Thetor Amy Klobuchar among president ial candidates campaigning in New Hampshire over the weekend. One of her stops today, this private home in nashua. She will meet some voters. Our live coverage gets underway right now. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [applause] [inaudible] [laughter] over. Over. Me on thats ok. Any late arrive ors get a hug arrivers get a hug. Sorry for the delay, but we are glad you are here on this Beautiful Day in nashua, New Hampshire. Bill and i have the great pleasure of having senator Amy Klobuchar here today. Because we are running a little late, i will suggest that perhaps you look at her website, which contains an extraordinary number of policies, and the most important part of them is that she can deliver on it. I want to tell you a couple of things about why i am supporting senator klobuchar. I am a child of immigrants. My parents came to this country literally with nothing after world war ii and i have been the beneficiary of the ideals, the aspirations, the hopes and dreams of most americans, and i want that to be for every american. I am the product [applause] too. I would clap for that i am the product of a Public School education from a midwestern state. [applause] illinois. Public education is the great equalizer. Public education is what helps everyone benefit from economic prosperity. Senator klobuchar makes a point of her policies, she ensures that what they are all about is to ensure access for everyone, that no one is left behind. Currently, our economic policies have not brought everyone else along, and senator klobuchar is someone who can deliver. Senator klobuchar is the most successful democratic senator. She delivers except for jeannie and maggie. [laughter] ms. Honorow whoops. We all love jeannie and maggie. [applause] ms. Honorow but that is a senator klobucharism. She will give credit where credit is due. Sponsored and been part of passing several bills that have gone through this current administration, which is hard to do when you are a democrat. [applause] ms. Honorow there are many good candidates who are running for president. Senator klobuchar is a proven deliverer, and thats what we need. I am supporting senator klobuchar because not only does she understand what does it what it means to govern, she would govern with the humility and the compassion that is necessary for president of the United States. We would never be embarrassed with her as president of the United States. [applause] ms. Honorow senator klobuchar . Sen. Klobuchar thank you, helen. This is, like, the best backyard ever. Thank you, and thank you so much to both of you and thank you to bill. Ok, you wonder what is in my hand . I walked into helen and build kitchen, and it was too good not to bring out. Actiond a notorious rbg figure, ok . [cheers and applause] sen. Klobuchar right . It moves, and i will put it right here for good wishes, you know . Watching over us. We are so happy, the news that she came through yet another health scare with a clean bill of health. A person. Er seen such ok. Deborah, a great counselor over here, i am so proud to have her support, as well as former attorney general joe foster. Thank you. They are both here. This is actually our third nashua outdoor event here, deborah had one and it is so great to have so many people here giving that. Also state senator shannon shandley,yeah, shannon chamblee, where are you . Lavake is here as well, another state senator. [applause] ok. Klobuchar could all the other representatives stand up and say your names so we can include everyone who has been elected . Yes, ok. Say your name . [inaudible] state ward three, nashua state representative. Sen. Klobuchar thank you. [applause] [inaudible] state representative and ward three aldermen. Sen. Klobuchar great. Anyone else . [inaudible] representative warden. Sen. Klobuchar thank you, jeff. Ward seven. Sen. Klobuchar thank you, deb. Anyone else . I love how everyone is always elected here. My favorite was in right. Was in ryw. I rye. Went to the town moderator, who introduced himself. I made a joke and said, you are elected to . The town am, and moderator. We were on the coast just now, quite a day to be there, talking about im a change at the Science Center. It is an amazing thing. We are having kind of a climate theme these next few days going into it. We will actually have a climate townhome for the 10 candidates that have qualified for the debate yes, i am one of them. I tell people it is kind of like i made the playoffs, all right . [laughter] a biglobuchar it is deal, and a lot of you out here had a role in that, and some of you are meeting me for the first time. We are pretty excited, because as the field narrows it will give me a much better chance to be able to make my case. You know that i announced in the middle of a snowstorm, because i know that would be popular in New Hampshire come on, snow. Greated to show i had the not to go inside, and i did it there in part because i wanted to make the case that we need to cross the river of our divide to an island in the mississippi river, to get to a higher plane in our politics. And i believe that more than i did then. Seems to just escalate every single week with his negative attacks and his chaotic rhetoric, and in fact i was on this morning i did face the nation and fox news them, iand on both of was able to talk about his trade policy and the economics of what is going on right now. Literally, in the span of just this month, on august 1, he billiond tariffs, 300 worth of goods. Less than two weeks later, he reversed himself and they pulled them back. Then on august 20, he announced that he was going to reduce taxes because of a potential and thenn, the next day he changed his mind. And he do that on the fact that he has given us trillions over trillions of dollars in debt and taken us to a place where, if we continue on this course in 10 years, we will have the worst debt since we had right after world war ii. He is literally treating this country like one of his bankrupt casinos, and i think we have to talk about that, as well as the need to go back to the negotiating table with china, with our allies at our side as well as the target investment that we need in things like crying out here with the potential for Commuter Rail to this area. [applause] is the mostar this congested area, actually, in the country that does not have Commuter Rail going to it right now, and that is just an example of some of the Green Infrastructure and things that we should be doing, allowing for the independence of the Federal Reserve, for a number of years i was the democratic chair of the joint Economic Committee with the house, so i got to know the Federal Reserve chairs, including chair yellen i got to have a very long lunch with her once, in their building, and we had many, many hearings devoted to this. I am a big believer in the independence of the Federal