Way to be first in line. You are like one of those fans who show up at 5 00 a. M. Nice to meet you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thanks for being here. 1, 2, 3. Thank you so much. Thank you. Welcomed. I work here at the college. Very nice to meet you. Im fully on board, i brought my mom. Thank you for being here. Hello, andrew. Nice to see you. Andrew thank you for being here. Great, how are you . Nice to meet you all. Thank you. Thank you all. Nice to meet you. Hello, hello. Making a morning of it. 1, 2, 3. One more. Thanks. Nice to meet you, as well. 1, 2, 3. Thank you. Good morning. Thank you for being here. Look here. 1, 2, 3. Thank you very much. Did you get it . See you later. Conversations] [indistinct conversations] anything formily, a haircut to a dental appointment numeral congratulations, man. You do incredible work. We bring businesses together as a region. Every politician, democrat and republican [indistinct conversations] andrew i think most americans have someone in their family that hes got a disability agenda coming out next week because andrew im glad hes talking about it. Plan. Hink god has a [indistinct conversations] [indistinct conversations] today, we are delighted to welcome andrew yang. While this is his first foray into politics, he has an impressive background as an attorney, entrepreneur, and philanthropist and with that, unique perspective on how to lead our nation in the future. A graduate of Brown University and Columbia University school of law, mr. Yang spent the early years of his career in leadership roles at several startups and earlystage growth companies. Venture forfounded america, a nonprofit focused on creating jobs and struggling american cities. In 2012, the Obama Administration selected him as a champion of change. In 2015, as president ial ambassador for global entrepreneurship. Mr. Yang is also the author of sushi books, smart people should build things and of war on normal people. 2017, he launched what many considered to be a long shot, a campaign for the 2020 democratic nomination. Campaign is the concept of universal basic income, or ubi, which he refused as the for first to freedom dividend, which would provide 1000 a month for every american a dolled over the adult over the age 18. Mr. Yang has explained he believes ubi is a natural response necessary response to automation, which is leading to workforce challenges and job automation isy what led to donald trump selection in 2016. Clearly, his idea has gotten some attention and interest because two years after launching a longshot campaign, he has outlasted a number of other wellknown candidates, which brings them here. I know we are all eager to her more from him, so please join me in giving a warm New Hampshire welcome to president ial candidate andrew yang. [applause] andrew thank you, jim. Thank you, New Hampshire. That may have been the best intro i have ever had. Ill have to bring jim with me everywhere. I want to thank the College Students here today because i do not remember a class starting at 8 00 a. M. Jim gave a fantastic intro but he missed the best part. How many of you knew i went to high school in New Hampshire . How did you miss this, jim . I graduated in 1992. They just brought me back to speak a few months ago and when i was there, i said i havent been\graduation because i didnt really have a good time here. The student body erupted in applause which is not what i had expected. I sort of feel bad that was the reaction. I went toaduated, Brown University, didnt know what to do so i went to lost through law school. I was an attorney for five unhappy months and then i left to start a company. Caminiti started a business or organization or mailing list or club . If you have your hand up, you know number one, it is much harder than it looks and number two, when someone asks how it is going, what do you say . It is going great. My business also went great until it failed. Entrepreneur,ling six figures and educational loans, my parents told their friends i was a lawyer because it was easier story that i work in startups for another 10 years, became the head of an Education Company that grew to be number one in the United States and was acquired by a bigger, Public Company in 2009. 2009 was a hard time in much of the country. How was it here in New Hampshire . Hard to believe the financial crisis is 11 years ago. It devastated so many communities around the country and i thought i met have some insight into why it unfolded. It was in large part because all of the want to be with his kids whiz kids had gone to wall street and done mortgagebacked securities which wrecked the economy. That is a train wreck, we should do something about that. I thought, what would i want our Ambitious College graduates to do in an ideal world . Division i came up with was starting businesses and creating jobs in places like detroit, cleveland, st. Louis, baltimore, new orleans, and cities around the country. Started an Organization Called venture for america and called rich friends with this question. Do you love america . The smart ones asked what does it cost if i answer yes . 12,000. I helped create several thousand jobs around the country, was honored by the Obama Administration so i got to bring my wife to meet the president. My inlaws were excited about me for a week. I was getting awards for creating jobs around the country but i had a sinking feeling, in part because of my travels how many of you grew up in new england . How about the midwest . The south . West coast . I grew up in upstate new york and came of age in new england. Those who had your hands up, new england, i grew up in a similar environment and i was blown away by the disparities between st. Louis and San Francisco or ifhigan and manhattan, where you fly a few time zones, you feel like you are crossing decades or dimensions or ways of ine, and i was doing work these communities for seven years and then donald trump became our president in 2016. How did you all react when donald trump won . If you were in this room, you probably reacted quite negatively, but at least, im assuming that. How democratic is this room . Regardless, we all have friends, family members, neighbors who celebrated that outcome, and if you were to turn on cable news today, you would get a series of explanations as to why donald trump is our president. Russia,o Something Like racism, fbi, Hillary Clinton, females, all mixed together in some kind of stew. Guy and tookbers this as a red flag. Tens of millions of our fellow americans decided taking a bit on the narcissist reality tv star was the way to go. Was, not tripping over who created thousands of jobs with a feeling that every job my organization was creating was like water getting poured into a bathtub with a giant hole in the bottom, or any job we were generating, we are losing tens or hundreds of jobs. I believeten so bad, it led to donald trump selection in 2016. The numbers have a clear explanation as to why he won. 4 millioned away manufacturing jobs in michigan, ohio, wisconsin, pennsylvania, missouri, iowa. All the states he needed and did win. There is a Straight Line up from the adoption of Industrial Automation and the Movement Toward trump in each individual holding area. It is one of the strongest correlations that can be found in the data. In New Hampshire, you lost 30,000 manufacturing jobs yourself, though it happened a little earlier but you have seen what happened in your communities. 