It. S go do hi, how are you . Very nice to see you ch. Thank you. Come on in. Thank you. Open for business. Language ally has the right out of the constitution. Im just proofreading. You sign here. You want to be michael, not mike . Thats fine. Had i known i was going into been cs, i would have mike, not michael. You can have mike. Fine. Thats yeah. Here . Here. Ght much. Ank you very this is a notice that we send voters that gets ublicly posted in every community in the state. It has sort of a remembrance of filing. We ask the candidates to either Campaign Slogan or they wish to say at the time. Thank you. Kids . Ere are the yeah. Well. Back. re going to go well come back. Okay. Well take the questions and come back. So ill just say im delighted to be here to file my paperwork in New Hampshire. Really excited about this. We were talking about the gary hart, another colorado senator, who was able to find traction in new actually win here coming from far behind in the polls. Think we can do a similar thing in this race because, i where new t were hampshire voters are, where, not ust the base of the Democratic Party is but were independent voters in this state are as well. I know enough about what shaheen has done to get elected and what maggie has done to get elected, to know what it takes to get and win in New Hampshire. Thats why i am here. I think its incredibly important for trump to be juanterm president. Got to figure out how to governor for our children. We need apartment who cares kids. Your kids and my i dont think donald trump cares about americas kids. In many ways these least that weve esident had. Im looking forward to this campaign in New Hampshire. The weather is beautiful outside today. The leaves are gorgeous, and i only ew hampshire is beginning to make up their mind. So i feel like im here at right moment and i thank you very much for your help. You. K [applause] here. Ank you for being that was the bill. Some good history. Okay. I want to follow up on that. Now u have resources right to expand your operation . We have the resources to hoped our operation and we to be able to go up on air in the state. I expect to. Couple of hours ago we had ther senator, klobuchar we could have car pooled. Shes making many of the same arguments that you are as is the mayor from indiana, the former Vice President. Out . Makes you stand i think, in many ways, im situated than all of them. m a completely different generation than either mayor pete or Vice President biden. Them in terms of age. I would make an argument thats a pretty good age. At the local level like mayor pete but my School District had a budget that was than his s bigger citys budget and on top of that ive spent 10 years in the actually, in some of the most important bipartisan as a sions that weve had country over that 10year period healthcareion and on and on education, and ive been at the center of all of those battles. Learned a lot about the way the place works. And doesnt work, most importantly, and what has to change for to fix it. Think ive got the right set of experiences. I believe that the experience of being a business and School Superintendent is distinct from others in this ace, who have been prosecutors or lawyers. I just think its useful to have somebody in the white house that something about our schools and our classrooms, and knows how to read a balance income statement. That may sound novel, but i useful. s thanks. For having me. [applause] thank you. Thanks. Good seeing you. All right. Trip. S for making the yes. Outing t of the whistleblower . Thats an excellent analogy. Hould we turn around there you go. Hope we can get a Million People to see this on facebook. Thank you. All right. See you. Thanks, everybody. Hi, Michael Bennett. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. Are you . Michael bennett. Thank you for letting us impose on you. Really appreciate it. Thanks. Thank you chlt thank you. Thanks for being here. All right. Bennett. Nice to see you. Hi. Michael bennett. From have wonderful guests alabama. Yall work in the legislature . Im betting if you put those two legislatures together they wouldnt equal the number of legislative seats here in New Hampshire. To see you guys. And are the students from Trinity Christian school in New Hampshire. What grade are you guys in . Seventh, and eighth. Fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth. Middle school . Yes. And what are you here to learn about today . Tell who you i am. My name is Michael Bennett. Im a United States senator, colorado, though. I dont know if any of you have ever been to colorado. Dad great. Were known for our mountains. Ive been there. Much. Ank you very yours are very beautiful, too. Different but beautiful. So what are you learning here today . Started . Ou a tour . Had did you learn there are a whole bunch of ags in there that were in the civil war. Did you see those . Yes. Good. Good. Them to sign our guest book . [all yes] i left that part out. Sign our guest book. Great. Okay. So do you what would be better for you . To hatever you would like use. You. Hank klobuchar. My i told them upstairs we should have car pooled. Because i saw her just last night. Well have to get a bigger wall here at the New Hampshire statehouse. Weve noticed every time someone is signing papers everyone