caucuses. >> please give a warm welcome now to bernie 2020 national co-chair, senator... [cheering] >> how y'all doing, iowa? this girl is on fire! yeah! keys, do it,ia come on, y'all! ♪[music] >> come on with me, y'all, come on! ♪ this girl is on fire ♪ ♪[music] >> iowa! [cheering] >> all right! yeah.yeah, girl got the walk-off, walk-on with alicia keys. wasman, that panel something else, wasn't it? woo! good fob back in iowa. reminds me of being at home in cleveland, ohio. cold.f but the hearts are warm. the passions run deep. iowa, as we reflect, all of you know that this is the day that our nation recognizes the life the legacy of the reverend dr. martin luther king jr. [applause] and i thought how o'bryant it would be to -- how appropriate to read a quote from his daughter, his baby daughter, dr. bernice king. she put this on twitter a few days ago. i want you to let this marinate with you, iowa. night before he was assassinated, many wished happy birthday -- she puts that in quotes -- to a man today that they would have hated then. somebody. be authentic, comp -- the authentic, comprehensive king privileger uneasy and unhinged. hello, somebody. forget he's not here to birthday, because he was murdered. now, dr. bernice king spoke a truth that we don't like to deal but i amhis country, going to elaborate on her truth. what hersaid that father stood for made power and privilege unhinged. and here we find ourselves in of 2020 battling some thehe same challenges that reverend dr. martin luther king jr. stood up against, the challenges and the people that stood up for in his baker,oraries like ella fanny lou hamer and other time.m fighters of that [applause] >> the most important point that dr. bernice king was making was that we should not be waxing poeticd about how great her father was, when some of the same people in not havewould supported what he was fighting for, what he was uplifting. hello, somebody. crowd member: yeah! [applause] >> she said he makes power uneasy and privilege unhinged. started to think about that. about who in that same tradition, at this particular time, is calling on work-a-day people from all walks of life and saying to them that you deserve better than you are getting. of powern in the face has said to wall street, i'm for your greed. to the pharmaceutical industry, i'm coming for your greed. [cheering] >> to the fossil fuel industry, i'm coming for your greed. [cheering] the multimillionaires and billionaires of this nation, to have ithem, you cannot all. a person who protested against the war in vietnam. somebody. [cheering] >> somebody who voted against the war in iraq. hello, somebody! somebody who got a resolution that yemen, no, in this environment, in that efforts. he led those hello, somebody. >> somebody who believes that we should not make war but we leaders of thisg the world together and try to make some peace. hello, somebody. i think senator bernard sanders power uneasy. and privilege unhinged. on. [cheering] about thealked triplets of evil, racism, militarism.and now, we live in a nation, and brothers, when we need a leader that's not going to hedge, not gonna play games. a whole bunch of people feel good to quote the reverend king, but myther question is to you, and my question is for leaders, that the talk.hing to talk but it's another thing to walk the walk. mellow, somebody -- hello somebody. hello, somebody. [applause] >> we got too many people. in this state, too many people nation, and too many people in this world who are suffering and we need, as the america, to bef a real beacon of hope and to andd up for the downtrodden the decembe despised. we need someone who is not going to equivocate on that and that is senator bernard saunders. [cheering] >> racism kills. materialism. they got us thinking that we one theotta keep joneses and that your value is tied into what you drive and what you wear. we have lost our ability to see your intrinsic value is in who you are, who you love, what for.tand up [cheering] >> hello, somebody. >> and then when it comes to 21st century, the we don't need leaders who play war.going to going to war does not make you strong. standing up and trying to bring the globalether on stage, that is our strength and that is what senator sanders is committed to. we can't play with this thing. sister justy, a stopped by to remind you that is with each other. that whether we are black or whether we are brown, indigenous, whether we're asian-american, gay or straight, christian,theist, muslim, buddhist, whatever we identify as, our strength is and that is why, iowa, this movement is so important, because senator sanders, we are , we are a multipf sanders building a multicultural, multiracial, multi-gender, hello somebody, movement. that is what we are doing. that's what it has to be. and the reverend dr. martin luther king jr. understood that, because before he was assassinated he was assembling poor people from all walks of life. andrstanding that we rise we are all together. willn't need folks who quote dr. king, we need folks that will live dr. king. hello somebody. [applause] dr. king talked about the injustice in the health care system. he talked about capitalism run amok. he challenges country to take a to our what we are doing sisters, our brothers and to act in a way that shows that we have love. reverend dr.ove, martin luther king jr. said these words, and i am paraphrasing him, but he said that light -- he said darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can. hate cannot strive out hate, only love can. christian song in the tradition that said that love listed me -- lifted me. it is because of the love of this nation that we are a symbol here today. we are supporting a justice champion who is standing in the ready position because of love. he is saying to this nation that we deserve medicare for all because of love. that we should cancel student debt and give relief to the people of this nation because of love. reformaying that we must a criminal justice system that is unjust by every stretch of the imagination, that sees plan -- black man somehow as more criminal than anybody else. brown brothers and sisters, indigenous sisters and brothers are more criminal than anybody else. he is saying that because of love i will stand up and call this nation out. not only am i going to call it out, i will stand with my vision and say that we can do better. that you deserve better. this is what this movement is all about. love lifted me. it is because of love, and love is strong. love is not week. -- weak. love speaks truth. [applause] is, weth of the matter know better. that means we should do better now. and so we will never get another , to electte like this a champion, that from his 20's to this moment has been on a journey that i'm not even quite sure that he knew that the creator was preparing him for. this is a moment to come together and come together and unite as sisters and brothers for what is right and to use our senator as a beacon of hope. he always says that i cannot do this alone. he knows this is not about me, this is about us. iowa, it0, it -- but is you. we have to tell the naysayers we will stand beside the champion 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 being. because of love, love lifted me. 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, that what we are fighting for is radical, if you are comfortable with skyscrapers out your window and having health care for all is radical, that if you are among the 80 9 million people in this country who were either uninsured or underinsured, what senator sanders is 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. [applause] 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 doesn't matter how much money i make or don't make what senators sanders is pushing college for all is not radical , it is right on time. [applause] if you need your prescription, are youngu or -- you or season, we all need medication from time to time. what a sin and a shame it is that the pharmaceutical industry is making money, that total greed on the backs and the next of people in this country. so when the senator calls them out and says not on my watch, a he is saying is not on my watch for people continuing to be denied or when people continue to die. it is not radical, it's right on time. right on time, baby. right on time. [applause] this movement is about all of you. we need you to knock on doors and make phone calls. now together we're celebrating we need you iowa to make the dominos fall. we're going to do this and we're going to win in iowa. hello, somebody. oh no it's right a on time. love. lifted me. and it will lift us. now speaking of love i've got the opportunity here. there's a bad sister here with me this evening. she hails from the great state of washington. she's 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? [applause] this congresswoman is working it in the house of representatives. and senator bernard sanders is working in the senate. hello, somebody. [applause] when the congresswoman was interviewed and she was asked about why she supports senator bernard sanders, she says these words, "he has a clarity on policy prescriptions that go right to the heart of what the working-class people need." hello somebody. go to the heart of the matter. [applause] by love. so i bring to you iowa. i know it's a little chilly, it's mighty warm in here. it's burning up in here. [applause] can you give an iowa welcome? come on somebody. to the one and only congresswoman. [cheers and applause] all of that is expressed through trumpism that has fallen on to america and is just lingering like that dirty old snow. maybe you're one of those that are suffering. maybe you are one of the people that cannot afford health care. maybe you've seen somebody die that you love, somebody that you know that can't get prescription drugs or health care for what ails 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 don't know where we are going to go in this world. maybe you're suffering from the failure of our institutions and our democracy to stand up for working people instead of the wealthiest few in our corporations. let me be really clear about something. 