59;04\nThe Art of power, a true artist.\n10:45:02;20\nOur amazing speaker, Emerita Nancy Pelosi, Wisconsin.\n10:45:10;01\nAre you ready to own the ground?\n10:45:14;02\nAre you ready to just win, baby?\n10:45:17;17\nLet's give another giant round of applause and thank you to Nancy Pelosi for joining us this morning.\n10:45:22;25\nHoly smokes.\n10:45:30;01\nAh, I'm thrilled to be able to welcome this morning's final guest speaker.\n10:45:39;22\nI'm so pleased and proud to introduce someone who has brought case after case after critical case forward to advance the cause of justice, freedom and accountability in the state of Wisconsin.\n10:45:53;18\nSomeone.\n10:45:54;03\nI'm proud to call a friend and neighbor.\n10:45:56;11\nOur one and only attorney general of the great state of Wisconsin.\n10:46:00;18\nJosh.\n10:46:08;05\nThank you.\n10:46:09;08\nHello, Wisconsin.\n10:46:11;26\nHoly cow.\n10:46:12;27\nWhat a week this is.\n10:46:14;15\nYou know, at first I got, I have to tell you a story and, and you're all gonna wanna hear this.\n10:46:18;28\nUh, just a few minutes ago.\n10:46:20;23\nI had what I think will be a, a lifelong memory, which is, somebody came up to me and said, um, Nancy Pelosi's schedule has shifted a little bit.\n10:46:28;26\nIs it ok if she goes ahead of you, the Obamas weren't available.\n10:46:36;28\nUm, uh, the greatest speaker in American history just spoke to this audience.\n10:46:43;19\nWhat a day and by the, and, and what a week this has been and what a month this has been.\n10:46:52;25\nUm, I have a lot to say about that.\n10:46:54;27\nThere's a lot to talk about right now, but I actually want to start with some Wisconsin business because there is a lot going on at the state level right now.\n10:47:03;13\nWe, I think deserve a round of applause for all the work that you have done that the state party has done because last week and it's hard to believe this was just last week.\n10:47:13;18\nWe had a primary in Wisconsin where Republicans put two amendments to grab power away from Governor Ebers and give it to our legislature.\n10:47:23;15\nAnd Wisconsinites organized, they got information out about the stakes of that vote and we overwhelmingly defeated those Republican amendments.\n10:47:33;10\nGreat work, Wisconsin.\n10:47:39;02\nAnd I, I don't know if you saw Robin Voss remarks when he was asked about these amendments and what was coming in the future?\n10:47:46;27\nHe said that he's going to double down on constitutional amendments.\n10:47:53;17\nNow.\n10:47:53;26\nI, I don't want to bring up bad memories, but you may remember that after Governor Ebers and I were first elected in 2018, Robin Voss began his power grab spree by bringing the legislature into special election and having them vote to take authority away from the governor's office and the A GS office.\n10:48:12;29\nBut you know, I have a point I want to make about how things have gone with with Robin Voss as speaker.\n10:48:19;08\nWhen Robin Voss was elected, speaker, Republicans had overwhelming majorities in the state legislature.\n10:48:26;06\nRepublicans controlled the governor's office.\n10:48:28;29\nRepublicans controlled the A GS office.\n10:48:31;13\nRepublicans had a clear majority on the state Supreme court.\n10:48:36;20\nWell, now Governor Evers is in his second term as governor.\n10:48:44;01\nI am proud to be in my second term as attorney general.\n10:48:48;07\nOur state Supreme court majority has flipped Robin Boss's power grab with the amendments has gone down.\n10:48:56;08\nRobin Voss has seen defeat after defeat after defeat, but we've got one more defeat to hand him because this fall, we have the opportunity to vote with fair maps for the first time in more than a decade.\n10:49:12;03\nSo this fall, let's flip the majority in the assembly and let's end the speakership of Robin Vos, we, we've got seats to gain in the Senate as well and we have a clear path to a majority in the Senate if we put in the work in this election and the next election and think about what it would mean in Wisconsin to have Republic to have Republican majorities gone and to have Democrats in the majority.\n10:49:44;01\nIt means common sense, gun safety legislation get past, like Chris Murphy talked about it means expanding Medicaid.\n10:49:51;28\nSo more of our residents are able to get access to the health care they need.\n10:49:56;20\nWith a democratic majority, we can codify reproductive rights into Wisconsin law and we can finally fully fund education in Wisconsin if we have a democratic majority.\n10:50:14;01\nAnd of course, we've got critical congressional races.\n10:50:17;18\nThe two that Speaker Pelosi mentioned, I also want to highlight the eighth congressional district where our outstanding candidate Kristen Lyerly Kristen, are you here?\n10:50:27;03\nIs running, is running to win that district and flip that blue.\n10:50:32;28\nNow, I don't need to tell anybody here about the stakes in the senate election and how critical it is that we reelect Tammy Baldwin.\n10:50:39;18\nThis is somebody who fights every day for Wisconsinites.\n10:50:44;20\nTammy Baldwin has gone to bed for us.\n10:50:47;11\nShe's fighting for Buy America.\n10:50:49;13\nShe has succeeded in protecting same sex marriages.\n10:50:53;05\nShe is fighting to codify reproductive rights at the federal level.\n10:50:57;27\nTammy Baldwin has expanded access to affordable health care.\n10:51:02;05\nShe is a champion for us on issue after issue and her opponent is in Wisconsin sometimes.\n10:51:11;16\nWell, she has been talking to communities to people across our state.\n10:51:16;11\nEric Hovde has been, I think doing beach is the phrase for that.\n10:51:22;25\nThe contrast could not be clear, but he has talked about ending the Affordable Care Act.\n10:51:27;21\nHe's talked about how he's wanted to overturn Roe V. Wade.\n10:51:32;16\nThe stakes could not be more clear.\n10:51:35;03\nAnd speaking of races where the stakes could not be more clear.\n10:51:38;20\nWe have all been hearing about the presidential election for the last few days.\n10:51:43;11\nI just want to add a few points to some of what we've heard first.\n10:51:47;09\nI, I believe that this is the most important election in any of our lifetimes.\n10:51:53;04\nThe difference in the path that Kamala Harris and Tim walls have laid out and the path that Donald Trump and JD Vance have laid out is as big a difference as you can possibly imagine.\n10:52:04;15\nBut let's talk about competence, you know, the values, the principles matter, but let's talk about competence and I'll just give you one example.\n10:52:12;16\nI spent a lot of time as your attorney general thinking about public safety.\n10:52:16;27\nWe've held big pharmaceutical companies accountable for their role in the opioid epidemic.\n10:52:21;20\nWe fought to strengthen our sexual assault kit laws.\n10:52:24;29\nWe have stood up against gun violence and for common sense, gun safety measures and when it comes to public safety, I don't know if you saw JD Vance's remarks last week in Milwaukee, but in talking about his approach to public safety, I'm not making this up.\n10:52:41;03\nHe pointed people to the movie, The Gangs of New York for how we should think about public safety in Kamala Harris.\n10:52:49;20\nWe have the former attorney general of the largest state in the country who has taken on people responsible for mortgage fraud.\n10:52:57;01\nA former prosecutor from one of our largest counties who put dangerous violent offenders behind bars.\n10:53:05;16\nAnd on the Republican side, you've got one guy who's seen gangs of New York and another guy who's seen Silence of the lambs.\n10:53:12;19\nThis is not a tough choice.\n10:53:15;22\nI will say if there's one movie I associate with Donald Trump, it's actually a Jim Carrey movie.\n10:53:21;23\nIt's called Liar, Liar.\n10:53:29;04\nBut we also see the impact of that expertise in the results we've gotten when Donald Trump was in office.\n10:53:34;27\nAs president, violent crime went up, shootings went up, homicides went up including in Wisconsin and with the Biden Harris administration in office, shootings have dropped.\n10:53:48;24\nHomicides have dropped at historic levels.\n10:53:52;15\nThey have been investing in and supporting the FBI and the US DOJ while Donald Trump has been attacking them and claims that if he's elected president, he will weaponize them.\n10:54:04;25\nThat is not an approach that is going to make our communities safer.\n10:54:08;09\nIt's not an approach that's gonna make our community stronger.\n10:54:10;25\nWe cannot afford another four years of their incompetence in the White House and when it comes to our values, the contrast could not be clear.\n10:54:20;11\nI wanna tell you a quick story about Kamala Harris.\n10:54:23;16\nShe is fighting to strengthen our middle class.\n10:54:26;05\nShe's fighting to expand access to affordable health care.\n10:54:29;14\nShe's fighting to protect our natural resources and she has made our freedom a centerpiece of her campaign.\n10:54:36;11\nWell, when the Dobbs decision was pending at the Supreme Court, we had a good sense of where that case was going.\n10:54:43;19\nAnd Kamala Harris herself, a former A G convened several A GS including me from around the country asked us to come meet with her at the White House.\n10:54:54;10\nSo several of us went there.\n10:54:55;25\nSome of us showed up by Zoom and Kamala Harris wanted to hear from us about what we needed in our States.\n10:55:02;04\nIf the Dobbs decision came out the way we feared, she wanted to hear about how we were elevating the concerns that people were having about their own reproductive freedom, about the health of their families if access to abortion was lost and she wanted to know how she could help.\n10:55:18;25\nWell, it turned out that was the day before the Dobbs decision came down.\n10:55:23;20\nAnd you may remember four days after that decision, Governor Evers and I announced a lawsuit to block enforcement of our 1849 ban and we have now restored reproductive freedom in Wisconsin.\n10:55:40;21\nBut, but the fight isn't over, it is still going on in the courts, it's going to go on in our state legislature and it's going to go on at the federal level.\n10:55:49;00\nKamala Harris is a leader who understands the importance of protecting our freedom and who's going to put in the work to get it done.\n10:55:56;11\nOn the other side have, how many of you have heard about project 2025?\n10:56:02;11\nThe secret is out, right.\n10:56:04;04\nThe secret is out 900 plus pages that I can boil down.\n10:56:09;17\nActually, I can save you a lot of time.\n10:56:11;11\nIt's about attacking our freedoms.\n10:56:13;16\nIt's about attacking the middle class and it's about attacking equality of opportunity.\n10:56:20;05\nSo with those 40 hours, we just saved, let's make sure that 2025 project doesn't go into effect in Wisconsin or anywhere in this country.\n10:56:30;11\nIt's a, it's a project about fundamentally taking our country backwards, taking us backwards in some cases, hundreds of years.\n10:56:40;09\nBut as Vice President Harris likes to say about going backwards, we're not going back, we are not going to go back, but we know what it takes in Wisconsin to make sure that we move forward and not backward.\n10:56:55;17\nWe know what it means to put in the kind of work we do to get elections across the finish line and to win.\n10:57:01;17\nAnd if you need any extra motivation over the next 76 days, let me just say this.\n10:57:07;14\nI don't know how many of you had the chance to hear from Hillary Clinton, uh on the first night of the convention.\n10:57:14;04\nBut it brought back a lot of memories for me from that 2016 election.\n10:57:18;05\nAnd one thing that I will always remember is the videos that were going viral on election day of people who had cast their ballot, had those I voted stickers and put them on Susan B, Anthony's gravestone.\n10:57:32;11\nAnd what we all thought was going to be a celebratory night as those election results rolled in became a nightmare.\n10:57:39;25\nUh And we have now lived through years and years of Donald Trump's divisiveness and even now with Joe Biden, the White House, Donald Trump casts a pall over what is happening in this country.\n10:57:53;09\nHe brings division, he encourages Republicans to obstruct.\n10:57:57;02\nHe has stood in the way of progress.\n10:58:01;21\nBut in 76 days, we can fundamentally change that narrative.\n10:58:07;16\nWe can elect Kamala Harris as the next president of the United States.\n10:58:11;13\nAnd think about what that will mean for little girls across this country, not just to be told that they can do anything but to see it in the highest office of our land.\n10:58:23;16\nAnd as the father of two boys, let me tell you think about what it means for all of our Children to grow up in an America where equality of opportunity is not just something we say, but is something we can show is true for every American when we stand up for equal justice under the law.\n10:58:41;08\nWe all benefit when we speak out against hate against the transgender community.\n10:58:47;02\nAll of us become safer when we speak out against racial injustice.\n10:58:51;22\nAll of us get to live in a society that is more equal when we come together.\n10:58:57;02\nWhen we are united, we are as strong as we can be and we all benefit no matter what.\n10:59:03;16\nDonald Trump and JD Vance say as they try to divide us.\n10:59:07;08\nSo in 76 days, let's get engaged.\n10:59:10;20\nLet's make sure we knock on doors.\n10:59:12;28\nLet's make sure we pick up the phone.\n10:59:14;18\nLet's have those difficult conversations with our friends and our family and our neighbors and let's elect Kamala Harris and Tim walls as the next president and vice president of the United States.\n10:59:26;12\nLet's do it.\n10:59:27;01\nLet's go.\n10:59:27;19\nThank you, everybody.\n10:59:29;09\nThank you, Attorney General, Josh Cole.\n10:59:40;00\nLet's give him of applause fighting for all of us.\n10:59:46;21\nOh, what a breakfast.\n10:59:49;08\nWhat speakers?\n10:59:50;08\nWhat a day we have got.\n10:59:52;23\nWe have one final order of business before we get, which is the drawings for the guest masses and the prizes for today before I introduce our executive director, Cassie Felli and our deputy executive directors, Abel for the drawing.\n11:00:08;04\nLet me say a couple of things, a reminder first to make sure tonight if you are in, if you have a delegate pass or a guest pass that you are in your seat by 6 p.m. So you can cheer on Mayor Cavalier Johnson.\n11:00:21;01\nWhen he addresses our convention tonight, we are so excited, so excited to show what Wisconsin sounds like when we cheer.\n11:00:31;11\nSecondly, if you do not have a pass tonight, there are many places you could go to watch.\n11:00:36;00\nOne of them is the into action reception area where there's beautiful screens and snacks and food and art.\n11:00:41;22\nAnd everybody is invited there throughout the day.\n11:00:43;20\nAnd then after the gavel drops, everyone is invited to DNC committee man, Alex Lasry special party to celebrate the Wisconsin delegation.\n11:00:52;03\nSo make sure you go to that party tonight and lastly be thinking about your stuff.\n11:00:59;06\nI know of at least one phone that has gone missing in this very room this morning.\n11:01:03;06\nIf you find that room, bring it to the reception table so that its owner can claim it, but make sure you have your phone.\n11:01:10;19\nMake sure you have your cheese head.\n11:01:12;07\nLove seeing some cheese heads here this morning, be there tonight.\n11:01:15;20\nReady to go.\n11:01:16;13\nYou might want to have some extra water and some snack bars.\n11:01:18;29\nIt's gonna be an amazing, amazing night.\n11:01:21;16\nAnd with that, let's give a giant round of applause.\n11:01:24;12\nLet's give a round of applause to everyone working here at the Sheridan Riverwalk today.\n11:01:29;08\nEveryone on the Democratic Party of Wisconsin team who's working here today and let's give a big Wisconsin.\n11:01:34;24\nThank you and welcome to Cassie Felli and Sarah Abel for today's drive.\n11:01:39;24\nThank you.\n11:01:46;06\nHello, I'm back again.\n11:01:47;17\nMy voice is dying.\n11:01:48;18\nSo Sarah is gonna do the talking 10.\n11:01:53;18\nAll right, we have 10 guest passes to give away.\n11:02:03;11\nUm.\n11:02:03;26\nOk.\n11:02:04;05\nFirst we have Madeline Buckles guest of Henry Freeze Madeline.\n11:02:11;28\nAre you here?\n11:02:15;05\nWe hold it till the end.\n11:02:16;06\nReminder of the rules.\n11:02:17;10\nYou have to be in the room to win your ticket.\n11:02:20;14\nWe will hold it um until the end and then we will redraw P A Yeah.\n11:02:32;17\nUh Stephanie Begat guest of Arvia.\n11:02:40;10\nOh, ok.\n11:02:41;03\n\n--KEYWORDS-\nILLINOIS DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION WEDNESDAY PELOSI \n

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Women collaborators with shaved heads driven on Parisian streets in France during World War II.

Women collaborators in Paris, France during World War II. Women collaborators tried outside a building by the FFI (French Forces of the Interior). A woman on trial. A soldier shaves the woman's head after she is found guilty of collaboration with the Germans. French civilians look on. Civilians gathered in a street as women collaborators with shaved heads in a vehicle move past them. Civilians look at the women collaborators. Location: Paris France. Date: August 29, 1944.

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COLLABORATOR'S HAIR CUT

Unissued / unused material - dates and locations may be unclear or unknown. Liberation of France. Various shots of members of Maquis shaving heads of women who have collaborated with Germans during occupation. The shaving takes place outside the Mayor's offices, a large crowd watches including many children and American GIs. C/U hair falling on ground. The French resistance men then parade the collaborators through the streets to humiliate them. One of the men forces a woman to look at the camera, he makes a "v" sign behind her head.

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Sequences from inside France: shot of Cross of Lorraine flag, people, including soldiers, dancing in streets, collaborating women getting heads shaved. Sequence on French soldiers in field, moving up with mules, motorized vehicles. Sequence on General Charles De Gaulle being acclaimed by citizens. Shot of man leaving hotel and getting into car. Shot of Château "L'Hermitage", Philippe Pétain taking a walk. Shots of Château de Chambord, seen from another château, of other "Château", noblemen going on fox hunt. Sequence on workmen having banquet outside.

