Attended the event are on our website, cspan. Org. Mr. Sanders thank you all very much. My wife jane. Thank all of the people in this room for the important work youre doing every single day. Phobiaseliminate the that this president exhibits. We will and White Nationalism in this country as well. Together, we will protect american democracy and the rule of law and together, we will create an economy and a government that works for all and not just the 1 . Let me be as clear as i can be. We will not defeat trump unless we have an agenda that speaks to the pain and reality of the working families of this country. Working of are longer hours for lower wages. We will not defeat trump unless we have the courage to take on the powerful corporate interests who dominate our economic and political life. People want, are begging congress for common sense and safety legislation. And that is why we have to have the courage to take on the nra. People understand real andate change is is causing devastating problems in our country and all over the world and that is why we have to the the courage to take on greed and recklessness of the fossil fuel industry. The American People understand that in the year 2019, we must make colleges and universities tuition free and cancel all student debt in this country. In order to do that, we are going to have to and the absurd tax system that allows wall street and major corporations to get huge tax breaks. And the American People understand increasingly more every day that health care is a human right, not a privilege. And every poll that i have seen tells me the American People agree with many of us in this room that we must pass medicare for all. But to do that, we are going to have to take on the pharmaceutical industry which charges us the highest prices in the world for the medicine we need. To do that, were going to have to take on the whole Health Care Made 100 billion in profits last year. And the only way i know how we take on wall street and the Drug Companies and the Insurance Companies and the fossil fuel industry and the nra is when we have an unprecedented Grassroots Movement of millions of americans standing up, fighting back, and demanding an economy and government that works for all of us and not just wealthy campaign contributors. [cheers and applause] mr. Sanders brothers and sisters, in this unprecedented moment in american history, we need an unprecedented Grassroots Movement. Join our effort and let us reclaim american democracy and the government that works for all people. Thank you all very much. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome new jersey senator cory booker. Mr. Berger thank you. I dont want to use five minutes in the way you think it should be used in an event like this. Election does0 not stand for the year but the number of us who are running. I want to use my five minutes to point something out that we cannot let normalized. He saw a video from beto orourke, he did not miss this because of a family obligation or a conflict in schedule. He missed this because im a current americans were slaughtered. That in this election as we talk about the issues that drive us that the values that is underneath those issues what we need to hit on again and again and again. This election is not a referendum on one guy and one office. It takes more courage, you dont need to be a brilliant genus as the president says he is to know that he is a problem. This is not a referendum on one guy, this is a referendum on us and who are we going to be to each other. This is one of the moments in that is going to define the character of our country and this is a week where i will not let the slaughter of our federal fellow citizens just disappear within the next media cycle. I want to use the three minutes i have left to tell you what i believe bonds is together nation thatere a when for girls were killed in a raised in birmingham, we our moral conscience and our moral imagination and aansformed this nation to more compassionate, more empathetic, when women through themselves out of windows at the shirtwaist factory factory fire, we changed workers rights and rules, we responded and this has to be that moment in america. You, let want to ask me use my last seconds to tell you that it is not just a mass shooting, it is the fact that every day in america, people are being slaughtered and communities like mine where the ,ound of gunfire is so regular for 10 years, almost 10 years, i lived in a highrise Public Housing project. The tenant president of those buildings, her son was murdered in the lobby. He served in the u. S. Military. He was killed by gunfire in our country. I never forget asking her why she still lived in those buildings when her son was married and she looked at me in a defiant way, she said i am in charge of homeland security. She showed that the great and toughness, defiance like saidton hughes wrote, he for one, wedream must save the dream for all and you with theleave wisdom of a gun violence survivor, the wisdom of the woman on the fifth floor of the projects, this will not be easy. Anotherand i witnessed , one ofed out and died the gruesome things cry was traumatized, i was angry. I felt like giving up, i feel the darkness feel my heart and i , it was earlyget one morning, the morning after the shooting and i saw her in the courtyard of the project, she sees me and opened her arms i runys i am wounded and over to her and she holds me and i started crying