Ones that provide the breakfast here at no cost to all of us, so if you see any other members, they are all Corporate Leaders here in New Hampshire and new england, and very generous through politics eggs but its the only thing i know where you can go and see the major candidate running for president of the United States at a venue like this, and its free, the breakfast, because its possible because of all these wonderful, wonderful supporters that we have. Speak of supporters i also want to thank the New Hampshire institute of politics for being such incredible partners with the news England Council as we have cohosted the politics eggs for many, many years. You say its been a very busy cycle so far. A very crowded field. We look forward to spending more time i here at st. Anselm in the months ahead. In fact, we will be here tomorrow for a breakfast with another democratic candidate, congressman tim ryan of ohio. New England Council also has several other events that we have planned in the next couple of weeks, including a breakfast in portland, maine, with senator Susan Collins on the 14th of june. On 17 june we have the newly elected congressman from the second Congressional District in maine, jared golden. And then finally on june 27 we have newly elected governor of maine who will be speaking to new England Council. We will have many more events coming up in the weeks and months ahead. We hope that many of you who are members of the new England Council will participate. So now its my pleasure to introduce, i mentioned earlier about the institute of politics, the institute of politics is really Neil Levesque and he is my goodhe friend, executive director picky has done an outstanding job in elevating thj importance in the significance of this program, and he has been a great, great partner with thee new England Council. We are blessed toco have him, so for purposes of introducing, giving a formal introduction to the United Statess senator cottn give a warm, warm appreciation to Neil Levesque. [applause] he said just dont mess up. [laughing] what a great crowd we have this morning. Iire know some of you were up le so its pretty impressive to have a full room here for politics eggs. We have a Great Partnership with the new England Council. Weve been doing a lot of things with them over the years. Larry and jim, and many of the friends who are in this room, we have put on some outstanding really New Hampshire events, and this is one of them obviously. Im very, very pleased today to introduce senator amy klobuchar. Shes serving her third term of course a minnesota. Before that shehe was a county attorney in the most populous county in her state, and the chief prosecutor there. Before that a corporate attorney. Some of you will have that in common with her of course. She and husband john who is right here with her travels the country. They have one child, abigail, and really interesting, i veryht this was interesting, is that the senator into politics when she was released sort of forced out of the hospital after giving birth to abigail, and abigail had a couple complications and it really was not good that she had to leave the hospital. She got very involved in her state. She passed a mandatory 48 hours for new mothers to stay in hospitals in the state of minnesota,y and later bill clinton signed into law that national, federal law, a lot of it has to do with the senator. [applause] regrettably, she did not attend st. Anselmle college. She went to Yale University and the university of chicago where she got her j. D. Shes on the committee, commerce, agricultural and rules where she isnd the ranking memb. I want to make special note before she comes up that at the end of the 114th congress, senator klobuchar had passed more legislation than any other senator. So something in this environment. Senator klobuchar. [applause] all right. Well, thank you everyone. Ive heard all about politics eggs my whole life in politics so it is so great to be with all of you here i actually took photos of mitt romney with the eggs in front of him after in the green room and i already emailed them to him to show. I wish you pick hes been giving me advice here and there, and it is great to be here with you, jim. Thank you and thanks neil for that nice introduction. Lou, where are you . Lew wrote the bible about how to run for president , thank you. Shannon is here. Shannon, shannon, where are you . Right over there, state senator. Attorneyte general, does everyby know its his birthday today . What a great way to celebrate. [applause] his birthday. And then we have former New Hampshire attorney general therel delaney is out somewhere. Thank you for being here. [applause] kathy sullivan, when i first look at financial democratic dinner, thank you, the former chair. Ne it also david who is the council to candidate. Where are you . Since we can see canada from our porch, we love canada in minnesota. I had at the canadianamerican group in the senate, and i go there almost every year. So its great to see you, and the British Council i think its here, too. There she is. Thank you very much. [applause] and also judy reardon. Thank you, the Senior AdvisorCouncil Former to Jeanne Shaheen. My state director my campaign Scott Merrick used to work for Jeanne Shaheen, doing incredie job for me. [applause] his girlfriend mikayla is here. Im only introducing her because she just graduated from law school, so keep her in mind. Where are you . So