Here in New Hampshire, this event [indiscernible] andoderate todays debate, governor patrick to the stage. [applause] thanks a lot. Professor, thank you for moderating this. Thank you all for being here. Thank you to open democracy for the invitation to be here. I could make it as plain as possible by taking that card and reading aloud. I actually wrote that sentence. Look, we have a handful of big ideas, and when i say we, i mean we americans, on which there are broad consensus. And theydont happen, dont happen because we have been treating our democracy for a long time as it it would tolerate limitless abuse without breaking. The things like the amount of money, much of it dark, the gerrymandering of districts so that, as the phrase goes, representatives choose the voters and not the other way around, the influence of lobbyists, especially lobbyists for money interests. Frankly,ression, and how hard we make it to register to vote. All of these things conspire to prevent us from getting democratic outcomes from our democracy. My views is that we have to start here, we have to go right at that, we have to call it out for what it is and move legislation that makes our democracy function. As a representative democracy, if we are to have a fighting chance on big system reforms on health care or Immigration Reform or criminal Justice Reform and on down the list, and the strategy that we will propose that we call an opportunity agenda, which is about expanding the economy out to the middle and the marginalized instead of just up to the wellconnected. So first hundred days. This . Ed i did 24 hours, i promise i will do 24 seconds. [laughter] apologize, governor, this will not be a walkout, but as soon as i am done, we are going to a focus group work we will test your messaging. Mr. Patrick what you just it is a push poll where you decide what the outcome is going to be. [laughter] frank if the money is right. [laughter] correct, money is corrupt in our political system, and it took me a while to come to that one of you, and that is why i instead come to that point of view, and that is why im standing before you now. It is a serious problem and it needs a solution, but it cannot just be solved by democrats. Republicans have to be part of it. So my question to you is it is not a matter of beating them, it is a matter of pulling them in. Mr. Patrick thats right. Frank you as a governor found a way to govern across the aisle. How do you convince republicans that that agenda is not just good for the country, but good for them as well . Maybe that is the answer. How do you win republicans . Mr. Patrick somebody asked me the other day, frank, about the constitution of the senate. Dont we have to work to have more democrats and a majority of democrats in the senate to drive this agenda of ours . My agenda across the board as president . I said, you know what, i would love to have some more democrats from but i would take a few patriots. We have got to start making the case w on both sidese have to start making the case about what is good for us. Not what is good for our party, but what is good for us. That is a hard case to make in muscleronment where memory more and more is about what is good for the party. Or if you are talking about something else, what you really mean is what is good for your party. Compelling, are then they will be compelling. You dont actually have to one doesnt have to cheat to win. Outcomess. N affect other competing agendas affect outcomes. But when you know that we have National Consensus around issues like many of the gunsafety clementor the t key elements of comprehensive immigration refor, or even choice, and you cant get action, and not think about is always going to come but it would rather have i would rather have the vote. Maybe, frank, when i want to say to you, in my experience, getting change that last requires that you bring lots of voices income and when you have that win, it is our win, not just mine. When i describe that as a Leadership Strategy nowadays, folks say you are talking about being a moderate and it is not time to be a moderate. Increasingly i think that a moderate is a progressive who actually has results. Im not talking about a moderate agenda. Talking about ambitious and progressive goals. But it requires some humility alongside the boldness in order to get stuff, and that means you have to bring in folks with competing ideas. The world is watching. World is in the this room now, 11 countries, not walking out [laughter] mr. Patrick thanks a million, frank. I appreciate it. Thank you to the students. And welcome. I also think it is good for medicare, if there is a public option, to have some reason to innovate. Today if you are eligible for medicare, you buy supplemental policy because medicare doesnt get it done. Just having that reason to innovate on the public side as well, that is how we get to the next