gets quiet. Dont distract him. So i wrote things for caring about our kids, because these uys probably do this all the time. We do. Senator, our one last tradition s we like a picture with the kids. I would be honored. Thank you very much. We looking . Okay. Great. Thank you, senator. Thank you very much. Lunch situation for you guys . Lunch situation . You brought your own . Have you had it yet . Going back to school this afternoon or are you done day . He this is it . For the day. Right. That seems pretty good. Its nice to meet you. Ou have to know that your teachers are very special people. Special people teach middle school. Good to see you. Patience. F a lot of patience. School uld usome middle teachers down in the u. S. Senate, because you need a lot patience down there, too. Yes, sir. Technology, keep moving corporations are always after, you know, bottom line, and more ore efficient. How do you see the issue of job to automation . We already havent reacted to loss that weve had from the last revolution in automation, as you know, and the job loss that weve had because of automation in agriculture, which often often think of agriculture but there has been an enormous amount of job loss there. A couple of things. One, weve got to make sure our rewarding work in this country and not necessarily automation, and when we think about a company like gm hat still employs a lot of people, and they dont employ nearly as many as they used to a lot of employs people, they pay a lot of payroll tax. A company like amazon, one of the most Profitable Companies in the orld, and they are not paying any taxes at all. Problem. Me suggests a why are we not incentivizing work instead of incentivizing loss . Thats one part of it. The other part of it, i think is the education answer, because these kids are going to have to position to be able to react to a velocity of changes to. We never had the last generation never even sted exited they can do it is if they are prepared and if their livesourse of they can adjust and get the kills and knowledge to earn a living in an economy that we cant begin to imagine. The disruption will be enormous. Will be a lot of opportunities as a result of the disruption as well be we need to be to flexible, and the way to be flexible is to be knowledgeable nd the way to become knowledgeable is to get a decent education. By the way, not an education in the 19th gned century but one thats coming to 21st century. Lie or is that true . How about if i have much short answers. I want to know how tough you can get . Because youre a little too nice. You want to arm wrestle right here. Beatwould buttide probably you. Im not willing to take that risk. A long time ago, i worked hard for dick gephardt. He was too nice. Own soninlaw said hes just too nice. You seem too nice. How tough can you get . Of all, im the parent or the father of three that makes a person tough. Have i been a School Superintendent which really a person tough. Im on the school board. Congratulations because im pay is really good. And thank you for doing that, by the way, because i know its tough. It is hard. When youre changing the way chool is operated for generations, an engage in the community on that, it was a daily battle. Always felt worth doing, and i dont think anybody in that context every thought i wasnt didnt have the courage of my conviction. Openminded, t listening for new information to be able to make better decisions mind, and sometimes thats, in my mind, a sign of toughness, is your willingness new fact and have that adjust the way you approach life. Of politics. No one does that anymore. But the older i get the less of, you know, what i think on every single issue. In more interested i am hearing from other people. I had an occasion a while ago to conversation with ted ruz on the floor of the senate when trump had shut down the government and cruz was talking about how unfortunate it was wasnt coast guard getting paid which i believed also was unfortunate. I knew ted ng was, cruz had shut the government down when colorado had been 2011. Ed in so if you have an opportunity to watch that on youtube, its a been watched more than any other speech in the i tory of the senate, and think youll see an answer to your question. As i said you know, earlier, i consider myself to be donald trump, but i am not worried about whether i can go up against him. m not worried about whether im tough enough to deal with him. I think hes a bully. A school y who was superintendent, i know what you do with a bully on a school yard. Dont do is you play into their hands. And one thing do you is isolate for what they are doing. Think about this. Heres a guy, and again, as i earlier, my state is a third, a third, a third. And heres a gay who got elected other things, attacking john mccains patriotism. Guy who was in the hanoi hilton for five years in solitary confinement. Given an opportunity to leave and wouldnt leave because youre an we know admirals son and you can get out and mccain said thats not the way this works. When you get there, and the earlier you get there the earlier you get leave and he years. For five this guy with bone spurs who didnt even go to vietnam, tried mccain into laughing stock and it was repeated over and over again on and ews and repeated over over again all over this