We should have brought three more tables. Expect plenty of food. Not that you will want to jump up right now but please fill your plates before you leave because we have a lot of food. Thank you all for coming. Dallas county democrats will be welcoming quite a few candidates and we really appreciate everyone coming up, meeting the candidates, participating. It is something we are likely to lucky to have here in iowa, meet the candidates and the future president of the United States. [applause] please visit our website. We do keep uptodate with all of that and like us on facebook. That is our push for president ial candidates like amy here we push that on facebook and try to send out emails. So visit our website and like us on facebook. But without further ado, i would like to give the microphone to our senator from up north and president ial candidate amy klobuchar. [applause] thank you, everyone, it is so great to be here. I cant believe you are all here for me its 100 degrees warmer than what i announced. It is great and i hope it looks like we have a lot of food and people enjoying the food. My background with hot dish is established. We have a minnesota delegation hot dish contest every single year. I won the first year and i have lost every year since. It was a lot of fun and it involves some tater tots and pepper jack cheese. In iowa and southern minnesota folklore you would like the fact that it was very popular statewide minnesota but then i started getting emails only from southern minnesota, which reported that you might want to use a different kind of cheese because pepper jack was too spicy. [laughter] nobody from northern minnesota said that. And i want to mention that in addition to that great leadership, we also have shirley from the city council, thank you very much. Thank you for your leadership. She is not from this district but maybe you know her. She was from mason city, cedar rapids. She was the first indianamerican legislator not just in iowa but in the United States of america. We were just meeting, because she told me her incredible story , how did you get involved in politics . Her story is like so many women, her story was that she had kids and was at home, volunteered every day at the school, day after day. Day after day. Then School Started dialing back on the curriculum that would make it harder for kids to get certain degrees and to be able to apply to certain colleges, so she went and talked to the school board. Ok. Thats great. Itll will be very good to mention that our treasurer is here, thank you. There you are. Very good. She goes to the School Board Member and says, this isnt right, she gets all her friends and neighbors to go to the school board, and finally one of them says you think you know what youre doing maybe you should run for school board. And she does and beats one of them. I thoroughly enjoy that story. Then she ends up running for the legislatures and being such a leader. About how we get involved in politics. For me it was when my daughter was born and she was really sick and couldnt swallow. Care, itn intensive was a complete surprise, back then the Insurance Companies kick out in 24 hours and i had been up all night and we didnt know what was wrong and we didnt know if she had a tumor or if she was ever going to survive. They kicked me out of the hospital. After she got a little better i went to the legislature and joined with the mothers and legislators who had had this happen, and we push for one of the first loss in the country guaranteeing new moms 48 hours hospital stay. Youarned a few things if talk about things that make people uncomfortable at the , then they go ok, we will pass it. And the other thing i learned from that is that we went to the Conference Committee and of course they couldnt say they were against this bill but they were trying to delay the implementation behind closed doors. I brought six pregnant friends to the Conference Committee so they outnumbered the lobbyists. With the legislators say winch of this take effect . The lobbyists wanted a year later. The pregnant moms go now. That was exactly what happened. It was a great story for how you got things done. Experience where you feel like you have to take things on, that motivated me to get them into politics. Thatwas the beginning, and brings me to where i am today. I announced on that much colder day by the city, because i wanted to make this point that it is time to cross the river to get to a higher plane in politics. I also wanted to make the point that we are country that comes together, because you never know when you are the next one, if something will go wrong or you need a helping hand. A mile away from that bridge collapsed in the middle of a beautiful summer day. Fall downust doesnt in the middle of america. Nor should we see crumbling infrastructure, nor should we see schools that arent good enough. But that happened in minnesota and there was a bridge right next to our house. What we saw in our community that day, the whole world saw. People not running away from the disaster but running toward it. They saw a firefighter offduty tethering herself to the side of the riverbank, diving in and out, looking for survivors in these mangled cars and trucks. A guy veered off to save the kids and then burned to death in the cab. Or the school