Democratic president ial candidates who spoke at the iowa state fair. This is just under one hour. Mr. Yang hello, iowa, it is so great to be back. So much love. What does math stand for . Make america think harder, thats right. Because the opposite of donald trump is an asian man who likes math, and that is this guy. What do we mean by make america i am not a career politician, but a problem solver, and i want to wake up america to the real problems that got donald trump elected. If you were to flip on cable news, why would you think donald trump is our president . Why did donald trump win iowa by nine points . Russia. Emails. Facebook. Hillary clinton. [laughter] mr. Yang the driving force behind Donald Trumps victory was we automated away 4 million factory jobs in ohio, michigan, pennsylvania, wisconsin, missouri, and 40,000 right here in iowa. Think about the 40,000 jobs in iowa, 40,000 families, and not just manufacturing jobs but if you go to the shopping district or what used to be the shopping district, what do you see . How many of you know Stores Closing where you work and live . 30 of americas stores and malls are closing in the next four years. Why is that . Why is that . Amazon. Mr. Yang amazon, that is right. Oneword answer. Amazon is soaking up 20 billion in commerce every year, and how much do you see . How must it they pay in taxes last year . Zero. Mr. Yang thats right. Amazon sucks up 20 billion to 30 billion from your communities. Your stores and malls close and people lose their jobs. The most common job in iowa and the United States is a retail worker, the average retail worker is a 39 year old woman making between nine dollars and 10 an hour. 9 and 10 an hour. Youre getting zero return, because amazon pays zero in taxes. And how is that possible that they pay less in taxes than everyone here today . Corruption, a one word answer. Again. Money is overrunning our system and amazon is laughing its way to the bank. These are real problems that help donald trump get elected. It is not just manufacturing or amazon, closing the retail stores, but my friends in Silicon Valley are working on cars and trucks that could drive themselves. Talk about what that will mean here in iowa, i was just in the countrys largest truckstop. Raise your hand if you happen there. Has been there. There. Been they have 5000 people stop by every day. What will happen in five to ten years when the trucks start to drive themselves . Driving a truck is the most common job in 29 states, including this one. Raise your hand if you know a truck driver. I have a truck driver in the family. Thats what an talking about. Im talking about. My friends in Silicon Valley are working on trucks that can drive themselves for the most american of reasons, for the money. 168 billion per year in cost savings if they can successfully get rid of Truck Driving jobs. That is a lot of money. An unthinkable amount of money. It is so much money, that if you are an investor and someone comes to you and says, if you invest 1 billion in my company, i can get rid of truck drivers, you make that bet. And what do they do . They hire hundreds of the smartest engineers who are working on that problem right now, and they tell me they are 98 of the way there. They say they are 2 from getting away from truck drivers, that is a big 2 , because you cannot have them crashing into things at a 2 rate. That is not a good plan. But to bet against these engineers and investors solving the last 2 is a losing bet because you are betting against the mass capital and technology of our entire society trying to get rid of truck drivers. What will that mean for the 3. 5 million americans who drive a truck for a living or the seven main americans who work in truck stops and hotels and diners that rely on the truckers getting out and having a meal . These are the real problems of our time. We are in the midst of the greatest Economic Transformation in our countrys history, what experts call the fourth home Fourth Industrial Revolution. When have you heard politicians say the words Fourth Industrial Revolution . Just now is the first time, and i am barely politician. Barely a politician. [laughter] mr. Yang i spent the last seven years helping create thousands of jobs all around the country, and people were patting me on the back and giving me metals. But you dont get it, i was pouring water, the water is rushing out of the bottom, and it got donald trump elected and is about to take off. I will use one last example on the technology front. When you call a Customer Service line, you get the bot, what do you do . You pound 000, human, human, human into the phone until you get a human. I do the same thing. We all do it. But in two or three years, the sound like this, hey, andrew, how is it going . It will be efficient and delightful, and you may not know if the software. If it is the software. What will that mean for the hundreds of thousands of americans who worked at call centers for a living right now who make an average of 14 per hour . This is a buzz saw and it is carried through many different parts of our economy. I was an unhappy attorney for five months, and i can guarantee you can automate that job. [laughter] mr. Yang software can go through document review and the contracts better and faster than the human. We are in the midst of this incredible, epic transformation, and our politicians are not talking about it. I know this because i went to washington, d. C. In 2017, and said, what are we going to do about the fact that technology is ripping apart our labor force . And immigrants are getting scapegoated, but they have nothing to do with it. [applause] mr. Yang what do you think the good folks in washington, d. C. Said to me when i felt what will the facte know about that americans are going to a fundamental transformation . That is right, they are doing nothing. Some said we cannot talk about that. Number two, we should study that. Number three, we must educate and retrain all americans for the jobs of the future. The last one sounds decent and responsible. Like, im for that. But i did the math, and do you want to guess how effective governmentfunded retraining programs were for the manufacturing workers in iowa . 