Hopefuls senator Amy Klobuchar and senator Elizabeth Warren in just three days here in South Carolina voters will put their stamp on the 2020 race in the first in the south primary. Many of those voters are here to ask the candidates questions before they head to the polls and now please welcome to the stage minnesota senator Amy Klobuchar. [ cheers and applause ] hi. How are you . Welcome. Thank you. So im going to ask you about what the president said earlier today about the coronavirus, but first i want to bring in a voter to talk about that, Caroline Schneider is a student at the college of charleston here who is currently supporting mayor buttigieg. Hi, caroline. Ive been to the college of charleston. Good to see you. Thank you, senator klobuchar for being here. Weve been dealing with an outbreak of mumps on campus and still receiving outbreak on how many cases its been and how its been through the student body and between this and the spreading of the coronavirus, what do you plan to do to keep these kinds of diseases for spreading. Thank you and thank you for putting that in the bigger context. I think the first thing that we want to do here whether it is people who are dealing with the mumps at your college or those around the world that have been sickened by the coronavirus is to thank those on the front line and the nurses, the doctors, the researchers and everyone that is working around the clock to get at these diseases. Last night on the debate stage i was asked about this, and you know how candidates always like to give their website out, right . I thought it was a moment to not just talk about why you want to be president , but to show how you should act as a president because until today our president has not addressed the nation about this, and i thought that he should have, so i actually gave out the cdc website, the cdc. Gov and urged people to look at that website to find out what you should do to protect yourself and find out what you should do if you feel sick whether its from the mumps or any other disease. Today when the president addressed this, he did do it with the cdc that i think thats important because i believe in science, but i also think as we look at diseases and how they spread, we have to think ahead, and a lot of this, when you look at the budgets and how he has handled this. Hes tried to cut the cdc in the past. He has tried to cut the organization that works with the rest of the world when it comes to pandemics and in fact, now, he kind of left it up in the air after asking for a billion dollars from congress about how much money and said i guess theyll decide that. I know that the democrats in the senate led by senator schumer, the place i work, have asked for Something Like 7, 8 billion and i think we have to be ready and the number one thing is to listen to the doctors and call the doctors and the other thing is to plan ahead and how i would do this as your president is one, make sure we have adequate medical help and research, that we have invested in education because the next vaccine or the next cure or the next way that we reduce the risk is probably right now in a College Student at your college, in their head or maybe its in a nurse in houston, and so investing in education, investing in medicine is important and then, of course, keeping the cdc strong. To give you a sense of my investment in the in science, when we had a shutdown, a Government Shutdown once caused by ted cruz, by the way, whole other story, i actually gave my salary during that time to the nih because i wanted to make clear that when you mess around with the government like that or when you are like President Trump and you throw darts at people you stop lifesaving cures. You stop research. Or if you go after our allies and you make it harder to work with them when it comes to curing diseases. Senator, what the president announced, one of the things he announced earlier was that the Vice President mike pence would lead the governmentwide team to deal with the coronavirus. Whats your response . Well, i would think usually you might put a medical professional in charge, but i am [ applause ] i would hope that the Vice President will be working. Im sure he will be with the agency heads at health and Human Services and at the cdc and sometimes you elevate things by giving them to the Vice President , but what i want to hear from which so often we see including in the First Response from this administration when we put the 14 people who have been infected on that plane along with the people that werent off that cruise line and brought them to our country, i think we want to make sure that everything is done in the right way and thats the job of congress to perform oversight. Thanks. Lets get back to the audience. Donna norvel is a consultant and Community Volunteer from Mount Pleasant and she is currently undecided. Thank you for coming to charleston. Welcome back. Thank you. The last time i saw you it was very hot outside here at the college. Senator, i am a domestic gun violence survivor. It was decades ago, and its only recently that ive been able to talk about it. Tell us what you plan to do to make sure that only mentally healthy citizens in our country have access to guns. Well, thank you. [ applause ] and i am so sorry that you went through that, and i am so proud of you for coming forward and talking because it takes it takes a lot of courage to do that. It is so easy to try to put it behind you, but you are actually speaking out for other people and i think you know that or you wouldnt have asked this question. So my answer is first of all, when it comes to making sure guns are not in the hands