policy and eggs breakfast series hosted by the new england council at saint down some -- at saint and some college. [indiscernible] [laughter] jim: i'm c.e.o. of the new england council. it's a pleasure to welcome all of you to the final politics and eggs program before tuesday's new hampshire presidential primary. needless to say, it's been an incredibly busy politics and eggs season. we've had over 20 events and most of the candidates have participated. after so much anticipation, it truly is very hard to believe that the big day is just four days away. as you can imagine, all of these events in the past year have been a major, major undertaking. i just want to say two big thank-yous. first, the new england council is incredibly grateful that we have such a wonderful partner in the politics and eggs series here in the new hampshire institute. i want to begin by thanking neil, who is the institute of politics. and the new president here -- \[applause] and the man that allows neil to do what he is and the new president here. i want to thank him. \[applause] and the entire team here at the institute for your hard work and strong collaboration between the two institutions. and larry and pauline and katie, who's here. these are not easy to do. they did a wonderful, wonderful job. both staffs here. i just want to say thank you, again. another thank you, as you look around the room, all of those banners. they are outstanding corporate citizens and neighbors here in the great state and in new england. they pay for all that we do here. if you see anyone that's affiliated with any of these companies or corporations, you should thank them for being such a great corporate citizen of this great state. before i hand it over to neil to introduce our guest today, i want to quickly tell you about a few upcoming new england council events. on monday, we'll hear from congressman stephen lynch at a breakfast in boston. return to new hampshire on february 21, congressional roundtable, chris pappas. we wrap up in boston on the 25th and hear from congressman kennedy. washington leaders conference will take place in washington may 13 and 14. we hope that many of you will join us for two days of meetings and briefings with members of the administration and congress and other federal policy leaders. so, again, we want to thank you for all of the support you've given to the new england council. with that, my job is very simple now, is introduce someone who i've had the pleasure of working with for many years and, again, who's done an outstanding job here at the college and institute. our very good friend, neil levesque. [applause] very good friend, nel levesque. [applause] well, thank you very much. welcom neil: well, thank you very much. welcome to the new hampshire institute at st. anselm college. mr. sanders, thank you very much. i know this is probably a very vigorous time for you as well. it's wonderful to have you here as well. thank you. [applause] neil: doctor, thank you for your support. this institute is wonderful. one quick thing. there are a lot of journalists. i don't know if you noticed that. journalists, we work very closely with the journalists here nationally and locally and it's a profession that does not get its due. they are honorable people. we see that every day. they try to do the best they can with their job and they do a great job. and for all of you who are here, spending a lot of time away from your families covering new hampshire, we really appreciate that you're here. i ripped up my regular introduction of senator sanders the se i just want to tell story that we had senator sanders here on a saturday in april, a sunny saturday in i ripped up my regular introduction of senator sanders because i just want to tell the story that we had senator sanders here on a saturday in april, a sunny saturday in april, probably around 13 or 14. there wasn't much rumor about the fact he was going to run for president. i said oh, my goodness in new hampshire on a sunny saturday in april, everybody is at the beach or mountains. i was worried. how will we fill the room? he's a united states senator. i don't know what to do. i rode into the parking lot at 7:00 a.m., two hours beforehand, and i did not have a parking spot. i know how you feel. and it was like a grateful dead or if you are a young person a justin bieber concert out there. there were so many people. the fire marshal threatened to arrest me in here. senator sanders had to go out and address people in the parking lot. let me tell you what i heard. there were radical things i heard in that speech. he was talking about climate change and he was talking about affordability for college students. he was talking about health care. and it was sort of really different. now it's not so different. and i couldn't -- i couldn't be more honored to have this great man coming here today to finish off before our 100th anniversary of our presidential primary. senator bernie sanders. [applaus] senator sanders: well, thank you very much, neil. et me reintroduce my wife who will make a very great first lady, jane sanders. [applause] also for the media, isn't it ice to go to an event where you're not considered to be an enemy of the people and you are respect?e but i don't want to overdue it.