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NAME: FILE YASSIN2 220304Nx TAPE: EF04/0330 IN_TIME: 10:56:56:02 DURATION: 00:05:15:10 SOURCES: VARIOUS DATELINE: FILE RESTRICTIONS: See Script SHOTLIST: IBA Israel - December 1998 1. Yassin wheeled in wheelchair by Israeli Army military court soldiers 2. People waiting in court 3. Yassin talking to journalists IBA Ashkelon, Israel - February 1990 4. Yassin wheeled in by Israeli policeman 5. Yassin inside his jail cell 6. Door of Yassin's jail cell being closed by policeman 7. Yassin talking to policeman IBA Israel - October 1997 8. Israeli Ambulances at airport 9. Yassin on wheelchair escorted by Israeli soldiers 10. Yassin taken away to plane to be flown to Jordan JTV Amman - October 1997 11. Yassin at Amman Airport to be flown to Gaza IBA Ashkelon, Israel - February 1990 12. Establisher Yassin's translator talking to journalist in street 13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Yassin's translator translating Sheik Ahmed Yassin, spiritual leader of the militant Hamas: "The cease fire will not be until the occupation is taken off" APTN Gaza City, Gaza Strip - October 1997 14. Jordanian helicopter landing 15. Yasser Arafat's wife Suha greeting Yassin 16. People carrying Yassin into wheelchair 17. Palestinian pushing Yassin's wheelchair 18. Yassin's car being guarded by Palestinian police 19. Welcome rally for Yassin 20. Yassin arriving at rally 21. Demonstrators holding up Yassin's picture 22. Women demonstrators holding up Yassin's picture 23. Yassin arriving house 24. Palestinians greeting Yassin at his house 25. Various of men kissing and welcoming Yassin 26. Yassin sitting 27. Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader arriving at Yassin's house 28. Arafat and Yassin talking 29. Wide Arafat and Yassin at house APTN Gaza City, Gaza Strip - June 1998 30. Yassin's car surrounded by crowd 31. Yassin sitting at rally APTN Gaza City, Gaza Strip December 1999 32. Various of Yassin in hospital bed APTN Gaza City, Gaza Strip - September 2003 33. Palestinians running towards house bombed by Israeli jets targeting Yassin 34. Various of destroyed house APTN Gaza City, Gaza Strip November 2003 35. Yassin with Palestinian Prime minister Ahmed Qureia APTN Gaza City, Gaza Strip - January 2004 36. Sheikh Yassin wheeled in street 37. Various Yassin in Gaza mosque STORYLINE: Sheik Ahmed Yassin, a quadriplegic preacher who founded the Islamic group Hamas and presided over its rise to a violent, radical alternative to Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority, was assassinated in an Israeli airstrike Monday. He was in his mid sixties. Yassin was killed instantly when an Israeli helicopter launched three missiles at him at daybreak Monday as he was leaving a mosque after morning prayers. Tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza, many of them in tears, spontaneously poured into the street. Hamas vowed revenge. Yassin's Hamas was responsible for scores of suicide bombings and other deadly attacks on Israelis, but at the same time curried loyalty from impoverished Palestinians by offering desperately needed social services, from kindergartens to health clinics. The frail man with the high-pitched voice was the ideological force behind the militant group, which rejects the existence of Israel and opposed interim peace accords. More recently, he said it would be acceptable to establish a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza, to be used as a temporary base to destroy Israel. "Islam is the only answer," Yassin said in an AP interview in 1997. "Everything springs from that." Hamas' goal of establishing an Islamic state in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank, puts it not only at odds with Israel but poses a threat to the Palestinian Authority, which takes a secular approach to governing and recognises Israel. In response to his unyielding rejectionist attitude and the almost unrelenting Hamas attacks, Israel marked Yassin for death. In September 2003, it dropped a 550-pound bomb on a building where he was meeting with top Hamas leaders. Everyone escaped relatively unscathed; Yassin received a slight wound on his hand and was carried out of the building by his bodyguards. A childhood sporting accident left Yassin almost completely paralyzed and in recent years he was nearly blind, with poor hearing. But for all his physical frailty, he had compelling charisma. Palestinians identified with him as a victim and viewed him as a symbol of strength in the face of adversity. Yassin was born in what is now the Israeli city of Ashkelon, and his family, like those of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, was uprooted in 1948 with the founding of Israel. He grew up in Palestinian refugee camps in the Gaza Strip. He made a name for himself as a teacher and spiritual leader. He would spend his days reclining on a mattress in his three-room concrete house in the Gaza City district of Sabra, reading holy books, receiving disciples and settling disputes. He did not so much speak as declaim, in language peppered with Quranic allusions. He could move his fingers just enough for limited but highly expressive hand gestures, and would underscore declarations by rearing back his head and rolling his brown eyes. When he appeared in public, devotees would stand over his wheelchair, tenderly adjusting his white headscarf. Although Yassin handled millions of dollars in donations from supporters, he was revered for never taking money for himself and his family - his wife Halima and their 11 now-grown children. That almost monastic existence stood in sharp contrast to the extravagant, corruption-tainted lifestyles adopted by some Palestinian Authority officials after Gaza came under self-rule in 1994. Through much of his life, Yassin was a respected religious figure. The first Palestinian uprising, which erupted in December 1987, put him on the political map. Within weeks, he had founded Hamas as an offshoot of the radical Egypt-based Muslim Brotherhood. Hamas - which means "zeal" and is also the Arab acronym for Islamic Resistance Movement - gained a reputation for ruthlessness, especially against fellow Palestinians suspected of collaborating with Israel. Despite that, Hamas was not formally outlawed by Israeli military authorities until 1989, fueling the still commonly held belief that Israeli and U.S. intelligence fostered the group as a useful counterweight to Arafat's PLO. With the banning of Hamas, Yassin and nearly 200 other group members were jailed in a mass raid. Eventually brought to trial before an Israeli military court, he acknowledged founding Hamas - but admitted to none of the other 14 charges against him. He was convicted of organising attacks on civilians and ordering the kidnappings of two Israeli soldiers - one of whom was killed - and sentenced to life in prison. In jail, Yassin suffered from a variety of ailments, including chronic bronchitis and eye and ear maladies that left his vision and hearing seriously impaired. Israeli officials worried Yassin might die in captivity, and that this could set off Palestinian riots. But fate - in the form of one of Israel's worst espionage blunder in years - intervened to free him. In September 1997, agents of Israel's Mossad spy agency tried to assassinate another Hamas leader, Khaled Mashaal, by poisoning him during a street ambush in Amman, Jordan. The agents were nabbed by Jordanian authorities, and the late King Hussein reportedly threatened to try them publicly and hang them if Israel didn't provide an antidote for the nerve agent used against Mashaal. To ransom its agents, Israel was forced to release dozens of Palestinian prisoners, including Yassin. More than 10,000 cheering followers packed a rundown Gaza City soccer stadium to welcome him back. In the Gaza street, he was praised as a "mujahed," or holy warrior, and accorded the honorific "sheik of the intifada." Even before Yassin's release, Hamas dealings with the Palestinian Authority were strained. In 1996, Arafat had jailed hundreds of Hamas activists, subjecting them to the ultimate indignity of shaving off their beards, worn as a sign of devout adherence to Islam. After Yassin gained his freedom, he and Arafat went out of their way to publicly pledge brotherhood. But Hamas remained an implacable opponent of peace with Israel, and Arafat's prestige was staked on the continuation of the peace process. Tensions mounted. In February of 1998, Yassin left Gaza, ostensibly to obtain medical treatment. Instead, he embarked on a three and a half month tour of Arab countries, reportedly raising more than 50 (m) million dollars and building up political support for Hamas. Yassin made his second homecoming to Gaza in June 1998, just as Hamas was spurning an offer from Arafat to join the Palestinian government. The sheik's precise birthdate, like much else about him, was shrouded in mystery. His son, Abed, and Hamas spokesman Mahmoud Zahar said in June 1998 that he was 62, but were not able to say on what day he was born. His Palestinian passport, however, listed his date of birth as January 1, 1929. But Abed Yassin said that was based on a birth certificate which was probably inaccurate to begin with and had later been lost. Yassin himself claimed he was born in 1938.

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Women collaborators tried and their heads shaved as a punishment in suburb of Paris, France, during World War II.

Women collaborators in the Chatou residential suburb, Northwestern Paris, France, during World War II, in Europe. A woman collaborationist tried by FFI (French Forces of the Interior) men. A soldier shaves the head of a woman collaborator found guilty of collaborating with the Nazi Germans during the occupation. A woman collaborator speaks during a trial, attempting to defend herself. An official wearing an armband (possibly FFI) shaves her head after she is found guilty of collaborating. Location: Paris France. Date: August 29, 1944.

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FRENCH LIBERATION PARADES

Unissued / unused material. Allied invasion of occupied Europe - French Liberation Parades, unknown town in France. M/S French World War One veterans holding flags. Various shots crowds in town square. Various shots people carrying bouquets of flowers. Various shots victory parade going through streets, a civilian brass band leads the way. Various shots Maquis / French Resistance fighters shaving heads of young women - German Collaborators. Hair cuts take place in public with crowd watching. C/U man stamping on locks of cut hair on ground. M/S two middle aged women fighting, an amused gendarme steps in and splits it up. Various shots collaborators on back of truck with Maquis and a drummer. More shots of women having head shaved. Various shots crowds marching through streets. L/S of banners hanging from Hotel de Ville reading: "Vive de Gaulle, Vive les Allies, Vive L'Amerique". People lay flowers on war memorial. Officers and dignitaries are gathered around memorial. People lower flags of Free France. More shots parade - USAF airmen, American GIs are also present.

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NO LABELS EVENT 1030AM / HD

INT BROLL OF THE "NO LABELS" EVENT IN NEW HAMPSHIRE FEATURING SEVERAL OF THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES / Today, eight presidential candidates are attending the No Labels Problem Solver Convention hosted by Jon Huntsman and Joe Lieberman with the goal of bringing New Hampshire's famed independent voters together. It's one of the only presidential forums where we will see both Republicans and Democratic candidates together. Martin O'Malley is kicking it off at 8:30AM <x-apple-data-detectors://0>, Lindsey Graham is at 9:45AM <x-apple-data-detectors://1>, Donald Trump is at 11AM <x-apple-data-detectors://2>followed by Chris Christie at 1:15pm <x-apple-data-detectors://3>. Bernie Sanders will address the event via livestream at 2pm <x-apple-data-detectors://4> followed by George Pataki at 3PM <x-apple-data-detectors://5>. Jim Webb isat 3:30 <x-apple-data-detectors://6>, also via livestream and John Kasich rounds out the day at 5:15PM <x-apple-data-detectors://7>. / WASH 8 NO LABELS EVENT NH P2 11:09:24 TRUMP: Thank you very much, everybody. That's so nice. Wow. No Labels, that's right. I'm a believer. You know, John and Joe called, and they said would you do it. This was about two months ago. And I said well, I think I will be able to. They explained what No Labels represented, we all know that that's where we have to go in this country because we're getting nothing done whatsoever. So I said I think so. I have to get out. I'm pretty sure I'm going to be able to do it. So they then -- the next day, they announced I will be there without question, right? (LAUGHTER) 11:09:59 TRUMP: They're tough negotiators. So I had another problem. We had another speech someplace. It was actually quite a bit of a problem. And I told them I wouldn't do it. See, they were solvers, they were problem solvers. And they went nuts. They were not happy. Is that right, Joe and Jon? They were not happy people. And ultimately I said, I may have gone a little over that 50 percent level. And so here I am. Right? Here I am. (APPLAUSE) And I love New Hampshire. And as Joe said, you know, the latest poll came out, 32 to 14 or 13, or something -- I think it's 13. And I have the 32, which is even better. Somebody said, why do you talk about the polls? Because I am winning. They go, but nobody else ever talks about the polls; that's because they do lousy in the polls. 11:10:50 Nobody else talks about the polls, they don't do well in the polls. Believe me, if they were doing well, they would be talking about the polls. But we had 32 to 13. And that is a big gap and that is in New Hampshire. And we've been here a lot. I know so many people, I have friends in New Hampshire, they are amazing people. Amazing. So, thank you all, I really appreciate it. So when we talk about no labels and we talk about getting along -- and I'm not going to say it too much, because Tip O'Neill and Ronald Reagan, you probably hear it every speaker, but I look at that as the ultimate -- where two people with different views, different everything and they liked each other and they got along and they got things done. And they had a leader in Ronald Reagan. 11:11:34 Because ultimately it is about the president, it is. Much more so about the president then you can imagine. And if the president is a leader, if he is a real leader, or she is a real leader, you will get things done. But you need the leadership to come from the very pinnacle, from the very top. And if it doesn't, it's not going to happen. And that's not happening now. It's not happening now. People aren't getting together. And I see it. You know, I have actually been doing this for a long time. A lot of people say, oh, gee -- I was very establishment. I was the ultimate. I gave more money than anybody. I mean, I would give so much money, I was all establishment when I gave contributions, right? When I decided to run, I was anti-establishment. Can you believe this? But we can't take a chance on a loss. 11:12:20 I mean, I watched previously -- two, in particular, two -- and last time, I was seriously thinking about doing it, I decided not to, because I thought it was a race that could have been won, should have been won, and I don't want that to happen again. I don't want it to happen again. Because I think it's -- really, if you look at what happened four years ago, boy, timing was right. Everything was right. And it should have been done. Well, it is going to be done this time, and hopefully it's going to be done by me. And I think we are going to have a result is going to be great. We are going to turn the country around. We are going to make America great again. And that's what's going to happen. That's what's going to happen. 11:12:58 I looked at a couple of things that I thought would be appropriate. And I'm thinking back about of my career. And on my career -- when I was a young, a young man in New York, we had a problem called a skating rink. It took eight years. Everyone knows. The Wollman Skating Rink. They now study it in all the business schools. They're all nodding their heads. We all studied it. I didn't study it, but I did it. But it's in all the business schools, about what private enterprise can do. And we had a rink. I mean, it wasn't such a little deal. It was an 80,000 foot rink. It's a very big rink. And the government under Mayor Ed Koch couldn't -- they couldn't get it built. They were trying -- it was actually a renovation, it wasn't even building. And after eight years -- and I have a daughter growing up, and she kept saying, dad, I want to go ice skating. 11:13:51 And for year after year, I would say to Ivanka -- anybody ever hear of Ivanka? Right? She's great. But she said, can I go ice skating, dad? And for years, for seven years, I said I can't. There was no ice. And I would go over to the rink, and I'd see the man and the workers, and they'd be sitting down. They had lunch breaks, it would take like four or five hours. There would be hundreds of guys sitting at the rink. I said, boy, that's terrible. And I'd pass it. And after the seventh years, I went to Koch. I said, Ed, I can do this thing right fast. This is ridiculous. They're not working; they're using the wrong everything. And I met with the unions. I met with people doing refrigeration. They were doing refrigeration, the engineer was based in Miami, Florida. (LAUGHTER) 11:14:38 I said -- it's true. And they were using freon. And freon -- that means if you have a little tiny hole in 30 miles of pipe, little tiny hole, it's not going to work. Gas, it'll go out. And I said, "That doesn't sound good, but why do we want a guy" -- so I called up the Montreal Canadians ice hockey team. I said, "Could I ask you question? Who does your rinks?" "Oh, we have somebody excellent. He's based right here in Montreal." I said, "Now we're talking."(LAUGHTER) 11:15:06 TRUMP: And he came in -- great guy. Came in, he looked at what was happening, he immediately said, "You can't use freon, it won't work. It'll freeze, it's this -- it won't work. You have to use brine." You know what brine it? It's water with salt in it. How simple could that get? So on top of everything else, it was much less expensive. Anyway, I got to town, Ed Koch said, "Well, you do it," because it was a very huge embarrassment for the New York people. They all know what I'm talking about. And we had cement mixers because it was a massive pour. They were pouring little sections, like ten feet by ten feet. You can imagine this missive rink. Like take the biggest office floor you know and double and triple it and then pour a little section and then another little section, and then the vandals would come in at night and steal all the copper, because the freon you have to use the copper. 11:15:57 So I said, "This is not good." So -- and you want one contiguous pour. So I had trucks from based from -- literally from the rink all the way back to Harlem. All the way up, way up to 125th Street, cement mixers. We poured it all in one day. It was 24 hours. They were pouring during the day, during the night. It was 26 hours and 25 minutes. And we poured one contiguous pour, it healed beautifully. When the city did it, it was like this. So they had on one side, a foot and a half of water, and on the other side, they didn't have any water. So they couldn't make ice for a lot of reasons. So -- and actually, you know, when I talk about the price, the biggest problem I had was demolition. That was the biggest cost. I had to demolish everything that was done. 11:16:44 So I got it done. I got everybody together and we got it done. And to this day, it is the most successful ice-skating rink. I still run it. I run it. Nobody -- every time it comes up, the city wants -- they want me to -- they don't want to take any chances, but I've run it for many years and it's the number one in the world and it does great. And it sort of -- I was just thinking about it coming up because we are talking about no labels. I was talking to John, I was talking to Joe and we are talking about getting together. I got together with everybody. The city, the council. Everything had to be done fast. The beauty is, I did it in four months, this is after eight years. I did it in four months. I did it for $1.8 million. The city had spent over $20 million, and I always say most of it was demolition. OK? 11:17:28 That's what happens, and you can do that with this country. You can do it with the country, and believe me, you can do things that people have no idea construction wise. Our roads are falling apart, our bridges, our tunnels, our airports. I just left LaGuardia Airport. It's like a third world airport. No, it's third world. I mean, it's horrible. You look at it, you go out to the runways, it's horrible. (APPLAUSE) And I go to places because I travel all over the world, I have so many different relationships and partnerships and very complicated stuff and I meet the richest people, the richest companies in the world and I'm partners with many of them in different parts. You go to Qatar and you go to all of the different places -- by the way, all over China. All over China. You go to Bahrain, you go to Saudi Arabia. 11:18:18 You see airports -- you have never seen anything like it. You've never seen anything like it. They've built temporary airports while they're building the big one that are 100 times nicer than anything we have in this country. We're -- we're just -- it's -- it's -- we've lost it. We've lost it. Another deal that just happened, and this was, again, getting everybody together. The city of New York in the Bronx, right outside of Manhattan, and most of you have read about it, they had a 350 acre piece of land on the water on the East River. The East River is great. People have apartments on the East River, right? He knows what I'm going to say. It was 350 and expandable into 550 acres. This is like five minutes outside of Manhattan. I'd say right off the Manhattan ramp. 11:19:03 They've been building the golf course, I think, for 30 years. I think. Somebody said its really not 30, it's 21 years. OK. It's 21. So whether it's 20, 21, or 30, but I think it's 30. It has been under construction for many, many years. We believe the cost is over $300 million. In fact the mayor said to me, "What do you think it should have cost?" I said, "About $7 million," but I believe the cost is over $300 million. And they couldn't get it done. Mayor Bloomberg said, "You've got to help us. Please, you've got to help us." So they want to an RFP. I've got the RFP, so I have a long-term deal and I took it over. I got it done in less than a year. For peanuts. It's beautiful. It's getting all rave reviews.TRUMP: I had to get the city together, I had to get all the unions together. I had to get everybody together and we got it done and they worked so hard, and now it's open and setting every record because of its location. It's phenomenal. I mean, to be right next to Manhattan and on the river, it's unbelievable. 11:20:07 So you can do these things, but it's about leadership. You have to get people together. And frankly, if I had somebody that worked for me who was good, it wouldn't be good enough. It had to come from me because I needed the mayor's help, I needed the city council's help, I needed a lot of -- it's -- and the case we're talking about is -- comes from the president. Has to come from the president. And I'll give you something that, to me, is so big. Corporate inversion. You know, I look at your different things that you have, things that you want to do. Create 25 million jobs. This is the organization that you want to do. Balance the federal budget by 2030 -- 2030? (LAUGHTER) 11:20:48 That's an easy one. (LAUGHTER) 2000 -- actually, you know, I looked at -- because they gave me this note, I said -- I said I think there's a typo. (LAUGHTER) 2030. Secure Social Security, they have to do it. People have a contract. We all have a contract. I don't need mine, by the way. And by the way, I think if somebody doesn't want it, give it up. But it's got to be that person's decision. (APPLAUSE) 11:21:15 OK? It's got to be that person's -- you know, I have friends that are worth hundreds of millions and billions of dollars that get Social Security. They don't even know the check comes in. They'll never see the check. I -- you know, there are a lot of -- a lot of people would give it up. I mean, for the good of the country. It's almost like give it up. I want to do that. I don't know if anybody's even talked about it. I've never heard it, but I have friends that -- they all say we don't want it. Let's give it up. You have a lot of people who are doing -- and you do it on the basis of spirit for the country because we have to keep Social Security for the people that really need it. (APPLAUSE) 11:21:17 It's so important. And make America energy secure by 2024. I mean, it's almost energy secure now. We have so much -- because of technology, what we have in the ground is enormous. But we're not allowed to export it, and we have more than anybody. You know, we have more really good stuff. I have friends, Harold Ham (ph) and some other people, they're oil people, they great people. We have the best stuff, the really best stuff. I'm not talking about the Tar Sands, which are fine, but it's very expensive to get the oil -- very, very expensive. And it costs a lot of money. You have to heat it and you have to cool it and you have to do all sorts of -- it's expensive. 