Reserve, strong Monetary Policy and a side note, when my family and i came here are a little two days off at easter, we went up to the North Country and yes, we took the Bretton Woods tour, ok . I would like to point that out, to add that to my street credit when it comes to financial policy. In any case, i really concerned about the chaos. One of the things that i remembered this morning as i was talking about it, we have a lot of tribes in minnesota, and there is an old saying that i actually used at the National Prayer breakfast when i was giving the prayer once at that big event, and that is this great leaders make decisions not just for this generation, but for seven generations from now. [applause] sen. Klobuchar we have in place a president that is not even able to keep a decision seven minutes from now, much less seven generations from now. That especially comes into play not just with the longterm view of the chinese and what you have to be able to do to be able to compete with them on the world stage, when you are watching every single thing he does and they have this long view, which we also have to have this long, strategic view. One of the things we have on our side is our democracy, our incredible innovation, we ring people in from all over the world, something he keeps trying to turn his back on all of these things have given us economic strength in our country. One of the things i asked this morning about economics is, well , hey, the economy is still hanging in there. I said yeah. This is because it was on fox. Workersbecause of our and our businesses, including many here in this great eight, who helped get us out of this downturn, right . It was tough. They were resilient. They got us out of the downturn, and then when you are a leader and you come in as resident, you do not just gloat about the work of others and wine every day like, stop the whining every day. It is just blaming someone else. The Federal Reserve chair, the city of baltimore, Jewish Democratic voters, and then the ultimate, the entire country of denmark erie it who can denmark. Who can piss off denmark . Whining. The gloating, then things go wrong, then it is the whining, instead of meeting the challenges of our day. That is what i really want to talk about today. This is a state that has a long haul view, where people think about, what do we need to do next to move us ahead . The first thing i will start with is the challenges i was challenges. I was here in the Science Center this morning to talk about Climate Change. It is a longhaul challenge, but it is not, because it is here right now. Used the it in the writings he levels, the weird rising sea level, the weird weather events, and the president had the audacity to make fun of me for talking about Climate Change in a spoke storm snowstorm. I wrote back Climate Science is on my side, donald trump, and i would like to see how your hair would fare in a blizzard. [laughter] sen. Klobuchar and humor is an important thing to use against this guy. Its humorous to you, yes, but this not going to think is funny. The science is on our side, but tois a way you explain it people so it makes sense to them, especially in the middle of the country. That is something i bring to this, as the leader of the ticket, which not many other could bring to it. That is being from the heartland and being able to have said yes, i have been to the Greenland Ice sheet. I was there with a group of people, senator sanders was with me and it was a bipartisan a tour,nd we went on basically, in these little i will never forget it these boats and we saw the icebergs, and the captain said, i i will careful will try to be here, because if you hit an iceberg we will die in 30 seconds. [laughter] sen. Klobuchar but it was incredible. And now with the news that we are losing in one day enough water from that ice sheet to fill over 400 million olympic sized schools, olympic size pools,ols, olympic sized the fact that you see a changing of our ocean i was learning today at the Science Center about ocean fishermen and how if they are commercial, they have had to change the water they are using from the ocean, because it has gotten too acidic, and they have to make changes to it. These things might sound small it might be one oyster fishermen, but it is not when it is cumulative with your whole world. And in the middle of our country, it is so important that we talk about this in a different way, right . That is the raging fires we have like colorado and arizona, where they sadly lost both firefighters, or when you think of Northern California and paradise and the dad driving through the lapping flames with his little girl, with their neighborhood burning behind them , singing to her to calm them down it is a one minute video, but it really says it all. You see the fire over their car. Seen inlooding we have places like missouri and nebraska and iowa just this summer. There is a woman named fran who showed me her binoculars, and she said, look through these. House. My i bought it with my husband. We are going to retire in his house and live there with our fouryearold. She said this house has been here for almost a century, it is so sturdy, there is still horsehair in the plaster. She said, i love my house, i love the way the light comes through the kitchen. Then i said, where is the kitchen . She goes no, no. It is all underwater. Half of the house is under water. I say, where is the river . The water is raging by us. I said, which river is that . She said no, those are two roads. The river is two and a half miles away and has never come that close to our neighborhood before. That is Climate Change. That is Climate Change in the middle of the country, where in our nation, Homeowners Insurance has gone up 50 by the way, that is an economic argument to make to people. Important that when people are seeing it right in front of them, we make the. Ase for them yes, it is about science and the temperature numbers and all of that, but it is also about what they are seeing and how it is going to change their lives, whether they are a farmer in the middle of nebraska or whether they are oyster fisherman off the coast of maine. These things are happening right now, so that is the first challenge. You know what the answers are. Day one as your president , i will get us back into the international Climate Change agreement. [applause] sen. Klobuchar when the president first announced he was taking us out of that agreement, there were only two countries not in it. Nowragua and syria, and they are both in it. That leaves us. Day to, bring back the rules president obama had worked on for years, and that is the clean power rules, as well as the gas mileage standards, which the Car Companies were ready to comply with anyway. They want them, a number of them, and trump just threw them out. Those are things, these first three things i mentioned, you can do without congress hey. Not right