Transcripts For CSPAN2 Campaign 2020 Sen. Cory Booker Campai

Who the heck am i . Im a man raised by two incredible parents who have seen the worst of america. They were civil rights activist who have seen violence and determination but we are who we are as a country because we came together and understood together and work together. The older i got, the more difficult the stories of childhood work. By the time he was older, beach balls were falling from the sky. Let me tell you when a tsunami hit my time. I honored my father and my mother. My dad was my mom was a single mom. My father would tell me dont people i was poor. I was just poe. Po. My father would tell me he is who he is because of a conspiracy of love. People were not related to him they didnt look like him or pray for him willing to fight for him. My fathers mom was in a community that took him in and no college in my Family History but i told him you will go to college, he will go to school and he couldnt afford it. It was our turn to put a collection plate around. He commanded there in the 60s when the movement started in north carolina. He grew up in a segregated town, so bright people showing up for his rights. When he got to washington d. C. , if you are irish, jewish, is a time Corporate America didnt want year. A coalition of blacks and whites who stood up. He was the first black person hired better at that Company Called ibm. When he got a promotion, you do well in the company does better. Inclusion, diversity of strength. He gets promoted up to manhattan. He finds out White Communities in northern new jersey didnt want black families. They dont have a configuration. My father found people who met in the living room who said we will fight for you. There is a sting operation where there was a white couple would find out if the house was still for self. We were told the house was sold in the day of the closing of the house, the white couple didnt show up in my father did and they volunteered a lawyer. When they walked into the agents office, he stands up and punches my dad in the face. He sick a dog on my dad. It was a beautiful home in this great community. Every time my dad would tell this story, he would get bigger. I am clearly here, we are all here because of people who didnt just say the words of our nation, liberty and justice for all but willing to sacrifice and fight for it. Boy, dont you ever walk around this house like you are a triple. You were born on third base. Scholarship to play football, hit by masters in our world scholar. My dad was not impressed. Hes like youve got more degrees than the month of july but you arent hot. [laughter] its about the service you give. My faith and my family, the values i was raised with, i moved into my state and innercity to do what . Be our tenant rights lawyer. Why . People wanted housing rights. I still live in that neighborhood today. Only person in the senate that lives in the neighborhood. We dont make the mistake in my community and mistaking walk while with worth. I want to get to your questions. I want to know values, i fight everyday. Life is about purpose, not position. I ran for city council in the 90s. People are too often left out of the equation. Families like mine who are looked down upon or discriminated against, to make this nations promise wheel for everyone. Thats why i fight but how we fight, thats what i know. We stand up for each other. When strength comes from each other, we are each others hope and promise. When we stand up and organize and mobilize, thats how we win. People want to say its all about trump. Its not about one guy in one office. Its a referendum on us. When we come back, we stand up and bring out the swarm. When elections. The last election, he got what mitt romney got. The blacks came out in 2012, in 2016, got the president right now. The next nominee better be back one to ignite the movement. I want to be Mitch Mcconnell. [applause] that means we have to win north carolina. We have to win seats in georgia and arizona. Weve got to bring a wave election. We have never had summary from our party. Gloria has volunteered to be our mike runner today. Lets break into a chant gloria. A musical discussion tonight. I will kick it off with a governor like we have, how will you ensure labor has a seat at the table . First of all, whats happening is shameful. Its happening in states all around this country. Empowered by right wing extremists and continues to undermine the values and winds of my past generation. Workers rights, civil rights, bullied rights and womens rights for people to control their own body. We have to stop this in one way is by passing legislation. This is an equality act and why i want the new Voting Rights act. We have to get these things past. Other decisions to give workers rights, negotiate act, we want to get past congress. Where we will do this is not by focusing on the white house. By making sure we have the kind of president i can win the presidency and create a wave election up and down the ticket. One thing im trying to do in my leadership is waking up this country to understand this is just like the Civil Rights Movement i can or we create a nationwide movement. Thats why you have a lot of people standing here that are just not asking what people will do for you, thats what youve been doing in this fight already. One of the reasons why i have tremendous labor support in new jersey is because when i was mayor, everything i did, build a hotel here . There was an agreement. You want to do something in my city . When airport workers were i might airport, i was on the picket line and marching with them. [applause] and one thing in New Hampshire, a lot of these issues are because you have governors like you have now. One of the candidates doing were you up here helping . Theres nobody who helped raise more money for officials here to make sure you want back your legislature and make sure you push back on this governor that i did. If im your president , i will just be president of the u. S. But the leader of the Democratic Party. We need to make sure its not just federal victories, we need to win victories across the country so Union Leaders and labor, jobs with dignity win. The big victories we need to win in the next four years not just overturning Supreme Court cases in legislation but how can they lift minimum wage . Pension plans right now are in danger, making sure people retire with security and dignity is a bit much bigger agenda. We need to make sure we fight for the larger country by fighting up and down the battle and make sure the Democratic Party and our failures begin to rise. Thank you for coming to New Hampshire. I have a question for you about agriculture and the price of food. I worked 20 years for the state and retired pension Social Security and 10 an hour job. The cost of green beans last