>> what other elected officials do we have? raise your hand. sen. mathis: city council people, thank you so much. look what i found. look what i found. what does this say? [applause] sen. mathis: yes. and we also want to say that catherine chris, our number one person who makes sure that every caucus site was ready for disability and access is here today, and she has endorsed amy klobuchar. [cheers] [applause] sen. mathis: i am senator liz mathis. i appreciate you being here. boy has it been a long road. hasn't it? oh my gosh. and we have more to go. we are the first state. imagine how long this road is going to be for amy. long after monday, we need to keep supporting her in different ways. we need to call every cousin and relative in every state you have relatives out-of-state and tell them to support amy. call friends. call business associates. anybody that you know who will support her as she moves along from monday. and we know she is moving along, from monday, right? [cheers] [applause] sen. mathis: all right. all right. so yesterday, i posted on facebook, and i said we can argue on social media all we want. but the thing is, you got to show up. right? ok. after me. you got to show up. you got to show up. you got to show up. all right. ok. we got it. is everybody going to show up? ok. ok. and i see so many green buttons out here, so many stickers. you will be caucusing for amy, right? ok. those in the crowd that have not decided, and you are here to listen, you are in for a treat, because she is very impressive. that is why molly and i decided that we were going to endorse amy early on, because she is so talented. she is so smart. she can really work it in a lot of different counties. in minneapolis, she has done a great job there, which are next our next guest is going to talk about. but overall, she can beat trump, and she can move the country forward. those are the two things we are looking for in a candidate, right? she can beat the opponent and she can move the country forward. and we know that because of her experience. because of her experience in the u.s. senate and all the bills that she has led. over 100 bills. that is tough. really hard to do. she has done it. we are proud she has done it. not only has she represented minneapolis and minnesota, she has represented iowa and the rest of the country, when she makes those decisions. so we are very proud of her. ok. up next, we have a treat. we have the lieutenant governor of minnesota, peggy flanagan. please help me give her a warm welcome. [cheers] [applause] lt. gov. flanagan: well, hello there. i am your neighbor to the north. i am the lieutenant governor of the great state of minnesota, and i am here to tell you what i know about amy. but i also want to tell you about how i got here. because you know it is every little girl's dream to grow up to be the second most powerful person in the state, right? [laughter] there is notagan: there is not a long job description for the lieutenant governor other than "be ready!" [laughter] lt. gov. flanagan: but that is why i am here. i came into this work in an interesting way. when i say "interesting," in minnesota, we say interesting and it means different things. i do not know if that is how it happens in iowa. "oh, that's interesting." [laughter] lt. gov. flanagan: but i certainly did not live my life thinking that i was going to be in electoral politics. i grew up the child of a single mom. we relied on our community. and, frankly, on people investing in us. i moved to the community of st. louis park using a section 8 housing voucher when i was a baby, and we relied on programs like medicaid, childcare assistance programs, which helped lift my family out of poverty. now i get to give back every single day in my role as lieutenant governor and through public service. frankly, i think it is incredibly important that we see the humanity, the real people behind the policies and programs that we vote on every single day. that is one of the things i love about senator klobuchar. she is able to see real people. she knows what is at stake. i cannot tell you how refreshing it is to spend time with amy when we hear everything coming that is coming out of the white house. i want someone who cares about more than themselves. i want someone who can go -- yeah. [applause] lt. gov. flanagan: i want someone who can go to the balcony, who can see the big picture, and be really strategic and know how it will impact folks on the frontlines and on the ground. that is our senator. i've known the senator for a while. we call her amy in minnesota. we call her amy. she is ours. she is a senator next door -- . maybe you have heard that. that is truly how we feel. in iowa, i love that you all get to know each candidate intimately. they probably have been at your house, right? and i am a little jealous, but i have to tell you that we have the same kind of experience every day with amy klobuchar. we know her. what we know is that she is incredibly strategic, thoughtful, honest. because, boy, we could use a little bit more of that right now. [applause] [cheers] lt. gov. flanagan: and she is the hardest working person in washington. she works incredibly hard. and she has a track record to show for it. she gets things done. and she also wins. a lot. all she does is win. and frankly, everyone who has run against her has now retired from politics. [cheers] [applause] lt. gov. flanagan: and i certainly would like if donald trump would retire from politics. [cheers] [applause] lt. gov. flanagan: and senator klobuchar has a track record to help him do just that. the other reason why i am standing here is i am a mom of a seven-year-old little girl, a little ojibway kiddo. whenever amy comes on the tv, she goes, "that is my friend amy!" and i love it. i love that she can see herself in the leadership of the women on tv. right? what happens when donald trump comes on the television is we have to turn down the volume or turn it off completely. because she knows that he is a bully. she knows that he says things about the people who belong and those who do not and who is in and who is out and, frankly, these are the things that she knows i am trying to teach her are not the way we behave if we are leaders and good friends. so i cannot wait. i cannot wait for the day we get to turn on the television, when we get to watch president klobuchar get sworn into office. be sworn into office. [cheers] [applause] lt. gov. flanagan: and my daughter can say "there is my friend amy," and i can do that, too. and she, along with other little girls all across this country, will see a leader who believes in them, who has the lived experience necessary to ensure that everyone is in, no one is out, that folks feel safe and welcomed and included