Public safety and civil rights leader. That has been a fearless andcate for the voiceless, a fierce fighter on behalf of all people. As ahat is important to me mother of a child with Chronic Health hello . And special needs. You know, when you look at senator harriss campaign website, it defines her as tough, principled, and fearless. Yes, she is all that. But i would like to add passionate to that list. Passionate because i have seen and heard the fire and passion when she speaks about the issues. Challenging our country and as you know, there are many. Senator harris has a vision for our future, and that includes everyone. And that includes my son. It includes all of us. Me, lets get to it. It is my honor and privilege to introduce senator kamala harris. [applause] [applause] sen. Harris thats all thats on. Hi, everyone it is great to be in the region and thank you all. Home you for opening your in this outdoor concert area. [laughter] very kindyou, this is of you, and i know it takes a lot of work to do this. If we can please hear it for lacey and garrett and the whole family . Thank you. [applause] sen. Harris and thank you all, on a gorgeous afternoon, there are many things you could be doing with your time. I thank you for being here, i really do. I know we are all here for one reason for sure. And also we are here because we love our country. We are here because we love our country. [applause] sen. Harris thank you all, i really mean that. Will tell you, to get started, i fully intend to win this election. [applause] sen. Harris i really do. I do. And that will obviously be a measure and a metric of our success, but the other one that is equally important to me is that at the end of this process, that we are relevant. One of the best ways to ensure that, especially at this stage of the campaign is for me to be able to listen as much, if not more, than i talk. We will take questions and have a conversation after i share a few of my thoughts. I want to thank you for being here. New hampshire is such an incredible and important state. I really do appreciate and value your consideration. Lets get started. Is ank we all know, this inflection moment in the history of our country. This is a moment in time that is requiring us each as individuals, and collectively to look in the mirror and ask a question. We . Question being who are i think we all know part of the question is we are better than this. [applause] sen. Harris and so, this is a moment in time that we must fight for the best of who we are and fight we will. Us, in terms of fighting for the best of who we are, that is not new. It is not new for us. I think about it in the context of the family in which i was raised. My parents met when they were graduate students at the university of california berkeley in the 1960s. When they were active in the civil rights movement. Thatster and i, we joked we grew up surrounded by adults who spent time marching and shouting, about this thing called justice. And of course, of the many heroes of that civil rights movement, there were the lawyers, thurgood marshall, Constance Baker motley, these individuals who understood the scale of the profession of who understood the skill of the profession of law. Fromanslate the passion the streets to the courtrooms of our country and to do the work we know must constantly be done of reminding folks of the great promise we articulated in 1776, that we are all to be treated as equals. In fact, thats why i decided i wanted to be a lawyer at a young age. I was at Howard University and i ended up going to law school and then joining an office that earl warren helped build, the california District Attorneys office. Earl warrenrt of not decided brown v. Board of education, i would not be standing here right now. So, fighting for the ideals of our country, fighting for the promise of our country. I think about it in that context of where we are today. I think about it through that lens. I will also tell you a little bit more about the way i was raised. My sister and i have a mother who is all of five fetal, but she was ferocious. She was intense. She was a power, all five feet usher, and our mother raised with an understanding and a profound belief that the measure for any of us will be based on what we do for others and how we serve, and how we lift others up. Our mother was the kind of parent who would say to me many times, kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you are not the last. Dont let anyone tell you who you are, you tell them who you are. Thats how i was raised. [applause] mother was also the kind of parent who, if you ever came home complaining about something, our mother would look at you, perhaps with one hand on her hip, and with a very straight face would look at you and say well, what are you going to do about it . Decided to run for president of the United States. [laughter] [applause] there you go. So, lets talk about the current occupant of the white house for a moment if you will indulge me. Yes, but we have to. We have two. We have to put hall of this in context, the reason all you guys are here. But lets put it in context. Lets talk about this for a minute. The guy runs on a platform that is about make America Great again. Of course, that legs the egsstion, great for whom ba s the question, great for whom . And i also yes, i like involvement. Involvement is good here. It also requires us to act. Great again. You mean going back before the civil rights act, the Voting Rights act, the Fair Housing Act . That. Not doing we are not going back. We are not going back. On all of these promises of how he was going to take care of , what does he do . He does policy by tweet based on fear. Policy,alled trade trade policy by tweet, resulting in the fact that farmers across our country may be looking at bankruptcy before the end of the auto workers0,000 may be out of a job by the end of the year, the American Family on a daily basis because of that trade policy, which i call the trump trade tax, americans today are spending 1. 