year was 99 cents now they are a dollar 99 cents. Mushrooms were a dollar 89, now they are 389. I went six months without hammer waiting for a sale. You want to do big Agora Culture business, which i agree with but it will affect the price of food. God bless you, i rarely get a question like that. I welcome to the white house with a much different set of experiences than anyone else. One of them is living the last 20 plus years in a low Income Community so i see people on my flock that work longer hours than my parents did. They still need food stamps to feed their family. We have a real crisis. Not just a crisis for us, we live in this interconnected world. Its a crisis for farmers being driven out because of this. We are seeing massive consolidation. When you spend a dollar on food, the percentage most of the people who produce the food and it goes down by 50 . Republican farmers in the midwest and they were telling me republican farmers the world has changed because monsanto has bought up all product, raising prices of seed and chemicals they use and people used to buy their businesses and they only have one who pays the price. The reason why the prices are going up are not because of the farmers, its because of big corporate consolidation. I put a bill in, a guy named john and he and i put a bill in for all corporate consolidation, the Agriculture Sector. We begin to start working to fight back on these trends that are jacking up the price of your food and putting farmers out of business. It creates we have a Serious Health crisis in this country. Your kids can walk into a Grocery Store and a key product is cheaper than apple. This is a perverse food system is directly related to our Childrens Health and healthcare system, performance in school, its all interrelated. Enough is enough. The cost of food is going to high because of monopolization. I will stop that. The Agriculture Sector is where it will stop. Helping independent family farmers will make organic and healthier food and do it at lower prices if we create a food system actually works. You said you are a retiree. I want to say, theres something about society, i was in three places you want to look to see what society is really about. See how they treat children we are a nation thats shameful. We leave them in infant mortality. Childcare is more expensive in most states than college tuiti tuition. We pay childcare workers poverty wages. Look at what we are doing to children. No paid family leave. Look at how the nation treats its children. And elderly. Millions of americans and write diaries live at or below the poverty line because we have a system that is criminal. Think about this. We have people whose Social Security checks are not keeping up with inflation. People are living on fixed income, everything is going up from prescription drugs to the cost of capital. The Social Security, they say they will make that a tax and make it far more progressive by lifting the tab on Social Security payments. [applause] we are going to increase the payments so nobody is below the poverty line in america. You look at prisons, turkey ha has theres only one person from the New York Times you might want to incarcerate. [laughter] but russia, they incarcerate their political prisoners. Who do we incarcerate . There are people in jail right now, thousands around the country who cant pay their bail. It treats you better if you are rich and guilty then if you are poor and innocent. The Biggest Mental Health institutions in america are prisons and jails and theres no treatment being given there. The next highest incarceration is women. We offer incarcerate women. One in every three women incarcerated overwhelmingly by a nonviolent crime, almost 90 are survivors of Sexual Assault. We still shackled women when they are giving birth. I hope you dont think i respect and love joe biden, but ill tell you what, there are more marijuana arrests in 2017 than all other crime arrests combined. Who we incarcerate about the kids at stanford . Talk about contact high. Nobody worries we incarcerate the poor and minorities. Theres no difference in marijuana usage or sale but africanamericans are about four times more likely to be incarcerated for it. Prisons are shameful institutions that show we dont love each other because we put people with addiction over incarcerated, women over incarcerated. Veterans over incarcerated. Thats a testimony to the lack of efficacy empathy in our country. I will change because after two plus decades in my community, seeing seniors live there all life working and making unhealthy food choices, all this stuff i will change as your president. [applause] i see sign waving back there. I have to wrap up right now . I will say a closing remark. You are a great man. This is a crowded democratic field. I want to ask for your support because this is not just about the policies weve been discussing. This is a moment where we will make decisions, we should make them with our head but also with our heart. Im telling you, im not in this, i was going up to a stage in iowa and some dude sees me, hes a big dude. The older i get, the better i was. The guy stopped me and says, dude, i want to jump i want you to punch donald trump in the face. I said dude, thats a felony. We do not beat him by being like him. We match his darkness with our light. We have to repent for in these days, its not the actions of the bad people, is the inaction of the good people. We will win seats up and down the ticket in 2020. Im running because i know im the best person in this field to energize, excite and ignite this country and have a movement election. Its not just the particular way its designed which is important but getting big movements to push legislation because weve got suffrage adulation not because a bunch of guys got together and said lets give them the right to vote. No, we got it because its activism. He sent ive seen the light, the right to vote. No. We got it because of activism. If you elect me as president , im warning you, if you elect me, i will ask more from you than any other president has ever asked from you in your lifetime. I want ask you to pay more for your groceries, i will ask you to pay more taxes. Everybody will get a tax break, no. I will ask you to volunteer, serve more and help organize even more because we make changes in america not from washington but americans standing up for americans. I want to end by telling you the part of the story i told, i went back to find out the americans stood up for my family and helped move into the town i grew up in. I found the lawyer that represented my family. I asked him why would you, in the 60s when you are busy starting, why would you help black families move into your neighborhood . He said i was sitting at home watching tv on march 7, 1965 and the movie was called judgment a. Most