I was responsible to coordinate our Nations NationalSecurity Strategy to bring together all of the elements of our power. ,he power from our idea together with the power of our military. I most love going to see. I will never forget walking out of the pentagon, and minutes later, a plane slammed into that building. I rushed back and looked upon the scar. Thereafter i found myself on the ground in afghanistan. Then i came out. When my Aircraft Carrier battle crews and 10,000 sailors and marines arrived in the arabian ia, we all experienced what had seen across this vast global canvas of ureter of your United States navy. They are waiting for us. We are nations that send ships from all over the globe. Attacked, anden we will be there for you. We have the world with us against evil. Power as itsatest power to bring together nations and people of the world for common causes that service all. Thats what america have been doing. Weather was human rights atrocities, global recession, a collective security agreement. We let the flame of justice in a global concorde. And then we elected president s from john f. Kennedy to Ronald Reagan who understood it was global concorde that provided the opportunity for our peace and prop peace and prosperity. Way a retreat would be so dastardly. To remind our president that we only want our freedom because of our allies and can only sustain it because of them. If there is any doubt that the oural concorde leadership is a prerequisite to our health and security and evaporates when you recognize there is nothing we can do by ourselves. Even with a green new deal. 85 of all the greenhouse emissions come from abroad. Itsst convene, whether Climate Change or a liberal world order china. That is why im first running. We need someone with Global Experience who understands how with what democrats and republicans did when they voted for that tragic adventure in the, not understanding military can never fix the problem. I doubt theres anybody here who thinks we fixed iraq. We did fix iran. And removed that war fighting capability of nuclear weapons. Now we think we are going to fix it . Someone thateeds values our allies together and who understands the commander in chief and faced with a decision of whether to use our military here she will understand that you best know how it will end before you even think that you should begin. I will never forget that ultimately our peace and our is convened with those we Work Together in the world to prevent having to go to war. Dont onlybelieve we need a president that understands how to go about the world in a time of great change, we also need a president who can walk in the shoes of citizens here at home. That came to me one awful day as my wife and i stood at walter reed Military Hospital and watched as our fouryearold daughter was rolled out of surgery. They couldnt get the brain cancer and when asked they days orshe may have 90 nine months. That Little Warrior fought on. I need to become accountable to you, the citizens of this nation gave us, my wife and i, a Health Care Plan that saved our daughters life. 21nt back to my nearly republican district where i had been raised and became a democrat. Im a retired navy admiral. I was elected by 14 points and then elected by 20 points despite having raised 3 million i didnt spend a dime on one campaign at. We learned how to disagree well. We kept our office open seven days a week to 9 00 every night. Savageto when that recession began. They were just like my crew on the ship. I was called later the most productive congressman by the majority leader. And passed 19 pieces of bipartisan legislation. Thats not the major issue. How could a government of the people he so unaccountable to the people . As a medium level income of our working class has flatlined those 20 years, as i step back i thought about it. And thought about those politicians. Invasion against sunni and sunni against she up. As it metastasized, it went throughout. Decades of unaccountable consequences, and those same politicians across the spectrum and overtime removed the wall and the one place we need a wall. Wall,hey took down that unfettered not one politician has ever counted for themselves to be accountable. Trump is not the problem. Is a symptom of the problem, where americans no longer system counts for them. Not just to elect a president but to heal our countrys soul. Above special interests, above oneself. Otherwise we never will move the defining policies we need today. Uses much energy to power air ditioning in one decade here at home, how could we not move into a Carbon Dividend and so many other things that need to be done to need to be done . About childcare. When 6. 5 million women moved into the workforce. Our government provided childcare. The u. S. Military has the best childcare in the nation. Full paid medical leave benefits. Think about college zones. I do think about it. To makernment is kind 126 billion dollars this decade because its charging the wrong interest rate. Why arent we seeing 5 of your income needs to go to pay off your loan. Way, i want to focus with we were told the other day. Our tract is gonna be pretty wireless wireless presoon, right . What happens to those workers, the gentleman in gentlelady we kick out of the coal mine. We spend less than any nation on labor training. They are the ones who should be empowered by the Democratic Party and republicans. We send you. Collegeargest community in the nation, the air force community college. We not value them . Rate that had a birth is lowered then needed to replenish those who passed away every year since 1970. I said i understand protecting our borders, but also our economy. We would be in a population death spiral if not for all immigrants. We need them to empower our economy. Take health care that i am so familiar with. You think i dont want to get where the v. A. Is . Equal to any private or medicare or Health Care Plans . Isthe military you learn poor planning as his poor outcome. What you want to do is have what i voted for in congress and the senate failed to stand up to the Health Industry and pull out that option. We needed to become a transition of