of people that will misuse them and people who shouldnt have guns is first of all, universal background checks. I had the experience after sandy hook to meet with parents that came to washington to try to get the universal background check bill done and that was the day that i had to tell them that we didnt have the votes in the senate to pass them, and i remember this mom sobbing and saying to me, you know, the last time that i saw my little boy he pointed up to the picture of his school aide on the refrigerator and he went off to school and then i never and she told me shed had the courage which she did to come to washington to advocate for universal background checks even though it wouldnt have saved her baby because of the circumstances of that case. Well, why . Because those universal background checks actually saved the most lives when it comes to things like suicides and when it comes to Domestic Violence. Another thing that you all know way too well in this town that would be very helpful would be to close the charleston loophole. The victims [ applause ] in honor of reverend pinckney in that tragic, tragic case, giving police the time that they need to review so in a case where you have someone who may be mentally ill or may have something that shows up on their record, if the police doesnt have the time to review that youre not going to be able to get through it. Another bill that those two bills, by the way, are sitting on Mitch Mcconnells desk and as president i would get them done. The other thing i mentioned is something i mentioned last night which is closing the boyfriend loophole, and what this says right now is that in a number of states if you are convicted of serious Domestic Abuse that you can go out and actually still get a gun, and yet theres a huge correlation between Domestic Abuse convicts and later homicides. So i have put that bill out there for a long, long time and have not been able to get it through. We turn the peoples house back into the peoples house. Thanks to you, South Carolina, and your election of representative cunningham, by the way [ cheers and applause ] that is democracy in action and because of that we finally got that through the house and that bill is now sitting on Mitch Mcconnells desk. So in light of what happened today in mill walk e the mass shooting that you saw here, the Mass Shootings we see all over the country, i still do not want us to forget the everyday gun violence, the kids that get killed every single day in this country. The victims of Domestic Violence, the Police Officer in minnesota whose funeral i attended who showed up at a Domestic Violence scene because a young woman had called and he had a bulletproof vest on, but the guy with severe Mental Illness problems shot that officer in the head and when i was sitting in that church i saw his widow go down the aisle with their three little kids and the last time theyd been in that church was for the nativity play with their dad in the front row. Domestic violence affects an individual victim, but it affects a whole community and when we look at these gun violence laws we have to respond to the Mass Shootings and the hate crimes, but we also have to make sure were looking at solutions for everyday gun violence. Thank you, senator. I want to go to another undecided voter in the audience. Orlando sutton, retired different ridistrict ranger with the u. S. Forest service. Thank you very much. Good evening, senator. Why should plaque america vote for you . What are your goals to make inroads with Economic Opportunity political appointment and Affordable Housing and policing. Great question, thank you. [ applause ] i think as you know, there is still racism in society at every level. We know that when an africanamerican woman goes into a Maternity Ward in new orleans and says that her hands are swollen and no one listens and she walks out without her baby or the store security person who walks around following around someone, i know this story from someone i know in minnesota in a store just randomly profiling them and picking them out or the fact that africanamerican poverty for kids is 30 . All of that is wrong. So heres what i would do. First of all, i would make sure that people have the ability to vote, because to make all the changes that we have been talking about, all of the candidates youve heard have been talking about, you cant do it without the ability to vote. Im going to be in North Carolina tomorrow night and there a court actually said that their legislature, the bill they put forward was discrimination with surgical precision against africanamericans and it is everything from purging voting roles where we had not had that kind of conduct as well as other voting restrictions, stacy abrams would be governor of georgia right now. [ applause ] it is things like gerrymandering, it is things like making it hard for people to register to vote. I lead a number of those bills, in fact, all of the bills i just mentioned and so as president , i could actually get them done. Secondly, its an agenda of Economic Opportunity and that means everything from working with representative clyburn on his major plan to invest in areas that have been perpetually impoverished to making sure that we are investing in k through 12 education. Im the daughter of a second grade teacher and my moms looking down at me somewhere, so if i didnt say big Time Investment in education i dont think that id be here today because she cared so much about that. Its investment in preschool. Its taking those trump tax cuts where so much of the money went to the wealthy and putting it into things like making college more affordable