theyve been dating for five years and so i got the whole story in the backroom about how they met in a very romantic setting while they were both workinget for jeannie and it was during a Martin Omalley speech. [laughing] okay . Some hoping Something Else happened while hes working for me, so thats all good. Were going to keep that in mind. And then of course my husband, john, right here. Thank you. A [applause] we missed the bruins game, although we are very happy for you because we were in iowa and coming back here, but im a big hockey fan of course, state of minnesota. I will note, no there are probably red sox here but perhaps youve noticed the best in baseball is a minnesota twins, so were pretty excited that kind of a cinderella operation and we were excited. I was at those world series when they won and they are really a fun team toie watch. It is wonderful to be here, as i said. I love speaking to people in New Hampshire. I kindea of, forever etched in y memory of what it is like to speak in New Hampshire was when our family spent the weekend easter weekend here and went up to mount washington, just had a really nice family trip, and we were at a church on Easter Sunday in the middle of the service want to get introduced, this kid, 11, comes over and gets my autograph and im like okay. And then hisli name is quan. The next day at peterborough when we hady our townhall, the kid raises his hand. This is a true story. His 11 and is like id like to think it bob mueller testifies if he should go before the house or senate first, and should it be at the Intelligence Committee or judiciary . So New Hampshire. Hes like 11 years old. [laughing] so thats why i love your state. Something else in common, we love the outdoors in our states, and that same weekend we had a great hiking trip. Our family. Manage to go in a state park up a rather i would say is that using the we went on some rocks and ice and i was so happy whats the name of the park . [inaudible] okay, and so we go up there and they say and a very nice New Hampshire way, the road is blocked off, you know, so you might want to be careful there. They blocked the road. O i think what they meant was you can walk on the road but not dry. We take the trail and its like literally i thought i was going to fall over on this ice and everything. We get to the topra and theres the Senior Citizens out there. Why did you take the road . Whats wrong with you . Anyway, we love it. I love your two senators, maggie and jeannie. We are very good friends. We are two of the only state in the country that have both women senators, which is very cool. Yet such as strong history of women. [applause] and my favorite story Jeanne Shaheen in New Hampshire in the early days was when she got to the senate, we sat next to each other for a long time and i told her the story of how i had requested Hubert Humphreys desk when i got to the city. So excited because we did all these matching desk and people signed their names in them. I remember when i got it before she got there, i opened up the desk to look for Hubert Humphreys name and an accident given me Gordon Humphreys desk. [laughing] so i had to i learned by then pick your battles, ill deal with this later. So when jean came, i tell the story and she goes how do you know it is gordons this . I said because they signed their names in it. I lifted it up, its a new congress, to show her, as a did i realize theyd give me a new desk and had and still have Hubert Humphreys desk. So with a very cool story. The other thing that our state seven, is a strong sense of independent voters, right . If you dont believe me about minnesota 53 words for you. Governor jesse ventura. [laughing]g] to getting to what my endeavor is at this very moment, unhappy by the way to be in a room when no one else is running for president , very cool. But tell me if you are, that would be good to know. But i announced my candidacy in the major blizzard, and we could have taken inside but i decided i wanted to make the point in a New Hampshire fashion that i have great, that im coming from a different place in running for this office. Dont have a lotnt of money. Im some has been underdog in several races but always want every single one. I also want to make the point by announcing iha that river that t is time to cross a river of our divide to get to a higher plane in our politics. To a higher plane of politics and when i first got involved in politics it was about grit and that story of being kicked out of the hospital our daughter was in intensive care and we were up all night for co it was a pretty tremendous experience for some people it is fine but if you have a kid sick and its your first baby it was a ridiculous situation perk after she got a little better i went over to legislatures i was not an elected office advocated for the new rule to have a 48 hour hospital stay and i learned if you talk about things to mostly men at the legislature or episiotomys they said we will pass the law we dont want to talk about this. [laughter] and when we got to the Conference Committee they wanted to delay the implementation by quite a bit of two years so i brought six pregnant friends of mine to the Conference Committee so when this should take effect they said no so they moved it up to the date that governor signed at that was my first lesson of politics. My background is a little different from the candidates and certainly donald trumps. My grandpa was a minor