in our country. and it is time. it is time. i know people are feeling some feelings about the signs that they see popping up. because we know that you are moments away from hearing from the person that i came down -- and i know, i am from minnesota so sometimes we have that iowa-minnesota rivalry -- not lt. gov. flanagan: we are coming together across borders, across lines of difference, because we all want a country where every child is valued. where every child is valued. we feel safe, welcome, and included. i know that senator klobuchar is a person to do that. this is my favorite part of what i get to do here. so please, everyone, please iowans, please welcome the next president of the united states of america, amy klobuchar. [cheers] [applause] ♪ [cheers] [applause] ♪ sen. klobuchar: unbelievable. wow. this is something. thank you, cedar rapids. thank this is my husband, john. and our daughter, abigail. who has gotten really famous lately. she was on the front page of the "l.a. times." there you are. and has been doing a great job with our hotdish parties across the state that somehow ended up on "saturday night live" last night. [laughter] sen. klobuchar: anyway, thank you. thank you to peggy flanagan, the amazing lieutenant governor of minnesota who, by the way, is the highest ranking native american elected to an executive office in the entire country. [cheers] sen. klobuchar: and i am really excited to have her here and her leadership. of course, liz, thank you so much. thank you for being in all of my ads. you're great. molly -- where's molly? right over here. thank you. thank you, molly. great legislator. rob? there he is back there, tall guy in the back. thank you. and i also want to mention -- who has been helping me from the very beginning. right over there. thank you. and then i am so honored to have gotten the endorsement of the chair of the iowa democratic party disability caucus. that would be catherine chris. thank you so much. that means a lot. a really important issue to me at home. i will tell you why in a little bit. thank you very much. and of course our great iowa city councilmember. i was excited to get the endorsement of the iowa city newspaper, "the citizen's press," recently. thank you for that. then, our great team, who is somewhere in the corners -- rachel and kira and eli. thank you so much. all right. i'm going to give you that. we have been on this incredible journey this weekend, somehow starting in the quad cities, then going to sioux city, then going to cedar falls, then going to des moines, then beaver dale, then ending up here in cedar rapids. that is just the beginning. i would call it the super bowl of campaigns, so to say. and for me, i am literally putting in two days what i thought i was going to be doing in about 10 days. i first want to thank you for having my back, for being willing to show up here on 11:00 on a sunday on the most warm day we have had all winter. so warm we could keep the doors open, practically. thank you for doing that. because i think you understand that i have a constitutional duty to do my job. and that we should see it as a plus and a positive that i am actually in the arena. and that we are searching for the truth. and when i go back there -- i will be back there for a period of time this week. i am going to be able to look at my colleagues and say this truth is not going to come out in five years. no. it is not going to come out in five months. it is going to come out in five days or five weeks. that is what is going on here. when you look at the revelations of the last week that we have heard from john bolton, someone who wants to testify, who was the national security adviser to the president of the united states, whose stories are now backed up and bolstered by the career diplomatic people, by the career military people in this country. so that is why it is so important that we get to the truth, that we know what actually happened. and i do not believe the american people are going to tolerate the fact that this administration has been hiding the facts, nor do i think they will tolerate that we look at the president like they do and gave him a crown and a scepter and declare him king. because, in america -- in america, the president is not king. the law is king. [cheers] [applause] sen. klobuchar: so i had never envisioned i would be here these last 10 days. but what is so unique about iowa is you can see beyond that and look at a candidate and decide who is best to lead a ticket. let me make my case to you. first of all, i think we all know that this is an economic check on this president. it is an economic check because we have people out there who cannot afford their prescription drugs, that are not able to access the help they like to send their kids to college, that just are not sharing in the prosperity of this country. we have a president that literally went down to mar-a-lago after he signed that trump tax bill into law and looked at all his friends and said "you just got a lot richer." were any of you in that room? [laughter] sen. klobuchar: i just wanted to make sure, because i did not want to sen. klobuchar: embarrass anyon. if you were, you can tell us about how it was like. i can tell you this when i am , president, i want to come to towns like cedar rapids and say i delivered you childcare across this state. not just childcare. i want to help with k-12, that i finally did the investment in infrastructure that we need across the state. that we did something about mental health and addiction, that we had people's backs. that is what i want to do. so when we look at this election, i want us to remember that economic check. we know how important that is. but i also think we know, especially in a state like this, that there are tons of people out there, including in the 31 counties in iowa that voted for barack obama, some by sizable margins, and then turned and voted for donald trump. we know there are people out there that stayed home in the 2016 election. we know there are people who voted for trump. we know there are people who voted for other candidates. and they are watching all of this right now. and especially in this state, you understand how critical they are in a general election. when they watch the debates, they may not agree with every single thing we say on the debate stage. i do not agree with everything that is said on the debate stage. but what they do agree on is this, and that is that the heart of the united states of america, the heart of our country, is so much bigger than the heart of the guy in the white house. they know that. [cheers] [applause] sen. klobuchar: and when you think about the people who you will talk to, because you will be the ambassadors for this election, not just