Was about many topics including Climate Change and gun violence. Thank you. Is this a visual stump. Thank you for joining, and thank you, jerry, and the fantastic organizers and volunteers like sarah whose job is to invite you and get to know you and be part of the change we are making for the country. I am here to listen and have a conversation about what you think is most important, but i want to make sure that we dont miss the opportunity to share the vision of this campaign. I am seeking the presidency in order to respond to the crisis that has come over our country, a crisis that is even bigger than the one represented by the presidency that we are living through. Now, dont get me wrong, i definitely believe that we cant go on with four more years of the president that we have now, and recognize the america that we live in and that we love, but, i also think that we wouldnt have a president like the one that we have got right now unless there were something more serious going on in the country. In other words, a guy like this doesnt usually get within cheating distance of the oval office when everything is going along just fine. We have to admit that everything is not going along just fine in this country, and it has not been for some time. I think that we felt that in our communities. I come from which way is east . I come from about six hours that way up i80, northern indiana, industrial town, and the kind of of place that is just left behind decade after decade and ever since the factories closed. We found a way towards a better future, but it has taken years of struggle. There are neighborhoods where i live where it is like the economic recovery never happened. I meet so many folks who talk about the ways in which our political and economic systems have let them down. We see it in the fact that the dow jones is going up and our life expectancies are getting shorter at the same time and that should not be possible. We are seeing it in the fact that we having the exact debate of keeping kids safe from gun violence from the day i came home in junior year in high school to see the columbine shootings, and the same thing over and over again and nothing getting done. Now it is our chance and our obligation to make sure that this time is really different. To do that, i am making the case that we need to do two things at once. One of them is to be bolder than we have been in my lifetime in the ideas that we are putting forward. And the second is to unify the American People around that vision. The problem is that we are being told that we will pick one, and we are told that the only way to be bold enough to meet the challenge of the moment here is if we chase each other into purity tests that turn off half of the country before the voting happens. And the other folks who say that only way that we can unify the American People is to go halfway through the other party and pretend to being something that we are not and water down the values. Dont think it is a real choice. The real choice is to actually fix the problems on the hands and invite the American People to be a part of it. That is the kind of the president , excuse me, popcorn in my throat. That is the kind of the presidency i am seeking to build and it is one that is built around American Values that they are dividing us around, and that is the right kind of the president can unite us around. Take patriotism, and right now the American Flag is being used to tell some people why they dont belong which is the opposite of why we have a flag which is to remind everybody of why we are part of this country. So when i am president , patriotism is never going to consist to tell some people who speak up who dont belong to go back to where they came from. And we wont be saying that they should go back to where they came from because they are critical of those in power, and also keeping america secure in the way it is going to work in the 21st century. That means making sure that the gun violence does not claim more lives especially among the youth. It also means understanding where some of the violence is coming from, and confronting the White Nationalism before it claims one more life in the country. And yes, if we are sincere about the security, it is to recognize that climate disruption is a National Security threat and rising to meet that threat before it creates my problems for us in the future. That is how we protect this country going forward. We are being divided over faith. Which is supposed to be something that can unify us. Now i believe that when you run for office you are speaking for everybody of every religion and people of no religion, because that is part of what our constitution is about. I also believe that now is a good time to remind the voters motivated by faith about where faith might lead us, and in particular that it might lead us to have a choice. Because i have not seen any scripture that says it is okay to tear children out of the arms of their parents running for their lives or to cut the budget of children who are hungry. I was hungry and you fed me. I was a stranger and you welcomed me. Dont you let anybody tell you that god belongs to a Political Party here, and especially one guided by voters with moral and