Een been senator changes we can see. Our children just one generation back faced decisions about issues that did not exist when debbie and i first started out. In addition to Climate Change, we face more threats to our way of life than any other time in u. S. History. Because of this, i think this is the most important election in my life. We need leadership that is guided by steadfast crashing and intellect and with the leadership that is not at the extreme left or right but centered, practical, reasonable and responsible. Senator bennett has these qualities and has the educational background and character to lead this country. As debbie said the first time we met, he is recent and seasoned. To us, this separates him from other Democratic Candidates and why we support it. [cheers and applause] senator i introduce you to my wife susan. Been with me in New Hampshire and she and i met about 25 years ago and shes the reason we are lucky enough to live in colorado and raising our three daughters there. She is a environmental lawyer and wanted to work for sierra defense club and ran the rocky region for that for years and years and i wanted to get out of the practice of law and found a way to do that in com. I was in business when i got out there, restructuring companies and superintendent of Denver Public schools. Its a School District of 95,000 kids in denver, colorado. Most kids are kids of color and kids living in poverty and billion budget which is three budget of south bend, indiana. I was appointed the first time when i arrived and i have been there ever since. And if i had to summarize for you the last 10 years of town halls in my state, which is a third democratic or third republican and third independent, it is very easy to do it. Michael, we are working really hard but we cant afford housing, health care, Higher Education or Early Childhood education. We cant afford to live the middle class life and we cant save and our kids will live a more diminished life. When i think about the families in my old School District, what they would say if they came to the town halls by they dont because they are working two or three jobs, no matter what we do, we cant get our kids out of poverty. These are the central challenges that we face. Democracy will not do well if we have massive economic inequality and no mobile equality. It has been an economy that has worked well for the people at the top and not so well for everybody else and one of the reasons why donald trump was elected because people were saying nothing seems to make much of a difference. Maybe we ought to send a reality tv star to blow the place up. When i meet people who voted for donald trump and i say why did ou do it, they say, we want to blow the place up. I say congratulations, but what are we going to do for americas place in the world which is whats at stake in this election. I think the election of donald trump is not the source of all of our problems. He is a symptom of our challenges more he is the cause of all the problems. He has made matters much worse and not solving the issues that i have heard about in my town halls and making matters much worse because i believe he is the weakest Foreign Policy president we have had in my lifetime and another day passes where he shows that he is weaker and weaker and weaker and weaker, which is the reason we ought to move him out. If i think about my own familys history and when i was in the second grade, everybody in my class was asked to stand to line up based on who had been here the shortest period of time and whose family had been here. I was the answer to both those questions. My family on my dads side has gone back to the mayflower and my dad was a Public Servant in washington, d. C. , and told me Public Service is noble and worked on capitol hill when our congress functioned and worked in the state department when we were setting examples for the rest of the world that i think was really important. My moms family history, they were polish jews. Everyone in the family was killed except for an aunt and my mom and my grandparents and they lived in poland for two years and went to helskinki for a year, stockholm and then they went to mexico city for a year and then they came here. The only place in the world where they could where they thought this they could rebuild their shattered lives. My mom was the only person in the family that could speak any english and enrolled herself in Hunter College elementary and high school and graduated one generation. I have traveled our country very broadly both before this president was elected and after he was legitimated. Lots of and immigrants in my state and other places, i have yet to meet any that had a lots of stronger acc my grand parents and my grandparents were strong patriots. It wasnt because we were perfect or because they saw us at some privileged place, it was because they knew when we were at our best, we were trying to work out the imperfections that we had and working hard as americans to make the country more democratic, more fair and more free and that has been our imperfect story from the beginning of the country really until now. And donald trump is a threat to all of that in my view, which is why we need him to be a oneterm president. We have to govern the country as well. And i believe i presented a unique agenda in this race and calling it the real deal that would address the issues that i heard directly in my town halls in colorado and New Hampshire. The lack of equity and the importance of dealing with Climate Change and investing in our infrastructure, creating universal health care and