I actually took another look again at Inconvenient Truth and the sequel. The interesting thing is, i thought about something that dr. King said. About the impacts happening. Sometimes we silo and segregate ourselves. Were coming up on the 12th anniversary of katrina, august 29th. I was there on the ground. We also places like north carolina, princeville. African slaves, just had a 100year flood. And a place in south carolina, same thing. Movie so important . T this moment in time mr. Gore i want to join you in banking and knowledge in all the speakers that came before. Dolores and gerald and tom stier, who gave such a wonderful address and pamela. I want to thank eric and mary highend the entire net roots nation. For doing a wonderful job. Thanks to all of you. Applause] mr. Gore the work that you have done for so many years actually way to answer the question you just asked, because Environmental Justice and Climate Justice is a cause that connects what we are doing to the environment and the climate and the prejudice and the insults that people, communities of color, communities of low income. Why . Because they have less means to defend themselves when people want to locate a new Hazardous Waste site or they are looking where the downwind places for some terrible diluting facility. This has been going on for a long time. What we are now seeing is the growth of the same issue on a today we willasis manmadeillion tons of pollution in the sky. You talk about violence. Violence is not just a metaphor. It is that, too. At this kills people. It hurts people. Of theircal amount traps as my cheap energy of their everyday as would the released by 400,000 hiroshima class atomic arms exploding every 24 hours on this planet. And it is a big planet but that is in a amount of energy and it is radically transforming the ecological system of the earth. Not just raising temperatures, which by the way in some regions of the earth are themselves in dire threat. There was a he index in a city in a ram there was a heat not too a city in iran long ago that no one could live 48 hours. R you talk about bombs, last week both new orleans and another city were flooded out and paralyzed, not just by the ocean although the sea level intermediate this time. But so much of the oceans water vapor is being boiled into the sky that when it comes of the historicget these downpours. Seven inches and two hours in miami a week ago tuesday. Nine inches and 12 hours in new orleans. In both cities, the pumps holding the oceans that they fail because of the event and both cities work paralyzed. There are many such events all over the worlds on a regular basis. Newsook of revelation, the media often does not connect the dots but individuals are beginning to and we must. Because heres what is at stake. The large carbon polluters feel to useey have a right the sky as an open sewer. And, they want to continue using the sky as a similar for as long thesky as a similar if they sewer for fun can. This is a problem because those in not as wealthy nations cannot defend themselves as well, sometimes not at all. Just as an Environmental Justice focuses our attention on the violence inflicted on those who are disadvantaged, this large pattern that is now global is inflicting violence that is halted. Nd must be at the carbon polluters are using the same techniques as the Tobacco Companies used years ago. Do you remember when the doctors made it clear that smoking cigarettes causes lung cancer and other diseases . They hired actors and dress them up as doctors and put them in front of a camera to falsely reassure people there was no help problem. Problems. Th 100 Million People died before we got over those deceptions. Large carbon polluters are using the exact same playbook. They have hired many of the exact same pr agents and they are trying to full people to the point where it is in capable of the political system to respond. Theoots nations embodies awakening of a new consciousness that has to spread all across that wentry to demand do go back to a government of the people and by the people and for the people. Coupleet me ask a questions. Newyou talk about this awakening happening. I agree with you on that. You know, we had the womens march. We had the science march. We had the peoples climate march. How important are those moments that are part of a movement and moving us forward to be able to address these issues . Mr. Gore it is crucial. One of the lessons that net roots nation has taught us is connecting to one another on the internet is extremely important, but we have to connect in person as well. Because that is where the deep ties, that can build the commitment necessary to keep the and to ultimately prevail host further. E this a step we have an administration that does not feel sciences valuable. I saw science all throughout both of the movies can you talk about how important it is and how we can begin to translate science into every day language or mr. Mrs. Romeros johnson, who i often speak about, feel the connection in that space . Mr. Gore the phrase speak truth to power embodies the essential formula youre getting at. The truth that the scientists have worked real hard to find out and double check and triple check and verify with their observations in the real world, the truth is still inconvenient for the carbon polluters and the politicians, that they totally control lock, stock, and