My name is Charles Schneider and i am the acting chairman for the Dartmouth College republicans and tonight, the Dartmouth College republicans are pleased to host governor bill weld on campus. A harvard and oxford graduate coming he received his bachelors degree and began working as Legal Counsel for the u. S. House of judiciary committee. U. S. Nt on to serve as attorney for massachusetts and eventually, attorney general for the Criminal Division. In 1990, he was elected as governor of massachusetts. And in 1994, he was reelected to that position by the largest margin of victory in massachusetts history. Is now running for president under the republican ticket. He is challenging President Trump in the gop primaries we have to clarify that this is a policy event and not a campaign event. Mr. Weld has a history of service to the Republican Party and to his country and the Dartmouth College republicans are proud to host him on campus. Without further ado, governor weld. [applause] weld thank you so much. A great pleasure. I am going to sit by the side here so there is nothing between me and you. I plan to speak for 10 to 15 minutes on my chosen topic which is Climate Change. After that, we will have questions and answers for a slightly longer time than that. Climate change is right at the top of the list of things that i want to do if i am successful in becoming president of the United States. It is an existential threat not only to our country but to the entire planet. The issue is that if the atmospheric temperature rises by a certain amount between now and the middle of the century, it is very likely that the polar ice cap in its entirety would melt which would carry completely catastrophic consequences for the entire world. Many countries would not be able to sustain their populations because of the impact of the colossally problematic weather events. We have already seen that start to happen in the last couple of decades. At an accelerating pace. There would be worldwide flooding. All of the mountain glaciers in the world would melt. The mountain glaciers are the sole source of Drinking Water for 300 Million People which is just a little less than the population of the entire United States. That would be a catastrophic event. All of the coastlines of the world would be rearranged. People who are now on the coast would be 1330 feet underwater and there would be a lot of shorefront property that is not shorefront property now. Probably not here. You are probably safe from that here but its enough to ravage the economy and settle patterns of activity in virtually every country of the world. Very much including the United States with our two lengthy coastlines. It is an event that has to be avoided. It has to go to the top of the list for the new president. We cannot treat it as something that is not going to happen area that is not going to happen. 97 of all the scientists in the world agree that it is going to happen and the science here is settled. That is all the bad news. The good news is that the solution to the problem is not really that difficult. To put it in physical terms, what is necessary is that the countries of the world get together and prevent such a big amount of carbon going into the atmosphere that the temperature of the atmosphere rises 1. 5 degrees centigrade between now and 2050. If we can stop that from happening, keep it below 1. 5 degrees centigrade, then we will have avoided all of these colossal bad things that i have just been describing. The way you do that is that you reduce the amount of carbon that is emitted into the atmosphere. It is a mechanical, arithmetic assignment for the nations of the world. One of my first acts as president would be to rejoin the paris accord which is the group of many countries under the u. N. Framework on Climate Change. To work with china and the rest of the world to get a solution that would do our bit to reduce carbon in the earths atmosphere. In terms of the United States contribution to the problem and hence our responsibility, we are the second biggest polluter in the world after china. We are the biggest her capita per capita. What we and china do would be highly important. In terms of upholding our responsibility and it is a quantitative thing, how much carbon are you going to get out of the atmosphere, i propose that we simply set a price on carbon. This would be a legislation or executive proposal that i would introduce in the first month probably going to the senate to seek approval for it as a treaty under established procedures. Putting a price on carbon means that either by executive order or by congressional enactment, everyone who emits carbon into the atmosphere would have to pay a certain price per ton. Lets say 40 per ton. It might float up to 50 per ton. That would be imposed upstream so it would not be felt by consumers. And by upstream i mean by oil and gas companies. For Mining Companies at the mineshaft, for natural gas, it would be at the loading dock. That would raise a couple hundred billion dollars per year. That is something that is coming from these sources of carbon. However, i want this to be a price on carbon not a tax on carbon. My proposal is that all of that money would be remitted to taxpayers. It would be revenue neutral to the government. In that sense, it would not be a tax simply a price. The