Julian castro and businessman tom steyer. Joining me right now is senator elizabeth warren. Lets welcome the senator. [ cheers and applause ] were going to have some fun tonight. Yes. Lets get right to it and get to the first question. Bill moore, Business Owner from dallas, texas, his late husbands claim that he was fired from his job after he came out to a customer is the basis for one of the three cases argued in front of the Supreme Court this weekend on lgbtq employment discrimination. Were sorry for your loss, thank you for being with us tonight. Thank you senator warren for your hard work and dedication for all of us americans and, chris, thank you for being part of the media that is maintained integrity and honesty. I was a plaintiff for one of the lgbt discrimination cases that was heard by the Supreme Court on tuesday on behalf of myself and other plaintiffs, my question is this, what will you do to ensure that the Senate Passes the equality act and that has recently passed the house that will ensure protection for all areas of lgbt plus discrimination. Its a wonderful question and i appreciate you asking. I am sorry for your loss and im grateful to you for not just letting it pass but for telling your story and taking it all the way through the court system. Its important. [ applause ] we make change when we speak up and for everyone else its always so important to remember, sometimes its really hard to speak up. You actually have to get out there and subject yourself to a lot of Different Things that can be really tough going on. I want to say a very special thank you to you for being all the way in this. I appreciate it. So for me, look, weve got the Supreme Court, we know the case is resting in the Supreme Court, but we all have to remember about this case, Supreme Court rules as it should that lgbtq people are protected under current law, were done. Weve got it. We are fully protected. If not, then we need to pass the equality act, we need to get it through congress. But the way i see this is, you asked the right question, how are you going to get it through congress . Get it through the house because we got a majority in the house and all it takes in the house is a simple majority to get it done. What its going to take in the senate, im going to be blunt, we got to have some more democrats in the senate. [ cheers and applause ] and i say that for two reasons, partly because the Democratic Party has made it clear, this is an issue, this is a priority for us. We believe that equal means equal everywhere. [ applause ] i also say it because i want our republican friends to hear that in the United States senate. I want them to know that people vote based on lgbtq issues. [ applause ] so im willing to continue to push Mitch Mcconnell right now but my number one goal is to make sure he is not the majority leader come january 2020. [ applause ] and then i want to adjust one more thing because i think its really important, if you want to get something done in the United States senate that is important and youve got a vocal minority thats opposed to it, its time to roll back the filibuster. They cant have a veto. Im in this fight. Are you ready for another question . You bet. Morgan cobs, Real Estate Investment firm in dallas, texas. Hes the chair of the Human Rights Campaign board of directors. Thank you for being here. Youre on the campaign trail i have been and youre approached and a supporter approaches you and says, senator, im Old Fashioned and my faith teaches me that marriage is between one man and one woman, what is your response. Im going to assume its a guy who said that. And im going to say, then just marry one woman. Im cool with that. [ applause ] assuming you can find one. [ applause ] let me ask you a followup on that. A followup . Joy kill. All right. Whats your follow up, chris . Thats the job. Okay. You grew up conservative in a conservative household, you were republican by party for many years. Was there ever a time that you felt differently about this issue in particular, about samesex marriage . No, i dont think so. I dont remember it. It may have been the case. I dont have notes from when i was a little kid. But i dont. And thats part of it. I mean, to me its about what i learned in the church i grew up in. First song i remember singing is they are yellow, black, white, they are precious in his sight, jesus loves the little children of the world. Can you sing it again . You bet. You want to harmonize with me on this . But to me, that is the heart of it, that was the basis of the faith that i grew up in. And it truly is about the preciousness of each and every life. It is about the worth of every human being. And that i saw this as a matter of faith and saw there were a lot of different people who do a lot of Different Things who look different from each other, who sound different from each other, who form different kind of families. And i know that back in oklahoma in those days, there werent many people who were out, but the way i grew up, it was gradual. It was the two ladies who lived together and it was just a part of what we understood in the area that i grew up. And the hatefulness frankly always really shocked me, especially for people of faith because i think the whole foundation is the worth of every single human being. And i get people may make decisions for themselves that are different than the decisions other people make, but those are decisions about you. They are not decisions that tell other people what they can and cannot do. Lets get a question that goes to the realty for people in this community. Whats your question, matthew . The aids epidemic disproportionally affects black men and women around the world. And Climate Change have exacerbated these disparities. We could defeat these threats but we keep getting off track because of broken promises. In your plan, you mentioned robust founding for aids, but this is not happening now. Would you commit to bolder funding increases and actions that we need to take to ends the aids pandemic and future pandemics . Yes. Yes. And i really do mean it. Yes. This is what we should be doing around the world. Can i put a little muscle behind that and talk about, for example, aid prevention drugs