Good morning. Is great to be with you. Lets just get started. I only have 20 minutes. I could go on for hours. But ive got sweaty minutes. Herod is spirit i think we all know this is an 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 at the mirror and ask a question. That question being who are we . And i think we all know part of the answer to that question is we are better than this. So this is a moment in time that is requiring us to fight for the best of who we are. And fight we will. And this is not a new fight for us. We as americans have always been in the business of fighting for the best of who we are. And fighting for our ideals. And i will tell you, i am a daughter of fighters. My parents met when they were active in the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. My sister and i, maya, we joke we grew up surrounded by a bunch of adults who spent fulltime marching and shouting. About this thing called justice. And in fact many of the heroes of that movement were the lawyers who understood how to translate the passion from the street to the courtrooms of our country and remind folks of that promise we articulated in 1776 that we are all equal and should be treated that way. Which is what inspired me to want to become a lawyer. So we are fighters and we are born of fighters. I was raised also by a mother. My sister maia and i our mother she was all of five feet tall. If you ever met our mother, you would have thought she was 10 feet tall. And she was fierce. She was the kind of parent who would say to me all the time, you may be the first to do many things. Make sure you are not the last. Do not let anyone tell you who you are. You tell them who you are. Your life should be based on service to others, not self interest. And my mother was tough. If you ever came home in our house, if you ever came home complaining about something. Our mother would look at you with a straight face one hand probably on a hip and she would say, well what are you going to do about it. So i decided to run for president of the United States. [applause] there you go. So lets talk about the current occupant of the white house. It is context. Here is a guy who came into office on a slogan that was about make America Great again. Which, of course, for many of us was, again for whom . But it is backward thinking. Back to what . Back before the Voting Rights act . Back before the Civil Rights Act . Back before the Fair Housing Act . Before the federal minimum wage act . Back before roe v. Wade . Because we are not going back. [applause] we are not going back. [applause] and he came in Office Making all kinds of promises to folks. And in particular working people. Everyone from farmers here in iowa to autoworkers. Came in making all kinds of promises about how he was going to help out working people. And then what did he do . He passes a tax bill benefiting the top 1 and the biggest corporations in this country. Then what happens, engages in the socalled trade policy that was trade by tweet born out of his fragile ego in a way that was about unilateral action that has resulted in farmers here in this great state looking at bankruptcy, soybeans rotting in bins. It is expected that hundreds of thousands of autoworkers may be out of work by the end of the year because of the year because of his socalled trade policy. I call it the trump trade tax. And heres the thing. He betrayed a lot of people. He betrayed a lot of people. So this obviously is an election. About what we need to do to turn the page. But it is also about recognizing that we have to fight for the america we believe in. Also knowing that we reject the voice that he has provided that has been about sowing hate and division among us. We reject that. It is not reflective of who we are. [applause] and i know it to be true. I know who we are. We all have so much more in common than what separates us. The way i think about it is what i call the 3 00 a. M. Thought. You know the thing that wakes you up in the middle of the night. Because heres the deal. For the vast majority of us. When we wake up in the middle of the night, thinking that thought. It is never through the lens of the party with which we are registered to vote. For the vast majority of us, when we wake up thinking that thought, it is never through the lens of some simplistic demographic some pollster put us in. And for the vast majority of us, when we wake up thinking that thought, it usually has to do with one of just a very few things. Our personal health. The health of our children or parents. For so many of, can i get a job, keep a job, pay the bills by the end of the month, retire with dignity. For our students can i payoff those Student Loans . For so many families, can i help our Family Member get off their opioid addiction. The vast majority of us have so much more in common than what separates us. Sen. Harris and that is part of the strength of who we are as a nation. [applause] so we will fight for that. And our fight is born out of that knowledge. And so yes, we must turn the page and this election is about more than that. Because obviously the dude has got to go. [applause] [cheering] so the point then is let us also , think about writing the next chapter. And doing that together. And writing the next chapter based on the america we believe. The america we believe in where we say, you should only have to have one job to have a roof over your head and food on the table. An america we believe and what we say it is not ok as