oil barrel. They want to hide, destroyed, confuse, distract, so that what andan see with our own eyes experience with our own senses and learn about with our reasoning capacity cannot be effectively used as a source of lyrical power. Beallnt money to be the endall of political powder. Power. Our political system was hacked before Vladimir Putin hacked our political democracy. We need to take it back. [applause] libby me say word about the Bernie Sanders campaign will stop i dont want to get into the agenda or issues. I want to make a simple point about what he and those working for him proved last year. We have reached the point now with internetbased and social mediabased communications and grassroots organizations to where finally it is now possible to run an effective and potentially victorious campaign without accepting any money from fatcat ilya narrows or specialinterest lobbyists. But just get it from the people, from the internet. Let me tell you one other thing on that. [applause] mr. Gore i went to the comments. I am old. I am old. In my mind, im not. In my mind, i am younger and dinner and have dark here. Congress into the the mid1970s and i watched this change when television became these awful 32nd commercials, all of them negative practically. I watch the behavior of elected representatives of the people change radically. Most of you know what goes on now. The average elected representative in the congress, house, and senate do know what they do all day . They spend an average of five hours every single day begging special interest and lobbyists and fatcats for money. Do . Does i it is a question of human nature. Founders were humanists. They understood human nature with crystal clarity. , thethat does to them people that are supposed to be representing us, and god bless those who are steadfast in spite of all this. But what it does to many of them as they begin to naturally think about the impact of what they say and do not on the people they are supposed to be serving, they began to think more and more and more about the impact on those telephone calls the next day making special interests and fatcats and lobbyists. Theyre leading the fatcats and lobbyists and and theynterests right take it straight from the special interests and lobbyists and say, here is my bill. It is not their bill. It is a specialinterest the got egg degree of control that is toxic. Ita to grace of what is a disgrace to what american democracy is supposed to be take itd we need to back. [cheers and applause] host as i was Walking Around the last couple days, folks came up and said, we know you are going to be blessed to be on exVice President and i have a couple questions. The first one is a twofor. One is around the paris time it agreement. The others round the Clean Power Plant. Administrationt not giving value to those spaces. It meanshare, what does when we have an administration that moves away from the paris climate agreement and if the Clean Power Plan is not kept do we do in those spaces . Mr. Gore extremely important question and i will tell you that when donald trump made his speech on june 1 announcing that the u. S. Ing to pull out of the Paris Agreement, i was very concerned. For one thing, that some other countries might use that as an excuse to pull out themselves. For another thing, that is it might paralyze the will power and cities and businesses and Civil Society here. But i will tell you that the and my faith, tradition says joy cometh in the morning the news came that world had rest of the renewed their faith in the Paris Agreement as if to say we will show you, donald trump. Applause] mr. Gore and the governor of our largest state and hundreds of mayors of cities and a lot of Business Leaders who have made these commitments, theyll double down and said we are going to meet the Paris Agreement regardless of what donald trump says. In his speech youll recall he said, i was elected to represent pittsburgh, not harass. And the next day the mirror pittsburgh said, we are going to go with the Paris Agreement. It now looks as if the United States of america is very likely to meet the commitments made by former president obama under the Paris Agreement regardless of what donald trump does. Another detail, a lot of people dont know this. The weight of harass agreement was written and this is not entirely coincidence the first day upon which it is legal for the u. S. To be with john happens to be the day after the next president ial election, 2020. [cheers and applause] host yes mr. Gore and if we have a new president excuse me a minute [applause] president and a new could simply say, were back in. You ask about the Clean Power Plan, that is another thing. I dont want to give the impression that donald trump is not capable of doing a lot of damage. He has. He has surrounded himself with a deniersdre of climate beholden to large companies. They are secretly trying to take everything they can, fire the scientist, get rid of any regulations they cant will stop but the good news is, this train has left the station and what i cost ofthat is, the electricity from solar and wind is coming down so fast and now it has got its own momentum and the more of them they built, the more the cost comes down. Like the cars are now becoming way more affordable. Batteries are coming down. Leds, hundreds of efficiency technologies. The world is now in the early stages of a