most common way to remitted the most common way to remit it to the taxpayers that has been proposed is simply to give role tax relief which is paid by everybody that is working and i propose that the top so it would be more relief for lower income taxpayers to the extent you need the cooperation of congress, i would probably appeal to democrats. You would be able for relatively short money to repeal the gas tax. And the diesel tax. And that might appeal to republicans. It might not be a painful thing to do in terms of its importance to the world at large. One idea that i have had that i have not seen others put forward is for industrialized countries like ourselves and or china to buy up sovereign debts of countries who have a great deal of forest particularly rain forest which is good for the atmosphere. More trees is a good thing. Buy up the sovereign debt on the condition that the rain forest stay in their existing status. If they were to be savaged that would be very bad for global warming. This is what we need to do. Its not something that causes us to have to commit economic suicide. It could be paired with Infrastructure Investments by the United States and such things as rail, roads and bridges to guard against flooding. And anything that promotes climate resiliency. It is not that difficult a measure if the political will is there to do it. That would be number one on my list. There is the plan. Im happy to take questions on this or any other issue. And thank you again for coming. Thank you. [applause] thank you for joining us. We will begin the q a section. The line will start here. Please come up if you have a question. Please be polite. I will hold the mic. If you are sitting on this side of the auditorium, you can also lineup right here. My name is ethan. What are your thoughts on the Green New Deal . Mr. Weld the question is what are my thoughts on the Green New Deal. It is fine as far as it goes on all of the Renewable Energy and wind and solar. Hat is great in this part of the world, we also have hydro, canadian hydro. That should be included. Im a little bit of an outlier on the plan as it has emerged in that i think Nuclear Power has to be part of the equation as well. People have been sitting around for a long time saying, why cant we invent something that has no carbon and can generate almost an infinite amount of power. That thing was invented a long time ago and it is called the atom. Ive been to a bunch of usually thinly populated counties, thinking of upstate new york, theyve already got little Nuclear Plants there. They would love to have more. They are very Good Neighbors and good sources of employment. The fact is that in the first draft of alexandria ocasiocortezs new deal, nuclear was included. But somehow she was persuaded, she had to cut it out because it wasnt absolutely clean because it generated nuclear waste. First of all that is a problem , that could be solved in one stroke now that harry reid is no longer the majority leader in the senate. Second, the new generation of Nuclear Plants, many of them are complete cycle plants. They consume their own waste. That problem would just go away. Third, i think advances in Carbon Capture and sequestration are going to solve that. I would put nuclear in, which is less heavy lifting for the other renewables. And a greater guarantee that it would all be handled by renewables. The one place where i get off the bus on the Green New Deal is that it says we are going to invest hundreds of trillions of dollars in green energy and that is going to create so many jobs and so much wealth that we are going to offer everyone a guaranteed basic income, and this is a quote irrespective of whether they are willing to work. That just cant fly. That is not going to work in the United States. It might work in europe but it will not work here. I would carve that one out and save the rest of the Green New Deal. All right. Hi, governor. My question for you is my name is kyle, by the way. My question is, beyond rejoining the paris climate accord, would you take any other action to try to convince other countries diplomatically to bring down their Carbon Emissions . Mr. Weld sure. What would i do with other countries to try to get to where we need to go on Climate Change . There will be a lot of hard bargaining there. I would like to quote something xi jinping said very early on, before the election of trump. He said, we have 1000 reasons to be friends. He was right. What he meant was that we have 1000 touch points. Our economies, our diplomacy, our aspirations, have 1000 touch points. And of all the countries in the world, the United States has the most touch points with anyone. As part of a wideranging bilateral discussion which with virtually any country i can think of, i would say it might not be fair if we industrialized nations said to the south, a general term i sometimes use for lesser developed countries if we said, too bad you came to the party late, we really enjoyed the fruits of the Industrial Revolution and all of the wealth and ease that has created and we are going to continue to eat all the ice cream, but you cant have any. So you have to stay where you are, relatively speaking, in the dark ages, and do nothing. That would mean you are such good boys and girls because you havent emitted any carbon into the atmosphere. It seems