0 to 15 , a failing grade by any curve. Half of the manufacturing workers have lost their jobs and left the workforce and never worked again. Many of that group have filed for disability and we saw surges in drug overdoses and suicides in the communities to the point where our Life Expectancy as a country has declined for the last three years. Do you know the last time american Life Expectancy declined three years in a row . Spanish flu of 1918. 100 years. We are in spanish flu territory because our society and economy have stopped working for us. The folks in washington, d. C. Will do nothing about this. We all know this. Someone in washington said something that brought me here to you all today in iowa. He said, andrew, you are in the wrong town. No one in washington will do anything because this is not a town of leaders, this is a town of followers, and the only way we would do anything is if you create a wave in other parts of the country that crashes us. Crashes down on our heads. And i said, challenge accepted. [cheers and applause] mr. Yang this is the ideal place to create a wave and bring it crashing down on washington, d. C. You do not need that many iowans to start a revolution. I have done the math. One iowan is worth 1000 californians. You look around this grant, what are there, 300 iowans . That is like three football stadiums full of californians. This is how you start a revolution in iowa. [applause] mr. Yang because all you need is 40,000 iowans the vision and the vision sweeps the country. What is the vision . One of my talking about . What am i talking about . How do we solve this . If you know anything about me you have heard there is an asian man running for president was to give everyone 1000 for month. Per month. [applause] mr. Yang those three things are all true. [laughter] mr. Yang first time you heard this 1000 a month you laughed and said it was a gimmick. It can never happen. But a 1000 a month dividend has been with the country since our founding. Thomas paine was for it and called it the citizens dividend. Martin luther king fought for it and called it a guaranteed minimum income. And he was fighting for it when he was assassinated in 1968, a Poor Peoples Campaign today, 1000 economists endorsed it in the 1970s. It was so mainstream, it passed u. S. House of representatives twice in 1971 and came this close to being law. One state passed a dividend about 10 years later where everyone in the state now gets between 1000 and 2000 per year with no questions asked, what state is that . Alaska. Mr. Yang how do they pay for it . Oil. Mr. Yang what is the oil of the 21st century . Technology. [cheers and applause] mr. Yang they call it the oil check in alaska, and they love it, and we will call this the tech check, and we will all love it. If you think, how can you afford 1000 per month for every american, amazon is paying zero in taxes and google, facebook, uber, these Tech Companies are investing billions in ai, and how much are you going to see of that . Zero. That is what we have to change. We have to make the economy work for us, the owners and shareholders of this country. This is the vision for a trickle up economy, from our people and families and communities up. I was just talking to a few people on the way in who were laughing about the fact that the trump tax cut did not get money into our hands and trickle down economy doesnt work. They said the best way to get money into the economy is to give it to us, because what would we spend it on . Shout it out. Tuition. Mr. Yang tuition, car repair, child care, day care, housing, Little League signups. How much of that money would stay here in iowa . Not all of it, but most of it. Some of it would go to amazon and the gang, buy an extra toaster. It would be fine. It would stay here in your communities, it would create 40,000 jobs right here in iowa. It would help give rural areas a path forward because they are being depleted. If you are a rural area, what happens when your kids age . They have to leave in order to have the kind of life that they want, and that is not the way should be in the United States it should be in the United States of america. This is the freedom dividend and there is nothing stopping us from making it happen, nothing stopping the citizens of a democracy from passing ourselves a dividend. Companies do it all the time every day, and when they do it what do we say . We say great job, good management, verizon, coke, they give money to shareholders and we are the owners of this country. We can return some of it to ourselves, and the only way we would get it back. This country, unfortunately, follows the almighty dollar, so the thing to do is to give us all more dollars. That is the basic plan. This is the big vision of the economy that would work for us but we cannot stop there. How many were excited