bus that was hanging precariously on the guardrail, the School Counselor could have run off and instead he gets every single kid off that bridge to safety. That is what our country is about and that is what this president is trying to fracture every single day. With every single tweet, with every single time he goes after immigrants and people of color, with every time he finds some wedge to divide people just to cement his own base. We know that our country is better than that. We know that iowa is better than that, or they wouldnt have elected the first indianamerican legislature in the country. [applause] to meete that we need the challenges in front of us, and i tried as much as i could to talk about it. It is hard when you only have 60 seconds. But i thought it was important to address those challenges as much as we can, because we have a president right now that is resting on the laurels of all of you. It got us out of that downturn. People and policies that were put in place. When you are in charge of something, whether it is a business or your own family, you dont rest on your laurels, you dont say my kid got a good grade so im not going to worry about anything else. You think about the challenges that are in front of you. Andthink about bigger ideas ways you can help people and improve peoples lives. That is not what hes doing. We have big challenges in front of us. We have an economy were not everyone is sharing in the prosperity. They passed that tax bill you know what that meant for most of us . It meant 1 trillion in debt. Billion about 100 alone to pharmaceutical companies because of the tax breaks. Billion went 150 to people who were storing their money overseas or sending jobs overseas. To me that is the rest of us who are left with nothing. As i said on the debate stage, it was all foam and no beer. They get the beer, we get the foam. That is not what we want in this country. So what do we need to do . We need to make sure we have a fair tax system for everyone that rewards jobs in america and make sure we have the money we need to do these really big things. It means we have shared , it is really that simple. Its about Economic Justice and making sure that people are treated fairly. Thats the first thing. About makinging is sure this economy works for the middle of the country. You look at this president who made a whole bunch of promises the night of the election, we all remember that night. He said he would work on infrastructure. You are trying to find some Silver Lining she hasnt done that. You saw that meeting at the white house where he blows up the meeting because he doesnt know how he will pay for it my first proposal i put out there was for a 1 trillion infrastructure plan clearly paid for by rolling back some of the incredible regressive tax changes he made as well as doing Infrastructure Financing Authority stop but we still havent seen anything from this president. You see rural america, and he was out and i can tell you i will be out like i am right here. I have spent my last decade bridging that urbanrural divide. We have major urban areas in minnesota but we are also one of the top states for agriculture. That is why i go to all 87 counties every single year. Countiesly have some i feel like ive met everyone in the county. There was one county near the Canadian Border where i had visited literally every foundss, and we finally they said theres a new inferno. Called insect i went to see it, it was a bedbug killing operation. All it was was a truck that you went inside and on the side of the truck they put mattresses in it and drove around to kill bedbugs and turn it up to 300 degrees. Inferno that insect we kill bedbugs with heat. They said we will just turn it up to 100 degrees. It was at that moment i thought, this is the true test, not to swear, it is comfortable, but where it is uncomfortable. Rural urbaning that divide means understanding rural america. Its about a strong farm bill im one of the most senior members of the agriculture committee, ive crafted several bills working with your great senator tom harkin when he was the chair of that committee, and yes it is about having a safety net for farmers and making sure you dont get a bunch of oil granting secret oil waivers to shake run an exxon, ruining the renewable fuel standard. Its about all that but it is also a bout economic development. Its about parks like this and small towns. Its about making sure our School System works not just in the big metro areas but in rural america. It means understanding that a critical access hospital could be more important than a big access hospital. We have a bill that is focused on the Emergency Rooms in rural areas, to make sure that works. It is about rural broadband. How are we going to bridge the urban rural divide . Kids cant email their grandma right here in this town if you dont have highspeed internet, and its about rural policy. Theres a Big Coalition to be built here on housing issues. You have urban and rural issues when it comes to the expense of housing, more affordable housing. It is about making sure people understand in the city that food doesnt magically appear on your table. Someone makes it, they produce it. Those are some of the cases we are going to make across the country to the Democratic Party, that i will be making in