of america was watching this movie and they broke away from the movie in the middle to show a bridge in alabama called the admin pettit bridge and there is a white man 1000 miles away watching markers get stopped on a bridge in alabama by Alabama State troopers who tear gassed them and charged at him with clubs and darted viciously beating him. What is this guy in new jersey do . He does not allow his inability to do everything to undermine his determination to do something. He stood up from the couch and said i cant go to alabama, i cant afford a plane ticket but i will do a powerful american tradition, i will be the best i can with what i have, where i am. A patriot, he showed his love, he didnt talk about it. He called around to see what pro bono work he could spare. He tried to do something about real estate in new jersey. He said they started working 65 and 67, join us in the fight for america. By 69, they had also whole system working. I got the case file from a family from the south, frustrated and discouraged their American Dream was being stolen by racism and the help that family and you know the names of that case file, the family coming up from the south, carrie and carolyn booker, my parents. I am literally a u. S. Senator. For the black person ever elected into the office in the literally running for the highest office in the land because unamerican on account in jersey didnt just sit there, they stood up for our country. What is a selection about . Its not about him, its about will we stand . My father taught me to do that. We join together because the power of the people is greater than the people in power. This election is about organizing us, igniting us in us revising civic race and bringing mobility back. Greatest empathy and radical love. We can ignite that spirit, every policy becomes possible. We will make the low places hi, the crooked places straight and bring justice into this country. Stand with me in this fight. This man may try to tear us down but i promise you, together we will rise. [cheering] how about a big thank you. Thank you, everybody. Before you leave, lets get a group photo. [inaudible conversations] here we go. One, two, three. A. [cheering] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] i promise you, we will beat donald trump. We will ignite this country again. We will continue greater campaign and energize record numbers at the pole. Not just here in the state but all across the nation. If i am your president , i will ask more from you than other president s ever have. I will ask you to volunteer to stand and reignite our civic virtues. Our top we as a nation rise. [cheering and applauding] my mother sent me out the door this morning, a quote by john kennedy on his day, she memorized that when she was a senior in high school in New Hampshire. Its not a victory of party, its a celebration of freedom. She told me that we need to think about this different now because this time. Victory party, we dont have freedom to celebrate. The lady in front of me has a question now. It has so much to do with my question. After watching the last two weeks of the house, seeing them continue to dig and, realizing it goes from the house to the senate to attorney general to secretary of state to president and Supreme Court. Between that and gerrymandering, i for the first time feel extraordinarily nervous about where our country is going to get our our vote going . How do you assure the American People that we need to get off our couches and get involved in these campaigns and we need to vote . I was raised with my parents, i think its not actions of the bad people but the inaction of the good people. This line was my favorite. This woman taught me this hope that they wont have the last word though we all need to speak up in this hatred so look at modern public and parties, the values of their own party. What you do in the face of that, i will tell you already, its not about me, its about we. One of the darkest moments i had as a unites state senate, like all of us, a person who bag in the campaign with racism, muslims and mexicans, it was exposed about his Sexual Assault after Sexual Assault. How could my country elect a person and get up there and call in a Family History<\/a> but i told him you will go to college, he will go to school and he couldnt afford it. It was our turn to put a collection plate around. He commanded there in the 60s when the movement started in north carolina. He grew up in a segregated town, so bright people showing up for his rights. When he got to washington d. C. , if you are irish, jewish, is a time Corporate America<\/a> didnt want year. A coalition of blacks and whites who stood up. He was the first black person hired better at that Company Called<\/a> ibm. When he got a promotion, you do well in the company does better. Inclusion, diversity of strength. He gets promoted up to manhattan. He finds out White Communities<\/a> in northern new jersey didnt want black families. They dont have a configuration. My father found people who met in the living room who said we will fight for you. There is a sting operation where there was a white couple would find out if the house was still for self. We were told the house was sold in the day of the closing of the house, the white couple didnt show up in my father did and they volunteered a lawyer. When they walked into the agents office, he stands up and punches my dad in the face. He sick a dog on my dad. It was a beautiful home in this great community. Every time my dad would tell this story, he would get bigger. I am clearly here, we are all here because of people who didnt just say the words of our nation, liberty and justice for all but willing to sacrifice and fight for it. Boy, dont you ever walk around this house like you are a triple. You were born on third base. Scholarship to play football, hit by masters in our world scholar. My dad was not impressed. Hes like youve got more degrees than the month of july but you arent hot. [laughter] its about the service you give. My faith and my family, the values i was raised with, i moved into my state and innercity to do what . Be our tenant rights lawyer. Why . People wanted housing rights. I still live in that neighborhood today. Only person in the senate that lives in the neighborhood. We dont make the mistake in my community and mistaking walk while with worth. I want to get to your questions. I want to know values, i fight everyday. Life is about purpose, not position. I ran for city council in the 90s. People are too often left out of the equation. Families like mine who are looked down upon or discriminated against, to make this nations promise wheel for everyone. Thats why i fight but how we fight, thats what i know. We stand up for each other. When strength comes from each other, we are each others hope and promise. When