I like to welcome governor john hickle and hickenlooper. You have a ritual with your cell phone. [applause] to worry about your next job, people who are not focused on finishing what they started. Have seenr, you education for a variety of perspectives. President barack obama. The finald to move event to a bigger is person, who is kind of calls up and says, i think it was 12 days before his acceptance speech and says we are going to go to the pepsi center, but is it possible to move it a half a mile south to the stadium the Mile High Stadium . Give the idea that the number of , people you have to move coast to coast. This is a moment where the country came together, for hope and change. The mistake we have made right now, we have tried to allte a onesize fits solution. People are so, they look in with their childrens education, this is part of their intimate life. Its a question they care about more than almost anything else in their daily routine. Ive been here for wild there. I thought that longer school years was the answer. I think theres probably a lot of answers, but if think more got to engagee School Districts, especially have them, hugo, feeling that they are part of the discussion and they own the decision. One thing we have seen in colorado again and again. Iran for mayor in 2003 when i ran for mayor in 2003, id i never ran for anything, promised, i had a young man volunteer on the campaign by the name of michael bennet. Now governor bennett. Should say if you get elected, unlike other School Districts for the mayor and superintendent never talk to each other, it will be the first city where i will visit every Public School in my first four years. I said i would do it. Later he would say maybe if you have been better stops, someone would have pointed out there are 161 schools. I went to a school every week for four years. Michael, two years later became the superintendent of schools, and played i think a staggeringly Important Role in transforming Public Schools. That process of meeting all those teachers, all those parents, thats where you visit the classrooms. It really drove home the fact that everybody has the same its amazing. Everybody loves their school, they felt the Overall School system was failing. Obviously, thats possible. There are schools that are failing. What do you think we should do for students . Good model, though there is a less successful format statewide. If you have a school, youve got to be willing to step up and try to provide the tools for a massive change over. In some schools, the culture is so bad you need to close the school, clean it out, and reopen it. That in many cases has been proven successful. Michael bennet was superintendent for three years and started that. This person has been that for a most years. You see the outcomes in the last decade. Public schools have reduce their dropout rate by 70 . A lot of that is taking Failing Schools, getting them a Failing School doesnt engage their kids. The kids cant wait to drop out. When you have a better System School system, you have a much lower dropout rate. These teachers, so many of them are buying supplies with their own money. Governor 2 Governor Cooper was talking about how much time they spend out of the classroom preparing. Barbara, mike barbara was a first grade teacher, our ceo was a special Education Teacher in wisconsin. As you are visiting those 161, right . Gov. Hickenlooper backgov. Hickenlooper then. Now there are 190. Host tell us about a classroom that was memorable, a school that was different different, a principal or teacher who somehow found something that worked and cracked the code. Gov. Hickenlooper well, and again i could i could spend all morning talking about it, there were so many examples. One of the things i loved most was when local businesses would connect. There was a middle school, they are right behind a large sheet manufacturer cheese manufacturer. They didnt know it, but look preno was constantly finding ways to get them free cheese, food. Then, he started following the kids for middle school as they went through high school, and funding mentors. Wow. Gov. Hickenlooper then, funding them to community college. We have a thing called the denver scholarship foundation. The preno was very helpful. Governor, the company was very helpful. Governor, i want to know about the most successful nonbureaucratic approach to mentoring. If someone wants to help a school in their area, maybe doesnt have the resources of some of their schools, what can you do . Gov. Hickenlooper this is my opinion, and im not a professional. If i were able to wave a magic wand and look at these cloudbased technology companies, if there were a way to get past federal laws about sharing information about kids, is it healthrelated, most hen kidsare not there w need them. When you look at ask risk at atrisk kids, especially when they move. Old,thgrade, 1213 years they move, and low income families are moving all the time, right . All oftentimes, once or twice a year. They moved to a Different School district, that magnifies the risk of dropping out by four times, five times. Huge risk, and yet mentor centers. We have rec all the different, big brother, big sisters. No one has a system by which we connect. All the support for these atrisk kids, theres ottavio way through technology, that when those kids move, everybody gets alerted. In many cases, the kids come into the new schools. They are so busy that no one pays attention to the kid, who often feels like an outsider. They dont have the same social support, friend us. Their parents dont have it at home. If there was