Members. I will introduce you real quick. That sounds great. [applause] to iker want to get want to get to 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. They saw violence and discrimination, but they also saw the best of america and they know we are who we are as a country because we Work Together and stood together. My dad is one of these guys that the older i got, the more difficult the stories of his childhood were. By the time he was older, the hail was like beach balls falling from the sky. Son, let me tell you when this tsunami hit my town. I said, 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, boy, 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. Because people not related to him or looked for looked like 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. But 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 down the hill to North Carolina central university. A historically black college in North Carolina. He landed there in the early 1960s when the Student Movement started in North Carolina. This guy grew up in a very segregated town. Suddenly, 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. He landed when black people were not hired by corporations, but again, it was a coalition of blacks and whites that stood up and fought for him to be the first black person hired as a salesman by Company Called ibm by a small Company Called ibm in the entire virginia area. When he got a promotion, because he led people to the table fairly, inclusion, diversity, strength, he gets promoted to manhattan, looks for places to live and finds out the finds out that white families in new jersey did not want black families. They were literally doing housing segregation. What does my father find . 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. On the day of the closing for the house, the white couple did not show up on the day. Had a volunteer lawyer show up. When they walked into the Real Estate Agent office, he stands up and bunches punches 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 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 at stanford. Went to oxford on a rhodes scholar. I came back to yale law school. My dad was not impressed. Moreid, boy, you have degrees in the month of july, but you aint hot. Life isnt about the degrees. It is about the service you give. My faith and my family, the 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 running for senate, the only person who lives in a neighborhood below the poverty line. We do not mistake wealth for worth. We are an incredible community. I want to get to your questions. 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. City council back in the 90s. It is a fight for people that are too often left out of the equation. For families like mine who were the 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. Each others 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. It is a referendum on him. It is not a referendum on him. It is a referendum on us. When we come out and stand up and we bring out the swarm, we win elections. 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 better be that one that can excite and engage and ignite a movement. I am not in this just to beat donald trump. I want to beat Mitch Mcconnell. [applause] sen. Booker and that means we have to win senate seats in North Carolina. In my daddys state. We have to win seats in georgia. We have to win seats in arizona. We have to bring out a wave of election. People tell me about the polls right now and i laugh. We have never had somebody from our party, never, 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. Sen. Booker this is when we should all break into a chant. Calling Gloria Gloria gloria i will kick it off with a right to work governor like we governor for less 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 in states all around the country. These attacks on our unions, emboldened and empowered by a rightwing Extremist Supreme Court that continues to undermine 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 for lgbtq americans. This is why im on the new Voting Rights act. This is what we have to get these things passed. 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 waken up this country to understand that this is just like the civil rights movement. Again, we need to create a nationwide movement. That is why you will have a lot of people stand here but dont ask 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. Doing in this fight already. One of the reasons i have such tremendous labor support in new jersey is because when i was mayor, everything i did, you want to build a hotel here, project labor agreements. 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. Thats right. [applause] sen. Booker and 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 . Were you up here helping . There is nobody in this race who helped to raise more money for local officials to make sure that you won your legislature, make sure that you pushed 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. When he to win victories across this country so that union leaders, laborers, 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 helping to shift to lifting the minimum wage, saving Pension Plans that are in danger. Making sure people can retire with security and dignity. There is a much bigger agenda that one person and one office is not going to solve. We need to make sure we fight for the 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. The cost of a hamburger, i cannot even tell you. Chicken. 