[applause] good afternoon, everybody. Hello. So on behalf of the center for Civic Engagement here in new england college, it is my pleasure to introduce to you to president ial canada and United States senator, Amy Klobuchar. [applause] amy is the first woman to be elected to the United States senate in minnesotas history, and she has a wellknown reputation of getting things done while she is there. A recent study has actually ranked her the most effective democratic senator in the last United States congress. [applause] she is committed to improving the lives of families in the heartland, ensuring that kids that grew up in Rural America can stay in Rural America. And without spreading lies or spreading the blame, amy is focused on getting things done and making sure families lives are improved every day. When she first came to congress, our number one ask was to be on the Senate Agricultural committee, and she understands that this country has to do more to support our beginning farmers, funding for rural Energy Programs and conservation. [applause] shes also fighting for issues we all care about here in New Hampshire as well, infrastructure, healthcare, our Public Schools, Mental Health and addiction. She understands the challenges and opportunities we face here and is taking action to make a a real difference for our families. And best of all, we all know she can bring democrats up and down the ballot with her. She has won every Congressional District in minnesota, and all three have statewide elections. And last year she won 42 of the role counties that trump one in 2016. With him at the top of the ticket, minnesota democrats took back the house, flipped two congressional seats and one every statewide election. [applause] and now amy is fighting for every american. So please, help me give a warm welcome to the senior senator from minnesota and candidate for the presidency of the United States, Amy Klobuchar. [applause] there we go. Look at that. Thank you. Its a a good time to be nameda pilgrim. Okay. Im going to maybe put this right over here. Thank you. And i want to thank come first of all, trevor so much pick is actually a fellow with our office, which he didnt add in his introduction but we really have appreciated his work while he is a student here, and so thank you for that. But also where is wayne who helped put this together . Thank you so much. Thank you for watching that whole debate two days ago. I appreciate that, and Scott Merrick right over here, the state director. We are proud his work, too. This is actually my first big event since the debate, so we were in new york yesterday and did some things in new york, but its great to be back in New Hampshire. But we learned a little bit from the last time when after that debate in columbus we literally got on a plane. I had through our sleep and i can do New Hampshire and it can counties in 30 hours. That was a great plan, scott. But this time i will try doing a little differently. It is so fun to be here and see all the good work youre doing, and especially with thanksgiving break coming up, that there are teachers and students, thank you for coming in this rainy day, and what a great crowd we have here. I love this state. You know, minnesota and New Hampshire have a lot in common. We both have a lot of lakes and forests. You may be have mountains we dont have, but we have one really cool thing in common, that is that we are only a handful of states that has the wisdom to send not one but two women to the u. S. Senate. Jeannie and maggie are actually some of my best friends in the senate. A few of you have heard this before but maggie and i compete for the near times many crossword puzzle every morning, and when she gets a really good time, sometimes i see email from her telling me she got it done in 28 seconds before it actually see the puzzle. But she is an incredible person and its there interesting, you have the only two women, the first two women in the history of the United States out of New Hampshire who served both as governor and senator. And jean who i think you all know is up for election this time, and i go way back. I actually when she first got, got to know her when she was campaigning nationally for various president ial candidates and we stayed at the house on vacation with family but one of my most wanted memories of gene is i was sitting next to her when she first got to the senate and she said to me, we were talking about senator brown just wrote a book and i just started reading it, its a good its about his desk in the senate its called desk 88 and it is about the people who have had that desk. I told jean pfister have high how i have requested Hubert Humphrey this. She said really, how do you know whos desk it is . They signed it but heres what happened to be. I asked for it and in a few much they all look alike, right . Im all excited, i open it up and it says Gordon Humphrey from New Hampshire. They had given me the wrong task. But even by that time in the senate i had learned that you pick your battles, and so i actually just decided well, i guess i will read up on Gordon Humphrey. I was telling jean that story and then she said let me look at it. I said okay. I open up the desk and what he didnt know when the new congress had arrived, which of course included her, they changed at my desk and i then had and still have Hubert Humphreys desk, which is a great thing. He was this incredible happy warrior. I have this picture in our front office and its a reminder to me and maybe to all of you that no matter how hard things get, as they were this week with that impeachment hearing and thinking of those public servants, fiona hill yesterday, oh, my god, and i read somewhere this week, strong womens leadership that you can see on display with fiona hill as well as ambassador giovanna which i personally know, ambassador marie yovanovitch, have brought the family, come over here and he was talking to his dad and he said dont worry, this is a country where its okay to tell the truth. And so through all of this this week and i get to this in a minute, i think it is really important to remember theres a lot of good people that are standing up for america including those ones that testified this week, that believe in what my friend john mccain always used to say, that theres nothing more liberating than a cause greater than yourself. Thats what they did this week when they testified. I think its also good to remember that theres a whole lot of citizens out there who, when you look in this next election and you put in this context, that for them this election yes, its an economic check, im sure will have to discussions today about that and policies like you saw at the debate this week, but