Transcripts For CSPAN Public Affairs Events 20240714 : vimar

One of the first positions im going to create is a chief manufacturing officer that will report directly to me. Let me give you a few examples. The electric vehicle industry, somewhere in the world we are going to make 10 million electric vehicles in the next 10 years. I want half of those built by American Workers in the United States of america. [applause] rep. Ryan my chief manufacturing officer will sit down with the department of energy, the department of transportation, venture capital, private sector, investors, we will sit down with maybe the big three, maybe emerging automakers and sit down and figure out how to be dominate the electric vehicle market. How do we make 5 million vehicles . How do we drive that investment into the communities like the ones i represent in ohio . Old steel, pulled auto, old coal, coal textile. Rural areas they used to have a Manufacturing Base to fund local schools. How do we drive this industry that is growing into these communities of color . For example, the ones that have been left behind. We will Start Building things in the United States again. I can promise you that. [applause] rep. Ryan right now who dominates that industry . China does. They dominate 50 to 60 of the electric vehicle market. We will do the same thing with solar and Wind Turbines and all the component parts. We will do the same thing around 5g. We will do the same thing around artificial intelligence. We will do the same thing around Additive Manufacturing and 3d printing. These industries are growing at 25 or 30 a year. We need a strategy in United States on how we will dominate these industries. It needs to come from the president of the United States. Im telling you we will get this done. We are going to build things again in the United States. [applause] rep. Ryan Climate Change is obviously a huge issue. Now a democratic nominee, tim ryan, will go to places in iowa, and wisconsin and michigan and ohio and pennsylvania and mississippi and South Carolina and these all textile communities and say you know how we reverse Climate Change . You get a really good paying job that pays 30, 40, 50 an our building electric vehicles. Did you bring in the entire country and around an agenda that both reverses Climate Change and lifts up the middle class. That is how we move forward with the climate agenda. We Start Building our way to a renewable economy. I want to talk about health care. Im for a public auction option. We bring medicare down to 50. We will cover 60 Million People in the u. S. , and Kaiser Permanente says those 60 Million People who were 50 to 64 will see a 40 reduction in their Health Care Costs. 40 . I know it may not be a revolution, but i think thats a pretty significant step in the right direction. I would also allow Small Businesses to be able to buy into the medicare program. These Small Businesses are getting killed with Health Care Costs. They should be able to get into that program and have some stability so they can reinvest back into wages and health care and Capital Investments for their small business. We should have anybody who wants to buy in be able to buy into the program if they cant afford good Quality Health insurance. I dont believe we should go about the business of taking peoples private Health Insurance away. I think that is a dangerous proposal for us to have. Here is the difference. 75 of our Health Care Costs in United States come from chronic diseases that are largely preventable. The next transformation of the Health Care System has got to be about how do we build the system that reverses chronic diseases that are costing us 3. 5 trillion a year. Think about that. 3. 5 trillion dollars a year of our Health Care Costs direct and indirect come from chronic diseases that are preventable. Type 2 diabetes. Half the Adult Population has either diabetes or prediabetes. A diabetic costs about 14,000 a year. With interventions like food as medicine and other support we him and are literally reversing type 2 diabetes across the board in the United States. Why wouldnt we want our Health Care System to have a strategy where we have doctors benefit and had patients give rebates and refunds for getting and staying healthy . Where you get paid for getting and staying healthy, and bring that cost down. We have trillion dollar a year deficits coming. 22 trillion debt, and 1 trillion a year annual deficit as far as the eye can see. When you look at your health care expenditures, and three quarters or 3. 5 trillion, thats where the money is, lets go after that. Microform will have a Huge Public Health initiative where we drive those costs down so we have money to invest in college and k12 and all the rest. We can take care of people who cant reverse the chronic diseases they may have. That is a transformational Health Care System. That is the one i will push. I released an education proposal the other day. We have got to transform our Education System k12. The conversation has got the shift from how do we get test scores up, to how do we take care of our kids . How do we take care of our kids . My proposal, one takes care of the teachers. We help them with tax credits and loan forgiveness and all the rest, which is a complete suck up to my wife who is a firstgrade schoolteacher. I am not stupid. I go all around the country. My wife says, how did it go . Him and himmy wife says, how did it go . I was talking about you today, baby. My proposal is to put a Mental Health counselor in every Single School in the United States that needs one. I want a traumainformed curriculum for every school. I want them to have social and Emotional Learning. Him we have so many kids that come to our schools that are traumatized. We have learned more about the brain in the last 20 years than we have in the previous 200. I want this initiative to help these kids get their brains out a fight or flight mode so they can access the prefrontal cortex in the front of their head, their executive functions where theyre working memory is, the decisionmaking. It is up here. Him when the brain is in fight or flight you literally cannot access your working memory. No wonder you cant learn. Lets build an Education System that gets these kids out of trauma and gets them into a healthy environment so they can begin to learn again. What you have seen with robust social and Emotional Learning programs is an 11 percentile point increase in test scores. Closes the achievement gap. 10 increase in good behavior, 10 decrease in antisocial behavior. 20 swing in the mood of schools. This is not left or right. This is supported by both the brookings institution, leftleaning think tank, and American Enterprise institute, rightleaning think tank. We can move forward with this agenda. Manufacturing. Lets move forward with manufacturing. Supported by 80 of the american people. Get out of this left or right polarization. Lets move forward. America, new and better. I want to lead this charge around these issues. I want to have a conversation around agriculture. I want to transform the agricultural system. You know better than anybody in the United States, and we know in ohio, what is happening to Rural America. Losing hospitals, losing manufacturing, the downtowns have fallen apart. I have an agenda where we wei have an agenda where reinvest in small and midsized towns, renovate the theater, build a riverwalk, build the bike trail. Communitiesng again. Communities again. Start Building Communities again. I have done this in small little towns. You need that community and get Affordable Housing down there in the downtowns. I want us to move from this monopolistic, industrial agriculture system that we have today. I want us to slowly move to sustainable and regenerative agriculture here in the United States of america. [applause] rep. Ryan the only farmers in America Today really making money are the ones who were doing regenerative agriculture. This is when you do no till farming. You do cover crops. You dramatically reduce your input of pesticides and fertilizers. The soil begins to become more porous. For every 1 of organic matter you increase the soil, the acre of land can hold 27,000 more gallons of water. We have destroyed the soil in the United States of america. When the rains come they take the fertilizer into the rivers and they go down the river to the mouth of the mississippi and kill 220,000 metric tons of fish every year. We get algae blooms. The farmers are not making any money. It has been five years. I want the Democratic Party to be able to go into Rural America and say we have an agenda to move to regenerative agriculture so you can start making money again. I will tell the farmers and United States you will make a hell of a lot more money off of a president ryan you ever made under president trump. [applause] rep. Ryan we are going to have an active world program. The democrats did not do well in rural iowa in the last gubernatorial race. We did not do well in Rural America. We have to show up, tell people we have an agenda for them in Rural America. Go to the small and midsize towns. They matter. Thats america. They call us flyover states, right . We are not flyover states. We are american states. We went investment and strategies and not a bunch of platitudes. I want the government to be on our side again. This is the big deal i want to stress with all of you. Im 46 years old. We have three kids. Him 16, 15, and five. Him him my entire adult life we 16, 15, and five. My entire adult life we have been having culture wars. It was jack kennedy and then Martin Luther king and then bobby and then vietnam. It has taken off since then. Now it has gotten so bad where we literally have the president of the United States saying send them back. Right . America, love it or leave it. That was the same signs that were up during the vietnam war. You may not know who i am. Im tim ryan. Im from northeast ohio. Im an old football player, an old quarterback. Real old. See me walk in the morning. Shoulder, knee, back. Its a bad site. My wife watches me walk to go get coffee and she said, did anybody block for you as a quarterback . I play offense. I want the Democratic Party to play offense with new ideas, and stop sitting back and letting us be defined by the rightwing echo chambers. I want us to define the future of this country. I want to do it with these new ideas. I want to do it with these new ideas because when i talk about social and Emotional Learning, about regenerative agriculture, when i talk about reforming our economy around new ways of manufacturing, not Everybody Knows what im talking about. They pause. And they listen. I tell them i