I have this whole riff about health food and i dont know if this is the place to give that speech. Its a pleasure to speed date here with you today. Really appreciate it. If you want a second date, go to timryanforamerica. Com. Im here with my wife and fiveyearold son, brady. Give them a welcome. Wave everybody. All right. He is like when every going to the bumper cars . I told him about the deepfried oreos. Hes ready to go. I really appreciate the opportunity to have 15 or 20 minutes to speak with you about how i feel this country needs to be. The direction i think we need to go. I believe we need to move from a conversation about reforming our systems that are all broken in the United States to transforming them into new systems. I think we have to move from the conversation about left or right. We have to have a conversation in the United States about new and better. The whole conversation i dont know how it goes with you. Where are you at . Left, center, centerleft, right . Where are you on the political spectrum . When the entire world, the economy, education, research, health care has blown through the traditional leftright divide, and i believe the next democratic nominee has got to be somebody who talks about new and better. You look at the broken Economic System we have where 75 of the American People are still living paychecktopaycheck. We have huge concentrations of wealth. We have the bottom 60 that is not seen a raise since 1980. When the cost of every thing else has gone up. You look at the Health Care System, its broken. We spent 2. 5 times on health care as every other industrialized country and get the worst results. You look at the environment and the fact that we kill 220,000 metric tons of fish at the mouth of the gulf of mexico every single year in the United States, plus the climate issues, plus the algae blooms in the great lakes, algae blooms in lake okeechobee in florida, and lakes all over. Our Water Quality is down. We have lead pipes that are poisoning our kids. We have an agriculture system thats a monopoly. And clearly is destroying our soil and our environment. You look at the criminal Justice System that is broken, racist at its core, and it needs reform. Immigration system, broken, clearly needs reforms. Only undocumented employees get busted but the employer gets off cott free. I want to have a conversation with you that will be slightly longer than the conversation i was able to have with you during the debates. [laughter] rep. Ryan talk about speed dating. What is your Health Care Policy . 15 seconds. I want to have a more indepth conversation with you. I am releasing proposals and sharing ideas. I want to talk about my proposal around the economy. I believe we need to have an industrial policy in the United States of america where our government, our research and our private sector all push in the same direction. Like germany does, like china does. One of the first positions im going to create is a chief manufacturing officer that will report directly to me. We will put together strategies on how to dominate industries. Let me give you a few examples. The electric vehicle industry, somewhere in the world we are going to make 10 million electric vehicles in the next 10 years. I want half of those built by American Workers in the United States of america. [applause] rep. Ryan my chief manufacturing officer will sit down with the department of energy, the department of transportation, venture capital, private sector, investors, we will sit down with maybe the big three, maybe emerging automakers and sit down and figure out how to be dominate the electric vehicle market. How do we make 5 million vehicles . How do we drive that investment into the communities like the ones i represent in ohio . Old steel, pulled auto, old coal, coal textile. Rural areas they used to have a Manufacturing Base to fund local schools. How do we drive this industry that is growing into these communities of color . Or example, the ones that have been left behind. We will Start Building things in the United States again. I can promise you that. [applause] rep. Ryan right now who dominates that industry . China does. They dominate 50 to 60 of the electric vehicle market. We will do the same thing with solar and Wind Turbines and all the component parts. We will do the same thing around 5g. We will do the same thing around artificial intelligence. We will do the same thing around Additive Manufacturing and 3d printing. These industries are growing at 25 or 30 a year. We need a strategy in United States on how we will dominate these industries. It needs to come from the president of the United States. Im telling you we will get this one. We are going to build things again in the United States. [applause] rep. Ryan Climate Change is obviously a huge issue. Now a democratic nominee, tim ryan, will go to places in iowa, and wisconsin and michigan and ohio and pennsylvania and mississippi and South Carolina and these all textile communities and say you know how we reverse Climate Change . You get a really good paying job that pays 30, 40, 50 an our uilding electric vehicles. Now you begin to bring in the entire country and around an agenda that both reverses Climate Change and lifts up the middle class. That is how we move forward with the climate agenda. We Start Building our way to a renewable economy. I want to talk about health care. Im for a public option. We bring medicare down to 50. We will cover 60 Million People in the u. S. , and Kaiser Permanente says those 60 Million People who were 50 to 64 will see a 40 reduction in their Health Care Costs. 