[applause] [laughter] come on over. Thats ok. Any late arrivers get a hug. [laughter] 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 them. 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 yes. [applause] yes, i would clap for that too. 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 being 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. Delivers senator klobuchar 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. She has sponsored and been part of passing 34 bills that have gone through this current administration, which is hard to do when you are a democrat. [applause] ms. Ms. Honorow there are many good candidates who are running for president. Senator klobuchar is a proven deliverer, and thats what we need. And i am supporting senator klobuchar because not only does she understand 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 bills kitchen, and it was too good not to bring out. They had a notorious rbg action 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. So anyway i had never seen such a thing. Ok. Here is 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 Hanley yeah, shandley, it is a little c looking like a g. Shannon chamblee, where are you . Also, melanie lavake is here as well, another state senator. [applause] sen. Klobuchar ok. 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 . Suzanne vale, state ward three, nashua state representative. Sen. Klobuchar thank you. [applause] state representative and ward three aldermen. Sen. Klobuchar great. Anyone else . [inaudible] state representative, ward eight. Sen. Klobuchar thank you, jeff. Anyone else . I love how everyone is always elected here. My favorite was in rye. I did a town hall and moderator was there. He introduced himself. Moderatoram the town and i made a joke and said, you are elected too . He said i am, and the town moderator. We were on the coast just now, quite a day to be there, talking about im a change at the about Climate 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 town hall 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] sen. Klobuchar it is a big 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 knew that would be popular in New Hampshire come on, snow. I wanted to show i had the great i had the grit 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. As the president 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 sunday, and on both of them, i 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 announced tariffs, 300 billion 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 recession, and then the next day he changed his mind. And by the way, he did 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 infrastructure, crying out here with the potential for Commuter Rail to this area. [applause] sen. Klobuchar this is the most 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 when my family and i came here for 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. But in any case, i really am 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 have the fact that we bring 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 they asked this morning about economics is, well , hey, the economy is still hanging in there. I said yeah. That is because this was on fox that is because of our workers and our businesses, including many here in this great eight, in this great state 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 and you come in as president , you do not just gloat about the work of others and 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. Who can piss off denmark . Stop the 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 i will start with is the 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. You see it in the 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 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. Strategically, yes but humor it is important. He is not going to think this is funny. The science is on our side, but it is a way you explain it to people so it makes sense to them, especially in the middle that is something i bring to this, as the leader of the ticket, which not many other people 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 group, and we went on a tour, basically, in these little boats and we saw the icebergs, when i remember the captain goes, i will try to be careful here, because if you hit an iceberg we will die in 30 seconds. [laughter] sen. Klobuchar i was like, ok. But it was an incredible mass that we saw. And to think that now with the news that we are losing in one day enough water from that ice sheet to fill over 400 million is ancsized pools, it amazing thing that is happening. And at the same time for New Hampshire at the seacoast, you are seeing a changing of the ocean. I was learning today at the Science Center about oyster 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 are the kinds of things they 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 these raging fires we have seen in places 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 him, singing to her to calm her down. It is a one minute video, but it really says it all. As you see the fire over their car. Or the flooding we have seen in 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. This is my house. I bought it with my husband. We are going to retire in his house. We lived 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 was that this river or 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. I think it is important that when people are seeing it right in front of them, we make the case 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. Nicaragua and syria, and now they are both in it. That leaves us. Day two, 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. And 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 100 day plans. Fdr is the first one that put one out. Yes, we were in an economic crisis, but he did it for another reason as well, because people had lost trust in 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 100 day plans, especially right now. I would start out with a promise that i would do no mean tweets, ok . We will go from there. Then, Climate Change, sweeping 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 want not just to get to the goals that we have for the year stillbut there will be 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] sen. Klobuchar as well as a 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 