Cspan. Org, or listen with the free cspan radio app. 2020 democratic president ial candidate Amy Klobuchar held a town hall with iowa caucusgoers. She discussed her plans to address Climate Change, student debt, and the impeachment trial. This is an hour and 10 minutes. Sen. Klobuchar thank you for that beautiful introduction and your great leadership. Thank you. Thank you very much. Todd,i want to thank beautiful job. Thank you for your work and all you do for working people. Molly has been with me since the st. Patricks day parade. Where are you . There she is. I also know rob is here. Thank you. Rob was way ahead of his time on Climate Change and you should be proud of the work he has done. Also, where are you . Over here. Thank you. It is great to have her on my site nationally. Thats on my side nationally. Are you . Here numeral the iowa city council. Member of the iowa city council. I also want to mention our organizers, rachel, claire. Thank you for what you are doing. Middle of
To see you all. What a wonderful, wonderful crowd. You know, let me begin by just saying, stating the obvious. Every four years, democracy begins in iowa. Its not hyperbole. Democracy begins in iowa. You are the ones that have the starting gun. Youre the ones that decide and have a Significant Impact on who is likely to be the nominee in the democratic party. And for that matter, republican party, when there is not an incumbent president. And it matters a lot, because of the values you all bring to the process are real. I want to talk a little bit today about values. You know, folks, im running for i decided jill and i decided we are going to were going to run this time for three basic reasons. Most important one was is, we have to literally, not figuratively, restore the soul of this country. Were in trouble. Were in trouble. [applause] mr. Biden the way our National Government is acting now is not who we are. It doesnt reflect who america is. The way the president speaks of his oppon
I told the senator, i said, i know you have eyes in the back of your head. My mother had them. Every damn thing i did, she caught me doing. [laughter] mr. Biden well, its so great to see you all. What a wonderful, wonderful crowd. You know, let me begin by just saying, stating the obvious. Every four years, democracy begins in iowa. Its not hyperbole. Democracy begins in iowa. You are the ones that have the starting gun. Youre the ones that decide and have a Significant Impact on who is likely to be the nominee in the democratic party. And for that matter, republican party, when there is not an incumbent president. And it matters a lot, because of the values you all bring to the process are real. I want to talk a little bit today about values. You know, folks, im running for i decided jill and i decided we are going to were going to run this time for three basic reasons. Most important one was is, we have to literally, not figuratively, restore the soul of this country. Were in trouble
Thank you, thank you, thank you. I told the senator, i said i know that eyes and the back of your head. My mother had them. Every damn thing i i did she caught me doing. [laughing] its so great to see it all. What a wonderful, wonderful crowd. Let me begin by just saying the obvious. Every four years democracy begins in iowa. Its not hyperbole. Democracy begins in iowa. You are the one who has the starting gun to do with one to decide and have Significant Impact on who is likely to be the nominee in the democratic party. For that matter, Republican Party when theres not an incumbent president. And it matters a lot. Because of the values you will bring to the process are real. I want to talk a little bit today about values. You know, folks, im running forward, i decided, jill and i decided we are going to run this time for three basic reasons. Most important one was is we have to literally notte figuratively restore the soul of this country. Were in trouble. Were in trouble. [applause]
[applause] please welcome our county chair. Hello, iowa. Fellow democrats from across america. All 50 states of america, welcome to polk county. Celebration for our Democratic Party. Together, we will get to meet 17 candidates who are leading a conversation about the future of our party and our country. One of these 17 people will be our next president. They say bad weather brings good luck, and it rained like heck at last years steak fry, and then we won back the congress. I hope the weather we have today is going to win us back the white house next year. Before we get started, please join me in welcoming the elected officials and candidates who are here today. Usually, we read all their names at our events, but obviously this is a little bit eager, so we are not going to go through all hundred of them. Please join me in welcoming them here today. Welcoming join me in five of our newer steak fry leaders. Lindsay paulson and peter crane are our steak fry chairs. Our executive director