40 . I know it may not be a revolution, but i think thats a pretty significant step in the right direction. I would also allow Small Businesses to be able to buy into the medicare program. These Small Businesses are getting killed with Health Care Costs. They should be able to get into that program and have some stability so they can reinvest back into wages and health care and Capital Investments for their small business. We should have anybody who wants to buy in be able to buy into the program if they cant afford good Quality Health insurance. I dont believe we should go about the business of taking peoples private Health Insurance away. I think that is a dangerous proposal for us to have. Here is the difference. 75 of our Health Care Costs in United States come from chronic diseases that are largely preventable. The next transformation of the Health Care System has got to be about how do we build the system that reverses chronic diseases that are costing us 3. 5 trillion a year. Think about that. 3. 5 trillion dollars a year of our Health Care Costs direct and indirect come from chronic diseases that are preventable. Type 2 diabetes. Half the Adult Population has either diabetes or prediabetes. A diabetic costs about 14,000 a year. With interventions like food as medicine and other support we are literally reversing type 2 diabetes across the board in the United States. Why wouldnt we want our Health Care System to have a strategy where we have doctors benefit and had patients give rebates and refunds for getting and staying healthy . Where you get paid for getting and staying healthy, and bring that cost down. We have trillion dollar a year deficits coming. 22 trillion debt, and 1 trillion a year annual deficit as far as the eye can see. When you look at your health care expenditures, and three quarters or 3. 5 trillion, thats where the money is, lets go after that. Microform will have a Huge Public Health initiative where we drive those costs down so we have money to invest in college and k12 and all the rest. We can take care of people who cant reverse the chronic iseases they may have. That is a transformational Health Care System. That is the one i will push. I released an education proposal the other day. We have got to transform our Education System k12. The conversation has got the shift from how do we get test scores up, to how do we take care of our kids . How do we take care of our kids . My proposal, one takes care of the teachers. We help them with tax credits and loan forgiveness and all the rest, which is a complete suck up to my wife who is a firstgrade schoolteacher. I am not stupid. I go all around the country. My wife says, how did it go . I was talking about you today, baby. My proposal is to put a Mental Health counselor in every Single School in the United States that needs one. I want a traumainformed curriculum for every school. I want them to have social and Emotional Learning. We have so many kids that come to our schools that are traumatized. We have learned more about the brain in the last 20 years than we have in the previous 200. I want this initiative to help these kids get their brains out a fight or flight mode so they can access the prefrontal cortex in the front of their head, their executive functions where theyre working memory is, the decisionmaking. It is up here. Hen the brain is in fight or flight you literally cannot access your working memory. No wonder you cant learn. Lets build an Education System hat gets these kids out of trauma and gets them into a healthy environment so they can begin to learn again. What you have seen with robust social and Emotional Learning programs is an 11 percentile point increase in test cores. Closes the achievement gap. 10 increase in good behavior, 10 decrease in antisocial behavior. 