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 don't know where their children are. it ain't right. i say that as a woman who has watched this administration rip away reproductive health care and do everything possible to take away that choice from women like me. that ain't 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 don't 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 that's been for a long time. but here's 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 humanity and decency, away from me-firstism 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 gradualism. the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. i know people are deeply concerned about the choices for president. the consequences are real and they are serious. but it may seem more comforting to go small, to do thing that is maybe don't 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 structural change because if we don't 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 doesn't 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 we've got two weeks. you've got two weeks. right? we've 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. i've spent my life organizing. i'm 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 organizing people across this country. now, here's the other thing about bernie sanders. he brings an authenticity and a steadfastness. my relationship with him goes dreams and authenticity in a steadfastness. my relationship with him goes back 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 here's the thing about bernie sanders. the thing about bernie sanders is he exemplified what i think of when i think of progressives. i'm 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? [applause] and here's the third reason. bernie brings a clarity of purpose to his policy proposals. and let's 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. [applause] 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 medicare for all. [applause] now let me tell you bernie knows that our organizing cannot be limited just for the people who are already engaged. that's 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 it's not just the same people, it's new people who believe again that a president is going to stand up for them. that's what bernie sanders is ready to do. [applause] so we've 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. -- this is not your reticle. real lives are at stake. -- this is not theoretical. we cannot leave a single door unknocked. we cannot make a single contact where we don't make it clear what is before us. we can't be tranquilized by gradualists. we can't be anesthetized that aren't 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. [applause] and so let's take that vision, change like universal comprehensive health care for every single person in america. [applause] change like student debt forgiveness and debt cancellation for millions of young people across this country. [applause] change like stronger labor unions and real collective bargaining to check corporate power. [applause] change like progressive foreign policy and saying no more to the military industrial complex. [applause] change like expanding social security and taking care of our elders as they go on in their lives. [applause] 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 save our planet and our people. [applause] our next president must be courageous enough to say what is true and fight for it always not just when it's easy for convenient. [applause] 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. [applause] 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, senator bernie sanders! \[cheers and applause] \[cheers and applause] bernie. bernie. bernie. bernie. bernie. >> let me break the bad news. it ain't 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 doing a great job for us. barb for all of her good work. chris. schwartz. 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] people, working people, people of color into the political process, getting them to stand up and fight for justice. i may think congresswoman not for all ofr support the great leadership that she is showing in the united states congress. before she was a member of congress, she was an immigration lawyer. .he was an antiwar activist and as a member of the congress, she has introduced our companion legislation for medicare for all in the house. thank you so much. as all of you know, the mike is falling. the message of our campaign, which is a very profound message, it's called us, not me. means, andessage the senator turner and congresswoman were talking about is that if you look at american never takesl change place never takes place from the top down. always from the bottom up. it is never a president who wakes up in the middle of the night and says, i have a great idea, women should have the right to vote. right that gayly people be able to get married. that is not the way history works. that is not the way change takes place. needow, more than ever, we 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 is to say, the status quo not working, we need a government that believes in justice, not greed. [applause] oddly enough, willing talk about us, not mean, no one could have predicted it. but as all of you know, tonight i am going back to dce. tomorrow i will be an impeachment trial. honestlyit lasts, i won't know. i will not be able to be back i wouldiowa as much as like. we had originally planned a number of town meetings, rallies all over the state. we will do the best we can. we have great surrogates. we have volunteers out knocking on doors. [cheering] sen. sanders: thank you very much volunteers, you have been knocking on a lot of doors. as a matter of fact you have knocked on hundreds of thousands of doors. ironically, the us not me is becoming very much a reality in the last two weeks of his campaign, because i won't be able to be here as much as i would like. so you guys are going to have to carry the ball. means talking to as many of your friends, family and coworkers as you can, making sure they come out