And he saids of war know, therer, you was a disaster of the war was. Talks about the early military career of Winston Churchill in her book. Regiment. , give me a i want to go and i want to fight. He goes to pretoria and he takes over the prison and he and he puts into prison his former jailers and he downes as the flag is torn and the union jack is hoisted in its place. Cu ight, on go to cspan. Org and select the top of the page. You will see a calendar for this term and a list for all the current justices. Arguments and cspan appearances by court justices. Washington journal is live every day with the news and policy issues that impact you. Andill discuss trends therns and we will talk to Deputy Editor at yahoo news on the top people, places, and we will watch at 7 00 on monday morning. Vice President Joe Biden campaigned for Hillary Clinton. , a candidateally for senate. This is one hour and 15 minutes. We know our School Teachers are great and she showed that it was true. I do not know if anybody from Johnson College is in the crowd. Somebody told me, Johnson College, we work. That is a good thing. A great country doesnt just consume things, it builds things and that is what happened in this great institution. Johnson college. Well, i do want to let you know that this is just the warmup act. Is anybody ready to get out there to work, fight, and win . Do. Use, we have a job to i think we are about making history and i am excited to tuesday. You know i have a special request. When we shatter the Glass Ceiling in the white house, will you join me in shattering the Glass Ceiling in the United States senate . I am kind of fired up and i think it is time to send pat toomey packing. That our mission is urgent. We cannot lose this election. We cannot lose. You think about what is on your heart and mind urgent things deserving ahild decent education. Your zip code is not your destiny. Every child. It is urgent. It is on the ballot. We need to vote. Seniorrgent that citizens have paid for and earned their social security. Omey wantso m to privatize social security. It is urgent. It is on the ballot. The right to organize and collectively bargain is on the ballot. What we know is, in this country, it is not about a handout or your pedigree. It andabout your gr perseverance. If you work hard, you get ahead. Increaseent to move to the minimum wage to make sure that people are paid the minimum wage. Equal pay for equal work being urgent . We will fight for this and we will win. Court is up for grabs. We know every right and privilege we hold is on the ballot and in the balance. Urgent and we is need to move. Freeow that freedom is not we know it will be all of you who respect those who put it on the line. Shame on pat toomey. He has voted against our veterans. It is on the ballot. Here is what i think we know in our hearts and souls, every one of these issues are up for grabs and what is at stake in this andtion is something bigger the heart and soul, spirit and soul of this country is on the ballot. Basic human decency is on the ballot on tuesday. Anybody here happened to catch Michelle Obama in New Hampshire . She was speaking for me in this is not the new normal. This is not what this country is about. She captures it and she says that she was shaken to her core. The other side knows this and they want us all to be shaken into submission. We have to be shaken into action. We have to move and we have to act. Me of that passage in the bible where jesus comes into the temple and he sees the merchants in the temple and shows a righteous rage. What we see is the body politic defiled by donald trump, a fraud. We will not have it. Trump we see donald insult a gold star family, we are shaken to our core. Mother of three teenage daughters, i will tell you, when i hear him brag about abusing actionwe are shaken into. This is not the new normal and this will not stand. Now, as donald likes to say, he results ofs the only if he wins. Let us say that we are shaken into action. Now, what of pat toomey . Has he been standing up and manning up to donald trump . Up toe seen somebody man donald trump and her name is Hillary Clinton. Pat toomey says that he is waiting to be persuaded and that he has not heard enough. He says he has an agreement with donald trump. Isnt that delicate . Here is what we know. We are not filled. We are not going to be persuaded. A lackaiting and it is of kurds and character. It is time that we sent him packing. In politics, the definition of courage and character is doing what is right, even if it may cost you some votes. Pat toomey test that has failed. When i think about him voting against College Affordability and for all of the deals that have taken away the good jobs and taking actions against the chinese, when they do not play by the rules, taking our market and our jobs, a lot of people lose their jobs because of pat toomey. I am determined and it is time for him to lose his job. Here is what we do know we are blessed in this country to have leaders who have never failed the test of kurds and ge andter coura character. We may have one of those leaders here today. Andave leaders to stand up do what is right, regardless of personal cost and they do not come better than joe biden, a guy who has stood up early on for women, leading the charge for the violence against women act. That was joe biden who got that done and he partnered up with a obamao was named barack and they saved the economy from the brink of ruin and brought the economy back. Now, joe biden is leading the cancer, lifting this country up for a good purpose to get it done. If anybody can get it done, it is joe biden. I am done. Lets welcome joe biden. [bruce springsteen music plays] it is good to almost be in my own home. It is good to be with so many friends. I do not know where crystal is, but i have been going across the country this campaign and i have done more evens for Hillary Clinton that anybody else, meeting a lot of qualified people. I was listening