that. Frankly, having all these voices of the table is how we got to 99 coverage in massachusetts. I like the middle step as well. I was against the Affordable Care act when it was first coming out. Guaranteed insurance everyone was going to get mr. Patrick well, interestingly, the public option was originally part of it, and it lost by one vote. One democratic vote in the senate. But the whole theory was that that piece was to be a for the private Insurance Market and we got what we got because it was there. Thank you. Mr. Patrick thank you. Thanks for coming. Appreciate it. Hi. I know that look. Im actually from massachusetts. Mr. Patrick thank you. Tell me your name. Mike . How is it going . Autograph. Mr. Patrick how about that . Going to sell it on ebay . If you get elected. [laughter] you give them to me, everybody wins. Mr. Patrick ok, all right. Depends i think it [indiscernible] somebody mr. Patrick got a appreciate you doing it. Mr. Patrick you bet. Did i get them all . Must be cool to be on a baseball mr. Patrick the first time i got them i got them in the mail from someone i never make it that is we looking uniform someone i never met. That is a weird looking uniform. 3, 2, 1. Perfect. Mr. Patrick thank you. I left because you are talking to so many voters i got hungry. [laughter] mr. Patrick and you do get hangry. I see. How you doing . Theyre closing, so we got to [indiscernible] polls aree time, showing you are 1 . Does it ever cross your mind is that this was i not a good idea . Mr. Patrick no, because the polls that matter are the election polls. We are building fast, and i know from previous expense to be skeptical of polls and im skeptical of polls now. Dont keep insinuating i need to do something other than what im doing. We built by introducing ourselves to people, person by person, for by voter, and answer polling phone calls, but whether there are folks who feel there are many unseen and unheard and need to be invited back into politics and civic life. Do you feel like you have a legitimate shot at winning . Mr. Patrick i do. Are you willing, given your late entry, to accept a lateentrance handicap when the vote is tallied and accept the fourth or fifth place finish as a victory of sorts . Mr. Patrick that is an impossible question to ask someone as competitive as me, adam. I want to wait, and i think we can i want to win, and i think we can. The challenge is to introduce myself to voters and make them understand that it is not pundits or pollsters who decide the outcome. It is they. They get to make the decision. When i meet people who have not made up their minds, i say, listen, im not late to you. [indiscernible] what are your thoughts on that . Mr. Patrick for the next one . They are saying mr. Patrick i think the rules are wellintended, but i dont think not just the rules for being on the stage, but the format has not worked as well as hoped as a means of communicating with voters. I hope that probably it is unrealistic for the tuesday debate, but for the ones after that, that the dnc will reconsider the rules. I have heard all the candidates say that the rules should be reconsidered, and ive heard that some of the campaigns have said to the dnc behind closed doors, dont you dare, because they dont want actually more exposure from some candidates on the stage right now. Event, there was talk about the Citizens United case and maybe a minute the constitution amending the constitution to do that. Another way is with another case to go to the jury system. The republicans seem to know how to get the voters pumped up about changing judges and that kind of stuff and electing that sort of thing. Should the democrats try Something Like that . Mr. Patrick i think we have to do more than one thing, but you are right that Republican Leadership have been much more effective over time at focusing on the composition of quartz courtsdown upanddown the system, and we need to be more intentional about that. Mitch mcconnell has stopped everything. Mr. Patrick mm. Thanks, everybody. Taking care. There was also a [indiscernible] coffee shop there. Its over this way. Sorry. Perfect, thank you. [indiscernible] mr. Patrick and i heard from an old, old friend who lives i met in new york, who lives in North Carolina, who [indiscernible] how long is it to get for him . He lives in North Carolina careful, there is snow back there. Thanks. Oh, wow. They have been propagating this ivy for 20 years now. Oh, my gosh cute little and she wore this straw hat that some places with the father mr. Patrick that is amazing. That is amazing. Apparently grew on her house. Mr. Patrick and she brought it . Olivia brought it excellent. Mr. Patrick my grandmother had [indiscernible] mr. Patrick my greatgrandfathers home in kentucky. [indiscernible] [laughter] mr. Patrick how do you do . Great to see you. Chris. Mr. Patrick nice to meet you. Hi, im jennifer. Nice