it is also a patriotism check, of values check on this president as we go into this election. When you look at those people who previously voted for donald trump and then voted for the new governor of kentucky, so that Mitch Mcconnell now has a democratic governor, or you look at what happened in virginia where we can put up a slate of diverse candidates all over the state and we switch both the house and the senate, something is going on. So my message to you right here from the start is very profound. We cant screw this up. We cant, because we have this opportunity to put together this team across the country that believes truly in their hearts that what unites us is a good than what divides us. We cannot eat by a victory with one state, even if it is New Hampshire. We cant do that. We have to win big and we have to win across the country so that people are going to be able to sit across each other at a thanksgiving table again and talk, and not just get mad at each other. Because this president has really fueled these divides. He does it all the time. He goes after immigrants, treats them like political ponds. He goes after people of color, people who dont agree with him. He literally makes mincemeat of our democracy and let others to make mincemeat of our democracy. When you think of this patriotism that at its core, the state does a lot about that. You produce a lot of incredible veterans through the years. You have produced ambassadors. You have given us some incredible political leaders, including the ones you have in congress right now, that have always seen their roles as just a little bit bigger than what they have to do for the own neighborhood. They had seen a bigger neighborhood, that includes our country and includes our world. That is really on display right now. I was thinking about this the other day when i thought about how fiona hill, after last night, how she was making it very clear that this whole theory that ukraine was semitrying to interfere in our elections wasnt just wrong. Okay, its wrong. That didnt happen. We know the facts are there. We know the fbi director and President Trumps on National Security people have all said that it was russia that did this. They said it under oath. They all, every single one of them have said this because ive been at the hearings. So we know its wrong, but what she said yesterday was so important. Its not just wrong. They are actually furthering a a hoax. The furthering something that russia wanted us to believe, and still wants us to believe that its not true. That gets to the patriotism piece of this. You think about the fact that thousands of people from New Hampshire has died fighting for democracy. Hundreds of thousands of americans have died fighting for our democracy on the battlefield. Four innocent little girls died at the height of the Civil Rights Movement in that church in birmingham, alabama, they just commemorated the anniversary of that tragic, tragic bombing. Those four little girls died as innocence because people trying to pull back on democracy. They wouldnt extend the rights of our democracy. This has always been about a more Perfect Union. It never was a Perfect Union from the beginning. Thats why visit in the constitution we strive for a more Perfect Union and we cannot afford to go backwards. So at its core and would when we get into all the details of the issues you all know are important and youre so good at it New Hampshire, my favorite New Hampshire story was this 11yearold boy named quinn who i met on Easter Sunday at a church who came up to me during the service we will talk later, quinn. Animated of the social and he continues to appear, and by the way of the candidates events. This incredible kid. One of the questions he asked me at an event was when the mueller testament was going on, do you think would be better for mueller to testify in house or senate first, and should it be before the intelligence or judiciary committees . So i am well aware of the detailed knowledge of New Hampshire voters, but i think we cannot forget what this is about. I was reminded about actually when we were in berlin and would get an event similar to this, and of equitable economic sort of points about what we needed to do economically to help their town and help your state and theyve had some closures up there at a think they heard a lot of that, and then we started doing questions and it literally went off the rails in a really good way. It was about a month ago. Their questions were all about how does this impeachment proceeding work . What should we do . What happens in the first house . It was one of those moments okay, these people have fallen on hard times, some of them are out of work, some of them are retired and there they are and they still cared so much about this. It wasnt some gotcha moment. They were trying to figure it out. If you dont believe me one of them said to the other, its kind of like a law and order tv show. You know, the first half to gather the evidence and the second half its the corporate i said okay, but its not criminal, but it is that when you think about it, its that way. I want us to remember this moment in time. As i just mentioned the only way well get all the stuff that is if we win big. But lets say we win big and what do we want to do . Went of the things ive done is put out 100 day plan. Because i i think its really important given what this president has done that we immediately switch over to another way of thinking as citizens. When you look at the first hundred day plan for an american president , it was fdrs and, of course, we were in the middle of an economic crisis by the understood the trust crisis we were in. People didnt trust their leaders. People didnt trust business, their government leaders. Thats why he thought it was so important to shake things up right away. So if you have time you should look up on her website and we should start passing these things round but we found over 100 things, we add things, 130 what . Okay, tommy, thats a really weird thing you know the exact number, 136 things that we could do in the first 100 days. Some of it is proposed legislation which i committed to do, some of which i committed to very strongly did that in the first year. But a lot of the things i things we could do without congress. I love conquers and im going to work with Congress Better certainly done this president and i will have a unique way of working with congress because ive been able to work across the aisle, passing over 100 100 bills myself as the lead democrat. What we have to remember are some things we can get done right away. That includes the issue of Climate Change, existential crisis of our time. This president has not only not helped