we stand up and organize and mobilize, thats how we win. People want to say its all about trump. Its not about one guy in one office. Its a referendum on us. When we come back, we stand up and bring out the swarm. When elections. The last election, he got what mitt romney got. The blacks came out in 2012, in 2016, got the president right now. The next nominee better be back one to ignite the movement. I want to be Mitch Mcconnell<\/a>. [applause] that means we have to win north carolina. We have to win seats in georgia and arizona. Weve got to bring a wave election. We have never had summary from our party. Gloria has volunteered to be our mike runner today. Lets break into a chant gloria. A musical discussion tonight. I will kick it off with a governor like we have, how will you ensure labor has a seat at the table . First of all, whats happening is shameful. Its happening in states all around this country. Empowered by right wing extremists and continues to undermine the values and winds of my past generation. Workers rights, civil rights, bullied rights and womens rights for people to control their own body. We have to stop this in one way is by passing legislation. This is an equality act and why i want the new Voting Rights<\/a> act. We have to get these things past. Other decisions to give workers rights, negotiate act, we want to get past congress. Where we will do this is not by focusing on the white house. By making sure we have the kind of president i can win the presidency and create a wave election up and down the ticket. One thing im trying to do in my leadership is waking up this country to understand this is just like the Civil Rights Movement<\/a> i can or we create a nationwide movement. Thats why you have a lot of people standing here that are just not asking what people will do for you, thats what youve been doing in this fight already. One of the reasons why i have tremendous labor support in new jersey is because when i was mayor, everything i did, build a hotel here . There was an agreement. You want to do something in my city . When airport workers were i might airport, i was on the picket line and marching with them. [applause] and one thing in New Hampshire<\/a>, a lot of these issues are because you have governors like you have now. One of the candidates doing were you up here helping . Theres nobody who helped raise more money for officials here to make sure you want back your legislature and make sure you push back on this governor that i did. If im your president , i will just be president of the u. S. But the leader of the Democratic Party<\/a>. We need to make sure its not just federal victories, we need to win victories across the country so Union Leaders<\/a> and labor, jobs with dignity win. The big victories we need to win in the next four years not just overturning Supreme Court<\/a> cases in legislation but how can they lift minimum wage . Pension plans right now are in danger, making sure people retire with security and dignity is a bit much bigger agenda. We need to make sure we fight for the larger country by fighting up and down the battle and make sure the Democratic Party<\/a> and our failures begin to rise. Thank you for coming to New Hampshire<\/a>. I have a question for you about agriculture and the price of food. I worked 20 years for the state and retired pension Social Security<\/a> and 10 an hour job. The cost of green beans last year was 99 cents now they are a dollar 99 cents. Mushrooms were a dollar 89, now they are 389. I went six months without hammer waiting for a sale. You want to do big Agora Culture<\/a> business, which i agree with but it will affect the price of food. God bless you, i rarely get a question like that. I welcome to the white house with a much different set of experiences than anyone else. One of them is living the last 20 plus years in a low Income Community<\/a> so i see people on my flock that work longer hours than my parents did. They still need food stamps to feed their family. We have a real crisis. Not just a crisis for us, we live in this interconnected world. Its a crisis for farmers being driven out because of this. We are seeing massive consolidation. When you spend a dollar on food, the percentage most of the people who produce the food and it goes down by 50 . Republican farmers in the midwest and they were telling me republican farmers the world has changed because monsanto has bought up all product, raising prices of seed and chemicals they use and people used to buy their businesses and they only have one who pays the price. The reason why the prices are going up are not because of the farmers, its because of big corporate consolidation. I put a bill in, a guy named john and he and i put a bill in for all corporate consolidation, the Agriculture Sector<\/a>. We begin to start working to fight back on these trends that are jacking up the price of your food and putting farmers out of business. It creates we have a Serious Health<\/a> crisis in this country. Your kids can walk into a Grocery Store<\/a> and a key product is cheaper than apple. This is a perverse food system is directly related to our Childrens Health<\/a> and healthcare system, performance in school, its all interrelated. Enough is enough. The cost of food is going to high because of monopolization. I will stop that. The Agriculture Sector<\/a> is where it will stop. Helping independent family farmers will make organic and healthier food and do it at lower prices if we create a food system actually works. You said you are a retiree. I want to say, theres something about society, i was in three places you want to look to see what society is really about. See how they treat children we are a nation thats shameful. We leave them in infant mortality. Childcare is more expensive in most states than college tuiti tuition. We pay childcare workers poverty wages. Look at what we are doing to children. No paid family leave. Look at how the nation treats its children. And elderly. Millions of americans and write diaries live at or below the poverty line because we have a system that is criminal. Think about this. We have people whose Social Security<\/a> checks are not keeping up with inflation. People are living on fixed income, everything is going up from prescription drugs to the cost of capital. The Social Security<\/a>, they say they will make that a tax and make it far more progressive by lifting the tab on Social Security<\/a> payments. [applause] we are going to increase the payments so nobody is below the poverty line in america. You look at prisons, turkey ha has theres only one person from the New York Times<\/a> you might want to incarcerate. [laughter] but russia, they incarcerate their political prisoners. Who do we incarcerate . There are people in jail right now, thousands around the country who cant pay their bail. It