away. That does not mean i will do things like he does, that are illegal, but there are a bunch of things you can do in the first 100 days. And i believe in 108 plans. Fdr is the first one that put one out. We were in an economic crisis, but he did it for another reason as well, because people have lost institutions and their government. He wanted to jumpstart it and make a very quick, different attitude and a different quality of our government and make very clear to people he was going to be a different kind of president. That is why you do 108 plans, especially right now. I would start out with a promise that i would do no means weeds, ok . We will go from there. Been Climate Change, sleeping legislation, and there is all kinds of things you can do there, from the investment in research and development, which we will need so dearly if we not just wants to get to the goals that we have for the year 2050, but there will be still co2, there will be problems even if we make dramatic changes, it will remain in the air. We will have to think through how we do that, appliance standards, one of my only Climate Change jokes i can give you is that we will build a fridge to the next century. [laughter] as well as ar number of other things we have to do when it comes to putting a price on carbon and other things. I think this is doable. We have had these opportunities one of them was after 9 11. Bush was president , people were ready to do something. They knew where the terrorists had come from and that we wanted to be not dependent on those nations, those arab nations that were involved in that. But we did not do it. Remember what he asked us to do . He asked us to go shopping, you know . We got through 9 11 as a country in a big way, but to me, that was an opportunity where if he had said, we as a nation are going to come together and we do not want to be dependent on saudi arabia and we do not want to be dependent on some of these other countries, we could have done it. But we lost that opportunity. Then there was another opportunity, right before were one obama won, we vote short in the senate. I was standing with Maria Campbell in the back, getting a renewable electricity standard which i had long supported for the whole nation. You can do regional differences. We lost by one vote, then president obama came in. I raise my hand and was the , abouterson to speak doing a renewable electricity center. To decision was made to go cap and trade first, and i supported it strongly, but the problem is we did not cap the. Ote, so we did not do either so we missed that opportunity. The next opportunity is now, and we are not going to have another one like this. That is the 2020 election. Im am actually excited about change,cause i feel the the same change we are seeing there. Secondly, another challenge we have got is our workforce. You have a low an employment rate here in New Hampshire, that is a blessing in some ways, but it also is a challenge because you want to have more thank you baiters, more people here, more , more peopleators here, more small businesses, so how do you get that . To me, the answer is workforce training, make sure people are getting trained in the jobs we have now. We do not have enough people going in the trades and a whole bunch of other things that are pretty well paying, and looking at how we make it easier for people to go to college. I figure if millionaires can refinance their yacht, then students should be able to refinance their Student Loans at a better rate. [applause] sen. Klobuchar so that is a degree, something that president obama wanted to do, and you can do that right up front with community colleges. Been doubling the pell grants. There are 6000 a year now. Imagine the difference that makes. Double them to 12,000 a year and make it so that it goes up to income levels of 100,000 from 50,000. You double both sides of it. That is a significant investment and that way, the money goes to the people who most need it, which is what i really want to do, and it will just make it all of us, especially in a state that has high student debt. That is one thing. And more with tax credits and other things you can do either way, i paid for this, i pay for everything that i put out there, because i will not be another donald trump residence , ok . I wantesidency to be much more careful about how we do stuff. I would pay for this with the you know,e, which as Warren Buffett says, why do i pay lower rates to taxes and my secretary . Flip that, 124 billion dollars right now, you get from that. The refinancing, existing student debt. With that, i would again target it. Right now, there is a Public Service free payment for 10 years. It is a good idea and concept, not working really well. Teachers andr other things, but it is not working well because it is a mess how they do it. Lets make this work. That will be simple enough by getting rid of betsy devos, ok . [cheers and applause] sen. Klobuchar then expand this that was called a cheap applause line, but ok then expand this into in demand occupations, nursing, things where we want more there is a list of them where we want more people to go into those jobs. You work in one of those types of jobs, it does not have to be the same one for 10 years, and you get your remaining loans repaid. Is hooking up with what what we need in our economy with the obvious problem of debt and the cost of school. Another piece of this, immigration reform. Economichis is an driver for our country. Helen was talking about her own parent we have been built upon immigrants, this country, right . When you look at the numbers, 70 of our fortune 500 companies have been run by someone born in another country. Why do we want to shut out the talent when we need workers on our factories and our field . We need workers in our homes, our hospitals. I let a bill that allows people to do their residency in medical schools in other countries, if they are in good standing, they can do that residency in underserved areas or urban areas, including rural areas as well. Expandnot been able to that with this administration, but it is a really smart way to help with some needs that we have in our economy. The answer is me, comprehensive immigration reform. Not only would it give us a path to citizenship people that obey the law, that dont have serious crimes, that are willing to work, but it would also give us some money. It would reduce the deficit by 108 billion in 10 years. That is why Grover Norquist was for it. That is why the cfo was for it. That was inill speaker boehners freezer that never got out. That bill, if we do Something Like it, that will help give us targeted resources for Border Security and also help us when we switch the a silent to be sought in those northern triangle countries, so we do not have this chaos at the border and it can also help us to work with those countries. This is a sensible plan. It is a New Hampshire style sensible