that are under patent that are expensive and not available to much of the rest of the world. Heres what i promise, in my first year as president , i love saying that [ applause ] i will do what a president can do all by herself. [ applause ] and one of the pieces im going to get out there and keep fighting for is i want to see us bring down the cost of drugs that are generic. This drug will be off patent by then and i commit that in my administration we will let out a government contract to produce that drug and make that drug available at cost both here in the United States and all around the world. Thats what were going to do. Followup question on the plan. What aspect of it is you want to decriminalize hiv transmission. States have laws that make that a crime. How do you deal with it on the state level . Do you try to get legislation . Is that something you negotiate . How would you deal with the decriminalization . Theres something called federal preemption. When you have a federal law that conflicts with the state law, then the federal law takes precedence. In the same way we have passed federal laws to protect people from being discriminated against and you dont have to rely on state law, we can do the same thing here on decriminalization and thats what i commit to fight for [ applause ] all right. Another question. Lets bring in jacob, hes here with his sister and his mom whos an advocate for transgender youth and active with the Human Rights Campaign. Jacob is an Elementary School student from massachusetts, likes to play hockey. Jacob . My name is jacob and im a 9yearold transgender american. My question is [ cheers and applause ] what will you do in your first week as president to make sure that kids like me feel safer in schools and what do you think schools need to do better to make sure i dont have to worry about anything but my homework . [ cheers and applause ] i like that question, jacob. Were going to do this. So let me start by saying i want to have a secretary of education who both believes in Public Education and believes in the value of every one of our kids and is willing to enforce our civil rights laws. [ applause ] it turns out that when the department of education was set up many years ago, the secretary of education was given a whole lot of power over the Public Schools and over the rules and how theyre enforced. And weve had some secretaries of education who have been better and weve had one thats been a whole lot worse. Her name is betsy devos. [ cheers and applause ] so when im president , shell be gone. [ cheers and applause ] and heres my plan, jacob. Im going to find just the right secretary of education but heres what i plan to do. I want to make sure that the person i think is the right secretary of education meets you and hears your story and then i want you to tell me if you think thats the right person and then well make the deal. Does that sound good . [ cheers and applause ] what did you say . Good. Okay. Thank you very much for being with us. Appreciate it. We go from the kids in the schools to whats being taught in the schools. That takes us to a question from Annabelle Carter from california. Hello, senator warren. You were once a teacher. Yes. How do you feel about schools teaching children about gender orientation and gender identity i was too quick. In california, were already starting those kinds of teaching and parents have been very upset and outraged. As a parent im in full support of these teachings. How would you feel about it for the rest of the country . I believe this is about teaching children about our world. And of course we should teach them about our world. We should teach them about people, we should teach them about differences. I strongly support this. And i support doing this in age appropriate ways from the time theyre very young. I think this is part of how children learn, that we live in a world that has a lot of different folks who look different, who sound different, who do Different Things, who form different kinds of families and as americans, we look at that and say, its not our weakness, thats our strength. [ applause ] thank you. Thats good. If you dont get the lessons right, it drives a lot of stigma that are a disease in our society. And that takes us to our next question, the executive director of a nonprofit in washington, d. C. Who helps homeless or at risk lgbtq youth. Shes a member of the board of the Human Rights Campaign. June . Thank you. Youve proposed outlawing conversion therapy. Yeah. And strengthening federal nondiscrimination laws. Good. All of these are really important priorities. Yes. But a lot of them are geared toward white lgbtq folks whereas other issues surrounding nonwhite, black and brown lgbt people like Youth Homelessness and hate crimes heavily impact the black and brown community. So how will you Pay Attention to all of the important priorities youve outlined in addition to homelessness and hate crimes . So thank you for asking the question. [ applause ] and i hope youll go to elizabethwarren. Comlgbtq because i have plans on this. Its more than just the three you identified and in fact specifically about Youth Homelessness. Can we talk about that one for a minute. We know that lgbtq youth are far more likely to end up homeless and we know that part of that is rejection by their families and part of how we deal with that starts where jacob wants us to start and thats back in the Public Schools and making sure that our children from a very early age are learning about who we are as a people and as a country. But it works all the way through and so one of the things i proposed is to expand our funding that is specifically targeted to lgbtq youth who are homeless. We have a Wonderful Program in the town i live in who are ther counsel other youth who no longer live at home. And weve built a facility, its been built, a shelter, with a lot of contributed funds and with some public support, but its a statement in our community that we recognize a real problem and that we are determined to create some space. So you dont create space just with good wishes. It takes money. But it is important to make sure were doing this. One last one that i want to mention is every year in the pride