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 big agribusiness, which i agree with. But how is that going to affect the price of food . Thank you. Senator booker god bless you. I rarely get a question like that. And 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 in this race. One of them is just living for the last 20 plus years in low in a low income community. I see people on my block that work longer hours than my parents did. In my corner bodega, they still need food stamps to feed their family. We have a real crisis. It is not just a crisis for us. In this world, it is a crisis for independent family farmers who are being driven out of business right now, because of things like our farm bill, which favors big 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 have 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. And then, 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. So again, pass this prologue. Ask all candidates what they have done about the crisis. I put a bill in with the other farmer in the senate to put a moratorium on all corporate consolidation in the ag sector. So that we pause that and begin to fight back 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. There is a problem my kids andlem that 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. I say enough is enough. The cost of goods is going too high because of this monopolization of oligarchies and i am going to stop that. The ag sector is where it will stop. I am going to start having policy to help the independent family farmers who are often making organic food and healthier food and lower prices. We can have a good system that works. You said you were a retiree. I just want to directly say that. There is something about a society. I would say 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. , theid the planet earth world of industrial nations in infant mortality. Childcare is more expensive in most states than 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 at 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. It is criminal. Think about this. We have people whose Social Security checks are not keeping up with the cost of inflation, and so, 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] sen. Booker and we are going to increase the payments so no Senior Citizen is at or below the poverty line in america. The last group i want to say, when you look at how a nation treats its people, look at prisons and who they incarcerate. There is only one person from the new york times, here i might want to incarcerate. [laughter] sen. Booker but russia, they incarcerate their political prisoners. Who do we incarcerate . In this country . The poor. There are people in jail right now, thousands of people in america are there because they cannot pay their bail. As Ryan Stevenson says, 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 overincarcerate women. One out of every three incarcerated women on earth is in the United States of america. Almost 90 are survivors of sexual trauma and sexual assault. Mothers being incarcerated. Sen. Booker Human Rights Violations for mothers. We still shackle women to beds when they are giving birth. Another group we over incarcerate is minorities. I hope you all dont think 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. And who do we incarcerate . You think kids at stanford who i at rates thated were pretty incredible . 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 africanamericans are four times more likely to be incarcerated for it. Our prisons are shameful in session shameful institutions that show that we dont love each other, because we put , over incarcerated, 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 unhealthygas and make food choices, all this, i will change this as your president. [applause] sen. Booker i see a sign waving back there with a man with hair, a beer, that i have to wrap up right now. Can i say a closing remark . You are a great man. This is a crowded democratic field, but i want to ask for your support, because this is not just about the policies we have been discussing. This is a moment we should make decisions with our head, but also with our heart and gut. Who is going to represent the spirit of this country . I am telling you right now, i am not in this. Inas going up to a stage iowa, and some big dude sees me and i dont know if you know this, 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 look at him, i say, 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. King said it so eloquently. It is not about the actions of the bad people, it is about the inaction of the good people. 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. And then what gets legislation 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 him saying, 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. Im going to ask 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. Because we make changes in america not from washington, but americans standing up for americans. I want to end by telling you the part of the story that i told on the debate stage that i did not tell here. I went back to find out who those americans were who stood up for my family and help me move into the town that i moved up moved in. I found the lawyer who represented 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 . This white man says to me, you know what, i was sitting at home watching tv on march 7, 1965, and the movie was called you guys can finish this for me 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 1000 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. 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 called around to see who needed an hour of pro bono work. He found this group of activists that was 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. Join us in the fight for america. By 1969, they had a whole system working. He says, 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 there american americanthat their dream was being stolen away from them by racism. The family coming up from the south, the names on that case file were cary and carolyn booker, my parents. I am literally a United States senator, the fourth like person ever popularly elected to that office. I am literally running for the highest office in the land because an american on a couch in new jersey did not just sit there. They stood up for our country. What is this election about . This election is not about him. It is about, will we stand . Like my father taught me to do. 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 grace, bringing stability back to our public 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 because it will roll down like water. 