For it. I will come back to that though. You have the same relationship with the National Weather service as our current president . Sen. Bennet exactly. Thanks so much for taking your time this weekend to join us today. Thanks so much for taking the time to join us today. My only son and his girlfriend, someone we consider to be on daughter, they talked about not having children because of the potentially devastating changes related to global warming. Cases we can now see, that her children just when generation back, face decisions about serious issues that simply did not exist would debbie and i started out. I dont think its an exaggeration that in addition to Climate Change, we face more threats to our way of live than any other time in history. Because of this, feel the most important time in my live. We need leadership that is guided by steadfast leadership. We also need leadership that is not the extreme left or the right. But center and practical and reasonable. Responsible to. Senator bennett has all of these qualities. He also has educational background, war and legislative experience to his country. Since debbie said after the first time we met michael and house party three weeks ago, he separated from other candidates. Please welcome him. [applause]. Lets give these guys are round of applause. Thank you. Thank you michael and debbie and thanks for having me. Thanks to all of you, for being here. I was actually in time we have lots of students from all around the world that are stuck at the bottom of the driveway. They are here. It this good and they will be part of our conversation which this great. I also want to introduce you to my wife susan, who this here today, shes been with me in New Hampshire. From most of the whole race. She and i met about 25 years ago. She this the reason that we are lucky enough to live in colorado. We are raising our daughters there. Shes on Public Interest share club legal defense. She ran the Rocky Mountain region for that organization for years and years and years. I mostly just want do you get out of the practice of law. Offended way to do that in colorado. I was in business for a while would i got out the restructuring companies that were failing and had the chance to be superintendent of the rePublic Schools. I tell people in the campaign tell trail, about 95000 kids in denver colorado, most kids are leaving in poverty. It is a billiondollar question this about three times the size and indianas budget just to put on perspective on that. I went into the senate about ten years ago, i was appointed would i arrived and i have been there ever since. If i had to summarize for you the last ten years of town halls in my say which this exactly the third democrat and on third independent and on third republican. It this very easy to do it. It this people coming and staying, we are working really hard. We cant afford some combination of housing and healthcare in higher education, Early Childhood education. In other words you can afford to live middleclass live. And we cant say. We think our kids are going to live on more diminished live than on live we lived. I think about the families if my old school district, as i said most of whom are leaving in poverty, what they would say if they came to the town hall, which you dont typically do because the working too and three jobs. Would they would say this no matter what we do we can get her kids out of poverty. I think these are the central challenges that we face a sneak democracy. Democracy will not do well if we have math and economic and inequality. And no economic mobile. This been the story of our economy for the last 50 years. It works well for the people at the trump and not so well for everyone else. I think thats one of the reasons that donald trump was elected president. And nothing else seems to matter or make much of on difference so maybe we had to have somebody go to dc to blow the place up. I ask why people voted for donald trump. And i asked them again why and they say we just want to have somebody go blow it up. And i told him congratulations. I think whats at stake in the selection this her kids. I think the election of donald trump has brought the source of all of our problems. I think he is the symptom of our challenges more than he this the cause of all of these problems. Although he has certain made managed matters worse and he certainly not sold them. And he certainly making that much of course all across the world because i believe he this the weakest Foreign Policy president that we have had in my lifetime. Every single day, another day passes that he this weaker and weaker and weaker. That is the reason we really want to move him out. But if i think about my own families history on little bit. And would i was in the second grade, everybody in my class was asked to stand in line up based on who had been here the shortest period of time and his family had been here the longest period of time. I turned out to be the answered to both of those questions. My family my dad side has all of the way back to the mayflower. My dad this been on Public Servant mostly in washington dc and taught me that its noble and he worked on capitol hill would our Congress Actually functioned. He worked in the Say Department of the time would we were actually setting examples for the rest of the world. I think it was important, if my mom news Family History couldnt be more different. Therefore jews who survived the holocaust. Everyone in the family was killed except for nana my mom. If my grandparents. They lived in poland for too years after the war was over. Then they went to helsinki for on year. And stockholm for on year. Clinical places, they went to mexico city for on year. Then, they