to meet you. Hi, im emma. Nice to meet you. Im julia. Mr. Patrick hi, julia. No . Ok. [laughter] hi, im emma. Mr. Patrick hi, emma. Hi, im jack. Hi, im carolina. Mr. Patrick you feeling ok . Yeah mr. Patrick my wife says in the morning, then she gets over it and she is fine. Going from different weather, kind of sensitive. Hi. Leona, nice to meet you. Hi, lydia. Sorry. Hi, im dani. Alex, nice to meet you. Mr. Patrick david, nice to meet you. Hi, jenna. Nice to meet you. Like mitchody mcconnell is an office, making election day a federal holiday, what do you think you are going to do to better improve or better combat to make sure that our democracy is actually a democracy . Mr. Patrick it is a big, broad question, and Mitch Mcconnell is not the only problem. Traction,paign gets we are campaigning alongside republican challengers. Challengers to republican roadblocks. Amy is a terrific candidate in kentucky. Just one candidate. I think being able to have the Nominee Campaign alongside dont get me wrong [indiscernible] mr. Patrick mcconnell gets to do a lot of what he does for the same reasons that a number of republicans in socalled registers are states red districts or states get to do what they do without consequence, because we democrats dont go at on nights and weekends in the anderms, i got in 14 races i chose beautifully not to go to the ones the market and all that, because i wanted what ive elections, which is that a lot of people in a lot of places were voting republican where democrats had not competed in the past. Hair, and lost 3 by a one was a do over in North Carolina because they cheated survive. Howard dean had it right with the 50state strategy. That is what we should be about. The campaigns that were so successful and compelling were like him dont think about this solely as a win for democrats. This is how we country over party. Not one of them was running away from progressive positions. Not one. But you go and you talk to black women who have felt unseen and unheard in alabama, and honoring them and telling them and other voters would feel this way that you will show up in between elections, not just election. , but in between, and i think we can win. I think that is what happened. Areasfeel like one of the the borderisis at isnt talked about, or immigration in general. What is the Immediate Response to that, or for your campaign to address that issue and talk more about the issue . Mr. Patrick it is not like the kids separated from their parents, we want to expose our average and then we go on to beexpress our outrage and then we go on to be outraged at the next thing. We have to treat them with human dignity. We have been here before. Weve been here before. Term, end of my Second Coming from the southern border, fleeing violence in central america, and federal authorities were overwhelmed then like now. President obama asked a number havtes if we would [indiscernible] mr. Patrick i agree for reasons of patriotism and faith. Not all governors agreed. For that, i was called everything. But heres the reason to hope after that, coming home on a saturday morning, my wife gave me a list, and i said, ok, im going to go out and run this errand. Shirt, jeans, t flipflops, baseball caps, dark glasses, and i took off in the truck and i pulled up to the home depot. The manager in the first lane governor, welcome to home depot [laughter] mr. Patrick im standing in the checkout lane and this guy just let me have it. Just angry and loud. Said my wife is an immigrant, she came here legally. I thank him for his feedback. Nothing about how being a refugee is legal under american law. Every one of those, someone whispered. Thanks for looking out for those kids. The calls to the office work 2 to 31 in favor of sheltering those children. We have come to shout o0urour ar and whisper our kindness. We need to shout our kindness. When i talk about the gap between the reality and our ideals, this is one of those things where we are confrontig that gap, and the opportunity to reinvest in america, which happens every once in all, is right there. Question because im convinced there are more of us, more people prepared to shout justice than to shout anger, they need permission to do so, they need your encouragement to do so. They dont need to be perfect on every issue, but they need to have their we do that. Not only do we deserve it, but the character of the country. That informs a lot of policymaking going forward. I guess thats how you stay warm. Like ou been feeling where have you been hearing responses that were low . A lot of encouragement. It is terrific. It is interesting how many need to be to we are doing our best thinking. If you have a better idea, lets hear it. Some come in hot, like how can you not agree with me . Persuade me. Tell me why your idea is better than mine. One of the students talking about voting at 16, the one that asked me