[applause] john this november people say voters must choose between donald trump and Hillary Clinton. But thats not true. There are other candidates running. This show hosted a town hall with libertarian candidate gary johnson. But there is another thirdparty candidate on the ballot in 3480s. Thats jill stein representing the green party. Im a libertarian and jill and i disagree about a lot. I want government out of most our lives and she wants government to do more. But lots of people agree with her. Most of the media want government to do more, but most tv networks still wont give jill stein much air time. So tonight this is a town hall with your questions for jill stein. How many of you are likely to vote for jill . [applause] we have a pretty biased audience. Ill ask the first question, though. Hillary clinton is already running. And aside from not lying and deleting emails, whats the difference. Why vote for you . Well, hillary may talk the talk. But if you look at the walk, its not been good. Not to mention the horrific catastrophic wars. Not only voting for walk, but for leading the charge into libya. Ill not sleep well if donald trump gets elected. But i dont sleep well if Hillary Clinton gets elected. We live in a democracy and we have other choices. John lets take questions about the economy first. We took our cam rats outside the studio. Someone wants to ask you this. How would you create jobs . Its not rocket science. Our economy is in a bit of a tailspin right now. They say we are in a recould are you. John how would you create jobs . I would do like we did before. In the Great Depression we created a new deal, but we would call for a Green New Deal. All your favorite things rolled into one package. We need jobs now on an emergency basis. So we would create an Emergency Jobs Program focusing on green jobs. John governmentfunded green jobs. Not just government funded. We would seek to create those jobs through small businesses, through nonprofits with government employer of last resort. But we need to get the job done. Its not just an economic emergency, we also have a Climate Emergency with the fires and the floods and the Sea Level Rise thats not that far away. So we can solve two emergencies at once and move to 100 Clean Renewable Energy by 030. In time to solve the climate crisis. It pays for itself in Health Savings alone. I know it sound staggering. John rather unbelievable. Well get to the greenish yous later. I asked on social media. David asks, are you concerned with the National Debt . Its 19 trillion. Yes, how, when you are in debt and the economy is stalled, the worst thing you can do is impose austerity and the best thing you can do john are we imposing austerity . We have been. Austerity is cutting back on the programs. John the spending just keeps going on. We may have, thats like military and healthcare. These are boondoggles for corporations pushing the spending up. But for house, healthcare, spending is actually crashed. Those programs have been suffered to death. John they are spending more money, how are they starved. They are spending more money on other things. They are spending more money on the war. John on social programs too. Healthcare has gone through the roof because obamacare has been a boondoggle for Insurance Companies and pharmaceutical companies. Companies. [applause] i was wondering if you have any specific criteria for nationalizing an industry. John meaning government takes its over. Thats not in our plans at the moment. But if the banks were being bailed out. We would be breaking up the big bangs and creating public banks that serve the public instead of getting rich at the taxpayers expense. John on facebook, the question is how do you define social jeus justice. Its like saying explain what justice is, if you dont know what justice is, im sorry for you. Justice is, you know about the golden rule . Have you heard about the golden rule in this idea of of do unto others. This concept that we live together in a society, we are kind of on one boat. We are sort of on one boat more and more. It gets to be a smaller boat all the time because of how we are interconnected through our environment, economy, climate, through the wars blowing back at us all over the place. The idea of justice is do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Thats my sense of justice, and i think the American People understand that. Could you please tell me your position on balancing the budget . Okay. We want to aim toward balancing the budget. How, let me say that in an economic crisis like what we are in now, cutting back on social programs and on jobs is actually the thing you can do for economic recovery. Consider like after the Second World War when we had a big budget deficit. Thats what the Green New Deal is about. Creating the stimulus package of our dreams. John balance the budget by spending more. Strangely enough this is how we Growth Budget and grow our revenues. There are things we do need to cut. We need to cut our bloated and dangerous military budget. John on facebook were the Green Party Platform calls for the breaking up of any firm with more than a 10 market share. Why . This is not a healthy thing when the economy is controlled by a few. Like our media has been incredibly consolidated. As that has happened we lost a diversity of our discussion. Or Health Insurance has become consolidated. We need the use our antitrust laws to insure we have a drersity in our economy. John amazon, gatorade. I like amazon and gatorade. Let me put that day for aid has Something Like 70 of the market. Im not too concerned about the gatorade market, but im very concerned about the Health Insurance market. You said