Hi, everybody. Its great to be in nevada. I said it right, please make note. This is i think what, the fourth, fifth city weve been in in the last few days since announcing. Its been an exciting entry into the race. Ive been getting some tough questions from you, and others and appreciated. The welcome has been very warm. Its a terrific field as you all know of marvelously talented, in many cases friends and everyone of them is a great public servant. Im hoping to have a chance to compete in every state and speak to every voter. We were delighted in the first couple of hours of our website going out we had volunteers identify themselves from every one of the 50 states. We look forward to leveraging that kind of engagement right through the primary. Im glad to be here, and thank you for taking the early because i think i am the last one to speak. You are probably all ready to injure day by then. Questions . How do you navigate a few of this large especially coming in late . Im not going to get into the strategy but i can tell you two things. First of all i would have come in a year ago. That was the plan, two weeks or so before we were ready to launch as i think some of you, my wife was diagnosed with uterine cancer and im really ready grateful to be able to say she is cancer free today. I still thought i might just get behind another candidate but ive had so much encouragement from so many quarters. I think in some ways its the most moving kind of encouragement, people ive never met just talk over the fence. I looked hard at whether there was a path. Im confident there is a path. Everyplace ive been so far ive been assured by others on the ground that there is a path and we will be building over time, but i did, we want to be respectful of everybody and we want to be respectful of the process, and i also want to say, it gives me an opportunity to make another point. I want folks to know that from my perspective, voters and citizens are not just important in the states or the contests that political people think of and talk about as important. This campaign and i think is an opportunity to bring people together. Ive lived a life and profession thats been about that, and with People Engagement and their help, if i serve i intend to serve as the president of united states, not just the president of the democrats. You said you did not care about proclivity. You mentioned that a couple days ago. I didnt say i didnt care. You said you were not trying. Can you clarify that . Sure. First of all, i think the threshold requirements are participating in the debates are enormously important. Im going to be trying to meet this requirement just as quickly as possible. What i said, and i said this only have facetiously. Im watching the debate. Ive also commented on the debate on the air. Im sure if its something you want to aspire to because the format is just really, really hard as a means to communicate with the public. Ill give you one example. We have every candidate in the field, i believe, committed to delivering universal care being healthcare that is affordable and accessible to every citizen and the united states. The other side is not. Thats the issue. What the needs are to get there is what we have been fussing about in the debates, and thats interesting, but at the end of the day, everyone should understand is that we have all committed to making that a priority. That is the right priority and i will also say that i think i im the only one in the race who has delivered health care to over 98 of our a lot of your opponent are trying to figure out the obama legacy, who has the best case of caring the obama mantle and closing the gap again. Why are you the best person to do that . You see yourself as pseudoair r apparent to what obama did . I think president obama was a terrific president he has been a friend and was afraid a long time before he was in any Public Office and i supported him from the beginning and right through but i also think that the moment the mans Something Different from who ever our next president is and will get from me. I think that we have an incredibly exciting level of interest in big ideas, ideas commensurate with the size of the challenges we face, Climate Change to the puts and takes a what the tax system looks like. In order to deliver an agenda as ambitious as that i think we have to leave room for people who may have different point of view about how to accomplish those incentives. Not to trim the objectives but to leave room to bring others in. So that, the changes we make glass, having an agenda and it a different kind of crisis, a different environment, state not nationally. You need to bring other people in in order to make the changes. Thats the first try to be. Can we get your reaction to mayor bloomberg walking back on his policies . Good. You missed the filing deadline for arkansas and [inaudible] i think theres more to it. Theres the practical deadline and so forth, i get that and i respect that, that doesnt mean that in going to ignore alabama and arkansas. We will have organizations and present on the grantee extent we can but the point im try to make is that, let me put it this way. When i was going up on the southside of chicago, we were made to feel important if at all at campaigning. Not in between. There are people who feel unimportant and unseen and unheard all over the country in all kinds of corners. It shouldnt have to depend on a campaign. Im going to be developing ways together with my team to make sure those folks feel they are seen and heard, and that if i am president they will be seen and heard and i tend to serve everyone everywhere. Do you think its appropriate for president obama to hold fundraisers and Silicon Valley can take is going up to three and 50,000 . I appreciate your asking the question but are not going to talk about president obama. Are you worried about democrats going to be too beholden to Silicon Valley, rich people . Im not going to talk about democrats. Im going to come because im ue to talk about me, if i may. Look, ive never taken a job, ive never taken a dime where i have felt i had two or was willing to leave my conscience at the door. We have a broken election system in terms of being awash in money. I get that, and that if given the opportunity is one of things i can change it would be part of the policy platform we will be rolling out in the next couple of weeks. In the meantime, yeah, i mean come in an ideal world we would be taking small dollar contributions exclusively. I remember when i ran the first time, i should tell you, i hate asking people for money in every job ive ever had. But i remember when we were running the first time we got a check in the mail, that was just