Well take you live now to charlotte, north carolina, where joe biden is holding a Campaign Stop today. Its being called a biden for president black economic summit. Its just getting underway. Live coverage is here, cspan3. Mr. President , i was kidding. Hardest thing, only thing harder than being president of a union is being a mayor of a beautiful city. Folks, thanks for taking the time to be here today. I really appreciate i. And we even have an astronaut in the house and thats pretty cool. Look, first of all, i want thank chris and the mayor for being here and all of you for being here. And you know, these are tough times. Over 200,000 americans have passed away. 200,000. And the numbers still rising and impact on communities is bad across the board, particularly bad for africanamerican communities. Almost four times as likely to, three times as likely to catch the disease, covid. And when its caught, twice as likely to die as White Americans. Its the sort of emblemmatic of the inequality that exists and the sishz that exist. And one of the things that really matters to me is we could do, didnt have to be this bad. You have 30 Million People on unemployment. You have 20 Million People figuring whether or not they can pay their mortgage payment this month. And what theyre going to be able to do or not do as a consequence of that. Then youve got millions of people who are worried that theyre going to be thrown out in the street because they cant pay the rent. Although when given a prooef for three months, but have to pay double the next three months. How are people going to do that . And the way in fact the Democratic House and the Senate Passed it stepped up and passed the significant amount of money to help people get through the process including keeping businesses open and the like. Well, guess what. They insisted there be a thing called inspector general. Somebody watching where every dollar went. The first thing the president of the United States did was fire that inspector general. There is no inspector. Hes fired. Fired. So youve got 40 , only 40 of the money intended for Small Businesses going to Small Businesses. Only 40 of it. 60 has gone to the maralago crowd. In addition to that, we find ourselves in a circumstance where the idea that were going to continue to provide for Unemployment Insurance for people is very much in doubt. Although the house just passed a package today. My generic point is that the university of columbia pointed out that if in fact the president acted, even though we know now, he knew exactly how bad the pandemic was back in february. Hes on tape with bob woodward saying he knew how bad it was. And he didnt say a thing. He didnt say a thing. And if he had spoken, as i said, i said at columbia, one week earlier, 37,000 more people would be alive today and were going to have another influx of cases. This between now and january. Its expected that were going to have somewhere between 138,000 and 178,000 more deaths and if people just do what were doing here, take a mask off when youre social distancing, but wear a mask. Estimate that would save close to 89, 90,000 people. And so its about being responsible. Its about being responsible. And were not being very responsible. But what i want talk to you about today is you know, we have to break a cycle. The cycle is that the Africanamerican Community by and large finds itself at the bottom of the economic heap when businesses and others when things are good. When things get bad, theyre the first ones in the hole and when things get better, theyre the last ones out. In addition to that, we have a criminal Justice System that needs significant repair and were just only beginning slightly to make some progress now. And thirdly, if youre a business person, let me put it this way. Every person out there wants an opportunity to make it for their family. My dad used to have an expression. Everybodys entitled to be treated with dignity and he said joey, a job is a lot more than a paycheck. Its about dignity, respect, your place in the community. About being able to hold your head up and look your kid in the eye and say honey, everythings going to be okay. For too many people, particularly those in the Africanamerican Community, not able to be done. So one of the things i want to talk to you about today is how do we build wealth. Ultimately, the Africanamerican Community is going to have its place equally to everyone else when theyre in a position to build wealth and that goes from everything to access to being able to purchase a home. Access to jobs. Access to just being able to have an even shot. And thats what i hope were going to talk a little bit about today and it depogoes to educat as well as access to education, access beyond everything from a lot of poor whites and africanamericans, poor africanamericans and hispanic live in title one districts. Meaning they live in School Districts that have low tax space. Right now, we spend 15 billion a year to compensate for that low tax space. I increase that to 45 billion, it keeps teachers in schools because were short teachers significantly. 