Mr. Rigell hello, grand rapids. Wow, what a crowd. Than are more people here when donald trump was inaugurated. That will be the first and last time that happens for him. Because we have a president coming that you will meet today that we will elect that will carry michigan on tuesday with your help, and his name is Bernie Sanders. [cheers] i want to thank you for electing me three times to the United States senate, to help lead the fight for jobs and for the middle class. And it is very good to be back here. I also want to thank you for something else, that is my wife graduate of now a grand rapids university. How lucky am i . Anybody here from a union family, the uaw . We lost a great champion a few weeks ago. He will be familiar to some of you. He gave great leadership and came right from here. I am sure he is upstairs watching, because he was a fighter for justice. We just need to keep him in mind, keep his example in mind. A wonderfulrs has Bumper Sticker that sort of says it all in three words it says, not for sale. Not for sale. Not for sale. I want to say it loud enough so that the big shooters on wall street and other places understand that our candidate is not for sale. Because he is your candidate. You are providing the money with your own individual contributions. No pac money goes into the sanders campaign. [cheers] to gety years, we fought Public Financing for president ial campaigns. And they said it could not be done. Until bernie came along, it couldnt. But with your help he has gone out and raised over millions of individual contributions averaging 18 a piece to be a competitive president ial candidate and turned down the special interest sewer money. [applause] as i do, bornynn, and raised there, i know some thing about what happens when you get poisoned water. This political special interest money is like a giant type of sewer money going to candidates. They are not going to this candidate, not to Bernie Sanders, because his campaign is your campaign. This is your campaign. About you. It is about you. Issues i two or three want to mention briefly before he comes out and we will have some special things to say to you. The question about who can win this race really depends on two things, and i will start with the november election to beat trump and get that awful crowd out of the white house, we need a candidate who can win. We need a candidate that can win. And Bernie Sanders, i have been through a lot of elections, he is our strongest candidate in november, make no mistake about it. That is why a lot of people are gaining ganging up on him right now because he knows that you are on his side, you are on his side, and if we stick together we will get him elected president. Tuesday is going to be like 10 minutes from now. Election day, sunday, on tuesday the vote happens. We need every single vote. I cannot tell you how important it is. I remember four years ago in flynn, the last debate. I was with bernie at that time. They said he was 22 points behind. The posters said that. You know what happened when the votes were counted, bernie won the state. He won it with your help. We need every single vote. So i will ask you individually, each and every person here, you have got to make sure that not only you vote, which you will, but everybody in your family, your neighbors, friends. We need votes on that day. That is what will decide this thing. So i cannot stress enough how votetant the get out the effort is, the phone calls you will make, the canvassing, people you will drive to the polls, it all happens on tuesday. Go all out, lets get every single vote to the polls for Bernie Sanders. [applause] now, two issues i want to they arebecause defining issues in this president ial race in the primary season and later down the line. Nafta, theues are mexican u. S. Trade agreement, and i will start with that one because it takes a minute to tell about it and it is important that you know it. When we went into the nafta agreement, some people thought it too thin and nail, i was one. Carl levin was one and Bernie Sanders was the leader fighting against nafta in the house, because we knew what would happen. We knew what would happen and if it got past it would passed it would come in and ripped the guts out of our industrial economy. We have plans closing all over. We said so at the time. We thought it. And fought it. And we voted against it for michigan. But i have to say our friend, joe biden, he voted for nafta. He voted for nafta. [boos] you have to make the right vote at the right time because it is a test of your judgment and in the end judgment relates even to character, because who get to her aunt who gets helped . The big players got helped. The workers of america got shafted with nafta. No more so than in michigan. Come to my home city of flynn, if you want to see how devastated it is. All the moto class families have lost their standard of living as a result. And i want to give you one number to remember and take away. This is our trade deficit with mexico since nafta started, it is 1. 2 trillion. That is with they t. That is what has been vacuumed out of grand rapids, western michigan, eastern michigan, across the industrial base. That is why we are called of the rust belt. Love those jobs went to mexico. Many people made money on that in the United States, but nobody in this group. It was not your families. We paid the price. That was a bad vote. And it had real impact. And it hurt a lot of people. Bernie voted the right way. So did carl levin. And so did i. But joe biden, our friend, did not vote the right way when it really mattered. But think about this one. Think about the iraq war. Some of you have been in that were. Many of you have been touched by it, it was in your families. We lost thousands of thousands of lives, our own soldiers and military people, men and women injured. Many of them killed. And hundreds of thousands of civilians killed in a needless war, in a war that was improperly carried out where we were misled