NAME: US MARKETS 3 20070817Ix TAPE: EF07/0981 IN_TIME: 10:02:17:11 DURATION: 00:02:26:12 SOURCES: AP TELEVISION/NYSE DATELINE: New York - 17 Aug 2007 RESTRICTIONS: SHOTLIST NYSE New York City - 17 August, 2007 1. Pan right of trading floor AP Television News New York City - 17 August, 2007 2. SOUNDBITE (English) Ted Weisberg, trader and President, Seaport Securities Corporation: "It was clearly a highly charged atmosphere, a lot of excitement, a lot of running around. The openings are always difficult, it's always very busy, but today it was clearly ratcheted up a couple of notches." 3. Traders on floor of stock exchange 4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ted Weisberg, trader and President, Seaport Securities Corporation: "Technically the market obviously was in hindsight very oversold, due for a rally. Certainly the Fed move this morning and the strength in the financials is very important if we're going to sustain this rally. Only time will tell but at this point I think you have to view it as technical in nature from an oversold condition and we'll just have to see where we are next week as we get into next Tuesday and Wednesday." NYSE New York City - 17 August, 2007 5. Pan right of trading floor AP Television News New York City - 17 August, 2007 6. SOUNDBITE (English) Sam Stovall, senior equities analyst for Standard and Poor's: "So the reason why they did do something quickly was to show the market that yes they are not asleep at the wheel, they are paying attention and they are willing to do whatever is needed to make sure an orderly business flow is maintained. But at the same time they are indicating that because something has needed to be done that there are increased concerns about the health of the economy." AP Television News New York City - 17 August, 2007 7. Various exteriors of New York Stock Exchange 8. SOUNDBITE (English) Kara Stout, investor: "We're in a tight spot but hopefully it's going to last a little longer than it did last time." 9. Close-up of Wall Street sign 10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ben Arthur, investor: "It's probably something going on in the underpinnings of the American markets, and so they just want to see how things settle down in American markets and then maybe they will react to it because it's usual that when America sneezes everybody sort of goes crazy." AP Television News FILE: Washington, DC - Unknown Date 11. Wide of Federal Reserve building 12. Mid of top of Federal reserve building STORYLINE: American stocks soared on Friday after the US Federal Reserve did what Wall Street was clamouring for and cut its key discount rate a half percentage point. The move quelled investors' credit worries at least for the time being and sent the Dow Jones industrials up more than 130 points. "It was clearly a highly charged atmosphere, a lot of excitement, a lot of running around," said Ted Weisberg, a Wall Street trader and President of Seaport Securities Corporation. The Fed, which had resisted lowering rates despite weeks of market volatility, preferring to add nearly 120 (b) billion US dollars in liquidity into the banking system instead, cut its discount rate to 5.75 percent from 6.25 percent. The Fed acknowledged that the stock market turbulence that pulled the Dow down by hundreds of points a day was posing a risk to economic growth. "The reason why they did do something quickly was to show the market that yes they are not asleep at the wheel, they are paying attention and they are willing to do whatever is needed to make sure an orderly business flow is maintained," said Sam Stovall, a senior equities analyst for Standard and Poor's. "But at the same time they are indicating that because something has needed to be done that there are increased concerns about the health of the economy," Stovall added. However the central bank made no mention of lowering its target for the federal funds rate, which has stood at 5.25 percent for more than a year. In midmorning trading, the Dow Jones industrial average surged 146.48, or 1.14 percent, to 12,992.26. The Dow shot up more than 300 points within the first 10 minutes of trading, but then lost half those gains in the normal ebb and flow of trading. For investors, the question is whether the discount rate cut is a signal that the Fed is seriously leaning towards cutting the fed funds rate, considered a more important benchmark, at its next meeting on 18 September. One investor, Ben Arthur, sees something deeper at play in the recent market volatility and thinks foreign markets will take some time to rebound from their own slumps. "They just want to see how things settle down in the American market and then maybe they'll react to it because you know its usual, when America sneezes everybody sort of goes crazy," Arthur said.

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TAPE: EF02/0655 IN_TIME: 03:20:16 DURATION: 3:54 SOURCES: APTN RESTRICTIONS: DATELINE: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 1 2002/ File SHOTLIST August 1, 2002 1. Wide shot people in the streets 2. People in the street 3. Zoom out newspapers hanging at news stand 4. Close up newspaper headline (Speculation takes the exchange rate to 3,47 Reals) 5 Close up newspaper headline (Brazilian crisis threatens Latin America) 6. Zoom in from exterior of Exchange Bureau to Exchange rate board 7. Close up exchange rates 8. SOUNDBITE: (Portuguese) Vox pop: "I think it is driving everybody crazy. Honestly, I am terrified. I hear them saying that it is going to come down but all it does is go up" 9. Pan exterior Exchange Bureau 10. Close up counting dollar bills 11. Woman giving back Reals 12. SOUNDBITE: (Portuguese) Vox pop: "It is very bad. The wages are the same but prices keep going up. How are the Brazilian people going to manage?" 15. Set up shot of vox pop 16. SOUNDBITE: (Portuguese) Vox pop: "Everybody is worried because we were told that there was stability, but now, it is all falling apart. It is obvious we are worried" 17. Wide shot empty electronics shop 18. Pan of shop products 19. Price tag on TV set 20. Pan of bread display in bakery 21. Close up of bread being put in a paper bag 22. Zoom out from petrol pump to petrol station 23. Man paying for petrol 24. Set up shot of economist Antonio Carlos Porto Goncalves - Director of the Brazilian Institute of Economics 25. SOUNDBITE: (English) Antonio Carlos Porto Goncalves - Director of the Brazilian Institute of Economics: "The tendency, I guess, is that the exchange rate cannot go up indefinitely because if it goes up it will immediately correct itself with an increase of exports and hindering imports. So dollars will come through trade and not through foreign investments and things like that." FILE 26. Man carrying a sack of coffee 27. Pile of coffee sacks 28. Close up coffee bag " Cafe do Brasil" 29. Truck unloading coffee sacs at the port 30. Soya grain being loaded into a ship August 1, 2002 31. Computer monitor showing latest stock exchange movement 32. Close up broker on the phone 33. Wide shot operation floor of investment bank STORYLINE: It has been a week of great uncertainty in Brazil. The Real fell to an historic low against the US dollar reaching 3.60, the worst performance of the Brazilian Currency since the launch of the new economic plan 8 years ago. It recovered a little bit by the end of the week but the rise of the dollar made people realize that, maybe, things weren?t going as smoothly with the Brazilian economy as the government was leading the population to believe. People are worried. Most products Made in Brazil need imported parts so the inflation, which Brazilians thought was a ghost from the past, is slowly showing up again. The price of petrol, regulated by the dollar, is pushing up the prices of all other products - even basic products like bread need imported flower. Economy analysts like Professor Antonio Carlos Porto Gona?alves, Head of the Brazilian institute of Economics are confident that the situation is temporary and stress that what is happening in Brazil has nothing to do with the Argentinean crisis and point out that Brazil has a much stronger economy and a solid banking system. The current exchange rate made Brazilian products more competitive in the foreign markets but the dollars that the government desperately needs will not start flow in immediately. Once again the government has had to go to the International Monetary Fund for help. Rumours that an agreement with the IMF was reached this week was enough to calm down the market. But the main factors that brought up the latest crisis are still there - the uncertainty caused by upcoming elections in Brazil and the latest scandals involving big North American companies are making investors play it safe and avoid risky markets like Brazil.

TVU 17 JOE BIDEN CEDAR RAPIDS IA COMMUNITY EVENT ABC UNI 020120 2020 CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa -- Former Vice President Joe Biden received a warm and raucous welcome to a local middle school gymnasium at his second event of the day in Cedar Rapids, getting enthusiastic rounds of applause for some of the core parts of his stump speech that he has been leaning on in the final days leading up to the Iowa caucus. NOTE: The crowd was packed in to the small gym, and at one point a man fainted and had to be carried out by members of the local fire station (happened at 15:50:52. The man was transported to a local hospital, and was lucky to have a large contingent of firefighters there along with IAFF President Harold Schaitberger) Biden also delivered a particularly passionate rebuke of President Trump's downplaying of injuries sustained by U.S. troops in Iraq as the result of Iranian airstrikes last month, decrying Trump's "ridiculous tweets," and "stupid policy," decision to pull out of the Iran Nuclear Deal he and Secretary of State John Kerry helped to negotiate. "Now look, unless we learned about 10 days ago that when he -- in his ridiculous tweets and his stupid policy of walking away from the deal that John put together and I played a little part in to making sure that there would be no nuclear weapons in Iran. He walked away. His America first has been been America alone and what happened? In exchange - missile fire into Al Assad Airbase in Iraq. American soldiers were there. They were the target. We were initially told no one was hurt. Then we found out no -- 34, now 64 -- 64 American heroes have traumatic brain injury and what did the commander in chief of the United States military say? My son spent a year there. If he were there now I would be so damn angry and worried I don't know what I would do. Know what he said? He said It's not that serious. Just bad headaches. What in God's name? I really mean it. Think about what it says. Think about what it says to the rest of the world," Biden said (15:43:16) As he often does, Biden (who was joined at the event by both of Delaware's U.S Senators: Tom Carper and Chris Coons) emphasized the need to put partisan divisions aside and unite the Democratic Party in the fight to defeat Trump. "I refuse to accept what some of my colleagues seeking the nomination think, that there'll be an endless war between Democrats and Republicans. Several of my colleagues in this race think I've naive thinking I can pull things together. They say oh yeah Joe was able to do that. Joe wrote the violence against human act, Joe did community policing, Joe did the chemical weapons ban, Joe did, Joe did, Joe did, but that was a long time ago -- it was three years ago," Biden said. (15:49:37) Biden got a solid standing ovation (1 of 4 during the event) at the end of his speech where he gave his typical closing, urging the crowd to "choose hope over fear...unity over division...truth over lies." "We, I, we choose hope over fear. [applause] We choose, we choose science over fiction. We choose unity over division. And we choose truth over lies. [Crowd gives a standing ovation] This is the United States of America.There's nothing we cannot do. Nothing. And in Joe Biden's America, a president's tax returns won't be kept secret. Political self-interest will not be confused with absolute national interest. And no one, no one, no one, will be above the law," Biden said. (16:09:07) One fun note, this event was again attended by a man that has a dead-on resemblance to Santa Claus, and again he was sitting in the front row and got a shoutout from Biden. 152033 BIDEN>> Good to see you again, Santa Claus. Thank you man. SANTA CLAUS>> I'll tell you what. This is going to be the next president and it's going to be a gift from Santa Claus. [Crowd cheers] BIDEN>> Does that mean Donald Trump's gonna get coal in his stocking next year? SANTA CLAUS>> It's gonna be a UPS truck with a forklift to get that chunk of coal out. Kerry again gave remarks after Biden, ticking through many of the same lines he said during the last stop in North Liberty. He got a strong applause for saying that while Biden is going to be moving in the White House next year, Trump is going to have to worry about moving into the "Big House," meaning prison. "So folks, One year from now with your work, Joe Biden's going to be moving into the White House. And one year from now with your help, Donald Trump's going to be worried about going to the Big House," Kerry said. (16:13:00) **will need refeed** HIGHLIGHTS BIDEN ON SANTA CLAUS: 152033 BIDEN>> Good to see you again, Santa Claus. Thank you man. SANTA CLAUS>> I'll tell you what. This is going to be the next president and it's going to be a gift from Santa Claus. [Crowd cheers] BIDEN>> Does that mean Donald Trump's gonna get coal in his stocking next year? SANTA CLAUS>> It's gonna be a UPS truck with a forklift to get that chunk of coal out. BIDEN ON ENDLESS WAR BETWEEN DEMS/REPUBLICANS 154937 I refuse to accept what some of my colleagues seeking the nomination think, that there'll be an endless war between Democrats and Republicans. Several of my colleagues in this race think i've naive thinking I can pull things together. They say oh yeah Joe was able to do that. Joe wrote the violence against human act, Joe did community policing, Joe did the chemical weapons ban, Joe did, Joe did, Joe did, but that was a long time ago. Three years ago BIDEN ON TWEETS ABOUT U.S. MILITARY: 154316 Now look, Unless we learned about 10 days ago that when he -- in his ridiculous tweets and his stupid policy of walking away from the deal that John put together and I played a little part in to making sure that there would be no nuclear weapons in Iran. He walked away. 154347 His America first has been been America alone and what happened? In exchange - missile fire into Al Assad Airbase in Iraq. American soldiers were there. They were the target. We were initially told no one was hurt. Then we found out no -- 34, now 64 -- 64 American heroes have traumatic brain injury and what did the commander in chief of the United States military say? 154417 My son spent a year there. If he were there now I would be so damn angry and worried I don't know what I would do. Know what he said? He said It's not that serious. Just bad headaches. What in God's name? I really mean it. Think about what it says. Think about what it says to the rest of the world. BIDEN ON MEDICAL EMERGENCY: 155052 Oh, is there a doc here? We have a doctor in the house? We have -- we have a -- 155149 We do have paramedics here as well so that's -- 155208 [Applause] 155242 Paramedics are back there and they're taking care of him and I think Justin's gonna be okay. He's come back. He was seated there and thank you for -- thank you for letting me know right away. Thank you. Folks, you know. You talk about firefighters, you know, one of the chief guys of my staff is a paramedic and then the firefighters here so I'm sure he's going to be okay. Justin's a good man as well so -- BIDEN ON UNITY OVER DIVISION: 160835 Folks, look. SO when you think about, think about who you're going to caucus for, here's what I can tell you. It's not enough to make promises, you got to keep them. But you also have to have a record to demonstrate you're able to get them done. Get things done. YOu know, everyone knows who Donald Trump is, we have to let him know who we are. 160900 No, that's what we have to do. [Applause] 160907 We, I, we choose hope over fear. [applause] We choose, we choose science over fiction. We choose unity over division.And we choose truth over lies. [applause] 160929 [Crowd gives a standing ovation] This is the United States of America.There's nothing we cannot do. Nothing. And in Joe Biden's America, a president's tax returns won't be kept secret. Political self-interest will not be confused with absolute national interest. And no one, no one, no one, will be above the law. KERRY OF BIDEN vs TRUMP: 161300 So folks, One year from now with your work, Joe Biden's going to be moving into the White House. And one year from now with your help Donald Trump's going to be worried about going to the big house. BIDEN TRINT [15:29:32] She didn't it was. [15:29:36] Thank you very much. This was going to be the next president. Yes, it's going to be a gift from Santa Claus. [15:29:53] Examined Donald Trump's you could call the stock index. Hopefully the good guys. [15:30:13] First of all, as they used to say in the Senate, we still do say in the Senate. [15:30:19] I'd like to make a point of personal privilege. You know, Iowa is like Delaware in the sense that everybody knows everybody. [15:30:27] For real. Everybody knows your neighbors and take care of their neighbors. [15:30:31] And a number of my neighbors came out to help out in the last week or so. Here to try to deal with the 6 million Trump lights are coming out anyway. I'm not kidding. But I want to start by recognizing one of my closest friends in public life. We served together for a long time, two time Vietnam veteran pilot, United States Navy. But I wanted to shoot Senator Tom Carper. [15:31:12] Tom, like me, made my way out, was a sales market for. [15:31:24] As well as I was the guy who was a great friend of my son, both as well as Hunter and occupies the Senate seat that I had. Except he's smarter and he's better than I was. My says Senator Coons from the state of. [15:31:52] Versus trying to get up and leave in a moment my talk. [15:31:56] But I want to know it's because I asked him where he's going to do a live television broadcast for me. And so I just want to know that. And now we have like Iowa has to really qualified. [15:32:08] Incredible two women, congresspersons for the first time. [15:32:12] We have one in Delaware is as good as anybody in the country so far from. And I wanted to shoot to her sister who ran No, I apologize for doing this, but it's important to me because they've been important to me my whole career. [15:32:46] One of the things that she you know, those of you who've been involved in public life know that senators and congresspersons, they survived because they have home staffs that are really good and take care of things. And I want to meet somebody who ran my show back in the state of Delaware, who's a remarkable woman. [15:33:04] She happens to be the sister of. But she's all by herself, a powerhouse. And I want you to know that this woman told this woman five months ago, had a seven months, got a serious stroke, was paralyzed and her whole left side. And I called her. Well, I mean, I found out I was I must keep out of the country is on the West Coast. [15:33:25] I think out the country. And I said, you come here. She said, you are going to be all right because you got to win. She said, you're just going to be all right. [15:33:47] Ladies, I you heard me say out here. Everybody's always amazed why I out here initially, why I have such overwhelming support in the African-American community. Well, because of great African-American leaders back in my home state, Manto held office for twenty five years in my state. But from my standpoint was even more important. He played with tiny Archie Ball. It was an all-American himself. And their dad, Ted. [15:34:26] This is a span of incredible athlete. And so. Look, guys, I also say I'm sorry to go on so long, but I can't. [15:34:35] You know, and like my mom and all the Delawareans know this, my mom and dad and all a lot of expressions, they're raising us. [15:34:43] And one of the expressions my mom and then me sure said my mom would say, you are defined by your courage and you're redeemed by your loyalty. She said you and you're defined by her courage, redeemed by your loyalty. This guy right here is a walking example of that, the courage, the courage that the firefighters have. [15:35:08] You know, that old expression, God made man. Then he made a few firefighters. Well, I might have been the best of the best of the best helping. [15:35:22] Our entire careers and a lot of people are sort of, you know, fair weather friends, never the firefighters, never the firefighters. And folks, look, you know, John Kerry has been my friend for a long time. [15:35:39] We go back a long way. We go back all the way to the 70s, early 70s. [15:35:44] And, you know, Kennedy said that moral courage is rare than courage in battle. I'm paraphrasing. [15:35:54] This is a man who is one of the men, I can say, without fear of contradiction. Combines both his physical courage was absolutely undaunted. Silver Star. [15:36:07] This is a guy who has more courage, physical courage, little finger than most people having their whole body and his moral courage exceeds it. John, thank you for everything. [15:36:25] And I'm really happy to be here as president and be thinking out. Something else. I'm all kidding aside. [15:36:39] Ahead now, but how are you doing, man? Great to see you. [15:36:46] That's why the leaders in Massachusetts led to this is a really, really, really, really fine man. [15:36:58] Speaking of loyalty. [15:36:59] Speaking of loyalty, God love you. Thank you. [15:37:03] At any rate, the fact is that I haven't forgotten what you're gonna say. [15:37:14] Abby's repressed. I probably campaign because I've been around so long for more candidates for the Democratic Party, both for Congress, Senate and House governors than anybody here. I want to tell you, the two women you elected to the United States Congress are among the two most talented representatives I have ever, ever, ever, ever campaigned for. They're amazing. And by the way, we also have Delaware state legislators here with us. So like. [15:37:51] My mother now hush up, Joy. Get moving. [15:37:54] Love every four years, every four years. [15:37:59] Democracy begins here in Iowa. And that's not hyperbole. The fact is you set the nation on a path and winnow down, who is going to be likely to be the next president, United States and your caucuses and both parties. This time there's one caucus, although a lot of Republicans are here to participate in it. Meaning that there's that they tell me 80 surrogates are out here from Trump. It's just interesting how you go do things. [15:38:25] But it's you know, it's always a big responsibility. But a sprint may be presumptuous me to say, but I don't think you've ever had a greater responsibility. You have this time. Not because I'm on the ballot, not because I'm running, not because I'm one of the people seeking it, but because of a man as president. We owe it. You owe it in Iowa to the nation to make sure that Donald Trump is not the next crazy United States. [15:39:01] This year, I believe character is on the ballot. [15:39:08] When I announce my candidacy in May, I said that I was running because I thought we had to restore the soul of America. That wasn't hyperbole. [15:39:18] I wasn't I wasn't there. I meant it literally. I mean it today. America's soul is being besmirched when you have a president of the United States. Who? When a group of people close your eyes and remember what you saw on television is in 2019. People coming out of the fields at night carrying torches, carrying torches again. Close your eyes. You remember what you saw, their veins bulging, their faces contorted with anger and hate. [15:39:53] At the same time, they're carrying Nazi flags and singing the same exact and isometric file that was chanted in Germany in the 30s company about a Ku Klux Klan and a young man was killed. [15:40:08] Those resisting the. [15:40:10] The president was asked to comment on what happened. He said no press the United States has ever said in American history. He said there were very fine people on both sides. It shocked the country and stunned the world. Major leaders around the world come in on monitor, Merkel in Germany, it cost the world what is happening to America. What is happening to America? We have an obligation that extends beyond the Democratic Party. [15:40:46] We have an obligation. It extends beyond our personal politics. We have an obligation to restore the decency and honor that have always been reflected in who we are. [15:40:56] You don't want an outside house deliberately in Philadelphia because I want to be by the Liberty Bell and be by where the founders were. [15:41:04] The Constitution says we the people, in order to form a more perfect union or we hold these truths self-evident, that all men, women are created equal, endowed by their creator. That's how the rest of us looked at us. We've never fully lived up to it, but we've never walked away from it before. This press has walked away from it. In a way that we can not tolerate. My dad were here, he'd say, our children are listening. They are listening now. [15:41:37] Silence is complicity. Ladies and gentlemen, I this. I find myself thinking that it's almost hard to believe, so sometimes you wake up, you think of my dreaming, how bad this guy has become and what he's done, how we split us. Not really me. I'm not talking about US policies which are as mindless. [15:42:04] Oh, the coach. [15:42:07] Well, I really mean it. I really, really need. [15:42:18] But your body is gone. He's the commander in chief of the United States of America. We later we learned a little while ago that he actually at the Pentagon some time ago. [15:42:33] Facing our flag officers, our Navy personnel and our generals facing them and to their face said to them and about them. [15:42:43] And I want to get it right, he said. You're a bunch of losers, dogs and babies. I was tall or a couple other things said that I will not repeat. I don't know that for sure, but that's what was printed. Can you imagine that? Imagine any person. [15:43:02] Ever, ever, ever. Having the presumptuous arrogance to say something it allowed across the board, I think he is the only one, sir. [15:43:14] I really mean it. Look, at last we learned about 10 days ago that what he's in is ridiculous tweets and his stupid policy of walking away from a deal that John put together and I played a little part in to making sure that there would be no nuclear weapons in Iran. [15:43:37] He. [15:43:47] The first is Man America alone. What happened? Exchange missile flyer and al-Assad Air Base in Iraq. American soldiers are there. They were the target ruthlessly. No one was hurt. Now we found out no. Thirty four now. Sixty four. Sixty four American heroes have traumatic brain injury. [15:44:13] What did the commander in chief with the United States military say? My son spent a year there. If he were there now, I would be so damn angry and worried. [15:44:22] I don't know what I would do. Nobody said. He said it's not that serious, just bad headaches. What in God's name? [15:44:33] I asked him. My mom. I really mean it. Think about what it says. Think about it. Assessing the rest of the world. [15:44:42] Come out. What would you say if you heard if you heard the president of France, the prime minister England, was talking about his or her troops that way? [15:44:53] Well, let me tell you this morning, it's dangerous. [15:44:55] No, it undermines it undermines everything. He undermines everything. Ladies and gentlemen, let's be clear about something. We deserve a commander in chief who understands. [15:45:10] That these. [15:45:12] Fallen angels and those warriors. Ah, what we are there is that they're the best we have. I carried with me every day. [15:45:29] Scared for every day, and what I have here is a black box, which is say. Daily, yes, true. I want to know exactly how many of our heroes have died or been wounded. As of the day. Dead in Iraq and Afghanistan, six thousand nine hundred and five. [15:45:53] Not six thousand or so, six thousand nine hundred five. Every one of those folks left behind. An entire family. A community. Wounded fifty three thousand one hundred ninety, not roughly fifty three thousand one hundred and nineteen. We checked every single day. [15:46:16] Because that 1 percent are the people protecting the other 99 percent of us folks. I don't understand. Honest to God, I don't understand how a president wasn't this guy. Could be so callous and unconcerned, lack any degree of empathy. [15:46:38] Talks. We need a president, in my view, who is gonna be ready for inherit. [15:46:46] Whoever the next president is, man or woman, he's going to inherit a divided country and a nation in disarray. A world in disarray. [15:46:57] And the next president's gonna need to be ready on day one not to be commander in chief, but to command the world stage, to stand before the world and say, we're back. [15:47:10] We know who our friends are. We know who our foes are. Our word will be kept no matter what. [15:47:27] What our allies, which are badly damaged now and once more make the United States the leader and the envy of the free world. [15:47:36] Ladies and gentlemen, we need the president knows as well as this country wasn't built by Wall Street bankers and CEOs as well by ordinary middle class folks like the family I came from. [15:47:51] Most of you came from. It was built by a middle class. Then, in fact, never let the country down. And guess who built the middle class unions? You. [15:48:07] By using power, equal power to face the abuse of power. Folks, look. So much, so much we have a chance of doing. [15:48:20] You know, at this time, I promise you and the last time and I promise you that this goal that I have is to restore the backbone of this crisis, restore the soul, restore the backbone of this country, the backbone of the country, working class, middle class people. He got his start, Terry got to start rewarding work, not just wealth. I'm gonna give people a decent shot. [15:48:51] Bring everybody along. Brown, black, gay, straight men, women, those with disabilities. [15:49:04] President gonna have to unite not only our party gets the nomination that's going to be required as well. I might add we're going to have to be able to unite the country. You know, we're a democracy. Democracies depend on consensus. [15:49:21] There's no way to govern without a consensus. Under a democracy. In a democracy. Under our system. And that means you've got to reach out. You've got to reach out to not only Democrats and independents, but Republicans as well. Don't. I refuse to accept what some of my colleagues seeking the nomination think that there'll be an endless war between Democrats and Republicans. Several my colleagues in this race think I'm naive, thinking I can pull things together. [15:49:49] They say, oh, yeah, Joe was able to do that. Joe did wrote the Violence Against Women Act. Joe did community policing. Joe did the chemical weapons ban. Joe did. Joe did. Joe did. But that was a long time ago. Three years ago. [15:50:14] But then I get told by my competitors and they're good people. [15:50:19] I get told. Well, he just understand this new Republican Party. I understand it better than anybody. [15:50:26] I've been the object of their affection for a long. [15:50:38] They seem to like me very much, the president's contributed 14 million dollars, this guy's cash campaign to run negative ads about me. And by the way, as a doctor. We have a doctor in the house. [15:51:03] We have a. [15:51:48] We do have paramedics here as well. So that's. [15:52:41] Diabetics sit back there and they're taking care of him and then Justin's. [15:52:53] You see it there. Thank you, sir. [15:52:56] Thank you for letting me know right away. Thank you. [15:53:01] Folks. [15:53:04] You know, you talk about firefighters, you know, one of the chief guys in my staff is a paramedic and then the firefighters here. So I'm sure this can be OK. Just as good man as well. [15:53:22] Folks, I. I apologize. I feel so strongly about this, but folks, you know, you all. [15:53:35] Her Do you know about not understanding his new Republican Party? You all probably heard what your senator, Joni Ernst, said the other day. [15:53:55] I want to read her quote. She said, I quote, Iowa caucuses are this Monday. And I'm really interested to see how this discussion today, meaning the attacks on me by the president's lawyers on the floor of the United States Senate. Oh, this discussion today informs and influence Iowa caucus voters. CO Will they be supporting Vise President Biden at this point? [15:54:34] She's fairly subtle in chief. [15:54:38] The Washington Post headline says, Congress says a pretty voice is Trump quoting Trump. Republicans joined forces to attack fight ahead of the Iowa caucuses. Well, I I welcome their input. [15:54:55] Look. What the president has done, in my view. [15:55:05] Is causing George Washington to turn over in his grave in Washington's. [15:55:13] In Washington's farewell address, he addressed the nation and warned the following. [15:55:19] I'm going to read the quote against the insidious wiles of foreign influence. The jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most painful foes of Republican government. And to quote, George Washington warned us against this very kind of president. But Donald Trump is back. So what does it say that in Donald Trump? [15:55:52] I think he is more George Wallace than he's George Washington. His personal attacks on me and my only surviving son. But it will be about presidents don't hold can't hold grudges. They shouldn't hold grudges. Presidents have to be able to fight. But they also have to be able to heal. This nation has to be healed. So I'm not going to hold a grudge. But I tell you what, I want to work like the devil to heal this country, because, folks, it's not about me and my family. [15:57:02] It's about you and your families in this country. That's what this is about. For real. For real, folks. [15:57:10] There's no reason why we can't do this. You know, as I said earlier today, we have to heal the country, bring it together. [15:57:19] But there's something else on the ballot. Character is on the ballot. America's character on the ballot. [15:57:27] Honest to God. Don't believe we're the dark, angry nation. This president gets up a movement and tweets as we are. What we're about. [15:57:37] I don't believe for a nation that thinks it's OK to put children in cages on the border. I don't think. I don't think for a nation that builds walls with such a story about the invasion of the other. That these Mexicans are coming up to rape us. [15:57:55] I don't believe that's who we are. That's not who we ban. I don't believe we're a nation of racist white supremacists. He says he has and hate groups. We are. [15:58:07] And I don't believe we're a nation about dealing with Vladimir Putin because I. Sure. And Black will not. [15:58:34] Yes, that's the enemy of the people. This happened to us how we talk. [15:58:40] Ladies and gentlemen, I don't believe for a second that this nation, this nation lacks the courage to take on the NRA and make our children safe. [15:59:06] Occupy the Oval Office while I am president. Look, I look at Donald Trump. What he stands for, what do be how he behaves, way speaks, what he's done. My response is the same all the time. We are better than this. This is. [15:59:29] There is this. [15:59:30] But David Brooks, the columnist, says there's an invisible moral fabric that holds up democracies. [15:59:37] It's made with decency, honor, leaving no one behind. Understanding. Everyone everyone is entitled to be treated with decency. [15:59:47] It's about not belittling people because they have a physical ailment, because they stutter. [15:59:53] It's not about being out going out there and talking about people the way we do. I said think about how many of you as parents and grandparents, literally. I'm not asking for a show ahead. How would you literally, when the president comes on, asked your children to walk away from the television? I mean, think about that. In the United States of America, when in large name has that ever happened before? Or at least in the history of anyone in this, there's this gymnasium. [16:00:22] Folks, look, you know, there is an American code, and American code is uniquely American. [16:00:32] You can't define for me what an American is based on race, ethnicity. Or any other tribe. You can't do it. Think about your you're home. Think about it. If someone said to you to find an American for me, I can define for you. By and large, with a Frenchman and other democracies, because their ethnicity. They're basically all the same. [16:00:57] Or whether they're not democracies, but think, how do we decide when an American is over there, that commitment to an idea? An idea that's bigger than any ocean, more powerful, any dictator, more consequential than anything is happiness. It is, in fact, the most sacred document, short civil document ever written. It is about we the people. We've all signed on to a basic code, the American code. [16:01:29] How many times here foreigners talk about us being naive? Because we talk about fairness. George, don't foreign policy, social life. And I have not a secretary. But my life as Foreign Relations Committee chairman, as vise president. Well, we use words like fairness. Someone look at us like they're suckers, right? Am I kidding? [16:01:48] We use these terms. Fairness, decency, honor. And it's been squandered. [16:01:57] And it's hurting us badly around the world. My dad just said, Joey, everybody and I mean, I meant that he meant everyone's entitled to be treated with dignity and respect no matter who they are. [16:02:10] And we can't let that we can't let that slip from us. People change the nature of who we are as a country. [16:02:17] Look, folks. [16:02:19] This code this code is a code that Donald Trump does not subscribe to. [16:02:25] He's demonstrated he does not subscribe to it. Thank you. How he speaks internationally and nationally. [16:02:32] I want him to say with kids in the room, some of the words he's used to describe opponents. [16:02:39] So foul and ugly. [16:02:41] Thanks, he says. Can you think of any president who's ever talk that way? [16:02:47] So, folks, this is bigger than the Democratic Party. Look, this nation needs to come together. [16:02:55] It has to come together. I refuse to accept the proposition. Some of my colleagues are really accept that we'll have permanent war. [16:03:03] We'll treat the other parties an enemy. We can't keep it this way. [16:03:11] I would do whatever it takes to make progress on matters that matter the most. Like climate change, which is the single greatest thing. [16:03:26] Voting rights, women's right to choose health care, gun policy. No economy. [16:03:32] As I said, the rewards work, not just wealth. [16:03:36] But look, all this. To do all this promises aren't enough. [16:03:43] There's an old saying. Talk is cheap. [16:03:47] But in politics, talk is sometimes very expensive, especially you don't tell people how are you going to pay for what you're promising and how can we be shrunk if we're not perceived as being totally authentic? [16:04:05] With the American people about what we're going to do and how we're gonna do it. What it's going to cost and who's going to pay? Everyone in this race is talking about health care. [16:04:17] Miss going to say I'm the only one who has actually led the law, big health care reform that is called Obamacare. [16:04:33] I can tell you, Tony, I'm going to pay for it to take the next step of building on Obamacare, providing a public option like Medicare for those who can't afford. [16:04:47] If you want to make progressive change in health care, I'm the only one who has a plan to get it done and can get it done again. Folks, look, I've got the record to show it. Everyone is talking about guns. But I'm the only one who's actually ever gotten a big gun legislation passed as chairman of the Judiciary Committee. I got the Brady Bill passed background checks. [16:05:12] Some of the. [16:05:18] Senator Dianne Feinstein, a good friend who got assault weapons ban for a decade, and then we had hanging chads in Florida and we didn't get it renewed because we elected a Republican president. [16:05:30] We limited the number of bullets that can be put in a clip. Who in God's name under any circumstances needs a clip that hauls one hundred rounds of bullets? [16:05:43] Nobody, nobody. And by the way, John John's a hunter. I'm a gun owner. I have a 20 gage and a 12 gage. Mostly just skeet shooting. My sons are doctors. John's a hunter. I support the Second Amendment, but it doesn't say anybody can own any weapon at any time and any person can own it that they want it for those. And for those who say the tree of liberty is water of the blood of patriots, meaning you have to defend having the ability to defend against the federal government. He has 15 Hellfire missiles. [16:06:27] I mean, think about this is bizarre, the way we're talking, what's happening and the way he's yields the gun manufacturers and folks, look, you know what they said? I'm the only one of the plan that's gotten it done before I've done it. I've beaten the NRA. And I promise you, I won't beat them again. I promise. [16:06:54] And he's talking about climate change. The first climate change bill in the United States Senate in 1987 was written by me, and PolitiFact said it was a game changer. Our administration and the president put me in charge of the Recovery Act, which is almost nine hundred fifty billion dollars with less than two tenths of one percent waste or fraud. [16:07:16] In the whole process. Guess what? We made the largest investment ever. In energy and alternative energy, the best. [16:07:25] John Kerry. Led the fight. I think I helped a little bit in getting the Paris climate accord, Don. [16:07:40] More progressive change in climate change. I take a backseat to no one. [16:07:47] Folks look like. [16:07:53] I conclude here. If you want to deal with climate change, it is not just a domestic issue. We need someone who understands how to deal with world leaders and internationally. We make up 15 percent of the world's problems. If we got to zero emissions tomorrow in the United States, we would still have your rivers flooding. [16:08:13] There would still be the ice caps melting. There would still be thousand ten. Millions of children coming now. And as and because of pollution, you'd still find things that exist because 85 percent of is generated by the rest of the world. Whoever the next president is better be able to bring the world together and say we're back and you better be back because its consequences if you're not. [16:08:34] Folks, look. So when you think about. Think about who you're going to caucus for. Here's what I can tell you. It's not enough to make promises. You've got to keep him. You also have to have a record to demonstrate you're able to get them done. Get things done. You know, everyone knows who Donald Trump is. We have a leader who we are. [16:09:00] Oh. [16:09:07] We I we choose hope over fear. [16:09:46] Suffrage is a lobby confused with absolute national interest and no one, no one, no one will be above the law. Law. KERRY TRINT [16:10:20] As. [16:10:33] Cedar Rapids will see a five season and I love people and know how to take a whole season to enjoy all the other systems. That's a pretty good idea. [16:10:47] Let me tell you what a pleasure it is for me to be back in Iowa. I loved this state when I was here campaigning. I measured my life by the height of your corn. [16:10:58] I was jealous of all those beautiful Christmas sweaters everybody wore. It's incredible. I've never seen so many. And what candidate? [16:11:05] The United States of America can claim as a supporter for presidency. To prove this diversity, he got Santa Claus to come from the North Pole. [16:11:23] I know if I go too far with that is I grab the microphone you guys should bear. Anyway, I'm really happy to hear Tom, great to be with you. Great to be with my colleagues, Lisa. Great to be with friends, longtime friends, some of them friends for life. [16:11:39] Now, one of whom just one of announce Doherty, the fellow who fainted. [16:11:46] Get a little hot, overheated, dehydrated, dehydrated. [16:11:51] But he's on his way to hospital, the people who took him there. The guys are standing here with us today. The gold in the black. The firefighters injured three. Just a quit worrying about it. I want you to his name is Justin Shields. For years, he was the labor counsel here. A lot of you know him. He's a great friend of all of yours. And he said he was fine as he left. I know him is tough as nails. And let's all thank him for his work and his participation. I want to thank everybody who's here. You'll forgive me if I also have a point, personal privilege. I want to thank all the Massachusetts folks. There are a few of them here. [16:12:47] Congressman Stephen Lynch is here and he's going to forgive me for turning my back on. [16:12:59] So, folks, one year from now with your work, Joe Biden is going to be moving into the White House. [16:13:17] One year from now, you're out. [16:13:19] Donald Trump's going to be worrying about going to the big house. [16:13:32] I am here because of Joe Biden. [16:13:36] But I'm also here because pictures didn't get into the super. [16:13:42] I take it you know. Good. That's that's not true. I'm here for a show by. [16:13:53] Besides, you will be pleased. [16:13:57] I am rooting for the chiefs. Some of you are smart enough to be fleeced. How are you? I'm sorry for those who aren't. [16:14:08] I know I can't go to San Francisco with the same license. But Joe Biden is, as Joe said. We've known each other for a long time. And we are great friends, we've shared people in politics, have worked for us and helped us along our way. And I've sat every minute that I was the United States senator that he was. We're together on the Foreign Relations Committee. And I'm here because I know this man, because I've known him a long time. I've known him so well. And I can tell you about it. [16:14:40] I also want, you know, I mean, this this thing about doing it for such a long time. I actually knew him back when Donald Trump had only two bankruptcies. [16:14:53] I knew him back when we didn't know that Rudy Giuliani was nuts. [16:15:06] I like it. Do you think about this a little bit, folks? A few years ago, everybody you know, there are a whole bunch of people who thought that Donald Trump was normal and that Bolton was crazy one. [16:15:21] Everything's clicked on it. You know, right. And so here we are now, and this is serious. [16:15:27] Here we are now as a result. I mean, this is the craziness of where we are, their own country. Is that yesterday in the United States Senate? [16:15:38] Voted in a trial, that is. [16:15:44] Supposed to be the manifestation of America's best democracy, where we have an accountability system, where we are able as senators because senators were given six years for a reason, that was to separate them from the daily passions. [16:16:00] That's what the founding fathers did. And they expected more from the United States than they got yesterday and that vote. And I guarantee you we will get that more when this guy is a. But this election yesterday tells us a lot about why Joe Biden is so important to this race and to this country. [16:16:28] Because it's not just our responsibility now to lift the burden of Donald Trump. [16:16:34] Now we have the burden of restoring to the Senate its rightful respect for the Constitution, and we have to hold accountable those senators who put their careers, their party, their president above our country and above the Constitution of the United States. [16:17:04] So Joe's asked me to share a few thoughts with you about his candidacy and about the caucuses. And I can do that because you blessed me with the victory that sent me on from Iowa into New Hampshire and on to the nomination. And I'm sorry to this day that we fell short by one state, by half the people in a football stadium. That was the difference. And it was a difference in a lot of history as a result. But I know something about what it takes to win the presidency. And I want to share that with you tonight. As I say, a few things about the caucuses. [16:17:40] This is a moment of glorious democracy. And our democracy is broken for a lot of different reasons. [16:17:48] Broken because we don't have a fair general election because of gerrymandering, broken because there's too much money in American politics. Just did a quick diversion. Joe will remember when he and Bill Bradley and I together, the three of us went down to the Oval Office for a meeting with President Bill Clinton. And way back then we said to him, this is your moment to do campaign finance reform. We had the House and the Senate and the presidency and we said, you will get health care if you don't get that done. [16:18:20] And we left that office and president said I. So I think that's. [16:18:27] We believe that we were you know, we've broken through a little bit. [16:18:31] Lo and behold, the speaker of the House came down and told him. We don't want to give up the way we raise money, raise money. Now they're in the majority and low behold in that election, that speaker lost his seat at home. We lost the House and lost. And we never got health care. So, my friends. [16:18:50] Understanding what you need to do is critical and Joe Biden understood what we need to do. Here's the senior member there went down with us. He was the first to speak at the first to tell the president what we need to do. Now we have Citizens United and we have to fight back to restore democracy in the United States of America. [16:19:14] So when you go to those caucuses, when you come into a room like this gymnasium or the meeting hall, you go off in your corner along the side, you're going to have that first round of counting. But if somebody isn't viable, then you have a second round, third. People drop away. Somebody has a place to find a home. All of you have to be the people who are going to help that person find that home. You've got to have the arguments. Here are the four that I think are the most important for what you need to do. Number one. [16:19:47] No one realize that those caucuses are our first step in this country to kick the wrecking crew in the White House out. Our first moment to restore common sense and decency, facts and truth and sanity to the White House and the way we do that. [16:20:17] It's my understanding there are four reasons that I believe Joe Biden separates himself from any of these other candidates. And I'm not you know, I'm not here. I know what it's like when somebody endorses when you're running and it's not you. I got it. It happened to me. Unfortunately, a few times, but you plow ahead. But the point is I'm not here to say anything negative about any candidate running the Greek people. We're blessed to have the quality of the candidacies we have and these folks who outwork their hearts out day in and day out. [16:20:50] But I'm telling you, as a veteran of this process, twenty eight years in the Senate, four years as secretary of state, four or five years as a prosecutor, three years as lieutenant governor, I have seen the difference that knowing what you're doing actually makes an. [16:21:19] Is that Joe, you win? [16:21:23] All of this stuff will win. Yeah, you can have the fanciest plan in the world. You to be screaming at a rally, but it isn't going to make a difference if we don't win. And look at the polling data for the last months. Joe Biden is the person who consistently runs against the president, consistently beats him consistent and is equal in a couple of states. But look at the states that are now up for grabs. [16:21:49] Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, maybe Texas. Who knows, maybe Georgia. I don't know. But look at Virginia. North Carolina. This is a different map. There's only one candidate who was asked by people running last. In 2018. [16:22:08] To campaign with the only one who went to 24 states, he campaigned for sixty five candidates. And because of Joe Biden's effort and a whole bunch of really clever, smart people like Abby thinking now, whose incredible. We won back the house and we won by. Please make it clear in that caucus when you're talking to your neighbors, when you're fighting for that next ballot. Make sure you see Joe Biden has the coattails. Not one of those other people could be invited in. They would have lost votes from somebody. [16:22:48] Now, think about that and get your neighbors thinking about that in the next days. Second reason. He can govern, you know, you can run with the latest plan in the world that gives Sunday free to everybody in the world, but you not get it. If half of our Democratic caucus isn't going to vote for it, it's a nonstarter. And we don't have time for nonstarters, folks. We're behind. We've lost three precious years. And it will be four in all kinds of endeavors in our nation education, health, infrastructure, building our country, doing the innovation and the research and development. All of those things were behind. [16:23:28] Well, the president's ripping the world apart. [16:23:30] So think about that as you talk about governing and here in the business. Joe mentioned the Recovery Act. Let me just say a little more about that. The country was on the brink of economic and financial disaster. The world was about to see the entire financial structure that we set up after World War to suddenly crumble and fall apart. American leadership had been shattered by Iraq. And we were sitting in a situation where people were losing their homes, losing their jobs. Downsizing became a notion in the context, the economy. People had to downsize their dreams, downsize their houses, downsize their wages. [16:24:08] And the rest is history. Joe Biden and Barack Obama came in there, and I'm telling you, Barack Obama began to make decisions before he even raised his hand, took the oath of office. And to his credit, George W. Bush allowed him to do that. Asked him what he thought should happen. [16:24:23] Well, the first things that he did, Barack Obama was asked Joe Biden to build on the relationships, he had to be able to win the votes to get this passed. And we didn't just pass the biggest infrastructure thing that Joe had mentioned. We passed the biggest green infrastructure bill in the history of our nation. That was really a down payment on a real green new deal. That's what Joe Biden. Health care. Let me tell you somebody else. Teddy Kennedy, my colleague, for 26 years, he was his dream to pass health care. [16:25:10] He wanted to do that more than anything in the world, and he worked at it. It was his brother's dream and he worked at it. And along came President Barack Obama, who extended all this political capital and who is the go to person that came up to the hill, sat people down in the vise president's office, worked the relationships he built by Dana, sensible legislator, a knowledgeable one. Joe Biden was the man who helped us pass what we now rightly, proudly call Obamacare. Joe Biden is the person who helped. [16:25:52] Now to develop this notion of how you can actually pass the full measure of the dream, which is his plan for an option to people that doesn't kick a whole bunch of people off their health care. He imagined trying to win Michigan, trying to win a bunch of states where he got a high representation of organized labor. These people have worked a lifetime firefighters to get a really good package. That's part of their compensation. And all of a sudden a lot comes. Somebody say, get off of that. You can't have that anymore. I got news for you. That's what we say. We're not going to win the presidency. We need to win the presidency in order to fulfill the promise of every American having a choice to have the coverage that they want. [16:26:41] Now, you heard about that. [16:26:43] You already heard about Joe, talked a bit about the Violence Against Women Act, the NRA, and those are critical things, folks. Again, I'm not attacking anybody in this, but I am telling you, look at the reservations. That's a legitimate thing to do in the context of choosing a person to run our country. [16:27:01] The most powerful nation in the world. And if you look at those resumes, there is only one person who has actually initiated legislation, passed the legislation. That is a major piece of legislation that changes life for Americans. Joe Biden. The third let me mention one other thing. Who among you would not have wanted Nancy Pelosi to be there over the course of these last months? And I remember some people, some people and and, you know, Stephen Lynch and others will remember people who were saying, oh, no, you not been around. Going to have a change. Well, guess what? The fact that she'd been around, the fact that she knew what she was doing is what made all the difference in the world. [16:27:55] And I got news for you. Nancy Pelosi is 79 years old. [16:28:03] I understand. [16:28:05] I have over 70. And I got news for you. [16:28:12] 70 is the new 50. [16:28:28] There are two other quick reasons I want you to talk about when you are in this caucus. I'll do them quickly. One, we've got to heal the broken world. Secretary of State, I've had the privilege of traveling to ninety one countries to represent our great nation. And I did have the privilege of leading negotiations on the Paris agreement. On the on the Iran nuclear agreement, it said we are a great team. It was a team effort. [16:28:54] And I'll tell you, Barack Obama followed that as closely as anybody. Every day we were working, talking with Joe, the president. This was a team effort. We got it done. Folks, we reached out to China. We brought China on board. We made all kinds of allies. We had alliance with our. You even got the Russians and the Chinese to work cooperatively with us in this great endeavor. Along comes Donald Trump. He just pulls out on that. [16:29:17] So I'm telling him there's nobody in this field that I trust as much to help us restore America's full and position and word and credibility in the world. [16:29:28] That Joe Biden has been doing. [16:29:38] I've worked for 35 years on climate change, Al Gore and I had a bunch of us went down to Rio in 1992. We were in Kyoto. We'd been to meetings every almost conference of the parties had been. I was in Madrid a few weeks ago. Three countries stood up and prevented us from moving forward to have the accountability we tried to create in Paris. You know, they are Australia. [16:29:59] Brazil and the United States of America. [16:30:03] We have to go back. Joe knows that we can't just go back to the Paris agreement. The Paris agreement was an effort to get the marketplace to begin to move and create the new technologies and so forth. But we now, even if you did everything that's in Paris, we're going to warm to three point seven degrees centigrade. We have to get done much more faster. It's doable. Don't be scared of this. We deserve a president who doesn't say it's a Chinese hoax. [16:30:30] We deserve a president who believes in science. [16:30:43] Final take character Abby did a brilliant job, you're so lucky to have Abby. [16:30:50] I. [16:30:54] She's she's eloquent and and her story is the story of America. And I know you all connect to that, anybody who's in the first district. [16:31:04] You've got to keep her keep her trucking along here because she's going to be a real player. [16:31:08] But character she talked about. Joe, I just want to say a word about it. There's I lost a lot of friends. Of course, you know. [16:31:23] I don't know how anybody. I mean, every parent here. Worries about the notion that you might lose a child. Right. It's the great nightmare of parenting. And, you know, Joe went through that and you know the circumstances and then his son goes off to war. As vise president, nobody pulled any strings. Nobody went to a doctor to get five bone spur exemptions. Nobody tried to. His son went off to war and Joe and Jill left every day worrying about. Until he came home and then he was struck by a terrible disease. So we all know his character because he's you have to be here. [16:32:06] He's still out there. He's at this for us. He's at this for America and we need to spend. [16:32:30] I'll tell you, he's ready on day one to call those leaders in to restore America's credibility, to reach out to the world. And for eight years as vise president, which, by the way, Barack Obama said the wisest, smartest political decision of his entire eight years was to pick Joe Biden to be the best. [16:33:01] So there's a reason Donald Trump was being impeached and was impeached. [16:33:06] It's because he's trying to undo the ability of the strongest candidate against him. He's scared stiff about it. And I honestly, I know what's going to happen. And probably Donald Trump knows, too. Joe Biden's going to criss cross this country. He's going to talk to everyone in America, every state. We're going to campaign. We're in when the president is Joe Biden is going to go after this illegitimate president on the facts, on the reality. [16:33:36] He. Slice and dice this guy and brush. [16:33:40] He's going to whack him and smack him. He's got a. Beat it like a drum till the nightmare is done.