spiritual considerations. You are going to see when i am president how freedom can be honored with a different idea than just cutting taxes and saying that makes you free. Freedom to me is a lot more than amazons freedom not to have to pay any federal income tax. To me, freedom makes sure that we can live lives of our choosing, and you are not free if you dont have access to health care, which is why we will see to it in a program that i call medicare for all who want it is for everybody to have quality coverage, and because it is medicare for all who want it versus medicare for all whether you want it or not, we have the opportunity to put forth the boldest change to the medical system since medicare itself, and we are not asking folks to accept what they dont. I think that my plan is better, but i will trust you to make a choice, and i wont force you to take it. We will have access to every american for health care if and when they are ready. I am asking you to picture a presidency where when you are turning on the news, your Blood Pressure gos down a little bit instead of up a little bit. That is what we are shooting for. And that is not shin rk irinkin because i will surround people with the same beliefs and somebody who will actually do something about Climate Change and i will appoint a secretary of education who appoints teachers and actually believes in Public Education. I will appoint judges and justices who trust women to make their own reproductive decisions instead of having them dictated by government. And the important thing that we have to remember is that there is an american majority right now do all of those things. The American People are with us on this, which is why this president wants us arguing about him, and talking about his tweets, about his hair, about his vision to buy greenland or his argument with the supermodel on twitter so that we are not talking about our wages and our health care and how the end endless war and handle immigration that is consistent with the values as well as the laws, but the less that we are talking about him, the more we are talking about you. The way to win is to make sure that our everyday lives in communities across the country, and especially communities that have been passed by the political system lately that is at the heart of the policy of the governing and of our politics, because when we do that, i believe that is how we win, and i believe that is how we deserve to win, and this is what i am asking you to be a part of with me. So i promised not the talk at you the whole time, because i want it to be a conversation. Im excited for the conversation and i will take up any questions or ideas on your mind. Yes, maam. I would like to know more about medicare for all who want it and how that is different than aca. Aca is important, and in fact, my motherinlaw counts on it. She has cancered and they have a mom and pop landscaping business in Northern Michigan and she is able to get the Health Insurance to get the chemotherapy that she needs through the Affordable Care act. I dont believe that any of us believe that the job is done when it comes to health care and not when the Prescription Drug costs are out of control, and millions of people still go without health care. I talked to a guy who recently who was being in linet at the grocery at the pharmacy section, and the person in front of him was short 5 for the medication that she needed and he reached in and gave the 5 and he said, i wonder what going to happen next time. And this is full of people in the country to come up with 5 to help somebody for medication, but this is not the type of country that should have to. If we are the wealthiest, and the richest and the most powerful and advanced country in the world that we like to think of ourselves as, and what does that say to us that it can happen in a pharmacy in 2019 in america . So there is more than tweaking the aca and carrying it forward. I will defend it against the attacks, because those are attacks on my motherinlaw, but we have to go further. What does that mean . It is a version of medicare that anybody can get access to, and it means that we can cap the costs of it. So when i am president , 8. 5 of the income is the maximum that will be required of you the pay in, and while we are doing that, also acting on the things like Prescription Drug costs, it is no sense that medicare is allowed to negotiate drug prices. Of course the prices are too high. What we are going to do is to empower the department to negotiate, and when a private Health Care Plan is negotiating with a drug company and they are not acting in good faith, then we will empower the secretary of health and Human Services to step in to negotiate on behalf of the American People, because what we are seeing in the drug prices right now is not right. Yes, maam . I am concerned about Climate Change and how people will be living on the planet 25 years from now. I would like to hear more about your Climate Change plan, but also in iowa, the dnr says that the most of the Greenhouse Gas emissions comes from the conversion of nitrogen that we apply on the fields and converting to nitrous oxide and this is the biggest contribution here in agricultural communities. Can