us, hes gone backwards on it. California was trying to get those gas mileage standards that president obama had proposed another Car Companies that were going to do. A bunch of those Car Companies working with california, including ford to get that done, they supported it and the Trump Administration literally stopped their state doing from what the Card Companies wanted to do, and worse. Threatening them with antitrust violation for working with california to get this done. So what can we do without congress wrecks number one thing on Climate Change we could do without congress is get ourselves back into the international Climate Change agreement. [applause] when the president took us out of this agreement there were only two countries that were not in it and that was nicaragua and syria. Now they are both in the agreement. So were the only one. They clean power rule, something that was very well negotiated over the years during the Obama Administration into depth on the cutting room floor when the Trump Administration comes in. We can bring those back. As as a niche in the gas mileage standards. President can do that herself without i keep doing this, one of my messages on the debate was we have to start thinking of thinks differently. When i suggested we play the game how many, what is your favorite woman president im kidding. And so it is really important that people envision this differently. The gas mileage standards and then sweeping legislation to put a carbon price after. I think one of the things that happen is people start thinking this is going to be expensive, and a carbon price will help us pay for any of the economic dislocations that i think well see. There will be some forms of energy that will be facing out and new ones coming in. I dont think that will be an even match. You cant expect all the Green Energy Jobs will go to one place and thats why i suggested incentives for manufacturing of any kind and other types of jobs for the areas that we will see some job changes as was making sure people can afford energy. We can do this. We just have to be really smart about how we do it. I was thinking of the night i think a things in the head and also my heart and for me this is very important because my family came from northern minnesota, and we have iron ore mines up there which i been working very hard over the years to make sure you keep going and that makes steel. So those are still going strong now. At one point when they were closing down there was a billboard outside of duluth that said last one to leave, turn out the lights. They literally turned the billboard. Now duluth is thriving, because of tourism, the port, unique manufacturing, like those cutting boards, things like they make all kinds of things, the town was able to adapt but the town, its not huge, huge town but theyre able to do. Thats why i have hope when i see those things and believe we can make this work with Climate Change and the kind of changes we are going to. Second big challenge we have is healthcare. Have you seen the debates . I personally believe that the best way to get our premiums down is with a nonprofit public option. That is something that president obama wanted to do from the beginning. It creates competition with insurance and its estimated that 13 Million People would see their rates go down. One example with my plan is a family of four making 100,000, would which see their premiums go down by 50 . I think when we look at that we have to actually look at the numbers and how we get there and make sure we do no harm. Right now the Affordable Care act according to the polls is ten ten points more popular than donald trump. It was a major, major reason that people voted in kentucky, because that republican governor having aligned himself against the Affordable Care act and medicaid and those kinds of things, and it made a big difference when our candidate was campaigning on the protections you get with the Affordable Care act. I think trashing and dismantling the affordable Affordable Cared idea. Secondly, pharmaceutical prices, they have skyrocketed. Common drugs like insulin and things like at the pins, remember what happened with that . That was personal for me because my daughter has allergies to certain nets. She carries and epipen with her everywhere so i had a good sense of the prices. Ill try to since you never have one epipen because you have to have one at school and one at home and one with her and then they get old and then they lose one and its really a whole thing. So when those went up, skyrocketed, i personally took that on along with a number of other parents. I was in the u. S. Senate, put me in a good position to do it, but we literally waged a Public Relations and social media campaign, and they had to bring that down with coupons and other things. But not every parent is going to be able to do that for every drug, and thats why i i favore kind of competition that you get when you bring in less expensive drugs from other countries. That would make a huge difference. In my state we can see canada from our porch so we see those prices right there, as well as doing more when it comes to unleashing the power of 43 million seniors to negotiate under medicare. That would make a big difference. [applause] we have other Health Care Issues that could get you in the q a that ive just sort of i think its more important that we be focusing some of these other things if you want to look to the future. Mental health, one in five americans struggle with Mental Health. And yet i dont think the word has hardly come up on the debate stage except maybe ive done it once or maybe someone else did. That would be a good discussion for our country to have. Addiction, this is personal for me because my dad struggled with alcoholism my whole life growing up. By the time john and i got married yet three dw i pp had a choice, treatment or jail. He picked treatment and it changed his life. Since then he has been sober, after struggling before with treatment when it didnt work. So i kind of saw that effective tough love but it would change his life and our life and he is now 91 and in assisted living and as he said to me a year ago, when his aa group was visiting, its hard to get a a drink arod it anyway. But his life changed and i think of the people should have that same right to be pursued by great college, since the writer in a college, i believe we should be putting our money into the future of our kids and that we should be focusing on people that need it the most. That includes helping kids i doubling health grants come Something Like 50 , is that right, 51 of the kids at this college or on pell grants. Thats not loans but their actual grants. Right now, this is for