of today in america almost half of our families cannot afford a 400 unexpected expense. It is not reflective of the america we believe in, when in 99 of the counties in this country if youre a minimumwage worker, you cannot afford a market rate for onebedroom apartment. It is not ok that last year in our country, 12 Million People had to take out a loan of on average 400 from the payday lender at an Interest Rate of often in excess of 300 . In the america we believe in it i will tell you, when we win this election, we are going to change the tax code as follows. For families that make less than 100,000 per year, they will get up to a 6,000 tax credit that you can take home at up to 500 a month which will make all the difference between those families getting through the end of the month or not. In the america we believe in, we will recognize that one of the things that keeps people up at night is the education of their children and in the america we believe in, we will pay teachers their value. [cheering] [applause] because right now in america we are looking at a situation where teachers on average are paid 11 less than similarly educated professionals. Sen. Harris i have met more teachers here and i went around the country who are working two or three jobs. Our teachers are coming 94 of them out of their own pocket to help pay for school supplies. Heres the thing, theyre only two groups of people raising our children. Parents, often with the assistance of grandparents and aunties and uncles. And our teachers. We must pay them their value. So in the america we believe in, we will put into place the first in our nations history federal investment in closing the teacher pay gap. [applause] and here in iowa, that is 12,200 per year. 12,200 per year. In many places that is a years worth of mortgage payments. 12,200 per year. That is a years worth of grocery bills. 12,200 per year. That is putting a significant debt in student loan debt. Significant dent in student loan debt. Which is one of the greatest barriers to our kids coming out of school and enjoying a profession for which they have a passion. In the america we believe in. Our babies, elementary, middle and High School Students will not have to go to school and endure a drill during which they are taught about how they need to hide in a closet or crouch in a corner in the event there is a mass shooter roaming the hallways of their school. Those children of ours who come home at night and ask, why did we have to have that drill . To which of course, our response is, because there are supposedly leaders in washington, d. C. Who , have failed to have the courage to reject a false choice which suggests you are either in favor of the Second Amendment or you want to take everyones guns away, who have failed to have the courage to agree, find if you wanted to go hunting but we need reasonable gun safety laws in our country, including universal background checks and a renewal of the assault weapons ban. [crowd cheering] [applause] sen. Harris so in the america we believe in, if Mitch Mcconnell doesnt call us back to vote on a bill, then when we are elected, i will give the United States congress 100 days to pull their act together on this and put a bill on my desk for signature. And if they do not, i am prepared to take executive action to put in place a comprehensive background check requirement, to require the atf to take licenses from gun dealers who violate the law, and by executive action to ban the importation of assault weapons into our country. [applause] sen. Harris it is time to take action. In the america we believe in, we will agree that access to health care should be a right of everyone, and not a privilege of just those who can afford it. [applause] so we will put in place, knowing this is one of the issues that keeps people up at night, a we will put in place a medicare for all plan which i have proposed, which will offer Everyone Health care without regard to cost, put the Insurance Companies in check. So there will be no deductibles, no copays, you will still have access to either a public or private plan, and expand services and benefits. Because in the america we believe in, we know this is a human rights issue, a civil rights issue. It is a moral issue and we must , do better. [applause] in the america we believe in, we will agree that one of the issues that keeps us up at night is the security of our homeland, and we need to have a commanderinchief that understands her greatest priority is concerning herself with the safety and security of our nation, as opposed to the current commander in chief, who on the issue of the fact of russias 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, who on the subject of american an student who was tortured and later died, prefers to take the word of a north korean dictator over the word of the american intelligence community, that on the subject of a journalist who was assassinated, 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] [applause] i will say this, listen. I know a lot of us over the last two years, we have been wondering how this is going to turn out, what is happening. We have been throwing objects at that inanimate object called the television, going to therapy trying to figure it out, but in here is what i want to remind all of the friends. In our march toward 2020, let us remember one of the greatest strengths about who we are as a nation and as a people is that, by our very nature, we are aspirational. We are a nation