20 swing in the mood of schools. This is not left or right. This is supported by both the brookings institution, leftleaning think tank, and American Enterprise institute, rightleaning think tank. E can move forward with this agenda. Manufacturing. Lets move forward with manufacturing. Supported by 80 of the American People. Get out of this left or right polarization. Lets move forward. America, new and better. I want to lead this charge around these issues. I want to have a conversation around agriculture. I want to transform the agricultural system. You know better than anybody in the United States, and we know in ohio, what is happening to Rural America. Losing hospitals, losing manufacturing, the downtowns have fallen apart. I have an agenda where we reinvest in small and midsized towns, renovate the theater, build a riverwalk, build the bike trail. I have done this in small little towns. You need that community and get Affordable Housing down there in the downtowns. I want us to move from this monopolistic, industrial agriculture system that we have today. I want us to slowly move to sustainable and regenerative agriculture here in the United States of america. [applause] rep. Ryan the only farmers in America Today really making money are the ones who were doing regenerative agriculture. This is when you do no till farming. You do cover crops. You dramatically reduce your input of pesticides and fertilizers. The soil begins to hold become more porous. For every 1 of organic matter you increase the soil, the acre of land can hold 27,000 more gallons of water. We have destroyed the soil in the United States of america. When the rains come they take the fertilizer into the rivers and they go down the river to the mouth of the mississippi and killed 220,000 metric tons of fish every year. We get algae blooms. The farmers are not making any money. It has been five years. I want the Democratic Party to be able to go into Rural America and say we have an agenda to move to regenerative agriculture so you can start making money again. I will tell the farmers and United States you will make a hell of a lot more money off of a president ryan you ever made under president trump. [applause] [applause] rep. Ryan we are going to have an active world program. The democrats did not do well in rural iowa in the last rep. Ryan we are going to have an active world program. The democrats did not do well in rural iowa in the last gubernatorial race. Go to the small and midsize towns. They matter. Thats america. They call us flyover states, right . We are not flyover states. We are american states. We went investment and strategies and not a bunch of platitudes. I want the government to be on our side again. This is the big deal i want to stress with all of you. Im 46 years old. We have three kids. Him 16, 15, and five. Him him my entire adult life we 16, 15, and five. My entire adult life we have been having culture wars. It was jack kennedy and then Martin Luther king and then bobby and then vietnam. It has taken off since then. Now it has gotten so bad where we literally have the president of the United States saying send them back. Right . America, love it or leave it. That was the same signs that were up during the vietnam war. You may not know who i am. Im tim ryan. Im from northeast ohio. Im an old football player, an old quarterback. Real old. See me walk in the morning. Shoulder, knee, back. Its a bad site. My wife watches me walk to go get coffee and she said, did anybody block for you as a quarterback . I play offense. I want the Democratic Party to play offense with new ideas, and stop sitting back and letting us be defined by the rightwing echo chambers. I want us to define the future of this country. I want to do it with these new ideas. I want to do it with these new ideas because when i talk about social and Emotional Learning, about regenerative agriculture, when i talk about reforming our economy around new ways of manufacturing, not Everybody Knows what im talking about. They pause. And they listen. I tell them i dont want this leftright divide. I am fed up to hear. I dont want anymore culture wars. Im worried about school shootings. Im worried this has gotten so bad that our kids in Public Schools are afraid to go to school in the next week or two. That is unacceptable. To me that should be unacceptable to every goodhearted american. That means we have got to get these weapons of war off the streets of the United States of america. We have got to have a background check. We have got to have an immigration system in United States that where we can both common sense. Its not left or right. You have Border Security or comprehensive Immigration Reform. Wait a minute. No i dont. I am for Border Security. I want to know whos coming into the country. I want to know, and i want us to stop them if theyre trying to. But i also am the descendent of immigrants. This has been the secret sauce in the United States for a long time. We want comprehensive Immigration Reform in the United States. Bring people out of the shadows here in this country. Build our economy. I would just say this. Im in a fighting mood. I am irish. You know the old irish saying, dont you . Is this a private fight or can anybody get into it . [laughter] rep. Ryan im ready to fight. I have a transformational agenda. It is not going to be easy for us. Im not saying i have a magic wand. There is no superstar, no savior. It is you and its me. It is your family and its my family. Lets not reform these broken systems. Lets transform these systems. I will leave you with this that Bobby Kennedy used to say at the end of his brief campaign. I do not promise you ease. I do not promise you