sustainable revolution that has the magnitude of the Industrial Revolution but the speed of the digital revolution. I fully believe it is unstoppable. This movie, by the way, tells the story in part of georgetown, texas. Described by their mayor as the most conservative in the mostity conservative republican county in texas and he is a donald trump supportive. Well, he was. He may still become my i do not know. I did not get into that with him. But he happens to be a Certified Public Accountant and he knows our arithmetic very well. He did the calculations and decided to completely convert that city to 100 solar and wind electricity and now their bill for electricity has come down. The air is cleaner, and it is kind of a side benefit that they are helping to save the future of humanity. Host yes. Ok. So, we heard the reverend earlier speak a little bit about morality. Do you feel the climate issue is a moral issue as well . Mr. Gore absolutely. At its heart, it shouldve never been a political or ideological issue. It is a militia, spiritual issue. Of course it is. On the other side of doing what is right is greed. Greed and the manipulation of facts to conceal the truth in order to distort what our democracy ought to be deciding, special to conserve the interests agenda. Now,it is not long from the next generation will ask one of two questions depending upon the decisions we make in this period. Diseasesave tropical breading northward, southward, if there is chaos and civil unrest because government cannot ever themselves in these conditions, it if there are stronger floods, deeper droughts, more powerful storms, melting ice, sea levels, all of that stuff. What would they think about what we did to leave them with that . That is a moral question and we would see it, if we had a time machine we could go into the future and be with them when they are asking, what in the world . Why . As i said on the screen, couldnt you hear what Mother Nature was screaming at you much less what the scientist found out . But there is another alternative. If they find themselves in a world with a full sense of renewal, with tens of millions of new jobs in sustainability solar jobs and the United States today are growing 17 times faster than all other jobs in the economy. The single fastestgrowing job is wind turbine technician. If we made a decision to put people to work in every community retrofitting buildings, residential, commercial, industrial to get due to wasteful construction and design, this cannot be outsourced or sent to some other country. We need to get our economy going in a healthy way providing good jobs. At the next generation lives in a world where that is going on againe climate is once growing, they can look at their kids at hand open their lives are going to be better. I want to have them look back at us in this time and ask this question, how could you find a moral courage and resolve to stand up and do what many said was impossible . Part of the answer to that question will be the Netroots Nation helped to lead the way all across the United States and we provided leadership and got it done. Cheers and applause] host i want to talk a little bit about the Climate Movement itself. What you just talked about was so important. I think it is important we begin to break down silos. That we begin to expand the base if were going to win on climate. I come from appellation. People find it are to believe. Westore you grew up in virginia. Host i surely did. How do we connect with folks in appellation who have maybe been in appellation in in the rust belt, in the bread basket of our country . How do we connect with them . Mr. Gore providing jobs for one thing. Telling the truth about what happened to them because the job loss in the coal industry came mainly because the Coal Companies mechanized heavily and replace labor with machines that sliced up the tops of the mountains and spoiled the beautiful landscape. You have seen it in your beautiful native west virginia. Then the fracking gas came artificially cheap and finished off what remained of that industry and then the people than on the Coal Companies turned around and said it was the environmentalists fault. No, it was not. That we have to go well beyond telling the truth about what happened and tell the truth and followup with an organized land to get them the better jobs that they deserve what the training and the opportunity. Look, we have a lot of work to do. You know very well this becomes kind of a cultural and political tribal type issue where people use the same phrases and if you do not use that phrase, you are in the other camp. Live got to bring it down. The good news is it is beginning to break down. Determined got to be about creating these new job opportunities. These coal miners that have lost their jobs, what do you feel about them . I know what most of you do and they and their families and previous generations really did help to build this country. They did not have any intention to create the climate crisis. They were fulfilling good jobs for good wages. It is not their fault they have now been left in this situation. We all have to Work Together impetus of selfgovernment great this new opportunity. Host right. Were going to talk about expanding the base. Awant to go back in time little bit. I do not know if anyone knows how instrumental you were in relationship with other stakeholder leaders