20 manufacturing plant closes and the jobs disappear, blues go to blue goes to read. That is happening in New Hampshire. What happened to manufacturing jobs is now shifting to other parts of our economy. How many of you have noticed Stores Closing where you look work and live in New Hampshire . Retail stores . Why are they shutting the doors . Amazon. Amazon is a vacuum sucking of value every year, causing 30 of stores and malls to close for good. How much did they pay in taxes last year . Zero. That is your math. 20 billion out, zero back. The most common job in the country is working as a retail worker or clerk. The average worker is 39yearold women working between nine dollars and 10 an hour. In her store closes, what is her next opportunity going to be . Can you call the Customer Service line and get the t, you dial bo human, human, human until you get someone on the line. We all do it. In two or three short years, the software will sound like this. Hey, andrew how is it going. . What can i do for you . You might not realize it is software. The 2. 5l that mean for million americans who work at call centers making 14 an hour. I spoke to a group of ceos and asks the 70 ceos how many of you are looking at displacing work is with Artificial Intelligence and software in the days to come . Guess how many hands went up out of 70 . All of them. You could fire that ceo if he was not replacing his workers with Artificial Intelligence. To me, the Biggest Challenges truck driving. How many of you know a truck driver in New Hampshire . Is the most common job in 29 states in the country. There a three point 5 million Truck Drivers in United States of america, 94 men, average age 49, average Education High School or when youre of one year of college. In california are working on self driving cars. Millions of dollars in savings a year if we can automate truck driving. We have robots. These are the challenges. Going to go into self driving trucks for a minute because this is fundamental. My friends in Silicon Valley tell me they are 98 of the way to self driving trucks. Ist sounds impressive but 2 a lot when it comes to trucks. You cant have trucks crashing. Self driving trucks are really bad with something called snow. It is one reason why the robot trucks are getting tested in arizona where there is no snow. How are they going to get the last 2 . You all remember the first time you saw motion video on your phone . You watched tv on your phone and said well, we can do that . That was 3g. We are in the process of rolling out 5g across the country. The way they believe they can get the last 2 is equipping trucks with teleoperating software. In a silly location and the computer doesnt know what to do, the computer alerts otello operator singing in it sitting in a there will be cameras on the front of the truck to see out of it. That is the plan for the last 2 . What do you think the ratio will be between teleoperators and the 3. 5 million americans who drive trucks right now . 2 , 5 . What is that going to mean for the 3. 5 million truckers or the seven million americans who work in truck stops or diners that rely on the truckers getting out and having a mean. Donald trump is not the cause of awesome of our problems. He is a symptom, a manifestation. What experts are calling the Fourth Industrial Revolution. When is the last time you have heard a politician say sports Industrial Revolution. Probably just now. I am barely a politician. This is what got me off the bench. I said my country does not understand what is happening. We are scapegoating immigrants. They have next to nothing to do with. If you go to a factory in the midwest, you dont find wall to wall imgrants. You find robots and machines. That is pushing americans to the sidelines. My first move was not to run for president. I went to d. C. And said what are we going to do about the fact that we are going through the Fourth Industrial Revolution and americans dont understand what is happening. What do you think the leaders in d. C. Said to me when i said what are you going to do . Put yourself in their shoes what would a d. C. Lobbyist or policy maker say . Number one was we cannot talk about this. [laughter] number two, we should study that further. Number three, we must educate and retrain all americans for the jobs the future. That sounds very responsible. You have probably heard a politician Say Something very similar. Then i said look, i took a look at the independent studies evaluating how effective government funded retraining programs were for the manufacturing workers of the midwest who lost their jobs. Do you want to guess how effective hose programs were on a percentage basis . 015 . They are a total dud. If you look at the manufacturing workers who lost their jobs in the midwest, almost half left the work force and never worked again. Of that group, half filed for disability. That is how they survived. Deaths ges in rom despair have overtaken vehicle death for the first time in american history. The spanish flu of 1918, you ve to go back 100 years to a Global Pandemic to find 0 time where our lives declined for three years in a row. One person in d. C. Said something to me that brought me here to you all today. He said andrew, you are in the wrong town. No one here in d. C. Will do anything about this set of problems because this is not a town of leaders. This is a town of followers. The only way we will do anything about it is if you create a wave in other parts of the country and bring that wave crashing down on our heads here in d. C. I am glad i had someone with me. You thought i was making that up. It turns out it was a d. C. Lobbyist speech. They are quite similar. [laughter] so i said to this. Challenge accepted. I will be back with the wave. This was almost two years ago, and here i am. Here i stand before you, fourth, fifth or sixth in national polls. We just raised 10 million in the last quarter, in increments of 30 each. My fans are almost as cheap as bernies, and there are a lot of them. And the wave is forming very quickly. Americans realize that we have bigger problems than just donald trump, and we need a vision that helps move american forward in this time of