the primary or the general election -- i think about people like the rancher in minnesota who took me on a tour of his cattle ranch on his atv and we were dodging in and out of these cows, and i thought "what a way to die." this is not what i want to do. then i went into his house, and he said, "we voted for donald trump." i said, "what do you mean, the ranchers, your family?" he said, "no, i mean me. i just do not like to talk about myself, so i said 'we.'" we voted for him, because we were really mad about health care. then we saw him in front of the wall. and i said the wall was not built. he said, no, i mean the cia wall. he remembered the day after the inauguration that donald trump had given an incredibly partisan speech in front of this wall, this sacred wall covered in stars of deceased cia agents who died in the line of duty. anonymous stars. they don't have their names on them. that is a place he chose to stand and give this partisan speech about the size of his crowd. this guy remembered that. then he said -- months go by, and that was it. the boy scout speech. he said that was the last straw , for me. there was this big boy scout jamboree. i talked to the guy about being a boy scout, because my husband over there was a boy scout. john grew up in mankato. yes, that is a very good fact. he is one of six boys. his parents had four boys and wanted a girl, so his mom got pregnant again and had identical twin boys. [laughter] sen. klobuchar: and they lived in a trailer home with triple bunk beds. they were really active in scouts, so much so that five of the six of them became eagle scouts. and i never want to say which one did not make it, because i don't want to embarrass my husband. [laughter] sen. klobuchar: so i told this guy that story, he talked about scouting. then he said, as he stood there, looking at that donald trump on tv, he said that is when he knew it was wrong. he said you never give a political, partisan speech like that in front of a group of young people. a tear comes down his eyes, and he said, "that is when i knew that was not patriotic of me." he went like this. it was not patriotic. or i think about the people in a line in conway, new hampshire. they were all very happy voters and had stickers on. "i'm a supreme court voter," "i'm a climate change voter," "i'm a reproductive rights voter," "i'm a supreme court ." a guy comes by and does not have a sticker on, and i said, "you do not have a sticker on." he leaned over and said, "that is because i am a trump voter." he said, "i do not want them to know. these are my neighbors. they do not know. do not say anything. but i am not doing it again." [applause] sen. klobuchar: i want us to remember this. if you think these are just my stories i think you all know , stories like this. you know about people having second thoughts that are standing back. you see it in places like louisiana, where we just reelected a democratic governor. in kentucky, where we elected a democratic governor and mitch mcconnell now has a democratic governor. you know what those two states have in common, besides being redder than iowa? and by the way, if we can win in those states, do not tell me we cannot win the u.s. senate race in the state of iowa. of course we can win that. of course we can. but the other thing those two states have in common is the night before the election, someone went down there and campaigned against the democratic governor candidates. that is right. donald trump. the question is, where can we send him next? [laughter] sen. klobuchar: that is that story. or you look over in kansas, where laura kelly is now the governor, and she beat kris kobach. or gretchen witmer, who will be giving the response to the president's state of the union, the governor of michigan. you see things all over the country, including house races where people came back after the , 2016 election. but it was not just our fired up democratic base, which is so key to those victories. it was also independents and moderate republicans. so my first piece of profound advice from this whole thing is we better not screw this up. because we have people who want that want to come with us. we need a candidate who is going to bring them with us instead of shutting them out. you do that by remembering that people are going to have differences on these issues. by the fact we want a candidate who can win in rural and suburban areas. and you remember this is not just an economic check for everyone. it is also a decency check. it is a patriotism check. it is this idea that brings people with us when they see a president that stands next to a ruthless dictator, vladimir putin, and when the reporter asks what about russia's interference in our elections, a foreign country's interference an american elections, our in american elections, our president looks at vladimir putin and makes a joke about it. you think about it. hundreds of thousands of americans have lost their lives on the battlefield. that is what world war ii was about. that is why those five brothers in waterloo lost their lives. they were standing up for democracy. you think of those four little girls at the height of the civil rights movement in that church in alabama. they lost their lives, innocence, simply because they were trying to be part of the democracy, and people pushed them out of it. so many of our best moments i history havey's been about our democracy. so many of our worst moments have been about our democracy and our constitution. but this president, on the world stage, he turns and makes a joke about it. it is a decency check. it is what peggy flanagan was talking about, about how people feel when they see this president talking on tv. i always think about the story about a young man from primghar, iowa, who grew up in a family of immigrants, humble beginnings, went on to go to grinnell, then got the highest job in the army for a lawyer, counsel for the army. his name was joseph welch. and during the height of the mccarthy hearings, when senator mccarthy was going after people because of their political beliefs, because of their supposed political beliefs, getting them blacklisted so they could not work, then took it out to the limelight with the hearings, and people were afraid to stand up to him, because they thought they would lose their job or someone in their family would use their job, you know who stood up? joseph welch of iowa. joseph welch of iowa. he was the one who looked mccarthy in the eyes and said, "sir, have you no sense of decency? at long last, have you no sense of decency?" that is this moment. [applause] that is this moment for our country. that is this moment. when you think about what it is going to bring in so many people beyond fired up days, that is what it