dont want this leftright divide. I am fed up to hear. I dont want anymore culture wars. Im worried about school shootings. Im worried this has gotten so bad that our kids in Public Schools are afraid to go to school in the next week or two. That is unacceptable. To me that should be unacceptable to every goodhearted american. That means we have got to get these weapons of war off the streets of the United States of america. We have got to have a background check. We have got to have an immigration system in United States that where we can both common sense. Its not left or right. You have Border Security or comprehensive Immigration Reform. Wait a minute. No i dont. I am for Border Security. I want to know whos coming into the country. I want to know, and i want us to stop them if theyre trying to. But i also am the descendent of immigrants. This has been the secret sauce in the United States for a long time. We want comprehensive Immigration Reform in the United States. Bring people out of the shadows here in this country. Build our economy. I would just say this. Im in a fighting mood. I am irish. You know the old irish saying, dont you . Is this a private fight or can anybody get into it . [laughter] rep. Ryan im ready to fight. I have a transformational agenda. It is not going to be easy for us. Im not saying i have a magic wand. There is no superstar, no savior. It is you and its me. It is your family and its my family. Lets not reform these broken systems. Lets transform these systems. I will leave you with this that Bobby Kennedy used to say at the end of his brief campaign. I do not promise you ease. I do not promise you comfort. But i will promise you these, i promise you weariness, you i promise you hardship, and i will promise you sacrifice. I will promise you weariness, hardship, sacrifice. With these i will promise you victory. Thank you so much. God bless you, iowa. [applause] [crowd talking] go get some sunscreen and some water and come back at 12 45 for the next candidate. [crowd talking] thank you. Appreciate it so much. [indiscernible] rep. Ryan yeah, exactly. Hi. I am all sweaty. How are you doing . Can i take a picture with you . And i can get in there too. All right. Thank you. Rep. Ryan goodlooking people right there. Thank you. Rep. Ryan hello, everybody. Just for the record i asked for miller lite after my speech in and they gave me water. Just so we are all in the same page. How are you . If congress does not act on gun control, would you take executive action . Rep. Ryan i would certainly sit down with our attorneys and figure out as far as i can possibly go with executive action. My goal is to be the nominee and to be able to go into the states to win the senate back and hopefully really begin two to organize. What i heard in dayton was that a lot of republicans now are very concerned about whats happening in the streets of the United States. They are interested in helping try to push their elected officials to do something. We have to continue to build the grassroots but i will go as far as i can. What you call out trump for not identifying domestic terrorists . Rep. Ryan i already have. I will continue to. [indiscernible] so they can start making there on monday and stop relying on the government they are own money and stop relying on the government. Rep. Ryan we will bring in some of these regenerative agriculture farmers, like my buddy gabe in north dakota. There are others making money. They have seen regenerative farmers, after one year, start to make money. We have five or six years were where farmers in places like iowa have not made any money. What i would pledge as we will help you with the conversion. You may have made some Capital Investments and other investments into the older industrial monopolies. We want to help you get out of there. My plan but put four or five teams in each state of four or five people that will help educate farmers on how to convert over to regenerative agriculture. I want to build out the extensions, the land grant extension programs. We will do that through the department of agriculture. I am super excited about it because it also sequesters carbon. It could be a big strategy for us to both in the manufacturing, i talked about and the renewables and the technology piece, but sequestering carbon in soil will be a critical part of getting this done. Breaking up agricultural monopolies . Rep. Ryan yes. You talked about the risk of democrats going too far with some of the programs aired some of the programs. To senatoryou spoken harris, senator warren. Is that a valid warning to democrats . Rep. Ryan i can only speak on how i feel. I think that taking private insurance is a dangerous proposition, to go into unionized states in the industrial midwest, he states we have to win. We should be the party of Getting People Health Care and not taking it away. I do have some concerns with that. With the decriminalization of the border, i believe if you want to come into our house, you have to ring the doorbell. When you have conversations around American Workers<\/a> in the United States<\/a> of america. [applause] rep. Ryan my chief manufacturing officer will sit down with the department of energy, the department of transportation, venture capital, private sector, investors, we will sit down with maybe the big three, maybe emerging automakers and sit down and figure out how to be dominate the electric vehicle market. How do we make 5 million vehicles . How do we drive that investment into the communities like the ones i represent in ohio . Old steel, pulled auto, old coal, coal textile. Rural areas they used to have a Manufacturing Base<\/a> to fund local schools. How do we drive this industry that is growing into these communities of color . For example, the ones that have been left behind. We will Start Building<\/a> things in the United States<\/a> again. I can promise you that. [applause] rep. Ryan right now who dominates that industry . China does. They dominate 50 to 60 of the electric vehicle market. We will do the same thing with solar and Wind Turbines<\/a> and all the component parts. We will do the same thing around 5g. We will do the same thing around artificial intelligence. We will do the same thing around Additive Manufacturing<\/a> and 3d printing. These industries are growing at 25 or 30 a year. We need a strategy in United States<\/a> on how we will dominate these industries. It needs to come from the president of the United States<\/a>. Im telling you we will get this done. We are going to build things again in the United States<\/a>. [applause] rep. Ryan Climate Change<\/a> is obviously a huge issue. Now a democratic nominee, tim ryan, will go to places in iowa, and wisconsin and michigan and ohio and pennsylvania and mississippi and South Carolina<\/a> and these all textile communities and say you know how we reverse Climate Change<\/a> . You get a really good paying job that pays 30, 40, 50 an our building electric vehicles. Did you bring in the entire country and around an agenda that both reverses Climate Change<\/a> and lifts up the middle class. That is how we move forward with the climate agenda. We Start Building<\/a> our way to a renewable economy. I want to talk about health care. Im for a public auction option. We bring medicare down to 50. We will cover 60 Million People<\/a> in the u. S. , and Kaiser Permanente<\/a> says those 60 Million People<\/a> who were 50 to 64 will see a 40 reduction in their Health Care Costs<\/a>. 40 . I know it may not be a revolution, but i think thats a pretty significant step in the right direction. I would also allow Small Businesses<\/a> to be able to buy into the medicare program. These Small Businesses<\/a> are getting killed with Health Care Costs<\/a>. They should be able to get into that program and have some stability so they can reinvest back into wages and health care and Capital Investments<\/a> for their small business. We should have anybody who wants to buy in be able to buy into the program if they cant afford good Quality Health<\/a> insurance. I dont believe we should go about the business of taking peoples private Health Insurance<\/a> away. I think that is a dangerous proposal for us to have. Here is the difference. 75 of our Health Care Costs<\/a> in United States<\/a> come from chronic diseases that are largely preventable. The next transformation of the Health Care System<\/a> has got to be about how do we build the system that reverses chronic diseases that are costing us 3. 5 trillion a year. Think about that. 3. 5 trillion dollars a year of our Health Care Costs<\/a> direct and indirect come from chronic diseases that are preventable. Type 2 diabetes. Half the Adult Population<\/a> has either diabetes or prediabetes. A diabetic costs about 14,000 a year. With interventions like food as medicine and other support we him and are literally reversing type 2 diabetes across the board in the United States<\/a>. Why wouldnt we want our Health Care System<\/a> to have a strategy where we have doctors benefit and had patients give rebates and refunds for getting and staying healthy . Where you get paid for getting and staying healthy, and bring that cost down. We have trillion dollar a year deficits coming. 22 trillion debt, and 1 trillion a year annual deficit as far as the eye can see. When you look at your health care expenditures, and three quarters or 3. 5 trillion, thats where the money is, lets go after that. Microform will have a Huge Public Health<\/a> initiative where we drive those costs down so we have money to invest in college and k12 and all the rest. We can take care of people who cant reverse the chronic diseases they may have. That is a transformational Health Care System<\/a>. That is the one i will push. I released an education proposal the other day. We have got to transform our Education System<\/a> k12. The conversation has got the shift from how do we get test scores up, to how do we take care of our kids . How do we take care of our kids . My proposal, one takes care of the teachers. We help them with tax credits and loan forgiveness and all the rest, which is a complete suck up to my wife who is a firstgrade schoolteacher. I am not stupid. I go all around the country. My wife says, how did it go . Him and himmy wife says, how did it go . I was talking about you today, baby. My proposal is to put a Mental Health<\/a> counselor in every Single School<\/a> in the United States<\/a> that needs one. I want a traumainformed curriculum for every school. I want them to have social and Emotional Learning<\/a>. Him we have so many kids that come to our schools that are traumatized. We have learned more about the brain in the last 20 years than we have in the previous 200. I want this initiative to help these kids get their brains out a fight or flight mode so they can access the prefrontal cortex in the front of their head, their executive functions where theyre working memory is, the decisionmaking. It is up here. Him when the brain is in fight or flight you literally cannot access your working memory. No wonder you cant learn. Lets build an Education System<\/a> that gets these kids out of trauma and gets them into a healthy environment so they can begin to learn again. What you have seen with robust social and Emotional Learning<\/a> programs is an 11 percentile point increase in test scores. Closes the achievement gap. 10 increase in good behavior, 10 decrease in antisocial behavior. 