unpress denieded change. What is that change . If you are hear in this room, you probably heard there is an asian man running for president who wants to give everyone 1,000 a month. The first time you heard that, you were like haha, that is a gimmick, this will never happen. This is not my idea. This is a deeply american idea embedded in our country. Thomas payne called it the citizens ditch denied. Martin luther king called it the guaranteed minimum income for all americans. It was what he was fighting no the day he was assassinated in 1968. One thousand economists sborsed it. It was so mainstream it passed the u. S. House of representatives twice under richard nixon. It was called the family assistance plan. It came this close to guaranteeing an income floor for all americans. One state passed a dividend where everyone gets 1,000 to 2,000 a year no questions asked. How does alaska pay for it . What is the oil of the 21st century . Data, a. I. , software, selfdriving cars and trucks. How many of you saw the study that said our data is now worth more than oil. How many of you remember getting the data check in the mail . Where did it go . It didnt get lost. It went straight to facebook, amazon, google and the rest of the Tech Companies paying zero or near zero in trackses. The biggest winners are not paying back into the system. We are looking around and asking where is the money going . That is where the money is going. They are so powerful that they have managed to confuse everyone as to where the value is heading. It is into their hands and they are paying steer or nearly steer taxes. It is up to the voters of New Hampshire. One reason why i love being here, every time i am here is you are are some of the most powerful people in american society. It doesnt feel like it, but just for fun, raise your hand and signal how many proceedings candidates you have seen in this cycle. It would be four, 10, 12. It it would be like this. Look at this. She flashed her hands, it was like 17, 10. And why is that . Do you know how many californians each New Hampshire vote is worth . About 1 thuck each. This may be 150 New Hampshire voters in this room. That is like 150,000 california annals. That is an hour football stadiums full of californians. In this is 2001 of the only places where democracy functions the way it is intended. Most americans look up and see the pipes clogged full of money and there is nothing you can do about it. You all can do something about it. That is your power. That is why the president ial candidates are coming and presenting visions of the future to you. You can flush the pipes out. Here you can change the course of history. That is why i love being here. It is a magical place. New hampshire is the place where the future will be built. What that future looks like in part is a dividend for all americans. After we pass the dividend and the money flows into your hands, where will the money actually be spent in real life . A thousand bucks a month for you, family members, neighbors. Chuck, his family has been getting 1,000 a month from me personally for the last number of months. He can talk about where they are spending the money. But i want you to ask how would your friends and neighbors spend 1,000 a month . Groceries. Rent. Day care. Tuition. How much it have would stay right here in New Hampshire . Most of it. Some of it would float up to the cloud. You would up great your Netflix Subscription and by an extra appliance on amazon. He is but most of it would stay here in New Hampshire. It would go to day care expenses, car payments, Little League sign ups, perhaps political organizations. It would supercharge your economy and create a trickleup economy from the families and communities up and create a sustainable path forward in rural areas in particular. We know rural areas are getting st century. N the 21 you cant stop laying the foundation. How many of you were excited about g. D. P. When you woke up this morning . I am going to make a big contribution. Thy i think we may have some bankers in the room who may have thought about it. My wife is at home with our two oys right now, one of whom autistic. What is her work included in g. D. P. . Zero. That is perverse. We know that work has immense value. G. D. P. Is at record highs in the United States. All at record highs in the United States, stress, financial insecurity, student lookin debt, suicides, drug overdoses, mental e. U. Illness. It has gotten so bad that g. D. P. And life expectancies are heading in opposite directions. Are are we measuring the right things. If you use the wrong measurements to a company, organization or division, how is it going to perform over time. That is where we are in the United States. Even the inventor of g. D. P. Said this 100 years ago. He said this is a terrible measurement for National Wellbeing and we should never use it for that. That was 100 years ago. Here we are 1200 years later chasing it off a cliff. Selfdriving trucks will be very good for the g. D. P. And very bad for americans. We have to start measuring things that would correspond to how we are actually do. How would you actually measure how your community is doing in a way that would get you excited to wake up in the morning . Mental healthy and freedom from substance abuse. If i said that got better in New Hampshire, you would jump for joy, maybe lightly. Childhood success rates and educational success. That would make you very happy. How about clean air and clean water . How about income and affordability. Proportion of americans who can retire in quality circumstances because right now we have millions of americans who have to work until the day they day. Inclusion of americans with disability educationally and in the job market. These are the measurements that would tell us how we are doc that would correspond to our progress as a society. I would go to the bureau of Economic Analysis and say hey, g. D. P. , really old and out of date. Lets modernize it to include childhood success rates and Environmental Quality and mental health, and i will present these real measurements to you every year. We will see how we are doing and can make progress. It is only by identifying the real problems on the ground that we will be able to make progress and win in 2020. Donald trump is our president today in large part because he got some of the problems right. He said in 2016 we are going to make America Great again. What did Hillary Clinton respond . America is already great. And that did not work. He got some of the problems right, but his solutions were the opposite of what we need. He said we are going to build a wall, turn the clock back, bring the old jobs back. We need to do the opposite of these things, New Hampshire. We need to turn the clock forward. We have to accelerate our economy and society as quickly as