these debates. Other challenges we have Climate Change. Inn i was talking about this the middle of that winter day, with the snow falling, when i was doing that, the president sent out a tweet and made fun of me were talking about Climate Change in the middle of a blizzard. A few hours later i wrote back, and i said, the science is on my side, donald trump, and id like to see how your hair would fare in a blizzard. By the way, humor is an important thing to use in this president confuses humor all the time. Humor is very important as well as ignoring what he says and having your own optimistic economic agenda. I think it is important to have a voice from the heartland when it comes to Climate Change. We know about the rising sea levels and the people on the coast have a good understanding because they have been seeing it now for years. But for the first time, we are starting to see it in a big way in the middle of the country, whether it is the raging wildfires in colorado and arizona, the tornadoes, or the flooding right here in iowa and nebraska. The woman named fran who i brought is my guest to that debate came from miami. Shes a woman i met in the middle of a sleet storm, with these binoculars around her neck in pacific junction. She looks like a woman of the prairie who has been standing for years and years. She shows me the binoculars and has me look through them and says, thats my house that i bought with my husband, we live there with our fouryearold. We thought we would retire in this house. She says i love the kitchen, i love the way the light comes in the kitchen. She says now i dont know if i will fit in that kitchen again, because the house was half underwater. She says this house is so sturdy that it has stood here for nearly 100 years. There is still horsehair in the plaster. I said as the waters raging by, the river . She says, thats the road. Wheres the river . Its two and a half miles away. The river had never come that close. It had stood there for nearly 100 years. Is not happening in 100 years, it is happening right now. That is why if you are president , unlike donald trump ,ho just came back from the g20 on day one i will sign this back into the international Climate Change agreement. [applause] i will introduce and make sure the rules in the first week that the Obama Administration thought through that were left on the cutting room floor when donald trump came in, that we will put those through, and we can do that without congress. Then introduce sweeping legislation when it comes to Climate Change. Another challenge is health care costs. No one knows better. People to realize the health care costs, the challenges are different when you come to hospitals and providing providers. The answer is to bring premiums down. You can do it quickly with free insurance and costsharing. You can also do it with the public option which is something that i will make sure gets done, it is something president obama wanted to do, and it brings down the cost of people who want to buy into an exchange, which allows them to buy into a public option. The other thing i would do, which is incredibly important, is to take on the pharmaceutical companies. Theyve had an easy time out there. They have two lobbyists for every member of congress and you have a president who claims he will take it on he went on fox news and said im going to bring down the costs so much it will make your head spin. ,ell, it has made our head spin because thousands and thousands of drugs have gone up astronomically since he became president of the United States. We have seen simple drugs like insulin go up to the point where a restaurant general manager in hisesota, when he ages off parents insurance, couldnt and for 1200 per month, had a good job but couldnt afford it. He started rationing his insulin and within a few months he died. That happened in the United States of america for a simple drug like insulin that used to be 18 per vial. This is about taking on pharmaceutical companies in many ways. It is using antitrust law and consumer law because they do it when they have monopoly power. It is about using medicare negotiation. Ive been leaving that bill since i came to the senate, and this is a bill that lifts the nationsat all of the 43 million seniors can get a better deal when it comes to prescription drugs. Its about bringing in less expensive drugs from safe countries like canada. We could see canada from our porch. We see what those praises are. Theres many other things we can do but in the end, i can tell you that for years now i have seen it and that is they think they own washington but they dont own me. [applause] ok. These are the challenges in front of us. I think especially today as we learn that i ran is no closer to developing a nuclear weapon, blowing through the cap when it comes to uranium enrichment when the president got out of the iranian deal, he told us we would get a better deal. And you know what a dealmaker he is. Safenow we are much less then we were when he became president. This was one of the biggest tenants of foreign policy, to stop the Iranian Regime from developing a nuclear weapon. It literally was right up there with one of the top things we had to do. He decides to get out of it and now we are literally as we were a week ago, 10 minutes away from getting involved