- overdo what i want to do this morning is say a few words about what campaig \[applause] senator sanders: well, thank you very much, neil. let me reintroduce my wife who will make a very great first lady, jane sanders. \[applause] and also for the media, isn't it nice to go to an event where you're not considered to be an enemy of the people and you are shown some respect? but i don't want to overdo it. what i want to do this morning is say a few words about what our campaign is about. it really is asking the american people to kind of think outside of the box, to take a look at our country and the world in a different way than congress does or often than the media does and ask some fundamental questions about what is going on in our nation. that's what i'd like to do for a few minutes and maybe kind of suggest to you why we all -- why we are where we are. question, president trump says the economy is doing great, it's booming. well, let's take a look at the economy today. if you are the average american worker, despite huge increases in technology and productivity over the last 45 years, today you are not earning a nickel more in real inflation accounted for dollars than you did 45 years ago. why is that? let's think about it. it's a serious question. technology is exploding. i remember when i was mayor of burlington, vermont -- we didn't have a computer. the world has changed and the average american worker is not making a nickel more than she or he did 45 years when inflation is counted for dollars. today in the wealthiest nation in the history of the world, we have more income and wealth inequality than we've had in 100 years. now, again, we don't talk about it. congress doesn't talk about it. the media doesn't talk about it terribly often. how do we feel when three or four people in america earn more wealth than the bottom half of our country, 160 million people? how do we feel when the top 1% owns more wealth than the bottom 92% at the same time when tonight over 500,000 americans will be homeless, sleeping out on the streets, or in shelters, including 30,000 veterans? when we talk about wages in america and our economy, today in america, half of our people will be living paycheck to paycheck. and i know a little bit about that because i grew up in a family, rent controlled apartment in brooklyn when i was a kid, family that lived paycheck to paycheck. you know what that means? it means if your car breaks down and you live in new hampshire or vermont and you need 30 -- to go 30 miles to work you can't get to work and you can't afford the $500 you need to get your car repaired. living paycheck to paycheck means if you get sick today you can't afford to go to the doctor because you may have an outrageous deductible or no health insurance at all. when we talk about the economy, trump talked about it in his state of the union, please remember that in the last three years, the billionaires in this country saw an over $800 billion increase in their wealth and yet, last year in this booming economy, the average american worker and inflation accounted for -- counted for dollars saw a 1% increase in his or her wages. how does it happen that year after year after year people on top do phenomenally well, year after year after year the working class or middle class struggle and 40 million people live in poverty? why is that? i want to throw out that idea. i want you thinking about it. in terms of education, we are in a great college right here. thank them for all the wonderful work we do. in new england we are proud of the high quality of our educational system. let's look at education. everybody in this room knows that 0-4 are the most important years. nobody denies that. yet, we have a dysfunctional health care -- dysfunctional childcare system in which working class families all over this country in vermont, in new hampshire, cannot afford -- cannot find quality, affordable childcare. and we trust our little kids to people who are paid in many cases low wages than mcdonald's workers, who do not have the training and background they should have in order to educate and take care of our little ones. how does it happen? how does it happen that in the wealthiest country in the history of the world we treat working families and the children with such contempt by not providing them with the best early childhood education that we can? i was in this great state a couple months ago talking to people in education here in new hampshire. and the educators told me that right here in this great state, which by no means is one of the poor states in america. you are doing pretty well economically. teachers in new hampshire in some school districts, i am told, start off with a salary less than $29,000 a year. what does it say about our society? we can give hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts to baseball players but we're telling the young people in america, you want to be a teacher, you are going to start off at a salary that you really can't even survive on. at that same meeting -- i'll not forget this. a woman who was an educator, retired, i think, here in new hampshire and she said, let me just tell you something. my son graduated college somewhere around here and he had a choice of becoming a music teacher, which was what his training was, or pay in the state liquor store. he went to work in the liquor store because it paid him higher. what does it say about our society, our respect for our kids and our respect for education? in terms of health care, please understand that what i am proposing, when i talk about medicare for all, i know you see tv ads and everything telling you how radical it is. this is what exists in every other major country. in canada if you go to the hospital, you come out and don't have a bill. you don't take out your wallet. you don't take out your credit card. you can go to any doctor you want. now, how does it happen that in canada they spend 50% per capita of what we spend? we spend twice as much per person on health care than the people of canada and yet we have in america 87 million people who are uninsured or underinsured. 