comfort. But i will promise you these, i promise you weariness, you i promise you hardship, and i will promise you sacrifice. I will promise you weariness, hardship, sacrifice. With these i will promise you victory. Thank you so much. God bless you, iowa. [applause] [crowd talking] go get some sunscreen and some water and come back at 12 45 for the next candidate. [crowd talking] thank you. Appreciate it so much. [indiscernible] rep. Ryan yeah, exactly. Hi. I am all sweaty. How are you doing . Can i take a picture with you . And i can get in there too. All right. Thank you. Rep. Ryan goodlooking people right there. Thank you. Rep. Ryan hello, everybody. Just for the record i asked for miller lite after my speech in and they gave me water. Just so we are all in the same page. How are you . If congress does not act on gun control, would you take executive action . Rep. Ryan i would certainly sit down with our attorneys and figure out as far as i can possibly go with executive action. My goal is to be the nominee and to be able to go into the states to win the senate back and hopefully really begin two to organize. What i heard in dayton was that a lot of republicans now are very concerned about whats happening in the streets of the United States. They are interested in helping try to push their elected officials to do something. We have to continue to build the grassroots but i will go as far as i can. What you call out trump for not identifying domestic terrorists . Rep. Ryan i already have. I will continue to. [indiscernible] so they can start making there on monday and stop relying on the government they are own money and stop relying on the government. Rep. Ryan we will bring in some of these regenerative agriculture farmers, like my buddy gabe in north dakota. There are others making money. They have seen regenerative farmers, after one year, start to make money. We have five or six years were where farmers in places like iowa have not made any money. What i would pledge as we will help you with the conversion. You may have made some Capital Investments and other investments into the older industrial monopolies. We want to help you get out of there. My plan but put four or five teams in each state of four or five people that will help educate farmers on how to convert over to regenerative agriculture. I want to build out the extensions, the land grant extension programs. We will do that through the department of agriculture. I am super excited about it because it also sequesters carbon. It could be a big strategy for us to both in the manufacturing, i talked about and the renewables and the technology piece, but sequestering carbon in soil will be a critical part of getting this done. Breaking up agricultural monopolies . Rep. Ryan yes. You talked about the risk of democrats going too far with some of the programs aired some of the programs. To senatoryou spoken harris, senator warren. Is that a valid warning to democrats . Rep. Ryan i can only speak on how i feel. I think that taking private insurance is a dangerous proposition, to go into unionized states in the industrial midwest, he states we have to win. We should be the party of Getting People Health Care and not taking it away. I do have some concerns with that. With the decriminalization of the border, i believe if you want to come into our house, you have to ring the doorbell. When you have conversations around Free Health Care for undocumented workers, there are a lot of americans who are working their rear ends off to pay for health care for their families. It should be free from document undocumented workers. I believe undocumented workers should have access to health care, but they have to pay for like everybody else. I think thats a reasonable position to have. The other position to be potentially a cost to us. [indiscernible] that he used hollowpoint bullets because they cause maximum damage. Where do you stand on a ban for hollowpoint bullets . Rep. Ryan i am forward. For it. The weapons of war. Im a house of representatives guy and have been for 17 years. I believe in the process. It is not working now but i believe in the process where we should sit down and have committee hearings. We should bring in experts. We should identify the weaponry and the bullets as we move forward to try to regulate this. We have to know what were talking about. But hollowpoint bullets, thats pretty straightforward. Where do you stand on walmart to stop selling guns . They were selling make your own ar15 kits. Where do you stand on that . Rep. Ryan i have not been to walmart to see their selection. If you can keep it to hunting rifles and those kind of things, i think thats appropriate. I think one of the great leaders in the last few years has been the ceo of dicks sportinggoods , who said we are not selling this anymore. I think that was appropriate. In 1994, Many Democrats were barred by the political backlash. Do you think the party is in a different place now . Democrats have devoted to pass a ban . Rep. Ryan i think the country is in