Hampshire, this was his first swing on the campaign. Thank you. Im looking out there, i see some very friendly faces. Good morning nashua. Some energy, come on, i want to get going here. [applause] not that hard, its sunday morning, you slept yesterday, right . It is great to be back in the granite state, a second home for me. Ive got two second homes, iowa and New Hampshire. [laughter] i love this state. Growing up i have great memories of visiting here with friends. Squam lake, getting up the highway there toward some of your blue ice that you get to ski on sometimes and high school in concord where i would really look forward to taking that first cut of the hockey season on the black ice and now the ice doesnt even freeze, so its hard to do today, but i love the primary tradition of the state. Not just because you voted for me. It goes a lot farther back than that, folks, to be honest with you. When i was 24 years old stationed on the other side of the earth, when Radio Broadcasts and weeks old newspapers in a mail pouch that finally got to us shared with me my idealized introduction to the phenomenon of the New Hampshire primary. Just 40 days after one of my very closest friends in college was killed in combat, New Hampshire was no longer just a place i went to high school. In the winter of 1968 New Hampshire was Something Else entirely. Some of you here remember that very, very closely. Legions of young people my age, the army of kids for peace, carrying pamphlets while i was carrying a gonna thousand miles away. Just kids knocking on doors, the Peanut Butter and jelly brigade, we called them and they proved themselves powerful enough to send a message all over the world that Lyndon Johnson couldnt be president anymore because of vietnam. It was an earthquake. It was palpable, and yes, deserves to be applauded because you did it for gods sake. [applaus [applause]. It was a grass roots prairie fire and frankly a great lesson to me in the power of people. Thats what we need now. 36 years later and my own president ial campaign, New Hampshire taught me another lesson or two. Sometimes the best lessons, frankly, were those learned the hard way, at town Hall Meetings where the air crackles with skepticism occasionally. In 2003, it is no secret as we came into december. My campaign was struggling a bit and i remember, you all remember up the highway, i think towards francona, the old man of the mountain. Well, a reporter wrote that i looked like the old man in the mountain. [laughter] and thats the half of it, folks, cause no sooner did he write that i looked like the old man of the mountain than the old man of the mountain crumbled and fell down so i did not think that was a particularly good metaphor. But guess what . You all saw through that, we saw through that, we fought room for room, gymnasium for gymnasium, fire hall for fire hall and you listened. Thats why im here today. You didnt give up on me and you really listened in New Hampshire. This state gives people a lot of chance to prove themselves. Youre also tough judges, you ought to be, you bring those notebooks. You meet people a bunch of finals, you write down the comparison and candidates, you care, you really care because you understand the responsibilities goes beyond just the primary vote in New Hampshire, witness what i said about Lyndon Johnson. So you carry that responsibility on your shoulders and i learned that december and january here in New Hampshire doesnt just bring you the frost, the black ice occasionally, it kicks off decision time. The moment when you get to set this nation on the course for president , the stretch run for the New Hampshire primary. And folks, thats when i learned people really buckle down and make a decision. Do you know what the decision is, i think . Who can be president of the United States and who [applause] and not just in theory, but who can get elected, who can win the race, who can bring people together all around this country and get the job done . And thats why i know that here in New Hampshire, we are in the first steps right now of beginning the process of throwing that wrecking crew out of the white house and putting somebody in there who is going to get the job done. [applaus [applause] this is our chance to put common sense and decency and, yes, sanity back into 1600 pennsylvania avenue. [applaus [applause] and im not here just for any old reason. I am here because i know to my core. I know in my gut, i know in my heart, in my mind. Ive seen it, ive worked with this man, i know that joe biden is the person that can beat donald trump and bring this country back together and get the job done. [applaus [applause] we spent 24 years together in the United States senate and the only team that spent more effort cooperating with each other than us was donald trump and Vladimir Putin. So let me make this clear. I am not here because of the length of time i got to serve with joe. Ive known him. We go back to actually, we go back to 1971 and the antiwar demonstration, earth day and all of those efforts when we did change the world. And its not because ive known him so long that im here its because ive known him so well. I know this man. And i also know, having had the great privilege of representing our nation around the world as secretary of state, i know that the world is in trouble and the United States, along with it, our democracy is not working the way it ought to be. Too many disenfranchised. Too many people celebrated from the upper end of the income level and any country that sees 51 of all of its earnings go to 1 of its people is living with an