the question in the said i didnt expect you to ask me to persuade you. That is your job. Ask the question, you give the response, and a couple of times you put people on the spot. It is a good way. Im not trying to put people on the spot,i just enjoy you genuinely want to hear. You learn so much. Hears peoples ideas with your own ideas. And some crash off. A he going here . Is there any other news i need in . Now before we go not at the top of my mind. The point we were talking, how are you . What is going on . We get a lot of wonderful support. Shopst left the coffee with a bunch of brilliant students. A couple of whom admonished me to think fiercely about lowering the voting age to 16. The other point was to consider votebility of felons to while in custody, not just as they come out. It is also pretty interesting. Are you in a car . Where are you traveling to . Good. Im so glad to hear that. Actually get some sleep. It is amazing you mentioned that. In this building are several other radio stations. We came out and a gentleman who runs another station invited us to come. Just before turning to go down the stairs, someone else came out and said we met when i came over to check up on them serving in the National Guard in afghanistan. It was extraordinary. Event today, i met the father of a mentee, who used to negotiate on the opposite side of the table from her. They developed a relationship over the years. He would always say when hes trying to negotiate for the next race, he would say he needs it so his daughter can go to yale. Years later, this associate showed up from columbia law school, they got talking, and she said she went to yale. As an it you end up intern at the firm . She said because her father told her to. Was theained her father person on the other of the table years before saying he needed money to send his daughter to yale. Now she works with diane. And he came today. I had never met him. I have met his daughter. Good day. N a more to do. Brick by brick. Im not sure i will get to talk to you before the flight. Who is working on that story . Cool stuff. Thank you. What will read talking about before i got of on the phone . Actually, it is on tape. We can roll this back. This is more convenient than i realized. Thank you. Forum, a town hall. E opening comments in milford. Moderators . It is going to be democrats. They are organized. Whatever people do. Plenty of questions. I love how many women in New Hampshire seem to elevate in their legislature, delegation. She was at an event i organized. [indiscernible] is she here . She might be on her honeymoon. Are we not going at all . Ive had my chance. I had a chance to go to college, first in my family to do so. To serve as a civil rights lawyer, business executive, twoterm governor of massachusetts. I have lived the American Dream. I always knew that there were other kids on the south side, just as ambitious, just as creative, who didnt get their chance. Increasingly, it has been true the American Dream has been slipping further out of reach for more people in more places in america. Interestedd id be in testing this, because this is what i see, but the cheery Economic Indicators dont really tell the whole story. Unemployment is low as long as you count both or all three of the minimumwage jobs it takes to survive. Youation is low as long as dont count the cost of housing or education, or health care. The very things that stabilize us and enable us onto a path of economic mobility. It is not just the folks in my Old Neighborhood who are feeling unseen and unheard. It is folks in small towns and Rural Communities whose kids move away to make a way. It is folks in suburbs making ends meet with their credit cards, or feeding their families on the local food pantry. They are oversubscribed in every suburb at every level of income and prosperity in america today. It is immigrants, legal and undocumented, who want nothing toe than to contribute strengthening our country without being made to feel marginalized and unwelcome. And dayctory workers laborers, our neighbors, yours and mine, people we know and people we have never met who cannot imagine a path and participation in the American Dream anymore. That should matter to us. Is unlike other countries, in the sense that we are the only nation in Human History organized around a handful of civic ideals. , language,eography religion, or race that defined this country. It was a handful of ideas over time that we have come to identify as equality, opportunity, and fair play. Thats what makes america great. Every once in a while, we confront the gap between our reality and ideals, and we decide to reinvent ourselves. Thats what i think this moment is. Its why im running. I know it doesnt have to be this way. , i hadran for governor never run for anything else. Adam didnt believe me then, either. Im so glad you are here. We won, and 10 minutes