State senator and cochair of the senators campaign. We expect the senator shortly. Live coverage on cspan. To say to them you cannot have it all. A person who protested against the war in vietnam hello somebody. Somebody who voted against the war in iraq. Hello, somebody. Somebody who got a resolution passed to say that yes, maam yemen no. Hello somebody. Somebody who believes that we should not make war but we should bring the leaders of this world together and try to make some peace. Hello, somebody. I think senator Bernard Sanders makes power uneasy and privilege unhinged. Come on. Dr. King talks about the trip lets of evil, racism, miltyism. M, and we live in a nation where we need a leader thats not going to hedge, thats not going to play games. He makes a bunch of people feel good to quote dr. Martin luther king junior but my question is to you and for leaders that its one thing to talk the talk but its another thing to walk the walk. Hello, somebody. Hello somebody. Weve got too many people in this state, too many people in this nation and too many people in this world who are suffering and we need as the United States of america to be a real beacon of hope and to stand up or the downtrodden and the missed. We need that person and that person is senator Bernard Sanders. Racism kills. Materialism theyve got us thinking that weve always got to keep up with the joneses and that its tied into what you drive and what you wear. We have lost our ability to see that your Intrinsic Value is in who you are, who you love, what you stand up for. Hello, somebody. When it comes to milt tarism, in the 21st century we dont need leaders who play with going to war. Going to war does not make you strong. Standing up and trying to bring leaders together on the global stage, that is our strength and that is what senator sanders is committed to. We cant play with this thing. So mlk day i just stopped by to remind you that our strength is what it is with each other, that whether we are black or white, whether we are brown indiginous, whether were asian american, whether we are gay or straight, agnostic atheist Christian Muslim buddhist whatever we identify as our strength is together. And that is why iowa this movement is so important because senator sanders, we are building a multicultural multiracial multigenerational multigender hello somebody movement. Thats what were doing. Thats what it has to be. And the reverend dr. Martin luther king jr. Understood that before he was assassinated he was supporting poor people understanding that we rise and we fall together. So we dont need folks who are just going to quote dr. King. We need folks who are going to live dr. King. Hello somebody. Dr. King talked about the injustice in a Health Care System. He talked about capitalism run amuck. He challenged this country to take a look at what we are doing to the least of these our sisters and our brothers and to act in a way that shows that we have love. And speaking of love reverend dr. Martin luther king jr. Said these words i am paraphrasing but he said that light, darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can. And hate cannot drive out hate, only love can. There is a song in the christian tradition that says that love lifted me. It is because of the love of this nation that we are assembled here today to support a justice champion who is standing in the ready position because of love. Hes saying to this nation that we deserve medicare for all because of love. He is saying that we should cancel student debt and give relief to the people of this nation because of love. E says that we must reform a criminal Justice System that is unjust by every stretch of the imagination that sees black men somehow as more criminal than anybody else, brown sisters and brothers indiginous sisters and brothers somehow more criminal than anybody else. He is saying that because of love. I am going to stand up and call this nation out and not only am i going to call it out i am going to stand with my vision and say that we can do better, that you deserve better. Iowa this is what this movement is all about. Love lifted me. It is because of love and love is strong. Love is not weak. Love confronts. Love lifts. Love speaks truth. And the truth of the matter is we know better now. And that means we should do better now. So we will never get another chance quite like this. To elect a champion that from his 20s to this moment has been on a journey that i dont know if he knew that the creator was preparing him for. This is our moment to come together and unite as sisters and brothers for what is just for what is right and what is good and to use our senator as that beacon of hope. Now, he always says that i cannot do this alone. He knows that this is not about me, this is about us. But iowa it is you. You start this thing off. And weve got to tell the naysayers that were going to stand up behind, in front of, and beside the charmion of justice in this country, at this moment, at this time who is running for president of the United States of america to change this thing. Because of love. Love lifted me and as one of the leaders in this movement i can tell you from this space right here that when folks try to say that what the senator is fighting for what we are fighting for is radical, if you are comfortable and you see sky scrapers out your window that maybe having health care for all is radical. But if you among the 89 Million People in this country who are either uninsured or under insured what senator sanders is not pushing is not radical, it is right on time. Hello, somebody. Iowa. If you are suffering from dirty water like those sisters and brothers in michigan and places like ohio and South Carolina the Green New Deal is not radical. It is right on time. If you are