live coverage begins at 3:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. democratic presidential candidate bernie sanders is campaigning in iowa ahead of the credit caucuses on february 3. he was joined by congresswoman pramila jayapal, who recently endorsed him. 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] now listen, my iowa brothers and sisters. my sister talked about the suffering going on across this country. there is too much suffering, greed, inequality, racism and sexism and xenophobia. too much trumpism. all of that is expressed through trumpism that has fallen onto 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. [applause] 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 don't know where their children are. >> it ain't right. >> 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 -- to be 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 abot 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. ok? 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. [applause] 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? [applause] 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. and 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 an organizer, dream his "i have a 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 . [applause] the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. think about that. people who are grabbed 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 don't disrupt the system, but the truth is that is not going to address the systemic problems that are in front of us, and we have deep, structural inequities in front of us. structural bold, change because if we don't do 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 that 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 -- and what we do between now and then, the way that we that we buildway 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 have 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. [cheers and applause] and iowa, i am here to tell you wholeheartedly that i believe that choice should be senator bernie sanders! [cheers and applause] now, people have asked me why bernie? why did you make that choice. so let me tell you. really clearly. i spent my life organizing, ok? 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 in seattle, the first major city in the country to do that. [cheers and applause] way back in 2002, i was out in the streets, organizing 50,000 iraq. against the war in [cheers and applause] 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. is buildinganders that movement and organizing people across this country. now, here's the other thing about bernie sanders. he brings an authenticity and a steadfastness. you know, my relationship with him goes back to i was a brand 2015. new state senator in washington state, and i became either the first, or one of the first elected officials to endorse bernie back then. and it was because of his authenticity, his steadfastness, his work over the years to build the movement and to fight for the change we need. back in 1990 three, 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 thinkexemplified what i of what i think of progresses. i'm the cochair of the congressional progressive caucus, 40% of -- 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 of the best, and the most just idea, and then they build the movement to make -- make that idea real. is that right? [cheers and applause] and here's the third reason. bernie brings a clarity of 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 across this country. without bernie sanders, there would be no movement for medicare for all. [cheers and applause] lead cosponser -- lead sponsor of the medicare for all bill in the house, let me tell you this. we have had historic hearings in four 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. [cheers and applause] now, let me tell you that bernie knows that our organizing cannot be limited just for the people who are already engaged, ok? that is called the myth of the likely voter. 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 and democracy. and they come back out and they vote and they rock these caucuses, and it is not just the same people. it is new people, who believe again, that a president is going to stand up for them. that is what bernie sanders is ready to do. [cheers and 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 theoretical. real lives are at stake. we cannot leave a single door unknocked. we cannot make a single contact where we don't make it clear -- make it clear what is before us. we cannot be tranquilized by gradual lists. we cannot -- 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. [cheers and applause] designed and so, let's 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. chained, like progressive foreign policy, and saying no more to the military-industrial complex. [cheers and applause] social like expanding security and taking care of our elders, as they go on in their lives. [cheers and applause] and change like taking on climate change that puts frontline folks a black and brown folks, and the workers that work in the fossil fuel industries, at the front, as we tackle and save our planet andrp both -- our planet our people. our next president must be courageous enough to say what is what is true in fibroid always, not just when it is easy or convenient. our next president must be a leader that reminds us all that there's real power in thinking -- thinking big and building the movement to enact that change. and our next president must be a leader who understands that power is in we the people, and that is why i am here today to ,oyfully, 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] ♪ introduce you to that leader, the next president of the united states of america, senator bernie sanders. [applause] sen. sanders: 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. let me thank senator nina turner. [applause] sen. sanders: 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 young people,ple, working people, people of color, into the political process. getting them to stand up and fight for justice. senator turner, thank you. [cheers and applause] and let me thank jayapal,woman pramila 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. amila, thank you. