[applause] i want to get your questions. I want to orient you to who the heck am i. I was raised by two incredible parents. They were civil rights activists. We are who we are as a country because we Work Together and stood together. My dad by the time he was older, the hail was like beach balls falling from the sky. Let me tell you when this tsunami hit my town. I fed, dad, you grew up in the mountains of North Carolina. He said, dont you disrespect me. My dad was born to a single mom in a segregated world. I know my Family History back to slavery was just poverty, poverty, poverty. He would tell me, dont tell people i was poor. Tell them i was po. I could not afford the other two. But he was born in america. My father would tell me that he is who he is because of a conspiracy of love. People not related to him were willing to fight for him. My fathers mom could not take care of him. It was the community who took him in. No college in my familys history. They told him, you are going to go to college. He could not afford it. A church put a collection plate around and gave him money to go to North Carolina central university. He landed there in the early 1960s when the Student Movement started in North Carolina. He sees white people showing up to sitin for his rights. When he got to washington, i dont care who you are, irish, jewish, there was a time that Corporate America did not want you. A coalition of blacks and whites dont care who you are, irish, jewish, there was a time that that stood up and fought for him to be the first black person hired as a salesman by Company Called ibm in the entire virginia area. Inclusion, diversity, he gets virginia area. When he got a promotion, promoted to manhattan, looks for places to live and finds out the white families in new jersey did not want black families. He found a bunch of people who said, we will fight for you. They did this sting operation where white couples followed my parents around. The house i grew up in, we were told it was sold. A white couple found out it was on sale. Up on the day. Ow a volunteer lawyer showed up. When they walked into the Real Estate Agent office, he stands up and punch is my dads lawyer in the face and six a dog on my dad. As i was growing up in this beautiful home in this great community, every time my dad would tell the story, the dog would get bigger. [laughter] i am literally here, we are all here, because of people who did not just say the words of our nation, liberty and justice for all they were willing to sacrifice and fight for it. My dad watched me growing up and said dont you ever walk around this house like you hit a triple. You were born on third base. I got a scholarship to play football. Went to oxford on a rhodes scholar. I came back to yale law school. My dad was not impressed. He said you have more degrees in the month of july but you are not hot. Life isnt about the degrees. It is about the service you give. My faith and my it is about the service you fame values i was raised with what did i do after i got my yale law degree . I moved into one the poorest cities in my state to be a tenants rights lawyer because people fought for my housing rights. I will fight for other people. I still live in that neighborhood today. The only person in the senate who lives in a neighborhood below the poverty line. We do not mistake wealth for worth. We are an incredible community. I want you to know my values. I fight every day. Life is about purpose, not position. I may be running for president but i am fighting for the same reasons i ran for city council. It is a fight for people that are too often left out of the equation. Thelies like mine who were down upon, or discriminated against, to make this nations promise real for everyone. That is why i fight. But how we fight, that is what i know, we stand up for each other. Our strength comes from each other. We are each others hope. We are each of his promise. When we stand up and organize and mobilize, that is how we win. People want to make this election all about donald trump. It is not about one guy and one office. A referendum on him. It is a referendum on us. When we bring out the swarm, we win elections. We are each of his promise. This past election, in some states like wisconsin, he got less votes than mitt romney got. If blacks came out in the same rate as they did in 2012, 2016, we would have president clinton right now. The next nominee needs to be in to ignite a movement. I am not in this just to beat donald trump. I want to beat Mitch Mcconnell. [applause] that means we have to win senate seats in North Carolina. We have to win seats in georgia. We have to win seats in arizona. We have to bring out a way election. People tell me about the polls right now and i laugh. We have never had somebody from our party, someone leading in the polls right now, has ever gone on to be president. Gloria has volunteered to be our microphone runner today. Thank you, gloria. This is when we should all break into a chant. Calling gloria i will kick it off with a right to work governor like we have, how will he was president how will you ensure labor has a seat at the table . Senator booker you say kick it off, he is trying to appeal to me as a football player. What is happening in this state is shameful. It is happening and states all around the country. These attacks on our unions, emboldened and empowered by a Supreme Court that continues to the values and domains of my parents generation. They are rolling back workers rights. Civil rights, Voting Rights. They are rolling back womens rights, the ability for people to control their own body. We have to stop this. One of the ways we stop this is by passing legislation to stop it. This is why i am on the equality act. This is why im on the new Voting Rights act. We have to get these things past. There are two demi will great pieces of legislation. The