4 million more a month. Individual who has betrayed us. He said he did one thing would do one thing and has done quite another. Here is what i say. Us includes the requirement that we successfully prosecute the case against him. And i say that a prosecutor should do the job. [applause] i will tell you, i have in my career, personally prosecuted the big banks of the United States who preyed on homeowners, causing one of the greatest economic upheavals we have seen in generations with the foreclosure crisis. I have taken on pharmaceutical countries who preyed on seniors selling lies and misinformation. Thate prosecuted big oil, was in the business of polluting the water we need to drink. Prosecutedn on an Transnational Criminal Organizations that prey on women and children. I know predators, and we have a predator living in the white house. He has predatory instincts and a predatory nature. Heres is the thing about predators. Heres the secret. Vulnerable. The they prey on the weak, on those they perceive to be weak. They prey on those who are in need of help, those who are often desperate for help, and the other thing about predators, they are cowards. Cowards, so lets take , let usand in so doing also do it with the spirit of understanding that it is time to turn the page and write the next chapter in our collective history. Lets turn the page. Lets write that next chapter. Write that next chapter based on the america we believe in. Today,rica where unlike where almost half of families are a 400 dollar unexpected expense away from complete upheaval, and america where today, if you are a minimumwage worker working full time in 99 of counties, you cannot afford a one bedroom apartment, in america where last year 400 Million People took out loans from payday lenders with interest often in excess of 300 percent, lets fight for the america we believe in, and in so get elected,e change that tax code so that families making less than 100,000 a year will receive a tax credit of up to 6,000 a year that they can take home at up to 500,000 up to 500 a all theich will make difference in ending the month with dignity or not. Howthats when people say are you going to pay for that. Well, i will tell you. On day one, we are going to tax bill. T thats how we are going to pay for it. In our america, no one should have to work more than one job to have a roof over their head and food on the table. That is the america we believe in. Lets fight for the america we believe in, where teachers are paid their value. So, i have been traveling our country. I cannot tell you how many teachers i met who are working too, sometimes three jobs. Teachers are taking money out of their own pocket to pay for school supplies. Teachers on average make 11 less than similarly educated individuals. There are two groups of people raising our children. Parents, often with the assistance of grandparents, aunts and uncles, and our teachers. But we are not paying them their value. This is personal to me. My first grade teacher, misses francis william, god rest her soul, attended my law school graduation. Many of us have a similar story of some teacher along the way who convinced us we were special. We were not particularly special. [laughter] but they told us we were and we believed them. They put us on a path to being , to maybe being the next president of the United States. So in the america we believe in, in the america i believe in, we will make the First Federal investment in closing the teacher pay gap. [applause] here in New Hampshire and , that gap is 13,500 a year. Country,laces in our thats a years worth of mortgage payments. A years worth of grocery bills. It means putting a significant dent in student loan debt, which is one of the greatest barriers to our students coming out and joining a profession for which they have a passion. Lets fight for the america we believe in. Lets fight for the america we believe in, and america were none of our children have to go drillool and go through a where they are taught about how they should go hide in a corner or in a closet in the event that there is a mess shooter roaming the hallways of their school. [applause] because in america today, we have children who every day are going through this. Under terrified. About what this all might mean. And when they come home from and sit at the family dinner table, elementary, middle, High School Students asking their parents why, mommy and daddy, did we have to go , thegh that drill responses because there are supposedly eaters in washington, d. C. , who have failed to have the courage to reject a false choice that suggests you are either in favor of the Second Amendment or you want to take everyones guns away. There are supposedly eaters in washington dc washington, d leaders inpose i washington, d. C. , who have failed to have the courage to say its fine if you want to go hunting, but we need to have reasonable gun laws in this country. [applause] in, inamerica we believe aftererica i believe in, this election, i will give the United States congress 100 days to get their act together on this issue and put up will put a bill on my desk for signature. And if they do not, i am prepared to take executive whatn by putting in place will be the most comprehensive background check requirement we have had, requiring the atf to revoke the licenses of gun dealers who are violating the know,nd you guys should 90 of the guns associated with crime or sold by just 5 of the dealers. We need to do a little better on that. Order, iby executive am prepared to put in place a ban on the importation of assault weapons in our country. [applause] but to put a fine point on these two and so many other problems, i will tell you, i was a twoterm attorney general in a state of 40 Million People. I was a District Attorney elected twice. In all of my career, including in