is. what else do we know? we know that when you look at, in the middle of the country, when you look at the middle of the country, and i went on this blue wall tour of states we lost in 2016, like pennsylvania and michigan and iowa and minnesota, which we barely won, i came up with this idea. we are going to build a beautiful blue wall around the states, and we are going to make donald trump pay for it. [cheers] [applause] the other thing that we have to remember is how people think about trump. yes, people think of him that he is a bully, a racist. but if you just think like that, you miss an important ingredient. that is, when things go wrong for them, when they have to have trouble paying the rent or they cannot afford insulin because this president has not done anything about it. or when they cannot send their kid to the college they want to send their kid to, they cannot just whine about it like this guy. they have to get a loan or an extra job. then they look at him, and he has the best job in the world. he is living in that fancy house. in the course of his career, he got $400 million from his dad. by the way, i cannot wait to stand across from him in the debate stage and make that argument. i live in the midwest. with your trade wars and the farm bankruptcies and what you did with the big waivers to oil companies, those people are not poker chips in a bankrupt casino. they are my friends and they are my neighbors. then you look at our backgrounds. my grandpa worked 1500 feet underground in the mines in northern minnesota. he never graduated from high school. because he had to save money, to be able to try to take care of his nine brothers and sisters. the youngest one had been sent to an orphanage in duluth when his parents died when she was 8-year-old. he promised he would get her, and he got and borrowed a car and went and taught her and brought her back. and he and my grandma helped raise that whole family on an iron ore worker's salary. and the unions -- if not for the unions -- he saved money in a coffee can in the basement of their house to send my dad to a two-year community college.you cannot fit $200 million in a coffee can in a basement, i can tell you right now. but that was our family's trust. that was it, in that coffee can. my mom grew up in milwaukee, wisconsin. she wanted to be a teacher. she moved to minnesota because i had a stronger teacher's union. she taught second grade until she was 70 years old. so i stand before you today as the granddaughter of an iron ore minor, as a daughter of a teacher and newspaperman, as a first woman elected to the u.s. senate from the state of minnesota and a candidate for president of the united states. [applause] [cheers] that is the country of shared dreams. the simple idea that, no matter where you came from or who you know, that you can make it in the united states of america. no matter where you worship, no matter who you love, no matter the color of your skin, you can make it in the united states of america. so when those workers looked at this guy, they do not see themselves. they thought maybe he was going to build things and do all this stuff -- if they do not see themselves. it reminds me of this story -- i've had a lot of time to think in the senate lately. i do not know why. [laughter] i have had to be quiet. [laughter] when i got home, i've been reading books, and i read this book on leadership by doris kearns goodwin. she looks at a number of presidents and talks about the defining quality that united them was his quality of resilience. not how they lead when things were easy or how they handle things in their lives when things were easy, but how they handle things when things were hard. one of the presidents she talks a lot about is franklin delano nor roosevelt. i remember the story about him -- when he died, they put his body on a train. the train went through america, people lined the train tracks out of respect. at one of the places, a reporter stood and saw this guy, a simple guy who had his hat off, and he had his hat across his chest, and he was sobbing. the reporter goes up to the guy and says, "sir, do you know president roosevelt, did you know him?" and the guy says, "no, i did not know president roosevelt. but he knew me. he knew me." [applause] that is a very important quality. empathy. that is empathy. that is the idea of having someone who can actually put themselves in your shoes, that wakes up every morning and puts the interests of this great country and our great population first. instead of the interests of himself. i figure, when you are given opportunity by someone, whether it is in a coffee can or wherever it is, whether a grandparent or parent, whether it is a coworker, that you go into the world not with a sense of entitlement that a sense of obligation. an obligation to lift people up instead of shoving them down. an obligation to bring people with us instead of hoarding it yourself. that is what this election is about. the last thing we know is that if we are going to win in a big way, because we do not want to eke out a victory at 4:00 in the morning -- that would be sweet, if we did that, but i think we know if we did it that way, that state will not be iowa. and i want to win in those hard states across the country. i want to win the u.s. senate seat in arizona. and in colorado. and in the state of iowa. because if we do that, if we win big, then we send mitch mcconnell packing. that is how we do it. [cheers] [applause] that is a national victory. that is a national victory instead of a personal victory. to do that, we need an optimistic economic agenda for this country. that means taking on the challenges right in front of us, like health care. as we look at that -- i know we have had debates about what the best plan is. have any of you watched the debates? all good intention, yes. but i look at it practical. i am progressive and practical. i have passed over 100 bills as the lead democrat in the u.s. senate. i have done that. when i look at this, i start with practicality. the affordable care act, right now, is nearly 10 points more popular than the president of the united states. so i do not think we should be blowing it up. i think we should be building on it. when you come to troubled waters, you build a bridge, not blow it up. that means a public option to bring down the premiums for the people of this country. that means taking on pharmaceutical companies in a big, big way. [applause] something that i've been doing since i got to washington. i lead the bill to unleash the power of 4500 seniors, so they can associate better prices under medicare. just to see the horrid nature of the lobbying and washington. there are two lobbyists for every member of congress. before i got there, they