plan. It will be very good for our economy, which is the very reason that donald trump does not seem to want to do it. A number of republicans have supported it in the past. Can get atenges we health care costs, you know what my position is, and i want to remind people with these debates, we get a little bit like, how Much Division can we have . There is more that unites us than divides us. [applause] sen. Klobuchar our party does not want to throw out the Affordable Care act and the people that have preexisting conditions out there with no insurance, which is exactly what the president is trying to do right now in texas. With this public option, it would bring down the cost for 13 Million People and add 12 more people, give them access to insurance that do not have it right now, and would create a nonprofit option to compete with the Insurance Companies and allow people to transition over to that. I believe in the doctors creed, do no harm, and i think that is the smartest way to start. [applause] sen. Klobuchar second thing is pharmaceutical prices. Lobbyists for every member of congress think about it. They doubleteam them and double tag them. They give them money. I can only tell you right now, not only do i not take pack or lobbyist money, but the minute i got to the senate i started to work on this. That is why i led the bill for negotiation of prices under medicare to unleash the power of the seniors of this country, to get lower prices. [applause] sen. Klobuchar i also leads the bipartisan bill with senator grassley. It was with senator mccain, who ss very much and today is actually the anniversary of his death, which has been a big loss for those of us who were close to john. Last time i saw him at his ranch with cindy and my husband was there, he could not talk very well, but he pointed to a line in his book that said there is nothing more liberating than fighting for a cause larger than yourself. And that is what he did [applause] sen. Klobuchar that is what he did when he voted to uphold the Affordable Care act, and that is what he did when he made that decision to allow people to be in front of him released in front of him in that cell in vietnam, and that is what he did on some of these issues like pharmaceuticals. He bucked his party. But we were not able to get that done, but we had republican votes. We had about 14 on an amendment vote that i did with senator sanders. It isll now, grassleyglobal shark, i think, and it is a bill that would allow for less expensive drugs to come in from canada, since from the northern states, we can see canada from our porch, right . We can see the prices they have and it would create the competition that we would like to see. Ok, that is another challenge and how we need it. I could keep going with you down the line, but i will and with one big challenge, and that is the challenge of our democracy. We will not get anything like this done or be able to bring back world order and work with our allies like genie does so well when she leads our support for nato, because the president does not do it, well, we will not be able to do something about iran in reaching uranium when the president gets us out of that iranian agreement, leaving it in the hands of our allies and giving china and russia more leverage that is what he did. We will not be able to do any of this unless we can win. That would be my last plea to you, is our democracy. Right now, Mitch Mcconnell has a couple of bills sitting on his doorstep, and we are going to be going back there very shortly. Unrelated to the democracy, is a gun safety bill. Three bills one is a background check bill that is very similar to the bill that was sponsored originally by two nra members. The other one is the closing the charleston loophole, and in case you forget what that was, because the word loophole sounds so nice it sweet, that nationalist went into an africanamerican church, and guns down the people. Why did he have the gun . They did a background check, you only have three days to do it, they could not catch his conviction in three days and he was able to get the gun. If we went up to 10 days, they believe they would have caught it, if you can believe this. The third is my bill, and that is for serious Domestic Abusers right now, if they get convicted of Domestic Abuse against a wife or a husband, they cannot go out and get an ak47. But if it is against a girlfriend that they dont live with, they can. Yes, half of the homicides have involved nondating partners, basically. That is what this bill is, in addition to stocking provision. This bill got 33 votes in the house of representatives from republicans. That is why it is sitting there now. So he has no excuses on any of these bills, and the president could have just called us back in a second, since the republicans of the senate, when they say jump, they say how high, basically, and he did not do it, because he wanted to see if Public Opinion is going to shift on guns. I dont think it is. Like New Hampshire, i come from a proud hunting state. These provisions and i say, will this hurt my uncle in the deer stand . I can tell you that these would not, nor what a ban on military assaults ill weapons that i have long supported. Military assaults ill weapons that i have long report assault style weapons that i have long supported. [applause] sen. Klobuchar and think about dayton. The police did everything right. They got there in one minute. Something i have been doing around the country, in arkansas, south carolina, and merle parts of the country is to go to areas where it is more republican and talk about this issue. One of my greatest honors from this was the little rock paper, on the front page it said last week something about i was standing with a bunch of legislatures clover sharp brings clover char quote which are senator klobuchar brings gun control, said it will not hurt hunting. The nra has been telling people of lies, and it is important to get the facts out. Those bills are on his doorstep, and the other bills on his doorstep our democracy, and that is a path to move forward on backup paper ballots. That is a bill i have led with senator layings worth and we have several versions of this bill, but basically, 11 states do not even have backup paper ballots or partial, new jersey has no backup paper ballots. The russians know what those states are and it is just a mess. They could hack into a few counties and the president ial race would be up in the air. That has to be fixed, as well as the social Media Companies who have initially resisted and are now kind of neutral on this idea that they have to follow the same rules as the tv, radio, and newspaper. If you are a little newspaper in nashua or one of your radio stations can follow the rules and say, who pays for the ads and what are they so compare and so campaign can see, why cant 1 trillion companies do that . They are getting paid for these political ads, and in hillarys election, 1. 