in creating the Environmental Justice executive order. I am curious, if you could share with folks why you invested that capital because it is directly tied to the Climate Movement right now. And why vulnerable communities needed to be part of the mix, if you will. Mr. Gore i am proud of the roles that ive played and well before that executive order, i thought out with congressman ,ohn lewis from here in atlanta one of the greatest year as it is ever lived here in this country, john lewis and the house and myself and the senate, we introduce the first Environmental Justice bill that was ever introduced. Actually, that was in the first half of 1992. I had no thought at all that maybe what would happen later that year being on the ticket to be Vice President would happen. One year later, when bill clinton and i went into the white house, i convinced him which was pretty easy to do to set up this task force and that led to that Environmental Justice executive order and you were already in epa and you were the one who put it into effect and started the work. Has been at this a long time. [cheers and applause. Mustafa has been at this a long time. [applause] it did not just bring out of nowhere. As far back as 1982, north carolina, community of poverty and color welcome to the news that the powers that be had designed it to bring truckload after truckload of hazardous Chemical Waste and dump it right in their community. Why their community . Because they did not have the connections. They did not have the wealth. They did not have the political influence. And for the first time in American History, they went out and laid their bodies down on the road to block those tracks from bringing that waste there. And that event kind of egg awareness new one kind ofignited a new ignited a new awareness. I started hearing about. John lewis started hearing about it. It really did come from the grassroots. Now was a moment in time that translates to where we are now. When im talking about expanding the base in the climate will and, we know there is still a lack of diversity in the leadership and many of our organizations. If we are going to win, that means we have to be conclusive and we have to make sure those ideas and innovation are in that space. Can you talk about the need in that space and the climate reality project and the trainings you have been doing and how you are addressing that issue . Mr. Gore the climate reality project holds a regular Training Program to give people from the grassroots these skills and training they need to effectively persuade their elected officials and many of the ones that go through the training go on to do other things, too. Starting Renewable Energy is this is. He coming elected officials. The woman who ran the paris conference was a graduate of this Training Program back in 2007. To build a cadre of experts at the grassroots level. The next training is in pittsburgh this fall and if anybody wants to consider being a part of that, it thank you, canate reality. Org and you your name on the list. Thead a training and seattle area, bellevue, washington, a short time ago and before that, denver. I want to tell you a quick story. At the denver training, and 11yearold girl showed up to be trained and i said to myself, now what is our policy . Are we sure this girl is old enough to do this . It is sort of like someone running an Amusement Park with a bar, you have to be as tall as this bar before you go on the right. But i saw her over three days making notes. Two weeks later, after the training was over i clicked on a video that was going viral on social media and here is the same 11yearold girl who has gone to a town hall meeting of her republican congressman and republican in Colorado Springs and she has her ipad and microphone and she is just giving him hell on it. [cheers and applause] mr. Gore but i dont want to skip by the first part of your question because it is extremely important. We have to have more diversity in the climate organization. We have to reach out to all communities. I want to tell you about one of our Board Members who has made a tremendous difference for us. Her name is catherine flowers and a she is from alabama. ] heers and applause mr. Gore to know her . She is amazing. My oldest daughter introduced me to catherine. And in aricanamerican very low income, rural county between selma and montgomery. She was a veteran of the air force. Advocatepowerful organizer woman. I have learned so much from her perspective in from her passion and from the experiences. This sounds straight, but it is an example of the tremendous benefit the Environmental Movement at large needs to take advantage of by reaching out to communities of color at every single Demographic Group in this country said the Environmental Movement looks like american. Host yes, yes, yes. We can clap for that. Well talk. Let me take is in a different direction. The Civil Rights Movement was a transformational moment and music played a huge role in that as well. Didnt pay as much attention to that. Someone asked me a question coming down escalator to ask you, when you were growing up, who were those musicians who were instrumental . What was the music youre listening to . This was the prehiphop movement so you have to cut me some slack. On take you there, but ill just say. Mr. Gore it is easy to answer that question. There were a lot of songs. But i remember