20 swing in the mood of schools. This is not left or right. This is supported by both the brookings institution, leftleaning think tank, and American Enterprise<\/a> institute, rightleaning think tank. We can move forward with this agenda. Manufacturing. Lets move forward with manufacturing. Supported by 80 of the american people. Get out of this left or right polarization. Lets move forward. America, new and better. I want to lead this charge around these issues. I want to have a conversation around agriculture. I want to transform the agricultural system. You know better than anybody in the United States<\/a>, and we know in ohio, what is happening to Rural America<\/a>. Losing hospitals, losing manufacturing, the downtowns have fallen apart. I have an agenda where we wei have an agenda where reinvest in small and midsized towns, renovate the theater, build a riverwalk, build the bike trail. Communitiesng again. Communities again. Start Building Communities<\/a> again. I have done this in small little towns. You need that community and get Affordable Housing<\/a> down there in the downtowns. I want us to move from this monopolistic, industrial agriculture system that we have today. I want us to slowly move to sustainable and regenerative agriculture here in the United States<\/a> of america. [applause] rep. Ryan the only farmers in America Today<\/a> really making money are the ones who were doing regenerative agriculture. This is when you do no till farming. You do cover crops. You dramatically reduce your input of pesticides and fertilizers. The soil begins to become more porous. For every 1 of organic matter you increase the soil, the acre of land can hold 27,000 more gallons of water. We have destroyed the soil in the United States<\/a> of america. When the rains come they take the fertilizer into the rivers and they go down the river to the mouth of the mississippi and kill 220,000 metric tons of fish every year. We get algae blooms. The farmers are not making any money. It has been five years. I want the Democratic Party<\/a> to be able to go into Rural America<\/a> and say we have an agenda to move to regenerative agriculture so you can start making money again. I will tell the farmers and United States<\/a> you will make a hell of a lot more money off of a president ryan you ever made under president trump. [applause] rep. Ryan we are going to have an active world program. The democrats did not do well in rural iowa in the last gubernatorial race. We did not do well in Rural America<\/a>. We have to show up, tell people we have an agenda for them in Rural America<\/a>. Go to the small and midsize towns. They matter. Thats america. They call us flyover states, right . We are not flyover states. We are american states. We went investment and strategies and not a bunch of platitudes. I want the government to be on our side again. This is the big deal i want to stress with all of you. Im 46 years old. We have three kids. Him 16, 15, and five. Him him my entire adult life we 16, 15, and five. My entire adult life we have been having culture wars. It was jack kennedy and then Martin Luther<\/a> king and then bobby and then vietnam. It has taken off since then. Now it has gotten so bad where we literally have the president of the United States<\/a> saying send them back. Right . America, love it or leave it. That was the same signs that were up during the vietnam war. You may not know who i am. Im tim ryan. Im from northeast ohio. Im an old football player, an old quarterback. Real old. See me walk in the morning. Shoulder, knee, back. Its a bad site. My wife watches me walk to go get coffee and she said, did anybody block for you as a quarterback . I play offense. I want the Democratic Party<\/a> to play offense with new ideas, and stop sitting back and letting us be defined by the rightwing echo chambers. I want us to define the future of this country. I want to do it with these new ideas. I want to do it with these new ideas because when i talk about social and Emotional Learning<\/a>, about regenerative agriculture, when i talk about reforming our economy around new ways of manufacturing, not Everybody Knows<\/a> what im talking about. They pause. And they listen. I tell them i dont want this leftright divide. I am fed up to hear. I dont want anymore culture wars. Im worried about school shootings. Im worried this has gotten so bad that our kids in Public Schools<\/a> are afraid to go to school in the next week or two. That is unacceptable. To me that should be unacceptable to every goodhearted american. That means we have got to get these weapons of war off the streets of the United States<\/a> of america. We have got to have a background check. We have got to have an immigration system in United States<\/a> that where we can both common sense. Its not left or right. You have Border Security<\/a> or comprehensive Immigration Reform<\/a>. Wait a minute. No i dont. I am for Border Security<\/a>. I want to know whos coming into the country. I want to know, and i want us to stop them if theyre trying to. But i also am the descendent of immigrants. This has been the secret sauce in the United States<\/a> for a long time. We want comprehensive Immigration Reform<\/a> in the United States<\/a>. Bring people out of the shadows here in this country. Build our economy. I would just say this. Im in a fighting mood. I am irish. You know the old irish saying, dont you . Is this a private fight or can anybody get into it . [laughter] rep. Ryan im ready to fight. I have a transformational agenda. It is not going to be easy for us. Im not saying i have a magic wand. There is no superstar, no savior. It is you and its me. It is your family and its my family. Lets not reform these broken systems. Lets transform these systems. I will leave you with this that Bobby Kennedy<\/a> used to say at the end of his brief campaign. I do not promise you ease. I do not promise you comfort. But i will promise you these, i promise you weariness, you i promise you hardship, and i will promise you sacrifice. I will promise you weariness, hardship, sacrifice. With these i will promise you victory. Thank you so much. God bless you, iowa. [applause] [crowd talking] go get some sunscreen and some water and come back at 12 45 for the next candidate. [crowd talking] thank you. Appreciate it so much. [indiscernible] rep. Ryan yeah, exactly. Hi. I am all sweaty. How are you doing . Can i take a picture with you . And i can get in there too. All right. Thank you. Rep. Ryan goodlooking people right there. Thank you. Rep. Ryan hello, everybody. Just for the record i asked for miller lite after my speech in and they gave me water. Just so we are all in the same page. How are you . If congress does not act on gun control, would you take executive action . Rep. Ryan i would certainly sit down with our attorneys and figure out as far as i can possibly go with executive action. My goal is to be the nominee and to be able to go into the states to win the senate back and hopefully really begin two to organize. What i heard in dayton was that a lot of republicans now are very concerned about whats happening in the streets of the United States<\/a>. They are interested in helping try to push their elected officials to do something. We have to continue to build the grassroots but i will go as far as i can. What you call out trump for not identifying domestic terrorists . Rep. Ryan i already have. I will continue to. [indiscernible] so they can start making there on monday and stop relying on the government they are own money and stop relying on the government. Rep. Ryan we will bring in some of these regenerative agriculture farmers, like my buddy gabe in north dakota. There are others making money. They have seen regenerative farmers, after one year, start to make money. We have five or six years were where farmers in places like iowa have not made any money. What i would pledge as we will help you with the conversion. You may have made some Capital Investments<\/a> and other investments into the older industrial monopolies. We want to help you get out of there. My plan but put four or five teams in each state of four or five people that will help educate farmers on how to convert over to regenerative agriculture. I want to build out the extensions, the land grant extension programs. We will do that through the department of agriculture. I am super excited about it because it also sequesters carbon. It could be a big strategy for us to both in the manufacturing, i talked about and the renewables and the technology piece, but sequestering carbon in soil will be a critical part of getting this done. Breaking up agricultural monopolies . Rep. Ryan yes. You talked about the risk of democrats going too far with some of the programs aired some of the programs. To senatoryou spoken harris, senator warren. Is that a valid warning to democrats . Rep. Ryan i can only speak on how i feel. I think that taking private insurance is a dangerous proposition, to go into unionized states in the industrial midwest, he states we have to win. We should be the party of Getting People Health Care<\/a> and not taking it away. I do have some concerns with that. With the decriminalization of the border, i believe if you want to come into our house, you have to ring the doorbell. When you have conversations around Free Health Care<\/a> for undocumented workers, there are a lot of americans who are working their rear ends off to pay for health care for their families. It should be free from document undocumented workers. I believe undocumented workers should have access to health care, but they have to pay for like everybody else. I think thats a reasonable position to have. The other position to be potentially a cost to us. [indiscernible] that he used hollowpoint bullets because they cause maximum damage. Where do you stand on a ban for hollowpoint bullets . Rep. Ryan i am forward. For it. The weapons of war. Im a