30,000 die because they don't get to a doctor when they should. half a million people go bankrupt because of medically related illnesses. think about the obscenity of a situation where somebody in this room, god forbid, is diagnosed with cancer, is struggling, fighting for their life, and while you fight for your life you got to worry about your family being in financial ruin. why is that? why is that? why is it that today in america, when the scientists tell us that climate change is an existential threat to our nation and the world, that we are fighting for the survival of the planet, why does it have that you have a fossil fuel industry that receives tens and tens of billions of dollars every year in tax breaks and subsidies in order to destroy our planet? why does it happen that the pharmaceutical industry receives huge tax breaks and subsidies while they charge us for highest prices in the world for prescription drugs? and everybody in this room knows about the opioid epidemic because new hampshire has suffered as badly as any state and understand that the opioid manufacturers, when they learned or knew that the products that they were selling were addictive and killing people, you know what they did, they hired more sales people. that's what they did. manufacturers, when they learned or knew that the products that selling were addictive and killing people, you know what they did, they hired more sales people. they did.t corruption, greed of an level.dinary now, why is that? it all happen? it takes us back to a fundamental principle of money politics. money in politics. so right now you have a president who is a pa pathological liar, who is is a racist, a sexist, an corruption, greed of an extraordinary level. now, why is that? how does it all happen? it takes us back to a fundamental principle of money in politics. money in politics. so right now you have a billionaire president who is a pathological liar, who is corrupt, who is a racist, a sexist, an homophobe, and he's ok. many of these corporations are not unhappy with him. he gave them huge tax breaks. he gave $1 trillion in tax breaks to the wealthiest 1% and large profitable corporations such that companies like amazon, owned by the wealthiest guy in america last year paid zero in federal income taxes, less than you paid. how does that happen? why does that happen? and the answer is that we have a corrupt political system. that's the simple fact. it's a system -- and i know this is hard stuff and i know people don't want to hear it and you say, bernie, i don't want to hear it, but we got to talk about it because the future of democracy is at stake in this election, actually. so what are we talking about? we're talking about a president who's a billionaire, who promised during his campaign, oh, his tax bill -- you remember it -- wasn't going to benefit te rich. was going to benefit working families. 83% of the benefits went to the top 1%. you talk about money in poll fix, we got a former mayor of new york city who has a record -- every reason in the world he's entitled to run for president. no problem with that. smart guy. but he's spending hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars to buy the election. there is something wrong with that. there's a candidate, let him run. want to run for president, run for president. how do we feel about living in a so-called democracy when a billionaire, multibillionaire, $55 billion, gives unlimited sums of money? how do we feel when we have candidates in the democratic party right now -- and i'm reading some headlines from newspapers about pete buttigieg. pete buttigieg has most exclusive billionaire donors of any democrat. that was from "forbes". "the hill" -- pete buttigieg has top donors. closer look from wall street donors following strong iowa caucus performance. "forbes" magazine, here are the millionaires backing pete buttigieg's campaign. i like pete buttigieg. nice guy. but we are in a moment where billionaires control not only our economy but our political environment. let me tell you something. i am proud of the campaign we are running in many, many respects. in iowa we won by over 6,000 votes. i'll tell you what i'm most proud of. i am most proud that at this particular moment in this campaign we have received more campaign contributions over six million contributions from more people, over a million and a half people, averaging $18 apiece, than any candidate in the history of american politics. and i'm enormously proud of that. what does that say? i say this with enormous pride. this is a campaign of the working families of america. we are funded by the working class of this country. the precession that campaigns our -- that funds our campaigns most. it's not wall street, not the drug companies, not the insurance companies. it's teachers. it's workers from wal-mart, workers from target. i help those people in amazon, help people at disney get