[indiscernible conversations] Michael Bennet, nice to meet you. Thank you. , thing you for being here. Anselm. Me to saint i am thinking of voting for you. Thank you. Which one . Just hit the screen. Good to be here. 1, 2, 3. Nice to see you. Thanks for being here. Good morning. Thank you for being here. Do, irything you appreciate it. How are you . Good to see you. I will. Good morning, how are you . Good to see you guys. 1, 2, 3. Thank you. Hi, how are you . Thank you for being here. I heard you guys were here before anybody else. We tried to be. Good. 1, 2, 3. Thank you. [laughter] thank you, good to see you. Nice to see you. Nice to see you again, how are you . How are you . Thank you. There we go. 1, 2, 3. One more. 1, 2, 3. Thank you. Great seeing you. See you in a bit. How are you doing . Good morning. Pleasure to meet you. Whatever you want. Great. 1, 2, 3. Thats great. Thats great, thank you. 1, 2, 3. Thank you. Thank you very much. How are you . Good to see you. Thank you. Good morning, nice to see you. 1, 2, 3. Thank you very much. Thank you. Much. Thank you for being here. 1, 2, 3. Thank you. Thanks. High, nice to meet you. Morning. We will take you back. Did you ever get back here . Every year. How are you . Do you know my colleague from colorado . She does a great job there. Yes, she does. There were some people on the plane. 1, 2, 3. Thank you. We have about 5000 employees. We would love to have you visit sometime. We have been getting more and more of your guys in colorado. We will have to come by. Thank you. Thank you. Perfect. 1, 2, 3. One more. 1, 2, 3. Thank you. Thanks, guys. See you in a minute. Hi. Nice to meet you. How are you . Nice to meet you. Hi. How are you . Nice to meet you. Thanks for coming. 1, 2, 3. One more. 1, 2, 3. Thank you. Thanks, guys. We will see you in there. Going well, how are you . 1, 2, 3. Thank you. Thanks, appreciate it. Thank you. What is your name . Patrick. Nice to meet you, sir. I took my name tied off. I took my name tag off. [laughter] how are you . Great to see you. 1, 2, 3. Thank you. Especially after a week like this. Hi. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. Thank you. Hi. How are you, sir . Good to see you. Thanks for coming. Thank you. Thank you very much. How are you . Thanks for being here. 1, 2, 3. Thank you. Thanks. From california. Nice to see you. I am glad you are here. I saw you last night on cnn. It is good repeating. [indiscernible conversations] 1, 2, 3. Thank you. I remember, we were actually in the back room. [laughter] good to see you again. Good to be here. How are you . Im well, how are you . I work for mike coffman down in d. C. Really . Tell me your name. Brian. What are you doing here . I work for at t in New Hampshire. I was down in d. C. For five years, then came home. He is a good guy. He is running for mayor now. Is that right . Good to see you, thank you. Thank you. Great. 1, 2, 3. Lets take one more. 1, 2, 3. Thank you. Nice to meet you. Going well. Can you slide a little bit over . 1, 2, 3. Thank you. I thought you were going to say we had to do them all again. [laughter] this is a surprisingly legible signature from me. Thank you. Thank you very much. Ok. Is that what you said . I am a friend. Anywhere you want to sign it. So you wrote a book . I wrote a book. And are we giving this to Charlie Mason . Or am i signing this for you . You are signing this for me. I just wanted to tell you that charlie said hello. Uh oh. What about that . Any color. This is just what i had in my bag. [indiscernible conversations] there you go. Appreciate it. We work for the afa. Glad to hear that. [indiscernible conversations] i am neil. Thank you for having me. I appreciate you very much. Good to see you. Good to see you again. How are you . How are you . Great. Appreciate it very much. Hello, senator. Good to see you, senator. Someone told me you have the best chief of staff. He is the best. His name is john davidson. Senator cowans chief of staff, he always said he had the best. Me has been working there for 10 years. He has been working there for 10 years. I will bring you over here. Hey, john. How are you . Good to see you. Thank you very much for being here. How are you doing . Youve got the message. Tell me your name. Maria. He is a pleasant person. Thank you for doing this. You need to sign another one. How is it going, folks . Do you mind . Glad to do it. [indiscernible conversations] your bio. That was even more impressive. [laughter] thats true. Very impressive. [laughter] it was very good. You have a very good bio. [laughter] two careers in aurora. Two careers in a row. [indiscernible conversations] he must be very proud. I know. [laughter] yeah, i know. The other one was santorum. He said the reason i do this is no one would know me otherwise. [laughter] it was illegible to begin with. If your name was klobuchar. Because of the relationship we have with neil and his Extraordinary Team with the new England Council, i think them i think them i thank them. We would not be able to put these events on without the generous support of the corporate neighbors here in new england. I would like to say thank you to all of them. He was very kind to talk about how at dinner one of the reasons we had almost 1800 people was because one of the four recipients of mayor of the year is someone we all know. [applause] and a great choice and a great public servant. Today is the second politics and eggs event of the week. If you were here earlier when we had andrew yang, in coming weeks there are members of the new England Council. We will be hosting events throughout new england and washington, with people like Sheldon Whitehouse of rhode island, as well as congresswoman Chellie Pingree of portland, maine. Richie neil from the