we have a large field of talented candidates but only one stands out with the qualities that are very important to me. for me, it is vice president joe biden. and i am proud to endorse him for president. [applause] a provenident biden is leader. he is a statesman. and a fighter when he needs to be. he is a man who have shown us who he is and what he has done. has championed important causes such as the violence against women act, fighting for the a formal care act, and turning personal tragedy into a challenge to improve people's lives with the national cancer moon shot initiative. [applause] i believe that it is joe biden who can move our country forward together. and will engage the many brilliant civil-service who work tirelessly to restore faith in the promise of america and our democratic institutions. elect now will determine our nations trajectory for the next 10 years and beyon d. this is a critical moment. we must choose leaders who will bring us together and to ensure we build a path to the future that is inclusive and prosperous for all of us. leaders that are committed to fight for our shared values, like affordable health care, like action and climate change, and repairing our standing on the world stage. this election is too important to sit on the sidelines. if we want to live in a democracy, we must fight for it. that starts with electing a leader who we can be proud of. and who will work tirelessly for all of us. [applause] >> please welcome, michelle -- [applause] my high school basketball games never drew crowds like this. hello. we're down to the wire now. welcome. thank you so much for being here today. i am michelle, i am an overworked school psychologist, granite stater and a proud mom onewo amazing boys who are of the many reasons we are standing joe biden today. [applause] want you all to imagine for a icent that you are eating cream with your three-year-old child, grandchild, knees or nephew, and suddenly they start they start to slur their words and they fall over when they attempt to stand up. next, you are in the parking lot of a mall calling 911. now imagine after a year of anti-seizure medications and fearing every day your child will have a very dangerous seizure, you are actually told your four-year-old does not have epilepsy, but has a rare near a degenerative disease that occurs in less than 20 children born in the u.s. each year. you are told that your child will continue to have seizures that will only worsen, he will rapidly progressed to dementia. the ability to walk and talk and will become blind. by six years of age, your child will be completely dependent on caregivers and will lose his life between the ages of 8 and 12 years old. you are told by the doctors of one of the best hospitals in the world to go home, hug your child, and spend as much time as possible with him because there is no cure. this is our story. and we are the people that vice president biden is fighting for. [applause] we are blessed to give our four-year-old son into a clinical trial which actually in a short period of time to an approved treatment, the first ever treatment for his disease. we are still fighting but at least now we feel we have time. our son goes for biweekly treatments. if we lose the affordable care act, and we lose our insurance because of his pre-existing condition or because of the lifetime limits that insurance companies can put onto us, we won't be able to afford one of his treatments. our son is about to turn 10 years old next month. [applause] and he is going to be the first with hisr in the u.s. form of batten disease that is still walking on his own and talking. [applause] my family, we have had the privilege of meeting vice president biden and my husband and i knew from the very moment we met him, he saw us, he heard us, and he would remember us. [applause] he is not concerned about his own agenda. he's not about making change just for the sake of change. he is all about fighting for families like ours and all of yours. no matter what the situation, vice president biden is fighting for americans. it's not because he has to. it is because that is a part of who he is. [applause] now, help me welcome our next president, joe biden. [applause] [cheering] ♪ mr. biden: whoa, hello, everybody. hello.hello, hello, it's great to be in hudson. i'm happy to be here. i'm here, i don't know -- if he's here, my buddy, but he says simply what you have to do in 200,000 -- only about people bigger than we are, larger and everybody knows everybody. i will make it clear. i'm very simply to ask for your help. ask. hey, university of dollar. -- of delaware. great to see you. but ask for your help. thank you, man. i wan t to thank. senator, thank you for your support. . it is a big deal. it means a great deal to me that you would be willing to stand up and do this. no, i really mean it. it means a great deal. i want to thank you very much. for all of my friends that are here, i want to thank state rep bruce: david cody, michael brian. i was told some were not able to be here. and barbara blue, activist year. -- activist here. i also wanted thank. the old expression. man, then he made some firefighters and that he made the president of firefighters jimmy mcallister. it is good to see you guys, and ladies. also, ambassador terrie shoemaker is a great friend. know everybody is but i want to say thank you. jim, thank you. jim demurrers is here. i want to thank everybody. look, you know, the story miche lle tells is the reason why i got engaged in politics in the first place. you know my dad used to have a saying for real. family is the beginning, the middle and the end. the way i look at how i think of the democratic party should act thatting again, i hope, it's all about family. that is all about ordinary people like my mom and dad, my sister and my brothers who i was raised with. ordinary people given half a chance to do extraordinary things. but never being put behind the 8ball where they did not have a chance to get up, didn't have a chance to get back. i i listen to you, michelle, thought about the same thoughts beau came home. when they diagnosed his condition coming home after being in iraq. i said, what do we do? go home and love him. they said, he was going to run for governor he was the attorney general of the state. he came from iraq. a war hero, bronze star. and diagnosed with a terminal illness, stage iv neal blasphemer. -- neo blastoma. we asked the doctor. what do you do? he was going to run for governor. no one was going to run against him. have him go home and run for governor. but, doc, you told me there is nothing out there there. he said, no, but there is always hope. there is always hope. and i do remember, michelle, you brought it back. that thinking to myself that without the affordable care act, what would have been able to happen no matter what insurance just, that they gave him months. time. outlived the he lasted 14 months, in a lot of pain. i kept picking to myself for real, what the hell would i do if, in fact, the insurance, and he did not have we did not change the law. the insurance company could say you have run out of your coverage now. live the last six months of your life in pain on europe. -- on your own. a lot of people face that. a lot of americans all over the country have gone through things like that. mean it know, i don't is about me. i had a lot of help. people have gone through a lot more than i have gone through, and without the kind of help and family friends that i had. but i just want to make it clear that coming in a, one of the sosons i feel so, strongly about protecting and expanding obamacare is because i've watched my own family how it works. and how many of you in here have lost someone to a terminal disease, particularly cancer, a loved one? raise your hand. almost every audience i ever speak to in the country, you know it. that's why i started, that is why the president allowed me to run a thing called, when we decided we were going to focus goingcer and what we're to do and that is why after -- i started the biden foundation on cancer. because there is a lot of things we can do. we can change many of these 204 strains of cancer that exist out there and chronic diseases, we can cure many of them. most of all, what i found, and ichelle,d, m you have got to have hope. it does spring internal because every day there finding cures for diseases that are not anticipated what happens. but it happens, it turns the corner. folks, you know, the thing i care about and like about miche lle beyond her tenacity, she is also a school psychologist. she knows that there's a number of -- we now only have in america one school psychologist for