On saturday. Former vp, joe biden. Please. Its your opportunity. Hey, buddy, how are you . By the way, you know when you come out here, the Makeup Artist puts stuff on you, you know. I said, dont fool with the ashes. My mother will come down from heaven and smite me. And i know your mom and i know what she would do to you, too. This was not a planned deal, but, you know, its kind of a catholic thing. Anyway. Long story. In the break, well bump heads and nobody will know. Lets get right to the questions. Lets begin with the news of the day. The president just spoke about the administrations response to coronavirus. We have a question about this, obviously dangerous disease. Lets bring in keyla shay currently supporting senator warren. Good evening. My question is, covid19 is a serious threat to our health and the economy. If you were president , what would you be doing . Weve been through this once. Weve been through this with the virus that occurred in ebola in africa. I was deeply involved in that. My Administrative Assistant was the guy who put together our answer. And what we did was, we were able to keep the disease overseas. The few that came to the United States, we were able to put together the following. We set up an office within the president s office to deal with infectious diseases, number one. Number two, we significantly increased the funding for nih, National Institute of health, as well as the cdc, to immediately begin to work on vaccines, which worked. We moved. Thirdly, what we did was we made sure that we were able to be honest with the american people, so that we had complete unity between the scientists and the president. In this case, ron klain, who was putting together for the president. And so the only problem i have here is that it doesnt seem as though, and i didnt catch the whole news conference, but what i saw was, there was a slight difference between dr. Fauci, who is a really firstrate guy, and the president s assertion, dont worry, its all done. As a matter of fact, while this was going on, there was a virus that occurred in the United States that was spread in the United States, not from someone coming from outside the United States. And so it is a concern and i think its important that we understand that you have to have a president in charge the last point ill make, and i know were going to get a lot of questions, is that what we did, what i would do if i were president now, i would not be taking chinas word for it. I would insist that china allow our scientists in to make a hard determination of how it started, where its from, how far along it is. Because that is not happening now. And that should be we should be allowed to do that and they should want us to do that, because we have genuine experts who know how to confront these things. But we need to invest immediately. We should have done it from the beginning. The moment the virus appeared. But were getting late, but weve got good scientists. And i just hope the president gets on the same page as the scientists. Former Vice President , do me a favor. Comment on the political implication from what the president said tonight. He blamed the democrats of playing to advantage. He blamed by name Speaker Nancy Pelosi of trying to create a panic. That was his quote and that the democrats are just trying to get political advantage. Your response. Ash wednesday. I mean, look, i dont care who youre for, this is bizarre. Absolutely bizarre. The president from the beginning is saying basically, dont worry, no problem. No problem here. And he goes in and takes away the office we set up thats designed to deal with pandemic disease. He eliminated it in the white house, number one. Number two, he tried to defund the cdc. He tried to defund the nih. He did not have a plan to deal with how you equip hospitals that are going to be able to take care of people to have the right docs, the right capacity, and the right ability to contain. None of that happens. And old nancy is saying i didnt hear what she said, but my guess is, we ought to be doing something. We ought to be funding this effort. Anyway. Lets get another question from the office. Kristin susie is with us. Shes a law student at the university of South Carolina. Undecided voter. Welcome. Good evening, president biden. In the south, the Second Amendment is a right that is held dear. How do you propose to sell your gun reform ideas to those who either own a gun or feel strongly about protecting Second Amendment rights . Two reasons, number one, youre a law student, i talked constitutional law for a long time, i talk the second attempt. Heres the deal, no amendment is absolute. No one can stand up in the First Amendment and yell fire here, youd be arrested. Youre going to cause damage. From the very beginning, the fous founders said, not everyone is allowed to have a gun and you cant have any weapon you want. Thats not the case. I have a 12gauge shotgun and a 20gauge shotgun, because i havent done it in a long time, but i skeet shoot. And im not very good at it. My sons bird hunt. They havent in a while, but they used to bird hunt. From the point of the matter is, youre not allowed to have any weapon you want. And those who say the tree of liberty is watered with the blood of patriots. You need an f15 with hellfire missiles in order to take on the government. This idea that youre going to need an ar15 or any other assault weapon or you need any clip, any clip that has a hundred rounds in it, is absolutely bizarre. Youre a danger to yourself if thats the case. Secondly so, it is it is no violation of the Second Amendment, period. And we didnt say anyone could own a weapon. From the very beginning, not anyone can own a weapon. So the idea that a terrorist can own a weapon, the idea someone who is, in fact, deranged