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 . Sen. Booker thank you, everybody. Thank you, very much. Before you leave, we would like to get a group photo. [laughter] iswhat we are going to do turn around. [indiscernible conversations] sen. Booker all right, everybody. This is it for me. Here we go. 1, 2, 3. [cheering] [indiscernible conversations] sen. Booker sherry . Sherry and ritchie. Cory booker. Lots of love and gratitude. All the best. Thank you. [indiscernible conversations] thank you. [indiscernible conversations] thank you very much. By the way, we will vote for you. Sen. Booker thank you so much. Thank you so much for coming. We will see you soon. Welcome. Sen. Booker 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 wont just have an election, 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 reignitestand more, to 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, everybody. [applause] sen. Booker thank you what you just said, my mother sent me out the door this morning with a quote from john kennedy. She memorized that when she was a senior in high school here in new hampshire. 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 a freedom to celebrate. She wanted me to pass that information and thought to you. And the lady in front of me has a question. My name is barbara. Sen. Booker hi, barbara. It is interesting. Her quote has so much to do with my question, which is after watching the last two weeks of the house inquiry and seeing how republicans continue to dig in and support lies and 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 their throwing voters off voter rolls, i for the first time feel extraordinarily nervous about where our country is going. Our votes going to count since Mitch Mcconnell wont do anything . Nobody seems to be putting his feet to the fire. You as a senator and as a president ial candidate, how do you 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 wont matter after all. Sen. Booker i was raised with my parents cautioning me. You all know, the only thing necessary for people to be triumphant is for good people to do nothing. We have to repent for not the vitriolic words or the actions of the bad people, but the appalling silence and inaction of the good people. Finally, alone on the fifth floor of the projects, this is one of my favorites. She taught me very simply what hope is. A woman who had her son killed. 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. What the modern Republican Party is doing is 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 that i had as eight United States senator, because as a United States senator, because his win, stunning that a person who began his campaign with racism, talking about muslims and mexicans, that it was exposed about his sexual assault. After sexual assault. You heard his own language coming out of his mouth. How could my country elect this person . There andld get up call in quotes from great president s that there was a malice towards view and charity toward all. 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 by that address that he leans into bill clinton and says, well, that was some strange shit. [laughter] me tell you, it went to bed that night on my lowest of lows. I crawled up in a ball on my bed with a headache because all i was thinking of then was how many votes they now have. Paul ryan, Mitch Mcconnell, donald trump to take away health care for millions of americans. But the next day the womens march. Sen. Booker thank you. It was like millions of women in america said dont let despair have the last word. Millions of americans said to me, 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. And people started changing this country. This has been the most hopeful three years of my life. Why . Because when they had the muslim ban, that is what he did first. He did not try to get infrastructure done. I went out to Dulles Airport and a court order to make sure detained family had representation. That i got stopped in my tracks because hundreds and hundreds of people were turning out. Singing songs and chanting patriotic slogans. There were orthodox jews. There were yarmulkes, dancing and singing. Muslim families coming into our country. That is what america looks like. I told joe donnelly from indiana , he said, the same thing happened to me. I went to indianapolis airport and there were people coming out of the gates. Except there were no international flights. [laughter] sen. Booker we were just tugging people from detroit. [laughter] just hugging people from detroit. [laughter] sen. Booker guess what we did in 2018 . We didnt just win back the house, it was the biggest victory in history. And they started passing legislation. It is what the American People want. This next election is round two. Im sorry, but one election does not win it. This election is round two. There are senate seats up from arizona, colorado, from North Carolina, and 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 in every community, and i know i can deliver that. When we went back the senate, i dont care what the backbencher Mitch Mcconnell has to say. Because we can pass legislation. Rollback the toxic tax cuts. I can do my executive order and rejoin the paris climate court. 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, it is about the campaign for our country. I want to be a movement leader, not a party leader. I want to call out to america to be who we are. We are a nation. Our declaration of independence ends with a declaration of interdependence. If we are going to make this happen, we must mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and sacred honor. There are republicans in congress right now have sacrificed their sacred honor. They are saying 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 position. This is not ok. But we have faced bigots before. We have faced demagogues before. Every generation has had them. Used thenothing party same antiimmigration language. We beat them. Mccarthy injecting fear into our society. We beat him. The number one radio show in the media like fox news, the number one radio show in america with his antisemitic screams, and we beat him. But how did we win . By abandoning our values . Beforeomebody say to me in iowa, he wanted me to punch donald trump in the face. Dude, thats a felony. [laughter] sen. Booker we are not going to win this election by being more like him. Bigger bigger dogs and fire hoses. We have activism that reawakens the moral imagination of our nation and got people off the couch and into the game. That is what we are going to do. Let me make this the last question by ending with this. I am telling you right now, this is a test of how much i dont mean to make this sound trite or cliche, but i mean this. It