working 1500 feet underground his whole life. He wanted to be in the navy but he had to quit school to go to work because he had nine brothers and sisters as the oldest boy from an immigrant family and his parents died shortly thereafter one kid was taken to an orphanage he had to get her he said he would in two years and he did that married my grandma and raise both kids and then my dad and his brother. Education was their future so he literally saved money in a coffee can in the basement to have enough money to send my dad to a twoyear Community College why am such a believer in those degrees with a different path to success and then my dad finished up at the university of minnesota as a generalist his whole life. He is now 91. My mom grew up in milwaukee also not a lot of money daughter of swiss immigrants and she wanted to be a teacher. She came to minnesota as a strong Teachers Union member teaching second grade until she was 70 and people still talk to me how she was their favorite teacher she had a Monarch Butterfly unit she would dress up as a Monarch Butterfly and said to mexico or boston where that Grocery Shopping afterwards and never understood except she thought it was funny until one week after she died at the visitation a mom came up to me crying with an older son next to her was very disabled and said this is my son he had your mom in second grade he loved her and that butterfly unit so every year after he graduated years later he got a job bagging groceries at the supervalu every moment year your mom taught the unit she would come to the store get her groceries and stand in his line and give him a hug. That was my mom. I stand before you today as a grand daughter of an iron ore miner and daughter of a teacher a newspaperman as a first woman elected to the u. S. Senate from the state of minnesota and candidate for president of the United States. [applause] that is what this country is about no matter where you come from or who you know, you can make it in america we are a country of shared dreams and i am so concerned every single day before i made the decision and after about what this president is doing to fracture that community. If you think of what you have going in New Hampshire you dont always agree politically but you come together for your state and to discuss politics in a civil way you are a model for the nation in that way but yet every way in our civic life the president tweets out mean stuff about immigrants, people of color , people in his own party when they dont agree with him or he sends out a doctored video if you were in politics or teach Political Science understand what this means because he is condoning what we are most fearful of that we will break down on either side not just fake news but literally fake videos of peoples faces at people will believe that is a complete lie. That is one of the scariest things coming our way in politics they get someone in the white house actually sent this out and this is what i am talking about fracturing our civic life. The matter democrats republicans or independents this cannot continue and i believe we need to restore and revive the heart of our democracy heart of our politics and heart of america that is my agenda and the focus of my campaign has been all about. Im talking about the issues i think are challenges coming our way. We had a downturn ten years ago i was just talking to a woman who was delightful about her story how she got divorced ten years ago then decided she would pull herself up. Not only does she have the work with makeup but also real estate and started investing at a good time she was so proud to be a Woman Entrepreneur in you think of the story told over and over in this country from businesses small and Large Businesses willing to hang in and employees we got out of that downturn and now when you are the president of the United States you dont just rest on your laurels and gloat you look at the challenges in front of us right now because then you cannot move ahead to the next challenge if you are not getting ready for it so what are the challenges right now . I believe that this with the major discussion but infrastructure. Maybe not the sexiest thing i was on the cuomo show when i talked about they would pay for it he said generations have cuomos have run on this and lost. [laughter] thats not true they just decided not to run for presiden president. Give me a break but it is a breadandbutter issue where we know our nation is falling behind. Your mayor is here somewhere from manchester. Thank you and we were talking about the capital oil project how important it is to this area and to have the most people of any area in the country that doesnt have Commuter Rail and that is just wrong. We have to be able to respond to what we need and what you need in my state you need more workers to come up to fill the jobs and that is that entrepreneurial spirit that you have in your state and that you have been known for so long and make it easier for people to come back and forth with a great Tourism Industry that could be greater if more access. Gray education institutions. More and more young people that dont want a car to get to their jobs so all of this is about matching the infrastructure sought matches where we are right now. And making my announcement i was a mile and a half away from that bridge that collapsed only eight blocks from our house. The bridge we drive every day with her family then one day the bridge