on her shoulder, feeling the pain of another black teenager killed in an innercity and she said two words to me over and over and these are the two words and want to leave you with. Over and over, she held me, this strong woman, this defiant woman, a woman with incredible this tenant president who knows you cannot lead the people of you do not love the people. She rubbed my back and said words must a faithful. Said stay faithful. Stay faithful. My fellow americans, we have come this far by faith, we have overcome worse times, darker moments than this and we need americans who will stand up with faith in our country, faith in our ideals, faith in each other and come together again and stand together and Work Together and love together and overcome his darkness with our light. This is the call of our country. It is time for the United States of america to rise again. Thank you. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the stage andrew yang. Mr. Yang hello, iowa. Incredible to me back. I owe you all so much. I was here last year, and on the way just this week, i found out that my campaign is going to be on the stage in the fall. So thank you, iowa. As most of you know, i am not a career politician, i am an entrepreneur and Problem Solver and im running to solve the biggest problem of our time, which is why is donald trump our president . How did he win michigan, idaho, pennsylvania, wisconsin . If you turn on cable news, you will get a series of explanations. Russia, racism, facebook, hillary clinton. And some cocktail. I looked at the numbers and the numbers tell a different story. The reason donald trump is the president is we automated 4 millionn manufacturing jobs. How many know someone that lost their job in manufacturing . 40,000 right here in iowa. Unfortunately what happened to those workers will spread to retail, call centers, Truck Drivers through your communities. How many know the Stores Closing where you live here in iowa . Why are the stores are closing . Its a one word answer. Amazon. That is right. It is like a giant suction they , are sucking 20 billion out of your community. How much did amazon pay in taxes last year . Zero. Mr. Yang that is right. That is the math, iowa. The second 20 million and you get zero. The most common job in iowa and around the country is working as a retail cashier. The average retail cashier is a 39yearold woman making between nine dollars and 10 an hour. I just was at iowa 80 in davenport. The biggest truck stop in the country. How many of you have been there . It is a mean buffet, that is what you go. I know. There were 5000 people there. That stop there every day. My friends and Silicon Valley are working on trucks that can stop themselves. Imagine trucks that never stop. How many people will stop at iowa 80 then . We are in the greatest Economic Transformation and it brought us donald trump. Youve seen it on your farms and mainstreets. How many people wilt iowa 80 then . It is up to you to do something about it. Why are so many president ial candidates coming here . Two clearlake, to you all . Because you hold the future of the country in your hands. Look around right now. There are about 1200 iowans in this room. Ive done the math. Do you know how many californians each iowan is worth . 1000 californians. Each of you. You look around this room, i see 1. 2 million californians. This is how you start a revolution. Where does the revolution lead . This room right here. If you have heard anything about my campaign, theres something you have heard. An asian man wants to give 1000 to everyone a month. Thats true. All it sounds like a gimmick, three of those things are true. It sounds like a gimmick, but this is a deeply american idea. Thomas payne was for it, Martin Luther king was fighting for it the day he was assassinated and one state has had a dividend for 40 years where everyone gets between 1000 and 2000 a year and what state is that . , alaska. Mr. Yang how do they pay for it . Oil. Mr. Yang how do they pay for it . Oil. Oil. Yang the 21stis the oil of century . Technology. Yang technology, that is right. In alaska, they call it the oil check. Now where does the money go . It would go right back to your communities. Car repairs, day care, Little League sign up, it would revitalize your economies and create 40,000 new jobs. It would help rural areas with a path forward because we know rural areas are getting sucked dry by todays economy. This is a vision of a trickle up economy. Unlike the nonsense out of washington, d. C. , this would work. It is up to you, the people of iowa, to take this vision to the rest of the country for an economy that works for us, the shareholders of the society and make it real. That is why im here and the other candidates are here and we do not have much time. If we dont take advantage of this opportunity, we have four more years of Artificial Intelligence getting smarter, your Stores Closing, self driving trucks hitting the highways and we cannot let it happen. I am asking that you, iowa, take the vision to the rest of the country, because the opposite of donald trump is an asian man who likes math. Love you guys. Lets make america think harder. Thank you very much. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the stage california senator kamala harris. [applause] sen. Harris it is great to be with you. It is so great to be with you. This is historic. I cant believe im standing on this stage. Thank you. First, im going to ask you, i hope to earn your support. Let me just say that i think we all know this is an inflection moment in the history of our country, a moment in time that is requiring each of us to look in the mirror and ask the question, that question being who are we, and i think we know part of the answer is we are better than this. [applause] sen. Harris this is a moment in time for us to fight for the best of who we are. This is not a new fight for us. We fight for our country. That is the nature of who we are and so we are going to fight because we love our country, and we know its promise and we know we are better than this. I will tell you, i come from a family of fighters. My parents met when they were activists in the civil rights movement. My sister and i joke that we grew up around adults who were merging and shouting. Marching and shouting. My mother was tough. She was all of five feet tall, but if you met her, you would think she was 10 feet tall. She was the kind of parents who if you ever came home complaining about something, our mother would look at you with a straight face, maybe one hand on the hip and say, what are you going to do about it . I decided to run for president of the United States. [applause] sen. Harris there you go. Lets talk about the current occupant of the white house for a moment. We must, it is context. This is a guy who came in on a campaign that was about looking backwards. This is about a guy who came in and has been in office, using the power of the president of the United States in a way that is about trying to divide us and sow hate and division among us, but we know that one of the greatest strengths about who we are as a people is in our heart. We know we have so much more in common than what separates us. We are not going to buy what he is trying to sell because we know dude gotta go. Dude got to go. We are going to fight knowing we have so much more in common than what separates us in the way i think about that is what i call the 3 00 in the morning thought. When you wake up in the middle of the night with the thought that has been weighing on you. The vast majority of us when we wake up thinking that thought, it is never through the lens of the party of which we are registered to vote. For the vast majority, it is never through the lens some pollster put us in. And the vast majority of us, it usually has to do with our personal health, the health of our children, parents. For so many, can i get a job, keep a job, retire with dignity, pay off Student Loans . For so many families, can i help get my Family Member off their opioid addiction . Our farmers, can i keep my business thriving . Instead of having to look at bankruptcy because of this mans fragile ego that has prompted trade policy by tweet. This is a moment in time for us to fight for the america we believe in and the america we believe in, you should only have to work one job to have a roof over your head and put food over your table. The america we believe in, we will acknowledge a Climate Crisis and treat it with a sense of urgency, and a woman will have power over her own body and the right to make decisions for her and her family. In the america we believe in, all people will have health care and costs will not be the barrier. In the america we believe in, we will pay our teachers their value, understanding how they are helping to raise our kids and we will fight because this is a fight not only for optimism and knowing what can be unburdened by what has been, this is a fight not only for the soul of our country, but this is a fight born out of knowing that this is so much worse than we ever hoped it could be, and we are better than this and i promise you we are going to win. Thank you. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the stage washington governor jay inslee. [applause] gov. Inslee good evening. Im jay inslee. The jackhammering, bulldozer operating, concrete truck driving, Climate Change fighting governor of the state of washington, and im here to say this one thing. If you put me on the debate stage with donald trump, i will beat him like a two dollar mule. I just want you to know that. Now, of course we dont do that to our animals. We treat them with respect and the reason is i have never met a mule that lies like donald trump and never met a mule who is a white nationalist. We need to remove this guy from the white house. [applause] im really excited to be here tonight, in part because i feel a kinship with a Small Agricultural town. My wife and i for 46 years, we raised our three boys in a small red agricultural district in eastern washington. I won three out of four elections there. I know how to win in small towns and if i am given the honor of being the president of the United States, the party is going to invest in small towns and elections. You notice, i only won three out of four. I want to tell you about the fourth election. I was a freshman legislator and the bill came up to ban assault weapons. I knew if i voted to ban assault weapons, i would lose my seat in congress, but i voted to ban assault weapons, i lost my seat and i have never regretted that for one second. [applause] governor inslee that was the right vote then and it is the right vote now. Now, as the governor of the state of washington, i have the nra on the run. We have a Historic Place to gather tonight and we know theres Something Special about america, and i think you can call it a music. It is a music of diversity, of the