FS24 WH MAGA MI AND WI EVENT POOL 4 1850 INCLUDES CUTS FROM MICHIGAN RALLY. [7:56:02 PM] TRUMP>> Thank you. This is great. Hello. How are you? Thank you, everybody. Thank you very much. Hello to janesville, and hello Wisconsin, we love you. 195622 Look at this crowd. This is massive. You know, we are having massive crowds all over the place. [7:56:27 PM] When I look at a poll, we are even in Wisconsin. What I have done for you, the usmca -- we got rid of that horrible -- you would be charged a tariff to do business with Canada. It was all about specialty milk. That was like the straw that broke the camel's back. [7:57:11 PM] 287%. We knocked the hell out of it and we got the brand-new usmca. And sleepily Joe can't do that. He has no idea what we just said. He's sitting in his basement watching. He has no idea. I was having a great hair day, then I heard you had 40-mile-an-hour winds. I said give me the cap. I don't do it often. But I'm looking at that beautiful sight. Is that beautiful? It's beautiful -- as beautiful as that is -- osha. I don't know I would want to be one of those people in that corner. I think it's magnificent. I would get out of there. But they have no fear. They have confidence in trump. It's great to be back in Wisconsin with thousands of loyal, hard working American [7:58:14 PM] patriots. It's a great honor. And we are doing great. We are doing really well. We should have a Republican governor. Because frankly you have got to open your state up. Get back to school. 195820 I will tell you what, you know we had a little problem in Florida. We had a surge, and then it went away. They opened it, but, we had a problem, big problem in Texas, we had a surge, they opened it up. It's all opened up. Arizona, they had a surge, it's all opened up. And our country is opening. And I'll tell you what, when you look at our numbers compared to what's going on in Europe and other places, but we're doing well. We're going to have one of the best economic years we've ever had next year. [7:58:47 PM] 17 days from now we are going to win the state of Wisconsin and four more years in the white house. By the way, early voting begins Tuesday. So get out and vote. [7:59:14 PM] Okay? We have had great success in your state, and I have been very good you have to likewise with the ships. You build good ships. A lot of other states wanted that contract. We gave you the big contract. Honestly I went to New York. It's incredible what you did. This is the most important election in the history of our country. Six months after he go I was saying, how do you compare with the last one. The fact is, this is the single most important election in the history of our country. Sleepy Joe Biden made a corrupt bargain in exchange for his party's nomination. Which he shouldn't have gotten because pocahontas got out one day early, I would be running against crazy Bernie. I would have had a small but energized base. Now we have a lower base to run against. We have the most energy in the history of politics and he has the least. Biden handed control his party over to hard-core militant left. The Democrat party you once knew no longer exists. It's now a party socialist, marxists and left-wing extremists. If Joe Biden and Democrat socialists are elected, I always said, our country will never be a socialist country they will kill your jobs. [8:01:06 PM] Disman many the police department. We have a lot of law enforcement here today. I think every law enforcement group in the country endorsed us. New York City police department endorsed us. It's the first time in history they have endorsed a presidential candidate. Everybody endorsed us. I said during the debate, I said, Joe, name one group of law enforcement that endorsed you. He couldn't. Then Chris Wallace bailed him out. I said Joe, say the words law and order. He wouldn't do it. Chris Wallace bailed him out again. If he says law and order that means he loses the radical left which I think he's losing anyway. They want to dissolve your borders, raise your taxes, destroy your suburbs. The women, they tell me about [8:02:07 PM] suburban women. I think suburban women like me. I only saved your house. And frankly I saved your way of life. I saved the American dream. But they keep saying, trump has a problem. 200214 They said I had a problem with women, period. And then the night, that beautiful night four years ago, was that the greatest of all times? Probably the greatest night in the history of television, right? That was -- we had so much fun, the tears that were flowing out of (?), remember the tears from the totally non biased anchors? We have another one of them coming up next week, you know, Kristen Welker. She deleted her entire account. I wonder why. I can't imagine. You know, I have known her for a long time. She is extraordinarily unfair, but that's alright. We did very well the other night with a person I knew was even more unfair, Savannah. Fact, nobody has seen Savannah for two days. [8:03:08 PM] What happened to Savannah. They said we would -- you ask a question, you give an answer. She was jumping out of her seat. She was like flying. She said I'd told, I told you. I said I don't care with you told me, what does that mean. Then you watch sleepy Joe get interviewed by George Stephanopoulos. He's a stuff guy. He's giving these lobs, like slow motion lobs. It's unfair. It's so unfair. We are president and they are not. We are. We are. But they want to fund extreme late-term abortion. They want to pack -- you have got to get out and vote. You have got to get out and [8:04:08 PM] vote. They want to pack the supreme court. You know what that is. They could end up with 16, 19, 20. They want to put far left judges on the court. They will pick people so far left, you will end up with far left justices like we never had before. Our supreme court instead of being what it was will end up being nothing. They want to protect criminals and disarm law abiding Americans. They want to take away your second amendment. If Biden wins, the lawless demonstrators in our streets, they are democratic run -- I always say Democrat because it sounds worse. They should change their name to the democratic. Democrat sounds lousy. But that's actually their name. The Democrat party. [8:05:08 PM] I say Democrats. They say democratic. The lawless demonstrators are all democrat-run cities and states. Almost he single one of them. And they don't want to take care of it. They don't want to take care of law enforcement. You see what's going on in Seattle? The police who we love, they are all quitting, they are all leaving. They will still be occupying Seattle except they found out we were going in the morning they all raised their hands. The reason they raided their hands. We were going in that morning. Were going to take over the section, the large section of Seattle that these anarchists have. But in theory, we have to be asked, we have to be asked, the federal government has to be asked. But we went into Minneapolis. You know what happened? How long did that take? [8:06:08 PM] About 30 minutes? They formed a line. They formed another line. They were not socially distanced. They have the world's most expensive uniforms on. Helmets that cost a fortune. But under the helmet, great brains and tough. They formed those lines. Then they said let's go. This is after two weeks of destruction in Minneapolis. That's why we are going to win Minnesota for the first time since 1972. We are going to win. 200637 Now, it doesn't hurt that in Minnesota they have ilhan Omar -- (boos) -- who hates our country. Who has broken the law, I mean, she's broken the law, let's see what happens, but she has broken the law. But she hates our country. 200655 [Crowd chants "Lock her up"] 200702 TRUMP>> No, we are going to win because of what we did with Minneapolis. We saved Minneapolis. [8:07:08 PM] Seattle was going real bad. You want to know the truth? We are saving the whole country if you really think about it. That's why we have the likes of which any campaign has ever had. I just left Michigan. The early voting is going big. It should go like 70%, 80% to the Democrats. Then we come in with a big wave like nobody has ever seen. They will start heavy on the early voting. But especially on that November 3 day we'll swamp it. This is early. Still hundreds of thousands of votes. We are supposed to be down [8:08:12 PM] billing. Then we catch like a racehorse. Like secretariat. You see what happens in the end. Something strange has happened in Michigan. We broad back many car plants. They hadn't brought back a plant I think in 42 years. So in Michigan, a strange thing happened. We are leading substantially in the early voting. What's that all about? Because something is happening out there. Take a look. You can't see as far as the eye can see, you have people. As far as the eye can see. 200848 This election day the people of Wisconsin and you know what? We win Wisconsin, we win the whole ballgame. It's over(?) (cheers) I mean, what the hell do you think I'm doing here on a freezing night with 45 degree winds? Huh? What do you think? You think I'm doing this for my health? I am not doing this for my health. (cheers) I am doing it for that. And I'm doing it for that. 200923 ["USA" chant] [8:09:23 PM] Beautiful. Wow! Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. But this election day the people of Wisconsin must top these anti-american radicals by issuing sleepy Joe -- he has no clue. Let's not kid ourselves. He's shot. I don't care. Think of it. This puts pressure on you. I am running against perhaps in the history of presidential politics, the worst candidate. [8:10:14 PM] Obama wouldn't even endorse him. Even after he won, I didn't think Obama -- it took so long. I heard today, sir, Obama is going to campaign for him. I said that's good news. He campaign harder than Hillary Clinton did for Hillary. And it made us stronger. I want him to campaign so much. I want him to campan. Because we are going to do even better. By issuing why * a tremendous defeat at the ballot box, but it's not why *, remember this. It's a radical, sick ideology. 56% of the American people, Gallup poll, right? Say they are better off today than they were four year ago under the obama-biden administration. That's a record. That's a record. And think of what we are saying. [8:11:16 PM] That's a record. 56% of the people. 201109 And that's during -- and we're rounding the corner. We got the vaccines and all that, but even without it, we are rounding the corner. You see it. We're rounding the corner and we have -- unbelievable. The vaccines are unbelievable. And frankly, except for a little politics, but we have unbelievable vaccines that are coming out real soon. And the therapeutics are unbelievable and the cures. Excuse me. I'm here. I didn't feel so good, I'll be honest with you. I hadn't been sick in a long time. I don't have any time to get sick. It's good. You know, if you're busy you don't get sick. You have no time. You don't think about it. 201147 But I wasn't feeling so good. I wasn't feeling like your president has to feel. I wasn't feeling like Superman. And all of a sudden, we have great doctors. One thing with being president, you got more doctors than any human being. I'm lying down in a bed, I got 12 doctors from Johns Hopkins hospital university, great people. All great. I mean, talented great people. 201209 And they love their president, they love their country. But I have doctors, they wanted to touch every single part of my body and I said, "doc." But I didn't, you know what, I didn't feel great. [8:12:21 PM] And there is a drug, regeneron, it's a transfusion. All I know is next morning I felt stronger. I wanted to get out there and make new trade deals for your jobs and I wanted to do it. We have done a great job. A lot of jobs. A great job. But the most menacing aspect of the biden-harris agenda is their attack of law and order. And I was a big part. I came in. What a great guy. I had the sheriff's endorsement and other endorsements in Kenosha. Ever heard of a place called [8:13:18 PM] Kenosha. If I didn't get involved, there wouldn't be a Kenosha. I wish they had called earlier and we could have gone the in earlier. I give your governor credit. Unlike Oregon, we could solve Portland in 22 minutes. They are anarchist, they are wiseguys. They live in the basements with their parents. They go home with their parents. But wiseguys. Antifa radical left. But their wiseguys. We could solve that in two minutes. At least your governor said let's go in and solve the problem. It was late, but better late than ever. We solved and saved Kenosha. I want to thank the sheriff, the chief, all the law enforcement. I want to thank the people helping to rebuild their stores [8:14:20 PM] and businesses. Kenosha. I never thought of Kenosha that it would be an important part of my life. It was a terrible scene. It wasn't their fault. But your law enforcement did a great job. We did a great job. Our law enforcement in this country, if you let them do fairly what they do better than anybody in the world, they wouldn't have any problem. Look at what the going on in new York under Democrats. You look at what's going on in Chicago under Democrats. Portland, Oakland under Democrats. Baltimore under Democrats. We have a great young congresswoman running in Baltimore. I hope she gets a shot. Republican. I want to explain to you the threat that their far left plans pose to the safety of your family, community and country. [8:15:21 PM] If you give the power to Democrats the radical left will defund, disband, disarm and dismantle police departments all across America. Asked if he supports slashing police funding, you saw this last week, he said yes, yes, absolutely yes. Honestly he didn't understand the question. But that's what he said. It's like fracking. He said there will be no fracking. Then he gets lucky. Elizabeth Warren refuses to get out. Now he's standing in Pennsylvania and they want to Frack because they have a million fracking jobs. We are energy independent. He goes from saying for a year and a half, there will be no fracking. I wanted to put it on the screen, but it was so windy we would need 15 cranes to hold up the screen. He says no fracking 18 times. [8:16:22 PM] He then becomes the nominee. Goes to Pennsylvania which we are going to win, too. In Pennsylvania -- I went to cool there, in Pennsylvania they believe in law and order, and they believe in energy and they believe in intelligence. But he now goes to Pennsylvania, he gets hit hard and he says, I never said that. There will be fracking. I always follow these politicians. I have only been doing this for a short while. How in the hell did I become president. But one thing I have learned -- but I know politics, I have been dealing on the other side of politics. -- It's the first thing they say that always matters. There is no way he could not do what he didn't see to in the first place. He gets up in says in Pennsylvania, no, no, we'll Frack. We'll Frack. The whole place -- those fake [8:17:26 PM] news media, nobody said to him, but for a year and a half you said that there would be no fracking, now, you said there will be fracking. Nobody asked him that question. You know why? Because they are fake news. [Crowd chants "CNN sucks"] As long as I'm president, we'll never defund the police. We'll strongly defend our police. And I will always stand with the heroes of law enforcement. I think I have been endorsed by he law enforcement group over the country. I am not militant. I want common sense. I want people to be safe. [8:18:26 PM] The bind plan calls for abolishing cash bail. That's wonderful. You have a murderer, they want to abolish. Look at what happened to new York. Necessity abolished cash bail. Your crime went up 200%. It's terrible. It's common sense. They are going to release 400,000 criminals on to your streets and into your neighborhoods if crazy Joe becomes president. Running against him is such pressure. I'm running against the worst in the history of presidential. If I lose, can you imagine? I will have lost to the worst candidate -- the worst candidate in the history of presidential politics. If I lose, what do I do? I would rather run against somebody who is extraordinarily talented. At least this way I can lead my [8:19:33 PM] life. But we are going to win. [Crowd chants "Four more years"] That's why I can't lose. You know what the first most important is? We are going to make America greater than ever before. Their plan also includes disarming law abiding citizens, namely taking away your second amendment. Think of it, while turning the entire country into one giant sanctuary for criminals, illegal aliens, including those charged with rape, assault, murder, killing. I am very proud of that. Any -- being a developer, you learn how to do it. But we had an entire very [8:20:35 PM] powerful party there they have two things, they have a powerful Democrat party that always sticks together. They don't have rebels that we have in the Republican party. I call them stupid people. Because they play right into their hands. But the Democrats don't have that. They stick together like you have never seen. They are smart and vicious. Let's impeach him even though he did nothing wrong. They are vicious. What we have is we have much better policies like how about we want a strong border. They don't want to have a border. They want open borders. We don't want to protect criminals. We want jobs and low taxes. I told the Republicans all the time. A lot of people say I have a lot of influence. You have got to get tougher and meaner because they play a tougher game. But we have these rebels. [8:21:39 PM] They think they are hot stuff. They usually end up outside of politics in a very short time. For the entire summer, Biden was silent as radicals, anarchists and arsonists rampaged through democrat-run cities in Minneapolis, Chicago, New York, Portland, and other places. Biden called them peaceful protesters. Remember the guy on CNN standing there saying this is peaceful. I have no idea. I'm thinking about, the shaved head, then I don't have to worry about that. He shaved it off. He doesn't have to worry about it. How does it look, first lady. Darling, you are the most handsome president. 202230 I said "first Lady, am I the most handsome president ever?" "Yes, absolutely." I said "who could top me?" "Well," she said, "JFK was good looking, but nothing like you. Nothing like you darling." [8:22:45 PM] [Crowd Chants "We love you" work hank you. Now, you go home and you see this crazy CNN. Fortunately their ratings are terrible. They will say Donald Trump said he's better looking than JFK. You will see it. They are sick people. They have a least problems. Earlier this month, rioters laid waste to suburban residential neighborhoods just outside of Milwaukee. Bind will appease the rioters and looters. [8:23:40 PM] And I'm having them arrested. You know when they knock down statues, you noticed that's have much Stopp. Especially with federal statues. A little thing happened. They go to jail for a period of 10 years. They were getting set to take down the incredible statue of Andrew Jackson right by the white house. I said we can't let that happen. The police went out and they charged. It was an incredible thing. Everyone wants to be so damn politically correct. The police are afraid if they touch somebody or speak to somebody rudely, they will be destroyed, their pension will be gone, their family will be gone. People will cloak. They have a quarter of a second sometimes. And you will have some bad cops. And that happens. But 99.9 -- they are the most [8:24:40 PM] incredible people. They keep us safe. They keep us safe. We have to take care of them. This year more than 1,000 law enforcement officers have been viciously attacked. Nobody talks about that. Nobody talks about that. Several police officers have been very, very brutally murdered. You saw it a month ago with two sitting in the car. It's just a horrible thing. The anti-police rhetoric of Joe Biden and the Democrat party is what puts officers in harm's way. We can't let that happen. Biden referred to police as the enemy. The enemy. Quote, the enemy. And vilified them as an oppressive racist force. This guy has gotten just -- he doesn't believe that. I don't believe he believes it. Joe's running mate, how do you [8:25:42 PM] like her? Did Mike pence do a great job? Did our great vice president do a great job? Never lets you down. It was too easy. I said Mike that was just too easy. She was terrible. I mean, I couldn't believe he picked her. That said a lot. She treated him worse -- 27 candidates for this job. It's not that easy. Don't forget, we have done more than any administration in the first 3 1/2 years in the history of our country. We rebuilt our military. We cut more regulation by a factor of a lot. And we have more federal judges by the end of the first term than any other administration. [8:26:43 PM] Percentage Wise, the only one that has more, there is only one president who has more percentage wise. There is only one president with a percentage higher than I have. George Washington. Give him a make America great again hat. We made it great again, now we are going to make it great again. Now we are opening it up and we are doing record numbers and you will hear. Joe's running mate and America's most liberal senator, kamala Harris recently urged their supporters to donate to a fund that bailed out the rioters who did so much harm, and even physical damage to people. But damage in Minneapolis, and they were going to bail him out of jail. And including a really bad [8:27:43 PM] attempted cop killer. The attempted killing of a policeman. 1 members of bind's staff donated to the same fund. 202743 You know, by the way, they talk about fundraising, right? I'm good at fundraising. I could be the greatest fundraiser in history. I'm the president of the united States. I'm, like, a real smart guy like you are. But I'll tell you what, think of this. Think of this. If I wanted to pick up a phone and call Wall Street, say, the big firms, say "Yeah, I have got to raise --" Yeah, do it. Everyone. I mean, it's so easy. It's so easy. I could have more money -- the problem is, if you do that, what happens is when they call you in two months, three months, four months, because they need something, you got to take their call and got to do it. 202819 So Biden is raising a lot of money because they are promising all these things to all these people. Now, I -- I have a much better platform because I am the president, right? I could raise money and then the fake news goes out and says you know, we're doing great with the small donors -- the small donors, like 61 dollars a piece or so, but I could raise more money than anybody in the history of politics. 202842 But I don't want to call these people and say do me a favor, the head of Goldman Sachs. I don't want to say, do me a favor, all these people. Nobody could ever raise money like me. I don't want to do it because it puts us all -- meaning us, I did this for us, not for me. Believe me. I didn't do it for me. I lost a fortune. This job - job has cost me billions and billions of dollars. Billions. They don't like to say that. Billions of dollars. [8:29:09 PM] If a man from Kuwait comes up and stays at one of my hotels for $259.15. The next day, trump take Arab as a guest in one of his hotels. Bi -- I lost. There are a lot of rich people [8:29:44 PM] around. But I have lost billions. I never talk about it. They never talk about it. I get paid, $450,000. And I give you have my salary. You don't read that because it's not good for them to say that. And I don't talk about it. But tonight I'll talk about it. I get the highest salary because I am the president. But I gift up, I don't take it. I would say it cost me 2, 3, maybe more billion dollars. Have great, good kids. They don't do jobs. Can you imagine if they wanted to go to the Middle East and do jobs all over the place? I would have hotels built in every city and every country in the world. By the way, there is no legal reason you can't do it. But psychologically you can't go to Saudi Arabia, all these places we protect and that buy a [8:30:46 PM] left our planes and a lot of our everything. You can't allow them. But I would be the greatest fundraiser in the history of politics. But if you don't minds, we don't need the money, and we walked away. But they are raising a lot of money. Every time I see them raising a lot of money, deals are being made. Especially when you look at Joe Biden. Look at what's going on with that family. The Democrat party is driving police officers to leave their jobs in record numbers. No one is hurt more by the left wing crew of said against law enforcement than African-Americans. They are hurt the most. Last year -- by the way, large percentages of our policemen and women are African-Americans. The black communities. Last year in just four democrat-run cities, 4,000 [8:31:48 PM] African-Americans were murder as a result of violent crime. And murders increased by 30% in American cities. I say call. They don't want to call. More than half of the victims are African-Americans. Joe Biden and the left ignore these American victims. I never will. We are never going to ignore them. We are done more for the black community than any president with the exception of Abraham Lincoln. It's true. It's true. Criminal justice reform. Obama couldn't do it. I don't even think he tried to do it. Bush couldn't, none of them could do it. It was desperately needed. Criminal justice reform, I did the. Prison reform, I did it. How about opportunity Zones? So great for hispanics, so great for the black community, the jobs. [8:32:48 PM] We worked on that with a great senator from South Carolina. Tim Scott. His D historically -- historically black colleges. Which one did you go to. That's a good one. Right? They have to be happy with me. But listen. After three years, every three years, a group of like 44 people, 45, they couple, the head people at all of these colleges and they couple and I would see them. The first year I saw them I thought it was routine. They were up because they needed money for the colleges. The second year I said why are you back? They said we have to come every year. Defend kids they have been coming up every year. I see them the third year. You come up here every three years to beg for money. They said we beg for money and [8:33:49 PM] we feel like beggars. He told me exactly those words. They make us come back every year. Obama never did the. So here's what we are going to do. We are going to get you long-term funding, and here's what I did, I got them more money than they were asking for. Now for a 10-year period. I said the only bad news is I may never see you again. But we did that for the black community, and we did a lot of other things. I say that. Nobody has done more for the black communities. But with all of that, the biggest thing of all is criminal justice reform. You know about Alice Johnson. We have so many people like Alice. She is an incredible person. Ask yourself this question. Do you want to vote for the candidate supported by anti-american rioters or the candidate supported by so many of our great people and the heros of law enforcement? [8:34:59 PM] Biden made a speech -- he makes so few of them -- there was nobody in the audience. They never say this. We come here, take those cameras and show them, please. We come here -- today I think the cameras flipped. Because in his case they shouldn't show the audience. In our case they should. The camera must have slipped and there was like nobody there. I am saying nobody reports that. And he never leaves his little area. I will tell you what, as president of the United States, I met with gold star families the other week -- I meet with a lot of people. I have an obligation. I can't lock myself into a basement at the white house. I can't lock myself into a beautiful bedroom at the white [8:35:59 PM] house. I'm the president of the united States. And I would often say -- I would often say, I meet people, like the gold star families, they lost sons and daughters and husbands in Iraq and Afghanistan and other places. I can't say I want to cancel the meeting. I met about 48 families. And you know, when they come up to you and they are close to you. The questions are all about everything. It's a very difficult situation. And when they come up to you and they want to say my son was so brave. And they want to tell you. It's amazing. Their son died three or four years ago. This is in almost all cases. I say tell me what happened. Sir, ply doubt Kerr was a helicopter pilot. And she was so good, sir. And she was shot down, sir, in Iraq. And then they tell me what [8:37:01 PM] happened, and how brave and how great, and I can't say do me a favor -- you can't do that. He time I meet with groups of people, it's not all like that but I can't cancel like cancel culture. I can't cancel these people. I have to take care of our people. Every time I do it, I say it's risky. 203720 And sure as hell, I caught it and now I guess they say I'm immune. So you could -- (cheers) I am immune. And I got better fast. I got better fast. I can now jump into the audience and give you all a big kiss. The women and the men. I will kiss -- I'll even kiss the big men. I'll kiss those big powerful men down there. I won't love it, but I will kiss them. 203743 Anyway, so, no, it's, you know, an incredible thing. But I have an obligation. I can't say -- somebody said, "why did you do this? Why did you do this?" I say because these meetings are so important to people. 204756 And you are the president and I can't do that. And what happened -- and I always said, after I said boy, that's risky, probably, I guess. But, you know, whatever it is and really -- I got really well taken care of and I really believe this therapeutic or this cure, it was incredible. And you know, we are going to make what I had available to everybody, free. Free. It's incredible. The antibody, I think the antibody is the best thing. We're gonna make it free. [8:38:25 PM] So, It's been incredible what we have been able to do. If you support our police, if you stand with the heroes of law enforcement, then you must chief feet the Democrats on November 3. You have to do it. By the way, I hate to say it, I have got a briefing. This is a Democrat area. But it's a Democrat area that likes trump a lot. A lot of his are really great [8:39:05 PM] workers. And the workers like me. Who doesn't like me, the heads of the union don't like me. You know who does like me? The people in the union like me. This is largely. Many people in this audience are Democrats. But they are Democrats that are going to vote for trump. And we do great here. And I appreciate it. And I take care of our workers and take care of jobs. And China will not get away with what they got away with. They are not goi to get away with it. We just finished an incredible trade deal. The largest order of pork, the largest order of soybeans, the large withest beef order. It's not the same. It doesn't mean what it would have meant lad they notut us through -- they stopped it from going into China. But they didn't stop it from [8:40:05 PM] going to the rest of the world including our country and Europe and the rest of the world. So you Democrats, some of them -- by the way, I am just curious. Raise your hand if you are a Democrat. I like these polls. They do a poll, it cost a million dollars and they interview 12 people, then they wonder why their polls are off. We interviewed 250 people. They oversample Democrats by 25%. Trump is down 5. I guess there must be a legal reason they have to put it. They have oversample by 18, 20, 25 percent. By the end of the evening I won all nine places. [8:41:06 PM] Think of it. Other than that they did a great job of polling. They even had me believing it for a while. But we had a lot -- by the way, nothing like we have now. This is progress. You know, this is still 17 days out. That's a lot. Normally a crowd like this would be like the night before for a candidate. A one-time shot. We have this all over. You ought to see what we had in Pennsylvania and Florida. In Florida, 41,000 people. We were in Atlanta. We just got back from Georgia. But the spirit. We have much more spirit now than we ever had four years ago and we had a record. A record. But you know what? The media is more corrupt and they are worse. It's note really Biden. [8:42:07 PM] She was tougher, she was smarter. Hillary was a lot smarter than sleepily Joe, let's not kid ourselves. She was a better candidate. We'll see how it turns out. What's a better candidate. But she was much sharper. She was much smarter. But it's not that. The media have become critics and the big tech companies have become critics. They don't let the news get out that we caught number a corrupt deal. In all fairness to fox. I have my own problems with fox. But at least fox is letting it out. I will tell you who was incredible. A newspaper called the "New York post." The oldest newspaper in America. It's the largest paper in America. They are all about finding out Joe Biden it's corruption. [8:43:07 PM] But it's Joe Biden corruption. So we are thrilled to be here with some incredible people. And you will be joined by a man -- I say everybody is wonderful and half the time you can't stand them. But this guy is wonderful. He's one of the smartest people in the senate. A lot of people don't know that. I know that because of I do a lot of complex things. He understands. Nobody understands finance better. But what he's doing -- he's the chairman of homeland security, what he's doing on corruption is unbelievable. And I am very proud of your state for a lot of reasons. But one of the reasons is you have a senator named Ron Johnson. Where is Ron. Come here, Ron. Would you get him up, please. Come on up, Ron. I have got to get him up. He deserves it. [8:44:08 PM] Come on, Ron. He's one of the greatest people. One of the greatest senators. Whatever the hell you are running, I'll be here for you. I will tell you that, please. Say a couple of words. [8:44:23 PM] JOHNSON>> Thank you, Mr. President. As I stated in the pre program. First and Trump is his tenacity, the unfair taming the press by the democrats by the deep state. It doesn't deter him, he gets up every morning he wants to make America great. And he talks about the first step back, I was witness that criminal justice reform was dead. [8:44:52 PM] It was going nowhere. Until President Trump stepped up and made sure he got it done and he did another piece of legislation it's very dear to my heart was something again he was he was dead he was going nowhere. It's called right to try. I will never forget. He started talking about this bill and I can champion. You handset the name that I'm going to try and offset he goes, we have to pass right to try. Now when you saw me spray up like a jack in the box. But again, that is present Trump's leadership he does he credit for. [8:45:40 PM] When he wakes he wakes up every day like the rest of you, loving this country and doing everything he can to make a greater country. God bless you. God bless President Trump. Thank you. TRUMP>> He's a great guy. Don't lose him. Ron What are you up next year. Next. Next time, I'll be here Ron I'll be fine. Now he's really a great guy. I'm glad you came up and I'm very proud of you. [8:46:15 PM] Warriors with us and people that have been with us through the fake impeachment dogs that was one of them. And don't forget, we have done and Ron understands that better than maybe anybody we've done more in three and a half years than any administration first. [8:46:34 PM] In any administration in the history he rented right to drive that's where a person is terminally ill, and the kid get a medicine that looks real good but it hasn't been approved as as to go through this long process, which we've got in half by the way, but they can't get. So now they sign a document, and you know it was very complicated but not for me it was a complicated I said you take the liability away. [8:46:56 PM] But we had problems with the insurance companies because they didn't want, we had problems with everybody, including the country they don't want to get sued. So people would go all over the world and they had some money if they didn't have money they go home and they just die. And now if we have something that may work but it's two years away three years away, they sign just a quick waiver. And we've had wait break and try and Ron. [8:47:20 PM] I don't know if you know the success rate, it's been unbelievable the number of people. This is just trying, we have kept people alive and healthy and well and fully recovered. It's a very great thing. And I could never understand it because for years I said, I wouldn't give somebody who's terminally ill the drug. And because they say we don't want to get sued because they get sued the family will presumed or something happens I mean I understand it all. But we got it, they sign a waiver. We got it done, and the effects and you know what else happened side effect that nobody thought much ago. [8:47:54 PM] These companies that are trying to prove that their drug works. I'll tell you, if it works there, it works everywhere It's incredible. And they're able to be able to speed it up when you speed them up, because we've had some unbelievable stories one in particular that I know young lady has spoken on at the National Convention Republican National Convention, but the success rate has been incredible. So, I want to thank you for that you're right you're one of the reporters. [8:48:19 PM] We want to also thank Glen Grossman, Glen has been incredible he's been from the beginning, by me and I want to thank you for what you've done. A young, beautiful gentleman. Brian style Highgrove. What a job he's doing want a job this is your deal over here right. This is it, keep him happy. I'll tell you it's a big future. Thank you very much for being here. [8:48:50 PM] And everybody knows, Darin LaHood, Derek Thank you. Great job. Warriors are really your own. Wisconsin, you're producing good in Wisconsin the Wisconsin GOP Chairman, Andrew Hill. Thank you. How are we doing and we're gonna win this they're gonna win it. [8:49:14 PM] By the way, I wanted to answer before before ron johnson interrupted me. So who is who is a republican here just raise your hand. Okay, it's a lot. I seriously don't worry about your hand we all of you, who is a democrat here. Republicans you better get out there and win. We really do appreciate it. We have a lot of fun. Over there too. [8:49:51 PM] We have a lot of democrats but we really do appreciate it, you know, because ultimately we're looking for the same thing we're looking for dinner you were looking for one country. And the question was asked a week ago and they said, What about bringing the country together because I want that. And I said we were there before the China virus hit us. We were there, and we were getting calls, because the success was bringing us together as a country, we had the greatest employment numbers we had the greatest African American, Hispanic American, Asian American women. People with a diploma people without a diploma. [8:50:24 PM] People that graduated first in the class at MIT everybody, everybody was with 100 and 60 million people working we never had anything like it. And I'm telling you, better was true with you guys, we would get calls from people that you would least suspect, and the country is coming together then we got hit by the German virus, it was back to the drawing boards, but the country is coming together and it's going to come together, it's going to be success. [8:50:50 PM] And next year we're gonna have the most successful year economically and I also want to introduce the Republican candidate for senate from the state of Illinois Park current Park. I heard you a good, good. That's great. Good luck. Ah, well, Mark. Good luck. Great to have you. Thank you very much. [8:51:25 PM] Anyone Illinois could use a new governor. That guy doesn't know what's gonna open up that steak, that got opened up that kids have to get back to school, you know, Baron had it right, he said Baron Baron dropped my boy. My very told young boy he's spiritual. But Baron Trump had it, and he said, Sir, just like about nine seconds late [8:51:57 PM] How's everyone doing now young people you know they have we hate to admit it, they have the stronger than very strong immune system, incredibly strong, we have to get back to school to get back. Watch what happens on November 4 them on sale right now everybody they're only doing this for politics, because they want the numbers as bad as possible. [8:52:24 PM] So whether it's Tuesday, or whether it's, Illinois, or whether it's New York or whether it's, Michigan, hey we won the case in Michigan, the courts have now forced her. They said it was unconstitutional. He was the only person in the whole state that was allowed to have fun and go bowling and play tennis and do what everyone was the governor's husband right. Her husband was free to do whatever he wanted but other than that it was like a prison she was operating. [8:52:54 PM] This election is a choice between a Trump super recovery and a Biden, depression, and you know they're gonna raise your taxes substantially like a quadruple. This is the only candidate you know All my life I've been involved in politics never from the side. But I've always been this the only time my life and I always said it was good to cut taxes. I said, How do you say we're giving a massive tax increase everybody, and it's everybody because you know you're getting thousands of dollars a year from my tax cut. [8:53:27 PM] We gave the greatest the biggest tax cut in history, and he wants to end the Trump tax cut now he said well I won't do that same thing like fracking fracking. Okay, he just changed his mind, but he's wondering, what's the ending. And don't forget job tax credit. That's $1,000 for every child. So he's gonna end all that. So he's gonna, we're gonna end he didn't realize that middle income people getting a tremendous tax cut. [8:53:52 PM] And so, and if you add to it because they'll drive energy through the roof. They want to add fossil fuel, they're gonna end fracking 100% they're going to interact. When this guy goes out we're gonna track it for a year and a half. Then he looks out and gets a nomination because Pocahontas refused to do what she should have done if she believes really in his philosophy of being a socialist right and he gets it. And as soon as he gets it he says no, no, we're gonna frack. [8:54:19 PM] It's the craziest thing I've ever seen. But if you add energy to it. We're talking about 678 thousand dollars. That's a tremendous amount there's never been anything like that. So if you vote for me. You'll have the greatest if he gets in. He's gonna raise your taxes like if he gets in, and it's not him again it's just people that tell him what if he gets in. You have the greatest depression in the history of this country, your stocks will go to hell everyone thinks stocks oh it's rich people own stocks, your 401k, who has a 401k. [8:54:55 PM] That's a lot of people. Okay. Are you practically at your old time. Your 401 K's will be like wastepaper baskets up they'll be right there on the floor. You'll have a depression, the likes of which we've never seen with the possible exception of 92, because I don't think it gets much worse than that. But you can't do that you can't let this happen because he'll destroy everything we've done. [8:55:23 PM] You know, regulations, we've got more regulations than any administration in history, and regulation may be more important in terms of jobs and everything that even the biggest tax cut. It's the biggest tax cut in history. And I think the regulation gun, which is more than any presidents done no matter they were eight years or in one case four. It doesn't matter. Our regulation cutting was the biggest. He wants to put them all back. [8:55:48 PM] That means all these companies that moved to America that moved to the United States that came here because of lower taxes because of all of the things that we've done used to take 18 to 21 years to get a highway bill to get a highway approved. We've got it down to two years, and it may. And let me tell you, it may not make it. If it doesn't work environmentally or if it's unsafe, but at least you're gonna know we're trying to get it to one year, by the way, everyone wants to get again, but it used to take me we have highways, 20 years they've been trying to get approvals. [8:56:21 PM] And then after that gets approved it's totally different and it costs, hundreds of times more money. If you vote for me prosperity will surge normal life will fully resume, and the next year will be the greatest year, economically, in the history of Joe Biden would terminate our recovery with a draconian unscientific lockdown I mean, you're already in it. And they'll keep Wisconsin locked up locked down and closed for business by will shut down the country delay the vaccine and prolong the pandemic and companies will be afraid to invest. [8:57:02 PM] If you, if you don't have this happen and our country. But you have a democrat governor, I don't know but he's a nice guy probably, but but I will tell you. Companies big companies very strong companies, companies like, as an example, Foxconn, they don't want to invest with these people, they don't want to invest they don't have any security, they don't have any, they don't want to invest, [8:57:26 PM] I get in companies like that will put more money in than they even promised, but they're very concerned, I mean David they have to have the right climate. So we are going to do things with Wisconsin, but we're going to do things but this country. Like honestly, has been done before. And people will come together because of success. 205749 So we're delivering a safe vaccine very soon and a rapid recovery. Biden's plan will crush Wisconsin. My plan will crush the virus and will make Wisconsin greater than ever before, that's what's gonna happen. It's gonna happen fast. You know, when you have a spike you have a surge but if you remember two months ago, Florida had a big surge, it's now gone. The numbers are very down and totally open. Texas had a very big surge and now it's down. If you look at Arizona had a big, big surge -- great, great governors, and it's down. 205822 It's down, all low numbers, really low numbers and you're gonna have the same thing, but you gotta open up. You got to go open up. You've got to get the place going. [8:58:30 PM] Joe Biden is the living embodiment of the corrupt political class that enriched itself while draining the economic life and soul from our country. 47 years it says, Well, I should have done this or that I should show you here for 47 years. I always hate it when he says that I should have done something I said, you know, and he only left a short time ago wasn't like they were you know 25 years ago. He's been in a high position for 47 years. That's a joke. You could have done something. [8:59:00 PM] For the last 47 years job I shipped away you jobs, shut down your factories and you know it very well you got to hit hard here through open your borders and Ravage our cities while sacrificing American blood and treasure in endless wars that were ridiculous in countries that you'd never even heard of. Joe Biden not coming back. [8:59:25 PM] Joe Biden is and always has been a corrupt politician, I hate to say. The Biden family is a criminal enterprise, it really is. It's a criminal enterprise. To be honest with you, he makes Crooked Hillary Clinton look like an amateur and China has already bought and paid for a job but if Joe Biden became president, China will own this country, China. China will own you know they're paying us billions and billions of dollars a year, I charge that they never paid us 10 cents.

TVU 21 PETE BUTTIGIEG CHICAGO IL ROBIN KELLY CONVERSATION ABC UNI 011720 2020 Frankly no news was made, but today's event gave an unusual look inside the campaign and it's problem with securing the black vote. If I didn't watch the news and just went to this event, I'd wonder why the Pete Buttigieg campaign surrogates tripled down on him not having a black problem. Nearly everyone that wasn't in congress that spoke at today's event sponsored by Rep. Robin Kelly. They talked at length about how Pete has black support despite the criticisms, polls, media portrayals and well lack of black attendee's at his campaign events in urban/heavily POC populated areas. About 100 people filled the nearly 2/3rds empty high school auditorium at Corliss High School in the far South Side of Chicago, located in an area known as the Pullman neighborhood, as a heavy snow storm approached the city. By the time the event concluded the city was blanketed with a sizable coating of snow. The majority of the people at the Chicago event were white, however for a public event with Buttigieg that wasn't hand picked with pre-invited attendee's it's probably the most black people I've seen at a public event of his since I started covering the former mayor back in April. Many of the black people that showed up either were from South Bend, were friends of Kelly's or came as a friend of a friend of someone's. Not very many dedicated black supporters. And for an event that was inside of a High School, after dismissal, the lack of teenagers was jarring to say the least. I saw maybe 5 or so teenagers in the crowd. Kelly said after the event, (OFF CAMERA) "I didn't expect this to be all black." She noted her district however was 51 percent black and said she personally knew African Americans that supported him. She noted that 4:00 P.M. was a difficult time to have an event but that's the time that the campaign said he could do it so they went with early afternoon event. The Surrogates really pitched Mayor Pete Buttigieg's non black problem. South Bend Councilwoman Sharon McBride spoke after Kelley on behalf of Buttigieg and she called out the national media for it's "negative narrative" that black people don't support the former South Bend mayor and noted rather interestingly that the surrogates have done work after Buttigieg's mayorship ended which was on January 1, 2020. "One of the reasons why I wanted to be a surrogate for Mayor Pete is to change the negative narrative that has been portrayed in the national media. There are black people that support Mayor Pete. And there's a lot of work that we have done that we have continued to do since his mayorship has ended and continue to move on and to the White House." 1716 Retired journalist Renee Ferguson, moderated the event. Ferguson self-described herself as Buttigieg's "other mother" and his "black momma" talked at length about her unique relationship with Buttigieg who she met as a young student at Harvard. He was recommended as a young man who needs to "learn how to use the media" because one day he would eventually be the next President of the United States. 171905 Ferguson said that Buttigieg applied and got the internship which was a rarity and he came bags packed to the internship, however he had no where to stay and planned on staying at the YMCA, Ferguson however would take him in as an intern and have him live with her and her family. 172113 "This idea that black people aren't going to vote for him is ridiculous because I'm his other mother. I'm also an investigative journalist. Okay and if there was anything wrong (unintelligible) I would know." She added that Buttigieg is the "anti-trump" at the event: 172153 "But when I left, NBC, I did a little bit of work and clinical science that I learned some things that you just don't learn otherwise. And one of the things that I learned is that the opposition throws a lot of mud people and they do whatever they need to do or say whatever they need to say, if it's true or not and so in this case. In this case, you know, the idea that he isn't going to get black support is ridiculous because he will. He will do you feel his heart. When you see realize he's the anti Trump." Buttigieg took questions out of his signature fish bowl, and really went out of his way not to make news. But the majority of the questions weren't newsy either. There were two interesting exchanges one that Buttigieg mentioned race directly in an exchange. Ferguson: It's such a hard job... Why do you want to be President. I mean really? 173819 Buttigieg: Well it's not like I thought to myself when I first ran for mayor eight or nine years ago, you know two good terms as mayor of South Bend and then clearly that's a launch pad to the presidency. This is not what I had in mind. We were living in a moment, that is different than any moment we've ever had in in our, in our story as a republic. This is a national emergency, not just the White House, we're in a social and political emergency that, frankly, that this President is as much a symptom, as a cause. A lot of friends-- of a lot of folks-- frankly a lot of black black folks in my life, kind of had a different take on this presidency (unintelligible) often hear things like what did you expect because of all the unfinished business that this country has that has led us to this point. And I believe it's going to take something different. Something also interesting to note, Buttigieg never called out his signature the Douglass plan by name. it was alluded to at today's event but never called out specifically. It's something that Buttigieg has been doubling down on for MONTHS in front of black and white crowds. However today it's like it wasn't his signature pitch to voters and felt like it didn't exist. Later a man stood up and talked about trying to do business with the Buttigieg campaign for the past 6 months, and called him out for not doing business while touting economic prosperity plans targeting black and brown people. 175901 Q: My company is African American Union printers, and we spoke with your team about trying to work with you and your team we exchange information. We went up-- in six months we have not gotten one quote, one email answered. And I really-- very passionately about economic development, and with the brown and black people is that affecting your campaign, or is that just a speech, because from my experiences. It's not happening through your campaign. Buttigeg: So it's very important to us, both in terms of the team that we've built. And in terms of the business that we do the way that we invest in media to make sure that we practice what we preach. I don't know about the specific business opportunity that you're discussing but I'd love to get your information afterwards and run down and see if there was any missed opportunity to communicate with, because this is something that campaigns ought to be doing, and something our country ought to be doing. We have a long way to go for the purchasing done by the federal government to reflect the economic the diversity and the economic opportunity being created especially by entrepreneurs of color. And so again, without knowing that this specific business opportunity at hand here, I would love a chance to make sure that we take care of any disconnect that was there and I'm glad you came here to answer. Thanks. ------ Also to note: Buttigieg was the first of several 2020 candidates who are expected to attend upcoming events with Kelly including Sens. Amy Klobuchar, Elizabeth Warren, former Gov. Deval Patrick, former Vice President Joe Biden and Mike Bloomberg just to name a few. Kelly says she plans on inviting every candidate to come to her district. The Congresswoman said repeatedly she isn't endorsing Buttigieg or any candidate until shortly before the the Illinois primary on Tuesday, March 17. Kelley said "We've invited, almost all of the candidates and if they haven't been invited yet. It's just that I haven't spoken to their person because everybody is welcome." 1714 [17:17:57] A recipient of seven Chicago Emmy Awards, a Dupont Award, the Gracie Award and the Associated Press Award. Please welcome to the stage Miss Renay Ferguson. Hey, everybody. [17:18:16] Trojans, thank you for coming out. You know. We all have mothers. [17:18:28] And I am Pete's other mother. Now, how in the heck did that happen? Well, you know, I did. I'm retired. I'm 70 years old. But I did investigative reporting here for many years and I was getting an award at Harvard. [17:18:45] And this is like 17 years ago. And. One of the professors came up to me and said, I have a young man I'd like for you to meet. He's probably going to be president of the United States someday. [17:19:06] This really happened and then they said, and he needs you. To show him how to use the media, you got to explain to him how it works. I'm like, yeah, OK. Well, I said he has to apply just like everybody else for an internship. And when normally we only take interns who are journalism majors. So he applies. I'm not on the committee. But. They were so impressed with his essay that he got the internship. Well, then he shows up at my office with his bags packed and everything coming. [17:19:48] And I'm like, oh, you found some place to stay with one of your Harvard friends. And he's like, No, really? Well, where are you? Where are you? Where are you staying? And he said, Well, I don't know, but I thought, I stay at the Y. At which point I said, no, you're not staying at the Y on my watch. So I call my husband and he says my husband was also a journalist. He passed away two years ago. [17:20:15] He said. [17:20:18] Honey, you know, it's not appropriate to bring an intern home, and I said, uh huh. But it's not appropriate to let him stay at the Y. So. I figured we figured, well, we'll find him someplace to stay. We live in Hyde Park on President Obama's street a couple of blocks down. So I said, you know, we'll find some place for. [17:20:42] Well, he comes in. He pets our dog. The dog bites him. [17:20:49] But he also makes up his bed. [17:20:53] He helps our son with his math homework and. He is family. And I called his mom. And she's thanked me and I thanked her for giving birth to and raising such a wonderful young man. So that's who we are. That's who he is. And this idea that black people aren't gonna vote for him is ridiculous. Because I'm his other mother. And I'm also an investigative journalist. OK. [17:21:37] If there was anything wrong gone wrong. Who I would know. [17:21:43] OK, I would know. And. So I really want to thank you for coming. Thank you for listening. Thank you for your support. We have some work to do in our community. I know that. But when I left NBC, I did a little bit of work on the political side, so I learned some things that you just don't learn otherwise. And one of the things that I learned is that the opposition throws a lot of mud on people and they do whatever they need to do or say whatever they need to say. If it's true or not. [17:22:22] And so in this case in this case, you know, the idea that Pete isn't going to get black support is ridiculous because he will. He will, when you feel his heart, when you see. When you realize he's the anti Trump, he's the opposite of what we've got now and that our country has some healing to do. We celebrate Dr. King's birthday on Monday. [17:22:51] And I can only think that Dr. King would be so proud. Brandon of me of. [17:23:00] So that's it. Come on out. Pete. [17:23:15] Thank you. I suppose to sit here. [17:23:20] Yeah, I know. Thanks, everybody, for joining us. Thank you so much. Rene, first of all, for taking me in when my housing fell through and for your leadership and for showing the power of seeking justice through truth. [17:23:36] It was at Rene's side as an intern that I learned just how much was going on in the underside of this city, but also the power of shining a light on what was happening that was wrong to bring about change. [17:23:50] And it was part of what motivated me to get involved and stay involved in public life. Thank you to Congresswoman Kelly, who lives and breathes this district. Yes. [17:24:02] Robin, just so you know, whether you meet her right here in Chicago land or whether you run into her in Washington, D.C., she is constantly talking about the hopes and the struggles and the aspirations and the challenges of her district. And you are so well served to have her looking after your interests in Washington. Thank you, Councilwoman Sharon McBride, who is continuing to serve the city of South Bend. Now that I am just a citizen and a retired mayor as far as the city of South Bend is concerned,. [17:24:38] I've been so inspired to see her continuing to work to serve her constituents and our city as well. And of course, I'm thankful for the support for this campaign. I think we'll pray go right into a Q and A pretty quickly. I just want to mention one other thing, which is I'm thrilled to be back on the south side of Chicago land because, of course, of all of Chicago. This is the part that is closest to South Bend and my house. [17:25:01] That's right. [17:25:03] And we also have a lot of experiences in South Bend, which I think a lot of people think about because they see football games on TV. They see that big golden dome. And they think we must be another homogenous, tidy, white, wealthy college town, not knowing that we are a diverse community, a low income community, a community that has faced enormous struggles, including around racial and economic inequality, but also that has taken enormous strides that we're so proud of in terms of what we've been able to do and inform my sense of urgency for what we got to do as a country. So I'm thrilled to be here and looking forward to the conversation. All right. [17:25:38] So I think the way it goes is that we have some questions here in this bowl. Otherwise, I'll make spaghetti fingers. But I it. Yeah. I brought the constitution with me. [17:25:56] And I actually walk around with it a lot. I read it. I still don't understand it. Totally. OK, here's a question. From Suzanne Angle. [17:26:11] Give a quick call, holler and wave. We're seeing mostly just very bright lights here. What a sad look in your direction. Hello. [17:26:17] OK, Suzanne. Thanks for coming. She says she asks, I think combating climate change is an urgent issue. What will you do as president to work to solve this problem, both in the United States and with other countries? [17:26:30] Well, I agree. It is an incredibly urgent issue. And it's not just something that's happening on the coasts. It's happening in the American heartland, in our city, in South Bend. Twice I had to open the emergency operations center for an emergency in our city, and both times were for a flood. That's supposed to be the kind of flood that only happens once or twice in a millennium. They happened two years apart. [17:26:54] So we know from what's happening here in the Midwest to Australia, where we're now seeing tornadoes made a fire literally that this is upon us and it's only going to get more severe. Well, we have to do is a national project, a national mobilization that brings everybody into the solution. And we could walk through all of the policy things we need to do about renewable energy, doubling renewable energy into the grid by 2025, getting transportation to be carbon neutral by 2030 for light vehicles and then 2040 and eventually having our whole economy be fossil fuel free or carbon neutral on a net basis by the middle of the century. [17:27:31] But the truth is, everybody's got a plan to do that. We've been talking about how to do that for as long as I've been alive. The question is how are we actually going to get it done? And that is where we need to make sure that everybody is part of that effort globally by rejoining the Paris climate accord. Absolutely. But that's just table stakes. And here in the country, by making sure we include those who have been made to feel like climate science, accepting it would be a loss for them, farmers, industrial workers. [17:27:58] And as we implement our solutions, there has to be special attention to the question of equity, because almost inevitably, we are seeing the impacts of environmental justice issues coming down on black and brown communities the most. We saw it in our own city where a lot of the neighborhoods that were least well protected against flooding were disproportionately black. And we are seeing it on everything not just related to climate, but also pollution. [17:28:24] And that has been happening for years and for decades as the neighborhoods that many were redlined into are also those most likely to suffer contamination and pollution. It's why we not only need a head of environmental protection who believes in climate science and environmental protection. Again, this should be table stakes, but these days we have to insist on it. [17:28:44] But it's also making sure that the voices of those who have the most to lose are at the table and that folks from communities that have been marginalized and dispossessed are at the front of the line when it comes to the jobs that we are going to create. We can create 3 million net new jobs from rising to meet the climate challenge everywhere from the service corps that I'm proposing, we create to new businesses that are going to be created. And we have got to make sure that those communities that have suffered the most are those that have the opportunity to gain the most from the actions we're going to take as a country to deal with it. [17:29:15] OK. Thank you. That's. You know, Pete. I grew up in Oklahoma City and in my neighborhood there was, as you say, the issue of environmental justice. [17:29:28] There was a sewage treatment plant. Now, as kid, I didn't realize what that was really about. It just smell bad and I had asthma and couldn't breathe and there were oil wells all around. And then as soon as I left the state, my asthma went away. Now I know. [17:29:48] So this isn't just. An issue? Yes, we do. If we're going to live on it, we have to preserve the climate. We have to preserve our earth and respect it. But it is very personal. It's very personal for people whose lives are impacted by this. So how do you get Congress to do anything? I mean, really? [17:30:15] Because I mean, the oil and gas industry, they have people who. [17:30:24] That's right. Lobby and very effectively. So how are you going to really get it done? [17:30:29] That's right. That's one of the big challenges. We can talk about this all day, but we have to actually get these things done, whether it's environmental justice, action on climate housing, wages, paid leave. Well, we've got to do on criminal justice reform any of the issues that need urgent attention. And not every member of Congress is Robin Kelly. So and that's the House. [17:30:49] When you get to the Senate, how then we're really in trouble. But here's the thing. Right now, even more than what President Obama had to work with a decade ago, there is a powerful majority of the American people ready to do these things. There is a powerful majority of Americans, a multiracial, multigenerational coalition, insisting that we do something about climate, demanding that we do something to lift up wages at a time when now not one county in the United States is a place where somebody working minimum wage at full time can afford a two bedroom apartment. [17:31:22] Even on issues where my party has been on defense like guns, common sense measures like universal background checks, red flag laws, doing something about assault weapons, right now there's a majority even among Republicans. Now, when I say even among Republicans, I'm talking about people on the ground, not so much people in Washington. And that's why if we cannot get those senators to drop their bad faith obstructionism, if we cannot work with them, then we're going to have to go around them to their boss. [17:31:50] In other words, go to those who voted them in. Even in some purple and red states where most people agree with us. And the way I see it there is there is a big blue and white airplane that comes with the Oval Office that the president uses mostly for the purposes of traveling between golf courses with his name on them. All right. I will be using that airplane for the purpose of going directly into the home district, home state or home town of the senators who are getting in the way of these common sense measures that are going to make our country better off and forcing them to explain to their own people why they are defying those who voted to send them to Washington. [17:32:29] Well, I think what you said that was most important and was the fact that you will create create new jobs. That new jobs can be created. That's right. And that's really important because what we're hearing from the oil and gas industry is that, well, you know, you're you're putting us out of that. [17:32:51] Now, there's tremendous economic opportunity and doing the right thing. And it's not just I mean, a lot of times when we think of green jobs, maybe the picture that comes to mind is somebody working on a on a farm of solar panels or rappelling down the shaft or one of those windmills that you see. And that's definitely important. [17:33:08] But we're also talking about jobs that are very easy to understand today. I'm talking about union electrical workers and glaciers and insulators and carpenters that we're gonna need just to do the building retrofit to make our buildings more carbon friendly. So the jobs we're going to create will often benefit those exact industrial workers who have been told that they have so much to lose. [17:33:27] And we've got to make sure again, as we build up that economic opportunity, that we also do it with a view toward equity. [17:33:33] Yes. And people have to understand that they are not threatened by by progress. [17:33:40] And I know change is hard. I know it is. But he represents the change that our nation needs. So the next question is from Steve Nelson. Steve, are you here? [17:33:58] You're mostly just a bright light to us, for we see. [17:34:01] Steve. [17:34:03] Oh, OK. Sorry. I'm really old Mayor Pete. I'm a Vietnam veteran. [17:34:12] 4TH Infantry. After Vietnam, I was very active in Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Were it not for millions. Go ahead, clap. Yes, thank you. Applause. Thank you, Steve. Were it not for millions of patriotic Americans who opposed the war, we would still be there. To this day as president. How will you end the 18 years in Iraq and Afghanistan? [17:34:44] Mm hmm. Wow. [17:34:46] Well, that's a tough question. [17:34:47] First of all, thank you for serving and thank you for the courage to stand up. [17:34:51] Applause. Thank you for serving twice over by having the courage to stand up against that conflict. And I got to say, you know, I had the good fortune of belonging to a generation of veterans that served at a time when Americans had learned to divide the way we felt about the policies on a conflict from the way that we treat the troops. [17:35:13] And I know that your generation did not have the benefit of that same understanding. And so I want to offer, especially for those veterans who had misgivings about the conflict, but really for anybody who's serving, serving at that time. A belated thank you and welcome home, because I know it didn't come the first time the way it ought to. [17:35:35] And you also raised a great point that if we want to go beyond saying thank you for your service. [17:35:39] One of the best ways to do it, one of the best ways to honor service is to make sure no one is asked to serve in a conflict that can be avoided or to prolong an endless war. No, I I just ran into someone at the airport. As chance would have it, we're in Los Angeles about a week ago who I had served with a senior enlisted leader who I hadn't seen since she was injured in an insider attack. She was shot and they couldn't save part of her leg. And she bears that injury with unbelievable courage and grace. In fact, she was wearing a T-shirt from the Wounded Warrior Project that said some assembly required and she cheerfully knocked on her prosthetic when I asked how she was doing. [17:36:17] And then she let me know she's still serving and getting ready to deploy again. We have service members who will do whatever it takes. All the more reason we need to make sure they are never asked to go into a conflict that could be avoided and that we bring an end to the endless wars that we are in. I thought years ago when I last saw her, I thought I was one of the last troops turning out the lights in Afghanistan. And we're still arguing about how to get out. It shows you what's at stake in making sure that we prevent new conflicts from emerging. So what can we actually do about it? [17:36:49] Well, a big part of it is the role of Congress. Congress in this country is supposed to have authority over war powers, but has hesitated to use that authority. And, of course, presidents have not felt that necessary. A lot of the time to go even and check is why we now have troops everywhere from Southeast Asia to Africa based on the law that was passed in 2002 to deal with 9/11. [17:37:13] You could be old enough to deploy now and not have been alive on 9/11. [17:37:18] So not only will I take every step to ensure as commander in treat chief, that we engage our partners to always be away, moving away, not toward the brink of war, but also in the event that I have no choice but to seek an authorization for military force. I will also make sure that it includes a three year sunset automatically, so that if a future president really has the need to extend that, they would have to go back to Congress and therefore go back to the American people and explain exactly why there is no alternative. [17:37:53] Because if our if troops like like the person I served with can summon the courage to do what they're doing, then we've got to make sure our elected leaders demonstrate the courage to take up or down votes on whether to send them there in the first place. Was that good for you? [17:38:11] OK. All right. [17:38:16] You know, it's such a hard job. Why do you want to be president? [17:38:23] I mean, really. Well, it's not like I thought to myself when I first ran for mayor eight or nine years ago, you know, two good terms as mayor of South Bend, and then clearly that's a launchpad to the presidency. This is not what I had in mind. [17:38:37] But we are living in a moment that is different than any moment we've ever had in in our in our story as a republic. This is a national emergency, not just the White House. We are in a social and political emergency that frankly, I think this president is as much a symptom as a cause. [17:38:53] A lot of friends and a lot of folks, Frank, a lot of black folks in my life kind of had a different take on this presidency emerging, often hearing things like what did you expect? [17:39:04] Because of all the unfinished business that this country has that has led us to this point. And I believe it's going to take something different. So in order to win, we've got to make sure that we are offering something different from the mentality that got us here. If you think about it, every time I party ever has won, every time we've actually succeeded in the last 50 years at taking the White House, certain things have been true about the nominee. It's been somebody who comes from outside Washington, doesn't work there or hasn't been there long. [17:39:35] It's been somebody who's new on the national scene, hadn't run before. It's been somebody is calling the country to its highest values and somebody who represents a new generation of leadership. I mean, every time we've won the last half century, it's been somebody who had those qualities. And I began as a Democrat. And we tried other things a lot of times and come up short. So I began to realize that I had something to offer here. And I began to realize that a voice from the middle of the country who can speak to the falsehoods that are being thrown at us, the lies of this president who says he speaks for farmers. [17:40:10] But as somebody who, you know, my biggest our biggest water customer when I was running water for the city's South Bend is as mayor was an ethanol plant. And we've seen how they betrayed the farmers, industrial workers in cities who are getting really impacted by this manufacturing recession. As the president beats his chest and says, look how great the economy is because the stock market's looking good and it's great that the stock market's looking good. But that's not getting to most folks. That's not reaching South Bend. That's not reaching Stony Island for so many people. [17:40:41] And we need somebody who can speak to that. And we need somebody, I think, from a community like South Bend, who when we hear not just from the president, but from from the commentators, that we've got to choose between economic and racial justice, that either we're going to talk to lunch bucket issues and kitchen table issues, or we're going to speak to racial justice, that either as if black and brown folks don't have kitchen tables to that. We're either going to speak to the needs of the displaced autoworker or we're going to speak to the needs of the black single mother of three when I where I come from. [17:41:15] LA Times a displaced autoworker is a black single mother of three. So there needs to be a different kind of messenger, not a millionaire from the middle of the country who can talk about these things in order to win, of course, but also in order to govern, in order to turn the page and get us to a different moment. And so I began to realize that I could either keep saying this is what they ought to do. Why don't they do this? Why don't they do that? Or I could say, why don't I do this? Why don't we do that? And once I realized that was a likely way forward, once it made sense to me. [17:41:46] And once it made sense to Charleston, we had a long talk about whether we were going to do this together. Then the question would be, would it make sense to anybody else? And this idea that seemed crazy one year ago when we had four people, an exploratory committee, no money. Not much of a mailing list. And very little name recognition has now brought us to the point where less than three weeks out from the voting beginning in Iowa, we are in the top tier of candidates. And now it's our job to make sure we see it all the way through. [17:42:16] So what made you decide to come out? [17:42:23] Well, for a long time, I've found that I didn't miss not having much of a personal life because I was so busy at work. The city was a jealous bride when I was a young bachelor mayor. But it was really the deployment that changed things for me. So I was a reservist. I got called up. [17:42:41] Turns out big Navy doesn't really care if you're a mayor or not and they need you. [17:42:46] You go just like anybody else. And and I went and I realized as I was writing that that letter that I think everyone writes before they go overseas and putting in an envelope and leaving it where my folks could find it if I didn't come back. [17:43:02] That. [17:43:04] I had this hole in my life that I had grown man, mayor of a city about to go to war. No idea what it's like to be in love. And I thought, I can't go on like that. So I came back. I realized that I needed to have a personal life in order to do that. I need to come out. I didn't want to be sneaking around and. Then there was just a matter how to tell everybody. And I resented that a little bit because straight people don't have to come out and tell everybody who's business. [17:43:36] Yeah. Oh, it's ours. [17:43:37] But you do, especially in Indiana. Maybe if I was in California, I could just go to the. I could go to the next charity dinner as mayor. And my date would be a dude. And everybody be like, oh, okay. But not in Mike Pence, Indiana in 2015. [17:43:51] I'm not so sure in America yet. [17:43:52] So I wrote it out. I wrote a little less. I took a deep breath, sent it to the local newspaper, and it was a reelection year. We didn't know what was going to happen, but I knew that I needed to take this step. I also trusted my community would support me based on the job I was doing for them. We're a Democratic city mostly, but also a very socially conservative city. A lot of religious folks from Eastern European Catholics to black evangelicals to just a lot of folks who,. [17:44:22] Though they vote Democrat, made may or may not be on the frontlines of. Well, we don't know progressives, but I just took that chance. And what wound up happening was I got a higher vote in the second election than that reelection. I did the first I got 80 percent of the vote. Having come out in Mike Pence as Indiana. And what that told me was that if you trust your voters, they will trust you. [17:44:46] Applause And I think the honesty that that represents is really important. Because we now have a president who has made lying. Just the regular day to day thing that he does. I'm not sure he recognizes truth or any effort to find it. So the honesty, I think, was really important to keep. Okay. There are. I don't know who wrote this, but there are over 450000 current foster kids in the system across the United States. Now, here in Illinois, we've had one hundred and twenty five children to die. In foster care. And our system is very badly broken and too often motivated by money. [17:45:44] Actually. How do we fix that? [17:45:49] So it's clear that the system is failing children and we're talking about some of the most vulnerable children to begin with. And so much of this is being managed at the state level, but it's clear that there needs to be federal support and federal standards. This is part of why we set a floor at the federal level to make sure that no state and more importantly, no child falls below a standard that that we're going to uphold. Now, in terms of resources, that also means making sure that we're setting up the whole child for success, making sure that they are safe, physically safe, of course, but also recognizing everything that they are up against. [17:46:26] In particular, one area, whether where for foster kids and for kids who are most vulnerable, we are clearly falling short as a country is mental health. And so you're seeing a lot of teachers who are being expected to manage mental health without having the mental health, first aid, training or a place to refer kids, even if they find something or a school psychologist on staff, which should be as routine as a nurse. [17:46:51] But also, we're seeing a lot of teenagers who the closest thing they'll get to anybody providing any kind of service on addiction or behavioral health is a jail or a police officer. That are the last place we should be looking to get these issues addressed. And so while we've taken a lot of steps that are moving us in the right direction with alternatives to incarceration, with the work that's being done around the school to prison pipeline, there is a ton of work for those kids who are most vulnerable, disproportionately likely to be represented in the foster system, who need support not only to make sure they're physically safe,. [17:47:27] But to take care of them from the neck up, where a lot of times the greatest harm and the greatest risk is. And that's why we're proposing federal grants, healing and belonging grants. We call them recognizing that there are different problems and different systems in different states. So not all the answers have to come from Washington, but more of the money should. And addressing the foster system is a great example of where that principle applies. [17:47:50] Now, Alicia Foster. Where are you? Are you out there? Where are you, Alicia? Alicia, can I talk about this? Okay. Alicia and her husband, Alicia, stand up, please. Get up here. Alicia and her husband are two amazing young people. One of my children, but makes us like siblings. It's a great family. Yes. Yes. Alicia. Alicia. Children have a an auto immune condition that causes bruising. So when they first took their first little kid to the doctor. [17:48:35] That doctor called the Department of Children and Family Services. [17:48:41] And they have been fighting to get their kids back for six years, for six years. So when you talk about how. Traumatizing. It is. [17:48:55] Alicia and her children. You know, she's she's has great grace and her husband, too. But. They have had to go through hell. [17:49:07] They visit their children. They didn't have their babies for Christmas, Thanksgiving. [17:49:17] And so this is a really, really, really big problem. If we had one hundred and twenty five kids to die. And a family like Alisha, where the doctors say, oh, this is what it is. It's not abuse. Your kids have this to this. And then the kids in foster care aren't being treated. So they're being traumatized, their physical condition, their auto immune condition that they discovered not being treated. And a foster mother who no doubt wants to keep the kids as a part of her economy. This is a very deep problem, guys, and I appreciate you, Pete, that you would even address it, because we have not we have not as a state and I don't think we have as a country. [17:50:16] What's your greatest fear or what you'd like to ask? [17:50:22] No. I guess when you break things down, the biggest I guess issue is the infrastructure of the system in itself. They kind of do reverse engineering where they, for one, disproportionately will accuse blacks, but also. I guess, like you said, it needs to be on a more federal level. And what could you propose to kind of. Help out so when parents are falsely accused, they are guidelines that are put into place that can kind of help. Not railroad parents so much in the direction that'll harm families for like me years when, you know, the criminal justice system is a lot of parents in jail. That's of false accusations, which doesn't do anything well for the kids, the parents or anyone. [17:51:15] Well, thank you for sharing your story. And I think what sharing points up that the border is not the only place where family separation is going on in America. [17:51:25] And we see it in the criminal justice system. We see it in other ways. I remember a close friend of mine who I called after the birth of his son. It should have been one of the most joyous days that you can have. And I call them see, I was doing a couple of days later and he said, I'm having the worst week of my life. I asked what happened and what had happened was there was something happen during the birth of the child that led to a fracture. [17:51:52] And soon after that, his family came under suspicion. [17:51:58] And eventually, he had a much more fortunate ending to this story than it sounds like the fight that you're in. But he was left wondering if he were white. Would the system have been quicker to believe him? And we've seen whether it's situations with parents or situations with patients. I think many of us have followed what happened with Sean Award in Milwaukee. Just one patient lost her life after going to the E.R. like you're supposed to do if you think you might be having a heart attack and knowing that there are so many cases that help to explain things like the black maternal mortality gap based on the fact that in the clinical environment, patients of color and black patients in particular are less likely to be believed. [17:52:42] And the same thing is true in the system as a whole. The same thing is true everywhere from someone who is trying to get credit for small business, to someone who is in an interaction with the system when it comes to taking care of their children. And it is why we have to root out every form of explicit and implicit bias that is doing this kind of harm. Because that experience of separation, and especially when I have something like the incarceration of a parent that flows through the life of the next generation to we've seen it in our city is one of the traumatic experiences that can make it more difficult for a child to get ahead. [17:53:15] And it is an example of what is at stake in ensuring that we dismantle all of the overlapping structures. I talking about justice. We're talking about housing. We're talking about health. We're talking about the economy. All of the overlapping structures of systemic racism in this country. And we have to be intentional about it. And it's not going to be enough to just take a policy that was racist. Cross it out and replace it with one that is neutral. That's not enough. We have to be intentional here. And your story will be on my mind as we continue to talk about what it takes to dismantle those patterns of inequality. [17:53:46] Thank you for letting me share that. I know, I know it's highly personal. I'm sorry. [17:53:52] I just called you out. But Alicia's story and her children are beautiful. And it is. I don't know how she and her husband walked through with such grace, but they have been fighting for six years. Speaking of fighting, what are you going to do about the gun violence in Chicago? [17:54:12] Unfortunately, there's a lot of gun violence and in our community, too. Now there are things that are making a big difference. One example and council member McBride has helped work on this, too, is what's called a group violence intervention. It's based on realizing that the people who are most likely to be involved in violence are people and remembering that they will respond to a direct conversation among people they respect. And so we have been able to transform lives by identifying those who the system tells us are most likely to be involved either as a victim or on the other end of gunfire. And nothing feels better than to cease how proud somebody stands when they've come through the process and are getting ready to go to their first job. [17:54:59] But. I'd be lying if I said that that had solved the problem. It's being it's a strategy that's helping. But I found myself not long ago on a panel with the mayor, a fellow mayor from a different state, and they were talking about the remarkable things that had happened in her city. [17:55:16] It was a fall in gun violence. And I said, I've got to take close notes. I got to see everything they're doing. And the more I listen to what she did, the more it sounded exactly like what we did. But we're still having so much heartbreak around gun violence. And it took me a while before I realized that in addition to all the excellent work she did, there was one other difference. Her state implemented serious gun laws. Now, as we know from Chicago, having a state implemented gun laws is still not enough. [17:55:44] But what we know is the time has come for us to act nationally. We need background checks. We need to close the boyfriend loophole and the loophole in background checks that says if the background check doesn't come around in time, you just give somebody the weapon anyway. We wouldn't do that in a job search. Imagine if the background check is late. Oh, well, hire. No red flag loss. Identifying when somebody is known to those who love them as perhaps a danger to themselves or others to disarm them and doing something about the kinds of weaponry that are being sold right now. [17:56:16] The kinds of weapons that I trained on the military, I mean, anything remotely like it has no business being sold for profit anywhere near a school or a neighborhood or a church in the United States of America. [17:56:27] Applause. [17:56:32] And yet I grew up in Oklahoma. Hunting and everything, and I know that people don't want to give up their guns. Are you telling us that we're gonna have to give up our guns? [17:56:42] Well, this is the thing folks are saying. It's all or nothing. Either you're coming to take everybody's guns away or we can't do a single thing. Sometimes the way they put it is that if you propose something like an assault weapons ban, they'll say we can't do that because your Second Amendment says rights shall not be infringed. You can't have any limit on any weaponry. [17:57:01] But if you just stop and think about that. That doesn't make any sense either, and it's not true constitutionally because we've already decided as a society, anybody can have a slingshot. Nobody can have a nuclear weapon. Right. Anybody can have a water balloon. Nobody can have a predator drone. We know that we get to draw a line as a society. We're just talking about where to draw the line. [17:57:20] And we can draw it in a reasonable, suitable place that shows respect for folks who are hunting and fishing. And at the same time dramatically reduces the extent to which these guns are on the streets and being used to kill people. And I know it's the headline grabbing, horrible incidents that get most of the attention when we have one of these awful mass shootings. But the equivalent of a mass shooting is happening every day, and it's usually happening to teenagers and it's usually happening in low income and black and brown communities. [17:57:52] And it's all the more reason we have to have urgency and intention on doing something about this. Will these measures save every life and stop every tragedy? No, but they will save thousands of lives. And that's why we've got to get to work right away. And again, most Americans want it to happen. It's just that a majority of American people can't seem to turn into a majority in the American Congress. [17:58:11] And that's why we need to bring change to Washington, have to do so. [17:58:20] Oh, and then we're done. No, we just got started. [17:58:30] Yeah. Or is there a question? OK. Alicia. You want to give someone a microphone? Can you hear it? Yeah. Okay. Yell at us. [17:58:47] Okay. Here you go. [17:58:49] Okay. Which you like. [17:58:56] OK. Thank you. [17:59:03] Yes, I was out in the in Bronzeville. My company is African-American Union Printers. And we spoke with your team about trying to work with you and your team. We exchanged information and we went. But six months we have not gotten one quote, one e-mail answered. And I really. You talk very passionately about economic development and with the brown and the black people. Does that reflect in your campaign or is that just a speech? Because from my experiences, it's not happening through your campaign. [17:59:38] So is very important to us both in terms of the team that we have built and in terms of the business that we do, the way that we invest in media to make sure that we practice what we preach. I don't know about the specific business opportunity that you're discussing, but I'd love to get your information afterwards and run down and see if there was any missed opportunity to communicate with you, because this is something that campaigns ought to be doing. And it's something our country ought to be doing. [18:00:02] We've got a long way to go for the purchasing done by the federal government to reflect the economic the diversity of the economic opportunity being created, especially by entrepreneurs of color. And so, again, without knowing that the specific business opportunity at hand here, I would love a chance to make sure that we take care of any disconnect that was there. And I'm glad you came here to let us know. Thank you. [18:00:26] So I have a question from Paul. Puzzling. I don't know. I'm sorry. [18:00:33] Do you have a plan for trans health and reform and answering all of our medical needs? For trans individuals, yes. [18:00:45] So, first of all, do no harm. We have got to end this president's war on trans Americans. We've got a military ban from a president who avoided serving when it was his turn. Telling people who want to serve that they can't. We have guidance going out to departments of Health, Education and others that are almost making it impossible to exist as a trans person. We need to make sure that medically appropriate care is available to meet all of the needs of trans Americans. [18:01:10] And that is what we are going to do with the Medicare for all who want a plan that I'm creating. One key feature of it will be making sure that it is responsive to the needs of everyone in the LGBTQ AA plus community. And we got more information. I know where our time is up. We've got much more information about that on the website, too. [18:01:28] OK. Thank you. [18:01:31] I guess they're going to make us leave. [18:01:35] No, I'm going. Oh, she's the cops work. We're going over overtime. But. [18:01:43] Thank you. Thank you for being with us. Sure. Just I want to ask thing. [18:01:49] Sure. I want to thank everybody for being part of this round. Again, I want to thank you for your mentorship, your friendship and for doing this event. And I want to invite everybody was here. If you believe that this message is the right way to turn the page on where we are as a country. If you're ready for that day when Donald Trump is no longer in office, not just to bring that day about joy we're ready to do, but to be ready for what comes next. Then I need your help. And I am working to bring hope back into style in American politics. [18:02:19] I know it became unfashionable to talk about hope for a while. Given everything that we've seen, the bleakness of what's going on in this moment in this presidency. But I also believe hope propels us to seek justice and to do the work that has to be done. That's why I think they call us candidates hopefuls, because running for office is an act of hope. And so it was being involved in a campaign in any way. [18:02:38] And if you were prepared to be involved in this effort to reach out to your friends, to find people who were this close to giving up hope and walking away from the process completely, now is our chance to send a message to overcome the exhaustion. I think we all feel when we're watching the process play out right now on television and to do something completely different. So I hope that you'll join us. Hope you get to know our team. I hope you'll check out Pew for America back home. And I very much hope that we'll meet again. Thank you very much. [18:03:04] Again, I want to thank all of you so much for coming. Thank you, Renay. Thank you, Mayor. Pete, you were my inaugural conversation with you. Help of me get this started. [18:03:16] And because I only could see lights, I didn't see any way to hand state rep Will Davis. I didn't see all the commissioners who last his last name start with M. Miller, Morrison and more. And we're in Stanley Moore's district. So thank you, Stanley Moore. And I saw a trustee, Cassandra Match from Olympia Fields. Am I right? I can't see. [18:03:38] But thank you all so much for coming. [18:03:41] Come again. And as Mayor Pete said, if you like what you heard, you can always use volunteers. And he didn't say this, but donations to it. So thank you all so much. Get home safe and have a great weekend. Thank you. [18:03:54] And thank you. State rep ness. State rep. Thank you, councilwoman. All right. [18:04:21] You made me shoot, you strip, but this side and humble and. You should I think so.