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: before she was a member of congress, pramila was an immigration lawyer. she was an anti-war activist, and is a member -- and as a member of the congress, she has introduced our companion legislation for medicare for all in the house. much.a, thank you so [cheers and applause] as all of you know, this mic is falling. [laughter] sen. sanders: the message of our campaign, which is a very "us,und message, is called not me." and with that message means, and what senator turner and congresswoman jaya paul is yapal isabout -- jai talking about is if you look at american history real change never takes place from the top on down. always from the bottom on up. [applause] sen. sanders: new no, it is never a president who wakes up in the middle of the night and says, oh, i got a great idea. women have -- women should have the right to vote. or i have a brilliant idea. i think it is only right that gay people should be able to get married. that is not the way history works. that is not the way change takes place. and now, more than ever, we need a mass movement of working people. and latino,ite 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] sen. sanders: 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, i'm going back to d.c., and tomorrow, i will be in an impeachment trial. how long it lasts, i honestly don't know. so i will not be able to be back iowa as much as i would like. we had originally planned a number of town meetings rallies all over the state. we are going to do the best we can. we have great surrogates. we have volunteers knocking on doors. [cheers and applause] you veryers: and thank much, volunteers. you have been knocking on a lot of doors. [cheers and applause] as a matter of fact, you have knocked on hundreds of thousands of doors . [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: so, ironically, the odds on me is becoming very much of a reality. in the last two weeks of this campaign because i'm 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. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: and that means talking to as many of your family -- of your friends, family, and coworkers, making sure they all come out two weeks from tonight. the second point that i would like to make is that there is a lot of appropriate discussion about electability. you've 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. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: we agree. , and no matter what your political views may be. i do understand that not everybody in iowa agree with everyone 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 it is appropriate that we have somebody in the white house, who is a pathological liar. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: you know? you want to be able to turn on the tv with your kids, and not enter russia turn off the television because of absurd remarks that 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 xenophobe, and a religious bigot. that is not the temperament of somebody we need in the white house. [applause] so, i happen to believe there are other good candidates out there. you know, 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] sen. sanders: but then that we will be united in doing everything possible to defeat donald trump. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: 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. that's 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. [cheers and applause] so, i would hope the people of iowa and the people of america ask themselves, which campaign is the campaign of energy and excitement? [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: which is the campaign that is reaching out to working-class people, many of whom are disillusioned with the oftencal process, and too , do not abode? [cheers and applause] todayanders: young people , and this is very good news, are the most progressive generation in the history of the united states of america. [cheers and applause] 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? [cheers and applause] which campaign has already won the support, not only of the sunrise movement -- [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: but of peoples people's action, of other grassroots organizations, who represent millions of people? our campaign has. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: 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. that's the way it was not so many years ago. we have changed the rules of the game. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: we are not here to represent the political establishment, or the economic establishment of america. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: we are here to represent the working class of america. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: and one reason, are bestn that we suited, best prepared to win this election, as you can see in terms of how we raise our campaign funds. you have got candidates out there who have raised a lot of money from many, many billionaires. well, we do it differently. we have raised, received over 5 overon contributions from 1.3 million americans, averaging $18.50. no campaign, no campaign -- [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: no campaign in american history has done that at this point in an election. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: so, the reason that we are going to beat 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. our support comes from the working-class of this country, and that is something that trump will never be able to defeat. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: today, we celebrate the birthday of one of the great leaders in american history, dr. martin luther king -- king, jr. and i will date myself a little bit by telling you that when dr. king gave his famous "i have a dream" speech, i was actually there. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: and dr. king and his vision has always been an inspiration to me. one of the motivating political forces in my life. now, sometimes, the media kinda 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 buter and a great orator, , politicaleat revolutionary. [applause] sen. sanders: 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 economic took on the establishment. he took on the military industrial complex. at great personal sacrifice. he said, you know what? the three, major evils in american society are racism,. ism, and withy is great courage, he stood up and oppose the war in vietnam. and he said at that time, a lesson that is relevant today, why are we spending huge amounts of money fighting oars when people in america are sleeping out on the streets? [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: so, in the spirit of dr. king, in the spirit of dr. king, was this campaign is about, what makes us different than other campaigns, is that we are not here just to defeat donald trump. but of course, that is our first goal, but we are here to transform the united states of america, and create an economy and a government that works for all of us, not just the 1%. