[applause] good afternoon, everybody. Hello. So on behalf of the center for Civic Engagement here in new england college, it is my pleasure to introduce to you to president ial canada and United States senator, Amy Klobuchar. [applause] amy is the first woman to be elected to the United States senate in minnesotas history, and she has a wellknown reputation of getting things done while she is there. A recent study has actually ranked her the most effective democratic senator in the last United States congress. [applause] she is committed to improving the lives of families in the heartland, ensuring that kids that grew up in Rural America can stay in Rural America. And without spreading lies or spreading the blame, amy is focused on getting things done and making sure families lives are improved every day. When she first came to congress, our number one ask was to be on the Senate Agricultural committee, and she understands that this country has to do more to support our beginning farmers, funding for rural Energy Programs and conservation. [applause] shes also fighting for issues we all care about here in New Hampshire as well, infrastructure, healthcare, our Public Schools, Mental Health and addiction. She understands the challenges and opportunities we face here and is taking action to make a a real difference for our families. And best of all, we all know she can bring democrats up and down the ballot with her. She has won every Congressional District in minnesota, and all three have statewide elections. And last year she won 42 of the role counties that trump one in 2016. With him at the top of the ticket, minnesota democrats took back the house, flipped two congressional seats and one every statewide election. [applause] and now amy is fighting for every american. So please, help me give a warm welcome to the senior senator from minnesota and candidate for the presidency of the United States, Amy Klobuchar. [applause] there we go. Look at that. Thank you. Its a a good time to be nameda pilgrim. Okay. Im going to maybe put this right over here. Thank you. And i want to thank come first of all, trevor so much pick is actually a fellow with our office, which he didnt add in his introduction but we really have appreciated his work while he is a student here, and so thank you for that. But also where is wayne who helped put this together . Thank you so much. Thank you for watching that whole debate two days ago. I appreciate that, and Scott Merrick right over here, the state director. We are proud his work, too. This is actually my first big event since the debate, so we were in new york yesterday and did some things in new york, but its great to be back in New Hampshire. But we learned a little bit from the last time when after that debate in columbus we literally got on a plane. I had through our sleep and i can do New Hampshire and it can counties in 30 hours. That was a great plan, scott. But this time i will try doing a little differently. It is so fun to be here and see all the good work youre doing, and especially with thanksgiving break coming up, that there are teachers and students, thank you for coming in this rainy day, and what a great crowd we have here. I love this state. You know, minnesota and New Hampshire have a lot in common. We both have a lot of lakes and forests. You may be have mountains we dont have, but we have one really cool thing in common, that is that we are only a handful of states that has the wisdom to send not one but two women to the u. S. Senate. Jeannie and maggie are actually some of my best friends in the senate. A few of you have heard this before but maggie and i compete for the near times many crossword puzzle every morning, and when she gets a really good time, sometimes i see email from her telling me she got it done in 28 seconds before it actually see the puzzle. But she is an incredible person and its there interesting, you have the only two women, the first two women in the history of the United States out of New Hampshire who served both as governor and senator. And jean who i think you all know is up for election this time, and i go way back. I actually when she first got, got to know her when she was campaigning nationally for various president ial candidates and we stayed at the house on vacation with family but one of my most wanted memories of gene is i was sitting next to her when she first got to the senate and she said to me, we were talking about senator brown just wrote a book and i just started reading it, its a good its about his desk in the senate its called desk 88 and it is about the people who have had that desk. I told jean pfister have high how i have requested Hubert Humphrey this. She said really, how do you know whos desk it is . They signed it but heres what happened to be. I asked for it and in a few much they all look alike, right . Im all excited, i open it up and it says Gordon Humphrey from New Hampshire. They had given me the wrong task. But even by that time in the senate i had learned that you pick your battles, and so i actually just decided well, i guess i will read up on Gordon Humphrey. I was telling jean that story and then she said let me look at it. I said okay. I open up the desk and what he didnt know when the new congress had arrived, which of course included her, they changed at my desk and i then had and still have Hubert Humphreys desk, which is a great thing. He was this incredible happy warrior. I have this picture in our front office and its a reminder to me and maybe to all of you that no matter how hard things get, as they were this week with that impeachment hearing and thinking of