a different place right now. Back in 1994, the only Major Organization, the only Major Organization in 1994 was the National Rifle association. I just left the meeting of 300 people in iowa around mom submit moms demand action. You have Gabby Giffords group. You have sandy hook. There are a lot of groups that are a counterbalance to the nra. Plus, the accumulation of the concerns in dayton and el paso going all the way back to columbine for we have a generation who lived through this. I think public sentiment is also changing. First and foremost, lets get this stuff passed in the senate. Then we can talk about the next steps of getting these weapons of war off the streets, which has about 60 support across the United States. Congressman ryan, about jeffrey epstein, how do we get justice for his alleged victims . Now that the case is effectively over, there will be no more prosecution, but what do we do about the victims . Rep. Ryan we have to continue the process and the process will continue. If we have to do something in congress to bring that to light, we most certainly well and i will and i would encourage our leadership to do that. I dont know how this guy was able to commit suicide. One of the biggest fugitives in custody in a federal prison. No idea how this happened. We will get those details. Easy way out, as far as i can tell. One more on gun violence. President trump has talked a lot [indiscernible] rep. Ryan what is the name of that book . Amazon. Com. Im kidding. Where you stand on where the Mental Health component versus gun ban and things like that . Rep. Ryan i think its interesting. When you hear from the president , from Mitch Mcconnell, from people who dont want to do anything on gun reforms, they to. Ys diverge divert. Divert to Mental Health. When four out of five these issues there are no metal health issues. 99 of people with Mental Illness are not violent. To push this off on that i think is a distraction. There is Mental Illness in other countries but they dont have Mass Shootings because they cant get their hands on these kind of powerful weapon. Having said that, we have a Mental Health crisis in the country. I think there should be a metal Health Counselor in every school. We need to make sure there are enough providers in Rural Communities and older industrial committees that lost a lot of providers. We have to make sure there is access and promote in the schools traumainformed care. A lot of this trauma can lead to depression and Mental Health issues. We are finding more evidence that diet can have an effect on depression and other issues. Its clearly an issue, but if the president was so concerned about Mental Health, he would not be trying to kick 22 Million People off of their Health Insurance that includes Mental Health coverage. It is the most disingenuous thing i think he has said. People are dying on the streets of dayton and el paso and his he is trying to push it off and say to Mental Health issue. At the same time hes kicking 22 Million People after health off of their mental Health Insurance. Thats as all you need to say. Medicine, foods are what foods are you talking about . Rep. Ryan the food is medicine is a new initiative happening in different areas across the country where you take type two diabetics and some studies have literally given them 2500 worth of healthy food. Fruit, vegetables, moving away from carbohydrates and sugar. Over time, they have reversed type 2 diabetes. Gotten them off their meds. With other support as well. Not just the food, but the food is a key component of it. I was in iowa a few weeks back. I met a woman. Im telling her what i was saying out here about it. She said i just got into a program. She said i was on my deathbed. She lost 89 pounds through using food as medicine. She got off 10 or 15 different prescription drugs she was on. She was down to one more. One more i got to get off of. She is now healthy and alive and vibrant and coming to political roundtables with guys like me. That is the future of medicine. Sometimes we over complicate things. We think just technology. This could be really good for the farmers, right . You moved to regenerative agriculture and produce more fresh, healthy food. Get rid of food deserts. It becomes a whole new market for farmers. So you are reducing your Health Care Costs, boosting farmers, good for the environment. Now you have a more energetic, productive worker in society. Winwinwin. Thats how i want the Democratic Party to start thinking. I dont want these old ideas. I dont want to just talk about singlepayer or just the Health Insurance piece, which is important. Im on the medicare for all bill, medicare to 50. This is where we have got to go. Insurance is a small part of the broader conversation i think democrats should be leading. Eating less meat because of environmental reasons. Rep. Ryan i eat meat. You are going to fill me eating meat here in a little bit and probably lots of it. Im totally ok with eating meat. I believe meat should be produced like it used to be