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: and that is what the political revolution is. it says that we need millions of people to step up to the plate, to stand up and fight for justice. so, what is our program about? what does it mean? it means or a start in america, the wealthiest country in the history of the world, we will in the grotesque disparity existsinequality that today. we will not accept three people only more wealth than the bottom half of american society. [cheers and applause] we will not accept the top 1% owning more wealth than the bottom 92%. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: i had been all over this great state, and i have talked to workers here in iowa. i remember a woman right here in des moines. kids,s raising three making $10.25 per hour at a fast food place. you know what? you cannot raise a family on $10.25 an hour. so what we believe is, in america, if you work 40 hours a week, you should not be living in poverty. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: that is not a radical idea. and that means that we are going to raise the federal minimum --e to at least $15 per hour $15 an hour. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: it means that we are going to do away with the absurdity of women making $.79 on the dollar compared to men. damnn deserve the whole dollar! [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: it means that we are going to make it easier for workers to join unions and engage in collective bargaining. [cheers and applause] means that weit are going to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure. in ourds and our bridges water systems, and our wastewater clients -- and our wastewater plants. and we will build tens of millions in affordable housing. and when we do that, when we rebuild our printer structure -- when we rebuild our infrastructure, we will put millions of workers into jobs that will pay them good, union wages. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: and when we talk about creating a government of the working-class, for the working-class, by the working-class, it means we will fundamentally change the way we do education in america. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: we are going to , affordable,lity universal childcare in america. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: ok. [applause] [chanting, bernie, bernie, bernie, bernie, bernie, bernie, bernie] sen. sanders: there we go. thank you. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: and when we talk about education, i want to just say these -- i want to just say this because what our campaign urges people to do is to think outside of the box. look at the world we exist in in a different way than congress does or the media does. and ask yourself, in terms of education, everybody here knows, there is no debate that to make it into the middle-class today, by and large -- >> bernie, bernie, bernie, , bernie!ernie, burning 100 years ago, people thought for public education -- fought for public education. we have a changing world economy and changing technology. when we talk about education, that must mean free tuition in public colleges and universities throughout this country. [cheers and applause] so if anybody thinks -- so, does anybody think that is a radical idea >> no! ? >> no! ? >> no! sen. sanders: and when we talk about education, we are also talking about the absurdity of millions of people in this country, being in financial distress because they went to college. so, if we could bailout the crooks on wall street, if we could give $1 trillion in tax breaks to the top 1% and large corporations, do you know what? -- do you know what a government that represents the people can do? we can cancel all student debt in america. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: and we do that with a modest tax on wall street speculation. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: 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. pride,nt to say with that i am so excited that i am going to become a teacher, and influence the lives of thousands of young people. [cheers and applause] that, weers: and to do must make sure that all teachers $60,000ca earn at least a year. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: now, there is an issue that i have been talking about my entire adult life. and that issue is a profound belief that health care is a human right. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: now in america, we perspending twice as much as anyone else on health care as any other country. we are ending up with 87 million americans who are uninsured or underinsured. that ain't right. we are ending up with 30,000 year becauseeach they don't get to a doctor when they should. now, i want you to hear this as well. our system today, despite spending twice as much per capita as people any other country, 500,000 people go bankrupt as a result of medically-related deaths. think about this. people who come down with cancer, they are struggling for their lives, through no fault of their own, dealing with cancer, heart disease, alzheimer's, 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 is not acceptable, together, we are going to end that absurdity. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: now, here is the simple truth. some of you are saying, how was it that we are the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care for our people? how do we pay the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs? how does it happen? and 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. for over 100 years, from teddy 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 you will finally pass a medicare for all single-payer system. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: and what that means is no more premiums, no more copayments, no more deductibles, no more out-of-pocket expenses, no more than $200 a year for prescription drugs. and we will expand medicare to include dental care, hearing aids, eyeglasses, and home health care. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: and because we in, we end the corruption the pharmaceutical industry, where in some cases, we paid 10 times more for the same medicine end in canada, because we profiteering of the health care industry that made $100 billion in profits last year. because we end the administrative nightmare of a system in which thousands of different, private health insurance plans exist. 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. