[applause] [laughter] come on over. Thats ok. Any late arrivers get a hug. [laughter] sorry for the delay, but we are glad you are here on this Beautiful Day in nashua, New Hampshire. Bill and i have the great pleasure of having senator Amy Klobuchar here today. Because we are running a little late, i will suggest that perhaps you look at her website, which contains an extraordinary number of policies, and the most important part of them is that she can deliver on them. I want to tell you a couple of things about why i am supporting senator klobuchar. I am a child of immigrants. My parents came to this country literally with nothing after world war ii and i have been the beneficiary of the ideals, the aspirations, the hopes and dreams of most americans, and i want that to be for every american. I am the product yes. [applause] yes, i would clap for that too. I am the product of a Public School education from a midwestern state. [applause] illinois. Public education is the great equalizer. Public education is what helps everyone benefit from economic prosperity. Senator klobuchar makes a point of her policies being she ensures that what they are all about is to ensure access for everyone, that no one is left behind. Currently, our economic policies have not brought everyone else along, and senator klobuchar is someone who can deliver. Senator klobuchar is the most successful democratic senator. Delivers senator klobuchar except for jeannie and maggie. [laughter] ms. Honorow whoops. We all love jeannie and maggie. [applause] ms. Honorow but that is a senator klobucharism. She will give credit where credit is due. She has sponsored and been part of passing 34 bills that have gone through this current administration, which is hard to do when you are a democrat. [applause] ms. Ms. Honorow there are many good candidates who are running for president. Senator klobuchar is a proven deliverer, and thats what we need. And i am supporting senator klobuchar because not only does she understand what it means to govern, she would govern with the humility and the compassion that is necessary for president of the united states. We would never be embarrassed with her as president of the united states. [applause] ms. Honorow senator klobuchar . Sen. Klobuchar thank you, helen. This is, like, the best backyard ever. Thank you, and thank you so much to both of you and thank you to bill. Ok, you wonder what is in my hand . I walked into helen and bills kitchen, and it was too good not to bring out. They had a notorious rbg action figure, ok . [cheers and applause] sen. Klobuchar right . It moves, and i will put it right here for good wishes, you know . Watching over us. We are so happy, the news that she came through yet another health scare with a clean bill of health. So anyway i had never seen such a thing. Ok. Here is deborah, a great counselor over here, i am so proud to have her support, as well as former attorney general joe foster. Thank you. They are both here. This is actually our third nashua outdoor event here, deborah had one and it is so great to have so many people here giving that. Also state senator Shannon Hanley yeah, shandley, it is a little c looking like a g. Shannon chamblee, where are you . Also, melanie lavake is here as well, another state senator. [applause] sen. Klobuchar ok. Could all the other representatives stand up and say your names so we can include everyone who has been elected . Yes, ok. Say your name . Suzanne vale, state ward three, nashua state representative. Sen. Klobuchar thank you. [applause] state representative and ward three aldermen. Sen. Klobuchar great. Anyone else . [inaudible] state representative, ward eight. Sen. Klobuchar thank you, jeff. Anyone else . I love how everyone is always elected here. My favorite was in rye. I did a town hall and moderator was there. He introduced himself. Moderatoram the town and i made a joke and said, you are elected too . He said i am, and the town moderator. We were on the coast just now, quite a day to be there, talking about im a change at the about Climate Change at the Science Center. It is an amazing thing. We are having kind of a climate theme these next few days going into it. We will actually have a climate town hall for the 10 candidates that have qualified for the debate yes, i am one of them. I tell people it is kind of like i made the playoffs, all right . [laughter] sen. Klobuchar it is a big deal, and a lot of you out here had a role in that, and some of you are meeting me for the first time. We are pretty excited, because as the field narrows it will give me a much better chance to be able to make my case. You know that i announced in the middle of a snowstorm, because i knew that would be popular in New Hampshire come on, snow. I wanted to show i had the great i had the grit not to go inside, and i did it there in part because i wanted to make the case that we need to cross the river of our divide to an island in the mississippi river, to get to a higher plane in our politics. And i believe that more than i did then. As the president seems to just escalate every single week with his negative attacks and his chaotic rhetoric, and in fact i was on this morning i did face the nation and fox news sunday, and on both of them, i was able to talk about his trade policy and the economics of what is going on right now. Literally, in the span of just this month, on august 1, he announced tariffs, 300 billion worth of goods. Less than two weeks later, he reversed himself and they pulled them back. Then on august 20, he announced that he was going to reduce taxes because of a potential recession, and then the next day he changed his mind. And by the way, he did that on the fact that he has given us trillions over trillions of dollars in debt and taken us to a place where, if we continue on this course in 10 years, we will have the