possible. We have to evolve in the way we think about work and value. We have to build a trickleup economy that will actually work for every american. I am the ideal candidate for this job because the opposite of donald trump is an asian man who likes math. Thank you all very much. Thank you, appreciate you. Math is an acronym, what does it stand for . Make america think harder. That is what we are going to do. That is how we are going to move the country forward in 20to. Thank you very much. We have time for a couple of questions. If you would just identify yourself that would be very helpful to see the least. Obviously that Dividend Income is a very fracture arrive plan. Anyone over the age of 18, there are 1,000 a month. The question in washington would ask how do you pay for it . Sure. You know the old joke why did i rob the bank . Because that is where the money is. The question is where is the money going in America Today . You have a trillion dollar tech coming like amazon paying zero in taxes. That is unacceptable. If you give the American People a fair share, a tiny slice of every dozen sale, google search, every robot truck mile, he would generate hundreds of millions of dollars in new revenue very quickly. This would pay for our data and the dividend. The great thing about the dividend in the trickleup economy is when the money circulates this through our communities, we get a lot of that money back through Economic Growth, more hiring and more activity. We generate hundreds of billions in new tax revenues as a result of bolstering the con studenter economy. We save billions on things like incarceration, homeless services, message si room health care amount corrections officer said to me we should pay people to stay out of jail because it costs so much when they are in jail. This is a corrections officer. We know. We think we are being smart by not spending money on ourselves, our people. We end up paying much more on the back end in much more destructive and punitive ways. There was one study that showed if we were to invest in our people and alleviate child poverty, we would increases our g. D. P. By 700 billion a year just based on better education and health outcomes. You would see higher Graduation Rates, higher mental health. Better decision making, less domestic violence, lower hospital visits. We would invest in ourselves, our human capital, and it would generate hundreds of billions of dollars in addition to get our fair share from the Tech Companies who are going to be the big winners. Some of the Democratic Candidates talk about a wealth tax as a source of income to pay for a lot of these programs. Your thoughts on that . The wolters tax makes a lot of sense given the nature of our current ultra extreme winnertakeall economy. But i am a very datadriven person, and a wealth tax was tried in a host of countries, including germany, france, denmark, sweden, and they all repealed it. They repealed it because it had massive implementation problems and did not generate nearly the revenue they thought it woofment we should learn from the experience of other countries and say a wealth tax does not work. What does work in other developed countries. These other countries have a mechanism where they get their first share of every amazon saying. I think a value added tax is a much more efficient way to balance our economy than a wealth tax that has not worked out in other nations, though i am a fan of the spirit of a wealth tax. It makes sense, but you have to be practical. Congress is debating a major trade bill right now, the United States, mexico and canada trade agreement. Your thoughts on that bill and whether you support it in passing cant and your thoughts in trade overall. We have had the Transpacific Partnership bill go down because there was no support there. Your thoughts on whether we should be doing more in trade . Trade is generally a very positive thing for our economy. The issue is that it has winners and losers, and the people that are getting kicked to the curb as a result of trade deals rightfully it not working for them and their areas. We have to share the bounties. If we do that, then we should be able to enter trade deals with a clean conscience and know that americans are winning across the board. It is one reason why a freedom dividend is important and vital. Historically when we had a trade deal that was going to eliminate lots of jobs, we said we are going to have a retraining program for the workers. They know they do not work very well. In reality they do not work very well. So we need a different mechanism that are going to protect the people that are going to suffer from various trade deals. We have time for a couple of questions. We have students here. Wait for the microphone. Hi there. Good morning and thank you for being here. I know a middle aged man who was diagnosed about three years ago with lung cancer. He had a very complicated operation and a very long, drawnout recovery, and he exhausted his insurance. He could only afford a very nominal Health Care Coverage that did not include Prescription Drugs. That is terrible. He had a reoccurrence of his cancer about two years ago. His tumor was responding nicely to the chemotherapy that was prescribed for him. However, the cost of that chemotherapy was huge because he did not have the coverage to help him maintain that. He dipped for his retirement and exhausted his retirement, which certainly didnt do much for his him and his family for the future. His necessity was that he had a laps lapse in his treatment for two months. His tumor flourished in that time, and he is now dying. If elect the arent, what would you do if elected president what would you do to help lower Prescription Drug costs . Thank you for sharing that story. A rtunately, that is now surprisingly common American Store story, where americans are making difficult stores, tragic cantic stories, about drugs versus savings and in some cases food and shelter. It doesnt have to be this way. Right now we have a Health Care System that is designed to make money off us and not making us stronger and healthier. I would move towards a medicare system that provides a public plan for your middle aged friend and all americans to know that if you end up very, very ill, that your costs will be covered. I would not get rid of private insurance pause i think private insurance has a role to play. But we need to get this crushing weight off of the backs of american fancy and businesses. There is no reason why your friend has to dip into retirement savings. To try and make himself well again. Other countries have gotten this right. We need get it right, too. But to me, right now we are in the worst of allworlds where we are spending 18 of g. D. P. On a Health Care System that is making us not as healthy as other developed countries, and we all