could own a weapon. The idea someone whos a criminal background could own a weapon, thats why we worked very hard to pass the brady bill. I was the guy in the United States senate at the time that moved the brady bill through. And set up waiting periods. Set up waiting periods. Part of the problem here is that the idea that you need a weapon and you need it within 24 hours should set off alarm bells for people. The fact is, it should be a fiveday waiting period. So its no infringement of the Second Amendment at all, at all. And by the way, im the only guy thats ever passed an assault weapons ban nationally. Im the only guy that ever limited the amount of bullets can be in a clip. And im the only person who has taken on the nra and beat them across the board. Heres the deal. The deal is that 58 of gun owners of members of the nra think that people should not be able to own an ar15, not own an assault weapon, not have a magazine, the thing you stick in the gun, that shoots as many bullets as you can, of a hundred rounds. So already, the nra people its the gun manufacturers. And thats another story. I know you want to go on. Well, ill ask you a question about that. Is it fair to continue to criticize senator sanders for his brady bill votes and the gun manufacture liability cap vote when he says they were bad votes, he made a mistake . Well, look, if you notice, never ending trouble going back on my record and picking out every single vote i ever cast. You dont like it either . Its okay. In my case, in his case, he in fact, said he voted against he voted for the assault weapons ban when he was running for mayor. He got defeated. The next time he ran, he didnt talk about the assault weapons ban, he won. The idea here is that what is the thing that motivates you to make your judgments . And the idea that hes the only one up there who, in fact, in 2003, in fact, voted to give the gun manufacturers absolute license not to be sued at all. If i stood before you all tonight and said, ive got a great as your president ial candidate, i promise you, im going to make sure you can never sue the drug companies. They put out 9 billion opioids. Well, you cant sue them. Youre never going to be able to sue the tobacco companies. In the meantime, we talk about what you do to make up for those things. I havent seen him. Hes gone after every corporation in the world, which is i dont disagree on all of it with him, but ive not seen him go after the gun manufacturers. And so heres the deal. What are you going to do about it now . Last point. The reason he voted against the brady bill five times that i was passing was the fact that it related to the waiting period. He thought you should be able to if you cant get cleared within one day, you should get the weapon anyway. I think that is bizarre. I argued against that. I havent heard him change that number. So in terms of what motivates vote, we have a very important question from the audience about exactly that. Lets bring in reverend anthony thompson, the pastor of the Holy Trinity Reform Episcopal Church in charleston. His wife, myra, was one of the nine killed in a shooting during a bible study at charlestons Emanuel Ame Church in june of 2015. Reverend, were sorry for your loss. Thank you for being with us tonight. Good evening, Vice President biden. You along with president barack obama and Michelle Obama came to charleston when this tragedy occurred and you directly and personally came to us, so thank you so much. [ applause ] the emanuel nine tragedy showed that charleston is separated and divided by racism. Mayor techlenberg formed an advisory pastors with different denominations and face to focus on reconciliation and crosscultural awareness. He demonstrated his faith and the Decision Making of our city. My question is, what is your faith and how would you use your faith in making decisions for our nation . Well, reverend, i kind of know what its like to lose family. And my heart goes out to you. As you may remember, after ba bk and michelle and i were there, i came back on that sunday because i had just lost my son. And i wanted some hope, because what you all did was astounding. I dont know whether you all know this. All of those who died, were killed by this white supremacist, they forgave him. They forgave him. The ultimate act of christian charity. They forgave him. And you know, reverend, im not proce proselytizing, i happen to be a practicing catholic, but inwent ba back to the church. I found that theres this famous phrase from kirkgard, faith sees best in the dark. And im not trying to proselytize, im not trying to convince you to share my religious views, but for me its important because it gives me some reason to have hope. And purpose. Ive learned the only way i dont know how youve dealt with it, reverend, but the way ive been able to deal with when my wife was killed and my daughter was killed and my son died. Ive only been able to deal with it by realizing theyre part of my being. My son, beau, was my soul. And what i found was, i had to find purpose, purpose. And what was the purpose . Every day i get up im sorry to go on. I apologize, but every day i get up, i literally and not a joke, reverend, and i think you know this about my boy, i ask myself, i hope hes proud of me today. Because he asked me when he was dying, promise me, dad, promise me, dad, promise me. He said, i know no one loves me more than you do, dad, but promise me youll stay engaged. He knew i would take care of the family, but he worried what i would do, is i would pull back and go into a shell and not do all the things ive done before. It took me a long time to get to the point to realize that that purpose is the thing that would save me. And it has. And every morning i get up and say to myself, i give you my word as a biden, i hope hes proud of me. I hope hes proud of me. Because thats what makes me move on. And the impact that loss had was astounding and it had to be for ewe. Remember, afterwards, when i went down the next day, i came in that sunday, and mayor reilly asked me filled go down in reverend pinkneys office. And one of the things that absolutely blew my mind, he had a picture of him and i on his desk because we had become friends, good acquaintances, and it moved in a way i couldnt explain, but it made me realize, to forgive is divine. What you did, you changed you brought down that confederate flag. 