11:22:28 We have the best stuff. We have prime, we have prime. And we don't use it. And yet, we're not allowed to use coal anymore, and yet we export coal to China, and then we say China has to go under the agreement. But they don't have to go under for 25 and 35 years. So we're doing it now, they're doing it in 35 years. I mean, how stupid are we? How stupid do they think we are, OK? (APPLAUSE) How stupid do they think we are? It's like our military. I love the military, I love our vets. I will take such great care of our vets. Believe me. I have a lot of my friends here. (APPLAUSE) 11:23:05 A lot of my friends are here, the vets. Our vets are being treated worse -- I'm telling you, worse than illegal immigrants coming into this country. They're being treated worse, and they're our greatest people. (APPLAUSE) And our wounded warriors, they're not being treated fairly. And we'll take care of that. But when you look at all of the difficulties -- I watched President Obama last night on television. He bombed, very simply. And it was not easy for him because Steve Kroft, who was doing the -- now, I -- they were much nicer to me two weeks ago, don't we agree? I was on with Putin, can you believe that? Putin and Trump. Nice stablemates. Very nice. (LAUGHTER) 11:23:46 Putin and Trump. But Obama was on last night, and I thought -- you know, after about 10, 15 minutes, I said, you know, every single thing is negative. ISIS, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, the economy. A hundred million people in the labor force, 100 million. Think of it. They're not going to get jobs. You know, the statistic of 5.4 percent, it's a phony statistic. Doesn't mean anything... (APPLAUSE) ... other than the politicians in this room -- they don't count because they're fabulous; these are fabulous people. (LAUGHTER) 11:24:21 I hate to insult people when they're sitting there with their wives. You know, it's terrible. So these are great people. But other than them, that statistic was made up by politicians, because you always look good. A guy looks for a job, he can't find one. Or a woman. They go back home, they say, "I can't find one -- I've looked now for months, I can't find one." They go back, they're considered essentially employed. Whoever heard of this? TRUMP: We have 100 million people, 100 million people out of the workforce. It's the highest number it's ever been. You know, somebody said, a very, very talented person, said our unemployment rate -- and I'm going to -- I'm not going to take this number -- but actually said our unemployment rate is 42 percent. Think of it. And if you really add it up, it is. So I only say 20, 21, 22 because I want to be nice to the president, OK? But it's a disaster. We have to take create jobs, we have to take jobs back from all of these countries that are ripping us. We have to bring them back. We have to bring them back home. (APPLAUSE) 11:25:22 So what happens -- and what has to happen is we will get into a situation where hopefully when the next president is interviewed by 60 Minutes or whoever, they can say, wow, you have really made some unbelievable strides with trade deals. I mean, I have Carl Icahn lined up. I have the smartest toughest negotiators in the world lined up. They don't want anything for it. Just like I don't want a salary. If I win -- I don't want -- somebody said to me the other day, would you want your salary if I become president? I said, never thought of it, I said no, I don't want it. I don't want it. These guys don't want anything. They actually want to help. They want to do something. And I know -- I know people that are so tough and smart. You don't just need tough, I was saying the other day -- they said you want tough in terms of speaker. You want tough. And I said, no, I don't want tough. I want tough and smart. 11:26:22 Tough is no good. I know too many tough people, they are not smart. You need the combination. Right? Right. But you need the combination. We need smart, tough people. We've got to bring our country back. We can't go on like this. We can't go on like this. We cannot continue to lose. The U.S. trade deficit with China -- I had it looked up. It is almost $400 billion a year. And last year it was the same thing and then I went back five years, it was almost -- it gets worse. It gets worse. 11:26:56 Now if you want to do business with China, you can't. I have friends that are manufacturers. They can't get their product in and if they do they get a huge tariff. They have to pay a huge tariff. A man that I am very close to -- by the way, I love the Chinese. I think they are great. But their leaders are too smart. I love Mexico. I love the Mexican people. They are great. But their leaders are too smart for our leaders. They're killing us at the border, they're killing us with trade. Nabisco is moving into Mexico. Can you believe it, their big plant. They're leaving Chicago, which means I am never going to eat another Oreo again. Nobody is -- I'm serious. Never. Never. (APPLAUSE) 11:27:34 Ford is building a $2.5 billion plant in Mexico. How does that help us? They're closing in Michigan all these plants and they're going to build this massive plant. Explain -- I went to the Wharton School of Finance. Why? Why is this good for us? Why? In Tennessee, they are all set to announce a big plant. And the company announced very quickly, very ruthlessly, they have decided to go to Mexico instead. So now they are going to Mexico instead. It's not going to happen. It's not going to happen. We're going to keep our jobs in the United States. You want to do business with some of these countries, they charge you taxes. We don't charge them tax, because we are stupid. We don't charge them. It's not fair. So we need problem solvers. We need leaders and you can't have leadership unless you know how to -- you know, let's -- we are going to make our country rich again. 11:28:28 A woman came up to me and said Mr. Trump, I like you. She is from New Hampshire. I like you so much, but are you a nice enough person to be president? Can you believe it? I said, I think I'm nice. I love people. But it's not -- I told her, I said, I'm nice, believe me. I'm going to take care of people. I'm going to take care of women. I'm going to take care of men. I'm going to take care of the African-Americans. Look at their unemployment rates. It's a record. African-American youths. Look at what's going on in the inner cities. African-American youth, they can't get jobs at all, 60 percent, 70 percent unemployment. I'm going to take care of people. But I said to her, I don't think, I really don't believe this is going to be about am I nice person. I think people are fed up with incompetent politicians that don't get things done. I'm telling you. (APPLAUSE) 11:29:17 I think they are fed up. And I think this is going to be an election that's going to be largely based on competence. Because we want our country back. We want to take it back. We want our country back. So it's really an honor to be with you. It's an incredible group. Behind me is the future... (APPLAUSE) ... except for a couple of people in the audience that I know. Forget them. But this is the future. And I thought I would take a couple of questions. They were asking would I be able to take a couple of questions so it would be my honor.TRUMP: Go ahead, sir, yes. Go ahead, sure. Yes. 11:30:00 QUESTION: (OFF-MIKE) TRUMP: Wait, wait. QUESTION: Mr. Trump... TRUMP: You look healthy to me. Go ahead. QUESTION: I would like to thank you for continuing this constructive conversation. As you probably know, President -- sorry, President Bush started PEPFAR, which has been an incredible fund. The President's emergency plan for AIDS relief. It has been very effective at... TRUMP: Good. QUESTION: ... AIDS treatment globally. And what I -- as long as -- with a group of college students across the country really wanted to ask you if you would commit to doubling the number of people on treatment to 30 million people by the year 2020? 11:30:49 TRUMP: Well, I like committing to all of those things. Those are great things. Alzheimer's, AIDS, so many different -- you know, we are close on some of them. On some of them, honestly, with all of the work that has been done -- which hasn't been enough, we are not very close. But the answer is yes, I believe so strongly in that. And we're going to lead the way. We're going to lead the way on that. OK, yes, sir. (APPLAUSE) 11:31:09 QUESTION: Michael (inaudible), here in New Hampshire. TRUMP: Good. QUESTION: And I am impressed that you are here in person, I have to admit. TRUMP: That's good, thank you. QUESTION: I'm going to throw a question at you and I think it's going to be a hard one for you to answer. TRUMP: Go ahead. QUESTION: So, here is the challenge. Compromise has become the dirty word. If the other side said, we would do this, and that, and all they asked was for a tax increase, a specific tax increase or getting rid of a tax deduction, what could you offer at the table again, as a gesture of compromise? 11:31:47 TRUMP: OK, well, let me just tell you, the word compromise is not a bad word to me. As a negotiator, and having written the "Art of the Deal," and having made deals all my life -- and I'm coming out with a book in three weeks. It's a rough title. Does anyone know the title of the book? It's a rough title -- "Crippled America." You know, I tell you, it is a very sad title. Simon & Schuster called me, they said, "We would love to do a book." And I said -- I started writing and I worked with a group, and they're great people. And I realized how much negativity is going on. And I said that. And then they sent this great photographer on, and they took these beautiful pictures of me smiling. I'm smiling, so happy, you know, I'm smiling. I look nice. My wife said, "You look really good, dear." Great. But I didn't use that picture. I used the worst picture in the whole group, and it is mean, it's angry, because I am angry about what's happening to the country and I put it right on the cover of the book. 11:32:39 It's a horrible picture, which shows I don't have as much ego as -- it's a horrible picture, but I like the word compromise. We need compromise, there is nothing wrong with compromise, but it's always good to compromise and win. Meaning, let's compromise and win. Now, as far as taxes are concerned, you know, I put out a plan where I'm reducing taxes very substantially. In fact, we are bringing corporate down to 15 percent. We are bringing tremendous tax reductions to virtually everybody. We are getting rid of a lot of the deductions, like carried interest. Which is meant for the hedge fund deductions, I mean, these are hedge fund deductions. (APPLAUSE) 11:33:17 We are getting rid of them. The hedge fund guys don't want to talk to me anymore. They wanted to give me millions. I am self- funding my campaign. I'm not taking money from hedge funds or anybody else. They want to give me millions, I don't want it. (APPLAUSE) Because if I take it, I have got to be like Jeb Bush, I have got to be like Rubio, I got to be like all these guys, and I got to do what they tell me to do. Because believe me, they are puppets. Believe me, they are puppets. 11:33:39 So, I'm self-funding my campaign, but we have asked for a major tax reduction and a major, major simplification. So I think you will be very happy, and the word compromise is absolutely fine. But if you are going to compromise, ask for about three times more than you want. You understand? So when you compromise, you get what you want. OK. (APPLAUSE) Yes, go ahead. Go ahead. She doesn't have a mic. Who's got a mic, back there? OK, good -- oh, look who we have. Good. (APPLAUSE) 11:34:12 QUESTION: I'm Allie Knowles (ph). I'm Miss America's Outstanding Teen. TRUMP: Good. (APPLAUSE) And I travel across the country and teach kids about saving money, which is hard. Our government doesn't -- isn't even fiscally responsible. So I'm asking every single candidate, and I have been waiting to ask you. TRUMP: In particular. QUESTION: Oh, yeah, of course. So, specifically, what are you going to be doing about the $18 trillion deficit? 11:34:37 TRUMP: All right. Well, what we're going to do, I mean, we do -- and by the way, it's now $19 trillion -- so we have now $119 trillion in deficits, $19 trillion. You know, if you look, we owe -- when I say that -- we owe -- this is what you're talking about -- we owe $19 trillion as a country, and we are going to knock it down and we are going to bring it down big league and quickly. We're going to bring jobs back, we are going to bring business back. We are going -- we are going to stop our deficits. We're going stop our deficits. We are going to do it very quickly. Oh, how? Are you ready? Number one, we have tremendous cutting to do. You have a Department of Education that is totally out of control, massive costs. And you know, most of the -- and some of the Republican candidates like Common Core. I am totally against Common Core. I want local education. (APPLAUSE) 11:35:31 When I am in New Hampshire and Iowa and South Carolina, I want -- so important. So we're going to have that. We're going to save on Department of Environmental Protection because they're not doing it. They're not doing their job and they are making it impossible for our country to compete, and many, many other things. Hundreds of billions of dollars is going to be saved just in terms of running government. In addition to that, I'm going to bring millions of jobs back into this country. OK darling? Thank you. OK. Questions. Yes Madam. 11:36:06 Q: My name is Micaela Connery (?) and in the spirit of problem solving I am wondering if you are at all concerned that some of the divisive language you use on campaign trail undermines your ability to solve problems? 11:36:14 TRUMP: I have to say what I do. You know what? I mean, I understand. I under-- here is the thing. I went to IV league schools,I know what's divisive I know what's not divisive, in all fairness. What you do, I don't want necessarily be politically correct all the way down the line. Because I am seeing people, I see people that can't even function. I see politicians they are afraid to say anything, because it's not politically correct. And they know the answers and they refuse to give them because they're afraid it's not going to be politically correct. I am going to have to be who I am. Now at the same time I am running against a lot of people. It was 16 now it's 15. As you know one dropped out, many are going to be dropping out I think very soon. 11:37:04 If they are smart, they are going to be dropping out. Many. Too many people! Too many people! When it becomes a different kind of a situation you'll see I'm going to be much less divisive. But always remember this, I never start anything, I never start, I said before, counterpuncher. I don't start, they start, they get nasty. Whether it's Graham, whether it's Perry from Texas, I get along great then all of a sudden they start-- because they dying, they are doing so badly, they are doing so badly that they figure-- I don't think anybody in this room wants to have somebody that's not going to fight back. The problem we have in this country is we have people now that don't fight back, they don't fight back. The country is tremendously, the country is being hurt tremendously by it. Ok.Another question. 11:37:56 Q: Mr. Trump my name is Kyle Smith (?) I am a student leader [...] Thank you first of all and I was wondering what your plan is in working across the aisle to Increase civic engagement among millennials, getting college students some. TRUMP: So important. Q: ...and mainly also student loans. 11:38:27 TRUMP: So important and that's gonna be worked on. The one thing I get may be more than any other question is student loans. I am getting it from the students. They go out, they get an education from great colleges, many great colleges. They become the best student in their class, everything is great and then they can't get a job. The best way to solve that is to create jobs. But they can't get jobs. The students are going out. they are in (?) they are borrowing money all over the place. They borrowed the student loan money which is by the way one of the only agencies in government that makes a lot of money. That's the one place maybe we shouldn't be making so much money. 11:39:03 But it's the question that I get more than any other question. We're going to be cutting that down we gonna get people incentive to get out and get an education, but most-- at a much lower price. Don't forget these schools, because they get so much money from government through the students, they are raising their fees to a point that's ridiculous. They don't need to get that kind of money. They don't need to get that kind of money. Because of the fact the government is giving out so much money, you take a look at what's happened to the cost of education and believe me it hasn't gone up that much. So we're going to do a number, we are gonna get those numbers down, and also we're going to have jobs so when you graduate you're going to end up getting a nice job where you're very happy. ok? Thank you. Great question. Go ahead. 11:39:50 Q: What's your perspective on the freedom caucus, of aka I guess tea party which has been at the heart of ? 11:40:02 TRUMP: I love the tea party, I do. I love the tea party. You know what I tell you about the tea party. These are people, in all fairness 'cause you can't really-- these are people that love this country, they do love this country and they want the country to be great. I mean it's very important. Go ahead. 11:40:19 Q: The issue is, for example, I see, not to offend anyone, but quite frankly I see that Planned Parenthood is a deck chair on the Titanic. So that's where I am coming from... TRUMP: But that's their point of view... Q:...to shut down the entire government over it. It's kind of the small world mindset. 11:40:40 TRUMP: They don't want Planned Parenthood funded, and I think a lot of people understand that including me. They don't want it funded, I mean I understand that. You do have that. A lot of people feel that way. 11:41:00 Q: Maybe I am wrong. Maybe you confirm me wrong, but I don't think that you're a friend to women. (applause) What... 11:41:12 TRUMP: I knew I shouldn't have picked her. I knew I shouldn't have picked her. All Right, so let me give you that answer right now. I respect women incredibly. I have had women working for me in positions that they had never worked in terms [...] in terms of so many different jobs, I had a woman who is charge of the building of Trump Tower, many years before it was even-- before anybody would have even thought of it. And did a fantastic job. I have given women more opportunity than I would say virtually anybody in the construction industry. I have a daughter named Ivanka and wife named Melania who constantly want me to talk about women's health issues, because they know how I feel about it. And they know how I feel about women. I respect women, I love women I cherish women. You know Hillary Clinton said he shouldn't cherish. WEll I said , I do cherish, I cherish women. My mother was one of the great people of the world, maybe the greatest ever. My mother. I respect women. 11:42:13 I'm going to take care of women. You know, Jeb Bush didn't want to fund women's health issues. You read that, you saw that. And then he took it back later. I will take care of women and I have great respect for women and I do cherish women and I will take care of women. I will take care also from enemy, meaning the enemy on different shores that's looking to come in and do numbers. Believe me I will take care of people in this country far better than any of the folks that you are looking at right now, that I can tell you. ok.yea, go ahead. 11:42:56 Oh, I thought it was finished. [turns around to prior person asking the question] Q: I want to get paid the same as a man, and I think you understand that. So, if you become president will a woman make the same as a man and do i get to choose what i do with my body? 11:43:12 TRUMP: You're going to make the same if you do as a good a job. You are going to make the same if you do as good a job. And I happen to be pro life. ok, I am pro life. Ok, Any other questions? [invites the next person to ask a question] Harvard, do you go to Harvard? 11:44:04 Q: Hi, this is Sean (?) thank you so much for coming to speak to us today. I have a quick question to something you said early this summer about, basically you said that South Korea takes advantage of the US in terms of the defending spending on the Korean peninsula-- You said [...] are not going to pay anything. I just want to get the facts straight... 11:44:21 TRUMP: Are you from South Korea? Q: No, I was born in Texas raised in Colorado. But I want to say, no matter where I am from I like to get the facts straight, and I want to tell you that that's not true, South Korea paid 861 million dollars... 11:44:36 TRUMP: Which is peanuts compared to what it's costing us. Q: Yea, but the United States also ... TRUMP: Excuse me, excuse me it's peanuts compared to what it's costing. It's peanuts. And by the way they are a very wealthy country. Part of the problem when we are talking about like your question about deficit and about losing, why can't we do-- we're defending Germany, we're defending Japan, South Korea, we are defending so many countries, we get peanuts, we get nothing. You know, you are right we get a small payment. It's a fraction, it's a tiny fraction. I say all the time about SK, I ordered 4,000 TV sets recently for a big project. They all come from SK, my only bidder was SK. Except for Sony which is in Japan and they lost their way, ok. my only bidder, whether it's LG or whether Samsung. These are wealthy countries. We have 28,000 soldiers on the border of SK, so we defend Germany which is sending cars and everything over, making-- it's an eco behemoth, we're defending Japan. So here is the deals that we make, we defend Japan and we have to defend them with our lives. 11:45:49 If anyone attacks Japan we have an agreement, we have to go and attack and fight and die and spend. But if anybody attacks us, Japan doesn't have to do a thing. That's the way we run things. It's not going to happen with me, folks. It's not going to happen with me. And if we are defending people that are far richer than us, they are gonna have to pay for it. We want to help them. But why are we defending Germany, why are we defending South Korea, Japan and don't do anything for us. We are going to have great relationships, but why do we pay the cost of defending in the world? And you know when you are looking at your military budget, yea, it's far higher than anybody else's. you know why it's higher? Because we are defending all these countries, not helping us. We're going to change things around and we're going to make America great again, believe me. That you all very much. Thank you. Thank you. ---END LINDSEY GRAHAM SPEECH: WASH 8 NO LABELS EVENT NH WASH 8 NO LABELS EVENT NH P2 WASH 8 NO LABELS EVENT NH 10:05:55 GRAHAM: Out of respect for people, I won't dance. (LAUGHTER) When I first announced for the Senate I took Senator Thurmond's place. Anybody heard of Senator Thurmond? Yes, we change senators every 50 years whether we need to or not. (LAUGHTER) So Bob Dole was my National Chairman. Strom Thurmond, and James Brown was the entertainment. (LAUGHTER) What's the moral of the story? No one knew I was there. (LAUGHTER) And seeing Bob Dole trying to keep time was... (LAUGHTER) ... sort of worth it all. Speaking trying to keep time. I want to take some questions I've enjoyed -- thank God for New Hampshire. It's the last place... (APPLAUSE) ... it's the last place on earth where you can meet 20 people running for president if you're lucky. (LAUGHTER) 10:06:56 So keep South Carolina in your prayers; it's been a tough year. The Charleston shooting, I would like to just note the people in the Mother Emanuel Church did a better job of representing my state and mankind than I could have ever hoped to have done, so. (APPLAUSE) If you're looking for a model to follow go to that church. It is really been tough; 18 inches of rain in 18 hours down in Charleston; I hope these dams hold, but our Governor and her whole team's doing a great job. So let's talk about our country a little bit. Do you agree that America's worth fighting for? (APPLAUSE) 10:07:47 Yes? You think it's worth dying for? (APPLAUSE) Is it worth compromising for? (APPLAUSE) In many ways it is easier to go to Afghanistan than it is Washington. (LAUGHTER) At least you know who the enemy is. So I want to talk to you a little bit about trade-offs. Anybody married? (LAUGHTER) I think you know what I'm talking about. Life, at its best, is a series of trade-offs. Hey, Paul. So the bottom line here's what the next president needs to do, whoever who he or she may be. They need to get us in a room in Washington, come to the White House, have a drink, maybe more than one. (LAUGHTER) 10:08:38 Get everybody liquored up and solve problems. (LAUGHTER) So this is what Reagan and O'Neill did: campaign finance reform. You want to get money out of politics? (APPLAUSE) Yes. Join my campaign. (LAUGHTER) We -- we've accomplished that. (LAUGHTER) (APPLAUSE) Citizens United has to be revisited because it's going to be pretty hard to solve any problem with unlimited giving by unknown people. (APPLAUSE) 10:09:26 So it will probably take a Constitutional Amendment, but I think there's a way to get there, and that would be a priority to me because if you don't get this fixed I think the days of problem solving are behind us when you got 158 families financing half -- giving half the money, and one, I want to know who they are, by the way; call them up. (LAUGHTER) Something's broken there. Debt. Do you all agree that debt is a no-label problem? (APPLAUSE) 10:10:05 The debt that we're about to pass on future generations could care less if you're a Republican family or a Democratic family. Now what drives the debt? Spending, well, that's pretty clever. What drives the debt over time? Spending on what? Entitlement reform. How many of you think Social Security is worth saving? (APPLAUSE) Me too. 10:10:30 Social Security and Medicare are programs that people depend on for a quality of life when they retire. They're jeopardy of being overwhelmed because 80 million baby boomers, of which I'm one, are going to retire in the next 20 years, 25 years. Anybody born from '46 to '64? (APPLAUSE) Yes. Anybody born after '64? (APPLAUSE) Good luck. (LAUGHTER) You're going to need it. So have you heard of Simpson-Bowles? All right. 10:11:10 Here's what I would do if I were president, I would dust it off and I'd use it as a template, because there's no way you can tax your way out of this problem. 80 million people are going to retire in mass, we're going to be down to two workers for every retiree in the next 20 years. In 1950 there were 16 workers for every retiree, in 20 years it's going to be two. Now Strom Thurmond had four kids after he was 67; if you're willing to do that we may can turn this around. (LAUGHTER) If you think you can do that you probably have a high opinion of yourself. (LAUGHTER) So, and I'm not betting on you can deliver, so I'm going to Plan B. (LAUGHTER) 10:12:01 So what do you do? You got a lot of people wanting their Social Security checks and their Medicare bills paid, and you got two people paying FICA taxes and Social -- and Medicare taxes. Simpson-Bowles is a great trade-off; here's what Republicans have to do: we have to eliminate deductions in the tax code that many of us enjoy. 