got written into law, a provision that said medicare is banned from negotiating better prices. medicaid can, the v.a. can, but medicare cannot. i have been leading the bills for years. i have over 30 cosponsors to unleash that power and erase that provision from the books. as president, i can get it done. [applause] that is one. number two, bring in less expensive drugs from other countries, like canada. in minnesota, we can see canada from our porch. [laughter] i have lead that bill. it is a bipartisan bill. one time, we did a late-night vote, senator sanders and myself, on that, and we got 14 republican votes. i do not know if they were too tired. but we got 14 votes. next example -- a president can do for herself, which is an amazing fact. you can the literally just get a waiver to bring in less-expensive drugs from other countries. mental health and addiction. imagine having a president willing to come in and talk about those issues in a big way. for me, it is personal. my dad struggled with alcoholism my whole life, growing up. by the time john and i got married, he had three dwi's, and the judge said you have to choose dell or treatment. he chose treatment. in his words, he was pursued by grace, and it changed his life. now he is 91, in assisted living, his aa group still visits him. he has been sober ever since. and in his words -- [applause] in his words, it is hard to get a drink around here anywhere. [laughter] but that was because he had access to treatment. and i truly believe, and i have a plan out there -- you can see it on our website -- that is paid for. right now in iowa, you only have 64 public mental health beds in your entire state. you do not have enough help. i remember the story of a school counselor who had just gotten off work. she said, in one day alone, she had four kids come up to her with thoughts of suicide. just that day. they were all immigrant kids. their parents all worked in the plant, and they were all deathly afraid that their family would be deported and that their lives would be taken out from under them, and they did not know why they should go on. that is bad immigration policy. we know that. it must be fixed. but it is also about making sure we have the resources to help people with their mental health problems. long-term care. that is the elephant in the room. there are so many opportunities for us. we have seniors that want to work. seniors that want to work part-time and want to volunteer -- i said this in a room like this about a month ago, and someone said -- they go we are working, but we want to retire. so there are a lot of different situations as we see aging in our population. to me, that means strong social security and making sure it is solving. it is also looking more innovatively at what we are going to do. when we have seniors who are wanting to help, when we have people my age and younger taking care of their own kids but also wanting to make sure that their aging parents have the best care they can get. it means putting money, which -- and i found a way to pay for this -- putting some money into helping people afford long-term care insurance. my dad's story projected out -- at some point, he got long-term care insurance. that allows him to stay in this house with 15 people where he is happy that i know exactly when that is going to end and we go into his savings, which is not as much as he should have, because he got married three times, but we will let that go. then he goes on medicaid. and catholic eldercare is willing to take him in, because the place he is in now does not take medicaid. our story is actually a better story than so many families. because a lot of people did not get that long-term care insurance. making that easier to afford, helping with long-term care, and realizing all of these policies also applied to people with disabilities. understanding we have to help caregivers, fund i.e.d.a., making it easier for people with disabilities and their families to put money aside and save. long-term care is actually an exciting thing for us to work on. but we are not going to work on it if we keep relitigating the affordable care act. other challenges -- education. i am always teasing my colleagues on the debate stage that they are not thinking big enough. i know you think i would not be the one saying this. i think you cannot have bumper sticker solutions. you have to step back and look at our economy and say how can we make our education system fit our economy? the answer, when you about that? you kind of cut off my line -- you gave away my punch line. i put out this 100 day plan with 137 things you can do without congress that are legal as a president, and one of the things i found out you do not even have to wait 100 days to do but you can do in 100 seconds is fire betsy devos. [cheers] [applause] but more than that, when you look at our economy, part of this is the aging of the population. we will have over one million opening for home health care workers. we have no idea how we are going to fill them. we will have over 100,000 openings for nursing assistants that require one year and two year degrees. we will have over 70,000 openings for electricians. we will not have a shortage of openings for sports marketing degrees -- sorry for anyone who has them. yeah, someone down there. there's always someone. we will not have a shortage of mba's. we will have a shortage of plumbers. we had to figure out how we create incentives or people to go into areas where we know there are job openings. electricians are well-paid. we have to look at that. we also to look at other jobs, like home health care workers, which are not as well-paid. we have to look at increasing those wages and taking some of the money from the trump tax cuts, putting them into things like retirement. that is how i look at the education plan care that means investing a chunks of money into k-12 and preschool. it means making our partnerships free. it means doubling pell grants, so it is easier for kids to go to four-year colleges. that is how i will do this. i look at our education needs and match it with what we need and make it easier to refinance our student loans. other challenges we have -- rural-urban divide. i've devoted my time in the senate to causing that divide. i grew up in the suburbs, not far away from farms. when i got to the senate, my number one asked was a senate agriculture committee. we all know that is about the farm bill, which i have done three now and helped negotiate those, but it is also about understanding that, when it comes to rural areas, it is not one-size-fits-all for education or for health care or for rural broadband. the other piece of this is climate change, which we are seeing now affect states like iowa more and more and