break up all companies that have more than 10 . That might be kind of a holdover on the website. There are a few things we need to clean up that are not part of our agenda we are working on. John here is a question about education. As president what would be your plan to help americas Public Education system . We need to fund our Public Schools like they count. And we need to recognize that the biggest obstacle to educating student is actually a thing called poverty. So simply imposing high stakes testing on School Systems that are impoverished to start with and dont have adequate resources is not going to educate our kids. Especially in the most challenged community. Number one, we need small class room size, we need wellpaid teachers who actually have respect and dignity in the classroom who have unions to support their work in the school system. John they have that now. 12,000 per student. 300,000 per classroom. There are some schools in which you have 50 kids in the classroom and they dont have textbooks. Look at detroit where they dont even have heat. John 50 kids in a classroom . They do. I was just there, i can tell you. We need to insure we are actually teaching to the whole student for lifetime learning, not just to a high stakes test used as an excuse to privatize and charterrize our Public Schools. [applause] john on facebook the post you say you want to eliminate student loan debt. Are you going to force colleges and universities to refund the exorbitant tuition they charged . If we finds it in our hearts to bail out the crooks on wall street we can bail out the young people who are the victims of that crashed economy. John the questioner also asks, are you going to make the colleges refund the exorbitant tuition . No. These loans have been taken out from actually the government is sort of the provider of last resort on these loans. These are predatory loonts that few people can pay back. Why should a Younger Generation go into debt, lifelong debt, because very few people ever get out of student loan debt. Would you throw your kids into the ocean without teaching them to swim . John no. On that note. Coming up. More questions for Green Party Candidate jill stein. About war, immigration, and also why there is an arrest warrant out for her. John we are back with our Green Party Town hall. Dr. Jill stein will take your questions on personal freedoms and social issues, immigration, for example. Ways your stance on immigration, would you build a wall as well . What will you do to help open up our borders and make the freedom of flow a little easier. John open borders . Build a wall . We need to demilitarize our borders. John take await border guard . Take away their guns. And i dont think we need a wall. John some people want to kill us. Do we have guns on the Canadian Border . John yeah, some. Not many. If people think we have an Immigration Crisis which in fact we do, the most important thing is for us to stop causing that crisis in the first place. Nafta cause that crisis by putting millions of farmers south of the border out of work. The war on drugs killed 100,000 people in mexico alone in the last 6 or 7 years. We need to end the war and drugs. What we need to do is stop invading and destabilizing other countries. John on facebook, the post, ways your stance on lateterm abortion . I think abortion put it this way. I never had one. But i do believe in individual choice. This is not where government needs to get into your living room or bedroom and make these decisions for you. John even late term . You are a doctor. Most states have some restrictions. I think women and their healthcare provide sellers are capable of making these decisions. John even at 8 months. I think women can make these decisions. The most important thing is for to us have full Reproductive Healthcare which includes family planning. John audience, do you have questions . Im a psychotherapist and im wondering how you would go about improving the Mental Health services of this country. This is why we need improved medicare for also we are covered head to toe, cradle to grave, physical health, reproductive health, your hearing aid its all covered for the same amount of money we are paying right now we could be fully covered. John its the it sounds like magic. It many the magic of getting corporations from out of writing our healthcare policy. My question has to do with would the president be able to hold the police a bit more accountable for how they are dealing with i industrialians . Thank you. And thanks for raising that issue because thats really a critical problem right now. There have been Something Like 600 or 700 deaths at the hands of police this year alone. Its reached crisis proportions. We need accountability. We also in my view need to demilitarize how police are working. It doesnt mine we are taking away their guns. But we are training people in deescalation techniques and not bringing in the big tanks and machine guns to equip our police to do communitybased policing. And it means we need community in charge of their police instead of police in charge of the community which is the way it works in poor and oppressed community. That means civilian review boards and independent investigators so you dont need an act of god from washington, d. C. To find out what happened. So we are investigating as a matter of routine any death at police hands. The victims and the families deserve accountability. They deserve to know what went on. [applause] john a quick lightning rounds. Yes or no answers. Would you legalize marijuana. Absolutely. Other drugs . Cocaine . Heroin . Well start with marijuana and treat all Substance Use as a health problem, not a criminal