live in fear of stories exactly like your friends. There are americans around the country that are avoiding the Health Care System because they know if they get stuck with a bill it is going to break their back and their familys back. Why are we allowing that to happen . We can fix it. I am in the medicare for all camp, but i would not get rid f private insurance. This question is based on the fact that if american productive, if the minimum wage had kept pace with american productive, it would be over 19 an hour. Can you explain why personal income would be a better path of 15 an hour or even a government guaranteed jobs program . No one should be working full time in america and be poor. Right now our minimum wage actually has you at the poverty line in many parts of the country functionally. The question is how can we get buying power into americans hands so that no one is working full time and poor in a way that doesnt disadvantage Small Businesses, many of which are just breaking even and also recognizes the kind of work that care gives and parents and nurturers are doing. You have no income for the 10 million stay at home moms in the United States. The equivalent of a 6 an hour raise for everybody. That boosts the minimum wage towards the teens and that makes it so that if you are working full time, that you are not at the poverty line. That to me is a much more efficient way. One of the things that i am passionate about is i think Small Businesses are the backbone of Economic Growth and opportunity in many communities. When you talk about a higher minimum wage, you are talking about Small Businesses that are often paying their workers 9 to they are 1 an hour. If you ratchet it up to 15, they would have to make tough choices around shifts and in some cases may push them below the profitability line. It is much more effective to put buying power into the hands of american consumers. That ends up growing the Small Businesses. That Small Businesses is now selling to people that mcfadden more money to spend. It is a way to get buying power in our hands to bolster Small Businesses. Do we have a mic in the pack ere . Thank you for your time this morning. Appreciate it. sounds like one of your main anxious is technology is changing rapidly enough that it is taking jobs with it. Changing infrastructure has been a fundamental part. Technological innovation leads to the destruction of the transformation of industries. And jobs are steroid as a result. In the mid 19 of this century, about 75 of americans worked on farms. Now it is less than 5 . Over that time wealth and prosperity has dramatically improved for the average american. What is different . Hy the creative disruption causing so much wealth, but starting in 2020 the trends are going to reverse and the creative struppings creates a trend where we need to rely on the government for baseball personal be income . I am very, very pro progress. I hope people sense that. I think technology and innovation are tremendous things for america. But m. I. T. , mckenzie, the Obama White House all have looked at what we are going through, this Fourth Industrial Revolution. They have project the it is going to be two to three times faster and more impactful than the previous Industrial Revolution at the turn of the century. That is not just me projecting. That is very smart people looking at it and saying between 20 and 40 of american johnson are potentially subject to automation in the next 1020 years. By the numbers, our labor market is not adapting very well to this. Our Labor Force Participation rate is down to 63 , close to a multidecade low, the same levels as el valve door and costa rica. Immigration migration rates are at decade lows, which is the opposite of what you would expect antoine if you saw there was massive change in the economy that people were readjusting and some n some cases moving. By the numbers, these things are not happening. We are looking at an Industrial Revolution thags is two or three times more impactful. And it included mass reuterses hat killed d mass riots and killed many americans. We have labor day. We instituted universal high school in 19211 in response it to what what is happening. If you expect this one to be two to thee times more impactful than that one, then you would expect the same thing for this one. The data clearly show that the degradation is will be ripping through communities around the country and there has not been any real adjustment on the part of the labor market. Fred is the inventor of the politics. I have been one waiting for to ask this question. We live in the age for the need for cybersecurity. A lot of us in this room may have hacked already, be it Small Businesses or individually. That is going to get worse. What would do you . There are two major issues thank you for the question and thank you for starting this incredible series. Ook at this. Thousands of eggs later. There two related issues here. To me cybersecurity is one of the fundamental security threats of the 21 stanford century. How do we interact with cybersecurity . We give our data to a variety of Tech Companies. Even the lawyers do not read that language when they ask us to read something. You scroll down and say i agree, and then you hope for the best. Then periodically there is some press release saying yahoos pass words were hacked. You are like do i have to change my pass word . Essentially we have given our data to a variety of Tech Companies, in some cases willingly, and in some cases unnoticingly and we dont know what happens. It is getting sold and resold, sometimes anonymously, sometimes not, to various companies. If you give your data to a company, it might have changed hands a dozen times since. You have no idea what happened. You certainly didnt participate in that value. One step towards cybersecurity is to hold the Tech Companies accountable for what is happening to our data. I am the only candidate saying our data is our and should be our property regardless of it er we lone it or lease loan it or lease it to the tech comes. It is on the tech company to say this is what we are doing with it. You can actually unplug at any time. This would raise the standard on the Tech Companies in terms of their responsibility to both report and protect our information. It is seen as our property. The second part of this is the Cyber Security itself. Right now the Tech Companies dont have that strong a financial interest in protecting them. They have a press release which we ignore. Our government has been decades behind the curve on technology. We actually got rid of the office of Technology Assessment in 1995. We are 24 years behind the curve on technology. I guess they decided that everything had been invented by 1995. First we create a financial incentive to the companies that protect our data. Second we