some way to do that, i think that would be powerful so that mentors another thing is just to listen to the kids. I once was backstage at something with meryl streep. Aboutar it occasionally the youngest daughter. How is it you were it i asked, how you raise kids that are having normal jobs and lives . I said my husband and i never careers. Every conversation at the dinner table was about their lives, their world, what was going on with them, really trying to listen more deeply. I think thats good advice for mentors as well. T your governor, and people are interested in what you have to say. The white house is part of this National Governors association. What are you going to saint President Trump about his idea of bonuses for teachers who decide to, and are trained for this . Gov. Hickenlooper i think hes heard enough in the last 24 hours. I probably dont need to say anything. When i went to other schools, even back them, people were discussing whether to arm, ever since columbine which was 1999, this has been an issue. I cant remember, ive met a few teachers who thought that was a good idea. Almost every teacher thought it was a terrible idea. They thought it would make schools less safe. Bedrooms toin their protect themselves. Its a very, he would have to train teachers. They would have to train teachers about something they dont want to learn about. Looking forward to talking to President Trump about other things, which i think in terms of gun safety, he wants to and bump stocks. They could raise the age for kids to to own an assault weapon. Thats the first step to making sure that assault weapons are pulled out. This,will tell us about too more on guns. One, said that because of columbine, colorado knows best practices. Its been a topic in your state longer than everywhere. What has colorado learned event . That tragic gov. Hickenlooper so, i think, training nowadays pretty much every. Chool has security certainly, every high school does that im aware of. Most every middle school. I dont think theres a single one thing that makes sense, having everybody train. We see it again and again. , we have failure universal background checks, past in 2014. Checks,ith background even with restraints, security people will make mistakes. Having guns so available to so many people makes the task of safe almostschool impossible. Obviously, we want, we have gone free schools. Thatt think in any way makes them more vulnerable. I dont think the data reflects that. I dont think thats an accurate statement. Host so, you think the proposal from the president is dead on arrival . Gov. Hickenlooper thats a horrible dead on arrival. Thats a horrible phrase. I didnt mean that. I dont think it will have traction. Every republican i know doesnt expect a great solution. Even in the old west, colorado is a representation of the old became as a community more successful, they would make you check your sixgun at the town gate. Dodge city, the idea was to get guns out of the everyday. Ituation our call, peoples emotional makeup, their tempers, whatever, their guns. Of look at the number suicides that are gun related, its probably over 1 2 nationally now. People that want to take their own life, its a of depressioniod or bipolar disorder, a serious event. And, they want to kill themselves. Many times, they cant put their hands on a gun. Data, but its exaggerated more. To thesemore subject emotions. If you can make it harder for them to get their hands on a gun , they can live their whole lives. Ive not heard that before. Driving the analogy to statistics. I think thats a, its a misconception that having guns in your bedroom drawer is going to make it safer. Most people who do that, its not most, but the statistics i follow, you are more likely to. Ave that gun used against you governor of the atlantic didnt article in 2000 2013 that said no single issue affects people more than gun control. Interestingan political state because its the Mountain West and is growing so fast. People are argued before the selection that it was going to nevada, one of the swing states. What have you learned in your experience for minor democrats about how to navigate gun control . Gov. Hickenlooper i think part of the problem is a reflection of the continued divide between the role america and urban suburban america. Its all almost a different facets of what lincoln talked about when he talked about a house divided against to self shall not stand. Weve got to fix it. Anybody who lives in an urban area and thinks they are not the pendant on when where their food comes from is crazy. We dont oftentimes do a good enough job in urban areas going out and getting involved across in rural parts of the state, representing those self interests. They are living, raising cattle, i think weve got a lot of time over the last sixseven years of going to try going out and trying to listen harder. If you want to persuade someone to think about an issue differently, dont tell them why you think they are wrong. Its better to keep asking. Spent 15 years in brewpub if you get people to repeat back what they feel strongly about, ask them questions about their concerns, it almost always makes them think about the issue. It gives them a chance to be heard. Somebecome more open to sort of compromise. I think thats guns longterm, you think about what we end the 1944 pression, 1933, 1934, the submachine gun was invented at the end of world war i world war i. At they topic sold the tommy gun of selfdefense. Bootleggers used tommy guns, machine gun kelly, the st. Valentines day massacre , the American Public had enough. When Franklin