treats you better if you are rich and guilty then if you are poor and innocent. The Biggest Mental Health<\/a> institutions in america are prisons and jails and theres no treatment being given there. The next highest incarceration is women. We offer incarcerate women. One in every three women incarcerated overwhelmingly by a nonviolent crime, almost 90 are survivors of Sexual Assault<\/a>. We still shackled women when they are giving birth. I hope you dont think i respect and love joe biden, but ill tell you what, there are more marijuana arrests in 2017 than all other crime arrests combined. Who we incarcerate about the kids at stanford . Talk about contact high. Nobody worries we incarcerate the poor and minorities. Theres no difference in marijuana usage or sale but africanamericans are about four times more likely to be incarcerated for it. Prisons are shameful institutions that show we dont love each other because we put people with addiction over incarcerated, women over incarcerated. Veterans over incarcerated. Thats a testimony to the lack of efficacy empathy in our country. I will change because after two plus decades in my community, seeing seniors live there all life working and making unhealthy food choices, all this stuff i will change as your president. [applause] i see sign waving back there. I have to wrap up right now . I will say a closing remark. You are a great man. This is a crowded democratic field. I want to ask for your support because this is not just about the policies weve been discussing. This is a moment where we will make decisions, we should make them with our head but also with our heart. Im telling you, im not in this, i was going up to a stage in iowa and some dude sees me, hes a big dude. The older i get, the better i was. The guy stopped me and says, dude, i want to jump i want you to punch donald trump in the face. I said dude, thats a felony. We do not beat him by being like him. We match his darkness with our light. We have to repent for in these days, its not the actions of the bad people, is the inaction of the good people. We will win seats up and down the ticket in 2020. Im running because i know im the best person in this field to energize, excite and ignite this country and have a movement election. Its not just the particular way its designed which is important but getting big movements to push legislation because weve got suffrage adulation not because a bunch of guys got together and said lets give them the right to vote. No, we got it because its activism. He sent ive seen the light, the right to vote. No. We got it because of activism. If you elect me as president , im warning you, if you elect me, i will ask more from you than any other president has ever asked from you in your lifetime. I want ask you to pay more for your groceries, i will ask you to pay more taxes. Everybody will get a tax break, no. I will ask you to volunteer, serve more and help organize even more because we make changes in america not from washington but americans standing up for americans. I want to end by telling you the part of the story i told, i went back to find out the americans stood up for my family and helped move into the town i grew up in. I found the lawyer that represented my family. I asked him why would you, in the 60s when you are busy starting, why would you help black families move into your neighborhood . He said i was sitting at home watching tv on march 7, 1965 and the movie was called judgment a. Most of america was watching this movie and they broke away from the movie in the middle to show a bridge in alabama called the admin pettit bridge and there is a white man 1000 miles away watching markers get stopped on a bridge in alabama by Alabama State<\/a> troopers who tear gassed them and charged at him with clubs and darted viciously beating him. What is this guy in new jersey do . He does not allow his inability to do everything to undermine his determination to do something. He stood up from the couch and said i cant go to alabama, i cant afford a plane ticket but i will do a powerful american tradition, i will be the best i can with what i have, where i am. A patriot, he showed his love, he didnt talk about it. He called around to see what pro bono work he could spare. He tried to do something about real estate in new jersey. He said they started working 65 and 67, join us in the fight for america. By 69, they had also whole system working. I got the case file from a family from the south, frustrated and discouraged their American Dream<\/a> was being stolen by racism and the help that family and you know the names of that case file, the family coming up from the south, carrie and carolyn booker, my parents. I am literally a u. S. Senator. For the black person ever elected into the office in the literally running for the highest office in the land because unamerican on account in jersey didnt just sit there, they stood up for our country. What is a selection about . Its not about him, its about will we stand . My father taught me to do that. We join together because the power of the people is greater than the people in power. This election is about organizing us, igniting us in us revising civic race and bringing mobility back. Greatest empathy and radical love. We can ignite that spirit, every policy becomes possible. We will make the low places hi, the crooked places straight and bring justice into this country. Stand with me in this fight. This man may try to tear us down but i promise you, together we will rise. [cheering] how about a big thank you. Thank you, everybody. Before you leave, lets get a group photo. [inaudible conversations] here we go. One, two, three. A. [cheering] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] i promise you, we will beat donald trump. We will ignite this country again. We will continue greater campaign and energize record numbers at the pole. Not just here in the state but all across the nation. If i am your president , i will ask more from you than other president s ever have. I will ask you to volunteer to stand and reignite our civic virtues. Our top we as a nation rise. [cheering and applauding] my mother sent me out the door this morning, a quote by john kennedy on his day, she memorized that when she was a senior in high school in New Hampshire<\/a>. Its not a victory of party, its a celebration of freedom. She told me that we need to think about this different now because this time. Victory party, we dont have freedom to celebrate. The lady in front of me has a question now. It has so much to do with my question. After watching the last two weeks of the house, seeing them continue to dig and, realizing it goes from the house to the senate to attorney general to secretary of state to president and Supreme Court<\/a>. Between that and gerrymandering, i for the first time feel extraordinarily