that was founded on noble ideals, the ideals that were present when we wrote the constitution of the United States, and all of its amendments, and the bill of rights, and the declaration of independence, and those words we spoke in 1776, that we are all equal and should be treated that way, we are aspirational. We are also clear eyed, we have not reached those ideals, but the strength of who we are is, we always fight to get there. So fight we will, and fight we must, knowing this is a fight that is born out of optimism, this is a fight that is born out of knowing what can be and believing in what can be, unburdened by what has been. This is a fight that is not only for the soul of our country, this is a fight born out of love of country. [applause] and this, therefore, is a fight we will win. [applause] [cheering] thank you, iowa, thank you, thank you, guys. Thank you very much. Thank you, iowa. Sen. Harris i have got a couple of minutes. August 28 is the anniversary of kings i have a dream speech. What are you going to do as a candidate to smash trumps bloody sunday wall . Senator harris why am i uniquely qualified to get the job done . Why are you, senator harris, uniquely qualified to march through and smash down trumps bloody sunday wall . Sen. Harris so part of what needs to happen is this. To get through and turn the next page, to write the next chapter, we need to be able to successfully prosecute the case against four more years of donald trump. I think it will take a prosecutor to do that. [applause] and we have got a rap sheet, and it is long. Lets look at the evidence. A tax bill that benefits the top 1 and biggest corporations in america, to the point that 60 of the biggest corporations in the u. S. Paid no taxes last year. Who here paid no taxes last year . Lets talk about the trade policy that is resulting in direct harm to working families in america. Lets talk about a policy that is about putting babies in cages and separating children from their parents in the name of border security, when what it is is a human rights abuse being committed by the United States government . [applause] sen. Harris lets talk about a failure to recognize, and our farmers and everybody here knows it, Climate Change is real, it is a crisis, it is caused by human behaviors which can be changed without much change to our lifestyle, and represents an existential threat to who we are as human beings, and we can do something about it instead of the current occupant of the white house, who is pushing Science Fiction instead of science fact. To our collective peril. He talks about Wind Turbines. Here in iowa, you are a leader in this. 40 of iowas electricity comes from renewable energy. You are a model. But we have a guy in the white house who says Wind Turbines cause cancer. I love governor inslees line. I give him a hat tip. He said, turbines dont cause cancer, they cause jobs. [laughter] so weve got to be able to prosecute the case against him. And im going to tell you something. You know the pundits will talk about and compare, and i think overly compare 2016 to 2020. 2020 will not be 2016. 2020 will not be 2016. There is now, i call it a rap sheet. There is now a lot of evidence that has spoken to the american people, who know those who believed in him were betrayed, who know that we expect that the person who occupies that most precious seat, which is our government, not his, that is, we are a government of the people, by the people and for the people, we expect the president of the United States will always know that when she has this microphone in her hand, it is a very, very powerful force, and must always be used not to beat people down but to lift people up. That is who we are. My time is up. Thank you, guys. Thank you. [cheering] [applause] barbara, where are you . Over here. Im curious what you think particularly with executive action and whether it will be some sort of litigation . Sen. Harris we have done an analysis of it. Congress is invested in the president s authority. Among them is the authority to be concerned about what passes through commerce. For example. We have done the Legal Research on it. Im not concerned about it. But it is strong. The bottom line is this. Our policy and my preparedness to take executive action is just frankly because i am fed up. Congress has done nothing. I mean even at this most latest tragedy. We may bring people back we may do something. All these baby steps. People do not have time for this. And we keep having tragedy after tragedy. Somebody asked me, maybe this tragedy will spur some action. Well, this tragedy is as tragic as each one we have seen. And there has been no action over many, many years. So yes, im prepared to take executive action and actually do something. I believe and im confident it will pass constitutional uster. Do you believe the president is a white supremacist . And how can you combat White Supremacy legislatively . Do you have any plans . Sen. Harris let me tell you the concern i have with that uestion. And it is being asked a lot. It begins and ends with a question and the answer to that, as opposed to recognizing the long history in United States of this as an issue, the issue of hate. I as a prosecutor handled hate crimes. As the attorney general running the California Department of justice, i was publishing crime reports every year. This is not new in america. Hate is not new. Hate that takes the form of racism, antisemitism, homophobia, islamophobia is not new in our country. And