in the conflict. That happened. You look at what hes done when it has come to other agreements Climate Change, the Nuclear Agreement with russia, they were cheating on that agreement for sure, but what we should have done was worked with allies and tried to reconstitute that agreement instead of getting out of the agreement. I believe we should stand with our allies. I dont believe we should coddle dictators like you did, when he is standing with Vladimir Putin then making jokes about going after journalists, when Vladimir Putin associates himself with poisoning human rights activists and journalists and then when a journalist asks what about the meddling in the election, he makes a joke about it. This isnt a joke. This was an attack on our democracy. Hundreds of thousands of americans are protecting democracy on the battlefield we have veterans right here in Dallas County, we have people that made the ultimate sacrifice for that freedom and he is sitting there with a dictator making jokes about it. We had four little girls in a church in birmingham who died at the height of the civil rights movement, they died because there were people that were standing up for civil rights and for the rights of everyone in this country. This is not a joke you make with love your prudent. I am someone that always looks at the glass half full. Im the happy warrior. Always finding joy in politicking, because i do. I love grassroots politics. I came up through grassroots politics. When we go to all these conventions, i like meeting people and i like talking to people about issues. I think thats how you win. My whole work in Public Service has been about helping people. I said that on the debate sage when we had 45 seconds, to summarize why people should vote for us. My first argument was that my whole career, i have listened to people and gotten things done. Thats why i have been the lead democrat on over 100 bills that have been passed and signed into law. Thats a lot of bills. Ive done it by listening to people we were just talking about drug shortages. The bill for funding for school safety, the bill for doing something about rural cost, rod band. Ive routinely said ive gotten ahead of these issues but the second and most important thing for people right now in our country, whether they are democrat, independent, or moderate republicans is that we have to win. I was laughing on that at that stage with these guys kept saying im the only one on this stage thats done this i felt like im the only one that announced in the middle of a blizzard with four inches of snow on my head. Im the only one with did that. I am the one in this race that won in a purple state, every place, every race, every time. Districts that donald trump got by over 20 points. Time in the state of minnesota, the Congressional District in the west. The Congressional District next to north dakota and south dakota , i have won in the district on the Canadian Border, where my family is from, and you know i stand before you as the granddaughter of an iron or minor, the daughter of the teacher, the first woman elected to the state of minnesota u. S. Senate, and a candidate for president of the United States. [applause] that is because i have listened to people in these counties and i have won, and you can go back to iran for Elementary School counsel, where i abandoned that because my slogan was all the way with amy. Probably wouldnt work. But we need a candidate that doesnt see the midwest as flyover, that understands how important it is for our National Victory and can win in states like iowa and wisconsin and michigan. I was ahead by eight points. Its about making that coalition that you lead a ticket for the entire ticket. Every time i have let the ticket we did well. I see it not just as one office but as the entire ticket. Therest thing about me is have been a lot of promises out there. You heard some of my plans today but i can promise you something that i think is more important than anything else. I will have your back. I will govern with integrity. Something we dont have right now in the white house. I will govern with honesty. I will govern for you. Thank you so much for having me out here. Thank you for finding a place in the shade. [applause] we are really excited. We have a great team, andy mcguire. Here,got lauren, right state director. , jamie where are you . Our political director. Thank you so much, jamie. Is emma here . [inaudible] [laughter] [applause] thank you, everyone. Let me know if you want to do questions or if you just want to eat the potluck. Ok. We did the meet and greets. We will have individual questions and i just want to thank you for being out on this beautiful hot day and look forward to being here many times again. Thanks, everybody. [applause] all right. Ok. There are crush cans lining the picnic table, and when youre done with your garbage, if you could throw that in the trash cans, that would help everyone out. That is such a midwestern thing to say. We have a major announcement about the trash cans. [laughter] 25 years ago later i am here. People cominge back. Thank you for running. My husband and i are down here we are going to do everything we can. I appreciate that. So youve been down here im from walking, nextdoor. Ok, appreciate it. I have in a diabetic, i deal with Blue Cross