those public servants, fiona hill yesterday, oh, my god, and i read somewhere this week, strong womens leadership that you can see on display with fiona hill as well as ambassador giovanna which i personally know, ambassador marie yovanovitch, have brought the family, come over here and he was talking to his dad and he said dont worry, this is a country where its okay to tell the truth. And so through all of this this week and i get to this in a minute, i think it is really important to remember theres a lot of good people that are standing up for america including those ones that testified this week, that believe in what my friend john mccain always used to say, that theres nothing more liberating than a cause greater than yourself. Thats what they did this week when they testified. I think its also good to remember that theres a whole lot of citizens out there who, when you look in this next election and you put in this context, that for them this election yes, its an economic check, im sure will have to discussions today about that and policies like you saw at the debate this week, but it is also a patriotism check, of values check on this president as we go into this election. When you look at those people who previously voted for donald trump and then voted for the new governor of kentucky, so that Mitch Mcconnell now has a democratic governor, or you look at what happened in virginia where we can put up a slate of diverse candidates all over the state and we switch both the house and the senate, something is going on. So my message to you right here from the start is very profound. We cant screw this up. We cant, because we have this opportunity to put together this team across the country that believes truly in their hearts that what unites us is a good than what divides us. We cannot eat by a victory with one state, even if it is New Hampshire. We cant do that. We have to win big and we have to win across the country so that people are going to be able to sit across each other at a thanksgiving table again and talk, and not just get mad at each other. Because this president has really fueled these divides. He does it all the time. He goes after immigrants, treats them like political ponds. He goes after people of color, people who dont agree with him. He literally makes mincemeat of our democracy and let others to make mincemeat of our democracy. When you think of this patriotism that at its core, the state does a lot about that. You produce a lot of incredible veterans through the years. You have produced ambassadors. You have given us some incredible political leaders, including the ones you have in congress right now, that have always seen their roles as just a little bit bigger than what they have to do for the own neighborhood. They had seen a bigger neighborhood, that includes our country and includes our world. That is really on display right now. I was thinking about this the other day when i thought about how fiona hill, after last night, how she was making it very clear that this whole theory that ukraine was semitrying to interfere in our elections wasnt just wrong. Okay, its wrong. That didnt happen. We know the facts are there. We know the fbi director and President Trumps on National Security people have all said that it was russia that did this. They said it under oath. They all, every single one of them have said this because ive been at the hearings. So we know its wrong, but what she said yesterday was so important. Its not just wrong. They are actually furthering a a hoax. The furthering something that russia wanted us to believe, and still wants us to believe that its not true. That gets to the patriotism piece of this. You think about the fact that thousands of people from New Hampshire has died fighting for democracy. Hundreds of thousands of americans have died fighting for our democracy on the battlefield. Four innocent little girls died at the height of the Civil Rights Movement in that church in birmingham, alabama, they just commemorated the anniversary of that tragic, tragic bombing. Those four little girls died as innocence because people trying to pull back on democracy. They wouldnt extend the rights of our democracy. This has always been about a more Perfect Union. It never was a Perfect Union from the beginning. Thats why visit in the constitution we strive for a more Perfect Union and we cannot afford to go backwards. So at its core and would when we get into all the details of the issues you all know are important and youre so good at it New Hampshire, my favorite New Hampshire story was this 11yearold boy named quinn who i met on Easter Sunday at a church who came up to me during the service we will talk later, quinn. Animated of the social and he continues to appear, and by the way of the candidates events. This incredible kid. One of the questions he asked me at an event was when the mueller testament was going on, do you think would be better for mueller to testify in house or senate first, and should it be before the intelligence or judiciary committees . So i am well aware of the detailed knowledge of New Hampshire voters, but i think we cannot forget what this is about. I was reminded about actually when we were in berlin and would get an event similar to this, and of equitable economic sort of points about what we needed to do economically to help their town and help your state and theyve had some closures up there at a think they heard a lot of that, and then we started doing questions and it literally went off the rails in a really good way. It was about a month ago. Their questions were all about how does this impeachment proceeding