was right 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, actually right before president obama won, we were one vote short in the senate. I remember 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 remember we met with him and i raised my hand and was the third person to speak, about doing a renewable electricity center. He said, i guess, he wanted to do it. The decision was made to go to cap and trade first, and i supported it strongly, but the problem is we did not cap the votes, 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. And so, i actually am excited about this, because i feel the sea change sea coast the sea change we are seeing there. Secondly, another challenge we have got is our workforce. You have a low Unemployment Rate here in New Hampshire, that is a blessing in some ways, but it also is a challenge because you want to have more incubators, more small businesses, more people here, more entrepreneurs, but you have a low Unemployment Rate. So how do you get at 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 actually 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 everything from free one and twoyear degrees, something that president obama wanted to do, which is the fastest area of jobs right now. And you can do that right up front with community colleges. And then 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 better for all of us, especially in a state that has high student debt like you do. That is one thing. And more with tax credits and other things you can do by the way, i would pay for this, i pay for everything that i put out there, because i will not be another donald trump presidency, ok . I am going to be much more careful about how we do stuff. I would pay for this with the buffet rule, which as you know, Warren Buffett says, why do i pay lower rates to taxes and my than my secretary . Flip that, 124 billion 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 in concept, not working really well. It is good for teachers and 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. Then you work in one of those types of jobs, it does not have to be the same one for 10 years, and then you get your remaining loans repaid. It is just hooking up what we need in our economy with the obvious problem of debt and the cost of school. Another piece of this, immigration reform. I think this is an economic driver for our country. Helen was talking about her own parents we have been built on 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. 25 of our u. S. Nobel laureates were 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 nursing homes, workers in our hospitals. I led 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. I have not been able to expand that with this administration, but it is a really smart way to help with some needs that we have in our economy. That is why to me, the answer is comprehensive immigration reform. Not only would it give us a path to citizenship for people that obey the law, that dont have serious crimes, that are willing to work, but it would also give us some money. It reduces the deficit by 158 billion in 10 years. That is why Grover Norquist was for it. That is why the chamber cio and cfo was for it. It was the bill that was in 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 asylum 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. But a number of republicans have supported it in the past. Other challenges we can get at health care costs, you know what my position is, and i want to remind people with these debates i know they 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 and put 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. Pharma has two 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 not only do i not take pac 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 lead the bipartisan bill with senator grassley. It was with senator mccain, who i miss 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 released in front of him in that cell in vietnam that i got to stand in front of with him, 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. The bill now, it is grassleyklobuchar, i think, and it is a bill that would allow for less expensive drugs to come in from canada, since in the northern states, we can see canada from our porch, right . We can see the prices they have and it would create the kind of competition that we would like to see. Ok, that is another challenge and how we need it. I could just keep going with you down the line, but i will and end 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. Or we will not be able to do something about iran enriching 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 are not going to be able to do any of this unless we can win. That would be my last plea to you, is our democracy. Because right now, Mitch Mcconnell has a couple of bills sitting on his doorstep, and we are going to be going back there very shortly. One of them, 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 arated nra members. That bill passed the house and is sitting on his doorstep. The other one is the closing the charleston loophole, and in case you forget what that was, because the word loophole sounds so nice and sweet, that was a White Nationalist went into an africanamerican church, and gunned down the people. Why did he have the gun . Because they did a background check and the role was 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 they went up to 10 days, they believe they would have caught it, if you can believe this. That is the second bill. 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. And yet half of the homicides have involved nondating partners, basically. That is what this bill is, in addition to stalking provisions. 