State senator and cochair of the senators campaign. We expect the senator shortly. Live coverage on cspan. To say to them you cannot have it all. A person who protested against the war in vietnam hello somebody. Somebody who voted against the war in iraq. Hello, somebody. Somebody who got a resolution passed to say that yes, maam yemen no. Hello somebody. Somebody who believes that we should not make war but we should bring the leaders of this world together and try to make some peace. Hello, somebody. I think senator Bernard Sanders makes power uneasy and privilege unhinged. Come on. Dr. King talks about the trip lets of evil, racism, miltyism. M, and we live in a nation where we need a leader thats not going to hedge, thats not going to play games. He makes a bunch of people feel good to quote dr. Martin luther king junior but my question is to you and for leaders that its one thing to talk the talk but its another thing to walk the walk. Hello, somebody. Hello somebody. Weve got too many people in this state, too many people in this nation and too many people in this world who are suffering and we need as the United States of america to be a real beacon of hope and to stand up or the downtrodden and the missed. We need that person and that person is senator Bernard Sanders. Racism kills. Materialism theyve got us thinking that weve always got to keep up with the joneses and that its tied into what you drive and what you wear. We have lost our ability to see that your Intrinsic Value is in who you are, who you love, what you stand up for. Hello, somebody. When it comes to milt tarism, in the 21st century we dont need leaders who play with going to war. Going to war does not make you strong. Standing up and trying to bring leaders together on the global stage, that is our strength and that is what senator sanders is committed to. We cant play with this thing. So mlk day i just stopped by to remind you that our strength is what it is with each other, that whether we are black or white, whether we are brown indiginous, whether were asian american, whether we are gay or straight, agnostic atheist Christian Muslim buddhist whatever we identify as our strength is together. And that is why iowa this movement is so important because senator sanders, we are building a multicultural multiracial multigenerational multigender hello somebody movement. Thats what were doing. Thats what it has to be. And the reverend dr. Martin luther king jr. Understood that before he was assassinated he was supporting poor people understanding that we rise and we fall together. So we dont need folks who are just going to quote dr. King. We need folks who are going to live dr. King. Hello somebody. Dr. King talked about the injustice in a Health Care System. He talked about capitalism run amuck. He challenged this country to take a look at what we are doing to the least of these our sisters and our brothers and to act in a way that shows that we have love. And speaking of love reverend dr. Martin luther king jr. Said these words i am paraphrasing but he said that light, darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can. And hate cannot drive out hate, only love can. There is a song in the christian tradition that says that love lifted me. It is because of the love of this nation that we are assembled here today to support a justice champion who is standing in the ready position because of love. Hes saying to this nation that we deserve medicare for all because of love. He is saying that we should cancel student debt and give relief to the people of this nation because of love. E says that we must reform a criminal Justice System that is unjust by every stretch of the imagination that sees black men somehow as more criminal than anybody else, brown sisters and brothers indiginous sisters and brothers somehow more criminal than anybody else. He is saying that because of love. I am going to stand up and call this nation out and not only am i going to call it out i am going to stand with my vision and say that we can do better, that you deserve better. Iowa this is what this movement is all about. Love lifted me. It is because of love and love is strong. Love is not weak. Love confronts. Love lifts. Love speaks truth. And the truth of the matter is we know better now. And that means we should do better now. So we will never get another chance quite like this. To elect a champion that from his 20s to this moment has been on a journey that i dont know if he knew that the creator was preparing him for. This is our moment to come together and unite as sisters and brothers for what is just for what is right and what is good and to use our senator as that beacon of hope. Now, he always says that i cannot do this alone. He knows that this is not about me, this is about us. But iowa it is you. You start this thing off. And weve got to tell the naysayers that were going to stand up behind, in front of, and beside the charmion of justice in this country, at this moment, at this time who is running for president of the United States of america to change this thing. Because of love. Love lifted me and as one of the leaders in this movement i can tell you from this space right here that when folks try to say that what the senator is fighting for what we are fighting for is radical, if you are comfortable and you see sky scrapers out your window that maybe having health care for all is radical. But if you among the 89 Million People in this country who are either uninsured or under insured what senator sanders is not pushing is