to me that wouldnt be fair. I think countries like the United States and canada have to and china have to suck it up and do what they have to do. It doesnt mean you have to declare economic suicide. You can achieve your objective in many different ways. And i dont think it would have a big impact in the United States. If there is a country that has a long way to go, it is china. I spent a long time traveling in asia and africa on business, and if you go from beijing west to the border, theres a coal plant every few miles. That is their major source. They have a lot to do and they know it. But they are very much politically in scented incented to do it. The things that drive the Chinese People nuts with the ominous communist party is pollution and corruption. During the olympics, the most beautiful Clear Blue Sky you ever saw, because they shut down every coal plant. So i look for things like that with other countries. In the United States would have a certain amount of clout. We wouldnt have to be ugly about it, but say, you be a good citizen, and you wont regret it, and this is why. That would be the approach. Afternoon, governor. My name is ethan. What are your thoughts on the trump impeachment inquiry currently in the house . Mr. Weld ive said this often and i was just here for a policy speech, but speaking as a lawyer, a lawyer who worked on the nixon impeachment, and who wrote with my officemate the memorandum on what constitutes grounds for impeachment, im a good person to ask. An impeachable offense, in the constitution is treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors, and treason is giving aid and comfort to our enemies, bribery is using your office to demand or accept something of value for yourself, and high crimes and misdemeanors is whatever congress defines it as. The number of times mr. Trump tried to obstruct the mueller investigation, clearly, by ordering documents be destroyed or that false documents be filed or that false testimony be given, that would be enough in itself. Every time he had that conversation with one of his folks and they said, i cant do that, that would be a lie, he said, what is your point . As weve seen in his relationship with Jeff Sessions and jim comey, he thinks the function of others in government is to watch his political skirts. And the recent deal with ukraine and trying to use the leverage he has from suspending 400 million of military aid to get the president to investigate his most likely rival, joe biden, that is over the top in terms of the definitions that i mentioned earlier. So i think the house will go ahead. The delicate question is, what are republicans in the senate going to do . There will be no removal unless 20 republicans vote for it. Give or take. Right now they are holding the line. Theres probably just a handful of republican votes for removal now. But the polls in the last week have shown a slight majority of support, not only for impeachment, but removal in the country at large. Republicans have not signed on yet, but republican senators who are up for reelection, they have to win the general election. If 60 of all people in the country, including democrats, like the idea of removal, those republicans are going to think long and hard before they vote to not remove. All the republicans who defended president nixon all year in 1974 said there is not enough evidence. That he knew about the watergate conspiracy. They were proved wrong when the tapes came out showing that he had known all along. They were all defeated. My prediction, which im making even though the Senior Republicans have been my friends over the years, they are all going to lose and you will have a democratic senate. And the republicans dont want that. My name is claire and i was wondering what your plan would be to lower drug prices in our country. Mr. Weld how to lower drug prices. The first thing you do is let people buy Prescription Drugs in canada and other countries. And another thing ive come around to, and this is a leftward swing on my part that i bigreluctant to get to but pharma has been so outrageous by failing to explain why they charge three times as much for Prescription Drugs here as they do in germany. I have finally come to it. That is to allow medicare to negotiate Prescription Drug prices with big pharma. Generally im on the libertarian side of the Republican Party. Not the Movement Conservative side. Generally it is important to me to keep government as small as possible so that individual liberties are as great as possible, but here it is not government versus individual liberties. It is government versus big pharma, who is not playing square with us. In my view. I would give medicare that power and that would be a seachange on day one. The enormous leverage on the price of Prescription Drugs. Im eric. I am a 23. You just said that we had about 1000 reasons to be friends with china. Im wondering if you could elaborate. Mr. Weld you would like to hear one or two of them . If we get together, we could do a great deal. I myself have a thought about the issue with north korea and mr. Trump has taken that on himself to have one on ones with ideal who he says he has fallen in love with. I think he came pretty close to pressing the Nuclear Button onie successfully sent 59 cruise missiles into blowup the airbase that dropped chemical weapons