you speak a little bit about how you can help with us that. Was everybody hearing the question . She is thinking of the 2yearold grandkid and what kind of world he is going to be living in, in 25 years and what to do about the Climate Change. And this is important, because i am thinking of what kind of world i am going to be living in. I expect lord willing to be here in 2050 when i propose that we are a Carbon Neutral economy and held accountable for whether we got the job done. This is becoming a matter of justice between the generations, because the longer that somebody is planning to be here, the more their life ensures that Climate Change does not make the communities less livable, and the waterways less full of life, and really constraining the possibility of making it with increased frequency and severity of the extreme weather. As we know here, this is not something happening on the north and the south pole or on the coast, but it is happening in the middle of the country. I lived in a river city where we had to fire up the Emergency Operations center twice to deal with floods that are supposed to happen every millennium, and twice in 18 month, and so we know that it is upon us right now. We have to act. What does that look hike . We have to quadruple the energy a development and storage, and we should do it on the level come froo prabble to the moon landing. Now we should do with this a carbon tax and dividend. The dividend is important, because it is not taking money out of the economy, but it is to make sure that the prices reflect what is being done to the environment. So i propose that we take the funds raised in the carbon tax and rebate them back out to American People on the progressive basis so most of us are made whole and more than whole for most of us, but at the same time the economic benefit of the economy that reflects the true economy. And so i am glad that you brought up this nitrous oxide and other farming issues. So the real question is getting Carbon Neutral to 2020, but the most clever plan which is me obviously, but the important thing is who is going to get this done, because we are debating in circles for too long, and in order to get this done, we have to find a way the have everybody part of the solution. So our friends in farming and agriculture are told that they are the problem. You cant blame somebody for hesitating to jump in on the debate about this on our side if we are telling them that they are the problem. Now the way i see it. Farming could be a huge part of the solution, and the science tells us that soil has the ability to absorb as much carbon and to drink as much carbon out of the air as what the entire Global Transportation sector is putting in. Science telling us that it can be done, but technology has not figured out how do it and that is what we should invest in. And there are things that we know about and technology around the cover crops and the soil management that can make a difference in addition to the alternative fertilizer techniques which you are raising, but we cant pressure the farmers to do it or order the farmers to do it, because often they cant afford to do it. They are getting squeezed. We have fewer places for them to buy the supplies from and fewer and fewer places to sell the product to, and they are squeezed. So what do we do . Well, we invest. If we can find billions of dollars to pay farmers just to try to take the edge off of a problem that this president created with the trade war, then surely, we can find billions of dollars to support the farmers with thekconservation Stewardship Program to pioneer these farming techniques. If we get it right, we can be so proud of it. And in the same way that iowa is proud of norman borlog and the green revolution and millions of lives saved by techniques developed here in the american midwest and brought across the world to increase crop yields and help feed millions, i want us to be just as proud of the things that we cook up here in the middle of the country to make the entire global Agricultural Sector more sustainable, until the Carbon Neutral farming is as symbolic as a Carbon Neutral vehicle. So when we do that, it will show how the country is enlisted in a national project, because Climate Change is too important for it to be a partisan fight where if i win, you lose. We all have to work on this or we will never get there. Yes, sir. There is a lot of talk about the 15 minimum wage from several of the people running. I would like to see an increase, but i am also a realist where im a mayor of a small town, and if you excuse caseys, Everything Else is a small business. So what do you tell people who come from the rural areas like us where we know that my sister owns a grocery store, and she cant pay the 25 High School Kids there 15 an hour, and stay in business so what is the answer for the people in the community. And first of all, thank you for the mayor of a community, and obviously, i have a soft spot for midwestern mayors. And we are going through this ourselves in my part of the midwest, too. That is why i a reasonable ramp that brings it into place over several years will work. That is what is in the house bill that was proposed that is just one more example of a