about gdp when you woke up this morning . Nobody. Mr. Yang how many of you were like, i will make a big contribution to gdp, i can feel it . Of course not, gdp is at record highs, and you know what else our record highs in america . Anxiety, depression, mental illness. Suicide. Drug overdoses. It is all heading in the wrong direction. How many of you run a business or organization, if you have the wrong measurements, you will never go anywhere. What good is gdp being at record high if the communities are falling apart . Robot trucks will be great for gdp but terrible for a lot of americans. If we want to transition to an economy that works for us and gdp is an increasingly meaningless measurement, what would get you excited if i told you this got better for the people of iowa . Life expectancy. Mr. Yang health and Life Expectancy, if we say were healthy and living longer, that would make you happy. Right . What else . Clean air and clean water. Kids success rates. How about Mental Health and freedom from Substance Abuse . No more guns. Mr. Yang how much of us are enjoying the work we are doing . These are the measurements we have numbers for, and gdp is something we made up almost 100 years ago, where even the inventor said that we should never use it as a measurement for National Wellbeing and we should not use it. The inventor of gdp. What are we doing now . Following it off a cliff. He also said we should include parenthood and motherhood as part of the measurement because it adds so much value. [applause] mr. Yang my wife is now at home with our two young boys, one is whom is autistic, and what does her work include, zero, and she gets paid zero, the work she is doing is among the most challenging and vital work in our community today. Much more valuable than the average Hedge Fund Managers work. I would trade places with my wife. Razor hand if you are a parent. Id trade places with my wife for a day or two and i say, let me get back to running for president. [laughter] mr. Yang let me get back to running for president. [laughter] mr. Yang we have to do this as fast as possible because right now, our economy is evolving in fundamental ways, they do not get it in washington, d. C. And we have to take this vision and bring it to the rest of the country as fast as possible. That is why i am with you in iowa. Iowa, you do not know how good you have it, but you have this responsibility you take very seriously and i love you for it. You know you have this power. You are a bit spoiled, used to president ial candidates coming in, showing up in your living room essentially. [laughter] mr. Yang i have only met him once, i do not know what i think about that yang guy. [laughter] mr. Yang but the power is real, and you have to use the power and take it and bring this vision to the rest of the country this time. Because if you lose this opportunity you have four more years of the a. I. Getting smarter, and Stores Closing, and call centers shutting, Stores Closing, we have to make this move, you are ground zero, you see it on the farms and main streets, you will see it on the highway soon. If iowa does not make this case, we will lose the opportunity and we need to make the most of it right now. [applause] mr. Yang this is the vision. This is the vision of the trickle up economy that works for us. Of an economy we can be proud to pass along to our children. And this is not left or right, this is forward. That is how we will win the whole thing in 2020. Thank you very much, iowa, i love you, you are amazing. Thank you. Now, we will take some questions, because that is how the yang gang rolls. Wheres the music . There is no music. [laughter] mr. Yang in the back with the red balloons, shout it out. [indiscernible] mr. Yang look at that. Better ears than i do. The question is, how do we make sure the church and state stay separated . This has been engraved in our country since day one. Countrys dna since day one. We need to know there are many different ways to worship in this country, and we need to have the government and peoples faith be independent of each other. Speaking for myself personally, i married a christian woman and for myself personally, i married a christian woman and we are bringing our boys up in the Christian Faith and it has been tremendous for a family but there are many different ways people grow up and the government should not be making those decisions for anybody. [applause] mr. Yang another question . With the glasses. You have a valueadded tax how can we make sure we are consistently getting the revenue even if spending goes down . Mr. Yang how do we make sure we keep the revenue coming in . There was a person here, i think was you who said have our deficits are at record high and i have been a businessperson and have run a company that was quite successful. When you have a debt problem as a business, you look at the revenue and expenses. Right now we have both a revenue problem and an expense problem in this country. The revenue problem is that for the big winners of the 21st century economy we see next to nothing because they are good at moving all of the income through ireland or expensing it through stock compensation and we do not get the money. We need to reform our tax code so we get a fair share of every uber ride and facebook ad and Google Search and amazon sale. That is immense. That is hundreds of billions of dollars. On the expense side, we have to spend more widely in some instances. One of my plans is to take the military Defense Budget and move it towards