produced. We have to get these cows out of these industrial processing plants. I dont think its healthy for them. You look at the poultry and the meat, it has high levels of antibiotics, hormones. We can do better than that. Part of the regenerative process to really make it work is to have the cattle out there walking, doing what they do, and helping build the soil out. That is all part of the process. I am all for eating meat but we i am all for eating meat, but we have to move from the industrial to the more grass fed that doesnt have all of the hormones and antibiotics in them. Reformrom meat to gun back to pork chops. Congressman, gun reform is part of the radical can you talk about what you would do as deradicalize the far right . Ryan i think you do prosecute those who commit the crimes as domestic terrorism. You cannot have the president of the United States provide political cover for these groups which he has. People ask me are you calling the president a white supremacist . Do White Supremacists think he is a white supremacist . A political candidate calling him and he doesnt go very far but if you want to find the answer, go to the groups. They have said this is a guy who will promote our agenda. Calling it out, another way to divide the country to me that is the way to do it. [inaudible] rep. Ryan i didnt see that but it is par for the course. This is where Big Energy Companies can get what they want. They get the waivers and they hurt the small and midsized people. This is a government that is correct, whether it is the nra or the waivers for ethanol. I believe in publicly financing elections. I think we have to get the money out of politics. To have a government that functions on behalf of the American People. This is another example. We just saw the immigration issue in mississippi. In each instance it is like the top dog gets everything that they want and the people are not protected at all. Yes maam . [inaudible] rep. Ryan you have to prosecute them. Is that theding laws are on the books. They have all of these incidents. Been prosecuted. The Trump Administration consistently looks the other way so you will need a new president. From the top down. I would win ohio, pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin. I think we put i North Carolina interplay. I think we put potentially in the senate races we can go down and beat Mitch Mcconnell if i am the nominee. I am in the Service Industry here. I think we put kentucky into play. I think we would make a great run at Lindsey Graham and South Carolina. A lot of those communities down there have some work. There is a lot of economic anxiety. We can make a good run at Lindsey Graham. I think we can win the senate back, but we need a nominee he was talking about doing better and not left or right. If we jump into the divide i think we can potentially win, but we cant transform the map. If we go new and better. New economy, new ideas around education, new ideas around educating kids, new ideas around health care in Rural America, we can pull together the old fdr coalition. I love the idea of us going into Rural America, and i think we can transform the map. The president was critical of the military exercises with america and south korea. What are the benefits of those exercises today . Is that something you are willing to give up for peace with north korea . Rep. Ryan i hate to jump in. Ive been in congress for 17 years. I have been on either the Armed Services committee or defense appropriations committee. I know enough to not jump into a donald trump tweet about a crazy idea he has. Somehow acting like that is american policy and forward. I will just say that north korea is a threat. China is moving into the South China Sea in a big way. We see the problems theyre having in hong kong and taiwan and other areas. There was a lot of stuff going on. They are moving out and showing a lot of force. We have got to make sure we have some balance and friends in the region. That includes military exercises. Not just with south korea. Also with india and other countries. We have got to be positioned. I dont like it anymore than anybody else but i dont want china having free reign of the world. Locking down china is in africa locking down material contracts for essential minerals that we need for our economy. And in technology and all the rest. China is on the move and they have a 100your plan. My concern is that donald trump lives in a 24hour news cycle. Guess who wins that game. If you became president and the democrats have the majority of the house, who would you like to see become speaker . Rep. Ryan that is out of my hands. A lot of good talent. I dont know if leader pelosi will still be around. Joakim jeffries. There is a lot of really good talent we have been able to put into leadership. We will have to wait and see. I have enough on my plate right now. Cool. Yes, honey . [indiscernible] rep. Ryan great question. I released an Education Plan a few weeks back. It puts 100 billion into infrastructure for the schools. School