the students that are listening and families, its set at 6000 per unit can imagine the difference if we double it to 12,000 a year. That would make a big difference, and what if we took the income level, i can see you back their liking that, what if we took the income level which is now set at 80,000 a year and put it at 100,000 a year . That within expand it to allow more families to use those grants and to use those grants at qualified institutions whether they be public or private. Im picking that plan because i think it helps to get the money where it should go, to a struggle back colleges and universities, colleges like this that help the students where they are and think would make the most sense. Also think we have the Fastest Growing jobs right now, one and two year degrees thats why favor making those Community College degrees free but we also know theres going to be huge amount of jobs out there for kids that get the four year degrees and beyond. We have to look at the areas where we need workers right now. We are not going to have a shortage of ceos. We are going to have a shortage of plumbers in this country. We are going to have 74,000 openings for electricians. We are going to have over a million openings for Home Healthcare workers and we were going to have a lot of openings for the students here in those areas of technology and science and healthcare. And so the more we can create incentives for kids to use their fouryear degrees to get into areas where we know the jobs are, the better off were going to be and thats what i would tie the loan forgiveness for people of course to go into public service, the first thing i would do is get rid of betsy devos. [applause] because she has really messed up this program for the loan payment. Its this Tenure Program that you could expand this program to include these in the event jobs, and the forever else of course you would be able to reduce the Interest Rates for loan payments. I figured if multimillionaires can refinance their yachts, students should be able to refinance their loans. [applause] that is my plan. And i realize there are other plans out there worth considering. I am very concerned about free college for all. As you know that is not free college for all. Its focused on the Public Schools which my plan would cover in a big way but it also would mean that wealthy kids would get free college, too. And Something Like 10 of the kids at those public colleges are from families that make over 200,000 a year pick so it is not actually as smaller percentage as you would think. I know it sounds good on a Bumper Sticker. As i sit at the debate, i am not for something just because it looks good on a Bumper Sticker and im not going to throw a free car in, too, which i know might not be a a popular thingo say with students by think students are really smart and they give them the credibility to be able to see through this. Because we have to make sure we are not putting more debt on the shoulders of our kids. Because thats what were doing now. The world we are leaving our kids now is a world that the climate is changing and its the students of this country, this generation, thank god, that standing up and saying no, were not going to take this. It is the students of this country that would inherit this ever escalating debt that President Trump is letting it worse and worse on a daily basis including with his tax bill which added over 1 trillion in debt. I did not not vote for it. I was not close of voting for. We went down to a lago and told his wealthy friends you just got a lot richer, i think that told us all where his heart is. The debt, the climate, gun safety, what were seeing with gun violence and we just saw i can at another high school, thats whats happening right now. I guess i will end with this because i think one of the most Amazing Things right now is the way young people are standing up like never before. For me it started the day after the inauguration. By the way ive always, when i first started campaigning for the Senate Member going to the university of minnesota with a big blow it up a check of student loan Interest Rates and how much it was like three students, hey, yeah. Theres been a market change over the last decade with student involvement, that is not just politicians and we had to get young people. Its young people leading the way. It was young people that led the way to get the Political Movement to get gay marriage. That happen. It was young people. It was young people that led the way when barack obama was just whatever you say how could someone with the name weve never heard of be able to be president . It was young people. By the way, i like weird names for president i think thats a good thing. It was young people and it is these causes of Climate Change and gun safety and College Affordability where young people leading the way a can. You saw it in the Midterm Election where they voted at higher levels than they had before, but most significantly you also saw it after parkland where those kids stood up in florida and then those kids motivated of the kids, and they started talking to their dads and their grandpas and that led to the election of some incredible new members of congress. Those members of congress are the ones that passed universal background check and all of those bills that are now sitting in the stack on Mitch Mcconnells desk. So i really got around to where i started which is if you want to get these things done, we cant just win by a little. We had to win big. We have to be the kind of country where we can have several disagreements but know that what unites us is bigger than what divides us. I think i will just and since i am at this college, reminded us where we started from, the day after the inauguration we had millions of people march all over this country peacefully, in record numbers that we had never seen before. The day after that, 6000 women signed up to run for office. That happened. On day nine when that antimuslim order came out, that refugee band, people spontaneously showed up at airports all over this country. Who does that on a saturday night . But people did that. Day 100 my favorite march, the march for science. My favorite sign can what do we want science . Wind we wanted . After peer review. Into the summer when republicans were trying to repeal the Affordable Care act, and all at the time 48 fighting democrats stood together from bernie to joe manchin and we said no, because we stood together we were joined by three republicans including senator mccain who said no, and we won that effort. They did not take people off of their health insurance. We did that. [applause] you go into that following summer when they first glimmers of hope since