country, when, if a kid in my that, to john mccain, you know, whatever you century, wash their mouth out with soap or if your parent or grandparent said know, john you mccain, we would say we apologize. Thats not going to happen again at our dinner table. And we lost something of election. In the last that basic decency that we come to expect from each other. And to have somebody in the white house who cant model the behavior of politeness and civility, whose border into a symbol our stility, who believes differences are weaknesses and not strengths. Someone who doesnt believe in of powers or the independence of the judiciary or the freedom of the press. All the things that New Hampshire has fought for over the years. He doesnt i dont think even believes in our democracy, who believes i alone can fix it said when he he ran. Thats the opposite of how this is supposed to work. Think we need somebody who is tough enough to engage the American People again in this because it roject, belongs to us. There is no one else to come to the rescue. Jefferson said that only citizens can answer the alarm bells at night. Alls the barbells at night. The other point you were making earlier, lincoln said we must never be enemies. We must be friends. This is during the civil war. If he can feel that way during the civil war, we should be able to feel that way now. I will get out of here because i know you have a place to go, but let me just say, this country was not founded on the idea we would agree with each other. The point was the opposite. It was founded on the idea we would disagree. They had disagreements. They knew we would have disagreements. That was the point of living in what they called a republic, and what we call a democracy. You have your point of view. I have my point of view. Out of this disagreement, we would forge not some lazy consensus or weak compromise, but we would form a more imaginative solution then any king or tyrant could come up with on their own. That is what we have lost in our national politics. We need a president who is tough enough to understand that we live in a country with a huge number of diverse points of view, but we have an obligation together to drive the country forward, to preserve the democracy and to preserve americas place in the world. Some choices are better than other choices. I believe that is what we need out of the next president. Ahope being nice is not disqualifying thing for being president. Speech on the floor, my daughter was watching sheith her roommate, and said, i have heard that voice before. [laughter] every time there was a newspaper article that came out that said mildmannered Michael Bennet, they would say, mildmannered, roll their eyes, and send it to me. Next time, we will arm wrestle. Thank you all for being here. I really appreciate it. [applause] all right. Bye. Thanks again. Former schoolteacher. What did you teach . Middle school math and science. It takes a special person to teach two kids. Thank you. All right. Lets go. All right. How are we doing on time . Great. We are . Yes. Will that was a good town hall. That was nice. People had good questions. Are you tough enough . I should bring the girls. They could tell them. They could tell them . They could tell them. What you looking for . Water. For this next house party, we have you start right at 4 30. We have an hour. 15 minutes, and then we will get on the road. Ok. Was that guy we were talking about there . He saw everything and talked to people as well. How far is this next place . It is 14 minutes away. Right on time. Beautiful downtown dover, New Hampshire. [indiscernible] the moon is up. Quarter carolina and moline up to today . What are carolina and melina up to today . Molina called me back. You think this is going straight up the hill . Or left . Straight. There is the daily democrat. That is the paper [indiscernible] oh really . I think this might even be too much for cspan viewers. The driving. Did you hear that guy say, i saw your book talk . I saw your book talk on cspan2. The one from san francisco. Really . Yeah. I had forgotten about that. What are you going to make . The chili . I dont know. What is not really chicken vindaloo or turkey vindaloo. My whole baked chicken, that is good. It is a crowd pleaser. That is my son, douglas. He is a friend of paul hardback. Who i think you know. Yes. That is a wonderful photograph. How old is she now . 13. That is amazing. Youre probably wondering why i brought you all to dinner. I brought you together for a and an oldeat reason New Hampshire reason. That is, i am trying hard to makes new what breeding the perfect ground for president ial candidates. Fortunately, i found a live one. [laughter] [applause] so, i am not going to take up much of your time. I am just going to introduce to bennet. Tor michael and one t. Ns i have a grandson whose name is emmett. Ts king wems, two have two ts. We have a field of candidates who are per dissipating in dog and pony show who are participating in dog and pony shows. Complexds to answer a question makes no sense. This is a chance to hear from candidates and from then to hear from you. So, without saying anything else, i would like to invite you to share with us just exactly what brings you here to the first in the nation primary. Thank you very much. Lets give her a round