infrastructure because that is something we will need for a long time and will produce economic value and a lot of the same jobs. That is one way we can become much more efficient as a country is by taking some of the resources on both sides. This will be unpopular. I think we should have it for taxes forll out our us. They know what they are. They had them in the Previous Year and they can bill it for us and you can sign off and do something meaningful with your day. I would turn tax day into revenue day and make it a National Holiday and we would celebrate the fact that we had another awesome year with hundreds of billions of dollars in new revenue and have a party at a National Party where there would be thank you video from oprah and the rock and tom you, saying, thank america, we did it for one more year that is what we need to do in this country instead of treating us all like we are servants to the state, no, we are the shareholders and deserve to be treated like it. Thank you very much, iowa. I appreciate it. Happy sixth birthday to quinlan. Look at that. Wished someone a happy birthday. As soon as you run for office, you will read anything anyone puts in your hands. [laughter] mr. Yang i love you, iowa. See you on the main stage in september and october because of you. Thats right. Yang gang. Thank you. Thank you. [applause] [crowd chatter] can i get one more picture . Yang as soon as i help the journalists do their job. I love the des moines register. [indiscernible] what are your thoughts on that . With 1000 going the different distances to different places. Mr. Yang it will help balance our economy because right now 1000 goes further in some parts of the country than in others but that will help people move in both directions. If you are living in a highcost part of iowa and want to have a bigger space, you can move someplace outside of des moines. And then if you wanted to move from a rural area into des moines, it is more feasible but the administration of trying to say youeople around and live here or there and changing the amount of money would be unfeasible and is much more straightforward and fair and universally popular if everyone gets the same amount. You just made the september debate, what is your strategy . Would you keep it the same . Mr. Yang we raised over 1 million in 2. 5 days after the debates in detroit, hundreds of thousands of people. The vast majority of the money came from new donors so we will keep making our case to the American People saying we need solutions and not soundbites and we can do much better for ourselves. Mr. Yang . You are a political outsider. Back in washington, people are trying to figure out how to move forward on the issue gun safety of gun safety, gun violence. Yang on this one, the withlation is out of sync the opinion of the American People. The vast majority of americans favor common sense gun legislation, background checks, and automatic weapons ban. It is the nra and lobbyists blocking the will of the American People. I feel like momentum is growing and we will be able to change it. [indiscernible] do you think the new rules are unfair . Mr. Yang what i love about the rules is that they are transparent and everyone can see what they are. We all have to hit certain benchmarks. To me, i am a little bit biased because we made the debates but i think the rules are great. [laughter] mr. Yang but anyone who is complaining about the rules, they have been out there for months. How critical is it [indiscernible] mr. Yang we raised over 1 million in the days after the last debate with less airtime than other candidates and if you do the math, if we could get twice as much airtime we will raise twice as much money. [laughter] so the hope is that this next debate i believe the dnc is likely to break it up into two nights, so instead of 10 candidates on stage it may be six, which would be ideal for us. Does the thousand dollars a month go to people here illegally . Mr. Yang it does not go to undocumented immigrants. I am for longterm path to citizenship for people who want to become citizens. What about people with permanent status . Mr. Yang the freedom dividend only goes to citizens but hopefully it would be an incentive for some people to adopt citizenship, particularly if they are here permanently because then we could get taxes from them. Permanent residence already pay taxes residents already pay taxes, but it would be an incentive to become full citizens. What do you think about trade . Mr. Yang i think the tariffs were the wrong way to go and if you talk to farmers in iowa, they feel turned on by President Trump. Many of them voted for donald trump and they have seen their businesses suffer as a result. Globalization and trade are like other things in society where we have been selling it to everyone as a win and there has been discrete winners and losers. If we are going to pursue trade agreements, we have to take care of the people not going to be part of the benefits. Right now what we have said is we will have retraining programs for you sometime and the truth is americans know those retraining programs generally do not work well. If we have trade deals, we have to push the economic benefits more quickly and broadly and the firstever be a dividend of 1000 a month for every american because everyone would share in our progress. Why do you think migrants are being scapegoated right now . Mr. Yang i think it is much easier for politicians to scapegoat people than a system, machines, technology because if you point to other