into syria. Even i supported that and im a noninterventionist. Hell most when all the way on north korea. He fell in love. I suppose that was a good thing for us. The stated reason was, i figured out what a tough kid this is. He killed his own uncle. What a strong kid. Now hes killed his own brother. The guy who was poisoned at the airport by the two young women. Rumor that remember that . Thats not really a good bromance. However, examine the problem. The problem is that north korea is heading down a path to get Nuclear Weapons. Is it because they want to bomb los angeles . No. They want clout, respect. They are frustrated because they have the worst economy in the world. The people are starving to death. This is a way they can get everybodys attention. Now, they are a very cool poor country. Right below them is south korea which is more highly developed. There are hundreds of missiles aimed right at north korea from a distance of nine miles. They dont like that. You know who else doesnt like that . China. Do you know whos right behind north korea . China is. China is north koreas big sponsor. If it werent for china, the north koreans would starve to death. Everybody knows that. The United States has no interest in seeing the north koreans starved to death. Germany hasation of been a success and produced stability in the world. My goal would be the reunification of the korean peninsula. I was over in korea in the early 90s when don greg was the ambassador there. There was supposed to be a summit conference. At the last minute, the north koreans canceled it and said they realized that all the delegates from south korea had syphilis and they would affect everyone in north korea. That is taking a strong line. They walked away. If we could go to china, this is a point to be friends, a reason to has reservoirs of goodwill. You have your puppet there, if you lean on them at all they do the deal with us. I know what you in north korea dont like, all those missiles aimed right at your head from nine miles away. Im old enough to remember the cuban missile crisis in the 60s when we were very upset at the idea of russian missiles being aimed at us from cuba 90 miles away. I can just imagine how you feel with it nine miles away. Maybe we can talk with the south koreans. Maybe we can do something with troop levels. Maybe we can do something with the number of missiles or type of missiles. This wouldnt be quite so threatening to north korea and you. I would like your help on the economic side. The United States is willing to help a little on the economic side. I know that mr. Trump would love to build hotels in north korea which would help the economy there. You see the glimmerings of a deal. Theres no fourway deal without china at the table. High. My name is bobby. My peers and i are studying religion and politics. Are you religious . How does it affect your policies . Im very tolerant. Im not religious in the sense of wanting to hoist or impose my views on anybody else. Im not a Movement Conservative. Movement conservatives are so interested in their own views on social issues, abortion, gay rights, they want other people to adopt them as well. That. St totally open on while im a pronounced physicals onfiscal conservative Government Spending and that sort of thing, on the social side, some people call me a liberal. Im really just open and supportive of everybody and every group. Church, i was raised a presbyterian. I raise my kids as a episcopalian. They are both protestants. Wereears ago, my family unitarian universalist. That is getting out there. Thats on the left edge of protestant the cap protestant. Episcopalian are most catholic. Almost catholic. Im a pronounced outdoorsman. I have been my entire life. I grew up in the woods. My wife is right there. Wave coming yes. We recently moved back into the woods. We live inside a wildlife refuge in canton, massachusetts. All of our neighbors are dear in turkeys and coyotes. And turkeys and coyotes. In new hampshire, cathedral of the pines. Very tall pine trees. You stand in the middle of those pines and look up. Its impossible not to think that god resides in that place. The outdoors is my cathedral. Im a naturalist. Im very much influenced by that. Pagany say that sounds and not doctrinal. If so, bring it on. Sumner and im a senior here. If trump were to be impeached and would be out of the race, what do you think your strongest edge would be in attracting his more stronger supporters . I will not attract diehard trump supporters. I dont think. People who are part of his organization. 