unsustainable political equation and we need a president like joe biden to change that equation. [applaus [applause] and one of the things i learned as secretary of state is, you know, if the United States is absent, other countries dont just automatically step up to make the difference. I think that Madeleine Albright called us the indispensible nation and i want you to think about when joe biden and President Trump were the leadership of our nation. On issue after issue, the South China Sea where we stood up for freedom of navigation, country after country where we stood up for human rights and the rights of people to be franchised and have a vote, revolution after revolution in the mideast and war, afghanistan where we put together a huge coalition to protect the interests of our nation. Isis, where we put together the coalition of 68 plus nations to defeat isis and restore a sense of rule of law and order in our world. My friends, we have our work cut out for us. Thats why ive started this new effort, environmental effort. The Climate Crisis is by far literally the biggest challenge weve faced because its existential. Science tells us that and its time that we had a president of the United States who not only understands the science hes reading, but who believes in the science that hes reading and thats what we need to do. [applaus [applause] the number two problem, the solution to Climate Change is going to require us to bring the world together, all of us. The Climate Crisis is extraordina extraordinarily big, but not really that complicated, folks. The solution is already here, its called energy policy. You start to make the right choices, we can win this war, we can win this battle. So who can bring the public the question now is, who has the experience . Who has the relationships, who has the gravitas and the credibility, the lift to on day one be able to bring to the table all the automakers and get them to accelerate the rate at which we move to electric. Someones got to be able to bring the Public Utilities and the governors, the Construction Companies of our nation to build the greatest Infrastructure Program weve ever had to begin to transition to a grid for our country that could actually be a smart grid and begins to allow us to use the Energy Produced at one side of the country and the other side of the country. This isnt rocket science. Do you know whats missing today . Whats missing today is leadership. Whats missing today is the will to do this and ive watched this guy create will where there wasnt any and provide leadership where there wasnt any. And thats why we need to think about the reality of what this election really means. We need a president of the United States who understands that there are millions are good paying jobs for working people and they are there for the taking and the making if we do our job. This is not scary. The only thing thats scary is the unwillingness of the leader of the United States to recognize the reality and to call it a chinese hoax rather than lead the nation to the table to get the job done. So, you know, we need a president who buys into the reality that the greatest market the world has ever known is the energy market. 4. 5 billion users today. Its going up to 9 billion users over the course of the next 30 years. Its already a multitrillion dollar market. Already an america the Fastest Growing job is solar power transmission, second fastest job, wind turbine transmission. Far more than involved in the coal industry and we all know what the consequences of coal are today. We need a president who understands the next great Infrastructure Initiative of our nation is to meet the challenge of this crisis and to make it america, to make iowa a place where you actually become the saudi arabia of wind power. New hampshire, producing the technologies, maybe even the negative Emissions Technology where we take Carbon Dioxide out of the air and put it to a use. Why dont we have a multibillion dollar investment effort in that like john kennedy asked us to put together to go to the moon. Joe biden understands that and i want a president of the United States there on day one who has the ability to catch up for lost time. This is the man to do that, folks. Youve got to help us get there. I know how New Hampshire works. [applaus [applause] its also clear that never has it been more important to have a president who genuinely delivers for the middle class of our country. Life is hard still for too many people. Too many people fighting to make up for the lost ground of 2008 and the fiscal crisis which, by the way, president obama and vicepresident biden brought us back from the brink of that crisis and the fact is [applause] one of the reasons im here today is that i understand that joe biden from scranton, pennsylvania grew up understanding the challenges, what it means to pay those bills. What it means to find a job. His own father had to move to do that. This is a man who comes from the middle class, who will fight the middle class, not a phony who comes down a goldenplated escalator and promises to get rid of a swamp which he feeds with morale gators than weve ever seen before. Are you kidding me . [applaus [applause] so call it whatever you want, experience, wisdom, muscle memory, joe bidens a little bit like the new england patriots, i think. Fun to watch, fun to watch the promise and potential of young quarterback, but come february i like having an experienced quarterback like tom brady calling those plays. [applause] so when chairman biden became vicepresident biden he didnt just hand me a gavel, folks, he handed