the United States senate, i have always challenged our team to tell me on any issue how it affects their child. Sell is so much you can about the relevance and significance and impact of any how itif you think about will impact a child. I come from a place that strongly believes you should judge a society based on how it treats its children. [applause] so lets talk about the america we believe in. In the america we believe in, week knowledge that Climate Change is real and that it represents an existential threat to us as a species. [applause] in the america we believe in, we will have a Green New Deal and we will immediately reenter the paris agreement. [applause] what we see now, which is a fellow in the white house who is pushing Science Fiction instead of science fact to our collective peril. And i will tell you guys, my mother was a scientist. She was a Breast Cancer researcher. Life,d two goals in her to raise her two daughters and two daughters and to end Breast Cancer. She would take her to the lab with her after school and on weekends. My first job was cleaning pipettes. I was awful and she fired me. So i became a lawyer. [laughter] ,ut the idea that on this issue it does represent an existential threat to us, that we would have such a level of not only denial but really rejection of what should be the role of a leader, really points out one of the and come in onds the United States. Lets talk about the america we believe in. In the america we believe in, we will be paid equally for equal work. [applause] so heres the thing. Heres the thing. Does anybody know when the equal pay act was passed . Yes. 1963, says the gentleman over here. , our country acknowledged , that womenby act were not being paid equally for equal work. Fastforward to the year of our women are paid . 80 on average to the dollar. Black women, . 68. Native american women . 58. Latina women . 53. There is no longer a debatable point on this. This should have become a basic right. What are we going to do about it, to pay people equally . Heres what i propose for the america we believe in. Instead of making it incumbent on a woman to prove she is not being paid equally to the fellow in the cubicle next to her, we are going to shift the responsibility to the corporation to prove that they are paying people equally for equal work. We will require that they prove that they are paying people equally for equal work. In the america we believe in, microphones will work. [laughter] [applause] thank you. Ok. No. At this point, im going to project. Guyshen i will let you figure this out. Thank you so much. So, instead of requiring that woman to show that she is being paid equal for equal work, we are going to shift the burden to the corporations. Actuallythey are paying women equally for equal work. And they will then have to post that information on their website. [applause] there we go. I think its working. There is a whale here somewhere. Hello. Im going to keep talking and let them figure it out. The first night of the debate was like that. Im going to keep talking and i hope you guys in the back can hear me. I will project a little more. Not only will they have to posted on their website, we are also going to require because , that for every 1 differential between what a woman is being paid and a man is being paid for equal work, the corporation will be fined and equal percent based on the previous years profits. [applause] that will get their attention. Lets talk about an america we believe in. In an america we believe in, children will not be separated from their parents at the border. [applause] and we will not allow it to be called Border Security when in fact what it is is a human rights abuse being committed by the United States government. [applause] and in the america we believe in , we will acknowledge that we are a nation of immigrants. [applause] the thing. Es heres the thing. Unless you are native american or your ancestors were kidnapped and brought over on a slave ship, your people are immigrants. So in the america we believe then, we will immediately renew daca protections. And we will fight to pass comprehensive immigration reform. With a pathway toward citizenship. Lets talk about the america we believe in. Hi, katie. In america we believe ok. . S there another mike for me team . Where is the team . Is anyone from the team around . We are working on it read come closer. Working on it. Come closer. I dont know that thats going to make a difference. Ok, great. Maybe i will stay on this side. Ok, i am just going to stand right here. In, weamerica we believe will have a president of the United States who understands that we can no longer tolerate what we have been seeing in our history and recently, which is a full on attack against a womans access to her Reproductive Health care. I will tell you, i have traveled the country, and i have met a lot of folks who are rightly terrified about what these laws that are being passed mean. I was just a few weeks ago in youama, where, as many of know, that state Legislature Passed a law that would criminalize and incarcerate a physician who assist in an inrtion, up to 99 years prison. Georgia, we expect. Missouri, we expect the same kind of thing to happen. We are not being alarmist when we say women will die. Women will die. And in particular, poor women and women of color. Those who do not have the ability to financial the financial ability were access to travel to places where abortion and access to Reproductive Health care are legal. Women will die. So, as president , i am prepared to require that the department of justice, the United States department of justice review the laws coming from any state that has a history of restrict things a womans access to Reproductive Health to determine if that law is constitutional in comports with roe v. Wade. And comports with roe v. Wade. And until it is determined that it is constitutional, it cannot go into