Blue Shield for 40 years. The shots that i take are over 500. Exactly. And there is no competition. And they mess around and nobody can do anything about it. You could do a trigger. If its going up by so much, you have competition. Heres the great thing, the president can do that without a law. They have the power to order that. You can use that to say, we are having this emergency and we have to bring in bring the prices down. I went back to my doctor asking for something else. Can i get a picture with my wife and i . Ok. There we go. Ok. Here we are. Good. My wife has alzheimers, unfortunately. Good to see you, though. A lot of cameras there. A good husband here. How are you . Good, how are you. Great, thank you. Thanks. Hello. I appreciate everything you are doing, i am glad you are in the race. Appreciate that. Thank you. Thanks for coming. Can we get a picture . [chatter] im from iowa. Number one, i was wondering, what is your position on Climate Change . I have already signed something on that. Are you willing to do a Climate Change debate here in iowa . We have already had several candidates. It would be in the fall. Yes. Yes. Is it already all right. Thank you. [chatter] i live just five miles away. I have started my candidacy, and im glad i could start with you. I am looking at what my insurance would cover. [inaudible] hopefully, we can change that statewide. We think we can change that. And of course, with premiums, to bring down the cost. Yes. Thank you. How are you doing . Glad to meet you. This comes from our democratic county fundraiser. I am a local government teacher. It talks about the rule of law. Thats why you have to have a president you can talk about with the kids. Exactly. There is a big difference between what i teach and what he tells people everyday. How old are they . They are seniors. So they are well aware of the tweets. You want to be able to do a respectful job. Yes. All right. Thank you. Good. Got a registered republican. Thank you. How are you . [inaudible] comprehensive immigration reform, which means that you would have a very a better system, have them apply for asylum in their own country, which was actually a partial policy under the Obama Administration. The Trump Administration reversed it. If you do comprehensive immigration reform, it brings the deficit down by billions of dollars. That revenue can give stability in those economies. One of the problems of the chaos is he has gotten so many people to keep running up there because you dont know when the policy will change. It is no surprise we are suddenly seeing this rush on the border. A lot of it has to do with that. The other thing is that it includes all immigrants. You have 10 of that population right now is asian, 2 million dreamers. It is a path to citizenship. [inaudible] he could have done that. There were plenty of republicans who would go for it in 2013. That would really help. When you pass comprehensive reforms, it gives you finances. In our country, with the finances, you can work on those things in a better way. He is threatening them, and on the wall, 8 billion. And the other thing is he goes after immigrants, it makes people not want to come. We have shortages of workers right now in Nursing Homes and and hospitals. We need more doctors in rural hospitals. There is a program that is named after conrad, so if people graduate from medical school, a United States medical school, instead of making them go back to their country, we use those degrees for our good and underserved areas. Then you allow people to stay on the rugs the density their residency in america. There are a bunch of things we can do that would make a better economy here in iowa and in other states. Thank you. Thank you. Ok. Very good. [inaudible] ok. Ok. Yes, thats my son. You have a nice husband. [laughter] thats true. Thats very true. Hello. How old are you . Your birthday is coming up . How old are you going to be . Thats pretty incredible. Thats a good age. I really appreciate you coming. Your sensibility is why you are my number one choice. That means a lot. You are probably too young to go to the caucuses. Look at that smile. There you go. Appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. You made the comment tonight as these guys stand up, there were the only ones who ever did any of this. I know. It was kind of amusing. But people do what they can. I think it will be important as the debates go on that we do a bunch of other things as well. I never got to do talk about my Mental Health proposal or addiction or infrastructure. Or the tariffs. They are really hurting our farmers. I said the other day, we are taking a cleaver to them. It has been devastating. I was in another city and this woman was crying, saying her husband was having a hard time because its not just the money, it is the farm that has been passed down through generations. There was a soybean framer farmer in minnesota that committed suicide. It is the trio of commodity prices, the weather, and finally this war. There are people on the edge and they dont have much margin. Are specially for a small farmer. Even harder. There are very interesting thoughts on the farm issue. [inaudible] ok. In the early 1950s and the 1960s, the most profitable 1960s, the most profitable farming years. Farm income was . 37 per dollar. Now it is . 