when i was maybe 12yearsold, 13yearsold growing up in the summers in the self. Civil Rights Movement was gaining momentum. I will tell you that when bob dylan sang lowering in the wind those words really pierced into my heart. Blowing in the those words really pierced into my heart. Then i heard other songs that had those elements of truth telling. It made a tremendous difference. I remember during those days, i remember a moment when one of my friends in this Rural Community made kind of a quasiracist comment day and one of my other friend said, hey shut up man, we anymore. K that way in their work i am pretty sure millions of conversations that were a little bit like that. So one of the things that is really important is to use your voice. I mean, organizing, using your vote, influencing political leaders, that is crucial. Using your voice and being unafraid to speak up and win the conversation on climate. I will give you another example. The gay Rights Movement. If somebody had told me even yearyears ago that in the 2017 gay marriage would be legal in all 50 states and that two thirds of the American People would accept, honor, and celebrate gay marriage, i wouldve said i sure hope so but you are pretty naive. That is unrealistic. Now, why did it happen question mark it happen first of all because of the Human Rights Campaign did a hell of a job and all of the organizers. But it also happened because once again, millions of conversations were one. It happened also because as i gained is the truth of what momentum, lotsd and lots of gay and lesbian and found theded courage to represent themselves as to who they really are and their friends and coworkers and family members that, oh. Ok. And then, was not far from there to the motion well, if god made people this way and that way, god could not have intended this person or that person to be persecuted for his or her whole lifetime. What the hell differences of maker you fall love with . Lets just get on with this. We are all americans. That has been healing. The Climate Movement is right at that point. We are right at that tipping point. I do not want to repeat myself, Rights Movement, civil rights, all of these other movements have in common is it the resistance cannot be overcome. The late Nelson Mandela said during the antiapartheid movement, he said it is always impossible until that is done. It seems impossible to some people now, it is not. We just need to get it done. We are very, very close. Host so you are singular power. Mr. Gore people of power and the truth is a source of power. Not to get into the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi but he had a word i will not try to announce that they say translates into truth force. We have all seen in our own lives how we have the ability to feel what is more likely to be true than not. When you really feel it deeply and sink into it. Without fear. It has a force that changes things. It can move mountains, really. Host im glad you raised truth and power. Yesterday was the 45th anniversary of hiphop. It has been around for a while now. The beauty in that space is talking about culture, talking about sharing the stories and realities that everyone is dealing with. Individuals like jayz and beyond sea. Ofer individuals like taboo the blackeyed peas. Stand up for standing rock. Dont forget to go out and vote for that video on mtv. I appreciate that. What have individuals like chance the rapper also. As we are talking about expanding the movement, how much does culture plate a role in making sure people are respected and feel included in the process . Mr. Gore it is absolutely crucial. Of course, music in particular has an ability as we all know, to move hearts and minds in ways that words alone cannot. We all know that and maybe that is why you started down this road and asked about the Civil Rights Movement. Let me mention the original song anhis new movie inconvenient sequel truth to cowrote theuddy song truth to power which really embodies the gandhi quote. It is trending now. It wont be in the same awards so we willtaboo try to promote them both. Host thats right, well try to get them both an award. I know we are short on time but there are couple other questions folks asked me to ask you. One is a general question we have to be able to answer. How do we win on climate . Mr. Gore for small, we have a big ally and that is Mother Nature. Extremeimaterelated weather events really and truly, unfortunately, are a lot more common and destructive. In a mother is a lot of evidence now that people who might put themselves culturally on the other side of the political divide on climate may not feel comfortable using the phrase level warming or climate ownis are finding their right which express with their senses are telling them. It started bigtime with all of the professions that work outdoors all the time. Farmers, ranchers, fishermen. Now it is spreading more widely than that. But in winning these conversations, that is a big part of it because the resistance you know, sometimes there are people that just fly into a rage if you if they hear the phrase Global Warming. It is almost like a dysfunctional family with a that theonal way alcoholic father might fly into a rage. Everybody tiptoes around. I think the news media worries they will lose viewers if they even talk about Global Warming. By the way, it is an embarrassment to our country that we just went through the third quadrennial president ial election cycle in a row without one single question about climate being asked and any of the debates. That is a disgrace. Cheers and applause] mr. Gore but we all can help change that and insist that the conversation take place and that we win that conversation. This movie, the reason why i want to encourage as many people as possible to see this movie, it opens this weekend oliver the country. The country. 