Thank you, thank you, thank you. I told the senator, i said i know that eyes and the back of your head. My mother had them. Every damn thing i i did she caught me doing. [laughing] its so great to see it all. What a wonderful, wonderful crowd. Let me begin by just saying the obvious. Every four years democracy begins in iowa. Its not hyperbole. Democracy begins in iowa. You are the one who has the starting gun to do with one to decide and have Significant Impact on who is likely to be the nominee in the democratic party. For that matter, Republican Party when theres not an incumbent president. And it matters a lot. Because of the values you will bring to the process are real. I want to talk a little bit today about values. You know, folks, im running forward, i decided, jill and i decided we are going to run this time for three basic reasons. Most important one was is we have to literally notte figuratively restore the soul of this country. Were in trouble. Were in trouble. [applause] the way our National Government is acting out is not who we are. It doesnt reflect who america is. The way the president speaks of his opponents, the way the president speaks of the people who should be our opponents, thugs like kimhe jongun and otr dictators around the world, the way he pokes folks in the eyes of her allies for years and years. The way he characterizes peopleo who have any deficiency at all, any physical ailment, the way he talks about people that disagree with them. Its not how we were raised. Not how any of you were raiseds in this town, in this community, in this county. Not have jill and i were raised at him. Not a joke. Think about it. Our children a listing. Our children are listening to whats going on and it has an effect. When president s speak, thewh matter who the president is, the matter who it is, people listen. President cant buy his or her words brazen a klatch markets outa there. President by their words can send brave men and went to war. They can bring peace but they can also breathe oxygen into the hatred that exist in small amounts, that lives under the rocks out there in america. This has not been a fairytale. We have gone through periods where we have had folks and circumstances that allow peoplee the demagogue to blame whatever the problem they think they have on the other. Its always the other, the other. I guy became a a good friend michael jon meacham, wrote a book about the soul of america and has a chapter book that talks about how back in 1925 yob had over 32,000 at least the number he showed, he gives, people in the ku klux klan and appointed hats has marching doe streets in washington, d. C. Because then it wasnt about africanamericans. It was about making sure catholics after world war ii excuse me, world war i, who were, in fact, decimated were leaving and coming to the United States of america. G of christianity because of those catholics coming from Eastern Europe and italy and other places. And he points out what it took then and every other time we had to confront this kind of this kind of demagoguery, is it took everybody standing up. All faiths. All parties. All leaders. People standing up and saying not here. This is the United States of america. Its not what you fought for. Its not what you fought for as a United States marine. I am not being melodramatic. It is not. It is about we the people, in order to form a more perfect union. Or we hold these truths to be selfevident. It sounds corny. But thats why the people look to the United States of america. We are the most powerful nation in the history of the world. That is not hyperbole. Our warriors are the finest warriors that have ever, ever lived on this earth, but thats not why we have been able to lead the world. Necessary, but not sufficient. Weve led the world by the example, our example, the power of our example. Thats why the rest of the world looks up to us. That is why we have been able to unite, keep the peace for the last 70 years through nato and other organizations that we put together. And folks, the rest of the world is wondering about us. You know, if you look at that National Polling data that interNational Polling data that goes on about i think its the pew poll, that goes out and looks at where we stand in we are the most respected nations in the world. We are just behind china and just ahead of russia. Think about that for a second. You say, what difference does that make . We are not running a popularity contest. But we are. We are. As former secretary of state said, the essential nation, we genuinely are. We are the outfit that holds things together. And here at home, did you ever think youd see a time, coming out of the civil rights movement, i never thought id, i come from the state that has the eighth largest black state in population in america. I love reading these biographies of me. Biden knew he was going to run for president. Blah, blah, blah. I was just a kid. Just got engaged. It just got me, it motivated me in a way i never thought would happen. But because of the presidency that existed. But, folks, i never thought id see in 2017, as a sitting Vice President , then out of office, coming out of the streets of, in charlottesville, people coming out of the fields carrying torches, contorted faces. I mean, screaming antisemitic bile that the same bile that was hollered and screamed and chanted in germany before world war ii began