FS23 WH MAGA WI EVENT POOL 3 1930 [7:56:02 PM] TRUMP>> Thank you. This is great. Hello. How are you? Thank you, everybody. Thank you very much. Hello to janesville, and hello Wisconsin, we love you. 195622 Look at this crowd. This is massive. You know, we are having massive crowds all over the place. [7:56:27 PM] When I look at a poll, we are even in Wisconsin. What I have done for you, the usmca -- we got rid of that horrible -- you would be charged a tariff to do business with Canada. It was all about specialty milk. That was like the straw that broke the camel's back. [7:57:11 PM] 287%. We knocked the hell out of it and we got the brand-new usmca. And sleepily Joe can't do that. He has no idea what we just said. He's sitting in his basement watching. He has no idea. I was having a great hair day, then I heard you had 40-mile-an-hour winds. I said give me the cap. I don't do it often. But I'm looking at that beautiful sight. Is that beautiful? It's beautiful -- as beautiful as that is -- osha. I don't know I would want to be one of those people in that corner. I think it's magnificent. I would get out of there. But they have no fear. They have confidence in trump. It's great to be back in Wisconsin with thousands of loyal, hard working American [7:58:14 PM] patriots. It's a great honor. And we are doing great. We are doing really well. We should have a Republican governor. Because frankly you have got to open your state up. Get back to school. 195820 I will tell you what, you know we had a little problem in Florida. We had a surge, and then it went away. They opened it, but, we had a problem, big problem in Texas, we had a surge, they opened it up. It's all opened up. Arizona, they had a surge, it's all opened up. And our country is opening. And I'll tell you what, when you look at our numbers compared to what's going on in Europe and other places, but we're doing well. We're going to have one of the best economic years we've ever had next year. [7:58:47 PM] 17 days from now we are going to win the state of Wisconsin and four more years in the white house. By the way, early voting begins Tuesday. So get out and vote. [7:59:14 PM] Okay? We have had great success in your state, and I have been very good you have to likewise with the ships. You build good ships. A lot of other states wanted that contract. We gave you the big contract. Honestly I went to New York. It's incredible what you did. This is the most important election in the history of our country. Six months after he go I was saying, how do you compare with the last one. The fact is, this is the single most important election in the history of our country. Sleepy Joe Biden made a corrupt bargain in exchange for his party's nomination. Which he shouldn't have gotten because pocahontas got out one day early, I would be running against crazy Bernie. I would have had a small but energized base. Now we have a lower base to run against. We have the most energy in the history of politics and he has the least. Biden handed control his party over to hard-core militant left. The Democrat party you once knew no longer exists. It's now a party socialist, marxists and left-wing extremists. If Joe Biden and Democrat socialists are elected, I always said, our country will never be a socialist country they will kill your jobs. [8:01:06 PM] Disman many the police department. We have a lot of law enforcement here today. I think every law enforcement group in the country endorsed us. New York City police department endorsed us. It's the first time in history they have endorsed a presidential candidate. Everybody endorsed us. I said during the debate, I said, Joe, name one group of law enforcement that endorsed you. He couldn't. Then Chris Wallace bailed him out. I said Joe, say the words law and order. He wouldn't do it. Chris Wallace bailed him out again. If he says law and order that means he loses the radical left which I think he's losing anyway. They want to dissolve your borders, raise your taxes, destroy your suburbs. The women, they tell me about [8:02:07 PM] suburban women. I think suburban women like me. I only saved your house. And frankly I saved your way of life. I saved the American dream. But they keep saying, trump has a problem. 200214 They said I had a problem with women, period. And then the night, that beautiful night four years ago, was that the greatest of all times? Probably the greatest night in the history of television, right? That was -- we had so much fun, the tears that were flowing out of (?), remember the tears from the totally non biased anchors? We have another one of them coming up next week, you know, Kristen Welker. She deleted her entire account. I wonder why. I can't imagine. You know, I have known her for a long time. She is extraordinarily unfair, but that's alright. We did very well the other night with a person I knew was even more unfair, Savannah. Fact, nobody has seen Savannah for two days. [8:03:08 PM] What happened to Savannah. They said we would -- you ask a question, you give an answer. She was jumping out of her seat. She was like flying. She said I'd told, I told you. I said I don't care with you told me, what does that mean. Then you watch sleepy Joe get interviewed by George Stephanopoulos. He's a stuff guy. He's giving these lobs, like slow motion lobs. It's unfair. It's so unfair. We are president and they are not. We are. We are. But they want to fund extreme late-term abortion. They want to pack -- you have got to get out and vote. You have got to get out and [8:04:08 PM] vote. They want to pack the supreme court. You know what that is. They could end up with 16, 19, 20. They want to put far left judges on the court. They will pick people so far left, you will end up with far left justices like we never had before. Our supreme court instead of being what it was will end up being nothing. They want to protect criminals and disarm law abiding Americans. They want to take away your second amendment. If Biden wins, the lawless demonstrators in our streets, they are democratic run -- I always say Democrat because it sounds worse. They should change their name to the democratic. Democrat sounds lousy. But that's actually their name. The Democrat party. [8:05:08 PM] I say Democrats. They say democratic. The lawless demonstrators are all democrat-run cities and states. Almost he single one of them. And they don't want to take care of it. They don't want to take care of law enforcement. You see what's going on in Seattle? The police who we love, they are all quitting, they are all leaving. They will still be occupying Seattle except they found out we were going in the morning they all raised their hands. The reason they raided their hands. We were going in that morning. Were going to take over the section, the large section of Seattle that these anarchists have. But in theory, we have to be asked, we have to be asked, the federal government has to be asked. But we went into Minneapolis. You know what happened? How long did that take? [8:06:08 PM] About 30 minutes? They formed a line. They formed another line. They were not socially distanced. They have the world's most expensive uniforms on. Helmets that cost a fortune. But under the helmet, great brains and tough. They formed those lines. Then they said let's go. This is after two weeks of destruction in Minneapolis. That's why we are going to win Minnesota for the first time since 1972. We are going to win. 200637 Now, it doesn't hurt that in Minnesota they have ilhan Omar -- (boos) -- who hates our country. Who has broken the law, I mean, she's broken the law, let's see what happens, but she has broken the law. But she hates our country. 200655 [Crowd chants "Lock her up"] 200702 TRUMP>> No, we are going to win because of what we did with Minneapolis. We saved Minneapolis. [8:07:08 PM] Seattle was going real bad. You want to know the truth? We are saving the whole country if you really think about it. That's why we have the likes of which any campaign has ever had. I just left Michigan. The early voting is going big. It should go like 70%, 80% to the Democrats. Then we come in with a big wave like nobody has ever seen. They will start heavy on the early voting. But especially on that November 3 day we'll swamp it. This is early. Still hundreds of thousands of votes. We are supposed to be down [8:08:12 PM] billing. Then we catch like a racehorse. Like secretariat. You see what happens in the end. Something strange has happened in Michigan. We broad back many car plants. They hadn't brought back a plant I think in 42 years. So in Michigan, a strange thing happened. We are leading substantially in the early voting. What's that all about? Because something is happening out there. Take a look. You can't see as far as the eye can see, you have people. As far as the eye can see. 200848 This election day the people of Wisconsin and you know what? We win Wisconsin, we win the whole ballgame. It's over(?) (cheers) I mean, what the hell do you think I'm doing here on a freezing night with 45 degree winds? Huh? What do you think? You think I'm doing this for my health? I am not doing this for my health. (cheers) I am doing it for that. And I'm doing it for that. 200923 ["USA" chant] [8:09:23 PM] Beautiful. Wow! Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. But this election day the people of Wisconsin must top these anti-american radicals by issuing sleepy Joe -- he has no clue. Let's not kid ourselves. He's shot. I don't care. Think of it. This puts pressure on you. I am running against perhaps in the history of presidential politics, the worst candidate. [8:10:14 PM] Obama wouldn't even endorse him. Even after he won, I didn't think Obama -- it took so long. I heard today, sir, Obama is going to campaign for him. I said that's good news. He campaign harder than Hillary Clinton did for Hillary. And it made us stronger. I want him to campaign so much. I want him to campan. Because we are going to do even better. By issuing why * a tremendous defeat at the ballot box, but it's not why *, remember this. It's a radical, sick ideology. 56% of the American people, Gallup poll, right? Say they are better off today than they were four year ago under the obama-biden administration. That's a record. That's a record. And think of what we are saying. [8:11:16 PM] That's a record. 56% of the people. 201109 And that's during -- and we're rounding the corner. We got the vaccines and all that, but even without it, we are rounding the corner. You see it. We're rounding the corner and we have -- unbelievable. The vaccines are unbelievable. And frankly, except for a little politics, but we have unbelievable vaccines that are coming out real soon. And the therapeutics are unbelievable and the cures. Excuse me. I'm here. I didn't feel so good, I'll be honest with you. I hadn't been sick in a long time. I don't have any time to get sick. It's good. You know, if you're busy you don't get sick. You have no time. You don't think about it. 201147 But I wasn't feeling so good. I wasn't feeling like your president has to feel. I wasn't feeling like Superman. And all of a sudden, we have great doctors. One thing with being president, you got more doctors than any human being. I'm lying down in a bed, I got 12 doctors from Johns Hopkins hospital university, great people. All great. I mean, talented great people. 201209 And they love their president, they love their country. But I have doctors, they wanted to touch every single part of my body and I said, "doc." But I didn't, you know what, I didn't feel great. [8:12:21 PM] And there is a drug, regeneron, it's a transfusion. All I know is next morning I felt stronger. I wanted to get out there and make new trade deals for your jobs and I wanted to do it. We have done a great job. A lot of jobs. A great job. But the most menacing aspect of the biden-harris agenda is their attack of law and order. And I was a big part. I came in. What a great guy. I had the sheriff's endorsement and other endorsements in Kenosha. Ever heard of a place called [8:13:18 PM] Kenosha. If I didn't get involved, there wouldn't be a Kenosha. I wish they had called earlier and we could have gone the in earlier. I give your governor credit. Unlike Oregon, we could solve Portland in 22 minutes. They are anarchist, they are wiseguys. They live in the basements with their parents. They go home with their parents. But wiseguys. Antifa radical left. But their wiseguys. We could solve that in two minutes. At least your governor said let's go in and solve the problem. It was late, but better late than ever. We solved and saved Kenosha. I want to thank the sheriff, the chief, all the law enforcement. I want to thank the people helping to rebuild their stores [8:14:20 PM] and businesses. Kenosha. I never thought of Kenosha that it would be an important part of my life. It was a terrible scene. It wasn't their fault. But your law enforcement did a great job. We did a great job. Our law enforcement in this country, if you let them do fairly what they do better than anybody in the world, they wouldn't have any problem. Look at what the going on in new York under Democrats. You look at what's going on in Chicago under Democrats. Portland, Oakland under Democrats. Baltimore under Democrats. We have a great young congresswoman running in Baltimore. I hope she gets a shot. Republican. I want to explain to you the threat that their far left plans pose to the safety of your family, community and country. [8:15:21 PM] If you give the power to Democrats the radical left will defund, disband, disarm and dismantle police departments all across America. Asked if he supports slashing police funding, you saw this last week, he said yes, yes, absolutely yes. Honestly he didn't understand the question. But that's what he said. It's like fracking. He said there will be no fracking. Then he gets lucky. Elizabeth Warren refuses to get out. Now he's standing in Pennsylvania and they want to Frack because they have a million fracking jobs. We are energy independent. He goes from saying for a year and a half, there will be no fracking. I wanted to put it on the screen, but it was so windy we would need 15 cranes to hold up the screen. He says no fracking 18 times. [8:16:22 PM] He then becomes the nominee. Goes to Pennsylvania which we are going to win, too. In Pennsylvania -- I went to cool there, in Pennsylvania they believe in law and order, and they believe in energy and they believe in intelligence. But he now goes to Pennsylvania, he gets hit hard and he says, I never said that. There will be fracking. I always follow these politicians. I have only been doing this for a short while. How in the hell did I become president. But one thing I have learned -- but I know politics, I have been dealing on the other side of politics. -- It's the first thing they say that always matters. There is no way he could not do what he didn't see to in the first place. He gets up in says in Pennsylvania, no, no, we'll Frack. We'll Frack. The whole place -- those fake [8:17:26 PM] news media, nobody said to him, but for a year and a half you said that there would be no fracking, now, you said there will be fracking. Nobody asked him that question. You know why? Because they are fake news. [Crowd chants "CNN sucks"] As long as I'm president, we'll never defund the police. We'll strongly defend our police. And I will always stand with the heroes of law enforcement. I think I have been endorsed by he law enforcement group over the country. I am not militant. I want common sense. I want people to be safe. [8:18:26 PM] The bind plan calls for abolishing cash bail. That's wonderful. You have a murderer, they want to abolish. Look at what happened to new York. Necessity abolished cash bail. Your crime went up 200%. It's terrible. It's common sense. They are going to release 400,000 criminals on to your streets and into your neighborhoods if crazy Joe becomes president. Running against him is such pressure. I'm running against the worst in the history of presidential. If I lose, can you imagine? I will have lost to the worst candidate -- the worst candidate in the history of presidential politics. If I lose, what do I do? I would rather run against somebody who is extraordinarily talented. At least this way I can lead my [8:19:33 PM] life. But we are going to win. [Crowd chants "Four more years"] That's why I can't lose. You know what the first most important is? We are going to make America greater than ever before. Their plan also includes disarming law abiding citizens, namely taking away your second amendment. Think of it, while turning the entire country into one giant sanctuary for criminals, illegal aliens, including those charged with rape, assault, murder, killing. I am very proud of that. Any -- being a developer, you learn how to do it. But we had an entire very [8:20:35 PM] powerful party there they have two things, they have a powerful Democrat party that always sticks together. They don't have rebels that we have in the Republican party. I call them stupid people. Because they play right into their hands. But the Democrats don't have that. They stick together like you have never seen. They are smart and vicious. Let's impeach him even though he did nothing wrong. They are vicious. What we have is we have much better policies like how about we want a strong border. They don't want to have a border. They want open borders. We don't want to protect criminals. We want jobs and low taxes. I told the Republicans all the time. A lot of people say I have a lot of influence. You have got to get tougher and meaner because they play a tougher game. But we have these rebels. [8:21:39 PM] They think they are hot stuff. They usually end up outside of politics in a very short time. For the entire summer, Biden was silent as radicals, anarchists and arsonists rampaged through democrat-run cities in Minneapolis, Chicago, New York, Portland, and other places. Biden called them peaceful protesters. Remember the guy on CNN standing there saying this is peaceful. I have no idea. I'm thinking about, the shaved head, then I don't have to worry about that. He shaved it off. He doesn't have to worry about it. How does it look, first lady. Darling, you are the most handsome president. 202230 I said "first Lady, am I the most handsome president ever?" "Yes, absolutely." I said "who could top me?" "Well," she said, "JFK was good looking, but nothing like you. Nothing like you darling." [8:22:45 PM] [Crowd Chants "We love you" work hank you. Now, you go home and you see this crazy CNN. Fortunately their ratings are terrible. They will say Donald Trump said he's better looking than JFK. You will see it. They are sick people. They have a least problems. Earlier this month, rioters laid waste to suburban residential neighborhoods just outside of Milwaukee. Bind will appease the rioters and looters. [8:23:40 PM] And I'm having them arrested. You know when they knock down statues, you noticed that's have much Stopp. Especially with federal statues. A little thing happened. They go to jail for a period of 10 years. They were getting set to take down the incredible statue of Andrew Jackson right by the white house. I said we can't let that happen. The police went out and they charged. It was an incredible thing. Everyone wants to be so damn politically correct. The police are afraid if they touch somebody or speak to somebody rudely, they will be destroyed, their pension will be gone, their family will be gone. People will cloak. They have a quarter of a second sometimes. And you will have some bad cops. And that happens. But 99.9 -- they are the most [8:24:40 PM] incredible people. They keep us safe. They keep us safe. We have to take care of them. This year more than 1,000 law enforcement officers have been viciously attacked. Nobody talks about that. Nobody talks about that. Several police officers have been very, very brutally murdered. You saw it a month ago with two sitting in the car. It's just a horrible thing. The anti-police rhetoric of Joe Biden and the Democrat party is what puts officers in harm's way. We can't let that happen. Biden referred to police as the enemy. The enemy. Quote, the enemy. And vilified them as an oppressive racist force. This guy has gotten just -- he doesn't believe that. I don't believe he believes it. Joe's running mate, how do you [8:25:42 PM] like her? Did Mike pence do a great job? Did our great vice president do a great job? Never lets you down. It was too easy. I said Mike that was just too easy. She was terrible. I mean, I couldn't believe he picked her. That said a lot. She treated him worse -- 27 candidates for this job. It's not that easy. Don't forget, we have done more than any administration in the first 3 1/2 years in the history of our country. We rebuilt our military. We cut more regulation by a factor of a lot. And we have more federal judges by the end of the first term than any other administration. [8:26:43 PM] Percentage Wise, the only one that has more, there is only one president who has more percentage wise. There is only one president with a percentage higher than I have. George Washington. Give him a make America great again hat. We made it great again, now we are going to make it great again. Now we are opening it up and we are doing record numbers and you will hear. Joe's running mate and America's most liberal senator, kamala Harris recently urged their supporters to donate to a fund that bailed out the rioters who did so much harm, and even physical damage to people. But damage in Minneapolis, and they were going to bail him out of jail. And including a really bad [8:27:43 PM] attempted cop killer. The attempted killing of a policeman. 1 members of bind's staff donated to the same fund. 202743 You know, by the way, they talk about fundraising, right? I'm good at fundraising. I could be the greatest fundraiser in history. I'm the president of the united States. I'm, like, a real smart guy like you are. But I'll tell you what, think of this. Think of this. If I wanted to pick up a phone and call Wall Street, say, the big firms, say "Yeah, I have got to raise --" Yeah, do it. Everyone. I mean, it's so easy. It's so easy. I could have more money -- the problem is, if you do that, what happens is when they call you in two months, three months, four months, because they need something, you got to take their call and got to do it. 202819 So Biden is raising a lot of money because they are promising all these things to all these people. Now, I -- I have a much better platform because I am the president, right? I could raise money and then the fake news goes out and says you know, we're doing great with the small donors -- the small donors, like 61 dollars a piece or so, but I could raise more money than anybody in the history of politics. 202842 But I don't want to call these people and say do me a favor, the head of Goldman Sachs. I don't want to say, do me a favor, all these people. Nobody could ever raise money like me. I don't want to do it because it puts us all -- meaning us, I did this for us, not for me. Believe me. I didn't do it for me. I lost a fortune. This job - job has cost me billions and billions of dollars. Billions. They don't like to say that. Billions of dollars. [8:29:09 PM] If a man from Kuwait comes up and stays at one of my hotels for $259.15. The next day, trump take Arab as a guest in one of his hotels. Bi -- I lost. There are a lot of rich people [8:29:44 PM] around. But I have lost billions. I never talk about it. They never talk about it. I get paid, $450,000. And I give you have my salary. You don't read that because it's not good for them to say that. And I don't talk about it. But tonight I'll talk about it. I get the highest salary because I am the president. But I gift up, I don't take it. I would say it cost me 2, 3, maybe more billion dollars. Have great, good kids. They don't do jobs. Can you imagine if they wanted to go to the Middle East and do jobs all over the place? I would have hotels built in every city and every country in the world. By the way, there is no legal reason you can't do it. But psychologically you can't go to Saudi Arabia, all these places we protect and that buy a [8:30:46 PM] left our planes and a lot of our everything. You can't allow them. But I would be the greatest fundraiser in the history of politics. But if you don't minds, we don't need the money, and we walked away. But they are raising a lot of money. Every time I see them raising a lot of money, deals are being made. Especially when you look at Joe Biden. Look at what's going on with that family. The Democrat party is driving police officers to leave their jobs in record numbers. No one is hurt more by the left wing crew of said against law enforcement than African-Americans. They are hurt the most. Last year -- by the way, large percentages of our policemen and women are African-Americans. The black communities. Last year in just four democrat-run cities, 4,000 [8:31:48 PM] African-Americans were murder as a result of violent crime. And murders increased by 30% in American cities. I say call. They don't want to call. More than half of the victims are African-Americans. Joe Biden and the left ignore these American victims. I never will. We are never going to ignore them. We are done more for the black community than any president with the exception of Abraham Lincoln. It's true. It's true. Criminal justice reform. Obama couldn't do it. I don't even think he tried to do it. Bush couldn't, none of them could do it. It was desperately needed. Criminal justice reform, I did the. Prison reform, I did it. How about opportunity Zones? So great for hispanics, so great for the black community, the jobs. [8:32:48 PM] We worked on that with a great senator from South Carolina. Tim Scott. His D historically -- historically black colleges. Which one did you go to. That's a good one. Right? They have to be happy with me. But listen. After three years, every three years, a group of like 44 people, 45, they couple, the head people at all of these colleges and they couple and I would see them. The first year I saw them I thought it was routine. They were up because they needed money for the colleges. The second year I said why are you back? They said we have to come every year. Defend kids they have been coming up every year. I see them the third year. You come up here every three years to beg for money. They said we beg for money and [8:33:49 PM] we feel like beggars. He told me exactly those words. They make us come back every year. Obama never did the. So here's what we are going to do. We are going to get you long-term funding, and here's what I did, I got them more money than they were asking for. Now for a 10-year period. I said the only bad news is I may never see you again. But we did that for the black community, and we did a lot of other things. I say that. Nobody has done more for the black communities. But with all of that, the biggest thing of all is criminal justice reform. You know about Alice Johnson. We have so many people like Alice. She is an incredible person. Ask yourself this question. Do you want to vote for the candidate supported by anti-american rioters or the candidate supported by so many of our great people and the heros of law enforcement? [8:34:59 PM] Biden made a speech -- he makes so few of them -- there was nobody in the audience. They never say this. We come here, take those cameras and show them, please. We come here -- today I think the cameras flipped. Because in his case they shouldn't show the audience. In our case they should. The camera must have slipped and there was like nobody there. I am saying nobody reports that. And he never leaves his little area. I will tell you what, as president of the United States, I met with gold star families the other week -- I meet with a lot of people. I have an obligation. I can't lock myself into a basement at the white house. I can't lock myself into a beautiful bedroom at the white [8:35:59 PM] house. I'm the president of the united States. And I would often say -- I would often say, I meet people, like the gold star families, they lost sons and daughters and husbands in Iraq and Afghanistan and other places. I can't say I want to cancel the meeting. I met about 48 families. And you know, when they come up to you and they are close to you. The questions are all about everything. It's a very difficult situation. And when they come up to you and they want to say my son was so brave. And they want to tell you. It's amazing. Their son died three or four years ago. This is in almost all cases. I say tell me what happened. Sir, ply doubt Kerr was a helicopter pilot. And she was so good, sir. And she was shot down, sir, in Iraq. And then they tell me what [8:37:01 PM] happened, and how brave and how great, and I can't say do me a favor -- you can't do that. He time I meet with groups of people, it's not all like that but I can't cancel like cancel culture. I can't cancel these people. I have to take care of our people. Every time I do it, I say it's risky. 203720 And sure as hell, I caught it and now I guess they say I'm immune. So you could -- (cheers) I am immune. And I got better fast. I got better fast. I can now jump into the audience and give you all a big kiss. The women and the men. I will kiss -- I'll even kiss the big men. I'll kiss those big powerful men down there. I won't love it, but I will kiss them. 203743 Anyway, so, no, it's, you know, an incredible thing. But I have an obligation. I can't say -- somebody said, "why did you do this? Why did you do this?" I say because these meetings are so important to people. 204756 And you are the president and I can't do that. And what happened -- and I always said, after I said boy, that's risky, probably, I guess. But, you know, whatever it is and really -- I got really well taken care of and I really believe this therapeutic or this cure, it was incredible. And you know, we are going to make what I had available to everybody, free. Free. It's incredible. The antibody, I think the antibody is the best thing. We're gonna make it free. [8:38:25 PM] So, It's been incredible what we have been able to do. If you support our police, if you stand with the heroes of law enforcement, then you must chief feet the Democrats on November 3. You have to do it. By the way, I hate to say it, I have got a briefing. This is a Democrat area. But it's a Democrat area that likes trump a lot. A lot of his are really great [8:39:05 PM] workers. And the workers like me. Who doesn't like me, the heads of the union don't like me. You know who does like me? The people in the union like me. This is largely. Many people in this audience are Democrats. But they are Democrats that are going to vote for trump. And we do great here. And I appreciate it. And I take care of our workers and take care of jobs. And China will not get away with what they got away with. They are not goi to get away with it. We just finished an incredible trade deal. The largest order of pork, the largest order of soybeans, the large withest beef order. It's not the same. It doesn't mean what it would have meant lad they notut us through -- they stopped it from going into China. But they didn't stop it from [8:40:05 PM] going to the rest of the world including our country and Europe and the rest of the world. So you Democrats, some of them -- by the way, I am just curious. Raise your hand if you are a Democrat. I like these polls. They do a poll, it cost a million dollars and they interview 12 people, then they wonder why their polls are off. We interviewed 250 people. They oversample Democrats by 25%. Trump is down 5. I guess there must be a legal reason they have to put it. They have oversample by 18, 20, 25 percent. By the end of the evening I won all nine places. [8:41:06 PM] Think of it. Other than that they did a great job of polling. They even had me believing it for a while. But we had a lot -- by the way, nothing like we have now. This is progress. You know, this is still 17 days out. That's a lot. Normally a crowd like this would be like the night before for a candidate. A one-time shot. We have this all over. You ought to see what we had in Pennsylvania and Florida. In Florida, 41,000 people. We were in Atlanta. We just got back from Georgia. But the spirit. We have much more spirit now than we ever had four years ago and we had a record. A record. But you know what? The media is more corrupt and they are worse. It's note really Biden. [8:42:07 PM] She was tougher, she was smarter. Hillary was a lot smarter than sleepily Joe, let's not kid ourselves. She was a better candidate. We'll see how it turns out. What's a better candidate. But she was much sharper. She was much smarter. But it's not that. The media have become critics and the big tech companies have become critics. They don't let the news get out that we caught number a corrupt deal. In all fairness to fox. I have my own problems with fox. But at least fox is letting it out. I will tell you who was incredible. A newspaper called the "New York post." The oldest newspaper in America. It's the largest paper in America. They are all about finding out Joe Biden it's corruption. [8:43:07 PM] But it's Joe Biden corruption. So we are thrilled to be here with some incredible people. And you will be joined by a man -- I say everybody is wonderful and half the time you can't stand them. But this guy is wonderful. He's one of the smartest people in the senate. A lot of people don't know that. I know that because of I do a lot of complex things. He understands. Nobody understands finance better. But what he's doing -- he's the chairman of homeland security, what he's doing on corruption is unbelievable. And I am very proud of your state for a lot of reasons. But one of the reasons is you have a senator named Ron Johnson. Where is Ron. Come here, Ron. Would you get him up, please. Come on up, Ron. I have got to get him up. He deserves it. [8:44:08 PM] Come on, Ron. He's one of the greatest people. One of the greatest senators. Whatever the hell you are running, I'll be here for you. I will tell you that, please. Say a couple of words. [8:44:23 PM] JOHNSON>> Thank you, Mr. President. As I stated in the pre program. First and Trump is his tenacity, the unfair taming the press by the democrats by the deep state. It doesn't deter him, he gets up every morning he wants to make America great. And he talks about the first step back, I was witness that criminal justice reform was dead. [8:44:52 PM] It was going nowhere. Until President Trump stepped up and made sure he got it done and he did another piece of legislation it's very dear to my heart was something again he was he was dead he was going nowhere. It's called right to try. I will never forget. He started talking about this bill and I can champion. You handset the name that I'm going to try and offset he goes, we have to pass right to try. Now when you saw me spray up like a jack in the box. But again, that is present Trump's leadership he does he credit for. [8:45:40 PM] When he wakes he wakes up every day like the rest of you, loving this country and doing everything he can to make a greater country. God bless you. God bless President Trump. Thank you. TRUMP>> He's a great guy. Don't lose him. Ron What are you up next year. Next. Next time, I'll be here Ron I'll be fine. Now he's really a great guy. I'm glad you came up and I'm very proud of you. [8:46:15 PM] Warriors with us and people that have been with us through the fake impeachment dogs that was one of them. And don't forget, we have done and Ron understands that better than maybe anybody we've done more in three and a half years than any administration first. [8:46:34 PM] In any administration in the history he rented right to drive that's where a person is terminally ill, and the kid get a medicine that looks real good but it hasn't been approved as as to go through this long process, which we've got in half by the way, but they can't get. So now they sign a document, and you know it was very complicated but not for me it was a complicated I said you take the liability away. [8:46:56 PM] But we had problems with the insurance companies because they didn't want, we had problems with everybody, including the country they don't want to get sued. So people would go all over the world and they had some money if they didn't have money they go home and they just die. And now if we have something that may work but it's two years away three years away, they sign just a quick waiver. And we've had wait break and try and Ron. [8:47:20 PM] I don't know if you know the success rate, it's been unbelievable the number of people. This is just trying, we have kept people alive and healthy and well and fully recovered. It's a very great thing. And I could never understand it because for years I said, I wouldn't give somebody who's terminally ill the drug. And because they say we don't want to get sued because they get sued the family will presumed or something happens I mean I understand it all. But we got it, they sign a waiver. We got it done, and the effects and you know what else happened side effect that nobody thought much ago. [8:47:54 PM] These companies that are trying to prove that their drug works. I'll tell you, if it works there, it works everywhere It's incredible. And they're able to be able to speed it up when you speed them up, because we've had some unbelievable stories one in particular that I know young lady has spoken on at the National Convention Republican National Convention, but the success rate has been incredible. So, I want to thank you for that you're right you're one of the reporters. [8:48:19 PM] We want to also thank Glen Grossman, Glen has been incredible he's been from the beginning, by me and I want to thank you for what you've done. A young, beautiful gentleman. Brian style Highgrove. What a job he's doing want a job this is your deal over here right. This is it, keep him happy. I'll tell you it's a big future. Thank you very much for being here. [8:48:50 PM] And everybody knows, Darin LaHood, Derek Thank you. Great job. Warriors are really your own. Wisconsin, you're producing good in Wisconsin the Wisconsin GOP Chairman, Andrew Hill. Thank you. How are we doing and we're gonna win this they're gonna win it. [8:49:14 PM] By the way, I wanted to answer before before ron johnson interrupted me. So who is who is a republican here just raise your hand. Okay, it's a lot. I seriously don't worry about your hand we all of you, who is a democrat here. Republicans you better get out there and win. We really do appreciate it. We have a lot of fun. Over there too. [8:49:51 PM] We have a lot of democrats but we really do appreciate it, you know, because ultimately we're looking for the same thing we're looking for dinner you were looking for one country. And the question was asked a week ago and they said, What about bringing the country together because I want that. And I said we were there before the China virus hit us. We were there, and we were getting calls, because the success was bringing us together as a country, we had the greatest employment numbers we had the greatest African American, Hispanic American, Asian American women. People with a diploma people without a diploma. [8:50:24 PM] People that graduated first in the class at MIT everybody, everybody was with 100 and 60 million people working we never had anything like it. And I'm telling you, better was true with you guys, we would get calls from people that you would least suspect, and the country is coming together then we got hit by the German virus, it was back to the drawing boards, but the country is coming together and it's going to come together, it's going to be success. [8:50:50 PM] And next year we're gonna have the most successful year economically and I also want to introduce the Republican candidate for senate from the state of Illinois Park current Park. I heard you a good, good. That's great. Good luck. Ah, well, Mark. Good luck. Great to have you. Thank you very much. [8:51:25 PM] Anyone Illinois could use a new governor. That guy doesn't know what's gonna open up that steak, that got opened up that kids have to get back to school, you know, Baron had it right, he said Baron Baron dropped my boy. My very told young boy he's spiritual. But Baron Trump had it, and he said, Sir, just like about nine seconds late [8:51:57 PM] How's everyone doing now young people you know they have we hate to admit it, they have the stronger than very strong immune system, incredibly strong, we have to get back to school to get back. Watch what happens on November 4 them on sale right now everybody they're only doing this for politics, because they want the numbers as bad as possible. [8:52:24 PM] So whether it's Tuesday, or whether it's, Illinois, or whether it's New York or whether it's, Michigan, hey we won the case in Michigan, the courts have now forced her. They said it was unconstitutional. He was the only person in the whole state that was allowed to have fun and go bowling and play tennis and do what everyone was the governor's husband right. Her husband was free to do whatever he wanted but other than that it was like a prison she was operating. [8:52:54 PM] This election is a choice between a Trump super recovery and a Biden, depression, and you know they're gonna raise your taxes substantially like a quadruple. This is the only candidate you know All my life I've been involved in politics never from the side. But I've always been this the only time my life and I always said it was good to cut taxes. I said, How do you say we're giving a massive tax increase everybody, and it's everybody because you know you're getting thousands of dollars a year from my tax cut. [8:53:27 PM] We gave the greatest the biggest tax cut in history, and he wants to end the Trump tax cut now he said well I won't do that same thing like fracking fracking. Okay, he just changed his mind, but he's wondering, what's the ending. And don't forget job tax credit. That's $1,000 for every child. So he's gonna end all that. So he's gonna, we're gonna end he didn't realize that middle income people getting a tremendous tax cut. [8:53:52 PM] And so, and if you add to it because they'll drive energy through the roof. They want to add fossil fuel, they're gonna end fracking 100% they're going to interact. When this guy goes out we're gonna track it for a year and a half. Then he looks out and gets a nomination because Pocahontas refused to do what she should have done if she believes really in his philosophy of being a socialist right and he gets it. And as soon as he gets it he says no, no, we're gonna frack. [8:54:19 PM] It's the craziest thing I've ever seen. But if you add energy to it. We're talking about 678 thousand dollars. That's a tremendous amount there's never been anything like that. So if you vote for me. You'll have the greatest if he gets in. He's gonna raise your taxes like if he gets in, and it's not him again it's just people that tell him what if he gets in. You have the greatest depression in the history of this country, your stocks will go to hell everyone thinks stocks oh it's rich people own stocks, your 401k, who has a 401k. [8:54:55 PM] That's a lot of people. Okay. Are you practically at your old time. Your 401 K's will be like wastepaper baskets up they'll be right there on the floor. You'll have a depression, the likes of which we've never seen with the possible exception of 92, because I don't think it gets much worse than that. But you can't do that you can't let this happen because he'll destroy everything we've done. [8:55:23 PM] You know, regulations, we've got more regulations than any administration in history, and regulation may be more important in terms of jobs and everything that even the biggest tax cut. It's the biggest tax cut in history. And I think the regulation gun, which is more than any presidents done no matter they were eight years or in one case four. It doesn't matter. Our regulation cutting was the biggest. He wants to put them all back. [8:55:48 PM] That means all these companies that moved to America that moved to the United States that came here because of lower taxes because of all of the things that we've done used to take 18 to 21 years to get a highway bill to get a highway approved. We've got it down to two years, and it may. And let me tell you, it may not make it. If it doesn't work environmentally or if it's unsafe, but at least you're gonna know we're trying to get it to one year, by the way, everyone wants to get again, but it used to take me we have highways, 20 years they've been trying to get approvals. [8:56:21 PM] And then after that gets approved it's totally different and it costs, hundreds of times more money. If you vote for me prosperity will surge normal life will fully resume, and the next year will be the greatest year, economically, in the history of Joe Biden would terminate our recovery with a draconian unscientific lockdown I mean, you're already in it. And they'll keep Wisconsin locked up locked down and closed for business by will shut down the country delay the vaccine and prolong the pandemic and companies will be afraid to invest. [8:57:02 PM] If you, if you don't have this happen and our country. But you have a democrat governor, I don't know but he's a nice guy probably, but but I will tell you. Companies big companies very strong companies, companies like, as an example, Foxconn, they don't want to invest with these people, they don't want to invest they don't have any security, they don't have any, they don't want to invest, [8:57:26 PM] I get in companies like that will put more money in than they even promised, but they're very concerned, I mean David they have to have the right climate. So we are going to do things with Wisconsin, but we're going to do things but this country. Like honestly, has been done before. And people will come together because of success. 205749 So we're delivering a safe vaccine very soon and a rapid recovery. Biden's plan will crush Wisconsin. My plan will crush the virus and will make Wisconsin greater than ever before, that's what's gonna happen. It's gonna happen fast. You know, when you have a spike you have a surge but if you remember two months ago, Florida had a big surge, it's now gone. The numbers are very down and totally open. Texas had a very big surge and now it's down. If you look at Arizona had a big, big surge -- great, great governors, and it's down. 205822 It's down, all low numbers, really low numbers and you're gonna have the same thing, but you gotta open up. You got to go open up. You've got to get the place going. [8:58:30 PM] Joe Biden is the living embodiment of the corrupt political class that enriched itself while draining the economic life and soul from our country. 47 years it says, Well, I should have done this or that I should show you here for 47 years. I always hate it when he says that I should have done something I said, you know, and he only left a short time ago wasn't like they were you know 25 years ago. He's been in a high position for 47 years. That's a joke. You could have done something. [8:59:00 PM] For the last 47 years job I shipped away you jobs, shut down your factories and you know it very well you got to hit hard here through open your borders and Ravage our cities while sacrificing American blood and treasure in endless wars that were ridiculous in countries that you'd never even heard of. Joe Biden not coming back. [8:59:25 PM] Joe Biden is and always has been a corrupt politician, I hate to say. The Biden family is a criminal enterprise, it really is. It's a criminal enterprise. To be honest with you, he makes Crooked Hillary Clinton look like an amateur and China has already bought and paid for a job but if Joe Biden became president, China will own this country, China. China will own you know they're paying us billions and billions of dollars a year, I charge that they never paid us 10 cents. [9:00:05 PM] I gave $28 billion to the farmers, many of them right here, 2812, and 16, two years. I said to Sonny Perdue Secretary of Agriculture great guy. How much have we been targeted for our farmers by China. He said, Sir, two years ago $12. billion. And last year, 16 point 8 billion is that that's good. We're going to target them. We took $28 billion. We had 10s of billions left over, they went to the Treasury, our Treasury by the way our Treasury right into our Treasury, not at the Chinese Treasury, our Treasury. [9:00:42 PM] But we had 28 billion that went to the farmers and all a lot of you farmers got it. I also cut the tariffs between Canada what they were doing to with 287% tariffs. So I'm not just running against Biden I'm running against the left wing media, the big tech companies. But if you think about the democrats and the media are one of the same. [9:01:07 PM] When you look at ms DMC and you look at fake news cnn, and you look at the fake New York Times or failing New York Times. And the good news is, look, wow, I don't even call goodness, but when someday I leave, whether it's in four years, eight years, 12, six. Now the story tomorrow will be with effectors. He is a fascist he wants to take over. [9:01:38 PM] Now, but when at some point, the roll out of business, they're gonna go ahead and they're gonna go out of business they know it too. That's why I expect someday they're gonna all get together and say let's endorse him because he's done a really good job and they know that this political class is nothing but this day for you and for your values they flood your communities with criminal aliens. Drugs and crime. While living behind gated compounds and communities, [9:02:08 PM] They oppose school choice so important to school choice, while sending their families to the best private schools, they attack the Second Amendment while employing armed guards for themselves. They want to get rid of your second amendment. It's not going to happen with that, I promise. I don't think they'll get ron johnson on their side Ron Can I have your pledge. I will protect okay we got ron johnson fellows we have your votes. [9:02:36 PM] In 2016 Wisconsin voted to fire this corrupt and decrepit political establishment and you elected and outside or as president to finally put America first to defend our workers, and our national security. I took the toughest ever action to confront China's rapid theft of American jobs. [9:03:02 PM] When China targeted us we targeted them and it was very simple and now we're providing all sorts of everything what we're doing for you. We have $13 billion coming to help our farmers in addition to all of the money that China paid off farmers including Wisconsin's incredible dairy farmers as the dairy. Right. [9:03:28 PM] Anybody here do specialty milk people don't realize specialty milk very important, is there anybody it's very small part, but it was like the straw that broke the camel's back, because I met with these guys. And what they were doing ripping you off in the big stuff specialty milk, and anybody whose specialty. It does it you know what it's so small, but we when I heard it, it was like, 287%. [9:03:52 PM] Well those days are over when the Wisconsin timber industry was threatened. I imposed tariffs like dumped foreign goods and subsidized products, saving your timber jobs. And we have a long way to go, we can save a lot more we got plenty of timber. I always say why the hell are we take it in timber from other countries we have it all over the place. And if they ever managed their forest to California and other places you wouldn't have these farmers. [9:04:19 PM] And part of that is cutting which is you know you have to cut wages and all that stuff and so we have so much timber. And I guess we just nice people doing it from other lands right but we're doing good with our timber we saved our jobs if Joe Biden gets in the radical left will shut down Wisconsin timber production forever You know they don't want to let you touch it. If you happen to touch a tree. Then we're gonna put you in jail for the rest of your life. [9:04:45 PM] I also issue brand new regulations to ensure American workers are first in line for jobs. We want the American workers to be first find will allow his daughters to bring in a flood of cheap foreign workers and wipe out your middle class we don't want that happening under my leadership we achieve the most secure border in US history, our southern border is so secure that wall. [9:05:15 PM] We're doing 10, miles a week and we'll be heading over 400 miles within a period of a couple of weeks. And it'll be finished very soon. [9:05:26 PM] And by the way Mexico is paying for the world you do not, you know, they keep saying so finally they said well alright He's built the world Let's not talk about the wall anymore. So now whenever did they go but Mexico is Mexico is where we're putting in charge at the border in Mexico as well but, but, Mexico has been corrected us, because they have 27,000 soldiers all alone. And I want to thank the President of Mexico who happens to be a great guy. [9:05:54 PM] And they do have a big covid problem, this is a good time to have a wall because you know we have that wall and it is not penetrable. It is just remember they used to talk about we don't need a wall that's absolutely right. They want to drones drones like you don't want to drones, with cameras, so that we could watch all the people pouring into them what a drone Do you remember crying Chuck, Jimmy, you know, Schumer, he cries anytime I've known him all his life I've never seen him cry. [9:06:25 PM] But when he wants to get a camera and cry so much crying Chuck, because you feel so sad he feels so sorry for people. Don't worry about he doesn't cry and Chuck, you understand what Kryon brought up beauty rock looks like. Because, not a good guy. Dr. Chuck was talking about Walser obsolete. I said, Well sort of obsolete. And he said no no we need technology drones, I said drugs aren't going to help you other than I mean they're nice you know we have all sorts of attachments to the wall, the way and this was technologically very advanced and drugs are fine. But you got to have a wall. [8:07:02 PM] And then I said to a group of people and they sort of sort of grow, you know you do a computer today you do a chip, you do anything today it's obsolete in about 19 minutes right. We've just developed a new computer it's the greatest thing ever. Three weeks later somebody doesn't matter when it's a horrible business and that's why I like real estate you buy a good piece of land that's good I like it better simpler. But you know what, everything's obsolete like in 15 minutes, except the two things that you know what that is, I've been telling you a wheel and the war in 1000 years, you'll come back. [9:07:33 PM] And the only two things that you'll have that are very modern will be a wheel, and we'll look at the wall they built over there they took trucks and they put them together, because they don't want any criminals coming in here. So that's a wall, but they had a drone circling up there are great secret service I think our secret service would be the bad guys and it would a good guy so they built a wall [9:07:58 PM] that wall took him about 12 minutes, but the two things are a wheel and a wall that along with everything else is going to be obsolete in about 12 minutes in the last three years, we've arrested over a half a million criminal aliens including those charged with murder assault sex offenses. We have over 6000 murders that ISIS apprehended in our great Border Patrol, and we owe them a debt of gratitude. [9:08:27 PM] They get 6000 murderers we took off the streets. In some cases they're so bad. We didn't even want to give we have to take I don't want to pay for them. For an extra long period of time, Franklin is up to being the person that believes in the death penalty but what even so controversial. So we'll end up keeping him for 50 years we'll end up feeding after 50 years, but But look, let me just tell you we have, we have what the job that ice does and Border Patrol, and you know like this guy's a tough guy you don't want the job, you don't want. You don't want it, because a couple of guys can probably maybe you'd be good at it. [9:09:09 PM] It looks pretty tough. You got to be tough you know these guys the ice guys. You'll see these, these killers from the MS 13 they're total killer sit down, folks. Just relax and they're so excited they won't sit down just sit down. But, but, you know, you get these, they'll be standing up in about two seconds. Well that's a compliment right it should be a compliment right it's very nice I appreciate it. But Relax. Relax, what the hell else we have to do tonight The fact is, does anybody have a better time than at a Trump rally. But we don't call it a rally. [9:09:48 PM] We call it a friendly protest because legally Am I call it a friendly protest you're allowed to be you call it around whether you're entitled to people or something. Somebody said let's go to protest so everybody Raise your hand. This is a protest right. That's actually under the Biden administration, these criminals would be set free under the Trump administration, these criminals are put in jail or they said oh, we have to we can't do this. [9:10:18 PM] And by the way, the MS 13 gang members are the worst anywhere in the world. They don't even want right. They don't even I hope you didn't come into contact with what no you know too much about them I don't know I'm worried about. Stand up I'm worried about you. What the hell do you know so much about every search. Look at that guy he oh are you not, is he with you. You know what can I be honest with you, he's with you You have no problem. [9:10:42 PM] No problem. Thank you. Thank you both very much. Right. But the MS turkey they're killers they're horrible people and these people go in and they just, they go with a gold standard, they just run in and start swinging and they always come out on top and you know what, there aren't a lot of people that would be good at that job. [9:11:07 PM] And we have to respect those people that protect us like this. Immigration security is national security remember that we have to have borders, a nation without borders is not a nation we don't have. 211122 So on behalf of the United States, I'd like to extend my sincere -- really sincere condolences to a friend of mine, President Macron of France, where they had just yesterday, a vicious, vicious Islamic terrorist attack, beheading, an innocent teacher near Paris, beheading. A horrible thing and they've apprehended nine people, who knows. But we've been very, very strong on radical Islamic terrorism and we do have a ban. People said, oh that's such a terrible thing. Remember I put the ban on? And then we got sued and we lost, lost and then we won in the United States Supreme Court. [9:12:04 PM] We've also invested and Francis having a hard time in Madrid is a great guy and I just want to say whatever we can do. We've also invested 2.5 trillion with a T. trillion dollars in the US military which was totally depleted, what are we, including major contracts to build new warships that save the historic shipyard right here in Marinette marine and Wisconsin we gave you [9:12:39 PM] A lot of states one of that contract I gave it to you. And I came to Maranatha back three months ago, and they do a great job but a lot of people wanted that a lot of states wanted it. And it's okay I'm gonna lose those states but that's alright. Just remember that Wisconsin, but we gave him a lot of jobs, it's actually a very big contract that gets bigger, but they do fantastic work I looked at what they were doing incredible talented people and you would have lost that chip you're that's a big yard, you would have lost it, but we saved it and we've done plenty, [9:13:09 PM] we launched the first new branch of the US Armed Forces in nearly 75 years, the space force. And I withdrew from the last administration's disastrous, 100 and $50 billion for nothing. Plus 1.8 billion in cash, Iran nuclear deal. I think when we win if we win the first call I'm going to get is from the head of Iran, and he's gonna say let's make a deal. You know run their economy their GDP went down, 27%, they had dying to make a deal I said look you want to really see the election, because you're not going to be in a position you got to see the election. [9:13:51 PM] The first call I get will be them, and then I'll tell you the other calls but I better not because I'm going to just make a deal harder if I do, but plenty of other nations are going to be calling because they're going to want to make deals. I recognize the true capital of Israel, and opened the American Embassy in Jerusalem. And I also recognize this by the way every president for many many presidents right every single president said they will go on to do that. And you went back how many presidents many many many decades. [9:14:26 PM] And they were all said they were going to do it and they never did it because I'll tell you why. It wasn't easy. Once I got to office, the pressure put on your President, not to do it was incredible. And I told the story I didn't think I got calls from King. We don't want you to do. It's gonna be horrible cause problems. And finally I said I'll tell you what, let's go like a king. Who's calling and Amir, who else is calling Prime Ministers presidents in one case a queen. [9:15:02 PM] I was thinking about taking her call but I finished. And I said, No, no, no, what are they calling about, they want to talk you out of moving the capital of Israel to Jerusalem. I said, Really, it's very important. Okay, tell them that I'm going to call them back on Thursday, I had the press conference on a Tuesday. So I said, Tell him I'll call him back on Thursday. I look forward to talking to him. I then announced that we were doing it. And we had Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. [9:15:34 PM] And then I call back. The heads of all these countries yes King, what can I do. Well, I wanted to talk to you about Israel but it's already been announced. Oh gee i wish i got a little bit sooner. No, it's much, much easier than you know like what do we need. [9:15:54 PM] So I got back to them they were over disappointed. You know what we hoped that it was going to cost anywhere from a billion to 2 billion. And I said to my very talented, who is one of the greatest lawyers in New York. David Friedman a great lawyer, I said David Stephen good piece of land cheap, or a piece that we already own because they want to spend $2 billion to build this thing. [9:16:14 PM] I said we can do it cheaper because we back two days later sir we have a piece of land with a building on it. I think we can renovate it for $350,000 and it'll be nicer than the one they want to build. So we did it for 350, I actually first time I'm in life I said David. I've never said this before. It sounds too cheap, make it. [9:16:36 PM] So instead of spending a billion to 2 billion probably would have never got built, you can imagine the cost overruns everything else. And this was a better location A biggest piece of land a better view better everything safer. Better Park you know we got there early we have the best way and that's why I said, I said, David, no matter where you are, we were always there first. Right. You want to click building by apostrophes you don't always do. They were always there for us. But we were there first. So we must and he said we have a great piece of land that we fixed it is an empty building, and it's beautiful, [9:17:05 PM] and we use Jerusalem stone, which is a complicated thing but I won't tell you about a very expensive except if you happen to be in Jerusalem, and it's a beautiful embassy and it's opened and now we have the capital and I'll tell you something. Think of it. Every single president you go back during the campaign. They used to campaign on it, and nobody had the guts to do it, but we did it Oh look, we did it right. Did I do it. And we opened the embassy three months later, can you believe that? [9:17:35 PM] Instead of 10 years later we would we wouldn't have that thing open 20 years. I also recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights 52 years they worked on it I got it done in about two hours. And instead of endless war in the Middle East, we're forging piece without blood all over the sand. Come countries are coming in and they all want to come in. And the fact is I did born 47 months. Then Joe Biden did in 47 years. [9:18:07 PM] What he did was. And now the democrats are pushing the most far left agenda ever put forward by a presidential nominee. [9:18:15 PM] The Biden plan would destroy your Social Security, and destroy protections for people with pre existing conditions. They want to spend all their money on this ridiculous green new deal for 100 trillion dollars. It's amazing just ASE plus three. A poor student has no idea about the environment, all of a sudden she's coming up with a green New Deal, and we will not let them take your cattle Don't worry about your cattle are next. [9:18:47 PM] The kabelo next. Biden vowed to terminate our travel bans on jihadist regions, and he wanted to search and they've agreed to this this is the manifesto I call it with Bernie Sanders crazy Bernie at church refugee admissions by over 700% This is a great opening the floodgates to radical Islamic terrorism how's France doing that do good. You stayed in your country will be overrun and overwhelmed and it will never happen on my watch. [9:19:20 PM] Never, never, never, never, never. Biden wants to ban school choice, the most important thing school choice, and he wants to end charter schools which have been so successful because he's controlled by a group and but with that. Some of the most important people on this planet are teachers remember that we love our teachers. We love our teachers. [9:19:48 PM] in a second term I will provide school choice to every parent in America, and you know when you talk about the black community the Hispanic community. That's one of the great civil rights developments in our country it's called school choice. Right. One of the most important things we can do school choice and charter schools. A vote for republicans is a vote for safe communities. Great job. Incredible jobs, and a limitless future for all Americans. [9:20:20 PM] It's really about the American dream The American Dream is alive and well. The American Dream is alive and well. Back. [9:20:48 PM] Please thank you very much and I will say, again, again and again had we not been hit with this virus, you would have seen things and like you've never seen before, but we're gonna have it back there very very soon setting records whenever backwards. So in conclusion, over the next four years. We will make America into the manufacturing superpower of the world, and we will end our reliance on China, once and for all, we've always. We will hire more police increased penalties for assaults on law enforcement, and we will ban deadly sanctuary cities. We will uphold religious liberty free speech, and the right to keep and bear arms. [9:21:38 PM] Second, we will strike down terrorists to threaten our children and our citizens and we will keep America out of these endless and ridiculous foreign wars. We will maintain America's unrivaled military Mike, we have the greatest military now in the world. When I took over three and a half years ago you know and in the military. [9:22:09 PM] Our plans were all, everything was all our missiles, or rockets, or nuclear wasn't in the condition that had to be in. It never want to use it. And never want to use it. We hope to god we never have to use it. Now we have the greatest weapons ever produced by a single country. Not even close the hydro Sonic missiles, I go on to the super duper missiles they go seven times faster than a normal missile. [9:22:38 PM] Now, President Obama let that get away they kept our plans to Russia and other places. But now we've done because we had the technology like nobody else. So, with that, missiles rockets ships, Texas from Ohio we make them in Ohio, we get the plant oh but I kept that plant of Lima. I kept. I kept the plant up and I said, you can close this plan. The plan was to close and I tend to get out when we make Joanie place in the country. [9:23:09 PM] I visited went to Ohio with Jim Jordan a great guy, I visited. And I saw the people and I saw the technology and the complexity I said you'll never be able to build a plugin never be able to reproduce it anyway we kept it open, and now it's working 24 hours around the clock. Okay, all made and the new this new jets the fighters f 35 everything new, and when I took over our military and you know what the military people. It was totally depleted. [9:23:40 PM] We now have the greatest with the envy of Russia and China and North Korea, and every country in the world. There is nobody that has anything near our weaponry. And again, we hope to God, we never, ever have to use it. But we will have peace through strength, that's what we will and surprise medical billing require price transparency which goes into effect on January 1, and further reduce the cost of prescription drugs you know i you know i invoked a thing, you know that what I did you know i invoked the favored nations laws. [9:24:23 PM] So we are going to pay whatever the lowest price in the world I said that's what we're going to pay the difference is 60 7080 90% reduction. I am not very popular. However, with Big Pharma. There's been a lot of money on ads against me when you see those ads please remember your drug prices are coming down. Most Powerful lobbyists in the world they have the biggest lobby in the world by far, but it's the only way I mean every year that what they were doing to people no good. [9:24:52 PM] So maybe we'll make a deal with Big Pharma along the way but they are spending a fortune imagine that okay, people get it. It's going to be the biggest price reduction going to get out and 60 7080 maybe 90% in some cases, we will strongly protect medicare and social security, and we will always protect patients with pre existing conditions. And they will, America will land the first woman on the moon, and the United States will be the first nation to land an astronaut on Mars we're getting very close. [9:25:25 PM] We will stop the radical indoctrination of our students and restore patriotic education to our schools. We will teach our children to love our country honor our history, and always respect our great American flag. And we will live by the timeless words of our national motto. In God We tried for years you had a president who apologized for America. Now you have a president who is standing up for America, and standing up for the great people of Wisconsin, get out and vote. So get your friends and get Get him. [9:26:20 PM] Get your neighbors get your co workers. If you have a big lazy boss. Maybe I'm a guy that's 150 pounds overweight, but he's a pretty good boss, but he's a little lazy. Say boss I'm sorry but you have to get up and get the vote for Trump. You got to get out and vote. And you can request an absentee ballot today. And if you already have one returned that valid right away, or just get out and vote. [9:26:48 PM] That's what I like, from Madison to Milwaukee from Oshkosh to our beautiful children. Right. And I know they laugh and they know I'm right. I had plenty of extra Green Bay to right here in Janesville, we inherit the legacy of Wisconsin patrons who gave their blood sweat and tears for our beloved nation. [9:27:21 PM] We stand on the shoulders of American areas, who cross the oceans, Blaze the trails settle the continent tame the wilderness dug out the Panama Canal. Lay down the roads I mean think of these things they can expect to raise up to great giant skyscrapers, one two world wars defeated fascism and communism and made America the single greatest nation in the history of the world, and we are making it greater than ever before. [9:27:58 PM] That's what's happening. Proud citizens like you helped build the country, build this incredible country. And together we are taking back our country. We are returning power to you, the American people. With your help, your devotion and your drive we are going to keep on working. We are going to keep on fighting, and we are going to keep on winning, winning, winning. [9:28:30 PM] We are one movement. One people, one family, and one glorious nation under God, and together with the incredible people of Wisconsin. We have made America are powerful again, we have made this country powerful like it's never been. We have made. Go wealthy again our stock market is just about it at all time I look at your stocks look at those 401 K's. How would you feel in the web down by 100%. [9:29:10 PM] And only go up. We have made America strong again. We have made America, proud again, we have made America safe again, and we will make America great again thank you. ###

FS24 WH MAGA MI EVENT POOL 4 1645 171526 TRUMP> Thank you very much, thank you all. What a great crowd. 171529 ["USA" chant] 171535 I have been here many times. I say we want car plants built here. We are building a lot of them. We're building a lot of them Hello, Michigan. Great to be with you. A special place. It's great to be back in this incredible state with thousands of loyal, hard working American patriots. We're all patriots. 17 days from now we are going to win the state of Michigan, we are going to win four more years in the white house. 171606 I'd like to speak with you today about one of the most vital issues in this race. You know what it is. It's the radical left's plan to erase American history, purge American values and destroy the American way of life and that's what they are trying to do. You see it every day, that's what they're trying to do. We are not going to let that happen. This election will decide whether we preserve our magnificent heritage or whether we allow far left radicals to wipe it all away. 171639 That's not going to happen. Joe Biden, sleepy Joe, has made a corrupt bargain in exchange for his parties nomination. He has handed control of his party over to the hard-core militant left. You know that. See that every day. The Democrat party you once knew long -- no long -- just no longer exists, right? It's not -- this is not the same party. These people are crazy. It's now the party of socialists, marxists, and left-wing extremists. If Biden wins the lawless demonstrators in our streets that are around Democrat-run cities and states, not Republican run. 171724 These are Democrat run. And we want to go in and we want to help them. And largely they don't want to be helped. It's an incredible thing. But they are all over our streets. And these areas will be ended. We want to end it. We want to end it. And you know, they're -- in theory, they are supposed to say please come in. They don't like to say it. Minneapolis they said it, we went in and boy, did that take about 30 minutes to solve that problem? And that's why, and that's why we are going to win Minnesota. 171756 Hasn't been won since 1972 by a Republican. We're going to win Minnesota. Of course, having people like Omar doesn't hurt either. Omar. (boos) Ilhan Omar. She doesn't love our country too much, I don't think so. They crave power and god help us if they ever did get it. God help us. I can tell you that. You just have to look all over the world at different places. God help us. 171825 This election day, the people of Michigan must stop these anti-american radicals by issuing Joe Biden and his group a thundering defeat at the ballot box. And by the way, it seems to be happening. Seems to be happening -- I don't want to speak too early. But, you know, there is a big story out right now. Did you know that? You know about it, right? You know, we are supposed to be way behind until election day when all the Republicans go, and you're gonna have a red wave like you have never seen before. 171902 And even the fake news media is saying that. We're going to have a wave -- we're going to have a wave like you have never seen before. But we are supposed to be way behind, you know, for the first few days. So it just came out, we are leading. [Cheers and applause] Early voting. But let's not talk about it. That doesn't mean -- You know what they call that? An early maybe signal, right? Maybe. Who knows, but there is a lot of concern on out there. This sounds a little bit like four years ago, but this should be much bigger. 171938 Because we have done everything we said and more. You know, we've done it all. We've brought your -- in your case, we've brought your plants back. You remember? 12 years ago or so I got man of the year in Michigan. I said well, that's nice. So, I came to Michigan and I made this speech like why are you allowing them to take your automobile making business - your car making business --- why are you allowing them to take it to Mexico and Canada and every place else? 172002 Why are you allowing it? I made this big deal. I actually got blasted for it. You know, they named me man of the year and I am complaining, right? But, no I hated -- it's probably why I'm here, it's probably the number one thing, what they were doing to us in trade. But now, now Michigan has many, many factories. You didn't have a factory built for 40 years. Now you have many factories being built, already built. And a lot of them being expanded. It's a whole different ballgame. 172027 Whole different ball game now. And they come in from Japan. I'll tell you, just, retired, a great man, Prime minister Abe. And I said to him, six months ago, I said, "Mr Prime Minister, you got to, you got to get us some more factories. You are selling cars to us, we are not taxing you. You know, a lot of crazy policies, but you got to get us -- " And he said, "well, this is a thing for companies." I said "you have great power." 172055 He said, "well, the government doesn't get involved." You got to do it. And he said, "Well, we will look into it." Next thing, he announced five factories coming in. (cheers) And he was, he was a great prime minister, and a great guy and he's a friend of ours. And he was forced(?), he had a medical difficulty. But I'll tell you what, what a fabulous guy. 172114 But we had -- I mean, what you are doing in Michigan has been amazing. Now, you have got to get your governor to open up your state. Okay? (cheers) And get your schools open. Get your schools open. The schools have to be open, right? 172142 ["Lock Her Up" chant] 172145 Lock them all up. And by the way, you can show all these -- look where that goes, all the way over to there. And all the way -- You can show, turn the cameras. Why don't you turn -- They never like turning the cameras. 172207 They never like to show the kind of crowds. That's a lot of people. That's a lot of people. Go ahead, turn your camera, go ahead, turn it. They hate to do it. They hate to show the crowds. You know, if you are watching television which a lot of people are when we do this stuff, they wouldn't put us on, but they always have this space right here. This and -- [cheers] about four people. 172241 We've actually made a couple of stars. There is somebody behind me here, here, here. They try to show as few people as possible. And if they had a certain look it worked out pretty well. They became stars, right? That's the way it works.That's the way it works. But, no -- it's really -- no, it's an honor to have -- We're having these crowds. In all fairness we are having these all over the country. I don't even say it was a big crowd.I just get off the plane and we talk. 172305 And the spirit is so incredible. Our enthusiasm is so incredible. It's so incredible [Crowd chants "We love trump"] No, the spirit is incredible. I don't think there's ever been anything -- like that little phrase. I won't even say it because they'll say, oh, why is he bringing that up? 172332 So, I won't say it, but that's never been used before. Nobody has ever heard that before. And we like Ronald Reagan, we like a lot of people. Nobody's ever heard that phrase before. You know why? Because there's people -- first of all, we've made tremendous progress. We've rebuilt our military, we cut your taxes at the highest level. We've gotten rid of more regulations than any president in history no matter how long they were in office. 172359 Oh, by the way, we just set a record. By the end of the first term we will have had maybe even more than 300 federal judges and -- and -- and 3 great supreme court justices. So you have Justice Kavanaugh, Justice Gorsuch, and you have Amy is going through right now. She's great. She has done -- she's done amazingly well. 172436 It's amazing to watch her compared to some of these radical left senators. It's like from a different ballgame, right? It's like go ahead. Go ahead. Hold up. We would like to see your notes. Oh, okay, here they are. There's nothing. Unlike Joe, she doesn't need notes. It's nice, right? Joe, he takes out -- the other day, did you see that? He takes out notes -- $200 billion? He's lost it. You know that. 172502 The modern left does not use reason or persuasion to advance their cause. They use intimidation, coercion and control and worse. They demand absolute allegiance or else and you saw that yesterday. Did you see Dianne Feinstein? She -- Lindsey Graham is a good guy. You know, they're friendly. They've been working forever together. And she happened to grab him, he grabbed her. You know it's a friendly-- 172527 They want to destroy the woman. These people are sick. I know we want to bring it all together, but we've got to sort of work through these things. One of the most sinister weapons of the extreme left culture is a thing called cancel or cancel culture. They want to cancel our entire heritage. If you do not repeat each and every one of their lies, you will be banned, censored, big tech titans what they do, they harass, they expel, they fire you from your job or deny the chance to earn a living. 172605 Here in Michigan a teacher was fired for tweeting that, "Trump is our president." She got fired. Where is she? Is she here tonight? Can you imagine? But, you know, we got a lot of people that like that. We like that person a lot. Whoever you are, we love you and we'll be there for you. We'll be there for you. Did you hear about that? I mean, did you hear about that? Nobody told me you were gonna have 40-mile-an-hour winds today. Would somebody give me a hat? 172640 Would you please give me a hat? I got all these hats. I am the only one without a hat on. Give me a hat. They'll get it. They will go in that big beautiful plane. If they don't have a hat in that plane. Look at that. Is that beautiful? That's a beautiful plane. We have a beautiful country. Actually I have the exact same plane. Can you tell it's the exact -- Boeing 757. It's a beautiful plane. Look at that though. Get me a hat out of that plane please. 172712 In Ohio a high school football player was suspended for displaying a flag honoring our great police. You saw that. When the New York Times published a piece by senator Tom Cotton, by the way -- great senator from Arkansas, great. Great, great guy, great senator. The editor of the "New York Times" had to resign because they put Tom Cotton's brilliant -- he's a brilliant person, brilliant student, brilliant everything. They put his piece in the New York Times. 172743 And the person that put it in had to resign. Can -- no, can you believe this? When the Philadelphia Enquirer published a piece saying that rioters shouldn't destroy buildings, that was the end of that journalist. I mean, can you believe it? These are not the tactics of a respectable political movement. This is the behavior of fascists and as bad as you can get. The point of cancel culture is not to convince you. It's to humiliate you and break you and control you. 172813 But the American people will never submit. We'll not apologize and we'll not be controlled and never be broken. No, nobody has seen anything like what's going on. Now, in other countries, you have seen it. And those countries have, in every single case, ended up very badly, just remember. 172843 The most divisive and insidious strategy of the Marxists and the Democrat Socialists and communists, in all fairness, you know, people say, "oh, that's not nice to use." Well, that's where it goes. That's the step. That's the next step. You know, that's where it goes. It's their crusade against American history, right? American history. And I just wrote this out because they had things, you wouldn't believe. 172903 They falsely and constantly smear America as a sinister and racist country that must be torn apart piece by piece. It has to be torn apart. We are not tearing anything apart. 172916 We are here today, and you know the truth, America is the most magnificent, most virtuous nation that has ever existed. The most. We've liberated millions from tyranny, rescued countless millions all around the world from poverty and built the most exceptional republic in human history. There's never been anything close. 172946 And you know what, I have a little secret. Just in this group, this small group of thousands of people. We are getting better and better and stronger. And we are going to have the best year we ever had. Yet the radical left despises this glorious inheritance. They despise it. 173003 When you watch and you see AOC plus 3, and you see these people. They actually despise it. Last month, the mayor of Washington, D.C. released a report that proposed the idea of removing or altering the Washington monument, the Jefferson memorial, -- (boos) -- the statues of Benjamin Franklin, Andrew Jackson, and Christopher Columbus. No, no, I mean, this is a serious report. 173033 And -- he says they're sick. I agree. I agree. I just -- I'm not allowed to say it. No, this is a group -- a star spangled group. Let's get rid of the Washington monument. Oh, that's a great idea, right? No, but these people, but you know what? We laugh and we smile and everyone thinks it's -- when this first started happening with statues of people that most of us, almost all of us never heard of, you know it started on a -- I said be careful, because they will go after Jefferson, Washington, they will go after Lincoln. 173105 And that was three years ago. And a friend of mine came to me the other day, he said "you know, you said this was going to happen." I said I did? He said "Yeah, you did. 173113 "You said all of a sudden it will keep going up." They took out Robert E. Lee. They want to take out grant. They want to take out anything. They basically want to take out our heritage. And we are not letting this happen. And Biden has absolutely -- Biden has absolutely no control. 173131 He's shot, number one. But even if he wasn't shot, he never had the kind of control that you have to have to become president. So then you have a group of people that want to blow up a gorgeous thing. You know, we were leading by so much, this thing wasn't even going to be an election, and then we had the plague come along. You know, this was -- I had to go back to work on this stuff. I didn't have to come to Michigan. I said look we are building all these plants, you got the best year -- you had the best year last year you've ever had. You are going to have a better year -- you're going to have a better year - -you're going to have a better year next year. But this thing was over. 173210 You know, -- look, nothing is ever over, right? But I would have had to work about 1/10, maybe less than that. It was essentially -- we had the greatest economy, greatest employment. African American, Asian American, Hispanic American, women, with a diploma from high school, without a diploma from high school, top of your class at M.I.T. It didn't matter. 173232 You had the greatest economy you ever had. And then -- and don't worry, it's gonna be -- you're going to have that next year -- wait until you see the third quarter numbers. You are going to have great numbers. Okay? You're going to have great numbers. But but, but, we had to close it up. And we saved millions of lives. It was supposed to be 2.2. The fake news never says that. But we are rebuilding and we're doing things you wouldn't believe. 173254 But there is cancel culture. So when we started and I had to start all over and I had to, you know, we had to do things a lot different, became a lot different country for a period of time because we had this horrible plague that came from China and we're not going to forget that it came from China. And all over the world it went, and it came from China. Okay? It came from China. The China virus. 173323 So things changed and we signed an incredible trade deal with China, but the ink hadn't even dried and this happened, but I made a speech at a magnificent place called Mount Rushmore, right? Mount Rushmore in South Dakota. And I made this speech and I think it was a very good speech and it was well received and all of that. It was so beautiful, that whole place. You have to see this. It was so beautiful. And the governor is fantastic. You know Kristy, right? Fantastic. 173355 And the people are fantastic and they're so proud of it. And I read where they want to blow up Mount Rushmore before I got there. I mean, they want to blow it up. They want to blow the face off mount Rushmore. I don't think that's happening. I think -- I think the people of South Dakota might not handle that too well. So, it's not happening. But think of it, where does this thinking come from? Where does the sickness come from? And we have to stop it and we've been. 172425 Like Sleepy Joe said nothing when statues of Christopher Columbus -- think of that. Christopher Columbus, they want to blow up all the statues. Now, he just blew the Italian vote by the way so I don't know. Anybody who is Italian here by any chance? Okay. If you are Italian do you happen to like Christopher Columbus? Christopher, huh? Christopher Columbus, no. Think of it. You are Italian. They want to blow up. 173452 You know, we had -- I think it was in New York, so they wanted to, they were going to rip down this gorgeous -- right, New York, right? And the italians circled it, they saw. That was the end of those people, they just sort of went away. You know, they're sitting there and standing there. They had various things they were holding, I won't get into that because they will say that's terrible. He's inciting violence, the president. No, but the Italians, a group of Italians that lived in that neighborhood surround this particular statue and after about five minutes of talk back and forth, the -- the radical anarchists on the, the antifa people nobody ever likes to talk about, they don't like to say antifa, You know. 173531 They don't like to say antifa. They like to blame everything on the right. This is the left. They like to blame everything on the right, but the Antifa people, okay? So they wanted to do it. But when they saw this group of people they said, you know what, let's take a pass. Let's go someplace else and rip down a statue. But now they're not doing it too much because I signed into law -- 173554 I signed a bill that gives you 10 years in jail if you rip down any federal statue. So -- so they -- this is a group though, so this is the statues and memorials. Recommendation, using the mayor's position, Washington, D.C., on the national capitol memorial advisory commission recommend the federal government remove, relocate the following. Christopher Columbus statue, Benjamin Franklin statue. 