not radical, it is right on time. Hello, somebody. Iowa. If you are suffering from dirty water like those sisters and brothers in michigan and places like ohio and South Carolina the Green New Deal is not radical. It is right on time. If you are a mama and daddy in this country you want to be able to look into the eyes of your babies and say these words that if you want to go to college you can go to college and it doesnt matter how much money i make or dont make what senators sanders is pushing college for all is not radical it is right on time. If you need your prescription whether you are young or seasoned we all need medication from time to time and what a sin and a shame it is that the pharmaceutical industry is making money that total greed on the backs and the necks of people on this country so when the senator calls him out and says not on my watch what he is saying to the system is not on my watch where people continue to be denied or where people continue to die. It is not radical it is right on time. Right on time baby. Right on time. So this movement is about all of you and we need you to knock on doors and make phone calls. Now together were celebrating we need you iowa to make the dominos fall. Were going to do this and were going to win in iowa. Hello, somebody. Oh no its right a on time. Love. Lifted me. And it will lift us. Now speaking of love ive got the opportunity here. Theres a bad sister here with me this evening. And she held from the great state of washington. Shes an activist. She is a congresswoman. She is a leading voice on medicare for all. Hello somebody. How many know it takes teamwork to make the dream work . Working it in the house of representatives and senator Bernard Sanders is working in the senate. Hello, somebody. When the congresswoman was interviewed and she was asked about why she supports senator sanders she says these words. He has a clarity. On policy prescriptions that go right to the heart of the working class need. Hello somebody. Go to the heart of the matter. By love. So i bring to you iowa. I know its a liltchoil its mighty warm. Its burning up in here. Can you give an iowa welcome . Come on somebody to the one and ly congresswoman cheers and applause] hello, iowa. Hello, iowa. Let me tell you a little seek ret, iowa. Am all in for Bernie Sanders are you all in for Bernie Sanders . Are you ready to work this thing until we win iowa in two weeks . Now listen my iowa brothers and sisters, im here for the same reasons you are. My sister nina she talked about the suffering thags going on across this country. There is too much suffering, too much greed and inequality, too much racism and sexism and zeeno phobia, too much trumpism. All of that is expressed through trumpism that has fallen on to america and is just lingering like that dirty old snow. Maybe youre one of those that are suffering. Maybe you are one of the people that cannot afford health care. Maybe youve seen somebody die that you love, somebody that you know that cant get prescription drugs or health care for what aisle them. Maybe you are one of those people suffering from an enormous burden of student loan debt. Maybe you are suffering from not having a good enough job that pays you what you need to put food on the table and a roof over your head. Maybe, maybe you are suffering because of the destruction of our planet and you dont know where we are going to go in this world. Maybe youre suffering from the failure of our institutions and our democracy to stand up for working people instead of the wealthiest few in our orporations. Let me be really clear about something. This guy in the white house his trademark is cruelty. His trademark is cruelty. I say that as the first member of congress to go into a federal prison and talk to over 200 mothers and fathers who had been ripped from their children, did not know where they are and for some of them still dont know where their children are. It aint right. I say that as a woman who has watched this administration rip away Reproductive HealthCare System Health care and do Everything Possible to take away that choice from women like me. That aint right. I say that as a mother of a beautiful gender nonconforming kid who deserves every right that you and i do not to be bullied and called out by hate but by loved for who they are. And i say that, i say that as an immigrant woman of color, somebody who came to this country when i was 16 years old by myself. My parents made that ultimate sacrifice of sending me across the ocean, putting an ocean between them and their beloved child because they actually believed in the American Dream. They wanted me to have the opportunity that we hear about around the world. And so that is why it is so important for me, for us to do everything we can to make sure that that American Dream is real. But i dont want you to be fooled about something. Trump is both a symptom and a cause. He is both a symptom and a cause. Economic insecurity has been building for decades in this country because this system has not been working for working people. And thats been for a long time. But heres the thing. Where we are today is based on a series of choices we made and that means we can make different choices ahead of us. Right . We can turn our nation around away from cruelty to a sense of hue manty and decency, away from mefirstism to a collective belief in our inner connectedness and humanity, away from greed and scarcity and toward love and generosity, the solutions are right in front of us. So today as we honor the