accompanied by the ku klux klan. White supremacists. A young woman gets killed. She was protesting. The president gets asked, what do you think, mr. President . And he says something no president has ever said. He said, there were very fine people on both sides. Folks, we got a lot at stake here, a lot going on. In order to get about the business that we have to do to increase the quality and Economic Opportunity in the United States, we have to get rid of this administration. We have to get to restore the to begin to restore the essence of who america is. The second reason im running is because we have to restore, we have to rebuild the backbone of this country. The backbone of the country has always been, always been hardworking, working class and middleclass people. The middle class built this country. Wall street didnt build the country. They are not bad, per se, but they didnt build america. People that built america are the people in the neighborhoods i come from and people here in mason city and thats not a joke. Think about it. How we are all raised. We are all raised the same way, basically. Different emphasis, but if you work hard, you play by the rules, you can do anything. No matter what your background is, no matter what your zip code was, no matter where you came from, you can do anything given half a chance. Well, thats not happening now. Middle class in america is getting clobbered. Were no longer the wealthiest middle class in the world for the first time in the lifetime of anybody in this room. Secondly, you have well over half the American People who are in the middle class thinking their children will never have the standard of living as high as theirs. Theres never been so much, how can i say it . Not depression. So much anxiety. Since probably the Great Depression about the future, whats going to happen, whats going to happen. And we have to rebuild the middle class. This time bring everybody along. We have to build, we have to rebuild the middle class in small towns and Rural America, in the small towns and in Rural America. Not just rebuild the middle class so that in fact what happens is you raise your children and they decide they have to leave to go have an opportunity somewhere else. We have to build it here. Here. In the parts of my state, the towns of 10,000, 20,000, 30,000 people, in towns of 3,000, 4,000, 5,000 people, so people have a reason to stay, because you all are, it sounds like a little bit of hyperbole. You are the moral center of the country. You know, we all say, yall talk about American Values and midwestern values and middleclass values but its true. Its who we are. Its who we are. And folks, the third thing we have to do, we have to unite this country. I know a lot of the folks who are seeking nomination dont think thats possible. They are very good people, by the way. All the people im running with and we are running with one another, they are good, decent, honorable people. But the fact is, a lot of them think theres no way to unite the country, no way to bring us together because things have changed. If you watch any of those debates which are really not debates, they are 60second assertions we make [laughter] and thats no candidates fault. Its just the nature of having 10, 12, 90 people on a stage. [laughter] but look, the fact is that if you think about it, if you think about it, unless we pull the country together again, we got a real problem. The way our rules are set up, the way our constitution is set up, you have to be able to reach consensus. Or you dont get anything done. It just results in the abuse of power if you dont get consensus. The president says, well, no ones acting so i have the right to act. Thats not right for a democrat or a republican. And folks, you know, the American People, i think, are ready. Look, look how were even getting divided based on urban and rural now. Why should someone who lives in a skyscraper in new york city or in los angeles have any more or less of an opportunity, why do we have to choose between that and someone living on a farm in this county . But thats how were kind of making it out these days. Look at the split. You read all that, those Opinion Pieces in the press. The great divide between urban america and Rural America. Theres no reason for it. That didnt always exist. All these differences but never existed the way it does now. And folks, we got to change it. And the way to start to change it, and i am going to get right to it and not keep you long here. The way to change it is that your children and your grandchildren growing up in mason city in this county should be able to be in a position that when they grow up, they can choose that theyre going to stay, raise their families right here in mason city and in the Rural Counties around surrounded surrounding you. But its getting harder and harder to do, isnt it . I remember as a kid, we used to take the iowa test. Remember the iowa test . No, i mean it. You had the best Education System in the country and you were thought to have the best Education System in the country. But whats happening . Whats happening . So folks, let me get right to it. I think, you think about all the things i want to do and others want to do, is to have a Health Care System that in fact provides for everyone, everyone having access to health care, everybody. Well, i think theres a way to do that. The way is to build on