me a legacy of getting things done with inseg grit and bipartisan. Of shared experiences that we had travelling literally hundreds of thousands of miles around the world as he was chairman of the Foreign Relations committee and he served on it Paul Sarbanes and chris dodd. I never thought id be chairman of any committee, but i became chairman of that committee when he became vicepresident and then i remember in 2008 when russian tanks rolled into a neighboring country called georgia, it was chairman joe biden who immediately picked up the phone. He didnt pick up the phone to ask for a personal favor to do anything with an election in the United States, he picked up the phone to find out what america could do to help the president of that country and that country survive. [applause] uabout he didnt stop with a phone call. He got on a plane right away and flew overnight and sat on a hill top in georgia with that president of our democratic ally and he made it clear the United States stands with the forces of freedom, not the darkness of dictatorship. [applaus [applause] so just think about it. When russian stooges, fake uniform, rolled into eight years later rolled into ukraine, candidate trump, he also had a test and his first instinct was to say, thats not my problem. Thats not our problem. Basically, he said Vladimir Putin can have crimea. So ask yourselves when they do it again somewhere, who is donald trump going to call . What friends does he have in the world besides kim jongun and Vladimir Putin . And im sure that kim jongun actually unfriended him interethis past week. We need a president like joe biden who knows in his go ut the difference between our adversaries and our allies who leads in the world stage, not a president who is openly mocked and laughed at by our closest allies in the world, so, so personally disturbed like a child in a playground, that he picks up his marbles and goes home and shrinks away in the dark of night and starts tweeting in solitude. We need a president who leads where these leaders of other countries respect him, like him, understand our values, share the same direction, which the United States of america sacrificed for in world war ii, for the world we built after twarld 2 which deserves the same Leadership Today as we gave it then. Thats what we need in the white house t [applause] we need a president who when he stands next to Vladimir Putin a few feet away, he doesnt look at him and Say Something like, i dont see any reason why russia would have attacked our election. And throw the entire Intelligence Community and network of the United States of america under the bus in one fell swoop. You dont see any reason why russia would attack our democracy . For that statement alone why 0 see any reason why anyone would give this president four more yea years. Now folks [applaus [applause] so lets kind of get back to basics here. I would love to be and i know the vicepresident would, id love to sit here and take your questions all day long. Thats how i learned the most when i was running, i love it. I cant do that today because im trying to make sure that i am making as clear an argument as i can as to why i care about this. Lifetime of service. I dont come to this lightly, nor does he, but i know the value of experience. Since when did it not matter . Youre going to have heart surgery, youre going to ask for the most experienced capable person. This is big stuff right now because so much is at stake. And ive seen this man sit in the situation room at the white house when tough choices were in front of us, ebola in africa. We were told a Million People were going to die in four months. We didnt do anything. We didnt know what we didnt know, but the president and vicepresident had the courage to send 3,000 plus troops to west africa to help build the capacity to deliver Life Saving Health care. We delivered that care and guess what . A tiny fraction of those people died over the course. [applause] these are lonely and tough decisions, folks, and im asking you over these next weeks. Think about the value of that experience and choices you make in life that are based on tomorrow experience. When i became secretary of state, joe was an advocate, an ally for the hardest issues, for diplomacy to end the Iranian Nuclear threat. Joe remembers this, we had the king of arabia was telling me im sure he told the vicepresident , youve got to bomb iran, the president of egy egypt, mubarak, you must bomb iran. And one said i want to bomb them i want you to back me up and president obama had the fortitude and intelligence said, whoa, we have to do diplomacy before we send Young Americans to war. Thats part of the test and i know that donald trump has let that genie back out of the bottle now. You have everything happening in the middle east is forseeable and it was foreseen. This is dangerous stuff, folks. So i think measure isis, when isis happened, they were sweeping across syria, about to take baghdad, mount sinjar, the yeazidis were about to be wiped out, and president obama sent bombers, and we got the arab countries together and the first time in the history, the sunnis bombed sunnis. This guy walked away, promise, rattles a sabre, has sweetheart meetings with the man he says he loves, with the worst man on the planet. I want a man with decency and strength and understands who is a friend and who isnt. And thats joe biden because he has the experience to do it. [applause] now, i ask you just to think about the difference between two people. The difference between joe biden and donald trump is a difference that that is not donald trump, i