life and the legacy of the reverend dr. Martin luther king, he was deeply important to me as an activist and organizer and in his i have a dream speech dr. King said this. And it is just as true then as it is today. He said this is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of radualism. The trang liesing drug of grad tranquilizing drug of gradualism. I know people are krpped about the choices. The consequences are real and they are serious. But it may seem more comforting to go small, to do thing that is maybe dont disrupt the system, but the truth is that is not going to address the systemic problems that are in front of us. We have deep structural inequities in front of us and we need bold struct ral change because if we dont do that this suffering is going to continue but even worse than that we might get somebody into the white house but if that president is not bold and doesnt really fix the problem of health care, the problem of the climate crisis, the problem of racism, all of these things that are in front of us then we may get another donald trump down the road. His name may not be donald trump but we may get another one. And exactly one year from today think about that iowa. One year from today america will inaugurate a new president and what we do between now and then, the way that we organize, the way that we build our movements, the way that we operate is going to mean the difference between four more years of trump or a more hopeful future. And here in iowa weve got two weeks. Youve got two weeks. Right . Weve got two weeks because you are going to lead the Democratic Party with your choice at this incredibly important moment in history. And iowa i am here to tell you whole heartedly that i believe that choice should be senator Bernie Sanders. Cheers and applause] now, people have asked me why bernie. Tell us why bernie. Why did you make that choice. So let me tell you. Ive spent my life organizing. Im an activist and organizer. I helped to drive the movement for Immigration Reform across the country. I helped pass the 15 minimum wage wage in seattle the first major city in the country to do that. Way back in 2002 i was out in the streets organizing 50,000 people against the war in iraq. I led the largest Voter Registration drive in the history of our state, 23,000 new immigrant citizens to vote. And i believe the next president of the United States has to understand that organizing is at the center of everything and Bernie Sanders was building that movement and orlingniesing people across this country. Now, heres the other thing about Bernie Sanders. He brings an authenticity and a steadfastness. My relationship with him goes back to 2015. I was a brand new state senator in Washington State and i became either the first or one of the first elected officials to endorse bernie back then. It was because of his authenticity, his steadfastness, his work over years to build the movement and to fight for the change we need. Back in 1993 Bernie Sanders was fighting for a living wage. Of course when i started running for congress i was so proud that i was one of the first three members candidates that he endorsed for congress. But heres the thing about Bernie Sanders. The thing about Bernie Sanders is he exemplified what i think of when i think of progressives. Im the cochair of the congressional progressive caucus, 40 of the Democratic Caucus. We are working to make that big we are your help. And what i like to say is just what you see in bernie. Progressive, True Progressives are just the first to the best and the most just idea and then they build the movement to make that idea real. Is that right . And heres the third reason. Bernie brings a clarity of purpose to his policy proposals. And lets just be very clear on this. Bernie sanders helped to create the movement for medicare for all and universal health care across this country without Bernie Sanders there would be no movement for medicare for all. And as the lead cosponser lead sponsor of the medicare for all bill in the house, let me tell you this we have had four historic hearings in the house, never before in the house of representatives. We have over half of the Democratic Caucus and i am so thrilled that now endorsing bernie i am going to be the National Health policy chair for Bernie Sanders and together we are going to keep going and building that movement for edicare for all. Now let me tell you bernie knows that our organizing cannot be limited just for the people who are already engaged. Thats called the myth of the likely voters. Bernie wants to move us past that to the truth of every voter. He wants to get out there and he wants to get out there and help bring people in so that they believe again in democracy and they come back out and they vote and they rock these caucuses and its not just the same people, its new people who believe again that a president is going to stand up for them. Thats what Bernie Sanders is ready to do. So weve got two weeks left to go in iowa and the stakes could not be higher. No pressure. No pressure except we got a lot of pressure. Stakes could not be higher. This was not theatrical. Real lives are at stake. We cannot leave a single door unknocked. We cannot make a single contact where we dont make it clear what is before us. We cant be tranquilized by gradualists. We cant be an anest tiesed that arent going to fix the problem. We need deep structural change that is led by a movement demanding more and a leader who does not turn away from working people. We need the kind of change