commonwealth of massachusetts, chairman of the ways and means committee. And your own annie custer will be speaking to the new England Council in the next couple of weeks. Needless to say, we are not taking our foot off the gas pedal at all. We also have some other politics and eggs events in the works, so stay tuned for future announcements to be made. Today, we are honored to welcome the United States senator Michael Bennet, our guest for the 17th politics and eggs event of the year. I dont know about you, but my cholesterol level is going right through the roof. [laughter] we have got to end this, my god. My doctor is saying, slow down on the eggs. He is currently the colorado senior senator, appointed in 2009 2 finish a into thousand nine to finish a term. Senator bennett was elected to proceed in 2010 and 2016. He has a long history of public service, having previously served as chief of staff to the denver mayor John Hickenlooper and as the superintendent of schools in the great city of denver. He also has a wealth of experience in the private sector, and worked to restructure failing businesses and create the Worlds LargestMovie Theater chain. In the United States senate, he sits on the agriculture, and finance committees. And he draws on his experience. His work to transform Public Education to give schools the flex ability to innovate as well as to modernize so students are not burdened by overwhelming debt. He has also been a champion in the fight to combat Climate Change, advocating for Commonsense Solutions that will reduce Carbon Pollution and increase sustainability while growing the economy. In may of this year, he announced his candidacy for the 2020 democratic president ial nomination, to build opportunities for all americans and store integrity to our government. We are so pleased and honored that he can join us today as he campaigns in this state. Join me in welcoming the honorable u. S. Senator Michael Bennet. [applause] bennet good morning. Good morning, everybody. Thank you for that introduction. Neil, thank you to the institute of politics for hosting me today. Larry, thank you for inviting me. Ray buckley, thank you for doing the amazing job you are doing under very trying circumstances. When i was deciding whether to run for president , a thing i never thought of in my life until i was thinking about it this year, i consulted my three are now 20, 19, and 15. Incrediblyold was enthusiastic about it right out of the chute. She said you absolutely should run. And i said, that is really impressive. I am glad you care about my career and the positions i take and the importance to the republic for me to run. And the longer we talked the more it became clear that she just wanted me out of the house and away from her. [laughter] she is probably burning the place down this morning. But the 20yearold said to me, dad, if you want to tell the truth and you lose, no one can fault you for it. And i said to her that there was no other reason for me to run. And actually, there was no other reason for me to win. About a month or two ago, the demoing register the demoing registers wrote that Michael Bennet pounced truth into the campaign. I was able to send that to caroline and say, i may not be winning yet, but at least we are doing what we said i should be doing. Donald trump is much more a symptom of our problems then he is the essential cause of our problems, although he has made matters much worse, starting with an understanding of where we need to be as a country. Jim mentioned a little bit of what i did outside of politics. I spent time in the private sector. Funny you mentioned the Movie Theaters because we did create the largest movie chain in the world at the time, and it also spawned another business, which was 20 minutes of Digital Advertising at the beginning of the movies, which my kids still have not forgiven me for, which they have to sit through. I have to say, it was a lot better than when they had slides from the local muffler shop or trivia. Now you can watch cocacola being poured. They are completely unconvinced. Since that time, i have had the chance to run a very large urban school district, 95,000 kids, a 1 billion budget. It is three times the size of other places like south bend, indiana, is one example. [laughter] just to pick one place on the map. [laughter] two senatealso run races in a purple state. It is a tough state to win once. It is a tough state to win twice. That will be critically important for us as we think about not only winning the alsodency in 2020, but winning the majority back in the United States senate. That will require winning in places like colorado and maine and arizona. These are tough places to win. And we have got to win. We have got to win. Just this week, donald trump disgraced the United States again. He said that Foreign Policy is what i will be remembered for. I think he has got that right. I guarantee you the kurds will never forget about the soldiers who fought beside us to destroy isis only to be abandoned because trump was afraid to take a stand against erdogan. Erdogan got all the territories he wanted. We have to stand up to tyrants here and abroad. That is what it is to be america. To do that, we need to focus on the enormous challenges that led to Donald Trumps election in the first place. 9 Million People voted twice for barack obama and once for donald trump. 