to crystal and she captured the essence of what this is about. I just want to say, i agree with her. Really. Really. Mayor cartwright, congressman joe kennedy, a great friend. Eep an eye on kennedy he will be your president some day. , there are two days left and this is not hyperbole, it may come down to pennsylvania. Not a joke. There are two places that will determine the outcome are going to be scranton and pittsburgh, places we have to do well. , home is where the character is made and where your values are set. It is where your view of the world and your place of it begins to form. The thing that crystal did was touch the first introducer i of whatouching the core the election is about. It is about the character of the nation. That is not hyperbole. This is about the character of the nation. I travel all over the world. I have met all of the major world leaders. I know them all by their first names, because that is the job that i do. I have traveled as the Vice President to speak for the president and i am the guy who they sent to finalize deals with foreign leaders. I speak for him. There is nothing missed between the cup and the lip. And, you know, what they are looking at is our character. You know, our military, we spend more than the next eight nations in the world combined. Katie is right about this generation of warriors and my son was one of them. E volunteered home a decorated war and before he passed away that is what i learned. And, for my grandfather. Brothers, they also went. One died two came back wounded. They served. It was all about the character. It wasnt just the rest of the world doesnt look to the United States because of the example of our power. They look to us for the power of our example. Think about it. The reason why my irish ancestors came, your polish, slow back,vak, the reason they came to the valley is a thought who we were as americans this is not a joke. I havent said this before in this campaign. Crystal made me think about it. They came because of who we are. I learned at my grandpops Kitchen Table that money doesnt determine your worth. Everybody is your equal. These are real lessons i learned here in scranton. I learned from my mom. She used to say, look at me joey. Give me your word as a biden. Remember, you are defined by your courage and you were redeemed by your loyalty. To me thats scranton. To me, thats how i grew up. I learned from my dad that there wasnt a single thing we didnt have any money. My dad really honest to god believed there wasnt anything i couldnt be. Anything my brothers and my sisters couldnt be. He meant it or it nothing. There wasnt a single thing i wasnt capable of. Anything could be accomplished. The measure of your character was not whether you got not down but how quickly you got up. Look at the valley, man. How often we have been knocked down. How many times. The grit and determination. Get back up. It is sort of the hallmark. I go all over america and around the world even though i havent lived in scranton since i was a kid. I am literally referred to as the guy from scranton. Because in this valley there is a value set. They did a study. Ivy League Schools did a study just a year ago. What is the most upwardly mobile city in america . Scranton, pennsylvania. You know why . Its not because we are wealthy. The power and wealth we had at the turn of the 20th century doesnt exist. Its because in scranton and wilkesbarre, the valley, you really do treat people by their worth. One of the reasons why with crystal and Katie Mcginty, they understand the single thing my dad spoke about most. I have said this for the last 35 years. You have heard me say it in the setting senate. He used to say the greatest sin that anybody could commit was the abuse of power. The economic abuse of power has existed in this valley in the late 1800s and the turnofthecentury. My greatgrandfather was the first Irish Catholic elected to the state senate from scranton. [applause] mr. Biden they ran against him in 1904 and accused him of being a mollie maguire. He wasnt but as we got older we kind of hoped he had in. All kidding aside, think about the struggles of the valley. What have they always been all about . They have been all about dealing with the abuse of power. Whether it was the formation of unions or just demanding to be treated with dignity and equality. Everything i learned at my father and grandfathers table was reinforced by my neighbors and friends i grew up with in scranton. I came back here all the time until i was 31yearold. Most holidays, my friends. When i came up to kick off hillarys campaign she asked me whether i would introducer to a town she already knew. We did then off the record stop after 3000 people at a rally. Riverfront. I said, why dont you come to my old house on North Washington avenue. The woman who owns that house has owned it for 51 years. I called and said is it ok for me to bring hillary by . So i did. You may have seen that on television. I wanted to get her a taste and feel for who we are. A reminder so that she knows in her gut who she is. My grandpop worked at the lace mill. That wasnt easy work, man. Her dad went to penn state and played football. I was able to take her literally back to the Kitchen Table were after 10 30 mass at st. Pauls, all the men including Tommy Phillips who was the lead article reporter in this city for i dont know how many years my grandpop worked at the newspaper. All the men would sit around the Kitchen Table and the women would go in and around the lace tablecloth in the dining room having tea and the men would argue politics and sports. You werent allowed to sit if you are a young guy. When you got around 15 years old you could hang around. Its where i learned so much. I learned about pride. Independence. Resilience. I left scranton but scranton never ever left me. Biden and i mean that. I mean this. It was as seared into my consequence as it has been yours. Everyone is entitled to be treated with dignity and