hope. Please. Hes an interrupter. Hes a disrupter, thats what he does. But this is serious. Think about life style. Think about life choices. Think about the history of a lifetime. Think about a man who lost his wife and child, two kids survived and an auto accident. Days after hes elected to the United States senate before hes old enough to be sworn it in and he gets through that, gee, i shouldnt go to the senate, maybe, ive got to take care of my kids. Think about this. So this is a man who has been tested publicly and so have his skills as a leader. As a senator he stood up to war criminals in the ba balkans. And wrote the first climate bill before many had had heard the word. Ive seen joe fight the fights and win them. I say to you simply, folks, i think we need a president of the United States who fought and passed the landmark violence against women act. I think we need [applause] i think we need a president of the United States who stood up and beat the n. R. A. In order to win an assault weapons ban. [applaus [applause] i think we need a president who can do what i saw him do, something that eluded every president since harry truman and passed the Biggest Health care Reform Program in history that today we proudly call obamacare. [applause]. Guest it and now we need a president who will build on obamacare and make sure that every single american can choose a public option. [applause] and remember that joe biden was trusted by president obama on almost every tough issue. He was put in charge of the recovery act. He had president ial power to make that happen and that act literally saved us and brought us back from another great depression. He was designated to humanely face down the problem of unaccompanied children pouring in from Central America, remember that . Well, we need a president who actually knows how to protect the borders without trampling on the rights of our fellow human beings. [applaus [applause] you know, you can find an issue where you dont agree with him. You can find an issue with any of the candidates you dont agree with one or the other, but unless its a difference between life and death, folks what we need to make certain is that we actually remove donald trump from the white house. What we need to do [applause] when i hear some people draw these little minor distinctions between some of the candidates, i must say to you, im tempted to be a little bit like rhett butler in gone with the wind and say frankly, i dont give a damn. The difference is really whether or not well have a president whos decent, experienced, knows how to lead the nation, has relationships around the world on day one can begin to heal the world that is broken because of what donald trump has done to trample on it and pull it apart. All around the world people are wondering who we are today. 16 years ago you voted for me and i thank you profoundly for that. We turned New Hampshire blue again. Carried michigan, carried wisconsin, carried pennsylvania, came within one state of beating a war time incumbent president of the United States. Im proud of what we did together, but you knew the stakes then. Theyre even higher now in 2020. So i would never come here to tell anybody in New Hampshire how to vote. Thats not what im here to do. Im here to tell you why i am working for and why im voting for joe biden. After four years of donald trump, the world is still wondering what happened in america . And if he gets eight years, folks, they will be wondering who we really are. So New Hampshire, when you vote in february, dont just send a message. Send us a president. Send us a president who will fight for the middle class. Send us a president who will put our nation back together. Send us a president who is from the middle class. Send us a president who can make America America again. Send us president joe biden. Thank you. [applaus [applause] hello, nashua. [applause] i know who im voting for. Excuse my back. Excuse my back. Its good to be back. Good to be back in nashua. Let me start off by thanking annie for being my friend for so long and all the hard work she does in the congress and being willing to stand by me again. Folks, you know, jo n john has been a friend for a long time, but weve also worked together on some really, really difficult issues. I admire and im not going to go into a lot of time because you know him, too. He has remarkable courage. He came back from vietnam at the end of a war that never should have been started in the first place, the rational for it. Not only ive never found anybody with more just pure guts than john, but you know, with john kennedy, moral courage is a rare commodity in public life. And things that john covered and credit which i dont deserve because john was the guy leading the fight of some of the Foreign Policy missions. But john and i have are sympatico intellectually for a long time and chose well when john ran. Like john, im not telling you i deserve your vote. Im telling you i want you to look me over. Where i come from, id knock on door, my name is joe biden democratic candidate for the United StatesUnited States, look me over, if you like what you see, vote for me, if you dont. Thats what, you are the starting gun for the primary race for the United States presidency. You have an incredible obligation plot to me at all, but to yourselves because what you do here in iowa and what they do in iowa, what you do here in a primary in New Hampshire is going to set the tone of who is likely to be the nominee for president of the United States. And you always take it seriously. You really do. You always take it seriously. But