98 s say that chump is at favorable in this state among people who voted in the republican primary the past timeline 10 times. The Republican State Committee is the trump organization. Im not going hunting there. Im going hunting elsewhere. Beginning with the 20 states that allow crossover voting. In 17 of those 20, democrats can vote in the republican primary. The other three, its independence or undeclared. My appeal is the people who perhaps didnt vote in the republican primary last time but you may think that the country is facing something of a crisis and they are not satisfied with what we have now in washington, d. C. And even in the oval office. That would be a lot of women voters who have to be horrified by the recent abortion statutes in the south and midwest. A lot of millennials and gen xers who have to understand that they will be clobbered by the deficits if they keep on going. They will be clobbered by Climate Change if we continue to treated as a hoax and pretend it isnt there. They will be clobbered of people dont get to work solving problems that are very obvious but nobody is working on in washington, d. C. Such as all the jobs we will lose because of artificial intelligence. No one is planning on how to get the educational tech go in the hands of those displaced workers so they can get replacement jobs. That is hard work. My general impression is that they like huge fights in washington better than they like hard work. That energizes their base to give them money so they can get reelected. Its a vicious cycle. Stick, ad make that lot of voters in the middle could come my way. Even democrats. I do have to enlarge the electorate be on the Party Leaders and the dug in Party Faithful or its not going to work. My question has to do with iran. Their Nuclear Capabilities and our future relations with them. Obviously theres no more iran nuclear deal. Back up scrapped. In order to deter them from building up a nuclear arsenal, which you plan on doing anything or nothing at all . Yes. The question is about the joint agreement among the run, our western european allies, and ourselves in 2015. Do i plan on doing anything . Yes, a lot. I thought ripping that it was a colossal blunder. We had them on a path to know Nuclear Weapons development for 10 years. Mr. Trump tears it up and says it was the stupidest treaty in history. What we have now . Mr. Trump trying to lessen sanctions on iran so we can get back to ace his seat at the tables of they will even talk to him. I dont know what he was thinking about. What did you think step two was going to be . The western europeans who are members of that agreement, jcpoa, they didnt leave the deal. Iran is still in the deal with them. Its very clear that they are just waiting until november 2020 to see what happens. They have as much as said so. Im a member of a group of former World Leaders as a result of traveling the world on business the last 15 years. I met a lot of heads of state. Bill clinton is the official u. S. Rep. They elected me because he often doesnt come in they want to make sure they have a yankee to kick around and find out whats going on in washington. I became friendly with a former president of iran who is over on the liberal side. Revolutionarye guards and hardliners dont like him. You cant see his name in the newspaper. He assures me and my friends in me that theure people in the street really want to till to the west. Its only the revolutionary guard and the hardliners. Has shown signs of softening recently. He wants to come back to the table with the u. S. Everyone wants to tilt western. I see that as the future in 10 years. I would be back to the table. I would rejoin that treating. I would not insist on new liquid. I would take it the way it was before trump ripped it up. Howdy. Im from texas. My name is harrison. What is your policy stance on the southern border and immigration more broadly . I think the Immigration Crisis is a canard. Mr. Trump, it was his signature issue during the campaign. Slogan foreword Climate Change, hoax. He has a oneword immigration policy which is wall. Im not against us having a completely secure southern border. If you ask the real pros, the people at homeland security, they will say what we really need down there is more people. More border agents, more judges, people to process refugee and asylum claims, people getting over the border. Thats why you have these children in cages. The americans are overwhelmed and dont have the personnel to even act responsibly. I dont think we need this big, huge wall. The truth is, there have been bits of wall, quite tall walls, for a long time. The dirty little secret between both mr. Trump and mrs. Clinton in the last campaign was, dont tell anyone he, mrs. Clinton voted for those walls. Neither candidate wanted that fact to be out. It never did come out. More broadly, hitting away from the wall, i think we need more work visas in the United States. Not fewer. I spent a lot of time in the western part of the state. From texas west, i worked a lot with george w when he was governor of texas. Staff thet Agricultural Industry or the Construction Industry in the United States without all those brown people coming across the southern border from mexico. Yes, a lot of them are from wanted out guatemala and honduras. That doesnt mean they cant be helpful to us. I point to the program that canada has called a guest worker program. Many people come. They have a worse problem than we do with weather and a short season on those two industries. Many people come to canada and work for four months. They send their remittances back to the family. They go home and live with their family for eight months. Thats what they want to do. They dont want to be in the United States. I said, its a canard. The opening gun from mr. Trump was, there are 11 million horrible illegal aliens in our midst. Were, mexicans send up their murderers and rapists. The majority of them are people who overstate their visas. They didnt crawl through the mud a month ago to get to underground to get here from mexico. Didnt wait in line. 11 million of them want to be