enforce new cybersecurity regulations. I have talked to tech leaders. I am friendly with some of them. Ave been in contact ith elon musk and others. E techies know that things have got gone too far. In some cases they are calling out for government part are partnership, which is unheard of. It is unheard of. They are at that point now. That is where they are on cybersecurity. The truth is it is very hard to them to safe guard against russian hacking. They are looking to the government for help right now. That is what we need to provide. There is no easy answer pause it is much easy tore hack these system than it is to secure them. There is this new technology coming out right now. I hate to scare you guys, but quantum computing. It is going to be a great leap forward in deencripping and theoretically encription. Imagine a computer that can make nearly infinite calculations in a relatively short period of time. That allows them to break almost any conventional encription that exists right now. Google announced that they have a quantum computer that can can make these calculations. We are entering a very tough phase in american life. This is before we have deep fakes, which are videos that are indistinguishable from the original video. It could show me shaking hands with putin. I have never met putin. But even if you were to forensically analyze it, you wouldnt be able to tell the fake from the real. We are entering that time in american history, and it is imperative that our government actually catch up to the problems of 2019 as quickly as possible. I believe that is what can i help accelerate. Can i follow up on that . What do we need to do now to prepare for a 2020 president ial election where there be will be no hacking or interference at all . It would help if we had a Current Administration that actually seeped to care about safe guarding us against russian hacking. The Tech Companies are going to do more this time. But they tell me that there is no way that they can 100 safe guard their social net works from bots and various forms of interfeern. They are catching up, staffering out the obvious misinformation. My feeling about how we safe guard our democracy in 2020 is we win by such a margin that ven hacking at the margins and machines in various districts with not alter the result. Donald trump had to pull an inside straight in some states. If you had 70,000 votes go the other way in certain states, the thing would be difficult. I am one of only two candidates in the field that 10 or more of donald trump voters say they will support in the general, which makes me the strongest candidate to beat him in 2020. My headtohead matchups again him have me winning by eight points or more. That is one way we can protect ourselves against hacking, is win by so much that 1 or 2 doesnt hurt us. Time for one or two more questions. Wade for the mic to come your way. Over here. Good morning. There is obviously a lot in the news over the last couple of weeks regarding the situation in syria. I would curious if he could detail your plans for Foreign Policy if you were to become president . It is heartbreaking what has happened in syria. We need to let our aleyes know that our word is our allies know our word is good. I signed a pledge to end the forever wars. I dont think americans want our armed forces be in a constant state of conflict for years or decades on end. It was james maddi search, cant secretary of defense, says if we have less diplomats, we have to buy more other things. We have to invest in relationships abroad. I think our Foreign Policy reflects how we are doing at home. The series of events were we were disintegrating at home. We elected donald trump and we are unreliable. The goal has to be to have the pendulum go the other direction. Rebuild ours at home and project a steady and reliable Foreign Policy for years to come. One more question. Ait for the mic. You mentioned earlier more about what you had in mind for effectuating a plan that will enhance that development . Climate change is the existential threat of our time. It is to me hand in hand with automation of our jobs. In a country where 78 of americans are living paycheck to paycheck, if you for read about Climate Change what, do a lot of them say . I cant worry about that. I have to pay my bills. The penguins will have to wait in line. If we get the economic boot off peoples throts, we can make more rapid progress on Climate Change. I was in portsmouth and they showed me that there were dozens, hundreds of buildings that are flooding regularly where they were not before. There is a multimillion dollar shrimping business that has gone out of business. I staked it out at the detroit debate. The first thing is we have to fight Climate Change. The second position is Climate Change is a hoax. The third position is it is even worse than you think and we need to do much more to protect our communities. I have a fivepart plan that takes about 50 pages to explain on Climate Change, but i will do my best to summarize some of the greatest hits. Fossil fuel he industry to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars over the decades. We need to take the same level of investment and move towards Sustainable Energy sources. That is job number one. But america is only 15 of global emissions. The rest of the world is 85 . It doesnt do us that much good if we reduce our emissions, and the rest rise. In africa they have fired up new coalburning plants that china has given to them. China says do you want this, and africa says yes, i would love it. The challenge is to make renewable sources of energy more competitive so they forego the coal burning plants. We have to reverse some of the damage we have done. We have to reforest tracts of land and try to recede the atlantic okur. The Atlantic Ocean is losing 4 to 8 of its boimass a year now. We have to recede ocean beds with plant life that will rebuild some of the ma puerto rican ecosystems. I would invest in making our communities more future proof. That part of the plan is called move people to higher ground. That sounds grafment. We moved a town in louisiana that was uninhabittable because of rising water levels. We need to try and provide incentives and shift our resources so that people are in environments that are protected over the longterm. We all know when there is a Natural Disaster who suffers the most . The poor, people of color, people who dont have cars they can get into and drive to safety or they dont have adequate shelter. Moving to Higher Grounds includes a dividend of 1,000 a month to help them protect themselves as our climate gets worst. Then the fifth is a constitutional amendment that includes safe guarding our environment so that it is an intrinsic part of the governments responsibility for years to coming. Thank andrew for being here tonight and answering the questions. Thank you very much. [applause] i love it. I will model it. Can we get a picture . Sure. Thank you. Very good. Great questions. Inaudible] thank you very much for coming tonight. Appreciate it. Thanks. