Radio app. Go shopping and see whats cspanilable at the online store including our all tshirts. Gn 2020 cspanstores. Org. Colorado senator and 2020 president ial candidate Michael Bennett was in New Hampshire for politics and breakfast hosted by the New Hampshire institute of politics and new England Council. The democratic lawmaker spoke his tax proposal, his views on bipartisanship and the inquiryimpeachment against President Trump. Thanks for being here. Thank you, nice to be here. I am looking forward to voting for you. Thank you very much. Good to be here. Thank you so much. Nice to see you, too. Thank you for being here. Appreciate it. How are you . Good to see you. Tell him i said hello. He is a great guy. I heard you guys were here before anyone else. Be. E try to nice to see you again. How are you . There ago. There we go. One more. 1, 2, 3. Thank you. Pleasure to meet you. 1, 2, 3. Thats great. Thank you. Thank you very much. Good, nice to see you. Good morning, nice to see you. How are you . Good. Thank you for being here. Good to see you. Good to meet you. Nice to meet you. Do you ever get back there . Every year. Good. 1, 2, 3. Been getting more and more of you guys out in colorado. Thank you. How are you . Thank you. Hello, hello. Perfect. 1, 2, 3. One more. Thank you. There. You in how are you . Good to see you. More. Thank you. There. Ill see you in how are you doing . Good luck on your campaign. Nice to meet you, sir. Thank you. Good luck. How are you . Great to see you. Nice to meet you. Thank you so much. Tom . W are you, nice to see you. Thank you for coming. How are you . Nice to see you, very good to see you. I am glad you are here. High, marine. Aureen. M room. Were in the back good to see you again. You . W are d. C. Work in tell me your name. Ryan clark. I work for at t now. I was down in d. C. For five years and decided to come home and return to my roots. Good to see you. Thank you. Lets take one more. How are things going . They are going well. Thank you. I thought you were going to say we had to do them all again. [laughter] wherever you want. How about right here . A surprisingly legible signature. Thank you. Thank you. Ok. Great. I am a friend of Charlie Anderson. Anywhere you want to sign it. You wrote a book . We giving this to Charlie Anderson . Are you signing this for you are we setting this for you . Are we signing this for you . What about that . Here we go. This is just what i had in my bag. There you go. Appreciate it. I am glad to hear that. [crowd noise] thank you for having me. Good to see you. How are you . Thank you for being here. Appreciate it very much. Someone told me you have the best chief of staff. He is the best. He has been working there for 10 years. Hey, john. A longtime admirer. Thank you very much for being here. Doing . You you have got to keep at it. I appreciate it. Senator, nice to meet you. Maria. I met your wife when she was in town. Great, thanks. I read your bio. Even more impressive. Very impressive. You have a very good bio. How do you want me to sign that . [indiscernible] he said the reason why i do this is nobody would ever know me otherwise. Because of the relationship we have with neil and his extraordinary team, i think them. I think them. Them. Hank to all of them. He was very kind to talk about how it dinner, one of the reason why we had 1800 people, one of the four recipients was senator Maggie Hassan. Who we all know. A great choice and great public servant. Today is the second politics and eggs event. Many of you were here earlier what we had andrew yang. We will be hosting events throughout new england and in washington. Richie neil from the commonwealth of massachusetts. Custer will be speaking to the new England Council in the next couple of weeks. We have not taken our foot off the gas pedal at all. We also have some other events in the works so stay tuned for some future announcements to be made. Today, we are honored to welcome United States senator Michael Bennet for the 17th seven for the 17th politics and eggs event. My cholesterol level is going to the roof. We have to end this. He is the colorado senior inator having been appointed 2009. When he became the secretary of the interior. Senator bennett was reelected in 2010 and 2016. He has a long history of Public Service and his state in his state of colorado. Schoolsuperintendent of in the great city of denver. He has a wealth of experience in the private sector. Restructuring failing businesses and helping to create the Worlds LargestMovie Theater chain. He serves on the senate agricultural, finance, and intelligence committee. He has worked to transform Public Education to give schools more flexibility to innovate as well as to modernize Higher Education so that students are not burdened by overwhelming debt. He has 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 president ial nomination pledging to build opportunities for all americans and restore integrity to our government. We are so pleased and honored he will join us today as he campaigns in this great state. Join me in welcoming Michael Bennet. [applause] good morning. Good morning. Morning, everybody. Jim, thank you for that introduction. Thank you for hosting me today. Larry, thank you for inviting me. Ray buckley, thank you for doing the amazing job you are doing under trying circumstances. When i was deciding whether to run for the presidency, which i