freedom to negotiate act, we want to get passed through congress. We are going to do that not by just focusing on the white house. But by making sure we create a wave election where we can win up and down the ticket. One of the things im trying to do in my leadership is try to wake up this country to understand that this is just like the civil rights movement. We need to create a nationwide movement. That is why you will have a lot of people stand here but dont as people to tell you what they will do for you. That is what politicians do. If you want to talk to leaders, ask what you have been doing this fight already. One of the reasons i have such labor support in new jersey, when i was mayor, everything i did, you want to build a hotel here, project labor agreement. You want to do something in my city, unions have to be the center. When airport workers were fighting for a minimum wage i , was on the picket line. I was marching with them. [applause] one thing you should ask here in new hampshire, because a lot of these issues are because you have governors like you have right now. What were the president ial candidates doing in the last midterm elections . There is nobody in this race who helped to raise more money for local officials to make sure that you won your legislature, that you push back on your governor, than i did. If i am your president , i am going to be not just the president of United States but the leader of the Democratic Party. We need to make sure it is not just about the federal victories. We need to make sure union leader, labor, jobs with dignity, these are the victories we need to win in the next four years. Not just overturning Supreme Court cases and legislation but shift to lifting the minimum wage, saving Pension Plans that are in danger. Making sure people can retire st with security and dignity. There is a much bigger agenda that one person and one office will not solve. We need to make sure we fight with a larger country by fighting up and down the ballot and making sure the Democratic Party and our values begin to rise again. Thank you for coming to new hampshire. My name is mary. I have a question for you about agriculture, agribusiness and the price of food. I worked 20 years for the state and retired. Pension, Social Security, and a 10 an hour job. The cost of green beans last year was . 99. Now they are 1. 99. A hamburger, i cannot even tell you. Mushrooms were 1. 89. Now they are 3. 89. I went six months without a hamburger waiting for a sale. You want to do Carbon Neutral agribusiness, which i agree with. How will that affect the price year was . 99. Of food . Thank you. Senator booker god bless you. I really get a question like that. Its an area that i think a lot about. Again, i will come to the white house with a much different set of experiences than anybody else. One of them is just living for the last 20 plus years in low income community. I see people on my block that work longer hours than my parents did. And they still need food stamps to feed their family. We have a real crisis. It is not just a crisis for us. It is a crisis for independent family farmers who are being driven out of business right now, because of things like our favors bigwhich agribusiness, where you are seeing massive consolidation. When you spent one dollar in food, the percentage that goes to the people that produce the food, it has gone down 50 . I met with republican farmers in the midwest and they were telling me that their world has changed because they are getting squeezed. Monsanto has bought all of the source product. Raising the prices of seed and chemicals they use. They used to have five or six people that bought from their businesses. Now they only have one person that dictates the price. The reason the price of food has gone up is not because of the farmer being driven out of business it is because of big , corporate consolidation in the agricultural sector. Ask the candidates what they have done about the crisis. I put a bill in with the other,e farmer in the senate, to put a moratorium on all corporate consolidation in the ag sector. To fight backin on these trends that are jacking up the price on your foods and putting farmers out of business. It also creates perverse realities. We have a Serious Health crisis in this country. My kids and your kids could walk into a Grocery Store and the twinkie product is cheaper than an apple because of where our farm subsidies are going towards. This is directly related to our childrens health, health care system, performance in school. This is all interrelated. Enough is enough. Toocost of goods is going high because of this monopolization of oligarchies and i will stop that. The ag sector is where it will stop. I will start having policy to help the independent family farmers, often making organic food and healthier food. We can have a good system that works. You said you were a retiree. To directly say that. There is something about a society, three places you want to look to see what a society is really about. See how they treat their children. We are a nation that is shameful. Of industrialrld nations in infant mortality. Childcare is more expensive in most states then College Tuition at state colleges and we pay those childcare workers poverty wages. Look what we are doing to children. No paid family leave. Universal preschool. Look at how a nation treats its children. Next group you want to look at, look how a nation treats its elderly. Millions of americans, retirees, live at or below the poverty line because we have a Social Security system that is a regressive tax. Think about this. We have people whose Social Security checks are not keeping up with the cost of inflation and people are living on fixed income and seeing everything going up, from prescription drugs to the cost of hamburger. And yet, their Social Security checks are frozen. I