i dont think its ever been a more serious choice you have to make, not because im running, not because im running, but because of the man who holds the office of the United States right now. I dont think anybody i know he didnt know much before he was elected and before that, remember he said i didnt realize this job would be harder than running a real estate empire. Bless me father for i have sinned. Whoa, but he meant it. He meant it. So, folks, theres so much at stake. So, so, so much at stake and you have a lot of good candidates to choose from who is going to take him on. And youre going to have to make some tough choices. But what i want to do, rather than talk to you about the specific issues of everything from health care to global warming, existential threat to humanity right now and john is leading john put together a coalition over 70 world leaders, both political parties, all around the world, to deal with this Climate Crisis and john and i agree and john has been a leader on this back in the days before the u. N. And john, the reason why we have a paris climate accord, which i played a little part in, this guy put almost 200 nations together to say we had to deal with this problem. This guy right here. [applause] i spent an awful long time in my career in the middle east and in iran and dealing with iranians. John was the guy that, in fact, was able to the president and i did a lot, but john was the guy on the ground putting together the single most invasive regime of inspections that ever had been put together in all of human history. We knew exactly what every single solitary thing that the iranians were doing relative to trying to get a Nuclear Weapon and its loaded up. John was able to put together a coalition of our allies in europe, along with russia and china to be able to put a stop to what they were doing and it worked. And along game came the guy in the art of the deal. The art of the deal, my lord. Look what he did. America first now makes us america alone. America alone. And folks, last thing i want to say because i want to go to questions, you know, i said early on i come out of the Civil Rights Movement thats how i got involved in politics. My state has the 8th largest population of any in the nation and thats excited my passion and anger when i was a kid and thats why i got so deeply involved in my community with the Civil Rights Movement, but you know what . I never thought id ever see the day after we got through so much and elected an africanamerican president , that i was proud to serve with, that wed see a group of people come out of the fields carrying torches in charlottesville, virginia, 2017, accompanied by the ku klux klan chanting antisemitic bile, the same exact bile chanted in germany in the 30s. Carrying nazi flags and torches. I really mean it, think about it when you get home. Close your eyes and remember what that dd what you saw on television, the hatred they were spewing in one of the great cities in america. And a young woman was killed in the melee. The president was asked to speak to it and he said, quote, there are very fine people on both sides. No president , no president in American History has ever said anything like that. This guy is more George Wallace than he is george washington. This guy has foment the hate. He has given oxygen, given oxygen to White Supremacy and divided the nation like everybody, every single scam artist out there has done when theyre trying to gain power. To divide us, to divide the people. The reason i worked so hard and spent so much time talking about the middle class, it is the moral center of who we are. When they conclude that this is a rigged game, they cant benefit by playing by the rules, thats when charlatans are able to begin to take advantage. So folks, the words president s use, any president matter. People listen at home and around the world. The word matters. A president by his or her words can send a nation to war, brave women and men. It can bring peace. It can make markets rise or fall and also, also, appeal to the deepest, darkest elements of American Society and give them oxygen, which it happened here. So i know i initially was criticized for saying were in the battle for the soul of america. Were in the battle for the soul of america. We hold these truths to be selfevident. All men and women are created equal. Endowed by their creator, the life, the liberty, you know it all. We learned it in school. We think its almost corny sometimes when we talk about it, but its real. Weve never lived up to it. But no leader has ever walked away from it like we have now. Every generation is open the aperture of opportunity, more and more and more and this guy shut it down. So, folks, we have to not om for our sake here at home, but internationally, restore the soul of america. When he said those things, remember, angela merkel, the chancellor of germany wonder you had out loud what has happened to america. Other leaders around the world, whats going on . Weve led not only by our power, were the most powerful nation in the history of the world. Folks, weve led by the power of our example. In jeopardy. So folks, weve got a lot of work to do, a lot of work to do. Its not just going to be the president thats going to have to do that work. Its going to be all of you, whomever the next democratic president who is, god willing, the reason, is because we have to change the rhetoric, the way that we treat one another, we have to get back to some degree of civility. The next president is not only going to have to on day one, inherit a divided nation, and the next president is also