later, the bottom fell out of the global economy. Eight years later, massachusetts was number one in student achievement, health care coverage, veteran services, entrepreneurial activities, and more with a 25 year employment hi. We didnt get everything right. Nobody gets everything right. Resultshose and other because we asked people to turn to each other instead of on each other. Case that a community, whether it is a neighborhood or nation, needs to understand the stake we each have in the dreams and struggles of our neighbors, as well as our own. And together, we were going to build a future not just for ourselves, but for generations to come. Im proud of that work. I think thats what the moment calls for. That we areact talking as democrats about big ideas. Field, which has a lot of my friends in it. The difference is all of us have ideas, i have results. 99 percent of people in massachusetts have Health Insurance today. Theres no others that can touch that. We have a National Model for addressing Climate Change. The singular challenge of our time. Using proceeds from reggie to invest in Energy Efficiency and closing remaining coalfired power plants and developing a recovery,plan for resilience, and investing behind that, and creating job growth. That was one of the sectors that help us climb out of recession. We made big changes in reforms alongside others in pension, ethics, transportation. , hard things that had gone undone for a long time. Not because we trimmed the agenda. We wanted and drove an ambitious agenda. If you want change that lasts, whether it is in the Public Sector or private sector, you have to bring others in. Bold ideas, but humble enough to accept others may have other ways of accomplishing those ideas. I think thats how you get change that lasts. To fix a moment today big, broken systems that are not serving us anymore, including democracy itself, just a policy proposal we rolled out. I also think we have a chance to make our economy prosperous and just for everyone everywhere. By harnessing the innovation economy, this knowledgebased economy, and pulling it out from the center is where it has been stuck, like boston and san francisco. You cant do that unless you do other investments alongside it in infrastructure and education. We have a moment for that. We should cease it. We should seize it. I think part of what we must do, and what my experience teaches me, is rejecting false choices. I am a proud democrat. I dont think you have to hate republicans to be a good democrat. I dont think you have to face hate business to be a social justice work. I dont think you have to hate police to believe black lives matter. We keep doing this in politics, peddling these false choices. I want us to be mindful that so many of the choices, i think of Climate Change is another one, that we cant have a clean, green future without wrecking the economy. It is false. I want us to be mindful of that. Understand that in this moment, we have not a chance to take on a given candidate, but to take on our own aspirations. Character it is the of the candidate is always an issue. This time it is the character of the country. That question and make our case, we win and we deserve to win. Im hoping to earn your support. Im glad you are here. Im happy to take any questions or advice. A lot of stuff. Democrats, or you as a particular candidate, are successful at becoming president , and if the democrats dont take control of the senate , and hoping they still control the house, one of my frustrations is president obama didnt take the case to the American People aggressively enough, especially when a Supreme Court justice was nominated. Handleious how you would that differently should we come to that. To me, thats part of the leadership im looking for in a president. We have a president successful at taking a narrative for the public, even though it is a false narrative. Try and make a practice of not talking publicly about my conversations with former president and a longtime friend. But it used to get on my last nerve. If you came into office, remember, the economy was crashing. There were five governors, i was working with the Incoming Administration and congress on the stimulus bill. Bringing the perspective of governors having to balance budgets. Knowing the cuts were going to be too intentional essential services who had a frayed safety net. Would allowet programs to be funded. We felt it with a bunch of economists. I never knew economists were on the political spectrum. I just thought they were economists. Was it needs to be big enough to demonstrate the federal government has no intention of letting the economy fail. Part of what was happening was psychological. We ask what that number was. We were advised independently it should be 1 trillion. They said everything in it should be stimulative, meaning programs or dollars people were going to spend. Support, unemployment insurance, housing assistance. Things we were going to get spent. We made the argument to do something in education, because everybodys education budgets were at risk. If you are in the second grade, you dont get to sit out until the recession is over. Now is your chance. We should be investing in schools. 