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 in 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 ebb on guns. I dont think it is. Like New Hampshire, i come from a proud hunting state. I look at 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 style assault weapons that i have long supported. [laughter] [applause] sen. Klobuchar and norwood magazine limits. Think about that. That guy in dayton. In 30 seconds, he killed nine people. The police did everything right. They got there in one minute. Something i have been doing around the country, in arkansas, south carolina, and rural parts of iowa 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 legislators klobuchar brings gun control, but the subheading said, it will not hurt hunting. It is important to appeal to people on those grounds because the nra has been telling people of lies, and it is important to get the facts out. Those bills are on his doorstep, but the other bills on his andstep are our democracy, that is a path to move forward on backup paper ballots. That is a bill i have led with senator langford, and we have several versions of this bill, but basically, 11 states do not even have backup paper ballots or they have 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 they are so campaigns 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 tell the difference between an issue at i had a hearing my little paper in minnesota could do it, so i do not understand why you cant do it. And just to give you an example of how bad this is, in the 2016 election, the Washington Post had this ad we never knew about this for months afterward it was an ad of an africanamerican woman, and she called our office later, she was an innocent. 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 ad. That is a crime. Remember when the republicans in New Hampshire jammed the phone lines and someone went to jail over that . That is what this is. It is not just racist, it is not just antidemocratic, 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 mccain and now, Lindsey Graham is the lead republican on it. But guess who doesnt want it through . Mitch mcconnell and the white house. I bring these things up because they are not president ial 2020 things, i will get them done, but i know you are good citizens and you will care. That is my story. So, how do we win this . The number one concern for everyone. First of all, we take this on with an optimistic economic agenda. I have given you my ideas. Secondly, we take this guy on by standing our ground. When he says racist, horrible stuff. Yes. But sometimes, when he just does his normal weird stuff, you just ignore him, ok . Because he just wants to capture the news cycle every single day. He wants us to go down the rabbit hole with him every single day. And the third thing is, yes, you 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 and i actually 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. That is why i look at those debates as you have to make the case with your economic agenda, but you also have to be able to make the case to those people who are watching, Something Like 10 of those trump voters, it is a range who voted for president obama. You have to show them what his 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 way, people cares about right now because we have a president who has not been able to get anything done. But also that you can win. I have won every race, every place, every time. I have won in the reddest of congressional districts, never losing once. 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 won democrats, independents, republicans, liberals, i have even won conservatives. I have won over and over again, all the way back to Elementary School [laughter] sen. Klobuchar yes. Those guys on the debate stage are always saying i have done that. I have done this, i have done that. My slogan, which i have since abandoned, was all the way with amy k. [laughter] senator klobuchar it could make the viral moment with cspan viewers. Viewers. An hello. Who just wrote, when are you going to be on cspan . So this is how i think we win, and we do it by acknowledging that our country is divided, that this guy 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 is more that unites us than 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. And when youve got a president you always think about this from your past, when republican president s would go on tv with a major announcement. You would 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. You want 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 just does this because he does not want 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. That is when i am your president and i am on tv, you will never 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] sen. Klobuchar thank you guys, thank you. Wow, ok. 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 . Ok, lets see. I dont know if i can read this. From nashua what are your plans for Affordable Housing . That is a good question. Where are you . Say your name [inaudible] sen. Klobuchar ok, very good. Thank you. It is about housing. This is really interesting from a New Hampshire standpoint oh yeah, i guess i cant put them all in my pocket. Because i think you all know that 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 want to have people move here, you want to 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 just in san francisco, astronomically high housing prices. But i think the key and i have put a plan out on this, you can see it on my website at amyklobuchar. Com hi, cspan and you can see that plan on housing. Housingme, it is about credits and putting incentives in place to be working on housing, to be working on 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 ruralurban divide bridge because a lot of people think it is urban, if you are rural, you think it is rural. It is both. We have different needs and we need to merge them together, because there are so many issues in Rural America right now. You 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 them they cannot live right in the town because there is not enough housing. I also have the urban perspective when i was county attorney and we had truancy cases, and we would help them, worked with them and their parents 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 we looked back. What happened . It all 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 when you have that job that i have, you dont the you have 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 just mentioned in case we dont get a question is longterm care. We have a silver tsunami i 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 are living longer, but there has not been one debate question yet about 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 option, so 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 hat 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 when someone is in front of you but they do not remember who you are. I am sure there are many people 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 