house of representatives guy and have been for 17 years. I believe in the process. It is not working now but i believe in the process where we should sit down and have committee hearings. We should bring in experts. We should identify the weaponry and the bullets as we move forward to try to regulate this. We have to know what were talking about. But hollowpoint bullets, thats pretty straightforward. Where do you stand on walmart to stop selling guns . They were selling make your own ar15 kits. Where do you stand on that . Rep. Ryan i have not been to walmart to see their selection. If you can keep it to hunting rifles and those kind of things, i think thats appropriate. I think one of the great leaders in the last few years has been the ceo of dicks sportinggoods , who said we are not selling this anymore. I think that was appropriate. In 1994, Many Democrats<\/a> were barred by the political backlash. Do you think the party is in a different place now . Democrats have devoted to pass a ban . Rep. Ryan i think the country is in a different place right now. Back in 1994, the only Major Organization<\/a>, the only Major Organization<\/a> in 1994 was the National Rifle<\/a> association. I just left the meeting of 300 people in iowa around mom submit moms demand action. You have Gabby Giffords<\/a> group. You have sandy hook. There are a lot of groups that are a counterbalance to the nra. Plus, the accumulation of the concerns in dayton and el paso going all the way back to columbine for we have a generation who lived through this. I think public sentiment is also changing. First and foremost, lets get this stuff passed in the senate. Then we can talk about the next steps of getting these weapons of war off the streets, which has about 60 support across the United States<\/a>. Congressman ryan, about jeffrey epstein, how do we get justice for his alleged victims . Now that the case is effectively over, there will be no more prosecution, but what do we do about the victims . Rep. Ryan we have to continue the process and the process will continue. If we have to do something in congress to bring that to light, we most certainly well and i will and i would encourage our leadership to do that. I dont know how this guy was able to commit suicide. One of the biggest fugitives in custody in a federal prison. No idea how this happened. We will get those details. Easy way out, as far as i can tell. One more on gun violence. President trump has talked a lot [indiscernible] rep. Ryan what is the name of that book . Amazon. Com. Im kidding. Where you stand on where the Mental Health<\/a> component versus gun ban and things like that . Rep. Ryan i think its interesting. When you hear from the president , from Mitch Mcconnell<\/a>, from people who dont want to do anything on gun reforms, they to. Ys diverge divert. Divert to Mental Health<\/a>. When four out of five these issues there are no metal health issues. 99 of people with Mental Illness<\/a> are not violent. To push this off on that i think is a distraction. There is Mental Illness<\/a> in other countries but they dont have Mass Shootings<\/a> because they cant get their hands on these kind of powerful weapon. Having said that, we have a Mental Health<\/a> crisis in the country. I think there should be a metal Health Counselor<\/a> in every school. We need to make sure there are enough providers in Rural Communities<\/a> and older industrial committees that lost a lot of providers. We have to make sure there is access and promote in the schools traumainformed care. A lot of this trauma can lead to depression and Mental Health<\/a> issues. We are finding more evidence that diet can have an effect on depression and other issues. Its clearly an issue, but if the president was so concerned about Mental Health<\/a>, he would not be trying to kick 22 Million People<\/a> off of their Health Insurance<\/a> that includes Mental Health<\/a> coverage. It is the most disingenuous thing i think he has said. People are dying on the streets of dayton and el paso and his he is trying to push it off and say to Mental Health<\/a> issue. At the same time hes kicking 22 Million People<\/a> after health off of their mental Health Insurance<\/a>. Thats as all you need to say. Medicine, foods are what foods are you talking about . Rep. Ryan the food is medicine is a new initiative happening in different areas across the country where you take type two diabetics and some studies have literally given them 2500 worth of healthy food. Fruit, vegetables, moving away from carbohydrates and sugar. Over time, they have reversed type 2 diabetes. Gotten them off their meds. With other support as well. Not just the food, but the food is a key component of it. I was in iowa a few weeks back. I met a woman. Im telling her what i was saying out here about it. She said i just got into a program. She said i was on my deathbed. She lost 89 pounds through using food as medicine. She got off 10 or 15 different prescription drugs she was on. She was down to one more. One more i got to get off of. She is now healthy and alive and vibrant and coming to political roundtables with guys like me. That is the future of medicine. Sometimes we over complicate things. We think just technology. This could be really good for the farmers, right . You moved to regenerative agriculture and produce more fresh, healthy food. Get rid of food deserts. It becomes a whole new market for farmers. So you are reducing your Health Care Costs<\/a>, boosting farmers, good for the environment. Now you have a more energetic, productive worker in society. Winwinwin. Thats how i want the Democratic Party<\/a> to start thinking. I dont want these old ideas. I dont want to just talk about singlepayer or just the Health Insurance<\/a> piece, which is important. Im on the medicare for all bill, medicare to 50. This is where we have got to go. Insurance is a small part of the broader conversation i think democrats should be leading. Eating less meat because of environmental reasons. Rep. Ryan i eat meat. You are going to fill me eating meat here in a little bit and probably lots of it. Im totally ok with eating meat. I believe meat should be produced like it used to be produced. We have to get these cows out of these industrial processing plants. I dont think its healthy for them. You look at the poultry and the meat, it has high levels of antibiotics, hormones. We can do better than that. Part of the regenerative process to really make it work is to have the cattle out there walking, doing what they do, and helping build the soil out. That is all part of the process. I am all for eating meat but we i am all for eating meat, but we have to move from the industrial to the more grass fed that doesnt have all of the hormones and antibiotics in them. Reformrom meat to gun back to pork chops. Congressman, gun reform is part of the radical can you talk about what you would do as deradicalize the far right . Ryan i think you do prosecute those who commit the crimes as domestic terrorism. You cannot have the president of the United States<\/a> provide political cover for these groups which he has. People ask me are you calling the president a white supremacist . Do White Supremacists<\/a> think he is a white supremacist . A political candidate calling him and he doesnt go very far but if you want to find the answer, go to the groups. They have said this is a guy who will promote our agenda. Calling it out, another way to divide the country to me that is the way to do it. [inaudible] rep. Ryan i didnt see that but it is par for the course. This is where Big Energy Companies<\/a> can get what they want. They get the waivers and they hurt the small and midsized people. This is a government that is correct, whether it is the nra or the waivers for ethanol. I believe in publicly financing elections. I think we have to get the money out of politics. To have a government that functions on behalf of the american people. This is another example. We just saw the immigration issue in mississippi. In each instance it is like the top dog gets everything that they want and the people are not protected at all. Yes maam . [inaudible] rep. Ryan you have to prosecute them. Is that theding laws are on the books. They have all of these incidents. Been prosecuted. The Trump Administration<\/a> consistently looks the other way so you will need a new president. From the top down. I would win ohio, pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin. I think we put i North Carolina<\/a> interplay. I think we put potentially in the senate races we can go down and beat Mitch Mcconnell<\/a> if i am the nominee. I am in the Service Industry<\/a> here. I think we put kentucky into play. I think we would make a great run at Lindsey Graham<\/a> and South Carolina<\/a>. A lot of those communities down there have some work. There is a lot of economic anxiety. We can make a good run at Lindsey Graham<\/a>. I think we can win the senate back, but we need a nominee he was talking about doing better and not left or right. If we jump into the divide i think we can potentially win, but we cant transform the map. If we go new and better. New economy, new ideas around education, new ideas around educating kids, new ideas around health care in Rural America<\/a>, we can pull together the old fdr coalition. I love the idea of us going into Rural America<\/a>, and i think we can transform the map. The president was critical of the military exercises with america and south korea. What are the benefits of those exercises today . Is that something you are willing to give up for peace with north korea . Rep. Ryan i hate to jump in. Ive been in congress for 17 years. I have been on either the Armed Services<\/a> committee or defense appropriations committee. I know enough to not jump into a donald trump tweet about a crazy idea he has. Somehow acting like that is american policy and forward. I will just say that north korea is a threat. China is moving into the South China Sea<\/a> in a big way. We see the problems theyre having in hong kong and taiwan and other areas. There was a lot of stuff going on. They are moving out and showing a lot of force. We have got to make sure we have some balance and friends in the region. That includes military exercises. Not just with south korea. Also with india and other countries. We have got to be positioned. I dont like it anymore than anybody else but i dont want china having free reign of the world. Locking down china is in africa locking down material contracts for essential minerals that we need for our economy. And in technology and all the rest. China is on the move and they have a 100your plan. My concern is that donald trump lives