4 billion was spent on these ads. In 2020, they believe 3 billion to 4 billion will be spent on issue ads and on these campaign ads on the internet. And they are voluntarily doing a few things, but it is not the same as what tv, radio, and your little newspapers are doing. When i asked one of them early on why they couldnt, they said they couldnt between tell the difference between a hearing ad and an issue ads my little paper in minnesota could do it, so i do not understand why you cant do it. And in the 2016 election, the Washington Post had this ad we never knew about this for was anafterward it ottoman africanamerican woman, and she called our office later, they used her picture, and these ads were bought in rubles. It went on africanamerican facebook pages in swing states, and said this why wait in line to vote for hillary . You can just text your vote at 86135. That was the real ads. That was a crime. Remember when the republicans in New Hampshire jammed the phone lines and someone went to jail over that . That is over that . That is what this is. It is not just racist or undemocratic, it is a crime. But who would have known that it happened, because they did not require disclosing the ads that have been bought in realtime, so nobody knew about it. That is what we are talking about with the honest ads bill that i had with megane with mccain, no Lindsey Graham is the lead republican on it. But guess who doesnt want it through . Mitch mcconnell in the white house. I bring these things up because they are not president ial 20 things, i will get them done, but i know you are good citizens and you will care. So how do we win this . The number one concern for everyone. Number one, we take this on with an optimistic economic agenda. I have given you my ideas. Second, we take this guy on by standing around when least when he says racist, horrible stuff. Sometimes, when he just does his normal weird stuff, you just ignore him, ok . He wants to capture the news cycle every single day. He wants us to go down the rabbit hole with him every single day. The third thing is yes, use some humor and point out how absurd he truly is. I had a high point last weekend when my tweet did better than any of his. [laughter] sen. Klobuchar yeah, and i wrote it in the parking lot in manchester outside the hotel. What it said was whats the difference between donald trump and greenland . Greenlands not for sale. [laughter] sen. Klobuchar ok, so [applause] sen. Klobuchar that is how we win, and we also win with someone heading up the ticket that can win. You know this in the state. You have so many independents and moderate republicans that can sway elections. So you have to make the case for your economic agenda, but you also have to be able to make the case for those people who are Something Like 10 of those trump voters, it is a ra nge, voted for president obama. You have to show them what is unmet promises are, why he is so corrosive to our country, and you have to have someone at the head of the ticket who has shown a history of not only getting things done, which i appreciated that helen pointed out by the righteople cares about now, but also that you can win. Win everywhere, every place, every time. I have won in the reddest of congressional districts. Three times i won in Michele Bachmanns district, ok . I did not do it by selling out on our values, i did it by going to talk to people who did not always agree with me, by making the case honestly, and i have one democrats, independents, republicans, liberals, i have even one conservatives. I have won over and over again, all the way back to Elementary School [laughter] sen. Klobuchar yes. The guys in the debate state are always saying i have done that, i have done this, i have done that. Which i have since abandoned, was all the way with amy k. [laughter] hello, cspan viewers. So this is how i think we win, and we do it by acknowledging that our country is divided, that this is trying to divide it, but that we know in our core , because we know some of our neighbors and friends that dont always agree with those, there thenre that unites us divides us, we can appeal to the better angels, that we see ourselves as americans through and through, from the beginning to the end, and what this guy is doing is not consistent with how we run our country. It just isnt. Ien youve got a president know you think about this from your past, when republican president s would go on tv with a major announcement. You tune in, maybe your kids would watch it fine, it is important for your kids to see because they are president of the United States. You would tell them later, you never know what this guy is going to say at a rally. He wants to turn down the sound because you are afraid a kid is going to hear something that you do not want them to hear. He does this because he does not want to have to deal with things like alzheimers, longterm care, or infrastructure, these bread and butter issues we know we have to deal with. He wants to distract you. I will make you one promise. When i am your president and i am on tv, you will never have to turn the sound down. I will never embarrass you, and you will be proud to have me as your president. Thank you. [cheers and applause] thank you guys, thank you. Wow, ok. Helen, we are doing something new. This is kind of our new way of doing this, because that way we found out we get more questions from women. [laughter] sen. Klobuchar ok, who is that . Of, i dont know if i can read this. What are your plans for Affordable Housing . Where are you . Say your name [inaudible] sen. Klobuchar ok, very good. Thank you. It is about housing. Fromis really interesting a New Hampshire standpoint oh yeah, i guess i cant put them all in my pocket. You all know you have issues with housing, and i do not think it is the first thing people would think about with New Hampshire, but you have a low unemployment rate, you wants to have people movie or and keep young people and families here. It is the same thing all over the country in varying degrees. I think it is always thought of as an urban issue, and it is an urban issue. I was in san francisco, astronomically high housing prices. I have put a plan out on this, you can see it on my website at yklobuchar. Com hi, about but it is putting more incentives in place to be working on housing, tax credits and other things. We have a whole plan out there. Instead of going in the details on that, how do we get this done politically . This is a great example of the worldurban divide to bridge, because a lot of people think it is urban, if you are world, you if you are rural, you think it is rural. It is both. We have different needs and we need to merge them together, because we have so many issues in Rural America right now. We have seniors in aging housing and you would like them to move not all of them, but if they are willing to and they might