going to inherit a world in disarray and they better be ready on day one. They better be ready on day one. And the reason im running is because of my experience. Not in spite of it. Because of my experience. With the help of an awful lot of people ive been able to get more major legislation passed than anybody else running in the entire democratic field, theyre good people, but ive been able to get things done. I dont treat all republicans as my enemy. This is not your fathers Republican Party. Any Republican Party that votes to say that this guy is better than abraham lincoln, oh, my god almighty. I pray for the return of the Republican Party. And when he or she spokes, no Vladimir Putin, no he knows who he is, and he knows who that person is, knows, knows that our eye lies can speak when he or she stays something, that theyre going to keep americas word. Its important. Its important. Because we are built on an idea, an idea unlike any other country and it has to be restored. So as my mother from scranton would say, hush up and taking questions you all have. Fire away. Raise your hand. The gentleman right there. [applause] [inaudible] what i would say is i would turn and say look, Everybody Knows who donald trump is. Let me tell you i am. Everybody knows who donald trump what im going to do, im not going to do is im going to try my best to keep my irish in check. [laughing] anyway, yeah. [laughing] [inaudible] no, no. But really and truly, look, Everybody Knows who donald trump is here i have to let him know who i am, who we are. We choose hope over fear. We choose sides over fiction. We choose for real unity over division. And most importantly we choose truth over lies, lies. So folks, i just have to make sure that i let people know who i am. [applause] what is your position on the Electoral College . What is my position on Electoral College. My position is its not going to change. We need a constitutional amendment to be able to change it and there is some early rationale for it. The early rationale for, the reason we got to go put the connecticut compromise was because states like New Hampshire, delaware and others who have very small populations, who have no impact on the outcome of an election if, in fact, no one would show up, quite frankly. So i still think theres value to it but it do think its worth as going back and reconsidering. Ive taught constitutional law for over 21 years and i think its worthy to be considered, we looked at begin Industries Way by scholars to see whether or not they should be any change or alteration of it. But the fact of the matter is it is what it is. And for example, if it wasnt in a position where the was an Electoral College, you all wouldnt get a chance to do anything. No, you get to vote, but you know, and they think it requires the whole purpose was, you remember, its not only to get a constitution passed but it was to bring disparate parts of the country together. You have very different concerns all solid concerns, to concerns that people have in mississippi, practical concerns. Im not just talking about race. Im talking about differences, folks in north dakota have different problems than folks in lets say virginia. Theres a reason we have to bring each other together in a federal system. Im going to start sounding like a commonlaw processor instead of the candidate but i think look it is what it is. We are going to deal with it and beat them both ways, a popular vote and the electoral vote. [applause] im sorry. Can you holler your question . I dont think the plant on my taking all these questions. Thats okay. Hes getting out his cell phone. [laughing] i hope youre not calling the president. There you go. Thank you. Vice president biden, secretary of state kerry, thank you for your service to our country. Its much appreciated here in New Hampshire. [applause] as you know, donald trump is the most reckless president in the United States come in the history of the United States. By his vulgar message and language. I start to be a politician but might not make it due to the abuses of power from this president and the threat [inaudible] mr. Vice president of what would you do to deal with the muslim camps in china, i would you assure the Kurdish Forces under allies of her support and would you ever support a Green New Deal . I have a new green deal. We did the first Green New Deal. I love this, green to do. There are four or five different versions of how to deal with, deal with the Climate Change. And all the environment of groups have rated my group a b . No one has suggested its not a great Green New Deal. It goes to a johnson, who can get it done. Example first thing i will do as president young talking about how to do it, not a joke, is to rejoin the paris climate accord. Second thing is to invite [applause] all those nations back to the United States just like the president and i and john did with the Nuclear Proliferation agreement, to bring them to the trend of america and say heres the deal. You made a commitment. We have to live up to the commitment. You will have to live up to. Because we make up 15 of the problem, the rest of the world is 85 of the problem. With regards to what hes talking about, hes talking about what would i do about the uighurs in china. Theres 1 million muslims who are being essentially in concentration camps in the west. I would and i have been speaking out on that from the beginning. Look, if we do not speak out, if we do not speak out about human rights, nobody else will and its a flashing green light, go, go, go. Look how far out of hand, look out far out of hand with tablet in hong