a few years ago, for five dollars with a handwritten note from someone who said, this is all i can afford, but i want to do as much as i can as i can. Because i believe in what youre trying to do for us. It was so important to be reminded that its not just the mighty, this is to your point, this is to the meek, this notion of everyone everywhere has to respond to of taking on the job. Would you discourage your supporters who contribute just a perfect . Let me be clear. When they hope there are no super pacs. But if there is a super pac thats organized i was really hope at a a minimum it would be full disclosure of contributions and transparency. Managed success. Do you mind just tell me until he gets made better, better, some of their first names. How soon will you be able to know if this lastminute longshot bid is a success or a full third. Was first of all, its not a fools errand. I would not be on it. David was just asking, ill put it this way. Ive been dealing with skepticism my whole life. I expect skepticism now. I would not have made the decision if i did not think it was we have to prove that not just to you but to voters, and we intend to do just that. But how soon do you think no, i understand your question. I understand your question and will get to that deadline and it wont meet whatever you thought i intended by what the measure of success is and joseph okay, hes done. Im not going to do that. Im going to be, were going to be tangible. By the way, anybody would be interested going through this and all that it demands of the candidate and your family and the people to rally around, if i didnt think this was really. I accept that you are skeptical and if i prove otherwise i hope youll respect the jurong. Will your running mate blms . Im not going to commit to anything yet. Thats presumptuous. [inaudible question] theres a colleague of yours was just expressing, expressing skepticism by being in the race at all, but i think if you look at my experience in massachusetts, we had a highly diverse team of senior leaders. I would look to that. Im not going to do it by the numbers but im very interested in encouraging talent, which i know arises and is available in every Single Community in the country. Sharon from reuters. I was when it talk with us with more specificity about what you thought has been missing from the discussion so far and how that propelled you to get into the race . That was part of it. As a said i wanted to get in a year ago just about now, and i explained the reasons why i didnt. And i knew, i had a sense of what the field was going to be even then. A lot of the scanners are friends of my. Weve been talking about it. Their potential candidacies and my own. Its not a sort of frustration with the field debate. Its about what i think i can offer. Ive worked in and solve problems in the private sector, and the Public Sector and notforprofit and forprofits in this country and all over the world. I have had the great blessing of living the American Dream having grown up in poverty in chicago and had access to a great education and great opportunities, and ive watched that dream constrain so that the perspective of having those different assignments and solve problems in those different assignments, at the same time watching that the path the country so generously made available to me has been less and less available to generation since. I have some idea about, some ideas about how we restore that and how important it is that we restore the for everybody and not just for some. And part of that, to the point i was trying to make earlier, is that i think we are to be open right from the start and through the campaign to people whose ideas may not be the same as ours, meaning me, and so when i hear we should do, we should accomplish, for example, universal health care in one way and only one way, ive been at those tables and im not satisfied that that is the realistic way to accomplish what should be for all of us and is an ambitious and. Lets do one more. Nbc news. What are your thoughts on the criminalization of sex work . You know what come to study it. I dont know. I really dont know. I know theres a robust debate, i know how it is done in amsterdam. Where the experience is very different but also the culture comes i dont have a point of view yet. Thank you, guys. Thank you. Thank you, massachusetts in the house, all right. Its good to be in nevada. Thank you, nevada democrats, for having me. I do have to tell you its a little strange to be in in a hl where every of the candidate but mine has a cheering section already organized. But i want to say first of all to my fellow candidates how much i appreciate and respect them, and how much i appreciate and respect all of you who have been supporting thin. The first time i ran for governor was the first time i had run for anything, and a member just being blown away how people set aside what theyre doing and take up your cause. You are the ones who make our democracy work, and to want to acknowledge that and thank you. Now, i have a chance tonight to introduce myself maybe i will do so briefly so that you can get home. Events like this are fabulous, as good as they are but i but l believe they should and the day they begin. [applause] let me just say, i grew up on the southside of chicago. Spent a lot of time in massachusetts but i started on the southside chicago and i lived there with my mother, my sister, my grandparents and varies both as a came and went, in my grandparents twobedroom tenement, a lot of time and welfare. My mother, sister and i should one of those bedrooms and a set of bunk beds so you go from the top to the bottom to the floor every third night on the floor. I went to big broken overcrowded underresourced sometimes violent public schools. But you know what, my grandmother used to tell us never say you are poor. She said we are broke, because broke his temporary. That was the time for all the things we didnt have where we had a strong sense of community. Because in those days every child was under the jurisdiction of releasing a dove on the block. If you messed up down the street in front of ms. Jones she would go upside. As it you were hers and then called home so you got it two times. I think with this adult were trying to teach as is that membership in a community is understanding you have a stake in your neighbors dreams and struggles as well as your own. I think the other lesson that they tried to get across to us is one that every single one of us has learned from our grandparents, and that is that we in our time are supposed to do what we can delete things better for those who come behind us. [applause] those two lessons of community and of generational responsibility, those two lessons i brought with me through the ivy league, through my work as a civil rights lawyer, through my work as a Business Executive and head of the civil rights division, and the Justice Department in the clinton administration. Those two lessons of community and generational responsibility i brought with me through my work as governor of massachusetts for eight years. By the way, the first democratic governor in 16 years in massachusetts, and the first africanamerican governor in massachusetts history. [applause] community and generational responsibility. Thats what i brought to my work as governor, and because of those values and 18 guided by those values, i am proud to report that after eight years of hard work and bridge building, massachusetts emerged from recession number one in the nation in student achievement, number one in the nation in healthcare coverage. 