is how much do we love each other . Because 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 poverty rates in the developed world . Will we stand up for those kids . Will we stand up for the person struggling with addiction, struggling with mental health, struggling in their classroom . Reaching in their own pocket to pay for things with their kids even when they cant pay their Student Loans . Will we be the nation that and hase of the brave our bravest 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 . Will we sit comfortably back while these injustices are going on . Our children are afraid of going to school. Or do we 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. My first big tenant meeting was packed like this in the basement of the projects, 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 on and on and on, too long. I 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, this kind in gentle man looks at me, and he says, you dont understand. We need to fix these buildings. But theto repair them, first thing we have got to do is repair community. Those folks who came out to 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. And god, he was right. That guy was convicted in federal court. That community did not win a victory because of a lawyer. They won that victory because they won it together. 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 my credit card. But he believed in me and we beat the machine. He gets older and older. Eventually, his eyesight goes out. But i would still go to him. He was getting elderly and i used to knock on his door and he would say, who is it . And i would say frank, it is corey. He would say, i see you. [laughter] sen. Booker that became our greeting. He eventually was in hospice. 10 years ago this month. His last days. I am confessing my weaknesses to you, but i was upset that his hospital room was not full of people. He helped thousands of people stay in their homes, and every time i visited, i was the only one. But 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. Life was not about celebrity. It was about significant. Life for him was not about how may people show up for you when you are dead. It is about how many people you show up for when you are alive. Walked to his room and got stopped by these Amazing Health care professionals. These are angels we do not recognize until we need them. 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, frank, its corey. To my surprise, he forces out the words very faintly, 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 had so many things to do. I knew this would be the 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. His last words, 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 often rendered voiceless . 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 for 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, it becomes 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 those republicans that are retiring right now because they know they cannot win. This is a time for a movement. And its time for the best of the american movements, which is a movement about how much we care about each other. If i am your president , i promise you, we will put indivisible back into this nation under god. I promise you that our hallmark will not justnum, become a slogan, it will become the spirit again. I promise you that this president will try to beat us down. But in the words of this incredible woman named maya angelou, he may try to write us down in history with his bitter twisted lies, he may try to trod us down in dirt. But i promise you, like dust, we will rise. Thank you. [applause] what a great crowd of folks. That was amazing. We were expecting only 50 people, and there were more than 100 people, which is great. The potential events that happened in merrimack. Sen. Booker this is a more republican area, too. That is really great. Sen. Booker they were so generous to open up their home like that. Pretty much like we were doing bury, having in february. [indiscernible] sen. Booker that is really amazing. Can i see my phone . I know we are about to do the story but i wanted to see respond to thank you. There is a text on this. The person said they gave me questions about policy. She was hoping we would respond in writing to her six questions. I have it. Sen. Booker it is something you just give to the policy team . Yes. I am doing a slideshow on you at the school. I do research on it every week. My dad would rather i do it on something not political. But i said, nope, cory booker. Coryideshow is entitled booker americas finest senator. Dont forget the hat. From richard. I wonder what we can do for him, for his presentation . Maybe you could send him a video he could incorporate. That would be great. Are there any politicos they flagged . Sen. Booker i dont think so. I do not think it is for this one. This was supposed to be for a 2 00 start . It is 1 58 . And i am living my absolute best life. Sen. Booker do we want to call manny or wait . Lets wait. We might as well be on time. I can pull out his number. Icam do it real quick right now. I can do it real quick right now. He is a state rep, he just got engaged today. He is a young democrat speaker from nashua. [indiscernible] a really great guy. First term representative. Congratulate him. Sen. Booker give me the number. It is cory booker, how are you . [indiscernible] sen. Booker i am in a car with my team. You are on speakerphone. And a, it is chris. Manny, it is chris. Sen. Booker i am being followed by cspan cameras. They are filming me talking to you right now. My girlfriend is trying to break into this conversation. Work. M a big fan of her thank you. It looks like you guys are having a really good trip. Sen. Booker it has been amazing. The crowd expectation has been amazing. Just feeling really fired up since the debate and the momentum we have. You did an excellent job. Sen. Booker thank you so much. That last speech was really heartfelt. I felt that and was like, damn, that was amazing. Sen. Booker we are burying the lede here, man. Congratulations. This is so exciting. [laughter] she is a much better person than i am. We went out to walk the dog and i was holding this ring in my pocket for about a week now. It might as well happen now. [laughter] sen. Booker that is awesome. I just 