125,000 teachers short right now. Half a million by 2023. In addition to that, we find ourselves in a circumstance where we used to have in our schools in the old days, used to have one, right now, we dont have any, we virtually have no School Psychologists in our schools, so teachers come in to school and they are expected to solve every problem. Well, theres one School Psychologist for every 1,507 kids in school. Should be closer to one in 500. We can do that by increasing the money i just talked about from 15 to 45 and send every single child thats 3 years old, 4 years old, 5 years old, not to day care, but to school. Studies have pointed out that will increase by 58 their chance of going all the way through school no matter the zip code. And be able to do it without getting themselves in trouble and then were going to talk about, i think a big issue here is access to apprenticeships and Community Colleges and college. And the student debt requirements that are there. Hope we can talk about that, but i want to talk about basically one big important thing. How do we change the dynamic . This is a gigantic opportunity. As bad as things have gotten, the blinders have sort been taken off the American People now. They look out there. We have a pandemic, unemployment. Race registration relations that have been drawn into focus and everything from Police Brutal thety to lack of access, but the American People have all of a sudden, average people, have gone, my lord, holy mackerel, i didnt know it was this bad. A lot of them didnt know. A lot did. A lot did know it was this bad. And you know, talking to, talking too much now, my opening statement, but heres the point. I believe we have a gigantic opportunity. A gigantic opportunity to fundamentally change the systemic racism and problems that exist in our system and i think we have to do it, but only one way to do it. We got to show up and vote, but i believe the American People arent going to be turned off. B i believe no matter what the administration does to try to make it hard to vote, for everyone, not just people of color, but everyone. No matter what. I think theyre going to vote. You see whats happened. In virginia, early voting, fourhour lines on the first day and were over 40 days out. People are going to show up and vote. They wont be dissuaded. So thats why im optimistic mioptimistic. I was asked by a foreign leader when i was overseas, can you define american. Yes, in one word. Possibilities. Possibilities. Only country that believes anythings possible. About time we make it possible for everybody. Thats what this is all about. Weve got a gigantic opportunity in the year 2020 to make these changes and with that, im going to hush up and take any questions yall have and im foipg to get out of the way here. Appreciate it. My first question, you sort of spoke about education and for me, im the only person in my family to go to an hvcu. Right down the street from johnson c. Smith. North carolina is known for having a lot. So my question would be as not properly funding sort of going under, so what would you sort of like to see or do for the historically black colleges and universities . I was kidding chris inside, as long as i can say that the best is in america, Delaware State University, but thats another issue. Thats a joke. But its not a joke. Theyre great. Thats how i got my start, by the way. I we want to university of delaware, but the reason i got involved in politics is because of what was going on in my state in terms of segregation and in terms of dr. King being asass hated. Part of the major part of our city was burned to the ground. Thats how i got engaged and a lot of my support came out of that. Look, right now, one thing data shows is that given an equal opportunity, theres not a single thing that an africanamerican cant do that a White American cant do that a hispanic america and asian american. Not a single thing. And so whats happened. Its about access to opportunity. Access to good jobs. Now, a lot of universities like Great University like unc or wake forest, a lot of schools, they have endowments. And the endowment allows them to provide for the circumstance to bid for these major federal initiatives that allow them to bring into the school a technology or a program that is able to bring in outside sponsors as well as government sponso sponsors. For example, cybersecurity. Its a big deal, and in the future, theres going to be millions of, over time, good paying jobs in the area of cybersecurity. But because the hpcus for example, most of them, dont have the economic, they dont have the endowment to be able to build a facilities that can attract the environment, the government funding as well as private endowment, they dont get to set these up. So for example, when i was Vice President , we went down near roanoke and provided funding for one to have a cybersecurity proposal. They did it. They got the contract. And now what theyre doing, theyre training young women and men who get out and good starting jobs. Jobs where you can maybe get paid more than 100 grand a year and theyre totally capable. So what ive done so is proposed a program for 70 billi 70 billi. It will be available to the hbcus based on their competition to get access to it, but everyone will quality. Every hbcu, and theyll be able to do the kinds of things that other universities do. For example, Delaware State University is a Great University. The president is a young man, he used to work for me. My Senate Office now. Brilliant guy. Doctorate. End result of it is