a mama and daddy in this country you want to be able to look into the eyes of your babies and say these words that if you want to go to college you can go to college and it doesnt matter how much money i make or dont make what senators sanders is pushing college for all is not radical it is right on time. If you need your prescription whether you are young or seasoned we all need medication from time to time and what a sin and a shame it is that the pharmaceutical industry is making money that total greed on the backs and the necks of people on this country so when the senator calls him out and says not on my watch what he is saying to the system is not on my watch where people continue to be denied or where people continue to die. It is not radical it is right on time. Right on time baby. Right on time. So this movement is about all of you and we need you to knock on doors and make phone calls. Now together were celebrating we need you iowa to make the dominos fall. Were going to do this and were going to win in iowa. Hello, somebody. Oh no its right a on time. Love. Lifted me. And it will lift us. Now speaking of love ive got the opportunity here. Theres a bad sister here with me this evening. And she held from the great state of washington. Shes an activist. She is a congresswoman. She is a leading voice on medicare for all. Hello somebody. How many know it takes teamwork to make the dream work . Working it in the house of representatives and senator Bernard Sanders is working in the senate. Hello, somebody. When the congresswoman was interviewed and she was asked about why she supports senator sanders she says these words. He has a clarity. On policy prescriptions that go right to the heart of the working class need. Hello somebody. Go to the heart of the matter. By love. So i bring to you iowa. I know its a liltchoil its mighty warm. Its burning up in here. Can you give an iowa welcome . Come on somebody to the one and ly congresswoman cheers and applause] hello, iowa. Hello, iowa. Let me tell you a little seek ret, iowa. Am all in for Bernie Sanders are you all in for Bernie Sanders . Are you ready to work this thing until we win iowa in two weeks . Now listen my iowa brothers and sisters, im here for the same reasons you are. My sister nina she talked about the suffering thags going on across this country. There is too much suffering, too much greed and inequality, too much racism and sexism and zeeno phobia, too much trumpism. All of that is expressed through trumpism that has fallen on to america and is just lingering like that dirty old snow. Maybe youre one of those that are suffering. Maybe you are one of the people that cannot afford health care. Maybe youve seen somebody die that you love, somebody that you know that cant get prescription drugs or health care for what aisle them. Maybe you are one of those people suffering from an enormous burden of student loan debt. Maybe you are suffering from not having a good enough job that pays you what you need to put food on the table and a roof over your head. Maybe, maybe you are suffering because of the destruction of our planet and you dont know where we are going to go in this world. Maybe youre suffering from the failure of our institutions and our democracy to stand up for working people instead of the wealthiest few in our orporations. Let me be really clear about something. This guy in the white house his trademark is cruelty. His trademark is cruelty. I say that as the first member of congress to go into a federal prison and talk to over 200 mothers and fathers who had been ripped from their children, did not know where they are and for some of them still dont know where their children are. It aint right. I say that as a woman who has watched this administration rip away Reproductive HealthCare System Health care and do Everything Possible to take away that choice from women like me. That aint right. I say that as a mother of a beautiful gender nonconforming kid who deserves every right that you and i do not to be bullied and called out by hate but by loved for who they are. And i say that, i say that as an immigrant woman of color, somebody who came to this country when i was 16 years old by myself. My parents made that ultimate sacrifice of sending me across the ocean, putting an ocean between them and their beloved child because they actually believed in the American Dream. They wanted me to have the opportunity that we hear about around the world. And so that is why it is so important for me, for us to do everything we can to make sure that that American Dream is real. But i dont want you to be fooled about something. Trump is both a symptom and a cause. He is both a symptom and a cause. Economic insecurity has been building for decades in this country because this system has not been working for working people. And thats been for a long time. But heres the thing. Where we are today is based on a series of choices we made and that means we can make different choices ahead of us. Right . We can turn our nation around away from cruelty to a sense of hue manty and decency, away from mefirstism to a collective belief in our inner connectedness and humanity, away from greed and scarcity and toward love and generosity, the solutions are right in front of us. So today as we honor the life and the legacy of the reverend dr. Martin luther king, he was deeply important to me as an activist and organizer and in his i have a dream speech dr. King said this. And it is just as true then as it is today. He said this is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of radualism. The trang liesing drug of grad tranquilizing drug of gradualism. I know people are krpped about the choices. The consequences are real and they are serious. But it may seem more comforting to go