173630 Andrew Jackson. Great, great general, really good president. A great general, Andrew Jackson, the battle of New Orleans, right? The rag tags. Remember? He came in -- with the British, they came in their beautiful uniforms. They had the rag tags. The battle lasted about a half-hour, right? They want to take that statue of Andrew Jackson down right away. Thomas Jefferson, that's a tough one to take down, right? Thomas Jefferson. They want to take down the Jefferson memorial. Anybody seen the Jefferson -- I don't think we'll move it. I will tell you what, if I wasn't your president last summer you may have the Jefferson memorial taken down. It may be down. 173706 They weren't playing games. We weren't playing games either. The George Washington, okay here is the beauty. We want to take down the George Washington memorial, the monument. Okay? Well, this is the commission. This is what we are dealing with, folks. This is horrible. And they wanted to remove the name of George Washington from all of the places all over the country where they used it. Then they found there's like 5,000 places. 173737 No, we'll keep the name George Washington if you don't mind. If the -- if the media would perhaps put it correctly -- lot of people back there. There's a lot of people. You know, you watch those red lights. As soon as I start talking about it the red lights go off because they know what i'm gonna say. You know, Joe Biden said nothing when statues of Christopher Columbus were in trouble and a heroic signer of the declaration of Independence was removed by the Democrat politicians in his home state of Delaware which he never leaves in all fairness. 173810 Where is Joe Biden speaking today? Delaware. He doesn't speak. You know what he does? He gets up -- how about is -- how about his news conferences where the fake news media gives him the questions and the answers. They say what do you think about this or that, then he reads the answer? I have never -- I've been doing this, not that long, you know. I haven't actually been doing it -- relatively speaking I have been doing it for a short period of time, right? Fact, that's one of the reasons they said I could never win. They said he's never been a politician. But the fact is they gave him the questions, they gave him the answers. 173842 They will ask a question and he will read to them the answer. And did you see the other night with George Stephanopoulos. It was like -- you know what they call them. They call them softballs. Then I had to go on with that person -- you know that person. No, she was jumping out of her seat. She was jumping out her seat. Thank you very much. John. Everybody know, Johnny? [cheers] 173912 He's very conservative. He's a big star and I hate to say this. It's very incorrect. You don't say it anymore. But the women really like him a lot [Cheers and applause] [TRUMP PUTS ON MAGA HAT] 173929 Normally when I have a hat on I like to take the tie off. The heck with it, right? Okay, thank you. Thank you all. So, last week Biden, he attacked Christopher Columbus by refusing to recognize Columbus day. And he wants to change the name of Columbus day to indigenous people's day. Who likes that idea? Who likes it? What the heck are you saying? That's politically incorrect. 173959 They don't understand is they are politically incorrect. So, he wants to change it to indigenous people's day. Not as long as I'm president. Let me just tell you that, okay? But this is what -- you know what, that's just a point. But this is what we are dealing with. This is what we're dealing with. The radical left is eradicating our history and weak Joe Biden will let them do it. Now what about his vice presidential candidate? 174030 Hey -- and by the way -- by the way, I hope she is in good shape because a number of people in her group have caught COVID. COVID, as they say. So we all wish her best. Do we wish her best? Yes, we do. We do. We hope she is doing well. But she is now I guess she is in seclusion, right? How did Mike pence do against her? He did a great job, right? That was an easy one. I said, Mike, that was an easy one. 174101 He's been a great vice president, but he -- he had an easy evening. I said Mike, you had an easy evening, that's not fair. San Francisco just announced plans for a fascist purge of the names of local schools, erasing the names of Abraham Lincoln, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson from all schools. What are we going to do about this, right? That's Nancy Pelosi area. You know, that's nancy. 174135 I always say Nancy, go home and take care of the homeless in San Francisco. I've never seen her, you know. So she does. She goes home, takes care of her home which is a very beautiful home. They even want to erase the names of Democrat senators and Republican senators current and past. You know, they want to erase the name of Clinton. Hey, that will be next. 174101 That's a good one. Crooked Hillary, we'll take her name. Does she have her name on anything? I don't know if she's go her name on anything. If she does, I'm all for it. Take it down. Crooked Hillary. [Crowd chants "Lock her up"] Are we having a good time? Is there ever a better place to be than a trump rally? 174231 You know? (cheers) And generally we don't call it a rally because you know you are not allowed to have rallies because you can't meet more than two people. You know, they had a number of states and they had it so that -- it was all against me. I think Minnesota, but a lot of them where you can't have a rally and said you cannot have groups larger than three people, you can't have anything to do with politics, you can't do this, you can't do that, you can't do that. 174258 I said, "well, wait a minute, so I'm now precluded from ever going to that state and talking to the people which is really bad." They said "no, you can't do it." I said well is there any exclusion? "Yes, only protests." Right? An exclusion is a protest. And they didn't even use the word "Peaceful." I do, because I like to make it sound a little -- The only thing you could do is you could protest, you could riot in the streets of Minneapolis, burn down their stores, you could beat the hell out of people, you could do whatever you want. 174331 So I said "I have an idea. Let's call all our rallies which we do, peaceful protests." [Cheers and applause] And now we have no legal problem. Because if we call this a rally we would have a problem. So we call it a peaceful protest. So officially, if anyone asks you, like the fake news when you walking out, just say, "no, no this was a peaceful protest, thank you very much." 174354 If you are a moderate Democrat or a liberal who knows that your party has gone totally off the rails, you have a moral duty to immediately stop this lunacy. 174408 You must by law join the Republican party. (cheers) We welcome you to the Republican party and the party of Abraham Lincoln. You know, I say that. A lot of people don't know that. Yes -- the party of trump, yeah. 174431 We -- I'll tell you, we've done a lot. We've expanded this party. You see all the-- in Michigan and all these places. Thank you. Thank you. 174436 [Crowd chants "Four more years"] 174447 TRUMP>> You really drive them crazy if you say 12 more years. Twelve. Then they -- then they say he is a fascist, he is a fascist. 174501 ["12 more years" chant] 174509 What a group. Only in Michigan. Only in Michigan. So what all of the lawless rioters and flag burners have in common is that they're desperate to try and have a victory with a person who is totally unqualified, mentally, to be president. Okay? He's unqualified. 174530 You know? No, he's unqualified. Ask yourself this question: do you want to vote for the candidate supported by anti-american rioters? Which he is. (boos) Would you want to vote for the candidate supported by the heroes of law enforcement in virtually every -- (cheers) Biden will surrender our country to the mob. With your vote we'll save our country from the mob. We'll make our country greater than ever before. [Cheers and applause] 174607 To ensure our nation honors the memory of American patriots I am establishing a beautiful vast -- it's going to be chosen in the very near future, we have many sites -- a vast outdoor park that will feature the statues of all of the greatest Americans who have ever lived. It's going to be called the national garden of American heroes. Isn't that nice? (cheers) 174636 Now, you know me from private life. So I'm thinking of calling it the trump national garden of American -- (cheers) Somebody said why didn't you call it the trump national -- I said, no, I don't think I would get away with that one. To combat the toxic left wing propaganda in our schools, I recently announced that we are launching a new pro-American lesson plan for students called the 1776 commission. 174704 We'll teach our children the greatness and glory of America, if they don't know it. But you know, they are not being taught that. They are being taught that we are not great. I've also issued an executive order to prohibit the teaching of critical race theory in the federal government.(cheers) Critical race theory is a marxist doctrine -- oh, you are so lucky I'm your president. Because that was getting out of hand. 174732 No, this was getting out of hand. This was getting out of hand. This was getting in the military, this was going all over the place. This was getting out of hand. Critical race theory is a marxist doctrine that rejects the vision of Martin Luther King, Jr. and all of our great forefathers and instead forces people to judge each other based on race, skin color and other things that we are not supposed to be thinking about. We are not supposed to be in any way, shape or form thinking about. 174805 Critical race theory teaches that America is an evil country and that you are part of this oppression from the moment you are born. I will not allow federal taxpayer dollars to be used to spread anti american propaganda. And I went a step further because I ended it for government. And some of these guys were getting paid $350 a year to destroy our country by the way. I ended it. And then I was told that it's outside -- it's really an evil deal going on and very racist. Very racist. 174844 And I said well, what's the problem. They said well, we have a lot of companies that deal and do business with our country. You know, defense companies. A lot of big companies. And I said so what's going on? Well they are teaching it there, too. So, I signed another one just two weeks ago saying if you do that, you cannot do business with the United States of America. And it was rather incredible how fast all of those people were fired. That was the end of that. But they are lurking, you know, they are part of the problem and they are lurking out there. They're smart, they're plenty smart. 174915 We must reject left wing hate and unite as one proud national family. If sleepy Joe Biden and the Democrat socialists are elected, every citizen in America will be subjected to their extreme ideology, possessed by this marxist madness, they will kill your jobs, dismantle your police department, dissolve your borders, raise your taxes, destroy your suburbs. And I saved your suburbs. Women -- suburban women, you are supposed to love trump. I got rid of the regulation. 174959 You know, the fake news keeps saying that suburban women don't like me because I don't sound nice. I don't have time to be nice. I got a lot of work to do for you. (cheers) But I think I'm nice, I want to be nice. I want to help people. But, no you had, you had a regulation that will destroy and it has been over the years, I have been watching it for a long time. They want to build low income housing projects right next to your house. Would you like a nice low income housing project next to your suburban beautiful ranch style house? 175030 Generally speaking no. Of everybody -- he says "Let Joe live there." (laughs) Who said that? No, you did? Very good. I think that's -- every once in a while you hear like these pearls of wisdom from the audience. He goes, "Let Joe live there." You know, Joe lives pretty well for a guy that has been a politician all his life. 175057 Bu they want to fund extreme late-term abortion, pack your supreme court. Well look, then you have got to get out and vote. Of course, based on what I'm reading, in Michigan, a lot of you have gotten out to vote. Is that vote still crazy like it was? It's still like -- because you know, i'm just wondering. Maybe its an aberration. It's early, it's only been a few days, right? But that's maybe -- that's a big thing, you know, to me. That's a big thing. You know, that's like a poll. That hundreds of thousands of votes. That's like a poll. 175128 Have you ever seen these polls? We have interviewed 83 people. No, It's amazing. They are not likely to vote. You know, you are supposed to interview likely to vote. So they're not likely, they are registered. You know what a registered voter is? People that have died 14 years ago. Registered. Registered to vote. You have plenty of them in Los Angeles, you know. They have many people . They were over 100 years old. 175155 Every one of them voted for years. Then they got to be 110, they kept voting and the people said that well, this is getting to be like record territory. You know. When you have hundreds of them voting. No, it's a lot of --- a lot of corrupt stuff going on, but we are getting it. We're getting it. But they want to pack the courts -- pack the supreme court, that's a big deal. And you won't have Amy and you won't have the great people that we have been putting on the court. 175224 You're gonna have radical left judges who will become justices. You may have 15, you may have 16, you may have 18. I don't know. What they want to do is incredible. You know, they want to pick up four votes in the senate too. You know that, right? They want to add to our list of states. You know that, right? You will have a lot -- you'll have a lot of senators added. You will have a lot of congressmen added. You will have to rebuild those gorgeous rooms. You'll have to -- You will have so many seats added. All Democrats. Every one of them will be Democrat. You better get out and vote. You better get out and vote [Cheers and applause] 175304 They want to get rid of the filibuster, you know. They want to use the nuclear weapon. It's called the nuclear weapon. They want to get rid of the filibuster and they'll be able to do whatever they want. So, you got to get your president in office because we're going to protect your second amendment. We're gonna protect all of the things that you want, but without it you're not gonna have a second amendment. 175328 So, while I'm president I will protect and defend the American way of life, always. It's only gonna get better. So we are joined today by some friends of mine, they are warriors, really, they're really incredible people. Congressman Jack Bergman, where is jack? Where are you, Jack? Great job, Jack. Great job. How are we doing. Are we doing okay in Michigan? Huh? You are doing okay, too. Thank you, Jack. Great job. 175357 Michigan house speaker Lee Chatfield. Where's Lee? Young guy, Lee. Great reputation. He's doing a good job. He's good, right? Great reputation. Thank you very much. Congressional candidate -- somebody really fantastic -- I know all about Paul Young. Paul, thank you. Good job. I heard you are doing well, Paul. Michigan GOP chair Laura Cox. Thank you, Laura. Are we winning, Laura? Huh, we're winning? 175431 Those are pretty interesting numbers. Did you know that before you came out? It's a little -- even Laura's saying boy, I'm doing a good job, right? And by the way, get out and vote for an outstanding guy, John James, right? He's outstanding. John James. He's outstanding. I will tell you, I spotted him three years ago and he was doing something, and he was in this race. There were five or six people. 175502 I said go back. I want to see that. And it was John James. I said that guy is great. I'll tell you what and then I learned about him, west point, top student, top everything. Great helicopter pilot. Right? How is he doing? Good? I hear he's doing better than good. And he's running against somebody that nobody ever heard of. Peters. Who the hell is Peters? Nobody ever heard of him. He's made a big impact in Washington. He's the senator from Michigan and nobody ever heard of him. I don't know. 175535 But get out for John and get out for everybody. These people are incredible. And thank you all for being here. We appreciate it very much. Thank you. Also with us is one of your own. You know, we won the state of Michigan and this woman was brutal. She'd call, please, please, one more speech, sir. One more speech. At that time she called me Mr. Trump. So we hadn't won -- the Republicans hadn't won Michigan in many -- in decades, right? 175601 And I felt we were doing good in Michigan, right? I felt we were doing good, but, you know, when you haven't won it in like 38 years or something you, you know, you can feel good, but you start to realize maybe it doesn't work out. But this woman would call me and she'd say you have to come. So, finally we're toward the end, and I said Ronna, I will do it one more time, but that's it. I got a lot of places to visit. I love Michigan, but it hasn't been won in 36 years. I said, you know, Ronna, if you don't mind -- okay, I'll do it one more time. 175631 She said that's all I want. So I did it. The following day she called up, "you have to come back one more time." So, anyway -- so I did. I went to Grand Rapids. (cheers) Right? And we had 32,000 people. And you know what? That was at 1:00 in the morning. It was now election day, remember? And crooked Hillary came, and it was unexpected. You know, say what you will about her husband bill, he's a pro. 185659 He said be careful of trump. That was the first thing. He said, "you don't want to run against Trump" And that was -- you know, I view that as a compliment. They all smiled, they thought that was wonderful. But he said something very interesting. He said you better watch Michigan, cause he was here. He said, "I saw a trump-pence sign on every lawn." And he also said -- (cheers) He also said, "you better watch Wisconsin and you better watch Minnesota." Now, Minnesota hasn't been won since 1972. Said, watch -- And they all laughed at him. 175729 First of all, he's got instinct, he's a professional. Bill Clinton. Whether you like him, don't like him, actually sort of -- you got to like him, right? But, but, listen, he said, he said, you better be careful. And he came back and said very strongly, "be careful of Michigan." And so then all of a sudden, on the night before the election they took an unexpected trip, Barack hussein Obama -- (boos) -- Michelle Obama, Oprah -- (boos) -- and Hillary. They actually forgot about Hillary. 175804 And it was unexpected. And I heard about it. And I said oh, that means that they have a problem. Cause remember, they came here the night before. 500 people showed up. We had 32,000 people show up. (cheers) Because Ronna, our great Ronna, she said, sir, you got to come, and we did, and by the time we got here, I started speaking at 1:00 in the morning, I can't believe it. But I left and I said "so let me ask you a question. 175830 "It's been many, many years," and says, "how the hell do you lose if you have 32,000 people?" You know, cause that's like, the ultimate. She said "you don't." That's right. That's what happened. And I'll tell you what, the enthusiasm -- and not only in Michigan, but the enthusiasm all over the country is far greater, and it was great four years ago, it's far greater right now than it ever was. (cheers) So, Ronna, great job! Great job. 175857 Ted Nugent. Where is Ted Nugent? Where's Ted? Look at you. You doing well? You are a handsome devil, thank you. Great job, Ted. Thank you very much. Appreciate it very much. We just won a huge victory for voting rights in Michigan. Did you hear about it? Ballot harvesting, you know, that's the old Democrat thing. Ballot harvesting is now illegal as of a short number of hours ago. 175927 And ballots must be turned in on November 3. Also known as election day. Didn't they want them turned in, like a couple of weeks after the election? You know, we are waiting for Michigan. Well, they have a couple weeks, oh the whole country. This is just incredible. But anyway, we had a great decision, a great victory. Thank you, and some of our lawyers are here who represented us so well. Right? Justin and the group. 175955 They're here. Where is that great legal team? We have been having a lot of great victories. The press just doesn't like writing about it. But this was a great victory in Michigan. This election is a choice between a trump strong powerful beautiful recovery and a Biden depression. You will have -- cause he's going to raise your taxes. Quadruple. You will have the single biggest depression in the history of our country and I believe that includes 1929. That's what I believe. 180027 Okay? They are going to raise your taxes, put all the regulations back on, force all these companies that moved here and all over our country from all parts of the world they're going to all be forced to leave. You're going to have a problem like you've never had before. Because -- and you know what they want to do with the money? Fund the green new deal, okay.(boos) 180050 Let's spend 100, think of it, their real price is a hundred trillion dollars. A hundred trillion, not billion. We're now into the "T's". So what would happen if you had the best year we've ever had and you had it 100 years in a row, you couldn't make enough money to pay for that. But this is what they want to do. If you vote for me prosperity will surge. Normal life will fully resume -- and that's what we want. We want normal, life, like seven months ago. (cheers) And next year will be one of the greatest years in the history of our country. 180124 The Democrats would terminate our recovery with a draconian unscientific lockdown like your governor is doing right now for everybody except for her husband. (boos) That's right. She's doing it for -- everybody's locked down except my husband, he can go sailing any time he wants. A guy like Biden and the Democrats want to keep Michigan locked up, locked down and closed for business. 180158 No, it is so badly hurting your state. 180201 ["Lock Her Up" chant] 180214 And then I guess they said she was threatened, right? She was threatened. And she blamed me. She blamed me. And our people were the ones that worked with her people so let's see what happens. 180230 Let's see what happens. But I'll have to tell you something. Our FBI has to start looking at antifa and they have to start looking at some people that they're not looking at like they should be. 180244 Biden will shut down the country, delay the vaccine and prolong the pandemic. And it's time but you know we won another great case in Michigan, right? It was ruled unconstitutional what she was doing to you. [Applause] You know we have the task force. We've done a great job, we got everything. We've filled up your cupboard, as the expression goes, especially with the ventilators and all stuff that could never have happened. 180310 And we have these calls with governors. Mike pence sets(?) up task force, did a great job. We have great professionals, and we -- he took this thing and we have all of the governors, usually 50 governors on the line at one time. And they're always like, "Sir, you've done a great job, thank you very much. Great job, great job, great job." 180327 Your governors, down, it's all down. "Thank you very much, you've done a great job. On behalf of Michigan I would like to thank you, bah, bah, bah." Then she goes out, speaks to the press, "we're very unhappy with the president." You know being a real estate developer was much nicer. I used to say if you could make it in the world of New York real estate, they're the toughest people. Now I call these guys that are friends of mine, some I can't stand but some I like. I say "you guys are babies. Compared to what I go through with these maniacs you're babies." No, but it's true. 180359 But she's saying "thank you very much. It's great we have everything we need. You gave us 400 trillion goggles, you gave us this, you gave us that, you gave us more anything." We built hospitals, right, we built hospitals we did everything. We did things nobody could do, the army corps of engineers, and FEMA, the job they've done is incredible. And she and others, all, in all fair -- they're very happy, they all are, every single on. Even the real haters, they were happy and they would say happy. 180429 But in her case, and in some others, they would then go on and some were legit. Some were Democrat, some were against Trump, but they go out, they say, "did a good job." But she would go out, say great very happy. I said is there anything else you want governor? "No we have everything thank you very much. We really appreciate it on behalf of Michigan. Very good." And then she'd go out and bad mouth me. I mean, it is incredible. It's so dishonest. (boos) Right? It is so dishonest. But anyway, hopefully you'll be sending her packing pretty soon. By the way -- [applause] 180458 And be careful of her and her attorney general because you know they're like in charge of the ballot stuff right? So how the hell do I put my political -- and our country's political life in the hands of a pure partisan like that? Right? So you've got to watch it. Watch those ballots, watch what's going on. You're more important than any (?) and law enforcement is watching. Okay, they're watching. 180526 Did you see they found 50,000 ballots in like a river? They found ballots in an ash can. They happen to have the word trump on them, you know, they're Trump. They had another group of ballots that were printed, and if it got two words Donald Trump, they forgot to put them. Oh that's okay. You know, they figure that's okay they can write it in his name. He'll be only one. But no what's going on is incredible. And they know it. 180554 And then, you know, they say, they're taking away -- me -- I'm taking away their freedom. Then they say, if you lose, will you have a friendly transition? I say I want a fair election. Then they say "will you have a fair -- we want a fair and friendly transition." I said "really? Well when I won, you spied on my campaign. We caught you trying to overthrow the president of the United States. You're crooked as hell and we caught you and let's see what happens to them. But you're crooked as hell" and to me that didn't look -- that didn't exactly look like a friendly transition would you say? 180633 Mr. Congressman, that was not a friendly transition, please. So anyway, so we're -- you know the best way, if we could really win this decisively it would be fabulous. Just decisively. Knock out, it's a knock out punch. And you know what? We'll all get back together. Somebody said how do you bring the country together? I said it was happening. Before the China virus came in -- it's true. 180656 I was starting, getting calls from people, the most unlikely people, Democrats, very radical left Democrats, and all of a sudden you know we had the best employment numbers we ever had. We had 160 million people working. It's called make America great again. Now I say, make America great again again. It's make American great again again. We'll have to change those hats. 180722 But we had it and people were calling. And I'm telling you, the country was coming together and then we had the China virus float in. But this country was coming together because there's nothing like success and success was bringing it together. And people ask me can it ever get together? And some people here will be surprised when I say the answer is yes. Success is going to bring us together. And I'm telling you, we were there. We had just signed the deal with China. We had just made the usmca, Mexico Canada, great trade deal. 180757 Got rid of nafta, the worst trade deal ever made. But we were there and calls were being made and it was like -- and then we got hit with the pandemic with the rest of the world. And China kept it out of the rest of China. But they didn't keep it out of the world. So we can never forget that but I'll tell you what. What keeps us -- what will bring us all together is success. It's going to happen too. It's gonna happen. [Applause] 180827 It's going to happen. Our congressman will be having lunch soon someday with a radical left maybe AOC do you see yourself maybe -- that might -- he's going "I don't know about that." That might be a step too far, right? Omar -- he'll be having lunch with Ilhan Omar who truly hates our country. But she's one of the reasons we're going to win the great state of -- we're going to win. We're going to win because of Ilhan, right? We're going to win Minnesota because of her. 180856 You don't see having lunch with -- he refuses. He said I don't care how well we do I'm not having lunch with her right? Well he's a warrior, he knows what he's doing. I'm delivering a safe vaccine and a rapid recovery. And you see what we've done with the vaccines and the therapeutics and the cures. Hey I'm here! Me, I'm here. Right? No, we have great doctors, Walter reed medical center, incredible doctors. Johns Hopkins. One thing when you're president they have a lot of doctors. 180928 I'm laying in bed, I'm not feeling too great, and I'm looking up and I'm seeing doctors out there. I can't, please leave me alone. And each one wanted to touch a different part of my body. And I didn't like that. I said get the hell out of here doctors. But we had a -- a drug brand new, it's that regeneron, and some others, some others make something similar, antibodies. And all I know is I went from not feeling too great, now who knows? Might have been good, might have been -- you know, young people have no problem. 181000 And I made the mistake of saying in front of CNN and some of the fakers back there. I said well, I'll have no trouble because I'm young, I'm in extraordinary shape. I'm a very great physical -- and CNN said he lied to the American public. He said he was young and that he's in perfect shape. They can't take a joke, can they? They can't take a joke. No, but they made it into a big deal. They always do. You know, you can't do anything. I said with the illegal aliens would come in, Biden said we'll give them all medicare, we'll give them health care, we'll give them education. 181036 No, what it does is it brings them in. So I said that the Democrats want to give them health care, free college education and everybody that comes in by a certain date, you'll get a brand new Rolls Royce. Now, I was kidding, obviously. CNN said president trump lied when he said they were getting a Rolls Royce. He knew they weren't going to get a Rolls Royce, but he lied. These are sick people. I'm telling you. 181104 Biden's plan will crush Michigan. My plan will make this state stronger, better, in every single way than it ever was before. Joe Biden is the embodiment of the corrupt political class. You see what's happening right now. I mean -- and you know what? The lame stream media doesn't want to write about it and the giant tech companies and they're putting themselves in danger. Section 230, they are putting themselves because they're only existing because the government gave them something that they've never given anybody else and they don't want. 181141 You could find Joe Biden did the worst crime and they will keep it out of the -- it's the most unbelievable thing. I mean, no. It's the most unbelievable thing, what's going on. And nobody -- he's a criminal. He's committed crimes. For the last 47 years, Biden shipped away your jobs, shut down your factories, threw open your borders, ravaged our cities while sacrificing American blood and treasure in these ridiculous endless foreign wars. They're all coming home by the way. 181217 In 2016 Michigan voted to fire this corrupt and decrepit political establishment and you elected an outsider as president to finally put America first, right? America. [Applause] We've spent the last four years reversing the damage Joe Biden's group inflicted upon us over the last 47 years. He was a cheerleader for NAFTA, worst trade deal ever made. TPP would have been worse than nafta but I stopped it. And you know what else I stopped? The Paris environmental accord. [Applause] 181302 And I like prime minister macron alot but I said how's it going over there? How's the accord doing? They're not doing too good. No, I saved you trillions of dollars. Nobody else would have done it. You know, when I said man, I'm breaking this Paris -- i'm getting out of that thing, that was a disaster. They basically wanted to take our wealth. You can't use what's underground and we have it in other countries done. It was really a terrible thing. And you know what's funny? I got out, terminated it, got out and the people got it> They praised it. They thought it was fantastic except for some of those guys, they thought it was fantastic. 181336 Half of all auto manufacturing jobs in Michigan were lost after Biden backed NAFTA and the China disasters, right? World trade -- that's when China became strong. The world trade, one of the great ripoffs of all time. Biden should be asking Michigan workers for your votes. I mean, he's asking you for your votes. You know what should be asking -- he should be asking for your forgiveness. You should forgive him. I would say forgive him because even then he had no idea what the hell he was doing/ 181409 He was never known as one of your smarter senators. A friend of mine said 25 years ago, yeah, let's see our dumbest guy, probably Joe. I said who is Joe? Joe Biden. That was 25 years ago, that was prime time. This is no longer prime time. For decades our politicians spent trillions of dollars rebuilding foreign nations, fighting foreign wars and defending foreign borders. But now we are finally protecting our nation, rebuilding our cities, and we are bringing our jobs, our factories and our troops back home to the usa. [Applause] [USA CHANT] 181456 I'll tell you the spirit -- the spirit. Look at this sound, I mean, it is like -- it's like a great football game, right? No, really.No, no the sound. You don't hear this anywhere, more so -- it is more -- this country, we have spirit and that's why I'm not so surprised to hear what's happening. You know, in North Carolina they say certain areas that are, you know, inclined with maybe -- or thinking like you have to go out and work and love your life and get your kids in school all of those things. 181523 They say the lines are two miles long. They've never seen anything like it. The spirit in our country is incredible and that's happening. That's going to be happening in Pennsylvania, you watch. It's going to be happening all over the place. My first week in office, I withdrew from Obama-Biden's transpacific partnership which would have been the death to the American automobile industry. If we had signed that and you people are affected more than anybody and I'd always say -- and Ohio has done great and others but i always say. 181553 You know, we got to put these jobs back -- these autojobs back where they -- because you've got 34% of your automobile business was destroyed and shipped to Mexico. And I said, how the hell did anyone let that happen? And they'd make a car and send it back into our country, sell it so we lost all the jobs, all the taxes, all of the factories, they got everything. They'd sell it, and that's it. We got nothing. We got nothing. 181618 I renegotiated the disastrous Obama Biden trade deal with South Korea that also threatened to devastate your auto industry. And I doubled our auto exports under the deal. That was a deal -- that was the Hillary Clinton deal, remember that? She said this deal is great/ it is going to produce 250,000 jobs and she was right. You know what? For South Korea, not for us. Didn't produce anything for us. But it gave them 250,000. 181645 So we renegotiated it. You think that was easy? Biden supported the outrageous fuel economy standard that hammered the auto industry, just ridiculous, over a little -- just a little quarter of a last -- they had -- what they had to do. I reversed that rule and helped millions of families afford a safer, better -- just a better, more beautiful car. Stronger, safer, heavier. 181711 It could be a little bit heavier. Let it be a little bit heavier and safer and stronger. I ended the nafta nightmare and signed the brand new US, Mexico, Canada agreement into law. Everyone said that was going to be impossible. And it's just now kicking in, and I know it's good because the other two countries aren't so thrilled. But look, they ripped us off for years and years with that crazy nafta. Look at all the empty buildings you had all over from New England to here, all over the place. What a horrible deal that was. 181743 The USMCA is expected to create a minimum of 76,000 new automotive -- the auto fixtures, the automobile jobs, automotive jobs, you have so many of them and they're all coming and many are coming out of here and that includes 76,000 -- we think, right here. It's going to be in Michigan and we actually think that's a low number. It could be much higher than that. [Applause] 181809 It includes a lot of wage protections too. I took the toughest ever action to stand up to China, defending Michigan workers against China's plunder and theft and you know what I mean. If Biden wins, China will own America. He's going to own it, first of all. First of all they pay him a fortunate so you know why -- he works for China basically. He works for China. How much money has China -- how about Russia -- so the mayor's wife of Moscow gives him three and a half, the son, Hunter, with no experience, no nothing. 181846 But they found his laptop, can you believe this guy? They found his laptop. And they have everything, I mean, they found -- this is a disaster. They found Hunter's laptop, where's Hunter? Where's Hunter? Hunter is not doing so well. I called him the vacuum cleaner. I changed my name. You know, I used to call him where's hunter. His first name was where now the vacuum cleaner. 181911 His father goes into a country, he's right behind him saying give me cash. That's what happens. By the way, it's what happens. Think of it. Ukraine, he got $183,000 a month. $3 million up front payment to advise them on energy. What do you know about energy? Well, I don't know anything about energy. Oh, that sounds like a reasonable deal. Even our congressman would take that deal, right? Anybody would take that deal. Is there anybody that wouldn't take that deal? No, we call him the human vacuum cleaner. Father goes into China. He follows him into China, walks out with a billion and a half dollars to manage which is millions of dollars a year. 181947 I call the head of the biggest wall Street firm, probably the smartest guy on wall street. I say, can a thing like that happen? He says no, it is impossible. It doesn't even happen to me and I have the best reputation for investment. It's a disgrace and let me tell you, it's dishonest, and when he tells that -- you talk about quid pro quo. I never had a quid pro quo. How about this quid pro quo? 182007 We're not gonna give you a billion dollars unless you get rid of the prosecutor, get rid of him, out of that company which is his son. Stop investigating my son and stop investigating or I'm not giving you the billion dollars of our money. And then he goes, boom, the prosecutor was fired. 182026 And they got the billion dollars. And the press refuses to write about it because they are actually equally corrupt. They're allowing it to happen. They are allowing it to happen. And many other things -- and many, many other things, okay look, it's all coming up. 182044 Many other things. The fake news, CNN, CNN is so bad. They can take a great story and make it like terrible. They are truly, in my opinion, one of the most dishonest groups of people I have ever seen in my life. And by the way, you know what? And they're ratings suck. They're ratings suck. Joe Biden is a corrupt politician and the Biden family is a criminal enterprise and I totally mean it. 182118 It's a criminal -- take a look at the brother. All of a sudden he's a big builder in Iraq. How did that happen? Oh, how did he get to Iraq? He hasn't built anything, how did you get to Iraq to build big developments in Iraq? His brother. He makes Hillary Clinton, I call her crooked Hillary as you possibly have heard, look like amateur hour. I also authorized millions of -- I don't think they like me too much what do you think? I also authorized millions of dollars to save Michigan's incredible, beautiful vital but falling apart sulaks. 182153 And fought over -- (cheers) -- and I had to fight like hell with the Democrats to get it done. And we got 900 million dollars for the great lakes restoration initiative. All done. It's all done. [Applause] I don't have to say I'll do it because it's all done. And the locks were in terrible shape. You were going to lose them very quickly and we have them, it's going to be incredible what we're doing. 182222 They said, "sir, do you want to do the good job, the okay job, the passible job, a little minor renovation or a great job?" And I said "let's see. It's Michigan and a couple of other great states. Let's give them the A-plus job." And we did. 182235 Okay? We gave you the A-plus job. One of the greatest dangers facing Michigan is Biden's plan to flood your state with refugees from terrorist hot spots all around the world. (boos) Including Syria, Somalia and Yemen, you know that. You know about that right? It's in their plan. It's in the manifesto that he agreed to with Bernie Sanders, crazy Bernie. Greatest loser on Earth Bernie Sanders. 182303 He gets beaten every time, and he goes right back to work. I'll vote for this. I never saw a guy that could stand being beaten up so badly. He got, I mean, he got hammered by the Hillary thing but he really got hammered this last time. All she had to do, Pocahontas, is leave one day early and he would have won every state. And he goes back and he says "let's have dinner, pocahontas." 182324 Biden has pledged a colossal 700% increase -- this is all in writing, by the way, you know it's not -- increase in the flow of refugees. He will turn Michigan into a refugee camp. 182338 Biden has also pledged to terminate all national security travel bans, overwhelm -- you know I got a travel ban that no nobody talks about. But I said you know, if a country thinks bad of us, if the people want to blow us up, if the people want to kill us, if the people hate us, I want a travel ban, is that so bad to ask? 182358 And people fought me this and that's not nice. I won. We won. In fact we won on the supreme court. We won in the supreme court. Now we keep people that hate us out of our country. Biden wants to -- he wants to give up the travel ban. He wants to knock down the -- you know the wall is almost complete. Right? Over 400 miles. [applause] And we have the strongest southern border now we've ever had. And it's incredible what we've done on the southern border. Biden wants to knock down the wall, that's what we hear. They said do you want to knock down the wall? I don't think he even knew what the hell they were asking him. 182432 Doesn't matter what he wants, it is what his handlers want. They want to overwhelm Michigan with poorly vetted migrants from jihadist regions. Well Omar wants that to happen, AOC wants that to happen. Ilhan Omar, she's not happy with our country. She's not happy with our country. She wants to tell us -- she wants to tell us how to run our country right? Take a look at that. She wants Ilhan Omar -- but I like her very much because damn it Minnesota you better vote for me. If that -- plus the riots -- right? Where they took down Minneapolis. 182513 We saved it. We sent in the National Guard. We saved it. [Applause] Well, it took up the better part of a half of an hour. You know, they could have caused -- they could have called about two weeks earlier, right? Would have been -- and I would've loved to go into Portland because first of all, Seattle, we said we're going in. 182532 And we were going in the next morning and they all said "we're going to leave now, thank you very much." But we're not supposed to. What we're supposed to do is they're supposed to ask us and we want the governor of Oregon, port land we want the governor of Oregon to call us. We will solve that Portland problem in a period of would you say -- a half an hour or less. Wasn't that beautiful? In Minneapolis? 182559 They came in, these soldiers with the most expensive helmets in the history of man kind. You approved them. They had more computers, they have everything. They can look at somebody and that somebody is gone. But they came in boom, boom, boom, you saw one, two, three black outfits. Then all of a sudden, you had a second row, and a third row, and a -- and they had their tear gas and they had their pepper spray, which the other side doesn't want us to use because it is not nice. 182623 You know, they can throw cans at you and they can throw rocks and stones and hurt your police, but you're not allowed to guard yourself with tear gas, pepper spray which 100% are effective. So they just march forward and the whole thing was over. It was like -- it was over. Right? 182643 I don't know there's something about that when you watched everybody getting pushed around, there's something very beautiful about it, I don't care what anyone says. Not politically correct. I'll be on, they'll say he thinks that that was beautiful. But you people get it. You get it probably better than I do even. Right? When you get right down to it. But what they're doing will not only undermine your security, but it will overcrowd your hospitals and divert needed resources for low income communities that were all for. We want to help people. We want to help our citizens. 182714 Undermine leadership. We achieved the most secure border in US history and when the wall is finished, which will be very soon, we are going to have a great big, beautiful celebration. [Applause] And with that wall, by the way, you know we're keeping out terrorists, extremists, violent criminals, rapists, murderers, and we also, I have to say, our border patrol and ICE have done an incredible job. You know I.C.E. has removed thousands, thousands of ms13 out of our country. 182750 And not a lot of people want that job. That's a tough job. That's a danger - you have to be a certain type of person. You don't want it -- this handsome guy with the sunglasses, you don't want it. He doesn't want to be a member of I.C.E. They go into what they call a nest and their fists are flying, and everything, and then they walk out and that's the end of that. No these guys are tough and smart and you know what? They love our country and we love them too. (cheers) We invested 2.5 trillion in the United States military. We have the greatest equipment any nation has ever had. 182824 When I came, a highly overrated general told me "sir, we have no ammunition." Well, maybe you had to do something. "We have no ammunition, sir." I said, "no president should ever hear that again." Anyway, we spent 2.5 trillion dollars and we have the greatest equipment; missiles, rockets, tanks, planes, fighter jets, ships, tankers, bombers. We have the greatest equipment. We have, I call it the super-duper missiles thals go very fast. Hydrosonic, right? Super dupers. 182900 They go 5 to 7 times faster than the fastest missile in the world. They go so fast you can't do anything. I mean it is like and by the way -- our nuclear is rebuilt. Replenished. And here's what you have to do: we had no choice. It was not in good shape. Hope to god we never have to use any of this equipment. Okay? And the best way you don't have to use it is if you have it. Okay? That's -- but we have the best ever. That we've ever had. 182929 We launched -- all made in usa by the way. Every ounce of it. [Applause] And we launched the first new branch of the U.S. Armed forces in 75 years. United States armed forces. 75 years, think of it. The space force. All right? Which people -- really, I mean, look, you know, couple of them made the statement, whether you like them or not, I made promises during the campaign. 183000 But some of them say I actually produced more than the promises I made. I suppose most politicians never keep their promises. But think of it -- space force. I never talked about space force. I realized after being here for a year and a half I said, you know, Russia is doing big stuff out in space, China is doing big stuff. I said, we got to have a space force. They were not happy when this happened. But we got it through congress, thanks to your congressman and various other people, right? 183027 We did a good job. Thank you, man. We did a good job and we have space force and it's going to end up being one of our most important without question. I withdrew from the last administration's disastrous Iran nuclear deal -- 150 billion for nothing. Here's 150 billion. 1.8 billion in cash. I'm even more impressed with that. Think of it, cash. 183048 1.8 billion dollars they got. And you know what we got? Nothing. We got nothing. In fact that agreement is almost going to expire if we didn't terminate it which we did. I kept my promise, recognized the true capital of Israel and opened the American embassy in Jerusalem. [Applause] 183113 I also recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights. 51 years they were working for it. 52 years. They'd come in every year, they'd in with us, beautiful jets, and everybody would come in. They'd have lunch and they'd talk two or three days. Then they'd leave. 52 years that went on. I did it in about two hours. Golan Heights. And instead of endless war, we are forging peace in the Middle East. No blood on the sand. [Applause] No blood. No blood. 183143 I did more in 47 months than sleepy Joe Biden did in 47 years, which is true. Now the Democrats are pushing the most far left agenda ever put forward by a presidential nominee. The Biden plan would destroy social security and destroy protections for preexisting conditions. His running mate cosponsors a socialist health care plan to ban private insurance. A lot of you have private insurance. We have 180 million people, and they love their private insurance. 183220 And they want it. They don't want to go into a hospital ward when they have a cold. They want to have their private insurance, and they want their doctor, and they want their plan. And Obama said that you can have your doctor and you can have your plan. And he said it 28 times, and he lied. Biden also supports the abolishing school choice in charter schools. It's not going to happen. [boos] In a second term, I will provide school choice to every parent in America. [Applause] 183253 A vote for Republicans is a vote for safe communities, great jobs, and a limitless future for all Americans. It's a vote for the American dream. That's what we're doing. [Applause] 183307 And in conclusion, over the next four years, we will make America into the manufacturing superpower of the world. And we will end our reliance on China once and for all. [Applause] We will hire more police, and thank you to law enforcement for being here. [Applause] You're all over. We love our police. Thank you. Thank you. We have a lot of law enforcement there. I said to Biden during debate, I said, name one law enforcement group that supported you, and Chris Wallace bailed him out. 183343 Then I said, say the words law and order. Just law and order, nothing fancy. Law and order. We just want law and order. Everybody wants that. And he said he didn't want to get involved. And then Chris Wallace bailed him out again. I said no, no, no, you can't do that, you know. Because I was really debating two people. No, I was really debating one. Chris Wallace. But I said name it. Name it. Then I think he said, didn't he say something like, oh, law, order ,and safety, and security, and his, you know. 183412 He wanted to soften it up, because the radical left will throw him overboard for that. No, I said, say law and order, but he couldn't do it. But he got bailed out. But he's going to increase penalties. If you take a look at what's going on with assaults. We are going to take care of our police, and when they do bad things to our police, the people that do it are going to suffer the consequences. [Applause] Okay. 183440 I think I have every police group in the nation. In fact, they had down as part of that script, I was supposed to read them, I said, I can't read that long. I would have been reading here all day long. But we have literally every police group in the nation. We even got endorsement of New York City police. They've never done it before. [Applause] 183501 We got the endorsement of Chicago police, and you know that's tough. Because -- they never did it. We've got every law enforcement. We've got Florida, Texas, we've got everybody. They're all, they're all where -- we do have New York, that's right. But I just want to thank them, because they're incredible, and they take a lot of abuse, and they don't realize it. The people of our country love them, just realize it. [Applause] 183528 And we will ban deadly sanctuary cities, get them out of here, nobody wants them. The only ones who want them are the politicians. The people in California don't want them. The politicians want them. We will uphold religious liberty, free speech, and the right to keep and bear arms. [cheers] Second amendment. We will strike down terrorists who threaten our citizens, and we will keep America out of endless, ridiculous foreign wars of places you've never even heard of. [cheers] 183601 We will maintain America's unrivaled military might, and we will ensure peace through strength. We will end surprise medical billing -- that surprise medical billing is a bad deal, and it's now ending. Require price transparency, all signed up. Goes into effect January 1st. Can you imagine? 183626 If this sleepy guy gets in, and it's January first, and everybody says, this price transparency -- I'll tell you what. It's bigger than health care. Wait til you see. It's bigger than health care. You talk about pricing. Bigger. And can you imagine? He'll get credit for it. They'll say, Biden did a phenomenal job on price -- People have been trying to get this thing for 25 years. I got it done January. 183649 I said to my people, couldn't you do it like from six or seven months ago but they have statutory limits. You had to wait here, there, that. So on January 1st I better damn well be president. I'll tell you. Well, I will be. I will be. Yeah, I will be. For 20 days. Don't do this to me. Don't do that. You can't do that. No, no. 183711 So January 1st it goes into effect, we go out to January 20th. But you know what, I honestly believe I don't think we're going to have to worry about it. I think we're going to have price transparency. We'll be here four years and then if we decide to go for extra four or eight or something. [12 MORE YEARS CHANT] 183746 TRUMP>> Well, I think 12 is going to be now the gold standard. That will be - that will be -- that will be the new chant and other thing we're doing is you know to further reduce the cost of prescription drugs. We've reduced it. The first time in 51 years anyone got, but now we're talking big because I have instituted a favored nation clause and I also got rid of the middle men. The middle men were making a fortune and yesterday I said, I'll bet you, right. 183813 I'll bet you Hunter Biden is a middle man too. These middlemen have made a fortune. I mean, they make more money than the drug companies, the middle men. It's all because of horrible legislation and crazy things. And we're thinking that probably Hunter Biden got a big piece of the action for his father. He got it for his father? Did you see the letter where the father is supposed to get 10% of everything? 183837 The father, he's running for president. He's a national security risk. We will strongly protect medicare and social security and we will always protect patients with preexisting conditions. [Applause] America will land the first woman on the moon and the United States will be the first nation to land an astronaut on Mars and that's very exciting. And all of that has happened. We will stop the radical indoctrination of our students and restore patriotic education to our schools. That's happening. 183918 We will teach our children to love our country, honor our history and always respect our great American flag. [Applause] And we will live by the timeless words of our national motto, in god we trust. We're not getting rid of it.. For years you had a president who apologized for America. Now you have a president who is standing up for America and standing up for the great people of Michigan. [Applause] 183957 And I've been doing that long before I even thought about running for office. It's true though. When I came here, I don't know, 10-12 year ago I was just - it was always my number one issue. How come our country is being ripped off so badly by other countries? So I'm probably here because of Michigan, maybe more than any other reason if I think about it. 184017 So get your friends, get your family, get your coworkers, get your boss if you have a boss and he's a little lazy, say boss, you get your ass out of that chair and get out and vote. Get out and vote -- this is the most important election in the history of our country. Most important. And I never thought I would say that after our last victory. This is the most important election we've ever had. 184044 Send in your absentee ballots if you have requested one or you can vote early by going in and casting your absentee ballot in person, just make sure you vote. And make sure your ballot is counted. You are dealing with a very tricky smart group of people. From Lansing from Macinaw, From Pontiac to Saginaw, From Kalamazoo to right here in Muskegon, a great place, we inherit the legacy of Michigan patriots who gave their blood, sweat and tears for this beloved nation. 184129 This is the state where Henry Ford invented the assembly line, think of that. Think of that. Great things happened in this state. It's a place where General Motors, Chrysler, Kellogg revolutionized entire industries, Amazing when you think of what Michigan has done. Michigan gave us motown, gave us the mustang and gave us the unrivaled might of the American midwest, right? I mean, think of that. 184207 Think of what Michigan -- you know when you think, Michigan is something very special. We made America into the single greatest nation in the history of the world. And the best is yet to come. You watch. It's going to come. Proud citizens like you help build this country and together we are taking back our country. We are returning power to you, the American people. That's what we're doing. 184237 With your help, your devotion and your drive, we are going to keep on working, we are going to keep on fighting and we are going to keep on winning, winning, winning -- right? We are one movement, one people, one family and one glorious nation under god. And together with the incredible people of Michigan, we have made America powerful again. [Applause] 184315 We have made America wealthy again, look at our stock market. Look at that market. Look at your 401(k). How are your 401(k)s doing? Huh? You want to see them crash, vote for sleepy Joe. You'll have 401(k)'s that will be worth, they'll be lying right on that floor, you'll throw them away. We have made America strong again. [Applause] We have made America proud again. 184345 We have made America safe again and we will make America great again. Thank you, Michigan, go out and vote. [Applause] ###

FS23_PA_TRUMP RALLY STIX_POOL 3_1840 CNN POOL PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP DELIVERS REMARKS AT A MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN RALLY IN JOHNSTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA STIX HEADON WASH 3 PRESIDENT TRUMP JOHNSTOWN PA RALLY POOL 10132020 193407 TRUMP>> Hello Johnstown. Thank you very much. This is going to be a great evening. It's incredible to be back in Pennsylvania, the proud home of American independence, the American Constitution and American freedom. That's true, huh? What a history. And 21 days from now we're going to win the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and we're going to win four more years in the White House. 193438 This election is a simple choice. If Biden wins, China wins. All these other countries win, we get ripped off by everybody. If we win, you win, Pennsylvania wins and America wins. It's very simple. For years the selfish and corrupt political class betrayed the people of Pennsylvania. You know that. And the people of our country. 193500 Career politicians like Joe Biden lied to you. I don't think he knew he was even lying to you, you wanna know the truth, he's gone. He's shot, folks. I hate to tell you, he's shot. He abused you, he crushed you, your dreams, and outsourced your jobs to China and distant lands all over the world. As a senator Biden's last American trade policies were a total disaster. They dismantled your steel industry and decimated entire towns in your area. 193531 And we brought back steel, and we put tariffs on steel and we stop dumping steel and aluminium. As vice president, he closed down 10 thousand factories, while raking in cash from corporations that moved jobs overseas. And his family got rich. You know that. How did hunter make three and a half billion dollars from the mayor of Russia, Mayor of Moscow's wife, how did that happen? 193600 So you have the mayor of Moscow, got a wife, gave hunter three and a half million bucks. I wonder what he did for that money, huh? The fake news, they refuse to talk about it. They don't want to hear about it. Biden's a servant of the radical globalists, the wealthy donors, the big money special interest, who shipped away your jobs, shut down your factories and you know it, because you really suffered, right, this area. 193629 Threw open your borders and ravaged our cities while sacrificing American blood and treasure in these ridiculous endless foreign wars. They're all coming back home. Don't worry, they're all coming back home soon. They've been on their way for a long time. In 2016, Pennsylvania voted to fire this failed and decrepit political establishment. And you elected an outsider as your president to finally put America first. That's what we did. 193707 And we did not come this far, overcome this much and fight this hard only to surrender our country back to the depraved Washington swamp and by the way, did we catch them? We caught them. We caught them. We caught them. watch what happens. Watch what happens. They spied on our campaign. What they did -- what they did should never ever be allowed to happen to this country again, never. Watch what happens. 193737 This is the most important election in the history of our country. Biden has made a corrupt bargain in exchange for his party's nomination. He has handed control to the socialists and Marxists and left wing extremists, like his vice presidential candidate. That's another great one, isn't it? I just watched her on television coming in because the great thing about air force one, we have more televisions. They're in closets, they're all over the place. They're on the floors, on the ceilings, and I watched her and I compared her to Amy, great future supreme court justice. 193821 And I will tell you Amy's made a great impression. [FILL THAT SEAT CHANT] And you know Biden, he can't stand up to the lunatics running his party. He can't even find his way off the stage without him look -- look what's happened. Yesterday he didn't know the name. He said you know the guy, I think he's a Mormon, right? He said he's a Mormon. He's talking about Mitt Romney, he forgot Mitt Romney's name. 193852 Can you imagine that? Can you imagine? Then he didn't know where he was. He said where the hell am I? Where am I? No, he's shot, folks. He's shot. I'm running against the single worst candidate in the history of presidential politics. And you know what that does? It puts more pressure on me. Can you imagine if you lose to a guy like this? 193915 It's unbelievable. It's disgusting. it's disgraceful. If he wins the radical left will be running the country. He won't be running the country, the radical left will take over. And how about Pennsylvania? So, he says there will be no fracking. No fracking. This went on for a year and a half, no fracking. No fracking, no fracking. 193938 Then Elizabeth Warren refused to get out. So they stole another one from Bernie. Bernie's the greatest loser of them all. This guy, every four years they steal it. So she refused to get out, Pocahontas. She refused to get out. Right? They wanted me to apologize for saying the word Pocahontas, so -- no no, I apologize to Pocahontas, the real one. 194000 No, no, she wouldn't get out and she took enough votes away and Biden won super tuesday. That shouldn't have happened. But if I don't sound like a typical Washington politician fortunately that's because I'm not a politician. I'm not a politician. But think of that you know you talk about politician, no fracking for a year and a half. Right. And then he goes to Pennsylvania says no no there'll be fracking, like nothing happened. 194030 Can you imagine if I did that? No fracking, no fracking, no fracking -- I'm the opposite by the way -- no fracking, no fracking, no fracking. Then you win and you go, you know, you gotta go a little to the other direction, a little bit to the right, although he actually went further left which is sort of an amazing thing, but then all of a sudden he comes out in favor of fracking. And let me tell you it's always the first thing that turns out to be true. Okay? They will lose, you will lose in Pennsylvania, a million jobs. There will be no petroleum products, there will be no fracking whatsoever. 194059 And did you see his party now is really angry at him because he's saying maybe there'll be fracking. It's a very conditional, you know, it's a very weak. But with me, you're gonna frack. You're going to frack. (cheers) And you're gonna keep your energy low and we're independent. You know we are now energy independent, first time ever. So if I don't always play by the rules of the Washington establishment it's because I was elected to fight for you. 194128 And I fought harder for you than any president has ever fought for their people. (cheers) Right now I'm fighting to eradicate the virus, rebuild the economy and save our country from the radical left. Now, that's a big thing saving it, because these people, this will end up being a large scale version of Venezuelan, if they get in. They don't have water. They don't have medicine. 194153 They don't have food. They don't have anything. Despite everything they've thrown at us, we've done more in the first three and a half years than any administration in history. And the best is yet to come. (cheers) It's true. A recent Gallup poll just came out -- 194215 ["Four More Years" chant] 194228 The Gallup poll just came out that found 56% of Americans say they're better off today than they were under sleepy Joe and Obama. It's the highest of any president at this point in his term, think of that. 56%, this is as we round the corner on the pandemic, 56%. They were much much lower. Just remember this, if they were any good, I wouldn't have run for president, but they were no good. They did a horrible job. They did a horrible job. 194301 Yesterday Biden told those 56% of Americans that they probably shouldn't vote for him and for once I agree with Joe. Did you hear, you said, you shouldn't vote for me, you know. He has no idea what he's saying. How the hell do you lose to a guy like this? Is this possible? Oh, I'll never come to Pennsylvania again. I love this place. You know, they say he was born in Scranton, but he left. He left, he abandoned you. He didn't -- give me a break. [WE LOVE YOU CHANT] Thank you. I love you too. Thank you. Thank you.Thank you. 194332 By the way this is a lot of people here tonight, a lot of people. I wish the fake news would show it. They never turn the cameras, you know. I go home, our great first lady always says how is the crowd? I said, didn't they show? No, they just show your face, and about five people behind me right? They become famous (?) Why don't you show the crowd though? Why don't you do yourself a favor, show the crowd. Go ahead. 194423 One of the most important issues for Pennsylvania is the survival of your fracking industry. Joe Biden has repeatedly pledged to abolish fracking. He's a liar, okay? He's a liar. How do you do it? How do you do it? He went for a year and a half. They said are you -- remember the debates with the radical left democrats right? You had Alfred e Newman, you had all these people, you know, Alfred E Newman is? Yes. Pete Buttigieg. Pete Buttigieg. 194455 He's a bad mayor of a failed town and he's gonna run for president, Pete Buttigieg. But you know, he's talking about it and does that mean everybody -- nobody is going to do fracking? That's right. Nobody, nobody, I swear. Nobody. nobody, nobody. Then he gets up, I've never seen anything like it in my life, and not one fake reporter back there said, well, wait a minute. You've been pledging for a year and a half, no fracking. But then what about the health care for illegal immigrants? Who in this group is going to provide healthcare for illegal immigrants? Everybody raises their hand. Remember, Joe? 194531 No, do you remember? This is a famous clip, but they don't ask him questions about it because they're fake. You remember, Joe? Who's going to provide -- and look, we all have hearts, and we want to take care of everybody. But you know the problem when you do that, we don't have the money. The whole world is gonna empty out into our country. They're gonna come for health care, they're gonna come for a college, free college. I say sometimes jokingly, sarcastically everybody gets a free Rolls Royce, to which cnn says, they don't get a free Rolls Royce. He has misrepresented. 194601 You know, these people are sick. [CNN SUCKS CHANT] Everybody gets a free Rolls Royce. They don't get a free Rolls Royce. The President has misrepresented. Oh, they are sick people, but think of it. So remember when Joe -- they said raise your hand if everybody's in favor of free everything, right? Free everything, but free health care for illegal aliens, and Joe goes like [MIMICS BIDEN]. He had no idea what the hell he was doing, folks. He has no clue. 194639 And he's not a nice guy, you know, just so you understand, not a nice guy. If he was a nice guy I wouldn't hit him like this but he's not a nice guy, he's a bad guy. He's always been a dummy, but he's always been -- he's never been. No, no, in his best of years he was considered a dumb guy. When asked about fracking, Biden said he would sure, absolutely make it, we will eliminate it. 194704 That's what he said. Those are the exact words and then he said it 19 different times and one day he said, I never said that. It's incredible and they don't question him. I couldn't get away with it for a minute, not for a minute. Did you see the town hall he had with NBC? That was a town hall for a child, a young child. Baron Trump -- actually barons far too advanced for that town hall. 194732 That was a town hall -- Lester Holt, Lester Holt. That was a beauty, right? That was some town hall. That was -- and they said yes we have a random sampling of people, yeah all Trump haters. Right? What a group of people. But he raised his hand, he said, "illegal immigrants will get health care." Now, people don't realize what that means. 194757 That means your Social Security goes down the tubes, your country goes bankrupt, you know, the whole thing is a disaster. But he raised his hand. Now he's trying to say he didn't do it, and they don't call him out because they're fake. His radical left running mate, who I just watched on television, she is so pathetic, is a co sponsor of the socialist green New Deal, which eliminates all fossil fuels. (boos) She's having a hard time getting out of that one. Did you hear the other day she actually came out in favor of fracking? It was like, "Yeah, I think so." 194831 She's further left than Bernie. Did you see -- Bernie, I thought was the furthest left of the Senate, cause you just don't get too much worse right? Then you go -- instead of socialist you go to the C word right? She's further left. She is considered further left than Bernie. This is and you know they're looking and -- when Nancy Pelosi does the 25th amendment, she's doing it for Biden. You do know that right? 194855 Cause they want to get Biden out and that won't be hard. But at this very moment Biden's website includes a pledge to mandate net carbon emissions, which means fossil fuel, coal, everything is gone. And it's gone soon, okay? And with that goes our economy and with that goes our country. The Democrat Party hates fracking, they hate coal, they hate clean, beautiful coal. I see what they do with coal now. They hate domestic energy production and Biden will shut you down. 194929 He wants to shut you down just like your Governor's got you shut down right now. They better open up your state. Did you see the World Health Organization yesterday, they said Trump was right.. They said, you can't make the cure worse than the problem itself. I've been saying that for a long time. And we did the right thing. We saved 2 million lives. They said 2.2 million people, we saved 2 million lives and, you know, we get nothing. 194959 And I'll tell you what, we have -- the vaccines are coming soon. The therapeutics, and frankly the cure. All I know is I took something, whatever the hell it was I felt good very quickly. I don't what it was, antibodies -- antibodies. I don't know, I took it. I said, I felt like Superman. You know, I said, let me add them. No, I could have been here four or five days ago. It's great. We have great doctors. 195028 I want to thank the doctors at Walter Reed and Johns Hopkins. One great thing about being president, if you're not feeling 100% you have more doctors than you thought existed in the world. I was surrounded with like 14 of them. Where are you from? I'm from this one. Where are you from? I'm from Johns Hopkins. I'm from Walter Reed, but what great talented people. They did a great job. And thank you. And while I'm president, America will remain the world's number one energy producer with Pennsylvania workers leading the way and that's what's happening. You're leading the way. 195109 You know, you had the best year in the history of your -- your place. It's a hestia -- if you look at the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. You never want to say state. Don't ever say state. Actually, nobody cares but them. But, you know. I'm just saying let's say Pennsylvania, you got to have them. You know that, right? The Commonwealth, the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. I went to school here, probably spent more time here than Sleepy Joe in all fairness. I went to school here, but we're putting our great coal miners back to work. 195139 Joe Biden and the democrat socialists will kill your jobs, dismantle your police departments, you see that happening. And we've got, did you see in the debate the other night? I said to him, name one law enforcement agency. Just one in the whole country that supports you. He couldn't do it. Then chris wallace bailed him out. Then I say, how come you got the three and a half million from Russia? And they bailed him out again. He was choking like a dog. They bailed him out. 195207 But they want to dissolve your borders, they don't want borders. They want to have open borders, released criminal aliens, raise your taxes, confiscate your guns, get rid of your second amendment. [booing] I mean here's one that's incredible, destroy your suburbs. Okay, so they talk about the suburban women. And somebody said, I don't know if the suburban woman likes you. I say why? But we had this [CHEERS] I love you too. 195239 They said they might not like the way you talk, but I'm about law and order. I'm about having you safe. I'm about having your suburban communities -- I don't want to build low income housing next to your house, okay? If that's okay. And I ended the regulation, the rule that made the zoning so impossible that you had to destroy your communities, and then I hear the -- the suburban woman. I think that the suburban woman, and I used to say a suburban housewife. I used to take heat but I said, does anybody care? Do you care if I say suburban? No, they were all going no. 195311 Again, the only one -- cares is them. Trump said suburban housewife, but I didn't say it, because I don't. You learn very quickly, you learn very quickly, but suburban women, they should like me more than anybody here tonight, because I ended the regulation that destroyed your neighborhood. I ended the regulation that brought crime to the suburbs and you're going to live the American dream and that's what you're gonna do. And remember this, 29% of the people experiencing the American dream in the suburbs happen to be minority, and you don't know that. But 29%. 195348 And we're doing this for everybody. We're not doing it one way or the other, we're doing it -- and I ended it. They said, "sir we can amend it." I said, "No, I don't want to amend it, I want to end it." It was a horror show. And this loser Cory Booker is the guy that's going to be in charge of the program. The guy's a stone cold loser. 1%. He got 1%. He ran. He was gonna be great, you know, 1%. Every week he was like her, down, down, down, they should have picked him. 195412 But no, he'll be in charge of your suburban -- so can I ask you to do me a favor? Suburban women, will you please like me? (cheers) Please. I saved your damn neighborhood, okay? The other thing I don't have that much time to be that nice, you know, I can do it but I gotta go quickly. We don't have time. 195434 They want me to be politically correct. "Oh yes let's discuss it, let's talk about it over the next 10 years." No no no. No, we saved your, we saved suburbia in the US. 195446 I got rid of a regulation that was a disaster, and it was very unfair and you've been reading about it for a long time. It's been going on for a long time. It became much worse under Obama, and Biden, I got rid of it and I had a choice. My, even my own people said, "you'd never get rid of it sir." I said, "I want to get rid of it." "Well, why don't we just amend it?" I said, "I don't want to amend it, I want to get rid of it. Get rid of it." Okay. And I think we're gonna see that the women really like Trump a lot. That happened last time, remember? 195517 Remember last four years ago. Four years ago they said women will never vote for him. I said, "Why? Am I so bad?" They said the women will never vote, then I got 52%. They said "What the hell happened with the women?" Except this time, see, this is much easier, because then I was a developer, I was doing great, everything was nice, but I had never done this before. I came in. I said I'm going to rebuild our military. 195541 I'm going to cut your taxes. I'm going to cut your regulations. I'm going to get you this, I'm going to get you that, I'm going to take care of our vets. I mean I did things that frankly I never even talked about like spaceforce. I never talked about spaceforce. The wall is almost built, you know the wall is up to 392 miles. It's almost done. (cheers) 195602 And Mexico is paying for the wall, you know, I've been saying it. They hate to hear that, but they're paying. You know we're putting a charge on where the cars go through. And it'll more than pay for the wall. But, we have now the most secure southern border that we've ever had. And I want to thank the President of Mexico. They have 27,000 Mexican soldiers on our southern border, stopping people from coming into the US illegally. Thank you very much. 195628 No, but we did all these things, so this time in theory it should be easier, but don't forget I've gone through years, years of a fake witch hunt. And now it turned out that they were the guilty party. They were the ones dealing with Russia. They were the guilty people. Think if I didn't have, every night, on that fake cnn right over there with a light on --(boos) -- the light just went off. It just went off. Every time I point to them the light goes off. 195658 It's alright, keep it off. Nobody's watching them anyway. But you know, think if I didn't have every night Russia Russia Russia, hey! And nobody's been tougher on Russia than me. What I've done for NATO, raised $130 billion a year from other countries that weren't paying their bills, they were delinquent as we said in the real estate business. They were delinquent. And that goes up to $410 billion. Nobody did that. Obama used to send them pillows, maybe from the pillow man on Fox. 195729 Did you ever see a man advertised so much? I've never seen it. I've never seen -- he's the biggest advertiser, I think he's the greatest advertising genius, Mike. He's the greatest adver -- if I gave him our budget, you wouldn't be able to do anything else but watch Trump ads. The pillow man, I tell you, I never saw so many ads in my life. Every day it's a pillow, the pillow. Now he came out with a sheet and I'm going crazy. That's all. That's all we need now is a new sheet. But he's on our side too by the way, that guy, he's on our side, Mike. 195801 And now Biden even refuses to answer questions on packing the Supreme Court. You know, elections have consequences. Winning and losing an election, that's big consequences. And we've been winning elections. And they say well you know Trump shouldn't be appointing the new justice because -- well, I'm president. In fact, as you know, a lot of your great justices said no no, they're appointed. 195827 Justice Ginsburg just said recently, not so long ago, "no, no, he's president for four years, not for three years." Your point -- no he was -- she was referring to Obama, I think, or Clinton or somebody. But, wasn't referring to me, I can promise you that. 195846 ["Fill That Seat" chant] 195850 Oh, don't worry, don't worry. It's being filled. It's being filled. You don't have to worry about that. That's much easier than, we'll build a wall that goes -- that goes through a lot. It's one of the -- you know the wall is one of the biggest projects in the history of this country. You know that right? 195904 And we had a party dedicated to the proposition that there will never ever be a wall. There will never -- they knew it was the right thing to do. And I made one big mistake. I should have come instead of saying we will build a wall I should have said we will never ever build a wall. They would have given me so much money. Made a big mistake. All our great congressmen over there. 195925 Are you guys having a good time by the way, huh? Mike. He said the voters don't deserve to know. And he'll tell you after the election what he's gonna do. And you know what I did? I gave you a list. I have 45 people on that list. Every one of them's a star, and I gave you a list. Yes, sit down. Everybody just enjoy yourself, what the hell. 195945 Look at this, people, they're -- I didn't even realize you're all standing. I didn't realize you had seats. You're lucky. This is one of the few crowds we provided seats. That's because it's Pennsylvania, I guess. It's pretty good. 200001 If they win, democrats will pack the supreme court with radical left justices who will shred your second amendment -- you can forget about guns -- empower violent mobs and shield deadly criminals and terrorists. To defend our constitution from this madness I proudly nominated judge Amy Coney Barrett of the United States of the Supreme Court -- to the Supreme Court. (cheers) She'll be a great Justice of the United States Supreme Court. 200031 She's done so well. I really found it fascinating too that, you know, I don't have too much time, I tried to watch as much as I could. She was great. The radical left is hell bent on destroying everything we love and cherish. They're enraged and unhinged and they are going crazy. You know, think of it, very many, you know, presidents never have anybody to appoint. I will have by the end of the first term, almost 300 federal judges and three supreme court justices. 200102 Their heads are exploding. I hope they're happy. They want to cancel you, shame you, and persecute you. That's what they want to do. They want to shame and this whole cancel culture thing, you know now they're after Abraham Lincoln. They don't like Abraham Lincoln. No, he wasn't too good was he? I said this three years ago. Remember? When they took down a couple of statues of people you never heard of: a Confederate soldier, somebody else somebody else. I said "Oh really. The next will be Robert E. Lee. 200131 "The next will be Abraham Lincoln. The next will be George Washington." And everybody laughed, they said "ho, ho, ho, the President is so funny." I said, "I'm not being funny." These people are sick. These people they want to take away your heritage. And by the way, are there any Italians in the room? Okay. Well we are protecting the legacy of Christopher Columbus, okay? 200155 You know, the Italians are tough. I love the Italians. So they're gonna rip down the statue of Christopher Columbus in New York, you saw that right? And all of a sudden a group of Italians circled around the statue and they were having pretty tough things in their hand, I must say. And it was amazing how those people that wanted to rip it down disappeared very quickly. So the Italians, let me tell you, Christopher Columbus will always be here on my watch, that I could you tell you. 200223 I had people the other day that wanted to wish me happy Columbus Day. They were afraid, I said "why are you ashamed? No, say it, happy Christopher Columbus Day. This is Christopher Columbus day. It's Columbus Day." Okay, so Italian say thank you, Mr. President, I appreciate it. I like you too. I love the Italians. They want to punish the middle class, expunge every last trace of traditional values and replace the American dream with the socialist nightmare. 200253 And that's what happened. Just take a look at what's going on in other parts of the world. Biden's agenda, not that he has one, but you know, he does whatever they tell him to do. He got so lucky. She should have, she should have gotten out. You know she was faithful she would have gotten out, Bernie would have won, we would have been running against crazy Bernie instead. 200313 But I'd rather run against Joe because there's no enthusiasm, there's no energy. One thing with Bernie's people, and you know we got a lot of people, last time, from Bernie, because they love me on trade, because they know our country has been ripped off on trade like no country has ever been ripped off and Bernie's people get that. 200330 And they -- they like us on trade. Biden's agenda would be a catastrophe for seniors. For years Biden tried to cut social security and medicare. Nobody remembers that, and the press will never bring it up, but he tried to cut your Social Security, right. Now Biden is pledging mass amnesty and federal healthcare for the illegal aliens decimating Medicare and destroying your Social Security. Biden cares more about illegal aliens than he cares about your senior citizens and it's true. 200405 And let me just tell you this, and I say it strongly and when I first got elected they always played the social security card, and nothing happened, right? Your Social Security now is better than ever. I haven't touched it. While I am president, no one will touch your Medicare or your Social Security. 200424 Under my leadership we're delivering a safe vaccine and a rapid recovery. If you vote for me, prosperity will surge, normal life -- that's what we want, normal life. We want normal life -- will fully resume and next year will be one of the greatest economic years in the history of our country, it's already happening. How about the stock market? Who has 401 K's in the audience, right? Well, I can tell you one thing. I'm getting all of your votes. I'm getting your votes. Your 401Ks are setting records. 200457 Think of it. As we're rounding the turn and we are, they go crazy when I say it. We're rounding the turn on the pandemic. We understand that. Hey, I just had it. Here I am, you know, it's me. it's actually me. And I could have stayed in the basement of the White House or maybe the top floor of the White House. I could have done that, but I'm the President of the United States, I can't do that. I got to get out and I have to meet people and I have to see people, and I know it's risky to do that. But you have to do what you have to do. You know, I'm the president. I can't sit in the basement and say let's wait this thing out. 200529 I'm not going to do that. And now l'm immune, they tell me. I'm immune. I could come down and start kissing everybody. I'll kiss every guy, man and woman, man and woman. Look at that guy, how handsome he is. I'll kiss Him. Not -- not with a lot of enjoyment, but that's okay. Joe Biden would terminate our recovery, delay the vaccine, prolong the pandemic and annihilate the economy with draconian, unscientific lockdowns like you're having right now in Pennsylvania with this governor who is killing you. 200606 Tom Wolf, Tom Wolf. Come on, Tom. Open up Pennsylvania, tom. Open it up. You know what's gonna happen? November 4 they'll open it up, you know that. They're doing it, they want to keep the numbers as bad as possible. Here's the problem. The numbers are going to come out just before the election. So we have November 3 the numbers are going to come out and Pennsylvania is a late voting state. You actually believe in going to a poll, because you see all the shenanigans. 