though when the university of delaware makes an application for solar energy because it has a significant base, it gets significant injection of technological capability or light metals. They took over an old facility, used to be a ford facility long time ago, they took over a facility, used to be a chrysler facility, got shut down, and now, they have people in that facility that are now doing metallurgy that relate to making lightweight aluminum and metal decks for aircraft carriers. Its a multimillion dollar and will end up being billion dollar projects. So the people who get to work on that, the very students in that University Get to work on, theyre the ones who are going to go out and get these great jobs. So thats the first thing im going to do for hvcus. Secondly, we have to look at and have been looking at, the idea that we have to bring in hvcus to engage in more of what we are doing in terms of our national dialogue. For example, i two of the guys i spons sponsor, im a morgan man. A lot of great units, including right here, but we have an opportunity to provide for you able to get the those universities. How can you do it . Well, im going to see to it that any family, anyone who comes from a fmly that makes a total income of less than 125,000 a year gets free college education. They dont get in if they get in and qualify, they pay nothing to go to college. Secondly, there are also programs that exist now that if you provide for, work that you will volunteer to do something in the Public Interest and you do it for five years or more, you can deduct 10,000 a year, up to 50,000, off of that debt you have and you have an awful lot of young africanamericans who have graduated. Average debt is about 19,000 a year. T hard to get started when you have that debt hanging over your head. The average debt is even higher. Up to 28,000 a year. Someone graduated from a four year school. Thats why the economists had predicted prior to and with this, im telling you too much, but the, pretty passionate about this. Before the covid crisis, were going to have an economic slowdown because an entire generation from 9 11 generation through the generation now and coming out of this god awful circumstance were in, they, in fact, are not going to have the where with all because of student debt, to be able to borrow the money to buy a home. A new vehicle. Spend the money in capital. And a significant portion of our economy is driven by consumption and this generation, this whole new generation from 9 11 on, that in fact, is, theyre not in a position to be able to do it. So a whole lot of reasons economic will benefit. This is just draining money. By the way, i pay for every one of these things by the way i deal with the tax structure. Thats another story. Thats a piece of what we can and should be doing with hbcus. Secondly, i will, in my administration, elevate the standing of hbcus by the people in my administration as well. The Vice President would like to hear from you, so id like to recognize someone that might have a question for this forum. Yes. Theres a microphone right there and one on the side. Hi, im here to vote in part. I was just like wondering, what are you going to do about minimum wage . Were going to raise it to 15 an hour. Nationally. I am deeply involved in raising it. As ive gone around the country working with cities and counties that in fact have raised it including new york city and out on the west coast as well. Heres the deal. If youre working 30 hours a week, youre making a wage under poverty level. No one in america should be working for 40 hour week job and still be living poverty. It should not exist. Number one. Number two, it also demonstrated that if we pay people 15 an hour as minimum wage, you grow the economy. The idea that this somehow puts people out of business, theres no evidence of that. What happens is you have people, if youre making 15 bucks an hour instead of 7 an hour, youre able to buy more things, pay more bills. Able to do more and ends up increasing the gdp. The growth of the whole economy. Is its not only good for the person who is going to be making a decent wage from the beginning, but for the economy as a whole. Question, yes, please. Im andrea brown. Second grade teacher. Mother would say god love you, dear. Its been difficult. But thank you. Thank you, chris, for bringing up education and hbcus, but as far as k12 education, how codo you plan to push access to education alec wiity. Its a simple proposition for me. Xanexaggerated as a second grad teacher why youre so important. If i had only one dollar to spend on education and i can spend it post graduation or prekindergart prekindergarten, id spend it prekinder grarten because you know as well as i do based on your education background, that 60 of a childs brain is already developed by the time theyre 3, 4, 5 years old. Right. And so what happens is people start off based on their zip code and their family background. They may start off way behind the curve. You know you have a lot of students, they come into school, if they come from a very poor background in a community raised by a single mom or dad through no fault of their own, theyll have probably heard one million fewer words spoken by the time they get to first grade. That is an impediment. Nobodys forced that on anybody, but weve got