1.2 trillion a year given away in deductions, we're going to have to bring some of that money back into the Treasury and we're going to have to put it on debt, and we're going to have to violate pledges that all of us have signed. Have you heard of the Grover Norquist Pledge? Now, I like Grover, and here's what Grover says, "If you eliminated deduction, let's say second home interest deduction, something that would be hard but if you eliminated that, under the pledge you'd have to take all the money to buy down tax rates." The problem with that is no Democrat's going to get in the room to adjust the age or retirement or means to it as benefits. 10:12:59 So what Simpson-Bowles requires is for Republican to eliminate a deduction, take some of the revenue to pay down debt, and what do our Democratic friends have to do in return? We have to adjust the age of retirement because we're all living so much longer and we have to ask people in my income level, I make $175 thousand a year, I'm not saying I'm worth it, but that's what we pay ourselves. (LAUGHTER) We're going to ask upper-income Americans to take smaller benefits, not draconian-cuts, but some, smaller COLAs to get the baby boomers through retirement in dignity without whipping out the country. (APPLAUSE) Now that's Simpson-Bowles. (APPLAUSE) 10:13:43 So when you hear a -- when you hear a Republican say, "I won't do revenue." That means that you're not going to help the country. When you hear a Democrat say, "We don't need to deal or mess with Social Security Medicare." That means you got your head in the sand. We're $70 dollars short of the money we need over the next 75 years to pay the Medicare Social Security Bills. If you took the entire wealth of the one percent, including their dogs... (LAUGHTER) ... everything, you're $30 trillion, you're half of what you need, you're not going to grow the economy enough to close the gap, and if you eliminate the Defense Department, which is 20 percent of one third of the budget, you don't even move the needle. So we know what to do, let's just do it. (APPLAUSE) 10:14:35 Immigration. I had six primary opponents over this one topic. I've been working on this for a decade, I'm called Lindsey Grahamnesty and Lindsey Gomez. (LAUGHTER) To all the Gomez's other there, I'll try to honor the family name. (LAUGHTER) My big sin was I would sit down with Democrats and try to find the way forward to deal with a very difficult issue. (APPLAUSE) And I tell you what the -- the trade-offs are simple; on the Republican side, once we secure the border, which we all want, once we increase legal immigration, which most of us believe we need, crush her (ph) down to two workers unless you have a bunch of kids after you're 67, you better be looking around for workers. Most all of us want to control who gets a job from the National E-Verify system, but we break down at the 11 million. Here's the problem on my side of the isle; we cannot seem to embrace a rational solution to the 11 million. 10:15:37 Anytime you touch this it's amnesty this and amnesty that. The one thing I'm here to tell you is that you can talk about immigration reform, you can vote for immigration reform in the reddest or red states and you can still win because I am still here. (APPLAUSE) So we had -- I had six opponents from mildly disturbed to completely insane. (LAUGHTER) The insane guy's the one I worry the most about. I won by 41 points, and here's what I told people in South Carolina, "Tell me how you deport 11 million people, physically do it. Tell me how you fix immigration without one Democratic vote." To my Democratic friends, if you will meet me in the middle I will meet you in the middle, and we have done it time and time again, so... (APPLAUSE) 10:16:45 If I am president of the United States we're not going to quit until we get this right. And my friends in the House, we have sent you three bills that got over 65 votes dealing with immigration comprehensively, it is time for you to up your game. (APPLAUSE) Once you secure your border, once you control who gets a job, once you increase legal immigration, no one wants a felon as to the 11 million who are non-felons. You stay on our terms, you have to learn our language; I don't speak it well, but look how far I've come. (LAUGHTER) 10:17:26 You have to pay a fine, you have to pay taxes, you have to get in the back of the line and you have to wait 10 years for a green card, but here's what I will never agree to: I hate the European model of second-class citizens. If we're going to let you stay here all of your life we're going to let you be part of the country. (APPLAUSE) How many of you here believe climate change is real? (APPLAUSE) I do too. (APPLAUSE) 10:18:07 So here's the trade-off; for those of you who believe climate change is real you're going to have to deal with a guy like me who will push a lower carbon economy over time in a business friendly way. The great trade-off is energy producers and environmentalists in a room trying to find over a 50 year period a way to go to a lower carbon economy in the mean time, responsibly exploring for fossil fuels that we own and trying to create alternative energy in every sector of the economy. 10:18:43 (UNKNOWN): (OFF-MIKE) GRAHAM: It is to me, folks, a problem needs to be solved, not a religion. So our -- so my friends on the left who making this a religion, you're making a mistake. To my friends on the right who deny the science, tell me why. I'm not a scientist, I made a D science. You know why? Because she'd never given an F. (LAUGHTER) 10:19:03 So. But I've been to the Antarctic, I've been to Greenland, I've been to Alaska and I've heard from people who live in these regions how the climate is changing. And when 90 percent of Climatologists tell you it's real, who am I to tell them they don't know what they're talking about. So the... (APPLAUSE) ... the trade-off is Joe Lee Rimming, John Kerry and Lindsey Graham got closed (ph) and we had the whole spill in the Gulf. More nuclear power because it's a good job creating method of energy, it's non-emitting. Exploring for all in gas in a reasonable way. Pushing low carbon technologies, having the government involved until we can get a foot hold on a lower carbon alternative energy economy in setting carbon targets that would give America clean water and clean air. Those are the trade-offs. 10:19:58 Finally, and I'll take questions, there's no foreign policy element to no labels. Should there be? Let me tell you about a group who buys into no labels. Radical Islam is very much into no labels; they look out into this audience and they don't see anything different, and if you spent two minutes you'd see a lot of things different in this audience in terms Liberal, Conservative, Moderate, Libertarian, Vegetarian. (LAUGHTER) Baptist, Jew, you name it we got it. They see us all the same; we're Americans, we buy into the idea of worshipping God the individual way, not the group way or maybe not at all. We buy into electing our leaders, not having them thrust upon us. We buy into the idea that young women have value. (APPLAUSE) 10:20:57 So here's the thought, if we can't agree that Radical Islamic terrorists, who crucify children, who sell women into slavery in the name of God, who slaughter everybody in the faith that disagrees with them, who throws gay couples off roofs. If we can't come together and say that we stand united against you, we're making a mistake. (APPLAUSE) 10:21:30 So I will tell you ladies and gentlemen how to solve this problem with terrorism is a bit complicated. Uniting against it should be as easy as wanting to solve the other problems I just described. Let me just say this in ending; three thousand of us died on 9/11 for one reason: they couldn't kill more of us. If they would they could. I've never been more worried about another 9/11 then I am right now. The enemies of mankind, not just this nation, are getting stronger and getting more lethal by the day. 10:22:16 I hope that no labels could find some accommodate for foreign policy plank that says the following, "America should lead, we should be involved, we should help others deal with the problem, common to mankind and it is more than dropping a bomb." I am the chairman of the Foreign Operations Sub-Committee, in charge of all the foreign aid in the federal budget. I believe that the PEPFAR Program that Bush created in Africa is making a safer and is making us better. 10:22:53 I believe that foreign assistance will do more damage to radical Islam over the arc of time than a bomb. I believe that educating a young, poor girl in a remote region in the Mid-East is the ultimate antidote to terrorism. (APPLAUSE) I believe that America, at her best, is the hope of mankind. Let us be at our best. Thank you. (APPLAUSE) 10:23:39 QUESTION: Senator, welcome to New Hampshire. Representative of Balus Herald (ph). My question to you is -- is a veterans issue, and I know you're a veteran, you've been up there many years. You all passed a Veterans Accountability Act, and a lot of people bragged about it and used veterans as political pawns and not one person was fired. There's a bill of 10-82 on the Veterans Accountability Act where only a few senators have signed on board. My question is why have you and none of the Republicans and Democrats come together, it's been up there for years, to fix the V.A. system where we got veterans dying? (APPLAUSE) 10:24:21 GRAHAM: One, thank you for your service. The reform that we did pass, with Senator McCain's leadership, allows veterans a choice card if they live over 40 miles from a facility, they can go to a local doctor or a hospital. If you wait over 30 days you can access a local doctor or hospital. In New Hampshire your local provider's in Vermont. So that was a pretty big deal for people in New Hampshire, but your point is well taken. We're fighting a bureaucracy that's not going to give up without a fight. How about this idea? If you've served your country and you're eligible for health care, give you a card where you can go anywhere you want to go anytime you want to go. (APPLAUSE) 10:25:08 Now that costs money, but money well spent. But you can't do that unless you deal with entitlements. By 2040 all the money you spend in taxes or -- send in taxes goes to pay Medicare Social Security and interests on the debt. Do you get where I'm coming from? There'll be no money left for the Department of Defense, no money left for the Department of Education, no money left for the V.A.. If you don't turn it around the tsunami of entitlement spending by age taxing, means testing and flattening out the tax code to generate revenue, it is all talk. So count me in for helping the veteran, count me in for helping the Alzheimer's patient, count me in for helping people overseas who need our help to reconstruct their lives so they can push back against radical Islam. Count me in for all this, but let me tell you, none of it's going to happen if the next president of the United States can't get us in a room and do something like Simpson-Bowles. (APPLAUSE) 10:26:10 QUESTION: (OFF-MIKE) GRAHAM: Can't hear you. QUESTION: (OFF-MIKE) GRAHAM: The crowd's turning on you. (LAUGHTER) 10:26:22 QUESTION: As far as I know, the Constitution requires Congress to declare war. Last time Congress declared war, to my knowledge, in December of '41. We've been in a lot of wars and we haven't won very many since then. So would you require a congressional deceleration of war before we go, and then if you declare war, go to win it? 10:26:48 GRAHAM: All right. I think we've declared war five times in the history of the Nation. The one thing you can't have is 535 commander and chiefs; that's not a way to conduct military operations. So the bottom line is would I seek congressional authorization to use force to destroy ISIL in Syria? Yes, I would, but I don't think I'm required to do so because I think ISIL is a direct threat to our homeland. How many of you believe that ISIL wants to hit us if they could? (APPLAUSE) How many of you believe that the number one job of the president of the United States is to be commander and chief and protect the homeland? (APPLAUSE) 10:27:35 So let me tell you what I would do to destroy ISIL. You're not going to do it from the air; you got to have a ground component. We have 3,500 Americans on the ground in Iraq, General Kane (ph), who's the architect of the surge, says we need about 10 thousand. The good news is that's a fraction of what we've had in the past; a couple Army aviation battalions with American helicopters flown by American pilots to take the fight to ISIL and Ramadi and Mosul more affectively. Special forces on the ground; if they've picked up the phone, they got in the car, we'd be on top of them to disrupt their operations. Forward air controllers to drop bombs on the right people, 70 percent of the air craft come back with the bombs on the racks. Trainers at the battalion level so the Iraqis won't cut and run. That's what I would do, and I want you to know that before you vote, that if you vote for me, whatever it takes as long as it takes till we destroy these bastards is my view of ISIL. (APPLAUSE) WASH 8 NO LABELS EVENT NH P2 10:28:29 Now as to Syria. I don't know if there's anybody left to train, but a no fly zone would be a great relief to the Syrian people. (APPLAUSE) Establishing a place for them to go without being barrel-bombed would be a great step. A safe-haven enclave to start training people without fear of being killed, having the region buy into what we're doing. The good news is that every Arab country and Turkey is against Assad being in power because he's a puppet of Iran. And the real good news is the Syrian people are not radical Islamists, to say they are is a slander to them; I have been there a lot and they're not going to accept Assad as their leader because he's massacred their families. 10:29:13 So what would I do? I'd ask for a regional force, create an enclave, train the free Syrian army for affectively and support them from a regional point of view, and I would ask Congress to help me and I would go in with a goal of winning, and when you bring them down you better stay because if you leave too soon it repeats itself again; this is a generational struggle. Syria has been raped and decimated, the amount of money to reconstruct Syria is going to be enormous, but it should come from the entire world, not just us. The Arabs should pay for this war, we've paid for the last two. (APPLAUSE) 10:29:51 None of that's possible unless you rebuild your military; we're on track to have the smallest Army since 1940, the smallest Navy since 1915, we'll be spending half of what we normally spend on defense, 2.3 percent in terms of GDP by 2021, given the threats that's insane. And it's just not the defense budget that's being cut, the NIH budget's being cut, the CDC's budgets been cut. So let's replace these defense cuts, non-defense cute, across the board with more rational ways of getting out of debt, and that goes to entitlement reform and tax cut reforms. So the answer to me -- to your question is that I would seek Congress' blessing, but I would not let a dysfunctional Congress keep me from defending America against an enemy that is surely coming here. (APPLAUSE) And I am fighting to win; winning is my goal, destroying these bastards is my goal. 10:30:45 QUESTION: All right, thank you Senator Graham for being here. My name is... GRAHAM: Strong letter to follow. QUESTION: ... my name is Kyle Oasting (ph), I'm the No Labels College Chapter Leader at Indiana University. (APPLAUSE) I just want to say... GRAHAM: Do you know anybody in New Hampshire? QUESTION: Do I know anybody in New Hampshire? GRAHAM: Yes, because Indiana's way down the road. 10:31:08 QUESTION: I know, right? (LAUGHTER) I just want to say as a Republican as well, thank you for running for president and for being a voice of reason in this race, it's much appreciated. (APPLAUSE) A few years ago Wall Street crashed and they got a bail out while the middle class still crashed and they haven't gotten a bail out. Today Wall Street is doing greater than ever. What is -- what is your plan, specifically, to make sure than Main Street gets their bail out? Because it's long overdue. Thank you. 10:31:35 GRAHAM: OK, thank you. (APPLAUSE) Rather than the government bailing out Main Street, how about creating jobs on Main Street? (APPLAUSE) If you think the government is the salvation of the middle class don't vote for me. If you think jobs are the salvation for the middle class vote for me. (APPLAUSE) A little about me. I grew up in the back of a liquor store, this is why I would be a good president for you. (LAUGHTER) My mom and my dad, neither one of them finished high school, they owned a liquor store, a bar and a pool room. We lived in one room until I was in high school. I was well loved, they worked six days a week; it's a hard way to make a living. When I was -- I went to college for the first time of anyone in my family in 1975 after coming back from my first vacation to Disney World, which was like going to Mars... (LAUGHTER) 10:32:39 ... my mom was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease. By June of '76 she had passed. We got wiped out because we were under insured. 15 months later my dad dies, I'm 22 my sister's 13. If it had not been for Social Security Survivor Benefits we would not have made it, so when I talk about Social Security I know what I am talking about. I would give up some benefits today; I'm 60, I'm not married, I don't have any kids, I've got a 401(k) plan, I've got a congressional retirement, I got a military retirement, I would gladly give up some COLA and shave my benefits to save a system worth saving so it's there for other people who need for than I do. (APPLAUSE) 10:33:19 To -- to those who worry about the economy, a $15 minimum wage is going to displace people, not grow the middle class. The middle class is somebody who has to not go on vacation when the child's sick. You make too much to be on government assistance, but you still live paycheck to paycheck. Let me end on this note; competition for labor is the best hope of the middle class. When a bunch of people wanting to hire you, not a few people. 10:33:46 So why did Boeing come to South Carolina? They could have gone anywhere in the friggin' world. Why did Valvo come to South Carolina? Why did BMW come to South Carolina? Because we wanted them to come to South Carolina. We would take your work force needs, go to the technical colleges and train a work force superior to second to none, ready to go, helping you help yourself; we would get permits done in times that you never even envisioned, still being environmentally sensitive. We had a tax structure that welcomed you; there's a reason they came to South Carolina, and let me tell you what happened to the middle class in South Carolina. Everybody who has a manufacturing business had to pay more because if you didn't your employee was going to go to Boeing. The best thing I can do for waitresses in this country and waiters is to train an environment somebody will open up a restaurant across the street and hire you away. 10:34:46 I want to take what we did in South Carolina to Washington. I want to unleash the greatest economy in the world; people are more screwed up then we are. We're this far away from energy independence, manufacturing with the right kind of tax code can bloom, we can take this money partner (ph) overseas, bring it back in and One Time Good Deal and the Highway Trust Fund, we can build roads and we can build bridges, and these technologies you have in your pocket may be made in China, but they were invented here. 10:35:16 Our best days are ahead. We're going to lean into our enemies, we're going to hold each other and we're going to solve problems for the good of us all. Thank you very, very much. (APPLAUSE) END MARTIN OMALLEY SPEECH: NY INTERPLAY SLUG: WASH 8 NO LABELS EVENT NH 09:03:20 O'MALLEY: Thanks, very, very much. OK, thank you. Governor Engler, thanks very, very much. One little correction by way of problem solving, as you can see from the backdrop behind me. I am not yet in Las Vegas. But I will be going out to Las Vegas. I am talking to you from Baltimore, Maryland. Land of the free and home of the brave, and it's a great honor to be able to talk with all of you, at least in this way. And I'm looking forward to the Democratic party finally joining this game, and having a debate about how we solve our nation's problems. It's a wonderful idea, isn't it? Both parties having debates? 09:04:00 So, look, I want to thank Senator Lieberman. I want to thank Governor Huntsman. And I also want to thank Governor Engler. And I especially want to acknowledge Nancy Jacobson, who I've known for many, many years, and is the founder of the No Labels movement. I thought I would share a few ideas with you before we go to question and answer. And as I often say when I'm given the talk on the chair in New Hampshire, by golly, if you have answers, make sure you raise your hand first. 09:04:28 Because really, what we are doing in the context of this presidential campaign is not only selecting a person to lead us forward, but also we are on a search for answers, aren't we? That sort of deeper understanding that we must achieve as a people that actually precedes the better actions we need to take as a country. The better actions that will make our country stronger, so we can give our children and future with more opportunity and -- rather than less. So, let me do a couple of things in the next few minutes before we open it up. I want to share with you first of all my take on what I believe are -- the theory of our case is as a nation right now, and then I want to share with you a little bit about my experience, which is the experience of solving problems. And then I want to talk to you about something I'm seeing out in our country today, which is not only a yearning for new leadership, but the emerging of a new way of governing, which I see coming up and emanating out of our cities and towns and also coming up from the attitudes and the perspective of the next generation of Americans. So let's begin, shall we? 09:05:36 You and I are part of a living, self-creating mystery called the United States of America. But the promise that's at the heart of that mystery is actually a very real and concrete promise. It's a covenant among us and between us that says wherever you start in our country you start, but through your own hard work, your own talent, you should be able to get ahead. Call it the -- call it an economy that works for all us, call it the American Dream, it is the actions that solve problems and address challenges in every generation so that we can include more of our people more fully in the economic success of our country. That's what it means to be an American. 09:06:23 The truth of our times, the hard truth of our times that we must acknowledge, however, is this. While we have come a long way since the Wall Street crash of 2008, our country still faces big challenges and big problems. Thanks to President Obama's leadership, we are now creating jobs again as a country. And of course, we're the only species on the planet without full employment, so there is no progress without jobs. So our country is doing better, but the hard truth of our times is that 70 percent of us are earning the same or less today than we were 12 years ago. And that's not how our economy is supposed to work, that's not how our country is supposed to work. There is a growing injustice in our country today, and this growing injustice is leading to income inequality like we haven't seen for a hundred years and declining opportunities for our kids. And this problem won't solve itself, we need to solve it. 09:07:22 We are Americans. Our economy is not money, it is people, it is all of our people. And so we have to invite one another -- Democrats, Independents and Republicans -- to return to the table of democracy and solve these problems, not with words but with actions. My experience is the -- not the experience so much of a legislator, but my experience as a mayor and governor is the experience of an executive, of a person who has forged new consensus after new consensus in order to get things done. What sort of things? I'm talking about tackling the worst violent crime problem of any city in America and achieving record reductions in violent crime, even as we achieved record reductions in our incarceration rate. 09:08:15 I'm talking about making our public schools number one in America. I'm talking about making college more affordable for more people by going four years in a row in a recession without a penny's increase in college tuition. Passing a living wage, raising the minimum wage, passing marriage equality and the DREAM Act and passing the most comprehensive gun safety legislation of any state in America after the slaughter of the innocent in Newtown. Now, none of those things were -- none of those things was easy; they were all difficult. And we didn't get them done by running to our labeled corners. No. Instead, we invited one another to come with ideas to help us solve these problems. And that is the new way of leadership that I believe the people of our country are demanding of all of their elected leaders. 