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much for talking about your plan. I had a fourpoint plan, but it sounded like that was a arger issue. I do have interests. On my website there is a whole plan. Thank you. Have a good one. Can we have a pick . Of course. Thank for you stepping up. I appreciate it. You are the quintessential citizen joining the fray as it were. Thank you. I appreciate it. Thanks for coming. Thanks, david. I will be in New Hampshire a day or two, and then from here to nevada. Safe travel. Thank you. Do you want to give a shout out to brian . Hey, brian. Hows it going . Thank you for all you do. Love you guys. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you, kevin. Hello. Pleasure hearing you speak. Thanks for being here. Of course, thank you. Welcome to New Hampshire. You get a lot more press yeverage. Thank you for saying so. I think at this point people get their information from a lot of things that are not the mainstream press. We need to try and mainstream a ot of the stuff. Really . Good luck. Thank you. Glad to meet you president you. Thanks for coming today. Good luck the rest of the way. Thank you. Thank for you everything. Family is here. A top choice of mine. Thank you for coming. It was good to see her and you. Appreciate you trying. Thank you. Incredible. Thank you. Happy to hear. Darla. I will try to cam fayne for you here. That would be incredible. Thank you. Thank you so much for coming out. A pleasure. Thank you. Thank you for coming. Am glad i came. Thank you. Thanks for coming. No problem, man. Thank you. You are very welcome. Thank you for waking up early. Thank you. Good turn out. Thank you very much. Appreciate you. Hello again. Doing so well. I spoke in the arp forum a few months back, and people hang on to the website. [laughter] that is where i remember you from. I know. Breakfast at the white house. We will upgrade to lunch. [laughter] great seeing you guys. Thank you for being here. Thank you so much for coming to speak. Thank you. Three or four times i have seen you speak. Every time you get better. First time i saw you was when you first came to campus last year. You have grown since then. I dont know. [laughter] i remember that time finally rom the first time i was here. Knocked it out of the park. Appreciate you. How are you, i am sarah. Hey, sarah. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you too. Thank you so much. Thank you. Hi. I am susan, and i am very, very touched. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you, sir, for coming up. It is good to be here. It has been a pleasure, sir, thank you. Thank you. Hi. Congratulations on this. That was the best presentation i have heard since we have been doing this, this year. Thank you. Thank you for saying so. The way you carry yourself, part of the conversation, it is great. You are challenging people to think seriously about themselves. I think it is real significance. The conversation is not static. We have for do it for your kids and my kids. Yes. Can i get a quick photo . Yes. Thanks very much. No problem. Good job this morning. Thank you, richard. Hat is gracious. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you. Get up there. Sure. Thank you. One, two, three. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. You are well can come. You are welcome. Hopefully they age well. They do. I have been putting nibbles on the bottom. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. No problem. That is great. Good seeing you. Thank you. You got it. He is your camera person right here. Hinch, we are here today with the democratic candidate for president , andrew y archer ng. A 60second interview. I know you are a big basketball fan. You play and watch it. . O is your ferret player on larry johnson. I was there when he hit the fourpoint played. I love that dade. Such a great teammate. Larry johnson of the knicks. Which president or former president do you draw your most inspiration from . Great Teddy Roosevelts granddaughters godfather, which means i am absolutely nothing to him. I think Teddy Roosevelt was very bipartisan in his problem solving. He stood up to corvette interests, preserved narc parks. He finished a speech have he got shot. I am a Teddy Roosevelt fan. What is your message . You need to get out and vote. The world is changing. The world is a total mess, and the only way we can clean it up is with your help. Help us clean it up, please. In New Hampshire you are worth 1,000 normal voters. What is your primary policy goal you want to get accomplished in the first 100 days at president. Freedom dividend, 1,000 for every adult age 18. There is nothing stopping you us from making it happen. We need you to get this thing signed into law. Freedom dividend of denied into law in the first 100 days. Thank you for coming. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. You can do it once in a while. [inaudible] would you like me to sign it . I would. [laughter] this is going to be awesome. His makes me so happy. Thank you. Take that is my moms name. Very nice. Thank you for weight, everyone. Thanks for making the time. You are jumping again. Larry johnson, are you kidding me . Grandmama. He was fun to watch to me. He had physical limitations down the stretch and getting by on veteran savvy. That is sort of my game now too. Are you upset that nba players didnt take a bigger stand. Lebron james may have been able to change some things . If you are an nba player, it is very reasonable for you to say look this is an International Affair that i dont know enough about to comment on. I do comment on it. It is apparently going to cause an international incident. Asking them to comment on it would be a bit too much to ask. I am wondering about universal basic income. Is that a permanent situation for you, or is that something you would do temporarily to get through certain Economic Times . You look at the one state that has had a dividend. It is alaska. It has been in place for 40 years. Even now it is creating undreds of jocks, improved childrens health. E majority of people there would pay a higher tax. The freedom dividend, after we put it in place, it will make a stronger healthier, improve health rates and Graduation Rates and the way of life. I am sure after we put it in place, americans will be excited it. You have a good shot. If you dont, would you consider being a running mate to a david jacoby or Elizabeth Warren . Joe biden or Elizabeth Warren . My best place is president. The goal is to make sure the country is in condition that i am proud to pass along to my kids. In a couple of days you