15. Right. Ok. Ok. The guy that is helping me on the campaign is great, dave, he was on the National Farmers union. And the ag commissioner on minnesota. They are helping me. Thank you. He was head of the National Farmers union and retired. Then i hired him when i got in the senate. Such a mentor to everyone. We have had like three retirement parties. Now he is coming down here to help me. Thank you. Thank you. I love your shirt. This is a good shirt to wear. [laughter] [inaudible] i have very funny memories of the older guys on the trip. I have a good memory of that. I lived in minnesota, but now im down here. Very good. Are you in this town . Close, yes. Great. Thank you. Can we get a photo . Thats not my phone. Theres my phone. [laughter] one more. Great. Youre welcome. Thank you. I have a present for you. I came to america. I got my citizenship. I followed the law. But i feel like Illegal Immigrants are punished. And thats why we want to see this comprehensive reform. Just makes it clearer. I think we cant have a system that was based decade took a. Decades ago. We can make it at her better. Im glad you are here. Thank you. Thank you very much. Very good. Thank you. Thank you. I bought your book at a democratic fundraiser. Thank you. I wrote it myself, which not everyone can say. 150 miles in one day . Yes. That was something. That was the first time when i was in middle school and my dad got this idea we would ride up to where his parents were. The wind was at our back, but we did 145 miles in one day. We went up to minnesota from the western suburbs. By the end, i was pretending i fell off my bike. It was really something. I had a bike that only the top five gears worked. That would be fun. We did that and then i rode from minneapolis to jackson hole. We did 1100 miles in 10 days. Then we went to where our relatives are from. We biked in russia once down the river. Thank you. Good luck. Ok. All right. Very good. Im nancy. Ok. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you so much. This is my aunt, april. This is my grandma, jane. [laughter] did he get started in politics because of you . Thats great. Yes. Thank you for coming. I dont really have a question, but i agree with you wholeheartedly that to win the white house, we have to win in the midwest. To win without going coastal. We cannot appeal to, particularly, Dallas County is the key. We have rural areas and then we have west des moines. Sen. Klobuchar the county, has it voted republican mostly . Democratic . For the last 30 years, mainly republican, but the last few years in 2018, it was virtually purple. Sen. Klobuchar you have showed us that change with cindy and abby. That change can be made with the right candidates. Particularly when women win. Look what happened in these Congressional Districts. Look what happened in kansas. With the governor there. My favorite color is blue. Sen. Klobuchar there you go. You have always been a democrat, but he got you more involved in politics. [indistinct chatter] [laughter] my husband and i caucused a couple times. Sen. Klobuchar ok. 40 years, probably. Thats why we are here. Sen. Klobuchar even though i didnt know that until right now. That is why i picked this area. To visit. And i want to say dont forget the children in cages, dont forget about gun violence with children, and Climate Change. And health care. I had a target when i was 11 years. I am not antigun. Sen. Klobuchar i would say, look at these proposals, and does it hurt my rights . It does not. Universal background checks dont. You can see more and more hunters, especially since parkland, and these kids getting motivated. Boys talking to their dad saying you areas a hunter and this would not hurt you. I think this is a discussion that is more important than any other. Ok. All right. Ok. Get grandma in there. Ok. Perfect. Thank you. Sen. Klobuchar our goal is to win Dallas County. Yes. I always say the caucuses are the key to the white house, but the key to the caucuses is Dallas County. Sen. Klobuchar let me tell you a story. Let me tell you something. When i was first running for county attorney, that was a swing state. I only won by eight votes. The suburbs were strongly republican, the city wasnt. The middle was kind of in between. I remember going out to a high school where it had always been republican forever. I went in to speak at the caucus, and i saw a conventional convention. In this room, there were like 10 guys. I said, hey guys, i am here for the convention. This guy goes, amy, are you looking for the democrats . They needed a bigger room. This is the golf club. [laughter] sen. Klobuchar so then i go to the big room and there were like 250 democrats. It really is a changing time. In 2015, we had like six people on the Central Committee for the county party. We have 38 now. It is growing rapidly. People are fired up, energized, they want to meet the candidates. The goal here is to make sure that not just all the candidates come, but all the people are energized and active in democracy. Sen. Klobuchar and when you see how these districts change, it is a lot of people starting to talk and meet each other. I would say, you know what . I agree with my neighbor on this. I agree on this. And people say, i didnt know my neighbor was a democrat. Now, we can be outspoken and show that we