and hbcus and making sure that we have retirement because that hits people of color more than any other group. So it is an agenda of Economic Opportunity, allowing people to vote and then, of course, criminal justice reform. Senator, you mentioned the congressman james clyburn. As you know, he endorsed your opponent. Im well aware. Joe biden. I can still mention him. I very much like him. What i want to ask you about is your history or your record so far with the black vote. In nevada you won 2 of black voters. So why are you a better choice for voters here in South Carolina with black voters than joed bien . First of all, i respect the work with the Africanamerican Community and hes well known and more well known than me and its up to me to earn the vote of the people of South Carolina. In my own state which ive always had strong support in the Africanamerican Community in all of my elections and i have a number of leaders in the Africanamerican Community in minnesota that are supporting me not only through the years, but in my president ial race. So the way i earn the support is with the agenda that i just talked about and it is also earning the hearts and minds of people. I am someone that myself has a story where i wouldnt be here without opportunity, and im someone that didnt come from a lot of money, dont have a big bank account, im not the one that youve heard of immediately, but through grit and resilience im standing up here on this stage, and [ applause ] i think there have been so many broken promises to the Africanamerican Community, and im not that person, and i think some of my colleagues, im not referring to the Vice President here, but some of my colleagues up on that debate stage were promising a lot of things that i dont think they can deliver, and i dont want to be that person, and thats why the plans that i just put forward to you when it comes to Affordable College and k through 12 investment, ive shown how im going to pay for every single to use senator sanders words, nickel and dime. Ive actually showed how im going to do it. Then, i think you also have to have someone that can win, and my story of winning is out there. Im the only one on that stage that not only won with the Africanamerican Community in my state and a firedup Democratic Base and the highest voter turnout in the country when i led the ticket, but i also was able to win in rural areas and in suburban areas with independent voters, with Republican Voters and that is a coalition. Black women have been carrying the torch for too long for the Democratic Party on their own and on their shoulders. I think they need the friends and that is how we build a big coalition. There are a lot of voters who are undecided and heres another question from an undecided voter. Dr. Eric berman, hes an opthalmologist of South Carolina. Maybe not in this room, in the great state of South Carolina, President Trump is very popular. Business is doing well and record low inemploymeunemployme. Weve heard in campaigns, its the economy stupid, why should we vote a president who is so successful with the economy out of office . Because he is not successful for a lot of people in this room. So i would start with that. [ cheers and applause ] i always think about when he went down to maralago, and after he signed that tax bill and he had this big party in a ballroom and he literally told all of his friends there you just got a lot richer. Was anyone here in that room . I just want to make sure i didnt want to embarrass anyone. If you were there, so the point of it is that thats worked really well for some people, but making things more affordable, that should be a focus of a president and thats everything from bringing down healthcare costs which he promised to do. He went on fox news and he said he would bring pharma prices down so low it would make your head spin. Well, it makes your head spin because theyve gone up so far. Hes done nothing about college affordability. He has not kept the promises on infrastructure, so important here in South Carolina, Rural Broadband and the like. So i think you have that issue that there hasnt been shared prosperity and you have a second set of issues which is dealing with the longterm challenges to make our economy strong and that is everything from workforce training to Immigration Reform which would be very good for our economy to climate change. When you look at the effect its going to have on the economy here in South Carolina and tourism, i look at it as a moral issue, yes, but also an economic issue to institutional racism and the like, and then finally, if you want to bring people together so we can compete in the World Economy and be a beacon of entrepreneurship and a beacon of democracy for the world, you dont go and go after their own people. You dont go after immigrants. You dont say you dont say after charlottesville that there are two sides when the other side is a ku klux klan. Theres only one side and thats the american side. Yet another undecided voter. Okay. Katherine mansfield, an attorney from Mount Pleasant. Hi, katherine. Hi, good evening. You often claim that your ties to the midwest would make you a strong democratic nominee. Do you worry that this messaging isolates voters in other parts of the country such as South Carolina . How do you appeal to nonmidwest voters . Very good question, and i really think about the midwest and the states that feel that theyve been left behind some in terms of focus. In the 2016 election when we werent able to turn out our vote the way that we should, i would include states like South Carolina, and my plan is actually to build a beautiful blue wall of democratic