just fell down in 13 people died and you saw the community that came together afterwards but more than anything a story about infrastructure. That is why i lead with the infrastructure package because there are so many republicans that want to work on it and i know we can get it done is just an example of challenges we are not meeting that donald trump could have met with that pacs bill. I did not vote for it i had Serious Problems with it but if you could have combined it may be a 25 percent each point what have been a significant reduction with 100 billion think of how much that would have bought the rail project here in further Infrastructure ProjectsRural BroadbandCell Phone Service which i have noticed in parts of New Hampshire there is no service. My husband said try to think of a New Hampshire example last night and he noted this is his joke he can suffer through it he said your state motto is live free or die but if you die at least you want to prevent it from happening by calling on your cell phone if it doesnt work you have a real problem. Okay didnt go over that well. [laughter] the last time we try that one laptop but the point is that there are still issues in this country to be wired for broadband brick i have been there. Thats a vacation for people in minnesota but it is wired everywhere we have to find a way to do that. Im on the Conference Committee and know how to do this by 2022. With income inequality the simple idea that we will not be a Strong Economy if people are able to participate you can manufacture what you want but if you cannot buy them you will have a problem meaning changes to taxes especially the tax bill to make sure we do not leave this debt on the shoulders of those in front of us. It will take a long time but we can do it as angus king said it took 30 years to walk in and it will take us a long time to walk out but there are ways to think about this in terms of our spending and in terms of our taxes. The next big goal is education changes brick of the president talks a good game with Community Colleges and the degrees that you need that is near and dear to my heart with apprenticeships but was such an opportunity from the downturn to make that a priority to figure out to give incentives to the states to make apprenticeships and those one year degrees and certifications to fill those jobs that are open right now that are wellpaying and to incentivize students to go into that work. That is the major thing i want to do my mother got a ged and then a Community College degree than a four year degree and the best score that year in the state of iowa on her accounting exam now gainfully employed as an accountant ever since. There are many paths to success. Another piece is Immigration Reform to make sure again we have enough workers. Looking at the wall as an economic success necessity look at where the entrepreneurs were immigrant 70 fortune 500 Companies Might now are headed by people born in other countries. 25 percent of the west Nobel Laureates were born in other countries. Immigrants dont diminish america they are americana. [applause] comprehension Immigration Reform and even being in the group working with the dreamers compromise we actually had a compromise. Was not easy putting 14 of us in a room for weeks. We could not even get a plan to keep the dreamers there they are popular they didnt come here through no fault of their own but they made it impossible to do. I see that especially in states like yours with low Unemployment Rate looking at the National Employment figures of people are moving , and thats why comprehensive reform is the answer there for those people in New Hampshire if you have learned one thing that the 2013 senate bill from the cbo the nonpartisan cbo brings the debt down by 158 billion in ten years. That is why Grover Norquist made his top priority i called him as a witness to the joint Accounting Committee to talk about the economic benefits of doing Immigration Reform the right way because people come out of the shadows, pay taxes, more workers the unions are for this because people dont just work in the shadows bracket was the way to go and we can still do it now. This is one of the challenges that nobody has done anything about another is health care. Many things you can do right away like costsharing and reinsurance. Jean has a good bill on the costsharing piece and it has worked in states like alaska to help bring down immediately some of the premiums then you can move to a public option what president obama wanted to do in the beginning with either medicare or medicaid to create more competition. Taking on pharmaceutical prices literally have been left on their own to do whatever they want and the results have been escalating to the point where insulin has gone from 18 of ideal that that 1200 a month. A restaurant general manager in the twin cities once he aged out of his parents insurance could not afford his own insulin and he started to ration it and after two months he died it used to cost nothing and you can see those stories over and over in terms of what is happening. I will not go into all of my remedies but i am a lead on medicare negotiation that is my bill since i got to the senate. Sitting with senator mccain we were sadly lost him to bring in less expensive drugs from other countries, thank you canada. And to create competition which is the idea. There wasnt enough competitors in the market maybe they dont raise the prices if