at the very beginning. I was watching that vote carefully in the senate. I had left the senate by that time. God bless him, voted against the iraq war. Debbie, god bless her, she voted against the iraq war. House sanders in the helped lead the fight against the iraq war and voted against the war. Let me tell you a couple other democrats that voted against it. Ted kennedy voted against it. Along with debbie and carl levin. So did robert byrd. So to 20 other democrats. I will tell you who voted for it. Joe biden voted for it. How do you explain that . He is a friend, we know that, but how you vote on the life and death issues, that is the real test of how you think and how you make decisions. And that decision was a terrible decision. In the last election, four years ago, we had a candidate on both those things who voted the same way, voted for nafta and voted for the iraq war. We lost that election to donald trump. I do not want to lose this election to donald trump. We have a candidate that can beat donald trump and he is coming out in a minute. He earns your support by where he has been standing all these years on these life and death issues. He doesnt have to come and explain why he cast a bad vote, because he did not cast a bad vote. He cast the right vote. On tuesday,he vote that is the key. Now i have Something Special to say to you. My notes are blowing around. I have Something Special to introduce. And i want to welcome to the stage the person i think is going to be the next president , and deserves to be the next president , Bernie Sanders. He is going to come up here to make a special introduction himself. Here he is to make that special introduction. [john lennons power to the people playing] rapids whoa. I didnt know there were this many people in grand rapids. [cheers and applause] what i want to do now is Something Different than ive done before. Because today is a special day for me. Im going to just say a few words because i want to introduce somebody who is a hero for me, he is one of the transformative figures in modern American History. Jesse jackson junior [cheers and applause] reverend jackson worked with Martin Luther king. [cheers and applause] Jesse Jackson helped lead the fight against segregation and racism in the south. [cheers and applause] reverend jackson took that fight to the north. [cheers and applause] in 1984 and in 1988, Jesse Jackson put together historical campaigns. And what he created transformed politics in america. What he did as the first major africanamerican candidate in the history of this country. [cheers and applause] was to put together a coalition which he named the Rainbow Coalition. [cheers and applause] and today, we understand what that is, 30 years ago, that was a revolutionary idea. And what he said is that black and white and latino and native american and Asian American have to come together for justice. [cheers and applause] and in 1984, he took on the political establishment. They said you cant win, and yet he ran a brilliant campaign. In 1988, they said you cant win. He ran an even better campaign. He came to vermont, i proudly supported him back then, he won vermont and a number of other states including the state of michigan. [cheers and applause] let me say this, the reverend Jesse Jackson has broken down more barriers than one could even dream of. And in my view, others may disagree with me, but because of all of the racism and all of the barriers that the reverend Jesse Jackson broke down, barack obama was able to become the first africanamerican president. [cheers and applause] if there was no Jesse Jackson, in my view, there would not have been a president barack obama. [cheers and applause] so i just want to thank reverend jackson for his support in this campaign. But mostly, i want to thank him for being one of the great important fighters for justice in the modern history of this country, and it gives me a great deal of pleasure im going to come back in a minute to add a little bit more, but i wanted to just say a few words about somebody who has been a friend of mine for 30 years, who is in fact a Great American hero. Please welcome to the stage reverend Jesse Jackson. [cheers and applause] [aretha franklins respect playing] [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] rev. Jackson lets hear it for bernie one more time. [cheers and applause] this is an historic season in which we are living today. Yesterday marked in 1965, the right to vote, we lived and died together. In that struggle, Mother Teresa was killed. Reverend james reed was killed in the struggle. And we bled. Those who fought to make it happen must not be let down today. [cheers and applause] the right to vote, august 6, 1965, began a revolution of values. The revolution of values. White women couldnt serve on juries. 18yearolds couldnt vote. They couldnt vote on campus. They couldnt vote bilingually. And then there was a new majority. Blacks, latinos, native americans, we are the people. We are the people. [cheers and applause] i stand with Bernie Sanders today because he stood with me. [cheers and applause] i stand with him because his because he never lost his taste for justice of the people. [cheers and applause] i stand with him because he stands with you. [cheers and applause] thank you, jesse [cheers and applause] rev. Jackson ive talked about the firewall, the far wall has firewall has some needs too. In this coalition, the foundation of which black and slavery, fortunately we never lose when we fight together. [cheers and applause] and god has the power to see us through. What do we want today . We want the constitutional right to vote, not just the states s right. [cheers and applause] we want to revive the u. S. Civil rights commission. [cheers and applause] wealth taxorlds gap. [cheers and applause] let them pay their fair share of taxes. 