to change it. So the way to change it is threefold. One as i said, provide for early education. Starting at 3 years of age. And its not, this is the, you think well, my lord, why do we have a 3yearold go to school . They learn as rapidly as a 6yearold, 12yearold, a 14yearold and they just suck it all up. They just suck it all up, number one. Number two, to make sure that we pay teachers enough money to stay in the business of teaching. My wifes a full time teacher. My wife has never stopped. As first lady, second lady, she taught 15 credits every semester. At a community college. Before that, she taught juniors and seniors in high school for 25 years. I think it was 25. But my point is a long time. Al though im not allowed to tell the exact number because my wife is 30 years younger than i am. I started off not quite that much. No woman in the entire biden family thats as old as any biden man. Thats another issue. All kidding aside. It is the life blood. Look, people, they say these children, theyre all our children. Theyre the kite strings that lift our National Ambitions aloft and its bizarre, crazy for us, in every single imperical study ado done, the m money you spend and better you educate a child throughout the process, the better the community as a whole is. Everybody. Across the board. Thats why we have to make sure we provide for more direct funding for specific programs in schools. Federal funding. As you know better than most will know, the bulk of all funding for schools is local funding. Local. Its not national funding. Not federal. But federal funding can focus on particular needs within schools. One is to deal with early access to education in the early grades and that requires us to spend more money on schools and teachers. Not going to ask you what you make, but teachers, one of the things that all the studies have shown is that when youre, when youre in a student body, where theres students of color, it makes a big difference if there are teachers of color. Especially males. So we have to encourage schools of education to be more, to attract more people of color to get in to teach. The only way to do that is to raise the salaries. Raise the salaries. Right. Idea that a teachers out there after several years making you know, 40,000 a year, probably student debt larger than that. For real. Thats why in the last piece of the student debt, anybody who has a student debt who teaches, that counts as a working for the National Interest and you get to deduct 10,000 of that student debt per year up to 50,000 if youre teaching. Thats amazing. And we can afford this, by the way. This is not something, we have just to give you a little idea. I carry this card with me because everybody says well bidens going to raise all this taxes a and everybodys going to be in trouble and what were going to do here. See if i can find it if i have it here. Any way, i have a list of every how i will fund every single thing that im talking about. For example, if we just made corporations not pay 21 and 91 of the fortune 500 Companies Pay no tax, zero. Zero. Okay, none. If we just made them pay 20. Used to be 30. Raise it to 28 . And everybody had the to pay it, that would raise a total of 1 trillion 370 billion dollars. Im not trying to punish anybody. Its time for everybody to start paying their fair share. President has a new proposal. Some may like it. I dont know anybody in my neighborhood who does. Thats another 30 million tax cut for billionaires. Reducing the Capital Gains tax. If you make your money off of investments as opposed to sweat of your brow or getting a paycheck, right, he thinks you should only have to pay 50 of your income. So youll pay more as a schoolteacher than somebody making 20 million bucks if its all coming from investments. Its not right. Dont want to punish anybody, just about time everybody pays their fair share. The way i do that is i raise the tax for millionaires and billionaires to 39. 4 . Not 90 . Thats not true. It was 39. 4 when bush was president. Just raise that tax rate back up to 39. 4 . 6 . That raises 90 billion. Theres much more i could talk about, but my point its not, and by the way, you know, i, i went to a undergraduate and graduate school, but i was very flattered that i think 14 noble lawy lauriets just endorsed me. All this stuff about bidens going to bankrupt the country. Raise your taxes. Not true. We can do it all by just starting to pay your fair share. Thats all. Thats all. And give people who need a break a break. Thank you. Thank you. So we have time for one more question. I think were going to have time for two more questions if thats okay, mr. Vice president. Maybe three. Maybe three. I apologize. Having some difficulty, sorry. Hello, nice to meet you. My name is sabrina. My husband and i own a restaurant here in charlotte, one uptown yolk and as you know, the restaurants have been hit severely hard the past would it be seven months now and a lot of us, which are Small Business n owners and small minority business owners, didnt receive as much relief nationally. The city of charlotte has been amazing with offering grants and things that we can float us over and still pay our employees, but we still had to cut staff. We still had to cut hours. What would be the relief for us Small Business owners, specifically restaurants, is there plan