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Are you aware of the impact it had on the black community . Would you pass such legislation if it were to be introduced today . Let me tell you, ive commented on it a hundred times. Lets get the context here. The crime rate was incredibly high. It did not put more people in jail like its argued. It was supported by the black caucus and the black mayors across the country. There was no stop and frisk. It set up everything from drug courts to ban assault weapons to the violence against women act. It had things in it i didnt like. It had money for state prisons, which i opposed. But on balance, everything that was in that, i supported it and it provided for Community Policing. Not Community Policing about arresting people and throwing them up against walls. Community policing where you put two policemen in a car, the cops didnt want to do it. And they had to get out of the cars and go and understand the neighborhoods. They had to leave their cell phone numbers with the local grocer, with the local church, with the local if you have a problem, call me. They had to leave the numbers with women who, in fact, were single and, in fact, would see something going on outside their window and say, you can call me and well never reveal who your name is, so you will not have to be the subject of retribution by some drug gang or something. So crime went down. Violent crime was cut in half. There was no stop and frisk under our proposal, number one. Number two, it was endorsed by, as i said, the vast majority of africanamerican mayors. The Africanamerican Community over whelming in overwhelming it support it at the time. The talk about how it put so many people in jail. It had two provisions in it that in fact i proposed. One was, three strikes and youre out. That was proposed by president clinton and the other one was, that was carjacking. That, in fact, i opposed both of those on the floor of the senate, said i didnt want them in the bill. But at the end of the day, we had a bill that, in fact, had much more that was positive than negative. Then when i became the president s Vice President , we cut the prison rate by 38,000 people in the federal system. And i know you know this. And i assume that the two people youre considering supporting know it, that 92 of every single prisoner is behind a bar in a state, a local, or a county prison. Not in a federal prison. And the abuses that have taken place have been in the state prison system. And so, thank you for the question. I hope that clarifies it. One aspect of the question. In terms of what we were talking about, sanders and some of his votes. Times change, context is different. If a bill like it was brought to your desk as president of the United States today, would you feel the same way you did in 1994 . No, the circumstances if it was the right bill then, unlike voting to give exemptions to the gun manufacturers, was never a right vote. Being against the brady bill was never right under any circumstances. It was right at the time. It cut the Violent Crime rate in half. In fact, it did not add to the federal prison population. It was, as a matter of fact, the people are arguing in the house, where among others, bernie saying we needed more money for state prisons. We didnt need anymore money for heres what i would do. I have laid out clearly what we should be doing. We should change the whole the whole of the prison system from one of punishment to rehabilitation. Nobody, nobody no, i really mean it, nobody should go to jail for drug use. They should do what i set up in the law, drug courts. They should be put in rehabilitation. Mandatory rehabilitation. We should be building rehab centers. 30 days does not work. 30 days does not work of rehab. It doesnt work. Secondly, anybody in prison, anybody in prison should be learning a trade, should be being taught something. If you cant read, write, add and subtract, you should be able to learn that in prison. And when you get out of prison, and this is what i proposed when i and way back with arlen specter, and that is what you get out of instead of getting 25 dollars and a bus ticket and you end up under a bridge, you should be able to qualify for every federal program from pell grants to housing across the board. It makes no sense, no sense to keep people in an area where they cant. Lets get another question. Claire waford, currently undecided. How are you . Im well. Sorry, i have a little bit of laryngitis. Thats all right. Im married to professor. I wasnt going to lose this opportunity. The votes of married suburban women are said to be critical to a Democratic Victory this fall. Many of us, however, still remember the anita hill hearings all too well. Other candidates are being asked to account for past programs or policy choices they now regret. What do you say to those female voters who were and perhaps are still unhappy with how you handled the confirmation of Clarence Thomas . Times have changed, so how have you . Well, by the way. I opposed Thomas Clarence from the beginning. I believed anita hill from the beginning. And i tried to control the questions under the laws that exist for the senate. And