to caucus two weeks from tonight. i want to makeat is there is a lot of appropriate discussion about electability. you have 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 -- and no matter what your political views may be, we understand that not everybody in iowa agree with everything we believe. got it. i think the overwhelming majority of people in this great state, no matter what it may be, may not think it's appropriate that we have somebody in the white house who is a pathological liar. you want to be able to turn on and not be your kids embarrassed to have to rush and turn off the television. because of some absurd remark that the president makes. we can disagree on issues, but we do not want a president who , a sexist, a , and abe, a xenophobe religious bigot. that is not the temperament of somebody we need in the white house. be united in doing everything possible to defeat tamil trump. -- donald trump. arehy do i think that we the best campaign to do that? .et me tell you why donald trump will be a very tough opponent. that is 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. that is what we need. i would hope the people of iowa and the people of america ask themselves, which campaign is we are best suited, best selection, win the selection as you can see in terms of how we raise our campaign funds, you got candidates out there who raise a lot of money from many, many billionaires. we do it differently. we do it differently. we have raised and received over 5 million contributions for over 5 million contributions for over 1.3 million americans averaging $18 and $.50. no campaign in american history has done that at this point in an election. so the reason that we are going to be trump is, we are redefining what politics is about. we don't go to rich people's homes to raise money. we don't go to donors to get support. thesupport comes from working-class of this country, and that is something trump will never be able to defeat. today we celebrate the birthday of one of the great leaders in american history. dr. martin luther king jr.. i will date myself a little bit by telling you that when dr. king gave his famous speech, "i have a dream" speech, i was actually there. [applause] sen. sanders: i took a bus from chicago. dr. king and his vision has always been an inspiration to me . one of the motivating political forces in my life. kind ofs the media sanitizes what dr. king was about. but i want all of you to know that he was a man not only of brilliance at a great what -- great writer, he was a political revolutionary. [applause] during his lifetime he took on alabama the racists in and mississippi, you all know that, he went to jail and was beaten and all that, but he took on the economic establishment. he took on the military industrial complex. a great personal sacrifice. he said, you know what, the evils in america in society are racism, poverty and militarism. with great courage, he stood up and opposed the war in vietnam. and he said at that time, a lesson, which is relevant today, why are we spending huge amounts of money fighting wars when people in america are sleeping out on the streets? so, in the spirit of dr. king, with this campaign is about, what makes us different than other campaigns is that we are not here just to defeat donald trump. of course that as -- of course that is our first goal. the we are here to transform the united states of[] applause --[] sen. sanders: america and create an economy in the government that works for all of us, not just the 1%. and that is what the political revolution is. it says that we need millions of people to step up to the plate and stand up and fight for justice. what is the program about? what does it mean? it means for wealth and inequality that exists today. people not accept three owning more wealth than the bottom half of american society. accept the top 1% owning more wealth than the bottom 92%. been all over the great state and i have talked to workers here in iowa. a worker here in des moines is raising three kids and making $10.25 an hour working at a fast food place. cannot raise a family on an hour. so what we believe is in america, if you work 40 hours a week, you should not be living in poverty. it's not a radical idea. that means that we are going to raise the federal minimum wage to at least $15 an hour. it means that we are going to do away with the absurd idea of women making $.79 on the dollar compared to men. women deserve the whole dam damn dollar. it means that we are going to make it easier for workers to join unions and engage in collective bargaining. it means that we are going to rebuild our crumbling infrastructureinfrastructure, o, bridges, water systems and we are going to build 10 million units of available -- affordable housing. and when we do that, when we rebuild our infrastructure, we are going to put millions of workers into jobs that will pay them good union wages. and when we talk about creating "bernie"] sen. sanders: there we go, thank you. we talk about education i want to say this. 100 years ago people fought for a public education. it seems kind of common sense10r a public that the changing world economy and changing technology would refocus our education -- that -- throughout this country. does anybody think that is a radical idea? >> no. when we talk about education, we are also talking about the absurdity of millions of people if we could bill out the crooks on wall street, if we could give a true -- a trillion dollars in 1% andaks to the top large corporations, a government that represents working people can cancel all student debt in america. 