small, to do thing that is maybe dont disrupt the system, but the truth is that is not going to address the systemic problems that are in front of us. We have deep structural inequities in front of us and we need bold struct ral change because if we dont do that this suffering is going to continue but even worse than that we might get somebody into the white house but if that president is not bold and doesnt really fix the problem of health care, the problem of the climate crisis, the problem of racism, all of these things that are in front of us then we may get another donald trump down the road. His name may not be donald trump but we may get another one. And exactly one year from today think about that iowa. One year from today america will inaugurate a new president and what we do between now and then, the way that we organize, the way that we build our movements, the way that we operate is going to mean the difference between four more years of trump or a more hopeful future. And here in iowa weve got two weeks. Youve got two weeks. Right . Weve got two weeks because you are going to lead the Democratic Party with your choice at this incredibly important moment in history. And iowa i am here to tell you whole heartedly that i believe that choice should be senator Bernie Sanders. Cheers and applause] now, people have asked me why bernie. Tell us why bernie. Why did you make that choice. So let me tell you. Ive spent my life organizing. Im an activist and organizer. I helped to drive the movement for Immigration Reform across the country. I helped pass the 15 minimum wage wage in seattle the first major city in the country to do that. Way back in 2002 i was out in the streets organizing 50,000 people against the war in iraq. I led the largest Voter Registration drive in the history of our state, 23,000 new immigrant citizens to vote. And i believe the next president of the United States has to understand that organizing is at the center of everything and Bernie Sanders was building that movement and orlingniesing people across this country. Now, heres the other thing about Bernie Sanders. He brings an authenticity and a steadfastness. My relationship with him goes back to 2015. I was a brand new state senator in Washington State and i became either the first or one of the first elected officials to endorse bernie back then. It was because of his authenticity, his steadfastness, his work over years to build the movement and to fight for the change we need. Back in 1993 Bernie Sanders was fighting for a living wage. Of course when i started running for congress i was so proud that i was one of the first three members candidates that he endorsed for congress. But heres the thing about Bernie Sanders. The thing about Bernie Sanders is he exemplified what i think of when i think of progressives. Im the cochair of the congressional progressive caucus, 40 of the Democratic Caucus. We are working to make that big we are your help. And what i like to say is just what you see in bernie. Progressive, True Progressives are just the first to the best and the most just idea and then they build the movement to make that idea real. Is that right . And heres the third reason. Bernie brings a clarity of purpose to his policy proposals. And lets just be very clear on this. Bernie sanders helped to create the movement for medicare for all and universal health care across this country without Bernie Sanders there would be no movement for medicare for all. And as the lead cosponser lead sponsor of the medicare for all bill in the house, let me tell you this we have had four historic hearings in the house, never before in the house of representatives. We have over half of the Democratic Caucus and i am so thrilled that now endorsing bernie i am going to be the National Health policy chair for Bernie Sanders and together we are going to keep going and building that movement for edicare for all. Now let me tell you bernie knows that our organizing cannot be limited just for the people who are already engaged. Thats called the myth of the likely voters. Bernie wants to move us past that to the truth of every voter. He wants to get out there and he wants to get out there and help bring people in so that they believe again in democracy and they come back out and they vote and they rock these caucuses and its not just the same people, its new people who believe again that a president is going to stand up for them. Thats what Bernie Sanders is ready to do. So weve got two weeks left to go in iowa and the stakes could not be higher. No pressure. No pressure except we got a lot of pressure. Stakes could not be higher. This was not theatrical. Real lives are at stake. We cannot leave a single door unknocked. We cannot make a single contact where we dont make it clear what is before us. We cant be tranquilized by gradualists. We cant be an anest tiesed that arent going to fix the problem. We need deep structural change that is led by a movement demanding more and a leader who does not turn away from working people. We need the kind of change that president Bernie Sanders will bring. And so lets take that vision, change like universal comprehensive health care for every Single Person in america. Change like student Debt Forgiveness and debt cancellation for millions of young people across this country. Change like stronger labor unions and real collective bargaining to check corporate power. Change like progressive Foreign Policy and saying no more to the military industrial complex. Change like expanding Social Security and taking care of our elders as they go on in their lives. And change like taking on Climate Change that puts front line folks black and brown folks and the workers that work in the fossil fuel industries at the front as we tackle and ave our plane