obamacare. The proudest, one of the proudest moments i had as Vice President is helping the president get every democrat we needed, which is not all that easy to do initially, all the, come on up. Come on. How are you doing . Meet my campaign manager. [laughter] [applause] whats your name deck of whats your name . Thank you. Thank you. It was a gigantic change. We made sure there were hundreds of thousands of kids and people with preexisting conditions could be covered, they get insurance, can afford it. 20 Million People that didnt have insurance before are covered. We can go on, but the point im making is this. Now is time to build on that. Do what barack and i wanted to do the first time out, add a public option, medicare option, significantly reduce the price of drugs by setting up a board that in fact sets the price of those drugs like they do in other countries. Put in a position where you are going to increase the subsidies to buy into what will become, god willing, bidencare, obama, bidencare, obamacare aside. We can do it. It costs a lot of money over 10 years but allows you to keep your insurance if you negotiated an insurance policy that your employer set up. You dont have to give it up. But if you want to, you can buy into a plan where you have no more than 1,000 deductible. You can afford it. If you cant afford it, you can automatically join a medicare plan that exists within this problem. This public option. But heres the point. It doesnt cost 35 trillion. [laughter] but we can do it. We can do it. Think about what happens in Rural America. My state is rural, by the way. Everybody thinks that delaware is a big urban state. The largest town is 85 thousand, next largest town is 20000 and everything below that. Guess what . If you dont have access to good teachers, dont have access, and you do, dont have access to a good education, its getting tougher. Were losing. We already are about 150,000 thats the president calling me. Just put him through. [laughter] he always does that. He wants to know what i want him to do. [applause] do me a favor. Hes with nato right now. Tell him dont keep screwing it up, ok. Tell him to, ok. All right. Anyway. I guess i shouldnt kid so much. Anyway. Im violating my own rule. Never criticize the president whenever hes abroad. I cant wait until he gets home. Anyway. [laughter] but anyway, look, if we dont do something about making sure teachers salaries are more competitive, were going to be down 500,000 to 700,000 teachers in the next generation. [applause] they get paid a lot less. Theres answers. Theres things called title 1 schools, schools in districts that dont have a lot of money. Doesnt matter what their background is, its not based on race or, its based on income of the community. Well, a lot of Rural Communities dont, theyre title 1 schools. Right now what we do, we spend a total of 15 billion yearly for all those schools to subsidize them. If we triple that to 45 billion a year and by the way, just eliminated a couple incredibly lucrative tax cuts this president has put forward for the top 0. 1 , we can pay for all this. Anyway, the point is, if we do that, what were going to be able to do is make sure that every single child no matter what their background is can start school, not daycare, school at age 3, 4, and 5. The studies at one university here in this state show the following. A child with that opportunity has an exponentially greater chance of succeeding all the way through high school. Staying out of trouble. Being able to do well. Its a gigantic impact for them because they will catch up quickly. Were going to be able to make sure teachers get paid a competitive salary. Thats what they have to do with the money first because teachers, as they graduate from iowa state or university of iowa or anywhere else around here, what happens . They graduate and they make 27 less than any other graduate coming out of the same school with a different degree. And it sounds corny. Its not just because id be sleeping alone if i didnt share this view. [laughter] you think im kidding, dont you . No. Teaching is not what jill does, its who she is. My point is this. We are in an incredible position. Teachers are the most important people we have. They are the, these arent somebody elses kids. They are all our kids. Theyre the kite strings that lift our National Ambitions to National Ambitions aloft. As jill says all the time, any country that outeducates us is going to outcompete us. Its just that simple. Not a joke. Does anybody think its possible in 2020 or 2030 or 2040 to be in the middle class with 12 years of education alone . Its not, things are changing so rapidly. Dont have to have a College Degree but you may have to have a certificate. You may have to have an apprenticeship that you can move through quickly. You may have to go to Community College. We can afford these things. I can make sure that every single solitary person qualified for a Community College can go for free, including those who are older, who have lost their jobs because of, because of artificial intelligence, because of the changes thats taking place to come back and be retrained as hard as it is. Weve lost over 200,000 sales jobs in america. Average age of the person losing a job, 49. Average salary, 50,000. Why . Not bad. Not because somebody is evil. But amazon came along. Everybody, i am not going to ask you but how many buy online