nervous about where our country is going to get our our vote going . How do you assure the American People<\/a> that we need to get off our couches and get involved in these campaigns and we need to vote . I was raised with my parents, i think its not actions of the bad people but the inaction of the good people. This line was my favorite. This woman taught me this hope that they wont have the last word though we all need to speak up in this hatred so look at modern public and parties, the values of their own party. What you do in the face of that, i will tell you already, its not about me, its about we. One of the darkest moments i had as a unites state senate, like all of us, a person who bag in the campaign with racism, muslims and mexicans, it was exposed about his Sexual Assault<\/a> after Sexual Assault<\/a>. How could my country elect a person and get up there and call in a Trump Campaign<\/a> . Than other great president s is and Charity Towards<\/a> all. So badly that bill clinton next to george bush, george bush was so shocked that bill clinton says that was some strange ship. [laughter] i went to bed that night on my low of low. I curled up into a ball in my bed with a headache because all i was thinking of was how many i would have, Mitch Mcconnell<\/a> and donald trump to take away healthcare for millions of america. But the next day the women. Thank you. It was like millions of america said do not let this be the last word. Millions of women in america said cory booker, this is not the time to give up, shut up. Its a time to get up, to rise up and speak up because despair will not have the last word and people started changing this country. This has been the most hopeful three years of my life. Why . Thats what he did first. I had a court order to retain families for real representation. Hundreds of people trying to get out, singing songs and chanting patriotic slogans, cheering on families. There were orthodox jews, chanting and cheering and families coming into our country. Thats what it looks like. I told a man from indiana, i went to indianapolis airport and there were people coming out of the gate. There were no international life. [laughter] he was hugging people from detroit. [laughter] guess what we did in 2018 . Now we not only one back the house but its the most diverse in the history of america. [applause] they started passing legislation for the American People<\/a>, but the Democratic People<\/a> but the American People<\/a> one. This is round two. Im sorry, one election doesnt win. This election is round two. There sonnets from arizona, colorado and north carolina. I am not running for one office, im running to a wave in this country for the highest turnout than ever before. Every community, i know i can win that. When we went back the senate, we can start passing legislation. We join the climate accord and establish that he wrote back. We can do this the way weve always done this. This democracy cannot be cured. Im telling you this is an election. Its about the campaign for our country. One can be leader, i want to call out to america to be who we are pr we are a nation independent and interdependent. We will make this happen, we much mutually come together. Its our sacred honor. Republicans right now are sacrificing their secret honor. They say its okay for the president of the u. S. To betray their oath, compromise the security of our allies and National Security<\/a> of our country for the own political position. This is not okay. Weve faced bigots before and demagogues before. Every generation has them. As a fake language of this president , we beat them. Mccarthy injecting fear into society, we beat him. The radio show in the media with the anti somatic screen and we beat them. How do we when . By banning our values . Punch donald trump in the face, thats a felony. We are not going to live but more like him. We have bigger dogs and fire hoses, the moral imagination of our nation and have more people off the couch and into the game. Thats what we will do. Let me and with this, im telling you right now, this is a test of how much do we love each other . Thats the test of america. Is just as will just as is like we have now to treat you better if you were rich than poor and innocent. We sit comfortably back to what these injustices and more are going on. Your children are going to school. Will we get up and join with our fellow americans arm in arm . I dont want to and with this is a sad note is beautiful no. I went to newark and inspired kids. The meeting was packed. I was getting all the notes i needed to file legal action against the board that the elderly man was at tenant tenant leader varsity one of the most renowned people. The meeting went on and on too long. I only had what i needed after the first hour and as we were leaving young and impetuous and made a snide remark about how long it was and is kind gentle man looks at me and says you dont understand. We need to fix these buildings. We need to repair them cory but the first thing we have to do is repair communities. Those folks that came up to get their moment at the microphone, they deserve to be heard. They deserve to be seen. If we repair this community and bring people together know slumlord can stand against us. And he was right. The guy was convicted in federal court and the community didnt win a victory because of a lawyer or a tenant leader. They want a victory because they wanted together. This elderly man changed my life by telling me you were going to run for city council. I had to give up my job and live on my credit card but he believed in me and they fought for me and we beat the machine on the city council. He gets older and older and eventually his eyesight goes out i would still go to him even though he was getting elderly and i knocked on his door and he said who is a then open the door and i said its cory. He goes, icu. That became our greeting. K frank its cory. I see you. Eventually went to hospice 10 years ago this month. His last days. Im confessing my weaknesses to you but i confess to you that the hospital room was full of people thousands of people standing in the room and every time id visited was the only one. In his last days and hours he seemed to grow. He was happy because to him life wasnt about popularity. It was about purpose. Life wasnt about celebrity. It was about significance. Fly for him wasnt about how many show up for you when you are dead but how many people you show up or when you are alive. And i walked into his room and i was stopped by these Amazing Health<\/a> care professionals. These are angels of the dont recognize until we need them that are mostly underpaid. They said to me it wont be long now so it might be the last time you see him alive. I was already took a nap before i went in. They said he cant talk but he will hear you. I