work . What should we do . What happens in the first house . It was one of those moments okay, these people have fallen on hard times, some of them are out of work, some of them are retired and there they are and they still cared so much about this. It wasnt some gotcha moment. They were trying to figure it out. If you dont believe me one of them said to the other, its kind of like a law and order tv show. You know, the first half to gather the evidence and the second half its the corporate i said okay, but its not criminal, but it is that when you think about it, its that way. I want us to remember this moment in time. As i just mentioned the only way well get all the stuff that is if we win big. But lets say we win big and what do we want to do . Went of the things ive done is put out 100 day plan. Because i i think its really important given what this president has done that we immediately switch over to another way of thinking as citizens. When you look at the first hundred day plan for an american president , it was fdrs and, of course, we were in the middle of an economic crisis by the understood the trust crisis we were in. People didnt trust their leaders. People didnt trust business, their government leaders. Thats why he thought it was so important to shake things up right away. So if you have time you should look up on her website and we should start passing these things round but we found over 100 things, we add things, 130 what . Okay, tommy, thats a really weird thing you know the exact number, 136 things that we could do in the first 100 days. Some of it is proposed legislation which i committed to do, some of which i committed to very strongly did that in the first year. But a lot of the things i things we could do without congress. I love conquers and im going to work with Congress Better certainly done this president and i will have a unique way of working with congress because ive been able to work across the aisle, passing over 100 100 bills myself as the lead democrat. What we have to remember are some things we can get done right away. That includes the issue of Climate Change, existential crisis of our time. This president has not only not helped us, hes gone backwards on it. California was trying to get those gas mileage standards that president obama had proposed another Car Companies that were going to do. A bunch of those Car Companies working with california, including ford to get that done, they supported it and the Trump Administration literally stopped their state doing from what the Card Companies wanted to do, and worse. Threatening them with antitrust violation for working with california to get this done. So what can we do without congress wrecks number one thing on Climate Change we could do without congress is get ourselves back into the international Climate Change agreement. [applause] when the president took us out of this agreement there were only two countries that were not in it and that was nicaragua and syria. Now they are both in the agreement. So were the only one. They clean power rule, something that was very well negotiated over the years during the Obama Administration into depth on the cutting room floor when the Trump Administration comes in. We can bring those back. As as a niche in the gas mileage standards. President can do that herself without i keep doing this, one of my messages on the debate was we have to start thinking of thinks differently. When i suggested we play the game how many, what is your favorite woman president im kidding. And so it is really important that people envision this differently. The gas mileage standards and then sweeping legislation to put a carbon price after. I think one of the things that happen is people start thinking this is going to be expensive, and a carbon price will help us pay for any of the economic dislocations that i think well see. There will be some forms of energy that will be facing out and new ones coming in. I dont think that will be an even match. You cant expect all the Green Energy Jobs will go to one place and thats why i suggested incentives for manufacturing of any kind and other types of jobs for the areas that we will see some job changes as was making sure people can afford energy. We can do this. We just have to be really smart about how we do it. I was thinking of the night i think a things in the head and also my heart and for me this is very important because my family came from northern minnesota, and we have iron ore mines up there which i been working very hard over the years to make sure you keep going and that makes steel. So those are still going strong now. At one point when they were closing down there was a billboard outside of duluth that said last one to leave, turn out the lights. They literally turned the billboard. Now duluth is thriving, because of tourism, the port, unique manufacturing, like those cutting boards, things like they make all kinds of things, the town was able to adapt but the town, its not huge, huge town but theyre able to do. Thats why i have hope when i see those things and believe we can make this work with Climate Change and the kind of changes we are going to. Second big challenge we have is healthcare. Have you seen the debates . I personally believe that the best way to get our premiums down is with a nonprofit public option. That is something that president obama wanted to do from the beginning. It creates competition with insurance and its estimated that 13 Million People would see their rates go down. One example with my plan is a family of four making 100,000, would which see their premiums go down by 50 . I think wh