cutting our Health Care Costs and performing the way our democracy and Government Works so we can deliver for the American People because we dont have a lot of time left. I dont feel like i have a lot of time left on this planet and when susan and i are turning it over to our own kids and turning this democracy to the kids working so diligently in the Denver Public schools every single day, to get an education to participate in our economy and democracy, that we turn over a democracy that we can be proud and working on the generational issues. To do that, we have to win not just the presidency but i think majority in the senate. And to do that, we have to win purple states. I am the only candidate in this race that has won a National Election in a swing state. I have done that twice. No one else has done it. The longer i go in this election, the more certain i am that its really different to run in the commonwealth of massachusetts, where in vermont than it is to run in colorado, iowa, arizona, maine and north carolina, the places we have to win if we are going to send Mitch Mcconnell home and start making this country work again. Im deeply honored that you are here today. I know you know im not polling as high as other people. Im not as well known and i havent raised as much money, but i committed myself to New Hampshire. I spent more time in this state than anybody else in this race. I have done 33 town Hall Meetings or house party. I will do another 50. That is notwithstanding the fact that in the next two weeks i will have the impeachment stuff and will have to go back and work on as well. In many ways, i think your state and my state are very much the same politically. And my belief is if we nominate somebody who can win your state and nominate somebody who can win my state, we can win the presidency and win the majority in the senate. If we nominate somebody, we cant and wont and it will be shame on us having put this guy in office again. I just cant accept that. Even know my numbers havent been as high, i stayed in, in part, because New Hampshire is less decided today than you were six weeks ago and less decided today than six months ago and the reason you are is you havent decided which one of us can take on donald trump and win and thats the right question for you to ask. If you are looking for somebody who is kind of like him. If you think like i do, and im the opposite of donald trump. I dont think you can get more opposite of donald trump than i am and the pendulum will swing. I thank you all for being here. I would love to take any questions, criticisms, observations, anything you wouldnt ask another politician because you would be worried that you might hurt my feelings. Politics. Rban thank you for getting us started. My brother who works for the state of New Hampshire is a wildlife biologist and educated me on the changes that have happened in the state of New Hampshire and just one of the examples is what has happened to the moose population. In the last 15 years, it has declined by 30 due to Climate Change, warm winters, lack of thousands and thousands of particulars. As a result and we spend a lot of deal on tourism and wildlife and its a big industry. I would like to present you with the New Hampshire moose. [applause] senator thank you very much. Im grateful to have it. I would like to know what you would do in the first 100 days of your presidency. Senator thank you for this wonderful tickfree moose. I appreciate it. On new years day, susan and i ok a walk in one of your towns, hop kinton who was at the ash erter telling us the trees were dying because of Climate Change and i heard about the moose population and we are having that happen in colorado. The bark beetle infestation and just like New Hampshire, the winters are no longer cold enough to kill off the beelts and they are then around for the next year to do the damage they have done sm the first plan i a out in this election climate plan. I put out a climate plan for all the reasons that mike said at the outset of this which is from the point of view from the next generation, this is the crisis that we face and our democracy faces. In the plan that i put out, i laid out how i spent the first day working on climate and the first 100 days and getting the people to write a plan along with the american climate plan which i proposed and do the work over nine months. If we cant get it past in the congress, at the end of nine months to use every executive Authority Available to me under the Clean Air Act to do what we can on climate. E young people that are f the sore about us about. Our record is pretty pitiful when it comes to the national debt, the fact we have what we spend on investing in them, the fact we are not investing in our infrastructure and they have to preserve the assets that our parents and grandparents thoughtfully built for us but we didnt maintain. The fact that they had to borrow 25 years worth of debt just with the privilege of going to college. Nothing will enrage them more than our failure to address Climate Change if we dont do t. Someone says this is what i am going to do on the first day. You cant solve Climate Change two years at a time, which is why i argue to you today, you cant accept the fundamental politics of washington today because thats the politics i put my views in for two years, the other side rips it out. Thats what we have been dealing with on health care for the last 10 years and you cant solve it two years at a time. Some people say, we should do just what mcdonnell does and trump. I think that is totally the wrong way of looking at it because they