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: and i gotta tell you something. something just happened today, which is really monumental in this whole struggle. from ella, who i mentioned -- pramila, who i just mentioned. today, i'm am happy detailed that the american college of physicians, representing -- 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 that we have the support of the national nurses united. that is the largest nurses union in america. and what the nurses understand 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 industry about what kind of medicine and therapy they can prescribe to their patients. they are sick and tired of seeing people walk into their office, much sicker than they should be because they did not have any health insurance and cannot afford to go to the doctor. so what the doctors and nurses are saying, let us practice the medicine we were trained to do -- practice the medicine we were trained to do. health care is a right. go to the doctor when you need to, regardless of your income. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: donald trump embarrasses us every day. it is hard to keep track of what his latest tweet was. probably about me. but anyway. absurd area where his policies impact, not only us as americans, but the entire world is his ignorance in terms of the crisis of climate change. so let me lay it on the line. it is kind of frightening stuff. scientists,bout is for a long time told us that climate change is real, that it is caused by human activity that is already doing a lot of damage. this is what they are now saying. nowthe scientist are saying, sorry, we underestimated the degree and the severity and the speed in which climate change is ravaging this country and our planet. polar ice caps are melting at a 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 may be seven or eight degrees fahrenheit warmer than it is. and what that is if we do not address this existential crisis is that cities in america, like miami, new orleans, charlston, new york city, and many others, will be partially and/or may be substantially underwater by the end of the century. that means that countries like bangladesh and parts of china will be significantly underwater. it means that we will see increased droughts, which means that farmers here in iowa will 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 the horror taking place in australia, where that consonant is burning. -- where that consonant is ntinent is burning and what happened in california with unprecedented levels of force fighters. if we don't get a handle on this, that is the future of this world. if we talk about the acidification and warming of the ocean, we're 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, underwater. and 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, you're talking about bacteria thriving in warm weather, disease spreading. you're talking about climate change, the united nations tells aboutwhen you are talking climate change, 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. and when millions of people migrate, you will have an extraordinary level of international tension and more and more war. that is what we face. well, as president, we are not going to ignore this issue. we are going to deal with it forcibly. and i am proud to tell you that we have introduced the most sweeping and comprehensive climate change proposal ever introduced by any candidate for federal office. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: this proposal is based on the outline of the green new deal. willhat it says, that we no longer allow the fossil fuel industry to put their short-term profits ahead of the future of our planet. [cheers and applause] and what it says is that we can good, up to 20 million, paying jobs, transforming our energy system away from fossil fuel to energy efficiency and sustainable energies. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: now, the difficulty here. i am trying to be honest with you. this is a really serious, serious threat. and the difficulty here is is that even if we in the united states did the right thing and transformed our own energy system, took on the fossil fuel industry here, that still would not be enough. do, we need and what i will if elected president, is reach out to people all over the world -- in china, russia, indian that india, pakistan, brazil, all over the world because we are all in this together, and to make the case that may, just maybe, status spending $1.8 trillion a year on weapons of destruction, designed to kill each other, maybe we pool our resources, come together and -- findr common evening our common enemy, which is climate change. [cheers and applause] -- fight our common enemy, which is climate change! [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: this is more than an environmental issue, this is a moral issue. and the issue is, will we leave our children and our grandchildren, and future generations, a planet that is habitable, or will we not? and i don't want anybody here 30 years from now, 50 years from now, to be talking to your grandson or your granddaughter, and answering the question, " grandma, grandpa, why did you do something?" "why didn't you listen to the science?" well, i am here tonight to tell you that we will listen to the scientists and we will act accordingly. [cheers and applause] when we talk about anrogressive agenda and agenda based on justice, it is imperative that we look at a broken and racist criminal justice system. again, i want you to think outside of the box. and if you think outside of the bouts, you will have to ask yourself, how does it happen that in the richest country on earth, we have more people in jail disproportionately, , andan-american and latino native american, more people in jail more than any country on earth. china is four times our population. we have more people in jail than them. what we will do as an administration is re-think the entire criminal justice system. and what that means is, we will invest in our young people in jobs and in education, rather than investing in more jails and incarceration. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: second of all, right now, tonight, there are 400,000 people in jail who have not been convicted of anything. did you know that? they were arrested, they were charged, but they have not been convicted. why are they in jail? they cannot afford bail. they are arrested, may they are guilty, maybe they are not. but they cannot afford the money they need to get out of jail. we, in the year of 2020 don't need debtor prisons in america. [cheers and applause] so, we are going to end the cash bail system. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: we are going to end private prisons and detention centers. [cheers and applause] corporations should not be making money by locking up fellow americans. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: and here is something else we are going to do. we are going to end the so-called war on drugs. [cheers and applause] we are going to legalize marijuana in every state of the union. [cheers and applause] here is ars: question. thatany people do you know has been arrested for the position of marijuana? raise your hand, please. ok. we are going to explain -- we are going to expunge the record of those who were arrested for possession of marijuana. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: and when we talk about broken systems in america, we are talking about a very broke in and racist emigration system. office, wet day in will end the demonization of the undocumented in this country. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: on our first day of office, we will undo and repeal all of the racist emigration executive orders that donald trump promulgated. [cheers and applause] 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 their mothers or throw children in jail. [cheers and applause] and mosters: importantly -- >> your mic. [laughter] and mosters: importantly, i believe we can ,stablish and pass a bipartisan reformensive immigration of legislation. [applause] which will lead toward eighth have towards citizenship for all of the undocumented. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: no matter how divided our nation may be, there is an issue that i think brings everybody together. and that is our horror and turning on the tv and hearing about another horrible mass shooting. handsople put up their and it is hard to understand. -- 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. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: and that means that universal -- and that means universal background checks. that means ending the gun show loophole. [cheers and applause] and what the american people have now finally rules byd, whether iowa or vermont or in urban areas like chicago and new york is that we must end the distribution and sale of assault weapons in america. [cheers and applause] there is a u.s. senator from vermont, and i am in the senate office, hearing my colleagues give speeches. not one of the most exciting things to do in the world. very often, i hear from my republican colleagues who are conservative and they say, we believe in small government and getting the government off the backs of the american people. so-calledhose 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. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: i promise to you is that i will never nominate anyone to the u.s. supreme court or the federal courts who is not wade.ro-roe v. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: last point that i want to make. if the microphone allows me. [laughter] sen. sanders: we are living in unprecedented times. massive levels of income and wealth inequality. a president, who is trying to .ndermine american democracy the threat of climate change. a health care system, which is dysfunctional. the fact that over the last 45 years, the average worker in america has not seen a nickel increase in his or her wages while the very rich kids richer. that is the world we live in. asking iscampaign is i am here do ask you to help me win the democratic nomination and to defeat the worst president in american history. but i am asking more. i am here to tell you when no other presidential candidate will tell you. is that no president, not bernie sanders or anybody else, can do it alone. because here is the truth. you don't see the truth on tv. they are worried about gossip and this or that and not worried about this one, and that is we have a power structure in america. and i am talking about the power of wall street, who have endless, endless amounts of money, six major banks have assets of over $10 trillion. six banks. i'm talking about the insurance companies, i'm talking about the drug companies, i'm talking about the fossil fuel industry. i'm talking about the military-industrial complex, who has helped grady situation that we are now spending more on the military than the next 10 nations combined. i'm talking about the prison industrial complex. i'm talking about the 1%, who have fought to make sure that they do not pay their fair share of taxes. that is a we are taking on. that is the simple truth. and i am not here to tell you, hey, vote for me and i will do it all. it doesn't work that way. the way it works is that millions of people are going to andd up, and a president -- as president, i will not only be commander-in-chief of the military, but i intend to be organizer in chief as well. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: and that means i am prepared to go to kentucky last president. i am prepared to come back here to iowa and say to the senators and members of congress, hey, tell people in this state why you think health care is not a human right. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: tell the people of this state why you want to give to billionaires and cut social security and medicare and medicaid. [applause] and i think that when you have a president who is willing to confront those senators who continue to represent the rich and the powerful and ignore the needs of working families, when you have a president who will go around the country, you know what, the american people will stand up and tell the senators, do the right thing. represent us, not your campaign contributors. [applause] that is what this campaign is about. and it is kind of unprecedented. candidates have come and gone for years. they tried to win elections. that is fine. we are trying to an election, but we are trying to do something more, and that is to build a movement of people who are prepared to fight so that finally we have an economy and an energy system, a health care system, a government that represents all of us. not just the 1%. [cheers and applause] so i want to thank all of you for coming out here. we need your help now more than ever. i will be stuck in washington for god knows how long. so we need you to take my place, give to our speeches, like i do, you know. [laughter] do whatever you do. let's make sure -- iowa goes first. you have an unprecedented role in american politics. you go first. if we win in iowa, with your help, i believe we can win here in iowa. i believe we can win in new hampshire. if we win in new hampshire, we will win in nevada, then south carolina, then california. [cheers and applause] four years ago i came to des moines, came to iowa, and i laid out a series of principles, many of which i have talked about tonight. and the economic establishment and the political establishment in the media establishment -- those ideas are very radical, nobody in america will support them. the people in iowa did. iowa started the revolution. in iowa, let us complete the revolution. thank you all very much! [cheers and applause] [raucous applause] >> thank you very much. 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