Where democratic president ial candidate Elizabeth Warren is going to deliver a speech on corruption, one of her campaign themes. This is Washington Square park in manhattan and you are watching live coverage on cspan. I am so proud to be in new york where the working party was born. Today we are a National Organization for members across the country, but new york will always be home for us. Helped take back the state senate from the corrupt, independent democratic conference. Control intoown donald trump for nearly a decade. Give it up. We took back our democracy. In the past few months the working Families Party had a deliberative process that , membersstate chapters and supporters. To say not be prouder that this moment, this morning, we announced our support for senator Elizabeth Warren for the democratic nomination. [applause and cheers] warren has been a fprsonal hero to many w members. She helped lay the groundwork for occupy wall street and give it up. [applause and cheers] now
Hello, new york. Now some of you know this. I never thought i would get into politics. Not in a million years. But when i got into this fight, i quickly found out nobody makes it on their own. If you are going to make any kind of progress in this country, you need aleyes who know how to fight. And more importantly, you need aleyes who know how to all eyes who know how to win. [cheers and applause] the working Families Party has been on the front lines of fighting for racial and Economic Justice and building a Grassroots Movement to elect the next generation, and i am honored to have their support. Cheers and applause] and tonight, with all of you as witnesses, i am going to make a promise, and that is when i am in the whitehouse, working families will have a champion. [cheers and applause] so, thank you maurice, and thank you to the working Families Party. Now when so many good people show up, i usually do a town hall followed by selfies. Tonight, a Little Something different. I want t
where would you advise people to put their money today? [laughter] and what you think of the current wall street social protest? where to put your money today? [laughter] i don t think i m getting paid enough to offer that kind of advice. [laughter] what do i make of the occupy wall street protest? i think it is fascinating. i am a little bit surprised that it took this long. [applause] in fact if you remember the original agenda of the so-called tea party movement was its complaint against the bailout of wall street, but biden by maneuvers that i don t entirely comprehend, it was largely taken over by the republican party. i think the republican party is starting to have second thoughts about it, but the protests of the occupy wall street movement remind me very much in the protests of the 1890s where it first when the populist got together they didn t have much of an agenda, but they had a sense that rings had really gone wrong. and people who work hard were not being r
day. thank you for coming. [cheers and applause] thank you for bringing the sun now and making it clear that sheer humanity can always overcome the most inaccurate of weather predictions. a special thanks to one of our new sponsors, wells fargo has specifically been sponsoring the history and biography provision. we are coming to the close of this 11th annual national book festival and all of us at the library of congress hope you enjoyed as much as we ve enjoyed planning and bringing it to you with so many great sponsors and partners. it s a joyous event, but it s also an important one because the ability to read is the key to a good life in every sense of the word. retain essential, not just to enriching our own minds, extending our horizons of our society and building and sustaining a dynamic democracy. and we are grateful to the 115 writers who have brought us the ongoing american creative spirit and mccullough of in public and national way here at the height of her accou
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