200634 Oh, you're a late voting state. And all I can tell you is when I came here, and I said this before but when I came here I promised you a lot of things. I've done much more than I promised you. You had the best year you've ever had, you're gonna have a better year next year. You damn well better vote for me, Pennsylvania. (cheers) Sleepy joe biden's plan will crush America. 200701 And my plan, we're going to crush the virus very quickly. It's happening already. It's happening. Almost 90% less mortality. You know the, the mortality rate is at, like, 85. If you had it seven or eight months ago, it was not as good as if you have it now and soon it's going to be perfecto. And I said that the drug that they gave me, I'm going to -- we're going to be distributing it all over the country to hospitals and everything else, because I'll tell you, that sucker works. 200730 That's my opinion. What do I know? But to me it works and, and the people that did it they're phenomenal people. They've had great success with other vaccines and drugs. Just this week we learned that another member of the Biden family is getting rich off connections to Joe. His son in law, just came out, big story, is cashing in on the China virus pandemic. Just like hunter. Where's hunter? Crashed in on China. What do you think? Well hunter walks in and he walks out with a billion and a half dollars to manage for China. 200802 I said to a friend of mine, one of the biggest guys on Wall Street, does that ever happen? He said, "I'm the biggest guy on Wall Street, that doesn't happen for me." 10 minutes he had a billion and a half dollars. Maybe he's not so stupid after all. To fight the China virus we launched the largest mobilization since World War Two. And we really should get credit for what we've done because, I'll tell you, Mike Pence, and all of these people they have worked so -- 24 hours around the clock. 200828 Our early and aggressive action saved as many is 2 million lives. Remember when they said "no no no you don't want to ban China. Don't bet China." I did it in January, they were talking a month and a half later, we shouldn't be doing. He called me xenophobia. I said, "Joe, give me a definition of xenophobic, please." He was unable to do that. We pioneered lifesaving therapies and reduced the fatality rate by 85%. 200856 I'm working with the FDA to make the antibody treatments I received and everybody, we're going to have, they're going to be shipped very soon. We're working on an emergency use authorization, very complicated stuff. And the FDA has never responded like they've responded to me. This could have taken years, what we've done and we've done it in weeks. I know they came to me on one thing and they said, sir, we'll -- that will take approximately two and a half years. 200924 I said no, it's no good. When do you need, sir? Next week. Tomorrow? How about tomorrow? No, we're pushing them hard. The FDA has been great. To everyone fighting to recover from the virus, I feel your pain because I felt your pain and we will beat this virus together. And for those -- who has had it? Who has had it here? Who has had it? Yeah, a lot of people, a lot of people. Well you are the people I want to say hello to because you are right now immune. 200953 You're right now immune or they say that. You know, they hate to admit it because I had it. So in the old days they said, well if you have it, your immune for life, right? Once I got it they give you four months, they say -- you know. Anybody else but me, you're immune for life. Through operation warp speed which is incredible, we'll have 100 million vaccine doses before the end of this year. 100 million and the vaccine will end the pandemic once and for all. And remember this because I have the endorsement of -- I think -- of every major law enforcement, and minor, law enforcement group in the country. 201033 We have a lot of democrats that left their party and they came over, law enforcement people. I can almost tell you by looking. Look at this group over here. I know the law enforcement people. Nobody has been better. We had all this surplus military equipment. Obama didn't want to give it out because he said it looked too militaristic. I said no, I want to save lives, okay? It's defensive equipment. I want to save lives and we gave out hundreds of millions of -- it was sitting in warehouses all over the country, military equipment, and we gave it out. 201102 But there's nobody like the great men and women of law enforcement, nobody. But this election is also about -- look at that. Whoa. See, they love you. See that. Wow, I didn't expect that. That's pretty good. [USA CHANT] That's great. 201137 But this election is about law and order. You look at Portland, we keep saying to the governor, look, Governor -- Oregon. I said, governor, let us go in and we'll solve the problem in 30 minutes. They don't want to do that. You know, they're supposed to ask you to come in. We did a great job in Minnesota -- Minneapolis. Except, you know, instead of 10 days they could have called us like two hours later, but they came in and they lined up and they were not socially distanced, they lined up, you saw that? 201204 They came in wearing black uniforms, 250,000 most expensive uniforms, I never saw so many computers on a helmet. But they went in and they had their tear gas and they had their pepper spray which the other side doesn't want us to use anymore. They said, no we don't want to do that. These people, a lot of bad people out there. You know, they're anarchists, radical left anarchists. Okay? So they came in -- they came in, you saw it. 201229 There was one person, I said where are the rest? Then another one, then another one, then they started getting off buses wherever they -- All of a sudden you had one line, two line and they just started moving forward. That was the end of the problem. It ended within 30 minutes, it was over. It was over. And we'll do it, wherever they want us. We would love to go into Portland because those guys are bad news. We actually -- you saw we sent in the US Marshals, right, because one man, horrible guy, shot somebody right through the head. Shot him in the middle of the street, a guy who didn't -- wasn't hurting anybody. He killed him. 201303 Two days went by, three days went by. I said why the hell haven't they arrested him? And they knew who he was. And we sent in the US Marshals, and in 15 minutes It was all over. That was the end of it. That was the end of it. Biden, Harris and the Democrat Party declared war on our police, okay? And we proudly received the endorsement of the National Association of police organizations, the National troopers coalition, the International Union of police associations, the Pennsylvania State Troopers Association. [CHEERS] wow. 201341 The Fraternal Order of Police including those in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Scranton and virtually every single Police Organization in America. And during the debate I asked sleepy Joe, I said give me one organization -- law enforcement that's endorsing you and he couldn't do it. Then chris wallace saved him. Then I said -- Remember I said, So tell me, say the words law and order. Say it, Joe. Say it. 201410 He couldn't do it. He wouldn't it. He wouldn't do it because you know what? Because he'd be run out of his party if he said the words law in order. Then I think at the end, didn't he say like law and order and safety and justice and you know all the stuff? No, no. Law and order. Say law and order, Joe, He couldn't do it. 201426 So we're joined tonight by some real warriors, warriors of a different type. Political warriors, they're okay too, right?. And they're friends of mine, they're great people, Representative John Joyce. John, please. The guy's been around a long time and he fights like hell. GT Thompson. GT, thank you, great. Be careful with your election. 201454 I hear you only up 40 points, GT. Another one who is only up about 44 points, a really good friend of mine and is tough as hell, Mike Kelly. I say GT, Mike, you need any help? I'll come and help you in your district. No sir, we don't really need help. Don't worry about it. A friend of mine and a great gentleman and he was the first one that predicted that I was going to win this thing I'll tell you, former congressman Lou Barletta. Thank you, Lou. 201527 Thank you, Lou. How are we doing, Lou? We doing okay? How do we compare to four years ago? BARLETTA>> Better. TRUMP>> Better. Okay, good. He said the right thing Anyway, yeah. I think a lot better, because we produced. Again, four years ago I said we're going to do things. Now, we've done them all, plus additional things. 201545 I mean a lot of additional things. I never talked about Space Force. We did Space Force. You know, somebody did Space Force, that's, like, a major achievement for four years. That's one thing -- that's like one thing out of so many other things. So it's one of those things, but I never used to talk about that. And former chair of the Pennsylvania Republican Party, a friend of mine. The guy that knows more about Pennsylvania than any human being on Earth, Rob Gleason. Rob, thank you. 201613 How are we doing Rob? Good? Okay, good. He said to me, another group came down. They didn't want his advice. They came down from Boston, and they put events all over the place and he said, you're going to the wrong location. Anyway they ended up losing big, right? But with us we came to Rob. We said, where do you think the best places are and we hit, and we agreed with you too. But Rob Gleason has been a fantastic friend. Thank you, Rob, very much for being here. I appreciate it. 201641 And with their help and your help, we are delivering for the American people like never before. Nobody's ever done what we've done in three and a half years. No administration's ever done this the first three and a half years. In my first three years in office family income increased by $6,000 and that doesn't include energy, which I think is -- you could double it up. More than five times the gains in all eight years of the Obama administration. 201711 African American income grew nine times more than it did under the last administration. Think of it, African American income grew nine -- not two, not three -- nine times more. And these are out of the book. These numbers are out of the book. Real wealth for the bottom 50% grew nearly twice as fast as it grew for the top 1%. Hispanic family net worth increased by 64% in a short period of time, 64. 201745 We added nearly 600,000 manufacturing jobs and we added 15,000 factories and Obama said, you'll never produce manufacturing jobs. Remember? You need a magic wand. Well, we found the magic wand. We lifted 6.6 million Americans out of poverty, including over 1 million African Americans, and more than 1.5 million Hispanic Americans and we're doing great with both groups and we love them. We love both groups. Thank you. Those are great numbers. 201816 After our tax cuts took effect wages for the lowest income Americans grew twice as fast as those near the top. Think of that. You never hear that stuff. The big beneficiary were lowest income Americans. My policies have benefited those who need it the most. After the virus came in from China, and we had to change. We had to do things. This came out, it was a sudden horrible thing. China should have never ever let it happen. They should have never let it happen. We've seen the smallest economic contraction of any major Western nation by far. 201855 And we've seen by far, the fastest recovery of any nation. In the past five months we've created record 11.4 million jobs, that's American jobs. That's the fastest ever recorded. Job growth has been 23 times faster than the first five months. Think of this, for the first five months of the Obama Biden recovery, 23 times. We cut our unemployment rate in half. Under Biden, it took 30 months to recover more than half the jobs lost to the crisis. 201934 We did it in five months. So we're talking about numbers that nobody can even believe. Home owner(?) confidence has reached an all time high. We're in a pandemic. Reached an all time high. Manufacturing optimism has doubled. Consumer confidence, which just came out, has surged nearly 20%. And small business confidence is now higher than any time in the entire decade proceeding my election, think of that. 202004 And we're rounding the turn on a pandemic. We've spent the last four years reversing the damage Joe Biden inflicted over the last 47 years. He made every bad deal in the book. And by the way, if you look at the h1N1 -- you know he calls it the N1h1, right? I said no no, H -- here's the way you remember, Joe, H comes before N. 202031 He goes, "the N1H1, whatever it's called. What was his name again, the senator? Maybe it was a governor? Yeah, romney, Romney. Oh, that's right. It was romney." It's amazing, you know, amazing. And he gets away with that stuff. You always see it. You know you always see it on the internet, they never report it. They never report it. They should report it. They're doing this country a great disservice by not reporting it. 202056 But Biden supported NAFTA, TPP, and China's entry into the WTO, which is one of the worst things that ever happened to this country. For half a century Biden twisted his blade into the heart of the American worker. He should not be asking for your votes, he should be begging for your forgiveness. He did a rotten job. Okay? Did a rotten job. 202118 For decades, our politicians spent trillions and trillions of dollars rebuilding foreign nations, fighting foreign wars and defending foreign borders, but now we're finally protecting our nation, rebuilding our cities, and we are bringing our jobs, our factories and our troops back home to the USA where they belong. (cheers) 202149 ["USA" chant] 202159 TRUMP>> Almost done. 202200 Syria, we're gone except we kept the oil. Does anybody mind that I kept the oil. So we left some troops behind to keep the oil. With Iraq, we're almost out, with Afghanistan, 19 years in Afghanistan, 19 years. And we're really serving as policemen, it's great to be policemen but they have got to have their own policemen, they've got to do it themselves. But we're, we're bringing them home, we're down to a very few number of soldiers. To save our auto industry I withdrew from the last administration's trans pacific partnership disaster, it would have been a disaster. 202235 It would have destroyed your automobile industry and others. To defend our steel and aluminum workers I imposed historic tariffs on dumped goods. Remember when they were dumping steel all over the place? You guys were getting killed. Saving those industries from total destruction. And frankly had the plague not came in from China, but now they're doing well anyway, had that come in, you would have had a steel industry that would have been at a level that nobody's ever seen before. 202300 But it came in, but you're gonna be there anyway in a short period of time unless some stupid person comes along and raises your taxes by four times what they should be, which is what they want to do. I ended the NAFTA nightmare and signed the brand new US MCA into law. Everyone said that was gonna be impossible. And I withdrew from the job killing Paris Climate accord. So nice of them to tell us that we can't use our energy. That was an accord, you know what that was going to do? That was gonna destroy our country. That's what that was going to do. 202333 If you look at what has happened over the last very short period of time the progress that this nation has made, you're not even going to believe it and you're going to see it. And you would have seen that had the plague not come in, because it was all happening. We were at every single record, but now we're getting close anyway. The jobs are all coming back and the market is almost going to be topping the market from before the plague, and it's pretty amazing I will tell you. 202359 Biden has vowed to rejoin this horrible agreement, a death sentence for your state's energy industry, the Paris accord. It's a terrible thing. Unlike Biden I know my job is to represent, Pennsylvania. Not Paris. We're representing Pennsylvania. Not Paris. Got a lot of nice people, they can represent Paris. I took the toughest ever action to confront China's rapid theft of American jobs, you know that. 202430 We charged them so much. We gave a lot of the money to our farmers, $28 billion to our farmers. Because our farmers were targeted, everybody get your money.They did better without even growing anything to be honest. But we got it from China. 28 billion and we had a lot left over that went into the treasury of the United States. To defend American workers earlier today I also signed an order to crack down on Chinese counterfeiters and merchants who sell their fake products all over the United States. 202503 They put the name Tiffany. Tiffany. It's got the blue box, everything. Tiffany. Tiffany. Tiffany. Isn't that wonderful but it wasn't made by Tiffany. Biden will eliminate my tariffs in China. He's already said he's going to take the tariffs of China. There goes your steel industry, there goes your aluminum industry, there goes everything, allowing them to plunder without consequence. 202523 The one constant in Biden's platform is surrender. He surrenders. He surrenders whether it's, China, whether it's Cuba -- How about Cuba? How about the deal they made with Cuba? How bad was that one. I ended it. That's why both China and the far left are desperate for a Biden win. Because he will surrender our jobs to China. China will own the United States, if that sleepy guy gets the position. Okay. (boos) And you can forget about Pennsylvania. 202556 And you know, don't also forget your streets will be surrendered to the mob. You know, Republican areas are great. They're doing great. The crime is at record lows, everything else. These are the democrat, super liberal democrat areas. Unlike sleepy Joe Biden, I will never abandon our nation. And I will never abandon its values. My goal is not to make friends in the DC swamp, my goal is to fight for you and fight for your family. 202628 In 2017, I proudly signed a historic executive order, making it official government policy to buy American and hire American. My opponent has put forward a radical plan to eliminate US borders by implementing catch and release programs that I ended. You know what catch and release is? You catch a murderer, you catch a rapist, coming across our border and you release them. Catch, catch them. And release them. 202703 And you say, "I'm sorry, three years from now, please come back for a court case." Nobody comes back. Imposing deadly sanctuary cities and suspending all removals -- they don't want any removals. This is what Biden agreed to with crazy Bernie Sanders. When you have people that are in this country illegally, even if they're murderers, if they're rapists, no matter what they are, you can't remove them. 202727 We've removed 10s of thousands of people, including ms-13. (cheers) It would mean a total nullification of US borders, overwhelming every city and town in America and especially in a place like Pennsylvania. Biden wins, your borders are gone, which means your health care has gone, the middle class is gone, and your safety is gone. Other than that, you'll be doing very nicely. Under my leadership we achieved the most secure border in US history. 202758 And we're finishing that wall, it's going to be built very soon, it's going to be finished. We're gonna have the greatest celebration. That was a tough one. That was a tough one. Remember they said "we don't need a wall." They wanted drones. You know drones flying around, looking at the people pouring across the border. They wanted drones. They wanted modern technology. You know what I've said often, right? 202821 There are two things that will always be around in 1000 years, in 2000 years, all new computers, all new everything. You know you come up with a new computer, you come up with a new chip, three days later it's obsolete. I would not want to be in that business. But there are two things: a wall, and a wheel, right? A wall and a wheel. In 1000 years, 2000 years, it's gonna be here. We invested $2.5 trillion in the US military and launched the first new branch of the United States Armed Forces in more than 75 years, spaceforce. (cheers) 202858 For our great vets, we passed VA choice and VA accountability. Nobody thought we'd ever get that done. We killed the leader of ISIS, Al Baghdadi. (cheers) And we took down 100% of the ISIS caliphate. And when I took over that Caliphate was all over the place. It was a mess. 202927 We took out the world's number one terrorist, and the mass murderer of many American troops, many troops, many people all over the world. Qassim Soleimani is dead. Thank you. He's dead. I withdrew from the last administration's disastrous Iran nuclear deal. One of the worst deals I've ever seen. That's john kerry. The guy was totally incompetent. That guy didn't know what the hell he was doing. He gave $150 billion, 1.8 billion in cash for nothing. 202959 I kept my promise, recognized the true capital of Israel, and opened the American Embassy in Jerusalem. (cheers) I also recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights. 52 years they've been trying to get that. And instead of endless war we're forging peace in the Middle East, you see the deals we made. I actually got nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. The press didn't cover it, but that's okay. 203028 Press didn't cover it -- (cheers) I got nominated for three Nobel Peace Prizes. (cheers) I did more in 47 months than Joe Biden did 47 years and that's true. (cheers) Now Biden is pushing the most far left agenda ever put forward by a presidential nominee. He's gonna ruin your energy. 203058 He's going to ruin your state. The Biden plan would destroy Social Security, and destroy protections for pre existing conditions because there's no money. Biden's running made sponsored a bill to outlaw private health insurers. We have 180 million people with great private plans, they want to keep it that way. They're going to outlaw, they're going to get rid of them. Biden vowed to terminate our travel bans on jihadist regions and surge refugee admissions by more than 700%. He agreed to this. 203130 He said, "That's okay. Let them come in." You know I got the ban, right? Remember the ban? Remember it was a big deal. I got the ban. I said if it's okay we have unfriendly countries if it's alright with you, they're not coming into our country. I got the ban, we won in the Supreme Court five to four. I got the ban. He wants to give up the ban. He wants to let people pour into our country. 700% increase, opening the floodgates to radical Islamic terrorism. 203156 I don't want to speak too much, little wood. This is real word. I don't want to speak too much but you haven't seen too many things happening lately, have you? He'll ban school choice, charter schools and Pennsylvania opportunity scholarships. In a second term, I will provide school choice to every parent in America, it's so important. A vote for Republicans is a vote for safe communities, great jobs, and a limitless future for all Americans. 203228 And in conclusion, and I love being back with you in Pennsylvania. So many incredible memories. (cheers) No, so many. What a night that was, remember that night? Donald Trump has won the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. (cheers) 203248 Remember how late they just didn't want to call it. I said call it already. If I lost it. We were at 98%. We were substantially ahead. If I lost every single vote we still won. It took them like till two o'clock in the morning before they called. In the meantime, Wisconsin came in, Michigan came in, but they just refused to call Pennsylvania, they just couldn't. Remember they were crying and they were all screwed up. 203314 Over the next four years, we'll make America into the manufacturing superpower of the world. And we'll end our reliance on China once and for all. That's already happening. We'll hire more police, increase penalties for assault on law enforcement, and we will ban deadly sanctuary cities that people don't want. We will uphold religious liberty, free speech, and the right to keep and bear arms, your second amendment. 203350 We'll strike down terrorists who threaten our citizens, and we will keep America out of endless foreign ridiculous wars. We will maintain America's unrivaled military might, and we will ensure peace through strength, and by the way we've rebuilt our military I told you $2.5 trillion. We have weapons and equipment, the likes of which no country has ever seen before. We are the envy of Russia. We are the envy of China. We are the envy of everybody. There is no country that has what we have. 303428 And I will tell you, when I first came here, one of our generals, highly overrated said to me, sir, we have no ammunition, that's where we started. And now we have the greatest weapons anywhere in the world, and just hope to god we never have to use. We will end surprise medical billing, require price transparency, which is already signed January 1st, it kicks in. And further reduce the cost of prescription drugs and I'm talking about 50, 60, 70, 80%. Because of what I've done with favored nations, getting the lowest price point, the whole world, we're going down we're taking these nations they pay a fraction of what we pay I said nope, whatever they pay I want to pay. 203511 Why are we paying more than any other nation, we're the highest, we're going down to match the lowest. The drug companies don't love me too much just in case you haven't heard. We will strongly protect Medicare and Social Security, and we'll always protect patients with pre existing conditions. America will land the first woman on the moon, the United States will be the first nation to land an astronaut on Mars and we're very close. 203540 We will stop the radical indoctrination of our students and restore patriotic education to our schools. We will teach our children to love our country, honor our history, and always respect our great American flag. And we will live by the timeless words of our national motto. In God we trust. For years you had a president who apologized for America. Now you have a president who is standing up for America, and standing up for the great people of Pennsylvania. It's very important. 203632 So get your friends, most important election we've ever had. Get your family. Get your neighbors and get out and vote you got to get out and vote like you've never voted before. Places that we won, like Erie, places that we won, you got to get out and vote. Because from Erie to Easton, from Pittsburgh to Harrisburg, and from Allentown to right here in Johnstown. We stand on the shoulders of Pennsylvania patriots who gave their blood, sweat, and tears for this beloved nation. 203711 This is the state where our founding fathers declared American independence, think of what you have in Pennsylvania. No, think, who can say that? This is it. What you've done here, what the history of this incredible place, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, think of what you've done. It's where the army weathered its brutal winter at Valley Forge, and General George Washington, don't worry, his statues are not coming down. Okay. Let his men on a daring mission across the Delaware, and where our nation was saved by the heroes of Gettysburg. This is the place where generations of tough, strong Pennsylvania workers, mind the cold, work the railroads and forge the steel that made America into the greatest and most powerful nation in the history of the world. 203804 And you have seen nothing yet. You wait and you see what we're doing. Wait till you see what we're doing. We are making our country greater than ever before. Proud citizens like you helped build this country, and together we are taking back our country. We are returning power to you, the American people. 203828 With your help, your devotion, and your drive, we are going to keep on working. We are going to keep on fighting. And we are going to keep on winning, winning, winning. (cheers) Now, when your great congressmen to come to see me, right? This great -- what a group of warriors. I don't know, with him, I'm not sure he can handle that group. But when they come in to see me in the Oval Office they say "Mr President, Pennsylvania is not used to winning this much, we got to slow it down a little bit." 203902 And I'll say, "Mike, I'm sorry, Mike you tell the rest of them, Mike, we're not going to slow it down at all. Pennsylvania wants to win more than anybody in this country wants to win." Pennsylvania is going to win. We're never gonna stop. We're gonna keep on winning. We're gonna win so much you're gonna love every moment of it, alright? You know what? You lost long enough, I can tell you that. Many years where your factories and your plants left because we had stupid leadership. 203929 Don't kid yourself, you lost for a long time. And now you're winning and you're winning like never before. Open it up, governor, open it up. Because we're one movement, one family, one people, and one glorious nation under God. And together with the incredible people of Pennsylvania, we have made America wealthy again. (cheers) 203955 We have made America strong again. We have made America proud again. And we will make America safe again. And we will make America great again. Thank you very much, Pennsylvania. Thank you. Get out of vote, vote vote vote.

TVU 10 ANDREW YANG NH DAY ONE EVENTS ABC UNI 123019 2020 NASHUA, N.H. - Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang, fresh off his successful "New Way Forward" Iowa bus tour and following his outstanding performance in the sixth Democratic debate, returns to the Granite State for what will be his 24th visit. During his visit from Dec. 30 - Jan. 2, he will hold events throughout the state, including a New Year's Eve bash in Nashua at Martha's Exchange to ring in 2020. He will also hold town hall meetings in Nashua, Salem, Exeter and Rochester. In addition, Andrew Yang will visit Concord High School, where he will champion a lower voting age and shoot hoops with students. See below for a full list of events. DECEMBER 30, 2019 Nashua Town Hall Nashua Public Library (Main Auditorium) 2 Court St. Nashua, NH 03060 2 p.m. - 3 p.m. Salem Town Hall: A New Way Forward for People with Disabilities Coffee Coffee 326 S Broadway Salem, NH 03079 4:30 p.m. - 6 p.m. Exeter Town Hall The Exeter Inn 90 Front St. Exeter, NH 03833 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Halfway through Andrew Yang's third and last New Hampshire town hall Monday, his campaign manager Zach inserted a little drama into the night, slipping him a note mid-speech. Yang excitedly read the the message out loud, informing several hundred supporters packed at the Exeter Inn that his campaign had just reached its one millionth campaign donation. Donations have been a strength for him in this race. Polls have not. The donation milestone comes the same day the Yang campaign admitted it's having an issue with polling, and made a plea to Tom Perez to add more polls before the January debate (the DNC says it will not) But while the surprise announcement was notable, what wasn't said out loud appeared intentional and important too. After being grilled by reporters and even a town hall supporter on what appears to be a blatant misusage of the phrase "Medicare for All," Andrew Yang stopped using it at the second and third events. (FYI - no news from that second event today - it was at a Salem coffee shop, roughly 50 people packed the shop, and Andrew's policy aide led the discussion, incorporating his own personal story of being gay and paralyzed to make a case for why he supported Yang's policies) No other hard news, but a couple new hit lines from the third event: When asked why he thought he'd be the best person to go up against Trump, Yang explained that many former Trump voters are for him - over other candidates. He also added this new spicy line: "He's messed with every candidate except me. Because I'm better at the internet than he is" [8:09] He said his usual "I'm barely a politician" line and somehow added this story about his wife: [check to tape!] My wife would have run the other direction is she ever thought I was going to run for office....she jokes even now that I'd be the worst politician ever, because I'm really bad at lying. Got a terrible poker face. Even when I proposed to her. I was so nervous, I had this ring that was burning a hole in my pocket. I was like 'omigosh, she knows, she knows' [Everyone laughs] Someone yells "What happened" He continues, "What did happen. Well, I proposed and I EVENTUALLY got a yes in the same general afternoon period. I'm not sure if I've told people this story. I hope she's not embarrassed by it. I think what she exactly told me was, "WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS?" [room bursts into laughter] Not exactly what you want to hear on one knee. [7:38] LOGS BELOW FROM ORIGINAL FEEDS NASHUA TOWN HALL HIGHLIGHTS AND LOG: Two powerful moments during Andrew Yang's first town hall during his New Hampshire trip. First, a 16-year-old supporter stood in line to ask a question, but instead of asking a question, made a plea to Tom Perez to add more polling (see Armando's DL from earlier today for more on how Yang sent Perez a letter). After, Yang embraced him and said he would change things for 16 year old's to vote. Seemed like an authentic moment. 145702 Q: Mr. Yang, there has not been a poll in an early state released in 47 days. Tom Perez, the Chairman of the DNC, just rejected your request for the DNC to conduct and release more early state polls, essentially cutting off a vital pathway to the January debate. 145736 On Perez's twitter biography, he writes and I quote, "Likes the Buffalo Bills, the Democrats, and fighting for the little guy. Though, not in that order." Well, apparently, he doesn't like fighting for the little guy who has over 400,000 donors including some [inaudible] right in New Hampshire which -- would you look at that -- is an early state. So, to the people in the room, we have a chance to outraise Elizabeth Warren in the 4th quarter [audience member howls] 145803 And I'm gonna look towards kinda the biggest camera in the room but, if there is someone from the DNC watching -- oh, shoot, where am I? [laughter] -- if there's someone from the DNC watching, look at the crowd. We've crammed over 100 people into a room built for 30. There are people watching from out the door. Poll the people, is my point. I cannot even vote in the 2020 general election, but I am the most passionate about this than I have -- than anything I have been in a long time. 145837 YANG>> Give me a high five, man. [laughter / applause] [they hug] Q: So, Tom Perez, fight for the little guy. Fight for all the little guys in this room. Fight for the american people. Poll the people. [audience members shout "poll the people"] It seems like we're not gonna get much help in this process. So, to the people over 18 years old, keep phone banking, keep canvassing, keep Yanging people, keep making America think harder. 145907 Because we all know it's not left, it's not right, it's forward. And I'm apart of the Yang gang because I'm scared of the future in America. And in my age group, I am not alone. So, Mr. Yang, do you have any thoughts on the issue [laughter/applause] 145924 YANG>> My thoughts are you're making me feel better about the future, Ellis, just by being so passionate and articulate and spot-on (?). [applause] You know, that's awesome leadership on your part. I believe we're going to get the polls we need in the right time frame and I'll be on that debate stage in January. Yang also goes on here to say he thinks 16 year old's should be able to vote. Another supporter also asked Yang on calling his healthcare plan M4A,saying, "To what extent are you anchored specifically and explicitly to Medicare for All as it's written as a phrase? And what extent would universal healthcare be a more useful phrase?" (background, Yang keeps calling his plan M4A even though there's no public option!) Yang's admission here was good: 145324 YANG>> I like where your head's at, Kurt. To me, Medicare for all is universal healthcare for all Americans. It's not the name of a bill, it's a name for trying to get every American healthcare independent of their work status or whether or not they can like afford certain levels of premiums. Now, I'm not someone who thinks you can uproot private insurance plans quickly, because you're talking about millions of Americans on these plans. In some cases, they actually negotiated away higher salaries for the plans, so somehow legislating those out of existence very quickly, seems to me to be unduly impractical slash disruptive. 145402 So the plan to me should be for the government to provide a public coverage option that then outcompetes the private insurers and squeezes them out over time. Now, to your point, Kurt, it is true Medicare for All means certain things to certain people,and you're probably right that universal healthcare would be a better way to frame it. Gaggle starts here, but it's far less interesting than above. ABC asked Yang if he was contradicting himself with his plea to Tom Perez stating that he believes polls should consistently be raised, when just earlier this month, he signed a letter for Cory Booker supporting the DNC to revert to earlier qualification standards. 150636 [cutting unimportant first few lines here] I would be thrilled if they decided to go back on the announce standard but I thought that was unlikely after they announced it. We're trying to influence what they were going to announce, before the fact if you remember...so I would be thrilled if they ran polls, I would be thrilled if they reverted to earlier standards...we're just being nice by saying their standards were good. [laughs] (check tape here) He spoke a bit more about how there's nothing preventing the DNC from reaching out to any of the poll organizations, but nothing major here, until he says their actions seem disingenuous: 150741The DNC saying we can do nothing about it seems disingenuous because they can clearly reach out to any of the approved poling organizations that asked for a poll to be conducted in any given timeline. He was also pressed on M4A being the name of Sander's bill, but his website still lists M4A as a platform of the campaign. He was asked if it is confusing to use that term when his bill is not what the actual bill or policies that Warren and Sanders' are? His answer to the person who asked it during the town hall was much stronger though: 150913 YANG>> To me, Medicare for All means universal healthcare for all Americans, and that's where we should be driving as quickly as possible. We need to get healthcare access up and the costs down to a level where Americans can get the healthcare that they want and deserve. Healthcare should be a human right here in this country, instead of a means for companies to make money off of us. [was pressed further by reporter but didn't give a stronger answer] 16 Year Old 145702 Q: Mr. Yang, I was at your Hanover Town Hall event about a month ago and, just a quick disclaimer, this could be a little bit long, but I'll get this as short as possible because this is the best way I can get my message out to people, but -- and I think this would encapsulate, kind of, what we're all thinking. So, Mr. Yang, there has not been a poll in an early state released in 47 days. Tom Perez, the Chairman of the DNC, just rejected your request for the DNC to conduct and release more early state polls, essentially cutting off a vital pathway to the January debate. 145736 On Perez's twitter biography, he writes and I quote, "Likes the Buffalo Bills, the Democrats, and fighting for the little guy. Though, not in that order." Well, apparently, he doesn't like fighting for the little guy who has over 400,000 donors including some [inaudible] right in New Hampshire which -- would you look at that -- is an early state. So, to the people in the room, we have a chance to outraise Elizabeth Warren in the 4th quarter [audience member howls] 145803 And I'm gonna look towards kinda the biggest camera in the room but, if there is someone from the DNC watching -- oh, shoot, where am I? [laughter] -- if there's someone from the DNC watching, look at the crowd. We've crammed over 100 people into a room built for 30. There are people watching from out the door. Poll the people, is my point. I cannot even vote in the 2020 general election, but I am the most passionate about this than I have -- than anything I have been in a long time. 145837 YANG>> Give me a high five, man. [laughter / applause] [they hug] Q: So, Tom Perez, fight for the little guy. Fight for all the little guys in this room. Fight for the american people. Poll the people. [audience members shout "poll the people"] It seems like we're not gonna get much help in this process. So, to the people over 18 years old, keep phone banking, keep canvassing, keep Yanging people, keep making America think harder. 145907 Because we all know it's not left, it's not right, it's forward. And I'm apart of the Yang gang because I'm scared of the future in America. And in my age group, I am not alone. So, Mr. Yang, do you have any thoughts on the issue [laughter/applause] 145924 YANG>> My thoughts are you're making me feel better about the future, Ellis, just by being so passionate and articulate and spot-on (?). [applause] You know, that's awesome leadership on your part. I believe we're going to get the polls we need in the right time frame and I'll be on that debate stage in January. MEDICARE FOR ALL 145250 Q>> This phrase "Medicare for All" has become almost a branded phrase at this point. To what extent are you anchored specifically and explicitly to Medicare for All as it's written as a phrase? And what extent would universal healthcare be a more useful phrase? 145324 YANG>> I like where your head's at, Kurt. To me, Medicare for all is universal healthcare for all Americans. It's not the name of a bill, it's a name for trying to get every American healthcare independent of their work status or whether or not they can like afford certain levels of premiums. Now, I'm not someone who thinks you can uproot private insurance plans quickly, because you're talking about millions of Americans on these plans. In some cases, they actually negotiated away higher salaries for the plans, so somehow legislating those out of existence very quickly, seems to me to be unduly impractical slash disruptive. 145402 So the plan to me should be for the government to provide a public coverage option that then outcompetes the private insurers and squeezes them out over time. Now, to your point, Kurt, it is true Medicare for All means certain things to certain people,and you're probably right that universal healthcare would be a better way to frame it. ## TRINT TVU 10 ANDREW YANG NASHUA NH TOWN HALL ABC UNI 12.Sub.01.wav [14:15:34] There's one like, oh, yes. Voice amplification, it's great to be back here in New Hampshire. Tracey, you missed the most important thing. I graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1992. [14:15:49] That's a pretty tepid applause. [14:15:52] But here in the U.S., it's OK. I was invited back to speak at a number of months ago. [14:15:59] And when I spoke, I said this my first time back since I graduated because I didn't enjoy myself here. And the student body erupted in applause. [14:16:10] I felt really bad. [14:16:11] That wasn't the reaction I was going for. And as Tracy said, after I graduated from Exeter, I went to Brown and then Columbia. And then I became an unhappy lawyer in New York City for five months. [14:16:23] And somehow she gets a along. [14:16:26] And I left the firm to try and start a business. How many of you? Because it's the Chamber of Commerce. How many of you've started a business or organization or club or list. So if you have your hand up, you know, two things. Number one, it's much harder than anyone lets on in. Number two, when someone asks you how it's going, what do you say? It's going great. Everything's always going great. My business went great until it failed. My parents told people I was still a lawyer because there was a much easier story, but I'd been bitten by the bug. [14:17:00] I worked at another small company and then another, and then I became the head of an education company that grew to become number one in the United States and was bought by a bigger company. Now, 2009 is like it's a decade ago. I can't believe it's already been 10 years. That was a very tough time in much of the country. How many of you were here in New Hampshire ten years ago? And how was that time for you in Nashua in 2009? [14:17:24] College. [14:17:26] You're laughing. Were you the Marilyn? [14:17:31] I just want to come in on all of the elected officials and former elected officials, because here in New Hampshire particular, it's a labor of love. You're certainly not doing it for the money or the glory. And I tell people who run for local office, I believe it's harder than running for president because people know where you live. [14:17:52] So the financial crisis 10 years ago racked many of our communities. And I saw this unfold. And I thought I had some insight as to why the economy had collapsed. It was because so many of the wannabe whiz kids, I'd go into Exeter and running Columbia with it gone to Wall Street and helped create derivatives and mortgage backed securities and these exotic financial instruments. And so I thought, well, that's a disaster and that's a train wreck and that's where our energies are going. [14:18:19] So I imagined what I would want our energies to go towards instead. And the vision I came up with was to head to a city like Detroit or Cleveland or Birmingham or Providence and help grow a company to create jobs. So I started a nonprofit called Venture for America, started calling wealthy friends, asking them this question, Do you love America? The smart among them said, What does it mean if I say, Yes? Andrew? And then I said, at least ten thousand dollars. So raised a couple hundred thousand dollars, which grew to the millions, helped create thousands of jobs in 15 cities around the country. [14:18:56] And as Tracy said, I was honored by the Obama administration multiple times. I got to bring my wife to meet the president. So my in-laws are very excited about me that week. [14:19:06] But unfortunately, during my travels, I started having this sinking feeling where for any job that my organization was helping to create. Many of these communities were losing dozens, even hundreds of jobs. I started to feel like my work was pouring water into a bathtub that had a giant hole ripped in the bottom. But I was still surprised when Donald Trump became our president in 2016. How did you all react when he won? [14:19:32] Tears, devastated disbelief. To me, it was a giant red flag that tens of millions of our fellow Americans decided to take a bet on the narcissist reality TV star as president. And even if you were devastated or cried, we all have family members or friends or neighbors who were very excited about his victory. I started to dig into why I thought he won. If you turned on cable news today, why would you think that Donald Trump's our president? [14:20:04] Facebook, Facebook, racism. Russia cared about gods and perhaps emails, but someone shouted out the economy. [14:20:15] That's closer to the truth. When I dug into the numbers, we've automated away 4 million manufacturing jobs over the past number of years. And where were those jobs? [14:20:27] Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Iowa, all the swing states that Donald Trump needed to win and did win. And if you doubt this, if you go through the Motor District data, you see that there's a straight line up between the adoption of industrial automation and in a voting district and the movement towards Trump. This happened in New Hampshire, but it happened earlier. You all lost over 12000 manufacturing jobs in the northern part of the state. And when you go to those towns, you see that many of those towns have never recovered. [14:20:59] That after the factory of the plant closed in, the shopping district closed and the population shrank. When I was in Detroit and Cleveland and St. Louis, as you saw, a lot of the same things were in the midst of the greatest economic transformation in the history of our country. Because what happened to the manufacturing jobs is not stopping there. It's now heading to retail call centers, fast food, truck driving and on and on through the economy. [14:21:25] How many of you have noticed stores closing right where you live here in New Hampshire? And why are those stores closing? Amazon? That's right. One word answer. Amazon soaking up 20 billion dollars in business every single year. How much of the Amazon pay in taxes last year? Zero. That's your math. New Hampshire. Twenty billion out. Zero back. Thirty percent of your stores in malls close. Most common job in the economy is retail clerk, average retail clerks, the 39 year old woman making between nine and ten dollars an hour. So if her store closes, what is her next opportunity going to be? [14:21:57] How many of you have seen a self serve kiosk in a fast food restaurant like a McDonald's? Every location in the country in the next two years, starting at the front of the house, they're going to move to the back of the house. When you call the customer service line of a big company and you get the bot or a software, I'm sure you do the exact same thing I do, which is you pound 0 0 0 as a human human and you get someone on the line. How many of you do that? [14:22:19] Yeah, that's always terrible. [14:22:21] But in two or three short years, the software is going to sound like this. Hello, Andrew. How's it going? What can I do for you? It'll be. Seamless, delightful, you might not even realize it software. What does that going to mean for the two and a half billion Americans who work at call centers right now making fourteen dollars an hour? [14:22:41] How many of, you know, a truck driver here in New Hampshire? [14:22:44] It's the most common job in twenty nine states, though. Three and a half million truckers and my friends in California are working on trucks that can drive themselves. [14:22:51] They say they're 98 percent of the way there. A self-driving truck just took 20 tons of butter from California to Pennsylvania about two weeks ago. Totally autonomous. Why butter? I have no idea. But you can actually look IWM can robot butter truck and then it will pop up. What does this mean for the three and a half million Americans who drive a truck for a living? Or the 7 million Americans who work in truck stops, motels and diners that rely upon the truckers getting out and having a meal every day of despair? [14:23:23] These are the forces that are tearing our country apart. Many Americans feel themselves getting left behind and pushed to the sidelines. Corporate profits are at record highs today, also at record highs. United States of America, stress, financial insecurity. How many other college students? I sense many of you. Student loan debt, record highs, not normal. Even suicides and drug overdoses and unfortunately, New Hampshire is one of the epicenters of the opiate epidemic in the country. But eight Americans are dying of drugs every hour in this country right now. So these are the things that people are experiencing on the ground. And it's only going to accelerate as artificial intelligence leaves the lab and starts hitting the economy in earnest. This is not just a blue collar problem. [14:24:11] Artificial intelligence will be able to do the work of bookkeepers, accountants, radiologists, even attorneys. Right now, software can edit a contract more quickly and error free and certainly inexpensively than the most experienced human lawyer. We're in the midst of this economic transformation and for whatever reason, we're scope scapegoating immigrants within the things that immigrants have next to nothing to do with. [14:24:35] So my first move was still not to run for president because I'm not a crazy person. I went to Washington, D.C. and I sat down with our leaders and I said, what are we going to do to help our people manage this transition? What do you think the folks in D.C. said to me when I said, what are we going to do? [14:24:51] They're going to pitch Trump. We don't know nothing. [14:24:55] The three answers I got most frequently were number one. Andrew, we cannot talk about this. Someone suggested Americans wouldn't understand it anyway. Number two, we should study this further. Number three, we must educate and retrain all Americans for the jobs of the future. Which sounds very responsible. Haven't you heard a politician say something like that at some point? Now we all have. Well, then I said, look, I checked the studies. [14:25:21] Do you all want to guess how effective the government funded retraining programs were for the manufacturing workers who lost their jobs 15 percent on anchoring you lower? Because it is low. Zero to 15 percent success rates. Total dud. And when I said this to the folks in D.C., one of them said, well, I guess we'll get better at it. The truth is that the folks in D.C. will do well, whether we do well or not. The feedback mechanism is broken. It's one reason why Donald Trump is our president today. [14:25:50] And one person in DC leveled with me and said something that brought me here to you all. He said, Andrew. During the wrong town. No one here will do anything about this, because Washington, D.C. is fundamentally a town of followers, not leaders. And the only way we will do something about this is if you were to create a wave in other parts of the country and bring that wave crashing down in our heads. That was over two years ago. [14:26:13] I said I will be back with the waves. I accept that challenge. And I stand before you today. I'm fifth in the polls to be the nominee of the Democratic Party. We bring ten million dollars last quarter in increments of only 30 dollars each. So my fans are almost as she does birdies and that 10 million, zero corporate PAC money, all people powered all the grass roots. We just announced today that we're going to do better than that in this coming quarter. We are growing while other campaigns are shrinking because we are solving the actual problems. [14:26:49] I got Donald Trump elected and we have real solutions that would help move the country forward. So what are the solutions? If you're here today and I appreciate you braving the elements and saying I'm going to go see Andrew Yang, even though it's yucky, is it's pretty gross out even. You know, I mean, I grew up in New Hampshire, too. So if you were here today, at some point you heard that this guy wants to give every American a thousand dollars a month. Remember the first time you heard that? [14:27:16] The first time you heard that you were like, ha, ha, that's a gimmick. That's too good to be true. That will never happen. But this is not my idea. It's not a new idea. Thomas Paine was born at the founding of the country. He called it the citizen's dividend. Martin Luther King fought for it in the 1960s, called it the guaranteed minimum income for all Americans. And it is what he was fighting for when he was assassinated in 1968. I had the privilege of sitting with Dr. King's son in Atlanta, Martin Luther King, the third who said, this is what my father was fighting for when he was killed. A thousand economists endorsed it in the 60s. It passed the U.S. House of Representatives twice in 71 under Richard Nixon. [14:27:57] It's called the Family Assistance Plan, which has an income floor for all Americans. And then eleven years later, one state passed a dividend where now everyone in that state gets between one and two thousand dollars a year. No questions asked. And what state is that? New Hampshire. How does Alaska pay for it? And what is the oil of the 21st century technology? A software of self-driving cars and trucks. A study just came out that said that our data is now worth more than oil. How many of you saw that study? How many of you got your data check in the mail? We laugh, but where did the data checks go? Facebook, Amazon, Google, the mega tech companies that are paying zero or near-zero in taxes. That is the game. New Hampshire. Our communities are getting sucked dry and depleted. [14:28:45] We're looking around wondering where the value went. And the biggest winners in the 21st century economy are paying zero in taxes. Well, we have to do is we have to get our fair share. Your fair share. Make sure Amazon is trillion dollar tech company actually is paying taxes. And equally important, we have to put that value into our hands. Into your hands, the hands of the American people. Build a trickle up economy from our people, our families and our communities up. [14:29:12] Because if we put this thousand dollars a month into your hands, where will the money go in real life? I'm going to guess a lot of it's going to stay right here in Nashua, New Hampshire. Right. It's good for the Chamber of Commerce when a business here and be like, well, I think people might be patronizing my business a little more often, but the money would go into car repairs you been putting off and daycare expenses and little league sign ups and local nonprofits and religious organizations. It would create a sustainable path for rural parts of the state that right now are struggling to find it. [14:29:46] It would make our people stronger, healthier, mentally healthier, less stressed out for the students who are laboring under tens of thousands of dollars in student loan debt. It would help to clear that debt. I want to do more to clear that debt independent. I'm giving you a thousand bucks a month because at one point, six trillion is out of control and it's immoral the way it was generated. This thousand dollars a month would help us manage the greatest economic transformation in our country's history. I am friendly with some of the leading technologists in the country. [14:30:15] They tell me, Hey, Andrew, I've seen what's in the lab. And when it comes out, it's going to be. A bigger problem than anyone realizes. You know how that conversation never goes. Andrew, I've seen what's in the lab and everything will be fine. That's not the end of that thought. The more someone known as, the more concerned they are. The folks in DC are decades behind the curve on technology in particular. They got rid of the Office of Technology Assessment in 1995. Congress has literally had zero input on technology issues for 24 years. [14:30:50] Aside from the tech companies themselves, and you can guess what the tech companies have been telling them. So these are the changes that we have to make to rewrite the rules of the 21st century economy. To work for us. To work for you. If you are a young person, you feel like it's not working for you. You're right. It is not working for you. If you were born in the 1940s, the United States of America, there was a ninety three percent chance you're going to do better than your parents. That's the American dream. [14:31:15] That's the American dream that drew my parents here. If you were born in the 1990s, which is some of you, you're down into a 50 50 shot and the numbers declining quick. That's why young people in particular feel like we've left you an economy that doesn't work for you. A mess in addition to climate change. And we have. If you were a young person and you feel distressed or angry about it, I get it. We owe you better. We have to do better for you. We have to start measuring how our economy is doing based upon how you all are doing to see how it's working again. Corporate profits at record highs while our life expectancy is declining, which is more important. Yes, I agree. [14:32:00] And if you think about how we're measuring the value that we're producing, my wife is at home with our two young boys, one of whom is autistic. What is her work included out in our economic measures? Zero. And we know that's nonsense. We know the work she's doing is among the most challenging and important work that anyone does. It's not just her work. The things that we value most are progressively getting zeroed out in American life. It's parenting. Yes, nurturing, caregiving, volunteering, mentoring, coaching, increasingly arts, increasingly journalism. [14:32:38] And our market is going to systematically undervalue the work done by women and underrepresented minorities in particular. We all knew that. We know that women do more of the unrecognized, uncompensated work in our society every single day. So by properly measuring our progress, we can actually see the depth of the problems and then start working to improve on them. So if GDP is this bad to measurement that has less and less relationship with how we're doing and even its inventors had one hundred years ago, this is a terrible measurement of national well-being. We should never use it as that. What would a measurement that actually measure is how you and your family are doing look like? Like what would that measurement be? [14:33:24] Quality of life. Yeah, you could. You can do something about civic engagement. How about mental health and freedom from substance abuse? [14:33:35] How about health? The life expectancy? Ability to retire with dignity, clean air and clean water. We can actually make these the measurements of our society. And as your president. That's exactly what I'll do. I'll say GDP is one hundred years old. It's time for an upgrade. It's past overdue. And here's how we will measure our progress now. [14:33:58] And then we would see we're in a mental health crisis. We would see we're in a wellness recession. We would see that our environment is getting worse and worse and is not included in our current numbers. How many of you all have run a business organization or department or division? Imagine if you had the wrong measurements for that organization. How to do over? [14:34:21] That is where we are right now as a country. [14:34:23] We're getting beaten over the head with GDP headline unemployment and stock market prices and none of those things has much of a relationship with how we're actually doing GDP. I talked about a little bit. Stock market prices. The bottom 80 percent of Americans own 8 percent of stock market wealth. [14:34:38] The bottom 50 percent own essentially zero. Stock market prices correspond to the top 20 percent of society. [14:34:44] If you're generous and headline unemployment doesn't include the fact that millions are dropping out of the workforce, that people are doing two or three jobs to get by, and that 40 percent of recent college grads are doing a job that doesn't require a college degree. So we get the measurements right. We can actually make progress. Donald Trump said in 2016 he was going to make America great again. And what did Hillary Clinton say in response? [14:35:11] America's already great. Remember that? New Hampshire. It has been a long several years. [14:35:16] I know we have to acknowledge that the problems are real and that they are deep in our communities. But we need solutions that would actually help people and move us forward. What we're Donald Trump's solutions going to build a wall to turn the clock back and bring the old jobs back. New Hampshire, we have to do the opposite of these things. We have to turn the clock forward. We have to accelerate our economy and society as quickly as possible to rise the real challenges of this era. We have to evolve in the way we think about ourselves and our work and our value. And I am the ideal candidate for this job, because the opposite of Donald Trump is an Asian man who likes math very much national. [14:36:06] Make America think harder. That's right. That is your job and you're going to help us move the country. Not left, not right, but forward. Thank you very, very much. We're going to be celebrating New Year's Day. I can't wait. [14:36:23] Oh, thank you. So I had this letter and this was still on tonight. But you you hear me? I'll try to project. I'll use my own voice and everyone will write. So let's get a couple of questions. I want to start off and then we'll look to the audience, though, just as a prep for that. If you do have a question and you can use one like that's right there that Samantha is pointing to. And as you get up to ask your question, if you please state your name and if you are with an organization or business, that as well, do you ask a question? [14:36:55] So let me start. So you talk to me about jobs going away because of article and artificial intelligence and different kinds of automation and things like that. But here in New Hampshire, we're actually seeing the opposite of that. We have thousands of jobs left unfilled right now because employers can't find sufficient skilled workers to fill those jobs. How does your economic plan education or taxes for those? How do those policies help business owners right now can't be as successful as they could be because they don't have the people jobs. [14:37:33] Yeah, a lot of it does revolve around education, and many of the employers that are looking for workers are trying to find skilled technical workers, tradespeople. We have a massive national shortage of tower climbers and each fact repair people and people that actually work on the guts of our infrastructure. There are other types of needs and gaps, too. But I'm going to talk about these technical jobs because I think it's just such a massive opportunity. [14:38:00] Only 6 percent of American high school students are in technical or trade. Or apprenticeship programs right now in Germany. [14:38:07] That's fifty nine percent. [14:38:08] Think about that goal. [14:38:10] And we are lagging behind because many employers are looking around saying, I need someone with this sort of training. So we have to get that six person up as quickly as possible. And this has the added benefit of being able to say to our young people, a college is not the end all be all for everyone. Only 33 percent of Americans will graduate from college. And again, we made it more and more expensive. Well, we have to do is create paths forward for different students in different areas and lead them to the opportunities that need to be filled in many, many communities. [14:38:40] I'll also suggest that a lot of the people that are looking to hire, too, would like the headline unemployment rate. It really does obscure a lot of weakness that I see when I talk to folks here in New Hampshire, because if you're doing multiple jobs to make ends meet, you count as employed. If you're underemployed, you count as employed. And if you leave the workforce and stop looking because of a health problem where you're taking care of a relative, you don't get included in that number. So there's a lot of weakness that's being obscured in our communities because we're using a measurement that's way out of date and misleading. [14:39:15] Thank you. I wanted to follow up also on your freedom dividend plan. So last month, do it. That's pretty good to a lot of people. So I did a little bit of simple math. I will admit upfront political science, major math is not necessarily my starting point. Different math with that math. But there are a little over two hundred nine million Americans who would qualify for that at twelve thousand dollars a year, meaning over 2.5 trillion dollars a year to fund that. How does the math actually work that you can tax whatever corporations you want to test come up with that additional revenue every year? [14:39:58] All right. I'm so glad you asked. I love it so much. [14:40:04] So first you have to look at who the biggest winners are going to be if you have Amazon, Google, Facebook systematically paying zero or near-zero in taxes. Then, of course, you going to have problems affording things. But if you put a mechanism in place where we all get even the tiniest slice, our fair share of every Amazon sale, every Google search, every Facebook ad, eventually every robot truck mile and a I work unit generates eight hundred billion dollars a year with a giant up arrow attached to it. So that number is going to shoot up now. A hundred billions, not two point four trillion. As you suggest. [14:40:38] But after you put that no amount of money into our hands, the money doesn't disappear. It circulates through our community and our businesses over and over again, ends up increasing tax revenue by conservatively, let's call it, 600 billion or so. Then here's where the magic comes in. You see an additional hundreds of billions on things like incarceration, homelessness services, emergency room, health care that we spend almost a trillion on now. And it was right here in New Hampshire where our corrections officers had said this to me. He said we should pay people to stay out of jail because he sees how expensive it is when they're in jail. This is what happens in our society. [14:41:18] We don't invest in people that we end up paying in much more expensive and punitive ways when they hit our institutions, because we know our institutions are incredibly expensive. And the last piece, the best piece is that one study showed that if you were to alleviate poverty in this way, you would increase our GDP by 700 billion dollars a year just on the basis of better health and educational outcomes of our people. This is a massive investment in human capital. And this doesn't even take into account the catalyst for entrepreneurship and creativity and value creation that would ensue when having a population that can actually afford to take some risks and not feeling like if they fail, then it's going to mean the difference between having a home and the. [14:42:05] One more. I'm not going to tell you guys. You've had a chance to ask, but, you know, in essence, right now you're with the American people for a very important job. [14:42:15] The leadership position, the CEO feels that someone who was hired many and perhaps fired unless you have advice to the American people as they compare and consider all of the candidates. So what should they do as they check off your qualifications and those of others to make sure they make the right choices? [14:42:38] I love this question so much. I've never gonna do. I love it. [14:42:41] That's true. The chamber. [14:42:50] To me, the most important thing about who we choose as our president is whether they understand the real problems on the ground as we're experiencing them. And that can actually bring solutions to bear to solve them and improve our way of life. I'm going to suggest to you all that technology is the driving force behind many changes in our economy and society. And then most of the other figures in this race, whom I like it, admire a great deal. [14:43:13] And I consider many of the friends, but many of them do not understand technology very well. And they also do not understand technology's intersection with the labor force. Very well at all that if we have the wrong person in that seat, we're going to have another four years of your mall's closing of A.I., getting smarter of the robot trucks starting to multiply in the highways. And that as this continues, it's going to get harder and harder for us to actually put in place a path that lets Americans know that we are not going to be left behind, that we're actually the owners and shareholders of this country and not inputs into a giant capital efficiency machine. [14:43:58] If you don't understand the real problems, you're not going to be able solve them. I believe I have a much clearer understanding of what lies ahead for this country. [14:44:06] Shipped to all of you now. So I feel like yelling questions so we can get your feelings with the business or let us know that as well. [14:44:22] Little branching out with me to the president education co-op. I should go on to the. They're guaranteed in numerous cases and from some of the techniques that the rationale for that obviously is to do with the dislocation that will come from increase in the eye and robotics and automation. But there is an equally strong justification for it. In my view, I wonder if you have time or you just definitely suffered the almighty scientist. [14:45:03] She's come up with a scary statistic because of the exponential rise in the autism. And she's just claims that within 10 years, every other family will be dealing with a child in the optic. This will take a terrific amount of resources to apply for homeowners who typically caretakers in the home that are should and looks spoken to some limitations. But if you come in on this, is it possible other justification and rationale for. [14:45:36] Freedom Dividend, which I like to call detective. Thank you for this question. These are the best questions I received in quite some time. I have a son on the autism spectrum and what I say to families around the country is that special needs is the new normal. Certainly I have not seen a study that suggests it's going to get up to 50 percent, but it's already normal and many millions of families all around the country. And the big problem here is that you have a special needs child like my son who shows up at school and the school says, I don't have the resources available to actually do what this child needs and requires because I have one teacher for my kids and I'll have a budget for this. [14:46:17] And so that child ends up falling through the cracks. The family has to scramble their massive problems. But it's in large part because, again, we're confusing economic value and human value. We're saying that this kid needs more and thus is a burden on the community. Instead of seeing it the way we should be, which is that our kids well-being is the point of the economy, we should use that as a measuring stick, which incidentally means you pay teachers more. You hire more teachers. You lighten up on the standardized tests that we devised during World War Two as a means to identify which kids not to send to the front lines. Now we're just bludgeoning our kids with them, then distorting teacher behavior. [14:46:56] You stop treating your schools like assembly lines and start actually trying to put the resource in place to give our kids what they need. If you change it from this cost model to this investment model, then you see that this is the future of the 21st century economy making ourselves stronger, healthier and more hold. And if we don't evolve in that direction as quickly as possible, then you are correct that many communities will feel themselves to be overwhelmed by the cost of supporting many special needs children who, quite frankly, are going to grow to become special needs adults. And if we don't start changing the measuring stick, then we're going to see these people as again, cost centers and burdens instead of being owners and parts of our families. [14:47:41] So thank you for the question. Thank you. [14:47:50] Hello. Guy fun except with you. Tell him to review round up in Massachusetts, speaking about make it back in Carragher. It is a national science driver program. Do the population economically and inspire the population? But we have a couple of major problems to solve first. Number one, you were talking about your fence went down to Wall Street where the derivatives and stuff. Since 2000. The big, big banks are much bigger and about to blow out. The Federal Reserve has been giving them a hundred million dollars a day since September, which means we're close to a very big global blowout again. [14:48:40] Can we have each. 2 1 7 6 in the house? Everyone should be calling their reps and demand and becomes law. And last one is we have to get back to economic sovereignty. In other words, we don't need a independant private entity controlling our economy, growing over 20 trillion dollars in debt. So we have to come back and do away with dreadful reserve and fixed currency and get back to the banking system. [14:49:12] And this was a very profound question to some people when they come to an event. [14:49:20] One of the thoughts is what Tracy originally asked is like, where do we get the money to do what we need to do? [14:49:26] How many of you here remember voting for the four trillion dollar bailout of Wall Street? How many of you remember anyone saying where we're going to get the money? That's what he's talking about, his printing of hundreds of millions of dollars a day to shore up the balance sheets of our banks. No one voted for that. No one you know, no one said, yeah, let's do that instead of bailing out homeowners. I mean, to me, you're the obvious choice was to bail out homeowners and keep people in their homes, keep communities whole. [14:49:53] But instead, we chose to recapitalize the banks. And that is an emblem of the choices we're making in this country. Everything revolves around the almighty dollar of our institutions, and we don't trust our people in the least. We have to choose our people. And to your point about what we've done in terms of recapping Wall Street and privileging them, you're right. The banks are now bigger than ever. They're absorbing more and more of the financial activity. Community banks and places like New Hampshire are a thing of the past. If you're old enough, you remember being here. [14:50:20] You remember there were community banks here that like the gobbled up by Bank of America and the giving. So this is what we have to again counteract. We have to choose our people instead of the banks. And we do have to stop bailing out Wall Street and letting them run and own our economy in this way. So thank you for the question. We'll just you one sentence, Pastor. [14:50:44] If you look at what to Mr.. [14:50:53] Thanks for coming, my name is Joe, I'm a college student from Worcester, Mass. My question today is, is that based on the dividend that you're talking about now. Of course, anywhere you want to do it. Putting taxes on companies such as Amazon, Facebook and the like. But my question is, how can you prevent these companies from outsourcing themselves and to other countries to avoid such tax removal of such tax breaks? [14:51:17] Sure. So this is based upon a system that's in effect in just about every other developed country. And it occurs on the point of sale. We're the number one market in the country. So it or the world. So even if Amazon were to shift some of its offices to other places, they're paying another the point of sales so they pay it no matter what. [14:51:33] This is what other countries have figured out. Other countries have said that having the Amazons of the world Pizarro taxes is untenable and it's worked everywhere. Also would work here, too, because you're right. Companies will do anything necessary to try and save money. But this is because it's a point of sale. It's very, very hard to escape. It's impossible to escape, actually. The comparable comparison I use is that Jeff Bezos right now is worth about one hundred nine billion dollars. [14:51:56] Post divorce. If you were to ratchet up the tax rate, let's say, to 75 percent, 80 percent. How much of this hundred nine billion dollars do you get next to nothing because you're not dumb enough to pay itself by a billion a year? No. He pays himself something modest and then most of his wealth is tied up in Amazon stock. So what you do is like Willie Sutton, the bank robber, why did he robbed the banks? Because that's where the money is. The money is flowing at Amazon. So you take it out. [14:52:21] The point of sale there, then you get billions from his business. And then when Jeff takes a billion dollars out of his stock every year to buy rocket ships to Mars, which is what he does with his money, then you take a toll there to you make it so that you get it coming and going and then it ends up in our hands to make our families communities stronger. But because it's at the point of sale, it doesn't matter where they base their operations. [14:52:44] Thank you. Thanks, man. [14:52:48] Like when it is, Kurt. I'm a campaign supporter from Massachusetts. [14:52:51] I can tell by the story. Thank you, Kurt. I'm going to head to Iowa also for. [14:52:55] Yes. Oh, you can stay here in New Hampshire. Either way, I mean, no. You know, Iowa then. Come on over. [14:53:01] So it might be time to put some minds at ease about healthcare. This is Medicare for all. It's become this sort of political football. It's a almost a branded phrase at this point. To what extent are you anchored specifically and explicitly to Medicare for all as it's written as a phrase? And to what extent would universal health care be a more useful phrase? [14:53:24] Where has that occurred? I mean, Medicare for all is universal health care for all Americans. It's on the name of a bill. It's a name for trying to get every American healthcare independent of their works, that is, or whether or not they can go forward and certain levels of premiums. [14:53:40] Now, I'm not someone who thinks you can uproot private insurance plans quickly because you're talking about millions of Americans on these plans. In some cases, they actually negotiated a way higher salaries for the plans. So somehow legislating those out of existence very quickly seems to me to be unduly impractical, as large, disruptive. [14:54:03] So the plan to me should be for the government to provide a public coverage option that then out competes the private insurers and squeezing them out over time. Now, to your point, Kurt, it is true of Medicare for all means certain things to certain people. And you're probably right that universal healthcare would be a better way to frame it. [14:54:27] I make Americans think harder. I would challenge you to think harder to look for chess moves that may reduce the size of government and make it a free country. Such as if a state legislature says no more zoning restrictions in every city and town immediately, there will be an abundance of new jobs and demolition and construction. [14:54:50] And with the glut of housing of the meeting, the modern code, that would immediately be landlords scrambling to find tenants. But half the rents that they're paying now, more people waiting at each less stop. They would be the bus companies that extend their employees and their goods. And people wouldn't have to pay for a parking lot when they don't even have a car. [14:55:12] This man strikes me as so. And it was you know, it wasn't him to wait for. [14:55:15] My name is Tom Ellis here. I used to be a state rep here briefly many years. I know you from here in New Hampshire. [14:55:20] I live in Hudson, New Hampshire now because I was going to comment that you sounded and felt so New Hampshire to me in their response like this, you know, libertarian element to this idea. And I'm sympathetic toward many aspects of it. We do have to lighten up on some of the restrictions on development. A lot of the restrictions are NIMBYism. We're just saying, like, not my backyard. Affordable housing is good in the abstract, but not here, because, you know, I don't want it to depress my. [14:55:47] My home is values and big picture in terms of the federal government. Donald Trump said he wants to drain the swamp. In many ways, he was not wrong again as the richest city in our country. And what are they producing? Unclear. So he said he wanted to drain the swamp. I want to distribute the swamp. Why would you have tens of thousands of employees and buildings in the most expensive city in the country? [14:56:15] You should be moving those agencies to Ohio or Michigan or New Hampshire or Florida or a place that would actually love to have that economic activity. The cost would be much lower because everything is cheaper in these places. And I would argue the decisions would be better because they would actually be tied to our communities and make decisions not from the bubble of D.C., but from an actual place where other people are working and living relatively normal lives. So I'm sympathetic to much of what you're describing. And I do think that zoning regs are standing in the way of a lot of the affordable housing development that you're seeking. [14:56:54] I like his sweater to wear that. No, I'm sure, though. WW WW Dodge job. [14:56:59] Yang joins me now. Mr. Yang, I was at your Hannover Town Hall event about a month ago. [14:57:06] And just a quick disclaimer, this gives you a little bit long, but I'll get this as short as possible because this is the best way that I can get my message out to people. But and I think this would encapsulate what we're kind of all thinking. So, Mr. Yang, there has not been a poll in an early state released in 47 days. Tom Perez, the chairman of the DNC, just rejected your request for the DNC to conduct and released more early state polls, essentially cutting off a vital pathway to the January debate. [14:57:36] On Perez's Twitter biography, he writes and I quote, likes the Buffalo Bills, the Democrats in fighting for the little guy, though not in that order. Well, apparently he doesn't like fighting for the little guy who is over 400000 donors, including some here right now in New Hampshire. Which would you look at? That is an early state. [14:57:55] So to the people in the room, we have a chance to raise Elizabeth Warren for the fourth quarter, and I'm going to look towards kind of the biggest camera in the room. Plus, if there is someone from the DNC watching. [14:58:12] Oh, shoot. [14:58:14] If there's someone from the DNC watching, look at the crowd. We've crammed over one hundred people into a room built for 30. There are people watching from out the door. [14:58:25] The people is my points. I cannot even vote in the 2020 general election. But I'm the most passionate of this and I have let anything happen in a long time. Hold on a minute. Hi, I'm in. [14:58:48] So, Tom Perez, fight for the little guy, play for all the little guys in this room, fight for the American people, all the people, all the people. It seems like we're not going to get much help in this process. So to the people over 18 years old, keep phone banking, keep canvasing, keep young people, keep making America think harder because we all know it's not left. It's not right. It's forward. And I'm a part of the gang gang because I'm scared of the future in America and in my age group. I'm not alone. [14:59:16] So, Mr. Gang, do you have any thoughts on the issue of. [14:59:25] Are you're making me feel better about the future? Al is just by being so passionate and I think. [14:59:34] Leadership on your part? I believe we're going to get the polls we need in the right time frame and I'll be on that debate stage in January. What is the number one criteria for Democratic voters for the nominee beating Donald Trump? That's right. [14:59:50] And a poll right here in New Hampshire said that 10 percent of Donald Trump voters would support me over Donald Trump in the general election. Another poll said that 18 percent of college Republicans would choose me over Trump, unlike any of the other candidates in the field. [15:00:05] I am drawing in disaffected Trump voters, libertarians and independents, as well as Democrats and progressives. I am the best candidate to take Donald Trump on and beat him. That's why as soon as they poll New Hampshire and Iowa, we'll see that we're well above the DNC threshold. And I will say, I'm very confident we're going to make the debate stage. We've actually offered to the DNC to pay for the polls because they were complaining of our cost and those like we'll pay for it. [15:00:33] So we'll make that debate stage in January. But more importantly, this campaign is going to keep growing and growing because we are talking about the issues that Americans care about and the problems that we see around us every day. Really, this man, you really are an inspiration to me. Like, thank you so much. And he's also a poster child for the reason why I believe we should lower the voting age to 16. Yes. [15:00:59] You heard me out there, some of you were like, that seems aggressive, but 16 year olds can pay taxes. If you had 16 year olds being able to vote, it would transform every high school in the country into a political hotbed instead of with us, you know, instead of something like, oh, we don't talk about it, no one, you can actually vote. [15:01:17] Studies have shown that the earlier your first vote is the more likely you are to vote throughout your life. And frankly, you're going to be here longer. You should have a say in what's going up. The main counterargument to this is that 16 year olds are too immature and ill informed to vote. And I think Alice does prove that to be nonsense. Am I right? [15:01:37] Everyone is waiting for you. Less than one million dollars to the three million dollar career for fundraising goals, so people keep donating. We've got to make it like the playoffs as a passionate young person here in New Hampshire. SALEM TOWN HALL - LU3 ORIGINALLY [16:44:34] We thank you all for being here. And what an inspirational story. Let's give a person another round of applause. [16:44:46] It's so beautiful. [16:44:47] So proud to have you as part of the campaign. I've been running for president now for two years plus. But my story actually started right here in New Hampshire. I don't know how many of you know, I went to high school here in the state. Raise your hand. You knew that you set your head like. No. I graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1992. [16:45:07] Then I went to college in Rhode Island. Nearby was an unhappy lawyer for five whole months, left to start an ill fated company that crashed and burned. But I do it bitten by the bug. I worked in small businesses and growth companies for another 10 years and I'd say shout out to Lane and coffee coffee for hosting us here in. [16:45:31] As I love small businesses so much, oil is the lifeblood of any community. When I went back and I spoke at Exeter, I actually unpacked some of what brought me to run for president today. So if you know anything about Phillips Exeter Academy, it's a very, very competitive school, like a bit of a pressure cooker, you would call it. And out of Exeter, you are very likely to head to a place like Wall Street and work at an investment bank and create financial instruments