buildings, highspeed internet, making sure the buildings can be secure, air conditioning or heat depending on what the school needs. We are putting 100 billion into that so the building looks good. You have playgrounds and every thing else. We also have approaches where we want to make sure there is art and music and all of the extracurricular activities. We want to make sure you are learning social and emotional health, like how to handle conflict with your friends or parents or brothers or sister if you have one. How to handle that in a mature way. Not just teach academics but also teach the whole child. That is one of the things i want to do but i want to make sure there are afterschool programs and Summer School programs so we can keep you busy with things you like. If there is something you like, some schools dont always offer things for kids. I want to make sure every school has the opportunity to give you something you are interested in. And help you along the way. I want to make sure you are eating good at school. We want to have School Gardens so you are learning how to grow food yourself. Tie that into the Health Curriculum you may have. As youre learning about your body and health and also growing the food that can keep you healthy. I want a salad bar in every school. It does not mean you cant eat treats, just not as many. Last one. What are you going to eat at the state fair . Rep. Ryan i am getting the deepfried oreo cookie, which has 4. 5 stars on yelp. [applause] you had a beer and you were flipping the porkchops. How did it go . It was hot. I i want to begin with a tweetth from our colleagues. Youre just over an area where we had a beer and you are flipping the porkchops. How did that go . Yes. It was hot. It was the best beer i think i ever had in my life. I was sweating and then i went over and started working at the grill so it was great we are hitting as many food stands as we can. Issues that dominated the campaign. Gun control. You are urging the republican leader to reconvene the senate. Should the house also meet this month to debate the issue . Ryan the senate has to go back first. They have bills on Mitch Mcconnells death desk getting dusty. They have the support of 80 of the American People. The senate should go back immediately, take those up and pass them, and take care of them in a Conference Committee or Something Like that. Ifthey want to keep going, they want to do assault weapons bans, we can do that in august too. This is the headline from the courierjournal. After the president s speech, he issued a statement saying it is time for lawmakers to reflect on what the president is offering. Your reaction . Ofthere has been a lot reflection. People are getting murdered and gunned down. Almost 30 injured within less than 30 seconds in dayton ohio. He needs to take these bills up. These are closing loopholes. Its not that complicated. You should have a background check if there are persontoperson sales. People are getting killed at levels that are unacceptable for me in the United States. First on the democrats line from owensboro, kentucky. Recently there was a conversation where a female colonel accused him of sexual abuse. No one believed her and they explained and they believed him. Can you explain that . Rep. Ryan im not sure exactly what the story was but there needs to be a process, especially in the military where there is a high rate of sexual assault. I think these women need to be given a fair trial. In the speech that we carry life you told iowa voters about job losses in the youngstown area. Among those spots will be the closing of the youngstown vindicator. When a community loses its Community Paper like we are with the youngstown vindicator, that goese spotlight that through the board of education meetings that spreads light on the functioning of local democracy. You need what the press provides. I am a politician. Of course they dont always write things that i agree with. These local papers revealing what is happening to prevent corruption. Losing that paper is going to be really tough. My name is stephen. Is of all the people why didnt they go after him first . I didnt see the numbers. I didnt see that there were any ms 13 involved at all. My concern is that it demonizes undocumented immigrants. Is thesety of it business folks are getting away with hiring these people. That is the real question that Everybody Needs to ask. The oil and gas Companies Get huge tax breaks. The 3 trillion tax cut that went primarily to the top 1 . See the people that are undocumented. Of theave the Owners Company alone. Everyone else is left unprotected. The immigration debate was a good example of that. That wentn about how down in the schools where several hundred children came home without their mother or dad . Rep. Ryan i cant imagine. If Ronald Reagan or fdr or the din johnson how does the federal government or Lyndon Johnson how does the federal government have no plan for the kids who will be at school and come home to know parents . Im running around