09:09:09 One of the happy things I came home with after traveling around the country for a year before I was -- before I made the decision to run for president was the realization that most people in our nation actually feel a lot better about how their cities are run today than they did 10 or 15 years ago. Why is that? It's not because their cities are necessarily rolling in cash; in fact, we haven't had a federal program and a federal action for cities in decades. What -- the reason why people are feeling better about how their cities are governed is because of entrepreneurial men and women who take on that title of mayor and actually go to work every day to get things done. They're not afraid of the information age, they know everybody can see and know things at the same time they do, so they don't obsess with trying to maintain a time advantage that they know things before the public knows them. 09:10:07 Shimon Peres, I once heard speak, and he said that, in this information age, the people are now smarter than their leaders and they know more than their leaders. So, what does this mean for us as states and a country? I believe that we need to embrace new technology, the Internet, geographic information systems to make our state and federal governments performance measured entities, so that all of us, as citizens controlling this enterprise can see whether we are doing better this week than we were last week. But most of our governments are led on the tyranny of last year's budget. Lots of department heads can tell you what sort of budget they want for next year, but very few of them can tell you specifically, at least at the state and federal levels, whether we are doing any better this week in solving our problems than we were last week. But in cities, they can, increasingly, more and more. 09:11:01 You see, the nature of leadership has changed, as I see it. And this is -- especially want to talk to the young people who are there in the room. In the time that you have come of age, there has been a big shift in leadership. And I'm going to hold something up and show it to you. It used to be that leadership was this triangle, this hierarchy, this pyramid of command and control where the leader needed to be at the top and have all the information and hoard it, and things got done on the basis of because I said so, or worse, on the basis of ideology. But the nature of leadership has changed in the information age. And the place for the leader to be now is in the center of the emerging truth, in a circle of collaboration and cooperation, and yes, dialogue and communication around problem-solving, asking one another every day, are the things we are doing working to achieve a better result, or not? 09:12:12 If they are, we should do more of it . If it's not, we should stop doing it and do less of it. So, that is the way I have always governed. And I think part of what has allowed the to do that is I am of a different generation than some of my older baby boomer brothers and sisters or parents. I don't ask if an idea is from the left or from the right, or whether it's Democratic or Republican, I ask whether it works. And if it works, we do it. And that is how we have been able to achieve some pretty nation-leading results and actually get some things done before any political pollster would tell you it was popular. 09:12:52 So, what does that mean for our country today? I believe that it means we need to take actions, and have the guts to show people that the things we are doing are actually working. We are a great people. We still have another 240 years of creative service ahead of us. And that is why I have laid out 15 strategic goals to rebuild the truth of the American dream, so that every family can get ahead, so wages go up again with productivity and not down. 09:13:22 So that a college degree is actually a gateway to a life of opportunity, not a trapdoor to a lifetime of debt. And to square our shoulders to the great challenge of our time of climate change, and actually create a 100 percent clean electric energy grid by 2050, and create 5 million jobs along the way. Let's be honest with one another. (APPLAUSE) 09:13:45 It is not about words, it is about actions. And each of the goals that I have put forward, things like national service to cut youth unemployment in half in the next three years, things like cutting the deaths from gun violence in half in the next 10 years. All of these things have dates attached to them. Why? Because the difference between a dream and a goal is a deadline. These problems won't solve themselves. We need to solve them. And I thank you, No Labels, for having me with you this morning in this way, and I look forward to your questions, and more importantly, I look forward to your answers. And I need your help. Thanks a lot. (APPLAUSE) 09:14:38 MODERATOR: Thank you very much, Governor. And if you were here, you would be right in the center of the knowledge. Right in this stage, it is all around, all sides.MODERATOR: And the first question is coming from a lady -- right over there, I saw a hand go up over there. So, let's start with you, ma'am. 09:14:55 QUESTION: Hi, I'm Jessica (ph). I'm from Manchester, New Hampshire. I want to thank you for being with us. My question for you is rather specific. What would your energy policy look like as president? And do you think we should utilize our national resources to create jobs and grow the economy, while also working on solar and wind power? 09:15:16 O'MALLEY: Well, sure. The -- let me -- let me say this. I have put forward -- I am the only candidate in my party, or I should say, I can safely say I'm the only candidate in either party, to put forward a plan to move us forward to a 100 percent clean electric energy grid by 2050. We did not land the man on the moon within all-of-the-above strategy. We landed a man on the moon because we faced up to a huge engineering challenge. We were intentional about the choices we make. So, this is what my -- and I commend you, please, go on my website. It's jonhuntsman.com <http://jonhuntsman.com/>. (LAUGHTER) 09:16:03 Now, I'm just kidding. I wanted to see if you all are still listening. It's actually martinomalley.com <http://martinomalley.com/>. And we have put a pretty specific proposal out there. Among some of the leading actions, in order to move us to that clean electric energy grid, I believe we need to stop subsidizing fossil fuel extraction... (APPLAUSE) And instead, and act long -- and instead, enact long-term investor credits first solar and for wind. I believe that we need to embrace clean technology and energy conservation technology. We need to see, through more investments in workforce housing and affordable housing, the advent of a new type of housing that is nit zero in its energy use. That could bring forward a whole new era of clean design and clean architecture, in terms of our built environment. 09:17:07 And I believe we need to make investments in the clean energy grid that will enable us to move the natural resources, renewable resources that we have, from places where wind is abundant, to places where energy is heavily used. What does that mean? That means, instead of drilling for oil off the Chesapeake Bay and the East Coast of the United States, we should be laying the vertebrae and the power lines so we can create wind off the East Coast, where so many of our people live. (APPLAUSE) And in the heart of American cities, where unemployment is actually higher now in many, many cities, than it was eight years ago, we need to throw ourselves into a whole program of training, workforce training, and retrofitting of old buildings in order to reduce energy consumption. 09:17:58 If we do all of these things, and if we invest more, rather than less in developing base load cleaner, greener technologies, like the next generation of safer nuclear, we can get to 100 percent clean electric grid by 2050, but it's not going to happen by itself, and it's not going to happen by embracing nostalgia. Every job is important. We need to be intentional about those might have to transition in this clean economy, but we will not get there without solving this problem moving forward in an intentional ways, and that is what I intend to do as president. (APPLAUSE) 09:18:32 MODERATOR: Very good. All right, Governor, you can see in the room, with all of these green shirts, all these problem solvers that are here in the room, but we have a superhero that's going to ask the next question, it's Problem-Solver Man. He's right here in the room, he's got the mic, and he is ready to go. Problem-Solver Man, go ahead. 09:18:52 QUESTION: Hello. Governor O'Malley, how are you doing? Can you hear me? MODERATOR: He can hear you. O'MALLEY: Did Problem-Solver Man -- Problem-Solver Man, do you have a theme song? QUESTION: I don't, but I am in Spandex, I don't know if you can see that. (LAUGHTER) But I'm in -- oh, I have some advice for -- you for -- you are going to Las Vegas tonight, right? 09:19:10 O'MALLEY: Yeah, I'm going in a couple -- in about an hour. QUESTION: OK, cool. I'm sure you're getting a lot of political advice, but I'm just going to give you some advice my grandma gave me when I turned 21 and went to Vegas. Don't gamble. That's my main advice; just be careful. But I guess my question for you is, Governor, you know, you have talked about how you will be a bipartisan president. So, within your first 100 days of office, which bipartisan restaurant would you take John Boehner to? (LAUGHTER) Or, you know, whoever. 09:19:39 O'MALLEY: I didn't know that restaurants were partisan. I thought that food and alcohol, in fact, were decidedly nonpartisan.(LAUGHTER) O'MALLEY: Let me -- can I -- but let me -- Problem-Solver Man... (CROSSTALK) MODERATOR: There is a question in there somewhere. O'MALLEY: Yes, yes. QUESTION: (OFF-MIKE) 09:20:03 O'MALLEY: I -- I think the -- let me answer the call of your question that's in there somewhere. This is what I have learned as a mayor and as a governor. You have to call the legislature the time, and you -- when -- you have to make sure that -- that you -- you relate and talk to people like people. In other words, I think it was de Tocqueville who said that one of the unique things about America is the strength of our soft ties. Our ability to hold different political opinions and political views, but still be able to relate to one another as human beings. 09:20:38 And one of the sad byproducts, if we're not careful of it, is -- of this information age, is that we can program our phones, we can program our TVs, we can program the -- the streams of news we receive so that we only -- we only talk to people who think most exactly like us. And there's a danger in that. So some of the things we got done in Maryland, we only got done with Republican votes. And I believe that part of the reason that happened was because we were very intentional about having -- about -- about having -- you know, nonpartisan, bipartisan pizza night at the -- at the governor's mansion, at making sure that we broke bread and treated people decently and -- and invited people to -- you know, a -- a holiday open house, and -- and all sorts of other things, with -- regardless of party label. 09:21:32 And so were it not for some Republican votes, I would not have been able to repeal the death penalty, something that took us three tries, and were only able to do with some Republican votes. I would not have been able to pass marriage equality, again, something that took us three tries and that we were only able to do because of some Republican votes. (APPLAUSE) 09:21:54 And as I -- as we went back and -- and researched the -- the priority bills that I put in as governor, I was happy to see that 75 percent of the governor's bills -- and we only do about a dozen every session -- 75 percent of them received bipartisan support in one house or the other -- or rather, majority Republican support in one house or the other. And I think we have to stay focused on the goals that unite us and the principles that unite us. Our belief in (ph) the dignity of every person. Our belief in our own responsibility to advance the common good we share. Thank you, Problem-Solver Man. 09:22:33 QUESTION: Thank you. MODERATOR: Thank you, Governor. QUESTION: So essentially -- essentially, more pizza parties in Congress. MODERATOR: Governor, we've got a question down -- I've got a hand... O'MALLEY: Well, I don't -- it's not that -- it's not that simple. It's not that simple, but it -- it -- but sometimes it does come down to just treating people like human beings, and -- and picking up the phone, and calling members, and asking them their perspective, knowing what their wives' names are... (APPLAUSE) ...knowing -- you know, what they do in life, knowing who their kids are. You know? We have to treat people like people. 09:23:03 MODERATOR: Well, Governor, we've got 10 minutes left. Let's see if we can get another question in. O'MALLEY: OK. MODERATOR: All the way down the aisle there. O'MALLEY: We'll do light -- let's do lightning round, Governor. (CROSSTALK) O'MALLEY: How about we do lightning round? How about if the questioner does 30 seconds, I will be 30 seconds. MODERATOR: All right, very good. First one. 09:23:17 QUESTION: Well, I hope this takes you more than 30 seconds. My name is Ken Mason, I'm a resident of New Hampshire. I made the mistake of going on YouTube and looking at the 1992 presidential debates, and what I saw was the exact same issues that are being brought up this year. It tells me that nothing effective has happened in more than 20 years in Washington. You're a person of great influence. I think that's great. What I'm asking you today is what will you do to unlock that gridlock, regardless of whether you are the elected president or not? O'MALLEY: OK. (APPLAUSE) 09:24:05 O'MALLEY: I believe that all of us have a responsibility to -- to stay at the table, not to check out, not to not assume that big money has taken over our politics. Not to assume that these -- you know, that the -- the outcome is determined before we have the conversation. And so that's what I intend to do. And that's what I have done all my life. There's no easy -- there's no easy solution to the gridlock that we see now. I would -- I would push back on you a little bit. I think it's actually a lot worse now than it was in 1992. And certainly, we suffered a huge setback when our country was nearly plunged into a second Great Depression. But I -- I do -- this is what I believe, though, and talking to young people in our country, I really find among people under 30, young Americans that deny climate change is real or think that we shouldn't come together to do something about it. I rarely find young Americans who want to... (APPLAUSE) 09:25:05 ... bash immigrants. I rarely find young people that want to deny rights to gay couples or children, so that tells me we're actually moving in a better direction, in a more connected place, a more generous place. (APPLAUSE) And I'm going to attempt to continue to speak to that place and to call forward the good energy of our next generation. 09:25:26 MODERATOR: Governor, we want to wish you a -- I guess our lightning round has resulted in a lightning bolt taking me off this stage... (LAUGHTER) ... and making room for the next panel. But we want to thank you from Baltimore, Maryland today for your willingness to be here, number one. You're the first, but won't be the last. And thank you for taking some questions and for your candor. Well, thank you very much. Ladies and gentlemen, Governor Martin O'Malley. Thank you. Hey. Very good. (APPLAUSE) END CHRIS CHRISTIE SPEECH: WASH 8 NO LABELS EVENT NH P3 13:17:24 CHRISTIE: All right. Good afternoon, good afternoon. I'm from not going to give any speech to this group. This is a group that knows what they want to talk about, knows what they want to hear about, and I'm much better giving you the time to ask me questions. So, no speech for me. Let's start -- let's just start with questions. Let's go. (APPLAUSE) All right -- listen, this guy knows what he's doing. On the night the Mets are hosting their first baseball playoff game in nine years, he put the Mets hat on to get a Mets fan to get him the first question. You got it. Smart guy. All right. Someone going to bring the microphone, or just yell it. Let's see. Q: [INAUDIBLE] 13:18:15 I will repeat the question. Don't worry. They don't have a microphone to them yet. Yeah, OK. So, the question was, he said that my views on marijuana are well-known and that in the spirit of bipartisanship, he wants to know if I would be willing to meet states have way on recreational marijuana. In the spirit of bipartisanship, no. (APPLAUSE) 13:18:53 And here's why. Here's why. There are a few reasons. The first one is that the laws in this country matter. They matter; and when we have lawless this in this country, we have a situation where folks feel like they can pick and choose which laws they like and which ones they don't. And you know, if we are ignoring a law you don't like, you are probably pretty happy. The minute we start ignoring a law you do like, all of a sudden, we have got a big problem on our hands. So, I say to folks who want to legalize recreational marijuana, go to Congress and get a president who's going to legalize it and sign it. That's the way we do these things. Not by letting the states go off road and decide for themselves, well, we don't want to follow the laws here. Now, this is where I have the biggest problem with what is happening now. Because we don't have folks who are respect thing the law. 13:19:48 So, why is it the people of New Jersey have to follow the law that says there's no recreational marijuana, but the people in Washington state they don't have to follow it? It doesn't make any sense. And so, my -- so that's the kind philosophical reason, all right? But the bigger reason from a policy perspective for me is that it is a bad idea. And I believe it's a bad idea because every study I've seen shows that marijuana is a gateway drug to other drugs, and if you walk around to this state or many other states I've been in, including my own, we have enormous drug abuse problems, enormous drug abuse problems that we don't need to be adding to in this country. (APPLAUSE) 13:20:31 So, I would say let's hope this our attention on treatment of those folks who have the disease of drug addiction, and try to give them the tools they need to reclaim their lives. Let's not focus on those other issues. So, in the spirit of bipartisanship, the answer would be no. All right. Right on the aisle, here. 13:20:53 QUESTION: Governor Christie... CHRISTIE: No, no, I was picking this young lady right here. But I will get to you, then, OK. QUESTION: Oh, thanks so much. Hi, Governor Christie. I'm actually a proud citizen of New Jersey, it's good to see you here today. CHRISTIE: There we go. All right. (APPLAUSE) 13:21:09 QUESTION: So, as a college student, an issue that's very important to me and a large network of students I represent is that of global health, specifically funding for AIDS. And I know you are a big proponent of bipartisanship, and this is definitely a bipartisan issue over the years. So I was wondering if you are willing to make the commitment already made by Senator Clinton and Mr. Trump today to work double the number of people on aids treatment around the world to 30 million by 2020, a path that would prepare us for an AIDS-free generation? 13:21:38 CHRISTIE: Sure, listen. First off, I'll just answer the question directly, the answer is yes. And let me tell you why, though. You are right it's a bipartisan issue and it was made a bipartisan issue by President George W. Bush. And I'm extraordinarily proud of the president and what he did to say that this type of disease running rampant through parts of the world, when we know there was an ability to treat it and make people better was just immoral. And that the American people, not only have a responsibility, but that is who we are. That if we have a way to help others who are suffering, that we're the group of folks in this world that stand up and help the suffering. (APPLAUSE) 13:22:22 And so, absolutely would join that commitment and think that it's not only the right thing to do, it's the smart thing to do. A healthier African continent in particular is better for world peace and stability. And that we should be shooting for that, and that is clearly one of the ways we could do it. So, thank you. All right. Let's go over to this side. Right there in the middle; you're waving your hand at me. Yes, sir, that one, right there. Yes. 13:22:53 QUESTION: (OFF-MIKE). CHRISTIE: Oh, man, how do I know it? It's like a feel thing, you know? We have a -- we have a feel thing between us. OK, (inaudible). 13:23:03 QUESTION: All right, my question is this, Governor. Everybody says the best way to deal with public school education is to go back and let the districts handle the educational levels themselves. But prior to No Child -- no, A Nation at Risk, all the local school districts had control over their school systems, and they -- some of them were decent and some of them were abysmal. Do you really feel it in the nation's best interest, and in this technological age it is far more important to the United States, to the government, it is an issue of national security that we have highest level of education? Now, everybody says No Child Left Behind was bad and whatever else was bad and go back -- how would you look at this to be assured every kid has the opportunity to have a world-class education? (APPLAUSE) 13:24:15 CHRISTIE: All right. First off, I agree with the premise of your question that education is not only a human rights issue, it's a national security issue. It's both. But I do agree as we have watched the educational system evolved in our country that we are much better off having these decisions made at the local level, and here is why. I don't believe there's anybody who cares more about a child's education than their parents. Now, we can always find exceptions to that rule, and there are kids who do not live in stable homes, who do not have the appropriate adult influences, we know that and I will talk about that in a second. 13:24:54 But in the main in America, the people who care most about a child's education are their mother and their father. And so, I want the educational decisions made as close to those two people as we possibly can, and I want to give them as much choice in their ability to educate their child as they can possibly have. And that means everything from homeschooling to private and parochial schools, to charter and renaissance public schools, to regular public schools. I'm a regular public school guy. I went from k to 12 to the public schools in New Jersey and I feel like they served me extraordinarily well. I married a woman who is number nine of ten children and she went to Catholic school her entire life as did the rest of her family. So when we got married and had children, I thought they should go to public school. Mary Pat thought they should go to parochial school. So of course, all four of our children go to parochial school. (LAUGHTER) 13:25:47 CHRISTIE: And it's served them extraordinarily well and it serves me extraordinarily well to have agreed with Mary-Pat on that. So I think parents should be making those and I think they should be making those choices regardless of their economic ability to effectuate those choices. We should not be making these decisions based upon just, if you have enough money. It's what you believe in your heart is the best way for your child to be educated. And my wife really believes, and she has brought me around to the belief, for our kids, that she wanted them having that religious education, enjoined with their academic education. And that's not the choice everybody else ought to make and it's not the choice my parents made. But I like those choices being made close to the local level and curriculum choices being made close to the local level. 13:26:41 Because then, if the curriculum has gone off the rails, you have the ability to be able to go to your local school board and raise hell over it. And if it's happening, quite frankly at the federal part of the education, good luck. Not going to happen. You are not going to have the same ability to affect it. And so that's why I'm now -- I'm on the side of making those choices at the local level. But acknowledging in your questions that there's no perfect way to do this and that is why parental and adult involvement in making sure we are keeping an eye on what's happening in our schools in every respect is a responsibility that requires vigilance. 13:27:15 And if we are not doing it, we only have ourselves to blame for the education that our kids are getting because we are certainly spending enough money on it in America. We're not getting the results we need right now and we need to change that around, so. That is the way I would approach that problem. All right. Let's go up to the bleachers. This guy. Right? With the glasses, right there. Yes sir. 13:27:35 QUESTION: Hello, Governor Christie. My name is A. Fontenez (ph). I am too from New Jersey. CHRISTIE: Well, if you are from there, you know we don't say it that way. Come on. QUESTION: I'm a big fan of yours by the way. CHRISTIE: Thank you. You sound like a Saturday Night Live skit brother. Go ahead. Good to see you. OK. 13:27:54 QUESTION: So, we here at No Labels really aim to reform our broken political system to make our country progress for the good of the American people. So my question for you is, if you are elected as our next President, what specifically will you do to reform our broken political system? (APPLAUSE) 13:28:15 CHRISTIE: Let me say this, I have a fundamental disagreement with the premise of your question. I don't think it is the system that is broken. I think it's the people who are running it better broken. (APPLAUSE) CHRISTIE: I think, -- this is the same system we've had for a long time that can work. And it can work. But you have to understand that compromise is not capitulation. Right now, we have an attitude that says if you are willing to compromise, you are a capitulator. That's not the case. It's not the case at all. 13:28:47 So first, we have to talk about the idea that people have to make the decision. I have a Democratic legislature. Senator Boxer (ph) said so on the introduction. So I wake up every morning knowing that they are not making a good day for me, OK? We don't agree on a whole lot and it's not like every morning they wake up and say how can we make the governor happy today? In Washington, they use that as an excuse to do nothing. They say, well if they don't agree with me and they don't like me and I don't like them and I don't agree with them so I'm not going to do it. If that is what I had done in New Jersey for the last six years, I really like you. 13:29:24 If I've done that in New Jersey for the last six years, we would not have capped property taxes, we would not have cut spending, we would not have vetoed taxes and kept them lower. We wouldn't have reformed teacher tenure. We would not have reformed pensions and benefits. Because everything I wanted in those areas, I did not get everything I wanted in those proposals. 13:29:43 But I got more of what I wanted than I didn't want and I had to give a little bit to the other side to get them to come on board. I mean, I got pension and benefit reform sponsored by the Democratic Senate president who is the president of the iron workers local. OK? That is called compromise. That is called working together. So I don't believe the system is broken, what I believe is that the people we have employed to run it have broken their promise and their word to the American people. So what I would do going to Washington is do the same that I've done when I go to Trenton; when I have to stand up and fight I will, so I've vetoed over 400 bills since I've been Governor, more than any governor in New Jersey history. I've vetoed more tax increases than any governor in American history, and all those vetoes have been sustained. 