problem. Would you legalize gambling . I would allow community to make that decision because Community Pay a big price. Would you legalize sex work, prostitution . I do not have a straightforward policy on that. Its being debated in the green party so stay tuned. Would you legalize assists sigh of side . We dont need top prolong inevitable and painful death. We dont do that to our dogs. Do people deserve less . John thank you, dr. Jill stein. Coming up, will you help elects donald trump by taking votes from hillary . How is voting for you not voting for trump . John also what does the green mean in green party . What must be done for the environment. And what is the green party stance on safety and war . [applause] john we are back with our town hall with green Party President ial candidate dr. Jill stein. Lets talk about terrorism and safety. Audience . Dr. Stein, on 9 11 you released statement calling for a new investigation utilizing independent research. I have i believe it was a controlled demolition that took down the towers. John by americans . I believe the hijackers were patsies. But there is no way they could fly the planes the way, way they did and the towers could fall count way they did. We dont have the full story. We need to bring back the commission. This isnt controversial in my view. Its time to get the full story. John orfn , stein said she would not have assassinated bin laden. Under what conditions does she feel deadly force is need. Its called for when we are under threat. Assassination are Something Else all together. We have International Law for a reason. We need to bring it back and abide by the and the world will be a safer place. John so the United States should not have gone there and killed bin laden . I think we should have captured bin laden and brought him to trial. John that was part of the plan, but they felt they could not have done that safely. Not from what i heard. John people were armed in the compounds and i am sure they would have loved to have captured him. He was standing there in his own room and his wife was there. That was it. There were not guards or guns. John in the building they had machine guns. It didnt mean they needed to assassinate him. It was he who needed to be brought to trial. John here is and question about people keeping themselves safe. Do you believe the Second Amendment carries an individual right to own a gun . Their various interpretations on the Second Amendment surround individual or militia. Here is my belief. We are not going to be taking guns away from people. Under the circumstances that is not in the cards. Thats not going to happen. John it sounds like you would like to. Im not a theoretical person. Im a practical kinds of person. Im a doctor. The practical thing is we need common sense gun regulation which is consistent with that interpretation of the Second Amendment. We can say yes you have a right to guns, but lets have common sense regulations and getted the automatic weapons off the streets and do background checks and ends the immunity for gun manufacturers and dis2reu beautors and distributors. I was wondering at present which issue is more important, fighting Climate Change or radical islamic terrorism. Radical islamic terrorism is not something you can fight. We have been fighting that to the tune of 6 trillion in iraq and afghanistan and what do we have to show for it. 10s of thousands of our soldiers killed and maimed. What do we have to show for fighting terrorism. John which is the bigger threat . We can bring the forces home, hand in hand with creating a green energy system. Then we dont need to have a thank you bases. John which is the bigger threat . How many people are dprieg terrorism right now . Its a horrible thing. But its not thats people. Not nearly as many people are dying from state terrorism and the bombs that are falling. About half Million People a year who die from Climate Change and those numbers are escalating. John climate warming has saved lives. More people die from extreme cold. Deaths are down. Unfortunately Climate Change has everything to do with drought and its drought which is the biggest killer. And hundreds of thousands of people. John next, the arrest warrant against stein. Her side of that story. John welcome back to the Green Party Town hall. Jill steins party is based around environmental issues. The partys platform says it will end destructive energy extraction. Recently dr. Stein went to north dakota to join a demonstration answer an oil paper line. Carl swanson asked on facebook, since you were arrested vandalizing private property. Thats not true, you did take a can of spray paint and wrote, i approve of this message on a bulldozer. But there is a warrant out for your arrest in north dakota. How do you get around . Walk . You own anything made of plastic . Is your home painted . What do you brush your teeth with, a stick . Well, put is this way, we want to be sure we have a future we can survive in. We want a climate. We want to prevent massive Sea Level Rise. So we need to transition. What we do individually isnt going to do the trick. We need a change in policy. Fortunately this is a good thing. Its not just good for workers who pay the highest price. John what is a good thing. Moving to 100, clean remewable energy. We can do that by 2030 . 16 years. Right now, can we put the graph up . We get 33 of our energy from coal. 33 from natural gas. Renewables are 7 . You are just going to change that in 16 years . This is why we need a war time level mobilization. When pearl harbor was bombed it took six months to transform the economy to a war time footing. We have an emergency we are facing that makes pearl harbor look like small