good piece of legislation that Mitch Mcconnell is killing in the senate. And when we do that over time, people also have more in the economy benefits. Remember that we have 50 years of data to tell us what happens when you raise the minimum wage, but the opponents will talk about, we have no idea, but it could be scary. We know exactly what will happen, and from 50 years experience, if we do it in the right way and we have to give people time to adjust, the economic gain outweighs any kind of pressure on employment. Now, we have to recognize that the economy here is not the same as it is on the coasts. So the right living wage in a place like oakland or boston or miami is going to be different than it is going to be in a place like south bend or around here. And we should respect that with the idea of standards that develop in different regions to go above that floor. The other thing that we need especially for the small familyowned businesses is to make sure that there is a level playing field. One of the reasons that the jobs in a lot of places struggle to compete is that theres in effect a kind of the invisible subsidy going to the amazons of the world if they are not paying a penny in the federal income tax, because they have clout and lawyers and clever maneuvers to send the revenue around the world and put it in different buckets so none of it somehow counts for the tax code. That is not fair and it makes it harder for any of the local businesses to compete, and that is why we need a fairer tax code and fairer policy to deal with the giant corporations buying each other and getting bigger and bigger and eating the shops that employ so many of the people that we rely on in our smaller communities. Yes, maam . I would like to know if you would support the proposal to add additional seats to the Supreme Court . Great question. Adding seats to the Supreme Court. O so, here is the way i see it. We need to restructure the Supreme Court, but it is not about getting the justices who agree with me, but of course, when i am president , the ones i appoint will share my philosophy, but the real way is that the way that the court is being turned into a nakedly Political Institution and every time we have a fight, it drags down the court and the country. The most interesting one that i have seen proposed is one with 15 seats on the court, but 10 of them appointed in the traditional partisan fashion, and the other five can only be seated by a unanimous agreement of the other ten. So what it does is to give you more justices who think for themselves like justices suter and kennedy, because those are the only other ten that the others could agree on and it is an interesting idea floated by people who smarter than me in the constitutional law review from yale. Maybe that 12 way to do it. Maybe we should look at term limits and rotate the justices on or off of the bench. These are all appropriate things to do. Ethical oversight. Well, we certainly need the ethical oversight, and we have forgotten not just the court, but as a country basic democratic reforms. The court has been adjusted half a dozen times across American History and as recently as the 70s we were undertaking constitutional amendments like the one that made it possible to vote beginning at the age of 18. And even the equal rights amendment that did not make it, and a good part that it happened because we have gotten title 9, and i have not given up on the e. R. A. , because i believe it is good policy. So when the democracy is not working for us, we need to see how to make the democracy more democratic, and that is going for Campaign Finance reform, and the way that politicians are picking the voters instead of the other way around and all things related to the ability to vote and the structure of the Supreme Court. D. C. Should be a state, because the problems for the folks living in d. C. Are just as important as yours and mine and why dont they have people in the senate fighting for them. So, somewhere along the line, we forgot how to do the constitutional, and the systemic reforms, but the most elegant quality of the reform is when it is out of whack, there is a process in place to improve it and whether it is the court or any other aspect that is failing us, we should have the courage to have the debate about change, and if it is going to take years to bring about that change, all of the more reason to work on it from day one, and that is what we will be doing from my day one in the white house. There is a concern in iowa and maybe that we have critical access hospitals which serve the communities, and they are starting to struggle, because of the medicare reinvestment is pennies on the dollar unlike some of the bigger hospitals, and even the bigger hospitals are starting to struggle with the Insurance Companies and reimbursements. In iowa, it is lower than any other state for our people with medicare, and any idea of how the solve that . I do. Thank you for asking. The question is if you are out of earshot, the question is about the critical access of the medical facilities and the risk of losing the medical providers in the rural areas where we need them the most because of the reimbursements have not lived up. So we need to reflect