13:30:34 So when I need to fight on something that's important I fight, but I also have a room in the State House where I bring the members of the Legislature, the leadership, to sit whenever they want to talk and to reason together. And we can argue outside in public, but when we get in that room it's time to get business done and get business done for the -- for -- for the people of the State of New Jersey. But the only way you do that is to build relationships, and that's the last part of this. We don't make anything, we don't create anything. OK? We govern. That's all you do when your elected to these positions, and if you don't make personal relationships with the people on both sides of the isle, then guess what, it's never going to work because they won't trust you ever because they don't know you. 13:31:16 The best bit of political advice, and I'll end the answer with this, the best bit of political advice I ever got was from a non-politician in a non-political setting. I was the U.S. Attorney in New Jersey, he was the Deputy Attorney General of the United States and he had been my colleague as the U.S. Attorney in Manhattan; he's now the director of the FBI, guy name Jim Comey. And Jim came to visit me when I was U.S. Attorney as my boss and when he was leaving I said to him, "What are you doing next?" And he said, "I'm going to the New York Times Editorial Board." And I said, "Jim, you're John Ash Croft's Deputy, you're in George W. Bush's administration, you're going to the New York Times Editorial? Look, of you have a death wish, what's wrong with you?" And he looked at me he said, "No, no Chris, you don't understand. I'm going to the New York Times Editorial Board because it's harder to hate up close." 13:32:00 And it is extraordinarily good political advice everybody. (APPLAUSE) It's harder to hate up close everybody, much harder to hate up close. All right, I'll go to this gentlemen on the isle, right here. 13:32:15 QUESTION: Governor Christy, Steve Corbin from Iowa. CHRISTIE: Yes, Sir. QUESTION: Hopefully you know where Iowa is. CHRISTIE: I've -- I've come to learn that, Steve, yes. QUESTION: We've -- we've seen you there, thank you. I have a simple question, I hope, for you. Why would any presidential candidate in any of the 535 representatives and senators ever be opposed to four goals of No Labels that are supported in the super-majority by Republicans, Democrats and Independence. Can you think of a reason why they would be opposed to any of the four goals of No Labels? 13:32:50 CHRISTIE: Listen... (APPLAUSE) CHRISTIE: You're -- you're now, Steve -- Steve you're in very dangerous territory now, because now you're trying to impute logical into the way political decisions are made sometimes, so. (LAUGHTER) Be very, very careful about that. Listen, I wouldn't be here today if I didn't think that this organization and its goals were worthy and noble and achievable. OK? So that's why I'm here, otherwise I'd be someplace else. (APPLAUSE) 13:33:20 But remember too, remember too that every leader brings a unique skill set and approach to their job. And so there may be times where you see me going in one direction or another, and you think, "No, no, no, the target's over here." And my method to getting to the target may be to go this way and then that way to get to the goal. That's why trust is so important in this also, and there has to be a sense of trust that you develop with the people you represent because you're not always going to be able to, nor are they going to want to listen to every method you're going to employ to get where you want to get to, but let's agree on the goals, I think that's an important thing, and let's get organizations who really care about getting something done in this country. I will tell you this, if I hear one more -- I just -- I want to turn off the news with all this stuff that's going on in Washington right now with who's going to be the Speaker of the House. Who cares? I mean, who cares? (APPLAUSE) 13:33:18 Because, quite frankly, whether it's been a Democratic speaker or a Republican speaker of late, they don't get anything done. I saw -- I watched these Sunday shows this weekend and I heard more talk about, "Well, who's going to decide the Committee chairs, and who will decide whether there can be free and open amendments and who's going to decide what bill gets brought to the floor?" You know what I want and what most of you want? How about they just do something? Do something... (APPLAUSE) ... rather than all this -- this intrigue in that city where all they want to do is talk about who gets the big office, who gets the big title and who's able to get the best table at the best restaurant in Washington? 13:34:55 I'm bored, I think you are too, and especially as our country continues to deteriorate, I'd like the leaders in Washington to start telling me about what they believe and what their goals are, and then start to work towards achieving them together rather than continuing to bicker with each other over stuff that nobody in the main in America cares about, except for the people between Washington, D.C. and New York who ride that Acela train all the time. All right. Other questions? That lady in the back. Right there. Yes, ma'am. 13:35:25 QUESTION: Thank you, governor, and thank you because you remembered you were going to call on me at the next event. CHRISTIE: I did. I spotted you. It took a while. Big crowd here. QUESTION: I have a question about the Social Security. I love the (ph) work -- working across the aisles. It's a great idea that No Labels wants to do. But with our seniors living on an average of $16,000 a year for Social Security checks, what do you have to say about the cap on Social Security, making it fairer for the working class and lower middle class so we can survive? Thank you. (APPLAUSE) 13:36:03 CHRISTIE: In seven or eight years, Social Security is not going to be able to make the payments they make now. So take that in for second. In seven to eight years, a Harvard and Dartmouth study which came out just a few months ago said, Social Security will be insolvent. Now, there's two different ways to approach this problem -- I guess there's three. The first would be what we were doing, which is to ignore it. That's one approach. The second approach is to give the government more money, the third approach is to work on reforming the programs in order to make them affordable. I'd go for part three, and I'm the only person in the race who has actually put forward an entitlement reform plan, in detail. 13:36:45 It's the first thing I did in this race, and the reason is because of what this woman said. We have so many people in this country who are dependent upon making sure they get their Social Security payment. So there's a few things we need to do. First is we need to acknowledge a happy truth, which is we're all living longer. We're living longer, better lives. The average life expectancy for a woman in this country now is 83 years old. The life -- average life expectancy for a man is 79. I saw a few women smiling out there. I want to let you know that 10 years ago, you were ahead of us by six years. Ten years later, you're only ahead by four. We are gaining on you. (LAUGHTER) 13:37:24 And that four-year vacation from us that you are expecting at the end of your life, you may not get it. You may be stuck with us the entire time. Now listen: at 83 and 79, these programs were designed for people who died in their mid-60s. We're living 15 to 20 years longer and drawing from the Social Security fund for that much longer. So let's acknowledge the fact that by having this happy circumstance because of medical science and pharmacology and all the rest -- eating better, better lifestyles -- we need to raise the retirement age. We need to raise it two years, I believe, and -- and phase it in over the next 25. 13:38:02 That would mean one month in increase in eligibility a year for 25 years. Believe me, the world will not stop spinning on its axis because of this. And when I get accused of throwing Grandma off the cliff for this, all right, that means that is the highest, longest fall ever. It took 25 years for her to get from the top of the cliff to the bottom. So let's be serious and honest with each other. Secondly, Social Security should be a program that is there for the folks who need it. We need to have Social Security be there for the folks who it makes the difference between living their old age in poverty or living their old age in dignity. The difference between rent and heat and food. Those are the people that we need to make sure we take care of. 13:38:45 So I say to folks, if you're making over $200,000 a year in retirement income -- retirement income, that means you've got four million to five million bucks, at least, saved away -- if you do, I say to you, God bless you, great job. I also say God bless America, because this is the only country you could have done it in. And I say you shouldn't get a Social Security check. You should not get a Social Security check. (APPLAUSE) 13:39:11 Now, I did a -- I did a town hall meeting in Exeter where someone yelled out to me, "I paid for it, I want my money back." I said, listen, OK. Two points on that -- first is, you're right, you should get it back, but the government lied to you and stole from you. And I'm not the first one to point this out to you. There's no trust fund, everybody, OK? There's no lockbox. All right? There's IOUs in the lockbox. It's not there. They're spending your money today. So forget that, it's a fiction, and someone needs to tell you the truth about that. Because, guess what? You already know it. 13:39:43 And secondly, there's plenty of things you pay for that you don't get money back for, but what you get back is peace of mind, right? So -- let's say like homeowner's insurance. Everybody who owns a home, you buy homeowner's insurance. You buy it in case your house burns down, or there's a flood, or there's a robbery. Some calamity that -- you know then the money will be there for you to rebuild your home. Well, let's say you owned a home for 25 years, and you are going to sell it now and you never made it claim the entire time -- you invite the insurance company to the closing to ask for the money back? 13:40:15 I think if you do, they won't come, but if they do, they'll just come to laugh at you. Because what they will say to you is what you got in return was the peace of mind, the knowing that when you put your head on the pillow at night, if something happened, we would be there to make you whole. Social Security has to be the same thing. If you play by the rules and pay into the system, it will be there when you need it. But I know -- my friend Mark Zuckerberg, when I talking about this entitlement reform thing said, "So, Governor, entitlement reform, tell me exactly what does that mean? I said what it means for you, Mark, is you get nothing -- you get absolutely nothing. You are going to get zero, brother. 13:41:50 You don't need it, and then get it -- that's the way we have to take care of Social Security. And if we don't do it -- if we don't do it, I'm talking about option one, which some people say take the cap off the payroll tax and everybody pay more. Let me ask you a question. The government that lied to you and stole from you already, you think the way to solve this problem is to give them more money? (APPLAUSE) Because believe me, next time, they won't do it, right? Next time they won't do it. Of course they will. If they get a choice between taking, cutting a program or increasing tax, or stealing from this pile of money over here that you all know is sitting there, but no one is using right now, so, we just borrow a little from that and it will be fine. 13:41:30 Understand what politicians are like, OK? They're taking from that pile of money. Don't give them more. It's -- this is about the people who have done very well. If you take the cap off, it means taking it from them now and counting on the fact that the government won't waste it. Or taking it from them later, when you have to trust the government at all, they have no part in the equation. Let's not trust the government to give them more money please, everybody. Let's take it on the backend, let's make Social Security solvent. (APPLAUSE) And let's have it be there for the people who need it. 13:42:01 All right, all right. Let's see, let's go to that gentleman in the plaid shirt down the aisle. Yes, sir. Good, they're coming at you, look, they are all running at you. They're either going to give you a microphone or arrest you, I don't know which one's going to happen, so. (LAUGHTER) All right, it's a microphone. Good, I'm relieved. 13:42:20 QUESTION: Londonderry, New Hampshire. CHRISTIE: Yes, sir. QUESTION: When the government shuts down, that damages the full faith in the United States as the world leader for the monetary system. Now, what could you do, or what do you recommend be done so we never experience another shut down in government? Because I feel my government should never shut down because of some stupid reason that they seem to come up with. (APPLAUSE) 13:42:52 CHRISTIE: Listen, I said this the last time it closed down -- it's a fundamental failure of leadership by everyone when government shuts down. A fundamental failure of leadership. All you are getting hired to do is to govern, and then you stop governing and say that's OK? That is what you are hired to do. And so, for instance, in New Jersey, before I became governor, the governor was a guy named Jon Corzine, and he had a Democratic legislature. OK? They closed down the government in 2006 because they couldn't agree on how much to raise taxes. Imagine -- you want to talk about the variety of stupid reasons to close down government? Here are two sets of people who said they ought -- they agreed, they wanted to raise taxes, but they couldn't agree on how much. So they shut down government. 13:43:41 Now, this is -- put aside non-partisan or bipartisan, this is a Democratic legislature with a Democratic governor. They shut down government for that reason. One of the things I said when I was running against Governor Corzine in 2009 was the government will never shut down on my watch, ever. I will make sure that it doesn't, it is my responsibility as governor to make sure. And I have had a much tougher task, I'd say, because I have a Democratic legislature with me as a conservative Republican governor. We've gone through six years together and we have not closed down the government once. And here's why. Because we get in the room like adults and we make agreements. Agreements that neither one of us like sometimes, but we make agreements because we know our job is to make sure state parks remain open on 4th of July, to make sure folks who need human services in our state continue to get them. 13:44:31 Because that is what we are supposed to be there to provide. The public safety has to continue, and our state police have to remain funded and out on the roadways. It is not an option. And anybody who closes done the government has engaged in a fundamental failure of leadership with the American people, and if the federal government closes down sometime in the next couple of weeks, that's a pox not only on the House and Congress, it's a pox on the president of the United States. Because he has an obligation, too, to bring people in the room and get them to agree. So, everyone is a failure when that happens. It hasn't happened on my watch in New Jersey, and if I'm president, it won't happen then, either. (APPLAUSE) CHRISTIE: All right, all right. This gentleman right here. 13:45:13 QUESTION: Thank you so much for being here today. I'm born and raised in Washington, D.C., and I wanted to ask you about a question that has not come up often. But we talk about the politicians and the gridlock in D.C., but we don't talk about the 650,000 residents that live there and lack a basic a democratic, fundamental right, and that's the right to vote in our Congress. We currently have no voting members there. And I want to ask you why has this become at this conference, No Labels, why has this become a partisan issue that has prevented Washington, D.C. residents, the only capital of any country in the world, that doesn't have the right to vote. Why can we not get them this basic, Democratic right? Thank you. 13:45:59 CHRISTIE: Because I think that we're the only the capital, and I'll have to check myself on this, but I think we maybe the only capital created just to be a seat of government. And the fact is that Washington, D.C. was created to be a seat of government. That is how it was created and what it was created for. And it is now expanded and grown into something different. But, I have to tell you the truth, I'm not one who has given this a whole lot of thought, but I will give you my initial gut reaction. My initial gut reaction is, I don't think adding another person to Congress is going to help. And I just don't think fundamentally, it will help or make an enormous difference. I understand the philosophical argument you are making and I'm not completely rejecting it. But I have to be honest with you. I haven't given it enough thought to give you a really thoughtful answer about it. 13:46:51 So, how about this. Somebody out here is going to come to my next town hall meeting here in New Hampshire when I'm back again next week. Make sure you ask me that question again. I'll give it some thought in the next week. But I don't want to give you an off-the-cuff answer that I haven't thought about. That's my initial instinct. But I will come back. I will give you a full answer on it. All right. They have turned my screen blank, which means I can do what, one more? All right. The powers that be say one more, so I'm going to give one more. And let's go to this young lady right there in the middle. 13:47:25 QUESTION: Hi Thank you, Governor. CHRISTIE: Thank you. QUESTION: So National Service is a really important program to communities across the country. I'm just wondering if you are elected, will you expand National Service? CHRISTIE: Yes, I will, and for a few reasons. First off, the folks from Americorps were extraordinarily helpful to us in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. (APPLAUSE) 13:47:59 CHRISTIE: We had Americorps volunteers from all over the country who came to New Jersey and stayed with us for months. Months helping us get people back on their feet, getting their lives back to some sense of normalcy. Helping to clean up debris, helping to rebuild. Helping to cook meals, helping to read to children when they were out of school. All different kinds of things that Americorp volunteers did that were indispensable, not only to helping us rebuild, but also to giving the people in my state were really suffering, a sense that they were not alone. CHRISTIE: And I think that's an intangible that you cannot place a value on. And so the enthusiasm and compassion that Americorp members brought to New Jersey, made me an even bigger supporter of the program. I also think we need to expand National Services a way to start to deal with the student debt problem in our country. (APPLAUSE) 13:48:53 CHRISTIE: There's a whole bunch of layers to this which I can't go into now because my clock has run out but what I will tell you is that one of the options I think we need to give young men and women who graduate college with a significant amount of debt is for them to participate in National Service to work that debt off. It's going to be great for our communities. It'll be great for our communities and our states and our country. And it will also give those young men and women in opportunity not to have to carry that milestone around their neck which prevents them from buying a home, starting a family and doing the kinds of things they want to do, because they leave with such an enormous amount of debt. 13:49:33 Now we need to deal with the colleges and universities too. And I talk about that all the time, but I won't today because you asked about National Service. National Service is an important thing to honor in this country and not just in the military, but across all types of disciplines. And so, I would give young men and women the opportunity to engage in National Service in a much broader way when they graduate from college and when they do so, to have them work off things on their student loan debt so that they are not carrying a mortgage of their own before they ever own a home in this country that prevents them from really starting their lives. 13:50:04 So I thank those people for participating and I think we should expand it. (APPLAUSE) So the screen up here now says, "Time ending, wrap up." And then in case you don't really clear on that in big red they put, "Time's up!" So I'm from New Jersey, which means, Hell I ignore stuff like that. (APPLAUSE) 13:50:30 I will just tell all of you that I think the gathering of all of you here today is enormously encouraging to me as a candidate for public office. That men and women of both parties and Independents who care deeply about this country's future are here today to try to make sure that those voices are heard and that you make sure you hear from us about what we believe in and what we're willing to stand for and fight for. By you being here I know what you're willing to stand for and fight for, and that's a better America and a more stable world for everybody. I thank you for than. I thank Senator Lieberman and Governor Huntsman for what you're doing, I appreciate it very much. Thank you for having me. 13:51:10 END

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WH BRIEFING STIX: White House press briefing with press Secretary Jay Carney The White House Regular Briefing Briefer: Jay Carney, White House Press Secretary Location: White House Briefing Room, the White House, Washington, D.C. Time: 12:21 p.m. EDT Date: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 JAY CARNEY: OK. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Thanks for being here today for the daily briefing; it has been a while. Just returned from the West Coast and Colorado -- spectacular weather. I think, Ed, you were out there, right? Q: Wonderful. MR. CARNEY: I don't have any announcements to make at the top so we'll go straight to questions. Jim. Q: Thank you, Jay. On jobs, now that Congress has put the fight over FEMA behind it, there still doesn't seem to be a sense of urgency in the Senate. (Will they ?) take the bill up? The president has been demanding: Take the bill up now, send it to me. Is it a bit disingenuous to suggest that Republicans are the obstacle when Democrats control the Senate and that's where it seems to be being put on the back burner? 12:22:18 MR. CARNEY: Jim, we are extremely confident that the Senate will take up the American Jobs Act. The majority leader has said the Senate would take it up. And as you point out, there has been business that the Senate had to get done in September because of the fiscal year constraints. And that included not just FEMA funding but the CR in general, surface transportation extension, FAA extension. I mean, these were -- these were things that had to get done, in many cases to prevent either people being thrown off the job and added to the unemployment rolls or to ensure that the government continued to be funded and disaster relief continued to be in place. The Senate will move. The Democratic support in the Senate and the House and across the country is very broad for the American Jobs Act. 12:23:09 And the president will keep up the pressure because, you know, what we have yet to hear from Republicans is are they going to support all the elements of this bill, and if not, why not? If they're against modernizing schools, for example, they should say so and they should say why. If they're against hiring teachers back and putting them in classrooms to educate our children, they should say why. It's certainly not because the bill isn't paid for. The bill, as you know, is paid for. There is no higher priority right now for the American people or for this president than to take measures to grow the economy and put people back to work. So you'll continue to hear from the president about the urgent need to take this up. We're confident the Senate will do that. We hope the House will follow, and we hope that Congress will take action on America's number one priority. Q: On -- in his interview with BET Television, the president said that he expected some of these elements in the package would pass through Congress. Why not focus on those that he thinks can pass and create a -- more of a cooperative situation rather than the confrontational situation that he's created? 