let the name calling begin. it s obviously already started. but i faced off against the largest banks on wall street who said, look, this is how it s going to be. and i pushed back and i didn t step down and i m not going to step down here. i grew up look, i started baby sitting at 9. i started waiting tables at 13. i got married at 19. i graduated from a public university. started teaching elementary school. my family didn t have much of anything but i grew up in an america that invested in me. and that s how i got to do a lot of things. but what i mostly got to do is i got to keep fighting for families like mine. and that s now what i want to keep on going. you know, there was a time we came out of the great depression. we wrote a set of economic rules and we spent 50 years growing america s middle class. making it stronger, making it
largest banks on wall street who said, look, this is how it s going to be. and i pushed back and i didn t step down and i m not going to step down here. i grew up look, i started baby sitting at 9. i started waiting tables at 13. i got married at 19. i graduated from a public university. started teaching elementary school. my family didn t have much of anything but i grew up in an america that invested in me. and that s how i got to do a lot of things. but what i mostly got to do is i got to keep fighting for families like mine. and that s now what i want to keep on going. you know, there was a time we came out of the great depression. we wrote a set of economic rules and we spent 50 years growing america s middle class. making it stronger, making it more vibrant. every generation said, my kids are going to do better than i did.
you know, i don t know. let the name calling begin. it s obviously already started. but i faced off against the largest banks on wall street who said, look, this is how it s going to be. and i pushed back and i didn t step down and i m not going to step down here. i grew up look, i started baby sitting at 9. i started waiting tables at 13. i got married at 19. i graduated from a public university. started teaching elementary school. my family didn t have much of anything but i grew up in an america that invested in me. and that s how i got to do a lot of things. but what i mostly got to do is i got to keep fighting for families like mine. and that s now what i want to keep on going. you know, there was a time we came out of the great depression. we wrote a set of economic rules and we spent 50 years growing america s middle class. making it stronger, making it more vibrant. every generation said, my kids
eight days alone, 600 of the teachers are afraid to go to school, so they re sitting out outside of acapulco. these are elementary school teachers. a notorious drug gang in the region is demanding half of their salaries. the paymaster received a typewritten note from the gang wanting teachers names, even registration cards. this is a gang known for violent retaliation against its enemies. elementary school teachers sitting at home afraid to be decapitated if they do go to school or else turn over half of their salary. this is another sign in mexico how the drug violence is growing. it s not just drug gang targeting drug gangs, drug gangs trying to move their product north through the u.s. or to europe. it s really an expanding range of activities now including extortion of working people and scaring teachers, really, to death element keeping them away from teaching elementary school children. jenna: that really hits home for