an added benefit to have care in the underserved area, and secondly, a new designation or reinforce the designation of the Rural Emergency Medical Center to have the ability to qualify for certain types of the medicare fund. And third, we have to incentivize more providers. When i have proposed a Public Service loan forgiveness programs to be expanded to have the student debt forgiven for doing something in the public sector, that is for people to provide services in the rural areas that are hard to obtain. And one more thing, we have to do a much better job of the Mental Health care in this country especially in the rural areas. They talk about it like it affects a few people, but every family, every workplace and every neighborhood is impacted by the Mental Health. We have to break the silence around it, and apply real resource, and federal dollars to making sure that the communities are able to build up the sense of belonging that can help to get ahead of the Mental Health issues in the first place and a system of care to look after people. We need Mental Health first aid for the teachers. We need to make sure that the Law Enforcement officers are not theclosest thing to Mental Health providers and jailers should not be the biggest provider of Mental Health in a community. We will know we are getting somewhere when it is as routine and easy to get a mental and Emotional Health checkup as it is to get a physical. We have to break the silence on that as a culture and get that done. Sir . My wife is a nurse in the Critical Care hospital, and thank you for the question and the answer. Second off, i brought my three daughters with many, and my 12yearold is a huge fan of yours, and if you had a vote from 12yearolds, you would have hers. And i wrote it down so i would not forget and then i forgot. With the three of us, we have had to discuss the active shooter situations at their age. I have had to run the active shooter situations in the nursing home that i work in. How would, what additions would you add to gun control the put forwa forward, but also, how would you implement those to give peace of mind to the younger people, and a lot of people here who have had to undergo to active shooter drill, and it is not fun. How do we get to point of having peace of mind to go to work and to go to school. There is enough going on in school to keep you busy before you are worrying about these things. What grade are you . Third grade. Third grade. I remember what it was like to be in third grade or seventh grade. It is hard. It is fun, but it is hard. The last thing on your mind is whether you are safe and the last thing on your dads mind when he is waving goodbye to you is if you are safe. We have a responsibility and not just we in office, but everybody old enough to vote has a responsibility to protect the kids and protect anybody who is vulnerable. The idea that our kids are getting active shooter drills before they can read tells you how far we have allowed it to go in our country and it is dead wrong. We have to start with the basics that the American People want and Congress Wont deliver. Universal background checks have 90 support and strong support of republicans and gun owners and so how is that possible that we have not delivered it. That is telling you what is wrong with the democracy and money can outvote people, and single lobby Companies Like the nra can have a stranglehold on the congress. We need red flag laws to make sure that people who present an extreme risk cannot have access to the weapon in the first place. We have to do something about the sales of the weapons that i trained on in the military. I know what they can do and they dot no belong near a school or a nursing home or a Neighborhood Center or anywhere in our communities in peace time. When we do that and find the courage to do that which might require us to not only have the right policies, but be willing to do away with the filibuster that is being used to block good policies and we have to have the courage to do that, because lives are on the line and so is your peace of mind. All right. I am getting the high sign that we are down to one last question. So i dont know. You are right in front of me. So you win. Yay. Theres a huge disparity between the haves and the have nots when it comes to the Public Education system. What will you do as president to help Public Schools narrow that gap and have opportunities for everybody. Well, education should be the great equalizer in the country and create the means and the resources and the freedom for everybody to be able to make it into the middleclass. At our best, we have done that, but that is not where we are right now. The resources are being drained from our Public Schools. It is why we need to support Public Education, and that includes massively increasing the funding for title i which is going to get the resources to the schools that need it most. In most countries, if you have a school or a community that has more need where the students are worse off economically, you get more spending per pupil there. And we are the only place in the world that it is less often because of the way that the property taxes work. So we have to make sure that there is more funding to come