effect. [applause] thats called preclearance. Ecause heres the thing we will continue to fight this issue on the defensive. We will continue to support those folks who were doing work on the ground, legal aid, all the nonprofits that are helping those women. But we also have to take this on the offense of, and as you can probably see with my policies and perspective, i believe we need to go on offense and get stuff done. [applause] in the america we believe in, we will have a president of the United States who appreciates that she is also the commander in chief. [applause] and takes that job on responsibly, unlike the current occupant of the white house who not only apparently has bone but is a suppose it commanderinchief who on the of russias proven interference in the election of the president of the United States prefers to take the word of the russian president over the word of the american intelligence community. Americanbject of an student who was tortured and later died, prefers to take the word of the north korean dictator over the word of the american intelligence community. On the subject of a journalist who was assassinated, a journalist who had american credentials, prefers to take the word of a saudi prince over the word of the american intelligence community. We need a new commanderinchief. [applause] so lets turn the page. Lets turn the page and lets write the next chapter. And it is well within our power and our ability. To do this. In the contextt of many things, including the fact that when it comes to who we are, we are strong as a people. We are strong as a people, and one of the greatest strengths of who we are as a nation, by our very nature, we are aspirational. A nation that was founded on noble ideals. Ideals that were present when we wrote the constitution of the United States and all of its rightsnts, the bill of and the declaration of independence, the words we wrote that we are all equal and should be treated that way. By our nature, we are aspirational. We are also clear on we have not yet reached those ideals. But part of the strength of who we are is we always fight to get there. , and fight weill fightknowing this is a that is born out of optimism. This is a fight that is born out of knowing and believing in what can be, unburdened by what has been. Not only fight that is for the soul of our country, that is born out of love of country, and this, therefore, is a fight we will win. [applause] we will win. And we will be joyful in the way that we fight. [laughter] sen. Harris thank you, everyone. I guess we are having some technical difficulties, so we are not going to have the questions oh, do you want to do the questions . Ok. We can tolerate that. Ok, people. [inaudible] in the debates last week or whatever it was, you had a position on busing. I would like to hear where you stand after not in the heat of the debate. Sen. Harris yeah. The question was how do i feel about busing . It came up during the debate and where do i stand, and can we talk about it now not in the heat of the debate . I think you all know the context in which it came up, the discussion about former members of the United States senate who were proving to be segregationist, who had a letory and pretty much their careers and reputations off of that history, fighting against the integration in our country. And fighting against integration in our Public Schools. Brown versusrd the board of education. Case went to the supreme court, because this was such a contested issue in our country. There were laws and leaders in place who fought for the segregation of the races as it relates to college education. This is part of the sad history of our country. We have a lot to be proud of, and there is a lot that we should not be proud of. This is one of those things this is one of those things. This is a point of personal pride, [inaudible] knowing how important the was really, it integral to a statement about who we are as a nation, and our principles and ideals. That,f the history of earl warren said this is a case that is so fundamental in terms of who we are. For acritically important unanimous decision. If you read the history behind the case, he pushed there would eight unanimous decision that there was, to integrate the schools and the california. Fastforward almost 20 years. I was an educator in urban Public Schools. 20 years. This is berkeley, california. People think of it as being a progressive place, right . California, i was only part of the second class to integrate berkeley schools. This is the reality of how all that played out in our nation, 1954,is it didnt just it got decided, and the key was unlocked. There had to be policies and pressures in place to actually fulfill the promise of brown v board of education to integrate the schools in our country. People were resisting it, violently resisting it, and we can remember the images themselves. Violently resisting the desegregation of our schools. So what else has to happen . In place,o be put mandatory busing. Berkeley was not one of the places that did it voluntarily, but in places around our country, mandatory busing had to be put in place, because there was such resistance, even violent resistance to the integration of our schools. On the subject of mandatory busing in our country and what was going on during that era and that place in time, yes. I believe that that was exactly what was necessary. One of my opponents in this race, still to this day, disagrees with that. I dont want to speak for him, but i do know he and i have a disagreement on that issue, and we are going to have to agree to disagree. When we talk about where we are today, because that has been part of the question that is being asked, there is no question, and i think the educators among us know that even today, we are seeing extreme segregation in our schools. Reasons forumber of it, including, if we are going to have a candid conversation, that after brown v. Board