50 billion with just two cents on the dollar. Because this land is our land. [cheers and applause] through silicon valley, this land, we must have a common agenda. We have talked about democratic socialism, what that all means. Democracy is of, for, and by the people. A fair, social, spending budget. [cheers and applause] it has been called the economic bill of rights. Then came social security. Johnson called it war on poverty. Brother king called it job for every american. Roosevelt, dr. King, they were on the right page. And thank god for Bernie Sanders. [cheers and applause] there is a great concern today about the impact of africanamerican women, there should be one on the Supreme Court. [cheers and applause] the real consideration to be on the ticket of the next nominee of our party. [cheers and applause] inclusion leads to growth. When there is growth, everybody wins. Red and yellow, brown, black, and white, we are all precious in gods sight. Everybody matters. Everybody in, nobody out. Everybody in, nobody out. Everybody in health care, nobody out. Everybody in health care, nobody out. Everybody in good education, nobody out. Everybody in decent living wage, nobody out. Everybody in an environment where we can breathe, nobody out. This land is our land. Do not let them discourage us. If you vote as you rally, we win. If you vote, every 18yearold votes this november, and next week, if you are a college , and dont forget i am a collegeere i can choose. I have the right of residency. I am somebody. I am somebody. I am somebody. Respect me. Protect me. Never neglect me. I am somebody. Red and yellow, brown, black, and white, we are all precious in gods sight. If my mind can conceive it, in and my heart can believe it, i know i can achieve it. I can achieve a new world. I must dream, i must dream, and dream, and dream, and i must keep hope alive. Keep hope alive. Keep hope alive. Keep hope alive. Keep hope alive. Never surrender. Keep hope alive. Bernie sanders can win. Will win. Must win. Bernie can win, will win, must win. When bernie wins, health care wins. Love you guys. [cheers and applause] [chanting] [cheers and applause] sen. Sanders let me just say to the reverend jackson, it is one of the owners of my life to be one of the honors of my life to be supported by a man who has put his life on the line for the last 50 years fighting for justice. [cheers and applause] and everything that Jesse Jackson said is what this campaign is about. We are going to do everything humanly possible to wipe out all forms of discrimination in this country. [cheers and applause] we are sick and tired of systemic racism in america. [cheers and applause] we are tired of a wealth gap where white families have 10 times more wealth than black families. [cheers and applause] we are tired of black mothers dying at three times the rate of white mothers. [cheers and applause] we are tired of a Health Care System that does not give care and justice to the africanamerican community. [cheers and applause] so we are united, and i look forward, as president , to working with the Jesse Jackson at my side to make sure [cheers and applause] to make sure that we bring the principles of social justice, economic justice, racial justice, and Environmental Justice that has marked his entire life. [cheers and applause] and today, as the reverend jackson has said, is an historical period in American History. Together we can, we must, and we will defeat the most dangerous president in the history of this country. [cheers and applause] now, you dont have to agree with everything that Jesse Jackson said or that i say to understand that we cannot continue to have in the white house dishonoring our country, someone who is a pathological liar. [cheers and applause] you cannot continue to have in the white house, no matter what your political view may be, somebody who is running a corrupt administration. [cheers and applause] we cannot have in the white house, no matter what your political view may be, somebody who has apparently never read the constitution of the United States. [cheers and applause] somebody who thinks he is above the law [cheers and applause] somebody who is trying to undermine american democracy. [cheers and applause] we cannot have in the white house today somebody who is a racist, who is a sexist, who is a homophobe, who is a xenophobe, who is a religious bigot. Donald trump wants to divide us up based on the color of our skin, where we were born, our religion. [crowd booing] our sexual orientation. [crowd booing] well, we have got news for trump. We are going to beat him because we are bringing the American People together. [cheers and applause] and that is the Rainbow Coalition that Jesse Jackson talked about. [cheers and applause] black and white and latino, native american, Asian American, gay and straight. [cheers and applause] [chanting bernie ] sen. Sanders and we are going to win this election, we are going to win this election because the American People, and this is something Jesse Jackson has been fighting his whole life, are sick and tired of big money interests dominating our political process. [cheers and applause] we believe that democracy is one person, one vote, not billionaires buying an election. [cheers and applause] and that is why we are going to support a constitutional amendment to guarantee Voting Rights for every american. [cheers and applause] we are through with the voter suppression. [cheers and applause] we are through with the excess of gerrymandering. And we are going to move this country to public funding of elections so all people can vote. [cheers and applause] [crowd booing] [cheers and applause] and we are going people say, how do you unify the American People . We are divided. I will tell you how you unify the American People. You give them an agenda that all working people support. Thats how you do it. [cheers and applause] and that agenda says that in the richest country in the history of the world, we are not going to continue to have three billionaires owning more wealth than the bottom half of american society. We are not going to have an economy where the rich become much, much