to give us some type of relief, i dont know, a tax cut, anything . Yes, theres a big plan. Mobile plan. First of all, the cares act, which passed out of the house and senate, which was a total of 2 trillion overall twice, was supposed to provide what they call the main Street Lending program. For six, for four months, it didnt lend a penny. None of the money went out, number one. Because you got 20 republicans in the senate who say they dont want to spend anything on anything, for real. And the president , who has as i said, fired the inspector general, so you dont know where the moneys going for certain. Secondly, on the Early Program for Small Businesses and the Small Businesses is a fine of less than fewer than 50 employees. Now, most most Small Businesses that are neighborhood businesses are ten or fewer employees. I propose we focus on making sure the money goes directly to those businesses that in fact provide for being able to keep their employees on the payroll for the ten or fewer employees. Thats a priority. Then 50 and under. But heres whats happened. Whats happened is that not only has that not occurred, a rlot o the money has gone to very big businesses that didnt need, i mean they may need it, but didnt need it to stay alive and even when they got it, what did they do . The commitment was that, that i proposed and we thought we had done, is that right now, if you get a government bailout, quote unquote, loan to stay alive, which you cannot do is take that money and either buy back your own stock and or increase your salaries with that money. Its to keep people employed. Keep them on a payroll. Secondly, theres another program, thats what a lot of the businesses have done. Buy back their own stock, increases the network of the people that own the stock. They should not be allowed to do that, number one. Secondly, how do you open safely . President says just put up a sign. Come on in. You know your employee, beyond your employees, your customers are going to go, i dont know, i mean, does everybody have the mask or they have dividers in the restaurant . Do they have, tell me how the sanitary conditions are working. Well, you need money to pay for all that stuff and thats why we proposed to have multibillion Dollar Program where businesses are able to get the money, not borrow the money, get the money, to be able to open in the middle of this pandemic. Including fixing the testing fias fiasco. You should be in a situation where your employees can, in 24 hours, get a test to determine whether or not theyre positive or negative. You need to do that for your own protection and the public likes to know thats protection for their employer, that their protection against anything that happens in a restaurant. So the bottom line is the money is already there. The president is just not releasing it. The department is not releasing the money and its all done in order to be able to keep the economy moving, keep, right now, we have over 30 Million People on unemployment. Over 30 million. In unemployment. How in gods name are we going to generate Economic Growth unless we can figure out how to keep these people back and help you get back in business . The same way with schools. How many schools are not opening because there are no National Standards set . No National Standards set. For example, theres an outfit, am i telling you too much, you want me to stop . I really, this drives me crazy. Right now, were in a situation where if you take a look, there is no National Standard for the, how to open schools. How to open them safely. Because the president says i have no responsibility. Not my responsibility. Literally. Thats his phrase. Its not my responsibility. Im not to blame for any of this. Let the governors and mayors take care of this, without the financial help thats needed to b able to care care of it. What we need to do, ive laid out in detail, back in july, what wed have to do to open safely. And that includes providing the protective ppe, the masks and other things that are needed, gloves, et cetera, for the schools. The School Teachers and for the children coming to school. Secondly, you have to reduce the number of students in one room. You have to have modules that are smaller. But for that, you need more teachers. Not fewer teachers. You got to pay more teachers. Number three, youve got to be able to sanitize the schools. Whether its everything from the water fountain to the lavatory or just the surfaces that are touched and what is breathed on by people. That costs a lot of money to do, like it would for a restaurant as well for you to have to do that. And so the money is there available to do that, but the president refuses. What he says is just open up and make sure that the schools should just open u. When a lot of, and it also relates to how far down youve got to reinfection rate. If its down below one, its rational that you can, with those protections, go ahead and open a school, but watch it very closely. Requires testing and tracing to make sure your youre still on course there. And look, the other thing is that if you think about it, fema, federal emergency, they had agreed that they were going to provide masks for schools. They started to hand them out to schools. Guess what. The president didnt like that or somebody didnt like that, so they said the ruling was