100 of the profits go to train new activists. There is a new bestseller and 100 of the profits of that also go to train new activists. See this, thee more chance we have to build a strong effect of Climate Movement. I am proud we are working with not only the climate reality andect but 350. Org and nrdc edf and climate talks and a bunch of other groups that are organizing around the theaters where this movie is being shown in many cities. Not every city, but any cities. So, learn about it, use your voice, usually vote, go to the town Hall Meetings. Knock on the door of your congressional representative and government officials at every level. You all know how to do this. It is Netroots Nation, you know. We are working with the individual Indivisible Group as well. Applause] mr. Gore this week, indivisible has targeted 14 cities specifically. Big cities where the movies opening and they are at every showing in all of these 14 cities. I love these individual movements, by the way. Awill tell you that there is twopart message that really works with elected officials. Maybe you already know this. But, part one you tell them how important the climate issue is to you and tell them if they are going to do the right thing you will support them. Part two but in order to make part to work you have to first of all the side deep down that you mean this part two is to tell them that if they vote with the polluters and set up with the people just look them in the eye and say i promise you that i am going to do everything to contact as many people in your district as i can possibly contact and i am going to be you and kick you out of office. [cheers and applause] yes. So, when the movement is successful when the movement is successful because i dont believe in any other outcome what will our country look like . What with the planet look like for our grandchildren and great great grandchildren . Start with aave to really candid expression that regrettably some damage has been done that cannot be rolled back. Some sections of antarctica and greenland have now crossed a point where they will continue melting no matter what. Some temperature increases will continue. Some of the other changes. You sort of like know, if somebody is a heavy smoker and has been for 40 years and says dr. , i have been smoking three packs a day for 40 years. I guess there is no point in me quitting now because my fate is sealed, right . And the doctor will say, no that is not right. Medical studies show if you quit now, your chances improve your by year by year. Back to climate, with the scientist telesis yes, we put a lot of stuff up there and some of it will be there for 1000 years. , if we could magically stop putting any manmade Global Warming solutions into the atmosphere tomorrow, how long for half of fate, 50 of it to fall back out of the sky . 20 years. That means a lot of it would still be up there. The truthful, realistic answer to your question is, we have done some damage. But far more significantly, the scientist telesis there is no doubt that we do still have the capacity to avoid the catastrophic consequences that would threaten the future of all human civilization if we did not take control of this. Let me just say one other thing about that because this can sound abstract. It is a planetary deal were talking about a need future. Let yourself sink into this realization. We are taking a risk that the next generation will see the gates of hell open and ask of us why we had no concern about what was going to happen to them. We are taking a kind of risk. You asked earlier, is it a moral issue . You that it is a moral issue. And, it is already affecting us now so it is a practical issue as well. Host closing question. Ive heard you speak about power and weve had a lot of conversations of the past few days about power at the hiphop coccus. We talked about how that translates into real change happening. Talk about, do they actually have power . R. Gore yeah now, again, good news and bad news. The good news outweighs the bad news but i want to give you the bad news first. It is true that big money now has an extremely unhealthy degree of influence over the way our political system operates and there are some elected officials who are so under their influence, so controlled by the big money, that it is hard to imagine what turns them around. But the good news is that bar that we have to clear with people power may be a little higher now. But we can clear it. We can clear it. Look at what many of you did yearer this she or this when that godawful Health Care Proposal was put forth by donald trump and the republicans in the congressmen. On the first break, they went to the town Hall Meetings back home and all help broke loose. Host it sure did. Applause] mr. Gore and, some of those who, you may have thought they were the camp where they were so won the pockets of the special interest they were lost. They came back and said, i have