will make that go from a regressive tax to making it far more progressive by lifting the cap on Social Security payments. [applause] we will increase the payments so no Senior Citizen is at or below the poverty line in america. Want to say,p i when you look at how a nation treats its peoples, look how that look at prisons and who they incarcerate. There is only one person from the New York Times here i might want to incarcerate. [laughter] incarceratethey their political prisoners. Who do we incarcerate . The poor. There are people in jail right now thousands of people in , america are there because they cannot pay their bail. We have a criminal Justice System that treats you better if youre rich and guilty than if you are poor and innocent. Who else do we incarcerate . The mentally ill. The biggest institutions in america are prisons and jails, and there is no treatment being given. The next group we incarcerate is women. We over incarcerate women. Threet of every incarcerated women on earth is in the u. S. Almost 90 are survivors of sexual trauma and sexual assault. Human Rights Violations for mothers. We still shackle women to beds when they are giving birth. Another group we over incarcerate is minorities. I respect and love joe biden. I was not being disrespectful to him, but i will tell you what, there were more marijuana arrests and convictions in 2017 than all Violent Crime arrests combined. Who do we incarcerate . Kids at stanford who i saw smoking weed . Talk about contact high. Nobody is worried about dartmouth. We incarcerate the poor. If you are black or white in america, there is no difference in marijuana usage or sales, but four timesricans are more likely to be incarcerated or. Our prisons are shameful in showing that we dont love each other. We put people that are fighting addiction in. Women over incarcerated. Veterans over incarcerated. That is a testimony to the lack of courageous empathy in our society. All of these things i will stand , up and change because after two plus decades living in my community, seeing seniors work their whole life living in poverty, seeing people having to make unhealthy food choices, i will change this as your president. [applause] i see a sign waving back there h a man with hair, a beard i have to wrap up right now. Can i say a closing remark . You are a great man. This is a crowded democratic field and i want to ask for your support. This is not just about the policies we have been discussing. This is a moment we should make decisions we should make them with our head, but also our heart and gut. Who is going to represent the spirit of this country . I was going up to a stage in iowa and some big dude thewhe and i am a big dude. Former stanford football player. The older i get, the better i was. The guy stops me and says, dude, i want you to punch donald trump in the face. I said, dude, that is a felony. We do not beat him by being like him. We match his darkness with our light. We match his hate with our love. If we have record voter turnouts, we will win seats up and down the ticket in 2020. I am running because i know i am the best person in this field to ignite this country so we have a movement election. What gets legislation done is not just the legislative design, which is important, but getting big movements to push better legislation. We have suffrage legislation not because a bunch of guys on the senate floor got together. Lets give women the right to vote. Ready, break. No. It was because of activism. It was not Strom Thurmond and said, i have seen the light. Lets give those the group people a right to vote. No. We got it because of activism. If you elect me your president , i am warning you. Write this down. The only person that is giving a warning label on their presidency. If you elect me your president , i will ask more from you than any president has ever asked from you in your lifetime. Not asking you to pay more for your groceries. I will not ask you to pay more taxes. I have told everybody in this room, youll get a tax break. I will ask you to volunteer. Serve more. I will ask his union to help me organize even more. We need changes in america not from washington but american s standing up for americans. I want to end by telling you part of the story i told on the debate stage. I went back to find out who those americans were who stood up for my family. I found the lawyer who represent ed my family. I asked him why, why would you in the 1960s, when real estate prices were going down, and you were busy starting your business why would you help a black , family move in your neighborhood . I was sitting at home watching tv on march 7, 1965, the movie was called judgment at nuremberg. Three channels back then. Most of america was watching this movie and they broke away from the movie to show a bridge in alabama. The Edmund Pettus bridge. Here is a white man on the couch a thousand miles away watching marchers from selma get stopped on a bridge in alabama by state troopers who then tear gassed them and charged in with billy clubs and started viciously beating them. What did this guy on a couch in new jersey do . He did not allow his inability to do everything to undermine his determination to do something. He stood up from the couch and said, i cannot go to alabama. I cannot afford a plane ticket. But i will do what is a powerful american tradition. I will do the best i can with what i have where i am. He was a patriot. He showed his love. He didnt talk about it. He called around to see who needed an hour of pro bono work. He found a group of activists, mostly white people, too, who were trying to do something about real estate segregation in new jersey. He said they started working and they got other volunteers demanding from their neighbors. By 1969, they had a whole system working. He said i will never forget the , day i got a case file from a family