for christmas . Again, i am not saying its bad. Guess whats happened . You got an awful lot, many of you have gone through it like my dad did. All of a sudden youve been doing well, youve been able to provide for your family, all or half the income, and all of a sudden you have no job and youre 50 years old. What do you do . We have to understand that every other major technological change is taking place in the history of america we have not only provided for the technology, weve provided for options for people who get put out of place because of the technology. Were not doing it. Theres so many things available to us. And folks, i think the best comment i ever heard, the most honest comment i ever heard President Trump use, remember, right after he got elected, the press will rightly correct me on this. I hope theyll help me on this one to get it right. I think it was about two months after he was elected he said, you know, this job is harder than running a real estate empire. I was like, ok. [laughter] but he said it. I didnt think he was serious. Its harder than running a real estate empire. Well, i guess so. I guess so. But heres the thing. Look whats happening in Rural America under his policies. Farming. This trade war is devastating. Its devastating not only to agriculture but manufacturing. I saw someone had a john deere hat on. John deere has a problem right now. People are getting laid off. What about the Automobile Industry . I take great pride in being one of the architects of putting it back on its feet because i was the automobile guy in the administration. In our administration. The president did it. But i was the guy who was pushing it. Well, look whats happened now . The trade war hes engaged in are all the wrong wars, and now i read this morning hes about to go after latin america now. South america now. Ok. But all the things that really matter hes not doing anything about. The thing that matters is, china, were still the largest economy in the world, but china is so darn big we make up 25 of the worlds economy. If in fact we join with the other 25 of our allies, we can make china play by the rules they dont get to play for real, not a joke. Not a joke. Only way to get their attention, because they break the rules. Not so much on agriculture, but they break the rules on stealing intellectual property. They break the rules on cybersecurity. They break the rules on dumping steel. They break the rules on a lot of things. But guess what, look whats happening in asia now . Japan and south korea arent getting along anymore. We are in position where north korea is gaining footing. Australia is not sure what to do because that goliath above them, china, is just leaning down on them. Folks, theres no way with no policies. The reason im talking about i know i am the Foreign Policy guy. But thats not why i am talking about it. I am talking about it because as direct immediate Economic Impact it has direct immediate Economic Impact is at home. At home. Imagine if we invest in our own people . But heres the last thing i want to say and maybe the most important thing. Tom vilsack, who is you know the people that know you really well, you can never be a hero, but this is one of the smartest guys ive worked with. Not a joke. He was secretary of agriculture. When the president gave me authority to handle issues over foreign and domestic policy, not because, look. No president can handle all the, everything that lands on his desk, by himself. Its getting too complicated. You have to have a Vice President that you can have the confidence to turn over a chunk of the responsibility and turn over president ial responsibility. When the president gave me authority, he gave me president ial authority. I only did about 20 of what he did, but the things he gave me, i did. From the cancer moon shot to dealing with the recovery act and a number of other things. And allowed me to go out and pick out anybody i wanted to in the administration to work on what i wanted them to work on. I held almost as many cabinet meetings as the president did. Just because of the specific responsibilities i had. My goto guy through the whole thing, not a joke, was tom vilsack. He was the goto guy. So when i wanted to refine my Agricultural Policy and rural policy, i sat down with the secretary of agriculture. And heres the deal, and ill conclude with this. The future of this country lies in large part in Rural America. Its not hyperbole. Not only are you in a position to be able to continue to provide the food and fiber for the country, but more than that now. When global warming, you are going to become the goto sector of the economy. We should be paying Rural America and farmers to grow crops with deeper roots. Why . Absorb carbon from the air. We should significantly increase tom harkins conservation program, significantly increasing the number of acres put aside and pay farmers to do that because it becomes a carbon sink like amazon, takes the carbon out of the air. It moves us toward net zero emissions. We should be taking, like we do in my state of delaware, because we, we have a large agriculture economy in the delmarva peninsula, its between a 4 billion and 5 billion a year industry. Its chickens. Broiler chickens. Take a look at it. And heres the deal. It has some side effects. They are environmentally dangerous. Like you have out here with cattle. Its called and pigs. Its