1 trillion. One third of it was infrastructure, one third with education, and one third was basic or essential services. We showed it to the obama administration. They said it seems big, but go sell it on the hill. We went to see the democratic leadership. Democratic senate and democratic house. They had sticker shock and said it will never pass. Said it is too much and we should trim it back. Said 750 million. Told by the Incoming Administration, rahm emanuel, the first chief, president elects wanted the first bill to be bipartisan. Go show it to the Republican Leadership and ask what they need. Their response was a third of it has to be tax cuts. Went back to the economists, and they said tax cuts are not stimulus. The Republican Leadership said it was the only way to get republican votes, and one third has to be tax cuts. The president wanted a bipartisan bill. Was 1 trillion of stimulus half 1rned into trillion, plus 250 million of tax cuts. It went to the floor and not a single republican voted for it. I remember saying to the president elect to remember it. Unless he showed a little south side im not kidding. He is a penultimate gentlemen, so i mine, you have to know how to throw an elbow. He, unlike anybody in a generation, was so compelling and engaging the public. It wasnt the first time it happened. Out the democracy agenda, which is about fixing the variety of ways we have treated our democracy for a long time, as if it would tolerate limitless abuse without breaking. The amount of money, much of it dark. Gerrymandering. Voter suppression. The National Service component also. Our first agenda item, because unless we fix the way our democracy functions, a lot of the big ideas we are talking about dont have a chance. Your temperament, how would you change the way you make the case to the American People . A softspoken gentleman, like president obama was. What can i tell you . I had a legislative leadership in massachusetts. They didnt make it easy for me, even though they were democrats. We got 95 of what we asked for. Rarely when we ask for it, or in the form we ask for it did sometimes what i have found is rather than acting it out publicly, what and how you behave privately with people and enable them to save face publicly when you win is part of the art of policymaking. I can be sensational. Im not sure being sensational gets change if it gets change at all. A far cry from where our country is right now. There is a cartoon about massachusetts. There are more unenrolled independents in massachusetts than there are registered republicans and emma combined. Most people arent buying 100 of what other party is saying. I would like to present you with statistics. The question im going to ask is about gun control and assault weapons. Changes over the past five years. Thats usually in metropolitan areas, 64. 4 it has risen. N california, 32. 2 illinois, 61. 8 . Indiana, 122. 8 . In New Hampshire, it has only risen 7. 4 . Thecommon factor about states is assault weapon bands and highcapacity magazine bands. Understand the stats, are you talking about Violent Crime related to guns . Overall. If a criminal will commit a crime, they can do it with a knife, a gun. They have something they want, they will do it. You can also get the statistic deaths 2017, 60 of gun were suicide. Only 30 were murderers. Narrow it down to assault werens or rifles, they involved in 4 of those. 64 were handguns. 2 of them were shotguns. 30 werent reported. The source is usa today, the cdc, and the pew research foundation. These are just plain facts. Clearly looking at these numbers, assault weapons arent the problem. Handguns are. Problem is mentally unfit people get their hands on assault weapons. A majority that own assault weapons do not use them for nefarious reasons, the use them for sporting and selfdefense. Why do you support an assault weapon ban when it brings an increase in Violent Crime . Dont see the connection, and i dont think it has been shown that banning assault weapons increases Violent Crime. Me, belongwar, to with war makers and not civilians. They areons have not the only reason. It is not beyond the issue of Mental Health. Frankly, responsible stewardship of gun ownership. There are other things, like smart triggers and locks. There are other ways that should be part of a suite of reforms. The connection between an increase in Violent Crimes, accepting your statistics, and a ban on assault weapons is not obvious from what you said. What is obvious is assault weapons have been used in terrible massacres of children