trying to move up from the south, frustrated and discouraged that their American Dream was being stolen away from them by racism. We went on to help that family. You know the name of that family coming up from the south they were cary and carolyn booker, my parents. I am literally a United States senator, the fourth black person ever elected into the office, i am running for the highest office in the land because in an american on a couch in new jersey did not just sit there. They stood up for our country. This election is not about him. It is about, will we stand . Will we join together because the power of the people is greater than the people with power. This election is about organizing us, igniting us, us reviving civic rights. Bringing nobility back to our civic spaces. It is about a more courageous empathy, more radical love. If we can ignite that spirit, every policy becomes possible. We will make the low places high. We will make the crooked places straight. We will bring justice to this country. It will roll down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream. Stand with me in this fight. This man may be trying to tear us down but i promise you, together, we will rise. [applause] how about a big thank you for senator booker . Senator booker thank you, everybody. Before you leave, we would like to get a group photo. Us down but i promise you, together, we will rise. [indiscernible] senator booker all right, everybody. Here we go. 1, 2, 3. [applause] senator booker lots of love and gratitude. All the best. [indiscernible] thank you. Thank you very much. I brought a next her one. By the way, we will vote for you. Knock on doors, make phone calls. Senator booker thank you so much. Thank you so much for coming. We will see you soon. Welcome. I promise you if i am your nominee, we will beat donald trump, not with our hate but with our love. Not with our darkness but our light. We will ignite the moral imagination of this country again. We will continue a greater campaign that will energize record numbers at the polls, not just here in the state but all across the nation. If i am your president , i will ask more from you than other president s have ever asked. I will ask you to volunteer more, stand more reignite the , best of our civic virtues. That is not just how we pass important legislation. That is how we as a nation rise. Thank you. [applause] senator booker thank you. Good to be here in your community. What you just said, my mother sent me out the door this morning with a quote from john kennedy on his inauguration day. She memorized that she was a senior at National High school. It is not a victory of party, it is a celebration of freedom. She told me we all need to think about this differently because this time, it will be a victory of party or we will not have the freedom to celebrate. She wanted me to pass that information and thought to you. And then the lady in front of me has a question. My name is barbara. It is interesting. We did not set this up, but her quote has so much to do with my question. After watching the last two weeks of the house inquiry and seeing how the republicans andinue to support lies russian talking points and realizing it goes from the house to the senate to the attorney general to the secretary of state to the president. And the Supreme Court. Between that and their gerrymandering and throwing voters of the voting rolls. For the first time i feel , extraordinarily nervous about where our country is going. Our votes going to count since Mitch Mcconnell will not be doing anything. Nobody seems to be putting his feet to the fire. Our votes going to count how do you, as a senator and president ial candidate, assure the American People we need to get off our couches . We need to get involved in these campaigns and we need to vote. Not that it will not matter after all. Senator booker i was raised with my parents cautioning me. Books from my childhood. The only thing necessary for evil to be triumphant is for good people to do nothing. Not the violent actions of the bad people but the silence of the good people. Alone on the fifth floor of the projects, where i lived, she taught me what hope is. A woman who had her son killed. She told me that hope is the active conviction that despair will not have the last word. So we all need to speak up in the face of despair and wretchedness and hatred. The modern Republican Party is doing, they are betraying the values they proclaim in their own party. What do you do in the face of that . I will tell you already, it is not about me, it is about we. Let me just tell you, one of the darkest moments i had, as a senator, because his win a like all of us, stunning. A person who began the campaign aboutacism, talking muslims, racism. Exposed about his sexual assault. You heard his own language. How could my country elect this person . I thought maybe he would get up maybe would call from kennedy or other great bedidates, that he would looking at charity for all. There was a lot of malice and little charity. I saw them walking out, bill clinton next to george bush and they were whispering and it was reported that george bush was so shocked and leans in and says, excuse my language, he says that , was some strange shit. [laughter] i went to bed that night on a low of lows. I crawled up in a ball on my bed. All i was thinking about that is how many votes they now have with paul ryan, Mitch Mcconnell, donald trump will take away health care for millions of americans. I was going through all the things he could do. The next day we were there at the womens march. Senator booker thank you. Millions of women in america said dont let despair have the last word. This is not a time to curl up, to give up, to shut up. It is a time to get up, rise up, to speak up because despair will not have the last word. People started changing this country. This has been