humans and say this their fault, people will say that could make sense. That is an easier story and we have to make sure americans know the easy story is not the right story. The right story is that the economy is being transformed, particularly by technology and by the numbers, of the 5 Million Manufacturing jobs lost over the last number of years 80 were because of technology and automation. That is the vast majority. How would you convince the American People when President Trump is giving out a different narrative . Mr. Yang by beating donald trump in the ballot box in 2020 and everyone will have the correct story. What qualifications, what do atu tell them, how will you be trump . Mr. Yang the opposite of a donald trump is an asian man who likes math. I am focused on solving the trumpms that got donald elected. Sense im not of the washington, d. C. System and not beholden to any corporate donors or lobbyists, i will do the right thing for the American People. Why no serious talk about Campaign Finance reform . Mr. Yang i love this question so much. Go to my website and you see half a dozen fundamental campaignfinance reform and democratic reform proposals, like ranked Choice Voting, 100 democracy dollars for every american to wash out the lobbyist cash and 12 year term limits for members of congress. We all can see what is happening in washington, d. C. Where it is disconnected for the needs of the American People. It is one reason why donald trump won. I could not agree with you more that we need to be talking more about, not just getting money out of politics but putting money into our hands and make it so our legislators represent us. Because if you are a congressperson today, what is does your day consist of . A lot of dialing for dollars, fundraising calls, media appearances, meeting with your own party. So what are your incentives . Are they really do listen to your constituents . Unfortunately, it gets weaker and weaker. We have to put the money back into our hands and say you have to listen to us. If you get 10,000 americans with 100 democracy dollars in their hands, that is 1 million. When the lobbyist comes and says that you dont need to take the money. Ranked Choice Voting would help. I also think we need to move towards 18 year term limits for Supreme Court justices. We have Lifetime Appointments from the early days when people did not live as long. Back then, people stepped down from the Supreme Court for a number of reasons. It was not until they stayed until they were at deaths door. People are hyperventilating about the health of an 85yearold Supreme Court justice. That is not the way in modern society should operate. Modern society should operate. We have to be able to see the rules are not working and make them work better for us, because we are the owners and shareholders of this country. Maybe you should be on the stump speech. Mr. Yang i like your suggestion. Is there problem with all the time candidates would have to get to get donors to reach the debate threshold . Mr. Yang our average donation is only 26 so my fans are cheaper than bernies. No one thought it could be done, but we did it. We found the people cheaper than bernies. We have a whole lot of them, so we raise millions of dollars from small donors, so if you are not getting money from small donors, to me, you should be looking at why your message is not striking a cord. When you talk to iowans, a lot of people were telling me one of the reasons they stick with trump is because they worry about the leftleaning push of the democratic party, typically citing the members of congress that the president attacked. What is your stance on that . Are you worried at all . Mr. Yang if you look, im only one of two candidates in a democratic field that doubledigit percentages of trump voters say they would vote for. And bernie. One of the reasons i am such a powerful candidate is because i am drawing in thousands of trump voters, libertarians, democrats, and progressives. Im focused on solving the same problems trump called out, but his solutions were not what we need. What did he say . We are going to bring the old jobs back, build a wall, turn back the clock. Im saying we need to turn the clock forward. Many people who voted for donald trump are being attracted to our campaign for this reason. Mr. Yang, some Democratic Candidates have called trump a white supremacist, others said they will not go that far. Where do you stand and does it matter to democrats . Mr. Yang i think we should judge everyone by their words and actions. In this case, Donald Trumps words and actions indicate he does have those beliefs, so we have to call him out on that. Is that yes, he is a white supremacist . Mr. Yang based on his words and actions, yes, he is a white supremacist. On Climate Change, you said, among your policies, maybe some areas of the country should not be insurable if they are disaster prone, what do you say to iowa farmers who lost their farms in massive flooding that might likely happen again . Mr. Yang people who are being displaced or having their lives and communities destroyed by Climate Change, we need to take care of them. That is why we have congressional funds, to help manage disasters after the fact. But we also have to start getting smarter about where we build and develop. There are certain parts of the country where you can say, over time, it might be wiser to not invest billions of dollars in new developments in this particular community or region, because it is close to a coastline or, you