in to balance the way that low income communities are punished for not having resources. Another thing that we have to do is to support the teaching profession. We rely on the teachers to deliver. The way i see it, we ought to honor teachers a little bit more like soldiers and pay them a little bit more like doctors, because what they are doing is so important. I am not saying that because i married a teacher. For the first time in a very long time and the first time ever, the majority of the teachers said they would discourage their children from becoming teachers. That is a warning sign. Coming from heart of our country, because we are going the need to rely on the education more than ever, and the workplace is change and the needs of the communities are changing, and we need teachers who are motivated and capable and can put food on the table. Ch chastin, my husband, made more money as a bartender than he did teaching with a masters. It does not make sense. I told about a family who likes to host families from japan, and she wanted when she finished high school to go back to become a teacher. And so she went back and she was going to take the exam to get into the program to allow you in the university to train for teaching. But when she came back, she could not make the cut to be a teacher, so she did what a lot of people in the country do when you are good academically andte a doctor as a fallback plan. We know part of that is come pen say, and we have to cut the shortage in particular of the rural areas with grow your own programs to encourage the people to serve the very communities that produced them and put the funding behind them. When we do that, that is going to be better off. One more thing on the teaching and education and one more thing that we have programs like the c. O. D. E. School for helping kids to be fluent and in the machinery, but dont forget the arts education. So we are not just training workers, but citizen, and so it is not a luxury, but a necessity. I got the high sign, because our time sup. I am so pleased to spend time with you, and right on the edge. Umm, that would give you something to remember me by, wouldnt it. A lot of questions that came up were about kids and making sure that we are doing right by kids, and the people who should be at the center of this campaign are people not quite old enough to vote, because they are trusting us with their lives. Without even knowing it, they trust us with their lives. I wanted to be able to look in the eyes of anybody who is here now under the age of 18, and be able to get together ten years later and i want you to come up to me, and say, ask me how we did, and i will ask you how you think that we did and i want to be able to say, i am sorry that it got to way it was in 2019 and look at what we did in 2020, and gun safety starting in 2020 and look at how we made sure that the climate, and by the time your 2yearold grandson is old enough to talk to many about Climate Change, i want to be able to say that his grandmother asked me about this issue, and we did something. I want us to be able to say by the time we are old enough to run for president that we fixed it. That we delivered an economy where the rising tide does actually raise all boats and that your climate will not affect your life, and so that when you are president , we can work on other stuff. In my retirement, i can watch you solve problems that we have not thought of, and instead of arguing over the ones that we have not solved. That is something that we cannot wait four years from now or ten years from now, and we have tooktto act. Running for office is an expression of hope that we can do it. It is not the naive hope, but the hope of somebody who can literally not afford the go back. I cant. My marriage exists by the grace of a single vote on the u. S. Supreme court, and i am not going back, and neither are we. That is what this election is about and that is what i am asking you to achieve. Talk to your friends and your neighbors and get to know my organizers and insist on a better future, and i believe that you will help me to become the next president of the united states. Thank you. I will see you on the campaign trail. Thank you. Thank you so much. I have daughters who are saddled with student debt. I am very happy to meet you. Help is on the way. Hello. Nice to meet you, sir. Thank you for coming. Veteran, 12 years. What branch . Army. Thank you for your service. It is so bad to turn away people who need help. We can change it. Thank you. Thank you for coming. Thank you very much. Nice to see you. Get a picture of all of us. Come here. Thank you. Did you get Mother Nature to hold off this weather . How are you . Thank you, mayor. Good luck to you. Thank you. Take care. Yes, you too. I just want to say thank you for everything youre doing. Thank you. Hello. I just want to tell you thanks for doing this. Thats what we really need right now. I need you to spread that hope for us. Okay, i will. Thank you. Thanks for coming. Hi. Thanks for coming. Shes going to be a voter in 2020. All right. Just in time. Were worried about her future, and we think you might be the man. Good. Thank you. We need something done about our school shootings. The culture