choice. Removing the Healthcare Industry that denied my daughter when her health care came back last year. Giving singledigit oughts to survive. But we got denied initially. Initially the one drug that might save her. 300,000 by the Health Industry. I understand the goal of how we , we must keep that in mind. I could go on for Small Businesses that no one seems to care about where our majority of americans work in Small Businesses. Thanegulation is 40 more corporations . Agosto three major metropolitan areas. We need the motherss milk to have access. Need toning because we restore Global Leadership in protect andto expand our american dream. Honestlying because i believe we have policies that have to be advanced that empower our working family, reenergize our global trade and economy, that actually begins to make sure we are competitive with infrastructure, and begins to get Small Businesses that are creating half as many jobs for 10,000 citizens as they used to do 30 years ago. Running because we need to unite this country with someone who they believe is accountable to them. With me one last time on an Aircraft Carrier. Nuclearlors, they run a reactor at 19. 5. They fix your plane and the pilot doesnt even think about it. Muslim,care if they are hispanic, or white. They just know they get it right. They step back, they strap that. Lane into a counter pole a strap that do plane, the engines are on and they push a button. Then they flip you into the night. Walt disney, no Amusement Park in iowa has a better ride than that. Every so often they say stop, hold on, special forces have been ambushed. Quickly, get out of that plane. They have been unhooked from that catapult. Sudden they push off that button and you are still attached to that catapult. Off you go into the middle of the night for a great and final ride. A youth comes out on the deck. Goes under the plane where the pilot cannot see and hooks it from the plane. And then knowing the pilot cannot see it while it is in front of that plane, it gives a very simple signal. And looks at the pilot in the eye and doesnt move until here she, the pilot, have shut off their engines, and gun safely on deck. That has told us everything our country is yearning for. If i made a mistake not for my you are for my deed going right through me. And i am going for going overboard with you. Anyoneyet to meet hardly who believes that anyone in washington, d. C. Would stand in front of that plane for them. There is no way we will meet the defining challenges of our time. ,ithout a United America without someone who the people that theyn disagree trust will always be accountable to them, above any special interest. Live coverage back in the soapbox with senator Elizabeth Warren from the iowa state fair. Rules in iowa are nice. You dont hold up signs. Thats not very iowa nice. If youre here and you have trash, take it with you. We are not your parents. You can take care of your own stuff. Ado, senatorurther Elizabeth Warren. [applause] sen. Warren hello, iowa state fair. Warren andelizabeth im running for president because i am sick of a country that works better and better for a thinner and thinner slice at the top. Chance to make america work for everyone else. So i want to talk to you about. His america this is a goodhearted america that works great, just not for people trying to get a prescription filled. Works great for investors in private prisons and private detention centers, just not people whose lives are torn apart by those institutions. Works great for giant Oil Companies that want to drill everywhere, but not for the rest of us who see Climate Change bearing down upon us. You see a government that money, worksor great for connections and works great for much of everyone else, t is heres the deal. I have the biggest anticorruption plan since watergate. News, we needd the biggest anticorruption plans. To make change in this country, we have to be willing to tackle this corruption. Whatever issue brings you here today, whether it is around health care or climate or gun safety, i guarantee if there is a decision to be made in washington it has been influenced by money. Money. Been pushed by out chanced our chance in 2020 is to fight back against the corruption to make our government work for us. Big part of how i want to do that. Withe not going to do that one little statute over here are one little regulation over there. It isy we are going to do with big structural change. Do you like big structural change . I want to talk about one aspect of that, and that is big structural change in our economy. Part one, right now we have in america where there is more and in a handful of giant corporations. Pharma, you big name it. Employees,ver their they rollover their customers, they rollover their communities. To enforce they antitrust laws in this country. But we need more. Weve got to have a system where there is constant pushback, there is other power in the system, that means we need more power in the hands of employees and give unions more power when they negotiate. Unions built americas middle class, unions will rebuild americas middle class. There is another way we can do structural change in this economy. Its time for a wealth tax in america. For those of you who may not be familiar with it, let me give you a quick explanation. Your first 50 million is free and clear. But your 50 millionth and first lar, you have to patient pitch into cents. And two cents on every dollar after that. Anybody here own a home . You have been paying wealth tax forever. Im seeing for the brazilian heirs, the top 10th of 1 , how about we include an addition to the real estate, the stock portfolio, the diamonds, the rembrandts. Understand this. The point is not to be cranky. However it is, you build a fortune here in america. Workers help pay to educate. You built it in part, getting to build roads and bridges. So what we are saying is if you the top 1 10y big, of 1 , fortunes above 50 ,illion, you make it that big everybody else in this country to senso everyone else in this country gets a chance to make. Two cents. Two cents. And what can we do with two cents . Can pay for universal childcare