College, emphasis on research, on job creation and innovation. And now North Carolina under the Current Governor and legislature has been trying to restrict peoples right to vote. Well, you know it. North carolina voters won an important victory when a Federal Court just struck down this states voter i. D. Law. The Federal Court brought back more days of whats called onestop early voting. Here is what the court said. This is not me talking. This is what the Federal Court said. The court said the North Carolina law was designed to target africanamericans with almost surgical precision. Thats not just happening in North Carolina. Unfortunately its happening across america. And courts have been Overturning Restrictions that make it harder, not just for africanamericans, but latino people, young people. One of the provisions in the North Carolina law was to make it really hard to vote where you go to school. So this has been a concerted effort to undermine the right to vote, even to make it hard for people with disabilities to cast ballots. Well whats the best way to repudiate that kind of underhanded, mean spirited effort to deprive people of their votes . Get out and vote and make it clear and make it clear were not putting up with that . These laws are a blast from the jim crow past and have no place in 21st century america. We should be doing everything we can to make it easier to vote, not harder. Thats why, if im elected president , i will work to expanderly voting. We will enact universal Voter Registration so every young person in every state is automatically registered to vote when you turn 18. And we will repair the damage done to the Voting Rights act and take on discrimination in all forms. Hb 2 is another example of trying to discriminate against people that doesnt have anyplace in our modern society. Youve seen this firsthand in North Carolina. Discrimination is not only wrong, its Bad For Business the nba, you know, canceled the game. Paypal canceled bringing i think 400 jobs. Others are not coming the this beautiful state because they dont want to be associated with the discriminatory bigoted policies of your governor and legislature. One thing you can do about that is change your governor in novemb november. While youre at it, change one of your senators. Were going to need reenforcements in washington. Weve got a big agenda. People say to me, well, what is it youre going to try to get done . Ill show you, real easy. We just published a book. Tim kaine and i put this book out. Its called stronger together. Its not very long, its not a hard read. We have this oldfashioned idea that if were asking you to support us as president , were going to tell you what it is we want you to do. Not just blufter, not empty words, not demagogic rick, real plans that will ill prove our lives, make our country safer and better. So you can pick this up. Were going to build an economy that works for everyone, not just those at the top. Sounds like a good idea. Were going to make the biggest investment in good paying jobs since world war ii. Infrastructure, advanced manufacturing, clean energy jobs. Were going to make the economy fairer, raise the National Minimum wage, get people to work full time out of poverty. And we are finally going to guarantee equal pay for womens work. It is long overdue. If you see any of the democratic convention, you might have missed one of my favorite sets of speakers. We had these two young people from kansas, 17 years old, young man, young woman. Id read about this. I said lets contact these young people and find out their story. Here is their story. 17, had the same summer job, knew each other, working in a pizza restaurant. They were pretty excited. I remember when i got my first real job, not babysitting, but actually showing up at a job and having to do it. So one day after they finished work, they were talking, and the young woman said, you know, i think making 8. 00 an hour i should be able to save something for college. The young man, a friend of hers said, well, im making 8. 15 an hour. She said why are you making 15 cents more an hour than i am. Neither of us have any experience, were the same age. He said, i dont know, that doesnt sound right. Maybe there was a mistake. They go to the manager, they tell the manager. And the manager fired them both. You know what . Thats legal. If you find out youre not being paid the same for doing the same job, you can be fired. So this is not some madeup problem. This would raise family incomes. If you have a mother, a wife, a daughter, a sister who is working, its your issue. So were going to get that done as well. Like i said, were going to make College Affordable for everybody. Pay down debt. Were going to do something else. I think it was a mistake when we got rid of all Vocational Education in high school. It needed to be improved, dont get me wrong. It wasnt training people for the jobs out in the marketplace anymore, but we got rid of all of it. We need Technical Education in high school. We need more Apprenticeship Programs where young people can learn and earn at the same time. Were going to go back to emphasizing that in high school, community colleges, Apprenticeship Programs, creati Creative Ideas like coding camps. Jobs for people with commuter science tills. Well only, if we continue on our present path, only have 400,000 americans prepared to do those jobs. I want those jobs to be american jobs. Were going to help train people of all ages to be able to do those jobs. We are also