Donald Trumps election and into the fall when these legislative races were up, my personal favorite was the guy from new jersey who would it se date of the womens march, i hope it will be home in time to make dinner. That guy got defeated by an africanamerican woman. That happened. [applause] and then you go to parkland and the young people, and what happened there where they just said no, we are not going to take it, and he started marching and kept that march going into the last Congressional Election where literally we took the house of representatives and turned it into the peoples house again. We had what happened is last few weeks. I mean, it is an exciting thing to be a part of because we are literally reclaiming our democracy right in front of our eyes. So anyone who thinks this is a time to just stay home because you get mad about Donald Trumps tweets, dont do that. You can be part of something much bigger. So i hope for those of you who are committed to our campaign, thank you. For those of you who are just thinking about it because you live in New Hampshire and its considered a positive when someone comes up to you and says you are now in my top three. If you are one of those people, commit today. Commit today. Let me tell you why. We are on the rise. We are on the rise. Since the debate we raise money in record numbers. I think we raised 2 million, 2. 1 million in six days online from regular people. We have had gone up in the pol, doubled here, doubled there. I am now i think five and a number of these polls nationally. Okay, six, yankee. [laughing] see what i mean . And i have i and five, so there. But we are going up and this is an electorate what i think Something Like, the been on where you are, 6070 of people actually have not made a decision yet. Why . Because they want to make sure what i sit at the beginning, we dont screw this up. They want to make sure with someone at the top of the ticket you could win. We had this incredibly inspired base of people that started marching the day after the inauguration, and then organize and voted in record levels ever since. We also have to bring in those people who stayed home. We have to bring in or voted for donald trump, 10 of the people who voted for him, and rough estimate, voted for barack obama. The people are out there. They are people like the guy in a close down factory that i met who showed me this, it was a coat rack that had the 18 uniforms of the people that used to work there that got messed up because of the trade war and other decisions with oil we first. He said, look, these are my friends. Im the last worker working here because my job is just to maintain the equipment but ive kept all these uniforms on this coat rack. They said, derek and salvador and he said, i kept these names and these uniforms because maybe they could come back. Or it was this other guy i met in my state, as was about a year and half ago, who told me after the needy left, he said, you know, we made a mistake. I thought he meant it was something i did, okay. But he was talking about himself as we because he didnt feel comfortable saying i. He said we made a mistake. I was mad and we voted for donald trump. And then he said, and then i saw that right after that inauguration the cia wall, and that was when trump had stood in front of the wall, probably not the first thing on your mind, but it was on his, with all the stars of the anonymous patriots who had died in the line of duty. And he gave a political speech in front of that wall. Then he said, i was a boy scout, and when he gave the boy scout speech, another political speech, to a bunch of young people, he said that was it. And he started to cry and he said i am never doing that again, never. Then there was a guy in New Hampshire and a line, an event where some reason everybody was wearing the stickers. Youve probably seen, im a Supreme Court voter. One of them said im a Climate Change voter. This guy comes up and hes wearing a brown jacket and for a joke i said you would not wearing a sticker. And he said yeah, because i voted for donald trump. I was a Donald Trump Voter but they dont know. Because he knew some of the people there. Dont tell them pick and im like okay, i wont tell them. And he goes, but im not doing it again. I want us to remember its not just about the campaign. Its really about how were going to govern and its about looking people in the eyes so you can talk about it, why he did and why hes not doing it this time. So we get our country back again. Thats what im running for president and thats what i ask for your support. Thank you. [applause] jordan, where is the jordan . Somewhere. Jordan . Youre hiding. Thats why we do cards. You want to ask your question yourself or do you want me to read it . [inaudible] okay. Now you see why because theres a big microphone. Your question was about Mental Health, and as i explain to you, one of the reasons its so personal for me is because i saw my own dad struggle with alcoholism. Another reason its is personas the was a senator from minnesota named and Paul Wellstone who really took this on. His buttons were green. Thats part of why my art. He tragically died in a plane crash way too young but his brother had schizophrenia and so he always talked about how the house was dark. His brother staying is stephen, and the house was dark because they didnt want to tell anyone about it. And after a while they realized that was stopping them from getting help for their son and for the brother. They finally did. And i met pauls brother a few time and that changed his life. When he got to the senate he started working with senator kennedy and with the republican congressman who used to be from my state named jim ramstad on Mental Health parity. Thats something that Patrick Kennedy has now taken on. That is decide if if youre going to have Insurance Coverage for physical illness, it shoud also cover Mental Illness. So that lot actually passed but theyre still been problems with implementing it and giving the rules. I know as president , and pauls name i will get this done. I took on eating disorders. This is a sad fact, that is the number one cause of death of any Mental Illness for women is eating disorders. That was one that wasnt covered at all, and so we worked, i i found, got three women on the bill with me, two republicans and the and another democrat, and itd been sitting there for 20 years and we got that bill passed a few years ago. That has made a big difference because it means that residence with eating Disorder Treatment can be covered. Thats the first thing and that mostly helps for people with insurance, the more we can do to get discovered, the better off we will be. The second thing we need to do is to make sure that there are enough Public Health beds. And there are not in this country right now. We went smartly from state hospitals to communitybased healthcare but we didnt they get what were going to do when there were more severe cases, and there are a lot of severe cases now. If you dont believe me, there has been a 30 increase in suicides in the United States of america in 15 years. 