that president Bernie Sanders will bring. And so lets take that vision, change like universal comprehensive health care for every Single Person in america. Change like student Debt Forgiveness and debt cancellation for millions of young people across this country. Change like stronger labor unions and real collective bargaining to check corporate power. Change like progressive Foreign Policy and saying no more to the military industrial complex. Change like expanding Social Security and taking care of our elders as they go on in their lives. And change like taking on Climate Change that puts front line folks black and brown folks and the workers that work in the fossil fuel industries at the front as we tackle and ave our planet and our people. Our next president must be courageous enough to say what is true and fight for it always not just when its easy for convenient. Our nefpblged president must be a leader that our next president must be a leader that reminds us all that there is real power in thinking build and building the movement to enact that change. And our next president must be a leader who understands that the power is in we the people and that is why i am here today to joyfully fully passionately introduce you to that leader, the next president of the United States of america, enator Bernie Sanders cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] bernie. Bernie. Bernie. Bernie. Bernie. Let me break the bad news. It aint bernie. It is all of us together. [cheers and applause] let me thank vickie for their music. Let me thank the great superviser from lynne county stacy walker for all of his great work. Let me thank lena for her remarks. Jeff for the great work he is doing in the legislature and for his support nick salazar is oing a great job for us. Barb for all of her good work. Chris. Let me thank senator nina turner. [applause] senator turner has been doing some of the most important work that anybody can do. It is something all of us have got to do. She beens all over this country bringing people, young people, working people, people of color into the political process getting them to stand up and fight for justice. Senator turner, thank you. [applause] let me thank congresswoman not only for her support, not only for being here this evening but for all of the great leadership that she is showing in the United States congress. Thank you. [cheers and applause] before she was a member of congress, she was an immigration lawyer. She was an antiwar activist and is a member of the congress she has introduced our companion legislation for medicare for all in the house. Thank you so much. [applause] the f you know message of our campaign, which is a very profound message, is called us not me. What that message means and what senator turner and congresswoman gypal is talking about is if you look at American History real change never takes place from the top on down. Lways from the bottom on up. [applause] it is never a president who wakes up in the middle of the night and says oh, ive got a great idea. Women should have the right to vote. Or, i have a brilliant idea. I think it is only right that gay people be able to get married. That is not the way history works. That is not the way change takes place. W more than ever we need a Mass Movement of working people , black and white and latino, asian american, native american. We need millions of people to stand up, to look around them, and to say you know what . The status quo is not working. We need a government that believes in justice, not greed. Cheers and applause] and oddly enough, oddly enough when we talk about us not me, no one could have predicted it but as all of you know tonight im going back to d. C. And tomorrow i will be in an impeachment trial. How long it lasts, i honestly dont know. So i will not be able to be back here in iowa as much as i would like. We had originally planned a number of town meetings rallies all over the state. Were going to do the best we can. We have great surrogates. We have volunteers knocking on doors. And thank you very much volunteers. Youve been knocking on a lot f doors. As a matter of fact, youve knocked on hundreds of thousands of doors. O ironically the odds on me is becoming very much of a reality in the last two weeks of this campaign because im not going to be able to be here as much as i would like. So you guys are going to have to carry the ball. And that means talking to as many of your friends and family nd coworkers as you can make making sure they all come out two weeks from tonight. The second point that i want to make is there is a lot of appropriate discussion about electability. Youve got people all across the political spectrum who say we have got to defeat the most dangerous president in the modern history of this country. We agree. We agree. Donald trump no matter what your political views may be. I do understand that not everybody in iowa agree with everything that we believe. Got it. But i think the overwhelming majority of people in this great state no matter what your political view may be do not think its appropriate that we have somebody in the white who is who is a path lodge difficult liar. You know, you want to be able to turn on the tv with your to and not be embarrassed rush to turn off the television because of remarks the president makes. We can disagree on issues but we do not want a president who is gives me no pleasure to tell you a racist, a sexist, a homophobe, a zeno fobe and a religious bigot. That is not the temperament of somebody we need