every 1507 kids. all the experts say you need at least one for somewhere between 500 and the high number 700 kids, because they can pick o ut everything and we need more school nurses. ofneed to double the number school psychologist and school horses. they can detect things early on that families are not able to pick up, particularly if you are in a low income circumstance where does not matter your color, your race, where a lot less money is spent in that school where people coming from distressed backgrounds economically. that's why i double the number of not only for so-called title i schools because you can detect in a kid, everybody has figured out, school psychologists can tell you, it is not drug abuse is not caused by, mental unless is not -- does not cause drug abuse. mental illness is caused not by drug abuse. it occurs. it causes drug abuse. and so, when you can identify early on a kid, you can tell when they are 3, 4, 5 years old, and you can it up, help them with the anxiety they feel that results in behaviors that are beyond their control. and so, school nurses. have livedw, if you in districts where you have to make a choice between hire a few more schoolteachers, or school nurses or school psychologists or social workers. because folks, here is what worries me the most. what is going on now as we have a president who does not think in terms of people. he doesn't think in terms of individuals. i have been all over this country at all over the state. the think about you all up here in new hampshire is you basically no one another, you know your neighbors, you can sense when things are wrong. you can sense when things are out of control. what is happening is the american character, the very character of this country is on the ballot today. it's going to be decided in 2020 in november. it is about who we are as a people. what do we care about? what of the reasons why we are doing what we are doing? what is the laws we are seeking to pass, and what is their purpose? how much will they cost and are able to get them done? folks, as i go around the state and around the nation and working on rope lines, and people coming up to me. i was in claremont week ago, i guess it was. a guy says, can i talk to? i said, yeah, i'll go through this rope line. i had staff taken in the back. i walked back. he was shaking. i'm going to lose my job, i don't know what to do, to tell my family. we're going to lose our house. what are we going to do? what do i do? and i thought it was interesting he asked me what could he do. i told him a story bag as he headed heard -- he had heard it. when i was a kid my dad had to make the same decision. my dad, i remember walking up the longest walk a parent has to make up a short flight of stairs to tell their child you cannot live here any more. we have to move. daddy or mommy does not have a job. you have to live with grandpa or grandma if you have one. my dad made that walk in scranton, pennsylvania. but he said, everything is going to be ok, joey, because he believed it would be. he believe in those days, back in the 1950's, if given have a chance, he could make it, as long as we move with the -- to a place where there were jobs. he moved back to delaware where he lived from third to 11th grade and he got a job. took him about three years to be able to buy a house for us, but we finally got a house, a three-bedroom house. four kids and grand pop living with us but it was ok. he believe it today. how many of your neighbors who had to make that long walk and you know made that long walk or you've made that long walk, how many of you out there know to be able to say it is going to be ok? we don't think it is going to be ok anymore because they look around. the working-class is getting clobbered. the bottom has fallen out of the middle class. we are no longer the wealthiest middle class in the world. the majority of the people listed as middle-class thinker children will never have the same standard of living they have. what is wrong with us? what is going on now? what is this all about? what is, you know, woodrow wilson said a party is worth no more than that for which it stands. what do we stand for? about making sure the people, good, hard-working people got an even shot. we're not getting an even shot now. i see it all the time. people coming up up to me. even the press he used to say, he's hugging women. guess what? they are hugging me -- not because they love me. they are hugging because they are frightened. the hundreds of stories i have been told. a woman walked up to me not long ago -- it was a man who gave me a hug. his name was gene. he had terminal cancer in your state. i said, gene, what you doing here? i have prostate cancer, it is terminal. i can't make it. lifehad my shocked back to 8 times. because of cardiac issues in addition i said, why are you here? you should be taking care of yourself. his response was that he said, i'm here because i got to have some purpose. got to have some purpose. said but thank god, at least i have some coverage. but this is a guy. his wife. got to have purpose. i'm in trouble. i've stage iv cancer. and not going to make it. the president even knows those people exist out there? there for thousands and tens of thousands. he's not even talking about appearing we do not have a discussion about it. i was introduced to -- i guess it was four, five six days ago.. i can't remember i am losing track of time. by a woman named chrissy. i was in concord. i hadn't met her before. as she told the tale of being victimized by her husband. being battered mentally and physically by him. the only way she could get out with her young baby, son, was to leave the house. she was homeless. homeless for a long time. didn't have a car. she aid, then i got some hope. i saw newspaper. they say there is a guy named biden. it is not just about me. he was writing this thing called the violence against women act to get housing. the vast majority of children on the street are there because, because their mothers are battered women. do you realize the other portion of those who are kids kicked out of their own homes because they are gay or lesbian, not excepted by their family. these are children. then she went on to talk about how she was able to make it. how she work to way through and how she got back. but here we are. as i speak to you, the very law theote with my own paw, violence against women act, which nobody wanted to support initially and we got it done, is changing the lives of people but guess what? [applause] mr. biden: thank you. but that is not why i say it. here's the point. because of trump and the gun lobby it may be over. it has to be reauthorized. it's passed the house overwhelmingly. it is in the senate sitting on mcconnell's desk. you know why they won't pass it? because i put in provisions saying an abuser cannot own a weapon. to stay away order from his wife or his girl for you cannot own a weapon. he should be denied. guess what? [applause] mr. biden: but here's the point. i was able to get that pass for everybody except there is a boyfriend exception. if you didn't have a baby by the abuser, you aren't married to the abuser, just a boyfriend abusing you, he was not denied the right to own a gun. guess what? most women die in those situations getting their brains blown up by someone holding a gun. it's being held up because trump is owned by the nra. they will not let it pass. it's wrong! it's wrong! it's wrong! [applause] more example. two days ago in manchester, actually, not two days ago, saturday, it seems like two days days ago. saturday, jill and my deceased son's children were with me. we were at a feed the children program in manchester. standing in a parking lot with hundreds and hundred hundreds of people. handing out bread, food. little kids, was 22 degrees and the wind was blowing hard. it was cold as hell. and people are standing in line. the number of people on this whole site. women and children being handed boxes so they can walk along the tables who are standing there handing out bred and food-- bread and food. kids cannot even pick the boxes up. take an extra loaf. i don't need it. someone else might need it. and this president of united states, as i speak, is cutting food stamps! what in god's name is happening to us? this is the united states of america. it makes me angry. the idea that in a country as wealthy as we are you got kids -- one of the organizers they do it rain or shine, god l ove them. guess what? it was so cold. one of the organizers gave me a stocking cap. i looked at it i saw this little kid. this has a young man and a sweater. no gloves. freezing. i'm thinking, what in god's name is going on? i did