that ended up crashing the economy in 2009, about 10 years ago. [16:46:06] That was the recipe for success for literally some of my friends from PTA. And so in 2009, when the financial crisis was in full bloom, I thought, what a train wreck. If we have our talent heading to a place like Wall Street to cook up mortgage backed securities that ended up crashing our economy. So I thought, well, what would I rather our energies be devoted to? And the vision I had was to head to places like Detroit, Cleveland, Birmingham, New Orleans, Pittsburgh and start businesses and create jobs. [16:46:38] So I spent seven years running a nonprofit that I started. How do you all work in nonprofits? How do you volunteer in nonprofits? Just raise your hand just for the heck of it on that one, just to make yourself look good for your neighbors. [16:46:51] Of course I volunteer. [16:46:54] So you start a nonprofit. The way I started this nonprofit was I put up some seed money and I started calling rich people with the question, Do you love America? [16:47:03] And then the smart among them said, What does it mean if I say yes? And then I said 10000 dollars. And then one of them said, I love America for that much. It's like I thought you did. So we raised a couple hundred thousand and then it grew to the millions, helped create several thousand jobs around the country in 15 cities. So I spent seven years doing was honored by the Obama administration. But unfortunately, what I saw when I traveled the country was that things were getting worse, not better in many, many places. [16:47:30] And for any job that I was helping to create, we were losing dozens or even hundreds of jobs because of plants closing and now stores and malls closing. How many of you noticed stores and malls closing around where you live in this part of New Hampshire? And why are those stores closing? Amazon, right. Amazon soaking up 20 billion dollars in business every year, closing 30 percent of America's stores in malls. How much should Amazon pay in federal taxes last year? [16:47:55] Zero. That's your math. New Hampshire, 20 billion out 0 back 3 percent of stores and malls close most common job. The economy is retail clerk. Which retail clerks? A 39 year old woman. So I started seeing the pace and rate of the economic changes. And what it led me to was that this rugged individualism, this meritocracy that is package to us is not actually real. At this point that it's rugged individualism for individuals. But if you are a Wall Street bank and you are on the brink of collapse, what happens? [16:48:27] The government comes to rescue you with four trillion dollars and drops it in your lap. But if you're a homeowner and your home's under water or the tide is going out or your factory closes or main street closes, that's on you, that's your fault or problem. And right now, this American dream that my family came here to find and have benefited from is dying by the numbers. I'm a numbers guy. If you were born in the 1940s, the United States, there's a 93 percent chance that you're gonna be better off than your parents if you were born in the 1990s or down to a 50 50 shot in declining fast. [16:49:04] These are the things I got Donald Trump elected and this thought that if you're smart and hardworking, you make it. And if you aren't making it, that it's somehow on you. That's a farce. It's not true anymore in American life. And what led me to run for president on top of the fact that we're going through this fundamental economic transformation was the personal growth and lessons I encountered when my older son was discovered to be autistic when he was 3. So we were a first time parents and Christopher had struggles. But as a first time parent, you don't know if that's the norm. Maybe two year olds act like this, maybe three year olds act like this. [16:49:51] And when we got the diagnosis, it was actually a relief for me and my wife because we're like, OK, this is something that we now understand and we can bring resources to bear. But most families are not in position to be able to bring resources to bear when they have special needs children. [16:50:12] How many of you know someone with special needs or autism or neuro logically topicality? Yeah, it's all a look around the room. There's literally every single person. It could be that that was one of the themes of the event and that would be what brought you here. But I would suggest that in any group of Americans, most hands would go up. That this is the new normal. So what Carstens experienced and what we're describing. [16:50:38] This is my mission with the campaign and it's what New Hampshire has to transform about our country as quickly as possible. And it is this that economic value and human value are different, that right now we've collectively been brainwashed to think that our value is determined by what the market says we are worth. And if the market says we are worth nothing, then we are worth nothing. That is how you wind up with these conclusions, like when a coal mine closes. [16:51:05] We should turn the coal miners into coders, even though that makes zero sense. The only way I would make sense is one, if those people literally have no value if the market doesn't attribute them value. So we have to turn them into something that does have value. That logic is going to ruin us. It's ruining us already and it's ruining families who are struggling with special needs children and their communities don't have the resources to support them. It's ruining us because more and more Americans look up and do not see a clear path for themselves and their family. [16:51:41] And because we don't understand it, it's turning us against each other. There is this mindset of scarcity that is now dominating most of our society, because in this country, 78 percent of us are struggling paycheck to paycheck. Almost half of us can't afford an unexpected five hundred dollar dollar bill. And in that environment, it's very easy to have your heads down and blame each other for things not going well. [16:52:05] I have been to the mountaintop and I have seen the unimaginable wealth that exists in this country. It is staggering. It is unbelievable. I have been to some of the poorest parts of this country. And if anyone tells you that we do not have the resources to improve our own lives, just tell them. Do you remember voting for the four trillion dollar bailout of Wall Street? And they will look at it being like, I do not remember voting for that. [16:52:30] And then do you remember anyone complaining about where we're going gonna get the money? Remember that? They named it quantitative easing. So they hoped that we wouldn't notice. But you all are smart enough to know what is going on in the rest of the country. The big challenge now is to rewrite the rules of our economy and society, to work for my son, to work for your children, to work for Carson. [16:52:53] And this is independent of what the market thinks about us. You know what I mean? Because this is the age of artificial intelligence. And A.I. is going to come out and make trucks that drive themselves in the robot truck. Doesn't care if you are the hardworking, conscientious trucker or the less hardworking truck driver. The robot truck can drive 24/7. The A.I. can read the radiology film better than the most experienced doctor because it can see shades of gray that the human eye cannot and it can reference millions of data points. [16:53:29] Whereas the smartest doctor can only reference hundreds or thousands. It has nothing to do with that doctors work ethic or character. So we have to say to the rest of the country that we have intrinsic value as people that regardless of what the market is doing, as the market is sucking up more and more value, as Amazon's depleting our communities, as Facebook literally is selling and reselling our data for billions of dollars and we're not seeing a dime. It is up to you really here in New Hampshire to reclaim. [16:54:03] Our government and rewrite the rules to work for us. There is no one else to do it. That's why I love campaigning here in New Hampshire so much. I did the math. You know how many Californians each of you is worth? [16:54:18] Approximately 1000 Californians each. So look around this room. How many people do we have? What's that? What's the fire code here? [16:54:27] It's going to be that minus one. [16:54:31] So let's say there are a hundred people here today in this group. That's like two and a half football stadiums full of Californians. That is the power in this room to change the future of this country, to let our fellow Americans know that we are worth everything. It's not that we work for the economy. The economy needs to work for us. It's not that we're inputs into the giant machine. The machine has to be made to work for us. Now, part of this is it's universal. It's not about. Party for sure. [16:55:08] That's one reason why I say it's not left, it's right, it's forward. But the difference between someone who is able bodied and not in the 21st century will diminish quite rapidly. No, like if you look at someone and you say, hey, like you're on your own. It's not going to work. We have to bring people together and see that these are the issues that we're all facing. So I'm thrilled to be releasing today a policy that supports families who are dealing with the same issues that my wife and I have as parents because right now. [16:55:46] The federal government said that they would fund 40 percent of their resources necessary to educate kids with special needs around the country. D.C. being D.C., they actually funded about 15 percent. I'm saying it should be 100 percent and that's what I will make happen as your president. [16:56:05] As. [16:56:10] Of my fundamental message to you all is that if the rules of the 21st century economy are not working for you and your family, then they're not working, period. And it is in your power and your power alone to change that. So I hope you'll join with me and Carson and the rest of the team to do just that. And I'm looking forward to taking questions from you all. Thank you all so much. [16:56:39] Perfect. Thank you so much. We are going to now open up the floor for questions, and I think we're going to start with the questions around disability first a little bit and then from there we can kind of open up as we go on. So questions about policy or disability or anything in that realm. Oh, yes. We have a micro hearing, me and Andrew going to show to make sure all parts of. Killing this gentleman. [16:57:11] Hello, my name is Alex Bennett, and my question around disability is Andrew. I know that you take a lot of policy positions or information from what Germany does. And I know that's true from mechanical education. But my mom, she married a German guy. And so my three little sisters are German and one of them has a mental disability. [16:57:31] And the way that they integrate her into the classroom is far more advanced than what they do in the United States. And I was wondering what kind of different places they to take your policy positions and what you want to implement for people with mental disability, for them to be more of a productive part of the community. [16:57:50] Thank you, Alex. [16:57:54] One of the German role modeling examples that Alex is referring to, because you see me in another context, is that only 6 percent of American high school students are in technical or vocational programs. And in Germany, that's 59 percent. Think about that golf. So we need to bridge that golf here in the United States because we're overly emphasizing college, college, college. And the reality is only about a third of Americans graduate from college. [16:58:19] A lot of people are attending college that it's not a good fit for. And many should be heading to these vocational and apprenticeship programs. If we actually. Stopped in a lab and equipment and a local employer and the training necessary to put them on a more sustainable path. As you know, I'm concerned with the fact that we're automating away a lot of the lot of the most common jobs in our country, which we are 40 percent in the next 10 to 20 years. Trucking being one of the most common. [16:58:57] But it's very, very hard to automate away a tower climber or an h vac repair person or a plumber. Can you imagine what it would take to make a robot plumber? It's a joke. It's like impossible. It's gonna be a human being for a long time. So we need to invest significantly in in trade and apprenticeship programs the way Germany has. And the fact that Germany is ahead of us in integrating people with different no logical profiles in the classroom is not surprising to me. [16:59:22] One of the things we do too often in America is we silo kids off. We say, hey, you go there and then these kids go here. And that's actually not the way human beings learn and develop naturally. If you think about the course of human history, kids learn from other kids very often. And so you need people with different profiles were in a classroom. The other thing I would do in the classroom, we have to lighten up on standardized tests in this country as this would help people different profiles to you know, we invented the S.A.T. during World War Two as a means to identify which kids not to send to the frontlines. [17:00:01] Think about how dark that is. And then we took that test and now we're bludgeoning our kids with it every single year. It's distorting teacher behavior. It's it's making it so that our kids feel like they're. Not worth as much as they are. And so that's another move we can make that would ease the integration of people with different profiles of the classroom. Well, while we're waiting on a question, I just want to comment about one of the main themes of the campaign, and this will help change a lot of things right now. [17:00:38] The government and the media, don't forget the media are presenting a few measurements to us as to how we are doing. All right. Number one is GDP. Number two in stock market prices. And number three is headline unemployment. And so they run around saying things are great, things are great, things are great. And then we're looking at being like, why do I not feel like things are great? So you have record high corporate profits and GDP in this country right now. Also at record highs. [17:01:04] Stress. Anxiety. Student loan debt. Financial insecurity. Drug overdoses and suicides. And New Hampshire, unfortunately, is one of the epicenters of the opiate epidemic. But nationwide, eight Americans are dying every hour from drugs. It is so bad that our life expectancy has declined for three years in a row. First time in 100 years that's happened. Last time it happened was the Spanish flu of 1918, a global pandemic that killed millions. [17:01:30] It is not normal in a developed country for our life expectancy to be climbing. So when the media and the government run around saying things are great, things are great and you feel like things are not great. You are right and they are wrong by the numbers that if you had the real numbers, you would see where the midst of a mental health crisis, you would see where our life expectancy is declining civic engagement. A lot of the things that you would use as indicators of health of a society or community are all in the red. And this extends to what we need to do for people of different capacities who are disabled or on different parts of the spectrum. [17:02:08] So if you shift our measurements from saying GDP, corporate profits to our health, our mental health, clean air and clean water, then all of a sudden anything that makes our kids and our people stronger is an investment. That means paying teachers more. That means having more teachers in the classroom. That means actually putting resources in place to make ourselves stronger. Instead of seeing these things as costs like, it's very hard to argue when you go to the school district and say, hey, my kid needs help. And they're like, we don't have the money because they're in an environment of scarcity. [17:02:47] And they're like, I've got a budget and I can only move so many things around. But if you actually change the measuring stick of the economy to how that kid is doing. We all know if you were the parent of a special needs child, you know, if you invest enough in that child's development early on, it can be a game changer for the rest of their life. What is the economic and human return of changing that kid's life for 70 years? And so then you go to the school district and say, I need this. They say, yes, you do, because we need to put that investment in place. And that's actually how we measure success. That's what we need to change. [17:03:26] As you know, G.G., just enough from me, I'm sure I was a teacher in the classroom for 17 years. Fifth grade for 15 years. Yeah. And upon thinking about what you just said, how do you get that done? You know, I came from a place where one teacher. Twenty five. Twenty seven kids, many special needs kids, no help. And I have young relatives now who have special needs. And one of them isn't going to school being. He's autistic, being homeschooled because of behavior. Parents don't have any faith in the systems. How do you get that done? [17:04:11] That is what we have to address. And I've been that parent. Christopher has behavioral and social problems and would not thrive in many, many environments. In our case, we have him in a special needs school and he gets a lot of individualized attention right now. If you go to that public school, they don't have any individual to actually be able to help manage that child. So that's the change. And that's where the federal government comes in. So the federal government has magical powers that towns do not. [17:04:46] No, I mean like that. That's where the 4 trillion came from. That's where the one point five trillion that went to corporations came from just the other year. If you were a school district and you say, look, I can't afford an individual teacher to help manage your child. That is what this bill that would put 50 billion dollars right towards schools to be able to pay for that special needs teacher in that classroom. So you can't put communities in position where they feel like they have to rob Peter to pay Paul. [17:05:16] No, you have to say, look, this is a society wide problem and here are the resources to deal with it, particularly because what you are seeing in your family is, again, the new normal. Every indicator is that the number of autistic and special needs children is rising and rising and rising. So we need to invest right now and we have to do this at the national level so that your is that your relatives? So that your relatives actually feel like they can send their son to school and be able to trust the system. Because I understand why they don't right now. Let's give her a round of applause for teaching fifth graders at the. [17:05:54] I have to say, I as a parent, too. [17:05:56] I'm so grateful when there is an awesome teacher because you can tell the teacher is investing in your kids every single day. You drop your child off and you're like, oh, you know, you know it. You know, when when they're in the presence of a good teacher, you remind me of my fifth grade teacher, actually. [17:06:13] What it's worth, I mean, I just I'm like, oh, great. That seems like a great teacher. [17:06:19] I'm sorry. [17:06:24] They don't. I'm Andrew Chavez. I'm actually from Massachusetts down in Andover. I'm just curious, with mental health, mental health and mental illness being so prominent in today's society. How do you plan on helping people who are either uninsured or don't have the means to go to a psychiatrist, psychologist, therapist or or even just too embarrassed to go to a counselor at school? [17:06:46] Thanks, Andrew. It's a great question. [17:06:49] The first thing we have to do is destigmatize mental illness and struggles. And so I think I'm 100 percent sure that my family is not the first political family to have autism and the family special needs child. I think we may be one of the first families to talk openly about it, which to me is messed up. You know, it's like I think politicians historically been like, oh, let's like, you know, have this facade that we're presenting to the world. [17:07:14] Whereas for us, we love our son. You know, he's our son. Like, we think that society loves him, too. And with mental illness, we have to let people know it's like everyone's struggles. It's almost universal to the human condition. And if you need help, we should be there to to get you that help. I'm for universal health care so that people will be able to see the professionals they need when they need them. I want to integrate our mental health system and our hospitals because a lot of the time the physical ailments we go into hospitals with have a mental health component. You're talking about addiction, obesity, like a lot of it like diabetes. [17:07:57] There are a lot of things that are tied together with a body in the mind. And when communities have integrated their medical system in their mental health system, they've seen incredible results. So we need to try and do that society wide. But it starts with covering all Americans so that we can get access to the health care we need and making sure there's no stigma attached to it. [17:08:26] This also means training more professionals because many communities are mental health deserts in terms of having practitioners and counselors. So I want you all to reflect on some news doctors as an example. Why do we not have enough doctors in United States of America? Is it because not enough young people wanted to be doctors? [17:08:43] No, it's because. [17:08:49] We've constrained the supply of doctors because the doctors want to make more money. Honestly, if you think about it, we had a physician shortage for decades. Why wouldn't you expand supply? It's because the AMA was like we kind of like the number where it is. And we've made training as a doctor so expensive that after you get your degree, you don't want to head towards particular parts of the country doing particular types of work because you'll never repay the debt. [17:09:16] And we've made it so that if you want to go into this entire process, what do you have to do? Be great at these standardized tests. We've set up as this gate to have you go through and then load you up with that. So what you have to do over time is you have to broad in the nature of the training, make it lighter cost or if it is still super expensive. You pay back the debt. If someone goes to an underserved area, because right now in this country, everything revolves around the almighty dollar and it's depleting many, many towns and communities around the country. [17:09:49] And the subtext is that, well, that's the town's fault. Or maybe those people should all moved to Seattle or some other nonsense, you know, like we have to make it work for people where they are. And so if people aren't getting the care that they need because the market's not delivering it, then we have to create the incentives so that someone can get the training needed to help that community and then actually go to that community. [17:10:21] Hi, Larry. Somehow. Thanks for being here along the lines of insurance. We were at the FDA FDR Library this weekend toward the library in New York, and they had an exhibit about Social Security. And one of the things they said was, you know, we put in place Social Security to let the old people retire so their jobs would free up for the next generation. And why aren't we talking about that with insurance? [17:10:56] Because I'm at a point where every two years my company does an early buyout and I've reached that age where, you know, I could consider taking it, but I can't because I'm still paying. You know, I'd be paying two thousand dollars a month for health insurance. That's keeping me in place and not freeing my job up for the next generation. And I think that's a really good argument that I don't hear anyone talking about. [17:11:24] I love this argument. [17:11:27] I love this argument because as someone who's run a business, I know that our current health insurance system is terrible for the labor market. It's terrible on so many levels. [17:11:37] It makes it harder to hire someone. It makes it harder for all of us to change jobs because you're afraid of losing your health insurance. It makes it a thousand times harder to start a business because what do you do about health insurance then? And it makes it so that if you do hire people, what do you do? You turn them all into temps and contractors and gig workers because you don't want to pay for the health care. If we were to get health care off the backs of businesses and families, it would be the greatest catalyst to dynamism and entrepreneurship and creativity and. [17:12:14] People taking risks in a way that right now they don't feel they can because they have families, they have health insurance and the rest of it. So I could not agree with you more that we're in the worst of all worlds right now. And this is an accident like. There was no grand design to tie insurance to your employment, but now we're here. And at this point, half of Americans are getting insurance from their jobs. So the plan has to be for us to provide universal coverage and then over time, squeeze out the private insurance plans and let people know that the public plan works as well or better. [17:12:53] I'm not someone who thinks we can legislate away private insurance because many people literally negotiated away wages for that insurance and many Americans enjoy their coverage. But we have to outcompete and demonstrate that we can do a better job. And if the government actually negotiates properly, it should be able to do a better job because of the clout and the bargaining power that it would be able to bring to the market. Well, I love this argument so much. I made actually a similar argument in one of the first debates where I talked about how our current health insurance model is keeping us in place. [17:13:29] And if we let it if we let it get covered by the state in a different way, then we'd be much freer to do the kind of work we want to do. It sounds like you consider taking this buyout. So that sounds like it would be a win on a couple levels because then someone could take your job, which I'm sure is a job they want. And you could do something else like run for president 20 24. [17:13:52] What's your name? Let's put it should happen to me. [17:14:01] Hello. [17:14:03] Hi. I'm Maryland. I live in Salem. I am a teacher as president. How are you going to bring Congress along with your wonderful progressive policies, at least to moderate Republicans? We know some you'll never reach. But how could you make them look like you were asking these questions to? [17:14:23] My flagship proposal is putting a thousand bucks a month in everyone's hands. How many of you knew about that? Was that right? [17:14:28] Oh, yeah, that's right. Andrew Yang is the give everyone money guy. [17:14:35] Now, after I become your president, thanks to you all. Thank you, Hampshire. Twenty, twenty. The Democrats will be so pumped to beat Donald Trump that like, yeah, we did it. We've got the White House, we've got some in Congress. And let's get something done that's going to put more money in the hands of children and families, make a stronger, healthier, mentally healthier. But here's the kicker. What are Republicans going to say about the dividend? There's one state that's had a dividend for almost 40 years now, and that state is Alaska. It's a deep red conservative state. It was passed by a Republican governor and he said this. He said to the Alaskan people, a lot of oil money. [17:15:10] Who'd rather get it? The government. Who is going to screw it up somehow or you, the Alaskan people and the Alaskan said us, please. And he said, I thought so. And now Alaska has been lobbying this dividend for almost 40 years. Alaskans are a little bit like New Hampshire residents where they really detest taxes. But even Alaskans said they would accept higher levels of taxes if it meant keeping or growing the dividend because it's the beat, their favorite thing that the government ever does. [17:15:36] And like the dividend they all agree on. And I don't need every Republican to get on board with the dividend, I just need a critical mass. And if you think about the impact of the dividend, who does it help it? It helps people in rural areas. It helps red states on the interior that have lost a lot of their economic drivers. So can you imagine the office of a Congress person who's like, I don't like this dividend. The money's gonna hurt you. [17:16:01] People in his district would be like, are you out of your mind? Yang wants to give everyone the dividend. I kind of like it. [17:16:11] And there was a poll that ran here in New Hampshire that said that 10 percent of Trump voters would pick me over Trump in the general election. Another survey said that 18 percent of college Republicans would choose me over Trump in the general. So I have built an appeal to that side of the aisle because I'm nonpartisan and I'm not ideological. I'm just solutions oriented. My flagship proposal is something that Milton Friedman and Martin Luther King and Thomas Paine were all for. It kind of defies party boundaries. [17:16:42] And I have friends who are moderate Republicans and libertarians and independents, and they feel like we can see eye to eye to get things done. I believe I'm actually uniquely situated among the candidates for president to get into Washington and get things done for this reason. And I will have people in my administration who are from different. Political backgrounds, because to me, it's just about people who want to help improve our way of life. And I believe you can find people like that on both sides of the aisle. [17:17:19] OK, we have time. Just a couple more questions before you wrap up. I believe I have someone right here. [17:17:26] Hi, my name is Louise. I live in Massachusetts, but I work in Salem, New Hampshire, and I asked my boss if I could leave early so I could come here and he said that he wouldn't come here because he wants to ask you a question. So he saw your ad today and he says, how could a regular blue collar average person pay more in taxes than a billion dollar corporation like you mentioned, Amazon? How does that happen? [17:17:50] That's the question. [17:17:51] How does a trillion dollar tech company like I was on pay zero taxes? How is that possible? It's not just Amazon. Other. There was another. There are other very, very big companies like Netflix. No taxes. Yeah, Starbucks, too. It's true. It's funny. I mean, we all probably feel more positively towards Starbucks. [17:18:14] So so the coffee coffee pays taxes. When I ran. [17:18:20] That's one reason we should patronize them. Oh, what's this? [17:18:24] The presidential blood for Andrew Yang. [17:18:33] Do they have a set of adjectives associated with it? It'll be like. Like smart, forward thinking. So the way Amazon doesn't pay any taxes is they play a few games. Number one, the most common game, if you are a large multinational firm, is you park the revenue overseas. You say it all went through Ireland because is this crazy tax haven and you never bring it back to the U.S.. So right now, the biggest tech companies have tens of billions of dollars in overseas earnings parked in banks in Ireland and other parts of the world. [17:19:11] And as soon as it touches down here in American soil, it gets taxed. So it never touches back here on American soil. So that's big game number one. Big game. Number two is a company like Amazon can be valued at a trillion dollars and not even make profits in a given quarter. And this is ironic, but a Wal-Mart executive complained to me. How can you compete against a company that does not need to make money? [17:19:35] And I laughed at him. I was like Wal Mart, you guys put so many people out of business. Oh, but but he had a fair point because Amazon has that valuation, despite in some quarters turning 0 profit. So what they do is they spend money very, very aggressively. They gobble up other businesses. They compensate their executives with these big stock option pools that they can then expense in various ways. [17:20:04] And anytime they think they might pay taxes, they spend money in a way to try to keep the taxes close to zero. But the main game they'll play is they'll park it overseas. There are a few different things that they do to avoid paying meaningful taxes. And as someone who ran a private business myself for years. What I mean, there's a personal question sorta. But Lynn, what are you paying here? Coffee. Coffee. [17:20:29] But like order of magnitude. [17:20:33] Well, because when I ran a private company, I was paying 40 to 50 percent in taxes. All in and I would look at my account and be like, what are you doing something wrong? Am I doing something wrong? Like, why am I getting it stuck to me this badly? And he's like, no, that is the tax rate. That is what if you were a private business, you pay. And then when you see that Amazon is paying zero taxes, you're like, what is going on where our tax code is geared towards these behemoth corporations that right now are. [17:21:05] Depleting our communities. And if you're a private business like coffee, coffee, you're paying 30, 40. I'm not. I don't. New Hampshire might not be as high as this business. I it was in New York State, which is a high tax place. So you don't get up to 50 percent. But so I'll stop it at 40. Like a small business here, I might be paying 20 to 40 percent in taxes. You can tell your boss that. Yes. Thank you for asking. So what I did is I look around the world and I look for what has worked in other places. [17:21:41] So if you were another developed country, you look up and say, hey, Amazon can't be paying zero taxes. What we're going to do is they're going to set up essentially a tiny toll booth at every point of sale. So imagine this country, which is going to be the United States of America. After I'm president. Where we the people of this country, you get a tiny smidgen of every Amazon sale, every Google search, every Facebook ad, eventually every robot truck mile and every day I work unit. Right now, if you had this tool in place, it would generate about 800 billion in new revenue and rising. [17:22:12] And it's unavoidable because it's at the point of sale. This is what other developed countries have already figured out. You can't game your way out of it. One of the jokes I tell, but it's true, Jeff Bezos is now worth 109 billion dollars post divorce. If we were to ratchet up the income tax rate to, let's call it 75 percent, how much of his hundred nine billion dollars would we get? None, because he's not dumb enough to pay himself 2 billion dollars or 10 billion dollars a year. He pays himself like a relatively modest salary and then his money is all parked in this Amazon stock. [17:22:47] So if you wanted to get that value, you set the toll up, then you end up getting hundreds of millions, even billions from just at the point of sale of his business. And then when he takes a billion dollars out of Amazon stock every year, which he does do to buy rocket ships to Mars, he does that. It's called Blue Origin. You look it up. You take a toll on that, too. So you get his money coming and going into the business. And this is something that other countries have figured out that we need to catch up on. [17:23:18] So that is the plan. Math, I love it. Yes. [17:23:25] OK, great. Thank you so, so much, everyone. We actually because we are running out on time. We need to go ahead and move into our selfie line moment, which Andrew always loves getting having a chance with everyone. So because we are short on time, everyone will have a chance to either. Or if you come into line, will for either an autograph or a photo, there won't be time for both. So be thinking now. But which one you would like? Andrew is going to be here and we're going to line up starting along here and wrap right around. So thank you so much, everyone. We were talking about. EXETER TOWN HALL - LU 3 ORIGINALLY [19:27:24] Well, hello to him, sir. [19:27:30] Oh, it is great to be back. I went to high school here, I stayed in this in just a few months ago. [19:27:35] How many you actually saw me speak at P.A.? A few of you. I thought, wow, are you student? So fun. I graduated from Phillips Exeter in nineteen ninety two. I'm going to be new that. Yes. [19:27:50] Well, and I get 100 percent affirm that I would never be running for president if I had not attended Exeter because I grew up the son of immigrants. And the conversations around the young household were not going to run for president someday. [19:28:03] And in Exeter, those are also not the conversations. But after X-ray, I went to a brown university. Anyone here do that? Really awesome. And then I went to New York City and went to law school and became a lawyer. I was an unhappy lawyer for five whole months and then left to start an ill fated dot.com. How many of you started a business organization? All right. So if you had your hand up, you know, two things. Number one, it's much, much harder than anyone ever lets on. And number two, when someone asks you how it's going, what do you say? [19:28:41] Great. Only one answer that question. [19:28:45] So my business went great until it failed. My parents told people I was still a lawyer and is doing great. And I've been bitten by the bug and I said I need to try and get better at this. Building something. So I worked at another startup and then another. And then I became the head of an education company that grew to become number one in the U.S. Then it was bought by a bigger company in 2009. 2009 was a very tough time in much of the country. [19:29:14] Can you believe the financial crisis was 10 years ago now and this community was better insulated than many others, but it was a devastating time for much of the country. And I thought I had some insight as to why the financial crisis had unfolded is because so many of the, frankly, very smart kids I've gone to Exeter and Brown and Columbia with had headed to Wall Street and come up with mortgage backed securities and derivatives and exotic financial instruments. And that had crashed the economy. [19:29:46] And I thought, what a train wreck. That does not seem like what you would want your talent and energy dedicated to. So then I thought, well, what would you want to dedicate your talent and energy to? And the idea I had was that our young people should head to Detroit, Cleveland, Birmingham, St. Lewis, Pittsburgh and help create businesses. But that thought that thought seemed out of reach because I tried to start a business myself in my 20s and it failed. [19:30:17] So it would be impossible to ask people to take on that same mission in cities that were new to them. But I thought, well, what would be realistic is for them to learn the same way I learned because I apprenticed to more experienced entrepreneurs and leaders for a number of years to develop. So I thought, well, you could have enterprising young people go work at existing growth companies in Detroit, Cleveland, St. Lewis, Baltimore, and then help those businesses grow. [19:30:42] So that was the vision. I started a nonprofit called Venture for America to make that vision real. How did you all work at non-profits? You volunteer at nonprofits. You should all have your hand up or these pretend on that one. [19:30:57] I feel like I'm a good person. Look around you. Anyone's fact checking you on that. [19:31:04] So the way I started a nonprofit is I put some money in and I started calling rich friends with this question, Do you love America? Many smart among them said, What does it mean if I say yes to this question? And then I said, at least ten thousand dollars and a number of them, including friends from Exeter, said, I love America for 10000. So we raised a couple hundred thousand. I grew to the millions, helped create several thousand jobs in 15 cities around the country. I was honored by the Obama administration multiple times. I got to bring my wife to meet the president. So my in-laws were very excited about me that week. [19:31:40] I look at this picture of our daughter with the president. [19:31:46] How many of you? Grew up here in New Hampshire. Many of you northeast like me, I grew up in upstate New York. Midwest couple s. West Coast or Pistons or Mountain West? Anyone? So I grew up in upstate New York and then came here for high school and then Rhode Island for college. I had never been to Ohio, Michigan, Alabama, Louisiana, all these places that measure for America operated. [19:32:17] And I was staggered by the Gulf between regions where if you fly between Michigan and Manhattan or St. Lewis and San Francisco, you feel like you're spanning dimensions or decades or ways of life and not just going a few timezones. How many of you had the same sort of experience you travel to other parts of the country? So I was trying to absorb what that felt like, where I was getting clapped on the back and brought to the White House, and I was I had this sinking feeling where the work I was doing was like pouring water into a bathtub that had a giant hole ripped in the bottom, that things were getting better, not worse in many, many communities in Ohio and Michigan and Missouri. [19:32:54] And then Donald Trump won the election of 2016. How did you all react when that happened? Tears, shock. Well, I've never heard regurgitation. But there are many people who I'm sure had that that impulse. I thought his victory was a massive red flag where tens of millions of our fellow Americans decided that taking a bet on the narcissist reality TV star was the way to go. And though you might have reacted with shock or dismay or disbelief, we all have family members or friends or neighbors who celebrated. [19:33:36] That's particularly true right here in New Hampshire. Now, if you were to turn on cable news and try and figure out why Donald Trump's our president today, what answers would you get if you just turn on one of the big networks, Russia? Well, this is at that time. So you could say economy, immigrants, Russia, Facebook, racism. Hillary Clinton, Wiener, and heard that one, but maybe Electoral College. Yeah. That's that. That might have been a big explanation. Many people didn't vote. Lack of turnout. Hillary Clinton emails. [19:34:16] . So I'm a numbers guy and I looked at the numbers for a clearer explanation as to why he won. And I found it. We automated away 4 million manufacturing jobs that were primarily based in Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Missouri, Iowa, all the swing states and that he needed to win if that list sounds familiar. This happened in New Hampshire, too, but it happened earlier in the northern part of the state. I've been to that part of the state. This state lost 12000 manufacturing jobs over a number of years. [19:34:51] And if you go to one of those towns, those towns have never come back. Where the plant closed, the shopping center closed. They lost population. When I was up in the northern part. Of New Hampshire, the town supervisor said, we measure our progress by how many people leave. Like if the rate of departure slows down, that's actually progress for us. That's what happens in many manufacturing communities that are hard hit. Again, four million manufacturing jobs lost in the swing states primarily. [19:35:21] And if you doubt this explanation, there's a straight line up between the adoption of industrial automation in a boating area and the movement towards Trump in that area. The strongest correlation you can find. And unfortunately, what we did to those jobs, we are now going to do two retail jobs. Call center jobs, fast food jobs, eventually truck driving jobs and on and on through the economy. How many of you noticed stores closing in? Your area of New Hampshire. And why are those stores closing? [19:35:52] One word answer Amazon or Amazon soaking up 20 billion dollars in value every single year. Closing 30 percent of our stores in malls. Most common job in the United States. Retail clerk, average retail clerks, a 39 year old woman making between nine and ten dollars an hour. What is her next move going to be when the store closes? How much did Amazon pay in federal taxes last year? Zero. That's the math. New Hampshire. Twenty billion out. Thirty percent of stores in malls closed. Zero back. Most common job starts to disappear. When you all call the customer service line of a big company and you get the software robot, you do the same thing I do. [19:36:28] Why did you pound 0 0 0 as a human human representative and to get some of that having to be. I'll do that. Oh, yeah, we all do that. That's always miserable. As soon as you hear the voice, you're like, oh, no, it's not funny. [19:36:42] But in two or three short years, the software is going to sound like this. Hey, Andrew, how can I help you? It'll be seamless ambition. Delightful. You might not even realize that software unless you know. What does that going to mean for the two and a half million Americans who work at call centers right now making 14 bucks an hour? How many have you seen self-service kiosks in a fast food restaurant like McDonald's? Every location in the country in the next two years, they say itself, sir, kiosk. [19:37:08] And now they're looking at the back of the house like the robot burger flippers and fry cookers. The rubber is really going to hit the road with truck driving or freight. How many of, you know, a truck driver here in New Hampshire? There are three and a half million truckers in the United States. Most common job in 29 states. My friends in California and I want you to imagine Asian guy goes to Exeter, goes to fancy schools. I literally have friends who are working on the self-driving trucks in Silicon Valley. They tell me they're 98 percent of the way there. A self-driving truck just took 20 tons of butter from California to Pennsylvania two weeks ago. Why butter? I've no idea. [19:37:54] But if you Google robot butter truck. [19:37:59] You'll see it comes up. And the reason why my friends in Silicon Valley are working on the robot trucks is because the cost savings are estimated to be one hundred sixty eight billion dollars a year. If they automate truck time and think about that number as the price I can. That's such a staggering sum that if you're an investor and someone comes to you and says, I've got software equipment that can help automate truck driving, I just need 500 million to develop it and hire hundreds of engineers. [19:38:28] You write that check because you see the hundred sixty eight billion dollar a year pot of gold. And if this team can make any meaningful progress, you're gonna get your money back. Multiplied many, many times over. My friends tell me that self-driving trucks are five to ten years away from hitting our highways in earnest. What will that mean for the three and a half million Americans who drive a truck for a living? [19:38:52] Or the 7 million plus Americans who work at truck stops, motels and diners that rely upon the truckers getting out and having a meal every day? Something like 10 percent of the jobs in the state of Nebraska support trucking. What will those towns look like when the truck doesn't need to stop? This is the greatest economic transformation in our country's history, what experts are calling the fourth industrial revolution. When is the last time you heard a politician say the words fourth industrial revolution? Two seconds ago. [19:39:25] And I'm barely a politician. [19:39:28] My wife would have run the other direction if she ever thought I was going to run for office again. Now the conversation around the AG now. So she jokes even now. It's like you make the worst politician ever because I'm really bad at lying. Got a terrible poker face. Even when I proposed to her, I was like so nervous. I think this ring of like burning a hole in my pocket, I was like, Oh my God, she knows. She knows. [19:39:56] Anyway, what did happen? [19:40:01] So I proposed and I eventually got a yes and the same general after noon period. [19:40:13] I know. I'm not sure I've ever told people this. [19:40:15] Sorry. I mean, I hope it doesn't. She's not embarrassed by this. But I think her exact reaction to me was, why are you doing this? Which is not exactly what you want to hear when you're on one knee. It's not exactly the desired response, but we got the. Yes, two kids later and happily married anyway. So my first reaction was not to run for president, even after I went through all these numbers that, oh, my gosh, we're scapegoating immigrants for problems immigrants have nothing to do with. [19:40:50] We're going through this historic transformation. How are we going to help our people transition? My first move was to head to Washington, D.C., to sit down with our leaders and say, what are we going to do to help our people through this time? And what do you think the folks in D.C. said to me when I said, what are we going to do? Who are you? Nothing. The three major responses I got were these. Number one, we cannot talk about this, Andrew. Like, we cannot communicate this, the American people. [19:41:23] Number two, we should study this further. Andrew. Number three, we must educate and retrain all Americans for the jobs of the future. Which sounds pretty good. How have you ever heard a politician say something effectively like that? No. But then I said, look, I looked at the studies. Do you all want to guess how effective the government funded retraining programs were for the manufacturing workers who lost their jobs? [19:41:49] I'm anchoring you low because it's very low. Zero to 15 percent success rates. They're a total dud of the former manufacturing workers. Half left the workforce and never worked again. And of that group have filed for disability. You then saw surges in suicides and drug overdoses in those communities to the point where now America's life expectancy has declined for the last three years because suicides and drug overdoses have each overtaken vehicle deaths. That's cause of death in United States America. [19:42:17] You know, the last time America's life expectancy declined for three years in a row. The Spanish flu of 1918, global pandemic that killed millions. You have to go back that far. It is highly unusual for life expectancy to ever to decline in a developed country. It only just goes in one direction, right? It is getting richer, stronger, healthier, just keeps creeping up. Highly unusual for it to go down once and then a second time. A third time. Almost unprecedented. You have to go back 100 years. So when I said this to the folks in D.C., one of them actually said to me, well, I guess we'll get better at it. [19:42:53] And one person in D.C. said something that brought me here to you all tonight here in New Hampshire, he said, Andrew, you're the wrong town. No one here is going to do anything about this because fundamentally this is a town of followers, not leaders. And the only way we will do something about it is if you were to create a wave in other parts of the country and bring that wave crashing down in our heads. And I said challenge accepted. I'll be back in two and a half years. And that was two years ago, New Hampshire. [19:43:20] And I stand before you tonight. [19:43:28] I stand before you tonight, I'm fifth in the polls to become the Democratic nominee. We raised 10 million dollars last quarter in increments of only 30 dollars each. So my fans are almost as cheap as Bernie's. [19:43:46] And we are growing because we are laser focused on the real problems, like I got Donald Trump elected and where advancing real solutions, we need to rewrite the rules of the 21st century economy to work for us and our people. Now, if you're here tonight and I really appreciate you braving the elements and coming here, I have to say I'm a briefing document anytime I do one of these events. [19:44:07] And it said expected audience, 80 people. And I look around, I'm like, ha, this seems more like, what's the fire code in this room? So what I get again, anyone any trouble? But one of the reasons why I love campaigning here in New Hampshire so much is that you all have the future of the country in your hands. And I'll give you one data point. How many like raise your hands and show me how many presidential candidates you've seen in the cycle so far. So this is before this would be eight. Go ahead. And was ready to hands. So 7 1. I appreciate that. [19:44:41] 5 7. More than five. So the reason why we all come here and stump for your vote is because you will have outsized power and influence in our democracy. I did the math. Do you know how many Californians each of you is worth? [19:45:01] A thousand Californians each. [19:45:10] So you look around this room there, about 160 of you here. That's like four football stadiums full of California. That is the power of this room. The power to change the course of history does like God. One reason it's such a joy to campaign here, because other Americans look up and they see the pipes as clogged full of money. And they think there's nothing they can do about it. They're generally right. [19:45:34] There is very little they can do about it. But you all can you can flush the pipes clean just like that. You can take a vision of the rest of the country and have it sweep the nation like wildfire. And what are we talking about? Seven weeks, six and a half weeks. Something along those lines. That's the power in this room. So it's a joy to be here. This is the real thing. Unlike all of the other window dressing and certainly a lot of the chatter from the cable news networks is completely irrelevant. [19:46:01] Property of what is going to happen here in seven weeks. So the question is, how do you use that power? What do you do with it? If you were here tonight, you know that my flagship proposal is that every American gets a thousand dollars a month starting at age 18. How well do you know about the freedom dividend? If you're here, probably everyone. And the first time you heard it, I know what you thought. You thought. That's a gimmick. That's too good to be true. That will never happen. [19:46:29] But this is not my idea. It's not a new idea. Thomas Paine was forward at the founding of the country. Call it the citizen's dividend. Martin Luther King fought for it in the 1960s. It is what he was fighting for when he was assassinated in 1968. It's called the Guaranteed Minimum Income. In his 1967 book Cancer Community, he said this is what we need to bring the country together. I had the privilege of sitting with Martin Luther King's son in Atlanta. And he told me that this is what dad was fighting for when he was killed. And my first reaction was, I can't believe you was called Martin Luther King dad. [19:47:04] But then you realize he is your dad. He's your Martin Luther King, the third. That was like, wow. It's incredible. [19:47:13] A thousand economists endorsed in the 60s. It passed the U.S. House of Representatives twice in 1971 under Richard Nixon. Family assistance plan came this close to being law. And then eleven years later, one state passed a dividend, or now everyone in that state gets between one and two thousand dollars a year. No questions asked. [19:47:30] And what state is that and how do they pay for it? [19:47:35] And what is the oil of the 21st century technology? A software, self-driving cars and trucks. A study just came out that said that our data is now worth more than oil. How many of you saw that study? How many of you have access to a Netflix password? There's a documentary called The Great Hack and it includes that study. How many of you got your data check in the mail last month? We laugh, but where did the data checks go? There's so much value being generated. Facebook, Amazon, Google, the mega tech companies that are paying zero or near-zero in taxes. [19:48:12] Do you see how it's happening in Exeter? This is your job to change it, to make sure that the Amazons of the world pay their fair share. Trillion dollar tech company paid zero in taxes. How is that possible? How do they pay less in taxes than everyone here tonight? So what we have to do is we have to get our fair share of every Amazon sale, every Google search, every Facebook ad, every robot truck mile, and then put it into your hands in the form of this dividend of a thousand dollars a month. We generate this value. [19:48:42] Your data is generating tens of billions of dollars with a value. You're not seeing a dime. What are you mean I'm making is that our data is still ours, even if we loan it to the tech companies. Am I right? So if anyone's profiting from it, should we not participate in this? Especially because after this thousand dollars a month comes into your hands, where would the money go? In real life? How much of it would be spent right here in New Hampshire? Most of it, not all of it. You might get your own Netflix password,. [19:49:19] But most of it would go to car repairs you've been putting off and daycare expenses and little league sign ups and local nonprofits and cultural and religious organizations. This is the trickle up economy from our people, our families and our communities up. This is how we make it so that everyone is included in the 21st century gains that are being generated at almost unimaginable levels underneath our feet. And I see it. I've been there. [19:49:47] I've been to the Googles and Amazons. I'm friends with some of the leading technologists in the world. And they tell me that they see what is coming out of the labs in artificial intelligence and they are deeply concerned about the impact it's going to have on the rest of the country. Well, they say, you know how the sentence never goes. It's like I see what's coming out of the lab and it's gonna be fine. But at the end of that thought, I spoke to a group of 70 CEOs in New York City, and I asked how many of you are looking at replacing back office clerical workers with A.I. and software? [19:50:21] Guess how many hands? What about a 70? All 70. The fact is, you could fire any CEO who didn't have their hand up because we know that all of their incentives are around maximizing the bottom line and their workers aren't part of that bottom line. That is the system that we have built and it is up to you all to change it. There is no one else. If you don't change it, it doesn't change. That's the power of New Hampshire, but that's also the responsibility you all have. And one of the reasons I love being here is that you take that responsibility and own it, take it very, very seriously. [19:50:55] So this thousand dollars a month goes from being dramatic to necessary and inevitable as soon as you recognize the enormity of the situation we're in. And here in New Hampshire, I've been all over the state. There are many, many rural areas that feel like they're being sucked dry truly. And you see the negative spiral that ensues when the main street starts closing. People start leaving property taxes. What happens to them? They go nothing. They're going up because then you have to support the school and they're looking around being like, well, not as many people around. [19:51:24] So then you get trapped in this tough cycle because your property taxes are creeping up and your housing. Is that your housing stock? It's actually harder to sell. So so this is the negative spiral that many communities here in New Hampshire are experiencing and their kids feel like they have to leave the community or even state in order to access the opportunities that they want. That is what we have to change. We have to make it so that the economy works for us and then we're not we're not all inputs into the machine. [19:51:54] And I know this on a personal level, in part because my wife is at home with our two boys every day, one of whom is autistic. What does her work get included at in our economic measurements every day? Zero. I get zero. Staying home with our autistic son gets a zero caregiving, nurturing, volunteering all zeros. Arts very often zero. Journalism increasingly zero or near zero. We're zeroing out many of the most important things in our lives. And this disproportionately impacts women and underrepresented minorities that the marketplace will systematically undervalue or exclude. [19:52:34] Right now in this country, I talked to my wife about this and we talked about universal basic income, which is the historic name for the Freedom Dividend, which is just everyone gets a share of the value that society is generating. And Evelyn asked me. She's like, how did it go from being mainstream? A thousand economists endorse endorsing Milton Friedman to now it takes the futurist presidential candidate does not have drag it into the mainstream like what happened in the last 50 years. [19:53:01] And what I said to her is that we got brainwashed over the last 50 years to think that economic value and human value are the same things that what the market says we are worth is what we are worth. That's how you wind up with otherwise reasonable people suggesting that we should turn a town of coal miners into coders when the mine closes. Because if the person or the town doesn't have any economic value anymore, then we stretch ourselves to ridiculous lengths to try and find some new economic purpose for them. [19:53:31] And that's going to be a losing battle over time for us all. It's a losing battle for my autistic son. It's a losing battle for the truckers who, no matter how hard they work, cannot outcompete the robot truck that's going to hit the highway. It's even a losing battle for the accountants and lawyers who are going to be competing against software that can do that job more cheaply and efficiently and more accurately than even the hardest working human professional. This is the truth of the era we're in. [19:54:06] Right now, we're measuring our economic success through three big measurements and what are they if you turn on cable news? Like what does it say about like, hey. Things are going great. Stock markets won. GDP to headline. Unemployment's the third. So stock market prices, the bottom 80 percent of Americans own 8 percent of stock market wealth, the bottom 50 percent own essentially zero. If you trumpet the stock market, you do it. You're tracking the fortunes of essentially the top 20 percent of Americans if you're generous. It's actually more accurately like the top 5 percent of Americans. [19:54:41] GDP is at record highs, while we're also setting record highs and stress, financial insecurity, overdose is student loan debt and rising again. Our life expectancy is going down while our GDP is going up. So which do you listen to? I would suggest life expectancy because if you're dying sooner, I guess not a sign of health. Yesterday, I was the me and the headline unemployment rate obscures the fact that millions are dropping out of the workforce, that people are working two or three jobs to get by. [19:55:19] That the majority of new jobs that are created are temp gig or contract jobs that don't have benefits. The fact that if you are a young person who's fortunate enough to graduate from college, you have tens of thousands of dollars in debt and there's a 40 to 44 percent chance that you do a job that does not require a degree. So if you're a parent of a college age person, they're coming out and you feel that uncertainty, you're not alone. [19:55:43] If you are a young person, we have set you up with massive indebtedness and a very insecure economy. In terms of your ability to climb the corporate ladder, that may or may not exist if you're a young person, I apologize to you because we have left you a mess. We need your help to clean it up. The first thing to do is to acknowledge the crisis state we're in. So if GDP, corporate profits in the headline unemployment rate aren't the right measurements. What would actually get you excited if I said it got better here in Exeter? [19:56:16] Health, right? Healthy life expectancy. That's pretty core. It's like I might say, hey, you got healthier, you're living longer. Clean air and clean water. I said we've got more sustainable, our emissions went down. You would be happy about that. Mental health and freedom from substance abuse. Say, I got happier in New Hampshire, unfortunately, is one of the epicenters of the opiate epidemic. [19:56:38] Eight Americans are dying of drugs every hour, which is unconscionable. And that was a disease of capitalism run amok. We let some of the drug companies profit to the tune of tens of billions of dollars and kill tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of Americans. So these are the measurements that would tell us how we're actually doing. How about childhood success rates? How about proportion of elderly Americans who can retire in quality circumstances, income and affordability? [19:57:05] So these are the things that actually will tell us how we're doing. And as your president, I will update GDP to these measurements. And that sounds like magic, but it's really not. We made up GDP almost 100 years ago and even the adventure of GDP, so this is a terrible measurement of national well-being and we should never use it as that. And that was a hundred years ago. Think about that. So now we're following the century, the old measurement off a cliff and being like, hey, guys, things are going great. [19:57:33] Look at GDP while our people are struggling and suffering. Self-driving trucks will be great for GDP. They're going to be terrible for many American communities. So you have to line up the measurements to tell us how we are doing. Donald Trump in twenty sixteen said he was going to make America great again. And then what did Hillary Clinton say in response? America's already great. Remember that? [19:58:00] I know it's been a long three years like there. Oh, it's about to end, though. We're gonna end it, am I right? Applause So Hillary's response did not resonate with many Americans when she said America's already great. The problems are real. The suffering is real. We have to acknowledge the depth and severity of the problems, but then we need solutions that will actually help us all move forward. What we're Donald Trump's solutions. [19:58:34] He said we're gonna build a wall. We're gonna turn the clock back. We're gonna bring the old jobs back here. Hold those things to eggs that are you know, we have to do the opposite of these things. We have to turn the clock forward. We have to accelerate our economy and society as quickly as possible to rise to the real challenges of this era. We have to evolve in the way we think about ourselves and our work and our value. And I am the ideal candidate for that job, because the opposite of Donald Trump is an Asian man who likes math. [19:59:11] Now, most of you may not know this math is an acronym. What does it stand for? [19:59:17] Make America think harder. That's right. We have to identify the real problems and adopt real solutions. I feel like this is the right place for that. I feel like Exxon is a very smart town. Maybe in part because most the time I was here has had my nose in a book. [19:59:33] Is just trying to smarten up myself. [19:59:39] The problems are real, and unfortunately, the Democratic Party has been acting as if Donald Trump is the source of all of our problems. He is actually a symptom. He's a manifestation of a deeper set of problems that we have to cure as a country. The Democratic Party, in my mind, should have had a real period of soul searching when Donald Trump won. It's like, how the heck did we lose to this guy? How the heck did tens of millions of Americans decide to head this direction? [20:00:07] And a lot of it is that the feedback mechanism between the people in DC has broken down. Many people throughout the country don't feel like government is working for them. For us. And that's not a crazy feeling. Some of you might have that feeling, too. The feedback mechanism is breaking down. The fact is that Washington, D.C. today is the richest city in our country. What do they produce? Gridlock. Unclear. [20:00:34] Produce a lot of wealth, though, somehow. Our politicians in D.C. succeed whether we succeed or fail. And that is the the feeling that is driving many people towards Donald Trump. We have to restore that feedback mechanism by saying, look, the government is going to activate resources and put them in our hands when to trust our people. We're gonna build the trickle up economy. [20:00:59] I'm a parent. Like many of you, raise your hand if you're a parent. [20:01:04] So if you're a parent like me, you had this sense of unease. Maybe you've even been afraid to express it. If you were born in the United States of America in the 1940s, would something you might have been. You look great. [20:01:15] I mean, I wrote this for you about the 40s. Do the math. 30S. Oh, you look fantastic, sir. [20:01:26] 1938. [20:01:28] If you were born in the 1940s, the United States of America, there's a ninety three percent chance that you were gonna do better than your parents. That's the American dream. That's pretty strong. That's the dream that brought my parents here as immigrants. If you were born in the 1990s, which is some of you, I'm guessing. You're down to a 50/50 shot and it's heading heading downward very, very quickly. That is what we have to address New Hampshire. If you don't address that, it's going to be very, very hard to bring this country together. [20:02:01] I am running for president not because I fantasized about being president. I'm running for president because like many of you in this room, I'm a parent and a patriot. I have seen the future that lies ahead for our kids. And it is not something I'm willing to accept. And you should not accept it either. We have to do better for them. If we do come together in this way, we can be able to look our kids in the eyes and say to them, your country loves you, your country values you and you will be all right. And that is the message I want us to send to the rest of the country. In February of this year. Thank you all very much. So we're going to make it together. [20:02:49] We're going to rewrite the movie economy away for you because the rules are not working for you. They are not working. Am I right? I love it. I love being here so much. [20:03:02] What's the number one criteria for Democrats in terms of the nominee be Donald Trump? That's right. That's actually number one. How many for you that doesn't know. One good deal is right that it was a poll right here in New Hampshire that said that 10 percent of Trump voters would choose me over Donald Trump. Which is all we need to win. [20:03:27] You get all the Dems and progressives together and then you peel off independents and libertarians and 10 percent of Trump voters, we win this thing in a landslide. [20:03:35] Now, most Democrats have not realized yet that I am the candidate to take on and beat Donald Trump in 2020. But more people are realizing it every single day. It's a beautiful feeling. One survey came out that said that 18 percent of college Republicans would choose me over Trump. Think about that. It's us plus tend to 18 percent of Trump voters. And we're going to knock him out so bad. It's gonna be a landslide. And it has to start right here in New Hampshire and the next number of weeks. I love you guys. We'd love to take some questions. Thank you all so much. So so this handsome gentleman here is Zach Grossman is my campaign manager and he has passed me a note said that we just had our one millionth donation to the campaign. [20:04:24] As I said. What was it, someone in this room where you on the phone while I saw you? [20:04:37] Yeah. So I would love to take a in, sir. You had. Yeah. Yeah. Let's get this man on my career, I'll do it. [20:04:46] I'm coming your way, sir. I got this. [20:04:50] Thank you. [20:04:52] I'm attorney David Mirsky from Exeter. And my question is, I know that you have. The brilliant ideas for the future, but. Um, I just want to know, how are you going to defeat the evil that Donald Trump really is? [20:05:13] Thank you, David. [20:05:18] In many ways on the ideal foil for Donald Trump. And if you look at the candidates, he has messed with every single candidate in the field except for me, because I'm better at the Internet than he is. [20:05:34] And a lot of his strongest attacks don't work on me at all, because what does he do? [20:05:38] He caricatures his opponents as D.C. insiders and creatures. [20:05:42] I'm another outsider, but unlike him, I want to solve the problems of the American people and improve our way of life so I can draw in again 10 percent plus of Donald Trump voters who don't like D.C. very much. And as the Democratic nominee, all the Democrats are going to be obviously super excited. A survey just came out that said I am among the least disappointing nominees for the Democratic field. [20:06:08] Oh, really? [20:06:08] But this is an incredibly important stat because they survey thousands of dams and lakes, line all the Dems up and said, who would you be disappointed in and the least disappointed in? [20:06:19] And I was among the least disappointing. [20:06:22] Which means that the turnout is going to be high because people will get behind me and then I'll get again the 10 to 18 percent of Trump voters. And can you imagine me debating him? One of the things I can do more effectively than the other candidates is I can make him seem completely ridiculous. [20:06:47] Let's go, man, woman. [20:06:50] Thank you, Lacey. [20:06:59] How would the freedom dividend affect those on Social Security? [20:07:04] It's tax on top of Social Security. So I would increase the income of every Social Security recipient right now by a thousand dollars a month. And that seems again, too good to be true. But I've talked to hundreds, thousands of Americans who are receiving Social Security, and a couple of things became very clear. Number one, it's impossible to retire on Social Security alone. Number two, Social Security benefits are different depending upon whether you have to take time off from work often to parent to child. [20:07:30] So in many families, the mom is getting less and Social Security benefits. Number three, millions of Americans are facing essentially never retiring because they have to work until the day they die because they can't afford to stop. And if you look at the demographics, you see that we have to reformat our economy around caring for our aging relatives, but we don't have the economic resources in place to do so. So that's what this thousand dollars a month can do for our society. [20:08:00] It can enable Americans to retire with dignity because you a thousand dollars plus Social Security, then you're talking and then we can put actual resources and work to take care of people as they age gracefully instead of right now. I have no desire to go into a convenience store and see a senior citizen working until the day they die. That should be a teenager working for beer money, am I right? Yeah, I'm proposing the greatest expansion in Social Security benefits in history, and what I'm talking about now was mainstream wisdom in the 60s when we passed over security. It's just we've got a very, very extreme distant sense that. [20:08:42] Your. You have a lot of good ideas about campaign finance reform, and it's one of the most important things to me. We have a broken system. Thank you. So what would you do to fix our broken campaign finance reform and what hurdles do you think you will face when you try to do that? [20:09:03] I love this question so much because this is one reason why Americans have lost complete faith in government. Again, millions of dollars of lobbyist cash is clogging the pipes and you feel like your vote doesn't matter. There was a joke headline that said Americans should hire our own lobbyist because that's the only way we would actually get anything done. It's like I represent the American people. So most every Democrat will say we need to overturn Citizens United, which is correct. [20:09:30] We do need to do that. But the fact is corporate money had overtaken our government before Citizens United. Citizens United has made it more extreme. So what we have to do is we have to unify the people and the money. And I said this on the debate stage in L.A., fewer than 5 percent of Americans donate to political candidates or campaigns right now. So my proposal is to give every American one hundred democracy dollars used or lose it that you can give to any candidate or campaign that you want that would get the donate rate from 5 percent to what? What do you think? [20:10:04] 60 or 70 Americans are pretty lazy. So we've got a hundred free dollars, the lobby will be like, ah, I can't be bothered, but you could get it up to 60 percent. And if you had it to 60 percent, you would wash out the lobbyist cash by a factor of four or five to one. And then if a person was running for office and got ten thousand people behind them, that's a million dollars in financing. And then the lobbyist comes along and says, I've got twenty five thousand dollars for you could be like pass because I'm getting a million dollars and the people I'm going to represent them. So that is something that is bipartisan because many Republicans don't love. [20:10:40] While I stretch, I mean a lot of Republicans are in the pocket of these companies. I mean, a lot of Dems do, of course. I mean, I have a friend I went to Exeter with who worked in Capitol Hill for years for the right reasons, and he hated lobbyists when he showed up on Capitol Hill. What does he today, 15 years later, lobbyist? Yeah. You know, the you know the drill. So. Democracy dollars would free up legislators from having to pass the hat all the time. I'm for term limits of 12 years. We should send people to D.C. to do work and then come home. [20:11:17] Problem is that they're trying to make like a multi decade long career out of being in D.C. and that should not be the orientation. So the first big move is to pass some sort of public financing democracy dollars. But I'm going to suggest to you all that one of the ideal ways to get money out of politics is to send someone into the White House that doesn't owe anyone a dime in terms of corporate PAC money. And that's me. [20:11:43] Tens of millions of dollars raised in increments of only 30 dollars each. Purely people powered, purely grassroots funded. And I joke sometimes that, of course, the companies would never have sent me because I'm like the anonymous Asian man. Like, that's the dumbest. You know, you're like the corporate being like, oh, this is gonna work. Let's send that guy. [20:12:02] No. [20:12:02] Like, I'm just another citizen who represents our own interests and we need to break the stranglehold on the money. So I agree with Tom Stier. I agree with a lot of other, you know, times I went to Exeter as well. And, you know, we need to break the stranglehold of corporate money and flood the system with people powered money. I want to overturn Citizens United. But the fact is the corporate money is going to find a way to creep back in unless we flush it out. [20:12:27] I would also try and shut the revolving door between government and lobbyists in various ways, and I would have a ban on ever lobbying. But if you're gonna do the ban on ever lobbying or ten years, which is an eternity in DC because everyone ages out and then your relationships don't matter anymore. [20:12:44] Then you will need to ramp up compensation at the government level, say, look, no going to industry, but we'll pay you more. And that is a very, very fair trade. So, my friend. Well, I guess I went to there with like maybe he would not have been a lobbyist if there been a ban on being a lobbyist and he'd young paid a little bit more on Capitol Hill. He was a good guy. I mean, I'm still president. [20:13:08] Hi. When I was you. So I'm a student at Bill's Exeter. And my question for you is, what would you do to stop gerrymandering and give more people access to the ballot? [20:13:19] It's an excellent question. There's a lot of voter suppression going on around the country. Gerrymandering is a huge problem. It should be that voters choose our leaders, not leaders, choosing their voters. So that the leaders in terms of reform and activism on this are Eric Holder and President Obama who have this anti-terrorism pandering initiative that I endorse wholeheartedly. There are a lot of things I think we should do to try and elevate the ability to vote. [20:13:42] I would have automatic voter registration. Anytime you get like your driver's license or something like that. We should be registering you automatically. We should be giving people the day off on Election Day so that more people are able to vote. So there are a lot of things we can do to try and encourage voting participation rates. We almost deliberately make it hard to vote in this country. And that includes, unfortunately, the way we're drawing up the voting areas because that's being drawn up to favor one party or another. [20:14:10] And in terms of democracy, reform, and this is related to this, I'm for ranked choice voting because you need to be able to have people express their preference. You need a more dynamic party system in this country. Right now you have this duopoly and I'm a Democrat. But right now, independents outnumber Democrats and Republicans in terms of self identification. And if you're an independent, you look up and say, I'm not sure either of these parties are getting it. All right. [20:14:36] And your voice is getting drowned out because we have this winner takes all voting system. If you had ranked choice voting. You could express your true preferences. It would make our democracy much more vibrant and dynamic. So the Electoral College has problems, but I think that advocating for its abolition is frankly a stupid waste of time because you would require a super majority of states to get on board with it and literally like many of them would be like giving up their own power and shooting themselves in the foot. [20:15:16] The other thing is, if you were Democrats and you lose by rules that are literally engraved in the Constitution, and then you say, hey, we should change the rules. What does that say? You're saying like, I can't win by the rules, so I'm going to try and change them. If you're going to advocate for changes in the Electoral College, you have to win an election by the rules you have first and then go and say, hey, let's change these rules. If I'm for anything, I'm for proportional allocation of electors. Because and you will benefit from this and it's cool. I love you for it. But there are only a handful of states that people campaigning because their swing states. If you had proportional allocation of electors. [20:15:54] , then you would have candidates going to any state just to try and rack up some support and votes. And it would even it out in a much more truly Democratic way. Another side effect of abolishing the Electoral College that most people don't reflect on, it would privilege people in major cities in urban areas because every candidate would just go where they could get a lot of bang for their buck in terms of media exposure because the vote's a vote. So would I ever go to a rural area to campaign? [20:16:25] I probably wouldn't. I would just go to every major media market because anytime I show up New York or Los Angeles TV, I reach many more people. So there are problems with trying to abolish the Electoral College, starting with the fact that it's completely impractical unless you had dozens of states that are willing to vote against their own interests, which we all know is not going to happen. [20:16:49] I'll let you choose because I see so many hands and they all seem so smart. [20:16:58] I was interested in what you would do in your first year to address climate change if you were elected. [20:17:03] How many of you all are concerned about climate change? Yes, me too. It is bearing down on us. I was in Portsmouth and there were buildings that are literally flooding more regularly now than they were years ago. There is a multi-million dollar shrimping business that went to zero because the water got too warm and the shrimp died. If you saw me several debates ago, I outlined the new third position in American politics on climate change. Remember this position? Number one, we need to fight climate change. [20:17:28] Position number two. Climate change is a hoax. And then my position number three is it's worse than you think and it's already here. You all remember this. And then people were like, oh, Andrew is being negative. And then all of a sudden they adopted my position like the next debate. He's right. We need to invest hundreds of billions of dollars in protecting ourselves right now. You can't have towns in New Hampshire that are flooding and then having to fend for themselves on it. [20:17:55] So no one put a price on carbon. Day one, if you're polluting, you have to have that cause built into your bottom line, the business. And that would give us tons of resources to try and move towards wind and solar. And it would make the companies that are polluting have to become much more efficient or pay big bucks into the system. Climate change action and financial insecurity in my mind are tied together because right now 70 percent of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. [20:18:27] Almost half can afford an unexpected five dollar bill. So if you go to them and say we need to fight climate change, what is their reaction? Can't afford it. I'm worried about next month. You know, like a year from now, it has to wait. And then what's the next natural reaction? It's probably not going to be so bad anyway. Or like maybe they're just hyping it up. We have to get the boot off people's throats so that they actually can focus on the bigger problems instead of just putting one foot in front of the other. [20:18:56] If you put a resource in the people's pockets, then instead of hearing we have to fight climate change in thinking, oh, my costs are going to go up, it's gonna be more inconvenient. We're going to lose jobs, which is what many Americans here they'll think. Yeah, you're right. We have to fight climate change because we're going to be here while my future secure. My kids future is secure. [20:19:15] The big move I would make is to build environmental sustainability into our actual economic measurements, because right now that tug of war is something that we're losing on with many Americans where you say we need to fight climate change and lead us here higher costs. The argument I'd make is what is the going to be the cost of climate change if we do nothing? Trillions of dollars easily. What we have to do is internalize that cost into our current measurements and say, look, when you pollute, that has a cost. [20:19:42] If we inaction has a massive cost, we have to act, invest hundreds of billions of dollars and make our infrastructure more resilient before the fact. And if this seems dramatic, we've already moved a town in Louisiana because the water levels rose. Do we think that's the only town that likely will have to be relocated? Of course not. There are gonna be dozens, maybe hundreds of towns around the country. [20:20:07] So we have to start making bigger moves now. And that's what I would champion as president from day one. I'm also the only candidate who's proposing a constitutional amendment to address climate change in our generationally because we can't let this be something that flip flops from one administration to the next. [20:20:27] All right. I'm going to be the bad guy. Thank you guys for your patience. We're going to take one more question and then this is very important, the selfie line. If you decided to plant yourself here earlier this evening, you won the lottery because there were going to have the line go this way will be very smooth and efficient. Get the pictures, get the selfies and appreciate how long you've waited here tonight. So one more question. You going to do this? All right. [20:20:58] Shout out. I need give me an even number between one and three of you. [20:21:07] That's how we roll, baby. Thank you. [20:21:15] Hi, Mr. Yang. My name is John and I'm with the Partnership to Protect Our Retirement Future. And my question is about the what the financial transaction tax. We'd like to call it the retirement tax, because it would really hurt a lot of it. Well, it sounds good on paper. It would hurt a lot of the middle class people. It would really it would hit all for one case, for three B's. It wouldn't hit anybody with a 529. And it really hit pensions. Any pension funds. So I was just wondering, do you have a position on it? [20:21:48] That's. [20:21:55] I want to strengthen the middle class and put everyone in a position to be able to eventually retire with dignity. I want to rewrite the rules of the economy to work for us and our people across the board. I do think a financial transactions tax is a good idea. And the fact is, if you're a retiree who has your accounts and like for one K, many of those investors are through ETF exchange traded funds and they're not like turning over their assets all the time. [20:22:22] And if you had a financial transactions tax, you could easily, if you were a firm, say, hey, maybe we're not going to incur more financial transactions and have our transaction costs go up. If you have before when K or 529, you're probably allergic to any kind of transaction fees or taxes, you'd want the money to be there and then grow steadily. So I'm for a financial transactions tax. [20:22:43] The bigger picture, I'm for putting money into the hands of every American and making this economy work for us instead of trying to see ourselves as inputs into the giant capital efficiency machine. Because right now we're in a race that frankly more and more of us are not going to be able to win. We have to evolve from thinking of this as like some kind of rugged individualism, meritocracy, where everyone's worth is determined by a combination of their like hard work and virtue and character and start evolving to say we all have intrinsic value. [20:23:15] Whether your able bodied, disabled software engineer or a stay at home mom, we have to make this economy work for everyone and let the rest of the country know it's not left. It's not right. It's forward. And that is where you all are gonna take us in 2020. Thank you all so much for a handshake. Thank you.