going to defend Quality Affordable Health Care for everybody. Were going to get the cost down. Were going to get the cost of Prescription Drugs down for sure. Were going to emphasize two things that we have fallen short on. Mental health and addiction servic services. People ive met here in North Carolina and across the country talk to me about that all the time. Again, weve got our ideas in here. We want you to engage with us, give us your ideas. This needs to be an ongoing conversation. We want you to hold us accountable. When were in that white house trying to do all of this, but we also have to keep america safe. We have to lead the world with steadiness and strength. One of the biggest differences in this campaign is donald trump basically says i alone can fix it, whatever it is. Think of who that leaves out. That leaves out our troops on the front line. It leaves out our police and fire responders to emergencies, it leaves out our teachers, our educators who are working to help young people. It leaves out everybody. I alone can fix it . I was raised to believe that were in this together, and together we can fix it. Thats is exactly what were going to do. Thats why tim kaine and i are running a campaign of issues, not insults. Donald trump has a different approach. He wants to build an economy that works even better for himself starting with a 4 billion tax cut for his own family. Hes built a career on stiffing workers, mom and pop contractors, Small Businesses that did jobs for him and then he refused to pay them. I take this very personally. My father was a small businessman. Thats how he provided a good middle class living for us. He printed drapery fabrics. He would get the fabric and roll it out on these big long tables. You take a silk screen, dump the paint in, take the squeeze gee, go down one table and start at the end of the other table. You do it ununtil the job was done. Sometimes i would be there helping him. Then he would load the fabric in the car and deliver it. I am so grateful he never had a contract with Donald Trumps businesses. In fact, i just ran across the story in las vegas when i was there a few weeks ago of a small Drapery Business who got what they thought was the greatest contract ever for trumps new hotel in las vegas. They delivered the goods and they were refused payment, for no reason other than its a game to him. Everything is a game. Its like hes living in his own celebrity reality tv program. You know what, donald . This is real reality, this is real people, real decisions that have to be made for our country. He actually stood on a debate stage and said wages are too high in america. Now, hes got new advisers a bunch of advisers. Hes got new advisers and theyre all trying to make him look more president ial, sound more serious. Not working too well. But remember what maya angelou who spent the last years of her life right here in this state at wake forest reminded all of us. I think about it often. I was so privileged to know her. When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. [ cheers and applause ] stronger together also means working with our true allies and partners around the world. Last night i offered some thoughts about isis, iran, how were going to reform the va system to take better care of our vets, and just since last night when i appeared on that program backtoback with trump, just in the last 24 hours, more retired generals and admirals have signed up to support my campai campaign. People who have sacrificed and spent their lives protecting our country, valuing what makes us exceptional and already great. See donald trump and know he should not be anywhere near the white house. He is temperamentally unfit to be president and commanderinchief. Tomorrow i will hold a meeting of bipartisan, bipartisan which is what i want to get us back to, where republicans and democrats Work Together to make the changes, to protect our country. Im going to be meeting with a Bipartisan Group of leaders and experts to focus more on these crucial challenges. But its hard to forget what trump did last night. It was a test, and he failed it. He trash talked about americas generals, saying that theyve been, quote, reduced to rubble. He suggested he would fire them all and hand pick his own generals since, you know, he knows so much about what it takes to be a general. He attacked dozens of former Flag Officers. At the same time and here is what i want you to really hear because eenl i was shocked by this, and i didnt know much could shock me coming out of his mouth anymore. He praised russias strong man Vladimir Putin, even taking the astonishing step of suggesting he prefers the russian president to our american president. That is not just unpatriotic, its not just insulting to the office and the man who holds the office, it is scary, it is dangerous it actually suggests he will let putin do what putin wants and even make excuses for him. I said this morning i was trying to think about what other president s would be imagining hearing that, coming out of the nominee for the Republican Party . What would Ronald Reagan say about a republican nominee who attacks americas generals and heaps praise on russias president . Weve never seen anything like this. One thing you didnt hear from him was any plan to take on isis, one of the biggest threats facing our country. He says his plan is still a secret. Well, the truth is he doesnt have a plan. I served on the Senate Armed Services committee. I served as secretary of state, as you