kong has gotten. Do you think barack and i wouldve weighed ten seconds to talk about that . It started before and we spoke of. Remind the rest of the world they made an agreement when they brought hong kong in. The context was the following. And we get rest of the world to say and stand up at the United Nations and say youre wrong, you cannot act that way. You have got to speak up. Its not about sending hundreds of thousands of troops to fight anywhere. Its about mobilizing the world to say you will pay a price at least relates to reputational costs as well as possibly trade and other areas if he continued to act in a way that is intolerable, intolerable. Weve got to speak out. We underestimate the incredible power, the moral power of the United States when it speaks out. It has a profound impact. For example, look at my photographer here. [laughing] your awful good, man. Whats your name . Sam. Could use you, pal. Maybe, maybe we can talk afterwards, okay . All right. Anyway, cute kid. Anyway [laughing] kind of a little bit of a distraction. Look, folks, we have been and remain sort of the moral center of gravity of the world, and when, in fact, and it is, in fact. Im going to answer questions but just take a look at whats going on now in venezuela. We are silent. You know what that means if we dont speak up . You may seek colombia in real trouble not able to handle the millions of people across the border, olivia. You may see whats happening in brazil. You may see things that fundamentally affect our physical security. We dont say a word . He has no notion of what to do. Much more to say but already answered your question to thoroughly. I guess i was just of the closest person. You have to call me. My lovely wife next meet as a refugee from the soviet union became a thanks to some votes you helped cast. [applause] thank you for choosing us. Im not sure if she had a choice, but last month in november the United States only resettled 1400 refugees at an october it was zero for the First Time Since he started keeping records. My question to both you and maybe secretary kerry as well would be what would your positive Refugee Resettlement and what is an ideal number of refugees to resettle in the trip . The ideal number in the United States is that we can handle and we can tolerate a significant increase in refugees who are seeking, going from oppression. Im the guy that started the effort along long time ago to deal with the resettlement of russian jews in the United States of america. I wasnt making a judgment, but seriously, think about it. I was raised by with the Jewish Community calls a righteous christian, my dad who happen to be a catholic. My dad would come home for dinner and then go back. And it was one time we are all together every he worked until five, come over did it and go back to work. My dad, our dinner table, two things required. One, you had to have perfect manners. My dad was insistent upon you could never even though in the of the something you couldnt come with a tshirt and a baseball hat on and sit down it didnt. You never put your elbow on the table. You had to know which fork to use when. My dad was fastidious about it. The other thing my dad was a serious about, our dinner table is a place where you had conversation incidentally you ate. You think im joking, im not. My dad used to talk about, use student of the holocaust and my dad used to talk about things, why didnt we, for example, bombed the Railroad Tracks to auschwitz . Why did we do this . Why did we let that ship go by . The point is what we do in the United States of america as profound impact. Look at change the soviet union, our attitude. We insisted, we said your going to act this week. Were not going to do the following. It wasnt going to war. We didnt threaten war with russia over soviet jewelry. We pointed out to the whole world exactly who they were and what they were doing. Which leads me to this last point on this issue. Theres lots we could talk a lot about it but one thing, look, there was a poll and worldwide gallup poll in february of this past year. Do you know what it said . It said that the chinese leadership was more respected than American Leadership around the world. And we are right just a click above russia. We yield our moral leadership. Again, think about it. Think about the power, the power of the moral leadership has we speak up look what were able to do in africa. Look what we were able to begin to begin to change, well, hes a good friend, by the way. Hes a good friend, and look what one has a done. It is changed the lives of millions of people. Why does that matter . It matters in terms of generating leadership in countries that are only beginning to emerge, the look to the United States not as the problem of the enemy but looks to the United States as a solution. It matters what we say. It matters what we do, and i think the idea that we are unwilling, that we said rock and i thought and john thought we should increase the number of refugees that should be able to come to the United States, at least at a a minimum what the l temporary status like we should be doing in venezuela no. We have enough problems in Central America. Okay . And im the guy who wrote the legislation as Vice President , provide seven had 50 million to get those countries where all this, all the movement from Central America is coming, to move them in a direction where they had to repair the corruption in the countries, to get aid, had to set up school systems. We didnt get any money directly to the government. We give money directly to the mayors for new Street Lighting in tough