know, an area to be hit by storms repeatedly. We have to start becoming more cognizant of Climate Changes effects on our lives. Climate changes effects on our lives. That includes mitigating Climate Change in a lot of ways, but also includes making our developments smarter. What about those river towns, thats to say they should be getting up and relocating because they are in a place where they are likely to have flooding . Mr. Yang it is unrealistic to say americans should move in big ways. My comment at the debate was that we need to help put money into americans hands so they can move to higher ground. Who suffered the most with Hurricane Katrina . The people who didnt have a vehicle to drive to higher ground. By putting money into our hands, we can address some of the worst disasters, and over time, the goal is to try to manage this transition, because the transition is real. We can see it around us. The last four years have been in hottest four years recorded history. People are dying in heat waves. We have to get out of our heads and say this is real and be proactive in combating Climate Change in a range of ways. Some of the things we should be doing is planning, reinforcing certain parts of our country because that will help with carbon capture. There are a lot of things we can do, but we have to be proactive. We cant just say if we do less emitting, it will reverse itself, because it will not. Thank you, guys. We appreciate it. We gotta go. Thank you. [indiscernible] mr. Yang i totally agree. I am a fan of increasing [indiscernible] thank you, guys. Mr. Yang. Mr. Yang thank you, all. The field its about to shrink a lot and they should dig into each candidate and thing about who has the best [indiscernible] thank you. Thank you. What do you get . Got . Ank you what do you thank you. Good luck, brother. Thank you. Can i get a selfie . Mr. Yang sure. Thank you, guys. [indiscernible] got to keep moving. Mr. Yang thank you. Can we have a selfie with you . Mr. Yang do you have a phone . Lets do it. [crowd chatter] gotta move. We love you. Love the people. Sorry. Mr. Yang, one question. You support 1000 for everybody and reparations for african americans. Can i have my money now . How would that payout . Mr. Yang in everybodys bank account, first of the month. How would that work with the government . Mr. Yang thank you, man. All right, we are good. Mr. Yang thank you. Thank you, i appreciate it, sir. There he is hey, guys. Where are we heading . Can i get a picture . My dad is right here. Thanks, dad. Andrew, a selfie, please . [indiscernible] got to move him. Sorry, guys. Mr. Yang, i have seen a number of Asian Americans andrew, did you get your turkey leg . Mr. Yang not yet. I am working on it. [laughter] thank you, i appreciate it. [indiscernible] mr. Yang what brings you guys to town . [indiscernible] awesome. Ive actually made that drive. About four hours. Mr. Yang you get to come to a giant fair. And eat turkey legs. [indiscernible] mr. Yang turkey legs. Deepfried butter. [indiscernible] listen to your parents. Best. Ove you and know ok, very quick. Thank you, buddy. Sorry, guys. Come on, come on, come on. Can i get one real quick . Real quick. All right, sorry, we got to go. We got to go. We got to go. We got to keep moving. I am not sure they understand how serious of a problem it is, though i will say that some of the exchanges i have with other , seems like they are waking up to the problem. Are you talking like backstage with them . Mr. Yang i, son of immigrants i am a son of immigrants myself. [indiscernible] how about Illegal Immigrants . Mr. Yang we need to enforce the border. [indiscernible] awesome. Can i ask you a quick question . Nou called for a full ban o assault weapons. What is an assault weapon . Mr. Yang they are different types of weapons, like the military style. If you look at my website, i have a detailed plan. Are you willing to disarm the people who protect you . Mr. Yang certainly, that is not the policy. Why can you protect yourself, but we cant . [indiscernible] [indiscernible] mr. Yang that is not what we are saying. Thank you. I appreciate the question. How many genders are there . You believe there are two genders . Mr. Yang no. I do not. How many . Mr. Yang . Yang not today. We believe in humanity. Thank you very much. I know that gender is in many ways a social construct. Thank you for your questions. A quick handshake. [indiscernible] i came to this fair last year. Mr. Yang i will take it. If people want to hear what you have to say, things are going well. Good news. We are moving to the wing ding later today and we have events later. I cannot stay here, though i would like to. It seems like we are getting a pretty good iowa state fair experience. You qualified for the debates. I heard you talking. [indiscernible] at some point [indiscernible] will you keep going . Mr. Yang one of the themes of the campaign, if you look at how i became successful, it was not because of debates initially. I came up because of podcast interviews in reaching americans and reaching americans in different ways. I think we should continue to have a real conversation with the American People independently. We raised so much awareness and money after the last debate. It is clear the debates play a pivotal role. The dnc and media have an immense amount of power and influence. Influence to determine who our leaders are going to be. I am going to go get a turkey leg. Thank you. Mr. Yang any time. The og. We are having a blast. [indiscernible] mr. Yang we need to put the