are not trying to do what we are trying to do. Mcconnell isnt doing Climate Change. He is putting rightwing judges on the courts and cut taxes for the wealthy people. And something that will achieve. Someday we have to have something that we think of as american climate policy. We used to have american Foreign Policy. The president knew what their job was with respect to the soviet union and cold war and transatlantic alliance. Some people say you are so naive. Believing we canelieving continue doing what we have been doing the last 10 years and actually deliver a real solution for the next generation, which is why on climate i propose. Aying farmers and ranchers. S a way of as a way of trying to build coalition of people to sustain a durable approach to Climate Change over time. I know it seems unimaginable when our politics is captured by the ko crmp h brothers. But we cant lose sight of the importance of having to make longterm decisions and like other americans have done during the life of this democracy. All of which is to say its a reminder of how broken our current politics is and we need an agenda that is appealing to the American People to overcome the special interests in washington. And if we do put that agenda together, there is every reason we should be able to do it. I want to make one last point. You made the point, you said this is important to New Hampshires economy. Donald he campaign to trump because we lost an economic argument on climate containing. He argued we will destroy the economy. If we ignore Climate Change, the economy will be fine. That is a ridiculous argument to make in New Hampshire and ridiculous to make in colorado where i was down in south carolina, they have cities that are going to be under water because of Climate Change and yet we lost it. I would never lose that argument to donald trump. I go in with the conviction that our economy will be destroyed if we dont deal with Climate Change and if we are willing to deal with Climate Change, we will outinnovate the entire world into a 21 century economy that can be fossil free and uphold the promise that we have for the next generation. [applause] 50 votes. The other question is i called Nancy Pelosis office and asking her to do a National Address before the trial starts and get 10, 15 minutes of network time, how the republicans and why trump is guilty and should be convicted. Because some voters dont know what is going on and think it is democrats and would you call her up and say take 10 minutes of air time in addressing the country before the trial. Senator that is an interesting idea. I believe we didnt give the Mueller Report enough time. In this news cycle that just churns day after day after day, you have to leave time for people to see what the facts are and make up their own minds and thats what happened with watergate and in the beginning, nobody thought this was a big eal that Mitch Mcconnell impeached. They began to change their mind. Anything to get the facts out im not dodging your first question, but i wouldnt entertain a motion unless i thought i could get 51 votes and wont get the votes to do that. But nice try, though. You mentioned Foreign Policy, could you comment on iran, middle east and north korea. Senator i was reading in the atlantic or someplace this week and there was a piece what the trump doctrine was. And if you look it up, i cant say it in mixed company, but i had a different doctrine, take really terrible situations and make them a million times worse and step two is cod will your enemies and betray your allies. Iran and north korea, in iran, i voted for the Iran Nuclear Deal in 2016 and one thing that our pollsters said i couldnt recover from. I met with all kinds of people from the middle east and america and i decided this was the right thing to do and i voted for it and by the time trump became president , what we knew is what our intelligence was telling us, iran was a year away with the ability to break out with a nuclear weapon. Why is it important . If you got a year, that allows an american president to galvanize our allies and how we are going to put an effort to box the Iran Nuclear Program in before we have to decide we are going to use force which is a bad outcome for everybody. And our own d. O. D. Is saying how tough it is if we end up in a war with iran. Donald trump gave the hard liners in iran everything they wanted when he broke off the negotiation, because they had already said you cant trust the United States. You shouldnt do this deal. Soleimani was one of those people and when trump broke the deal, he fulfilled what they had said. And folks who had signed onto the deal were marginalized as a result. Trump has put the hard liners in a stronger position with the fascination assassination the other day. Three weeks before there were organization protesting in baghdad to get iran out of the country and now protesting to get United States out of the country. At the same time, in the intervening period, donald trump looked at the situation in Northern Syria and after five years of our fighting sidebyside with the kurds, we lost five guys and the kurds lost 10,000 people, but put isis in a box. Trump walked away which sent the iranians a signal about our steadfastness. So i would do the opposite of that. I would engage our allies to push back on iranians nuclear and conventional threats. They are incrediblebly dangerous to israel and to us. s probably, it could be a 20year war. We need to learn something from the last two wars we fought in the middle east. The iraq war, our own war college said the iranians won that war. They didnt