30 increase. So when you read these stories in the paper or you hear about someone from school or someone you know, this is really happening right now. Some of it is that people are isolated. They are in their phones looking down. Some of it is because they are feeling that there is no one there for them, and so all of this mean we have to step back and look at whats going on. It is especially high with youth, lgbtq, especially high with people in rural areas and especially with veterans. Theres been some horrific suicide in the v. A. Parking lots. The answer is first of all of course prevention, having more counselors in school, having healthcare available particularly and healthcare deserts, which is rural areas where its harder to get places. The second thing is making sure that when people are at a point where they can work again, making sure that we as a society understand that they should be in the workforce and we should figure out a way to get them jobs, especially in states like yours and actually mine that have low unemployment rates. We are in a better place to be able to do that. There are things about hospitals and waivers that we can do to make it better, so that would be a big part of it. Part of this is going to be back to what i was talking about before, is changing the tone of our politics, changing our civic culture so we can talk to each other and look at these things again. This president has not helped on that front. When i was in a small, small town in iowa there was a School Counselor there from a high school of a 650 kids. It was middle and high school. She said during that day she had four kids visit her that at thoughts of suicide. In one day in the school that size. She said theyre all immigrant kids and theyre all afraid their parents were going to be deported everyday and they could handle it anymore. Couldnt handle it anymore. And bringing back some consistency and getting to a point where youre not afraid to turn on tv and see the president. For some of these people theyre actually afraid for good reason that what he says is going to destroy their lives. So, i think its going to be all of our country working together, but its certainly got to start from the top when we talk about how were going to make this a better place to live. All right . Next. Here we go. Okay. Oh, its another outlet we tweeted. Oh, come back, trevor. Yeah, i think we answered that one. Okay. Lets see, college and student loan debt, i think i pretty much talked about that, but i just want you to know i take this seriously. Im the granddaughter of an iron miner who can almost not graduate from high school and middle school because his parents were sick because he had to work and support nine brothers and sisters. He went to work as a teamster. I heard there were some teamsters here. So that was his first job. He pulled a wagon and he was, i think, 14, 15, 16, and then he went to work in the mines, the underground mines his whole life. What he did do is save money in the basement in the coffee can to save money for college for my dad. He went to a two year college and university of minnesota and didnt have debt. My mom grew up in milwaukee, and came to minnesota. These are all union stories, that helped her a lot. She was part of the Teachers Union and taught second grade until she was 70 years old. Someplace in the middle my parents got divorced and she went to teaching and a livable wage helped to support our families at that time. And all of that time she didnt have really loans either. I went to school, i had some loans. But then i met my husband and he had a lot of loans, but i married him anyway, like 60,000 of loans. Which for some of our students right now doesnt seem like much. My husband grew up in a trailer home, five brothers and his parents were devoted to education. But they had six kids. And so, i am i kind of will defy some of the other people running from president , not everyone quite has that story, a story of a family that didnt come from a lot of money and thats why education is so important to me. I just want to be really careful how we do this so when we do it we dont put more debt on your shoulders and make sure, as i said, that were connecting our Education System to the jobs that we have out there, and thats for those jobs that dont pay enough, but we need workers in, lets say Home Health Care workers, weve got to make sure that they are a livable wage, thats why i favor raising the minimum wage, but we also have to make sure theres a safety net for child care and for work family leave and for retirement, and for a lot of young people, they are not going to work at places that automatically have a 401 k or a pension. And actually, we just introduced a bill, chris coons, the senator from delaware and i did. And its an idea for small employers and show how i pay for every single thing i do. This would be 50 cents an hour extra that goes into a savings account. For the parttime jobs, you can do it for even shortterm jobs and you can take it with you, but its kept in a savings account. One interesting thing about it, the first 2500, you can take out every year for emergency expenses, over half the people in this country dont have the 400 to pay for an emergency room expense or some other kind of emergency expense. And so, up to a lifetime, it would give you about 600,000 that would help to supplement Social Security and those kinds of things. Not enough people are talking about retirement. You all know were having a graying of our population, which is a good thing, because people are living longer. That means we should planning for the workers to help people when theyre growing older and helping for the housing. Is with an at a Senior Center recently in New Hampshire and we should be planning for savings and if we dont do that, the young people out there are going to get really screwed and so, i keep trying to make clear that we just cant appeal to people in this Campaign Based on their now. We have to be thinking ahead. There was an owe jibway that great leaders think great for this generation and seven generations from now. And our problem, we have a president that cant keep his decisions for seven minutes from now and we need to think for the longterm. Okay. Or maybe a tweet. Okay, why are you the candidate that can defeat President Trump . This is from