Announcer president ial candidates have been speaking at the iowa state fair for the last couple of days. Here is kristen gillibrands remarks. It is about 30 minutes. Senator gillibrand hello, everybody. I want to introduce the director of fun, henry gillibrand. This is the driver of the rv, jonathan gillibrand. Hi, everyone. Senator gillibrand they have made the trip amazing. We have loved it. Henry loves your state fair, so thank you. Henry won that, no joke, it was a little frisbee thing. I dont know. Anyway, it is such a pleasure to be here. I cant tell you how exciting it is. I got my start in politics in a community not unlike this. My grandmother, she was a woman who loves politics. She started working at age 18 as a secretary in our state legislature. 75 years ago, she looked around, all the legislators were men, all the support staff were women. So she wanted to have a voice. She did not know how, she knew her voice was important, but she figured out the voice of all the women
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That is why we are making demands for all. Do you worry that if the democrats nominated candidate supporting Public Health insurance for all would go down in defeat . I think the candidate chosen will be because working people have been in the streets mobilizing and backing a candidate because, what we want are concrete plans and actions to bargain a better life for ourselves and our families. That is a fundamental value of all working people in this economy. I think we will see someone emerge from the democratic field that has the full support of working people and we need bold ideas, because the level of any inequality in this country has just gotten so severe that we want to see the democrats speak to concrete ways that all working people have Affordable Health care coverage, that we will be able to secure a future for our families and the next generation, and we will get health care that our loved ones deserve. Ginger gibson of reuters. Thank you. Mary kay, we have seen a couple of
To ask three or four questions. And it went from there. This was back in march . Prof. Stanger the event was on march 2 and there was a runup to the event were tensions rose and rose that it was whipped into a frenzy. Some students organized a shutdown of the speech that was successful. We went to a remote location to simulcast the exchange. That is where you got the incident where i was injured outside the lecture hall. Brian Middlebury College is where . Prof. Stanger Middlebury College is in the Green Mountains of vermont, the champlain valley. In some sense, you can explain the reaction because it is almost a bubble within a bubble. Every mobile arts campus is of a bubble. The context is important to understand what transpired. Brian how many students . Prof. Stanger 2350, so fairly small. Brian i found the number 63,000 online but said that is what tuition and room and board cost for a year. Prof. Stanger we make a real effort to try and make the experience available to as many br
Prof. Stanger what happened to you mean . The story has been retold many times. A Student Group invited Charles Murray, rather controversial figure, libertarian scholar, to campus. And because they knew he was controversial, they invited me to ask three or four questions. This was back in march . Prof. Stanger the event was on march 2 and there was a runup to the event were tensions rose and rose that it was ripped whipped into a frenzy. Some students organized a shutdown of the speech that was successful. We went to a remote location to simulcast the exchange. That is where you got the incident where i was injured outside the lecture hall. Brian Middlebury College is where . Prof. Stanger Middlebury College is in the Green Mountains of vermont, the champlain valley. In some sense, you can explain the reaction because it is almost a bubble within a bubble. Every mobile arts campus is of a bubble. The context is important to understand what transpired. Brian how many students . Prof. St