worst debt since we had right after world war ii. He is literally treating this country like one of his bankrupt casinos, and i think we have to talk about that, as well as the need to go back to the negotiating table with china, with our allies at our side as well as the target investment that we need in things like infrastructure, crying out here with the potential for Commuter Rail to this area. [applause] sen. Klobuchar this is the most congested area, actually, in the country that does not have Commuter Rail going to it right now, and that is just an example of some of the Green Infrastructure and things that we should be doing, allowing for the independence of the Federal Reserve, for a number of years i was the democratic chair of the joint Economic Committee with the house, so i got to know the Federal Reserve chairs, including chair yellen i got to have a very long lunch with her once, in their building, and we had many, many hearings devoted to this. I am a big believer in the independence of the Federal Reserve, strong Monetary Policy and a side note, when my family and i came here are a when my family and i came here for a little two days off at easter, we went up to the North Country and yes, we took the Bretton Woods tour, ok . I would like to point that out, to add that to my street credit when it comes to financial policy. But in any case, i really am concerned about the chaos. One of the things that i remembered this morning as i was talking about it, we have a lot of tribes in minnesota, and there is an old saying that i actually used at the National Prayer breakfast when i was giving the prayer once at that big event, and that is this great leaders make decisions not just for this generation, but for seven generations from now. [applause] sen. Klobuchar we have in place a president that is not even able to keep a decision seven minutes from now, much less seven generations from now. That especially comes into play not just with the longterm view of the chinese and what you have to be able to do to be able to compete with them on the world stage, when you are watching every single thing he does and they have this long view, which we also have to have this long, strategic view. One of the things we have on our side is our democracy, our incredible innovation, we have the fact that we bring people in from all over the world, something he keeps trying to turn his back on all of these things have given us economic strength in our country. One of the things they asked this morning about economics is, well , hey, the economy is still hanging in there. I said yeah. That is because this was on fox that is because of our workers and our businesses, including many here in this great eight, in this great state who helped get us out of this downturn, right . It was tough. They were resilient. They got us out of the downturn, and then when you are a leader and you come in as resident, you and you come in as president , you do not just gloat about the work of others and like, stop the whining every day. It is just blaming someone else. The Federal Reserve chair, the city of baltimore, Jewish Democratic voters, and then the ultimate, the entire country of denmark. Who can piss off denmark . Stop the whining. The gloating, then things go wrong, then it is the whining, instead of meeting the challenges of our day. That is what i really want to talk about today. This is a state that has a long haul view, where people think about, what do we need to do next to move us ahead . The first thing i will start with is the challenges i was i will start with is the challenges. I was here in the Science Center this morning to talk about Climate Change. It is a longhaul challenge, but it is not, because it is here right now. You see it in the rising sea level, the weird weather events, and the president had the audacity to make fun of me for talking about Climate Change in a snowstorm. I wrote back Climate Science is on my side, donald trump, and i would like to see how your hair would fare in a blizzard. [laughter] sen. Klobuchar and humor is an important thing to use against this guy. Strategically, yes but humor it is important. He is not going to think this is funny. The science is on our side, but it is a way you explain it to people so it makes sense to them, especially in the middle that is something i bring to this, as the leader of the ticket, which not many other people could bring to it. That is being from the heartland and being able to have said yes, i have been to the Greenland Ice sheet. I was there with a group of people. Senator sanders was with me and it was a bipartisan group, and we went on a tour, basically, in these little boats and we saw the icebergs, when i remember the captain goes, i will try to be careful here, because if you hit an iceberg we will die in 30 seconds. [laughter] sen. Klobuchar i was like, ok. But it was an incredible mass that we saw. And to think that now with the news that we are losing in one day enough water from that ice sheet to fill over 400 million is ancsized pools, it amazing thing that is happening. And at the same time for New Hampshire at the seacoast, you are seeing a changing of the ocean. I was learning today at the Science Center about oyster fishermen and how if they are commercial, they have had to change the water they are using from the ocean, because it has gotten too acidic, and they have to make changes to it. These are the kinds of things they might sound small it might be one oyster fishermen, but it is not when it is cumulative with your whole world. And in the middle of our country, it is so important that we talk about this in a different way, right . That is these raging fires we have seen in places like colorado and arizona, where they sadly lost both firefighters, or when you think of Northern California and paradise and the dad driving