richer, when 500,000 people tonight are homeless in america. [cheers and applause] we are going to raise that federal minimum wage to 15 an hour. [cheers and applause] we are going to have equal pay for equal work. [cheers and applause] and because Jesse Jackson and i, and you, believe in the trade union movement, we are going to make it easier for workers to join unions, not harder. [cheers and applause] we are going to revolutionize education in america. [cheers and applause] universal highquality affordable childcare for every family. [cheers and applause] tripling funding for low income title i schools. [cheers and applause] every kid in america, regardless of the income of his or her family, deserves equality a quality education. [cheers and applause] and we, because we believe in education, we believe in teachers. We need more africanamerican teachers. [cheers and applause] we need more latino teachers. [cheers and applause] we made more special education teachers. [cheers and applause] we want the best on College Campuses all over this country to say with pride, they are going to do some of the most important work, they come teachers, educate our kids. [cheers and applause] and that is why i believe no teacher in america should make less than 60,000 a year. [cheers and applause] and because we believe in education, we believe that every person in this country, regardless of income, should be able to get the Higher Education they need. [cheers and applause] and that is why we are going to make public colleges and universities tuition free. [cheers and applause] you know, 12 years ago, congress, against my vote, voted to bailout the crooks on wall street. [crowd booing] two years ago, trump and his friends gave 1 trillion in tax breaks to the 1 and large corporations. [crowd booing] while, if the right wing can bailout the crooks on wall street, we can cancel all student debt in america. [cheers and applause] for the last 30 years, Jesse Jackson and i have believed that health care is a human right, not a privilege. [cheers and applause] and we are getting closer and closer to that goal. [cheers and applause] we will not continue to be the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to every man, woman, and child. We will not continue a cruel and dysfunctional system in which we spend twice as much as the people in other countries, and yet 87 million of us are uninsured or underinsured, at least 30,000 die each year because they dont get to a doctor when they should. [crowd booing] at least 500,000 people in america go bankrupt because they are struggling with cancer, or Heart Disease or alzheimers. [crowd booing] what kind of system bankrupts people because they are fighting for their lives against a terrible disease . We are going to end that Health Care System. We are going to move to medicare for all [cheers and applause] we have a president who tells us that he is a great genius. [crowd booing] oh, he knows everything about the coronavirus, and he even knows more about Climate Change. [crowd booing] this is a president who believes that Climate Change is a hoax. [crowd booing] well, we believe that donald trump is a hoax. [cheers and applause] you ready for a radical idea . This looks like a radical audience. You ready . All right. Hold on, i dont want anybody fainting. Our administration will believe in science. [cheers and applause] not right wing extremism. And what the scientists are telling us is that Climate Change is an existential threat. That is a big word. But what it means is in terms of the climate, our country and the whole world are fighting for our lives. What the scientists are telling us, if we do not act boldly and aggressively, major cities in america, by the end of this entry, will be underwater of this entry, will be underwater. Farmers in the midwest cannot grow the food we need. We are talking about more and more extreme weather disturbances. Flooding. We are talking about at the end of the century, hundreds of millions of people worldwide becoming climate refugees, not able to live in their own communities because theres no water to drink or land to grow their crops. Whether the fossil fuel industry likes it or not, we are going to transform our Energy System away from fossil fuel. To Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Energy under the principles of a green new deal. [cheers and applause] we can create up to 20 million good paying jobs making that transition, and that is what we have got to do. And because Climate Change, as all of you know, is not just an american issue, it is by definition a global issue, as president , my job will be to reach out to the people of china who are already hardhit by Climate Change, to reach out to the people of india also hardhit by Climate Change, pakistan, brazil, countries all over the world, and make the case that maybe, just maybe, at this vital moment, unprecedented moment in American History world history, that may become a just maybe, instead of spending 1. 8 trillion a year on weapons of destruction designed to kill each other, maybe we should pull our resources, fight our common enemy, which is Climate Change. [cheers and applause] and when we talk about the issues impacting the American People, together, we will and a broken and racist end a broken and racist criminal justice system. This is america. We should not and will not have more people in jail than any other country on earth including china. [cheers and applause] and those people are disproportionately africanamerican, latino, native american. We are going to invest in our young people in jobs and education, not jails and incarceration. [cheers and applause] we are going to end private prisons and detention centers. We are going to end cash bail in america because 400,000 people are in jail right now. [cheers and applause] i will tell you what else were going to do, we are going to end the destructive war on drugs. [cheers and applause] it turns out, as all of you know, there are some things a president can do by executive order. Other things you need. Legislation. One of the things you can do by executive order, turns out, is to legalize marijuana in every state in this country. [cheers and applause] and that is what i intend to do. [cheers and applause] and the other thing we are going to do, let me ask all of you a question, how many people here know somebody arrested for possession of marijuana . We are going to move to expunge the records of those arrested. [cheers and applause] and when we talk about justice and decency in america, we are going to bring about fundamental Immigration Reform. On day one, we are going to restore the legal status of the 1. 