in a 24hour news cycle. Guess who wins that game. If you became president and the democrats have the majority of the house, who would you like to see become speaker . Rep. Ryan that is out of my hands. A lot of good talent. I dont know if leader pelosi will still be around. Joakim jeffries. There is a lot of really good talent we have been able to put into leadership. We will have to wait and see. I have enough on my plate right now. Cool. Yes, honey . [indiscernible] rep. Ryan great question. I released an Education Plan<\/a> a few weeks back. It puts 100 billion into infrastructure for the schools. School buildings, highspeed internet, making sure the buildings can be secure, air conditioning or heat depending on what the school needs. We are putting 100 billion into that so the building looks good. You have playgrounds and every thing else. We also have approaches where we want to make sure there is art and music and all of the extracurricular activities. We want to make sure you are learning social and emotional health, like how to handle conflict with your friends or parents or brothers or sister if you have one. How to handle that in a mature way. Not just teach academics but also teach the whole child. That is one of the things i want to do but i want to make sure there are afterschool programs and Summer School<\/a> programs so we can keep you busy with things you like. If there is something you like, some schools dont always offer things for kids. I want to make sure every school has the opportunity to give you something you are interested in. And help you along the way. I want to make sure you are eating good at school. We want to have School Gardens<\/a> so you are learning how to grow food yourself. Tie that into the Health Curriculum<\/a> you may have. As youre learning about your body and health and also growing the food that can keep you healthy. I want a salad bar in every school. It does not mean you cant eat treats, just not as many. Last one. What are you going to eat at the state fair . Rep. Ryan i am getting the deepfried oreo cookie, which has 4. 5 stars on yelp. [applause] you had a beer and you were flipping the porkchops. How did it go . It was hot. I think it was the best beer i have ever had in my life. It was amazing. Foode hitting as many stands as we can. My son brady is excited for me to wrap the interview up and get out there. Lets talk about some of the issues that dominated the campaign. Gun control. You are urging the republican leader to reconvene the senate. Should the house also meet this month to debate the issue . Ryan the senate has to go back first. They have bills on Mitch Mcconnell<\/a>s death desk getting dusty. They have the support of 80 of the american people. The senate should go back immediately, take those up and pass them, and take care of them in a Conference Committee<\/a> or Something Like<\/a> that. Ifthey want to keep going, they want to do assault weapons bans, we can do that in august too. This is the headline from the courierjournal. After the president s speech, he issued a statement saying it is time for lawmakers to reflect on what the president is offering. Your reaction . Ofthere has been a lot reflection. People are getting murdered and gunned down. Almost 30 injured within less than 30 seconds in dayton ohio. He needs to take these bills up. These are closing loopholes. Its not that complicated. You should have a background check if there are persontoperson sales. People are getting killed at levels that are unacceptable for me in the United States<\/a>. First on the democrats line from owensboro, kentucky. Recently there was a conversation where a female colonel accused him of sexual abuse. No one believed her and they explained and they believed him. Can you explain that . Rep. Ryan im not sure exactly what the story was but there needs to be a process, especially in the military where there is a high rate of sexual assault. I think these women need to be given a fair trial. In the speech that we carry life you told iowa voters about job losses in the youngstown area. Among those spots will be the closing of the youngstown vindicator. When a community loses its Community Paper<\/a> like we are with the youngstown vindicator, that goese spotlight that through the board of education meetings that spreads light on the functioning of local democracy. You need what the press provides. I am a politician. Of course they dont always write things that i agree with. These local papers revealing what is happening to prevent corruption. Losing that paper is going to be really tough. My name is stephen. Is of all the people why didnt they go after him first . I didnt see the numbers. I didnt see that there were any ms 13 involved at all. My concern is that it demonizes undocumented immigrants. Is thesety of it business folks are getting away with hiring these people. That is the real question that Everybody Needs<\/a> to ask. The oil and gas Companies Get<\/a> huge tax breaks. The 3 trillion tax cut that went primarily to the top 1 . See the people that are undocumented. Of theave the Owners Company<\/a> alone. Everyone else is left unprotected. The immigration debate was a good example of that. That wentn about how down in the schools where several hundred children came home without their mother or dad . Rep. Ryan i cant imagine. If Ronald Reagan<\/a> or fdr or the din johnson how does the federal government or Lyndon Johnson<\/a> how does the federal government have no plan for the kids who will be at school and come home to know parents . Im running around the fair with my fiveyearold kid and there are kids everywhere. We are a better country than that. Those are little children who will be so devastated devastated. To me that is so far beyond the pale of how we should behave as a country. All it does is signal to me and every person in the country that the president doesnt care. One thing that you would say to the president or the head of these agencies is that there will be kids there, what do we do with the kids . Ice is saying we are just doing our job we are not a social Service Agency<\/a>. Where is the social Service Agency<\/a> . Have superents who young kids how are they able to connect with them . This is so inhumane. Good afternoon. Do you support the investigation into the impeachment of donald j. Trump . Rep. Ryan i do. I read the Mueller Report<\/a> twice. In my estimation he obstructed justice five or six times. If that was somebody in Youngstown Ohio<\/a> who is an auto worker or a waitress in new york city they would be indicted. King, he is a president. He needs to face up for what he did. There seems to be an investigation and house and i encourage my colleagues to proceed with that investigation. We are going to move on to tom in West Des Moines<\/a> iowa. My farm two years ago. He had 300 acres of soybeans and that is more than i had. He didnt get any subsidized payments. He didnt know if he would get any in the second year. Would look into that and see why he didnt get that with his life when i didnt have that many acres. I always participate. Thank you for your question. First i have heard of it. I spoke today on the soapbox about trying to move the industrial, monopolistic agriculture system over to regenerative agriculture that also sequesters carbon which can allow us to reverse Climate Change<\/a>. It is also much better for the soil. We have algae blooms in the great lakes. Soil that turned into dirt. It goes into the lakes and not just the river. It will hold and make more porous the soil to be more drought resistant because it holds more water and better for the farmers. They make money when they regenerativen agriculture. That way farmers can make money so they are not spending so much on pesticide and herbicide and fertilizer. Farmershnique will help be more profitable. Farmers will make more money off of president tim ryan than they ever made off donald trump. Where is the algae bloom ing from that you so much fertilizer now. It is a burden that costs farmers so much money and then the fertilizer runs off and sifts into these lakes. You can see it happen with tremendous effect on the Fishing Industries<\/a> or on the coast or the great lake areas. Reducing the amount of fertilizer you need by really taking care of the soil with different plants, planting different crops throughout the year. Certainp brings minerals and things into the soil. It increases organic matter. The food has lost a ton of nutrient value. This is a win across the board plus you can take care of the algae problem. Call is from cedar rapids. Mary. Hello, tim. I met you in fairfield, iowa. I think with the shootings in , part of the paso problem is what are we doing about our young men. I think the conversation is important. Are we not eating nutritious food. Get young people to think about agriculture. Im cooking tomatoes with zucchini on inspiration from you from two months ago and i appreciate you being here. We are seeing a lot of information coming in about and its effect on Mental Health<\/a>. When we mess up the micro biome, we are starting to see real data coming in around depression and other Mental Health<\/a> issues. I released a couple weeks ago an education proposal that deals educationforming our intom by putting more care our schools. Having art therapy and play therapy and music therapy. Then when we do that you see in 11 change in their test scores. The economyabout and transforming education. If anyone is interested they can go to timryan. Com and send a contribution to keep this campaign rolling. Im talking about new and better. You heard me talking today to try to not reform old broken systems but to try to transform them. Congressman, earlier today senator Kamala Harris<\/a> came across your son, brady. Hime is a photograph of wearing the tim ryan shirt. What has this been like for you and your family . Rep. Ryan it is exhilarating and exhausting. Very challenging for the family. We have young kids, and my wife works. The house is really busy and i am not around. But my kids have been here and its been great. They came to kentucky with me. My wife heres the stories that i tell when i get home. But to have her on the trail manye trail you hear so gut wrenching stories around gun violence. People with health care and Womens Health<\/a> and reproductive rights. Hear good for my wife to those stories with me on the trail. When i am away she knows what im doing and she is reminded about why we are doing this as a family. And with my son it has been great because i havent had a lot of time with him. Now we will ride some rides. Congressman ryan thank you for stopping by the cspan bus. Democratic president ial candidate