the most hopeful three years of my life. Why . When they had the muslim ban, that is what he did first. He did not try to do infrastructure. He banned muslims based on religion. I went out to Dulles Airport and i had a court order. Making sure families had legal representation. He bannedi stopped in my trackse hundreds and hundreds of people were turning out. Chanting patriotic slogans. There were orthodox jews. Dancing and cheering. Muslim families coming into our country. That is what america looks like. When i was on the senate floor, i told joe donnelly from indiana. I went to indianapolis airport and there were people coming out of the gates. But there were no international flights. We were just talking people from detroit. [laughter] [laughter] we respond. Guess what we did in 2018 . Paul ryan had lockstep. We not only won the house but it is now the most diverse in history of america. They started passing legislation. That is what the American People want. This next election is round two. Im sorry one election does not , win it. It might take us two. This is round two. There are senate seats up for arizona, colorado, North Carolina. That is why i am telling people right now, i am not running for one office. I am running to awaken this country. The highest voter turnout ever before. I know i can deliver that. When we went back the senate, i do not care what Mitch Mcconnell has to say. We can start to pass legislation, rollback those toxic trunk tax cuts. I can do my executive order and rejoin the paris climate court. A record. We establish environmental legislation that he rolled back. We can do this the way we have always done this. Nothing that has been in this democracy can be cured if we bring out more democracy. This is a movement election. It is not about an election but about the campaign for our country. I want to be a movement leader, not a party leader. I want to call out to america, be who we are. Nation, our declaration of independence ends with the declaration of interdependence. N if we are going to make this happen, we must mutually pledge our lives, fortunes, and sacred honor. There are republicans in congress right now that have sacrificed their sacred honor. It is ok for the president to betray their oath. To compromise the security of our allies and the National Security of our country for their own political positions. This is not ok. We have faced bigots before. We have faced demagogues before. Every generation has had them. Know Nothing Party the same antiimmigration party of this president. We beat him. Mccarthy injecting fear into our society we beat him. ,father conklin the number one , radio show in the media, in america with his antisemitic screams, and we beat him. How did we win . By abandoning our values . I had somebody say to me before in iowa, i want you to punch donald trump in the face. I looked at him and i said, that is a felony. We are not going to win this election by being more like him. We are going to win this election likely be bull connor. We didnt bring bigger dogs and fire hoses. We have activism that will reawaken the moral imagination of our nation. We got more people off the couch and into the game. That is what we are going to do. Let me make this a last question by ending with this. I am telling you right now, this much i dohow not mean to make this sound trite or cliche. But how much do we love each other . That is the test of america. Will we leave our homes and defend our nation, will we get up when it is not convenient to stand up for someone elses rights . Will we see children in this country with the highest Child Poverty rates in the developed world, will we stand up for those kids . We stand up for those struggling with addiction, mental health, struggling in their classroom . Reaching in their own pockets to pay for things for their kids, even if they cannot pay their student loans. Will we be the nation that says home of the brave and means it instead of having our veterans be disproportionately homeless. Will we be the nation that stands up and says liberty and justice for all and not have a criminal Justice System like we have now that treats you better if you are rich and guilty than if you are poor and innocent . Sit comfortably back while these injustices and more are going on . Children are afraid of going to school. Or will he get up and join with our fellow americans arm in arm . I want to end with this, and it is a sad note, but it is a beautiful note. I went to newark as a hopeful, inspired kid to be a tenants rights organizer. My first big tenant meeting was packed like this and i was getting all of the notes i needed to file a legal action against a slumlord. The elderly man who was the tenant leader of our city it went on for hours. I already had what i needed after the first hour, but it went on for hours. As we were leaving, i made some snide remark about how long the meeting was. He stops and he looks at me and says, you dont understand. We need to fix these buildings. We need to repair them. But the first thing we have got to do is repair community. Let those folks who come out get their moment at the microphone. They deserve to be heard. They deserve to be seen. If we repair this community and bring these people together, no slumlord can stand against us. He was right. That guy was convicted in federal court. The community, they did not win a victory because of a lawyer. They won that victory because together. T this elderly man changed my life by telling me, you are going to run for city council. I had to give up my job, live on credit cards. He believed in me and we bought the machine. He gets older and older. Eventually, his eyesight goes out. I would still go to him, even though he was no longer leading, he was getting elderly. I used to knock on his door and he would say, who is it . And i would say frank, it is corey. And he would say, i see you. That became our greeting. He eventually was in hospice. 