8 million young people and their parents eligible for the daca program. [cheers and applause] we are going to end a border policy, which allows federal agents today to snatch babies away from their parents and separate families. [cheers and applause] and we will accomplish what should have been done a long time ago. And that is comprehensive Immigration Reform and a path towards citizenship. [cheers and applause] every american, no matter what his or her political view, is disgusted and horrified by the level of gun violence in america. My promise to you is we will pass the most sweeping comprehensive gun safety legislation in the history of this country. [cheers and applause] donald trump and the Republican Leadership in congress are intimidated by the nra. [crowd booing] our administration will not be intimidated by the nra. [cheers and applause] we are going to pass universal background checks. People who have engaged in violence, including Domestic Violence [cheers and applause] should not own guns. We are going to end the gun show loophole. And among many other things, we are going to do with the American People today want, end the sale and distribution of assault weapons in this country. [cheers and applause] now, im a United States senator, and im on the floor of the senate often, hearing speeches from conservative republicans. And that is a painful experience. But im paid to do it, i do it. But, if you listen to these conservative republicans, their mantra is that they believe in small government. They believe in getting the government off the backs of the American People. We have heard that about 10 million times. While, i say to those hypocrites, if you believe in getting the government off the backs of the American People, understand that it is women who have the right to control their own bodies, not the government. [cheers and applause] [chanting bernie ] sen. Sanders heres my promise to you, i will never nominate anybody to the Supreme Court or the federal bench who is not 100 pro roe v. Wade. [cheers and applause] we will fight to codify roe v. Wade, put it into law. [cheers and applause] donald trump and his friends want to cut funding for planned parenthood. [crowd booing] well, we have some very bad news for them, because we are going to significantly increase funding for planned parenthood. [cheers and applause] now, what reverend Jesse Jackson has spent his whole life talking about and what i believe is that campaigns like this are not about me, its about us. [cheers and applause] it is about understanding that we are more human, we are better human beings when we care for each other. [cheers and applause] when we dont turn our backs on human suffering, because ultimately, every family in america, trust me, has its share of problems. We are in it together. [cheers and applause] my family has got to care about your family. Your family has got to care about my family. That is how we pull together for all of us. [cheers and applause] and the other point about us, not me, is this campaign is of course about a president ial election. But it is about more than that. It is about creating a movement. [cheers and applause] because let me tell you what no other president ial candidate will ever tell you, not know president , not Bernie Sanders or anybody else, can do it alone. [cheers and applause] when you are taking on the greed of wall street, when we are taking on the greed of the insurance industry, one we are taking on the greed of the pharmaceutical industry, when we are taking on the greed of the fossil fuel industry, when we are taking on the greed of the militaryindustrial complex, and the greed of the prison industrial complex, and the greed of the whole 1 , the only way we win in 1988, Jesse Jackson won the state. 2016, i won the state. And on tuesday, if we stick together. If we bring our friends out to vote, we will win it again. Sisters, let us go forward, lets win the democratic nomination. Lets defeat trump. Lets transform this country. Thank you all very , we havees out the day thedidate who was middle class, we are going to win that election. For those who have been knocked down, counted out, much behind, this is your campaign. The president ial primaries and caucuses continue on tuesday for six states including idaho, michigan, mississippi, north dakota and washington. Watch our campaign 2020 coverage of the candidate speeches and results tuesday evening live on cspan, cspan. Org or listen from wherever you are on the free cspan radio app. Response to the go to cspan. Org coronavirus. You can find all of our coverage including hearings, briefings and review the latest events anytime at cspan. Org coronavirus. John on newsmakers this week, our guest is the Ranking Member of the House Select Committee on the climate crisis, Louisiana Republican garret graves. And joining us in studio today to help with our questions, Washington Post business and Climate Change reporter steve mufson, and ben hulac, who covers congres and the environment for cq roll call. Ben hulac, you have the first question. Ben good morning, congressman. Rep. Graves good morning. Ben give us a sense of where the money from the coronavirus package is headed in the house. The house allocated 8. 3 billion yesterday. Where is that money going and why does it seem like it takes a