i was unable to do it. Just like the last hearing, the last hearing i had, they were unable to control, keep people from being able to ask questions. What i did was, i made a commitment. I made a commitment. Never again would the Judiciary Committee only have men on that committee. So i went out and i campaigned for two people. Carol mosely braun, an africanamerican senator from the state of illinois, and Dianne Feinstein from california, on the condition that if they won, they would join the committee. They would become part of the committee. I kept that commitment. And secondly, i made another commitment that i was going to get the violence against women act passed, which i worked on and i wrote myself, the violence against women act. Number three. Number three. Ive spoken with anita hill. And i apologized for not being able to protect her more. Im trying to think, and ive raised the question, for example. I raised the question, should we, in fact, have those hearings in camera . And should that be the way to do it . Because youre going to always be subject to being vilified, no matter who comes he said she said this happened. So heres the deal. She said and i think shes right, she said, no, its better not to do that. We should have it in the open. So what he got to find a way to change the rules as to what can be asked. But in a hearing, in a hearing, its impossible to say, you cant ask the question. For example anyway, i wont go into more detail. But i wish i could have protected her more. I publicly apologized, and i was able to we owe her. We owe anitahill a lot, because what she did by coming forward, she gave me the ability to pass the violence against women act. We yoowe her a great deal of credit. Steven smiter is with us now. Hes a student at the college of charleston, currently undecided. Steven . Hello. Welcome to charleston, mr. Biden. Good to be back. Throughout your career, you have been an advocate for the moderate side of the Democratic Party. At a recent debate, you did not raise your hand when asked if you or any of the candidates had a concern with the democratic socialist at the head of the ticket. After consideration, do you still feel you would support a socialist at the top of the ticket . Look, first of all, you know, its amazing how things change. My entire career, i was viewed as a liberal liberal. No, im serious. Check all of these ratings about whos liberal, whos conservative. Whats happened is, we have moved in a direction that now progressive means bernie. It means democratic socialism or whatever the phrase is. I think bernie is a decent, honorable man who means what he says. And i think but i think its going to be its not enough just to win, beat the president. The next president has to be able to win back a democratic senate. And lets just be no, for real. And lets just be realistic here. Its not a criticism of him as a man, its a criticism of whether or not you think youre going to be able to help elect a democratic senator here against lindsey graham, which im going to help do. So as they say, ask yourself the question. Youre running for the United States senate in georgia, where we can win, in north carolina, here in this state. In pennsylvania, in arizona. Do you think it helps you or hurts you to have a selfproclaimed social itself at the top of the ticket. Im not being a wise guy. Thats not going at his character. Its going at his position. Its a different role. So we have to win back the senate. And i might add, when we had in 2018 election, i went into 24 states, campaigned for a total of 68 candidates. The majority of whom were women. I said the in politic thing, which i always say. Nobody ever doubts i mean what i say, but i sometimes say all that i mean. I indicated we were going to win 41 votes, take 41 republican seats. We did. But let me ask you. I was asked to come in and campaign from alabama to montana and in between in those deep purple states that we won. Did anyone ask bernie to come in . It doesnt mean hes a bad guy . It means its going to be hard holding on to the United States congress and the United States senate. And the last point ill make, its not about a revolution, its about results. Its about results. Bernies a great guy. But bernie and hes brick prick conscious of the United States senate. But in all the time hes been in the senate, a couple were post offices. I have the longest record of success in the United States Senate Passing major pieces of legislation, from the violence against women act to the chemical weapons treaty to dealing with the when we got to the United States, when we became Vice President , the first thing we had to do was to keep the country from going down the drain in terms of keep it from going into a depression. It was a 900 billion, the recovery act. We didnt have the votes, so the president said, find me the votes. I went and got three republican votes and i managed that bill. So im used to doing things that are of consequence. I dont mean hes a bad guy. I dont mean that at all. But the next president is going to have no time for on the job training, internationally, and is going to be able to have to put the country together quickly. Next question goes right to not having time to have on the job training for the next president. The questioner is deveaux stockton, a trial lawyer from charleston, currently supporting mayor pete buttigieg. Sir . Well, mr. Vice president , actually, i think you have my vote on saturday after tonight, but i would like to ask you a question, sir, what is your plan if trump loses, but refuses to concede, based on allegations by his supporters of irregularities and he refuses to step down as president , based on those allegations . Ill ask yall a rhetorical question. Its a serious question, a serious concern. Did you