made opening schools safely is not a national emergency. So they stopped it. E refusing to even provide masks for schools. If this is not a national emergency, i dont know what the hell is, ill end with this. The president is, was in ohio. I guess couple of days ago at a rally. I dont want the misquote him. He said at the rally, and i wrote this down. He said that he said that were in, were virtually turning a corner. Nobody is really dying, he said. You know, elderly people are dying. And theyre dying because they have heart conditions. But quote, virtually, theyre virtually nobodies. Theyre the ones dying. You go home, your moms gone. Your dads gone. Hes a virtual nobody . The idea, the way were talking about people and this is all within our power to do something. The virus wasnt his fault. But the way hes handling it has been close to criminal. And so many people breaking their necks and by the way, my deceased wife, when i first got married, i married a beautiful woman from syracuse, new york. And i got elected when i was 29 years old. I come from a very modest family. Not bragging, but i was listed as the poorest man in congress for 36 years because i didnt think you were supposed to earn any machioney there other than salary. Then when i got elected Vice President , one of the press outlets said its probably no man has ever assumed the office of Vice President other than joe biden. I hope they werent talking intellectual assets. But when i got elected when i was 29, i was in washington before i was sworn in and got a phone call from a Fire Department saying my wife and daughter had just been killed and my two boys were not likely to make it. Tractor trailer broadsided them while they were christmas shopping. At the time, my wifes father, my fatherinlaw, had been, came home from world war ii and he had owned, he was a cook. In world war ii and the navy. He ended up opening a restaurant in auburn, new york. A town of about 20,000 people, just south of syracuse. It became the Meeting Place for everybody. A place doctors would start off the morning getting their coffee and lawyers would have their lunch and kids after graduates would come. The hunter diner on. Then opened up other rest raurnts. And in order to try to convince me to stay, i dont blame him, id do the same with my daughter, try to convince me after i graduated to take a job in upstate new york rather than go back to delaware, he offered me his prized diner, and he was making at that time, i would have made five times what i made as a lawyer, starting lawyers salary. Six grand and 30,000 bucks a year. But for five years, i watched how hard he worked. I dont know how you do it. You got to love it. Even in good times, they think youre crazy. Its 24 hours a day. But you deserve a break. And your employees deserve a break and the fact youre fighting so hard to keep them on a job is the testament to the kind of people you are. But i promise you, i guarantee you if im elected, youll get the ppe and the money to be able to open and the additional money not only to maintain your employees, but to maintain an open place. Ive been on a lot of restaurant tours around the country, so they can open up and do everything from having plastic shields in front of the cashiers, to a lot of things you can do to make it safe. Make it safe and youll get the help. Thank you so much. Thank you. I could really do yes or no if you ask me easy questions. All right, so we have one more easy question. Whatever you want to ask. Easy question. This is one of my colleagues. He serves on the Charlotte City council. Malcolm graham with me. I used to be a city councilman. I ran for the senate because it was too hard. They know where you live. Exactly. First, i want to thank you. You honored me and my family by sending a Video Tribute for my siste sister, Cynthia Graham oh my lord, i apologize. Killed in sharl son, so my question is how do you reimagine the Justice Department and specifically, the Civil Rights Division after four years of trump . Well, first of all, i guess i just say it. This has been the most corrupt administration in modern american history. The Justice Department has turned into the president s private law firm. He actually hasnt represented him on women who accused him of rape and, i mean where would that come from . And the Justice Department under my administration will be totally independent of me. I will not direct on who to prosecute, how to prosecute, what to prosecute and i will not be injecting, i will not enter their decisions based upon the judgments they make about what cases they bring and they dont bring. With regard to the Civil Rights Division, i would significantly increase two things. One, civil rights presence in the Justice Department elevated so it has access to and transparency to all Police Departments activities. Across the country. Just so they are aware. Its transparent whats going on. I would also make sure that i elevate the department, excuse me, the Civil Rights Division, to have a direct office with inside the white house. For example, im the guy who wrote the violence against women act. When the president asked me what i wanted as Vice President , i said i wanted to have jurisdiction over that act inside the white house because it elevates the standing of whatever that office comes inside the white