what you did. i gave the hate to him -- the hat to him. but so much more needs to be done. what are we doing? we're cutting food stamps? now called the snap program. there's so much wrong that's so easy to fix. you in new hampshire, you know one another. you can feel the pain of your next our neighbor, you know what is happening sometimes. and you reach out. you are not distant. election, america's character is on the palette. -- the ballot. the character of the people running is on the ballot. folks, we got to take this country back in a bad, bad way. [applause] you know, i -- all these problems are within our capacity to solve. not hurting anybody, not denying anybody an opportunity to make a lot of money. $1, 600 billion tax loopholes, money not collected. we give people breaks for resources. what are we doing? what are we doing? thes, look, this isn't america that i was raised in. being led by a president who has no empathy. no compassion. doesn't demonstrate a shred of decency. i reading -- i really mean this. this is not about republican-democrat, this is way beyond that. when i saw colonel vindman being physically escorted, a hero, physically escorted out of the white house, by guards. when i saw all those people peopleigh-ranking that testified before the house under oath and answered honestly. no, biden did not do anything wrong. biden is an honorable man. all lined up and fired. as we speak, read the papers today, listen to the news. against the advice of all of his political advisers. this is venomous. s, this isn't america. when this president commented on those warriors in iraq who at the other end of the missile a senselessan, in conflict he started. diagnosed with brain injury, those are just headaches. he stood before them and called them losers, to their face. babies. this is a guy who, in fact, embraces white supremacists. when a young woman was killed down in charlottesville, when eyes,folks, close your remember what you saw. folks walking out of feels carrying torches with veins bul ging, shouting anti-semitic sayings, the same one shouted in germany in the 1930's. a young woman gets killed. they ask him to comment. he said, they are very fine people on both sides. tos is a guy who bows down vladimir putin, says before the world, i believe, putin, he had no reason to do anything in our elections. why would he do that after 18 intelligence agencies told him they did. talk about women and degrading -- demeaning, demonizing. making fun of people of disabilities. mimicking them. look, this is not the america i know. this is not the america i believe in. you know, i know, you talk about losing. guess what? like many of you i have lost a lot in my lifetime. lost a wife and a daughter in a car accident. i lost my son to cancer. but i'll be damned if i'm going to stand by and lose my country. it will not happen. period. period. period. it will not happen! so, folks -- [applause] to stay up and get ready to -- i'm going to stop talking because i want to hear what's on your mind. i will answer your questions. but folks, there is nothing we cannot do if we do it together, i swear to god. i'm optimistic if we get rid of this guy by our ability to put this country back together on a new path and leave the country and the world in a way we have not had a chance in a long time. my mother, she would say joey, hush up and take some questions. anybody got questions, raise your hand. do we have folks with mics around here? oh. >> just one. >> thank you for coming to new hampshire to speak with us. i'm undecided. i love you a lot. but i am undecided. mr. biden: you sound like my old girlfriend. i really love you but you know, i -- [laughter] >> i was very impressed with the debate. i thought everybody did a great job. but i'm afraid that one of you cannot beat him. but i think all of you could. is there somewhere that you guys could put a dream team together and present that you american people at, say amy's going to be vice president and andrew in charge of commerce, something like that we could get a hold vision to -- a whole vision to take him down. [applause] [chuckles] well, you know, there's two ways dream team. run it or be picked. it would be very present is of me to tell you what i would do. only promise you that the thing i know a lot about is the vice presidency. and i think you have seen and literally the overwhelming majority of presidential and vice presidential historically the last three years have said there has been no -- team closer personally and politically then barack and i have been. i say that for this reason. so i can tell you that there is only a couple of things i can tell you for certain. i'm your nominee when i become president, because if i am your nominee i will beat him. [applause] my administration will look like the country. be made up of women and blacks thatrowns and people represent the diversity of the country, just like our ministries and did -- our administration did. there are six women i can think of on the top of my head that i momentst have a hesitation and asking to be my vice president. i can say the same thing for at least four leading african-americans that i know. and so, the list goes on. what the one thing i do know that a president has to have an vicee president -- in a president, the president has to have somebody, and this is why it works so well for barack and me who not only trust but with whom you are synthetic. -- sympatico. because the role of a president and the 21st century is not able to be handled by a single man or woman. they can't do it all. too many things land on your desk that in fact require you to be able to sign sing again portions to somebody else. you cannot do it to a cabinet member. they can be helpful. we had great cabinet members and our ministries and cut but you have to have somebody who you can get presidential authority to. for example, when we were going to, about to lose the vote on the $900 billion recovery act, no program has ever been passed that big in all of history. $900 billion. i made a mistake of writing a memo to the president of how we should handle that. we had a private lunch once a week and he took the memo and slid it back to me and said, do it. i wrote.e last memo i remember he used to love the state of the union address to say without telling me first, $900 billions bill to get passed and i will get joe to run. he thought it was very funny. he did not have the votes, so he sent me and i was able to change the votes of three republicans and we got it passed and literally saved the economy. [applause] mr. biden: but, it is not about me. he had the confidence in me to know that he and i agreed and he could trust me to run the day-to-day operation. i spoke to well over 150 mayors, governors, as to how it had to be as amended. it was not just, you cannot do it anymore and just say, have the bureaucrats, and they are all good run it, but i would call for, mary would say, mr. xyor, you are going to get million dollars to improve the lighting and hire back your teachers. but you got to use modern lighting that has significant lasting power and uses less energy. he said, but the law says i can do it. my word. i said, i'm coming out of holding a press conference saying you're wasting money. he said, you wouldn't do that. try me. ? guess what they put it in. there was another one that said they were i want to set the frisbee park. i said, i can do it. i said, no, you can't. it is not pass the smell test. i'm going to come out and do. we ran a program less than 1/10 waste orss than 1% fraud, the largest program i've ever run. the point i'm making is not that i'm so good but you have to be able to give somebody presidential power. i was able to hire, fire, test anybody in the administrator to do what they needed to do. so, that is the first thing for me to be completely honest with you. in terms if i am the nominee picking the vice president that i have to understand they are on the same page. there are a lot of other things they can do. they don't have to be, not be vice president. for example, i will not give an example i will get in trouble but there is a lot of people who are running now, i would not hesitate is second to asked to be part of a cabinet or to take on a high position in the white house. i mean, not a second. not a second. [applause] mr. biden: lastly, lastly, is that, you know, the next president of the united states is going to inherit a divided country. we're divided now, especially after the impeachment proceeding. and a nation in disarray. an international relationship in disarray. and will help to there is-- day one, not a lot of time for on-the-job training but one of the things we can do