in the white house. So i happen to believe there are other good candidates out there. And you have heard everybody i think say that no matter who wins this democratic primary process and needless to say i kind of hope it is us [cheers and applause] but that we will be united in doing Everything Possible to defeat donald trump. So why do i think that we are the best campaign to do that . And let me tell you why. Donald trump will be a very tough opponent. Thats the simple truth. The only way that trump is going to be defeated is if we have by far the largest voter turnout in American History. Thats what we need. So i would hope the people of iowa and the people of america ask themselves, which campaign is the campaign of energy and excitement . Which is the campaign that is reaching out to working class people many of whom are disillusioned with the political process and too often do not vote . Young people today and this is very good news are the most progressive generation in the history of the United States of america. Historically, however, the simple truth is that young people have not voted at the kind of rate that they should have. Which campaign is capable of bringing in millions of young people into the political process . Which campaign has already won the support not only of the but of movement eoples action, of other grassroots organizations who represent millions of people . Our campaign has. You know, historically in american politics what politics was about is an establishment candidate sits down with a bunch of wealthy people and they map out a campaign. Thats the way it was not so many years ago. We have changed the rules of he game. We are not here to represent the political establishment or the Economic Establishment of america. We are here to represent the orking class of america. And one reason one reason why we are best suited, best prepared to win this election, as you can see in terms of how we raise our campaign funds. Youve got candidates out there who raised a lot of money from many, many billionaires. Well, we do it differently. We have raised over five contributions million contributions from over one million americans averaging 18 and . 50. Historyign in american has done that at this point in an election. The reason that we will beat trump is we are redefining what politics is about. We dont go to rich peoples homes to raise money. We dont go to donors to get support. Our support comes from the workingclass of this country and that is something that trump will never be able to defeat. [applause] celebrate the birthday inone of the great leaders American History, dr. Martin luther king jr. I will date myself a little bit by telling you that when dr. Have ave his famous i dream speech, i was actually there. [applause] vision hasd his always been an inspiration to me. One of the motivating Political Forces in my life. Sometimes the media sanitizes what dr. King was about but i want all of you to know that he was not only a man of great brilliance and a great writer and a great orator, he was eight a Political Revolutionary. [applause] during his lifetime, he took on not only the racists in alabama and mississippi, went to jail and was beaten and all of that, he took on the Economic Establishment. He took on the military industrial complex. At great personal sacrifice. The three major evils in American Society are racism, poverty and militarism. With great courage, he stood up and opposed the war in vietnam. Time, a lessont that is relevant today. Time, aid at that lesson that is relevant today. Why are we spending huge amounts of money fighting wars when people are sleeping on the streets . [applause] spirit of dr. King, in the spirit of dr. King, what this campaign is about what makes us different than other campaigns is we are not here just to defeat donald trump. Transform the United States of america and create an economy and a government that works for all of us, not just the one percentage 1 . That is what the Political Revolution is. It says we need millions of people to step up to the plate, to stand up and fight for justice. About . Our program wealthiest, the country in the history of the will, we will end the gross disparity in income and wealth that exists today. Three peopleccept only more wealth than the bottom half of American Society. We will not accept the top 1 owning more wealth than the bottom 92 . I have been all over this great state and i have talked to workers. I spoke to a woman here in des moines. She was raising three kids hour at a fastr food place. You cant raise a family on 10. 25 per hour. Work 40ve that if you hours per week, you should not be living in poverty. [applause] that is not a radical idea. That means that we are going to raise the federal minimum wage to at least 15 per hour. Means we are going to do away with the absurdity of women making . 