are going to be releasing a medicare comprehensive plan. Today you said you would not eliminate insurance. Do you still remain in the medicare for all camp . I have been on the record for a long time saying that would be a role for some private insurers in my plan. I think most private insurers will disappear if we do a good job job with the public plan. But there are companies that add value and adapt to circumstances. This has been my position from the beginning. Why wouldnt you support legislation to ban automated ucking, automatically driven trucks . Who wants them rolling down the highway without a driver . In some circumstances, i think it would be right to try and forestall or delay automation, but it is very, very difficult to do that in every segment of the economy. One example is that 30 of American Stores and malls are closing. That is not because you have a robot coming in and working at the mall. It is because amazon is displacing those retailers. If you go to an amazon fulfillment center, you see it is robots and machines. It is difficult to say we are going to outlaw robot trucks, but say a robot inside of an amazon full anymore. Place is different. Robot trucks, about they will not just end up replacing human workers, but they will be better for the environment because they will have less environmental impact. They will be able to convoy together and lower wind resistance, increase equipment utilizations. Right now 4,000 americans die in accidents with human truckers every year. The cost savings are expected to be 168 billion a year. It is hard to say we are going to keep everything the way they are while he every other economy makes progress. Ian open to forestalling automation in certain places, including trucking if it is necessary to maintain our economy and society. I think as a longterm strategy, that is a loser, and we should instead be moving toward a country where people feel like they are benefiting from the progress and innovation taking place. This is a very establishment crowd theory and you are an outsider candidate. Do you feel like you are getting adequate respect from the establishment . I do. The reception i got i thought was very warm and positive. We all want the same things for our country, establishment, not establishment. We are all parents and americans. I have been thrilled by the momentum the campaign has gotten. Certainly we may have starred as something of a newcomer or outsider. I feel like i am becoming more and more a part of the establishment. One, medicare for all on page eight of Bernie Sanders bill eliminates private insurers. Do you not support the bill . I support the spirit of what bernie is trying to accomplish. I do think that outlawing private insurance in a very are short period of time is a bit to disruptive, and i would not do it. There is a pack called math ack that aims to raise seven figures on your behalf. You have a policy on your website getting rid of dark money in politics. Do you view this as a contradigs . We all know we have a broken Campaign Finance system where there is a flood of money, and it is overrun our policies, our politicians. I know very little little about the math pack genuinely. If it is a case that we have the rules that we have and the people want to help support my message and my campaign, given the system we have right now, they are free to do so. But i genuinely know vgt about the math pack. I just hope that they are aligned with my vision for the country and they invest accordingly. Not going to dissuade them. I am happy to repeal citizens united, trying to do away with super packs entirely. But given the rules we have right now, my goal is to compete and to win. I am not going to dissuade private citizens from trying to help. President trump is apparently claiming victory in syria this morning. Of course he is. I am wondering what your take on that is . Well, that is trump for you. First he is like we are going to do this, and then he is like it is not going to be a problem, and now he is declaring victory. We can all see what happened on the ground. He pulled us out quickly and ash traylor ash tony parkerly. Americans are very smart and we realize what is happening. I am for impeachment, but i am on the record saying when we are talking about impeaching donald trump, we are losing. We have to take every second we have to present a new positive vision for the country. That is the only way we are going to beat them in 2020 and the only way to move the country forward. Last night you tweeted saying you will stay in even if you dont meet your funds raising goals. Was that a dig at secretary castro . That was stating the facts, like we have a new goal at the end of the move. Whether we hit that goal has no berger on the campaign or my being here. Everyone knows i am in it to win it. We are one of the only campaigns that has been showing consistent growth from day one. Thank you, everyone. Appreciate it. Thank you all. Ood to see everyone. Great player. No kid is going to get that referees. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, i know that was almost 30 years ago. We dropped him. Ng [laughter] he was holding me back. [laughter] decided to give him a couple days at home to mix with the team and tried to prepare. [laughter] was thinking about this very thing. Run, theirrella first time. I like spreading the wealth when it comes to championships. The astros just won a minute ago. [laughter] the red sox won the last one. The red sox, but the astros have been at the top. It is strange because i am a mets fan. They are a very unlikable team, but i find myself leaving for the nationals on this one. You are a mets fan, not a yankees fan . Thats right. I thought it was weird that the picture did not have to hit. I thought that was very strange. As a kid i was like, thats not right. And the mets were really good. Now i am dating myself. You made me selfconscious about it. [laughter] you are good. I just go forward a decade. I am a mets fan as a result. That is too bad. If i was a yankees fan, i would be happy more of the time. The mets are disappointing. [laughter] its ok, i like the underdog. I am cool with that. Are we done . [laughter] sorry, that was like an epilogue. Thank you, everyone. Thank you. Good to see you guys. Take care, man. Thank you. [indiscernible conversations] thank you. Announcer campaign 2020. Watch our live coverage of the president ial candidates on the campaign trail. Yourns campaign 2020, unfiltered view of politics. 2020 democratic president ial candidate senator Michael Bennet of colorado spoke at the politics and eggs breakfast in New Hampshire. He discussed his tax plan, the importance of bipartisanship, and the impeachment efforts against president trump. Following his remarks, he greeted attendees and took questions from reporters. Thanks for having me