is we can in fact first unify the democratic party. that's going to have to come even before unify the nation. [applause] you remember the beginning of this primary campaign, or this, well, caucuses, i was the guy who was talking about unifying the party and unify the country pretty said, we cannot unifying the country. common he time to do here everybody in the first five debates -- how many times did you hear that in the first five debates? we can't unify the republicans. guess what? we're dead.n't, biden's done it before but not anymore. he does not know this new republican party. i know them better than anybody. i was the object of their affection for a long time. long time. [applause] now everybodycan, is talking about unity, thank god. if i have done nothing else i got the entire cast running for president of united states, the democratic side, we have to unify the country. remembered for three-month ago, we cannot unify the country. we can do this. we can do this, and we will first have to begin by unifying the party, and i believe we can do that and i'm determined to do that. [applause] i. biden: i don't know why called on you, you asked 20 questions already but you are good man. i won't tell you about him already. >> i'm from iowa. i follow joe biden since 2007. i worked for president obama. i worked for joe biden. a future proven leader of the united states. i was a volunteer from iowa, working for you today. also, my question is that in the u.s. congress the has not been effectively doing anything for a country. i'm from iowa high school and college is. i want to ask you -- what do you want to do -- to have gun control, to make our school safety zones? mr. biden: all right. by the way, he is a professor. he has an off a lot of students. that's not a set up. i didn't pick him to asked the question. thank you. it is a good question. what i do about safety in schools and rational gun policy? look, folks, everybody has ideas about what to do about a rational gun policy. there is a second amendment and you do have a right to bear arms but not unlimited rights. no amendment is absolute. i own a .20 gauge shotgun. i will answer your question in a minute, sir. and a .10 gauge shotgun. i skeet shoot. i don't hunt. we protect, by the way geese crossing the international boundary more than we do people. you can only have three shells in your shotgun if you are going goose hunting. for you can have 100 rounds in a magazine that you can buy today. i'm the only person who is ever beat the nra nationally. i beat them flat out twice. i'm the guy that got the brady bill passed, the background check bill. i had democrats on the station voted against the brady bill. it is wrong. the constitution does not say anybody can own a weapon. it says only certain people can own weapons. if you are incapable of thinking, you are mentally ill, you cannot own a weapon, if you are terrorists, you cannot own a weapon, you should not be able to own a weapon if you are in abuser. so on so forth. there is never been a limit on anyone can own a weapon. p[eriod. those who say the tree of liberty is watered with the blood of patriots. a great line. is, if you're going to take on the government you need an f-15 with missiles. there is no way an ak-47 is going to take care of you if you worry about the government knocking down your door. it is bizarre. we never said you could own any weapon at all from the beginning. you cannot own a machine gun. you cannot own a bazooka, you cannot own an m-1 tank. you can limit the kind of weapons that can be owned. by the way, all the work i have done on this, including in our administration, i now have over 58% of nra members and knowledge and you cannot own an assault weapon. there is no need for it. can't have a magazine that is more than 10 rounds in it. i'll do it again because here is what happens. think about, talk about moral depravity. these beautiful young kids that are here. i hope i'm not saying too much with them here. ids better here, when you sent those children to school in kindergarten or first grade, second, third, fourth grade, what is the first thing they learn to do? it used to be we worried about fires in schools. drop and cover. now it is duck and cover. literally trained to duck and cover. run down the hallways exacting. -- zig zagging. talk about loss of a soul. why? because we are unwilling to have a rational policy. says you cannot have 20, 30, 40 ,50 clips in a weapon. i visited all of those. literally. all those parents up in connecticut when those kids were killed. i visited the same, anyway. every mass shooting, and guess what? what is left behind is devastating. devastating. not just the loss of life, which is warbled. -- which is horrible. nothing worse than losing a child. in addition, the psychological damage that is done. these kids. the single greatest concern people have, generation z, they call it, 7 to 17 years old you know the single greatest concern they have? literally -- by harvard institute with five being extreme. getting shot in school. everyery single day, single day in america there is a mass shooting that occurs on or streets and our cities in tough neighborhoods. we don't even talk about it. and so much of it can be printed. -- be prevented. so much. ay one last thing. i was one of those guys hollering we should go after the drug companies on the opiod crisis. we should not only go after them we should put some of the ceo's in jail. because they know fentanyl can be addictive in five days. do you ever see that advertise on television? you ever see that when they are advertising these drugs? guess what? imagine if we could not sue them, they had an exception and could not be sued. exemption weact have given gun manufacturing. you cannot sue them. the only major industry in america and an exemption voted for by the congress. signed by a republican president. saying you cannot sue them. how many thousands of lives have been lost, thousands of lives have been lost in the last 15 years to gun violence in america? you know, by the way, you know with the single greatest cause of death from a gun is? suicide. suicide. so, folks, i'm going to change that law. i'm going to work like heck to make sure that this change because one thing to get their attention is to say i will hold you responsible for the carnage. sir, you had a question. >> thank you. --s my honor [inaudible] mr. biden: you have to hold it close. >> well, first of all, on behalf of myself and my family and everybody here, please except the condolences of everybody for your losses and dr. biden's losses that you have experienced. mr. biden: so many other people had greater losses but thank you, very kind. >> thank you for being here. i'm 92 years old. mr. biden: i want to see your license. i don't believe it. >> i don't have one. [laughter] [applause] haven'tn all my life, i been a politician down our i was born, was born in 1928. my family, we never talked about politics and stuff like that. but i always had the feeling that there was always a check and balance that prevented someone like our current president from doing what he is doing and doing what he wants to do. and i'm not going to ask you a question. i'm going to say when you become president -- [applause] you to reinforce the checks and balances that prevent that from happening, because i couplered a little bit, months ago when i said to myself, good god, this cannot possibly happen. we're not going to let it happen. i appreciate it. and i wish you luck. go, joe. mr. biden: semper fi, man. thank you, thank you, thank you. [applause] you wonder why they are called the greatest generation in american history. thank you, dad. let's give him applause. thank you, thank you, thank you. he-- you didn't stand up for that reason, dad, that you deserve it and you have done so much. look, i'll answer the question directly. the balance of power, i taught constitutional law for 22 years and i taught a course that was a three credit course, a seminar in separation of powers. what powers were appropriated by, what powers were awarded to the executive branch, the judicial branch, and the legislative branch. and there's a great line that says that the constitution gave an invitation to to for the power they want to exercise. it's a two way street. the first thing that is hope for and the founders did not count on it, did not count on it, but was the good judgment and integrity and honesty of elected people, they would not abuse the power that had. but they did not count on that. that is why they set up the separated powers. now, but that requires each branch to exercise and fight for their power when it is being abused. so, it is one thing