of applause for having us. [applause] grateful toemely have the chance for marjorie to be here with all of you and in this beautiful place. What an incredible house and wine amazing setting, the beautiful river how there. I am grateful all of you are willing to take some time out of your day to spend some time with me. I am going to try to be brief. I would like to spend the time taking whatever questions or criticisms or observations you have about any topic because we have a lot of things going on at once. That is the way that i learn. That is what makes this evening important for me. I will say a few words about me. First of all, if you want to read an incredibly incisive critique of the nominating process and basically, our political system, should read the oped she had in the paper yesterday. What paper was it . The harold. The herald it is a beautifully written piece. I cannot see you. Im worried youre hiding behind there. But i am. Haring [laughter] i did not know if you were about to gang up on me. The introduce myself. I name is Michael Bennet. I am a senator from colorado. I moved thereand almost 20 years ago. She is a Public Interest environmental lawyer. She wanted to work for a group that is called the sierra Legal Defense club. I followed her up there. I was mostly trying to stop practicing law. I went to work in business and did that for almost a decade and then ended up becoming the superintendent of the danbury Public Schools, which is a School District of 95,000 kids, a billiondollar budget. I am happy to talk about that tonight if people are interested. It was very challenging, but incredibly rewarding chain rewarding. 2010, a terrible year for democrats across the country. That was the rise of the tea party, which has become a test to sized into the freedom caucus, which is a group of people who have utterly immobilized our exercise in selfgovernment. That race barely. I think it was less than two percentage points. Wasn again in 2016, which also a terrible year for democrats. Early survived that year. I am the only candidate in this on two National Elections in a swing state. [applause] thank you. I think that is why i come to this work the way i do because i did not put a set of issue papers together just for this campaign. I did not figure out what my position in my position on health care was in the last 10 minutes. I have a set of issues i have been working on over the last 10 years in a state that is one third republican, one third democratic, and one third independent. I have a responsibility to represent everybody in the state. A state where i have spent a lot of evenings like this in counties where i will never win or 30 of the vote no matter what i do, no matter how charming i am is because of our politics. Feeling like it is not a burden in any sense but an obligation and a responsibility to try to stitch the people in my state together again and to stitch the people in the country together again, which is what i think we have to do. Beating donald trump is essential, but it is not enough. We have to figure out how to govern the country again. The reason i am here today is i was filling out the paperwork and paying my fee for the first donation primary. Thank you for allowing me to do that. Check is1000 appreciated. [laughter] washey pointed out when i there, gary hart, when he was running, also a son of colorado, showed up with dollar bills because he collected it from people across the state. Gary very kindly wrote an oped piece in the usa today this week indoors in my candidacy and explaining how you can go from one to leading the democratic field if youre lucky enough to do well in New Hampshire. Gary. You on behalf of we are trying to do the same thing this time. The agenda ive put forward on health care and on climate and the economy in general is one i think they can give us a chance of not just coalescing the emma gehring base, which we have to do, the democratic base, which we have to do, but also winning back the 9 million president voted for obama and donald trump. They have been voting out of desperation because theyre living in an economy that has not worked well for them. If i had to summarize the last 10 years of town hall meetings, these people coming in saying, we are working really hard, but no matter what we do, we cannot afford some combination of housing, health care, higher education, and childhood education. For the families i used to work for in the danbury Public Schools, most of whose kids are living in poverty, what they would say is, we are killing ourselves. No matter what we do, cannot get our kids out of poverty. That is an anecdotal reflection of the way our economy has not worked over the last 50 years. When you have seen all of the Economic Growth in the fitting the people at the top and nobody else. A democracy cannot last very long under those circumstances. Those before you introduce donald trump into our bloodstream. There in the position of huge opportunity cost of having someone like trump as our president. If you look at his twitter feed over the weekend, if anybody in any business in New Hampshire spent their weekend doing that, they would be sitting with the Hr Professionals in the Hr Department of their company having them tell them that they have to stop doing it because if they keep doing it, they