middle class, a music of opportunity. In washington state, we are playing that music. I am proud to have been the guy with the highest minimum wage in the United States, the best paid family leave in the United States, the highest teacher pay raise in the United States, the best gender pay equity in the United States, the first Net Neutrality bill in the United States. We need to do what we are doing in the state of washington across this nation. So we have had tremendous success and as a result of doing these progressive things, you know what you get . The best economy in the u. S. I know this. We have a challenge out there that will make all these other victories moot if we dont fight together. There is a woman i think of when i think of this. Her name is regina. She runs a nonprofit called dress for success in davenport. Until the floods came and washed away her nonprofit. She was the victim of floods that will become much more because ofd intense the Climate Crisis. Her tears were just like the tears of marcia moss, a woman i met in agoura hills. Her mobile home is now just a pile of aluminum because of the forest fires. And the tears of the people in miami beach because of the Climate Crisis. We are better than this. If youtell you this, give me this high honor, i will make defeating Climate Crisis the number one priority of the United States of america. It needs to be the number one priority in the United States of america. I believe this. We have good candidates in this field, but i believe i am unique because im the only one who has made this statement that it has to be the top priority. Called to do so has been the gold standard. It is the most robust plan. It does what is necessary to build 8 million Good Union Jobs in this country and a clean energy economy. It is committed to that. I will mention one other thing. If we are going to beat Climate Crisis or do gun safety or anything else, we have to take away the filibuster from mitch mcconnell. We have to take that away from him, and i have to say, we need bold action on guns, bold action on womens rights, bold action on teacher pay, bold action on gender parity, bold action on Climate Change. Thanks a lot. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the stage senator elizabeth warren. [applause] sen. Warren hello, iowan democrats. [cheers and applause] sen. Warren i believe democrats win when we talk about our values, and heres an important one for me. No matter where you live in america, you ought to have a chance to build a secure future for yourself, your family and be able to count on the federal government that is on your side. [applause] sen. Warren but for decades now in rural and smalltown america, that has not been the case and that is why a couple of days ago, i rolled out an expanded plan for rural america, and here is where starts. It starts with health care, the importance of keeping our Community Hospitals and doctors in business. You know, a community loses its hospital, young families cannot move in and seniors feel like they have to leave, so heres how i see this. We start by being willing to fight against hospital mergers that cost us our local hospitals. [applause] sen. Warren we recognize the economics. Small hospitals operate on thin margins. That means everybody who comes in the door needs to be covered by health care. That is one of the reasons i support medicare for all. [applause] sen. Warren we have to be willing to put in the resources to support our rural hospitals to make sure we have enough doctors and nurses to make sure services that medical is available to everyone in this country all across this country. [applause] sen. Warren part two of this plan is to make sure we have access to highspeed internet everywhere in america. That is how you participate in a 21st century economy. Part three, we need a plan that works for independent farmers. [applause] sen. Warren farm plans for too long have been about big ag. We need to have the courage to break up big ag, to fight against big ag, to say no more sucking every last dollar on the pockets of our independent farmers. [applause] sen. Warren i support supply management, and i say it is time for a new policy, an innovative policy to bring in every single farmer, make them part of the solution to Climate Crisis, put them on the front lines. These are the people who will help take care of our land for generations to come and help us have a habitable planet for generations to come. And one more, trade war by tweet is not working for our farmers. I promise you this. When im president , when i negotiate a trade deal, there will be independent farmers at the table to make sure we get this right. [applause] sen. Warren and one last point i want to make. When i talk about structural change in our economy, when i talk about the kind of changes we need to make, it is so the economy works for everyone. Think about it this way. We need more power in the hands of workers. That means making it easier to join a union and give unions more power when they negotiate. [applause] sen. Warren it is time for a wealth tax in this country. Two cents from the top onetenth of 1 and we can have universal childcare, universal prek, universal college, 50 billion in historically black colleges and universities and we can cancel Student Loan Debt for 95 of the folks whove got it. [applause] sen. Warren weve had enough of an america where the Government Works better and better for a thinner and thinner slice at