for the president of the united states to overreach in his power, which he has clearly done, exceeded that of any modern president. that is not hyperbole. that is a fact. that is the fact. but the senate and the house were designed to put a check, -- i'll as your questions in a minute. to put a check on the abuse of power by any, either of the other branches. of the senate and the house have refused to do that until we finally change the leadership of the last house and elected a democratic house. now you have, i was proud, proud, proud, proud to serve in the united states senate for 36 years. i got elected there when i was 29 years old. i come from a modest background here is the point. i've written extensively on the separation of powers in terms of war powers and a point justices. i have written law review articles and helped write the war powers act. it requires a being enforced when the president abuses it. and this senate has embarrassed me, an is a fusion great, great, hope and faith in, has embarrassed me. i'm a democrat. whether youve -- voted for him or not, he was an honest, honorable man who exercise the senate power. we do not have a lot of people i served with over the years like dickel lugar in indiana, a republican. we do not have a lot of people who have the nerve to stand up. i got a call from dick's wife when he passed, he said he wanted to do one thing to live long enough, vote for joe biden. i would vote for him if i had a choice. look, they have to exercise the power given to them. they could have easily have done in this impeachment trial. but they withered, because this guy has such an absolute venomous streak in him, they know he will go after them no matter what -- win or lose. that is not an excuse. that is not an excuse. but here's the deal. the senate and house have to exercise the power. that is why the single most important reason my wife wanted me to run this time for president, she was not the one wanted to get into this to begin with, as because of the courts, what is happening to the federal courts. the supreme court. we are pointing people to the court through the senate by this president that in fact do not interpret the constitution, i don't want to get to complicated, you will understand veryt, look, there is -- a conservative school of thought that says unless a power is explicitly enumerated, stated in the constitution, that a right is physically stated in the constitution, it does not exist. it is not constitutionally guaranteed. it has to be legislated. for example, there is nowhere in the constitution where it says, uses the word women. there is nowhere in the worditution, you used the choice. there is nowhere in the constitution where it says things that are obviously clearly, you are rights. that is one of the reasons why the founders did not want to have a bill of rights. those amendments called the bill of rights. the reason was they were afraid they would leave something out be interpreted as not having meant to be protected in the first place. i do not want to turn this into a constitutional law class. that is why they had the ninth and then it. not stated --ng in the ninth amendment, is retained by the people. a right retained by the people. what we have a court now that is saying, and less you explicitly stated in the constitution there is no constitutional statement about the right of a woman in the constitution. we got a 13th amendment on african-americans but think about it. a literalbastardized in sense, as it relates to the courts of late, as well as the united states senate. that is why my concluding comment is this. it is not enough for the neff nominee of the democratic party donald trump.t they have to be able to help senators win and take that the senate, too. [applause] >> is there time for one more question? mr. biden: there's a mic over there? going to jump off her sweater over there. that young man has a question, i guess. hang on. we will get you a mic. >> i'm concerned about the amount of plastic being used. and i was wondering because what happens is, it gets into the fishes body and we either -- eat the fish. it's basically hurting everybody in the country. as president, how will you affect that, how we help that? mr. biden: that is a really good question, kiddo. there is millions of pounds of plastics being dumped into the oceans, millions of pounds. and i think what we should do, just like we did with plastic bottles, i think there should be a requirement in most states, a lot of states to it, they should do it federally that there has to be a deposit on the bottom. -- the bottle. you are going to pay more for that bottle of water in a plastic container, unless you return and get your money back for the plastic bottle. that encourages people not to -- i do not think we should be using plastic straws anymore and restaurants. -- in restaurants. one of the reasons i long time ago when i was a young senator, i wrote a law which became known as the coastal zone act. i was watching what was happening all along the delaware river, which is even wider than the mississippi. life andf the shell the life along the estuary there was being wiped out, because we are building plants and facilities. we ended up passing a law saying you cannot build anything at all within 1 mile -- within 1 mile of the delaware river. because, in fact, it would cause plant species as well as life species to be eliminated. we have a lot of problems now ofh the loss of an awful lot plant and animal material. in the waters as well as in the forest, the air. butterflies are dying, bumblebees are dying. and that means we are in real trouble. that is why the single most important thing we have to do is deal with a thing called climate change. it is the single most important issue facing the united states of america. maybe i can talk to you a little bit after this, ok? -- have want to half you you wait around too long. but we have to transition away from plastics. that is why a lot of supermarkets now are going back to the old paper bags were giving you a canvas carryout bag you bring in and you get your orders in. >> we have time for one more. >> [inaudible] mr. biden: i am sure hers is important, too. [inaudible] undo everyi can executive order he has done immediately. and it is going to start with the environment. methane is a problem. pardon me? >> [inaudible] mr. biden: i will get immigration. happy to talk to you about that, too. there's a lot to talk about. i will try to give shorter answers here. >> i came all the way from indianapolis with a group of friends. wesupport b-2 judge -- support pete buttigieg but we want to learn about all the candidates. i am originally from the island of puerto rico. that island separated by big water where over 3.4 one million americans live at. an island that went through a hurricane two years ago, that has been trembling since december 23 and has not stopped. an island that voted to become a state. i want to know, because i have not heard pete speak about puerto rico, i have not heard bernie speak about puerto rico. i have not heard any candidate talk about their plans. i want to know what do you plan to do for puerto rico. mr. biden: by the way, i have done a lot for puerto rico. number one, puerto rico is in the third court circuit of appeals. to provide manufacturing capacity in puerto rico. three, my wife headed upstate the children's program and had hundreds of people in puerto rico after the hurricane working there to try to help. four, this president doesn't even know that puerto ricans are citizens of the united states. aware ofve, i am fully the law that says -- most of you may not know -- right now there 's a law that exists, if the people of puerto rico vote, they have three options. one, they can vote for independence. they can vote for contingent status. they can vote for statehood. i got in trouble because i said i hope they vote for statehood. but whatever they vote for, as president, i will fully support, completely support. and i have spent a lot of time down there with previous governors. i know the island really well. you have to understand, the fact of the matter is puerto rico is and can be a thriving community. by the way, the largest population in della rico -- population in delaware is puerto rican. that is why i have had such overwhelming support from the puerto rican community, because they are the hispanic, but they are citizens, the hispanic population in delaware up until the 2020 cencus, which means the largest percentage increase is in delaware. my generic point is that the contribution is enormous that can be made, and the investment should be significant, and we should do more than throw paper