more. and, yes, there's horrendous things going on on the coast. wildfires in california. rising sea levels in florida. but there are also things happening right here. those are things like flooding. things like weird weather events. things like making it hard to plan crops. things like my friend, who had me look through her binoculars, and when you look through them, you saw her house near pacific junction near the nebraska border. she says to me, "that is my house." i bought it with my husband. i wanted to retire in this house. i love the way the light comes in the windows. it has been standing there nearly 100 years." i said, "where's the kitchen?" she says, "the whole first floor is underwater." and i said, "where's the river?" because this water is flowing by. i am thinking to my head you have a house next to the river. she says, "that is the road." the river is two and a half miles away. it has never come this close before. that is climate change in the state of iowa. so the answers are right in front of us. one, get us back into the international, change agreement on day one. [applause] two, bring back those clean power rules, the gas mileage standards, introduce sweeping legislation. when we do that, we have to make sure the money that comes in by putting a tax on carbon or doing a renewable electricity standard nationwide, that that money goes back to people. we have to make it airtight for heating bills, cooling, for people who will see changes in their jobs. by the way, iowa can be a big fisher here because of the fact that you are the saudi arabia of wind -- that is what they say. they actually say that in every midwestern state but we will not. we will not tell them that. but you have a great potential, just like you did when norman portlock decided to develop new technologies and ideas to feed the world. there is great research here. there is the part ag can play, like cover crops that we can expand on. we should see this as an exciting opportunity, but we need a president who gets how it affects the midwest. i remember, growing up, when the mines would close down -- one time, my dad and i were driving out of duluth, and they had a big billboard that said, "last one to leave, turn the lights off." i look at this problem not just with my head but with my heart. we have to make sure that how we do this works for everyone. i can promise you can do this. very last thing i will say is i need your help. because i know i can build a coalition to win. i have done it time and time again. i've won every race, every place, every time. i've won -- [applause] i have won in the reddest of districts, the one bordering iowa, right? the one bordering the districts which will soon be j.d.'s. i've won in the district bordering south dakota and north dakota. i have won in michele bachmann's district. never lost it because i go not just where it is comfortable but where it is uncomfortable. because i have people's backs. because i listen to them and get things done. because i bring them with me instead of shutting them out. i think we should put someone at the top of the ticket that actually has the receipts. it is one thing to talk about winning in rural areas and leading a ticket and bringing people with, it is another thing to have actually done it. i think we need to put someone in front in charge of this ticket that has the nimbleness on the debate stage, which you have seen, i hope, in the debates, to be tough enough and quick enough to take on donald trump. i think we should put someone on the ticket that has a track record of actually passing bills and getting things done and has practical policy solutions that are big, bold plans but are not pipedreams. the difference between a plan and a pipe dream is a plan means you can actually bring people with you. you know how you're going to pay for it. you know how you're going to get it done. what i need to do this, though, is i need you. i was gone the last 10 days, something i never expected to happen. i do a lot of grassroots politicking. you will not see one of my ads in the super bowl tonight -- maybe if the vikings were playing. [laughter] instead, i've been doing this the hard way. i've been punching way above my weight. there were certain pendants that predicted, when i started that speech in the middle of the mississippi river in a blizzard, that i would not make it to the end of the speech. now, here i am, nearly a year later -- [cheers] [applause] here i am, one of the top five candidates in this race. and i've done it with a lot less money than a lot of my opponents and a lot less name identification, having not run for president before, like several of them had. look at our numbers, given the money we have been spending. we are frugal. you want that in a president. [applause] yesterday, we just ended our biggest fundraising month ever in this campaign, because we are gaining steam. two polls this last week, we were up to number three in iowa, one at 13%. we are gaining speed. the endorsement of the quad city newspaper -- i love that. i got in, one day, the endorsement of the "new york times" and the "quad city times." i was able to say one of the paper has one city, the other has a four, maybe five, cities. so that is momentum. and as i head to new hampshire after our great iowa caucuses, i will go there knowing i have the endorsement of every major newspaper so far endorsed in the state of new hampshire, including the biggest one. [cheers] [applause] we are ready to win, but to do this, we need you. i picked the color green because it was the color of one of my political mentors. he tragically died in a plane crash. that was where he took a brave vote against the war in iraq and also the year he had been struggling with ms. i was campaigning him a lot because i didn't have an opponent in my race. i saw what he did. he was in so much pain. he used to run back and forth very fast at the parades and he could not run at all anymore. he would stand on the back of the green bus and would wave with sheila at his side. there were so many people he had energized in green shirts that were running around that bus that you didn't even notice he wasn't running himself. that is what grassroots politics are about. that is what i am asking you to do for me. sign one of those commit to caucus cards. you have two days left. the former mayor of cedar rapids, kay, told me that i have great news for you. i said what's that? she said i am 78% with you. remember, we are on this journey together. as i go back to washington, d.c., i will know you have my back. and understanding that i wish i could be here at the very last moment, but i can't. i want you to have my back and remember this started a day after. remember, 6000 women signed to run for office. the