and the hatred. Thank you so much. I just want to say thank you. Thank you. Thanks for coming by. Good luck to you, sir. Hi. Thanks for coming. Youre the first person im going to vote for. Its my first election. Well, never a time like now to get involved. If there was ever an election that mattered, right . Yeah, thank you. Thank you for being here. Hi. Nice to meet you. Thanks for everything you do. Really appreciate you running. I know its a lot of work. Thats what were here for. Do your best to get some republicans with us. Its amazing how many people are crossing over. Thanks so much, folks. Thank you so much. Im on the city council. Can you make this to pat . I bet you have quite a collection. My friend marcy from california wants one too, if you could. Marci. All right. And one more to karen. And thats it. I appreciate that so much. Thank you. Make sure your people call me because were going to be fantastic. Appreciate it. Hi. Im heidi. Thanks for coming. Were glad youre running. Thank you so much. Im jan and im a teacher, and i just want to thank you so much for coming here. I appreciate you very much. Thanks for the encouragement. Thanks so much for doing it. I have one question for you. On Social Security, the cap on earnings, its 132,900. Is there a way to get that off . The thing is, if we do and we could even have a donut hole and have it kick back in at 250. If we do that, Social Security is solved. Well, see, my brotherinlaw was a Social Security manager for 35 years. He kept on telling me, you got to take the cap off earnings and do a quarter percent increase on the tax. He said youd never have to worry about Social Security. They make it sound like theres no way to keep it alive without cutting benefit, and its just not true. Appreciate you coming to small town iowa. Appreciate it a lot. I appreciate your program. Thank you. You got my support. Ill do everything i can to help. Thank you. Welcome to webster city. Youre awesome. I really enjoyed everything. Thank you for going down and visiting my sisters and nephew in the wheelchair. Nick appreciates that so much. Good luck. If you want a photo, we can send it to you. That would be great. Thank you. Hello. Part of its on the training side. Part of its on the incentive side. If we get the reimbursement rates right and create some incentives, i think we could rebalance. The other thing is, as a soldier, rather than fighting in civil wars, i would rather see us go in and say this is going to be a safe, peacekeeping living area and let them fight out here, but these people are going to be safe. Okay. I got one quick question. Whats your strongest character trait . Oh, gosh, i dont know. Im going to go with discipline. Okay, thanks. Howdy. Thanks for coming. I heard you on the radio on wait, wait dont tell me. It was fun. So what are you going to do with everybody at the wall . What can we do . We got to end the family separation. Then weve actually got to fix the fundamentals of our immigration system. The problem at the wall was created in washington. Well, that, and what theyre running from. Im a head start teacher. Cutting aid to Central America is selfdefeating. We need people to be able to prosper at home so they dont have to flee for their lives. Im really its a big problem. Thanks for coming to webster city. Byebye. Thanks for coming to iowa. Hi. Im kim. Nice to meet you. You have my vote. My brother volunteers at your Campaign Office in ankeny. Oh, good. So he told me to come today. Make sure to tell him i said thank you. I will, i will. We got some fantastic volunteers. Hes 28 and really into politics. Thank you. Welcome to our town. Im the former mayor. Our current mayor is a trump supporter, and im so disappointed. So i understand the importance of funding for small communities. We think its important to show up in these communities. I do too. Can we get a mayor photo . Thanks so much for coming down. This is the first time ive been to see you, and im just so happy. Well, thanks for coming. Nice to meet you. I am so happy. What are your thoughts on student loan debts . Well, thats personal. Were at six figures right now, and thats so many people. We have to make it more affordable in the first place. We have to have reasonable interest rates. Thank you. Thanks for coming. Hello. Im christi. Im one of the union stage hands. So i appreciate that you hired a company that started using us. It supports my family. Trying to walk the walk. My mom met you today in boone. Howd i do . She was super excited that she can now caucus for you. Oh, good. Youve hired union in iowa. Thanks very much. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thanks for coming by. And live now to an event in washington, d. C. , with House Speaker nancy pelosi. Shell be here today speaking with the atlantics editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg about the upcoming legislative agenda. Its possible shell also face questions about renewed calls for impeaching President Trump after a recent whistleblower complained about the president s communication with the leader of ukraine that included talk about former Vice President joe biden and his son. House democrats are planning to meet behind closed doors today, live coverage here on