towels of people when you show up. people when you show up. [applause] >> i don't need a microphone. i am loud. my question is a follow-up to the first question. beating donald trump. right in front of us is a powerful man that can do us -- do it. but why not hedge our bets? bill clinton picked al gore and the unseeded a republican. what if hillary had picked bernie sanders as a running mate? trump would had never beaten her. barack obama picked joe biden as his running mate. why not pick your running mate from the top five finishers in this democratic race? i see more agreement than i do disagreement. we have to beat donald trump. our country is at stake. our values are at stake. the evolution, the planet is at stake. so much is at stake. you embody all the important things of this country, you get it. why not build on our strength and pick a running mate from the top finishers? barack obama did the same thing with you and look at where you are today. so when you win, will you consider that? i think that is how we have to beat donald trump. i hate the man. i hate him. lord,pray to god, dear control the rage inside of me of how much he has taken away. i lived through nixon and all that and this man is worse. we need to pull together. what do you think, joe? i am trusting you. save our country, joe. mr. biden: you are right. you are right. first thing, if i could answer this question directly, you are going to have every news person telling that i am being presumptuous. i am not looking for that. two, let's be honest about it. it is going to be very important, even though i think i'm in pretty good shape and i know i can take trump, physically and mentally, but -- [applause] but all kidding aside, they are going to say i challenge the trump, i am not challenging him to a fight or anything. i would challenge him to a golf game if he carried his own bag. all kidding aside, i have to pick somebody who, in fact, reassures people that if tomorrow lightning strikes and i die, and i released all my medical records -- i don't want to jinx myself, as my mother said, knock on wood, i am in great shape. but i have to pick someone who meets two criteria. one, they are younger than i am. no, i am not being facetious. on two, that they are ready day one to be president of the united states of america. and there has to be some correlation between their views and mine. someoneple, if i pick who had a view that they insisted that we do medicare for over $35h costs trillion and has no chance of becoming law and would not medicare foran for those who want it building on obamacare and adding the public option, that would be a real problem. how do you do those kinds of things? but there are at least four people running that are simpatico with where i am, starting with indiana and other places. and don't read that as biden thinks -- i am getting in trouble here, anyway. [laughter] but yes, there are a number of people who have run and dropped out already who are completely capable and competent to be vice president or secretary of defense or secretary of state or national security advisor, etc. the one good thing that i do have that i will be able to announce his i have more major national security people, 300 of them, with credentials on both parties who have endorsed them. so i will not have a problem filling the state department, defense department and intelligence agencies, because these folks have overwhelmingly endorsed me and they're ready to go. they are already working. i am not being facetious. you cannot wait around until you decide you have the nomination and then start to figure out how you put a transition team together. i am not being resumption. please don't -- this is complicated stuff and you can read it the wrong way. but we need to not just unite if youty -- it helps have already had a good look at them and you know who they are, what they can do, what they cannot do. and i think that is a rational position. >> thank you. mr. biden: thank you. [applause] >> i just want to say one thing. i would like whoever is president, and i am sure if you become president, you will make america proud again, because mr. trump is an embarrassment. mr. biden: thank you. thank you. thank you. god bless you. [applause] [applause] mr. biden: god loves you. came from l.a. holy mackerel. i tell you what, many of you have probably seen -- at least the older people have seen pictures of my mom. tell me if she does not look like my mom. and by the way, my mom was the finest person who ever lived, i just want you to know that. i am serious. thank you, mom, you are nice to say that. somebody in the back, do we have a microphone over at that side? ok, give it to one of these folks. you pick somebody. the lights are in my eyes, i cannot see. >> thank you so much for being here. just a quick question about how you feel about drilling in the arctic refuge. mr. biden: totally opposed to it. completely, totally opposed to it. i think i'm the only one running who has been in the arctic circle. remember the great oil spill that occurred? when i went up in a helicopter and saw what was going on, and saw what was happening as the glaciers began to melt, and how the caribou and everything -- there's a lot going on up there and it is a gigantic problem. by the way, no more drilling on federal lands, period. period. period. the arctic circle is a disaster to do that, a big disaster in my view. >> last question. mr. biden: let's take a couple more. i'm going to get in trouble. >> thank you for being here. you and president barack obama really restored our image after the bush years. over the past three years donald trump has left this nation unsafe, is unfit to be commander-in-chief, and our image across the world is really down in the drain right now. if you could just comment on how to return, make a safer return to the iran nuclear ban and the paris treaty and our image across the world. mr. biden: thank you. look, i will do this real quickly. i said at the outset, the next president will inherit a world in disarray. on day one -- and it is not a criticism of any other people who are running, ok? but on day one, as the catholics say, examine your conscience. if you are quietly thinking to yourself, on day one, the president elect is going to have to be able to deal internationally, no on the job training. there will be no time for on-the-job training. it is not like any other time in modern history. we are going to have to make sure we are able to keep the alliances which are crumbling, put them back together again, number one. i have met every major world leader in the last four years. not because i am important, but the nature of the job i had. being in that committee for over 40 years. that's not true, 36 years. but the point is, also one of the reasons barack picked me is because my background in national security and foreign policy. i know all these people. so, one of the things it is important that the next president will have the day he or she stands behind the podium, or in front of that desk, will have to speak, in the world leaders will have to know who that person is and understand him or her, and he has to demonstrate he knows them. he knows them. i know. i know vladimir putin. he knows i know him. i also know -- i spent more time with xi jinping than any world before we left office. i know these guys and they know i know them. barack used to always kid me, because i would always be quoting my mom or my dad, saying all politics is personal, particularly foreign policy. you better darn well understand what the other guy has. i do not expect anyone to volunteer for the second additional -- addition of profiles in courage. you have to know what they stand for, for good and bad. it will have to -- the first thing the president will have to do -- i will tell you what i would do if i got elected and it was tomorrow. i would immediately be on the phone -- not a joke -- with our nato allies saying we are back. we keep our commitments. we are back. not to go to war, to keep us from going to war. i would be on the phone with erdogan, who i know as well is any world leader. he has become an autocrat. represents a democracy and he has become an autocrat. you have to understand, this is what we are going to do now, the game has changed. i would be on the phone to abe in japan who i know well. i would be putting back the alliance between south korea and japan and australia, because we need to -- i really mean it. these are things i have done my whole career. and it is not because we are looking to go to war, we are looking to avoid going to war. look, the next, president will have to have the ability to put together coalitions, which i was