9 Million People were so fed up with our broken politics and a bunch of politicians in washington, so unresponsive to the challenges they were facing everyday, that in the end they voted for a reality tv star to lead us in washington. And i dont think we are going to trick those people into voting for us with unfunded programs or empty promises. I just dont think we are going to do it. You might be able to win a democratic primary that way, maybe. But you will not be able to win a general election that way. Instead, i think we need to tell the truth. We need to heal our divisions and drive Economic Opportunities for everybody in america. Just as i do in colorado and just as Jeannie Shaheen does here and Maggie Hassan does here, we need to say the same thing in the primary that we do in the general election. I know those guys and i know that the day they are running, they are running for the general election, and they know what they say in the primaries will affect what they will win in the end. That is what we have to do today. I am worried about our discipline doing that. When it comes time to vote, you know it is important to nominate someone who has a vision that can actually inspire a Broad Coalition to beat donald trump. Here is what that vision looks like for me. An economy that works for everybody, not just the top 10 , plan cutsd for my tax childhood poverty by 40 in less than two years. That finishesn obamacare so we can cover everybody in this country in three years, and cut costs, including prescription drugs. That is not medicare for all, which other candidates have proposed without admitting the only way to do it is to raise middleclass taxes massively in this country. Wonf the 40 democrats who seats last year, including right here in New Hampshire, and flipped the house of representatives supported a public option, not medicare for all. Most of those people beat people in the primaries who were supporting medicare for all. The only School Superintendent who has ever run tell youdent, i can how important education is to driving opportunity and how important it is to our future. When one set of kids has access to preschool and another set does not, equal is not equal. And when one set of kids has access to highquality k12 schools because of where their parents live and the other, through no fault of their own, does not, equal is not equal. And when one group of kids has access to Guidance Counselors and parents who went to college and two summer jobs to put on their resume, people who helped them fill out their college applications, and the other does not, equal is not equal. That is why today in america our Education System is reinforcing the brutal income inequality we have rather than liberating people from it. True, theg as lead is promise of america, the land of opportunity, is foreclosed to almost anybody who is born poor in this country, like the kids in my old school district, most of whom live in poverty and most of whom are kids of color. I can tell you from my perspective, and more importantly from their perspective, instead of college, whatree we should be offering in this country is free preschool for every kid who needs it, and that is every kid in america. We should be telling the kids that are graduating from high school but not going to college, which is 70 of our kids, that you can earn a living wage when you graduate from high school, not just the minimum wage. I was in manchester months ago meeting with students at a Vocational Education program here. There was a young Woman Working on a hovercraft there, which was the class project. They are building an airplane next year. We got to talking, and she is graduating this year. You . Ed her, what are doing after you graduate she had a huge smile on her face. She said, i am becoming an underwater welder. I said, i bet that pays well. She smiled and she said, yes, it does. By the way, speaking of all that, we have to pay our teachers like the professionals that they are. We are running a system of Public Education that was designed when we had a labor market that discriminated against women and said, youve got two professional choices. One is being a teacher and one is being a nurse. So teach Julius Caesar every year in manchester schools and we will pay you a ridiculously low salary that no one else in your College Class whatever except. But if you stick with us for 30 years, we will give you a pension that we are not now funding. That made sense in a labor market when we are discriminating against people. We dont do that the same way anymore and we have to update that for the 20th century. That will not be easy to do. We need a Climate Policy that does not allow the other side to rip it out in two years. You cannot save climate in two years. We have to create a durable solution. We will talk about it in the queue and day. In the q a. Comprehensive reform as part of the gang of eight with a pathway to citizenship, protection for dreamers, and 21st century border security. Of by ando government for the people. We have to end partisan gerrymandering in this country, and i have the bill to do it. We have to band members of congress from becoming lobbyists. We need to make sure that every single american is able to cast their vote and i have the bill to do that. I will go across this country in every single state and lead an effort to overturn Citizens United to get the money out of politics and put people back in. It is not more complicated than that. Win is an agenda that will blue and purple states, bring back those 9 million voters that voted twice for barack obama and once for donald trump. Thats how we won those hard races in colorado, bringing together democrats and independents and even some trump voters. Won. S how maggie has that is how i think we will win this election. I do not think it is any more complicated than that. If you remember just one thing from what i said this market, remember how you do it in New Hampshire, because thats the way it will work in the rest of the country. Thats how we will drive opportunity, preserve democracy, and preserve our childrens future and americas role in the wor