called manure. Well, guess what, we have the technology now to be able to go out and pelletize this. Take the methane out of it. Use it for energy and sell the pellets, but what thats going to do, you know what its going to do, its going to provide every 20, 30 miles new Hightech Industries that are there to do this. Cleanly and efficiently. Ethanol. Look what hes done to ethanol. Hes chosen the Oil Companies over the farmers. We set this process going. You all ended up in a circumstance where you go, and those ethanol plants, you end up, they are not making 10 an hour, they are making 45 an hour. Theyre growing an economy. And whats happening now . But all the future, so they lost so many things. You are going to see, i promise you, you are going to see, especially if i get elected, you are going to see billions of dollars invested in Rural America for the sake of urban america. This is a place where you become, again, the answer for people around the country. And i really mean it. The future is incredibly bright. But we got to invest. We got to invest. I look over at my wife and she is giving me this, meaning, cut, you are going on too long and shes right, dead right. Shes written shes always right. I am jills husband. But, look, the point is if youre interested in this, ive laid out in detail my Rural America policy. But the bottom line is, im committed to restoring the promise of the middle class in Rural America to stay in Rural America. Because, again, if we lose the essence and the ethic of Rural America, we lose part of americas soul. We really do. Its about who we are, how were raised. And folks, if we take a look at it and just look down the road here a little bit, i know that when i got elected as a 29yearold kid to the United States senate, im the first senator i ever really knew. [laughter] you all think im kidding. Im not. [laughter] i swear to god. I didnt realize i kept going over to get an assignment from the majority leader, nobody gets an assignment. No senator is ever assigned anything by anybody. But i showed up every tuesday at 2 00 to my assignment from senator mansfield. Folks, i am optimistic. I am more optimistic than ive ever been in my entire career because, folks, you know, i have a lot of experience. Quite frankly, its the reason im running, because i think my experience can help us get to the place we have to go. We have to have someone elected president that knows how to get things done, has done big things, passed big pieces of legislation, been able to work across the aisle and produce outcomes like i was able to do on cancer and able to do on research and a whole range of things. The violence against women act. Because thats critically important. The second reason im running is the next president , in addition, they are going to find a divided nation and going to find a world in disarray. And that president , on the day theyre elected and sworn in on january 20 has to assume the world stage. Without any, and no time for onthejob training. Not a joke. Its not every year, not every president ial race requires that. But today it does. Today it does. And i have virtually met every single major world leader and i know most of them by their first names and even the bad guys i know and they know i know them and they know me. Its not confrontation. Its real simple. President obama used to always kid me. Id say to him all the time, remember, mr. President , all politics is personal. By that i mean, if i want to get something with you, whether you get something done with you, whether you are a good guy, bad guy, i have to know who you are, what the core of you is, and you have to know i know who you are. Putin knows i know who he is. Not a joke. The good guys. Because americas word matters. When a president stands before the world and says something, our friends have to know and our foes have to know that thats the commitment americas made. And so, folks, the reason im optimistic is take a look at who we are. Were all Walking Around with our heads down like, whoa, what are we going to do . God, things are so terrible. We have the largest economy in the history of the world and well continue to be that if in fact we invest in our people. Ive not met one world leader , including xi jinping, because the president wanted me to get to know him knowing he would be the next president of china, traveled 17,000 miles with him. Had dinner with him. They tell me 24, 25 hours of private dinners. I would have an interpreter whisper in my ear. He had one whisper in his ear. By the way, my interpreter turned in their notes. [applause] but folks, he changed places with the president of the United States in a heartbeat. China has great potential. My god, the problems they have there are overwhelming. They dont have enough water. Theyre talking about a trilliondollar project to turn rivers around to make them flow north so people can have enough water to drink. Its not a good thing. Its not good. I am not happy theyre having that problem. They find themselves in a position where a significant portion of land, somewhere estimates between 30 and 45 of their landed is their land is pretty polluted and cant produce crops. They have a million muslim, uighurs in the west in reeducation camps, better known as concentration camps. You see whats happening in hong kong today. You see whats happened in the region. They have problems that makes ours pale