never thought of in my entire life, i consulted my three daughters. They are 20, 19, and 15. The 15yearold was incredibly enthusiastic about it. She said, you absolutely should run. I said, that is really impressive and i am glad you care about my career and the positions i have taken. It longer we talked the more became clear that she just wanted me out of the house and away from her. She is probably burning the place down this morning. The 20yearold said to me, if you run and tell the truth and you lose, no one can fault you for. I said to her, there was no other reason for me to run. There was no other reason for me to win. A month or two ago, the des editorialister rented ran an editorial that said Michael Bennet pounds truth into this campaign and i was able to send that to caroline. I may not be winning but i am doing what we agreed i should be doing. I think that is important for all of us at this moment when our democracy is under siege. Donald trump is much more symptom of our problems that 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 and where we need to go is important if we are going to have a chance to win this election. Jim mentioned a little bit of what i have done outside of politics. I spent time in the private sector. We did create the largest movie chain in the world and it also spawned another business which was 20 minutes of Digital Advertising at the beginning of the movies, which my kids have still not forgiven me for. It was a lot better than when they just had a slide from the local muffler shop. Now you can watch cocacola being poured. They are completely unconvinced. I had the chance to run a very large school district, 95,000 kids, a billiondollar budget. That is a large budget, three times the size of some other places. South bend, indiana, is one example. Just to pick one place on the map. [laughter] senator run two senate races in the purple state of colorado. Once a tough state to win and it is a tough state to win twice. That will be critically important for us as we think about not just winning the presidency in 2020 but also winning the majority back in the United States senate. That will require us to win places like colorado and maine and arizona and north carolina. These are tough places to win. We have got to win. Just this week, donald trump disgraced the United States again. He said, Foreign Policy is what i will be remembered for. I think he has that right. I guarantee you the kurds will never forget. Not the soldiers who fought beside us to destroy isis only to be abandoned. Stand up here and abroad. To do that, we need to focus on the enormous challenges that led to donald trump selection in the first place. Donald trumps election in the first place. 9 Million People were so fed up with our broken politics and a bunch of politicians, so unresponsive to the challenges they were facing every day that for a that they voted reality tv start to lead us in washington. I do not think we will trick those people into voting for us with empty promises. You might be able to win in democratic primary that way, maybe, but you will not be able to win a general election. We need to tell the truth. We need to heal our division and we need to drive Economic Opportunity for everybody in america. Just as i do in colorado and just as Jeannie Shaheen does here in Maggie Hassan does here, we need to say the same thing in the primary that we do in the general election. The day they are running, they are running for the general election and they know what they are saying in the primaries will affect whether they will be able to win at the end. That is what we have to do today. Vote, youmes time to know it is important to nominate somebody who has a vision that can inspire a Broad Coalition to beat donald trump. Heres what that vision looks like. An economy that works for everybody, not just the top 10 . My tax plan cuts childhood poverty by 40 in less than two years. A public option that finishes obamacare so we can cover everybody in this country in three years and cut costs, including prescription drugs. That is not medicare for all. Other candidates have proposed without admitting the only way to do it is to raise middleclass taxes massively. Democrats who won seats last year, including right here in New Hampshire, flipped the house of representatives, supported a public option not medicare for all. Most of those people beat people in the primaries who supported medicare for all. As the only School Superintendent who has ever run for president , i can tell you how important education is to driving opportunity and how important it is to our future, and one set of kids has access to preschool and another set does not, equal is not equal. When one set of kids has access to highquality k12 schools because of where their parents live and the other does not, equal is not equal. When one group of kids has access to Guidance Counselors and two parents who went to college and two summer jobs to put on the resumes and people to help 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. As long as that is true, the promise of American Land of opportunity is for close to anybody who was born poor foreclosed to anybody who is born poor in this country. I can tell you from my perspective and more importantly , from their perspective, instead of pandering on free college, what we should be offering is free preschool for every kid who needs