came here. The only place in the world where they could for where they thought they could rebuild their shattered live. In fact they did rebuild their shattered lives. My mom was the only person in the family who could speak english. And she rolled herself into Elementary School that actually graduated and went generation from the college. I traveled our country very broadly but before this president was elected and after he was elected. I can tell you that i met lots and lots of immigrants in my say and other places. I have intimate any that have on stronger action in my parents if my grandparents. Stronger patriots than my grandparents were. They knew what this country meant to the rest of the world and it wasnt because we were perfect. It wasnt because they saw us this some privilege people. They knew that would we were at our best, we were actually working out the imperfections that we had. Working hard this american to make the country more democratic and more fair and more free. That has been our imperfect story from the very beginning of the country and really until now. Think donald trump is the threat to all of that in my view. Which this why we need on when term president. The making him on when term president isnt enough. Weve got to govern the country as well. I believe i have on unique agenda in this race. Recalling this the real deal. It was addressed the actual lack of economic mobility. The lack of Educational Equity in our country and the importance of dealing with clement change and the importance and investing our infrastructure. Crating universal healthcare in the country and coming our healthcare costs. In reforming the way our democracy works in the way our government to works and we can actually deliver for the American People because we dont have a lot of time left. Ill speak for myself. I dont feel i have a lot of time left on this planet. I want to make sure that would susan and i are turning it over to our own kids who are turning this democracy over to the kids working so diligently in the Public Schools every single day, try do you get an education and participated in our economy and democracy meaningfully. I would turn that democracy over to them that we can continue be something that we can continue be proud of. And working on the generational issues. To do that we have to win not just the presidency, but also the majority of the senate. To do that, we have to win for both states. I am the only candidate in this race that is it won on National Election on scream say. Ive been there twice. No when else has done it. The longer i go in this election, the more certain i am that is really different to iran in the commonwealth of massachusetts. I know you know im not pulling as high as other people in this race. Im not as well known, have raise as much money. I have committed myself to New Hampshire. I spent more time in this state than anybody else in this race. Ive done 33 town Hall Meetings just like this one when i announced i do another 50 before this was all over. In the next two weeks, i will have impeachment stuff and i will have to go back and work on that as well. In many ways, your state in my state are very much the same politically. My belief is that if we nominate somebody who can win your state, we nominate somebody in my state, we can win the presidency in our majority in the senate and we can begin to govern the country again. If we nominate someone who cant, we wont and it will be shame on us for having put this guy back in office. I just cant accept that. Thats why even though my numbers have been as high as others in part because i dont New Hampshire is less decided today that you were six weeks ago. Les decided today than you were six month ago. The reason you are, i think, without being presumptuous is you havent decided which one of us can take on donald trump and when. I think thats exactly the question we need to ask. If you think, as i do, maybe the American People will look for the opposite of donald trump. I dont thank you can get opposite of donald trump more than i am. They will give us a chance to beat him. I want to thank you all for being here. I would love to take whatever criticism, questions, anything you wouldnt ask another politician because you might be worried would hurt their feelings. I was a urban School Superintendent for years so you cant hurt my feelings. [laughter] it was beaten out of me a long time ago. Thank you for getting us started. [inaudible] in the last 15 years, it has declined by 35 . Due to Climate Change primarily. The lack of snow. As a result, New Hampshire has a great deal on tourism. Its a big industry. I like to know, i would like to present you thank you very much. [laughter] thank you. [applause] thank you. I like to know what you would do with first 100 days of your presidency . Thank you for that wonderful question. So on new years day, susan and i took a walk in one of your beautiful towns with a forrester whos telling the group who was there about the changes going on in the force of the ashtrays were dying because of the Climate Change. We talked about most population and we are having all of the in colorado as well. Beetle infestation as a result of Climate Change is just like New Hampshire. Exactly the same thing, the winters are no longer getting cold enough to kill them off between one winter and the next. The first plan i put out in this election was my climate plan. I could have put out in it Education Plan but i put up a climate plan for all the reasons mike said, which is from the next generation points of view, this is the worst we face. I think this is the existential crisis our democracy faces. In the plant that i put out, i laid out how i would spend the first day