they have a trigger that is what you do that with the drug shortage then you can bring in a safe competitor from other countries the third idea is another bill i have a senator grassley to stop off paying off generic to keep the products off the market. I was at the Recovery Center that you have embattled with here with addiction and opioids and to carry the burden way beyond the size of your state. That in my own state with my own life with my dad as an alcoholic with three dwi after such a successful journalist is where he was facing jail time and had to make a choice. Jail or treatment and he chose treatment and in his words because of his faith and family and tough love that came from the government, he was pursued by grayson got his life together now he is 91 and he said to me is a a group still visits a mad assistant living so i make this a major priority and there is a way to pay for this i always talk i will pay for everything if you run for president you better have real ideas and Real Solutions to show how you will pay for it check it out on our website it includes lawsuits and those that are creating the drug and then you can see the funding for Mental Health we have had a big increase of suicide Climate Change this will help in addition to the rising sea levels also the flooding in the midwest with the fires raging like the Colorado InternationalClimate Change agreement today number one. [applause] and bring the clean power rules and other things we need to do in the last challenge is to make sure democracy is working that means doing what we try to do in our state which is make it easier for people to vote and not harder for them and there has been challenges here in the past as well but if you think about georgia were 53000 ballots were held back by the secretary of state running for governor and many of the reasons were because the hyphen did not match or a signature did not match that is not democracy when you go out of your way to deny people the right to vote. In texas so much news that donald trump calling for boycotts and calling the duchess a nasty name but then people miss to the fact that texas secretary of state resigned because of a scheme and a fried to keep people off of the voter rolls. It was that bad. He resigned in so what i would like to do as president is make this a major priority for if you have the right chemistry in congress you can literally pass my bill everybody registers to vote at 18 so how do we bring more people into that democracy they and shut them out . It may take a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United which is what i think we should do. [applause] the last thing we need to do to win what is a priority i win every place every time and everywhere i have run including people that were expected to win and that includes two major races i was out funded. That includes my race in high school for secretary of Student Council where my Campaign Slogan was all the way with amy k but i will not use that anymore. [laughter] as it has been pointed out have 100 bills signed into law as the lead democrat including the big School Safety law we did recently and 34 bills while donald trump was president. But in the end i think we need someone that can win across the country, that understands after democracy has been tormented by someone who doesnt seem to value what brings us together is bigger than what tears us apart and my way of doing work in bringing people together as i have is going to be a big big remedy for that. Not only how i run this campaign not just where i go comfortable but uncomfortable as well which is how i had 42 trump countys last time every counties including michelle bachman. [laughter] not just by going after people but to bring them together and that is the message not just for how you campaign but how you govern. Thank you. [applause]. We have time for a few questions. Senator the president has threatened to put a tariff of 5 percent a month on goods coming in from mexico. Having so much discussions of tariffs or canada with steel, new england number one number two exporter to canada. We have a trade bill in washington that is in getting this much support how do we go forward quick. I am still looking at that trade bill that is the issue of just how this president has handled working with the rest of the world. If you try to isolate yourself with your head in the sand you miss the opportunity that comes knocking at your door and if youre not careful as we have seen with the security issues, they will bang at your door. I dont like how he has handled the world. We should be standing with their allies. It is hard to stop the entire country of canada, that is an exaggeration but with the campaign right after the g7 we went up there to talk to the members of Canadian Parliament and then when canada would be left out of the trade deal arranged for a dinner for us to go over to the Canadian Embassy to talk to the ambassador and those issues to continue to push the white house to include canada in that agreement. And also our top trading partner from New Hampshire also with border issues and access to make sure the border infrastructure with private money to match the public money to make that easier and have commerce go back and forth. That tariffs in general i thought what happened with mexico and the way he used that on the immigration issue is not a good thing. Is not a good precedent it is completely unrelated and what do we find