parade in boston i march with a group called bagley which you know bagley. Good for you. And it was bay area gay and lesbian youth. Its a longstanding organization that provides a home and i dont mean just a home for those who are homeless, i mean a home for young people who are trying to figure out where they are and who they are and a place to be able to come on a saturday, a place to be able to come in the evening. Its run by a wonderful man, but marching every year in the pride parade to say specifically that lgbtq youth have their own space in the Lgbtq Community and their own space in the american community, i think is really important in this. So senator, quick follow. Speak to your evolution on this. In the 2012 campaign for senate, you criticized the judges ruling that granted transition related surgery to a transgender inmate. Do you regret that . Yeah. It was a bad answer. And i think it was a bad answer. And i believe that everyone is entitled to medical care and medical care that they need and that includes people who are transgender who it is the time for them to have genderaffirming surgery. I just think thats appropriate and the appropriate medical care. If you help people get to where they want to be, you have to protect them. Do you think a crime against somebody whos transgender should be charged as a hate crime in statute. I think we could if we think thats going to be the most effective way to make change. Im certainly im open to this. But i tell you what i really want, i want a Justice Department that takes this seriously. I want to create a Justice Department that says these crimes matter. And when theyre not federal crimes, when they are state crimes, in the same way that our Justice Department is empowered to step in if a state is failing to enforce laws and as a result its leaving women unprotected, its leaving people of color unprotected, the same should happen for lgbtq people. We need a Justice Department that is on the side of the people, all of the people. A professor of child psychiatry at ucla. Thanks for being with us. The Current Administration has continued to maintain financial and often personal relationships with countries that have terrible human rights records including lgbtq rights. Understanding that the world Financial Relationships are complicated, whats your stance on working with these countries that have documented Human Rights Violations towards the Lgbtq Community . So im glad you asked this for a couple of reasons. The first one is the reminder, our responsibilities are not just to each other in this country, our responsibilities run worldwide and thats true whether were talking about the aids epidemic or its true whether were talking about Human Rights Violations. I believe what we need to do as a country, we need to bring more pressure to bear and can i talk about trade policy because it fits. Everyone around the world who has something to sell wants to get to you, wants to get to the american consumer. Why . Because we buy a lot of stuff. Everyone wants to be able to come and trade with us and we negotiate all kinds of trade deals to let those do that that keep the tariffs low or nonexistent when they come to sell. We need to use that leverage to say if you want to come and sell here, then you have to meet some basic standards. You want to sell your stuff . You got to meet some standards. Some of those are going to be labor standards, what you pay people, you cant be producing these products with prison labor. Some of them are going to be environmental standards. We wont let you pollute here in the United States. It cant be the case that you get to produce these products and sale them in the United States when you created usage Carbon Emissions somewhere else around the globe because it hurts us all. [ applause ] but a part of talking about these standards is to talk about the human rights standards and to say we want to use the leverage of our markets to raise human rights standards all around the globe and i think we can do this. We need to use our leverage and work harder. Its a bigger problem than i think people realize, you have 70 u. N. Member countries that criminalize samesex marriage, 68 i think that criminalize same sex acts, six that make it a Death Penalty event if they get it. Sometimes coaxing isnt enough. What do you think is the hardest line you could take with someone like saudi arabia, the former vp said they dont have a lot of redeeming social characteristics. Does that mean you dont do aid to somebody like that, dont do trade with them . I think you start out by saying, look, its all going on the table. You want to do trade with us, then lets talk about what your full record is. I think this is important. I think for heres the problem, again, to get back into the wonky part of this, weve been cutting trade policies for years and one of those trade policies always driven toward, not american workers, not american consumers, not american values, making giant multinational corporations more profitable. Thats been it. And i want you to think about what that means. Those corporations have no loyalty to america. None. They have loyalty to exactly one thing and that is their bottom line. Ask them. They actually say this pretty openly. That means if they can save a nickel by shipping a job to mexico or vietnam or anywhere else around the world, theyll save the nickel because it will improve their bottom line. What we and the same thing is true everywhere. If they can sell their products in saudi arabia, thats what they want to do if it improves their bottom line. They dont want to hear that we could put other restrictions on trade that we could use trade to lift standards all around the world, that we could use trade to lift regulatory standards all around the world, that we could use trade to lift how workers are treated all around the world. And reason for that is we have not had a government that is working on behalf of the american people. Weve had a government and a trade policy that has been all about giant multinational corporations. That is corruption and i plan to change it. [ applause ] senator warren, thank you very much. Our thanks to the senator. 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