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. [laughter] [phone ringing] sen. Booker 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 . You can congratulate him . Wait, what . [laughter] sen. Booker manny, who is 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. Sen. Booker definitely not facetime. Many, are you there . Tap it quickly. Oh no. Sen. Booker it is a merge, right . Oh. What happened . Manny, are you there . It is not working. Are you still there, ro . Hold on one second. Hold on a second. I will call you right back. Manny, hold on. Dont go anywhere. No worries. [laughter] [phone ringing] hello. Sen. Booker hold on. There we go. Manny . Hello . Sen. Booker meet rosario. Hello . Is this Rosario Dawson . How are you . Huge fan. She is also a big fan. Hi. Dont you mean fiancee . Oh yeah, fiancee sen. Booker get it right, man. She is no longer your girlfriend. I have to change the terminology now. Congratulations. Thank you so much. That is awesome. That is so rad. I just want to say to rosario, i appreciate all the work you have done. We dont get enough portrayal in media. And like, it is funny, because i always think hollywood is in california, l. A. 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 said, i feel like i am dating up all the time. [laughter] right on. Sen. Booker i hope and pray that rosario comes out on the campaign trail with me from time to time. If she comes out, the four of us have to go get together. Make me that commitment. That would be lovely. Thank you for the call. I really appreciate it. Senator, keep doing what you are doing. I appreciate your message. Really speaking truth to power. , appreciate you shouting out the signal boost. For me, it was tough to watch the debates. When they brought up housing. Oh my god. [laughter] i had a little conniption. [laughter] he live tweeted the whole thing. When you shout it out, the war on drugs is really a war on brown folks, that is that was real. Sadly. Appreciated, but i it. Sen. Booker listen, congratulations to the two of you. We will find more time to talk. I have to go into this event now. I love you so much. I love you, too. Congratulations. Thank you. Take care. Sen. Booker byebye, everybody. This election is about virtues. Who is best going to be the nominee that represents the best of american values, to help spread and ignite it as a nation . I believe if we run this election, not by what we are against but what we are for, i believe we will not lose this election. I believe we will win this election. We will win back the senate. I believe we as a nation, together, i believe we will rise. Thank you. [applause] [cheering] sen. Booker i am ready. [laughter] for anybody that has a question. [applause] sen. Booker you are pointing to her, ok. But she a question too, has been raising her hand since the start. My name is susan. I am a teacher at a local high school. Sen. Booker thank you. Youre welcome. 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 have created a full food pantry that is always in need, and this year, we have put together 82 thanksgiving baskets for families in the community who are in need. It utterly breaks my heart that we have homeless students and we have students who go home to no food. I was wondering what would you do as president to help solve that problem . To help these families so there is enough money so they can have food independence . Sen. Booker you have a 501 c 3 . I dont know how it works. Sen. Booker before we talk about that, i what to give you 100. And i will challenge that other people will match. At least create another 100 from this crowd. Can everybody join me . [applause] sen. Booker this is what i am talking about. I will ask more from people. There are policy issues that are really important, but i want to say this. I tell this story a lot. At theiris at upenn commencement speech. I have a guy who drives me who grew up in the projects, went to the military, and came back. That is really beautiful. Thank you to the cameraman. God bless cspan. Thank you. That is really beautiful. This is incredible. Thank you so much. Wow. Wow, wow, wow. This is an embarrassing story but i want to tell it. [applause] sen. Booker i am driving home with this guy from the projects. We have such a connection, we do not have to talk in the car. He looks in the rearview mirror. We are driving by this place. It is called mcdonalds. [laughter] sen. Booker and he looked at me and all i do is bow my head in shame, and he knows he has to go to the drivethrough. Now, i am vegan. If you dont know that we are a vegan, dont worry, we will tell you. [laughter] sen. Booker this is when i did not know that mcdonalds french fries were not vegan. Burger king. Hail to the king. We go through the drive through and i order my fries and you know that i believe in marijuana legalization. I think we should do schedule the drug. But mcdonalds french fries are so addictive, i want to schedule them. [laughter] i am holding it like the movie lord of the rings. My precious. I want to sit on my couch, unbuckled my pants, and watch a show. [laughter] we are about to pull out when i see a guy there who has his head in the dumpster. Hes rooting around. I look at kevin. He stops the car, i rolled on the window. I say, sir, need some help . He tries to brush me off and i said, please, anything you need. He goes, im just hungry. Immediately, i know what i had to do. I think it says somewhere in the bible that if you have two mcdonalds french flees and your neighbor has none [laughter] sen. Booker it was the sermon on the big mac. [laughter] sen. Booker so i open my bag, i reach in. He grabs the fries. He is happy, then he switches and asks another question. Do you have any socks . I work with homeless shelters and groups a lot. I realize this is often a crisis, but i dont carry extra socks in my car. He said, im sorry, i dont have any socks. I thought kevin would drive away. But he doesnt drive away. Window, down his reaches between his legs, kicks off the shoes hes wearing, and takes off his socks and hands them to the guy through the window. We are three blocks from my home. I dont tell my mom, but the socks she gave me last christmas, i havent even opened yet. This is what i am talking about here. I talk about love and kindness and grace, but all of every single day, god delivers us opportunities to