Welcome to the 238 members and welcome to the teamsters. It is great to have you here. [applause] teamsters local 238 negotiates 270 contracts across the state of iowa, both the Public Sector and private sector. It is safe to say there is not a single aspect of the iowa handsy that teamsters do not touch. We are everywhere. As the first caucus in the nation, teamsters have also been everywhere dogging these candidates. We have been following them around for months asking them questions and educating them about our issues, as well as our brothers and sisters in north carolina, south carolina, new hampshire, nevada. We have done a great job of coordinating our messaging to candidates across the country. Some members from those states are here and we would like to welcome you and thank you for traveling across the country to be in iowa today. Today we bring you the candidates. And we bring you the candidates with the help of the storm lake times added the guardian, our sponsors today. We
First candidate was going to tell us why we should elect him. Former great senator from the state of delaware, former Vice President joe biden. [applause]. Mr. Biden ok. Welcome. Mr. Biden thank you. It is good to be home. Vice president biden, we are in a room full of teamsters and i want you to tell all of them here and all of them watching, why they should vote for you. But no malarkey. [laughter] first of all i should thank you. The only reason im sitting here is a 1972, i was losing in the polls the sunday before the election. The newspaper went on strike. Ct the printers, you guys put in a gigantic insert in the sunday paper to go out on the republican party. Wouldnt cross the picket line, and i won by 3100 votes. [cheers and applause] you guys dont like secondary picket, youre wrong. We, the reason is, look, i am as my grandfather say, labor from belt buckle the shoe soul. I understood very basic notion. Wall street didnt build the United States of america. The middle class buil
Iowa. The first candidate to speak his former Vice President biden. Ok, i want to introduce our first candidate who will tell us why we should elect him, former senator from the great state of delaware, former Vice President joe biden. [applause] [cheers and applause] mr. Biden ok. Welcome. Mr. Biden thank you. It is good to be home. Vice president biden, we are in a room full of teamsters and i want you to tell all of them here and all of them watching, why they should vote for you. But no malarkey. [laughter] mr. Biden no malarkey. I tell you why. First i should thank you. The only reason i am sitting here is that in 1972, i was losing in the polls the sunday before the election, the newspaper went on strike. You guys had put on a gigantic insert in the sunday paper to go out on the republican party. You guys would not cross a picket line. And i won by 3100 votes. [applause] if you think i dont like secondary pickets, youre wrong. The reason is, i am, as my grandfather would say, lab
Confirm the Climate Crisis. Amy students across the globe are walking out of classes today in another round of climate strikes. A major march is set for here in madrid tonight, the site of the u. N. Climate summit. We will speak to climate strikers from uganda and chile as well as one of the organizers of an alternative Climate Summit that opens tomorrow here in madrid. It is called then we will look at how some of spains largest polluters are sponsoring the u. N. Climate summit. Tuba two big spanish gas utilities have both paid billion euros to become diamond sponsors of cop25. What is shocking is the spanish gave them 90 tax break for the sponsorship. This allows the companies to hide the fact there emissions are causing runaway Climate Change. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. We are broadcasting from madrid, spain, for the next week during the u. N. Climate summit. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has
Protests greet geminis populist a. S. D. Party as it prepares to elect new leadership that could see a shift further to the right look at the latest from our correspondent at the party compress. The ad. Im at home for glad you could join me police have identified the man who carried out fridays stabbing attack in london they say it was 28 year old man khan who killed 2 people on London Bridge he was later shot dead by police in a con have been convicted in a 2012 for terrorism offenses he was also released from prison about a year ago several on the case captured fridays incidents on their mobile phones and some of being praised as heroes for the samik the attacker. Members of the public pin the attacker to the ground one of them taking away the knife used in the attack. Police were called and arrives quickly theres been about 5 shots theres another 1. 10 i phones me who i. Moments later the Police Shooting can. Get all my clothes. As you would expect gz of the nature of the incident w