got to change on this issue. My constituents are muslims. My constituents are restless. They are mad. If i do not stop this im going to lose my job. So it can be done. There is strength in numbers. There is strength in that connection the Netroots Nation makes. That connection made with leadership and determination to go and get this done. Some people say, well, i do not know. I am just not sure that we have enough lyrical will. Is a powerful secret political will is itself a renewable resource. Host yes it is. Yes it is. Yes it is. All right. [cheers and applause] host ask about charlottesville. Folks are various about charlottesville. Very gaugedwas around civil rights. Actually stood up around the southern manifesto. Only one of two to refuse. He made a couple mistakes but he was only one of several to react. What happened in charlottesville today and last night with that march and the great tragedy thend reverend early reverend s in prayer and we should remember the person who lost his or her life i am not a person who lost her 19 injured and some of the entries are serious. ] igh to say. there is a lot i am picking and choosing what is going to be most useful to say or what might be of most value. Host there is going to be a vigil outside. Mr. Gore there is a vigil outside but i do want to say that our country is facing a dangerous time with the rise of some of these hate groups. Trump tofor president make his statement. They said he was going to come out at 3 00 and everybody else stageut and they set the and waited and waited and waited. And he was deliberating. And then when he came out, he did not say anything about the neonazis and the kkk and the alltime for an were out there trying to provoke hatefulness and divide people. Surprised that the statement appeared to give a the of moral equivalence to people who had organized this march. I and the people who said we are going to stand against fascism ism i dont know about the fist fights in the day dayviolence earlier in the but i do know it was a terrorist act, the person who drove that vehicle. Applause] mr. Gore and, on the offchance could reach here president trump, i would say, mr. President , for the sake of our country i would urge you to i dontlaughter] mean it as a laugh line, we are in trouble here. This is really a troubling time in all sincerity to the president , i would urge you to give more thought to what it means to have a resurgence of the ku klux klan and the nazis marching and creating this kind of hatefulness. He said he wants is to have affection for one another hand love one another and have a good time. That is what his statement was. Mr. President , that is not enough. That is not enough because the people who are in this group, theykkk nazi are not interested in building affections for other americans. They are not interested in loving all people. They are interested in provoking hatred and using a prejudice as a way to divide the country. Need to speak out against this. The country would be better served if the president would come back before the people and make a more thoughtful and about howe statement we should understand what is going on there and how we can go forward as a nation. Host yes. Yes. [applause] host my grandfather always said that leadership mattered and what you do in that space is superimportant. We want to thank you for your leadership. I think we should also, because this is the last session here at netroots, i think we should send a message to the country. So i would like everybody to stand up. I would like for you to look at the person to your right. Dont stare. Look to the person to your left. Reach out your right hand to the person on the righthand side and grab the person on your left hand. All right . Because, as the Vice President thank you. I want you to realize something, you think the Vice President shared it with us. There are two sort of powers in our country. One of them if we are going to avril talk is big money. The other is the power of the people. This room you see black folks, white folks, latinos, indigenous, asian americans, pacific islanders, gay, straight, you may see wealthy and you may see poor who are still moving up the ladder, if you will. The real power that exists in our country is when we are willing to actually touch each other and remember were all human a hand embrace our humanity. I want everybody to reach her hands up above your head and say power power what more times a day here you in atlanta and all across our shores, power power thank you for being here this evening, and thank you to our Vice President. Cspans washington journal, live every day with news and policy issues that affect you. Coming up sunday morning, associate professor of chinese studies in seoul, the south korea, and senior director of the asiapacific Security Program at the center for new American Security discuss how the region is responding to threats from north korea. Then, family physician and author on his new book distracted. It looks at how medical regulations are affecting medical resources in the u. S. Join the discussion. Be sure to watch cspans washington journal, live at 7 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan. Join the discussion. This week at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan3, a civil war special featuring American History tv highlights. 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