Roosevelt became president , he ran on gun safety, getting rid of violent sports. To take away from the modern the take away from the modern Democratic Party is to keep listening gov. Hickenlooper keep listening and allow public sentiment. I think this might well be a Tipping Point. Its been incremental, and now people are going to start with, lets raise the age. Maybe assault weapons should belong in a shooting range and dont need to be, should be used for this. Host for people tweeting along, its a good tweet. Tell us about this Tipping Point. What is it you believe is the Tipping Point . Gov. Hickenlooper i have people in my office in the last few days that are so fed up. A couple of republicans, conservative people are saying enough is enough. Im going to put my dollars against my party, towards electing people that will enact reasonable, thoughtful gun safety measures. That process of having, it stopped being so partisan. Ourselves to be terrorized. If you look at someone in a basement in leningrad, were wanting to hurt america. What better way than to make our children feel that they are unsafe at school and shouldnt go toool, they are school there anxious, they wont learn as well. We are allowing this to be done to ourselves. You been traveling with john kasich, youre are a democrat, hes a republican. Youve had a focus on less partisan issues. What have you learned traveling with a republican . I had dinner with john last night. Much, but i ran for mayor in 2000 three, the first election i ever did, john kasich in 1994 became that share of the senate or house budget committee. Hes been there for so long, and hes a great perspective. Everybody is the same. Doesnt matter whether you are all in it together. Partisanure, im less than most people. Governors are generally less partisan. Kasich is a classic case and point. He is a republican, but he cares more about the country and a state. Partisanship, he is a good republican at least in the old sense about what eating a republican meant. I think the willingness of people to get past partisanship is the only way this country will create legislation. Host a new yorker argued article called you the middleman. Is there a market for the middleman . Gov. Hickenlooper its hard to say. Certainly, at times theres not. We were seeing backstage a lot of anger, the new black. I think theres a real frustration around people. That pushes people towards the extreme. Most Great Solutions come as a result of compromise. Compromise on most always moves you somewhere closer to the middle. Host what are the chance of a buddy picture and of you and government kasich becoming a president ial dickens . Gov. Hickenlooper thats a long shot for couple reasons. One, we both like to joke about it, but our Politics Today whether we like it or not, most of the funding for National Campaigns comes out of people that have a strong tie to one party or the other. They fight relentlessly to support their party can it. There are some people who would fund an independent campaign, but its not the same level he would need to be credible. Sometimes the most symbolic statements are the most powerful. I think kasichs got some more Public Service and him, and i might as well. We will see how that works out host what is it, 352 days . Gov. Hickenlooper 321. [laughter] host 321 days. What is your next act of Public Service . Gov. Hickenlooper we are working on a number of projects. We talked a little bit about back backstage about, two thirds of our kids are never going to get a Fouryear College degree. We tried everything. We are doing an Apprenticeship Program for bankers, insurance topanies, allowing kids their last two years of high school work. They trained in the curriculum, learned in a curriculum that is more successful. Tied that with a partnership of linkedin, microsoft. Its skillful. That skillsbased discussion that every people go through their whole lives, to see what skills they are missing. This is so exciting. I think its going to be a big change and improvement. Ie worry the moment started worrying about what am going to do next, not only do i get distracted, but my cabinet members. We hired a great secretary of education. I think we got 321 days to focus not to say my wife and i dont occasionally have discussions, but we are focused on getting things done. Host how did she feel about your running for president . Gov. Hickenlooper my wife is the Senior Executive for a 75 billion company. She thinks its hilarious. [laughter] just thinks its interesting. We wel willl see what those discussions, where they go. Host you mentioned independent candidate. Do you think an independent candidacy is feasible in america . Gov. Hickenlooper at this moment, not in a way thats viable that we could win. An independent candidacy could have power, in terms of getting statements out. Post last questions. It were to first when you became governor of an american state. You are the first geologist to ever be a governor. And, youre the first print owner the first group were since sam adams 7092 to become a governor. 1792. What did you learn about running a brew press that helps us governor . Gov. Hickenlooper oh, i could go on the most important thing you learn in any restaurant, service industry, there is no margin, profit and having enemies. No matter how unreasonable that person is, keep talking, work it out in whatever way you can. Theres always a tomorrow. And politics, so many of these politicians, these politicians, define themselves by who their enemies are and how they can put them down. Thats never constructive. Host what a treat. Think it very much,