ever think in your lifetime, no matter how young or old you are, any person would be able to ask that question and be taken seriously . No, im not joking. Our democracy is at risk four years of this guy the answer is, the way he has treated the military, the way he has dismissed the intelligence community. The way he has absolutely undercut the fbi, the way he has gone after all of these i have no worry about him being escorted out of the white house. Interesting way to follow on this. It is not unusual for the president of the United States to watch our town halls. Hearing Something Like that, communicating to the audience, obviously, important. If the president is watching right now, and he heard that question, what do you think he should know . Mr. President no, im serious. And hes probably watching. Mr. President , we have a democratic process. When the voters speak, they are heard. And they have to be responded to. Now, if youre worried about somehow someone interfering in our election, why dont you do something about russia now . [ cheers and applause ] next question, christian conity. Hes a law student at the Christian School of law, currently undecided. What are you . Im a 2l. Its all downhill from here. Yes, sir. Im born and raised in delaware and a graduate of your High School Alma mater, go hawks. In delaware and in South Carolina, education, specifically public, has drastically suffered over the years at the hands of poor funding and a lack of qualified teachers. What are some incentives that could help bring enthusiastic teachers back to the profession to help kids want to stay in school and further their education . Well, first of all by the way, the school hes talking about, he went to a private catholic boys school, which was coed. The point is this. That the Public School system in the country is in trouble. And in delaware, its in trouble, except delaware did one thing that other states should be doing. Delaware said that every school is required to have a minimum amount of money no matter what their tax base. That began to change the question of where the teachers are and where good teachers are. We are short right now 115,000 teachers in our Public School system. Because my generation of baby boomers is retiring. And other people arent coming in. If you would have gone to undergraduate school and graduated magnum cum laude, you started off with 23 lower salary than anyone else graduating in any other discipline except the one my daughter chose, graduating with honor from universities of pennsylvania as a graduate student in dealing with a thing called idea that we have Public Service that relates to whether or not youre a social worker. They get paid less, okay . So what we have to do is two things. One of the things we have to do is we have to provide opportunities. It shouldnt matter what zip code youre in. Whether or not you have access to a good question. But its by the way, its more than that. Weve learned a lot in the last ten years based on basic research. The basic research we know is a childs brain is developing very rapidly beginning by age 4, a significant portion is already developed. And so no matter what the background of the child, if they come from a poor background, no matter plaqblack, white, asian, doesnt matter. They in fact know now if they are able to go to school at 3 years of age, 4 years of age, 5 years of age, it exponentially increases the chance of them being able to go through all 12 years without getting in trouble. So i go in title i schools, those with very low tax bases. They dont have enough money. They dont have enough money that they need to attract teachers and School Psychologists and nurses, et cetera. And i triple that amount of money, from 15 15 billion for title i schools now to make up for deficiencies, to 45 billion. Thats to allow the first thing you would have to do if you qualify for that aid, you have to raise your teachers salaries close to 60,000 if theyve been working more than five years, number one. Number two, you, in fact, are going to have to see to it that you provide for total education, school, allday school for 3, 4, and 5 years old. So you put them into a position where they can compete, no matter what their background has been. Thirdly, and this is the controversial piece of it now, by the way, if you noticed on the stage, everyone is talking about tripling title i. Im glad everybody has come along. But heres the deal. You should also provide for advanced placement courses in those title i schools. Because weapon underestimate the capacity of students. Lastly, lastly, we have learned that if, in fact, you look, how many of you in this, folks who are on School Boards or involved with the school system, how many of you in South Carolina find yourself in the situation, you have to make a choice between a school nurse or an Additional Teacher im not joking, am i . Its literal. So the third thing to do is we should reward teachers who, in fact, are willing to teach in these schools. And we should deal with it and im supposed to do these real short. Im going too long. But we should be able to forgive student debt for them if they engage in the process. And so theres a lot of things. But we can significantly and we should provide free college for anybody who is qualified, those both coming back to learn something, because a lot of people are losing their jobs because of there will changes that theyre taking in this fourth industrial resolution, and those who are qualified to go up. And we can do that now and it cuts in half the cost of college and it provides also opportunities for people to be able to choose other avenues that are able to work with their hands, to learn trades and the like. That all should be free. Another question for you, it comes with the