1% and we can do that with a modest tax on wall street speculation. when we talk about education and changing our values as americans, it means that we must respect those people who educate our young people. [applause] we must make sure that the best and the brightest in this country want to go into education. stay -- we say with pride, i am so excited i'm going to become a teacher and influence the lives of thousands of young people. and to do that we have to make sure that all teachers in america earn at least $60,000 a year. issue that i havean been talking about my entire adult life. is a profound believe that health care is a human right. is anow in america we are speng much per person on health care much per person on health care as the people in any other country. spending twice as much. here is what you are getting for spending $11,000 for every man, woman and child. we are ending up with 87 million americans who are uninsured or underinsured. that ain't right. we are ending up with 30,000 people dying. dying. 30,000 people dying each year because they don't get to a doctor when they should. i want you to hear this as well. today, despite spending twice as much per anyta as the people in country, 500,000 people go bankrupt as a result of medical debt -- medically related debt. i want you to think about that. people come down with cancer, they are struggling for their lives. to no fault of their own they are dealing with cancer, heart disease, debt -- medically related debt. alzheimer's. 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's terrible illness. that is not acceptable. and together we are going to and that absurdity. [applause] here is the simple truth. some of you are saying, how is it that we are the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care? how is it that we spend twice as much per capita on health care as people on any other country? how is it that we pay the highest prices in the world for prescriptionhow is it that we pe highest prices in the world for prescription drugs? how does it happen? the answer is not complicated. the answer is that the health care industry, the drug companies and the insurance companies will do everything they can to prevent us from moving to health care as a human right. and tonight, i got news for the greed and corruption of the health care industry. , from teddy years roosevelt to barack obama, presidents 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 single-payer system. cheers and applause] sen. sanders: [indiscernible] and what that means -- sen. and what that means is no more premiums. no more copayments, nomar deductibles, no more industry, where in some cases we take 10 times more -- pay 10 times more for the same medicine sold in canada, because we and the profiteering of a health care industry that made 100 billion in profits last year. because we and the administrative nightmare of a system in which thousands of different private health insurance plans exist. because we will have a simple . because 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. something just happened today which is very monumental in this all struggle. she introduced the legislation of the house, i introduced the senate. we have 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 physicians representing 159 doctors has come out for medicare for all. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: and they understand, and the nurses, we have support as many of the national nurses united. that's the largest nurses union in america. what the nurses understand and what the doctors understand is that they cannot do their jobs under the current system. doctors are sick and tired of fighting with the insurance kind of about what medicine, what kind of therapy they can prescribe to their patients. they are sick and tired of seeing people walk into their office much sicker than they notld be because they did have any health insurance and cannot afford to go to the doctor. so what the doctors are saying in the nurses are saying, let us practice the medicine we were trained to do. health care is a human right for every man, woman and trial -- child. go to the doctor when you need to. donald trump embarrasses us every day. donald trump embarrasses us every day. hard to keep track of what his latest tweet was. probably about me. one area where his absurd policies impact not only us as americans, but the entire world is his ignorance in terms of the crisis for climate change. for climate change. let me lay it on the line. this is kind of frightening stuff. what it's about is that the scientists who for a long time isd us that climate change real, that it is caused by human activity and we are already doing a lot of damage. the scientists are saying, they, we underestimated degree, the severity and the speed in which climate change is ravaging this country. caps caps are melting at a faster rate than they had anticipated. the ocean is warming at a faster rate than they had anticipated. the earth is warming at a faster rate than they had thought, which means that by the end of the century, this planet maybe seven or eight degrees fahrenheit warmer. that means if we do not address this existential crisis, cities in america like miami, new orleans, charleston, new