citizens. Its not fair. Its true. They didnt wait in line. They should. Anyone who wants to be a citizen, that isnt 11 Million People. Its a smaller figure. I wouldnt jump them ahead of anybody. No crisis. Mr. Trump wants there to be a sense of crisis. It helps his politics to have people with their teeth on edge and to set group against group. Ive never seen a president who set out to set group against group of americans. He wants us to hate all foreign countries. He wants groups of american stayed other americans. Its Breitbart News incorporated. I dont get it. My name is josh. President , what would you do if anything to address gun violence in the country . We cant do nothing. There is increasing, rampant, massive shootings that have been started before mr. Trump. They have accelerated over the last three years. Like the two shootings in texas over the same weekend, they borrowed pages from mr. Trump some rhetoric and tweets he had done. Thats very troubling. What to do is the question. The most promising route is what are called red flag laws. They give any Family Member, any coworker of someone who owns guns and has manifested violent behavior in the past, threatened violent behavior in the future, expressed sympathy for islamic jihad, who carried around of list one of the texas guys carried a list of all the people he would want to kill. Pretrump Mass Shootings were under investigation by the fbi. The fbi had to give up the chase because they couldnt invite the case within six months. Thats a crazy row. It takes 18 months to do a complex investigation. I was head of the Criminal Division of the justice department. We dont need the government getting in the way. In this country, as a practicing not lawyer, i know this. You can get in front of a judge in six hours. Its not like waiting for an operation in britain or canada. Six hours if you have accident circumstances. If a Family Member or coworker comes in and says, this guy has a lot of guns and here is the behavior, well we are worried, you get right in front of a judge and you do need to have a judge. Otherwise it is the government taking the gun away on hearsay. Agrees, that person shouldnt have those guns. I dont care if its a derringer. That person shouldnt have a gun. Automatic weapons are off the table. They are illegal already come it except for license already, except for licensed firearms dealers. On. Ould be worked there was a definition of assault weapon in the 1994 crime bill. Maybe we should go back and look at that. That can be discussed and decided on. In terms of something right away, i think its the red flag laws. Hi. My name is ambrose. China cracks down violently on the hong kong protests, what would you do as president . Should we do anything in the meantime . No. I think china would have to pay a price if they did that. They would pay a price in terms of world opinion. They are still paying the price for Tiananmen Square which was 1989. They told us at the handover, which i attended in 1997, the handover from britain to china, there would be one country to systems. If they are cracking down like crazy the same way they do with muslims, thats not one country, two systems. Thats one country, one system. I would read that right back at them. I think that would call for some elevated rhetoric and what are called stiff notes in ambassadorial parlance. Not world war iii. You cant go quietly on that one. Im president of the dartmouth libertarians. Welcome. Thank you. Apart from your position on red flag laws, as president , would you defend americans Second Amendment rights . Oh yeah. There are 300 million rifles out there in private hands, lawfully acquired. People say, why dont we license them all . They can come in and show them to the police chief once a year to prove they still have it. You know, your one would be, nice to see. Your three would be, that gun is staying here. People hate to hear me say this. Its true. Throughout history when the government makes it impossible firearms,ns to own the result is often slaughter of the citizens. Theres a reason the Second Amendment was there. The colonists were tired of having the british sleep in their houses. The british to keep their guns but the colonists couldnt. It did come to that. Himmler made it impossible for jews to own a firearm in germany. When the knock came on the door, you were carted off to the concentration camp. Joseph stalin that was 12 Million People. Joseph stalin, same thing, 20 Million People. Not just those strongmen. A terrible autocratic leader made it impossible for anybody to own a firearm except the government. He was widely praised in the western press. This is a forwardlooking, sensitive fellow who realizes that guns are awful and isnt he great . He probably slaughtered the 55 of the people who had not supported him in the election. He went on to be the most reviled leader in the world in the 20th century other than the 2i40 mentioned. I do think at the end of the day, private, responsible firearm ownership is a bulwark against government overreaching and government aggrandizement. Given who we have in the white house right now, i wouldnt want to do anything to jeopardize that will work. Bulwark. One more question . Anyone . Any takers . Be brave. Hello again. Im a reporter at the college. My question for you is, how do you view the tax attacks