able to do with 60 nations with very few american forces to beat sis an -- isis and prevent the caliphate from forming in iraq and syria. you saw what this president did. he want to head against the advice of his generals, against the advice of everyone in his administration. he made a deal with erdogan of turkey, withdrew our troops from that buffer zone. 10,000 kurds were killed defeating isis. isis was coming for us. remember what he said? in fact-- erdogan said, if you put any sanctions on me, i am going to let these people come through into europe. great ally, right? what happened? qga -- again, what happened? close your eyes, member the scene -- the number is classified but fewer than 5000 special forces were pulling out. theirw women holding up babies saying don't leave, don't leave. what happened? you saw our military women and men with their heads down. they were not going to go away. they were ashamed. who is going to trust us? we made a sacred commitment to them, and 65 other nations that were helping us do that. who trusts us again unless we reassert our commitment? barack and i knew the value of nato was to prevent wars, not to start wars. and guess what? this president treats nato like it is a protection racket. if you do not give more money on such and such, then we are not going to keep article five. article five is a sacred commitment. it says if one is attacked, it's an attack on all. that is why russia does not do anything. [applause] folks, it is about preventing war, preventing war. and it cannot be something that is one-off. those other leaders have to know you. i don't care how smart or brilliant you are, how good you are, you have to build relationships. you have to have relationships to get this done. get it done quickly, because there is no time to wait. i tell you what, if barack obama was not the president of the united states -- well, i will not go into that. if this guy gets elected again, what is going to happen again here is there will be no nato in four years. and remember why nato was put in place. it was put in place not just to keep the soviet invasion of western europe from happening, it was put in place so you had 28 nations and no one nation could get so powerful that it overtook other nations. we got into world wars because a european nation decided that it was more powerful than all the other nations and began to flex its muscle, twice. that is how it happened. so what is this guide to? the european union isn't an economic threat to the u.s., for god sake. we with them all the time economically. but to talk about getting rid of the eu? the eu is to make sure no one country is to exercise power that dominates the rest. he does not have any idea, any idea of strategic doctrine, or why we do what we do. so folks, there's a lot to be done. you go there? grade school. grade school. -- great school. very expensive. i am still paying for it. you all think i'm getting. she majored in social work and anthropology and then went to the embers of the a pennsylvania and graduated with honors. she now gets paid less than tuition costs. moshe is a brilliant, -- but she is a brilliant, wonderful kid. i am going to make everybody mad here. hi. my name is catherine. mr. biden: come on, honey. what is your question? >> my dad and i would like to thank you for the affordable care act, and for the mortgage lending. because that saved our house and it saved my life multiple times. so, thank you so much. mr. biden: thank you. you my life multiple times over. i also wanted to ask you about what you plan on doing for people with disabilities. i have multiple chronic illnesses, both physical and mental. and i am on the autism spectrum. mr. biden: a number of things. first of all, i'm really proud of you, god love you, being able to stand up and ask that question. really and truly. i really mean it. thank you. [applause] i can say three things and i will do it quickly and then maybe you would like to talk afterwards and go into more details. -- andone, in obamacare it will be made even stronger in obama amended by ayden with the public option -- there's a requirement that there has to be complete parity between mental health needs and physical health needs. they are no different at all. and so your insurance company cannot say to you, you have a mental health problem, well we are not going to help out. only if you broke your back or your leg or developed a disease. it is a disease of the brain, that is all it is, and it can be fixed. that is number one. there has to be absolute parity. one of the things i did, you saw those guys and women called the wounded warriors, they walked across the -- america. my wife and i walked across america with them -- not all of it, but three sections. you know what they were doing? they were trying to make the point that, in fact, there's nothing to be ashamed of seeking help and mental illness. because today many, many people do not want to acknowledge -- i will get to you, i promise you. they are going to be worried if i do not get you, and then you will be the last question. but hang on a second. and so, the reason we walked with them was, for example, in the united states of america right now we have an awful lot of people coming home from war who are -- i carry a card with me every day. it is my daily schedule. look at what i have in that black box. what does it say? user glasses. it says daily u.s. troop update. what i make sure we check every single morning is the number of women and men killed in afghanistan and iraq. and the number wounded in afghanistan and iraq. because every single one of those fallen angels left behind a community. it was not roughly 6905. every day we check. they leave behind a whole committee. secondly, what is not on here is vets over the,000 last 12 years coming home with not just traumatic brain with es, but post-traumatic stress. we ensured 37,000 psychiatric nurses in our hospitals today. 22 veterans per day committing suicide in the united states of america. 22. or activeveterans, duty. 22. it's a disgrace. we have to do so much about it. but the first thing we have to do, those guys like you with your pride and your spunk, those guys are trained never to complain. it is the last thing they want to do to say i have these awful headaches and these blinding headaches, and i'm having these dreams and i'm having this and that. so first we have to take away the stigma, the stigma. there should be no stigma with mental health. in terms of -- i know you know the law, the americans with disabilities act. we have not funded it yet. i have been proposing for the last three years that we fund it completely. which is going to cost another $45 billion. [applause] pardon me? sure that all the needs of people with serious disabilities have access to the help they need and it gets paid for. not by them but by the government. paid for by the government. and also, you have a situation where if in fact you need additional help for whatever the problem is, including prescription drugs, they will get significantly lowered under the proposal i have put forward. i really mean it, not a joke. there is a thing called the german system, where any new drug that has an impact on a person's ability, mental or physical, has on their health, that that drug has to be approved by a group of 25 people who are -- we are going to appoint at the department of health and human services. they sit with the drug companies ahead of time and they haven't nation with the drug companies what it costs them to develop the drug, and then they can make a lot of money off of that. they make a profit, but they cannot charge an unlimited number and the price will be set. if they did not abide by the price that is set, then they will not be able to move in a direction where what happens is you have medicare making sure they negotiate for that drug and they will not buy that drug period unless they agreed to the price. that will significantly lower the prices. and drugs across the board that people need. i had a son who when he came home from kosovo, he was over in the balkans, he came home and turns out he was exposed to significant bacteria infection. fors out he had a marker bamboo spine. you know what that is. you see people who are like this. the reason they cannot straighten up is there vertebrae will crack, it fuses together. there was an experimental drug on the market he got into a study on. he had to take a shot once a week for $5,000 a shot. is the attorney general of the state making a $102,000 a year, a lot of money, but he had to do $5,000 a week. until it got approved and went on the market, and went on the market at a reasonable price. but there are