10 years ago this month. His last days, i am confessing i my weaknesses to you. Upset that his hospital room was not full of people. He helped thousands of people and every time i visited him, i was the only one. In his last days and hours, he seemed to glow. He was happy because to him life was not about popularity. It was about purpose. It was not about celebrity. It was about significance. How manynot about people show up for you when you are dead, but how many people you show up for when you are alive. I get stopped by these Amazing Health care professionals, these angels we do not recognize until we need them. And they are mostly underpaid. They said to me, it wont be long now. This will probably be the last time you see him alive. I was already choking up before i went in. They said he cannot talk. But he will hear you. I walked into the door and i closed it and i started walking to the bed, and i announced. Yself, frank, its cory to my surprise, he forces out the words, i see you. I walked to his bedside, this man changed my life. I would not be in politics without him. I sat by his bed and i told him what he meant to me. I kissed him on the cheek. But i had to go i was mayor of , the city and id so many things to do. I knew this was my last time. I said, frank, i love you. He struggles and gets out the words. I love you. I tell you all right now, dont make this choice based on just your head. It is something deeper than that. Remember the words of my mentor. I see you, i love you. I see you, i love you. Do we see each other in america . The struggle and the pain and the hurt and the fear all over our country right now. Do we honor and value the voice of people who are voiceless . In a world of shiny media and billionaires spending money. I see you, i love you. What is the quality of our mercy . What is the depth of our empathy . What is the power of our love . There is nothing we cant do together. Our history has shown it is a testimony to the achievement of the impossible. Other countries look to us for light and hope. For our values. I see you, i love you. If this election is not just about politics and not just about the policy platforms because if it comes about that, grace and decency and love and healing. If it is about that, we will win back the white house and we will win a lot more than that. Those people who betrayed our values will leave office just like the republicans are retiring right now because they know they cannot win. This is a time for a movement. It is time for the best of the american movement. A movement about how much we care about each other. Because if i am your president , i promise you, we will put more god. Isible under one i promise you that our hallmark will not just become a slogan, it will become the spirit again. As i said in the democratic convention, in the words of the incredible woman maya angelou, he may try to write us down in history his bitter twisted lies, he may try to trot us down in the dirt, but i promise you, like dust, we will rise. Thank you. [applause] what a great crowd of folks. We were only speaking about 50 people and there were over 100 in attendance, which is great. One of the first president ial evidence that has happened. Surprising. This is a more republican area, too. That is really great. They were so generous to open up their home like that. The beauty of new hampshire. Earlier, he said it feels kind of like what we were doing in having these great intimate february. Events. So we are hitting our 100,000 just as we are walking in. That is really amazing. Can i see my phone . I know we are about to do a story. I know we are about to do a story. I wanted to respond to thank you. Ok. The person who gave you ,uestions about food policy hoping that we would respond in writing to her six questions. We have it. Is that something you give to the policy team . I cannot believe i am doing a slideshow with you at the school. It is a trimester long project. I do research on it every week. My dad would rather i do it on something not political. But i said nope, cory booker. Slideshow is entitled, cory booker, americas finest senator. Dont forget the hat. From richard. I wonder what can we do for him . For his presentation. From richard. Maybe you coulda video he could incorporate. We are on time so far. Other letter goes politicos they flagged . I do not think it is for this one. Supposed to be for a 2 00 start . 1 58, and we are miles away . I am living my absolute best life. I think we are about here. We may as well be on time. Do you want to do it, chris . We can pull over. We can do it real quick right now. A state rep, he just got engaged today. That is fantastic. He is a young democrat speaker representative from nashua. [indiscernible] operation here in new hampshire. Just a great guy. Firstterm representative out of nashua. Congratulate him. Give me the number. [indiscernible] it is cory booker, how are you . I am in a car with my team. You are on speakerphone. Hey, chris. I am being followed by cspan cameras. So they are filling me talking to you right now. Filming me talking to you right now. Im so happy to be talking to you. [indiscernible] big fan of her work. Thank you. Looks like you guys are having a really good trip. Amazing. The crowds have been amazing. Just feeling really fired up since the debate and the momentum we have. Thank you so much. That last speech was really heartfelt. That was amazing. We are burying the lead here, man. Congratulations. This is so exciting. It is. [indiscernible] i have had this ring in my pocket for a week now. That is awesome. I love love, man. I love that you are marrying up. Maybe i should have brought rosario into the conversation. Hold on a second. Oh my gosh. Hey. Real quick, you called while i was talking to a state rep. He just got