TVU 22 JOE BIDEN NEW LONDON NH TOWN HALL ABC UNI 110919 2020 NEW LONDON, New Hampshire -- Former Vice President Joe Biden held a town hall in New London, New Hampshire on the campus of Colby-Sawyer College, fielding questions on the economy, climate change, his handling of the Anita Hill hearings and what he would look for in a potential vice presidential running mate. Question on Anita Hill from a man Biden berated in 1987 In a classic New Hampshire/small world moment, the man who asked Biden the question about Anita Hill, Frank Fahey, was the same man who in 1987 <https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wmur.com%2Farticle%2Fjoe-biden-wins-support-of-nh-man-he-insulted-in-1987%2F27499146&data=02%7C01%7CMegan.X.Farrell.-ND%40abc.com%7Cfa24728438804020bd6f08d76568a3aa%7C56b731a8a2ac4c32bf6b616810e913c6%7C1%7C0%7C637089372497003038&sdata=rRG%2FQ%2Fo9x5cRGgu8euN8g06tG40fezgYOjUeiHX3hec%3D&reserved=0> was on the receiving end of tirade from Biden after he asked what he thought was an innocent question about Biden's law school experience. (Biden took the question as an insult and partially responded: "I think I probably have a much higher IQ than you do, I suspect. I went to law school on a full academic scholarship." (Note there is video of the 1987 exchange in the link above from WMUR) Fahey, who is now supporting Biden for president and called him the best candidate for the job, then took the opportunity to ask Biden what he would have done differently in his handling of the Anita Hill hearings during Clarence Thomas' Supreme Court confirmation hearing. "You ask all the easy questions...Frankie, baby, it's no wonder I love you," Biden joked initially. Biden said he did all he could to help Hill under the rules of the committee at the time, but admitted that she was treated unfairly. "Look, I spoke with Anita the fact of the matter is that I -- Anita Hill, I was - I believed her when she came before the committee, I convinced her to come before the committee. I from the beginning believed that Clarence Thomas should not be in the court. I fought like the devil to keep him off the court. He won by a vote, by 2 votes, I think it was. And I've subsequently talked to Anita Hill. We've talked at length about what we'd do to change the process. She wasn't treated fairly under the rules of the committee," Biden said (16:11:29) Biden also said he has recently met with Christine Blasey Ford after she testified about her allegations against now Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. "I met that witness as well, long after the fact, Blasey Ford, and she was destroyed in the hearings," Biden said. (16:11:45) Criteria for a VP pick Biden also got a question on what his criteria would be for a vice presidential pick. He at first said it would be "presumptuous" for him to be discussing who he would pick before he had locked up the Democratic nomination, but went on to discuss at length his relationship with President Obama and how he wants someone he would be "simpatico" with on both policy issues and their political approach. "You have to have somebody who is simpatico with you. A man, a woman, a person of color, that's simpatico. That not only understands why you got elected and what you care about but shares your view. And not just -- it doesn't have to be tactically agreeing. Barack and I used to - as the president would tell you - argue like the devil. But we always did in in private. (16:46:05) Biden also went on to say that his pick would "preferably" be a woman, and someone who would make up for what he called his "many" shortcomings. "I want to have somebody who is comfortable enough, preferably, I have to admit, a woman that in fact is comfortable and has the same, is simpatico with me as to what my priorities are," Biden said. (16:47:10) "I have a lot of shortcomings. And every president has shortcomings. I would try to find somebody who, number 1, agreed with me in principle and philosophically where I am but also someone who in fact could make up for some of my weaknesses and someone who can just simply trust, trust," Biden said. (16:49:32) How would pick ambassadors/Sondland's "selective memory" Biden also got a question on what criteria he would use to pick ambassadors, during which the questioner alluded to the impeachment proceedings and the testimony of Trump's Ambassador to the EU, Gordon Sodland. Full log of that exchange below: 164258 Q>> Ambassador Sondland seemed to have selective memory loss. If you became president, would you use a different criteria as opposing to how much that person donated to that political party as appointing a -- giving an ambassadorship 164320 BIDEN>> Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. And I think you'll find -- not a joke -- I think you'll find more of those people in the democratic party, hundreds of them, who are known for their foreign policy expertise have endorsed me. Out of that group will be the ambassadors that I choose. TVU 22 JOE BIDEN NEW LONDON NH TOWN HALL ABC UNI 110919 2020 153756 Thank you. Thank you. I'm looking at that sweater, Delaware Blue Hens. God love ya. Don't let -- don't let -- don't let Senator D'allesandro see that, you know what I mean? We have this ongoing Delaware-New Hampshire thing going on in football, you know? I know you know. Anyway. Isn't she incredible? I didn't know that was what was going to be said, but you know, on of the -- by the way, what a voice. 153823 The -- folks, look, I want to get to questions as quickly as I can, but I think maybe what was just said is important to repeat. You know, think of all the people sitting around a kitchen table this morning, who are trying to get by, who are dealing with real problems. How many conversations went on this morning at somebody's kitchen table in my home state or here, and somebody said, you know, mom and dad sitting there and say, "Who's going to tell her? Who's gonna tell her she can't go back to UNH, we can't afford next semester." 153900 "We don't -- we just don't have the money. We can't borrow it." Well you know, you're gonna have to -- neighborhood I grew up in, you're gonna have to ride on those ball tires for another 5,000 miles. We just don't have the money right now. But - but you know, it's gonna be okay. I t's gonna be okay. You know, I come from typical middle class family. I guess technically lower middle class family that my - we moved from Scranton when I was a kid. 153933 When you listen to Barack, you'd think I climbed out of a coal mine carrying a lunch bucket. But, but my dad was a white collar worker. High school educated. It was his great regret he never got to go to college and we moved to Delaware to - because he had gone from grade school, I think 3rd grade to 10th grade in Delaware. We lived in a little steel town called Claymont, Delaware. 153958 And my dad hasn't planned on talking about this, but my dad used to always say, when someone -- when there was a recession, someone in the extended family, or someone in the neighborhood, they'd - they were the ones who got laid off. And my dad would always use the following expression, he'd say, promise you, give you my word on this, he'd say, "Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It's about your dignity. It's about your self respect. It's about your place in the community. It's about being able it's it's about being able to look your kid in the eyes to honey. [15:40:29] It's going to be OK and mean it and mean it. [15:40:34] Was an awful lot of folks who my my dad, when we had to move from Scranton. [15:40:41] My dad made what I call the longest walk. [15:40:43] Anybody any parent has to make up a short flight of stairs to say the kids. Sorry, honey, you can't you can't go back to Cooper School. You can't play in that little league team. You got it. You're gonna go home and live a grandpa for a while, but everything's gonna be OK. I'm mean, OK. Remember my dad saying, you know, it's only one hundred fifty seven miles and I'll come home every weekend. I didn't realize that I got older. How much pride it probably took away to go to my father in law and say, Ambrose, you know, can you keep Gene and the kids taking about a year? [15:41:15] But I come home every week, and I promise I'll promise I'll pay you back. [15:41:19] But he believed it could be done and he did it. We got down there and after three years, they both buy a house and a split level home with four kids. And then a grandpop lived with us in three bedrooms. And but it was you know, my dad was able to keep the commitment. [15:41:39] And but today it's getting awful hard for people because we reward wealth, not work. We're in a situation where we have. It's about time we start to reward work, not just wealth. We have such a disproportionate allocation of income today that it's that it's just not it's just way out of whack. We don't have to punish anybody to make sure they used to be a basic bargain in America, that if you participate in the success of an enterprise you work with. You've got to share in the benefits. [15:42:15] Well, that's not happened today. I mean, it really isn't happening. [15:42:19] Productivity went up. And I want to sound like a wonk. I mean, only take a second of this. But from the end of the war to up until almost the early 80s, productivity went up 92 percent. [15:42:29] Wages went up 94 percent since then. [15:42:34] Productivity, meaning the way in which you can build a product and get it out in the market and quickly went up 68 percent. Wages went up 8 percent. What's wrong? What's happened? We've adopted a sort of a new notion in America. It's the Milton Friedman notion, the only the only obligation corporations have. And I come from a corporate state of America. Delaware, your only obligation I have is to their shareholders. They used to have an obligation went beyond that to their employees, to the community that allowed them to be have the wherewithal to be there. But that's changed. [15:43:13] I have a cartoon in my office that Barack used to come in and turn around on the mantelpiece. [15:43:18] And my the vise president's office, I still have it in my office at Penn, although I'm no longer teaching at Penn Universe, Pennsylvania. And that picture of a great big rotund guy in a black sweater, black turtleneck, black mask is out of The New Yorker magazine and a black beret and is sitting in an interrogation table as a great big burlap bag in the table with a dollar sign on it. He's looking at the interrogator. He saying, how was I supposed to know he was a job creator? [15:43:49] Since when did the people make those automobiles and not job creators? Since one of the people who, in fact, harvest the grain out of the field, since we're the dirt on our job creators, since one of the people who worked for outfits, not job creators, it's the folks we got to move things backwards a little bit here. [15:44:08] And I think it's time we start to pay attention to what actually built the country, Wall Street and built America. Not bad guys, but Wall Street and built America the middle class. Build America, give it a chance. The middle class is never, ever, ever, ever, ever let the country down. Never. [15:44:27] And we're so well positioned if we use our heads to lead the 21st century and change the circumstances or people in this country. It's all within our power, but we can't do it. In my view, and I hope some of your Republicans, we can't do it with this man as president of the United States of America. So first and foremost, to get anything done in any of us, all 98 of us are running for the nomination. [15:44:54] The first thing they have to we have to do is we have to defeat Donald Trump to be able to get in the rest of the. [15:45:09] We can handle four years of Donald Trump with difficulty. I'm not being facetious when I say this. We can handle it because but it's going to take a long time to put the country back together and put the world back together. Not a joke. The only thing that I have more experience and every single person running for office combined is foreign policy and national security. It's I've done my whole life. That's why Barack asked me to be on the ticket. We're in trouble internationally. Our alliances are being frayed. [15:45:44] His embrace of not only hate at home, but his embrace of thugs abroad is absolutely debilitated. [15:45:52] I guarantee you, if he's elected, I hope I don't. You have to approve this, but he's elected four more years. There will be no NATO. There will be no international alliances that we relied on over the years for our collective security. What's he do? [15:46:09] He talks about sending love letters to Kim Jong un, who's a thug, had his had his uncle's brains blown out sitting across the table. [15:46:18] Had his brother assassinated at an airport. What do you think it does to our friends in the region, our allies, South Korea, Japan, down in Australia, Singapore? When do you see when they see this embrace? But there's a lot we can do to fix it and we can do it with a lot of hard work. But eight years of Donald Trump will forever and fundamentally change the nature who we are as a nation, at least for several generations. [15:46:53] We have never pedaled and hate as much as we have made. And you think I'm exaggerating, but think about it, folks. [15:47:02] What president has ever said when you saw people coming out of a field carrying torches, veins bulging, talking and chanting the same anti Semitic bile that was chanted in Germany in the 30s company by the Ku Klux Klan and white supremacists and a young woman gets killed. Opposing the hate and what, what, what? And he's asked to comment on. What do you think, Mr. President? [15:47:29] He said something known as said all the way back to Andrew Johnson, who was the police. [15:47:34] He said there are very fine people in both groups, not only shocked people at home and stunned the world. [15:47:43] I can't think of any comment a president has made about domestic policy that has generated a response from the chancellor of Germany and others saying what's going on? [15:47:55] So, folks, we've got a lot of work to do. I'll conclude this. Go to questions with this following comment. [15:48:03] The next president, nine states, as a matter of fact, is going to inherit a divided nation and a world in disarray. [15:48:15] There's going to be no time from the job training for real. Every election requires different assets to be brought to the table. At that moment in history, you've got to be able to know one day, one on day one, how to deal with the other side and begin to generate consensus, which can be done hard, but it can be done. [15:48:39] And when you can't get consensus, you'd rather you defeat the other side by going out and just telling the truth like we did in 2018 and went into 24 states for 68 65 candidates. And I went into the red states and the purple states. We went 41 seats. We beat Republicans 41 seats because we said, you don't think we should have health care? Stand up and tell the folks. You don't think we should have health care. We shouldn't cover preexisting conditions. All the attacks on Obamacare. [15:49:10] Well, guess what? We won. [15:49:13] So it's not about going out and going after them in terms of their personalities. [15:49:17] It's about going off and talking, debating the issues with them. And the American people know where Donald Trump stands. They know who he is. We gotta learn who we are, though, Glenn. Who we are. We choose hope over fear. We choose science over fiction. We choose unity over division. And we choose truth over lies, over lies. We got to be able explain our position. [15:49:57] The last thing our Santa I'm sorry for all of your show crowds having to stand. [15:50:01] I apologize. But the last thing we have to do is on day one. The next phrase, United States can have to be able to immediately command the world stage. Not there's no time for on the job training. [15:50:16] Stand up and the rest of the world know who he or she is. Knows what they mean. Knows they keep their word, whatever he'll do and knows them. [15:50:26] The good guys and the bad guys. I've met every major world leader in the last 45 years because the nature of my job, the only few I don't know personally are president's cousin, the prime minister of England. I'm joking. [15:50:45] And a few others. But I really mean it. [15:50:47] We've got to bring the world together really and truly, because if we don't create a vacuum, you know who fills the vacuum? You're watching it happen. So with that is my dear deceased mother would say Joy wanted to hush up and take questions. So I'm happy to take any questions anybody has. [15:51:06] And I believe you let it you boss pick the people and hand the microphones out or we have any people with mikes in the back. [15:51:13] Okay. [15:51:15] Ask your first question. As someone that didn't get past the 8th grade inquiry CMAG data because I realized I had to be a role model for my children. I realized the importance of education, not just because you need a diploma to go to college or trade school, but also affects the self-esteem believed even combat ending homelessness. We have to start writing our youth with a good education. [15:51:41] That way they will have an opportunity to have a career and not just a job. They'll be successful, make enough that they won't become homeless. [15:51:50] And I want to know what you would do to help our teachers and administration be able to provide the education our children deserve. A really important question. [15:51:59] My wife, who's not with me, actually leaders in reserve with nearly there. She still teaches full time at community college. [15:52:06] She teaches. She's cut back from 15 credits. She told all through my main vise president not to 12 credits. As I point out, teaching is not what she does. It's who she is. She has an expression. Any country that education is going to our computers. And the fact of the matter is, you may remember that every time President Obama did a State of the Union, his vise president sat behind him. He loved turning to St. And Joe's going to do without telling me that ahead of time. [15:52:37] He really he thought it was just really funny. The Recovery Act for 90 billion. And Chip, Joe's going to take that. Well, the point is that you may remember what he said and Joe was going to go out and find out what the jobs of the future are. [15:52:54] Now, the good news was that when he gave me that assignment, those assignments, he gave me presidential authority to do whatever I needed to do and task the administration. Well, we found out was to make a long story short, that right now, in order to get a job today, six out of ten people have day six out of 10 jobs require more than a high school education. Today, anybody who thinks 12 years of education is enough in the 21st century. [15:53:23] Raise your hand if you think only twelve was necessary. The fact is now. And so here's what I do. I do. And I won't go into great detail unless you want me to follow up. I will want to get as many questions. I can't. Number one, there's so-called Title 1 schools. You have a number here in the state of New Hampshire or on the country where there are neighborhoods where they are have fewer resources than other neighborhoods to other districts. [15:53:51] We now spend four, 15 billion dollars a year on Title 1 schools. I triple that to 45 billion dollars a year, which I promise we can afford of a trillion, 650 billion dollar loophole budget we have and a tax cut they just gave for almost 2 trillion dollars, 1 trillion of which went to people making the top one half of 1 percent of the income in America. [15:54:13] Now, if you double if you take that from 15 to 45 billion dollars a year, you're able to do a number of things. One began to pay teachers a competitive salary. If any of you graduate from here, graduate and Kobe and you end up going out and you go and you and you have a degree in education, you're going to make 22 percent less than the same person graduated another degree from this college or any other college, because that's the way we deal with teachers. We have to reward teachers. [15:54:45] They're the single most important ingredient we have because they are you know, we talk about our kids. They're all our kids, the children of America, the Koch strings that are left, our national ambitions aloft and. Teachers are the ones who are the ones that hold those strings. All those kite strings. Single most important endeavor we can engage in so we wouldn't allow those teachers to be competitive. They'll be able to have competitive salaries. [15:55:10] I would also go out and it would provide for tripling and will provide for providing every single person in America who in fact, is be able to start school at three years old, four years and five years old, not daycare centers. Education, because all the major studies done by the great universities points out of a child, no matter what their background starts off and has that early education, they increase exponentially their prospects of being able to succeed and go on and learn it increases over 50 percent, their ability to graduate, etc. and stay out of trouble. [15:55:44] Thirdly, what we have to do is make sure that we start to think about the jobs that are out there and have community schools where you can coordinate in your school districts with the companies in the region that need jobs, the kind of jobs they need and provide for people to be able to while they're in high school. Gain credits for it from the community college so that when they get moving, they, in fact already have a head start on what they're able to do. [15:56:11] A lot of districts are doing that. It works in it. That would be able to be done with this increased from 15 to 45 billion dollars. But most of all, you hit on something that's really important. You know as well as I do that confidence matters. Confidence matters. And the longer you go on without the education, you know, other people have you lose your confidence. You lose confidence. What you're able to do. [15:56:37] We have to instill confidence in these young people so that they know they're capable. And so the last thing in this, even the schools that are economically distressed, we should provide advanced placement courses. We should provide the same courses that are available in other schools, in the school districts that have a much significant Morsi give tax tax based in order to do it, because all our children are capable of learning. [15:57:04] And so there's so many more things. But when we get to school, we also should be able to provide. Right now, right now, to send every person eligible for community college. A school for free is six billion dollars. There goes that big spending Democrat, right? Well, guess what? I didn't know it was because I was listed for 36 years as the poorest man in Congress for real. And I've released all my tax returns. You can go and look at them. Twenty one years of it about. [15:57:34] Law enforcement and Congress doesn't make you a poor man relative the rest of the country, by the time I started off making forty two thousand dollars a year as a 30 year old kid elected and I think I left, it was over one hundred thousand dollars a year. People were being paid. But the point is this that if in fact, you take a look. I didn't know there was a thing called stepped up basis. [15:57:55] Stepped up basis means having the capital and I hope you'll know what it means. I didn't know what it meant at the time because you have to have enough money to make a capital gain that is going to allow you to cash it in if you cash it in. And on the way to cash it in, you figured speaking it hit by a truck and you leave it to your son or daughter. [15:58:11] They pay no tax on it at all. It's not. Inheritance tax is a tax owed. Ten seconds before you get hit by the figure of figures. We speaking about a truck that eliminates that means we collect 17 billion dollars a year less out of a trillion. Six hundred and forty billion. Let me take that one loophole. You can send every single person qualified to community college to school for free. And here's the other thing. How many of you people know somebody who is in their 40s or 50s and because of the fourth industrial revolution? And the whole idea of artificial intelligence and all the things going on no longer have a job. We used to have over just just fewer than two years ago. Two hundred thousand jobs in retail. [15:58:57] They're all gone now. [15:58:58] Whether it was Saks Fifth Avenue and Manchester or if you had one or Benetton outlet or whatever. Well, guess what? Two hundred thousand people lost their jobs and close up. Why? Nothing bad and not bad people. Amazon a buy an online. So you get two hundred thousand people. Average shop. Average age. 50 years of age. Average salary. Fifty thousand dollars a year. Mostly all high school educated. [15:59:23] What do they do now? You're 50 years old. What in God's name do you do? Talk about depression. [15:59:32] That's why the suicide rate, by the way, is not that particular reason. But the suicide rate is highest in America between people, people between the ages of 45 and 55. [15:59:43] Seriously, highest rate of drug abuse. Forty five and fifty five. Well, people don't know what to do. We're not talking to them. We're not paying attention. [15:59:54] And they're easily able to go back and be retrained to do other things because they're over a hundred thousand jobs out there that are in the market right now that you just don't we know the talent for to be able to do it. Like, for example, knowing how to run a photovoltaic machine on a factory floor to make a, you know, solar panels takes about 18 weeks to learn that you can do it. [16:00:21] So there's a lot we can do and think of all the people. [16:00:25] How many guys are women? Know anybody who's over the road? Truck driver. Raise your hand. Well, it's one of the biggest professions around. Guess what? They're not stupid. They're a lot of my like, my friend Richie at home. They're not stupid. They work like hell. They make a good salary. But, you know, they they read the press. [16:00:45] And here the news was predicted. All trucking is going to be automated. Then they said five years will take more than that. So you're sitting home and you're 42 years old. You're making a decent living and all of a sudden they're being taught. Guess what? Five years and I can have a job. [16:01:02] We got to speak to those folks. There's ways we can deal with this. And we're not doing it. There's more to save it. I've already said too much. [16:01:19] Recognize anybody who what you think you should. [16:01:24] Right. Oh, OK. [16:01:29] Anybody in back with microphones that we have any. Okay, okay. [16:01:33] Going back to the economy, because, you know, the president, when he's in trouble, always tells the economy how we're doing really well. And like you said about his tax cut, that's supposed to be a tax cut, but isn't a tax cut is really hurting the middle class? How do you propose to change all of that for us? [16:01:48] Well, first of all, you know, he talks about three and a half percent unemployment and about how the economy is grown, was growing 100 months in a row because about 80 those months we gave him, we set it in place. And like everything is inherited, he's screwing it up. [16:02:07] No, no, Joe. Think about it. But here's a world. [16:02:13] It's one thing to have three and a half percent growth. But I mean, excuse me, unemployment, 15 percent unemployment. But it's another thing if the people who are employed aren't being paid enough to be able to make a decent living. That's the issue. The issue is how do you reward people who, in fact have work like the devil to get back in the deal? [16:02:34] And as so many of the things I just spoke about, one of which is to change the tax structure. Right now, we have a circumstance where I said we reward wealth, not work. OK. If you, in fact, are out there, if you if you are fired for a fireman, you're a nurse, you're a you're someone working. How do idea do something? [16:02:57] If you're in that circumstance, you're paying a higher tax rate than someone making on Wall Street a bond trader. You may be making 10 to 12 million dollars a year and they're paying a lower tax rate. You because a capital gains, OK, 20 percent. Now, what we can do, I think everybody everybody should be able to pay their fair share. [16:03:20] And so I would make sure that the capital gains went back to the normal rate of whatever your tax rate is, instead of paying a 20 percent you pay no matter how much your home now. I'm talking about clipping coupons and that's how you make your living. There's no evidence that it, in fact, increases productivity at all. No one. But it does mean, though, is that your. [16:04:12] It's your kid to school, like being able to make sure that you're in a position that you can take care of your health care bills, make sure you're in a position where you can do things that affect the daily quality of life you have, which you can't do. Now make sure we deal with things like global warming, which is of a gigantic impact on everybody. And so, first of all, you change the tax structure. Number one. [16:04:36] Number two, you make sure that in addition to changing the tax structure, you have to punish anybody. If you're making 10 million bucks a year or 10 million bucks a year, why shouldn't you be paying at 39 percent when a lot of people make them a lot less? You're paying a 28 percent. What's the problem with that? It used to be that way. We got a lot done. [16:05:01] But the other thing is we have to make sure that you start making sure that companies and I come from, as I said, the corporate state of America. Companies start to reward their employees in a way that is consistent with what they do, you know, what companies did all this time. Corporations are making more money than the Lord Almighty is. [16:05:20] These days. And they have been for all. That's a good thing on paper, right? Not bad. But guess what? What are they done instead of reinvesting in employees or expanding plant and equipment? What have they done? They have gone out and they made sure that they bought back a trillion dollars worth of their own stock. Why did they buy back their own stock? If we all have one share of stock and there's 400 people in this room, we got 400 shares of stock. [16:05:46] If as a CEO, I make sure we buy back from you to under those shares remaining. Two hundred stockholders, have they increased the value of that stock by somewhere between 50 and a hundred percent? But guess how I get paid? I get paid because I get to take stock options as a CEO. Eighty five percent of my salary is based upon those options, not direct salary. And so there is an overwhelming incentive the way we have it set up to deal with not reinvesting in your employees, not reinvesting in product and equipment that create and generate growth. And so let's take a look at infrastructure. [16:06:28] When you want to bring some new in and one of the things that I did as vise president at the president's direction, we did a lot of work with when when when you had a governor who was engaging us like Maggie and others, what we did, we brought in a lot of help to help you move in the direction of having high tech industries come into the state. What do people want to know when they want to committed invest in your city or town? [16:06:56] Where's the nearest railhead? Where do I what's my access to interstate highway? Is there sufficient water? What am I doing? Is there sure. Available? And so on. But we have a night. We have a 20th century infrastructure. We rank something like eighth or ninth in the world in terms of of of transportation infrastructure. We need to invest so much more money in making sure that we're in a bit. The ability to attract people, our ports, our airports, et cetera. [16:07:30] But we're not making that investment and therefore we're not attracting the kind of business nationally and internationally we should. So there's a lot we can do to make sure that people's salaries are considered not by mandating it, just by making sure that instead of a corporate tax rate. Now, you know, this has gone down from 38 percent was broke and I wanted to come down to 21 percent. [16:07:55] We've got a whole lot of paying zero like Amazon zero. [16:08:01] I think should be raised back up to 28 percent, not to 38, 28 percent remain competitive internationally. And we should not reward companies for going abroad. They should be here. We should be buying things that the federal government is the biggest purchaser of all that made in America. It means American jobs. It means Americans. [16:08:23] We should not be signing trade deals that don't have labor and environmentalists at the table so that we know we're getting a fair deal. There's a lot of practical things we're able to do to generate greater economic growth internally and great job growth in America. That relates to income. And by the way, some you're not going to like this. The minimum wage should be 15 dollars an hour. It shouldn't be what? [16:08:50] As well that we should be working 40 hours a week and living in poverty in America, period. Anyway, there's more to say on that one, too. But. [16:09:03] I'll give it to my husband. 160945 Q>> If you would tell the group what you would do differently going back to when you were chair of judiciary with Anita Hill. 161100 BIDEN>> You ask all the easy questions, Frankie. Frankie, baby, it's no wonder I love you. Look, I spoke with Anita the fact of the matter is that I -- Anita Hill, I was - I believed her when she came before the committee, I convinced her to come before the committee. I from the beginning believed that Clarence thomas should not be in the court. I fought like the devil to keep him off the court. He won by a vote, by 2 votes, I think it was. 161129 And I've subsequently talked to Anita Hill. We've talked at length about what we'd do to change the process. She wasn't treated fairly under the rules of the committee. Just like if you saw what happened in the last hearing. How I met that witness as well, long after the fact, plus before it, and she was destroyed on -- in the hearing ----- 161157 ----- VIDEO FREEZES ------- 161213 161213 . I made a commitment. I had already introduced the Violence Against Women Act and I was determiend ot see to it that it became law. I had committed that would happen and I commited to never have another hearing in the Judiciary Committee that did not have women on it. And I went out and I campaigned for 2 women to get -- on the condition they'd come on the committee if they won. 161237 Carol Mosely Brawn, the first African Americna woman to be elected, as well as Diane Feinstein, and they both made the commitment. They're both on the committee. But the problem is deeper. The problem is deeper than that. I got the Violence Against Women Act paseed, I got 2 women in the committee, I might add, both of whom are supporting me for president. And the fact is that -- but still, we have this system whereby it's hard as the devil to ma- to rule out of order a question about something that has to do, and you know this deal, that "okay, well where were you? When did it happen?" How'd he do it becomes he said she said. 161312 And we even considered the idea, maybe you do that in camera, meaning in private. But, she believed we shouldn't do it in private. That we have to just do it straight up. And so, there's still a lot to do, but it gets down to basically one important thing: changing the culture about how -- I mean this sincerely - when I wrote the Violence Against Women Act, it's about a -- you all know what the phrase "rule of thumb" means? [someone in the audience answers] 161343 BIDEN>> Circumference of your thumb. It comes from English Common Law. Because a woman was a chattel. We - we think this somehow - some, from some strange culture. It's our culture. And you used to be able to -- a wife was a chattel. Just like the cattle and the - in the - and the pigs or the goats or whatever you own. And you're allowed to chastise your wife. So many women were dying that the court of common law in England - I think it was 1390, 1395. 161414 Changed the law. Said you -- said because so many women were dying, for being beaten, you could no longer beat a woman with a rod thicker than the circumference of your thumb. We've got a gigantic cultural problem. A cultural problem. How we deal with and how we view and how we treat women in America. It's America. This is -- this isn't a broad new thing. Us, we have a problem. And think about it, when I was holding those hearings for example. 161446 I got a really - a woman who wanted to testify, was a woman who had been a model in New York City, you may remember this case. And she wanted tp come testify to how she had been -- her face had been slashed by an aggressor. And so she's a model in New York City, living in a upscale apartment place, I think it was on the 50s or 60s. In New york City. I mean street. 161519 And she was on -- she wanted to move from an efficiency to a 1 bedroom. Everytime that she went to her landlord to see if she could get a 1 bedroom, what happened? He hit on her. So she said she wanted her deposit back, cause she was going to leave. She was in a shoot, meaning a - a- for whatever company she worked for, at a modeling shoot on the street somewhere in the 80s, she got a phone call. 161545 And said "I have a efficiency -- I have a 1 bedroom for you and you can have it." And she said okay, because she was now only asking for her deposit back. She said Okay. He said, "Meet me in the restaurant bar that's in the 1st floor of that complex" An upscale place, you'd walk in - anyone could walk in. And so she went in, and he hit on her again, and she got up and left and walked out and he had hired 2 goons to follow her out. 161617 And they had razors and they slashed her face. And so, she said she had come and was willing to testify about this was. And I went to see her and I said, I warned her what's going to happen to you. You're going to become the victim. I told you, I'd come, I'd do everything I can to protect you, but I just don't want you to walk into -- and so I ask her the question. What did your mother say when you told her? Remember what her mother said? "Why were you at a bar?" What does that have to do with anything? 161649 Her girlfriends - "How short was your skirt?" "What were you wearing?" "What did you say?" Never a woman's fault. Never. Never, never, never, never. If in fact - if in fact ----- 161711 ----- VIDEO FREEZES ------ 161740 161741 .. the vice president's office to raise his profile. And I had a woman named Cynthia Hogan who helped me write the legislation years earlier, to check constantly on, with the Bureau of Justice Statistics on what progress we're making. Well, there were 67% reduction in violence against women over the age of 30, things were moving, a lot of progress. 161800 But what stunned me was, women between the ages of 15 and 24, nothing had changed. Nothing had changed. 1 in 4 were victims of violence. Going on college campuses. 1 in 4. The main reason why women leave college campuses? It's not for grades, because of being victims of violence on campus. So we started -- so I asked -- we had a virtual town meeting. They said there were 30,000 people on the call. High school and College students and I was asking them, What would you most want me to do? 161835 I thought they'd say better lighting on campus, more campus police, etcetera. You know what they said? Said get men involved. And I was embarrassed I hadn't thought of that. So since then, I've been going on college campuses and saying, you have an obligation to change the culture. If you see somebody - and most of these young women get abused on the first 3 months they're - in their freshman year. A lot of it happens in fraternity houses. 161901 If you see, if you get -- young woman drunk and inebriated and you see a brother walking her up the stairs, if you don't walk up and say "Hey, sucker, not in my house man. Not here. Not here." If you don't do that, you're a coward. But we have the -- we have to change the whole notion here. The whole notion of what is responsibility. 161929 And so, it's beginning to change, but it goes to the overall question you asked. I think we have to change the culture, and it's beginning to change. And we're gonna go through excesses and we're gonna go through balancing it. It's going to take time. But we got to keep moving in the direction because nobody, nobody, nobody, nobody, and by the way, it's not just women. I get criticized for calling it the Violence Against Women Act. 161956 About 10% of the people violated on the campus are men. And they're being violated by other men. And so, we just have to keep at it. [16:20:09] Thank you, Mr. Vise President, for taking this question. We spend as a country substantially more. I can't give you the figure. You might know it's substantially more dollars per capita on health care than any country in the world. Yet we're ranked thirty seventh in the world for outcomes in a number of places, some some areas that's worse than that. But thirty seventh in the world. [16:20:34] So I want to know, number one, what you foresee as a potential solution to that. The other side of that coin is we spend more than the next 10 nations and military the next 10 nations. So Russia. China. South Korea. The next 10 nations combined. We spend more than all of them and we fight endless wars. And I'd like to know what you would do about that. Thank you. [16:21:08] Well, they're actually related questions about how we spend money, how what we do. Number one, we can, in fact, fundamentally change the cost of health care in America without having to tax middle class people, without requiring everybody to give up their private insurance by taking Obamacare reconstituted and extending it and providing a public option that's available. [16:21:37] That, in fact, is Medicare. If you want it, you can keep your insurance if you like it. Anybody who wants to in fact, change can change and move into this proposal where you have no deductible beyond a thousand dollars. And we significantly lower drug prices by setting up a commission like in other places where in any new drug, if you're the sole provider, that drug, the price gets set by a panel of experts based on what you've invested in providing that outcome. [16:22:08] And you cannot raise the price of that drug beyond it, beyond the cost of inflation, as long as that drug is the same drug. You see what's happening now. Thirdly, we make sure that we're in a position that now costs a lot of money, by the way. And I propose no cost about seven hundred and twenty to 750 billion dollars over 10 years. [16:22:28] But it will not cost if you do Medicare for all three point four trillion dollars a year. [16:22:36] And it will significantly increase, as all the studies are showing, including a recent one has come out. And that, in fact, will cost middle class taxes to go up. And you'll, in fact, paying more than you'll be saving by having Medicare for Medicare available to you. So what I propose is taking Obamacare, making a buying care by adding a public option. [16:22:59] No, I really mean it because I was there when we passed that I broke my neck getting it passed. It's hard. We tried that. You had five Democratic presidents try to do it and couldn't get it done. And we got it done without a single Republican vote. Whereby you in fact, significantly, you provide the public option B, a Medicare like option available to if you want to buy wind of that, if you if you if you qualify for Medicare. Kay Dick, you automatically are eligible even if your state doesn't provide it for you to be into that plan for nothing. So there's a lot of things we can do in addition to that. What we do is I. [16:23:43] I have health care's personal to me and some my family's been a significant consumer of health care. And. [16:23:42] Is I. I have a. Health care is personal to me and some of my family's many significant consumer of health care. [16:23:55] And so one of the things we can do is we can make significant progress on one of the major drivers of costs. Cancer by changing the way in which we deal with cancer by investing. For example, if we invest five billion dollars a year in cancer research, we can move close to curing some of the 204 distinct different types of cancer. I won't go into detail, but for example, we can now do a million billion calculations per second. So if you have cancer, we find the cancer cell. We can do a cancer genome for a thousand bucks. [16:24:36] We can find out precisely the cancer you have where it is. Imagine if we're able to take every cancer genome that had been sequenced, put it in one place. We'd be able to, in fact, find out because our ability to do the calculations that we can do, we could do more rapidly than you could have with 20 Nobel laureates spend then 10 years on trying to. Why the technology, why the why the the particular treatment for you and you with the same exact cancer, why you survived and you didn't? This is really, really tough, but doable stuff. So in addition, if you talk about the Defense Department, it is true. We provide we have a military budget and a military that is larger than the next nine nations in the world. [16:25:27] And there is a reason for that. The reason for that is that we also have. There's no other nation as an ally whose overall economy can remotely approach what we have. And what we've done is we've provided for the security of not only the United States, but we've sobriety for security of our friends and allies around the world who also are chipping in. [16:25:50] The president treats the way we deal with NATO now like it's a protection racket. If you do not, in fact, make more putting in more money than what we're going to do is we're not going to keep the sacred commitment we made to you that in fact, we will come to your aid if you're attacked and you'll come to our aid if you're attacked. [16:26:09] Folks, look, there's a reason why we haven't had a third world war. And that is because we decided after One World War to our parents and our grandparents decided that what we're gonna do is we can't avoid being dragged into a war if it occurs in Europe. It's virtually impossible for us to avoid it. So we set up NATO, not just to keep the, quote, Soviet Union at the time from being able invade Eastern Europe and Western Europe. But we set it up so that no one nation could gain so much authority and power that they couldn't, in fact, start another war in the region like they have in the past. [16:26:46] And when you're part of NATO and you all agree to the same set of rules, then, in fact, you're all bound. And no one nation is about setting up guardrails to prevent the abuse of power. That's what happened before. That's what happened before. Now, imagine if we didn't have the capacity. Thank you for your service. Imagine if we didn't have the capacity to be able to have the ability to project force around the world in the Pacific. Who keeps open the sea lanes and how does that work? How does that work? How do we end up having any type of security when, in fact, you know,. [16:27:25] I come out of the Vietnam era and one of the reasons I ran for the Senate as a 29 year old, I was tired of us being the policemen of the world. But here's what we do now, because we have significantly reorder reordered our priorities so that we focus more on not standing armies. The president asked me to get when we got elected, get the hundred fifty thousand combat troops out of Iraq. And we did. We don't need large standing armies. We don't need him in Afghanistan or anywhere. But we do need we do need the ability to have special forces that can train and coordinate the 61 nations we put together to deal with stateless terrorism around the world. [16:28:07] And so there's a signet. We need to have a situation where we can't have the ability to defend against incursions that are also nuclear in nature. That's why I was part of the reason we negotiated that new arms control agreement with the Russians, which they're violated right now. It really matters. It really matters. And so there's a lot of things that we can do. But if you take a let's go back to your the health care question and the cost of everything. If we eliminate the entire federal budget, if we took down every we ripped down the Pentagon, we got rid of. [16:28:45] Every single solitary troop ship, plane and everything that would only pay for four months of Medicare for all a year, four months, a year. [16:28:57] So the idea that the entire federal budget now on a yearly basis doesn't equal three trillion dollars a year could wipe it all out. And you still don't have enough money to pay for Medicare for all now. So the point is we don't have to get there to do it. But here's we have to do. We also have to change and we have to spend more money, in my view, on keeping our commitment to you, don't I? I always get in trouble for saying this, but we only have one sacred obligation as a government. [16:29:27] We have a lot of obligations to care for the elderly, our children and the poor, etc. The sacred obligation we have is when we send a man or woman to war, we give them all they need to be able to do the job and protect them. And we can we guarantee that we'll take care of their families. And then when they come home, I carry with me every single day my schedule. National press corps follows around or tired of me saying this, but every single day I hope I have my schedule card with me here every single day. Take a look at my schedule. Open a second page. If you don't mind. What's that say? [16:30:01] Right here. Daily U.S.. Oh, daily U.S. troop trips. Update what it carries. [16:30:07] I haven't checked the Pentagon every morning. Troops died in Iraq and Afghanistan. [16:30:13] Six thousand nine hundred eight hundred and ninety eight. Not roughly six thousand. Every one of these fallen angels left behind. An entire community. [16:30:24] A family. They've left behind, dead, wounded. [16:30:30] Afghanistan, Iraq, fifty two thousand nine hundred fifty four. You know what, this doesn't count its own count of three hundred thousand people coming home with post-traumatic stress. [16:30:43] You know, there's more people active and retired military committing suicide than all that on a daily basis than being killed in all the wars. Why? Because we're not providing the wherewithal at the V.A. or other places to provide for the need that exists. [16:31:05] It is expensive proposition, so it's complicated, but if we walk away from our commitment, we will have Trump going to May Day parades and now with Russia for a long time anyway. [16:31:22] Yes. [16:31:25] So the Amazon rainforest is on fire for months. California wildfires have torn apart. The state's extreme weather has dropped in the Midwest and Costa Ricans in Puerto Rico and Texas. In countries like India and China are increasing pollution, both air and trash. I believe that these struggles are the great struggles that our generation will face. And how can you, if you're elected president, ensure our future? In fact, my generation to everybody else generation. [16:31:56] They realize the bullet, so the president of Brazil. Brazil is what they call a carbon sink. Brazil wrecked the Amazon forest in Brazil, takes more carbon out of the air into the soil than every. [16:32:15] If we eliminate every single automobile in the United States of America. Every single automobile allowing the devastation of that forest to continue makes absolutely no sense at all. [16:32:32] But but because this administration doesn't believe there is a global warming problem and because he's walked out of when they had the G-8 and the G 20, those meetings of all these experts, he wouldn't even sit in on the portions related to climate change because it doesn't exist. What's happened? There is no pressure on Brazil to be able to go in and stop. The development is taking place because what they're doing is they're clear cutting this stuff because they say and I've been to Brazil a lot when I was vise president and chairman, formulation committee. [16:33:08] What they're saying is a simple probably said, look, you guys took down all your forests and you developed. So you tell us we can't. So what's the story here, Jack? Well, the story is what we should be doing is what I propose and we proposed, and that is we should be paying them not to, in fact, take down those forests because it effect us directly and we should be compensating them to keep that rain forest in place. I was one of the first people to come along. [16:33:36] Trading, trading, the idea of maintenance of your facilities in your the trees in the center, in your country. And we pay you not to take them down like we did. So what I've done. First thing I would do as president is rejoin the Paris climate accord, which I helped put together the. [16:33:58] Number. Number two. As you're pretty smart. [16:34:04] What you're right about is that all these countries are now violating the commitment they made, particularly China, in their belt road proposal. They are selling and generating coal fired facilities coming out of their country in other countries as if they're keeping their commitment. They're not. And so what I would do is I would call a meeting of the hundred. Not a joke. One hundred and seventy three nations that signed on and say, you've got up the ante. Here's the deal. And when you don't up the ante. Here's the price you're going to pay. The rest of us are not going to import your products. The research is not going to important. [16:34:40] If you are exporting carbon and you're not meeting your requirement, then we will in fact, it will cost you more to not export to export than it will be to not export. Thirdly, what my proposal calls for is and by the way, the United States and you hit it. The United States makes up 15 percent of the world's problems. If we get to net zero emissions tomorrow, 85 percent of the pollution that is melting, the polar ice caps raising levels along our sea, more causing these storms and these rash things that are happening, they'll continue. [16:35:15] So we've got to get the rest of the world in on the deal. But we've lost all our credibility to be able to do that because no one this administration doesn't even know how to deal internationally. I'm not being I'm not being a wise guy and be deadly earnest. They've never put together anything that, in fact, anybody else can, in fact, look to and say, I trust they're going to do what they say and they know what they're doing. And so what we have to do is we have to bring the rest of the world along, because the agreement we put together said that as science progressed, you have to up your any of the science said you're running out of time. [16:35:51] So two things I've done at home. I set out a plan that every major environmental group says is that you give it a B plus two in A plus, that it calls for net zero emissions by 2050, but locks in by 2030. Institutional changes that can't be altered. For example, if tomorrow we in fact invested in which we tried to do in our administration, high speed rail. Reason has to be high speed is the way you take cars off the off the road is in fact, if you can get there in essentially the same amount of time if you are on a rate on going by rail. [16:36:30] There are five cars, the United States of America, that we could take significant portion of the traffic off the road and emissions about one fiftieth of the pollution that comes from driving with automobiles there. We should make a transition right now to and rewarding farmers who in fact plant crops that absorb carbon from the air and pay them for those crops, pay them for what they're doing with their land. They can become the first group in America. That, in fact, is a. [16:37:00] They're doing with their land. They can become the first group in America that in fact is a net zero emissions from farming. Even counting what you deal with in my state, a big farming state. I know people think Delaware is not, but it is the Delmarva Peninsula. Chickens are a five billion dollar industry does an awful lot of chicken manure. Well, just like what's happening with with cattle. And so we can in fact, we should be doing the research. [16:37:27] I provide for in the one point seven trillion dollar plan over 10 years to deal with global warming, to get us to I mean by 20, 50 to get to eliminate global warming in America. I provide for 400 billion dollars for research and development and new technologies that, in fact, are going to be the things that prevent us. For example, every new highways bill that when I'm president and I promise I get this one done, we're gonna have five hundred thousand charging stations along those highways because we should own the electric vehicle market. Not only that, it would create millions of new jobs, high paying jobs. [16:38:07] We own that. We should own the electric vehicle market. The technology is available and we can do it. But guess what? Just like my grandfather Biden, who I never met, he died three days or six days before I was born. My grandfather, the reason he ended up going from Baltimore to Scranton to York to Wilmington to Scranton was he worked for a guy named Blaustein, an American oil company out of Baltimore. [16:38:33] They're opening gas stations, people that run gas stations in the neighborhood. I mean, you can bury all that oil underneath the ground near me, etc.. Well, imagine what happens if we didn't have gas stations available for combustion engines. We don't have one of the reasons why we're not investing in in electric vehicles. It's not only we we're increasing the science and technology and battery technology. But guess what? [16:38:57] They weigh a whole hell of a lot of money. Pounds. And people aren't going to go unless they can go 300 miles or 500 miles when they go across the country. Air travel, unless they can plug into a station, just like you may think I'm all crazy, but go to any big city in America. Look at all those scooters, all those scooters you just plug in and you you tap a number. And guess what? You can leave it where it was. And so we have the technology to do so many things. And we should be continuing. [16:39:29] When I would do I continue to tax credits for if you, in fact, are going to go out and make sure that you invest in technology standard. So example, one of the great things that cause global warming is the heat and air conditioning. It escapes from homes and from office buildings and the like. Every federal building should be net zero. And we should be able to provide for new windows, new doors and new facilities. So you keep inside. [16:40:01] Inside the building. All of the heat that is escapee was caused more burning, all the air conditioning and it can be done and people will do it if, in fact, they have a tax credit for going ahead and doing it. That's what we did. For example, as you might guess, a couple of spend a little time in Iowa like we do a lot of time in New Hampshire. Here's a deal. You know, Iowa has created tens of thousands of good paying jobs because of wind energy, because of solar energy in our administration. When the president put me in charge of the Recovery Act, which is 90 billion dollars. [16:40:41] We invested more money in renewable energy than any any administration in history. We brought down the cost of solar energy and wind energy so that the B.T. unit, it's cheaper than burning coal today. No one is going to build a new coal fired plant. We should shut down the ones we have. And no one's going to build a new one because guess what? Cost a lot more money to run them. It cost a lot more money to make it work, because now there's competitive prices for solar and wind. [16:41:16] We should triple including off your shirt, off the shore, Delaware wind technology, windmills. Tripoli now would have an immediate impact on a lot of things. So there's a lot we can do today to set in place something that over the next over the next 10 years, between now and 2030, get so locked in that you have now the pathway to get to and no one can come along and change what's happened in terms of this guy coming along or doing it with all the changes we made in terms of vehicle mileage. [16:41:51] I mean, even even the automobile industry objectives of the president reducing the mileage with the so-called CAFE standards, you can. Now have automobiles and in fact, consume a lot more energy, a lot more gasoline. Even the evil of even automobile industry said, no, no, no, don't do that. [16:42:10] Don't do that. [16:42:12] There's a lot we can do and we can do it quickly. But we've got to bring. We can't get the rest of the world act unless we demonstrate we are making the kinds of changes and we should become the net exporter of a new technology that allows us to, in fact, reduce the significantly in a major way the escape of carbon into the atmosphere. [16:42:34] We go back to the. [16:42:42] As far as I agree, we have to wrap it up. I know you're like a big deal on everything, but I your boss has told me I have to like wrap it up. [16:42:52] Okay, I'll try to rest now. Far away. 164258 Q>> Ambassador Sondland seemed to have selective memory loss. If you became president, would you use a different criteria as opposing to how much that person donated to that political party as appointing a -- giving an ambassadorship 164320 BIDEN>> Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. And I think you'll find -- not a joke -- I think you'll find more of those people in the democratic party, hundreds of them, who are known for their foreign policy expertise have endorsed me. Out of that group will be the ambassadors that I choose. [16:43:44] Anybody back here have a question all the way back and then I I have to leave. And I know the pressing questions. I mean, anybody. Because you all patient. Yes, ma'am. And then I'm going to get the devil out of here. I'm supposed to go to Vermont. 164408 Q>> What's your criteria for picking a VP? BIDEN>> Are you available? (laughs) No look, I think that's a critical question. And on my way to going out the door, I'll answer it. Now the -- I'm sorry, what is my criteria for picking a Vice President. First of all, it's presumptuous of me, working on those biceps, man, it's presumptuous of me to be talking about a Vice President because I'm not even the nominee yet. 164434 And when I talk about this, the press is gonna say, Biden is already talking about who his Vice President is gonna be and he's insulting everybody etcetera. But here's the deal. I think that what I've learned from being a vice president, from a president who has I thought was a great president, and that was that you have to be prepared as president of the United States to delegate significant responsibility, authority -- 164507 Not just responsibility, authority, to the vice president of the united states because everything but locusts will land on your desk when you become -- no, I'm serious. No one woman or man can handle the job by themselves without having someone like, it took a lot of courage for Barack to do it, when to turn over significant responsibility to vice president and not have to check back. 164532 Giving him authority. When he asked me to do a number of these things, I remember early on in the administration, I won't mention the person's name, I turned to somebody who was in the heath area and I said, "tell me when you're going to have an assistant for that position." And it was I think February the 7th. And he said, "Well, by January." I said, "here's the deal, if you don't have it by March 1st, you're fired." He said you can't do that. I said, "Go talk to the president." 164558 Well guess what, in 7 days we had somebody. 'Cause it was about jsut not wanting to move. So you have to have somebody who is simpatico with you. A man, a woman, a person of color, that's simpatico. That not only understands why you got elected and what you care about but shares your view. And not just -- it doesn't have to be tactically agreeing. Barack and I used to - as the president would tell you - argue like the devil. But we always did in in private. 164627 I had lunch with him once -- I had lunch with him every day that we were in office together, when we were in town, and we would -- because you don't want to, as a vice president, in front of other people, take on the president, even with the cabinet, and then in fact that turns out to be wrong or you just don't want to be in that position. So we would meet regularly and we would occasionally holler at one another. 164654 When he asked, when he asked, when his friends asked What's it like having Joe? He said, "It's like having an older brother that he could talk to." So I want to have somebody who is comfortable enough, preferably, I have to admit, a woman that in fact is comfortable and has the same, is simpatico with me as to what my priorities are. We can disagree on tactic, but Barack and I never disagreed on strategy and we knew ahead of time- we knew ahead of time. We served together, we debated each other, we knew that we had the same positions. 164729 And the positions in broad strokes where we disagree would be on tactic. On tactic. On tactically. Well, one of the reasons he asked me to be president was to make up for what had been a lack of experience of him dealing with the federal bureaucracy. Well, I need people who make up for one of my -- many of my weaknesses. I need someone able to come in and take care -- 164754 The thing about Barack was he was always - everything was done in a orderly manner. Nothing -- there was also a process we went through. I'll give you one example and leave. One of the things was that the question was, would we in fact change the law of don't ask don't tell with the military and insist that LGBTQ people could in fact serve in the military. And I was arguing that we should just order it. Flat out. Just do it, Mr. President. 164830 And he was smarter. He came along and said, No, look, here's the process. I'm gonna bring in the Joint chiefs, tell them what's my preference, and give them 6 months to come up with what they think should be done. Well guess what, his system worked because by the time they went through the whole review and didn't -- weren't ordered to do it, they came to the conclusion, and you had the Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff making one of the strongest statements anybody's ever made about why you know LGTBQ people can shoot just as straight as anybody else. 164902 Not a joke. But had I done it my way and just ordered it by executive order, when this guy Trump came along, he'd be able to undo it immediately. But now, the military signed on to it after doing significant significant studies. And what it actually impacted on and and checking with the military and the folks in the field and said, "Yeah, we're okay." 164930 So, you know, I have a lot of shortcomings. And every president has shortcomings. I would try to find somebody who, number 1, agreed with me in principle and philosophically where I am but also someone who in fact could make up for some of my weaknesses and someone who can just simply trust. Trust. I didn't have to go back because the president didn't have time. Didn't have time. 164957 And so, that's what happened. Anyway, I guess I don't have time. Thank you all so very very much. It's a great crowd, I appreciate it. I appreciate it. 164408 Q>> What's your criteria for picking a VP? BIDEN>> Are you available? (laughs) No look, I think that's a critical question. And on my way to going out the door, I'll answer it. Now the -- I'm sorry, what is my criteria for picking a Vice President. First of all, it's presumptuous of me, working on those biceps, man, it's presumptuous of me to be talking about a Vice President because I'm not even the nominee yet. 164434 And when I talk about this, the press is gonna say, Biden is already talking about who his Vice President is gonna be and he's insulting everybody etcetera. But here's the deal. I think that what I've learned from being a vice president, from a president who has I thought was a great president, and that was that you have to be prepared as president of the United States to delegate significant responsibility, authority -- 164507 Not just responsibility, authority, to the vice president of the united states because everything but locusts will land on your desk when you become -- no, I'm serious. No one woman or man can handle the job by themselves without having someone like, it took a lot of courage for Barack to do it, when to turn over significant responsibility to vice president and not have to check back. 164532 Giving him authority. When he asked me to do a number of these things, I remember early on in the administration, I won't mention the person's name, I turned to somebody who was in the heath area and I said, "tell me when you're going to have an assistant for that position." And it was I think February the 7th. And he said, "Well, by January." I said, "here's the deal, if you don't have it by March 1st, you're fired." He said you can't do that. I said, "Go talk to the president." 164558 Well guess what, in 7 days we had somebody. 'Cause it was about jsut not wanting to move. So you have to have somebody who is simpatico with you. A man, a woman, a person of color, that's simpatico. That not only understands why you got elected and what you care about but shares your view. And not just -- it doesn't have to be tactically agreeing. Barack and I used to - as the president would tell you - argue like the devil. But we always did in in private. 164627 I had lunch with him once -- I had lunch with him every day that we were in office together, when we were in town, and we would -- because you don't want to, as a vice president, in front of other people, take on the president, even with the cabinet, and then in fact that turns out to be wrong or you just don't want to be in that position. So we would meet regularly and we would occasionally holler at one another. 164654 When he asked, when he asked, when his friends asked What's it like having Joe? He said, "It's like having an older brother that he could talk to." So I want to have somebody who is comfortable enough, preferably, I have to admit, a woman that in fact is comfortable and has the same, is simpatico with me as to what my priorities are. We can disagree on tactic, but Barack and I never disagreed on strategy and we knew ahead of time- we knew ahead of time. We served together, we debated each other, we knew that we had the same positions. 164729 And the positions in broad strokes where we disagree would be on tactic. On tactic. On tactically. Well, one of the reasons he asked me to be president was to make up for what had been a lack of experience of him dealing with the federal bureaucracy. Well, I need people who make up for one of my -- many of my weaknesses. I need someone able to come in and take care -- 164754 The thing about Barack was he was always - everything was done in a orderly manner. Nothing -- there was also a process we went through. I'll give you one example and leave. One of the things was that the question was, would we in fact change the law of don't ask don't tell with the military and insist that LGBTQ people could in fact serve in the military. And I was arguing that we should just order it. Flat out. Just do it, Mr. President. 164830 And he was smarter. He came along and said, No, look, here's the process. I'm gonna bring in the Joint chiefs, tell them what's my preference, and give them 6 months to come up with what they think should be done. Well guess what, his system worked because by the time they went through the whole review and didn't -- weren't ordered to do it, they came to the conclusion, and you had the Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff making one of the strongest statements anybody's ever made about why you know LGTBQ people can shoot just as straight as anybody else. 164902 Not a joke. But had I done it my way and just ordered it by executive order, when this guy Trump came along, he'd be able to undo it immediately. But now, the military signed on to it after doing significant significant studies. And what it actually impacted on and and checking with the military and the folks in the field and said, "Yeah, we're okay." 164930 So, you know, I have a lot of shortcomings. And every president has shortcomings. I would try to find somebody who, number 1, agreed with me in principle and philosophically where I am but also someone who in fact could make up for some of my weaknesses and someone who can just simply trust. Trust. I didn't have to go back because the president didn't have time. Didn't have time. 164957 And so, that's what happened. Anyway, I guess I don't have time. Thank you all so very very much. It's a great crowd, I appreciate it. I appreciate it. ###

1730 WH CORONAVIRUS BREG HEADON POOL FS23 73 PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP, VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE AND MEMBERS OF THE CORONAVIRUS TAKS FORCE BRIEFING 18:11:32 TRUMP: Thank you very much and I see we have fewer people because of the virus problem and we appreciate you being here and this is getting to be more and more social distancing and that is fine. That is the way it should be and it is too bad we extend our best wishes to the person affected and we feel sure that he or she will be better very soon and thank you for being here. Thank you for being here. America continues to mobilize every segment of our society to turn the tide in the battle against the virus. I want Americans to know that we will get through this challenge. The hardship will end. It will end soon. Normal life will return and our economy will rebound very, very strongly but right now in the midst of this great national trial Americans must remain united in purpose and focused on victory. To every single American please know that the sacrifice you are making at this time is saving lives many, many lives. 18:12:43 It is very important that we totally protect our Asian-American community in the United States and all around the world. They are amazing people and the spreading of the virus is not their fault in any way, shape or form. They are working closely with us to get rid of it. We will prevail together. That is very important. From the beginning we have been working closely with our nation's best scientists and medical professionals and we will continue to do so until we have defeated the virus. Our public health experts who are terrific are studying the variation in the disease across the country and we will be using data to recommend new protocols to allow local economies to cautiously resume their activity at the appropriate time. We also have a large team working on what the next steps will be once the medical community gives a region the okay meaning the okay to get going, to get back, let's go to work. Our country wasn't built to be shut down. This is not a country that was built for this. It was not built to be shut down. My administration continues to work with Democrats and Republicans to reach an agreement on an urgent relief bill for the millions of American workers and small businesses and large businesses that were badly affected by the medical difficulty that we have had. If you had a viable business in January, we are committed to ensuring the same is true in the coming weeks. In fact, we want to make it even better than it was before and we're doing things to help in that regard. America will again and soon be open for business. Very soon. A lot sooner than three or four months that somebody was suggesting. A lot sooner. 18:14:40 We cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself. We're not going to let the cure be worse than the problem. At the end of the 15 day period, we will make a decision as to which way we want to go, where we want to go, the timing and essentially we are referring to the timing of the opening--essentially the opening of our country because we have it pretty well shut down in order to get rid of this invisible enemy. Two weeks ago, we moved at record speed to pass paid sick leave and paid family medical leave and approve $8 billion including money for the development of treatments and vaccines, and we are doing tremendous work in both--on both fronts. The vaccines are coming along very quickly. Now Congress must demonstrate the same bipartisanship again and join together to pass the Senate bill as written and avoid playing anymore partisan games. They have to get together and just stop with the partisan politics, and I think that is happening. I got call a little while ago; I guess they are getting closer, should go quickly and it must go quickly it's not really a choice they don't have a choice. They have to make a deal. This is not a time for political agendas but rather one for focusing solely and squarely on the needs of the American people. We are going to save American workers, and we are going to save them quickly, and we are going to save our current American companies, both small and large. This was a medical problem; we are not going to let it turn into a long-lasting financial problem. It started out as a purely medical problem, and it is not going to go beyond that. We're just not going to allow that to happen. 18:16:31 Our country was at its strongest financial point. We've never had an economy like we had just a few weeks ago and then it got it with something that nobody could have ever thought possible, and we are fixing it. We are fixing it quickly and I want to just think the American people for what they have been through and what they are doing. Our country will be stronger than ever before, and we fully anticipate that, and it won't be that long. Let me provide you with an update on critical supplies. FEMA is distributing 8 million N95 respirator masks and 13.3 million surgical masks across the country right now. Focusing on the areas with the greatest need we have shipped 73 pallets of personal protective equipment to New York City and 36 pallets to the state of Washington. In the past 96 hours, FEMA has also received donations of approximately 6.5 million masks. We are having millions and millions of masks made as we speak and other personal protective equipment which we will be distributing to medical hotspots. We are focused on some of the hotspots. Across the nation, we are seeing an outpouring of creativity and innovative ideas mildly shared between the federal health leaders, governors, and mayors. The scientific community and members of the private sector are really working together. Everybody is working together. I am pleased to report that clinical trials in New York will begin existing for existing drugs that may prove effective against the virus. At my direction, the federal government is working to help obtain large quantities of chloroquine, and you can look from any standpoint tomorrow in New York. We think tomorrow pretty early the hydroxychloroquine and the Z-pack(SP) I think as a combination probably is looking very, very good and it's going to be distributed, and we have 10,000 units going, and it will be distributed tomorrow. It will be available and is now they already have it. They are going to distribute it tomorrow morning to a lot of people in New York City and New York. We're studying it very closely, watching it very closely. You probably saw a couple of articles today came out where a gentleman they thought he was not going to make it he said goodbye to his family. They had given him the drug just a little while before, but he thought it was over, his family thought he was going to die, and a number of hours later he woke up, felt good then he woke up again and he felt really good, and he is in good shape, and he's very happy for this particular drug that we got approved in record-setting crime. There has never been anything even close to it, and I want to thank the FDA, which has been incredible. Dr. Hahn, Stephen Hahn, highly respected man, but they are doing everything possible to increase production and available supply of these drugs, not only this drug but also others that are coming. Remdesivir is coming from Regeneron, a couple of others are also under study, but the one that I'm very excited about right now is the one just mentioned, and I think there is a real chance I mean again we don't know, but there's a real chance that it could have a tremendous impact. It would be a gift from God if that worked. It would be a big game-changer, so we will see the distribution starts tomorrow morning early in New York, and I think a lot of people are going to be hopefully they're going to be very happy with the results, but we're all going to be watching closely. 18:20:44 It is something we have to try. It has been very, very successful in malaria very, very successful, and countries with malaria have had an interesting thing happen. They take this particular drug is a very powerful drug, and there is very little semblance of the virus in those countries, and there are those that say because this drug is very prevalent because of malaria, so we will see what happens. I am also announcing that we are postponing the deadline for compliance with real ID requirements at a time when we're asking Americans to maintain social distancing. We do want to require people to go with their local DMV. TRUMP: We will be announcing the new deadline very soon. It's going to be announced in a very short moment. Overnight we successfully brought home 103 American citizens after they had been stranded for 10 days in Brazil following a cruise. We want to thank the Brazilian government and their great president. Most of those returned were senior citizens. My administration, in corporation with Governor Greg Abbott of Texas and the private sector coordinated their safe return to the United States so thank you to Governor Abbott. Terrific governor, terrific man. Earlier today I signed an executive order invoking presidential authority under section 4512 of the Defense Production Act to prohibit the hoarding of vital medical equipment and supplies such as hand sanitizer's, face masks, and personal protective equipment. We have a lot of facemasks, a lot of equipment that's coming in and we have some people hoarding and Attorney General Barr is going to be speaking about that in a second. We want to prevent price gouging and critical health and medical resources are going to be protected in every form. Under this directive, the Secretary of Health and Human Services is authorized to designate essential health and medical supplies as scarce so he'll designate certain supplies and medical elements as scarce, and that means it will be a crime to stockpile these items in excessive quantities, which is happening to a relatively small degree we think but nevertheless, it's happening and we can't let it happen. And we can't let them resell them in excessive prices, which some people are doing. Very simply, we will not allow anyone to exploit the suffering of American citizens for their own profit. So we're going to be watching that with our great attorney general very closely. The Department of Justice will be aggressively prosecuting fraudulent schemes related to the pandemic. Yesterday, federal prosecutors took action in their first case shutting down a website selling a totally fake vaccine, if you can believe that one. As president, I will always fight to protect Americans from being exploited. Thankfully, all throughout the country, we are witnessing extraordinary acts of compassion, benevolence, and unity. Construction companies are doing donating masks by the hundreds of thousands. Manufacturing workers are transforming their assembly lines, citizens are volunteering to deliver food and medicine to the elderly. 18:24:12 We are truly seeing America at its best. We're releasing things that people never thought even could happen. Frankly, we never thought this could happen, but the way most Americans are--are working toward getting it solved and--and just doing what they have to do to make this go away has been incredible. It's been incredible. I want to take a moment to thank the everyday heroes were making our vast effort against the virus possible and thank you to the healthcare workers and the first responders. These are very brief people. Thanks also to the hard-working men and women of Federal Express, UPS, the United States Postal Service, and the truckers who are maintaining our supply chains and supply lines. We thank you very much. Great job. We also want to give our regards and thanks to everyone at our grocery stores working the night shift so that shelves can be restocked and the restaurant workers and delivery drivers keeping our families fed. So many of these restaurants, it's incredible they're doing service where people come and they pick it up. Delivery, I mean, it's been incredible what they been doing. Totally different business than they were other than they cook food. Other than that, it's like a totally different business. Most of all, I want to think the American people for rising to the challenge and showing incredible courage, determination, patience, grace, and grit. From New York to Seattle and everywhere in between, your acts of selflessness and sacrifice and ingenuity are a powerful testament to the American character. It's really being shown, it's really showing up at a level that people are really respecting all over the world there respecting. And the world has problems. We are 148 countries now. 148 countries are affected by the invisible scourge. And all of the uplifting reflections of the American spirit are out there for everyone to see. Together, we will care for our fellow citizens and we will win this war and we'll when it much sooner than people think and will be back in business as a country pretty soon. You'll be hearing about that also pretty soon. 18:26:37 Now I'd like to ask Attorney General Bill Barr to say a few words and we'll take questions in a little while. Thank you. 18:26:52 BARR: Let me start by thanking you, Mr. President, Mr. Vice President for your decisive leadership in this unprecedented battle to save American lives. The Department of Justice were working hard to protect the health and safety of our personnel while at the same time keeping our enforcement efforts at full throttle. So I'd like to thank all of my colleagues in law enforcement, not just those at the federal level, but of all our state and local partners. The police officers, the Sheriff's deputies who are protecting and serving their communities, often at great risk to themselves. What I'd like to do here is start with a few remarks about the order that the president mentioned to ensure the availability of critical medical and health supplies from hoarding and price gouging. On March 18, the president issued Executive Order 13909 invoking the Defense production act with respect to the health and medical resources needed to respond to the spread of COVID-19, including PPE and ventilators. 18:28:11 We have started to see some evidence of potential hoarding and price gouging and so earlier today, the president signed a second executive order providing the authority to address if it becomes necessary, hoarding that threatens the supply of those necessary health and medical resources. Under section 102 of the Defense Production Act, the president has authorized is authorized to prohibit the hoarding of needed resources by designating those materials as scarce or as materials whose supply would be threatened by persons accumulating excessive amounts. Once specific materials are so designated, persons are prohibited from accumulating those items in excess of reasonable personal or business needs or for the purpose of selling them in excess of prevailing market prices. It is a crime to engage in prohibited activity. In today's executive order, the president is delegating to the delegating to the Secretary of HHS this authority to protect against hoarding by designating these critical items. No items have been designated yet, and the Department of Justice is going to be working with HHS to identify cases where hoarding may be impeding the supply of health and medical resources needed to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. 