know. I respect the men and women who put their lives on the line for the country that i love and that i believe in. So whether youre passionate about more good jobs, better education, health care, whether youre passionate about protecting our country and the brave men and women who serve s us, you have to realize as so many republicans are, that this is a time to put country over party. I would be saying that even if i were not running against him. We have never been threatened as much by a single candidate running for president as we have been in this election. As your commanderinchief, i will not trash our countrys most cherished values. I will defend them. That is especially on my mind because this weekend is the 15th anniversary of 9 11. I was a senator serving, and i will never forget the horror of that day or the bravery of our First Respond eers, the victims the survivors, people i had the honor to work with and represent. Its what kept me so passionately involved on behalf of the people that i served all during those years. That is what i was thinking of ten years later in the white house Situation Room. I was part of the small Group Advising president obama whether or not the intelligence we had was good enough to take a chance, to go deep into pakistan, to try to finally bring Osama Bin Laden to justice. It was not ans si choice by any means. These never are. Thats why who sits at the head of that table in the Situation Room has to be able to sort out fact from opinion, has to be able to ask the hard questions, pursue even the most difficult leads. We went through that hour after hour after hour, and then the president went around the table asking each of us what we advised. And we were split because it was not some kind of easy layup. I believed it was Strong Enough that we needed to take action and i supported take action that would determine whether or not we were successful. That meant sending in Special Forces. You know what happened. I was in that Situation Room watching that day the most stressful 30 minutes of my life probably. Because you remember one of the helicopters hit its tail on the wall going into the courtyard and became disabled. Thank goodness there were good contingency plans, but you had to get another helicopter in to take out the s. E. A. L. S that would no longer be able to fly out on that one. Here is what i want to tell you. It is a story that to me illustrate our values in such a clear, unambiguous way. You heard donald trump say he would order our troops to torture. You heard him say he would order our troops to kill Family Members of terrorists. You know he was advocating illegal actions against our own laws as well as the laws of war. Thank goodness theres a code of honor in our military stronger than the Blufts Center ter an bullying of donald trump. Here is what happened on that night. Every single second counted. That helicopter had to be blown up, but before it was remember, the s. E. A. L. S had gone in. They had taken out the two kuwaitis, the bodyguards, they had taken out bin ladens son who was there, they took out bin laden. They had to get his body out, they had to get themselves out. Here is what they did first. They rounded up all the women and children, members of terrorist families, they took them outside as far from the helicopter as they could get them in order that they would not be hurt. That, donald trump, is what american honor looks like and that is what were going to stand up and defend in the face of your outrageous, disgraceful attacks on the men and women of our armed forces were going to unify this country, my friends. Were going to bring us back together. Were going to get things done, big things. Thats who we are as americans. I cant do any of this unless you join me in this campaign. You can start by going to hillaryclinton. Com or texting join to 47246. You can knock on doors, make phone calls, register your friends to vote, attend a house party in your neighborhood. Were going to keep asking for your help over these next two months. Theres so much at stake in North Carolina and in america. No one can sit on the sidelines. The stakes are high for everyone. Join the campaign. Lets build a future where were stronger together thank you [ cheers and applause ] in charlotte, north korea n, Hillary Clinton delivering another Campaign Rally address focusing in on a whole host of issues including National Security. There was one theme throughout, a theme of trashing, trashing donald trump, especially for some of his comments last night at that commanderinchief forum. Jeff zeleny is in charlotte covering the Clinton Campaign. What stood out in your mind . Reporter theres no question Hillary Clinton is trying to point out the deep differences in experience she has and donald trump. It is all about judgment. The Clinton Campaign believes this is a Pivotal Moment in this race to stop growth of donald trump, particularly in the area of National Security. We heard Hillary Clinton go through a laundry list of how she believes donald trump is not prepared to be commanderinchief. This election has been about many things, about the economy in some degrees. Its now about National Security and who would be a better commanderinchi commanderinchief. Its one of the reasons shes here in North Carolina, obviously a heavy Military State and going through chapter and verse about that story about Osama Bin Laden and reminding voters what donald trump has said before about the military. Specifically the respect of the mil