senator Amy Klobuchar<\/a> also spoke to voters at the iowa state fair. Sen. Klobuchar this is something. Thank you. I am Amy Klobuchar<\/a> where we can say we can see iowa from our porch. There have been some comparisons made. Im not going to say which one is better but i will say im very look very much looking forward to your butter cows. We will see how it compares to the milky way in the revolving dairy bus of the incenses. I asked her what she does when she is out of the fair. She says they bring it home and use it in the corn as acorn fast. I have been all around iowa on a 20county tour. It is a little bit warmer than it was when i announced my candidacy in that blizzard. I thought it would be good to show that i have grit and i had four inches of snow on my head hairdresser became an icon. But i wanted to make a coin to on the Mississippi River<\/a> that it is time to cross the river of our divide. To get to a higher plane. Two days ago i thought that is the same flag flying over el paso. Flag flyingsame over dayton. What unites us is so much stronger than what divides us. No stir president , after charlottesville there were not two sides when the other side was the ku klux klan and a white supremacist. Out there ineen the small town, i have been really surprised. Not just democrats but people have come up, regular people have come up to me and started talking about gun safety. I think it is very important that we have these conversations in places like iowa. Across the who sat president after parkland. These proposals i think it any of them hurt my uncle in the deer stand . They do not. These are proposals that make sense. Nine times he promised that he would get universal background checks done. The next day he met with the nra and he folded. President , i will not fold. When i make promises i keep them. Won in the reddest of congressional districts. And i think its important to have a candidate from the midwest right now. Someone who doesnt just have a bunch of policies written on a piece of paper but someone who is looking out for Rural America<\/a>. I think that kids that grow up in Rural America<\/a> should be able to live in Rural America<\/a>. I think we need to bridge this divide between rural and urban and make sure that people who live in these metropolitan areas can understand that food doesnt magically show up on their table. We dont need a president who is treating our Rural Farmers<\/a> like poker chips and a bankrupt casino. Thats whats happening now and as your president i will not let that happen. To theans standing up Big Oil Companies<\/a> and it also means standing up to the Oil Companies<\/a> so that you do not grant them waivers behind closed doors. Weaking of Climate Change<\/a>, have to make the argument that it is also an economic issue when we have seen a 50 increase in the cost of home insurance. That is a basic argument that we can make. It will cost people money if we dont do something about it now. I said it i stood there with fran and i looked through her binoculars at the house. She said we will retire in this house, but now that whole kitchen is submerged in water. This house has the first century. I said there is a river right here. He said, that is the road she said the river is 2. 5 miles away and the river has never come this close before. We have the answers right here. We can sign ourselves back into the international Climate Change<\/a> agreement. We can bring black the bring back the clean power standards. Program in the farm bill. Checked, iowai believes in silence science or you would not have given us norman. The one who believed in science enough to feed the world. Care, weomes to health have to bring those prices down. I will work with you to stop the of medicaid in this state. There are only 54 Mental Health<\/a> in the state of iowa. Im talking about it because its what im hearing about from you. We cannot do any of this if we cannot win. Dot of what i have tried to and i know that maybe i havent had a viral moment, but what ive tried to do is to not take it to the other democrats. Part of what you have to do is to vet the candidates. Not go for the richest candidates, or the one who has the biggest pot of money. You vetted candidates that were unknown before. Who were theecide best candidates to move forward. I am asking you to do that. Getting record is things done. I have passed over 100 bills where i am deleting democrat. I think that matters. Matters. Hings done i have won every race every time going back to Elementary School<\/a> where my slogan was all the way with amy k. You know in this state there are moderate republicans and independent watching those debates and they are thinking they are tired of donald trump. They dont like a president where when he is on tv and the kids are watching they have to turn it off because they dont know what kind of words will come out of his mouth. I think its important that we make the point that there is so much more that unifies us then divides us. But also that he has made promises that he hasnt capped. He promised on fox news he would bring pharmaceutical prices down so low to make your head spin. It will make your head spin to know that over 2000 of them have gone up and doubled digits. I have been taking on pharma since i got to washington. Allow the bill that would 43 million seniors to negotiate the price is under medicare and bring those prices down. Lead the bill with senator grassley. Senator kaine and i previously did a bill together that says lets bring in less expensive like from other countries canada. Lets not pay for delay. Offbig Pharma Companies<\/a> pay the generics to keep their product off the market. They win and we lose. Economic agenda for this country. Workforce forhe the jobs that are available tomorrow not yesterday. This is also about Immigration Reform<\/a>. Standseveryone out there on the shoulders of immigrants iowa oneed workers in our fat factories and on our farms and hospitals. I was at a nursing home yesterday and they talked about the shortage of Mental Health<\/a> professionals. They are talking about letting people from other countries be able to stay here. We need comprehensive Immigration Reform<\/a>, we need to stop using immigrants as pawns. Diminish america, they are america. That is a voice from the heartland. The last thing that i want to say before i take a few questions is this change starts right here. Think of the president ial candidates who have come through on the stage and have gone on to do amazing angst for our country. Jimmy carter. Bill clinton. Barack obama. You have a big burden on your shoulders. Do you know what iowa gave us . Iowa gave us the movement where you took on those monopolies. Ar. Buch iowa gave us norman more log norman borlaug. The us the woman who sat at drugstore and they refused to serve her because she was black, she said im not moving off of this. Iowa gave us these incredible candidates who are taking on the world and changing the house. That would be abby and cindy and rita and jd. That is what you have given us. Country and you are giving again. Hes governs from fear. He makes people afraid. He says things on twitter, most of the time hes not followthrough. But he makes people afraid. He is afraid himself. He is afraid of the nra. That is why he did not put commonsense Gun Legislation<\/a> in place. He is afraid of science. When i announced in the middle of that blizzard he actually tweeted out and said that, made fun of me for announcing in the middle of a blizzard and talked about Climate Change<\/a>. And he called me snow woman. I thought that was actually pretty good. So i tweeted back, donald trump the science is on my side. And i would like to see how your hair would fare in a blizzard. I actually think we need to use a little humor against this guy. He governs from fear. Hes afraid of the science. Hes afraid of the future. Hes afraid of people having equal seats at the table and Economic Opportunity<\/a>, so he goes after them. He is afraid of the working class having the same Economic Opportunity<\/a> as the wealthy. He passes that tax bill that added a trillion dollars in debt. A trillion dollars in debt and set our country backward. He is afraid of women. And our rights. He is afraid of that. And most of all he is afraid of a woman in the white house. [applause] we, we are not afraid of that. So i ask you today, everyone gathered at this beautiful fair, i ask you to join us. And to join me at amyklobuchar. Com. As i said i do not come from a lot of money. Nor does my husband. He grew up with six boys and mobile home. We do not come from that money. But we do come from a strong tradition of grassroots politics. Of tom harkin and the guy who was his best friend in this senate, paul wellstone, who we miss so much. Paul always said that politics including here at places like this, is about one thing. It is about improving peoples lives. And when you believe that, Everything Else<\/a> melts away. So lets go out there and lets win this, and please join our effort, we are going to win this. Amyklobuchar. Com we are going to win this. Ok. Questions . I have to pick someone in purple because the vikings, prince. As you know alzheimers affects everyone including my grandparents and someone in your family as well. At 19, i joined the 16 million americans who are caregivers for people with alzheimers. If you are elected what would you do to tackle alzheimers as a politician . Klobuchar the question is about alzheimers. And im actually shocked this is not come up in the debate. So abc, who is doing the next debate, listen up. It is a great question. By 2050, 14 million americans are forecast to have all timers. It is the most expensive disease in the country. It is the most expensive disease in the country. And yes, we are not making the progress that i think we should make. People come up. There caregivers in the Sandwich Generation<\/a> taking care of their kids and their parents at the same time. And i have my own experience with this. My dad is in the memory care unit. Ive seen those incredible caretakers there for him all the time. But it is really hard for people, especially those taking care of people at home. As someone is there physically but month by month by month, they are farther away with their minds. So the solution, the solution is to put the money in the funding into research. To make sure we are looking at prevention as well as treatment. We are getting all kinds of new information all the time. And the solution is making sure that we have longterm care that works for people. So let me give you one idea. That is this. Whether people have alzheimers or not, theyre worried about longterm