promised on election night, i dont know if anybody remembers that. I was 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 blew it up because he did not want to talk about how to pay for it, which i think is really important. The emails were revealed, i wont go into the issues, but part of the issue is we cant leave the midwest hind. My husband is the third of six boys. She wanted a girl, but they had boys. Cal twin they lived in a mobile home for most of his time growing up in triple bunk beds. They would go on one vacation every summer in their station wagon. He was always the good boy, the one in the middle pier the rumor has it once or twice that once or twice, he got left behind at the gas station. Is that promise to you i will not leave the midwest behind at the gas station. [applause] those states like wisconsin where my mom is from. States. Hose i know how to win in those states. That differentiates me from most of the field except for a few others. I am someone who is honest and to the point. I push things, i get them done, important. Is really mostly, we have a guy in the white house that has made over 10,200 lies. Having someone honest is going to be really appealing to the people of this country. Having someone that is willing to set out the goals with deadlines, that is one of the 100 day plan. This i think its really important to make changes right away and make it clear 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 solution based approach to what we are doing and you have to have a have to have a bold vision of this country, which i do. But 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, and it was your red sox hat has me going on baseball it it was theo epstein, the general manager, who became the cubs general manager. He was the speaker at her graduation. And i kept going seriously . You know, the twins fan. Somebody, i think it was dick durbin, who said no, he is an interesting guy. So i am sitting there, and he starts speaking, and i will make a political argument out of it, but it was not really a political argument the team, the cubs that year, 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 into odds, and he is telling him the numbers, we are going to win, dad 70 , 80 of the game goes on 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 Team they 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 how no matter if they won, it 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 . Do you look down and withdraw, or do you look at each other and go forward as a team . Ok, that is his story, now i will tell you mine. We are in one 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 their 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 pits us against each other . Will we rise to the better part of our nature . Will we rise to the american way, which is finding a way to Work Together as a team . I think we are going to get through this rain delay but only if we do not give up. Remember the march we were on. From the day after the inauguration, i was standing on that stage between john mccain and bernie. I took a selfie. I remember this day. I took a selfie and some reporter took a picture of me taking a selfie and the picture went viral because it said woman takes selfie with john mccain and bernie. And the next day, it became viral with the words this is why we march. And the next day, millions of people marched including in this state. And the day after that, 6000 women signed up to run for office, on on day nine when that meanspirited muslim order came out, people spontaneously showed up at the airports. They showed up at noninternational airports to protest. On day 100, my favorite march, the march for science. What do we want . Science. When do we want it . After peerreview. The day after john mccain and two other republicans joined with every single democrat to turn down that meanspirited effort to repeal the Affordable Care act. 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 could win, diverse candidates and women, win in these tough races, including my favorite in new jersey where the legislator was up and said on the day of the womens march, i hope they will be home in time to make dinner. He was beaten by an africanamerican woman. Ok . That happened. Then you fastforward to parkland. The students did not just march and become icons. They motivated people to talk to their dads and grandpas who were hunters and say, maybe we can do background checks. They then voted at record levels in the midterm which gets us to 2018. Where thanks to your good work in New Hampshire and iowa and other places all over the country, orange county, california, where they turned all of these house seats. They did not give up because there was a rain delay. They kept working. This is how we turn the peoples house back into the peoples house again. All right . This march does not in on this beautiful New Hampshire sunny day. It continues into november 2020. That is what i am asking you and telling you. Dont give up. What do you do when there is a rain delay . You rise to the occasion. Aork as a team viewed team. 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, everybody. [ches and applause] helen thank you, all. If anyone would like a picture with senator klobuchar, we have a few amy things. , on down. Thank you all very much. We appreciate you being here. [indiscernible] [indiscernible] sen. Klobuchar we kept the dogs in. Thats great. Sen. Klobuchar kind of a mini lassie. Nice to see you. Sen. Klobuchar hey, thank you. Thats great. Thank you. I have a friend in sen. Klobuchar you do . I am glad i brought it up. [indiscernible] good to see you. Thank you. [indiscernible] 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] pleased to see you again. I am here with my daughter. [indiscernible] sen. Klobuchar oh, very good. There we go. Sen. Klobuchar were all there. [indiscernible] 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] backup paper ballots. I know it is oldfashioned but that helps to assure us if they are attacking. And 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. To you . Serena with an s. For all your good work on Climate Change. So, i wrote the book, all myself. We will show it to cspan. Northern woods and all. Thank you for your good work. I have one suggestion. Calamity dawn. [indiscernible] sen. Klobuchar ok. Hi. You are the one. [indiscernible] love the humor. Sen. Klobuchar you have the Ruth Bader