respect. America can be defined by 11. I get criticized for saying this but when the president of china asked me to define america i said i can do find it in one word. Possibilities. Thats the scranton i was raised in. Thats the america i know. Thats the america that hillary and katie and bobby and all of us are fighting to try and preserve. Im being deadly earnest now. Its an america that i dont think donald trump knows or understand. Forget whether hes a good guy or bad guy. I dont think he knows. I dont think he understands it. I dont think he understands our aspirations. What really bothered me in the campaign for Vice President the Second Time Around hes a good guy. The present speaker of the house i ran against for Vice President. Hes a decent man. I remember him saying in the debate, i worked in a mcdonalds. And i had dreams. As if that black kid or hispanic kid or that Irish Catholic kid didnt have the same dreams. Somehow these guys dont think we dream and aspire like they do. I know it has been remarked upon how strongly i feel about Donald Trumps references and stated treatment of women. Maybe thats because i spent my whole career fighting against that abuse of power. My dad used to say the cardinal sin of all sins was for a man to raise his hand to a woman. Thats the cardinal sin of all things. That makes you a coward. Biden i spent the bulk of my life running percent it i got elected as a 29yearold kid running on the issue of equal rights amendment. Biden thats because all the women i knew in my family, my grandmother, my mother, my sister. They are all strong powerful independent women. Fighting for the dignity of women was no more than fighting for the dignity of the country. This is not for applause. Im absolutely determined and have been my whole life that my sister who has managed everyone of my campaigns but is literally not figuratively smarter than me. We went to the same university. We used to be three years apart. Now its 30. My sister graduated honors. I graduated. Even back then when i graduated everybody still thought that i could be president , i could be ceo. I could be anything. My sister who did better than i did taking the same courses theres two things. Why dont you go into nursing which is a noble profession or education . Not why dont you go out and become president. Not why dont you become the ceo of pepsicola or a major corporation. There was this thing. And i was determined and still am and katie is and clearly hillary is that my sister, my daughters, my granddaughters. I have four. They can aspire to be anything that my sons or grandsons could possibly do. [applause] biden anything. Any single thing in the world. Theres not a single thing they cannot do. Not one. Not one. Thats the america i see. And donald trump is blind to that america. And senator toomey, says hes uncomfortable with trumps denigration and abuse of women. Its not so much that hes prepared to walk away from him, though. Can you imagine Katie Mcginty the ninth of 10 kids if god for bid we ever had a democratic candidate who said and acted that way about women, can you imagine her standing with them for one new york second . No matter what it cost . This is not a joke. Can you imagine it . Even if it meant she would lose the election. Thats character. Katie is the real deal. She really is. This town you are stealing my line about a basic bargain. I have been talking about a basic bargain for the last eight years. There used to be one. If you contributed to the welfare of the enterprise you worked with you got to benefit in the outcome. That doesnt exist anymore. In this town you all believe in that basic bargain and fought like hell to make sure it sticks. But not for trump. For all scrantonians, for everyone in the valley think about voting for trump, i ask you think about your mother and your father. Think about your brandmom and your grandpop. Think about miners and mechanics to people who are washing dishes and diners. Inc. About it. Think about how much they cared about them getting a decent wage. Donald trump says he says and he believes, he says American Workers wages are too high. Anybody in the valley thinking of voting for this guy. No matter what you think of hillary. American workers, their wages are too high. Pat toomey says its ok for women to live in poverty making the minimum wage and men. They dont deserve a raise. Federal minimum wage. My grandfather finnegan is rolling in his grave when donald trump says i dont pay any federal income tax, that makes me smarter than you. My pop finnegan came out here oh god. God forgive me. Bless me father for i have sinned. Biden im a lawyer. I said if we were in high school. Pat toomey i think is a more decent guy. But he he has already voted. This is not pretending. Were not making this up. He has already voted for a republican budget to pass the house the cuts billions of dollars in additional taxes. The vast majority going to the wealthy. And outside groups would raise taxes for the middle class to sustain it. Why . Because they really believe this stuff. They really believe that the more you give to the wealthy the more the economy will grow. Notwithstanding that thats the very philosophy that drove us into the greatest recession weve had in the history of america short of the depression. Thats not all the people i grew up with. Thats not all the people who know what a struggle is to buy a house. He said in the debate he said he rooted for the housing crisis. Because it was good business. Heres the part he doesnt get. He doesnt get that its not about house. Its about a home. Its about being able to live in a neighborhood where you can send your kid to a local park and know they are going to come home safe. Its about doing able to send your kid to a local high school and if they do well they can get to college. If they get there somehow you will find a way to get them there. Its about being able to own your own home and the security that rings to a family. Its like a cocoo