votes in this coalition of independence and moderate republicans around states including states like South Carolina, and make donald trump pay for it. So that is my plan. So let me talk a little bit about this because when i talk about those midwestern districts im talking about actual districts that arent that different than congressman cunninghams, right . These are swing districts. These are districts that have been held by republicans that we won in a sometimes close election, sometimes by even bigger margins, and i think to appeal to people in those districts youve got to be able to include people and not shut them out and thats why ive always seen and ive talked to the congressman about this, and ive seen this election through the lens of yes, and economic check, some of the issues we just talked about, but also a patriotism check, a decency check. So a lot of voters who maybe before stayed home in 2016 or they had voted for another candidate including donald trump, they are starting to wonder do i really want a president for four more years that my kids come in the room and ive got the tv on and the president is speaking and i have to mute the volume because im scared of what hes going to say . Do i really want a president [ applause ] senator on do i really want a president who stands next to Vladimir Putin about election, and democracies around the world . So those are the people i want us to remember in addition to our firedup Democratic Base and those people are in wisconsin and pennsylvania and they are in South Carolina, and my last thing i will say here is that my husband is one of six boys. He had four boys in his family and then his parents decided to see if theyd have a girl and they had identical twin boys and they lived in a trailer home with triple bunk beds and every summer theyd go on a vacation in their Station Wagon and my husband was the middle boy, the quiet one, and the story is that maybe once or twice maybe they forgot him at the gas station and drove away. His mom says thats not quite what happened that they started counting off the boys in the car to make sure that didnt happen, and i will tell you this, talking to congressman cunningham, being in the states that were so close in these districts and looking at my track record of winning in every single congressional district, red, blue or purple, i will never leave South Carolina at the gas station. Were talking about South Carolina, super tuesday is just a few days following and minnesota is one of those states and your home state. Yes or no, is that a must win for you to continue in the race . No. I never set litmus tests and i know im going to win minnesota. Thats not a factor. I just won two polls that came out in the last week by the newspaper and another one and the key part is not necessarily primary. The key part is general election, and two months ago a poll came out. My state was a very close state when it came to the president ial in 2016. It showed the one that beat donald trump the most in a state hes gone to nearly every year of his presidency and the Vice President s come multiple times. I beat him by 17 points in the state of minnesota, more than any other candidate. So what matters to me more than anything is winning in the general election. Okay. We will take a quick break. Stay there. We have a lot more questions for senator klobuchar right after this. [ applause ] your choices make you. Choose boldly. Feria haircolor by loreal. Pure dyes, with triple highlights. Multifaceted, shimmering color with multiple tones in every strand. Never dull, never flat. 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Oh it got very heated. Yes. I wanted to show our viewers who were watching on tv the photo thats going around the internet. Okay. I will explain that its of biden. Joe biden and tom steyer yelling at each other while youre standing in the middle looking at the audience. Take us to that moment and how you felt in that moment. Okay. So first of all, i will say that it was a bit of a slugfest, that debate, and my view of the debate was that our job because so many people are tuning in for the first time that dont really know the candidates is to give them an alternative to donald trump, and so i went in there. I think i said at one point that if we keep tearing into each other, tearing apart our party for the next four months then well have to watch donald trump continue to tear apart this country for the next four years, and i think it is really [ applause ] i think its really important for people to understand that despite all of that because were in an intense primary, that what unites people is still stronger than what divides them and that there is a big difference between our party and donald trump who is currently in a lawsuit in texas trying to kick people off of their Health Insurance for preexisting conditions. So with the too with those two, they were going at it and i stood there and what was somewhat amusing about it was that tom steyer was so heated he was moving into my little area right there, and so i actually thought he was flailing his arms that i actually might get hit in the process and then i thought, well, if something happens and i fall off my little stool i was standing on because im the only one who is truly 54 despite the fact that the president called michael bloomberg, 54, im the only one that can hold that and i thought to myself, at least steyer has deep pockets. Ill be in good shape. I can get something out of this and it will be okay. But truthfully, despite the fun of that moment for me, i think we do have to remember that, and i felt the one differentiation i wanted to make on that