through the lapping flames with his little girl, with their neighborhood burning behind him, singing to her to calm her down. It is a one minute video, but it really says it all. As you see the fire over their car. Or the flooding we have seen in places like missouri and nebraska and iowa just this summer. There is a woman named fran who showed me her binoculars, and she said, look through these. This is my house. I bought it with my husband. We are going to retire in his house. We lived there with our fouryearold. She said this house has been here for almost a century, it is so sturdy, there is still horsehair in the plaster. She said, i love my house, i love the way the light comes through the kitchen. Then i said, where is the kitchen . She goes no, no. It is all underwater. Half of the house is under water. I say, where is the river . The water is raging by us. I said was that this river or that . She said no, those are two roads. The river is two and a half miles away and has never come that close to our neighborhood before. That is Climate Change. That is Climate Change in the middle of the country, where in our nation, Homeowners Insurance has gone up 50 by the way, that is an economic argument to make to people. I think it is important that when people are seeing it right in front of them, we make the case for them. Yes, it is about science and the temperature numbers and all of that, but it is also about what they are seeing and how it is going to change their lives, whether they are a farmer in the middle of nebraska or whether they are oyster fisherman off the coast of maine. These things are happening right now, so that is the first challenge. You know what the answers are. Day one as your president , i will get us back into the international Climate Change agreement. [applause] sen. Klobuchar when the president first announced he was taking us out of that agreement, there were only two countries not in it. Nicaragua and syria, and now they are both in it. That leaves us. Day two, to bring back the rules president obama had worked on for years, and that is the clean power rules, as well as the gas mileage standards, which the Car Companies were ready to comply with anyway. And they want them, a number of them, and trump just threw them out. Those are things, these first three things i mentioned, you can do without congress hey. Not right away. That does not mean i will do things like he does, that are illegal, but there are a bunch of things you can do in the first 100 days. And i believe in 100 day plans. Fdr is the first one that put one out. Yes, we were in an economic crisis, but he did it for another reason as well, because people had lost trust in institutions and their government. He wanted to jumpstart it and make a very quick, different attitude and a different quality of our government and make very clear to people he was going to be a different kind of president. That is why you do 100 day plans, especially right now. I would start out with a promise that i would do no mean tweets, ok . We will go from there. Then, Climate Change, sweeping legislation, and there is all kinds of things you can do there, from the investment in research and development, which we will need so dearly if we not want not just to get to the goals that we have for the year stillbut there will be co2, there will be problems even if we make dramatic changes, it will remain in the air. We will have to think through how we do that, appliance standards, one of my only Climate Change jokes i can give you is that we will build a fridge to the next century. [laughter] sen. Klobuchar as well as a number of other things we have to do when it comes to putting a price on carbon and other things. I think this is doable. We have had these opportunities one was right after 9 11. Bush was president , people were ready to do something. They knew where the terrorists had come from and that we wanted to be not dependent on those nations, those arab nations that were involved in that. But we did not do it. Remember what he asked us to do . He asked us to go shopping, you know . We got through 9 11 as a country in a big way, but to me, that was an opportunity where if he had said, we as a nation are going to come together and we do not want to be dependent on saudi arabia and we do not want to be dependent on some of these other countries, we could have done it. But we lost that opportunity. Then there was another opportunity, actually right before president obama won, we were one vote short in the senate. I remember standing with Maria Campbell in the back, getting a renewable electricity standard which i had long supported for the whole nation. You can do regional differences. We lost by one vote, then president obama came in. I remember we met with him and i raised my hand and was the third person to speak, about doing a renewable electricity center. He said, i guess, he wanted to do it. The decision was made to go to cap and trade first, and i supported it strongly, but the problem is we did not cap the votes, so we did not do either. So we missed that opportunity. The next opportunity is now, and we are not going to have another one like this. That is the 2020 election. And so, i actually am excited about this, because i feel the sea change sea coast the sea change we are seeing there. Secondly, another challenge we have got is our workforce. You have a low Unemployment Rate here in New Hampshire, that is a blessing in some ways, but it also is a challenge because you want to have more incubators, more small businesses, more people here, more entrepreneurs, but you have a low Unemployment Rate. So how do you get at that . To me, the answer is workforce training. Make sure people are getting trained in the jobs we have now. We do not have enough people going in the trades and a whole bunch of other things that are actual