79 on the dollar compared to men. En deserve the whole dollar. It means we are going to make it easier for workers to join unions and engage in collective bargaining. Rebuild we are going to our crumbling infrastructure. Our roads, our bridges, our Water Systems and our wastewater plants. We will build tens of millions in affordable housing. That, when we rebuild our infrastructure, we will put millions of workers into jobs that will pay them good, union wages. [applause] creating ak about government of the workingclass, for the workingclass, by the workingclass, it means we will fundamentally change the way we do education in america. We are going to have high quality, affordable, universal childcare in america. Sen. Sanders there we go. When we talk about education, i want to say this, what her Campaign Urges people to do is to think outside of the box. Ink at the world we exist in a different way that congress or the media does. As for yourselves, in terms of to make it to the middleclass today, by and large, 100 years ago, people fought for public education. We have a changing World Economy and changing technology. N we talk about education we are talking about free tuition in public colleges and universities in this country. Does anybody think that is a radical idea . No sen. Sanders and when we talk also education, we are talking about the absurdity of millions of people in this country being in financial distress because they went to college. The crooks bail out givell street, if we could 1 trillion in tax breaks to large corporations, do you know what . Do you know what a government can represents the people do . We can cancel all student debt in america. [applause] sen. Sanders we do that with a modest tax on wall street speculation. When we talk about education and changing our values, it means we must respect those people who educate our young people. We must make sure that the best and brightest in this country want to go into education. They want to say with pride that i am so excited i am going to become a teacher. I will influence the lives of thousands of young people. We are going to make sure that. Eachers earn at least 60,000 there is an issue that i have been talking about my entire adult life. Is of a family that health care is a human rights. Not a privilege. We spend twice as much as anyone as any otherh care country. We are ending up with 87 million americans who are uninsured or underinsured. We are ending up with 30,000 year becauseeach they dont get to a doctor. 500,000 people go bankrupt as a result of medically related deaths. People who come down with cancer, they are struggling with their lives. They are doing with heart disease, whatever terrible illness it may be. It is unthinkable that in the wealthiest country in the history of the world, hundreds of thousands of people suffer severe financial distress simply because they are struggling with some terrible illness. And we not acceptable are going to end absurdity. [applause] sen. Sanders here is the simple truth. Some of you are saying how is it that we are the only major to not guarantee health care to our people . How do we pay the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs . The answer is not complicated. The answer is that the health do everythingwill to prevent us to moving to health care as a human rights. For the i have news greed and corruption of the health care industry. For over 100 years from Teddy Roosevelt to barack obama, president s have been talking about the need to guarantee health care to all people. Within the first week of our administration, we will introduce and we will finally pass a medicare for all singlepayer system. [applause] sen. Sanders what that means, what that means is no more premiums. No more copayments, no more deductibles. Expenses,tofpocket no more than 200 per year for prescription drugs. We will expand medicare to include dental care, hearing aids, eyeglasses and home health care. D the corruption in the pharmaceutical industry, where in some cases we pay 10 times more for the same medicine sold in canada, because we and the profiteering of the health , because we and administrative nightmare end the administrative nightmare in which thousands of private Health Care Plans exist we will have a simple system that provides comprehensive care to every man, woman and child. We can make certain that the working people of this country will pay substantially less for health care than they are today. [applause] i have to tell you something, something just happened today that is really monumental. We have had a bunch of people running around the country, talking about the need for medicare for all. Today, i am happy to tell you that the American College of 159icians, representing doctors has come out for medicare for all. [applause] they understand that we have the support of the National Nurses united. That is the Largest Nurses Union in america. What the nurses and doctors understand is that they cannot do their jobs under the current system. Tired ofre sick and fighting with the Insurance Industry about what kind of medicine and therapy they can prescribe to their patients. They are sick and tired of seeing people walk into the net into their office much sicker than they should be because they did not have any Health Insurance to go to the doctors. What the doctors and nurses are saying is let us practiced medicine we were trained to do practice the medicine we were trained to do. Right. Care is a go to the doctor when you need to regardless of your income. embarrasses us every day. It is hard to keep track of what his latest tweet was. Probably about me. Absurda where his policies impact not only us as americans but the entire world in terms of the crisis of in the change is terms of the crisis of Climate Change. Scientists for a long time totals that Climate Change is real and caused by humans activity that is already doing a lot of damage. This is what they are now saying. With the scientists are now saying is we underestimated the degree and severity and the speed it which Climate Change is ravaging this country and our planet. Polar ice caps are melting at a faster rate than they anticipated. The ocean is warming at a faster rate than