debate was the difference between me as a leader of our party and my colleague senator sanders and actually senator warren. I think that we really need someone that can bring people with her and lead, and i am the only one with the tract record up there, despite some incredible people who have won in those districts that are red and purple and brought people with me just like congressman cunninghams district. Senator, we have a lotter mo more undecide voters and gerrie green with the public defenders office. I went to school committed to be a public defender and i had to take out a tremendous amount of Student Loans public and private and i am ten years out of law school and i actually owe more today than i did when i graduated from law school. The interest is killing me. This is even after i filed a chapter 13 bankruptcy in 2012 which all that did was prevent my loans from going into default during that fiveyear repayment period. What will you do to help people in my situation, that dont just have public loans and private loans and were trying to do the right thing and were drowning in student loan debt. Okay. Thank you for that story. [ applause ] thank you, first of all, for deciding to devote yourself to representing people that need representation, and you shouldnt be having to go through this when you make that decision to take on that public service. So i would actually start there. Ive been a big advocate including testifying in my own state for funding for public defenders. Both as a senator and before that, i think they should be paid in equal amount as a prosecutor. Thank you. In the system, and i think some states are like that and some states arent and as president i would do everything to try to make that equal and they should be equal, right . Theyre playing equal roles. Number two number two, when it comes to the Student Loans, there are some things we can do with bankruptcy to make it easier in that way, but the third thing is just the Repayment Program, and as you know, theres this tenyear Repayment Program for people that go into public service, teaching and the like. Right now that program is messed up. It says if you stay in a certain area that you can get your loans paid back in ten years. It is so messed up and i have found 137 things that i can do in the first hundred days of my presidency without congress that are legal and one of things that i would do in the first 100 seconds is fire betsy devos. [ cheers and applause ] that that would actually go a long way toward what we need to do which is making that program work and actually phasing it in. I would expand it, and i found a way to pay for this by taking the Capital Gains rate and putting it closer to the personal income tax rate, brings in Something Like 500 billion and then using that money to expand that program so it works better. I would also use the money to help people refinance their Student Loans at much lower rates because if multimillionaires can refinance their yachts students should be able to refinance their Student Loans. [ applause ] get back to the audience. Nicole dietrich is the director of social work at the medical university of South Carolina, also volunteers with South Carolinas moms demand action which is, of course, a gun safety advocacy group, and shes another undecided voter. Okay. Hi, nicole. How are you . Good. As we saw in 2016 with Hillary Clinton women have to walk a tightrope to be perceived as leaders yet not as aggressive or ambitious. Early in your campaign headline exclaimed that you were a mean boss, a critique we would not likely see of a harddriving man. This type of misogyny has been highlighted more and more with the ascent of the me too movement. As president how will you command leadership while effectively countering sexism . Ooh okay. I just first want to say that i love my staff, and i wouldnt be here right now if my official staff hadnt worked with me for years. We passed over a hundred bills since ive been the lead democrat. You cant do any of that without good staff and i certainly wouldnt have had this Cohesive Group on the president ial campaign. Weve been together since i made that announcement in the snow where people didnt think id make it through the announcement much less here on this stage without great staff. Secondly, when it comes to dealing with our culture right now, i think theres a lot of focus on rich and famous people when they do things and thats fine, but i think we sometimes forget the everyday things that happen to people in the workforce, the hotel worker who maybe is an immigrant who gets shoved into a corner and is afraid shes going to lose her status if she reports it, the factory worker who gets pinched every day at work, the nurse who gets told lewd jokes when shes just trying to do her job, and i think so much of this is having safe workplaces for everyone when it comes to sexual harassment. I actually took this issue on in the u. S. Senate and led the bill to change the rules in the senate, got a republican coauthor, and it literally changed the rules for the entire congress, and what the bill does is it says, one, were not going to hide this anymore. Were going to have a clear process that makes it easier for people to bring cases and two, if a member actually violates the law and harasses someone that they will have to pay for it, not the taxpayers. [ applause ] senator, i want to get to ali metagakis who is a criminal defense attorney from charleston, also undecided. Hi, ali. Hi, senator klobuchar. Im a public defender, a proud one and i actually worked with tammy who is a former colleague of mine and had to leave in part because it was unsustainable