lee from mt. Vernon. Where are you, lee . Oh, right there. Okay. Oh, background, sure. There you go. [laughter] so ii new resident in New Hampshire and changed, im now a republican identifying as a democrat and my biggest [applause] yeah, my biggest concern is that left to its own devices, he could win. So thats why, when i look at the slate of candidates, im concerned why you should win. And okay, so, first of all, i think we need to have someone that actually can win and thats our number one thing. Youve got to look at the track records of the candidates who are running. When you look at my track record, i would submit its the most interesting and positive one, if you run any kind of predictable line, for being able to bring in those votes. I would actually suggest you call anyone you know from my state, they wont all agree with me and not every one of them have voted for you, but i think they could tell that im fair and thats one of the reasons ive won in record numbers time and time again, including against a sitting congressman when i ran for u. S. Senate and i have done that by going not just where it is comfortable, but by going where its uncomfortable. I have gone to rural areas and spent a lot of time there and i was noted by trevor, ive won 42 counties that donald trump won so i would start with that. The second thing ive done is won big in the suburban areas. When i first started running, our party was not doing well in suburban areas, which are very similar to suburban areas all over this country. I still remember when i was first running for the d. A. Job, i went into one of our suburban high schools that have traditionally been republican and i thought, well, here i am, its a democratic meeting i was to attend and there were six guys that looked kind of sad, they were sitting in a little room and i said, well, im here and they said, amy, this is the Winter Golf Club of minnetonka and the democrats are around the corner and i went around the corner and there were 250 democrats and im like, wow. Thats how things change and many of them were moderate republicans who had, say, voted for one of our former governors, arnie carlson. They were those republicans, but they were starting to get sick, even back then, they were starting to get tired of the rhetoric and pushing people out of the Republican Party because they didnt agree with them on certain issues. I think youve seen that reach a pinnacle with President Trump. So when i look at my record, i am someone thats always bought those voters with me and ive done it time and time again, and my state, northern minnesota has Steel Workers and teamsters and kind of like a pennsylvania, western pennsylvania type voting group. The iowa border and the north and south dakota border is very rural and then there is in the middle the rural district of Michele Bachmann and ive won every one of those republican districts three times in a row now, Congressional Districts. There are rural Congressional Districts and ive done it by getting there and this last election took, when i led the ticket for the third time we flipped the Republican House democratic and we also flipped two of those suburban congressional seats. And what does it mean . Well, we actually have had some really smart fiscal policy in our state. One of my favorite memories a knew years ago, in the senate that year cnbc voted our state for your knowledge the best state to do business in and i remember i went up to ted cruz and said, hey, i dont know if you saw this. And so, weve just brought some sandy back to our government and cohesiveness in our state. And so, i think that way of being is really important if you want to bring these people in and if you want to win in those states that donald trump won. Pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin, iowa, ohio, i would target those, as well as the almost won state of minnesota. And ive said when ive been in those states im going to build a blue wall around those states and make donald trump pay for it. Thats the plan. And so thats really the hard core. Obviously, New Hampshire is donald trump did not win New Hampshire, maggie was on the ballot and did a great job organizing people and actually hillary had a healthy margin of victory compared to a state like mine, honestly. Thats a healthy margin of victory percentagewise, but it was a hellry margin of victory compared to minnesota which was her smallest margin of victory. Where do you work again . He wont ever say, he just shows he sits in the front row and he corrects me. Hes really good though. But youre right, youre right. [inaudible] yes. [inaudible] okay, i acknowledge that youre not a republican tracker, so thats good, good, good. Okay. Its all good. So he and i have a lot of discussion. Were all good. Were all good. Okay, i was wrong and you were right. No, no, no, youre right. So and thats why oh, thank you. [inaudible] rather and you and me debating. The republican platform is to overturn roe vs wade. I never heard you say anything about abortion rights, planned parenthood, access, i didnt hear a word and im waiting and waiting. Okay, okay, i think probably because i just talked about it on the debate stage, i had just made a big point of it and i try to talk about it whenever i can and maybe there was going to be a question. So i do try to talk about it, incredibly important in this state and Jeanne Shaheen has been a major leader on this and will remind me of this every day. I have always been pro choice. I would codify roe vs wade as president. I am someone that would actually Fund Planned Parenthood and as i pointed out on the debate stage, over 90 of americans support contraception and funding for contraception, over 70 of them support roe vs wade and what this president has done, we were in georgia for that debate, is completely at odds with where the vast majority of American People are. When he was running for president , he actually said that he would it was on an interview with Chris Mathews and he implied that i felt that women should go to jail for exercising their right to choose and then they dialed it back later that day, no, doctors should go to jail. Thats what theyve done with some of the laws, alabama a 99 year sentence, a 99 year sentence. And georgia is a theyre just there are laws that are meant to make it so theres no right to choose. So to get back to his question, this is going to be major deciding issue, including for some moderate republicans out there and independents. Because when you look at the judges hes put on the court, when you look at the kind of laws that he is allowing and leading to be past, they are inn innimical to where they stand. I would look at the gag domestic and local, and jeanie when