walked into the door and i closed it and i started walking to his bed and i said its cory and to my surprise he started struggling. He forces out the words very stately, icu. I walked to his bedside and this man changed my life rate i wouldnt be in politics without him and i sat to his bed and i held him and i told him what he meant to me and i kissed him on the four had. I kissed him on the cheek but i had so many things to do and they knew this would be my last time. I kissed him one more time and i said frank i love you and as im getting fps struggled and says the words i love you. So i tell you all right now dont make this choice on who you are going to support just because of your head. Remember the words of my mentor. His last words, icu, i love you, icu, i love you. Do we see each other in america the struggle and the pain and the hurt and the fear all over our country right now. Do we honor and value the voice of people who are often rendered voiceless in a world where the shiny media and billionaire spending money. Icu and i love you. What is the depth of our empathy what is the power of our love . Theres nothing we can do together. Her history has shown it is a testimony to the achievement of the impossible. Other countries look to us for life for our values. I see you, i love you. This election is not just about politics and its not just about the platforms. If it becomes about that grace and decency and love and healing if its about that we are going to win back the white house that we are going to win a lot more than that. Those people who betrayed our values to leave office just like the republicans that are retiring right now because they know they cant win. This is the time for a moment and the American Movement<\/a> which is a movement about how much we care about each other and i as your president. I promise you we will put indivisible back into this one nation under god. I promise you our hallmark the plumas unum will become our. Again. This president will try to beat us down but i as i said in the convention the words of this incredible when maya angelou. He may try to draw down in the but i promise you we will rise. Thank you. [applause] what a great crowd of folks. We are only expecting 50 people in there were over 100 people. Its one of the first essential events that happen. Its more of a republican area two. Thats really great. And there were so generous to open up their home like that. And you were saying earlier to feel a lot like we were doing in february. So many people. Yale. We hit 900,000. Thats amazing. That is really amazing. Can i see my phone . I know we need to do an end to the story but i want to see and respond. This young man, the person that gave you questions about it and we were hoping we could respond to heard writing for her six questions. I cant believe hes doing is a slide that is richer. They did a slide showing at the school. We do research on it every week. Might dad would rather he do it on something not political but i said nope, cory booker. Ps the slideshow is titled cory booker, americas finest senator. Dont forget the hat from richard. Now what do we do for him the greatest presentation. Maybe you can send him a video that he can incorporate. I dont think its for this one. This was supposed to be for 2 00 starred in its 1 58 and where 25 miles away. Do we want to call many or weights . Lets go to the next slide. We might as well be on time. You want to do at chris . I can pull over. We can do a really quick right now. Many as a state rep. He just got engaged today. He is a young democrat. He was working for Julian Castro<\/a> but is no longer and has his this operation here in New Hampshire<\/a>. Just a really great guy short term representative out of nashville. Many, its cory booker. How are you . Im doing good. Im with my team and you were on speakerphone here. Im many its chris. Hey chris. Im being followed by cspan cameras so they are filming me talking to you right now. Im appreciate the call. I want you to know my girlfriend is trying to break into this conversation not getting on the phone because im talking to you. Im thank you. Looks like you guys are having a really good trip. Amazing. The crowd expectation has been amazing more than what we are expect king. Youre doing an excellent job. That last speech was really heartfelt. That was amazing. Congratulations. This is so exciting. It is. Its fitting though. [inaudible. [inaudible. Spin it that is awesome and i just love life and i love that you are marrying up. Maybe i should have brought rosario into the conversation. Hold on a second real quick. Hey real quick you called while i was talking to a state rep named many coaches got engaged to an amazing latina as well. Can i merge the call so you can congratulate him . Way, what . Many who as a young state rep here in New Hampshire<\/a> he just proposed to his girlfriend andys on the other line. Can i merge the call and heavy congratulate him . He is a big fan of yours. Now face timed though. Definitely not face time. Hey many are you there . Oh no. Hold on, hold on. What happened . Many, are you there . Its not working. Are you still there . Hold on one second. Hold on a second. I will call you right back. Hold on. Many, dont go anywhere. Hello . Hold on. There we go. Hey many me to rosario. Hey is this rosario . Hi, how are you . K cspan. Im a big fan. Im. She is no longer your girlfriend. Im graduations. Rosario i appreciate all the work you have done for the community. We dont get enough portrayal and i just want to say hollywood and california and l. A. You have to try hard in l. A. A shoutout to you and all the work you guys are doing out there and thank you so much. Thank you. I really appreciate that. [inaudible] i feel like i am dating up all the time. Im hope and pray rosario comes on the campaign trail with me from time to time. If she comes to New Hampshire<\/a> the four of us have to get together, okay . It sounds lovely. Thank you for the call. Keep doing what you are doing. Appreciate your message. You are really speaking truth to power and i appreciate you shouting out on podcasts. For me it was tough to watch the debate not having been there. Yeah and they brought up housing. Oh my gosh. He lives tweeted the whole thing. Hes shouted out the war on drugs. That was real. Yeah, exactly. Im appreciate you. Thank you. Listen congratulations to you. Well find more time to talk. Ive got to go to this event now. I love you so much. I love you too. Congratulations. Thank you. Byebye everybody. Die. This election is about the virtues of who is best going to be the nominee that represents American Values<\/a> that can help spread and unite us as a nation. I believe if we run this election not what we are against but what we are for and match light with darker believe it wont lose this election. Luvall win back