care. We have to keep medicaid strong. We are seeing a doubling of our senior population. Which is great. The other day 70 called at silver tsunami people said that was to mean so im calling it the silver surge. Your singing doubling of that population. We need to make it easier for people to get longterm Care Insurance<\/a> and also longterm care. Also keep medicaid strong in the end. A lot of families know what im talking about here. Wealthy people set up things called trust funds for their kids and what we take ones that are over 500,000. That is a lot. Right now they do not get taxed when they make money if you can imagine. If you tax those when they make money, it is called appreciation. You literally bring in hundreds of billions of dollars. Why do we use that money to care for longterm care to put incentives in place to buy longterm Care Insurance<\/a> and make it less expensive and help our seniors ok. Next. [applause] after what happened in georgia im a little worried. Im wondering what your doing to protect the right to vote . Klobuchar the right to vote and democracy. This is fundamental to everything youre hearing if you come to the soapbox today. People have to have the right to vote. That is what our Founding Fathers<\/a> fought for. This means to be making it easier, not harder, for people to vote. This is not a democratic issue with a big d, it is a small d issue. It is for everyone, independents, republicans. I would make sure my bill passes that registers every kid eligible to vote when they turn 18. So you stop messing around with all this stuff. I would make sure you work on the Voting Rights<\/a> act. So you stop messing around with all this stuff. Stop this gerrymandering. Right now we need to protect our right to vote from foreign countries. I have the bipartisan bill that says we should have backup paper ballots in the states that do not have them. And you know who that . The white house gutpunched me. The white House Counsel<\/a> called and stops that bill from going to the floor. As did Mitch Mcconnell<\/a>. Guess what . They are getting a lot of grief right now. I need you to put up the heat. And it is hot enough here to continue that grace. And let me end this with our democracy. Our march started the day after that inauguration, when millions of people including in this town peacefully marched across the country. The next day, 6000 women signed up to run for office. We are on this march together. Where on day nine with that meanspirited muslim order that came out, guess what . People spontaneously showed up at the airports to protest. On day 100, my favorite march, the march for science. My favorite sign, what we want, science . When do we want it . After peer review. Then trying to kick people off their insurance. And we won. Then those incredible victories. The guy new jersey who said he wanted women to be home in time to make dinner the day of the womens march. He ended up losing to an africanamerican woman. [applause] then we end in 2018, we take back the house of representatives thanks to iowa turning it into the peoples house. We have got to win in 202020. Keep marching. Join us. Thank you, state fair. [cheering] [applause] [indistinct conversations] thank you. Klobuchar im a candidate for anyone that wants to see a president that is going to govern with integrity. I have had, including yesterday in waverley, two voters come up and say they voted for trump and they were looking at me seriously. I try to treat people with respect even if i do not agree with everything they say. Youre never going to agree with everything your candidate says, as much as groups active in the primary want that to be the case. You are going to have a candidate that is not in your mind, perfect. You have to look at whether theyre going to be able to get things done. Whether they going to be able to bring in those voters that voted for barack obama and donald trump. And it is estimated that up to 10 of people. That makes a big difference. The fact we have someone from the midwest. There only three of us now, running from the midwest, who can win wisconsin or my mom was born. Who can win michigan. The last message i had Vice President<\/a> biden and i were tied at the top winning by a points. Can win in states like iowa. My argument is that you want to bring people into the party and at least to both free for president. That has got to be part of our strategy. Maybe it does not sound cool on the debate stage. But i think democrats are discerning enough to understand that. Klobuchar interesting question. The epstein case. I understand investigation has been undertaken. I think that investigation should occur. I dont understand why, when somebody is on suicide watch, they are able to commit suicide. Mostly, i think that there will be further lawsuits and other things to figure out. I think there should be lawsuits and other things to figure out exactly what went on here. This was a sex trafficking scheme. And i have been a leader on sex trafficking. And i think you have to get all the facts. The bad guy died. But i think there were other bad people involved in this as well. And i think we have to for the sake of the victims, we have to get to the bottom of it. Whether that involves a Senate Hearing<\/a> or not. It could, but right now we need an investigation. Allstar game . Klobuchar we hosted, in d. C. . Do you think it is disingenuous in the campaign some of those running ahead of you when they talk about these bold Health Care Plans<\/a> . Klobuchar i think theyre putting ideas out there. And i love discussing ideas. What im doing is putting my own ideas out there. I was one of the first people to make a very strong case for the public option, whether be medicaid or medicare. You can actually do it both ways. That would help bring down the cost of health care. I also think it is doable. But that is not really reason. I think it is the best policy to pursue right now. These are policy debates. The point i made out there, it is still the case that what unifies us is stronger than what divides us. This guy, what we are having this debate was assigned to have. But while we are having this debate, rarely anyone stood up and i had little chance to do it, stood up and say well we are debating this in good faith, this guy is trying to dismantle the Affordable Care<\/a> act, and kick people off of their insurance for preexisting conditions. That is exactly what is happening right now with his Justice Department<\/a> and the state of texas. While we are debating, what we should be doing when it comes to foreign relations, he has made these promises that he is going to keep us safer and then withdrew us from the iran agreement. Where iran is now exceeding the cap to enriched uranium. You have a guy who has lied they documented over 10,000 times. Its good to have someone who is being straight with people. I am being straight with them and i believe these ideas were talking about. But the things im proposing we could actually get done. This is not as one of the reasons i put out the hundred day plan. It has a hundred things we could get done without congress. Their legal things. I think people are going to want a change of tone. That is why fdr did his first hundred days. Yes, there was a crisis going on. But there was also a crisis of confidence. Right now theres a crisis of confidence in our democracy. We need to show people that we are going to have a change in tone, and we are going to come together as one country. What is your message to farmers struggling the ongoing trade war with china . As president how would you address the issue . Klobuchar the first thing is it does not have to be this bad. Has gotten us to a point because he is not going back to the negotiating table, where he is using our farmers like poker chips and one of his bankrupt casinos. As you know he likes to do a lot of debt financing, and he is starting to do this to our country. That is another subject for another day that i hope you talk about in the debate. When it comes to farmers, yes. China is about actor in all this and with their currency manipulation. With their subsidization of industries. With their stealing of intellectual property. We know that. But i think you need to use a targeted approach. And not use a meat cleaver, or a tweet cleaver. Ive seen this in my work in my own state. There was horrible steel dumping from china. So at the end of the Obama Administration<\/a> we took on with new legislation. That stiffened our resolve and our ability to go after it. Then i brought Denis Mcdonough<\/a> to northern minnesota. He met with the steelworkers and mine owners and realized we were basically leading jobs in these iron ore mines that are key to the steel for cars. Were closing down. So what they did was targeted enforcement. Strong enforcement, targeted enforcement. With some tariffs that were targeted. And guess what . Those mines started opening up again. They opened up the end of the Obama Administration<\/a> and continued into the Trump Administration<\/a>. Just throwing a bunch of money at our farmers, course theyre going to take it. But i had a guy crying at a meeting in minnesota. I closed the door. Sobbing, a soybean farmer. He said this farm has been in my family for generations. I have a moral obligation to carry on the family farm. It is not enough that i just get a bunch of money from sonny perdue. It is not enough. I want to be able to sell my goods to market. I want to be able to sell and market my soybeans. And the problem he pointed out to me through the tears, is that these contracts that the other countries are getting now, theyre not just for oneshot deals. And iowa knows this. Theyre longterm contracts. So it is going to make it very hard for them to get a toehold in that market again. So my argument is, get back to the negotiating table and work with our allies. Should walmart stop selling guns that led to the shooting . Klobuchar she asked if walmart should stop selling guns. My hometown store of target has stopped selling guns. I think walmart is selling more limited guns over the last two years. But i think they should. And more on that subject is, i have worked so hard to close that boyfriend loophole. And i think those words do not do it justice. What this bill is, and i wrote it and read it and it has now passed in the house thanks to Debbie Dingell<\/a> and her work on that violence gets women act. So people understand it, people convicted of a serious crime of Domestic Abuse<\/a>, if it is involving their husband or wife, or someone they live with, then they cannot get a gun. But if they are convicted of serious Domestic Abuse<\/a> with a girlfriend, then they can go out and