at least $15 minimum wage, and those people have no money, are kicking in $10, $20 for our campaign. here's what the whole campaign is about. i can give you a list of 50 different proposals that we brought forth. there are on our website. check it out. but this campaign is more than that. this campaign is about which side are you on. this is an old woody guthrie song. you won't want to hear it. it's which side are you on? right now we need policies in washington that reflect the needs of the working families of this country who've been too, too long neglected. we need to raise the minimum wage to a living wage, $15 an hour. we need to tell the wealthy and powerful they will start paying their fair share of taxes. we need to make public colleges and universities tuition free and cancel student debt with a modest increase of wall street speculation. we need to end this dysfunctional and cruel health care system and pass medicare for all. we need not to ignore the existential threat of climate change but lead the world in transforming our energy system and telling the fossil fuel industry that their short-term profits are not more important than the future of this planet. but to do all of that stuff, we are going to need a government that unapologetically represents working people and not wealthy corporations, not billionaires. that is what this campaign is about. you may disagree with me on this issue. fine. i don't think everything that we say is 100% correct that needs discussion. nobody has all of the answers. but that's basically the issue. whose side are you on? do you think if you're collecting money from dozens and dozens of billionaires you're going to stand up to the drug companies and you are going to throw their c.e.o.'s in jail if they have acted criminally in killing people all over this country with opioids that they knew were addictive and killing people? think that's going to happen? if you take money from the health care industry, you think you are going to take them on and say, hey, guess what, the united states will join every other major country on earth and guarantee health care is a human right, not a privilege? you think you're going to take on the fast food industry and say, you know what, pay your workers a living wage, at least 15 an hour? do you think you can stand with the unions of this country and make it easier for workers to join unions and earn decent wages and benefits? think you can take on the fossil fuel industry whose product is destroying this planet? this is what this campaign is about. tonight there will be a debate and they'll ask us 500 questions about this issue, that issue. it's fine. you have to hear the answers to that. which side are you on? are you on the side of the working class of this country which has been batted for the last 45 years? are you willing to take on the greed and corruption of the billionaire class and the 1%? or will you stand to stand with -- or will you continue to stand with the big money interest? that's what this campaign is about. as somebody that's the son of a working class, somebody whose father came to this country at the age of 17 without a nickel in his pocket, couldn't speak a word of english, had no investigation, very little education, grew up in a rent-controlled apartment, i apologize to nobody. in my desire to stand with the working families of this country. thank you all very much. \[applause] >> we are on a very, very tight schedule but we have time for a couple questions. if i can ask the first question. thank you so much for your disability rights plan that you've incorporated in your agenda. this is the 30th anniversary of the americans with disabilities act. i want to thank you on behalf of the disabled community. also, personal care attendance who takes care of people, they leave because they get a higher wage at mcdonald's than a personal care attendance. a national disgrace. jim: my question to you, senator, if you're elected president, you indicated you're considered issuing dozens of executive orders. can you announce a couple of your priorities? senator sanders: thank you very much. all of you know the president through executive pen has a certain amount of power. most of the important stuff is done through legislation. you can do a lot of important things. number one, in terms of executive orders. on day one, we will rescind all of trump's racist immigration executive orders. \[applause] senator sanders: and that means that on day one, among other things, we will re-establish the legal protection for the 1.8 million young people eligible for the daca program. we'll do that on day one. on day one, we will undo the damage that trump has done in terms of the mexico city agreement and make sure that the united states can fund and will fund organizations all over the world who support women's reproductive rights. \[applause] senator sanders: on day one -- i know this seems fairly radical but you can do it -- we will be able to take marijuana out of the controlled substance act. right now marijuana is at the same level as heroin which is pretty insane. we do that and essentially we legalize marijuana in every state in this country on day one. \[applause] senator sanders: which is part of our criminal justice reform effort. on day one, we say the federal contractors -- and i worked really hard on this over the years -- but we say to federal contractors, if you want a federal contract, you