day after that, that number doubles. and on day nine after he got sworn in, people showed up at airports after the refugee been. who shows up at airports on a saturday night. people did that. you go forward today, my favorite is the march for science. my favorite sign is what do we want? science. when we want it? when the 48 fighting democrats in the senate did up against the repeal of the affordable care act, joined by three republicans because we stood together. i will never forget that moment when john mccain with his arm so injured from being tortured serving our country went in there and said, no. what i remember from that week -- [applause] what i remember is a mom pushing a stroller. she pointed at her toddler and said, this is my son. he has down syndrome. i will do anything to fight for his health care. this is what a pre-existing condition looks like. that was because we had united for a cause and you went into the first glimmers of hope and after donald trump got elected, you see victories in the strangest districts. you see where a member of the legislator said the day ofi the women's march, i hope they are home to cook dinner. that guy got defeated. that is the march we were on. you sought after parkland the students watching for gun safety and they marched and talked and talked to their parents and then you had a majority of hunters, trump voters saying why can't we have universal background checks? that is the march our own. that continues and it does not end. and every day you see one of his mean divisive tweets, don't see , it as a blanket over your head. see it is a call to action and an opportunity to win like we've never won before. that is the ticket that i want to lead. so join us, caucus with us. we are going to do this and we are going to win. thank you, everybody. thank you. [applause and cheering] thank you, everyone. ♪ thank you, everyone. ♪ >> thank you guys so much. we are going to have the line start over here. while that line is starting, amy will take some photos over here. i am going to start the line over here. thank you so much. ♪ [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] right here. right here. >> thank you. >> all arrived. -- all right. right here. >> thank you. >> can you take my camera? >> yes. yeah, right here. thank you so much. i will do it. >> hi. right here. right here. way.an go right out this up.ome on ready? >> i will take your phone from you, thank you. >> oh yeah. >> right here. right here. here we go. you can go right up this way, ma'am. thank you so much. she has all your stuff. yep. thank you. you can go right over here. i got it for you. i got the photo. come on, guys. all right, right up here. i got it for you. looks great. you can go here. >> thank you for taking my pictures. right, right here. i got it for you. thank you so much. >> hi. >> how are you? >> i'm john mccain's friend. thank you for coming. this signed? all right, over here. great, thank you so much. yep. >> right over here, guys. >> looks good. >> right here. all right, right over here. >> thank you. >> good luck. sen. klobuchar: thank you. >> thank you. come on up. here., right i got it for you. all right. >> thank you. oh my goodness. i'm proud of you. >> right here. thank you, ma'am. right here. i got it for you. i will get your photo right there. all right. thank you for coming to the iowa caucus. >> we have your phone and all of your bags. right over this way. >> thank you for everything. i am really grateful, and thank you for what you are doing. >> hey, guys. right here. they have all of your stuff. >> thank you. hi. klobuchar: >> everybody, right here. that is a great spot. >> wonderful. we saw you months ago. >> all right, i got a couple for you. [laughter] we are rolling through here. >> thank you. >> right here. all right, there you go. >> thank you. >> hi, senator. sen. klobuchar: hi. >> right here. i got this. i can get the top of your head. >> good luck. >> right up here. right here. we will take your photograph. right here, right here. we got it for you. there you go. sen. klobuchar: hi. >> how are you? sen. klobuchar: good. >> we got a couple for you. thank you so much. >> all right. right up here. we got it for you. there you go. thank you so much. >> thank you. three, ready? >> yeah. right here. got it for you. there you go. you., thank you. >> right here. got it for you. there you go. thanks. >> good luck. >> hey, how are you -- sen. klobuchar: hey, how are you? >> great. >> here we go. >> thank you. sen. klobuchar: all right. thank you. >> hey, right here. >> i'm a retired educator. sen. klobuchar: great. >> right here. got it for you. thank you. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. right here, right here. there you go. >> thank you so much. >> can i get a picture for you? all right, right appear. right here -- all right, right here. right here. i got it for you. there you go. >> all right, right appear. right here -- all right, right here. right here. >> thank you so much. >> all right, right up here, everybody. got it for you. you.ank there.obuchar: hi, nice to meet you. >> right appear -- right up here. >> thank you. it meant so much that you are here. sen. klobuchar: thank you. right here. try this phone. right here. all right. got it for you. there you go. wait, her phone didn't work. thank you. all right. sen. klobuchar: hello, how are you? >> all right, everybody. right here. all right. here we go. >> what? >> right here. got it for you. there you go. >> great job. sen. klobuchar: thank you. thank you for coming to little rock. sen. klobuchar: i love it here. >> right here. here we go. thank you guys so much. sen. klobuchar: thank you, i love it. >> all right, come on up, sir. >> hi, senator. great to meet you. >> all right. there you go. all right, right here, everybody. got it for you. there you go. we can take your photo right over there. come on up. right here, everybody. right here, right here. there you go. i will take your phone. come on up. >> thank you so much. >> already, right here, right here. got it for you. all right, right over here. here we go. >> ok, thank you. thank you. sen. klobuchar: right over here. all right, right over here. sen. klobuchar: hi, how are you? >> right here. got it for you. you go. >> thank you. -- >> right here. got it for you. there you go. >> thank you. sen. klobuchar: hi, guys. >> all right, there you go. all right, right here. >> hey. >> right here. >> great picture. >> thank you. sen. klobuchar: hi. >> all right, right up here. right here. >got it. there you go. >> thank you. >> all right, right here. nice. got it for you. all right. come on up. >> thank you. sen. klobuchar: hi there. >> all right, right here. got it. >> thank you. >> perfect. sen. klobuchar: hi, how are