98 of massachusetts residents have health insurance. No other state in america can yet claim that. Number one in america investment services, in entrepreneurial activity, in energy efficiency. We shape our own future by thinking about the state we have in our neighbor strength and struggles, and doing what we could to bear our generational responsibility. We didnt achieve those results by accident or with a moderate agenda, not by setting Ambitious Goals and asking our neighbors to turn to each other instead of on each other. [applause] i am a proud democrat, and im proud to be with the democrats. But have to tell you come sometimes democrats get on my last nerve. We are for a long time anyway the first ones to believe the republican talking points, and a whole lot of us, a whole lot of you thankfully have broken that fever. If we want to make change that lasts, we have to talk to everybody, the folks in this room and the folks out, your friends, your neighbors, your coworkers, that cranky uncle you are about to have thanksgiving dinner with. And most of all, we need to be willing to talk to people who dont already agree with us. Why . Because we have to model politics this is we dont have to agree on everything before we can work on anything. Thats what i think it means to build a National Community, and that National Community is what it will take to bear our generational responsibility. So i am going to campaign hard. Im going to roll out an opportunity agenda, a reform agenda, and a democracy agenda over the course of the next couple of weeks. But im also going to be listening, listening in the way Louis Pasteur used to describe it, by learning to listen to anything without losing my temper or my selfconfidence. And sometimes i find you learn things that surprise you. I will leave you with this. In 2014 we had a crisis at our southern border although like the one were getting with today, thousands of unaccompanied children, some as young as two and three years old coming across the border, fleeing violence in their home countries in central america. And the federal authorities were overwhelmed, and the Obama Administration asked a few governors if we would shelter those children while they were being processed under the refugee laws. Now, to me that was a pretty straightforward decision, for both patriotic reasons and, frankly, for reasons of faith. This country has given refuge to Vulnerable Children for centuries, for centuries. One time we didnt, when we turn jewish children back and it is been a blight on our National Character and reputation ever since. Its important to remember, america is a great when we are good. [applause] my faith tradition also teaches me that you welcome the stranger, that we treat each other the way we ourselves would want to be treated. But even so i knew i would be called everything but a child of god when i announced what our decision would be, that we would offer welcome. Well, and you can imagine, i was called everything but a child of god on social media and hate radio. So the saturday after i made the decision public, i had an unusually, you know, sort of easy schedule, and it was a beautiful spring morning, and the wife of 35 years, diane, gave me a list of things to get from the home depot. It apparently is true that you cannot be elected to an office high enough not to be sent with a list from your wife of 35 years. I knew where everything was right from the local home depot and i thought i would just slip out and grab things without telling the troopers, who usually did not like when i did that but but i had on a tshird a pair of jeans and flipflops and a baseball cap and dark glasses, and i jumped in the truck and drove over to the home depot. I was outed by the manager and the very first aisle. He said, governor, welcome to the home depot. How can help you . I was standing in the checkout lane and there was a man in the checkout lane who was very angry, and he told me so. He was loud, not threatening but angry and he said, governor, i could not disagree with your decision more. He said, my own wife came here legally. He said thats exactly how it should be, and i think you should know im wrong. And i thanked him for his feedback. It wouldnt have done being a refugee in fact, is legal. I just thanked him and letting go. Now, i had six other encounters in the home depot that date on the same subject, and in every one of those, someone whispered, governor, you are doing the right thing. Governor, tanks for looking out for those children. The call to the office work to and 321 in favor of sheltering those children. And it struck me, we have learned to shout out anger and to whisper our kindness if it is completely upside down. [applause] we need to learn again to shout our kindness, to shout our sense of justice. And if we do that we will rebuild the character of the country, which you all know is at stake today. And so i offer that as i part, because i have learned over time and just to that example i offer you, that every voice counts. Not just the ones who are shouting, but the ones who havent said a word. Not just the folks who agree with us already, not just the pundits and the pollsters who tell us who is important, but everyone everywhere. And thats why i want to be clear with you. Love you as i do as a democrat, i am not running to be president of the democrats. I am running to be president of the united states. And when i ask you to caucus for me, understand, im asking you to caucus for you. Thank you very much for having me. [applause] the Stimson Center holds a discussion on Nuclear Security with assistant secretary of state for International Security and nonproliferation. Christopher ford, watch live today at two p. M. Eastern on cspan2 cspan2 cspan2, online at cspan. 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