by the Top Administration on freedom of the press . Do you think it is a concerning trend . Very concerning. Speaking of bulwarks against government overreaching. The president has said, a free press is the enemy of the people. The same thing whistling he said. The same thing hibbler said. The same thing every wouldbe dictator says when trying to take over a country. The free press obviously is one of the guarantors of the security of the people. Ive always loved the press, unlike most political figures. Attorney, a a u. S. Prosecutor for each state. Trying to overturn a corrupt power structure. One party didnt had been in control for 50 years in massachusetts before i took over which meant that everything was corrupt. I dont care which party it is. You put either party in charge for 50 years, there will be barnacles on the bottom of that schooner by the time 50 years is up. I was scraping up a lot of particles. Barnacles. You and i are in the same business, tearing down the temple walls. The press was a tremendous help to me as i tried to expose wrongdoing in high places. These are not crimes like bank robbery or murder where its obvious the offense has been committed and where its been committed. These are crimes such as political corruption. Everybody has an incentive to cover up the crime, the person who pays the bride in the person who demands and receives the bride. You have to do long lead time grand jury investigations, make people testify against their well, will, you have a choice of telling the truth, lying and facing perjury, or going to jail for 18 months. Its amazing how careless that makes many people. Most people, in fact. We had 111 public correction cases when i was he was attorney. We got convictions and 110 of them because we did our homework. That was unheard of. That ratio of conviction was unheard of. Rudy giuliani and i, he was good, we had tremendous success against organized crime and public corruption because of doing just that. The press was absolutely essential along the way. Thank you. Ok. Thank you, everybody. I enjoyed myself immensely. We want to thank everybody for coming. We appreciate you answering everybodys questions. Thank you guys for coming. Give it up one more time for governor bill weld. [applause] [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. 2017] [inaudible] i know some of the chinese leadership. The first ceo of the hong kong after the handover, ive known him for 30 years. They are unbelievably sensitive on this topic. It doesnt mean that they dont need to get their nose rubbed in it. Irrational ont this topic. It doesnt mean you dont do what you have to do. I worked in governor bakers administration. You did . Couldnt be better. I called him the heart and soul of the administration for 10 years. Hes a cabinet official. He did health care. All the stuff i take credit for. Cutting the budget was actually his dream child. Thanks for coming out. My pleasure. Thank you all. I think we are going up. [inaudible] campaign 2020. Watch our live coverage of the president ial candidates on the campaign trail. Make up your own mind. Cspans campaign 2020. Your unfiltered view of politics. We have built a remarkably in the datam both Technology Front and in the cybersecurity front. Make no mistake about it. The russians are added. Other foreign actors are added. They are continuing to do this because they could do it with impunity. You have a president right now who is sending his attorney general around the world to try to debunk what the Senate Intelligence committee on a bipartisan basis just said. Which is that the russians tried to influence our election. Tot is indisputable except donald trump and Rudy Giuliani and a few of his friends who just got indicted. We should be getting help from the federal government to protect the integrity of elections. The we is not the dnc. The wii is state and local government. We should be getting help. You saw the reporting about the former dhs secretary, when she would try to bring up elections security, she was given the heisman, as we say. Dont bring it up, the president said. You know, i cant trust this government to help us out. You saw the mueller report. One of the indictments alleged that the russians were attempting to hack into state and local systems. They got into one state and got half a million games. This is serious stuff. They did it before. We have built a robust infrastructure. I will never look anyone in the eye and say, we are bulletproof because we know that its an arms race. We are far better off than we have been when i got there. We are continuing to fortify. We are continuing to work with partners. One of them is not the federal government. Here more from the dnc chair this weekend on newsmakers. He talks about topics relevant to the 2020 Campaign IncludingFundraising Efforts and the democratic president ial debates. Watch the interview sunday at 10 00 and 6 00 eastern on cspan. Cspans campaign 2020 coverage continues now with remarks on democratic president of candidate steve bullock. He spoke at a politics and eggs breakfast in new hampshire. Good morning, everyone. Good morning, everyone. Want to welcome you all to another great segment of politics and eggs at a little bit different location. I am glad you all came here. Finally we found our way here. It is a great location for our