of education and the integration, forced integration of schools, there were some family that said, i dont want my children to be educated with black kids, and families started pulling their kids out of the schools. You can track their resources being pulled out of those schools. The Public School system of many states and our country, you will see extreme segregation by race. Are seeing now is not a function of people in statehouses and legislatures who are resisting integration, it, the reason is different. For that reason, i think andatory busing is not solution to what we have right now. What we need to do right now, there are certain number of ideas about how we need to do it. One is we need to track it and keep the statistics about race. We need to look at what is going on around gerrymandering on a number of issues, including who can live in what district and what kind of School Boards to get as a result of that. We need to look at what to do to encourage supporting public magnet schools. There are a number of solutions to this. Busing may be one of them, but not the kind of mandatory busing we saw then. Senator, over here . Hi, whats your name . My name is ellie and im nine years old. [inaudible] [laughter] got . At do you just likere kids me who want to get away from the war zones they are living in, want to go to the United States, but they get separated from their mother and father to be put in a cage. What are your thoughts on that . [cheers and applause] sen. Harris i love our young leaders. I just do. When i look at you, ellie, i know our future is bright. I know our future is bright. Thank you. It takes a lot with this big crowd to stand up and speak like that in public with no mic. Thank you, ellie. You are absolutely right. It is about so many things. It is about the fact that we should live our values to the world. We as a country, we say that we prioritize humanitarian approaches to issues, but we have not seen evidence of that in the policies of separating children from their parents. After the debate, we just talked about the debates, it was in miami about a week and a half ,go, and the morning after, i along with other members of congress, drove down to a place in florida called homestead. And in homestead, florida, there is a forprofit residential facility that is currently housing 2700 children. For profit, right . Lets talk about what the Business Model is there. Business not old model there is that certain people are profiting off the incarceration of other people, those people are called children. I am a memberand of the Senate Intelligence committee, Homeland Security committee, budget committee, and judiciary committee. Of the unitedbers states congress. This is a facility that is a privately run facility, but paid with your tax dollars. They would not let us in. [inaudible] sen. Harris i mean, we could not force them physically, right . It is hard, and it is wrong, and it is what they are doing. Of course we need to take their money. We need to shut down all of those at detention facilities. You are absolutely right. [cheers and applause] sen. Harris i want to share with you what i saw. I walked down the road and climbed up a ladder to look over the fence to see what was going on inside, because they would not give us access. Let me tell you what i saw. I saw children children single file, by gender, walked into barracks. By the way, i also met some of their parents on the other side of the fence. , to ellies point. Its inhumane and its wrong for that reason. And weve got to understand also, to your very point, ellie basic matter,as a most people dont like to leave home. Lets think about it. Lets go basic for a moment. Most people dont like to leave home. The place where you grew up, where your cousins and family live, the place where you might worship and you went to high school. Most people dont like to leave home. So you have to sit back and ask, why are they here . In particular, with the unaccompanied children, what is that story . Part of that story is this. Theres a mother and a father coyote, to to pay a pay a stranger to transport their child from their home, their country of origin, transport them through the entire country of mexico, facing unknown peril. Why would that parents do that . Because they know that if they child stay where they are, they would face greater danger. What does this administration and this person, this president do . To most of them, he says go back to where you came from. It is not reflective of human values, it is not reflective of american values. It is wrong and it must stop. Applause]d sen. Harris so ellie, thank you. And you are thinking, it you are speaking up today. You must know that when your words, when you stood up on that chair and spoke like that in front of all of these folks, you just spoke for all of those kids. You just spoke for all of them. [cheers and applause] sen. Harris thats the leadership. That is the power of your voice. Always room ever that is the rememberyour voice that is the power of your voice. Thank you, everyone. [inaudible] senator kamala harris, thank you. [cheers and applause] [indiscernible] [inaudible] sen. Harris yes, absolutely. That is high on my list of priorities, putting them underground and satellite. Youre absolutely right, education. [indiscernible conversations] [indiscernible conversations] [indiscernible conversations] [indiscernible conversations] [indiscernible conversations] [applause] [indiscernible conversations] sen. Harris oh, i like that idea. There is a kid governor election . When is it . [inaudible] sen. Harris are you campaigning . Lets try to stay in touch, ok . Ill see you later, ok . Thank you. Thank you. [indiscernible conversations] has anotherarris event planned in boston later today. But here in New Hampshire, she touched on the ice rates that started this morning in cities around the country. 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