people -- i bet you know someone who is paying an exorbitant amount of money for an inhaler or epipen or anything else. when it started 10 years ago, i am making this up, it cost one dollar and now costs $10. republicans will vote for this. that you cannot increase the price of a drug that is authorized beyond medical inflation, unless you can prove something fundamentally was different to make it more effective. there's an awful lot more to talk about here, but the point is that it is critically important that we engage in and provide for the needs of people who in fact have disabilities. and also have mental health problems. it is overwhelmingly in the country's interest. everyone is better off, including the program we put together for employment. ways -- because everybody wants to contribute. nobody wants to just be given anything. they want to contribute. and you can and you are beastly already are. there is a lot more to say, but if i did not get this young man here, i am dead and my staff will kill me because i'm keeping you also law. all so long. >> i met you in derry and i wanted to ask if you would strengthen the endangered species act, and if so, how much? mr. biden: a great question. derry, trump met me in and trump -- you came twice, god love you. trump has weakened the endangered species act. would i change that and how would i strengthen it? the answer is i would strengthen it, and the reason is the whole ecosystem -- for example, i example, if the crustaceans along the rivers aren't there, and they cannot eat other species there, than they cannot get eaten by the fish and so on. it as a whole chain. if you interrupt that chain, then you do not just kill that species, you kill other species. so the endangered species act is overwhelmingly, critically important for all species, including humans. way back when i was a kid in the u.s. senate, i worked very hard on the endangered species act. one of the things we know about, for example, mom will explain this to you later, there's an old expression when you come from a mining town about a canary in a coal mine. what that means is there is a lot of methane gas and things in a coal mine. you put canaries down there, because when you don't hear them chirping away, the methane kill them. you cannot smell it, you did not know what it is. there are a lot of canaries out there, figuratively speaking. the entire echo system, the entire food chain -- look at what is happening now. you have global warming, you ever go north here in your magnificent state? i was just in idaho as well. all those beautiful, green, tall evergreens. they are kind of getting brown, on today? -- aren't they? it is not just because they are getting hotter, it is because you have species now eating up that material. the green. they are going to kill all of that phone and flora. the point i am making is it is all connected. this guy thinks everything can be segregated, like he wants to segregate people. back to your question ma'am, immediately what i would do is i would take, get rid of all the cages, no family separation, sen d -- [applause] no no, i mean it. send an immigration bill to the u.s. congress today for path to citizenship for the 11 million undocumented, as well as making sure that daca children are american citizens. they are already there. and i would not be deporting anybody other than arresting them for any reason other than commission of a felony in this country. a felony. people go back to school -- i mean this sincerely. outside of doctors offices, outside of mass, arresting people coming out. the carnage occurring in the mental illness and anxiety created by all the children worrying they are going to get home and their parents will not be there. walking out of church and get arrested. look, i will end with this. i really will end with this. you have so many good questions though, i'm embarrassed to leave you without answering them all. but here is the deal. right now for those of you who worry about immigration and all the stuff you heard about this mean,his guy is just -- i think what he did in 2018. he kept showing, the invasion is coming. the invasion of these rapist mexicans. the invasion of all these folks coming from central america. thehe same time, he cut off $740 billion republicans voted for to make sure we change the circumstance on the ground so people did not want to leave in the first place. they leave for a reason. but if you think about it, where we are now is you have so many people, in grades kindergarten through 12th grade throughout the u.s., 24 out of every 100 students is hispanic, latino. 24 out of every 100 students. now i don't care whether you have a prejudice or not. in thedo not think it is overwhelming interest of the u.s. for everybody to see through it that they are educated and integrated in this society, if you do not think that makes sense, than as my mother would say, you are biting your nose off to spite your face. we should be investing. i wrote an article for atlantic about what was going on about having to restore the soul of america, and why things are in such bad shape in america. a guy i became friends with wrote a book about the soul of america. bestseller. yes, john beauchamp. -- john meecham. i spoke to over 84,000 people on the book tour. the company wanted me to show up in the cities with large crowds. they bring in other authors to question me about the book, ask me about the book. i talked to merrcham. -- meecham. he said i thought what happens is you could defeat. you could defeat prejudice. city that is over 60% black, a state that is the 8th highest population of african americans in america, a total of 19.8% of my state is african-american. that is how i got involved in politics, because i got involved in the civil rights movement as a kid, high school and college. when i came home from law school, when i graduated was when dr. king was assassinated. the only other political hero i uncle whoas a woman's just endorsed me, and her name is kennedy. bobby kennedy. home and i had a job with a white shoe offering, they called it. it was a very prestigious firm. i was lucky to have gotten the job. but you take the bar exam to become a lawyer in late september, you get admitted in january. what happened was after dr. king was assassinated, my city was the only one in american history since the civil war occupied by the military for 10 months with bayonets down every corner. say,as my wife would google it. i could not do what i was doing. and i quit and became a public defender. i used to interview people down on front street. the east side of the town was burned down. if you ever ride up i-95 when you go on the east coast, you go through delaware, that was all burned out. another part called east lake. i thought these would never, ever get better. i interviewed my clients down there before they would be rearranged. still in that, same platform at the train station. man toiting for a black come 27 miles from philadelphia to pick me up, while 10,000 people were down below wedding along the tracks to take me to washington to be sworn in as vice president. i called my three children up. my other son,eau, hunter. and my daughter who is a social worker. i said do not tell me things cannot get better. i never thought we would ever be in this place. this is the very place i did the interviews. here i am waiting for barack obama, a black man to pick me up to be sworn in as president and vice president. i thought, god, things had changed. what i didn't realize is hate does not go away. it only hides. it hides under rocks. when i saw those folks coming charlottesville, not a joke, i decided, god -- and m eecham is right. he talked about it only hiding. it is in the first third of his book. there's a picture of over 30,000 ku klux klan members in full garb marching down pennsylvania avenue in 1924. you know what for? to stop catholics like me from being able to come to the country, because catholics were going to pollute the country. thegnificant influx after 1950's when the famine was in ireland. you had a significant number of people after world war i coming to the u.s. then 37 members of the house who were open members of the click looks clint. seven members of the senate -- members of the ku klux klan. seven members of the senate. every denomination. both political parties, led then by a republican president saying this has to stop. we have to stop it again. we have to stop it again, because that is happening. president has ever done as overtly as what this president has done to try to divide us on race, religion, and ethnicity. we will stop it. god love you all. 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