The war in iraq. I listened in 2002, very closely, very closely to what president bush [cheering] i think we do not know. Lets hold off. Not for sure. But back to 2002. And here is the issue. All of us know that there are no more important issues than the issues of war and peace. I know that as a congressman and a senator. Because when you vote for a war, you know that some of the young people in your state who you send off at deployment, you say god bless you, best of luck, you know that some of those young men and women will not come home. And i listened very carefully to what bush and cheney and all the rest were saying about iraq and not only did i vote against that war, i helped lead the opposition to that war. [cheering] sen. Sanders it gives me no pleasure, i wish i could tell you otherwise, it gives me no pleasure to tell you that if you go to my website, listen to what i said on the floor of the house in 2002. And much of what i feared about the destabilization that would take place in the middle east turned out to be true. On the other hand, secretary clinton, then the senator from new york state, she heard the same evidence i heard, she voted for the war in iraq. [booing] sen. Sanders and while we are on issues of war and peace, let me say this. We all know that not only should isis, must isis be defeated, isis must be crushed. [cheering] sen. Sanders but we also know that this country and our brave men and women in the military should not be involved in perpetual warfare in the middle east. [cheering] sen. Sanders now, i have heard many of my colleagues, my republican colleagues especially, on the floor of the senate, they are really tough. They want to go to war here or there. But let me tell you something, it is not their kids who are going to go to war. [cheering] sen. Sanders it is the children of working families in this country. [cheering] sen. Sanders so, we have got to understand that war and military force sometimes, of course, have got to be used but it is the last recourse, not the first recourse. [cheering] sen. Sanders there is another area where secretary clinton and i disagree. She wants to raise the minimum wage and that is good. She wants to raise it to 12 an hour. Not good enough. [cheering] sen. Sanders i am proud to have stood on the picket lines with fast food workers from mcdonalds and burger king and they understand that in this country we need a 15 in our minimum wage. [cheering] sen. Sanders and i will stand with those workers in that fight. [cheering] this campaign is asking the American People to think outside of the box and outside of status quo thinking. [cheering] sen. Sanders this campaign is asking people why it is that there is only one major country on earth that does not guarantee health care to all people. [cheering] now, i have been criticized for saying this, so let me say it again. [cheering] sen. Sanders and this is a big, big deal. In my view, health care is a right of all people, not a privilege. [cheering] sen. Sanders and thinking outside of the box, ask us to think why it is that if you are wealthy in this country, you can get great health care, but if you are working class or poor, you may not have any Health Insurance at all or youre going to have very high deductibles and copayments. [booing] sen. Sanders we lose thousands of people every year who do not have the money to go to the doctor when they should. In my view, when we understand that 29 million americans have no Health Insurance, even more are underinsured, and when we are getting ripped off every single day by the Drug Companies who charge us for highest prices in the world for medicine. When we end up paying far more per capita for health care than do the people of any other major country, now is the time for us to go forward and pass a medicare for all singlepayer program. [cheering] sen. Sanders i want to think for a moment and this is thinking outside of corporate it is thinking outside of the status quo. Think what that means for america. It means that anybody in this country who gets sick goes to the doctor when they need to go. [cheering] sen. Sanders it means that if you get seriously ill or run up a big hospital bill, you are not going to go bankrupt. [cheering] sen. Sanders and this is what it also means, which is pretty revolutionary. It means that right now in america, we help millions of people doing jobs that they really do not want to do but theyre staying on those jobs because they may have a decent Health Insurance plan for their families. Think what happens to america when we unleash the entrepreneurial spirit of this country. [cheering] sen. Sanders when millions can go out and start businesses and know they will have Health Insurance for themselves and their families. [cheering] sen. Sanders that is revolutionary. This campaign is listening to our brothers and sisters in the africanamerican community. [cheering] and they are crying out for reforms of a broken criminal justice system. [cheering] i was a mayor for 8 years, and i worked very closely with my local Police Department and Police Departments all over this country. The vast majority of Police Officers are honest, hardworking and are doing a very, very difficult job. They deserve our support. [cheering] sen. Sanders but like any other public official, when a Police Officer breaks the law, that officer must be held accountable. [cheering] sen. Sanders we need major reforms of local Police Departments. We have got to start demilitarizing local Police Departments. [cheering] sen. Sanders we have to make local Police Departments reflect the diversity of the communities they serve. [cheering] sen. Sanders we need as a nation to understand that lethal force, the killing of somebody, is the