care. It is sad that democrats are the party of showing we care about our neighbors. That is what its really become. Thank you so much for coming. Sen. Klobuchar i remember the slogan i know he cares. I think thats what people feel, completely isolated. There are some republicans that come to all of the stops. That is another interesting factor that doesnt show up on polls. Is that you have an primary who maybeependence voted in 2018, but probably not in the primaries. Now, they are looking at the primaries. They are going the next step. And moderate republicans. I have people going, how do i just register as a democrat so i can caucus . Its easy, you just fill out this sheet. And the next followup question is, how do we make them feel welcome . In the Democratic Party . They dont have to just go back to being sen. Klobuchar that is part of it. We are taking all people in. That know whats going on right now in the white house is wrong, and they want to see change. It is really that simple. That is how i have built these winning margins in our state. So, i think thats part of it. Especially rural. Right now, we are getting really hit hard. Absolutely. Thank you so much for coming. You are always welcome here in Dallas County. Sen. Klobuchar we met at that one iowa event. Back in 2016, you were here in the state with Jamie Lee Curtis. Sen. Klobuchar ok. Ok. Another good story for you guys. I try to give you guys new stories i havent told at every speech. This was the Jamie Lee Curtis visit, when i was here for hillary. She had never campaigned for a candidate before. I was paired with her, and she was delightful. She really was. She was very funny. We walked into these rooms, and she would be like, hello then we had questions. She would answer all the questions about like activia and all this stuff. [laughter] sen. Klobuchar we were at one shop at a Shopping Mall at the nebraska border. I dont know which one it was. It was a very crowded event. All of a sudden, there was this hubbub in the back. She was like, everyone, please calm down, i know i have some fans here, fans of halloween, my movie. I dont want people to be scared. It is not uncommon. There are people here with daggers that want me to sign them. I would just ask, the people with daggers, if you could just stay on the side so you dont scare people, i will sign the daggers. The other thing she did, she was taking photos in iowa of drainage ditches. She liked the beauty of them or something. [laughter] sen. Klobuchar she would get out of the car. She was delightful. It was a very funny memory of that day. We were together the entire day. She was great. You were great, too. Sen. Klobuchar that was fun. The key is to win. That starts at this grassroots level. If people think you can do it from the top with a bunch of money and commercials im not just talking about the primaries. You really have to get to know people. That is have how tom harkin understood that here and why he repeatedly won. Paul wellstone understood that in minnesota. That is a lot of it. It is talking to people where they are, getting out there, doing events in small towns and rallies in small towns. Doesnt mean you have to go to every small town, because you cant, but everyone talks about when they went to a small town. Ok . Anything more . Ok. All right. I have a quick question. After last weeks debate, do you think you will do anything in the debate coming up . Sen. Klobuchar will i do anything . I will be there. Thats my start. I think that it is important to keep getting the message out there to make the case. I really hope we talk about some of these rural issues. Understandably, we were in miami, and the focus was on Climate Change, which hits florida so hard, and immigration and the things we. Shouldthe things that we be focused on. I think its time in michigan to talk about manufacturing and the ag economy, talk about the midwest. You can see this is a lot of my message. I specifically brought up michigan at the end of that debate and how important it is to win in those states. Let me see, what else. Hopefully, we can have some order, and people will be able to keep distinguishing on these issues. I made the case on college that we should double the pell grant so we can pay for it with the buffer rule and we should have 124 billion so we can make the change, so that in Warren Buffetts words, that his secretary should not pay more in taxes than he does. I made the case in the debate that you can double pell grants from 6,000 to 12,000 and have them extend to families that make 100,000 and less. Thats a lot of people that will get help that they are not getting now. I am concerned about proposals, where you are giving free college to wealthy kids. I dont think thats how we should be spending taxpayer money. When youve got kids that want to get Community College degrees, oneyear certifications, that is the fastestgrowing job area right now, those kinds of degrees. Thats why i am focused on those. Right now, some of these proposals, i think the number is 10 of the kids in the public colleges, are from families that make 200,000 or more. I dont get why you would be giving free college to them. Hopefully, we can have that debate a little more fleshed out then we were able to do than we were able to do in that first debate. A lot of us have bold