you. >> great, how are you? thank you so much. >> thank you. >> we are taking the picture together. >> all right. >> all right, everybody. right here. you can just go right up that way. and i are doing so well, really appreciate it. sen. klobuchar: dank you. >> there you go -- sen. klobuchar: thank you. >> there you go. right, right here. a couple of good ones for you. there you go. >> thank you. thank you. sen. klobuchar: thank you. >> thank you. >>ight here. i got it for you. there you go. >> thank you. >> come on. all right, right here. right up here. all right, i got a couple of good ones for you. there you go. right here. sen. klobuchar: i'm good. >> looking great. >> thank you so much. sen. klobuchar: good. >> ok, right here. that is great. there you go. >> thank you. all right, right here. all right, right here. i got a couple of good ones for you. >> thank you. sen. klobuchar: hi, how are you? >> good. >> all right, right here. here we go. come on up here, my man. right here. there you go. how are you doing? >> all right, right up here. come on up. >> i love that. >> right here. there we go. alrighty. sen. klobuchar: hi. >> all right, right up here. over here. all right, i got it for you. >> thank you. >> come on up. sen. klobuchar: hi, how are you? >> all right, everybody. the camera is right here. got it for you. there you go. >> thank you. sen. klobuchar: thank you. >> all right, right up here. i got it for you. sen. klobuchar: all right. >> come on up, guys. sen. klobuchar: hey, guys, how are you? were born in minnesota -- i'm from minnesota. i was born up there. >> all right, you guys look great. >> thank you, guys. >> have a good one. >> thank you so much. >> there we go. all right, right here. all right. got it for you. thank you. >> thank you. >> ready? come on up. right up here. all right. got it for you. >> thank you so much. >> all right. right here. got it for you. you can head out this way. >> thank you. >> come on up. sen. klobuchar: hi there. how are you? where do you live? >> got it for you. there you go. >> thank you. sen. klobuchar: hi there. how are you? >> good. all right, right up here. right here. tommy here will take your picture. >> all right. >> hi, i'm from ohio. >> right here. all right. tommy will take your photo. >> hello. sen. klobuchar: thank you. >> ok, right up here. i got it for you. there you go. thanks. sen. klobuchar: excellent. >> ok, right up here. >> right here, right here. sen. klobuchar: thank you. >> one more, one more. got it. you are good to go. >> thank you, guys. >> ok, right out this way. sen. klobuchar: i will be back. hi there. >> right here, right here. hi, guys. sen. klobuchar: there we go. [laughter] sorry.obuchar: [laughter] >> here wanted to meet you -- he wanted to meet you. he is a new voter. heat -- he is a senior and he is a freshman in high school. >> let's gather right here. all right. >> right here. all right. tommy will take your photo right this way. >> you got the camera? >> this is from those people, the refugees, the homeless women and the refugees we have begun to help. it took 10 states to get my husband to a doctor. it is a pretty good story. >> thank you so much. >> thank you so much. great to meet you. got it for you. ok, i will.ar: >> definitely. >> good, good. >> i'm from minnesota. >> right here. all right, got it for you. >> thank you. >> all right, right up here. tommy will take your photo right this way. >> i was undecided, but you are my candidate. sen. klobuchar: oh good. untilove your quick wit -- quick wit and love that you are telling the real stories. sen. klobuchar: thank you. >> i want real people running. sen. klobuchar: i love that. [laughter] >> right here. there you go. >> perfect. >> all right. all right, right here. looks great. got it. there you go >>. . >> thanks. sen. klobuchar: hi, how are you? >> i really believe in what you have to say. i am getting all of my college , and we will be there for you. sen. klobuchar: that is great. >> all right. >> we love all that you are doing. all right, right here. you >> >>.e for .here w >> there we go. >> right over here. thank you so much. right up here. right here. i have a couple of good ones for you. all right, right here. all right, right up here. hi, i'm from minnesota. >> all right, everybody here. >> tommy will have your phone, your bag, everything. >> good luck to you. sen. klobuchar: thank you. >> hi. >> right here. all right, i got a couple for you. >> thank you. i got it for you. sen. klobuchar: thank you. >> right here. got it for you. there you go. come on up. sen. klobuchar: thank you. >> right here. all right, there you go. sen. klobuchar: we can't give up on this. >> all right, right here. right here. >> thank you. >> a lot of people -- sen. klobuchar: a lot of people would not have been so hands-on, but i got it done. ok. >> thank you. >> thank you so much. much.nk you so >> the woman in the red hat has a question. ♪ >> there we go. love amy klobuchar. i am going to make everyone read your book. >> thank you very much. not bless you. >> -- god bless you. >> i've got another right here. >> we just did one. ♪ >> all right. everybody. that is awesome. there you go. thank you so much. >> thank you so much. >> so much great work. all right. there we go. >> one tomorrow. >> thank you so much. really, really great job. ♪ >> the democratic presidential candidates have campaigned throughout iowa, canvassing for votes leading up to the iowa caucuses. now it is time for the results. watch our live coverage of the iowa caucuses today starting at c-span or free on the live c-span radio app. >> call the roll. >> mr. gomer? >> my vote is now. ayes.re are 23 >> article one is adopted. morentius pilate afforded rights to jesus then the democrats have afforded the president. >> you didn't like him since dutch >> we arm -- >> no one is above the law. now whetherion is senator mcconnell will allow a fair trial in the senate. >> the houses hour is over. the senate's time is at hand. >> each of us will face a choice whether to begin this trial in search of the truth or in the service of the president's desire to cover up. indo you solemnly swear that all things appertaining to the trial of the impeachment of donald john trump, president of the united states now pending, by thel do justice constitution and laws so help you god? swornce the president was into office, there was a desire to see him removed. >> the impeachment of president trump. watch unfiltered coverage of the trial live on c-span two. follow the process on-demand at andan.org/impeachment listen on the go using the free c-span radio app. democratic presidential candidate tom steyer holds a in coralville, iowa and took a questions on the >>
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