18:29:46 Today, we convened our first task force meeting national task force that will be working on the supply chain issues and specifically on the problem of hoarding and price gouging and we are designating in each of our 93 United States attorneys' offices a lead prosecutor who will be responsible in that district for pursuing these cases. I also want to say that we have not waited for this order to be signed. We--as we have received evidence recently, we have already initiated investigations of activities that are disrupting the supply chain and suggestive of reporting. I want to stress that we are not talking about consumers or businesses stockpiling supplies for their own operations. We're talking about people hoarding these goods and materials on an industrial scale for the purpose of manipulating the market and ultimately driving windfall profits. If you are--have a big supply of toilet paper in your house, this is not something you have to worry about. But if you are sitting on it on a warehouse with masks, surgical masks, you will be hearing a knock on your door. So with that, Mr. President, I'll turn it back to you. TRUMP: Thank you very much. Deborah, please. BIRX: Thank you. Thank you Mr. Vice President. To start I want to really thank all of the ministers of health around the world who have been sending us their data despite the fight that they are in themselves particularly our European colleagues. They continue to send us primarily their mortality data which is really very critical because when you are in the midst of this level of fight that many of the European countries are following mortality data will give you the best and site right now on how the epidemic is proceeding in those countries because they really can't be testing at the level to really understand the depth and breadth of their new cases. In the mortality data that has been provided to us there has been no child under 15 that has succumbed to the virus in Europe. There was the one 14-year-old in China so we still see that there is less severity in children and so that should be reassuring to the moms and dads out there. 18:32:21 To generation Z and to my millennial colleagues who have been really at the forefront of many of these responses less than 1 percent of all of the mortality is less than 50 and so this is I think also a very important point. That doesn't mean that individuals will have severe disease so still 99 percent of all of the mortality coming out of Europe in general is over 50 and pre-existing conditions. The pre-existing condition piece still holds in and only with the majority of the mortality having three or more pre-existing conditions. I think this is reassuring to all of us but it doesn't change the need to continue to protect the elderly and in order to protect the elderly we all need to continue to do the presidents directives and guidance for the next week of the 15 day challenge. 18:33:09 Finally I really wanted to close by thanking the laboratory personnel that have been at the frontlines. 250,000 test have been run in the last seven days. This happened because these large commercial laboratories are doing around the clock runs and remember all of them are being exposed to the virus in the same way from these swabs get tirelessly they have worked on and on to get those results available. They are still getting more tests than they can run per day. That is because we were primarily expanded into the what we call the Roche high throughput (INAUDIBLE) machine. Those results have been getting to the clients and we have asked them to prioritize hospitalized patients. There was a breakthrough today and I think you will see this from the FDA in--for all of those of you who were waiting for self-swabbing options those are going to be unavailable sometime this week to be able to individuals do their own test. That said, remember these platforms are keeping up with those who need to be diagnosed in the hospitals and those who come to the emergency room quite else so that hospital beds can be freed up for those that don't have COVID so that will be critical that if you don't need a test, if it doesn't change your clinical course do not come in to be tested and I think that mortality data that I gave you should be very reassuring to all of you. 18:34:35 Finally to conclude New York City, the New York Metro area of New Jersey, New York City and parts of Long Island have an attack rate close to one in 1000. This is five times what the other areas are seeing. They are--through the high throughput lab investigations we are finding that 28 percent of these submitted specimens are from that area where it is less than 8 percent in the rest of the country. So to all of my friends and colleagues in New York this is the group that needs to absolutely social distance and self-isolate at this time. Clearly the virus had been circulating there for a number of weeks to have this level of penetrance into the general community. TRUMP: Thank you very much, Deborah. 18:35:28 PENCE: Thank you, Mr. President. The White House coronavirus task force met today but we also convened at the presidents direction a conference call with the nation's governors and we focused on efforts at mitigation, at testing and supplies. We discussed the presidents recent approval of disaster declarations for Washington and California and New York but we also assured governors who have submitted major disaster declarations that we will be reviewing them in an expeditious manner to ensure the full resources of the federal government are brought to bear. The President wanted us to make it clear that the federal government will do whatever it takes to support an effort that is locally executed, state managed and federally supported. We have reiterated that to our governors today. Listen to them about their specific needs and frankly made it clear to them that while the present and has published@coronavirus.gov the 15 days to slow the spread for every American and millions of Americans are addressing these common sense guidelines to prevent the spread of the coronavirus in the days ahead we made it clear to the governors that this President and this administration fondly supports decisions I governors are making in communities and states that are particularly impacted by the spread of the coronavirus and we are grateful for their efforts. 18:37:04 We also spoke to the governors about the importance of the legislation that is currently being negotiated on Capitol Hill and asked them to encourage members of the House and the Senate to move very quickly. The bill that is currently being negotiated the President said that he believes will be resolved soon and we are encouraged by it will speed direct payments to families. The average family of four will receive $3000 directly. There will be payroll subsidies for small businesses around America to keep people on the payroll while they might be required to stay home. Unemployment insurance benefits, assistance to hospitals and major industries and we continue to urge Congress to act and ask the governors to engage their delegations. On the subject of testing we reiterated our thanks to states across the country that are rapidly ask banding testing at drive-through sites and I communities sites and as--as Dr. Birx just reflected because of the--because of the unprecedented public and private partnership that the President initiated with our commercial labs we stand here today 313,000 test having been completed with test results delivered to Americans and still somewhat more than 41,000 have contracted coronavirus but the state run effort is continuing to receive the full support of our team at FEMA and at the U.S. Public health service we are deploying personnel, we are deploying resources and testing is literally expanding her around the country by the hour. 18:38:51 As Dr. Birx also mentioned the FDA has been in the process of reviewing less invasive methods of testing. The President and I both reflected on the fact that we have been tested and we have been working with EFTA to make it possible for self-collected nasal swabs where individuals cut at the end of their nasal passage collect a sample and I am pleased to report that self-collected swabs can now be collected in clinics and at drive-through testing sites. This will expedite the testing process of course but it will also reduce the risk to health care providers and for exposure to the coronavirus and it will minimize the drain on personal protective equipment. With the current test that goes pretty significantly up the nasal passage people have to wear gear and then change out the gear. In this new self-administered test will actually not require the drain on personal protective equipment and it is all a part of our effort. As Admiral Polowczyk will discuss in just a few moments to meet these supply needs that we have across the country but to meet them with efforts at conservation as well. On the subject of testing it is important to remember as the old box says it is not the healthy who need a doctor but the sick and so if you don't have symptoms you don't need to get a coronavirus test. We encourage every American to adhere to the so that testing resources are available for people that are symptomatics. 18:40:36 We also will be issuing today from health and human services new guidance to direct all commercial labs to prioritize testing for hospitalized patients and that guidance is going out tonight. We also reminded the governors today that all state laboratories, all hospital laboratories are now required by law to report the results of coronavirus test to the CDC. On the subject of supplies in our meeting today at FEMA we received a report of the new supply chain stabilization task force. Rear Admiral John Polowczyk is leaving that at FEMA. And the task force is--is working to identify medical supplies that exist in the marketplace today, to evaluate the national stockpile, and also working with industries around the country to produce even more of the critical medical supplies. And as the president said, businesses across America are stepping up, maybe as never before in our history. 3M, in fact, has diverted 500,000 N95 masks from commercial customers, and they're being delivered today to New York and Seattle. Facebook, we would acknowledge, has donated their emergency reserve of over 700,000 N95 masks to healthcare workers, and these are just a few examples of the generosity of businesses. We're also seeing companies step forward to repurpose their manufacturing facilities to create ventilators, to create equipment, and I know I speak to the president when I say how grateful and proud we are for that. We also discussed with the governors a real breakthrough on the availability of ventilators. We called on the governors to serve it all--survey all outpatient surgical centers and hospital operating rooms, because surgical ventilators that has seen--anesthesiologists use, because of an FDA decision rendered this last weekend, those can be easily converted now to ventilators that can be used for people struggling with severe illness from the coronavirus. And so, we called on our governors in--in conversations with state leaders to--to survey all of their surgical centers and hospital operating rooms to identify that equipment. And with the new FDA guidelines, they'll be able to convert those to meet--help meet the needs of ventilators across the country. 18:43:06 We are now eight days into the president's 15 days to slow the spread. The American people are rising to the challenge. We're doing this. But in the days to remain between now and the end of the 15 days, we're going to need every American to take this seriously. Listen to your state and local health authorities where there may be additional and stronger guidance in areas where the coronavirus spread has been more severe. But for every American, know that the part that you do, that your family does, that you do in your community to put into practice these principles of social distancing, using a drive-through at the local restaurant, will make an enormous difference in--in lowering the trajectory of the coronavirus spreading across our country. And it's going to take all of us, but with the ongoing cooperation of the American people, with compassion, with the ingenuity of--of American industry, with dedicated leadership at the state and federal level, I know that we can slow the spread. We can protect our most vulnerable, and we will heal our land. TRUMP: Thank you, Mike, very much. Admiral, please? POLOWCZYK: Thank you, Mr. Vice President. So, I'm--I'm Rear Admiral John Polowczyk. I'm the supply chain task force lead at FEMA. 18:44:25 My task is to increase the supply of critical medical supplies, which would include personal protective equipment and ventilators, items like that. I just want to take a few moments to explain the organization that we've stood up this week, these last few days, and our--and our approach. So, we have a chart behind--behind me. I have a focused--two focus leads, one on personal protective equipment, mil--medical supplies, and a focus lead on ventilators operating under four lines of effort. The first line of effort you see is preservation. And--and the leaders tonight have talked about that ability to make our stuff last longer. Acceleration; we have a team of people that are searching the globe for personal protective equipment, figuring out where it is, figuring out if we need to buy it or just transported and get it here faster. 18:45:57 We have a--a line of effort called reallocation. We're working with our industry partners to illuminate the supply chain. There are many vendors, many distributors on separate system. Nobody has one site picture for that supply chain. We brought our--our industry partners in. We're weaving that together to make better allocation decisions and understand where it is and where it needs to go. We have a--a line called expansion. You've heard some of that today. If--if--those that have wanted to convert plants, those that want to get into the business, we have the tools to--to help them to go do that. So, two focus areas right now, PPE and ventilators; four lines of effort, working the problem to--of the task to--to get more here, increase the supplies. Thank you, sir. TRUMP: Thank you very much. Thank you very much. QUESTION: Thank you, Mr. President. If I could, the Washington Post is reporting the total does today crossed 100 for the first time. This morning your surgeon general on the Today show said he wanted Americans to understand that this is going to get really bad. Do you share that prognosis? TRUMP: Of course I do. It's going to be bad. And we have a lot of people dying from the flu, as you know. We have a very bad flu season on top of everything else. It's very bad. It looks like it could be over 50,000. And certainly, this is going to be bad and we're trying to make it so that it's much, much less bad. And that's what we're doing and I think we're doing a very good job of it. If you look at other countries, what they've been through, and you look kind of numbers and compare them to ours, which is a much larger country than most, the numbers are pretty amazing. And it started with the fact that we stopped people from coming in from a highly infected area and--and infected area. And that was a good thing to do. So, yeah, it's bad and it's going to--obviously, the numbers are going to increase with time and then and they're going to start to decrease. And we're going to be opening our country up for business, because our country was meant to be open and working with others. But especially for our workers and the engine for that whole system is we have to have companies. And these companies are loved by our workers because they're paying big salaries and big--big dollars to our workers. And we're going to get it all going and very soon, hopefully very, very soon. Please. QUESTION: Sir, I'm--I'm just trying to reconcile the two things that you just said, one, that things are going to be very, very bad, and two, that you want to get the country opened back up-- TRUMP: --Yeah-- QUESTION: --As quickly as possible. So, I guess my question is, if in a week, Dr. Birx or Dr. Fauci are telling you we need to continue these measures for the health of the vulnerable populations, the country, are you going to say I'm sorry, the--the economy is too important and you can-- TRUMP: 18:48:04 --Well, you'll see what happens. I--I understand the question very well. It's a--it's a great question. But we can do two things at one time. I will say this. Our country has learned a lot. We've learned about social distancing. We've learned about the hands. We've learned about staying away at least during the time that this is even a little bit around, this disease or--or whatever you want to call it, many different names. You can call it many different names, but the virus, while it's around. And we can start thinking about it. As an example, parts of our country are very lightly affected, very small numbers. And, you know, you look at the state, great governor, Pete Ricketts in Nebraska. You look at the kind of numbers they have out there. They have one of the great--for the great hospitals there too relative to what we're talking about. But you look at Nebraska. You look at Idaho. You look at Iowa. You look at many--I could made many countries that are handling it very, very well, and that are not affected to the same extent or, frankly, not even nearly to the extent of New York, which is really--I'm dealing with Governor Cuomo, and we're dealing very well together. We'll--we'll be sending that ship up, by the way, as you know. We have a ship going to Los Angeles. We'll also be--the ship is coming out of a very large repair. It's already to go or very--very soon will be. And over the next three or four weeks, that'll be coming up to New York, will go to New York Harbor, and it will be fully supplied. So, they're working on that right now. QUESTION: So, just--and maybe Dr. Birx can speak to this. Do you share the president's optimism that we--we might have a situation where we can say, you know, there's a few hotspots but much of the country can open-- TRUMP: --Well, I didn't say a week, but I said soon. It's going to be soon. It's not going to be three or four months, as some people were saying and a lot of people thought originally. But I would certainly let you answer. QUESTION: And--and are you worried that some cities and states that haven't had the infection yet are lagging indicators and that we're going to start seeing cases? 18:50:43 BIRX: So, you've raised two important issues. One, I think you all know a lot of our tests have had to go to hospitals at this time so that we can diagnose people who are at risk to give them options to get these new therapeutic options. None of these therapeutic options are available if you don't know your diagnosis. So, we been very much focused on that. With adding Abbott, Thermo Fisher, Hologic, and now Cepheid platforms--Cepheid's that new platform that is point-of-care but slower. So-- ***MISSING PORTION OF TRANSCRIPT*** 18;55;15 JON KARL QUESTION: Rand Paul 18;55;20 BIRX: So that's why this was important. *********************************** BIRX: --that everyone that you're interacting with could be positive, and that goes into the hand washing piece, and that gets into the other piece we talked about is surfaces. I think until we really figure out that respiratory transmission versus the surface transmission and this part surface transmission, not fabric, will be ready really critical because that is the way the virus could spread on subways or metros where people would be holding onto things that other people have recently held onto. So that's the real question. 18;56;24 KARL QUESTION: But if we can just keep with the example of Rand Paul, and obviously, there are many other people that would be in a similar--just keep with this one example, if he hadn't gotten that test, he would still be showing up to the Senate every day, to his place of work. You wouldn't want that, would you? BIRX: If he had been following these guidelines, he wouldn't have been infecting others because of the social distancing, washing your hands, doing everything that we talked about. So we talked about also how people make choices because of their jobs that they have to come in. You'll notice I was not here of the weekend. I think this is the part that we really need to take personal responsibility for. Saturday had a little low grade fever. TRUMP: Uh-oh. BIRX: So actually probably at GI thing, but you know, I'm meticulous. I'm a physician. I looked it up. I ended up piggy bank, and from Walter Reed, so I got a test late Saturday night, and are negative. I stayed home another day just to-- TRUMP: --Thank you for saying that. BIRX: Yeah. Just to make sure. That's how we protect one another. So you know, unless everybody is taking their temperature every day, we can't say that he had no symptoms. These are the kinds of things that we have to do for one another. This is the personal responsibility that I'm talking about that we all have to practice. QUESTION: Again, Mr. President, when you say you don't want the cure to be worse than-- TRUMP: --The problem-- QUESTION: --The problem itself, so are you saying that if we kept these measures that were doing now in place for a couple of months, two or three months-- 18:58:00 TRUMP: --Well, they will be in place. At some point, we're going to open up our country and it's going to be fairly soon. QUESTION: Weeks or months customer because you seem to be-- TRUMP: --I'm not looking--I'm not looking at months. I can tell you right now. We're going to be opening up our country and we're going to be watching certain areas and we're going to be practicing everything that Deborah is referring to right here. We're going to be watching this very closely. But you can't keep it closed for the next, you know, for years, okay? This is going away. We are--we're going to win the battle, but we also have, you know, you have tremendous responsibility. We have jobs, we have people get tremendous anxiety and depression and you have suicides over things like this when you have terrible economies. You have death probably in, I mean, it definitely would be in far greater numbers than the numbers that we're talking about with regard to the virus. So we have an obligation. We have a double obligation. We have a great country. There is no country like it in the world and there's no economy like it in the world. I mean, we had--we work--we were just blazing. We were coming out with numbers that some numbers weren't even reported because it was already--this had happened. They were meaningless. I got numbers about myself that were meaningless because by the time the numbers came in, you know, it's a whole different world with this. But I will tell you that we can do both things, John. We can do them both at the same time. I mean, that's okay. What we have gone through is a tremendous learning process and we also solved a lot of problems but we've gone through a tremendous learning problem--situation. Now, were building hospitals in New York, were building hospitals in California, were building hospitals in the state of Washington, we been in touch with the governors. Today I spoke with man that I happen to like. I spoke with Phil in New Jersey and we are going to be doing something very meaningful in New Jersey. We're doing something--I spoke with JB Pritzker called me today. We're going to be helping them out in Illinois. We're doing a lot of things in Florida and were doing a lot of things. Between FEMA and the Army Corps of Engineers and the admiral and your group in terms of the purchasing, that's what he does. He purchases--he supposed to be great. I'll tell you in about two days, but he's going to do a fantastic job. So we have an incredibly talented group of people, but yeah, will be doing two things and three things at one time. While at the same time though, we're going to be watching very closely the hotspots. We're going to be taking care and watching very closely our senior citizens, especially those with a problem or an illness. We're going to be watching them very, very closely. And we can do that and have an open economy, have an open country, and we have to do that because that causes other problems. And maybe it causes much bigger problems than the problem we're talking about now. You understand. Jeff, please. QUESTION: Thank you. QUESTION: Mr. President, following up on that same topic and on your tweet, do you think that the cure so far has been worse than the problem? 19:00:59 TRUMP: I think the cure has been very tough. This has been very tough. This is in operation. This was somebody going to a doctor and saying you need an operation and we've had an operation. We've learned a lot and we fixed a lot of problems. One of the things we fixed, if you look at the obsolete system that this administration inherited, it wasn't meant for this. It was meant for a small group of people. And even for that, it was not very good and very obsolete. We now have a testing--we have a testing program now that will hopefully be able to be used for many years into the future should we have another event like this. I don't think you'll have another event like this. This is very unique. You look back into time, you look back decades and decades, we can name them all even if you go back 10 years. You know, you go back to '09, but that wasn't like this as it turned out, but they lost a lot of people. We were early. We were early, Jeff, because of the fact that we closed early. That was a big move. Please, Kristin. QUESTION: Just a follow-up on that. Just follow up on that, sir. TRUMP: Yeah, go ahead, Jeff. QUESTION: The--you had said previously I think from this podium that the virus could still be with us through July or August. By suggesting now that might or that the government might change these standards or these recommendations soon-- TRUMP: 19:02:27 --Well, it's not change. It's--no, redoing things--yeah, this was a learning experience for the people of the country. QUESTION: I'm just wondering if the timeframe-- TRUMP: --And even for government-- QUESTION: --Has changed for you, the July-- TRUMP: --If what has changed? QUESTION: The July August timeframe of when you think the virus will be under control? TRUMP: Well, I think we've learned a lot. I think that there's so much discipline now that we never had. Nobody ever said don't shake hands. I did actually before I became a politician. Once I became a politician, then it's hard getting used to not doing it because, you know, you do it with everybody with literally thousands of people a week. You're shaking hands with big groups of people and, you know, we've--there's a lot of--we've learned a lot. There's a great discipline that this whole country has learned having to do with distancing, having to do with shaking hands, I think a lot of it is going to stay long after the virus is gone. I really think it's probably good practice anyway, but I think it's going to stay long after the virus is gone. But we can--we have to open our country because that causes problems that, in my opinion, could be far bigger problems. Far bigger. This--look, this is a medical--a severe medical situation that could cause problems far beyond the medical and then increase the medical problems to things that had nothing to do with this original medical problem. We can't let that problem to our country. We have the greatest country in the world. I'm not going to let that happen. But there's two weeks that we have spent have been an incredible learning. And process. Please, Kristin. QUESTION: I have two questions for you. TRUMP: Go ahead. QUESTION: One, you said it's likely going to be weeks, not months, before you suggest easing these guidelines that you put out. Have any of the doctors on your team told you that's the right path to pursue? 19:04:07 TRUMP: We spoke to them today and I was telling them that we have two things to look forward--don't forget, the doctors--if it were up to the doctors, they'd be saying let's keep it shut down. Let's shut down the entire world because, again, you're up to almost 150 countries. So let's shut down the entire world. And when we shut it down, that would be wonderful, and let's keep it shut for a couple of years. You know we can't do that. And you can't do that with a country, especially the number one economy anywhere in the world by far. Number one economy in the world. You can't do that. QUESTION: So you're saying-- TRUMP: --Because--well, it causes bigger problems than the original--that's why I talked about the cure being worse than the problem. We can't have the cure the worst on the problem. But what we have done, so this is not--retracing, this is an anything. We've done it really well because there's this two-week period has been good. And I'm not saying it ends at that time. You know, we have another seven days or so. I'm not saying it ends at that time. But I am saying--saying it's been like this incredible learning process. That's going to go into the future. That's going to go even as we open up our country. And we're going to be watching New York and we're going to be watching California, we're going to be watching the state of Washington and other places. Illinois is becoming a hotspot and we can do--we can do both. 19:05:25 Now, we may quarantine. I mean, we will be quarantine--quarantining many people in these areas. There are other areas that just aren't affected or they are affected very little. And why would we close down 100 percent of the country? There are areas within New York where New York will be open, but there are areas within New York--remember this. New York has the New York stock exchange. It has NASDAQ. It has the exchanges. TRUMP: To close the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ and all of--with all of the great work they are doing I mean they have gone largely to computer you look at the floor it is incredible what they can do but it is fully open but we don't want to be doing that but we can do--what I am saying basically is that we can do two things simultaneously and we have had this incredible learning. Plus people have been in a period and they won't be calling oh, gee because I have got many, many people that now come to me and say we get it. We think we can really do it now and do it while we are open. So at some point we will be setting some guidelines. We will be setting some datelines and we will be announcing them in the not too distant future. QUESTION: (INAUDIBLE) any of the doctors on your team endorse easing the federal-- 19:06:37 TRUMP: Not indoors, we talked together and I think they are okay with it and I am okay with it but this could be a much bigger problem. This could create a much bigger problem than the problem that you start off with. You know other nations are going to have to do what they are going to do but they will probably do something very similar but in our case much more so than anywhere else because of the magnitude of our economy, the tremendous size of what we have built and what we have and the jobs involved. You know you have 160, almost 160 million jobs in this country now, the most ever by far, by far the most ever. The number of jobs almost 160 million. So we can't turn that off and think it's going to be wonderful. There would be tremendous repercussions. There will be tremendous death from that, death. You know you are talking about death probably more death from that than anything that we are talking about with respect to the virus. QUESTION: (INAUDIBLE) death if we continue with these strict guidelines than if we ease them? 19:07:36 TRUMP: Know. I think we are going to do them both. I think that is what I am saying. I think we can do them both. Now we have been announced a date but we are getting fairly close to coming up with a date and it's a much shorter period of time than I have been hearing the news report. And I think everybody should be happy with that but great knowledge was gained. Please? QUESTION: I have two questions--I had two questions for you Mr. President. My second one is on what your economic advisor Larry Kudlow said today. He was talking about this and he said that there are going to be some difficult trade-offs if you do ease these guidelines because he wants the economy-- TRUMP: You mean with the Democrats he is talking about? QUESTION: No, no. He was saying--he was talking about how you said you know the care shouldn't be worse than the problem and he was talking about reopening the businesses, getting the economy going back and going again. What are those difficult trade-offs? TRUMP: Well it is true. I mean if he said--I didn't hear him say that but if he said difficult trade-offs sure, it's less convenient. Before you would walk and you would hop in the subway and you would grab the handle and you would go down to wherever you are going on Wall Street and you do all sorts of things and you go in and you open the doors going into your great building soar into the exchanges and I mean now you are not going to have to--you may be think about doing that or you are going to think about doing it a different way. No, no. There are many trade-offs. It is a different life and maybe it will remain that way frankly after the invisibles Gorge is gone. Maybe it is going to stay that way, not a bad thing to stay that way but no, there are trade-offs. There is no question about that but I actually think it's going to--I think in the we are going to end up being bigger, better and stronger. We have learned a lot. Please? QUESTION: We are seeing an increase of cases in Latin America and-- TRUMP: That is true, Latin America. QUESTION: And some places in Asia. Are you considering a new round of travel ban? 19:09:19 TRUMP: Know, we are not really. Something like that could happen I guess but we are not really. They thought we were going to have bands within the United States, we didn't do that. We are not going to have that. Hopefully that will take care of itself. (INAUDIBLE) in Latin America there is a--there has been an uptick. Yes. Please? QUESTION: Mr. President just quickly a second question. What prompted you to say at the beginning--beginning of your comments that you are going to take care of the Asian Americans. Has there been something in particular that was-- 19:09:53 TRUMP: Yeah, because it seems that there could be a little bit of nasty language towards the Asian Americans in our country and I don't like that at all. These are incredible people. They love our country and I'm not going to let it happen. So I just wanted to make that point. QUESTION: (INAUDIBLE) TRUMP: Because they are blaming-- QUESTION: Chinese virus-- TRUMP: --China and they are making statements to Great American citizens that happen to be of Asian heritage and I'm not going to let that happen. Please? QUESTION: Mr. President you say you want to reopen the country but most schools across the country are closed. Two states now are closed for the rest of the school year. How are parent supposed to go back to work and educate their children? 19:10:28 TRUMP: The governors of the various states will have a lot of leeway. If we open up and when we open up the governors in certain states for instance you go to some of the stateside just mentioned those schools are going to be opened in many cases they are open now but these goals are going to be open. In other cases Governor Cuomo, Gavin Newsom of California certain governors are going to maybe have a decision to make. Now they may make a decision to keep them open in a certain part of New York and may be in Westchester County--or wherever it may be they will keep them closed but they are going to have leeway. We are giving the governors a lot of leeway. QUESTION: Do you agree with the decision to close it several months out at this point because governors are saying they are expecting a peak in the next couple of months and have made a decision-- TRUMP: The governors are going to make those decisions. That is going to be up to the governors and they are very capable. They will be able to make the decisions. Please? QUESTION: Sir, will you explain why a $2 trillion economic stimulus is needed if you are going to reopen the country in a period of weeks not months? 19:11:27 TRUMP: Because the virus has had a big impact on our country so we are going to give a stimulus so that the workers can live their life. It was not our fault. It wasn't the workers fault and we are going to give a kick so that it is a kick and this way we think the workers can get a fair start, the small businesses we are taking very good care of. We want to take care of these small businesses. They really are the engine of this country. A lot of people don't know that. You know everyone thinks of these great big beautiful businesses who by the way have been very badly hurt also but these small businesses have really historically been the engine and they still are the engine of the country and you would be amazed. The workers love those businesses and the workers contact us and they want us to help those businesses because that is where they have made their living. That is where they--you know they have been paid a lot of money over the years and you know you have been seeing what has happened over the last three years where salaries and wages have gone up very substantially for those workers and then we got caught by the sudden craziness coming into our country and coming all over the world. So we need to make sure that the companies are strong and that the workers are strong and that is what we are doing and you know hopefully the Republicans and Democrats are going to be able to make a deal and they are actually fairly close but we will see what happens. Please? QUESTION: But does it still need to be $2 trillion is my question? Can it be smaller? TRUMP: Well, one of the things you are going to have to save companies that have been shattered. You are going to have to save various I mean you know a lot of the companies yourselves, we have a company that was I think the greatest company in the world named Boeing. Boeing is going to need some help. Now Boeing had some difficulty before. That is unlike others. We have other countries--companies that didn't have a problem coming in. Boeing had the obvious problem that everybody knows about from a little more than a year ago, a double problem and it was a big one and then on top of it as they are getting ready to really show their stuff on top of that we all get hit by this and obviously the airlines are going to have a problem but the airlines are going to be buying from Boeing or from anybody else right now because of this difficulty so we have to work with the airlines. We have to work with the cruise lines. We have to work with the companies like a Boeing because Boeing is a potentially again a gre at company and a very rough period of 13 months a very rough period, a horrible period, and unbelievable.. If you would have told me this would have happened to Boeing I wouldn't have believed it because to me it was you know truly one of the great--one of the truly great probably almost 1 point of GDP if you can think of that it is hard to believe that a company could have that kind of an impact by Boeing we have to work with it. For two reasons. Number one it is a great company that we have to save. Number two, it produces unbelievable numbers of jobs and so the numbers have to be reflective of that kind of a thing. Please? Do you know what I'm going to do? We have wonderful people behind us that are working very hard and we want them to be able to get back to the Department of Justice and we want the admiral to start going and doing a job and--and the same thing with Deb--if anyone would have any questions maybe I will ask Mike to stay around but if anybody would have any questions for the group and otherwise I will let them go back to work. QUESTION: (INAUDIBLE) Dr. Birx we seem to be talking about different geographical slopes on this. The curve would be changing and yet you just said that 28 percent numbers coming out of New York gives an indication that we don't quite know when the seeds to use your--your metaphor were planted so how confident are you on the start dates of each curve for each of the geographical areas? The president seems to be indicating we will be adjusting the policy for? 19:15:20 BIRX: So that's a very good question. So what we do know is now we can backtrack from people who get very seriously ill to win they probably got infected which is when they were exposed and so when you start backing out each of those pieces, when you start seeing hospitalized patients you know that the virus has probably been there for 3 to 4 weeks substantially circulating within the population. So that is what we are looking for. Now as all of our testing is improved and we want to really applaud the group has worked on it you know if you look at the pandemic BIRX: --flu preparedness. All of this was built on a flu platform. It was never, ever thought that you have a simultaneous respiratory disease hitting at exactly the same time as your flu hits in the country. And so, when you're doing all of your flu surveillance, you could--had small cases of these pneumonias and flu-like illnesses characterized as a flu-like illness for the last 4 to 6 weeks. And so, that's really a caution to all of us. And so, when we get through all of this, we'll be looking at each of the pandemic preparedness plans, a long way of saying we know Washington State is a little bit ahead of New York because of the hospitalization records. What we will get to as a country, with the amount of testing that will be available, is being able to do what the president talked about, simultaneously--simultaneously doing containment contact tracing at the same time you're doing mitigation. And I think right now we put everything in the mitigation, yet if we geographically get specific data by ZIP Codes and counties, we'll be able to approach this in a very laser focused way, making sure that what we're doing in each of those areas is absolutely appropriate for where they are in their own little bell shape curve. QUESTION: Dr. Birx? TRUMP: Go ahead, please. QUESTION: Dr. Birx, when will the government roll out the antibody test so people can know possibly if they've been exposed? 19:17:26 BIRX: So, all--several of them have come to the FDA, I believe. Obviously, that something I am very interested in for two reasons. One, it will give us a retrospective on where these infections were, who was actually infected, and how really asymptomatic versus mild versus all of that comes into the spectrum. Secondly, by people who have high titers of those antibodies, those can become our solution with plasmapheresis for those in need and the--in the making of a hyper immunoglobulin. So, knowing who they are becomes really critical, but I think were still a couple of weeks out. I have to go back and talk to the FDA where each of these are, because this is what saved us with--when you do flu swabs and you do throat--strep throat swabs, and now where you do an HIV test. So, these are the kinds of tests that we know will be critical in the future. I wanted to say one other thing, because you see a lot of numbers out there about 70 percent of the population is going to get infected or 60 percent of the population based on those models. Understand that the way you get to that number is you do nothing and it goes through three cycles. So, they're talking about this cycle that we're currently in, another cycle in 2021, and a third cycle in '21-'22 in order to get that level of population infected. And you know we will have vaccines, most likely, by the '21-'22 season. And we're going to hopefully have therapeutics in the fall of the next season. So, the reason we're so much focus on blunting the curve for this piece is if--if the virus comes back, we'll have much more facility both for diagnoses, testing, monoclonal antibodies, treatments, and then the vaccine. QUESTION: And Dr. Birx, a question about the serology blood tests, which some people have said hold some real promise here. When will those be FDA approved and when will they be widely available? BIRX: So, that's what she was just asking about, so these IgGs and IgM, both point-of-care. I can tell you it would be no problem making ELISA today, but then you're drawing blood. You're processing blood. You're running plates. That's what we did in the past. We really want a finger prick type assay where you can just put a finger prick on and get your IgG and IgM. So, that's what we're working on right now. QUESTION: So, realistically, how long until that's approved and available, would you-- BIRX: --I can't answer because I have to look at where each of the companies are that are in their development processes. QUESTION: So, it sounds like a while then. BIRX: Well, there's some that are developed now that they were using in Singapore. So, we're looking at those to see how those-- TRUMP: --We have--we have some-- BIRX: --Work. TRUMP: Should be fairly quickly. BIRX: So, we're looking at those, but, you know, we're very quality oriented because we want to make sure we don't give people false negatives are false positives. TRUMP: I have a question for you. So, we have a lot of very angry media all around this room, and they want one of the seats. But because of social distancing, we are keeping them empty and they are keeping them empty. 19:20:36 Will there ever be a time when all of those really angry, angry people--who don't like me much to start off with, but now they really don't like me. Will there ever be a time when these seats are full, like full to the brim like it used to be, where people are almost sitting on each other's lap--and this whole row over here is packed and now they're outside wanting to get in and they're very jealous of all of these reporters. Will we ever have that again, or is that something that will be--you know, it'll look like this forever? 19:21:10 BIRX: So, we're learning a lot about social distancing and respiratory diseases. And I think those are the-- TRUMP: --Yeah-- BIRX: --Discussions we have to have in the future. It was what you were talking about, changing our whole behavior patterns of what we touch and being conscious of that. I remember when I was worried Saturday morning, I was trying to think what all did I touch on Friday? Did I touch a doorknob? Did I do this? Did I do that? Did I not wash my hands? I mean, you go through this whole piece. Did I touch my face by accident? So, I think this--this awareness that we all now have that we didn't have before, where we would have pushed through that door or turn--turned that doorknob because we were in such a hurry. Now, I think all of us think twice. I think all of you think twice. TRUMP: But when the virus is gone, will the people be allowed to sit next to each other again, in your opinion, in a tight room with a tight-- BIRX: --I don't know. You'll have to look and see if we have a new respiratory piece. Certainly, this is the way we set up every clinic around the world when we're worried about TB and TB transmission. QUESTION: Dr. Birx, I'm if you could comment on the new measures that Britain has put into place? Also, Germany has said it doesn't want to have crowds of less than two people except for families, which is a pretty restrictive number. Does that inform your thinking as you are coming up with advice for this next period for the president and the vice president? BIRX: The president and vice president have asked us to look at every single scenario in every single country, because the more data we have the more our decisions can be completely data informed and really understanding what impact that has. I mean, we're interested right now--I mean, Italy obviously waited until about March 7th. The virus had been circulating for almost 4 weeks before actually going into that methodology. But for the first time, it looks like their number--their mortality rates are starting to decline, which would be an illustration that things that they did to in three weeks ago they actually have an impact. Those are the kinds of data we're looking at very carefully, as well as very careful data within the United States of exactly where the viruses, what's the attack rate, has it moved out of its more confined geography, and really looking at each of those pieces of information. It's a lot of data to go through in that-- QUESTION: --Will you make a survey of Britain's moves? 19:23:33 BIRX: Well, I think if you remember, just a week ago Britain had a very different approach. So, everybody is adapting to their data. I haven't looked at the data that informed that decision, so I can't really comment on how they got to that decision there or in Germany. QUESTION: Dr. Birx, just to be clear, do you agree with the president's push to reopen the country? He said some of his doctors that he's talking to about this, he says I think they're okay with it. Are you okay with that? BIRX: What the president has asked us to do is to assemble all the data and get us--give--give him our best medical recommendation based at all the data. That's what he's asked us to do. And so, that's what will be doing this week. We were going to have to do it this week anyway, because-- TRUMP: --Yeah, do it anyway-- BIRX: --We had to a decision come Monday about the 15 days to reduce social spread. So, this is consistent with our mandate to really use every piece of information that we can in order to give the president our opinion that's backed up by data, not our perception, but our opinion that's backed up by data. QUESTION: Dr. Birx, do now you think you could in a week? Like, what would your assessment be right now looking forward? BIRX: Well, we're--we're pulling all of the data pieces in now, and that's really critical. I don't like to--I will never speculate on data. I will have to see the data in order to really understand it. TRUMP: And--and I think a big factor is the mortality rate. We're talking about the mortality rate. You know, when we first started, people were speaking about 3 percent and 4 percent, and now we're talking about a much lower number than that. I think it's a-- QUESTION: --What is the number-- TRUMP: --I think it's a number that will be a lot different than people thought. QUESTION: What is it? BIRX: The mortality rate is driven almost exclusively, as we have talked about, by people with pre-existing conditions and older. So, that has become--from the very beginning, that was our emphasis. You know when we started two or three weeks ago talking with one another, our focus has been on how do we protect those with pre-existing conditions and the elderly. And I think these steps were about protecting with pre-existing conditions. So, the whole key to changing the mortality rates is not just the hospital care, but preventing them from going into the hospital to begin with, because you-- BIRX: you don't need--wanted to be infected. QUESTION: (INAUDIBLE) TRUMP: It's much lower than we originally thought. I mean, frankly. BIRX: Yes. TRUMP: It's a lot lower. QUESTION: Do you have an estimate? Do you have a number? BIRX: Well, you know what the estimate in Wuhan was originally. It was over three percent. When they looked outside of Wuhan, it was about .7 percent. It depends very much--in South Korea it was about .7, .8 percent. But I don't want--that's like a tyranny of averages and I, you know, that's not having--that's probably missing 50, 60 percent of the data because no one was testing asymptomatics. Remember, in every country, you had to be symptomatic to get a test. So we, you know, we're making case vitality rates when we're missing a significant part of the data. So if anything, it will go lower. But I don't want it--people--that should not be reassuring because the death rates escalate with age and pre-existing conditions. So I really want to be clear that although it may be very low if you're under 40 or very low if you're under 50 and very low if you're under 70, there is an inflection curve. There are people--the average age of the persons dying in Italy is in the mid 80s. So there is really a significant issue in our older generation that we feel strongly about protecting. TRUMP: Doctor, the--the--just because it's just very interesting, the whole thing, it's an incredible subject, when somebody is very sick, they go to a doctor, go to a hospital, they recorded, they're very sick, and then they live or they don't live, we'll see what happens. But when somebody isn't very sick at all, I've heard people that they don't even know they had it, and their healing. And then I've heard people they have like a cold or they have a runny nose or even people that stay home and they think they have the flu or, in some cases, they think they have a really bad case of the flu, but all of those people, that vast majority of, I mean, beyond that vast majority of people, they're not reporting. They're not calling the doctor. BIRX: Correct. TRUMP: They're not calling it. They're just getting better. So you would think it would have to be because the people that are sick or going to a doctor or they're going someplace and are going to say make me better. The people that are just short of that and people that aren't even, I mean, you have many people where they literally don't even know that they have it. So now you're building up the number of cases that we talked about before and yet--so you don't know anyone--you don't know how many-- QUESTION: (--INAUDIBLE--) TRUMP: --It could be a vast number, but what you do know is all the people that are really sick because all of the people that are really sick are going to a doctor in some form and the doctor is reporting it. In all cases. So I think the number is much lower. BIRX: But that's why your question about the antibody test is so critical because that will give us really ate much better baseline to really understand. QUESTION: So Mr. President, when you talk about how it can be a much bigger problem, you said that it has several stages on whether or not we keep these--these guidelines in place, talked about higher death. Are you--are you talking about suicide, like help us understand the-- TRUMP: --I'm talking about-- QUESTION: --Is--it is the risk--is that risk here a depression? Is that what you're are getting out? 19:28:47 TRUMP: We're talking about tremendous--look, number one, is the country itself. You're talking about tremendous disruption economically. But you're talking about massive depression, massive numbers of suicide -- QUESTION: --Economic depression? TRUMP: No, I'm talking--no, I'm not talking about economic, although you could be talking about that to-- QUESTION: --So you could be talking about economic destruction depression-- TRUMP: --What I'm talking about is people suffering massive depression because they had a fantastic job and now they have no idea, you know, what's going on. Now, here's the good news. If they get the bill passed, we are taking care of those people. We're going to really take good care of those people beyond what any country has done for people. But there's never been anything like this. No, I'm talking about where people suffered massive depression, where people commit suicide, were tremendous that happens. Now, in addition to that, were talking about economic it could take years and years to recover and the longer you stay out, the harder it is to recover. I happen to think that you're going to have, they call it the V. I think you're going to have very big bounce, you know, very big bounce back. I think it's going to be very big. We'll see. QUESTION: If you get the bill passed. TRUMP: Well, I think the bill should pass, it should pass quickly-- QUESTION: --And you're--and you're confident-- TRUMP: --Take care of our workers, take care of the companies that--that pay those workers, held its companies over this rough patch, but the longer it takes, the harder it is to come back. I'd like to be able to bounce back to where we were and ultimately, I think, were going to be even further than that. But I'm just saying that the--the--what's happening when I say the cure, and the cure could be worse than the problem itself, right, that's what--we can't let that happen. We can't let that happen. We've learned so much and some of the good things are going to happen for our country. We can't let this continue to go on. So what we're doing is we're meeting with the doctors. Dr. Fauci, Dr. Birx, and others, and we are--we've already started the discussion. And I can say that, you know, I'm a student like your students. We're all learning this together. I learned a lot from Deborah. I learned a lot from Tony, I learned a lot from a lot of people that this is--this has been their life's work. I've learned a lot. We're going to come up with a date and were going to do two things. We can do two things at one time. At the same time, we're going to be very vigilant. We're going to be so vigilant in terms of all of the things that we have to do that we been talking about for the last two weeks ad nauseum. And I think it's going to be ultimately a far better solution for our country. Yeah, please, go ahead. QUESTION: Can I ask what advice is Dr. Fauci-- TRUMP: Deborah, why don't you go back and you--we want her to go back to work immediately. Thank you. Great job. Thank you, Deborah. QUESTION: Dr. Birx, can I have one more question? TRUMP: Yeah. Deborah. Come on. They won't let you go. QUESTION: So there's still one week left to go in 15 days to slow the spread. It doesn't talk of reopening the government quickly undermine that? I mean, why would anyone today still social distance or not run out to see (INAUDIBLE) BIRX: Actually, it should reinforce it because of people know that we are considering and trying to understand the impact and the good work that they have done, I think it reinforces them to do good work for the next whatever it is days, weeks in the future because it says to them we're looking very carefully at the impact that the work that you did, the selflessness that you brought to this, the ability to stay home with your fabulous children, your ability to social distance, the ability to give up on going to restaurants and just having take-out, all of the sacrifices, the ability of your protecting our elder generation, the greatest generation, and making sure they're safe in their nursing homes but not seeing them, all of us have made sacrifices. I haven't seen my grandchildren in three weeks. I know other people are like that that they have really made those personal sacrifices. What we are asking every American to do is to make those personal sacrifices for these next week and now so that we can evaluate the impact of that sacrifice. So I think if anything, it strengthens the willpower to say yes, I can do this. TRUMP: Thank you. Thank you. QUESTION: Mr. President-- QUESTION: So first, where is Dr. Fauci today-- TRUMP: --Go ahead, please. Go ahead, we'll--one second. Please. QUESTION: Sir, one thing some public health officials have said would be helpful is to open back up the ACA exchanges so that people who are worried about perhaps getting treatment could go sign up for insurance now, even though the open enrollment period is open. That something you can do with the-- 19:33:33 TRUMP: --Well, it is. It's something we're talking to a lot of people about. We'll see what happens. But were talking to people about it. Go ahead, please. QUESTION: Where is Dr. Fauci right now? Why is he not in this briefing? Will he attend future ones? And-- TRUMP: --Well he just--I was just with him for a long time and-- PENCE: --He was at the task force. 19:33:44 TRUMP: Oh, he's at the task force meeting right now. We have a task force meeting. He was there. QUESTION: Does--does he agree with you about the need to reopen the economy soon? TRUMP: Well, he doesn't not agree. We had a long talk and he understands it's tremendous--there's a tremendous cost to our country both in terms of lives in a terms of economics and in terms of many, many years of rebuilding something that was fine tuned machine. It was nobody's fault, it just happened. This horrible virus came from wherever and it just happened. It just happened. He fully understands that. No, he's a good man. I like Dr. Fauci a lot, just so you understand. No, he's not here because we really weren't discussing what he's best at but he'll be back up very soon. Yeah, please. And we'll be discussing dates and times with him and we are talking about--I don't want to use the word abbreviated because so much has been gained by what we've done. We we're talking about not during the period, you know, during the 14 or 15 days, but not to until long after that. QUESTION: Mr. President-- TRUMP: --Which I think is going to make a lot of people happy. It's going to make a lot of companies happy. It's going to make a lot of workers happy yeah, John. QUESTION: Mr. President, so ultimately, will you take Dr. Fauci's recommendation on this or are you thinking he's just looking at one set of influence? TRUMP: I would certainly--he's very important to me and I would--I will be listening to him. I will be listening to Deborah, who you just spoke to. I'll be listening to other experts. We have a lot of people that are very good at this. And ultimately, it's a balancing act. But you know, the expression, we can do two things at one time and we got an incredible country. We have to keep it that way. And that includes not just economics. That also includes life and death. We have to keep it that way. QUESTION: Mr. President, on the social distancing-- TRUMP: --I'll get you in a second. QUESTION: You're talking about social distancing amongst us reporters and you mentioned that one of our own has come down or potentially come down. TRUMP: Yes. Even if someone does come down at a White House press corps would you pledge to the American people that you will keep this room open? We are clearly 6 feet apart? 19:35:58 TRUMP: Well, I have gotten to like this room. This room is very convenient. I can save from the standpoint of being President of the United States I really--this has been a very convenient room for all of us. You people have set up so I never even thought of closing it so you are asking me a question that I had never thought in terms of closing it. Can you give me a good reason to close it? We could build a larger (INAUDIBLE). QUESTION: (INAUDIBLE) the opportunity to-- TRUMP: I don't want to make commitments like that because it's you know not something I have ever really thought about. There are certain people that would like to see a larger room built. We need a larger room. Other presidents didn't need such a large room but we need a larger room and there are some people but it's not something that is really on my mind to be honest with you. Yes, please. QUESTION: All right. So quarter to we know it's going to be brutal. Are you listening to? Where is the brain trust to help us get us through that period? And also has your opinion of the-- TRUMP: Which.? QUESTION: Quarter two, the second quarter. J.P. Morgan--Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, they are all predicting a pretty dire second quarter so who are you listening to? Where is the brain trust? You have all of these medical advisors-- 19:37:04 TRUMP: I think we are listening to many people. I mean that was my world. I know many of those people. I have many people that are friends of mine, some enemies also by the way but you know it's been a good world for me. I like that world. I like those people. They are tough and they are smart but I listened to many of them. Ultimately they all go into that computer and I say this is what we are going to do. I have to make a decision. This is a very important man right here to my right, our great vice president because he's got a great instinct about things to so I'm going to be listening to Mike. He has had it up the task force I think brilliantly. I think it is going to go down as that because he's really done a job. He has been not only has he been good, he has been soothing. He has really been great for the American public to watch and I mean that and I mean that in the most positive way. There is a solidity with Mike that you don't find in many people. He has been soothing, he has been good for the American public. They have confidence in him. I think he has done an incredible job and his advice is very, very important to me so he's going to be making--I mean he didn't come from that world, the world of finance but he understands the world of finance. He was a great governor in Indiana. They did very well financially two. QUESTION: So you won't give us even one name of someone else you are listening to? TRUMP: Well, I--I could give you a whole list and we will probably even set up committees. I would rather not give you one because then I am going to leave out--I have spoken to so many people and I am-- QUESTION: You have turned on the spigot today. TRUMP: What? QUESTION: Are you happier with the Fed now that he has turned on the spigot? 19:38:30 TRUMP: I am happy with him. Yes. I think he has--I really think he has caught up and he has done the right thing and I think ultimately we will be reworded because of the decision he made over the last--he has really stepped up over the last week and I have to tell you I called him today and I said Jerome, good job. You really did it. QUESTION: Is that the first time? TRUMP: A really did it. It might be. He was you know a little bit slower than I would have liked in the sense of what he was doing. Now other people might have liked it better today I called up Jerome Powell and I said Jerome, you have done a really good job. I was proud of him. That took courage and ultimately you are going to see the fruits--now he's not finished. I mean he's got other arrows in the quiver or whatever they say. I will tell you he's got plenty of arrows but no, I am very happy with the job he did. QUESTION: Mr. President-- TRUMP: Go ahead. QUESTION: Mr. Vice President you said that you would bring in the Secretary of education here either yesterday or today. Why is that she here today and can we expect her this week? Also yesterday you said you would have some guidance for us on people who had potentially been exposed to the virus returning to work sooner. (INAUDIBLE) that guidance? 19:39:37 PENCE: Yes. Thank you for the question. I spoke to the Secretary of education today and we are going to have her at the podium very soon. The department of education has created a very easy waiver application for every state. It is virtually an automatic application for states that want to be excused from national standardized testing requirements. We reviewed that with all of the governors today and also what is called distance learning, the accreditation process for higher education the Secretary of Education at the president's urging has--has loosened the rules around distance learning. You are seeing many colleges and universities embracing distance learning, now putting it into practice. We have allowed for that but also the department of education is setting up a website and best practices information for K-12 distance learning and she actually told me that the state of Florida and New Hampshire are really setting the pace on distance learning for K 12. My wife is an elementary school teacher. Obv iously there is different - make different challenges for distance learning for K-12 students particularly younger kids but the department of education is determined to continue to make those best practices available. We talked about the website that is being built and she will be coming and--and making a presentation on that because as the president reflected a little bit ago as Dr. Birx did we--we understand there's a lot of kids out of school but parents are anxious, a lot of kids out of college and university like my daughter who has been dismissed from our remains of this semester of grad school but is still doing the work and the Department of Education is working earnestly to make that--make that a reality. QUESTION: See her this week? PENCE: I'm sorry? QUESTION: We will see her this week? PENCE: Yes. I will have her here this week. She--I mean given the issues that we were dealing with today and with the Attorney General we thought it might be just as timely in a few days. With regards to the guidance that you ask him about the president's Coronavirus Task Force is in the process of reviewing recommendations from CDC. We are working with the Department of Homeland Security. We will be bringing those to the president as recommendations of approval. We are specifically looking at people that work in critical infrastructure, people in law enforcement, people in critical transportation. You can go right now to the Department of Homeland Security's website for a very useful definition of critical infrastructure and if you look at the second page of 15 days to slow the spread you will see the president's recommendation for this 15 days is for people to stay home from work whenever possible except for people working in critical infrastructure and the guidance that we are looking forward to unpa cking is how people who may have come into contact with someone that test positive for coronavirus would be able to--if they have no symptoms would be able to return to work, wear a mask for a certain period of time that otherwise go back to business. It is a focus on critical infrastructure jobs. We should have that guidance before the president and before the public tomorrow. QUESTION: Mr. President we have understandably a patchwork of-- 19:43:12 TRUMP: By the way I just want to say while I am thinking about it China has very much stepped up as you probably know the agricultural purchases from our farmers and some other purchases too. So they have a difficult time also right now but they very much stepped up their purchases and significantly so we are very happy about that. The other thing you know I am standing here in this case with our vice president trying to let you ask anything you want having to do with the subject which frankly is pretty much all anyone cares about right now but because I think it's very important. I don't want to stand here for two hours and do this but I think it's important that you know I call it get it out of your system, give us any question about it because I think it is important for the public to know so we don't want to answer two questions and leave. We want to answer your questions. That is why we are doing this for so long and I think it gives our country confidence and it gives I think we are giving you kno w we are all gaining knowledge. This has been an unbelievable process but we are all getting so I want to you know stay here. Sometimes we are here for two hours and we are answering questions. At least you will say that I am very transparent. I think you are going to have a hard time saying he is not transparent but we--we take a lot of questions from you, unfortunately some of them are repetitive and some of them are fantastic questions. Some of these questions are great. Some of the questions lead to us solving a problem. You--you bring up problems that people didn't know existed but I just want to let you know so we are doing this so that we can be transparent so that we can get everything out. Yeah, go ahead please. QUESTION: Mr. President we have a patchwork of plans understandably at the moment. Are you coordinating an economic response with the leaders of the G-7 at the moment? TRUMP: Yes. QUESTION: You are? 19:45:00 TRUMP: We are very, very close to them. We had a couple of great talks plus a speak--I have spoken to a number of them individually. Yeah, we are very, very closely aligned. Please? QUESTION: (INAUDIBLE) two questions. One for the vice president real quickly and then one for you. Vice President Pence we were talking about those self-swab test. When will those be unavailable? They said this week but do you know which day and do you know where they are going? 19:45:22 PENCE: The FDA just announced that decision and my understanding is that they will be now going directly to market. I will have a good estimate for you on--on timeline but what the president has charged us to do the task forces to promote as much creativity and as much innovation as possible and frankly Dr. Hahn as the president said PENCE: the FDA has done a remarkable job going through the review and approval process for these new methodologies, real--really in record--record time. We reflected a little bit ago about the fact that we're--we're pretty sure we set a record. I think it was 62 days to be in--in the phase one clinical trials of a vaccine that's actually in clinical trials today. But this--this--this new approval, from a--a study done by United Health Group and the Gates group means that now self-collected nasal swabs will become available. We're going to be working through FEMA with governors around the country to make sure and distribute those--those methods as well as the swabs or any other supporting material and get those into this vast array of labs that are now stood up around the country. TRUMP: That's going to make a big difference too, because that really is a process that's easy, as opposed to the current process, which is not--as I have said, it's not pleasant. QUESTION: And then just my other question for you, I just want to get clarity on this. If we get to next week, we're deciding--or you're deciding what to do these guidelines, whether to ease them or reinstate them for another 15 days, will you follow the advice of Dr. Birx and Dr. Fauci if they say you should maintain them for two more weeks? TRUMP: And others, yeah. And then ultimately I have to make a decision. But I certainly listen to them. I listen to a number of people. I have a lot of respect for Dr. Fauci and for Dr. Birx, and I'll be listening to them and others that we have that are really doing good job. John? QUESTION: But are you worried that if you do this too quickly, if you lift these restrictions to quickly, the virus will start spreading unabated? And--and how can you be sure that that's not going to happen? TRUMP: Well, you know, we have now a system and the system's in place. And we have two very, very powerful alternatives that we have to take into consideration. As I said, one of the things that has really got me thinking about this, number one, I'm looking at what's going on. And, you know, it's--life is fragile and economies are fragile. But one of the things is the mortality rate, John. When we first started this, nobody knew anything about this particular virus, very, very little. I mean, we started off--we were hearing numbers of 5 percent. That would--that's an astronomical number when the flu is .001 and .002 and .003, right? And so, 5 percent would be an astronomical number. Now we're seeing numbers that may be less than one, and that's not including the exercise that I just went through where many people don't report. So, everybody getting very sick is reporting, but nobody getting, you know, not very sick, and that should be part of that equation. So, that just keeps reducing the number. So, the mortality rate is a--you know, it's a big--to me, that's a very big factor. When we were hearing 3 percent and 4 percent--remember we had one day where we thought it was 5 percent and we were getting a lot of bad numbers from countries that--I don't know why, but we were getting a lot of bad numbers. I do wish--again, our relationship's very good with China, but I wish they could've told us about this a little bit sooner. You know that. But the mortality rate's a big thing for me because I think we're very substantially under 1 percent now. That's--that's--it's still terrible. It's still--the whole thing--the whole concept of death is terrible, but there's a tremendous difference between something under 1 percent and 4 percent or 5 percent or even 3 percent. So, that's something that we're learning now, and I think the number may be lower than people think because of what I've been saying. Yeah, please. QUESTION: Mr. President, have you instructed Secretary Mnuchin and the others working on this bill with Congress to meet some of the demands the Democrats have made with regard to-- TRUMP: --Well, I thought we had a deal last night, and then the Democrats change the deal. So, we had a deal last night that was going to be phenomenal for the workers, which is my number one--my number one aim. I want to take care of the workers. And we had a deal--I was pretty sure we had a deal last night. If you would've told me at a certain time, like about 9:00, I would've told you we pretty much have a deal. And then all of a sudden it changed, changed fairly rapidly. And, you know, it was unacceptable. It would've been bad for a country. And they were asking for things that would have not been good, I mean, things that--that bore no relationship to what we're talking about. We said that's not the game. We can't play that game. So, we'll see. 19:50:15 Look, the Democrats do want to make a deal, but, Jeff, I thought we had a deal last night. QUESTION: And if--if you come further into this process weeks or months from now and decide that further stimulus is needed, will you be able to work with Speaker Pelosi on that? TRUMP: I'll--I'll work with anybody to help the American people. I will. I don't care who it is. I work with anybody if I feel I'm going to help the American people and the American worker. Yeah, please. QUESTION: Mr. President, some states are still reporting a shortage of materials needed to actually process the tests. So, what is the administration doing to get all the states the materials that they need? TRUMP: Well, you just saw the admiral and you just saw the FEMA people and you just saw the Army Corps of Engineers. And, you know, we're building hospitals in a New York, in California, the state of Washington and New Jersey. I just made a commitment to Phil that we're going to help him out with some of the areas in New Jersey, which is very important, great state. So, we're a--we're doing a great job, and--and we're there to help the governors. But, you know, the governors are in the front line and they can do some of it themselves. Governor Cuomo, he's been working very hard and he--he worked with me on the hospitals and medical centers because it's not just hospitals. It's called hospital, and another is medical centers, of which we're building numerous for New York. And we have it all laid out. We have Javits Center and then we have other locations throughout the state. And I think it's really a great plan. And we're going to have FEMA and the Army Corps of Engineers involved. And I worked with them, you know--you know we're building a wall. We're up to over 150 miles of wall on our southern border, which is now turning out to be even more important than we originally thought, but I always thought it was very important, having borders. And so, I'm working with--I'm working with the Army Corps of Engineers. And I see what they do and how they do it, and that's what--that used to be my business and I know it very well. And they're very professional. They're really good. So, you're going to see a lot of good things happening in many states beyond the states I just mentioned, in many states. We're working with Governor Ron DeSantis in Florida. We're working with Governor McMaster, right, in South Carolina, where they have a little bit of a breakout, not by comparison but a little bit. We're working with many, many governors in many, many states, actually states where you almost with think that they have it under pretty good control and they've done a great job. But we're working with many states, and that's primarily FEMA and the Army Corps of Engineers. QUESTION: Mr. President? TRUMP: And they're capable of doing it. QUESTION: Mr. President, back to the stimulus. Can I ask a question on behalf of my radio pool colleague, Tamara Keith, from NPR? TRUMP: Sure. QUESTION: She asked me to ask this to you. TRUMP: Sure. QUESTION: You just mentioned that there were some things last night that were unacceptable, which would've been bad for the country, that the Democrats were bringing into the stimulus conversation. Her question was what provisions would you absolutely not support in this plan right now? 19:53:10 TRUMP: Well, a lot of the provisions that they wanted, like stock buybacks, I agree with that. That's good with me. I mean, I--I don't like them buying back stock. I like them spending money on airplanes and on their employees and their real business, not buying back stock. And I don't know that provision is going to be put in one where the other, but I'm all for it. And many Republicans, I can tell you, are for it, and I think many Democrats are for it. But they were putting that out like it was a problem last night; not a problem for me, I can tell you that. Please. QUESTION: And one more from Tamara. She also wanted to know how much would you want--the cash relief directly for Americans, what number would you like to see? TRUMP: Well, I think what you're talking about right now is at least $3,000 per family of four. Isn't that correct, $3,000 for a family of four, which is--which is bold. And if this continued, we have to build this up. And if this continued, we'll do something else and we'll do more at a later date. But that's a big--that's a big number. If you remember, they were talking about $500 and $600, and we are all for that $3,000. It's $3,000--as of this moment, it's $3,000 for a family of four. Please go ahead. QUESTION: When you're looking at some of the economic headwinds that we're facing, I'm wondering if one of the things you're concerned about is the strength of the dollar, and if there's something that we should do to address that in putting possible-- TRUMP: --Well, we have a very strong dollar. And, you know, strong dollar is good in many ways, but it's also type in many ways because it makes trade much harder. It makes it much harder for Caterpillar tractor and other companies to sell their goods to Europe or China or wherever they may be sold. So, having a strong dollar is good, but--it really sounds good, but the truth is it makes certain things like trade much tougher. And our dollar--I don't know if you've seen, but our dollar has remained very strong, especially against other currencies, very, very strong, which, again, makes that trading more difficult. But there's something nice about having a strong dollar, right? You know, no matter what, I'm president, it's nice to have a strong dollar, but it does make trading more difficult. QUESTION: Just to go back to stimulus, you're confident you're going to get a deal? 19:55:13 TRUMP: Well, I think the Democrats want a deal and I think we want a deal. So, it would be very foolish if they didn't make a deal. The American public is demanding it. I can tell you the Republicans want to make a deal, and we want to make a deal that's good for the workers, good for the country. And I really believe the Democrats want to make a deal, but they have to stop asking for things that bear no relationship to what we're talking about. QUESTION: You've had a lot of laudatory things to say-- TRUMP: --That are actually bad--that are actually not good for the country. QUESTION: You've been very laudatory of Democratic governors. Governor--you know, you mentioned Governor Cuomo. You--you mentioned some others. TRUMP: Yeah. QUESTION: If you get a stimulus bill, I'm wondering if you'll extend this bipartisan goodwill to Speaker Pelosi and invite her here for a signing ceremony. TRUMP: Well, let's see what happens. I--have to see what happens. Right now, we don't have a deal, but I think we're very close. I made, when we left, which was quite a while ago now, because again, we're trying to answer every question so there's no--it be nice if you were just exhausted and said that's it, we can't do anymore, but there's always hands up. But--and maybe one of those questions is great and unique, but no, look, I want--I want what's good for the country and if that means meeting, I think that's great. I just want what's good for the country, great for our workers, great for the citizens of the United States. That's all--it's pretty-- QUESTION: --When was the last time you've spoken with Pelosi? TRUMP: Well, it's--it's been a little while. Yeah, please. QUESTION: Both you and the vice president have been tested for the virus. Also, Mrs. Pence. Has the first lady been tested? 19:56:37 TRUMP: Yes. QUESTION: And? TRUMP: She's great. She's fine. QUESTION: Negative? TRUMP: Negative, yes. Okay? Negative. QUESTION: One of the sticking points on the stimulus, who's going to hold Treasury accountable for this 500 billion$500 billion corporate rescue fund? TRUMP: Well, you need that to help all of these companies have a chance of not being companies anymore and that's going to be a big good thing for the country because deals will be made and we are talking to certain people. Some of the greatest people in the history of Wall Street, frankly, where when they do a deal, we'll have stock for the best for America, we'll take back stock for the United States, will--at the same time, most importantly, will keep those companies healthy. But we can also make incredible deals for the country so that that number will increase exponentially. I mean that's a great thing. QUESTION: But the concern about the fund is about the lack of oversight for Treasury having this unilateral authority to dole out all of this money. TRUMP: Well, look, I'll be the oversight. I'll be the oversight. We're going to make good deals. We make good deals. But these companies need it. Even if it was just a simple loan, which would be, but we can do better than that. And that companies are willing to do better than that. I mean, they got hit. Most of these companies, it was through no fault of their own. There are a couple where it was, you know, they were troubled before they came in. We talked about one. It had trouble. Nobody can believe it, actually, and that one. But these companies are, through no fault of their own, they have difficulty. I mean, two weeks ago, these companies were among the most solid institutions in the world. You want to buy their bonds, their bonds were rated AAA or whatever their highest rating is today. And now, all of a sudden, they have difficulty because they been closed up. So you need something to keep them going. But that money is not going to be wasted money. That money is going to be seen, and we can multiply that number by many times coming back to the American public. That could be a phenomenal thing. But most importantly, it's going to keep these great engines of jobs and ingenuity going. Very important. Yeah, how about one or two more and then we'll go. Go ahead, please and then John. QUESTION: Thank you, sir. Are the things you regret in the way you handled the crisis so far? Are there words you regret? 19:58:55 TRUMP: I don't think so. You know, I'm looking forward. I don't look back. I guess there's always something everybody regrets. There are things in your life you regret. We all regret things, but I really like to look forward. I'm a person that looks forward thinker I guess they would say. No, I think that we've handled it really well. It seems to me the American public thinks that we've handled it well if you look at polling data. But I'm not interested in myself. I'm interested in the American people. We have to get this going. We have millions and millions of jobs that were solid as a rock three weeks ago and today, there can be questions. And the faster we get going, the more likely it is that those stores, little businesses, big businesses, medium-size businesses open up. And we'll get it going very fast. I really believe this is a pent up demand. I think that as soon as we say let's go, and it's going to be pretty soon, it's going to be pretty soon, it's going to be sooner than people would think, with we've--again, we are in a position to take care of our country, but at the same time, to have the country really--really go up like a rocket ship economically. And that's great for jobs. It's great for everything else. Yeah, please. QUESTION: Mr. President, I'd like to ask a question for a colleague who can't be in the room because of social distancing. TRUMP: For who? QUESTION: A colleague who can't be in the room because of our social distancing about Florida. He wanted me to ask should Governor DeSantis have closed all of the beaches in his state? TRUMP: Well, that's really up to the governor. I mean, I think that, first of all, he is a great governor. He's done an incredible job. Governor DeSantis of Florida. And on the beaches, I guess he's recently made a decision, but you do have a lot of room on the beaches and, you know, I think it's just a decision that he made originally and then he's refined it and he's done something that a lot of people agree with what he's done. But he's done a lot of things right and he's been truly--he cares so much about the cost of prescription drugs. He's been a fantastic government for Florida. They're very happy with him. The whole concept of the beach is a very interesting issue. There are a lot of open spaces. That includes parks and other things. But rather than relying on social distancing, they're probably going to do that one a different way. But I would imagine when we make our decision, things like that would be opened up. And then people will remember what they're supposed to be doing. But I want to thank everybody very much and we'll see you tomorrow sometime and we'll get this going I think really well. 20:01:24 Thank you all very much. Appreciate it. QUESTION: (INAUDIBLE) TRUMP: We'll do it tomorrow.