last response, not the first response. [cheering] we need to end, and i have got legislation in to do this, private corporate and ownership of prisons and detention centers. [cheering] we need tos rethink the socalled war on drugs. [cheering] over the last 30 years, millions of people have received criminal records because of possession of marijuana. [booing] sen. Sanders today, today under the federal controlled substance act, marijuana is listed as a schedule i drug next to heroin. [booing] i have introduced legislation that will implement as president getting marijuana out of the federal controlled substance act. [cheering] sen. Sanders states, it is the decision of the people of the state to decide whether they want to legalize marijuana or not and more and more states are doing that but it should not be a federal crime. [cheering] and when we talk about drugs, in my state and all over this country, we are facing an enormous crisis with opiate addiction and heroin addiction. [cheering] sen. Sanders every day, people are dying from overdosing on those drugs. Now in my view, if we are going to deal effectively with that crisis, what we have got to understand is Substance Abuse and addiction should be treated as a health issue not a criminal issue. [cheering] and that means, that means that we need in this country a revolution in Mental Health treatment. [cheering] right now iners virtually every part of this country people who are suffering Mental Health crises, people that are suffering with addictions, people who are suicidal, people who may be homicidal, they cannot get the treatment they need when they need it. And that has got to change. [cheering] sen. Sanders you know, we spent trillions of dollars on the war in iraq. We have spent billions rebuilding infrastructure in iraq and afghanistan. And yet, if you look at the inner cities of this country, what you see is outrageous levels of unemployment and poverty, people who cannot find a form housing and youre seeing schools that are crumbling. If we can rebuild the infrastructure of afghanistan, we damn well can rebuild the inner cities in america. [cheering] this campaign is listening to our brothers and sisters in the latino community. [cheering] there are 11 million undocumented people in this country, and i have i have talked to many of them. Theres one right here. [cheering] feel the bern. Feel the bernie [cheering] senator sanders when you are undocumented, and when you have no legal protection, that means that when you go to work, you are, can be exploited by your employer, because you have no leave employer, because you have no legal rights to protect yourself. [booing] sen. Sanders and that is happening all over this country, and i have talked to undocumented people who are scared to death that their families will be separated, somebody will be deported tomorrow. In my view, we need to move aggressively towards comprehensive Immigration Reform and a path toward citizenship. [cheering] sen. Sanders and if congress does not do its job in passing Immigration Reform, i will use the executive powers of the presidency to do all that i can. [cheering] sen. Sanders this campaign is listening to a group of people, a group of people whose pain is almost never heard, and that is the native american community. [cheering] sen. Sanders all of you know, all of you know that from before this country became a country, when the settlers first came here, the native American People were lied to, cheated and treaties they had signed a were broken. [booing] sen. Sanders all of you also know that we owe a debt of gratitude to the native American People we can never repay. [cheering] is they have taught us so much. And one of the important lessons that they have taught us, which we must, must learn, is that as human beings, we are part of nature. [cheering] sen. Sanders that as human beings, we must exist with nature, not destroy nature. [cheering] sen. Sanders and that takes us bernie, bernie, bernie senator sanders and that takes us to an issue not only of enormous importance for our country but of enormous importance for the entire planet. And that is as a member of the u. S. Senate committee on the environment, i have talked to scientists all over this country and all over the world. The debate is over. Climate change is real. Climate change is caused by human activity. Climate change is already causing devastating problems in this country and throughout the world. We have a moral responsibility as custodians of this planet to make certain that we leave this planet in a way that is healthy and habitable for our children and our grandchildren. [cheering] that means we must stand up to the fossil fuel and industry and tell them, and tell them their shortterm profits are not more important than the future of this planet. [cheering] now, i understand, and i understand that as we transform our Energy System away from fossil fuel to energy efficiency, to Sustainable Energy is like wind, solar, geothermal and other technologies, there will be economic dislocation. And there will be innocent people, people who want nothing more than to provide for their families who will be hurt in that transition. And that is why in the legislation i have authored in the senate, the most comprehensive Climate Change legislation ever offered in the senate, that we provide 41 billion to help workers who might be dislocated. [cheering] sen. Sanders i know that all over this country, there is a fear that donald trump will be elected president of the United States. [booing] i am here to tell you that wont happen. [cheering] it wont happen, it wont happen because in every National Poll that i have seen for a long time, we beat trump by doubledigit numbers. [cheering] bernie, bernie