out . In the headline that most of that was made before he tweeted he had gotten this miraculous agreement in response to the crisis he created. I think in general if you step back i dont think having been just been in iowa that the farmers of the midwest or workers of New Hampshire should be poker chips that he is using them in the game for one of his bankrupt casinos. You have got to do trade in a tough way. That is true im not against using tariffs in a targeted way. We had problems with steel dumping in with the Obama Administration they started to up their enforcement of the steel dumping laws and it made a major difference we opened up iron ore mines again because of the fact they took it seriously and they werent before that. Those are very targeted work going on specifically with the specific countries. Yes, china has been a country stealing intellectual property, subsidizing industries creating in an even Playing Field with trade. The answer is of course, to work with our allies not to do everything alone, then go back to the negotiating table to get an answer. Just to bring it back i know there is lobster issues in maine. But the midwestern story of the soybean farmers one from northern minnesota even before the terrorists were in place but he could not make it and committed suicide and in his family for generations because then where they buy the soybeans . Farmers from other countries not just one year but then they get a one or two year contract. That is the concern as this goes on that in addition to that chaos for business and customers that will create different supply chains to have a longterm impact that and you cant just keep putting taxpayer money year after year into this. The better solution is to allow the market and people to sell their goods to market. Senator klobuchar, alan from aarp. If nothing is done to Social Security, benefits will be cut by 25 in 2034. 2035 i think, but yes. What plan specific to have to take a good hard look at medicare to prevent such guts . Exactly. Thank you. I have been opposed as you know to these schemespp to privatize it, and i think that both Social Security and medicare have been some of the best programs that we have and they both have to n place. Different things for different programs, for Social Security i favored lifting the cap, may be using a donut hole to make sure that it has the funds that it needs and making sure we dont raise the salsas getting money we have. I would also add thereto it is something that chris coons and i just put out to supplement for people that are at companies, especially good for Small Businesses, i dont have 401 k s, something called up savings account. We have 49 million americans who dont have savings right network thats a lot. All they have is also security, nothing else. The idea is to try to adjust to this economy where you have people that are working more jobs and combining jobs, they dont have any kind of pension of course, much less 401 k . The idea would be to have 50 cents an hour that an employer contributes. It would be opt out, not opt in. They would be tax credits, some of it paid for by some changes to that tax bill that just passed so that its easier for Small Businesses to afford it and then the first 2500 every single year could be taken out without penalty for emergency expenses. It would have to be verified. Because four out of ten americans right now to dont have 400 to pay for an emergency room visit and it puts them back and then you start getting in the cycle. You can take these accounts with you. Its estimated the end of their working career he wouldve saved like 600,000 or i just throw that out there. We need to get some innovative ideas and ensure we will hear in New Hampshire as i i go around d if you have any about this retirement issue with the new economy that we are in. As far as medicare, i think it is important to keep medicare strong as i ive noted. Some of this is making sure that we continue to make our Healthcare System work better. I am all in for a highquality lowcost care. Jean actually took me to dartmouth hitchcock a few years back to talk to them because they have actually combined with mayo clinic, my home state, to do a lot of work in costeffective gear and what we can do there. Looking at results, right, as our goal and that was whole idea, the Accountable Care organizations and the others out of the Affordable Care act. Thats good for medicare, good for everyone if we are able to do that. I just think we need to do everythingng we can to make our Healthcare System in general more affordable. A big part of this is what i lead with before, pharmaceutical prices. Nearly 20 of our healthcare expenses, when you include hospital pharmaceuticals, and as you can imagine the pharmaceuticals are highend on the senior and and so that makes, that would make a big difference when it comes to medicare and unleashing the power of 43 million seniors to be able to negotiate prices. A few of the ideas but well take some of the questions. Thank you. We have had time for maybe o more questions. Take the young lady in the back. Are you a student here . No. Thank you. Im just kidding. I work with the Community Health centers and i wanted to pick up a what you said about the soybean farmer and access to rural care, especially medical and oral health but also Mental Health care. 28 Million People across the nation, they could double that number to 60 million to help with Mental Health care