are going to lose their job. If the response from the employee was, you do not need to worry about that. I am a stable genius, which is what the Trump Presidency and, they would spend the day cleaning out their desk. What was happening while he was doing that and we were distracted by all of that . Was doubling the amount of centrifuges they were using to enrich uranium. China was signing a trade deal that represents 50 of the worlds economy. We were barely even at the meeting. The reverberations of what the president did by abandoning the kurds in Northern Syria happening mattress in that part of the world all over the world. Donald trump has treated this like it is his own reality tv show. It is our reality. From my perspective, much more important than that, it is our kids reality and our grandkids reality. We are going to be judged on how we leave this place to them. I can tell you this, if we go through another 10 years like the last 10 years, we are going to be the first generation of americans who leaves less opportunity and not more to our kids and grandkids. I find that unacceptable as a parent of three kids. As someone who worked in the Public School system, i think it is unacceptable. We are going to have to figure out how to construct politics that unifies the American People. That is the same thing as say that is not the same thing as saying that we have to agree with each other all the time. Abraham lincoln said it well when he said we must be friends. We can never be enemies. He said that over and over again. To bee meant was, we need friends of the democracy. We all need to do our share to make sure this incredible experiment that started not very far from here is something that we can sustain for the next 200 years. That is what i believe that steak. That is what i believe is stake. T is att what we do in this election is going to matter. It is not the only thing that is important. I believe we are going to be fighting this for the rest of my life. Election after election. We should not be burdened i that. We should feel like we have an incredible rendezvous ourselves with destiny and that all of us has a role to play. Alonethe opposite of i can fix it. That is the opposite of how it is supposed to work. I could not be more delighted to be here with all of you tonight. I am happy to stop and take questions that anybody has on anybody on any topic. Is that good . Yes . Sir . The only difference between at and me is i have two ts the end of my name. You spell your name correctly, and i spell my name incorrectly. I have a couple of questions. The answer for you can be yes or no. My background is as a surgeon. E the drgs for the urology department. I was on hillarys Health Care Plan. I have been in medicine up until a few years ago, my whole life. I thought i hope you are going to ask me a nonhealth care question. Health care is what is going to put you on the ticket. Is, stion that i have one involves the Health Care Plan that you as a senator and all senators and house of representatives and the president share. Everybody in this room would love to have your health care. Are you willing to give up the best cap the best health care in the world, win or lose . I already did 10 years ago. The Health Care Plan i am on is the kaiser plan that my wife gets. Is thatant you to know for those 10 years, i have never taken the subsidy from the federal government. You are one of the very few of your compatriots. I do not use it i cannot speak for those other mugs. When you get on the stage and discussing health care with your progressive candidates, who are leading, except for one right now, would you be willing to ask them if they would give up their Health Care Plan for medicare for all . Yes. I would. Bernie would say if he was here yeah, i would. It would be better. That is what he would say. [laughter] that is what he would say. Sorry. No, you go right ahead. I did not know if you had something to add. Thist im going to use as an opportunity to talk about the opportunities in the differences of the race. I do not support medicare for all. It is not the right plan in its substance and politically, it is not the right plan. I do not want to spend the next 10 years fighting a losing battle for medicare for all. Our kids do not have time for us to do that. Instead, we need to be focused on driving Economic Opportunity for everybody in this company, providing universal coverage through a public helping, and auto and auto enrolling people in medicaid and in chip, which is the kids insurance plan, fighting Climate Change so that we get started before we are all dead so that our kids can have a plan, and reforming the government. We have a lot of stuff to do. Overturning Citizens United so we can take money out of our politics and put people in. I appreciate Bernie Sanders co mmitment to medicare for all. He is telling the truth about it on what it will cost and how he will pay for half of it, which is by raising taxes on the middle class. I think it is the wrong thing for democrats to be putting forward in this election. I hope we will not. I hope we are going to nominate somebody who has a better plan. This is not because it is a big idea. I just think it is the wrong idea. I have a plan that nobody has ever heard of that would reduce childhood poverty in america