the top. 2020 is our chance. We can make this government work for all of america. Lets do this, democrats. Dream big, fight hard, lets win [applause] ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the stage former Vice President joe biden. [applause] mr. Biden folks, your patience exceeds your good judgment. [laughter] mr. Biden the good news is im last. Folks, it is great to be with you all tonight. You heard some great people tonight, people across the board. [applause] joe biden you heard from people who share one fundamental belief, that there is an existential threat if we keep donald trump for president. Im not saying it for applause. And gentlemen, president s the words they say matter. They can move markets, send men and women to war, they can make peace, they can aspire us to reach the moon, they can appeal to our better angels, but they can also unleash the ugly side of society, and ladies and gentlemen, when donald trump since he has become president , that is exactly what hes done. He has unleashed a constant battle taking place in america. We have been here before. We have been here before with the ku klux klan after the civil war. We have been here when 3000 klansmen in 1925 walked down the streets of pennsylvania avenue wearing full, d. C. Garb and when there were over 30 members of the house who were declared klan members. In fact, there were six or seven senators who were open klan members. But ladies and gentlemen, we fought back because we had people that decided that is not who we are. This has been a constant battle with us. The reason i am telling you this is it is not that we cant over come it. We can overcome it, and we must. When you saw those people walking out in charlottesville, their contorted faces, anger, chanting antisemitic bile, the nazi flags, accompanied by White Supremacists as well as ku klux klan. The fact was that what happened then was david duke talked about the president of the United States in terms of this is what we want to him to do. He said he would return us to where he wanted us to be. We found the president who said at the time when asked when that young woman was killed and he said what no other president has said. He said there are very fine people on both sides. He did. This is a reality. Ladies and gentlemen, donald trump offers no moral leadership. He has no interest in unifying the country. Theres no evidence the presidency has awakened his conscience in any way. Instead, he has publicly and unapologetically embraced the policies of hate, racism, and division. This is about more than any issue we can discuss today. But ladies and gentlemen, it is up to all of us, 330 million americans, who have to do what our president cant, stand together, stand against hate and lets call it what it is. This is White Nationalism. This is white supremacy. It is not only our values that are under assault, everything that makes america is under assault. Look at the attacks on the free press, the independent judiciary, supposedly coequal branches of government. These are the guardrails that have decided that we set up long ago to contain the abuse of power and ladies and gentlemen, the american creed has always been that we are all created equal and we hold these truths selfevident, that we the people in order to form a more perfect union. We never lived up to it. We have never fully lived up to it, but every single generation has moved that curve closer to justice, further and further towards justice. [applause] mr. Biden heres the deal. Every generation has done it, but ladies and gentlemen, the fact we never lived up to it isnt because we cant do it. Every single generation has done it. Thats why its never gathered dust in the history books, all that we stand for. Folks, look, the fact of the matter is that donald trump does not get it. He truly doesnt understand what we are all about. Four years of donald trump is going to go down in history as an aberration, but eight years of donald trump will fundamentally change who we are as a nation. Ladies and gentlemen, the core values of this nation, our standing in the world, our own sense of who we are is at stake. Everyone knows who donald trump is. We are going to let him know who we are. We choose truth over lies, unity over division, we choose that we are going to stand for what we always have because if we do, we can take it all back tomorrow and we must. Donald trump is an existential threat. Nothing will happen, not a single thing can happen of what we care about unless we defeat donald trump, so god bless you all and may god protect our troops. Lets take it back. I refuse to wait any longer. Take it back now. This is america. Theres nothing beyond our capacity. Stand up, america. Take it back. [applause] of thecan watch all speeches on cspan. Org and they are available on our free radio app. Later today, Pete Buttigieg attends the iowa state fair and talks to voters at the Des Moines Register stage. Live coverage begins at 2 30 p. M. Eastern on cspan. , livehington journal every day with news and policy issues that impact you. Coming up this morning, a discussion about the National Debt with the founder of open the book stuck,. We will talk about open the books. Com. We will talk about campaign 2020. Cspans washington journal live at 7 00 eastern this morning. Join the discussion. Washington journal mugs are available at cspans new online store. Go to cspan store. Org. 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