Ginsburg action figure. Pretty cool. I like the green earrings. [indiscernible] [indiscernible] thank you. Sen. Klobuchar hi, there. Oh, hi. [indiscernible] we have to make sure they are legal. [indiscernible] i got some on my phone. Text me and ill text them to you. Sen. Klobuchar oh, rotary club. Oh, wow. I am a native minnesotan. [indiscernible] sen. Klobuchar ok, good. Ok, get the hat. [indiscernible] sen. Klobuchar ok. All right. Thank you. [indiscernible] sen. Klobuchar yeah, we were saying we could do a lastminute photo. [indiscernible] [indiscernible] thank you. We appreciate it. Very good. [indiscernible] sen. Klobuchar ready to go. Hi. [indiscernible] thats the one. Sen. Klobuchar norma . Yep. [indiscernible] [indiscernible] good to see you. Thank you for coming to New Hampshire. If 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] sen. Klobuchar oh, thats nice. Thats what i meant about being ambassadors. Ok, did that not work . You werent looking at the camera. [indiscernible] civil war reenactors. Sen. Klobuchar very good. [indiscernible] thank you. [indiscernible] sen. Klobuchar thank you. Very easy to relate to, but still had content. Good luck. Thank you. Good to meet you. Thank you, appreciate it. [indiscernible] sen. Klobuchar do you live here . I live nearby. [indiscernible] [indiscernible] 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 rabbi ew a past two an imam. It went viral. 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 [indiscernible] i so enjoyed hearing you. I will pass on your message. Thank you. Good to see you. After today, i am confident that you will more than hold your own. Sen. Klobuchar ok, who should i write this to . Just sign it. Sen. Klobuchar ok. Thank you, its a real honor. Thank you. Thank you. Ok. Knock em dead. That was wonderful. Sen. Klobuchar thank you. [indiscernible] thank you. Thank you. Sen. Klobuchar hi. Your name . Helen. I got to watch you on cspan. Sen. Klobuchar good. [indiscernible] sen. Klobuchar 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 you all these fellows are White Nationalists, racist, white supremacist and what we need to do, in my opinion, is beat them at the ballot box. Sen. Klobuchar and bring everyone in, because limping over is not enough. You want to win big anyone to big and ring people with you. Thank you for your service. You served during the korean war . [indiscernible] i have a tv show here called nashua strong. [indiscernible] sen. Klobuchar my dad served in the korean war. But he served in germany. Thank you. Absolutely. Send us around the world. Sen. Klobuchar ok. Thank you. Hi, my name is gabby foster. [indiscernible] sen. Klobuchar an undisclosed location, at least undisclosed to cspan. [indiscernible] it was great. You are welcome. [indiscernible] sen. Klobuchar so, i had done a lot, just because minnesota, with mayo, we do a lot of research. We made the point that we should not stop the research and as a n example, we did not really get into questions on health care. [indiscernible] good luck to you. Sen. Klobuchar thank you. Thank you so much. Every day is like this. Sen. Klobuchar there you are. Thank you so much. Sen. Klobuchar ok, thank you. Thank you. [indiscernible] [indiscernible] sen. Klobuchar ok. Thank you. Can we get amy in the background . Sen. Klobuchar thank you. [indiscernible] it was my pleasure to be here today. It was really remarkable. You hit an hour running, which is probably an indicator of what you will do. Sen. Klobuchar i am really trying to make clear that what i talk about is what i am going to do. You cant just tell stories. People lose track of what you are saying. [indiscernible] thank you so much. Somebody, she is an ordinary person with extraordinary ideas. Sen. Klobuchar i actually use that with ordinary people doing extraordinary things. There we go. Question, jane goldman. On google it said that trump is responsible for [indiscernible] 41 of which are made in this country. What is up with that . That has to be a talking point. Sen. Klobuchar i think the economic point has to be made. Absolutely. [indiscernible] go figure. Sen. Klobuchar thank you. All right. You guys have everything you need . Have fun. Enjoy the day. Go have an ice cream cone. This is going to inspire me. [indiscernible] campaign 2020, watch our live coverage of the campaign trail and make appear on mine. Cspans campaign 2020, your unfiltered view of politics. Tomorrow night on cspan, a conversation among former government officials about the future of Representative Democracy and relations between the executive and legislative ranches. Andkers include karl rove eric cantor. In his portion, karl rove talks about the need for the president to rise above political bickering. One thing i learned at the white house, the personal relationships between the president and the congress, even with members, more importantly with the leaders of the opposition come if they have to be aimed at cordiality. The president cannot get drawn into this stuff. He has to be the adult in the room and take whatever is thrown his way. Said inin massachusetts 2003 that bush lied about wmd in iraq, he had looked at the same intelligence and gave a speech. He was the guy who kicked it off bush fromdnt keep holding his tongue and trying to set the record straight without getting personal. Kennedying closely with on immigration reform. But the president has to be that person. It is not an easy job. I remember one time i got a call, carl, i give a speech and i didnt read it beforehand, they just wrote it and i called bush a liar and a loser and i did not mean to call him a loser. [laughter] will you tell him im sorry . He is a noble, and he doesnt have anything on the schedule, what you why dont we put you through and you can talk to him yourself . Click. But thats the job of the president. Personal relationships matter. A conversation among former government officials about the future of Representative Democracy and relations between the executive and legislative ranches is tomorrow night at 9 30 p. M. Eastern on cspan. At the g cement g7 summit President Trump and shinzo abe , announced a trade deal in principle on agriculture and digital trade. This is 20 minutes. Pres. Trump thank you very much. Weve been working on a deal with japan for a long time. It involves agriculture and commerce and many other things. Its a very big transaction and we have agreed in principle. Its billions and billions of dollars