get whatever gun they want. Homicides involve victims who are all friends. That is what the boyfriend loophole is. That bill is sitting on Mitch Mcconnell<\/a>s doorstep. What i have heard in rural iowa on the 20 county tour, not just from democrats, just when i walked on the street. If that is any indication, i think there will be huge pressure on the republicans to at least let those bills come up for a vote. I would also add in as a Republican House<\/a> Republican House<\/a> member from dayton now supports, banning military weapons. As well as the magazine limits. The fact that is not going to change peoples minds as they the horror of the people in the walmart trapped, and the ordinary courage of people shielding their babies and saving their babies lives by getting killed themselves. And the ordinary courage of those Police Officers<\/a> showing up in one minute. That we do not have the courage in washington to pass this. The thing that will stick in their mind is that one guy was able to get a gun and highpowered magazines to the point that he killed nine people in 30 seconds. And i want to see donald trump on a debate stage, after sitting across from him in the white house and having a promise he was going to do all the stuff on guns. And i want to see his face when you say, so that guy about that guy should have that gun him and we should be selling those kinds of highpowered magazines . So even when the police show up in one minute, nine people still get killed . Because in most situations, the cops are not going to be able to be there in one minute. And it wouldve been so much worse. That is true. But he should not of had those guns to begin with. Broader, bring back, [indiscernible] Foreign Policy<\/a> you know Foreign Policy<\/a> probably better than anybody. Klobuchar thank you. He says i know Foreign Policy<\/a> better than anybody. Isnt there a risk that the party is leaning so far to the left that you are. Klobuchar i have not looked at her agriculture policy. Mine is not just based on paper but based on three farm bills. And taking grief from my colleagues when they did not vote for other farm bills. And having to deal with defending biofuels, which i still think is a very necessary part of our energy future. And having to defend that what a bunch of people from urban areas were pouncing on it and trying to bring it down. My experience on this and what you will see in my policy is a continuation of the current farm bill and improving it. Im someone that actually back when i first got to the senate, you can check this out. In my first two years advocated for some payment limits. Because i did not like the fact that there was money from the farm program not going to iowa, but instead going to the Beverly Hills<\/a> 90210 area code. True fact. So i advocated for some payment limits. I lost because of, in the words of the New York Times<\/a> and the Washington Post<\/a> that commended me in their editorials, 22 rice farmers in arkansas. But i ended up winning in the end because limits were put into place. You need limits to make sure the money goes where it should be but you also want to keep the entrepreneurial spirit of our farmers. You want to have a safety net which is what we have a crop insurance. We had major problems with the Dairy Program<\/a> we are now fixing. Want to ward off one of the major threats to agriculture which is the kind of diseases that were brought in. That is why senator cornyn and i put in a vaccine bank which just passed in that last farm bill. No one is talking about this. This is what we saw with h1n1 and avian flu and huff and mouth disease. Foreign countries who do not want to have competitive American Products<\/a> use these things as an excuse, even if they are dangerous or not. That is another trade issue we have to deal with. So do i think having someone at the top of the ticket that actually knows these things is good for our country . Yes. And i hope that as the months go by and we have more debate, that it is going to start to be appreciated. It is not just people who talk the talk now. It is the work they have done. It is whether or not theyre able to get through that gridlock of congress. And past things. And make a difference and pass things. And make a difference. I look forward to the small debate stage so i can speak to the economic agenda. And how im a stark contrast to the guy with the white house who stokes fears to make himself look better. And he does not care if he does not look better to most americans. He is just doing it too stoke up his base and he is just doing it to create divides. And to get on programs like yours. Im so glad you asked me about actual issues. Thank you. Thank you. [indistinct conversations] we had 9 People Killed<\/a> in 30 seconds. You can mess around with your nra talking points. Know bakley what an i know exactly what an Assault Rifle<\/a> is. I think you know very well that i come from a proud hunting state. Wherever she is. We have a lot of people who are hunters. Kind ofthem with these weapons they dont care. If you want to use nra talking points. You dont have a right to have a gun. There are many people who practice gun safety and who hunt, but that does not mean that you have to have magazines and the words of the republican congressman who endorsed the assault weapons ban after these people were murdered. You dont have to have military style weapons to hunt. [inaudible] sen. Klobuchar you got it . Dont trample her. Sen. Klobuchar i would like the debates to focus on breadandbutter issues. I think it would be good if we got it down to five or six candidates. To allow each candidate to answer straightforward questions. Then we can debate the merits of our policies. Noted people were just trying to pick people against each two pit people against each other. Aboutbates were differences of opinion. Sometimes that is what the debate was. For background checks or any of that . He said it to my face. As like three feet away and the next day he met with the nra. I really want to get this done. What can the president do if he really wanted to get background checks done . He is waiting for Public Opinion<\/a> to act. What he could do is call his friend Mitch Mcconnell<\/a> on speed get this done or promise you will get it done or call the senate back and lets vote on it. He chose not to do that. But wait at the Republican Party<\/a> been run in the senate, donald trump says jump and they say how high . Based on my personal experience with my bill, i am making the social Media Companies<\/a> tell me where the ads are. Donald trump is running that senate for Mitch Mcconnell<\/a>. Make mitchrump can mcconnell hold that bill up for a vote. He is waiting to see what Public Opinion<\/a> is, and then he will have the nra come up and ask him those types of people. I want them asking about what is an assault weapon. It looks exactly like the weapon that was used to kill nine innocent people in 30 seconds. [inaudible] our live coverage of the president ial candidate speaking at the iowa state fair continues on sunday. Republican candidates and former massachusetts senator bill weld speaks it 12 15 p. M. Et. Specie ng with cspan viewers will be the democratic president ial candidate businessman tom steyer. After he speaks at the fair at 2 30 p. M. And Bernie Sanders<\/a> of vermont at 4 45 p. M. Mayor bill de blasio will speak at the fair at 5 30 p. M. Eastern and afterward take questions live from cspan callers. Campaign 2020. Watch our live coverage of the president ial candidates on the campaign trail. Politicsltered view of. On gun safetyum by momsviolence hosted demand action and students demand action, businessman andrew yang had this response to an audience member named stephanie. Came out beautiful fouryearold daughter was struck by a stray bullet in march 2011. My son witnessed what happened that day. She died two days later. Firearms of the second leading cause of death for children and teenagers in the u. S. But 4. 6 million American Children<\/a> live in homes with at least one gun that is loaded and unlocked. Them gain access to them and shoot themselves or someone accidentally every year. As president , how would you address accidental shootings by children . Can i give you a hug . [applause] i have a sixyearold and a [crying]rold i was imagining that it was one of them that got shot in the it one sought saw [crying] i am so sorry. The biggest downside of running for president for me has been that i dont get to see my family very much. That scene that you described is very affecting me. Youre right that when there is a gun in the household, you are more likely to have a child get shot or the owner get shot then to kill say an intruder in the house. Those are just the facts. Its very hard to get into americans houses where all of these guns are, but if we can convince americans that personalized guns are a good idea, if a child gets a hold of a gun that it becomes a very heavy and expensive prop. That is something we can push. One of my proposals is to help goad owners gun owners upgrade their guns free of charge. Gun owners are parents. Them are concerned. If you say we will upgrade your guns for free you can upgrade them for free. So sorry that you had to that story should not be possible. Cspans washington journal live every day with policy issues that impact you. Part of our 2020 coverage with clay masters to talk about the 2020 democratic candidate and the state of the race in iowa. Be sure to watch cspan ask about washington journal on sunday morning. Join the discussion. Q a. Nday night on were taken out of the hall and confronted by this mob of angry people. Allison talks about being physically attacked in 2017 after an appearance by author Charles Murray<\/a> on campus. At the end of your discussion you left and then what happened . The fact is i dont remember much of it. I couldnt even tell you what door we went out. Hallre taken out of the and confronted by this mob of angry people. They were shoveling having and jostling. And their target was Charles Murray<\/a>. Sunday at 9 00 p. M. Eastern. Former virginia dimmick democratic Governor Terry<\/a> mcauliffe talked about his book beyond charlottesville. It is signaling to people that if the president can say this i can too and that emboldened them. If he can say it publicly so can i. I make the point that people used to wear hoods and they used to do this at night and they dont think that they have to anymore. In charlottesville they came out they got hurt badly in charlottesville. Democratic president ial candidate joe sestak of pennsylvania talks to the voters at the iowa state fair. 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