house. So i would make sure theres a combination of the Civil Rights Division, having more direct authority inside the Justice Department and being able to investigate than in fact it has now. But most of all, most of all, i would have an attorney general who understood his oath of office. Not a joke. An attorney general has an oath of office that in fact, could do and move on what the professionals and department thought had to be pursued without my interfering and saying no, theyre my friends or theyre my, i know them. Or go after this person. Like you know, go after hillary or you know, this kind of stuff. I get asked the question all the time. With press. I get asked the following question. If in fact you get elected, would you prosecute trump . Would you pursue prosecuting trump . The answer is im not going to pursue prosecuting anybody. Im going to do what the Justice Department says should be done. Should be done. And not politicize it. Its the most dangerous thing thats happened so far. Is the policization of the department of justice. Its become the department of trump and thats wrong. Thank you for the very heartfelt feelings, but more importantly, having policies that really follow who you are as a person. So on behalf of all of the people that are here today, thank you for giveri igive givi time, but more importantly, giving us the changes you see for our country. We really appreciate that. Whos the fellow who runs 26 organizations for housing . Public. I know we didnt get a chance to talk because i think what youre doing is incredibly consequential and id like to give you a paper on the way out of what i think we can and should do. Its very detailed. And id love your feedback. I put a phone number on it o kay . Because it is a gigantic, gigantic, gigantic undertaking and unless we can get people into housing, provide for housing, stop the genderification where people are left out, were going to be in real trouble and what youre doing is really, i dont want the, not trying boost him, ive never met the gentleman, but i did read your bio and what youre working on. And id really like your input. I and maybe able to call you if i could after you get what im proposing in detail and see what we can work out. Part of the reason i do this, what i miss about being able to do larger engagements is this is where i learn. Im a tactile guy. Id rather be shaking your hand and looking you in the eye and you telling me what needs to be done and dont be reluctant to criticize my plan if you think it doesnt make sense. I think its pretty good. Ive worked on it really, really hard. Goes from section eight housing all the way to first time home buyers to the whole notion of, any way, im going to give it to you before i leave, okay . Youre very polite to sit here all this time. Thank you. Thank you, everybody. Thank you very much, mr. Vice president , i understand were going to have a group photo, so everybody has their mask on and im going to follow the instructions of the photographer on top of the ladder, so does everyone turn and mr. Vice president , chris. Is this still on . I want to thank you again. Every time id walk out of my grandpa finnegans house in stracranton when id leave, he yell joey, keep the faith. My grandmother would yell, no, joey, spread the faith. We can do this. We can really do it. Thank you. Phillip swage lerl testified today at 2 30 p. M. Earn eastern on cspan3. Online at cspan. Org or listen on the free app. President trump has a News Conference scheduled today at 6 00 p. M. Eastern and well have live coverage here on cspan 3 when it starts. With the ongoing Global Pandemic and many schools shifting to online learning, cspans student cam competition continues to provide students with a National Platform to ingauge in national conversation. Were asking students to produce a five to sixminute documentary exploring the issues they most want the new president and congress to address in 2021. Justice is the conformity to truth, fact and reason. The framers of the constitution were giving american citizens justice. From then to present day, there have been still been issues with equality in the criminal Justice System. It needs reform when youth are given the opportunity and skills to become informed voters and engaged citizens, they vote. Because democracy must be learned. From inequity and waits for legal documents to a pathway to citizenship for children who were born here, but whose parents illegally migrated here, the immigration system fails many people. This year, we are awarding 100,000 in total cash prizes, include iing a grand prize of 5,000. The deadline the submit video ss january 20th, 2021. For competition rules, tips and more information on how to get started, go to our website, studentcam. Org. 20, 2021. Go to our website student camera. Org. This is a live picture outside the u. S. Supreme court with the late Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg is lying in repose. The public is able to pay tribute until 10 00 p. M. Eastern and again tomorrow. Friday she will lie in state at the u. S. Capitol. The Supreme Court held a Memorial Service for Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg this morning before the public viewing period began. Chief Justice John Roberts who was among those who spoke at the service. This is half an hour