it. That is every kid in america. We should be telling the kids who are graduating from high school but not going to college, which is 70 of our kids, 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 Educational Program and there was a young Woman Working on a hovercraft, which was the class project. They are an airplane next year. She is graduating this year and i asked her, what are you doing after you graduate and she had this huge smile on her face and she said, i am becoming an underwater welder. Said, i bet that pays well she smiled and she said, yes, it does. Speaking of all that, we have to pay our teachers like the professionals they are. We are running a system of Public Education that was designed when we had a labor market that discriminated against women. We will pay you a ridiculously low salary that no one else in your College Class will ever accept. That made sense in the labor market when we were discriminating against people. We are not doing that anymore and we have to find a way to update that for the 21st 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. We have to create a durable solution. I hope somebody will ask about that and we will talk about it in the q a. Comprehensive Immigration Reform that reflects the bill i wrote in 2013 as part of the gang of eight with a pathway to citizenship and 21st century border security. A return to government of, by, and for the people. We have to end partisan gerrymandering in this country and i have the bill to do it. Sure everymake single american in every single election is able to cast their vote and i have the bills to do that. If i am elected president , i will go across this country to every single state and lead an effort in every one of those states to overturn Citizens United to get the money out of politics and put people back in. Is not more complicated than that. That is the agenda that will win blue states and purple states. That is the agenda that will bring back those 9 million voters who voted twice for barack obama and once for donald trump. Bringing together democrats and independents and even some trump voters. Won. Is how maggie has i do not believe it is any more complicated than that. If you remember just one thing, remember how you do it in New Hampshire because that is the way it will work in the rest of the country. That is the way we will drive opportunity to preserve our democracy and secure our childrens future and americas role in the world. I will need your help to continue in this race and i will try to do it because i think it is important that we have somebody he was thinking about the general election. Thank you very much for being here today. I am happy to take any questions , any criticisms anybody has. I was a former School Superintendent and there is no way for you to hurt my feelings. [applause] we have students who have microphones. You wait until they come you mentioned about the tax cut for middleclass families. I think it is called the American Family act. You sponsored it with sherry brown. Thank you. Lets start with a softball. It is called the American Family act and it dramatically increases the Child Tax Credit in this country and it makes it payable on a monthly basis instead of an annual basis so families can have the money to childcare,spend on Higher Education, housing or on food. If i had to summarize the last 10 years of town halls, people coming and saying, we are killing ourselves. This is a way of dealing with that. For people who are not coming to my townhouse because they are working two or three jobs to get their kids out of poverty, what they would say, michael, we are killing ourselves. No matter what we do, we cannot get our kids out of poverty. Combine that with an increase in the minimum wage and you are starting to grow the economy. Medicare for all is of no interest to the kids and families i used to work for. That is not their priority. How do we drive an economy that works for everybody so it is not just about the top 10 . It. Mbia university studied reducear, you could childhood poverty by 40 . Singleithout adding a bureaucrat to the federal government and for 3 of the cost of medicare for all. That is what democrats should be standing for. You also said if we dont deal with Climate Change, we will destroy our economy. This is one that is particularly irritating to me. There is a climate denier in the white house because we lost the economic argument to trump last time. He said if we dealt with climate, we would destroy the economy. True. Posite is obviously if we dont contend with climate, our economy will be destroyed and the global be destroyed. Destroyed. E will be we will not win the argument with policies that are invented in a test tube by politicians. We will do it by proposing strategies like the one i proposed that would engage farmers and ranchers across this country to sequester carbon in their soil, to pay them to do it. To create a coalition of americans to close over i want to dwell on this for a minute. If you care about Climate Change, and if you care about the country and our children, it is not enough to beat trump peered we have to fix the broken policies it is not enough to beat trump. We have to fix the broken policies. Mcconnell does not have to fix it. All they want to do is either nothing or put judges on the courts or occasionally cut taxes for rich people. If you want to solve Climate Change