in rural areas and want to get your thoughts on that. This Community Healthcare something that just last the las weve tried to beat up. It was something Debbie Stabenow and roy blunt in the senate put together and him, this bile, the have Mental HealthCommunity Health centers basically. Thats one thing i mentioned. The second, its justhi this problem with beds. We have many states in the country that just dont have enough Mental Health beds. We went from statebased Mental Health system to a Community BasedMental Health system. There are some real advantages to that. It was well intended, it was right thing to do but as the attorney general probably knows, we then dont have enough help often financially in our community to deal with that. Ive been in hospitals in my state where they have a guy locked up in a room with a cop in front of him fulltime because they dont know what to do. They dont know where to transfer him. Those kinds of things happen every day in america. This idea is to have more beds, to have more councils in schools, to have more for rural especially which is what you raise, the ability to have at least some with Mental Health expertise out there pushing on the Mental Health parity issue. That was a build up his past several years ago. Paul wellstone of my state was a big author of the bill, lead democrat, and that its been, theres been issues have that is been committed. The idea that if youre physically sick you should be able to get help. Same thing if you have a Mental Illness. I just think when one out of five americans are dealing with Mental Illness and weve had are you ready for this stat . Another good thing for you to remember, 30 increase in suicide in 15 years in america. Its not just stories. And on the news. Its really happening now. That we have to figure, some of it is the isolation of our age where we are looking at the internet and there is more lingo going on because of it. Some of it is not the access that people should have bullying some of it is a combination of opioids and things like that but its a very sad thing and we should be stepping back and figure out how were going to reverse that trend. Ho one final question. Then i have sort of a red sox related story im going to add. [laughing] you mentioned something about Climate Change picky said you would reenter the paris accord and would reenter reinstitute speedy the Clean Power Plan that obama put forward that was a mini year project to work to make sure that it was realistic, we can get it done and then trump didnt put them in place. Beyond those you have any specific ideas or what your approach would be to address Climate Change . Exactly. The reason i raised those three things at the begin, the Climate Change green, the gas mileage standards, those are things i could do in a first week on the job. I put this out to my twitter feed the otherer day, someone wrote back thats completely a joke. You would have to get the senate to pass it. Thats not true. Wetha could sign ourselves back into that agreement, and then the other two things would be, those other things are rules signatures put them out there. Im sure theres comments, there could be losses. Honestly a lot of the Business Community that those rules are going to go into effect anyway and ato lot of them, big compans police have been preparing for them. P i have a lot of small electric coops in my state so i understand that issue, and thats why they did it sort of as an average for a state so that apple had to meet meet it right away. I think they also have been realizing this is cominggh their way when you look at internationally some of the standards and things that i are happening. What i think beyond that, yes, we have to look at a lot of things, building standards Going Forward to have more green infrastructure, transit standards, the electric grid and putting money towards that. Thats when the infrastructure proposal has major component of it for green infrastructure. You could look at renewable electricity standards which have been very successful in some states. You would probably have different ways of meeting them regionally, and theres just a number of things that are out there that it didnt just waiting for action that havent happened as we look at how were going to transition to a clean power economy and to move forward when it comes to reducing greenhouse gases. I just w think this is, before there was just not the political will to work on this. Theres a lot of good ideas but ili think that is whats been missing. Its not the ideas. They are out there, and i think my view is when we have that vote, i voted for capandtrade. I was for it but it was during the downturn, and i had wished that we would have at least done and National Renewable electricity standard. Actually had a bill for it and at first thats a people for wanting to do, and then they decided to do happen trade and then that failed, sadly, in the senate. And then we got nothing. We didnt even do renewable electricity standard that almost passed to you before. I think the world has changed. People see it. It is not one of years from now. Its happening right now. Anyone that isis ever seen that video of that bad driving his little girl to the wildfires near paradise, aptly named, and singing to her to calm her down as the flames are going over their car leaving their house burning behind them. Its not happening 100 years from now. Its happening now. En if you have a quick