by 40 . It is a change to our tax code that would eliminate poverty for kids in america. It would cost 3 of what medicare for all would cost. When you think about the kids i used to work for in my district, that would mean a lot more to them than medicare for all. Bernie has an ideological commitment to it. We should not be following him over the edge in my humble opinion t. [applause] i asked you a question a month ago about achievement gap. What i want to ask about his Vocational Training for education. I am a Public School teacher. You are a former superintendent. Let me get on my knees because you are the teacher, and i am the superintendent. What i was hoping you could talk about is, potentially with your upcoming presidency, how change thedapt or Current Department and perhaps help those who are vocationally inclined due to the vocational setting we have in our current education. First of all, thank you for teaching. That basically is my education plan. What i have had what ive said in addition to the free preschool part is that, we have to figure out and they should be our focus we have to figure out how to put the 70 percent of kids who graduate from high school and do not go to college. Toay, we do not prepare them do what the economy pays a living wage. We only do what prepares them to earn a minimum wage. If you start earning the minimum wage when you graduate from high school, you will earn far less. Federale to use resources to pay for the incremental fix cost of aligning the Community College system and our High School System and going all the way to middle school in a system where kids in the sixth grade are going to know what they have to learn by the time they graduate from high school to earn a living wage, which will probably change in this economy. Have a system that is not even training them for the 21st century jobs they have right now. It is basically a system designed for the 18th century. I actually view this as low hanging fruit that could transform the lives of millions of americans and the American Economy just as our education economyransformed the when we invented high school need to reinvent high school for the 21st century. Invented high school. We need to reinvent high school for the 21st century. I met a young woman who is at a technical high school. The Manchester School of technology. That is the obvious name for a Technological High School in manchester. That is tricky. [laughter] teame was working with her on building a hovercraft. I said to her at the end we had this long conversation about her education on what she was learning. I said, what are you doing after you graduate . She looked at me with a huge smile on her face. She said, i am going to be an underwater welder. I said, i bet that job pays well. She said, it absolutely does. That is what we could be doing. While we are on the question of how we pay people, we have to pay teachers in this country like they are the professionals that they are. [applause] america today, the system we have is a system that was designed when we had a labor market that discriminated against women and said, you have two professional choices. One is being a teacher, and one is being a nurse. If you do not want to be a nurse, tongue teach Julius Caesar every year for 30 years of your life. We will pay you a ridiculously low salary that no one else in your College Class would accept. Years, we will30 give you a pension that sounded pretty good back then because your spouse would probably die before you. That is our system. No other enterprise in america pays people like that. Unless we can figure out how to do it differently, we will continue to lose 50 of people from the profession. I am not running to be the president of Americas School board, but it seems to me we have a National Interest in figuring out where the next couple million teachers are going to come from and how we move from a place where if you are born poor in the United States, your chance of graduating with a college agree is roughly one in 900. Real quickly. Im afraid of drawing you under the bus. Than i do not want to call on you. My wife . Definitely wants me to do it and she does not have any personal ambitious for me. She just thinks him the right person. Its not just because she wants to keep me out of the house. I, we have these three daughters as i told you earlier. I consulted them before iran and said what do think . Myause i have not spent whole life running for president. I have not. I have done a lot of other things. I was in the senate for 10 years. But i started to think, i do not believe anybody else has diagnosed the problems the way i have and i do not think people are Offering Solutions that are going to unite us. Im worried about that. I said, what do think, should i run . Aid,15yearold s absolutely. She was 14, by the way, at the time. Absolutely, you should run. Im proud of that. She thinks that much of my service to the country in my ideas. Thate two sentences followed it became clear that she saw this as an Incredible Opportunity to have me out of the house for her 15th year. And but my oldest daughter said to me, shes 20 now, she said, dad, if you run and they tell the truth and you lose, no one can fault you for it. That is what she said. And issa said, that is good caroline, because there is no other