teaching experience. Lindsay porcelli, shes currently undecided, leaning towards you. Lindsay, i may be, but im not stupid. Thats very funny. I also have to say, i am actually a title i teacher, so you won my vote on that. So thank you so much. [ cheers and applause ] mr. Vice president , i lost my fatherinlaw to a glioblastoma, just like your son beau and your good friend john mccain. All of these men were veterans. What kind of va support do you plan to give veterans who are now suffering from this incurable brain cancer . Well, as you know, lindsay, that more people are coming home from the wars in iraq and afghanistan with brain tumors and brain diseases as a percentage than any other war in american history, number one. Theres reason to believe have you read the book, burn pits . You ought to get ahold of it. It talks about whether or not just like the firemen in 9 11, how they have come back with chronic diseases, immune system diseases, brain diseases, because of exposure to the toxic fumes, well, theres some reason to believe some folks i cannot swear to it now, but im going to make sure we research it as president , that part of the reason for this is because of the toxic burn dumps that are they build as big as this auditorium, they dig a big rectangle. Its about 8 to 10 feet deep and put everything in it they want to dispose of and cant leave behind from flammable fuel to plastics to all range of things. And theres a lot of toxic smoke that goes up. And so thats number one. I would look at that. But number two, we have to deal with increasing the availability for Immediate Availability for people who, in fact, are in the va system, to be able to get the best care possible. And right now, we have right now, we have too many. We have too few psychiatric nurses, for example, too many theres more people committing suicide, 21 a week, that are veterans and or active duty service people, because of posttraumatic stress and other issues. But going to the cancer piece, what im going to do, im going to do what is done in the Defense Department for the department of health and for nih. And i mean this sincerely. I did the president asked me to do the cancer moonshot. I visited every major Cancer Hospital in the world, not a joke, in the world, because this is a passion of mine. Because i had access to be able to go anywhere in the world i wanted when the president wanted me to go research the cancer side of this. We found out that docs dont play well in the sand box together. I met an awful lot of serious, serious researchers and i met over 19 1,900 of them, who were the ones doing the basic research. Theres now 204 distinct cancers that have been identified. Distinct lly different cancers requiring different therapies. But we havent been able to get things going until the Biden Cancer Initiative came along the president allowed me to do this. And that is that we now find out that if, in fact, all of that is able to be shared and not hoarded, then, in fact, things change. Any of you in here are oncologists or any of you researchers . Well, youll find the oncologists know, what happens when someone has a terminal illness . They dont come to you and say, doctor, cure me. They say, doctor, can you give me another month . I want to see the baby born. Doctor, can you give me another six months. I just got to get my things together for my family. Doc, whereas researchers bust their neck, theyre in the lab, theyre doing enormous work. But they dont have the same sense of urgency. Theyre working as hard as they possibly can. So we have to combine two things. One, when the president gave me the authority to have access to the whole cabinet, everybody wondered, why did biden put together this group that had nasa as part of it . Well, guess what, nasa knows more about radiation than any doc in the world knows about radiation. And whether or not the damage done, as you know, from maybe your father and my son, whats the present protocol . You go in, you find the tumor, you excise it, then you poison the system, you use radiation to try to kill the bad stuff, but kill a lot of good stuff on the way in. And at the same time, you then have them on a cocktail that is basically a chemical to kill disease. A lot of good stuff gets killed. As dr. Agus here in Southern California would say, were going to go down in history as having been barbaric the way. And thats beginning to happen now. We should allow veterans who in fact have coverage to be able to access the leading experts in the world no matter where they are. No matter where they are. And they really are different places. And so, you know, and so, you know, not all president s are created equal, not all teachers, not all docs, and there are some really, really fine, fine people who specialize in ways theyve had results that go beyond anyone else. And any of you, and i mean this from the bottom of my heart, not a joke, anybody in this audience is dealing with that problem, if you dont think you need a second opinion, you want to know where to go for i promise you, just i will stand here later and ill give you a phone number and call. Because i have about 17 Nobel Laureates that are working on i cant do the Biden Cancer Initiative anymore, because youve got to raise money for it and im not allowed to do that. But i can get you to the people who are the best people in the world for specific diseases. And we can now do a million billion calculations per second, so if youre able to take a cancer genome, you get that and you sequence it, you can identify the precise kind of cancer and in a matter of minutes, it would take Nobel Laureates a week or a month or a year to deal with, youre able to determine why the particular therapy for we have the same exact cancer, god forbid, it works on you, the therapy, and not on me. We can do a million billion calculations per second. So thats the reason why we have to take all of these disciplines and work them in a way thats different, to prioritize also what were going to work on. A lot more to talk about. If you want to talk about it afterwards, ill stick around. We can do it right now. Well take a break. When we come back, well have more questions from the audience and with former Vice President biden. Stay with us. Introducing schwab intelligent income. A simple, modern way to pay yourself from your portfolio. 