having gun and were safety drills, the lockdowns. Terrifying active shooter drills. I think there is a consensus around a host of gun Safety Measures that are consistent , butthe Second Amendment they dont move for exactly the reasons i was talking about earlier, because we have a berkman broken democracy. We dont even have the debate and we should have the debate. Hearings. Have someone should present those kinds of statistics and we should argue it out. Thats how democracy is supposed to work. The fact that we differ on this issue, or we start in a different place, doesnt mean you are evil and im not, or im evil and you are not, what we dont have a democracy that makes it possible for that conversation and to have that debate. For you to persuade enough people that im headed down the wrong path, or for me to persuade enough people that i am. Thats what im talking about. There are a bunch of laws that have passed that i dont agree with. I wouldnt have done them. I thought they were bad ideas. Not all of them are part of my reform agenda. We have a system that doesnt that for a conversation says we dont have to agree on everything before we Work Together on anything. That, why do you support the assault weapons ban . Because we have it is a weapon of war. Weapons of war i think belong with war makers and not civilians. That is my view. The answer is not banning assauling background checks to look into what people would like when they were kids. When i got my concealed carry permit, they did a background check on me. One thing i found out later on was they dont look into Peoples Health problems or medical records from when they were children. I cant remember any specific names, but there have been times when someone who has a Mental Health problem that was brought up when they were a child and prescribed medication when they were a child, but when they turned 18, the evidence is not in the background check. Would you be open to extending background checks but not banning assault weapons question mark . Im not sure if it is a trade. It sounds like you would be open to router and universal background checks. I think everyone should have the background check to buy a gun. How do you feel about red flag loss question mark i dont want them to be used on innocent people. From what i see around the world, my friend can go te Police Department if red flag rules are passed in New Hampshire, and it looks like it will go that way. Friend goes to the police not even having to bring family members. All he would have to say was im crazy and he doesnt think i should have my gun. Provide little to no evidence, and the cops can take my guns away. They can hold them for up to 100 days. I have to go to court and talk to a judge and prove otherwise. Concept might be ok, but the process feels weighted against you. For 100 days, i dont have any firearms. If my neighbor likes my tv, he has guns, he sees the comps come, they just took my whole safe away. I have nothing to defend myself with. That is my tv now. One more question and i will move on. On assault weapons or may bump stocks, we will agree to disagree for tonights purposes. Universal background checks deeper, Mental Health engagement and broader services. In aelse would you do department of gun safety, if anything . Concealed permit, educate people more. Are you debating right now in New Hampshire . You can do it now. We have constitutional carry, so you dont have to have a concealed carry permit. Most to do carry in New Hampshire from what i understand is you get them. You have to go through it. What about straw purchases . Who buys the gun and sells them privately . Is a clear solution to that. Just having those people go to a gun store who has a firearm license. Gun shows . Same thing. Bring them to the store. We can get to a whole bunch of the same things. Youy only problem is shouldnt ban assault weapons. We dont live in a utopia. It is aampshire, peaceful state. Been to los angeles, where it is not pretty. I was stationed in california. I have been to all these places, it was terrifying. I wasnt allowed to carry a gun. I could not carry a gun in this whole state and be fine, thats the one place i wanted a gun. I wasnt 21. My friends paid the fee and got denied. Proof. Nt have enough around the country, we have this problem. Around the world we have these problems. I use this example a lot. Unfortunately, the holocaust did happen. When hiller became the dictator of germany, he took away peoples guns. An armed populace will not willingly load themselves on the train and onto a concentration camp. , it helps. Xist look at the orange man that is our president. Everyone was terrified, people were comparing him to hitlers. If we he was, good thing we would have a civil war. Lets not go down that path just yet. I get your point. Thee need to protect American People. Banning assault weapons and highcapacity magazines