want to move closer into town, into a condo or apartment, and then you could rehab some of the housing. Families can move in, those kinds of issues, and we have to create incentives for that. And just look at where the housing is in the density areas, and i think it is actually exciting to do. I have got a bunch of rural areas in my state where literally we are bleeding work because we do not have the housing for people to move into, so the Midsize Companies are sending buses two hours away to get employees, because they do not have, they cannot live right in the town because there are not enough houses. I also have the urban perspective when i was county attorney and we had truancy them, and we would help work with them and their parents and getting them into school in a positive way, but when we look back, how did kids get involved . We looked at some of the more serious crimes, very serious crimes murder, rape, and looked back. What happened . It started when kids started missing school for a lot of them. Then we looked at, why are they missing school . A lot of that was because they did not have a stable house. So much of that we you have that job that i have, you dont the cases in front of you, but you are not doing the job in less you figure out how to prevent crime from happening in the first place. That is how i got involved in drug courts and those things, but housing was a big part of that as well. Thank you for that question, and its going to be a big part of what we do. The last thing i mentioned, in case we dont get a question, is longterm care. I have a silver tsunami used that word and aarp told me it was too negative silver surge. We have a silver surge coming our way, which is good because people have been living longer, but there has not been one debate question yet about seniors and what we are going to do about seniors, and how we can make this aging transition a good one for everyone, which it should be. That is about housing, assisted living, and making longterm Care Insurance more affordable. We put forward some ideas on that and making that a big short of medicaid, which we have to keep strong, but short of medicaid, that should be a big part of what we do. I am getting distracted by his boston had, because i am such a twins fan, but it is ok. Just it set me back, but the twins are having a pretty good season. Longterm Care Insurance, making that more affordable and creating incentives to buy it. Then of course, longterm care period. And finally, alzheimers, the most expensive disease in the country. 14 Million People said to have it by 2050 if we do not do anything about a cure and we do not do anything about this. My own dad is struggling with this. He got it late, which makes it easier, but it is never easier once and when there in front of you but you do not they do not remember who you are. Peoplere there are many out here that know exactly what i am talking about. That all fits into housing, because it is about assisted living as well. All right . I will go faster. I will lose the cspan audience if we are not careful. See what i mean about more women when you write them down . Tell me about what your ideas are for infrastructure improvement. Kate she is on a bicycle . No, i am kidding. She is over there. All right. This is something trump calmest on election that promised on you let trump promised on election night, which made me so sad. At least he mentioned infrastructure, trying to find some silver lining, but it wasnt one because he has not moved on it. Recently there was a meeting in the white house with Speaker Pelosi and senator schumer, and they came ready to go because our caucus really wants to move on that, and he just lou it up, because he did not want to talk about how to pay for it, which i think is really important. Here are my ideas. I mentioned the importance of this Community Real project right here. In a big way, we have roads,ridges, Water Infrastructure sewer infrastructure think about what we have just seen going on in new jersey with their issues with water, what we have seen in flint i visited flint recently and talked to the mayor there and some of the s and saw firsthand what was happening. It is not always these glamorous ribbon cuttings, sometimes it is the pipe under the ground. It is rural broadband. Explain why i cannot do emails in northern New Hampshire when i can do them in iceland. True story. To iceland. T they have volcanoes there, but they were still able to hook everything up. You can do this by 2022 if you put the money into it. My plan is a trillion dollar infrastructure plan, paid for by rolling back the parts of the republican tax bill that were very regressive, like the Corporate Tax rate if you bring it to 25 , you save 400 billion in 10 years. You goe 150 billion if back to International Taxes the way they were, before they changed them. You can do the infrastructure financing authority, which is an existing bipartisan bill. Little in and get matching funds from states and other entities. That is 300 billion. Then you have by america bonds basically for infrastructure. You can get easily to a trillion dollars. Instead of talking about it talking about it and dancing around it like he does, i will actually get it done. [applause] sen. Klobuchar ok, lets see. [laughs] sen. Klobuchar this is tom from amherst. Where you are, tom . There you are, hiding behind the tree. What is your biggest challenge in dealing with the multitude of Democratic Candidates and positioning yourself within that group . Not a challenge at all, no, no. This is how i look at it. We are in the playoffs right now, and that is important. There are only 10 candidates that have made that debate stage and so for me, especially from a state that is not as big as some of the other states, especially from a situation where i was not running for president for years or i did not run for president before, you have to build in a different way. Sofor me, time is important that i can keep building and talking to people like this. You are my ambassadors to go out there and explain what my views are and how i can win. It is oldfashioned grassroots politics. I would note, thanks to some of the early states in the past, some very successful candidates were in Single Digits at this very point, including jimmy carter, including bill clinton, and theres a number of others as well. Thats because it is not automatic the first name that you know. People have to get to know the candidates to figure out who the best president would be. Secondly, as for how i position myself, i am from the midwest. From the heartland. I think when you look at what went wrong in the last election, there were a lot of things, including a foreign country invading our election and slowing down the momentum of our candidate when all of the emails were revealed from her campaign chairman. I am not going to go into all of the issues, but part of this is that we cannot