resources in place to have our policies amended in several ways. A lot of it, frankly, is government incompetence and inaction. We waste a lot of time. All right guys, we are going to get a turkey leg. I want to buy him a turkey leg. It is a nice thought. Thank you for coming. We drove up from kansas city just to meet you. This is my son, tommy. He has been pushing you for months. I am really impressed. Hi. Will you play rock, paper, scissors with me . Mr. Yang sure. Go. [laughter] mr. Yang one thing about andrew yang, andrew yang is always rock. I played biden yesterday and i lost. He did rock. Mr. Yang we are all going to do rock. Be the sheet of paper, and you will win. [indiscernible] [indiscernible] you must be a proud parent. I am, i am. On the censorship of big tech and alternative media . Mr. Yang sure. It is a really important issue because i think most americans would agree that an extreme platform like 8chan has been a real part of several mass shootings. You cannot have that kind of hate filled Online Community just completely unchecked. At the same time, there are sacrosanct fundamental rights. It is a difficult line to draw the challenge is that Technology Companies are in a position to make that determination instead of the American People. So right now we are in a bit of a worst of all worlds situation. Even the Tech Companies want guidelines, want guidance. How theylooking at are making decisions. They have shareholder interests. That may not be in line with public interest. I remember you from last year. Mr. Yang i remember you, too. I am going to get two turkey legs. Make them good. Would you like to pick them out . Mr. Yang i have confidence. Do you want them to go or will you eat and talk . Mr. Yang i will eat and talk at the same time. We need two of them. 20, please. Mr. Yang here you go. A tip for you as well. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Mr. Yang we a lot more followers this year, huh . Mr. Yang you are very nice. You said good luck with that. What else am i supposed to say . Mr. Yang are these local iowa turkeys . They probably are. They are magic. Mr. Yang they will be magic in my stomach. [laughter] mr. Yang get me one for social media. Delicious [indiscernible] mr. Yang the turkey leg i think we are hurting their business. Thank you. Mr. Yang that was the best, thank you. I get a turkey leg every chance i get because they are delicious, fun to eat, they make you feel like a real american. I recommend turkey legs. Unless you are a vegetarian. Then i would never force a turkey leg on you. If you are not vegetarian, turkey legs all the way. [indiscernible] mr. Yang just ordinary lemonade. I cannot recommend highly enough turkey leg washed down by lemonade. Delicious. At the iowa state, this can be yours. How long are you in iowa . Mr. Yang several days. I will be here tonight for the wing ding, and tomorrow i am attending a forum and a couple of events. I am heading out sunday night no, monday morning. [indiscernible] is this your first turkey leg . Mr. Yang great question. This was not my first turkey leg. You did it a year ago. Have you ever eaten a turkey leg out of this context . Mr. Yang i am a big fan of renaissance fairs and they often have turkey legs. This must be Something Like the 18th turkey leg i have had. [indiscernib what is that show . Knights . Mr. Yang those are dangerous friends to be politicizing. The Federal Reserve and the independent management. It is the latest example of our institutions. You cant use Monetary Policy as a political tool. The fed manages our growth and inflation and they should be left to manage that. If you believe in professional management, trust people with their jobs. [indiscernible] that could change the relationship between the fed and the government. Mr. Yang i think monetary theory is highly interesting. It is something we have to start exploring. There are international examples. I think the closest thing might be japan to a reallife example of whether that monetary theory would apply. [indiscernible] can i take a picture with you . Thank you. All right, guys, it is selfie time. If anyone wants a selfie, come on up. Mr. Yang it is really good, man. [indiscernible] when they argue [indiscernible] mr. Yang because it is a dividend to everyone. Conservatives hate it when a giant bureaucracy makes decisions for people. Not all of them, but some of them. [indiscernible] i appreciate the idea. I think its a good idea. Mr. Yang thank you, sir. I appreciate it. [indiscernible] he wants photos this way, too. Can we get one as well . Mr. Yang sure. Do you think you could say rush pdx . Mr. Yang rush pdx. Mr. Yang hi there. Lucky grandma. Now youre going to look. Mr. Yang you are way too young to be a grandma. How could you call this a Reality Tv Show . I could just take a bite out of that turkey leg. [laughter] thats funny. You made a joke. It made me laugh. That was good. [indiscernible] we are going to walk. [indiscernible] 500 million americans if elected as president , what would you do to defeat cancer . Mr. Yang a lot of the research is being [indiscernible] double the funding. [indiscernible] right now, there is a lot of [indiscernible] there was a lot of private Cancer Research going on. There are some innovations. Innovations that are unprecedented. Some of them will not be possible without resources. It has to be sustained. Thank you for taking the time to answer that question. Democratic president ial john delaney also spoke to people at the iowa state fair. This is about 45 minutes