Transcripts For CSPAN Washington This Week 20160326 : compar

Transcripts For CSPAN Washington This Week 20160326

An economy that works for all of us, not just the 1 . [cheering] sanders but it is not just a corrupt Campaign Finance system that we are going to just a riggednot economy that we are going to program is also also a broken criminal justice that we are going to perform. [cheering] mr. Sanders it is not acceptable to me that we have more people in jail than any other country on earth. Not acceptable that we are spending 80 billion dollars per to put people in jail. The number of people are disproportionately africanamerican, latino, and native american. This campaign is about real criminal justice reform. This is about real Police Department reform. This campaign is about saying we are tired of seeing unarmed people, often minorities, shot by police. Mayor and ieen a have worked with Police Departments all over my state and Police Departments all over the country. And the truth is, the vast majority of Police Officers are honest and hardworking. But when a police officer, like any other public official, breaks the law, the officer must be held accountable. [cheers and applause] this campaign is about ending the militarization of local Police Departments. It is about making Police Departments reflect the diversity of the communities that they serve. It is about rethinking the war on drugs. Today, marijuana is a schedule one drug under the federal [crowd booing] Bernie Sanders it is a schedule one drug under the federal controlled substance act, right alongside of heroin. In my view, that is nuts. And that is why we have introduced legislation to take marijuana out of the federal controlled substance act. [cheers and applause] Bernie Sanders in my state of vermont, in my state [crowd chanting bernie] Bernie Sanders in my state of vermont, neighboring New Hampshire, and states all over this country, we are seeing now an epidemic of heroin use and opiate abuse. And we are seeing people dying every day from heroin overdoses. In my view, when we deal with drug abuse, we have got to deal with it as a health issue, not a criminal issue. [cheers and applause] Bernie Sanders let me just take this opportunity to say what i know is on everybodys mind. We are all aware of the terrible attacks that have taken place in brussels. Dozens of people are dead, and hundreds of people have been wounded. I think i speak for everyone in expressing our condolences to the people of brussels. [applause] Bernie Sanders that is right, that is right. And let me simply say this. We will stand as a nation with our allies and our friends and people all over this world. We will stand with them and we will together crush and destroy isis. [cheers and applause] Bernie Sanders we will destroy isis through a coalition in the middle east led by the muslim nations themselves. [cheers and applause] Bernie Sanders with our support and the support of other powerful nations. But as King Abdullah of jordan said a few months ago, what is going on there is a fight for the soul of islam. And the muslim nations have got to take on isis and win that war. And we can win that war and destroy isis without getting the brave men and women in the u. S. Armed forces into a perpetual war in the middle east. [cheers and applause] Bernie Sanders the war in iraq was one of the worst foreignpolicy mistakes in the modern history of this country. I voted against that war. [cheers and applause] Bernie Sanders and i will do everything that i can to make certain that the United States does not get involved in a similar type war in the future. This campaign is doing as well as it is because we are listening to the people, not wealthy campaign contributors. [cheers and applause] Bernie Sanders and one of the major differences between secretary clinton and myself is how we raise the funds we need to run a campaign. When we began this campaign, we asked ourselves, should we have a superpac like everybody else . No ]shouting, Bernie Sanders and we agreed with you. [cheers and applause] Bernie Sanders and what we did, unlike all other campaigns, is to simply reach out to the American People at berniesanders. Com and say if you want to support a candidate who is prepared to take on the billionaire class, to take on wall street and corporate america, this is your campaign. Join us. [cheers and applause] [crowd chanting bernie] Bernie Sanders and what happened over the last 10 months is something that i in a million years would not have believed. And that is we received well over 5 million individual campaign contributions. [cheers and applause] Bernie Sanders and does anybody know the average contribution . [cheers and applause] Bernie Sanders and that is revolutionary because what we showed is that you could run a winning, National Campaign without begging billionaires for their money. [cheers and applause] Bernie Sanders now, secretary clinton has chosen to go a different route. What she has done is established a number of superpacs, the largest one recently reported raising 25 million [crowd booing] Bernie Sanders from special interest organizations, including 15 million from wall street. Now, she has also, as many may know, given speeches on wall street for 225,000 a speech. [crowd booing] Bernie Sanders what i have said is that if you are going to get paid 225,000 for a speech, it must be an extraordinarily brilliant speech it must be a speech that could transform our world. It must be a speech written in shakespearean prose. So, i think, given what a great speech it must have been, lets release that speech to the American People. [cheers and applause] Bernie Sanders this campaign is listening to working people throughout this country. And what they are telling me is they cant make it on 8. 00 or 9. 00 or 10. 00 an hour. And that we have got to raise the minimum wage in this country to 15. 00 an hour. [cheers and applause] Bernie Sanders this campaign is listening to disabled veterans and to Senior Citizens. And what disabled vets and Senior Citizens are telling me is that they cannot make it on 11,000 or 12,000 a year social year on Social Security. And you know what . Nobody can make it on that much a year. Despite that, we have republicans in congress wanting to cut Social Security benefits. Well, ive got bad news for them. We are not going to cut benefits. We are going to increase Social Security benefits. [applause] Bernie Sanders this campaign is listening to women. [cheering] Bernie Sanders and what women all over this country are saying is that they are sick and tired of working for . 