the fair with my fiveyearold kid and there are kids everywhere. We are a better country than that. Those are little children who will be so devastated devastated. To me that is so far beyond the pale of how we should behave as a country. All it does is signal to me and every person in the country that the president doesnt care. One thing that you would say to the president or the head of these agencies is that there will be kids there, what do we do with the kids . Ice is saying we are just doing our job we are not a social Service Agency. Where is the social Service Agency . Have superents who young kids how are they able to connect with them . This is so inhumane. Good afternoon. Do you support the investigation into the impeachment of donald j. Trump . Rep. Ryan i do. I read the Mueller Report twice. In my estimation he obstructed justice five or six times. If that was somebody in Youngstown Ohio who is an auto worker or a waitress in new york city they would be indicted. King, he is a president. He needs to face up for what he did. There seems to be an investigation and house and i encourage my colleagues to proceed with that investigation. We are going to move on to tom in West Des Moines iowa. My farm two years ago. He had 300 acres of soybeans and that is more than i had. He didnt get any subsidized payments. He didnt know if he would get any in the second year. Would look into that and see why he didnt get that with his life when i didnt have that many acres. I always participate. Thank you for your question. First i have heard of it. I spoke today on the soapbox about trying to move the industrial, monopolistic agriculture system over to regenerative agriculture that also sequesters carbon which can allow us to reverse Climate Change. It is also much better for the soil. We have algae blooms in the great lakes. Soil that turned into dirt. It goes into the lakes and not just the river. It will hold and make more porous the soil to be more drought resistant because it holds more water and better for the farmers. They make money when they regenerativen agriculture. That way farmers can make money so they are not spending so much on pesticide and herbicide and fertilizer. Farmershnique will help be more profitable. Farmers will make more money off of president tim ryan than they ever made off donald trump. Where is the algae bloom ing from that you so much fertilizer now. It is a burden that costs farmers so much money and then the fertilizer runs off and sifts into these lakes. You can see it happen with tremendous effect on the Fishing Industries or on the coast or the great lake areas. Reducing the amount of fertilizer you need by really taking care of the soil with different plants, planting different crops throughout the year. Certainp brings minerals and things into the soil. It increases organic matter. The food has lost a ton of nutrient value. This is a win across the board plus you can take care of the algae problem. Call is from cedar rapids. Mary. Hello, tim. I met you in fairfield, iowa. I think with the shootings in , part of the paso problem is what are we doing about our young men. I think the conversation is important. Are we not eating nutritious food. Get young people to think about agriculture. Im cooking tomatoes with zucchini on inspiration from you from two months ago and i appreciate you being here. We are seeing a lot of information coming in about and its effect on Mental Health. When we mess up the micro biome, we are starting to see real data coming in around depression and other Mental Health issues. I released a couple weeks ago an education proposal that deals educationforming our intom by putting more care our schools. Having art therapy and play therapy and music therapy. Then when we do that you see in 11 change in their test scores. The economyabout and transforming education. If anyone is interested they can go to timryan. Com and send a contribution to keep this campaign rolling. Im talking about new and better. You heard me talking today to try to not reform old broken systems but to try to transform them. Congressman, earlier today senator Kamala Harris came across your son, brady. Hime is a photograph of wearing the tim ryan shirt. What has this been like for you and your family . Rep. Ryan it is exhilarating and exhausting. Very challenging for the family. We have young kids, and my wife works. The house is really busy and i am not around. But my kids have been here and its been great. They came to kentucky with me. My wife heres the stories that i tell when i get home. But to have her on the trail manye trail you hear so gut wrenching stories around gun violence. People with health care and Womens Health and reproductive rights. Hear good for my wife to those stories with me on the trail. When i am away she knows what im doing and she is reminded about why we are doing this as a family. And with my son it has been great because i havent had a lot of time with him. Now we will ride some rides. Congressman ryan thank you ters at the iowa state