york city and many others will be partially, or may be substantially underwater by the end of the century. it means that countries like vietnam and bangladesh and large parts of china will be significantly underwater. it means that we will see increased droughts, which means willfarmers here in iowa have a shorter, less productive growing season. they will be producing less and the quality of the food they produce will deteriorate. and when you have more drought, you are going to have more wildfires. all of you are aware of what's taking place in australia where the continent is burning and what happened in california with unprecedented levels of forest fires. if we don't get a handle on this, that is the future of this world. and what we talk about the acidification and warming of the ocean, we are talking about fish dying off, but tens of millions of people get their protein from fish. we talk about extreme weather disturbances just a few months ago and one of the most beautiful cities in the world underwater, houston, texas underwater. that will happen more and more ofquently at a huge expense taxpayer dollars having to rebuild what has been destroyed. climate refugees were forced to use their homes because there is no water to drink our land to grow. as president we will not ignore this issue. we are going to do with it forcefully. this proposal is based on the outline of the green new deal. we will no says that longer allow the fossil fuel industry to put their short-term ahead of the future of our planet. what it says is that we can create up to 20 million good paying jobs transforming our energy system away from fossil fuel to energy efficiency and sustainable energies. the difficulty here, and i am trying to be honest with you, this is a really serious threat. the gift -- the difficulty here is that even if we in the united states did the right thing and transformed our own energy system and took on the fossil and took on the fossil fuel industry here, but still not be enough. what we will do is reach out to people all over the world and china, russia, india and pakistan all over the world because we are in this together. and to make the case that may be, just maybe, instead of spending $1.8 trillion a year on weapons of destruction designed to kill each other fight together with our common energy, which is climate change. this is more than an environmental issue. this is a moral issue. we leave our will children and our grandchildren and future generations a planet that is helping -- healthy and habitable, or will we not? here are 50 anybody years from now talking to your grandson or granddaughter and , grandma,the question grandpa, why didn't you do something when you knew what was going to happen? here tonight to tell you we will listen to the scientists, we will act accordingly. what we talk about a progressive and an agenda based on justice, it is imperative that we look at a broken and racist criminal justice system. again, i want you to think box.de of the if you think outside of the box, you are going to ask yourself, how does it happen that in the richest country on earth we have ,ore people in jail disproportionately african-american, latino and , more people in jail than any other country on earth. china has four times our population, we have more people in jail than china. how does that happen? do as anill ministration is rethink the entire criminal justice system. what that means for a start, we will invest in our young people in jobs and in there are 400,000 people in jail who had not been convicted of anything. they were arrested, they were there are 400,000 people in jai. they have not been convicted. why are they in jail? they can't afford bail. they are arrested, maybe they are guilty, maybe they are not, they can't afford the money they need to get out of jail. need the year 2020 do not debtors prisons in america. [applause] so we are going to end private -- 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. [applause] sanders: and here is something else we are going to do. we are going to end the so-called war on drugs. [applause] sanders: we are going to legalize marijuana in every state of the union. [applause] sen. sanders: here is a question. how many people here know someone who has been arrested for the possession of marijuana, raise your hand. all right. we are going to expunge the records of those who were arrested for possession of marijuana. [applause] sen. sanders: and when we talk about broken systems in america, we are talking about a very broken and racist immigration system. on our first day in office, we will end the demonization of the undocumented in this country. [applause] on our first day in office, we will repeal all of the racist immigration executive orders that donald trump signed. -- promulgated. on our first day in office, we will reestablish legal status for the 1.8 million young people in the daca program. [applause] sen. sanders: we will develop a humane border policy that will not allow federal agents to snatch babies from the arms of snatch babies from the arms of their mothers or throw children in jail. and most importantly -- >> we appreciate the sound crew's hard work. sen. sanders: most importantly, most importantly,stablish and i believe we can establish and pass a bipartisan, confidence of -- comprehensive immigration reform bill. [applause] sen. sanders: which will lead toward a path toward citizenship for all of