79 on the dollar compared to men. [cheers and applause] Bernie Sanders i know every man in this huge room yuuuge room will stand with the women in the fight for pay equity. [cheers and applause] Bernie Sanders by the way, when we talk about womens rights, i want everybody here to know that all over this country, youve got republicans running around talking about family values. And let us be very clear what these republicans mean. What they mean is that no woman here tonight, or in this state, or in this country, should the right to control her own body. I disagree. What they also mean is that our gay brothers and sisters should not have the right to be married. I disagree. [crowd booing] Bernie Sanders this campaign is listening to our brothers and sisters in the latino community. [cheering] Bernie Sanders there are today some 11 million undocumented people in this country and many of them are living in the shadows, living in fear. They are being exploited every day because they have no legal rights. I am the proud son of an immigrant, and i know something about immigrant life. [cheers and applause] Bernie Sanders and what i know is that we will stand with our latino brothers and sisters. [cheers and applause] Bernie Sanders we will [crowd chanting feel the bern] Bernie Sanders we will fight for comprehensive Immigration Reform and a path toward citizenship. I our immigration policy is what all immigration policy should be, we unite families, not divide families. And we will stop the deportations currently taking place. [crowd cheering] and if congress does not do its job, i will use the executive powers of the presidency to do all that i can. Now in a democracy, there are people with different points of view on Immigration Reform and Everything Else, but what is not not acceptable is for the Donald Trumps and others to insult our mexican and latino brothers and sisters. In the year 2016, candidates for president should not be resorting to hatred and bigotry. [cheers and applause] Bernie Sanders this campaign is listening to our brothers and sisters in the africanAmerican Community. [crowd cheering] [crowd him cheering] Bernie Sanders they are asking, how does it happen, if this country could spend trillions of dollars fighting a war in iraq we never shouldve gotten into, how does it happen that we do not have the funds to rebuild crumbling communities like flint, michigan . [cheers and applause] Bernie Sanders how does it happen that there are minority communities all over this country where unemployment is skyhigh . Where the Education System is failing the kids . Where health care is not acceptable . And where too many of our young men and women instead of getting great jobs, are ending up in jail . Together, were going to change the National Priorities of this country. [cheers and applause] Bernie Sanders together, we are going to invest in our communities. Together, theyre going to together, we are going to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure to great millions create millions of jobs. Flint, michigan is not the only city in america with serious water problems. All over this country, cities and towns have water problems. All over this country, roads and bridges are failing. Our rail system is way behind other countries. Our airports, levies, and dams all need to be repaired. [cheers and applause] Bernie Sanders this campaign is listening to our brothers and sisters in the native American Community. [cheers and applause] Bernie Sanders everybody here knows that the way this country goes back even before we were a country, the way that the native American People have been treated from day one is a national disgrace. [cheers and applause] Bernie Sanders native americans have been lied to, they have been cheated, treaties were negotiated but have been broken. All over this country were finding many native American Communities in deep economic despair. If elected president , we will begin treating our native American People with the respect they deserve. [cheers and applause] Bernie Sanders this campaign is listening to young people. [cheers and applause] Bernie Sanders and what young people are saying is, how does it happen, when everybody told us we needed to get an education, when they told us that we needed the besteducated workforce, why are we leaving school 20,000, 50,000 in debt . [cheers and applause] Bernie Sanders in my view, in the year 2016, when we talk about public education, it is not good enough just to talk about the first grade to the 12th grade. The world has changed. The economy has changed. Our Public School systems have to change. And that means making public colleges and universities tuitionfree. [cheers and applause] [chanting bernie ] Bernie Sanders i want and this is not a radical idea i want every kid in this country who studies hard, does well in school, to be able to go to college regardless of his or her income. [cheers and applause] Bernie Sanders i am a member of the u. S. Senate committee on the environment. [cheers and applause] Bernie Sanders and i have talked to scientists all over the world. The debate is over, Climate Change is real. [cheers and applause] Bernie Sanders it is caused by human activity. Together, we are going to break our dependence on fossil fuels. And transform our Energy System into sustainable energy, and energy efficiency. [cheers and applause] Bernie Sanders now i have been criticized for saying this, so let me say it again. [cheers and applause] Bernie Sanders i believe that health care is a right for all people. [cheers and applause] Bernie Sanders i believe there is something wrong when every other major country on earth provides health care as a right, and we do not. Today [crowd chanting bernie ] Bernie Sanders the Affordable Care act has done a lot of good. But we need to do more. Today, 29 Million People have no health insurance, and even more are underinsured. Today, we are being ripped off big time by the drug companies. Were charging us the highest prices for prescription drugs. Today in america, one out of every five people cannot afford the prescriptions that their doctors write. So i think we should join the rest of the industrialized world and we should pass medicare for all singlepayer programs. [crowd cheering] Bernie Sanders everybody here knows that change in america doesnt happen from the autumn down, it happens from the bottom up. That is the history of the trade Union Movement where workers came together to fight for dignity. That is the history of the civil rights movement. Africanamericans and their allies stick together and bigotry, andsm, those kinds of ideas will not continue in america. That is the history of the womens movement. [crowd cheering] Bernie Sanders let us not women did years ago, not have the right to vote, the right to get an education. They did not have the right to do the jobs they wanted to do. But what happen is that women stood up with their male allies. [crowd cheering] Bernie Sanders by the millions and they said, together in this country, women will not be secondclass citizens. [crowd cheering] Bernie Sanders and that is the history of the gay movement in this country. Where, against incredible hatred and opposition, the gay people , peopler allies said will have the right to love whomever they want. [crowd cheering] [applause] that is howrs change takes place. Change takes place in a very profound moment when people look say, theem and they status quo is not working. It is not good enough. And today, all over this country, people are looking around, and they are saying the grotesqueg levels of income inequality are unacceptable. They are saying that we should not be the only country on earth that denies paid family and medical leave. Saying that we should not have the highest rate of childhood poverty of any major country on earth. There are saying is that millions of people should not be buried in student debt for decades. That we shouldg not have more people in jail than in any other country. Are saying that we should not get involved in wars that. Re killing our young people this is a Pivotal Moment in american history. I hope we continue down the path in which the politics and economics of these this country no longer is controlled by the handful of millionaires, but whether we make

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