financially and its hard work with an overwhelming case load. . Ive only done a few volunteer cases and even doing that i know how devoted you must be to your client, but also to the system of justice to do the work. So thank you for that. Thank you, but my question today is more about our clients. Okay. One thing all public defenders learn and prosecutor, i know youre a former prosecutor learn early on is that the majority of our clients are victims of the criminal Justice System, not because theyre bad people or because theyre indifferent to our laws, but really because they are themselves victims of their circumstances. An overwhelming majority of my clients suffer from Mental Illness, from substance abuse, homelessness and poverty and unfortunately, our criminal Justice System is structured in a way that its geared toward punishment and not towards treatment or rehabilitation. So many of our clients end up coming back and back into the system over and over and to make matters worse, senator, here in South Carolina, we dont have a speedy trial rule and because of that our clients are sitting in jail for months and years. In charleston the average wait time for a trial is over two years so our clients are pleading guilty just to go home. I know that this is an issue for our state legislatures. We have to urge them to vote to change these thing, but what can you, if anything, do as president to help us and our clients for these issues. Thank you. What a beautifully worded question, thank you. And thank you for getting into those details because i think its really important that people understand whats really going on here. So the first thing and this is based on my eight Years Experience where i will say i saw first hand the institutional racism that we see in the system and also how people can be on what you refer to as kind of a revolving door if we dont do this right. So many people that end up in the criminal Justice System are there because of Mental Illness, as you point out or are there because of addiction, and so i am a big believer in drug courts. Ive actually both when i was the d. A. And then also when i got to the senate ive led the efforts on federal drug courts to get funding and we finally have federal drug courts. For me, this is personal. When i was growing up my dad struggled with alcoholism. By the time my husband and i got married my dad had his third dwi and thats when the judge said thats it. Its going to be treatment or jail, and my dad chose treatment, and because that treatment was available in his words, he was pursued by grace because of his faith and his family and that treatment he is now 91 and hes sober. Hes in assisted [ applause ] hes in assisted living and his aa group still visits him and in his words a year and a half ago its hard to get a drink around here anyway, but back to your stories, i think that having Mental Health courts so that when people come in you dont want to be as a prosecutor. Youre not like a business. You dont want to see repeat customers. How do you get people off of that . One, Mental Health courts are a good idea. Two, drug courts and having treatment available. Three, looking at sentencing. We just passed the first step act. I was one of the cosponsors. I actually think if im president im going to as you can tell i know the ins and outs of the system and how do we get it to the state level that youre asking about and 90 of the people are incarcerate side a setback. Its to reduce the sentences for nonviolent offenders. That means giving people rights and having appropriate reentry when they come back into our society and treating them with dignity and allowing them to vote when they get out immediately. It is a whole different way of looking at the criminal Justice System, and im just very excited to work on it, and look forward to working with you. So thank you. [ applause ] senator, i want to bring in Joshua Shanes who is an associate professor of jewish studies at the college of charleston who says hes undecided, but leaning toward senator warren. Good evening. Hi. Welcome to charleston. Thanks so much. Im a specialist in the in the history of fascism and extremely concerned at the moment and i appreciate you stepping up to the plate and trying to save us. Youre welcome. My question is as follow, how would you motivate the liberal wing animated by sanders and warren to the candidacy if you are nominated . What position of sanders would you be willing to endorse that maybe until now you might not have . Okay, so first of all, i want to be clear what i said at the beginning that what unites is bigger than what divides us and all of us have a pledge to support the candidate that comes out of the convention, and that is very, very important. [ applause ] secondly, if youve seen up there, we can go back and forth on issue, but elizabeth and bernie and i actually are all three of us are in leadership together at the u. S. Senate. Ill bet you wish you were in those meetings and we have worked together on many, many issues and i admire both of them. When you come to positions, i have worked with elizabeth on a lot of the financial reforms and have supported the work that she has done there. I have worked with bernie extensively on pharmaceutical issues, and i think at one of the debates we were in a pleasant, joking way we went back and forth with an amendment which weve done together which is klobuchar and sanders and he claimed it was the opposite in bringing in less expensive drugs from other countries to bring the prices down and so weve done a lot of Work Together. Of course, we dont agree on some major things, i think youve seen that on the debate