engaged to an amazing latina as well. Can i merge the call . Just congratulate him . What . Manny, who was a young state rep here in new hampshire, he just proposed to his girlfriend. He is on the other line. Can i merge the calls and have you congratulate them . He is a big fan of yours. Not facetime. Definitely not facetime. Manny, are you there . Tap it quickly. What happened . Are you there . Ro . Still there, hold on one second. I will call you right back. Manny, hold on. Dont go anywhere. No worries. [laughter] hello. Hold on. There we go. Manny . Hello . Meet rosario. Is this Rosario Dawson . How are you . Huge fan. [indiscernible] dont you mean fiancee . Thats right, fiance now. Get it right, man. She is no longer your girlfriend. I need to change the terminology now. Congratulations. Thank you so much. That is so rad. I also want to say real quick, rosario, i appreciate all the work you have done. Inspiring so many around the country. We dont get enough portrayal in media. And like, it is funny, because i always say hollywood is in california. You have to try hard to exclude latinos in l. A. A shout out to you and all of the work you are doing out there. Thank you so much. Thank you. I really appreciate that. Like senator booker just dating up now. I feel like i am dating up all the time. I hope and pray that rosario comes out on the campaign trail with me from time to time. If she comes to new hampshire, the four of us have to get together. Make me that commitment. That would be lovely. Thank you for the call. I really appreciate it. So sweet. Both of you all. Obviously senator, keep doing , what you are doing. I appreciate the message. Everything that you are talking about. Speaking truth to power. I appreciate you shouting me out. For me, it was tough to watch the debates. There. Ing julian especially when they brought up housing. I had a little conniption. He live tweeted the whole thing. He shouted out the war on drugs is really a war on black and brown folks. That was real. Sadly. It is, but it has to be addressed. I appreciate what you did on the debate stage. Thank you. Congratulations to the two of you. We will find more time to talk. I will go into this event now. I love you so much. I love you, too. Congratulations, you two. Thank you. Byebye, everybody. This election is about virtues. Who is best going to be the nominee that represents the best of american values, not in themselves but that will help to spread and ignite it as a nation. I believe that if we run this election by what we are for, not what we are against, i believe we will not lose this election. I believe we will win this election, when dr. Senate. Together, i believe we will rise. Thank you. [applause] i am ready. If anybody has a question. I have a question but she has been raising her hand. My name is susan. I live in dover i am a teacher , at a local high school. I love working with kids. I am not in the job for the money. Cant be. What really concerns me is that at our high school, we created a food pantry that is always in need and this year, we have put together 82 thanksgiving baskets for families and the community who are in need. It utterly breaks my heart that we have homeless students and students who go home to no food. I was wondering what would you do as president to help solve that problem . Help these families so there is enough money so they can have food independence. Senator booker you have collections for food . 100m going to give yousolve and the challenge that other people here will match. What will match at least we can raise another 100 and everybody for this cause joining. [applause] this is what i talk about. Issues and ilicy want to say i told the story a lot, i told us of the commencement speech and i was driving home in newark, came back, that is beautiful. God bless cspan, thank you. Youre going to start making me for clamped this is incredible. Thank you so much. Wow. [applause] some driving home from the sky, hes been with me since i he can usually tell what im thinking. We are driving black driving by this place called mcdonalds. [laughter] he looked at me in the Rearview Mirror and all i do is bow my head in shame in you knew immediately he had to go to the drivethrough. Im a vegan and now i say s so we go on the drivethrough and order my fries, the hand them to me. I believe in marijuana legalization, but these fries are so addictive i want to schedule ed. [laughter] like thatding it movie lord of the rings. All i want to do is unbuckle my pants and watch the Great British baking show. [laughter] i pull out and i see a guy there who is in the dumpster rule rooting around. I look at kevin come all he does a stop the car, put it in park, roll it down its a surge you need some help and he tries to brush me off and i say please come what you need. He said im just hungry and a be getting you what i had to do. I think its at somewhere in the bible that if you have mcdonalds french fries and your neighbor is hungry. [laughter] so i open my bag, i reach in and i gave him the fries part i feel good about myself in that moment, he sleeps happy but any switches and asked another question. Do you have any socks. Ive worked with homeless shelters and homeless groups a lot and realize this is a crisis , but i dont carry extra socks in my car and is look at him and dachshund i dont have any. And thats my thought kevin will drive away. But he doesnt drive away, he rolled down his window, he reaches between his legs and caps ash kicks off the shoes he is wearing and hands him his socks through the windows. Im three blocks from my home, i dont tell my mom, but the socks she gave me her last christmas i didnt open yet. So this is what im talking about. Kindness,ut love and but all of us can do more. Make a difference in peoples lives and we dont even know it. Sometimes its just a word. A group in iowa came to one of my events