for every baby in this country. Prek for every threeyearold and fouryearold in this country. Raise the wages for every childcare worker and teacher in america. Two cents. Makean do all of that and technical school, community college, and for your public and four year Public College tuition free for anyone who wants to get an education. Cents, you can do all of that. We can put 50 billion dollars directly into historically black colleges and universities in this nation. I will mention just one more, you can do all of the things i talked about plus cancel student loan debt. You can do thou do that and still have a couple of billion dollars left over. That tells you whats broken in america. Every time we see a budget its just a statement of your values. Is it more important to leave the two cents with a billionaire or use it to advance in all of our kids . We are investing in all our kids. Its a great honor to be out here with all of you. I know this is a scary time in america. I know what happens in 2020 is going to determine the direction of our country for generations to come. Yougrateful to everyone of who has gone into this fight who cares about what happens in this caucus. Keyow iowa is going to be to it happens to america in the next generation. I want to wrap this up by saying the reason im here, i didnt in a million years think i would ever end up running for any public office. Ive known what i wanted to be since i was in second grade. I wanted to be a Public School teacher. By the time i graduated from high school my family didnt have the money for college applications, much less to send me off to four years in university. My big chance was down in houston, texas. I got a chance for a commune or college forommuter 50 per semester. A chance to finish my four year diploma and become a special needs teacher. I have already lived my dream job. So i stand here today in front of you to say never having thought i would run for office, what brought me in is opportunity. Its a deep down belief and opportunity. Not just for those born into our privilege, but opportunity for all of our kids. Our daddy ended up as a janitor. Daughter got the opportunity to be a Public School teacher, to be a college professor, to be a United States senator and a candidate for president of the United States. I believe in america. Big, we fight hard and we are going to win. Thank you. Warren. Warren. Warren. Senator you have one of the biggest crowds here, what do you think is resonating with voters in iowa western mark this government is wellconnected and not working for the rest of america. In 2020 they have a chance to turn that around. Death about real optimism and determination. Medicare for all in your opinion, a goal to be worked toward in intervening steps or a policy to be instituted in day one . Everything takes a lot of putting together if its big. I put out a lot of plans. All of them take implementation. Thats going to be true for medicare for all. Its important to be respectful to our unions. Its important to make sure people who have private care and like their private care figure out they are going to get something better. There is a reason there is a transition period built into the statute. How do you win iowa in november against president trump, who is very popular in the state . Last couple of town halls ive done, people have come into these town halls and said i voted for trump and i now vote for you. I want somebody whos got a plan to fix it. Understand you are not just here in iowa its not just here in iowa, i have been going all over the country. I dont spend my time with millionaires behind closed doors. States ando 25 puerto rico. Ive been to west virginia. They probably describe themselves as the reddest of the red. Hall that a town ended with lots of hogs hug send volunteers. They want to see an america that doesnt just kick dirt in their faces. 20 20 is our big chance. After democrats work to do that in 1994, there was backlash do you worry about that backlash now . Negative. We have a problem with guns. Its also the shootings that happen every day in neighborhoods that happen on sidewalks and in backyards and in parks. It falls particularly hard on communities of color. Both with shootings and the police afterwards. America, a huge to ban assault weapons, do background checks across the country. The majority of gun owners want to see that. A majority of nra members want to see that. That has been the answer . It is corruption. It is a gun industry that controls congress. It is a gun industry that pumps in money and donations. It is a gun industry that sends the lobbyists to make sure that their interests are protected. It is a failure of democracy. Here is my promise. When i am in the white house, i will fight, i will stand up, i will lead the charge on the changes we need to make, and i would like to roll back the filibuster. Eep in mind, in 2013 we voted andssault weapons ban background checks, 5446, 54 in favor, which means it failed in the United States senate. Why . Because of the filibuster. The filibuster is there to help with the likes of the nra and the gun industry. I am ready to get rid of it in the senate. [indiscernible] thank you, so much. [indiscernible chatter] im wondering if you could think about Something Like how the military gets paid, on a. Ational level warren that is a very interesting thought. I will check it out. [indiscernible] do you guys know when cory booker is coming out . Next. 4 30. I will text you when we are ready, or call you. You could hear fairgoers talking about senator cory booker at 4 30 central, 5 30 in the east, you will hear from senator cory booker, the final speaker. Nine of the candidates in iowa, at the state fair speaking to fairgoers. Many more will be there tomorrow. At another location, the iowa events senator event senate the Iowa Events Center in downtown des moines, moms demand spoke, andrew yang yesterday about gun violence and the shootings a week ago in el paso, texas and dayton, ohio. That event is streaming live right now on cspan. Org and you can watch it online anytime. The web address is cspan. Org. Senator Kamala Harris also speaking at the iowa