12:24:25 MR. CARNEY: The American Jobs Act is comprised entirely of ideas that have traditionally enjoyed bipartisan support. The president believes very strongly that the entire bill should be passed; every element should be passed. And as we've said in the past, if at some stage, one piece of it or several pieces of it were voted on and passed and sent to his desk, he would sign them and say send me the rest because they're all extremely merited, and they're all very needed by this economy right now. I don't think, as a matter of approaching this, that the president is going to take items off the table, precisely because 12:25:11 there are no controversial elements here. There is nothing here that is anything but entirely mainstream, anything but in keeping with what economists on the outside say would help grow the economy, would help create jobs, and obviously the entire thing is paid for. So we're going to push the whole -- the whole bill. And if it comes to us in pieces, we'll keep demanding the rest as it comes. Q: May I ask you one question on eurozone? On Monday, the president said that the European debt crisis was, quote, unquote, "scaring the world." And he said that the European nations haven't been as quick as they need to be. Is the -- is the president frustrated right now? In fact, even today, divisions within the European community as to how to respond -- whether to expand the bailout fund in any -- in any fashion -- the markets seem to be reacting to that even as we speak. MR. CARNEY: The markets, as you know, fluctuate, and they go up, they go down, so I'm not going to address that with relation -- in relation to anything that might be happening in Europe. We have made clear, the president has made clear, 12:26:25 that we believe the Europeans have the capacity, the financial wherewithal to deal with this problem. And we have been urging them at the presidential level, at the ministerial level through Secretary Geithner and at other levels to take forceful and direct action to handle it. Action is being taken. We continue to have those conversations and make the points that I just made, that Europe needs to address this. And we believe they have the capacity to do it and the political will to do it. So we continue to have those conversations. It's certainly a matter of concern, as the president made clear. It's an interconnected global economy. And this situation has clearly caused a headwind to develop for many -- several months now for the overall global economy and, in particular, the American economy. So it -- that -- we take it seriously, and that's why we've maintained the kind of communications we have. Yeah. Q: Question about Pakistan. What's your response -- (inaudible) -- to Admiral Mullen -- (inaudible) -- when he said the Haqqani group is a virtual arm of the Pakistani Intelligence Service? And also, now that the U.S. has openly demanded that the Pakistani government and intelligence sever their links with the Haqqani Network, what if any consequence will there be if they don't comply? And how much time are you going to give them to take some action -- give the Pakistanis to take some action? 12:28:11 MR. CARNEY: Well, the administration's view, as I've said and others have said, is that the continuing safe havens that the Haqqani Network enjoys in Pakistan and the links between the Pakistani military and the Haqqani Network are troubling, and we want action taken against them. And that is a conversation we have had with the Pakistani government for a long time, not just in recent days and weeks. It is also true that our cooperation with Pakistan has been extremely important and that Pakistan has been very helpful to the United States in our fight against al-Qaida in particular. But they do need to take action against the Haqqani Network to deprive a network of the safe havens that it has in Pakistan. As for hypotheticals about what action we may or may not take in the future, I don't want to get into that. I -- you know, we -- as I said yesterday on Air Force One, we are reviewing aid. We -- as a matter of course we review our aid programs. 12:29:23 But we are engaged in the kinds of consultations with our Pakistani counterparts that you would expect and that have been ongoing for quite sometime. Q: By when -- by when -- MR. CARNEY: Well, I wouldn't want to speculate about, you know, if something does or doesn't happen then something else may or may not happen. That's a level of speculation I don't want to engage in right now. But we -- our concerns about this have been clear for a long time. And it is part of what we characterize -- I think quite candidly -- as a complicated relationship and -- but an important one because the priority here is our national security interests -- the national security interests of the United States, the protection of Americans here and the protections -- the protection of Americans and our allies abroad. And in achieving that overall goal, Pakistan has been an important partner -- not without complications, but an important partner. Q: And what about what Admiral Mullen statement saying that he -- (inaudible) -- I guess U.S. officials in the region are saying that he did -- he overstated -- MR. CARNEY: Did he -- well, I -- I didn't -- I think the issue here is that what the admiral said and others have said is that we have concerns about the safe havens that -- and the existing links, that we're quite candid about, between the Pakistani government and the Haqqani Network. We're in regular contact with our counterparts in Pakistan on this issue and we have urged Pakistan to take action against the Haqqani Network. We believe that that is in their self- interest as well as in our interest to do that. 12:31:24 Q: Jay, well, just to follow on that -- to offer come clarity here: Is the Haqqani Network a veritable arm of the ISI? Yes or no? MR. CARNEY: Well, I -- it's not language I would use. I think that the fact that there are links between -- that exist between the Pakistani government and the Haqqani Network -- the nature of those, I think, is -- can be assessed and is complicated. But there is no question that they have safe havens in Pakistan -- the Network has safe havens in Pakistan -- and that Pakistan has not taken action to eliminate those safe havens. 12:32:03 Q: So it's not the position of the Obama administration that the Haqqani Network is a veritable arm of the ISI? MR. CARNEY: It is the position of the administration that there are links and that Pakistan needs to take action to address that. Q: But not -- MR. CARNEY: And to deal with the fact that there are safe havens for this criminal network that is dangerous for Pakistan as well as for the United States and Afghanistan. Q: Right, but Admiral Mullen went farther than that, that's -- as far as -- MR. CARNEY: I think it's a matter -- a matter of semantics. And I think that the -- Admiral Mullen was talking -- Q: (Inaudible.) MR. CARNEY: I mean, it's a matter -- you're trying to -- on the language here. I think I'm being quite clear about what our position is, which -- and it's a serious one. It's one that we raise with our Pakistani counterparts regularly because it is of such great concern to us. We have said unequivocally that the Haqqani Network was responsible for the recent attack on the U.S. embassy in Kabul and on ISAF headquarters in Kabul. So -- and the fact that they are able to operate in Afghanistan because they have a safe haven in Pakistan is a matter of great concern. And we have urged our counterparts in Pakistan to take action and raise with them the importance of doing so. Q: Respectfully, it's not a matter of semantics. It's quite a different thing to say that there -- MR. CARNEY: I've made -- Q: -- that there are links and there -- one is a veritable arm. I mean, it is -- it is a bit different. But we can move on. MR. CARNEY: OK. 12:33:28 Q: You said earlier that nothing in the jobs bill is controversial. I assume you're talking about -- you're not talking about the funding for the jobs bill, because obviously the tax increases are controversial. MR. CARNEY: Well, they are obviously opposed by some who don't believe that we need to make the kinds of choices that are inherent in the bill, which is that -- for example, oil and gas companies that have enjoyed, you know, enormous subsidies paid for by the American taxpayer, that are no longer necessary in our view, not least because that very industry is making record profits this year. And again, you don't make these choices in a vacuum. We don't have unlimited resources. So we either -- we have to make a decision. Is that subsidy to the -- to that industry more important, a better use of American taxpayer dollars than putting teachers back to work or giving an extended payroll tax cut to American workers, giving a payroll tax cut to small businesses? These are the kind of choices that have to be made. Now, I think, as we've said all along, if there are better -- if Congress comes up with alternative means in part or in whole to pay for these important provisions, we'll certainly want to look at them as long as they're fair and balanced; they don't, you know, put more onerous burdens on the middle class in order to take action to help the middle class. We think that the balance achieved in this bill reflects the priorities of the middle class and are -- were designed to give the maximum positive impact to the economy. Q: So you -- the tax increases are not controversial is what you asserting? 12:35:10 MR. CARNEY: I don't think they're controversial in our view in terms of the choices that they represent. And I think that the data certainly suggests to me that a majority of Americans believe that this is an appropriate approach, a fair approach, and they support it. Again if Congress has other ideas about how to fund these important measures, we certainly want to see those and -- but our standard here is that it has to be fair. It shouldn't -- as we have seen in other attempts at dealing with other issues through Congress, that it can't be, you know, we're going to pay for this by eliminating Medicare as we know it or we're going to pay for this by slashing education funding by 30 percent. I mean, those are not the priorities that, I think, the middle class in this country support, and certainly not this president. 12:36:01 Q: And lastly, I read something in The Gaggle yesterday, you criticized the -- or it might have been two days ago -- you criticized the Republican presidential candidates, I believe, for -- there were -- there was a smattering of boos and a smattering of applause at inappropriate times during the previous Republican debates, and you were suggesting that the fact that they didn't protest means that they couldn't be a commander in chief -- or could you explain what you meant? MR. CARNEY: No, I certainly didn't say that. I think -- I think I said that what -- that I was surprised, I think many people were surprised that, in an instance where a soldier serving in Iraq asks a question from Iraq -- so he is over there in harm's way, risking his life on behalf of every one of us -- and he asks a legitimate question about -- (chuckles) -- "don't ask, don't tell" and what these candidates might do, because it personally affects him, and there were boos in the audience. Putting aside the audience -- it's not about the audience -- it's about, you know, the fact that there was no response, no one on stage said, wait a second; regardless of what you believe about this issue, we should thank this soldier; he's over there risking his life for us. And that's -- that was my point. And I think that it's an -- it's an important thing to note when the job that they are auditioning for is the job of commander in chief. Q: So -- 12:37:24 Q: Just to continue our conversation from a few weeks ago when you said that the president, who had not heard remarks by Jimmy Hoffa Jr., was not responsible for them, you are saying that the Republican presidential candidates are responsible for boos? MR. CARNEY: No, no, no. I didn't say that at all. I was surprised that they did not -- that none -- not one of them reacted. I'm not saying they're responsible to it -- for it. I'm just making -- as an observer, that -- Q: Just an impartial observer? MR. CARNEY: (Chuckles.) Q: (Laughs.) MR. CARNEY: I didn't say I was impartial. I am simply making the point that there was an opportunity there to separate an issue that may be controversial -- although we firmly believe that it shouldn't be and isn't and that's why we eliminated "don't ask, don't tell" -- from the fact that this soldier is serving his country and putting his life in danger for all of us. And that was all. It wasn't an -- it was an observation; it wasn't -- I wasn't criticizing the audience members. I was making a point about the absence of a reaction from the candidates. Yeah. Q: Right after Osama bin Laden was killed, current Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said, obviously, at some point he believes a photograph will be released. But now this administration is asking a court to block the release of any photographs, saying that it would jeopardize citizens in the United States and troops. Why is that the position that this administration would take, given that you vowed to be the most transparent in history? MR. CARNEY: We are the most transparent administration in history, without question. The fact is, there are also legitimate limits to transparency when it comes to risking the lives of American troops overseas. And I think a very sensible decision has been made that the release of those photos would unnecessarily increase the danger that our troops face overseas and potentially not just overseas. So we -- Q: Clearly, your own defense secretary doesn't believe that. MR. CARNEY: Well, again, I think that this is the administration's position, 12:39:27 and that's something the secretary of defense said in the immediate aftermath. This has obviously been evaluated quite closely by the administration, by lawyers, by the national security team, and that is our position. And I think it's a -- it's an eminently sensible one given the potential for causing greater risk to our soldiers overseas. Q: Following up on the jobs question, yesterday the president said about Congress, it's been too weak and what on earth are they waiting for. But you responded to the first question saying, well, we understand the delay because they had so much else to do. So it would seem that the president's being a little bit cute with his audiences if the administration does understand the delay. So I'm wondering, will he match his rhetoric with any action? Will he threaten or say, this has to be done by a certain deadline? MR. CARNEY: Well, he may. I -- you know, I don't want to predict what he might say before he says it. The point is -- needs to be separated here. The -- this has to be acted on. It is legislation that has to move through Congress and there is a process by which legislation moves through Congress. Jessica, you know, because you're veteran of covering these things, that part of the effort here that the president is undertaking is to continue to put pressure on lawmakers to focus on this priority because the American people are focused on it, and to address it. The timing, I addressed with Jim, about the fact that, understandably, the Senate had to deal with some issues that could not wait, and it had to do specifically -- most of them -- with jobs and the economy. And we know that the Senate will take up the American Jobs Act. The -- I mean, if you're -- if you're asking me -- if you're -- Q: We all know it will be in pieces. MR. CARNEY: Well, no, no, no, no. Well, there's a lot of -- Q: It'll get a vote, it'll go down. MR. CARNEY: There's a lot of -- there's a lot -- I get questions like -- Q: Is he's being cute with his audiences? MR. CARNEY: -- you know, since there's not a hundred percent guarantee that this will pass, why did you bother, right? That's not how it works here. Q: That's not what the question is. The question is, don't we expect that if it passes, individual pieces of it will pass? And so what he's telling his audience is, is we have to pass this entire bill. MR. CARNEY: Yes. Q: But nobody who really covers Congress expects that will happen. So -- MR. CARNEY: But you're talking about expectations, grounded in cynicism, that has to do with the fact of the dysfunction in Washington, but that doesn't make it acceptable. Q: Or is the reality of -- (inaudible) -- but in reality -- MR. CARNEY: And we have been candid about the fact that we believe the whole bill should be acted on and passed in its entirety, unchanged, and sent back to the president. We are also understanding of the fact that this is a process that moves through Congress and that it is unlikely to arrive back wholly unchanged and intact. It may come back in pieces, it may come back as a whole with some different elements to it, going to funding and that sort of thing. But we're not going to preemptively accept that we're only going to get half, because 100 percent of the bill is merited. Q: (Off mic.) MR. CARNEY: So -- you know, half would be half good enough for the American people. The -- there is not a single thing in here that isn't beneficial to the economy, beneficial to employment. So, you know, we're pushing for the whole thing. We're pushing Congress to act. And I've -- as I've said, if Congress separates out elements of it, passes them, sends them to the president, you know -- again, if there are elements of the bill that he - 12:42:52 that is his bill and they are paid for in a way that is balanced and acceptable, he will sign them and then say -- (striking podium) -- where's the rest? If it's the tax cuts, he'll say, where's the funding for infrastructure? Where -- where's the help for -- to rehire teachers or to give the incentive to small businesses -- or to businesses to hire veterans returning from Iraq or Afghanistan? And he will make that point all the way through. Obviously the quickest and best way to do this is to act on the whole thing, but we're clearly understanding of, you know, the way that Congress works and aren't going to rule out signing pieces of it if that's how it comes. Q: One last unrelated question. You had an event at a largely Latino school yesterday, you have a Latino event today. Is the administration worried about eroding Latino support in the face of stalled immigration reform? MR. CARNEY: The administration had an event -- the president had an event yesterday at a school because it was representative of the kinds of 12:43:50 schools across the country that need renovation, rehabilitation, science labs that aren't older than you and I and the -- and that's true for all Americans. Look, we -- the president has gone out and -- Q: (Inaudible) -- Latino. MR. CARNEY: Maybe yesterday, but the president has gone out in different parts of the country and will continue to go out all over the country and speak to different audiences about the absolute need to take action on the jobs act. The -- you know -- you know, he's -- he'll speak to teachers, he'll speak to, you know, construction workers, first responders, small business men and women -- all of whom have a stake in this bill. He'll speak to, you know, working men and women who get a paycheck who desperately need the extra $1,500 on average that they'll get from the payroll tax cut that's included in this bill. I think that -- you know, given the broad support for it, given the many sectors of society it assists, there are many available audiences who want to hear this message and the president will bring it to them. Nora, how are you? Q: If I may ask -- if I may -- I'm well, thanks. On Pakistan, if I may, does the president disagree with the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Admiral Mullen? MR. CARNEY: The president -- and I'm going to repeat what I said before. The president believes, and it is this administration's policy, that -- and this is reflected in what Admiral Mullen said -- 12:45:28 that there are safe havens in Pakistan for the Haqqani Network and that is a problem and a concern. And we have brought our concerns about that fact to the Pakistani government on numerous occasions, and will continue to do so, because we believe it's not only in the interests of the security of Americans in Afghanistan, it's in the interests of Pakistan and their citizens that action be taken. We also think it's important to look at this more broadly in terms of the overall relationship that we have with Pakistan and the importance of the cooperation that we do receive from Pakistan in our fight against al-Qaida, and in taking measures to increase stability in the entire region, so -- Q: When the chairman delivered his remarks before Congress, did the national security team review those remarks and approve them? Yes or no? MR. CARNEY: I would have to check on that in this case. Q: Do you know if Admiral Mullen's remarks were cleared by the White House before he gave them? 12:46:40 MR. CARNEY: I don't know. The point is, is that what Admiral Mullen said is consistent with our position about the networks -- the Haqqani Network in Pakistan, about the fact that the Haqqani -- Q: (Off mic) -- very different language today. You are saying there are links and there are safe havens. What Admiral Mullen was saying was there -- that the Haqqani Network is a -- is a veritable arm of the ISI, that they're collaborating -- a terrorist network that is attacking Americans. So either they are linked, or they're collaborating. Which one is it? 12:47:12 MR. CARNEY: What we have said, and what is our policy, is that there are links. I think that is irrefutable. The fact that Pakistan has not taken action against those safe havens allows the Haqqani Network more freedom to operate. And that results in increasing their capacity to take action against Americans in Afghanistan. And that's -- and that's a matter of great concern. And we -- and we bring those issues to the Pakistanis and express our concern about them. Q: Why did you say earlier that those were words that you would not use? Why would you say that you would not use the same words as Admiral Mullen -- MR. CARNEY: Well, I just -- Q: -- who has been to Pakistan 27 times since 2008, has probably the closest relationship of any administration official with General Kayani, knows more about Pakistan than just about anybody in this administration, and spent time with him? Why would you say that you would not use the same words as Admiral Mullen? MR. CARNEY: Well, Admiral Mullen testified and his words are there and they reflect the fact that we have this issue with Pakistan over the safe havens provided to the Haqqani Network in -- within Pakistan. I certainly am not -- am not here trying to take issue with what he said. I'm simply saying what the position of the United States government is and this administration is about those networks. And, you know, this is a matter of concern for us and it's why we are quite candid about the fact that it's a concern, but also, put it within the context of our broader interest. And I think it's important for everyone to remember that the cooperation that we have had, even within the context of this complicated relationship, has produced very positive results that have improved security for the United States of America and its citizens abroad -- soldiers abroad. Q: Thanks, Jay. I just want to follow on (Jake's ?) real quick about, to use your words, then, why was there an absence of reaction from the president to Jimmy Hoffa's comments on Labor Day if you're now saying the Republican presidential candidates basically have a duty -- MR. CARNEY: The president wasn't on stage, he wasn't -- he didn't hear them. It's a different thing when the guy's on stage, and it -- and he -- they were addressing a question to the candidates on stage. Q: But the comments were broadcast all around the world, and it's pretty clear that one of the president's top supporters -- 12:49:44 MR. CARNEY: We're talking about real-time thing. Again, I -- it's just an observation. Q: On Solyndra, I understand the White House has pushed back hard on Republicans launching attacks and, after the fact, 20/20 hindsight, saying you shouldn't have done it. But the L.A. Times said -- MR. CARNEY: You mean Republicans who solicited, on behalf of companies in their states and districts, loan guarantees through the program and, in those solicitations, talked about the wonderful merits of the program and its job-creating potentials and the importance of the clean energy industry to the future of America and our energy interdependence? (Laughter.) You mean those letters? Q: That's what he means -- (Laughter.) MR. CARNEY: Is there -- is there a question there? And then those same Republicans have now come out against the program. Q: And as Fox reported last week, Darrell Issa, one of those Republicans, did push for clean energy money, even though he's attacking the administration -- there. (Laughter.) The L.A. Times though, yesterday reported -- not after the fact, but in real time -- in October of 2010, people inside the White House -- Democrats, Larry Summers, Secretary Geithner -- said that this loan program has problems. It does -- it doesn't have enough oversight. And they wrote him -- at one point -- I think it was Larry Summers -- wrote a memo to the president saying this could undermine your clean energy agenda. So my question is, I understand the back-and-forth with the Republicans, but why would people inside this White House who were saying there may be real problems here -- why was that ignored? MR. CARNEY: Well, I think -- just to make clear, I think the memo you're talking about was a -- was authored by a number of people. It was a memo that represented the discussion internally, within the administration, about this program. And I think it's entirely to be expected that the president's advisers would scrutinize a program like this and might have differing opinions about it. The -- and about how best to achieve the president's goal here, which was to help this vital industry, broadly speaking, the clean energy/clean technology industry, take hold and grow in this country, so that we can compete effectively with the Chinese, the Indians and the Europeans, the Brazilians in the 21st century. The -- I mean, it would be a remarkable day when on major policy issues there were no debates or disagreements or differences of opinion about how best to approach it. And the result of -- you know, of that process was some, you know, actions to improve the program. It's important to remember that Solyndra for example was the first loan out of this program and that the program has continued and evolved as it's gone on. So, again, going back to the memo I think it's -- you know, memos are written all the time that reflect, you know, assessments by advisors to the president and others in the administration with their views. Q: Also important to note that people are not perfect and mistakes are made. Has this administration learned anything from the episode that makes you say: We've got to be more careful next time we spend a half a billion dollars? 