make a difference in peoples lives and we dont even know it. Sometimes its just a word. There was a group in iowa and i see them months later and they say to me, we live in iowa and we just bought a home in alabama. That is strange, why are they telling me this . They said they bought a home in alabama after hearing me talk about it, and they are renting it below market rent just to help a family in alabama. There are things we can do to take our country back. Did people wait for slavery or did they build the underground railroad . This is what we have to have in america. So my policy, ill go through it quick. I am spending too much time on one question, but this is simply it. Im rolling back the trump tax cuts. I can do this if i have a majority in the senate. Thats why i want to run a movement election. I can get it done with reconciliation. I only need 60 votes to do a double income tax credit and changing the definition of work in america. If anybody is here who is taking care of a child with special nots at home, your are working, but you are working. Or like my mom who took care of my dad who died of parkinsons and parkinsons dementia. I saw her go through their life savings. They should qualify for the work credit too. My credit expands the definition of work. It gives young people who are working in college the income credit. My plan cuts poverty in a third. Next, im doing something called the renters tax credit. What is that . We use our tax code to help people who have money get more money, and im not against all those things. I believe in the mortgage interest deduction, but guess what . Its overwhelming used by people who make 150,000 and more. What about the rest of people . My tax credit says this. If you are a family paying more than a third of your income on rent, then you qualify for a refundable tax credit up until the area of median rent. You get that in your tax bill back, and guess what that does to poverty in america . 10 Million People out of poverty. So i have a lot of very basic things. Rolling back the trump tax cuts. We could pay for them by making sure we close loopholes. Like carry interests, which allows Hedge Fund Operators to pay a portion of the income tax for the teachers. We can actually pay for it more than enough money to pay for it. Go back to the estate tax in the wild days of 2009 and close all the estate tax loopholes, and the last one, this is where i disagree with some people. Do, but theult to last one is by changing Capital Gains tax to taxing ordinary income after exceptions after a few million dollars, which means all of us would be exceptions. What does that mean . If my man chase, one day, when dough buysng in a picasso and then sells it the next gear, paid 1 million and sells it for 10 million, that is going to be tax in arizona at the same rate the schoolteachers as well. Thats going to get the money to do the kinds of things im talking about. Poverty is a sin. Being poor is not a sin. Its wasteful because poor children cost so much more. Especially in opportunity costs and children having needs. If i was a teacher, no more racking up debt for student lunches and things like that. We are going to make sure that every child who comes to school gets fed. [laughter] [applause] thank you. Youre quite welcome. Im thinking we have about 300. Ill send you a text or message to let you know. Put it on your facebook, all right . All right, we need to put a selfie in here. Im technologically challenged. And we need to get one of him. Sen. Booker this fine gentleman. Yeah, all right. [indiscernible conversations] thank you, all right. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Sen. Booker all right. Thank you so much for being here. Thank you for being here. Sen. Booker thank you. We listened and we watched sen. Booker oh, you did . And then we listened to we remembered it. Sen. Booker thank you so much. Thank you. Thats right. [indiscernible conversations] sen. Booker you did . Oh, my gosh. You are in the middle. You dont need me. Sen. Booker i do, i do. All right. Thank you. Really helpful. Sen. Booker i believe, i believe. Thank you very much. We came in for coffee and saw you were here and said weve got to hear this. Very inspiring. Thank you. oh. Sen. Booker thank you so much. [indiscernible conversations] my wife said to say she thought your speech was the best. She really appreciated it. Sen. Booker oh, thank you very much. Thank you. [indiscernible conversations] [indiscernible conversations] you impressed me. Even better without the microphone. [laughter] [indiscernible conversations] is there anything you need . We are going to stop at the gas station for some filtered water. [indiscernible conversations] chris, im going to pass this to you in the back seat. Sen. Booker how do you pronounce this last name . Would you like some . Sen. Booker where is the chase car . Wheres kevin . Kevin is [indiscernible] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] look atr tonight, a Global Security in the Persian Gulf Region. We will hear from the former secretary. Here is a preview of tonights discussion. Is a guy whoutin has played a weak hand very well. Russia does not have the economic or the military or the diplomatic capacity to really challenge the United States in the region, but he is a master at identifying vacuums and identifying how russia can move in. And he is somebody who has a vision about russia as a great power and who believes that statusby its great power should have a seat at the table when all of the security and political issues are debated in the middle east. He is going to do that. At the end of the day, he really is not our competition. The competition that the u. S. Has in terms of the great powers is china. China is eating our lunch economically. They are becoming increasingly the number one economic partner for the gulf states. That is going to continue. Pat that the to let use willing take on the hard issues of security and stability in the region while they focus on building their economic relations and prospering through their relationships with the gulf states. Announcer watch the entire discussion on Global Security in the Persian Gulf Region with orme u. S. Ambassador from the clinton, bush, and obama administrations. Tonight at 8 00 eastern on cspan. 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