reason for me to run. And theres no other way i can win. It is the only way i can win. Desmonths or so ago, the Moines Register had been meeting with, the largest paper in iowa, the Editorial Board had been meeting with all of the candidates and they wrote editorials after the meetings and the one they wrote after i was there had the headline that said Michael Bennet pounds truth into this campaign. At the end of the editorial is said iowans, even if you thought you were going with somebody else you should give this guy another look because hes talking about things in a way that other people are not talking about it. I was able to send that editorial to caroline. Kept faiththink i with her in this effort. But i do not want to lose. I want to win. It is important for us to have a president that is going to tell us the truth. It is important for us to have children who cares our kids and grandkids. The current president doesnt. He does not care about his grandkids. Sure if even cares about his own kids. No, dont go. I am not sure a second house asked this question. Although i am very liberal, i believe that the top candidates polling are unlikely choice. R best but i also has observed i think one of the midwesterners who is also a senator who seems honest, experienced, credible, and so, i was wondering if you think to, how you would incorporate some of the other potential candidates into your candidacy. Well, thats a wonderful way of asking the question. I thought it was maybe going in the other direction. Look, we, this goes back to the point about public service. Pent basically since Ronald Reagan was president , we have had decades and decades and decades of denigrating, you know, public service. And, by the way, Ronald Reagan would never recognize himself in this republican party. He would recognize himself in the freedom caucus. Said explicitly back when he was saying government is the problem remember that . Im not here to dismantle it. These guys are here to dismantle it. And i think we need, our problems are so bad and the challenges are so great that we people in thebest country. And some of those people probably are other people in this race, and some of those people are probably people that have Never Working government in their lives. You know, we have to figure out how to do with the Health Care Costs in america. We have got to figure out how to do it. No one in washington is smart enough to do that by themselves. They need to have people from outside who are working in it every single day to help us figure out how to resolve i t. Nobody there is smart enough to figure out on their own or asking the questions. What are we going to do with all the dislocations because of Artificial Intelligence . We need the best and brightest from all over america to be part of this challenge, looking to the future. And i think we have an amazing pastrtunity if we can get donald trump and if we can get past the daily ritual on the cable and into actually trying to fix the country. So, i have always believed in having a Diverse Group of people and the highest quality folks that i can find. Im often asked, how did you do this and how did you do that . The trick is finding people who are a lot better at doing their job than you would ever be a doing their job and marshaling them together to overcome the challenges and see the opportunities. Nk, we obviously have enormous challenges but you cannot lose sight of the incredible opportunities we have to and, again, we are the only one second seize it. Nobody else can seize it. Of you not see any again, which i hope i will, but if i dont, what i would say to you is, no matter who you end up supporting in this race, who you end up voting for, please plan to make it your business to get everybody who is eligible in this country to vote in the next election. Because if we do that [applause] if we do that, we will be able to come out of this period with need to address the challenges. Marjorie, thanks read very much for having me. Thank you very much. Before you were born, there was a president who said ask not what the country can do for you but what you can do for the country. That brought me to washington and to graduate school, because we really believed that we could make a difference and we had an obligation to make a difference. And its been awhile since that philosophy has been on the foreground of the world in which we live. Get back to that or we are in real trouble. And i want to thank you. But i also wanted thank everyone in this room who on a wednesday afternoon at 4 30, not the ideal 4,e, dealing with route nonetheless came to hear a credible, thoughtful, honorable candidate. And if we had more of us and maybe more of you but at least then were in good shape. Thank you. [applause] thank campaign 2020. Watch live coverage on the campaign trail and make up your own mind. Cspans campaign 2020 your unfiltered view of politics. Next, House Speaker nancy pelosi and Senate Minority leader chuck themer let a briefing on importance of the deferred action childhood arrivals program, and their opposition to president trumps decision to rescind it. Good afternoon, everybody. I represent san antonio and am chair of the caucus this year. Earlr this year, i had the chance to attend the oral arguments over the future fate of daca. All o