plans that are different than the other ones. Senator harris went up at least nine points in the pole poll, and a lot of people say it is because of her criticizing the obamabiden administration. Do you think you will do that on the stage . Sen. Klobuchar i think you focus on issues. If you have a disagreement with one of the other people on the stage, you make that clear. I did some of that on the health care proposal, where i didnt want to kick 49 million people, half of americans, off of their Health Care Insurance in four years, which is what that bill said. I would rather do a public option. I made a difference when it comes to the different proposals that we all have to pay for college, and i think we hope we i hope we have a better discussion and a more thorough discussion on that. I wasnt on that debate night. That was different than ours. Ours was a little more cordial. I think you will have different mixes of people. People will have moments throughout the debate. I think breakout moments can come in all different forms. But, we are pleased, we are headed to the debate stage in the fall, our other focus. I know i will make it there based on the polls. We are doing great in iowa and here. Building an organization that is strong, and there are a lot of people who end up winning iowa caucuses, who are about where i am at this point. We know it is a long road ahead. I am in it for the longterm. Would you reverse the president s decision to move the u. S. Embassy . Sen. Klobuchar no, i think it would have been better for a twostate solution. It is unfortunate the way it is done now. I think i did not like what netanyahu did. I just think it is better to have global discussions with america playing a leading role in the president s soninlaw holding a summit in which leader neither of the countries countries leader shows up. I dont think that is the beginning of how you will get this done, so thats where im done on that. Just recognize israeli sovereignty. Sen. Klobuchar again, i think it should be part of the negotiation. Did you see any donations or things like that . Sen. Klobuchar i think we had one of our biggest days. We just capture peoples imaginations, and so yes, we did very well and we had a lot positive feedback and a lot of people coming up to me. I had a been approach on a different debate stage, and one of my focuses was to not only get my message out of where i think the country needs to go and where i think we can take on pharma prices and Climate Change and other pressing issues, but also in contrast to donald trump, because in contrast, there is more that unifies our party and the people on it despite differences that have been expended on tv since. Expanded on tv since. There is more that unifies us than people can say sometimes and we are certainly more unified than we are more divided and we are certainly divided and we are certainly more unified when it comes to being donald trump. I wanted to make the point. The fact he said we could get a better deal with iran and just today, we found out mayor are on they are on their past to bust that cap when it comes to enriching uranium which makes us much less safe than when he became president. So, having that argument made, and i hope made more in the next debate, is important for america to see that there are things they need to know because not everyone that is watching is a base democrat. Not everyone is a based democrat because they come up to me, including republicans. There are moderate republicans watching in some swing states like iowa. We have a larger job than just primaries. We have to make our case, in a messy way, because we have so many candidates. But we have to make our case on why donald trump needs to go, and im going to continue to do that on the debate stage. The Supreme Court ruling last week. Whatklobuchar i oppose the Supreme Court did and i will do everything we can. On election reform, i got gut punched last week when i try to again last week when i try to bring up the back of paper ballots a bill. Ballots bill. Then we go over leading this new bill and once again, the republicans stop that. I cannot tell you, we have a president that is tweeting out doctored videos right now, and that is our biggest fear in the election, we will have not just take news and fake video, made of things that are not even real and the voters are not going to be able to distinguish. He did this with nancy pelosi and she is Strong Enough to stand up for herself, but it is not just about her, it is about what this means when you have a president condoning this, so the very democracy will be on the ballot and i think i was, they whoslands, iowans believe in democracy are going to stand up for democracy and not stand with someone who is trying to dismantle it. Thanks, guys. Sen. Klobuchar all right. Very good. Good to meet you. [indistinct chatter] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] live tuesday on the cspan networks, the Brookings Institution hosted discussion on the murder of jamal khashoggi. 7 00 p. M. , former congressman and president ial candidate beto orourke campaigns in ames, iowa. On cspan2 at 9 30 a. M. , south bend, indiana mayor and president ial candidate Pete Buttigieg speaks of the Rainbow Push Coalition convention. P. 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