have to pay your workers at least $15 an hour. \[applause] senator sanders: now, that's the morning. we really get to work in the afternoon. \[laughter] jim: ok. haley at the microphone. be patient and just identify yourself and hopefully you're a new hampshire voter. that would be very helpful. sir. just wait for the microphone. >> good morning. i'm mike and i work at new england college. i'm happy to be here today. thank you for taking time today. i am a new hampshire voter and fortunately for living in new hampshire we get to meet all of the candidates in very close quarters like this. sometimes one-on-one, and we hear a lot of talk. i'm not criticizing what you said today. it's great to hear what you said. a lot of what i heard you say today was really listening to folks and working for working americans. you've been on the road a lot. i would like to know if you can give us a specific example how you adjusted your policy or position on listening to us? senator sanders: i have been on the road a lot. and thank you for your question. my campaign was interrupted a little bit with the impeachment process of president trump, but i have been on the road. i'll tell you one of the things that i have learned going around the country. vermont and new hampshire are primarily white states. that's a fact. but you go to states in the south, you go to california, go to nevada, you hear different things. i did not fully appreciate until i ran for president, to be honest with you, how corrupt and racist our criminal justice system is. ok. i did not know -- i'm a little embarrassed to tell you this because many of you knew this. maybe some of you don't. today in america, as we speak at this moment, there are 400,000 people behind bars right now who have not been convicted of anything. we have two million people-plus in jail. 20% of them are behind bars having not been convicted of anything. why are they behind bars? who knows. so if you're rich, if you commit a crime, hey, lawyer, get me out of here. $50,000 bail. i'm out. you get convicted of shoplifting, i can't afford the bail, you don't get out. i didn't know that. i didn't know the so-called war on drugs has done on african-americans, cops stop you, you get arrested, possession of marijuana. you have a criminal record. go out and get a job. hi, have you ever been arrested? yes, i have been arrested, sir. sorry. we have other candidates for your job. if i don't get a job, how do i get income? criminal justice is something i learned about. immigration, we don't have huge latino populations in vermont and new hampshire. i learned a little bit. i'll never forget as long as i live being in phoenix, arizona, talking to a half a dozen teenage kids, latino kids, tears coming out of their eyes because they were worried that when they went home their mom or dad might not be in the house. talking to a kid who recalled a -- his father was in the car speeding. cop, police officer stopped the car. everybody's heart stopped beating in the car because all the police officer had to do was ask for papers. and fortunately the police officer did not. their family would have been destroyed. so those are some of the things that i learned going around the country. \[inaudible] \[laughter] >> senator, thank you very much. i'm from massachusetts, but i'm also an american voter. i think there's a lot of people in this room that share your anger and your anxiety and your rage at the conditions you just mentioned, all of them. but there's question in a lot of our minds. jeremy corbin, the leader of the british labour party just took them -- he's very similar ideologically and politically to you, i think, and he took them to the worst day they had in half a century. how can you assure us that you would not face the same onslaught and you'd be able to overcome it somehow and when as opposed to donald trump claims he'd love to run against you? jim: any other softball companies. >> excuse me for the tough one. i apologize. senator sanders: not at all. not at all. senator sanders: i love tough questions and have a serious questions and 800 cameras and have an intimate discussion here. \[laughter] donald trump says he would love to run against bernie sanders. donald trump lies most of the time and some of his advisers tell him i will be the toughest candidate for him to run against. here's how i think we beat donald trump. and before i even say that, let me just be clear. obviously i am working as hard as i can to become the democratic nominee, so are the other candidates, and some are my friends. i have known elizabeth for 20 years, amy for 16 years. they are trying hard. i think they would all say what i'm going to say to you now. no matter who wins this nomination, hopefully it will be myself, we will get behind the winner to defeat this most dangerous person. \[applause] senator sanders: we all understand we have differences. but our differences pale to the differences we have with this president. number two, lay it on the line and how do you defeat somebody like trump? is he going to be easy? no. he will be a difficult opponent. you do not defeat trump unless you have the largest voter turnout in the history of this country. and that means beating out -- bringing out people who traditionally vote. every two years, every four years, you are out voting. we should all do that. but there are a lot of people in this country who do not vote, who vote infrequently. one of the