they anticipated. The earth is warming at a faster rate than they thought. Century, thisthe planet maybe seven or eight degrees fahrenheit warmer than it is. If we do not address this is essential crisis, cities in ,merica like miami, new orleans charleston, new york city and many others will be partially and or maybe substantially underwater by the end of the century. Present bangladesh and china will be significantly underwater. It means that we will see increased droughts. In iowans that farmers will have a shorter, less productive growing season. And will be producing less the quality of the food they produce will deteriorate. When you have more drought, you will have more wildfires. All of you are aware of the harbor taking place in australia where that continent is burning. And what happened in california with unprecedented levels of force fighters. If we dont get a handle on this, that is the future of this world. If we talk about the acidification and warming of the ocean, were talking about fish dying off but tens of millions of people get their protein from fish. When we talk about extreme weather disturbances, venice, italy is underwater. Houston, texas will is underwater. That will happen more and more frequently. It will be at a huge expense of taxpayer dollars to rebuild what has been destroyed. When you talk about Climate Change, youre talking about bacteria thriving in warm weather, disease spreading. The United Nations tells us that hundreds of millions of people may become climate refugees, forced to leave their homes because there is no water to drink or land to grow their crops. Migrate,land of people you will have an extraordinary level of International Tension in more and more wars. That is what we face. As president , we are not going to ignore this issue. We are going to deal with it forcibly. I am proud to tell you that we have introduced the most sweeping and apprehensive Climate Change proposal ever introduced by any candidate for federal office. [applause] this proposal is based on the outline of the Green New Deal. Says that we will is that we will no longer about the fossil to industry to put their shortterm profits ahead of the future of our planet. What is says is that we can ,reate up to 20 million good paying jobs. Transforming our Energy System away from fossil fuel to Energy Efficiency and sustainable energies. The difficulty here, i am trying to be honest with you, this is a very serious threat. The difficulty here is that even if we did the right thing and transformed our own Energy System, took on the fossil to industry here, that would still not be enough. What we need and what i will do if elected president is reach world people all over the in china, russia, india, pakistan, brazil, all over the world. We are in this together. That maybe,case just maybe instead of spending 1. 8 trillion per year on weapons of destruction designed to kill each other, maybe we pool our resources, come together and fight our common enemy which is Climate Change. [applause] this is more than an environmental issue, this is a moral issue. The issue is what we leave our children and our grandchildren and future generations, a planet that is healthy, inhabitable . Will we not . I dont want anyone 30 or 50 years from now to be talking to your grandson or granddaughter at answering the question why didnt you do something . Why didnt you listen to the science . I am here tonight to tell you that we will listen to the scientists and we will act accordingly. [applause] when we talk about a Progressive Agenda and an agenda based on justice, it is imperative that racist at a broken and criminal Justice System. I want you to think outside of the box. If you think outside of the box, you will ask yourself how that happens that in the richest country on earth that we have more people in jail, disproportionately andcanamerican and latino native american. China is four times our population. We have more people in jail than them. What we will do is rethink the entire criminal Justice System. What that means is we will invest in our young people in thanand education rather investing in more jails and incarceration. [applause] second of all. Tonight, there are 400,000 people in jail who had not been convicted of anything. They were arrested, they were charged but they have not been convicted. Why are they in jail . They cant afford bail. They are arrested, maybe they are guilty, maybe they are not, they cant afford the money they need in bed to get out. We, in the year of 2020 dont need debtor prisons in america. [applause] sen. Sanders we are going to end the cash bail system. We are going to end private prisons and detention centers. [applause] sen. Sanders corporations should not be making money by locking up fellow americans. Heres Something Else that we are going to do. We are going to end the socalled war on drugs. [applause] we are going to legalize marijuana in every state of the union. Here is a question. Know whopeople do you are been arrested for the possession of marijuana, raise your hand. We are going to expunge the record of those who were arrested for possession of marijuana. [applause] when we talk about broken systems in america, we are talking about a very broken and racist immigration system. Office, wet day in the demonization of the undocumented in this country. Our first day of office, we will repeal all of the racist immigration executive orders that donald trump signed. On our first day in office, we will reestablish legal status for the 1. 