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Welcome back. We are live in charleston, South Carolina, with democratic president ial candidate former vp joe biden. We have a question from the audience. David care roon, hes a lawyer charleston and hes leaning toward supporting you. Thank you for your time, mr. Vice president. Thank you. Weve repeatedly heard about South Carolina being your fire wall state and commentators discuss at length just how important it is to your viability moving forward. My question for you is how would you characterize the importance of South Carolinas vote in this primary to your campaign and to your viability moving forward . Its important to everybodys viability. Heres the deal. You pick president , the democratic primary here in this state picks president s. Youre the reason why bill clinton was elected president. Youre the reason barack obama was elected president. Going into super tuesday, look, no democrat has ever won the presidency without overwhelming support from number one, the Africanamerican Community the most loyal support that exists in the Democratic Party, and i do not take it for granted. Ive worked my whole life in the region, in this area, but im here to earn that vote. Secondly, you have to be able to also attract high school educated people who have not gone beyond high school, who are in trouble in terms of their jobs and they want to know what the base of the party is as well as women, generically, and folks, thats been the base of the Democratic Party and thats what determines this state. You launch candidates for the presidency, and out of this state. You catapult us forward and one of the greatest things for me is ive had the great opportunity of coming here for a long, long time, working with all of the communities and p. T. Haulings got me through a tough period of my life, my wife and daughter were killed and my two boys were badly injured and i didnt want to come. He said joe, only 702 people have only been to the United States senate. You owe it to your wife, just come and stay six months. I thought he meant it, and he did and my generic point is everything ive done ive been deeply involved. The reason yet port of charleston is working i was able to put together almost a half a billion dollars to provide rail connections from all your manufacturers in the north from furniture all of the way to ohio, connect those rails to get them down to the port, dredge the port, improve the port and now 111 jobs are out of there. So this is a place i know well. Mike cullen, Vice President of a local Technology Firm and hes currently undecided, leaning toward you. Mark . Thanks, chris. Vice president biden, what is your message for younger voters, a High School Student in college just graduated who on the whole are so attracted to bernie sanders. What about your platform and policies will have a positive impact on them and whats going to drive them to vote . Three things. Number one, the polling data just has come out is that i get 30 of the vote, bernie gets more of the 18 to twa28yearol and those are the early millennials and those that came of age when barack and i were in the white house. I get over 45 of those folks, so the idea that i dont get millennials and i dont get the young vote is not accurate, but number two, one of the things that look, this is the best educated generation, the 18 to 25yearold vote in american history. It is the most it is the least prejudiced, it is the most involved and the most capable generation based on their their historical and their academic records, but heres the deal, up until recently, they have not gotten engaged in voting. Had, in fact, that same generation voted the same percentage the rest of the population did in 2016, there would have been 5,200,000 additional votes. So heres the point i say to all the young people. [ applause ] the young people today, you can own this election. I really mean it. You can own the election and the great thing thats happening now and bernie deserves some credit for this is weve generated this kind of enthusiasm, but lets get it straight. The person who really generated the enthusiasm among young voters was barack obama in 2016, and so its not a criticism of bernie. It isnt a criticism of bernie and heres what i do, number one, make it clear to them, number one that in fact, education is going to be the bellwether in the 21st century and the idea you can make it in the middle class with just 12 years of education is not accurate. Whether you need a trade and or you have to go beyond that and you know that in terms of technology, number two, we should change the way we educate our people and for example, why is it in every school, why isnt programming part of the Science Curriculum that satisfies your science requirement. Why dont we do that . Why dont we, in fact why dont i stop . [ laughter ] no, this is the last answer of the night so go ahead. Okay, in addition to that, its about being able to know that you are going to be able to be physically secure. The idea, we have to restore the soul of this country. [ applause ] no, for real. This is a good time to end. Mr. Vice president , thank you very much. 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