lowest voter turnouts on any major country on earth. if we believe that a large voter turnout is necessary, what campaign has the capability of reaching out effectively to what we call nontraditional voters? the iowa caucus is behind us. the iowa caucus is behind us. and while the voter turnout was not as high i would have liked, you know what did happen? we saw a 30% increase in young people under 29 voting. if we defeat trump, we need a huge increase of young people's participation. we need to reach out to trump's supporters and make sure they understand he is a fraud and reach out to people who do not vote. i think we are the candidate, we are a multi generational, multi racial campaign that has the capability of reaching out to communities all across this country and bring them into the political process and defeat trump. that's my view. \[applause] jim: we have a question from aarp. karen. >> thank you, senator sanders and thank your gracious wife. the question i have for you concerns all ages and also rich and poor. it goes across the spectrum of all of those and in between and that is the high cost of our prescription drugs. so if you are elected president, what is the first thing you will do to lower the price of prescription drugs. senator sanders: how many hours do i have to answer that? in my office, there is a debate and that is which entity in america is the more corrupt, wall street or the pharmaceutical industry? i lean toward the pharmaceutical industry. let's be clear. karen's question is important for new hampshire and for the whole country. why do we have the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs? why is it last year i took a number of folks from the midwest over the canadian border to canada to buy insulin. do you know what the price is? 10-to-1. quarter of our people on insulin are rationonning. one out of five americans cannot afford the high cost of prescription drugs the doctors prescribe. how does that happen? the drug companies can charge any price they want. they want to double the medicine you have been using for 20 years. they'll do it. what if you are paying 10 times more than in the u.k. or france. this has to do with corruption and price fixing. insulin, they raise their prices, a handful of companies. but it has to do with over the last 20 years, the drug companies putting $4 billion in lobbying and campaign contributions. go to the internet and find out, most republicans and democrats get money from the pharmaceutical industry including some of my opponents. so to answer your question, what do we do? number one, there are three ways to lower prescription costs. lobbying and campaign contributions. go to the internet and find out, most republicans and democrats get money from the pharmaceutical industry including some of my opponents. so to answer your question, what do we do? number one, you asked me about day one. we are going to do reimportation. when you go to dinner today, food you eat comes from all over the world, but somehow another world we are not to allow prescription drug distributors can reimport a few miles away from canada. can't do that, says the government. that's nonsense. you can do that. and your prescription drug distributorship safe from all over the worldcoming into this country. we can do what the canadians do, and we say to the drug companies and average out what we are paying and charging people in japan, france, sweden and mexico, that's what we are going to charge in the united states. we will let medicare negotiate drug prices with the drug companies. we have that with the veterans administration. it is so insanely complex, this hospital will pay that, this doctor will pay that, that is completely insane. when you have medicare saying, guess what? we are spending billions of dollars in drugs, this is what you are going to charge us. v.a. does it. the reason -- why do we pay so much more? every other major country has a national program. they sit down and negotiate. what we will do is lower drug prices in this country very, very significantly and as part of medicare for all, lower drug prices, nobody in america on our plan will pay more than $200 a year for the prescription drugs they need. one out of five americans cannot afford to fill their prescription drugs. how insane is that? that will change. we will take on the greed and corruption. massive amounts of price fixing and bribery that goes on. that is a bad news industry and people are dying. i don't take any money. i don't take money from the drug companies. under our administration, if there is one thing we will accomplish is taking these guys on and substantially lowering the cost of prescription drugs. \[applause] jim: running about five minutes. the young lady here. >> thank you for being here. you are a wonderful person. i have a question about housing. i work a corporate career and save 70% of my income and i struggle living in a one-bedroom apartment on my own because all of the housing available are luxury apartments. absolutely insane. i want a space and call my own. can you create more affordable housing for the middle class? senator sanders: yes. we have a major proposal in there. the gentleman asked what i have learned around the country and one of the other crises is housing. in my home city in burlington, housing very high. you go to san francisco, you have to be a millionaire -- seattle, massive amounts of homelessness. you are talking