cities, et cetera, generate electric, just being able to turn on electricity, click a switch because they dont have it, et cetera. It happened . The flow began to diminish significantly. Its not like anybody sits around the world and says ive got a great idea, lets leave everybody we know, everything within, the language we speak, lets get up and go to the United States. We dont speak the language. Wont that be fun . Seriously. People leave what they love because they can no longer live there because of whats happening to them. That doesnt mean we are the repository of every lost soul in the world, but it does mean we have a responsibility to have a moral leadership to get the rest of the world united. Look what happens when were unable to deal with what happened in europe and the massive flows from afghanistan and iraq and from libya. We have brexit now. We have a broken system in europe that this president thinks should be broken anyway. Anyway, yes, maam. Okay. Thank you. What was your chance on any committee on the appeal of the hounds for the helms amendment . Which helms amendment . Relating to what issue . There are four major amendments he has international. Of the abortion a minute. The Hyde Amendment. The Hyde Amendment, look, when you move in a direction that all of the healthcare is available to be able to go through a federal system, the Hyde Amendment which every Single Member running for office in the Democratic Party has voted for, every single one, the Hyde Amendment was designed to say that when there is an alternative that was available to everybody, poor women, when you were not cutting off everything from planned parenthood, get 100 voting record from, et cetera, then in fact, to make sense to say okay, in fact, that would be available. Once you go out and see if the medicare for all or you go out and you pose as i do, that you increase obamacare and provide a public option, then what youre saying is that roe v. Wade is not available to poor people under any circumstance because its federal money, federal money. I came out while ago saying you have to get rid of the Hyde Amendment because it is no longer doable and usable and no longer a serious option for anybody. You of all the states going out and not only challenging whether or not theres they are saying its a criminal offense, youre going back the best way to say it, if i get elected president of the trend, Supreme Court overrules roe v. Wade come on going to send legislation to the United States congress to pass it and codify it. [applause] folks look, i know im keeping i come from a delaware if you keep people standing within 15 minutes you lose them all but youre probably all gone by now. But when we conclude. Folks, like i said, john and i got started very young. We ran for office when we were in our 20s. I got elected to the United States said it before us old enough to be sworn in. On the first senator ever knew, fact. Heres the gipper i was always labeled as the idealistic young guy who was optimistic. I can say without fear of contradiction, i am more optimistic today about americas chances to lead the world than ive ever been in my career. And i needed, think about it. We are all Walking Around with our heads down like what with me, what are we going to do. My god, were in real trouble. We are because of an administration. Not because of the American People. Think about it this way. We have more Great Research university in the trend of america than all the rest of the world combined. And its owned by the people. Every single solitary life altering change that has occurred as come out of research university. Have not come out of the private sector. Its owned by you, its been monetized by the private sector. Good thing but it is being owned by the American People whether its los alamos or any of the Great Research university. And folks, secondly, we are in a situation where our workers they will not let me take any more questions. Our workers are three times im going to take your question because you will not put it down. Youre irish, too. That means shes not going to quit. [laughing] me finish my thought and then ill take this one last question. Folks, thirdly, were in a situation where the American People, i met come john and i met virtually every major world leader. I havent found a single one, and a mean this sincerely, think about this, the wooden crate places in the heartbeat with the United States of america for the president. In a heartbeat. We have the largest economy in the history of the world. We are the most advanced Research People in the history of the world. We are the most diverse population in a democracy that generates enormous ingenuity. We are in a position where we have significant venture capitalism and knows how to get things done. We have the most powerful military in the history of the world. And folks, what are we doing . We are forgetting who we are if this is the United States of america. There has never been a single solitary thing in our history that we havent set our might to do that weve been unable to accomplish, literally. Not a single solitary thing. My message is real clear. Lets get the hell up and take back this country. Lets go. Lets take it back and make the world once again. Thanks ill answer your question. Ill come over and attribute ladies and gentlemen, every time i walk out of my grandfather house opens grant he would jump joey, keep the faith. My grandmother would you know, jelly, spread it. Go spread the faith. We can do anything. [cheers and applause] the best advice i can give to young filmmakers is not to be afraid to take y