senator sanders but it is not only the polls. Polls go up and down. It is all the fact that the American People will not elect a candidate who insults every group you can think of virtually every day. [cheering] sen. Sanders we are not going to elect a president who insults mexicans and latinos. [cheering] sen. Sanders who insults muslims. [cheering] sen. Sanders who insults veterans. [cheering] sen. Sanders who insults women. [cheering] sen. Sanders who insults africanamericans. [cheering] sen. Sanders the American People understand that our strength is in our diversity. [cheering] they understand that when we come together as one people, black and white and latino and Asian American and native american, gay and straight, whatever we may be [cheering] sen. Sanders we are stronger. And the American People understand that coming together always trumps dividing us up. [cheering] sen. Sanders and the American People also understand that what america is about and which makes us great is supporting each other. [cheering] sen. Sanders that when your family is in trouble, my family and our country are therefore are there for you. When my family is in trouble, your family in this country are there for us. [cheering] sen. Sanders and the American People understand that supporting each other always trumps selfishness. [cheering] [cheering] sen. Sanders most importantly, i think the American People understand what every major religion on earth has taught us for centuries and that is that at the end of the day love always trumps hatred. [cheering] a [cheering] history has taught us one very profound lesson. And that is real change never takes place from the top on down. It always takes place from the bottom on up. [cheering] whether it is the history of workers standing up and fighting for their rights and forming unions. [cheering] sen. Sanders whether it is the Civil Rights Movement where millions of people came together and said we will end racism and bigotry in this country. [cheering] whether it is the womens movement. [cheering] people forget that less than 100 years ago, women in america did not have the right to vote, did not have the right to get the education or the jobs they wanted. But women came together and some of them went to jail. [cheering] sen. Sanders some of them went to jail. Some of them died in the struggle. But they and their male allies said that in america women will not be secondclass citizens. [cheering] sen. Sanders if we were here 10 years ago, no time at all, and somebody jumped up and said, i think in the United States of america by the year 2015, gay marriage will be legal in every state in this country [cheering] sen. Sanders most people would not have believed that that would be possible, but what happened . Is over the decades the Gay Community and their straight allies stood up, fought back and said that in america, people should have the right to love whoever they want. [cheering] that is the history of change. Change is about people by the millions looking around them and saying, the status quo does not work. The status quo is wrong. We are going to change the status quo. [cheering] sen. Sanders and today, all over our country, coast to coast, people are looking and they are saying, you know what . This grotesque level of income and wealth inequality is wrong. It is wrong that the middle class for 40 years has been in decline. It is wrong that people have to work two or three jobs to survive. It is wrong that young people are leaving school 50,000 in debt. [cheering] it is wrong that women are making 79 cents on the dollar compared to men. It is wrong that we are the only major country on earth that does not guarantee paid family and medical leave. [cheering] sen. Sanders or that all of our people do not have health care as a right. [applause] sen. Sanders and when people begin to look at those issues, they begin to challenge the establishment thinking. And when people begin to look at these issues they say, you know what . This is the United States of america. We can do better. [cheering] what this campaign is about is telling you that no president , not Bernie Sanders or anybody else, can transform this country in the way we need change all by himself. Cannot be done by one person because the powers that be on wall street and Corporate America and the corporate media, and wealthy campaign contributors, these folks are so to powerful that no one president can do it alone. What we need, and what this campaign is about is a political revolution. [cheering] what thatrs revolution means is that millions of people today are beginning to stand up and fight back and demand a government which represents all of us, not just a handful of billionaires. [cheering] next week, there is going to be of very important primary here in the beautiful state of kentucky. [cheering] sen. Sanders and what we have is and what we have learned so far on the campaign is that if there are large voter turnouts, we win. [cheering] sen. Sanders let us make certain that for the Kentucky Democratic primary, we have the largest voter turnout in history. Thank you all very much [cheering] [applause] [chanting bernie] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] our road to the white house coverage continues with a bipartisan look at the president ial candidates and contest for house, senate and governor across the country. We have it live at 8 45 eastern on cspan two. On june 23, voters in the United Kingdom cast their ballots on a referendum to leave the european union. Tomorrow, David Cameron meets with members of parliament to answer questions on the referendum. We have it live it 11 30 a. M. Eastern. We follow obama to flint, michigan. He will give a speech a