12:52:45 MR. CARNEY: First of all, we are constantly reassessing not just this program but others and making adjustments to make them better, more accountable, more efficient, lower the risk of -- increase the chances of success, lower the risk of failure. As regards to this particular loan, as we've made clear, you know, we're not -- we're disappointed that this particular company did not succeed. The nature of this program is to fund companies that might not otherwise get funding to help that industry grow. There is risk involved. Overall, we believe that the investments are vital because we are not content with the idea that we should cede vital industries of the 21st century to our competitors overseas. It's just -- you know, we don't want to be buying, you know, all this important technology from the Indians, the Chinese, the Europeans, the Brazilians. And I don't think most Americans want -- they don't -- they don't view America as that kind of country. And it's vital to this country's economic growth that we, in effect, take these risks, as previous generations and previous administrations have, to make sure that the United States of America continues to be leading the world in cutting-edge technologies. Q: Jay, can you talk about or detail the meetings that people at the White House have had with Ways and Means, with the head of Appropriations, Harold Rogers, Dave Camp, about the jobs program? Like what is the legislative strategy, the calendar? I understand the (Senate's delayed ?), but is there some sort of strategy or is it simply a -- MR. CARNEY: I don't have a list of meetings to give you, or conversations, except that you can be assured that -- Q: OK, I mean, is it real? MR. CARNEY: Yes, it -- Q: I mean, you know, it -- I mean, that's what sort of seems to be missing, is that there -- is there -- is there actual work going on between the legislative staff and House Republicans? MR. CARNEY: Yes. Yes, definitely. Q: Can you tell us some of it? 12:54:46 MR. CARNEY: Well, I can get -- if you want, I can get back to you, but the -- with more details. I'm pretty sure they'll be rather dull. But the communications that we have with members and staff members on the Hill are consistent and -- Q: Are they being receptive, or nonreceptive? MR. CARNEY: Yes, look, the -- not least because in -- almost overwhelmingly -- entirely because the American Jobs Act is made up of things that are widely viewed as mainstream and effective, 12:55:20 that economists view as the right kinds of measures to take if you want to grow the economy and create jobs, that the bill itself is paid for, you know, there's broad support for it, certainly among Democrats, and we believe among Republicans, based on recent history -- for large pieces of it and, hopefully, all of it. Q: Do you think there's been progress made? I mean, we know that the Senate at least has said they're going to do it sometime in October. Is there progress made on when House Republicans are going to (take this up ?). MR. CARNEY: Well, we certainly hope. I mean, that's obviously a more complicated task. The -- you know, when the president first put forward the proposal, we heard some relatively positive, conciliatory reaction from Republicans in the House. There's been a little less of that, although what I haven't heard yet, what I don't think we've heard -- correct me if I'm wrong -- is anyone in leadership or even in the rank and file coming out and saying: Well, I actually oppose building more roads and repairing bridges; can't do that; I oppose hiring teachers; we can't -- we shouldn't do that, we should do something else instead. Obviously, there -- some have taken issue with the way that we pay for this, and we certainly want to hear if there are alternative ways to pay for it. But we believe it has to happen, and those alternative means have to be reasonable and balanced, and they can't shift the burden -- like, you know, help the middle class and then harm the middle class in the same action. So -- you know better than I that there's no higher priority right now, there's nothing on average Americans' minds more than the economy, their concerns about the fact that it's not growing fast enough, their concerns that employment isn't increasing fast enough. And this addresses that urgent concern. The president's fiscal plan addresses the medium- and long-term economy. And taken together, you know, they are a comprehensive -- they represent a comprehensive vision about where we need to move this country economically. Q: Are you guys concerned -- the report that says health care premiums surged this year 9 percent? Are you concerned that this is health insurance companies trying to handle the amount of -- you know, the younger folks coming on, dealing with pre-existing conditions, and that they're just trying to raise their premiums now to handle the influx of folks? Or is there some way you guys are looking at this to see if this is a result that gets fixed in regard to your health care reform? And what is the administration's reaction? 12:58:09 MR. CARNEY: Nancy-Ann DeParle, the deputy chief of staff here, wrote a blog post on this -- I think, yesterday -- which is worth reading. It goes into more detail than I will here about it. One thing that I will point out that's important to note about this survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation is that it's essentially backward- looking. And Drew Altman, the president of the Kaiser Family Foundation, says, and I quote, "Critics of the national health reform law passed in 2010 like to blame everything but the weather on 'Obamacare,' but regardless of how you feel about the Affordable Care Act, its affect on premiums this year is modest." So that's the assessment of the people who did the survey. I would also -- it may clear the -- Q: (And so modest implies it had an impact ?). MR. CARNEY: Within the context of -- again, you have to look at the fact that a lot of the Affordable Care Act has yet to be implemented; 2014 is more of a target -- Q: Is it -- (inaudible) -- that you are trying to bring more people into the insurance umbrella here with the -- MR. CARNEY: Again, I would just point you to the statement. The increase was large; the effect of the Affordable Care Act was modest: his words, not mine. 12:59:19 I also think -- you know, the author said clearly this was a look backwards and if you -- you know, there are other -- there's a -- Mercer, a well-known independent benefits consulting firm, released a survey of employers showing that their health insurance cost increases will average 5.4 percent for 2012, which is the smallest increase -- or would be the smallest -- since 1997. So there are other -- there's certainly a lot of other evidence that the impact of the Affordable Care Act will actually slow the growth in health care costs, which is obviously one of the goals. Additionally, the Kaiser survey -- since we're talking about it -- points out that more than 2 million young people have insurance now with -- on their parents' insurance directly because of the Affordable Care Act. A piece of the Affordable Care Act that has taken effect already has already had this tremendous impact on young people in America, which we obviously think is very positive. Laura (sp)? Q: Following up on the first part of Chuck's question, so, just to be clear, are you saying that there are ongoing conversations between the White House and House Republicans over the legislation and how to get it passed? MR. CARNEY: Not specifically that I'm aware of with House Republicans. We have regular conversations, the legislative team with Congress, both houses, both parties. I don't know that we've had conversations -- I don't know that we haven't, but I don't -- I'm not aware of any conversations specifically about the timing of the Affordable Care Act, although we made it -- I mean, not the Affordable Care Act, the American Jobs Act -- in the House, we made it abundantly clear that we want Congress, both houses, to take it up. 13:00:50 You know, we don't accept the legislative calendar; we -- by focusing attention on this need and proposing the legislation, we try to have an effect on the actions that Congress takes and the schedule that it lays out. We're confident that the Senate's going to take it up. We hope that, because of that, the House will act accordingly. Q: So what were you referring to when you said that there were ongoing conversations? I thought that, in the question, you mentioned the House -- I could be wrong about that -- MR. CARNEY: Well -- Q: What were you referring to? MR. CARNEY: I was referring broadly to Congress, Senate and House. 13:01:29 I don't know specifically about conversations that may or may not have taken place with House Republicans or House Republican staffers. They may have. I can check. But I'm not going to get into this thing where we -- because, you know, we're going to give a readout of every conversation between somebody in the Legislative Affairs office and a staff member on House Appropriations about this. But I can tell you that we have conversations with the relevant committees, the relevant leadership, the relevant staff on this very important legislative priority. Q: But you're -- so you're certain that you've had conversations with Democrats, but you're not sure whether those conversations -- (off mic)? MR. CARNEY: I know that there have been conversations with the Republicans as well. Q: I think what we're just trying to figure out is if there's actual work going -- MR. CARNEY: Which specific conversations -- Q: No, no, nothing -- MR. CARNEY: Look, I don't know what -- look, let's step back. Q: (Off mic) -- work going on behind the scenes? MR. CARNEY: The president and his team drew up legislation, specific legislation. It is going to be introduced in the Senate. It has very specific component parts that others on the outside have judged to have a very positive impact on the economy. We believe the Congress needs to take action on it. It's not that complicated. This is not a -- an elaborate piece of legislation that needs to be picked apart and renegotiated. It's there. Congress should act on it. Q: And on another issue, does the White House have a position on legislation the Senate does plan on taking up next week on China currency manipulation? MR. CARNEY: We're reviewing the bill. (Laughter.) No, seriously, we are reviewing the bill, and we share the goal of achieving further appreciation of China's currency. 13:03:13 As you know, and those who -- in the financially-oriented press know, the -- China has moved some in terms of appreciating its currency. I believe it's appreciated about 10 percent, adjusted for inflation, since June of 2010. But it's substantially undervalued, and we need to see continued progress. And we've made that clear publicly and privately. Q: But you're not sure whether you're going to support that? MR. CARNEY: We're reviewing the bill. Q: And do you have any idea when you might have a conclusion to that review? MR. CARNEY: Not that I could offer today. Q: Thank you. Q: Jay, in speech after speech, when the president speaks about upper income earners pay a fair share, are you able to define that phrase for us? What does it mean? MR. CARNEY: Well, I think that one place to look for it is the so-called Buffett rule we've spoken about -- Q: All right. MR. CARNEY: -- which reflects a basic principle that some very affluent Americans who have benefited enormously and -- which is great, but they have benefited enormously from what this country has provided them and the opportunities provided them, and have -- and have seen their incomes expand dramatically over the past dozen or so years, even as middle-class incomes have stagnated or declined, are -- some portion of them who are paying actually a lower effective tax rate than folks in this room or plumbers, teachers and others, including Warren Buffett's now-famous secretary -- so the principle is simply that we should not have a tax code that allows for that kind of imbalance. There's been a lot of, I think, misleading pushback on this notion, people who throw out facts and figures about the proportion, share of taxes paid by wealthy Americans. Well, naturally people who make a hundred million dollars a year, even if they're paying a lower percentage than you or I, are going to be paying a larger dollar figure to the Treasury than you and I. The fact is that the burden should be proportionate and fair and balanced. And also some of these studies take into account -- you know, conveniently ignore the fact that everybody who earns a paycheck pays payroll taxes. And that's a substantial tax burden on working Americans -- substantial proportionately much greater than -- or proportionately greater for working Americans than very affluent Americans. So it's a principle about making sure that everyone is paying their fair share and has -- to create a situation where everyone can share in the prosperity that we are sure will continue to be the providence of this country. Q: Well, if you're going to put that into law, you can't say, oh, if this man is paying more than his secretary he's all right but if he's not you got to -- the tax code needs a number or a percentage. And have you worked on that yet? MR. CARNEY: Well, the answer is in the proposal the president has put forward; he stated some principles about the tax code as well as specifics in terms of some loopholes that should be closed or changed -- the carried interest law for example or the deductions at 28 percent. 13:06:55 There's a broader need for tax reform and in -- within that it should be -- the principle that the Buffett rule explains should be contained within it. Q: But you don't have a number yet? MR. CARNEY: I do not have a number. Q: A Bloomberg survey of economists shows that the president's jobs plan would lower the unemployment rate by 0.2 percentage points. Is that enough, do you think, to stimulate long-term growth? MR. CARNEY: I think what the Bloomberg story shows, first of all, is that a survey of economists shows that the -- I think it would -- said it would prevent -- potentially prevent against another recession, would increase growth and increase employment. 13:07:44 The specifics are lower than other estimates, and I think if you -- and I'm sure you guys have at Bloomberg -- if you tease this apart, if you look at some of the economists and what they've said, some of them, in their calculations, are assuming that portions of the American Jobs Act will pass and built them into their assumptions, like the extension of the payroll tax cut, for example, or the extension of unemployment benefits. And I think one economist in that said that were those not to pass, you could shave off 1.7 (percent) or 1.8 percent of GDP. And then he said if the whole thing passes, you'd add another 2 or -- .2 (percent) or .3 (percent). So taken together, that's 2 percent of GDP at least, which is what I think Moody's and others have estimated might be the impact if the entirety -- bill was passed. So you know, generally, we think it reflects a broad consensus among economic analysts about the impact of the American Jobs Act. Q: It's still less than 300,000 jobs, though -- (off mic) -- MR. CARNEY: No, no, but you need to look at the survey. And in fact, it's not if you tease out what their assumptions are. They're starting from different baselines. And there are built-in assumptions. And I wish we could make assumptions about what Congress would do if it were entirely sensible all the time, but unfortunately, we can't. The -- it -- a lot of that has built-in assumptions about what will happen that are -- that's already part of the American Jobs Act. Q: And on Chris Christie's speech last night, what's your reaction to what he said, calling the president a bystander in the Oval Office? And did -- and did the president see any of it? MR. CARNEY: I can tell you that he didn't. We were watching the Red Sox as we were flying home, a nail-biter. Fortunately, they won. Sam Stein is not here to celebrate with me. So we did not see it. The -- you know, I actually don't -- I haven't even read it yet, so I don't -- I don't -- I don't really know about that. I would just say, in general, that, in the two and a half years that Barack Obama has been president, it simply -- I mean, it has been one of the most substantial periods in our -- in our history in terms of the seriousness of the challenges we faced, the enormity of the -- of the crises and the potential even worse crises that this president faced and took head on. When he came into office, there were -- I mean, remember the headlines that you wrote and others wrote: you know, imminent great depression, global financial collapse, bank holidays, nationalization of the banks, predictions of unemployment as high as 25 percent. That's the economic environment that we faced when we came in and that this president addressed head on with a series of incredibly challenging decisions that he took that, by any measure, arrested the extreme downward slide that this economy was taking. We were hemorrhaging jobs at more than 750,000 a month when the economy, we now know, in the fourth quarter of 2008, contracted by close to 9 percent -- the kinds of - 13:10:53 the kind of contraction we haven't seen since the Great Depression. I mean these -- this is a -- there were no bystanders in this White House. Q: Just really quickly, why isn't the president going to the New York fund-raiser on Friday that Warren Buffett is hosting? Is it a scheduling conflict? Or what is it? MR. CARNEY: I'll have to take the -- what's that? Q: Surrogate event. MR. CARNEY: It's a surrogate event. I -- you know -- Yeah. Q: This afternoon, in the online Q&A, the president said, as he has said before -- when he was asked about deporting people who'd otherwise be covered by the DREAM Act, he said he can't choose which laws on the books to enforce. But a couple years ago, with marijuana, he did exactly that. This administration said in states that have medical marijuana laws, federal laws prohibiting marijuana use should not be enforced. So why does the president say he doesn't have that authority? MR. CARNEY: I really don't even understand your question. I mean the Q: (Inaudible.) MR. CARNEY: Obviously -- well, maybe you should -- Q: No, I'm -- (off mic) -- MR. CARNEY: I would address you to the Department of Justice for questions of prosecutorial discretion. I can't even say it, let alone explain it. So the -- I mean, the fact -- what the president said is absolutely true about the particular issue that you're talking about. So -- but again if it's -- in terms of the discretion of prosecutors, I would -- I would encourage you to -- Q: (Off mic) -- administration has demonstrated that it's not true. I mean, they -- you have a fixed amount of resources that you can put to enforcing this law or that law, and the administration can say, we're going to put it towards this law and not that law. So why does he say he can't do that? 13:12:25 MR. CARNEY: Ari, again, I think, with the comparative here, I just -- I'm not sure how to answer your question. The -- you know, the fact is you can't choose which laws to enforce and which not and, you know, the president's quite right in that. Q: Jay, just one -- just one question. It was my turn, Jay. MR. CARNEY: Mark. Q: Jay, can I ask about the Supreme Court and -- (inaudible) -- MR. CARNEY: I think it was the -- Q: Jay, just one question once a week. That's all. MR. CARNEY: I think it was the Washington Post's turn or The New York Times's. I can't remember which one. But yeah. Q: Briefly, the Supreme Court -- (inaudible) -- Q: And then you'll come back? Q: I know that the Justice Department's got briefs coming out later today, but in general terms, in layman's terms please, what does the administration want the Supreme Court to do as regards to the health care law? MR. CARNEY: We firmly believe that, as has been upheld by a number of different decisions, that ultimately this -- the Affordable Care Act will be found constitutional because it is. Does that answer your question? Q: Well, all right. Does it worry you about the time frame that's likely to take place here with the case coming up this fall and then being ruled on in the middle of a presidential reelection bid? MR. CARNEY: Yeah, I'm not -- we're not worried about what we believe the ultimate decision will be here, which is that the individual mandate provision is absolutely constitutional, as a number of courts have already decided. Obviously, some have decided otherwise, but we believe ultimately that this will be -- resolve in the favor -- in the favor of the constitutionally of the act. Q: And the administration decided it's a good thing to get this resolved as quickly as it can because of the uncertainty? MR. CARNEY: No, I think we've been following -- you know, we've been moving -- it's been moving through the process, and we continue to argue the merits of it, and the process will continue. We're not -- again, we're very confident that it's -- it will be found to be constitutional. Q: Jay? Q: Jay, just one question -- just -- (Cross talk.) Q: Can I follow up on Mark's question? Why didn't -- I mean, isn't it clear you do want to speed up the process, or you guys would have asked for another appeal? (Inaudible.) 13:14:35 MR. CARNEY: Well, I think you're asking that question backwards. I mean, we're not trying to slow down the process, if that's what you're asking. We're letting the process -- Q: You can actually speed it. MR. CARNEY: Well, no, we're just simply -- Q: (Inaudible) -- gone to the full appeals court. MR. CARNEY: We could have, I guess, but we didn't -- I don't think we thought it was necessary. The -- let me find if I have anything specific on that here. You know, I think I'd remind you that two appellate courts have previously ruled in favor of the Affordable Care Act. And we're confident, as I said, that the -- that when all these cases are resolved that we will prevail. I -- you know, not taking action is not -- you know, doesn't mean we're trying to speed anything up, but we're also not trying to speed any -- you know, slow anything down. We're just -- we're confident that when it comes up, it will be seen as constitutional, because we're quite convinced that it meets that bar -- clears that bar. Q: (Off mic) -- on Iran, please. We're in the seats. They're not here. MR. CARNEY: (Chuckles.) I know, but the seats represent organizations. I get it. Connie and then Lester (sp). But -- Q: (Off mic) -- we've been here -- (off mic) -- MR. CARNEY: I mean, those seats are -- you know how it works, Connie. I mean, people travel. Q: For the record, we've been here since the '60s and the '70s. Q: Yes, I mean, we're seniors. (Laughter.) MR. CARNEY: Yes. You have a question about -- Q: Libya and Iran. MR. CARNEY: OK. Q: Do you have an update on the threats by the Iranians to bring some of their naval ships off the U.S. coast? And also, any update on the missing Libyan missiles? 13:16:02 MR. CARNEY: OK, let me -- I'll take them in that order. (Chuckles.) On the Iranian navy, I think we don't take these statements seriously and -- given that they do not reflect at all Iran's naval capabilities. As for the erroneous report about MANPADS, it is simply not accurate that 20,000 shoulder-fired weapons are missing when 20,000 is the number of weapons that we have assessed the Gadhafi regime may have acquired over the last 40 years. So that's an erroneous report. However, it is certainly true, as we have been talking about quite openly for weeks, 13:16:46 if not months -- and as Ben Rhodes, the deputy national security adviser, briefed on extensively in New York at the United Nations, the issue of conventional weapons, including MANPADS, in Libya. And that is why we have a State Department official on the ground there. We have five other contract officials dealing with this. It's why we have been discussing the issue with the TNC regularly and working with NATO and our allies and partners on this issue. So I think that's the answer to that. Lester. Q: Oh, thank you. Just one question. MR. CARNEY: I'm sure. Q: The -- Q: I'll take two -- (inaudible). (Laughter.) Q: The PLO's U.N. ambassador, Erekat, has been quoted by The Washington Times and other media as saying -- and this is a quote -- "it would be in the best interests of the two peoples that the proposed future Palestinian state be free of Jews. And my question, does the White House believe that this statement is or is not Judenrein? MR. CARNEY: Is not what? Q: Judenrein? Q: Free of Jews. Q: (Inaudible) -- German. MR. CARNEY: Yeah, sorry, I -- Q: No Jews. Q: Free of Jews. MR. CARNEY: The -- Q: A Nazi term. MR. CARNEY: Yes. 13:18:09 We obviously don't believe that -- we believe that any action taken by either side that makes it harder to come together and in direct negotiations to resolve the issues between the two parties so that we can have a two-state solution that both sides support is not helpful and not conducive. And that would include actions as well as statements. That would apply to that. I have not seen that statement, so I don't -- I don't even know if it's accurate, but it would not be -- it's not helpful. Q: Listen. Thank you. Thank you very much. Q: (Inaudible.) MR. CARNEY: Yes. Q: Thank you, Jay. On the issue of the Israeli settlements, has the U.S. been in contact with any of the countries in the region following the announcement? MR. CARNEY: You might want to address that to the State Department. 13:19:00 I made clear yesterday that we're deeply disappointed by that announcement. Going back to the point I just made to Lester, the -- we support -- we support actions and words that -- by each side -- that move the parties closer to direct negotiations because that is the only way that the Palestinians will achieve their goal of a sovereign state and, as part of that, the Israelis will achieve the kind of security that they greatly deserve in a Jewish state. So the direct negotiations are the only way to go. Actions that make it harder to achieve that are not helpful and not conducive to the -- to the goal here. Q: Well, the question that I was asking -- (inaudible). That's what you said, so -- but in -- MR. CARNEY: Take that and ask the State Department? Q: What's that? And are they -- you know, are they -- MR. CARNEY: I mean, in terms of have we had -- I just don't know if we have had -- I mean, I imagine rarely a day goes by that we don't have consultations with our partners in the region. So I'm sure that -- Q: (Off mic) -- but on this issue specifically -- MR. CARNEY: I don't know. Q: Thanks, Jay. MR. CARNEY: Last one. Yeah. Q: Just a follow-up on this. In the light of Israel's decision to build a settlement, what is the administration doing to prepare the ground to bring the two parties together? MR. CARNEY: We are working assiduously towards that goal with our - 13:20:13 with the Quartet, with others, with the two parties -- the Palestinians and the Israelis. I think we were quite clear about our opinion of this announcement yesterday and just as we were quite clear about the inefficacy of pursuing unilateral action at the United Nations. We encourage both sides to take actions to achieve the goal here that they both seek. Thank you. Q: Jay, how many are MANPADS are missing if it's not 20,000? How many are missing? MR. CARNEY: Again, I was just taking issue with an erroneous report. I don't have a number. #### END

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