leave the midwest behind. My husband is the third of six boys. And shehad four boys wanted a girl, and she had identical twin boys. They lived in a mobile home for most of his time growing up in triple bunk beds, and would go on one vacation every single summer in their station wagon. He was always the good boy, the one in the middle. Their rumor has it the rumor has it, he was so quiet he might get left behind at the gas station. [laughter] sen. Klobuchar so if you want to win nationally, even though we are in this great state of New Hampshire, i will not leave the midwest behind at the gas station. [laughter] [applause] win inobuchar and i can those states like wisconsin, where my mom is from, because i know those states and i know how to win in those states. Thats what differentiates me from most of the field, actually, except for just a few others. I am someone who is honest and to the point. We have heard about that. I push things, i get them done, and i think that is really important. Most importantly, we have a guy in the white house that has now under the lies, and having someone who is honest will be really appealing to the people of this country. Having someone who is willing to set up goals with deadlines, that is one of the reasons i did the 100 day plan, and i have done it before in other jobs i have had, because i think it is important to make changes right away and make it clear that we are bringing back our country to some sanity. Finally, i love your two senators, so there you go. If you like them, you will like me. I just think that you have to approachlutionbased to what we are doing, and you have to have a bold vision of this country, which i do. You also have to remember hey, we have to bring people with us in how we talk about that bold vision and have the ability to do that. [applause] sen. Klobuchar so im going to end with one thing, a different story, because i told it over the seacoast. Someone asked about bringing young people in. That is a story i heard at my Daughters College graduation, tnd it was your red sox ha has me going on baseball it was the os team, the general epstein, theo the general manager, who became the cubs general manager. Saying seriously . Then it was somebody, i think it was dick durbin, who said no, he is an interesting guy. So i am sitting there, and he i will makeing, and a political argument out of it, but it was not really a political argument the team, the cubs that year, it was a clavicle is the moment it was a cataclysmic moment because they had been trying to win the world series for over a century and were unsuccessful. He said there were thousands of people that literally had radios on the graves of their ancestors so they could hear the seventh game and everyone thought they were going to win and it was this he is sitting with his son and his young son is really odds, really into and he is telling him the numbers, we are going to win, 70 , 80 , and they somehow blow a three run lead and the clouds are coming in and the odds are looking bad. All of a sudden, they have to have a rain delay. The water was pouring down. He said when there is a rain delay and the game is going bad, a lot of the times that people are looking at their phones but he stood outside the locker room, and he said the youngest player the team had ever had, the most diverse and the player with the worst season was leading the discussion. They were talking about their season and what it meant, and won, itatter if they was a season like no other and how proud they were. And they went out and they won that game. Then he said, so that is what you have to ask yourself to all of the students what do you do when there is a rain delay . And withdraw,wn or do you look at each other and go forward as a teen . As a team . Ok, that is his story, now i will tell you mine. Big rain delay. Our democracy is in a rain delay with the clouds coming down. We have delayed taking action on the things that you know in your heart, that america knows in your heart that we have to do, but the question is what do we do . Do we withdraw and going to this divisive world of donald trump where he hits us against each other . Will we rise to the better part of our nature . Nature . Are we going to rise to the american way . I think we will get through this rain delay, but only if you do not give up and you remember the march we are on. I was standing on that stage between john mccain and bernie. I took a selfie. Some reporter took a picture of me taking a selfie and the picture went viral because it with wallman takes selfie john mccain and bernie. And the next day, it became viral with the words this is why we march. In the day after that, 6000 women signed up to run for day nine when that meanspirited muslim order came showed up at the airports. On day 100, my favorite march, the march for science. What do we want . Science. When do we want it . After peerreviewed. Then you go into the fall and the first glimmers of hope in these legislative races in new jersey and virginia where these incredible candidates no one thought could win win in these tough races, including my favorite in new jersey where the legislators said on the day of the womens march, i hope they will be back in time to make dinner. Anwas beaten by africanamerican woman. Then you fastforward to our clients. The students did not just march and become icons. They motivated people to talk to their dads who were hunters and say, maybe we can do background checks. Then we go to 2018. Orange county, california, where they did all of these house seats. They did not give up because there was a rain delay. All right . This march does not in on this beautiful New Hampshire sunny day. It continues. Dont give up. What do you do when there is a rain delay. You rise to the occasion. I believe in our country. We can get this done. Join us. Do what ever you can. We are in it to win. We are going to win it for the country. Thank you. Thank you. If anyone would like a picture with senator clover shar, we have a few amy thinks. We appreciate you being here. Where are you . Very excited. I announced him at politics and eggs. [indiscernible] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2019] [indiscernible] klobuchar over [indiscernible] we are all the way from massachusetts. Very good. Definitely worthwhile. Buchar we kept the dogs in. Thats great. Klobuchar kind of a mini lassie. Nice to see you. Klobuchar hey, thank you. Thats great. Thank you. I have a friend in you do . Buchar i am glad i brought it up. Hi. Good to see you. Thank you. [indiscernible] i go to an Elementary School here in nashua. [indiscernible] all right. Char sal thank you. We are actually from new york. We are looking forward to coming to new york. Sen. Klobuchar appreciate it. Thank you. Ok. Thank you. Ok. Thank you. [indiscernible] sen. Klobuchar thanks. [indiscernible] sen. Klobuchar very good. That was pretty funny. Ok, here we are. Thank you. Thank you pleased to see you again. I am here with my daughter. Sen. Klobuchar oh, very good. There we go. There. Obuchar were all thank you very much. Thank you. We appreciate it. We are watching you. Sen. Klobuchar ok. Thanks to you. Thank you. This is not my question. This is for my friend who is a fellow minnesotan. Amy, how would you use technology to stop cyber crimes like voting . Sen. Klobuchar [indiscernible] us and to assure again, we need updated voting equipment everywhere, which is what i would do. [indiscernible] sen. Klobuchar very good. Thank you. Youve got my book there. Thats cool. Serena with an s. Sen. Klobuchar serena with an s. For all your good work on climate. So, i wrote the book, all myself. We are right next door. Northern woods and all. Suggestion. E awn. 