question. Quick. [inaudible] thats a quick question. [laughing] i will just come maybe we can talk later but i think that we do have, for the reasons of te debt and the reasons of what i brought up with that income inequality, whats happening, we to make some changes. And some serious changes. Because when you look at the debt commissions report, i was one of the group that withheld my vote on one of the budget debt increases one year, the debt limit, so we could get that report out on the debt commission, which is a Bipartisan Group that put i something together. I didnt agree with everything in it, but it was just left basically to gather dust on the shelf, as was the Rivlin Domenici and some of the of the work that he been going on out there that just got left. All of those proposals suggested a combination of spending decreases as well as some tax changes in increases, and thats, has just of it happening. Happening. In fact, we gone the opposite way with republican tax bill that added 1 trillion to the the debt that we did not need. And so i i would start with soe of those changes which i already laid out on the Corporate Tax rate, the way they did international taxation, i would add to that. Capital gains that we should be changing that. Thats hundreds of billions of dollars. You would probably want to have some way to reward people that are actually Holding Money for investment for the longterm, but not the way it is now. They carried interest loophole brings in 14 billion, all kinds of things that weve been waiting to do like Immigration Reform, i i mentioned 158 billion. The changes on oil giveaways. That brings in billions of dollars. You just have to go through it and put together a package, and again to quote a friend angus, took us 30 years to want in this, it will take us 30 years to get at. I promised i would end with my little story because its a good, nice story other than taxes. Two in my story, and that is that with our daughter graduate from college of years ago, the speaker was theo epstein who had been the red sox general manager and then went on to do the cubs and this is a good political ending for us all. I actually was like, really . Hes the speaker . You know, twins fan, okay. But then i got to know him a little bit and he gave this most amazing speech, and to just summarize the focus, it was about the cubs that seventh game of the world series, and how they were expected to win and y sitting next to his son and his son is going it was such a big deal in chicago after their 100 some year drought of winning, that literally people at radios on their ancestors graves, okay, to play the game all over chicago so that they could hear this. So we sitting there next to his son and his son is going, the odds, dad, the odds are so great. They were ahead it so great. He keeps saying, stop talking about the odds. You never know, you never know. Then the game starts going to hell and bad and the lost their lead in the going into the seventh inning, and then theres clout that are coming in and theres a rain delay. You just havein this feeling watching the game that this is going bad, they will lose this thing. Then he talked about standing outside, the players locker room and explain how was the youngest in their rat, the most diverse team they ever had and he was speaking to a generation of young people about the promise of their generation. And so he said he looks in that room, and usually he says in rain delays the players just looked down at the phones and they are depressed, especially when youre losing. But he said this one was different. The players was a very to play with the worst season was leading the discussion. There were taught by the season and how cool the team was and that win or lose this was a season like no other and just this moment of hope whether all looking at each other and they go out and they win that game. He didnt put a a political message on this, but i will. [laughing] we can spend this next year looking down at our phones am not looking at each other, complaining about whats happening whether its the tariffs for the debt or the hatred, or we can just decide to look at each other even if we had some differences politically, even if we are in different Political Parties and decide this is not the america that we want and we can go out there as a team and win. Thank you. [applause] with a zipper. A tote bag. [applause] just want to thank the senator for being here, and just gave her a politics eggs tote bag. What you should do with this is put all your husbands jokes in here and dont let them out again. Dont let them out. All right . [laughing] great fun. He just said it was all in the delivery. Nice. [inaudible conversations]. Watch live at 8 p. M. Eastern on cspan2. Cspan. Org or listen live on the free cspan radio app. Here are some of our featured programs this weekend on book tv. 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[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] live coverage this morning here on cspan2. Were waiting for the start of a discussion on u. S. Leadership and Foreign Policy hosted by the Truman Center for National Policy. Its expected to begin in just a moment here live on cspan2. [inaudible conversations] good morning. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Please welcome to the stage president and ceo of Truman Center for National Policy and Truman National security project. [applause] good morning. Good morning, everybody