and months later they say to me we bought a home in alabama and im like why are they telling me this. They said they bought a home after hearing me talk and now they are renting at below market rent just to help a family in alabama. We can do tongs take our country back. Did people wait for slavery did they build the underground railroad . This is what we have to have in america. This is simply it did im rolling back the trump tax cut. I can do this if i have a majority in the senate, thats why want to run a movement election, i can get it done through reconciliation to do something called the rise credit which are double earned income tax credit because if anyone is here who is taking care of a child with special needs at home, you are not working that you are working. Or how my mom took care of my dad who died of parkinsons dementia. I saw her physical health deteriorate, blowing through her life savings. They should qualify for it as. Ell and my credit expand that it gives young people who were in college the earned income tax credit. Poverty in a third. Next, im doing something called the renters tax credit. We use our tax code on people have money get more money. Its overwhelmingly used by people who make hundred 50,000 or more. What about the rest of the people . If your family is paid more than 30 or income on a rent that you qualify for refundable tax credit in the area median rent. You get that in your tax bill back and guess that just guess what that does guess what that does the poverty in america . How we pay for it, rolling back the trump tax cuts, we can pay for them by making sure we close loopholes. By carry interests. For a portion of the tax credit. Andan actually pay for it go back to the estate tax in 2009. And in the last one this is where i disagree with some enforce, butd to the last one by changing Capital Gains tax to taxing ordinary income after an exception for the first few million dollars, what is that mean. Day rolling indo buys a picasso and then cells of the next year that thats going to be taxed the same way School Teachers as well. Poverty tolerates poverty is not only sinful, its wasteful. The opportunity cost and children having the dish instead of racking up debt to make sure every Public School has [applause] i will send you a text message. Wed to get one bird need to get one. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you for being here. You are in the middle. Thank you very much, we came in for coffee earned we thought we had to hear this. We really appreciate it. Thank you for coming. Other than that im good. Why do you jump on the other side. How do i pronounce this last name . Where is the chase car . Kevin is taking the New York Times car. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2019] the impeachment hearings continue next week when Jerrold Nadler holds the first impeachment inquiry hearing into President Trump focusing on the constitution and the history of impeachment. Watch our live coverage wednesday, december 4, at 10 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan three. Chairman nadler extended an invitation for the president and his counsel to appear before the committee. Read the letter to the president on our website. Follow the impeachment inquiry alive on three, online at cspan. Org, or listen live on the free cspan radio app. I want to tell you if i hang particularlyame what i would say the very unfair personalized reporting of these you ought tothink know that opinion because you will be disappointed in me down the road if i didnt tell you that. Im just telling you frankly that i think your industry is wrecking all of us. Thats pretty heavyhanded and you can imagine what it was like for journalist the next day. Fact that they are wrecking the country, very disturbing. We are hearing that today that the press is the enemy of the American People according to. Resident trump q a. Nday night on talking about the tension between the american presence and the press. President and the press. Our cspan campaign 2020 bus team is traveling across the country asking voters what issue should president ial candidates address . One of the most unaddressed issues is reforming federal prisons as the u. S. Marshals prison systems have a more than staggering death rate of prisoners and i think its an important issue. Onwhat i want them to focus is constituents who never get their voices heard in these constituents are nonhuman animals and as an investigator who has blown the whistle on multiple factory farms where animals are being criminally abused, facing felony charges and one of the candidates i want them to focus i want them to focus on is how the public has the right to know whats going on behind these closed doors inside of these farms in places where animals are being abused but also that ordinary individuals like you and me have the right to rescue these animals from that abuse. I would love for the candidates to Start Talking more about gun safety, gun issues. Taking guns off the streets and out of the hands of those who should not have them. But making our environment a place of peace and Common Ground are we feel like we dont even need a gun. See theld like to candidates focusing on trying to reinstate the Voting Rights act and bring fairness back into elections. Andeed to not only control make sure elections are secure, we need to make sure everyone who is a citizen is able to vote without having onerous penalties and fines that they can never get out of voices from the road on cspan. Get out of. Democratic president ial candidate senator Kamala Harris spoke in iowa about Public Education in teacher pay. This was about an hour. [applause] hello muscatine county. We have visitors from kentucky, washington, dc and illinois in the house. And texas. And we have missouri. My name is shannon
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