isnt the answer. If a criminal wants to commit a crime, they will do it. I grew up here, i went to the school here, im not going to name the persons name. When i was 15 years old, this person was 16 years old. He was giving me a ride to practice. This person is in jail. He went down the wrong path. He was 15 and able to get his hands on a gun with the serial number scratched off. I understand it is anecdotal evidence. But criminals will get what they want because they are criminals. Let me make one more point. I want to acknowledge yours. Then we will move on. On the assault weapons and highcapacity magazines, we will have to agree and disagree for the moment. The reason i think there have to be federal movements at a minimum on the things we agree on is because doing it statebystate doesnt work. Gave, that you firearm was acquired in massachusetts and brought here. We have some of the best gun safety laws in massachusetts, but it doesnt much matter if you come to another state from another state with a trunk full of weapons. Ano think we have to have overarching federal system. I hope it includes the things we agree on and a couple of things we dont agree on, but we will functionioning democracy, and we can have that argument over there. Dont expect me to call you or e villes people because you have a difference of opinion than me. I think we have to learn to talk agree, other if we dont because we have a politics these days that say we have to agree on everything before we agree on anything. Thank you for that. I have been in several state prisons, how do we transition the conditions . Just trying to make a dollar, do we transition it . Reduce the need, a question of the warehouse strategy we have had. Now we are way over here and we need to come back. The pointave made fromas we move away mandatory minimum sentences, we have to amp up the reentry programs in a big way. Amazing program in South Carolina earlier this week called turning leaf. Four months, fulltime job training. Deescalate, show up on time. That it is just about making it possible. Likely recidivist, the hardest case, the making of ple learning back mainstream life just opening the door and town centers saying good luck. Just moved here a couple of years ago. Into massachusetts. Have three jobs, minimum wage. They are good people. Kids are working at minimum wage jobs. Very concise. Thank you for coming. I wasnt ready for you. He will be voting in 2024. I loved hearing what you had to say. Nice to meet you. Over theto go democracy town hall a couple of hours ago. Ive been to a couple of those. Range of topics we just dont hear often. I was going to raise a couple of questions that i thought of. Im following you on twitter. That is one way. That guy can give you a more direct. Thank you. Thank you for coming. You are a good man, regardless of whatever happens. It doesnt sound like you bought it. Im not sold one way or the other. I think you are a good man. I lived in everett. Back in massachusetts. I am here now. Thank you for coming. Nice to meet you. You mentioned a lot about carbon. As someone [indiscernible] im not sold. We havent figured out the disposal issues. Get carbon free, a lot of energy, but as i try to think and govern for the long term, that is one longterm problem that hasnt been sorted yet. Fueled to be handled, Something Like that. I have been looking for a career. They werent doing it at m. I. T. Until recently. Still working on that project. [indiscernible] we need much better storage than we have today. Theres a lot of time and investment going with that. Wind has gotten better. People talk about where wind belongs. A controversial way. Inshore wind, especially deep water, we did preparations so that we would be attracted to those bouts, and the big blocks given the size of the proposed for most Carbon Energy of the east coast. I like that. There are going to be things we havent even thought about. I would love to see fusion commercialized, because it is space and carbon free. The issues you can have with nuclear. Carbon down to put and let new ideas flourish. It will not be one solution. It will be multiple. Good luck to you. Thank you. Good night. Did you just decide recently that you wanted to be nationalized . Naturalized in 2012. He came here in 1997. Nice to meet you. [indiscernible] when i was in the sixth grade, i had a teacher, this is a big crowded urban school. She taught us to count and say the greetings in german. Opera, firsto the time i had ever been. I have no idea what they were saying, but i loved it. She used it to help us imagine being citizens of the world. ,uge gifts for any kid especially from southside chicago. It is amazing to go at that age. We were made to feel terrified we acted out. Thank you very much. Do you want to come in the middle . Thank you for coming. Campaign 2020. 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