stage. I dont agree with their bill on medicare for all. I think its better to build on the Affordable Care act with a public option, and i also think that [ applause ] i also have some different views on how we match our Education System with our economy to get at the job openings we have now, but i see every reason that we can Work Together in the future and to bring their supporters. I have been able to do that in my own state, and i think you see someone that has worked with our base and all kinds of people throughout my life in public service, and i just always think of the march were on together. The day after that inauguration including in this town when millions of people all over the country marched. The day after that 6,000 women signed up to run for office. We have been on this march together. Senator, were going it just goes on and on to where we are today. Thank you so much. We will take a quick break. We will be right back with more senator Amy Klobuchar. Dont go away. From fidelity. 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I want to get right back to the audience and bring in jenny, actually. She is the president of Young Democrats of South Carolina. She works for the South CarolinaState Government and is the executive Committee Woman for the Dorchester CountyDemocratic Party. As you can imagine because of all of that she does not publicly say who shes going to vote for, but has a question. Okay. Hi, senator klobuchar. Thank you for your great work. Thank you. One in five americans have some sort of Mental Illness, many do not seek help due to stigma, cost and lack of available services. I personally battle with diagnosis of ptsd and anxiety. I have insurance, however, it can cost me 80 per therapy session and thats not even taking into account time off work or cost for scripps. As president , what is your plan to address Mental Health in regard to cost, all right. Thank you. Im going to go fast. Its so important. Number one when you have insurance we want to make sure that Mental Health rules are in place. The bill that was passed a while ago. As president i would really work on enforcing it to make sure you get good benefits when you have insurance. You should be able to get benefits without a copay. Secondly, i would make sure were investing in Mental Health. We have seen a 30 increase in suicide in this country in the last 15 years. Major increase with students, lgbtq community. Rural areas, veterans, farmers. Very sad. It means counsellors in school, having maria butiore mental hea. The Opioid Settlement is coming in. We will use it for treatment and Mental Health beds. And two cents a milligram tax on opioid and pay for Mental Health. We can get it done with bipartisan support. You have to have a president that isnt afraid to talk about it and im big way have been talking about this all over the country and i cant wait to get it done. Another undecided voter. Hes an attorney from charleston. Welcome to South Carolina. Senator, im a fiscal conservative and voted for george bush, john mccain and romney. I feel the Republican Party doesnt address my values or represent the issue that is are important to me. Therefore im considering voting for a democrat for president for the first time in my life. You can see theyre saying welcome. My question for you is what policies as the potential democratic nominee and president of the United States would you enact or support to attract vote rs like me. First of all i believe in opportunity. And entrepreneur ship. And one of the thing that is bothers me about this president is that it feels like many times he thinks he can pick who will live that American Dream. That American Dream should be open to everyone. The second thing is that one of the things that conservatives care about is spending. And this president has been treating the workers and the families and the farmers in this country like poker chips in a bankrupt casino. And i have been willing to talk about how we can reduce the deficit while still keeping a strong safety net in place. One of the ways i would do it is take two points of his tax cut to corp. Races that he gave. 200 billion to make that clear. And putting that into a fund to start working on reducing the deficit. Theres many of things we can do. This president really has done nothing and gone in the wrong direction. Usually republicans that i worked with and ones that you mention like my friend mccain. They care about democracy. One of the last trips he took he took me to ukraine and to the baltics to make the point after donald trump got elected that we stand with democracy and freedom in the country and do not stand with Vladimir Putin. 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Tonight we have heard from mike bloomberg, the former Vice President joe biden, senator klobuchar. Now please welcome massachusetts senator, Elizabeth Warren. Do you hear that . Thats a very enthusiastic crowd. Hows your voice in. Im doing great. Im enthusiastic too. Lets do this. I want to talk about this, just tonight the president detailed Administration Response to the spread of the coronavirus. I want to tell you what includes, stopping nonu. S. Citizens from coming to the u. S. From china. Screening people coming in to the country from infected areas. Quarantining those infected and developing a vaccine. Do you think that response is sufficient . No. But lets start this really is serious. We have a lot to talk about here. We know that with any virus that develops the most vulnerable will be the children, seniors, people with compromised immune systems, under going treatment. This one is tough. So the way i think about this is first w