the senate and we as a nation as bad as many of us must feel but together i believe we will win. [applause] [applause] im ready. Anybody have questions. [inaudible] my name is susan and i live in dover. Im a teacher at dover high school. I love working with kids. Im not in the job for the money but what really concerns me is that at our high school we have to have, with we have created a full food pantry that is always, always in need and this year we have put together 82 thanksgiving baskets for families in the community who are in need. It utterly breaks my heart that we have homeless students and we have students who go home with no food. I was wondering what would you do as president to help solve that problem and help these families so theres enough money so that they can have food. Do you have some questions for food . I dont know how it works. The mac i want to give you 100. Other people here will match. We have a big crowd here. Can everyone get an applause to help match me . [applause] im going to ask more from people. I will get to the policy issues but i just want to say i tell this story a lot. I was driving home and served in the military and came back. Thats beautiful. Look at that camera, man. We are on cspan. Thank you. This is incredible. Wow, wow, wow. [applause] im driving home with a guy was a Police Police<\/a> officer. It has such a connection. It looks in the Rearview Mirror<\/a>. We are driving by this place. Its called mcdonalds. And he looks at me in the Rearview Mirror<\/a> and he says all i do is bow my head in shame. He says im a vegan. If i want vegans to worry we will tell you. Burger king. So we go through the drivethru and i order my fries and as you all know i believe in marijuana legalization. Mcdonalds is so addict if i want to schedule. Im holding it by the rains. I go home and so my couch unbuckle my pants and watch the show. Where are about to pullout but i see a guy there whos head is in the dumpster and is routing around. All they does is roll down the window at and go surrogate tries to brush me off and i say sir please. Look im just hungry. Immediately i knew what i had to do. Somewhere in the bible. [inaudible] i opened my bag and i reach an antigraft the fries. He seems happy buddies which is anathema other question. Now i work with homeless groups a lot and i realized this is a crisis but i dont carry extra socks in my car. I wait for him to drive away but he doesnt drive away. He rolls down the window he reaches between his legs and takes up issues hes wearing and takes off his socks. And he hands them to the guy at the window. Im three blocks from my home. I dont tell my mom but the socks she gave me last christmas i havent opened yet. So this is what im talking about people. Talk about love and grace but all of us could do more. All of us every single day god makes a difference in peoples lives and we dont even know it. Sometimes its just a word. I see the them months later and they say to me we just bought a home in alabama. Why are they telling me this . I bought a home in alabama after hearing you talk. They reentered rehab and now they are raising the rent to help the family get out of debt. They are things we can do to take their country back. Do people wait for slavery or build the underground railroad . This is what we have to have in america. My policies and my staff will get upset with me for spending too much time on this question. Im pulling back the toxic tax cuts. If i have a majority in the senate thats why i want to run of movement election. I only need 60 votes to do something called the wise credit and changing the definition. If anybody is here who is taking their child with special needs at home you arent working but you are working. My mom cared for my dad who had dementia. I saw her physically going through her life savings. They should qualify for the early no tax for tracks and my credit expands and gives young people who are in college these burned income tax credit. 150 million americans and to cut poverty in the third. Im doing something called the renters tax credit. What is back . Weezer tax code to help people who have money get more money. I believe in the interest reduction but guess what . Its overwhelmingly used by people who make 150,000 more. What about the rest of the people . My tax credit says this if you are families paying more than one third of your income on rent then you qualify for a tax credit up until the median rent. Guess what that does to poverty in america . 10 Million People<\/a> out poverty. I have a lot of very basic things. Rolling back the trump tax cuts. Making sure we close loopholes. It allows Hedge Fund Operators<\/a> a larger portion of the income taxes in you as a teacher became pay for it by going to the estate tax from the wild days of 2009 and close the estate tax loopholes and the last one which is where i disagree with some on the stage. The last one i would say is just by changing to taxing ordinary income for a few Million Dollars<\/a> and theres always exceptions. It means if hes rolling in the dough buys a picasso and cells of the next year and makes a million bucks and sell them for 10 that will be taxed at the same rate as schoolteachers as well. Thats going to bring money to do the things im talking about. Poverty is a sin. The society that tolerates poverty is wasteful. Poor children cost so much more especially in opportunity costs and children having needs. As a teacher no more racking up debt for student lunches and things like that. [applause] thank you. You are quite welcome. Im thinking we have about 300 but i will send you a text or a message through facebook. Im so we challenged. Yes a fine gentleman. Yes. [inaudible conversations] thank you. Thank you for what you do. Thank you. Thank you so much. Hopefully this wont be the last time. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. Its really great. [inaudible] thank you so much. May i . Do you want me to take it . Oh my gosh. One more. Thank you. I hope we see a lot more view. I believe. I believe. We came in for coffee and we stayed. Ive got to hear this. Very inspiring. We appreciate it. And i have a hug . Thank you so much. Thank you so much. We were in the same place. [inaudible conversations] thank you so much. I want to get a picture of it together. You want a picture of us together. Thank you. [inaudible conversations] thank you so much. Im so glad you came. Thank you. You impress me. Even better without the microphone. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] have i pronounce his last name . Wheres the chase car . Where is kevin . The house would be in order. [applause] hello muscatine. A special thanks and hello tonight. We have folks from kentucky washington d. C. In the house. And we have missouri. My name is shannon. 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