shes one of the leaders on this issue. Ive been a leader of the adoption caucus which i head up and these two things are innimical, a lot of things on international adoption, theyve done nothing to make this easier on families who want to adopt kids and something id take on at the same time. So, thats where i am. I hope that answers it. Okay. Take one more of these here. Okay. Lets see, well, we talked about Climate Change. Lets see, whats your vision to help americans im going in a rapid order, to allow americans to live independently. I think a lot of this is housing and making sure we have housing credits. Making sure we have for people who live in their homes, which we actually thats okay. Which we actually havent gone enough of and i think theres more we can do that, in addition to rejoining the paris accord and the power plan, what more radical plans to have to combat Climate Change . Thats an interesting word. Okay. So as i said, we have to put a price on carbon. I dont want to make you stand here with this thing. We can put a price on carbon, i think that would make a big difference. Is that your question . Yeah, okay. But we can put a price on carbon and we can do that three ways, we can do it with a tax. We can do it with a doing it with a cap and trade which we passed once in the house of representatives or we can do it with a renewable electricity standard and i would work with congress on the best way to do it. Yes. A couple of months ago, we talked about an issue that resonated. Tom steyer game to our town and talked about an issue that resonated with me for a long time and i think its a bipartisan issue, which is the issue of publicfunded elections and the corruption of our election process, returning the government for the people and by the people and of course, Citizens United is part of that, but it goes way beyond that. I think our election process has turned into a fouryear election process, which is exhausting and nonproductive and you look at countries at england where its a six week maximum, which maybe is the other extreme, but you know, its turned into a big money reality, so okay, very good. Im just trying to take a deep breath because hes got a lot of money i wish i had to pay for his tv ads and done great work on Climate Change, but i would start with that because i just dont think that you should be able to have billionaires to have unfair advantage in this election, i dont. And so everyone has the right to run, but the issue is, you want to have the best candidate that can win and beat donald trump and so when i look at this, i dont think that people look and say, okay, Donald Trumps a multimillionaire, i want someone richer that can beat him. I actually think whoever our candidate is were going to be able to get the funding to moron that match donald trump because youve seen that with a number of these races all across the country. Because there are so many people interested in helping. I would prefer Public Finance which i think he supports as well. I think that Public Finance would be a solution, its not a solution we have right now. In my state it works really well and we should expand it in a much bigger way on the federal level for things like senate races and house races. I think it would make a difference. Secondly, i think that getting rid of all of this Voter Suppression would be the best thing we could ever do. I have long led the bill to register every kid when they turn 18 to vote. That would actually when you get at some of these bad things that have happened in New Hampshire and across the country, that would add 20 Million People to the voter rolls, legally registered. When i was just down in georgia, cory and pete and i sat there and did texts to voters. They are literally contacting a Million People going to be purged off the voter rolls because they havent voted in the last elections, and think how outrageous that is. I have a bill on that as well. Gerrymandering is unfair, New Hampshire and my state have large voter turnouts. Thats not true, youve got to make it easier to vote not harder to vote. Getting the money out of politics is of course not just about Public Finance, its also about Citizens United. I would lead and i feel this in my heart, perhaps you heard me on the debate stage say at one point, i raised 17,000 from my exboyfriend. And i called everyone new in my life because they couldnt pronounce my name and is still an alltime u. S. Senate record. Im not going to reveal that. One of the ways to keep a Good Relationship with my exboyfriend and someone on the plane said, you got that from 17 no, no, not that many. One of them did quite well. The point of the story is that outside money has been incredibly negative for politics. It means that candidates cant control their own message. It means that so that youre not responsible for all of those mean things that are run. And so, thats one thing that we should do and i think if we win big, i want you to picture this, in really conservative districts in minnesota, one that a democrat won last time, congressional. She was running ads of people standing on bales of hay trying to talk and couldnt talk and the message was big interest is blocking your ability to talk. She ran that and won. We need to reach out an in a libertarian way to people when it comes to outside money, outside pharma and outside oil and two lobbyists for every member of congress. Thats a piece of it. The other thing about it is just getting people to want to believe again in our politics. Every day donald trump tries to make you hate government. Weve got to call him on it. Hes trying to make you not vote and bringing in what the impeachment proceeding is about, trying to get foreign powers to try to influence our elections, giving dirt on a political opponent, we now know russia has done. This isnt made up stuff. Just watch fiona hills testimony and watch ambassador yovanovitch. This is happening in realtime. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. Thats where we are right now. So i think our citizens have already been a mavericky group and when they figure out what hes been doing and many have now, theyre going to stand up and say, no, this is my country. 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Org. Well take away from the last few minutes of the meet and greet with Amy Klobuchar to the center of new american security. The live conversation with will roper about to start for Acquisition Technology and logistics. Designing Fighter Aircraft and acquisitions underway by the air force. [inaudible conversations] thank you very much, everyone, for joining us here today. Apologies that were a little behind schedule, but joining me today at my virtual fireside is dr. Will