working on climate, not just the first 100 days. That would be summoning all the people needed to write a plan along the lines of the american payment plan which i proposed from his campaign to do the work over nine months to try to get something through the congress. If we cant get it passed in congress, at the end of nine months to use every executive Authority Available to try to do what we can on climate. The young people that are from here that have so much to be sore about our record with respect to what we are delivering to them is pretty pitiful when it comes to the national that we put on. The fact that we reduced what we spend on our investment by 35 , the fact we are not investing in our infrastructure so theyve got to figure out how to preserve that. Our parents and grandparents thoughtfully felt that for us but we didnt maintain. The fact they had to borrow 25 years worth of debt for the privilege of going to college, all that should enrage them of what weve done. But nothing would enrage them more than our failure to address Climate Change if we dont do it. We got a big task in front of us. Its not enough to act virtuously, its not enough to say this is what i will do on the first day. We need a solution for a generation. A solution that will actually last. You cant solve Climate Change two years at a time which is why i want to argue to you today, you cant accept the fundamental politics because thats the politics i put my ideas in for two years. I put them in for two years, the other side, thats what weve been dealing with in healthcare for the last ten years. You cant solve climate two years at a time. Sometimes people say okay, we should do just what mcconnell does for what trump does. I think thats the wrong way to look at it. Theyre not trying to do what we are trying to do. Mcconnell is not trying to do Climate Change. He doesnt care. He cuts taxes for rich people and he can do that whether institutions rubble. We cant actually achieve something that will last for the next generation. We have to have something that we think as american climate policy. We used to have something called american Foreign Policy and when we elected a president , the president knew what their job was in respect to the soviet union or cold war with respect to the atlantic alliance. Im not naive. What is naive is believing we can continue doing what we have been doing the last ten years and deliver a real solution for the next generation. Which is why on climate, i proposed paying farmers and ranchers in forresters to sequester their soil and trees to build a broader coalition of people to sustain a durable approach to Climate Change over time. I know it seems unimaginable today when our policies capitalized the coke brothers the way it is, captured by partisan gerrymandering but we cant lose sight of the importance of having to make longterm commitments and decisions like other americans have done during this democracy. All of which is to say, its a reminder of how our politics is. The only way to fix that is with an agenda that appealing to the American People. Allow us to overcome the special interest in washington. If we do put that agenda together, theres every reason we should be able to do that. I want to make one must point. You said this is important to New Hampshire. Thats what you said. We lost the campaign and in large part from donald trump lost because we lost an economic argument on Climate Change. He argued if we deal with Climate Change, will destroy the economy. Ignore, the economy will be fun. Thats preposterous. Thats ridiculous. Its a ridiculous argument in colorado where i was in South Carolina where they got cities who will be underwater because of Climate Change. I would never lose the argument to donald trump. I had a conviction that our economy will be destroyed if we dont deal with Climate Change. If we are willing to deal with Climate Change, we will be able to out innovate the entire rest of the world and leave them into the 21st century that can be fossil free and uphold the promise we have to the next generation. Thanks for that question. [applause] i have two questions. One, theres no way for real process. You have to help the senates will administer justice and remain there. A motion in the senate that went the senate chambers, theyve already promise 51 votes. The other question is, nancy pelosi about ten different people, National Address before this starts. Explain whats going on, he should be convicted. They still dont know whats going on. How about taking ten minutes of your time i think thats an interesting idea. Id be happy to talk to her about it. I believe we didnt give the Mueller Report enough time. In this new cycle that just turns day after day after day, sometimes you have to leave time for people to actually see what the facts are and make up their own minds. Nobody thought this was a big deal, nobody thought donald trump or sorry, Mitch Mcconnell the impeachment, much less resign. They began to change their minds. Anything we can do to get the facts up, including nancys, im not dodging your first question but i would say that probably quarter entertain that unless i thought i could get 51 votes but i dont think we will be able to get 51 votes. Nice try though. [laughter] you mentioned Foreign Policy, comment on iran, the middle east and north korea. So i was reading someplace this week that Jeff Goldberg had a piece about the trump document. I had a different trump document which is take a terrible situation and make them a million times worse. Thats one and step two, connell your enemies and betray your allies. Thats what hes said for the last three years. We are far less safe as a result. In iran, i voted for the iran deal, nuc