i will not participate in a conversation that simplifies this issue without recognizing the history, speaking truth about it, and recognizing it happened before this guy was in the white house, it will continue after this guy in the white house. E is certainly fanning the flames of hate, no question about that. If are going to have this conversation, lets have it in a meaningful way. When we have seen everything from what happened in poway to the synagogue to charlottesville, to what happened in el paso, we should all be having a conversation and partly looking in the mirror to say where have we been on this, and what are we prepared to do. Part of it has to be, unlike what this administration and president have done, i have been talking about this for months, they shut down the resources on domestic terrorism. They just shut it down, in terms of putting resources and support into it and acknowledging it is real and it must be treated as what it is, domestic terrorism. So immediately, i would reform that perspective around the riority. Also it is about the microphone that the president of the United States has. A perception about an issue like race. Or religion. Or sexual orientation. And then just go down the list. And this president has used the very precious tool of that microphone in my opinion about he styling, the power of the office of the president of the United States. [inaudible] w do you make first of all, i love being in iowa. Each time i come, i really do i gain a lot from it. I gain perspective from it. We have over 65 staff in iowa. We have been staffing up over a period of time. Im introducing myself to people. It will be a process and with each step that we take, we are gaining ground and building momentum. I feel good about it. Your experience as a prosecutor. How do victims get justice . I actually had when i was attorney general. There are a lot of issues. Well see what the circumstances are. I have no inside information about it. When we are talking about what we are doing in prisons, there is a lot of reform that is needed and that relates everything that i have worked on for years and what we need to do to end solitary confinement of not only adults but minors and work that we have to do on incarcerated women that i have been a champion on including the fact that in the United States we have women that are shackled even during pregnancy and childbirth. There is lots to do across the board. On that subject, we also have to understand that administration as supported and supported private prisons. We never want to be in the business of having United States taxpayer dollars go to an industry by its very Business Model is about profiting off the incarceration of other human beings including what i saw in florida. A private detention fa tilt that houses 2700 children which means that your taxpayer dollars are going to fund the profit of the incarceration of children. Are you opposed to a number of things. Lets talk about the current state of affairs. Where donald trump has conducted trade policy by tweets. Right . He came to iowa making all sorts f promises to farmers. E just cut off a market to our farmers that they had been cultivating for well over a decade. Now they are looking at bankruptcy. Lets step back for a moment and also remember that trade by definition means there is more than one party. Because youre trading with somebody else. Usually there are a few parties involved. We have to conduct trade policy in a way that acknowledges there are many Rhode Islands and folks who are going to be in play in that. Unilateral. That is trade policy in a way that understands the negotiation and the leverage that we have with our allies around the world. True, trade policy for me is always going to be about protecting the American Workers and having those as our priorities. For that reason, im not in avor of what i call 2. 0. Whats your plan for i am going to spend my time in iowa and work on earning the support of every iowaan and my agenda, which i call the 3 00 a. M. Agenda is born out of my fundamental belief that the vast majority of us have so much more in common and that people want a president who is a problemsolving president and the problems are the problems that keep them up at night and wake them up in theled in of the night. It is about healthcare, keeping a job. Getting through the the end of the month being able to pay the bills. It is about their children and education. Issues like trade. These are my priorities and i know they speak to the vast majority of us regardless to the party that is registered to vote. Doio believe that walmart should stop selling guns and do you support a congressional investigation into Jeffrey Epsteins death . I dont know enough about the epstein case to comment on that. I just heard on that. On the issue of walmart, yeah, they should stop selling guns. I do believe that. It is just we need background checks. Lets start with that. We need background checks and we need people to be as i said responsible for the way they are selling them. It is not that Everyone Needs to stop selling them but we absolutely need to have checks and policies on enthusiasm we need background checks. If they participate in background checks, then fine. Right now they are not. Hats why said that. Also speaking at the iowa state fair was democratic president ial candidate iowa congressman tim ryan. After he spoke the congressman took agrees cspan viewers. This is an hour. Thank you. Thank you. How are you doing