about housing and half a million people living out on the streets. as where developers say why don't i want to build affordable housing instead of expensive housing. to answer your question, we have a very, very major housing proposal which would buildup to 10 million units of affordable housing and i think that would lower the cost of housing for working people all over this country. when we talk about infrastructure and everybody here knows our roads, bridges and water systems, severe water problems all over this country in terms of the quality of work. i talk about housing as part of that infrastructure. we can put millions of people to work building affordable housing. your question is spot on. and it's a crisis we have to address and we have a proposal to do that. jim: final question in the back. >> i'm state direct for the league of conservation voters in new hampshire. how would you elevate climate and environmental justice in your administration? senator sanders: look, on this issue -- and i don't want to waste too much time talking about trump, but the disservice that he does to the people of our own country and to the entire world is not calculated. everybody in this room knows i hope what the scientists are not telling -- are now telling us they have underestimated the degree, severity and speed in which climate change is wreaking havoc in our country. am i right? so we are fighting for the future of this planet. i have four kids and seven beautiful grandchildren, three of them who live right here in new hampshire. we have a moral responsibility to make sure the planet will leave them is healthy and habitable. and the problem is this isn't just an american issue but a global issue. as president of the united states, we will not only place this at the highest level, because we have to, but we will reach out to the people of china, russia and india, brazil and make the idea -- i know this is a radical idea, but maybe, just maybe, instead of spending $1.8 trillion a year on weapons of mass destruction designed to kill each other, maybe we should pool our resources and fight our common enemy, which is climate change. \[applause] jim: one final question. yes, ma'am. young lady here. >> i'm a student. i want to thank you for staying the working class man. how will you ensure everyone will have access to quality reproductive care? senator sanders: thank you very much. i'm a senator, so i'm on the floor of the senate occasionally and i listen to a lot of speeches, that is when i'm in washington, not new hampshire. and i listen to speeches from conservative republicans so i know what their mantra is. they are going to deregulate everything, privatize everything. and they want to get the government, that big bad government out of the lives of the american people, right? do what you want to do, except if you are a woman. so you have these hypocrites talking about getting the government out of the lives of the american people and they think they have the right to tell every woman in america what she can do with her body. number one, as quickly as we can, we will codify roe v. wade. number two, we will expand funding for planned parenthood so that women regardless of income, planned parenthood does a great job in reproductive rights regardless of the income for women to get the assistance they need. we will never ever nominate anybody to the supreme court or to the federal courts who is not 100% pro-roe v. wade. \[applause] jim: this is the final question. >> thank you, senator sanders this rainy morning. i'm a student here. i just wanted to ask you about voter participation. you mentioned how you want to have the highest participation of voters in this election yet there are barriers for voters, especially people who are disadvantaged so i was wondering how you would alleviate that. senator sanders: thank you very much for that very important question. as all of you, i ran for office in vermont. and when i was younger -- winning most recently. but what i can tell you it has never occurred to me as a candidate in the state of vermont to sit down ap say we are strong in certain areas. this never occurred to me to say, how can i make it harder for those people to vote? if i could not win an election based on my ideas, then i shouldn't win the election. and one of the ugly disgraceful thing that is happening in america today, you have cowardly governors and secretaries of state who are intentionally suppressing the vote, who are trying to make it harder for people in color, for poor people and for young people to participate in the political process. how cowardly can you be if you don't think your ideas can't prevail to get out of politics and get another job. don't make it harder for people to participate. to answer your question, what we will do is make it very clear through legislation and to maybe, if necessary, the constitutional amendment, if you are 18 years of age in america, you are a citizen, you have the right to vote, end of discussion and we will deal with this excessive gerrymandering that takes place. and obviously we have to deal with campaign finance and have to overturn citizens' united. we don't want big money to continue to buy elections. thanks very much for your question. \[applause] senator sanders: thank you all. \[applause] captioning performed by the >> here is a look at some of what is on c-span today. 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