the undocumented. [applause] sen. sanders: no matter how divided our nation may be, there is an issue that i think brings is an issue that i think brings everybody together. that is our horror at turning on the tv and hearing about another mass shooting. people throw up their hands. it is just hard to understand how and why this continues to happen. so let me simply say that in terms of gun safety, our policy will be determined by the american people, not the nra. [applause] that meanss: universal background checks. that means ending the gun show loophole. [applause] sen. sanders: and what the american people have now finally understood, whether they are in rural states like iowa, urban areas like new york, we must and the distribution of assault weapons in america. [applause] sen. sanders: there is a u.s. senator from vermont. am on the floor and i hear my colleagues give speeches. not the most exciting thing in the world. very often, i hear from my 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 so-called 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: my promise to you is i will never nominate anyone to the u.s. supreme court who is not 100% pro-roe v. wade. [applause] sen. sanders: the last point that i want to make. if the microphone allows me -- we are living in unprecedented times. times. massive levels of income inequality. a president who is undermining democracy, the threat of climate change, health care system that is dysfunctional. the fact that over the last 45 years the average american has not seen a nickel of increase in gets while millionaires richer. with this campaign is asking of all of us is something pretty hard. i'm here to ask you to help me win in iowa. to defeatto ask you to defeat the worst president in modern american history. i'm asking you a lot, but i'm asking something more. i'm here to tell you what nobody else will tell you. no president, bernie sanders, not anybody else, can do it alone. here is the truth. power of wallthe endless amounts of money military-industrial complex, who -- helped create -- do not pay their fair share of taxes. that is who we are taking on. taking on. simple that is the simple truth. i am not here to tell you, i'm going to do it all. it doesn't work that way. as president, i will not only be commander in chief of the intend to be organizer in chief as well. [applause] sen. sanders: that means i'm prepared to go to kentucky as president. i prepared to come back here to iowa. and to say to the senators and members of congress, tell these people in this state why you think health care is not a human right. [applause] sen. sanders: tell the people of this state why you want to give tax breaks to billionaires and andsocial security, cut social security, medicare, and medicaid. [applause] sen. sanders: and 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 that is what this campaign is about. and it is kind of 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, an energy system, a health care system, a government that represents all of us, not just the 1%. i want to thank all of you for coming out here. we need your help now more than ever. i'm going to be in washington for god knows how long. we need you to take my place,we, give to our speeches, whatever you can do. iowa goes first. you have an unprecedented role you go first.olitics. if we win here in iowa, with your help, i believe we can win here in iowa. i think we are going to win in new hampshire. if we win in new hampshire, we are going to win in nevada. if we win in nevada, we will do very well in south carolina. we will win in california. four years ago, i came to iowa and laid out a series of principles, many of which i talked about tonight. the economic establishment and the political establishment and ideas veryalled my radical. nobody in america will support them. well, the people in iowa did. iowa started the revolution. let's complete the revolution. thank you very much. [applause] [indiscernible] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> everyone get in. >> thank you. >> 123. >> that's good. thank you very much. >> here is a look at our live coverage for tuesday on this he's been a source. at noon, the heritage foundation hears from the former australian prime minister and at three, a forum on recent developments in venezuela. on c-span two, president trump's impeachment trial in the senate formally begins. the senate is coming in at 12:30 p.m. with remarks from majority leader mitch mcconnell and afterward, the senate will recess. the senate will resume consideration of the articles of impeachment with debate expected on rules for the trial. when the senate impeachment trial is on, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell plans to offer a resolution that would give house managers and president trump legal team 24 hours each to present their arguments over two days. senators- after that, will have 16 hours to ask questions before hearing an additional four hours of arguments, equally divided between house managers and the president lawyers. o whether to subpoena witnesses and documents. senators would then have time to vote on the motion as well as a possible motion to dismiss the entire case. impeachment trial live on c-span two, online at www.c-span.org or listen live on the free c-span radio app. the washington post, talking, talks about the senate impeachment trial.
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