in comparison. We have to invest in our own people, though. Secondly, we have the greatest Research Universities in all the world. We have more great Research Universities in state in this nation than all the rest of the world combined. Every major new life changing, altering thing that comes out of those Research Universities, monetized, monetized by business, but you own them. You own them. Our people. We have the best educated scientists in the world. Were on the verge of being able to change cancer as we know it. Deal with alzheimers if we invest in it. Make significant changes. So its time to remember who we are. This is the United States of america. So its time to get up. Lift our heads up, and lets take back this country and do what john mccain wanted us to do. Thank you for listening. Thank you for having me. Let me introduce to you the better half of my family, dr. Jill biden. [applause] dr. Biden thank you. Thank you, joe. So they tell me i am the closer. [laughter] mr. Biden you are. Dr. Biden so in 62 days, iowa has a choice to make. But just for a moment i want to take you into the future. I want to take you past the caucus, past the election and into the next year, the next november. Its 2021. So its a beautiful morning like this morning in iowa and you wake up and like joe and i did this morning, we had our morning coffee. And then you pick up your morning paper and the headline isnt about some late night tweet storm. [applause] instead, its about our children, americas children who will benefit from universal prek. Its about how the teachers in this country are finally going to get a raise. You read about investing in Wind Technology and Green Technology that is going to create jobs right here in iowa. And then, like we did this morning, you turn on the television and the anchors arent talking about how we are on the brink of some illadvised war. Talking aboutare how we are going to build on the Affordable Care act with a public option and bring down Prescription Drug prices. And [applause] and theyre reporting that finally, finally someone is standing up to the n. R. A. And keeping our kids and our schools safe [applause] and when they turn to the president of the United States, you dont turn the channel. [applause] you call in your kids from the other room because you want them to hear what the president of the United States has to say. A commander in chief you can trust. A leader who brings people together instead of tearing families apart like weve seen at the border of this country. A president you can feel proud of, who believes that our best days are ahead of us, and theres only one candidate who can get us to the future. Theres only one candidate who can bring people together in this divided time, and theres only one candidate who can take on trump in states like pennsylvania and ohio and wisconsin and michigan and that person is my husband, joe biden [cheers and applause] but iowa, he cant do it without you. 62 days. 62 days, not that im counting [laughter] so ive been traveling around this state and i have to tell you a true story. So they have me making phone calls to people as i travel, and they say, ill call somebody and say, well, susan, you know, who are you supporting . Do you think you could support my husband because this is what he believes in and i explain it and they say, well, jill, i dont know. Because i have only met your husband three times. [laughter] and ive met senator x seven times. Do you think joe could come to our house for dinner . And its the spouse of a candidate. It hurts my feelings like, what, are you kidding . You havent made up your mind yet . So now is the time. Its today. Today. You must commit because i know youre busy. I know you have lots to do. Its the holiday season. Youre making your list. So on your list, where you have written, decide who im going to commit for, cross it off because today youre going to commit to joe biden [cheers and applause] so, you know, i want to say thank you. [applause] so you know, iu want to say thank you. I know that you all are busy. I know this is a busy time. But i want to say thank you, because you all are so committed. It starts today. It starts here. It starts with your commitment to my husband. And do we have educators in this yes, lots of educators, okay. Those educators, i know who you are and i want you to be our precinct captains. [laughing] because you are organized. You have a strategy. You have a teacher voice to bring people together and get them to caucus. So i want our teachers to be our precinct captains. And i want to thank you, all of you, each and every one of you for beingng here today. And thank you for your faith in an idea thats bigger than any one of us. That we can build a better nation if we do this together. So thank you for being here for joe biden. [cheers and applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] im voting for joe. Thank you. Whats your name . Pelagic could be here. Thank you so much. Thanks. Thank you. Thanks a lot. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] mary jane, get in here. Do you want a picture . It doesnt matter. Get right in here. Get a picture. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] you look better than i do, man. Go get them. [inaudible conversations] we need you. Youre kidding me . Oh, my lord. [inaudible] whats your name . [inaudible] she will take a photo of us and she will get it to you. Hey, joe. Ralph maguire. Nice to meet you. You know my friend . I never met her before in my life before today. Shes a wonderful gal. Lets get one with this john deere hat. I have my own john deere hat. There you go. What they did, theyre doing voluntary furloughs here. Because nobody can afford take one with you with the hat on. What i wasu. Saying is they e doing voluntary furloughs until march. [inaudible] come on, lets go fix it. Got it . I i got it. All right. Nice meeting you spirit we are union workers. We work on the railroad. Im union. What hes done to the rule community is going to kill us. Voluntary furloughs. Thank you. My soninlaw is a temp worker. He got me the hat. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] my husband is sick and i dont i dont know how much further i can stay out here. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] thats what we need for the country. Alzheimers is the issue. Yes, it is. Thank you. Lovely to meet you. My name is carol. I want you to know how much i admire i i know he have been through great loss. You. Do you want a picture . Yeah, i would love to get e picture. Can someone take one for me . Ready . There we go. There you go. Thank you. Thank you, joe. Thats okay to be with trump, but at least acknowledge it. Its okay. Its okay. [inaudible] sure, you can. I do. Keep the faith. Its a awesome to meet you. Thank you for coming here today. Whats your name . Lori. My husband is randy. [inaudible] we are really excited about joe. You have our vote. Lets get a picture. Come on. Thank you so much. I appreciate that you remembered me. Thank you so much. Can i get a photo . [inaudible] here we go. No worries. There you go. That should work. That will work. One more time, okay . There we go. Thank you. A 74yearold farmer. We dont need a damn tariffs. We dont need this administration. Im not quitting until the day they put me in a box. My dad said the luckiest person is [inaudible] god love you. How are you . The three of us . Four of us, i should say. Whats your name . Erica. [inaudible] good to see you, ted. How were you . Very good. Please when. We need you. You want to y take a picture . I would love to. Ready . This guy is with trump so we have to let him know how much we love him. There you go. Thank you. Hey, man. How are you . Thank you for coming. Thank you for coming. Im larry dnieper. I just retired from winnebago mobile homes. I dont know if you drive a mobile home. I used to work there. E. God love you. Its such a pleasure to meet you. Can i ask you questions . No you cant. For real. How are you doing . And weve just come back from washington d. C. Our son is in the air force. God love him. My son is in. God love him. Okay. Here we go. Thank you. And good luck and godspeed. Thank you. Voted for you 2008. You look like youve got a bunch of them. Just got a haircut. Tell me about you. Tell me about you. I just turned. I dont believe it. I know and i work for the Iowa Department do other stuff like that yeah, so thank you for coming to iowa. Thank you for all your service, many, many years. Thank you. And have a wonderful day. Thanks for the selfie. Come on. Okay. I look like im photo bombi bombing. I appreciate it. Ive waited 12 years to shake your hand. When you were back here in 08, a foot behind you and you took off the other direction. Thank you. Thank you. And im voting for joe biden. Me, too. [laughte [laughter]. God love you. Thank you. Thanks, i appreciate it. Two air force veterans. I tell you what, you know, youve got the blue angels and then the air force guys, great. For campaign 2020 this weekend were live in iowa following the democratic president ial candidates. On friday, at, 530 p. M. Eastern mayor Pete Buttigieg speaks with College Students at an event at grinle college. Saturday, 3 p. M. Eastern former vicepresident joe biden, Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar and Bernie Sanders and cory booker speak in cedar rapids. Then 1 p. M. Eastern, senator Bernie Sanders speaks with supporters at stimpson college. Live coverage this weekend. Watch anytime and listen on the go with the free cspan radio app. Wednesday on cspan, the house meets at 10 a. M. Even for general speeches followed by legislative business at noon. On the agenda is a bill that would define clear standards for banning illegal insider trading. On cspan2, the Senate Returns to consider judicial and executive nominations. And on cspan 3, the House Judiciary Committee holds a hearing with legal scholars to discuss the constitutional frame work to draw articles of impeachment against President Trump. That gets underway at 10 a. M. Eastern. Georgia senator Johnny Isakson who is retiring at the end of the year gave a Farewell Speech earlier. The republican announced in august he would step down the end of this month with two years left in his term because of health issues. Here is his remarks. Consent to be able to address the senate. Without objection. Thank you, madam president. Its an honor to be here on not what is my last day, but everybody is acting like it. [laughter] a few months ago i had to announce that after much consideration to be able to continue to serve the people of georgia as best i could in any way possible, but also to keep true to my commitments i made in every race i ever won. When i knew i couldnt do the job, i was going to quit and let someb d