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I was actually at [indiscernible] thats the one. Norma . Obuchar yep. Thank you so much. Thank you. Much. Nk you very volunteer. Nashua this will be the future right here. Im going to college. My son. Dropping off [indiscernible] tooth on a frozen chocolate covered banana and that is not a story we share [laughter] thank you. Thank you. Sen. Klobuchar hi. Good to see you. Thank you for coming to New Hampshire. You win the election, how are you going to find somebody as good as you to replace you . Sen. Klobuchar aw. [indiscernible] hi. Im ron. [indiscernible] thats nice. R oh, what i meant about being ambassadors. Sen. Klobuchar ok, did that not work . Werent looking at the camera. [indiscernible] civil war. Our errors. Good. Lobuchar very reenactors. War sen. Klobuchar very good. [indiscernible] thank you. Very good. Sen. Klobuchar thank you. You were great. Sen. Klobuchar thank you. Very easy to relate to, but still had content. Appreciate it. Good to meet you. Do you livear here . I live nearby. [indiscernible] absolutely. That was great today. Thank you. [indiscernible] sen. Klobuchar very good. We are trying to basically i knowobuchar no, no, i know we are working on that. I chaired the National Prayer breakfast a few times, actually. [indiscernible] sen. Klobuchar we had that super bowl video where rabbis a pastor through to and and a mom and i went viral. I will let you go. I will let you go. Sen. Klobuchar is kind of a New Hampshire type. Thank you, rabbi. Hi. [indiscernible] sen. Klobuchar very good. Marcy zimmerman. Sen. Klobuchar i just mentioned your friends. [indiscernible] sen. Klobuchar oh, my gosh. I so enjoyed hearing you. I will pass on your message. Good to see you. After today, i am confident that you will more than hold your own. Ok, who should i write this to . Just sign it. Sen. Klobuchar ok. Thank you, its a real honor. Thank you. Sen. Klobuchar ok. Knock em dead. That was wonderful. Sen. Klobuchar thank you. [indiscernible] thank you. Thank you. Sen. Klobuchar hi. Your name . Helen. How is that . I got to watch you on cspan. Sen. Klobuchar good. Ok, very good. I waved to the audience. Sen. Klobuchar oh, you did . I want to tell you how proud i am of you and i want to say to fellows are white nationalists, racist, white supremacist and what we need to my opinion, is beat them at the ballot box. Sen. Klobuchar and bring limping in, because over is not enough. You want to win big anyone to ring people with you. Thank you for your service. I will make a lot of phone calls. Sen. Klobuchar you served during the korean war . [indiscernible] i have a tv show here called nashua strong. Sen. Klobuchar [indiscernible] my dad served in the korean war. But he served in germany. Absolutely. Send us around the world. Sen. Klobuchar ok. Thank you. Hi, my name is gabby foster. [indiscernible] undisclosedar an location. At least undisclosed to cspan. Congratulations. Did you hear that i announced engaged. Were it was great. You are welcome. I had donechar so, minnesota, because with mayo, we do a lot of research. We made the point that we should not stop the research and as a sample, we did not really get into questions on health care. Everyone, well over half of americans [indiscernible] sen. Klobuchar writes. I never heard of it until i came here. We think its very important. Good luck to you. Thank you. Har thank you. Thank you so much. Every day is like this. There you are. Thank you so much. You. Klobuchar ok, thank thank you. [indiscernible] right. Sen. Klobuchar ok. Thank you. Its at least something, you know . Sure, here we go. Like there is a time when we start doing this. Ok. One more. Can we get amy in the background . One last one. You did a really good job. Sen. Klobuchar thank you. All those nice things they said there you are. All right. It was my pleasure to be here today. It was really remarkable. Hit an hour running, which is not an indicator of what you will do. I am reallyar trying to indicate what i am going to do. People lose track of what you. Re saying she is an ordinary person with extraordinary ideas. I actually use that with ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Said that trump is responsible for 41 of which are made in this country. What is up with that . That has to be a talking white. Talking point. Sen. Klobuchar i think the economic point has to be made. Ghosts go figure. Sen. Klobuchar thank you. All right. You guys have everything you need . Ave fun enjoy the day. Go have an ice cream cone. This is going to inspire me. You got it. [indiscernible] senator klobuchar is several more of than sin New Hampshire today and tomorrow. She plans to be back on september 7 for the state Democratic Party convention. Congressman joe walsh announced today he will challenge President Trump in the primary. Blican he was elected to congress as part of the Tea Party Movement and served one term. Here is part of his announcement. To run fori am going president. I am happy to be on your show announcing my candidacy. Guy in the white house who is unfit, completely unfit to be president and it stuns me that no one stepped up, no one in the Republican Party stepped up because, i will tell you what, george. Everybody believes, in the Republican Party, everyone believes that he is unfit. George one of the things the white house and the president every to is just about poll shows that more than 80 support the president among republicans. Mr. Walsh they dont have an alternative. I am running because he is unfit. Someone needs to step up. Then needs to be an alternative. Sick of this guy. Hes a child. The litany. He opens his time mouth. Look at what has happened this week. The president of the United States is tweeting us into a recession. Campaign 2020. Watch live coverage of the president ial candidates on the campaign trail and makeup your own mind. Your unfiltered view of politics. From twowe will hear democratic president ial candidates, congressman tim ryan and former representative john delaney. They spoke at an Agricultural Forum in londonderry, New Hampshire. This is just over an hour