8 million young people in the daca program. [applause] develop a humane border policy that will not allow federal agents to snatch babies from the arms of their mothers or throw children in jail. Most importantly i believe we can establish and ofs a bipartisan, confidence rehensive Immigration Reform bill. That will lead toward a path toward citizenship for all of the undocumented. No matter how divided our nation may be, there is an issue that i think brings everybody together. Our attorney on the tv our horror at turning on the tv and hearing about another mass shooting. It is hard to understand how and why this continues to happen. Let me simply say that in terms of gun safety, our policy will be determined by the American People, not the nra. [applause] that means universal background checks. That means ending the gun show loophole. What the American People now finally understood, whether they york, wermont or new must and the distribution of assault weapons in america. [applause] senator froms. Senator as the u. S. From vermont, i am on the floor and i hear my colleagues give speeches. Not the most exciting thing in the world. I hear from my conservative, republican colleagues and they say we believe in small government and getting the government off the backs of the American People. I say to those socalled conservatives, if you believe in getting the government off the backs of the American People, please understand that it is women who have the right to control their own bodies, not the government and politicians. [applause] sen. Sanders i will never nominate anyone to the u. S. 100 me court who is not proroe v. Wade. [applause] sen. Sanders the last point that i want to make. Me microphone allows we are living in unprecedented times. Of incomevels inequality. A president who is undermining democracy, the threat of Climate Change, Health Care System that is dysfunctional. The fact that americans arent seeing a nickel of increase in their salary while millionaires and donors get more and more rich. I am here to ask you tell me when in iowa and help me wendy winin in iow and help me the nomination. But i am asking more. Nobodye to tell you what else will tell you. No president ial candidate, not Bernie Sanders or anyone else, no one can do it alone. We have a power structure in america. I am talking about the power of wall street, six major banks over 10 join dollars. Im talking about the insurance companies, the drug companies, i am talking about the fossil fuel industry. I am talking about the militaryindustrial complex. Who has helped create a situation who are now spending more on the military than the next 10 nations combined. Im talking about the prison industrial complex. Im talking about the 1 who have fought to make sure they do not pay their fair share of taxes. That is a we are taking on. Overnot here to tell you me and i will do it all. It does not work that way. The way it works is that millions of people will stand up. As president , i will not only be commander in chief of the military, i intend to be chief as well. [applause] sen. Sanders that means i prepared to go to kentucky as president. I prepared to come back here to iowa. And to say to the members, senators and members of congress, tell these people why you think health care is not a human rights. [applause] sen. Sanders tell the people of this state why you want to give taxpayers to billionaires and cut Social Security, medicare and medicaid. I think that when you have a president who is willing to confront the senators who continue to represent the rich and powerful and to ignore the needs of working families, when you have a president that will go around the country, the American People will stand up and tell the senators to do the right thing, represent us, not your campaign contributors. That is what this campaign is about. It is unprecedented. Candidates have come and gone for years. We are trying to win an election but we are trying to do something more. That is to build a movement of people who are prepared to fight so that finally we have an economy and Energy System, a Health Care System, a government that represents all of us, not just the 1 . [applause] i want to thank all of you for coming out here. We need you to take my place, give two hour speeches like i do. Do whatever you can do. Goes first. You havent unprecedented role in american politics. Iowa, i believe we can win here in iowa. If we live in nevada, we will do very well in South Carolina. We will win in california. Four years ago, i laid out a series of principles, many of which i talked about tonight. They always call my ideas very radical. Nobody in america will support them. Started the revolution in iowa. Lets complete the revolution. Thank you very much. [applause] sen. Sanders thank you so much. [indiscernible] sen. Sanders how is it going . Thank you so much. [indiscernible] doing . Nders how are you good . Hi, Bernie Campaign 2020, watch our campaign. F the watch our live coverage of the iowa caucus. Campaign 2020, your unfiltered view of politics. Go shopping and see what is now available at the cspan online store, including our new campaign 2020 tshirts, sweatshirts and hats. Org and browse all of our products. President trump is headed to dallas. The president and Vice President visited the Martin Luther king memorial in d. C. Of recognition in recognition of Martin Luther king jr. Day. More of the sights and sounds this monday morning. This federal holiday marking the life and work of reverend dr. Martin luther king jr. This is a typical, brisk january