Problem. Sometimes it is part of the solution to international crises. Forlso have to recognize the un to have any credibility anywhere it needs to have the support of big states starting with the u. S. And in russia, china, the uk and france. They need to throw that diplomatic weight behind the un. Takese cases the u. S. The lead. Is iner cases, france the lead. Onetheless, you need overall go throughu have to the Security Council for all its faults. Thank you very much for your time. We will have to leave it there. Think you for watching on this monday morning. Enjoy the rest of your day. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2013] we want to update you on a story coming out of washington, dc. Shots have been fired at the Washington Navy yard. At least one person was injured in a shooting monday morning. Authorities search for an active shooting. Said therefficial was no are at least several injuries. Three shots were fired. Read thousand people work in the building. People are directed to shelter in place. Street in the area are closed. Navyis the largest of the s five system commands and accounts for a quarter of the navys entire budget. They build and maintain the navy ship summaries. Surrounded with sweat cruise. He has barricaded himself inside the building. Crews. He has been barricaded himself inside the building. President obama has been reefed. Halfis about a mile and a down the capitol building. Will continue to follow the story and pass along any updates. Elsewhere in washington, resident obama will mark the fifth Year Anniversary of the 2008 financial crisis. He is expected to speak at about 11 40 a. M. This morning. Our Light Program will pick up at 12 30 p. M. Eastern with the Supreme Court term preview. 2 we have more about the 2008 financial crisis with a Panel Discussion featuring hank paulson and barney frank tummy tuck. That will start at 12 30 p. M. Eastern as well. Looking at congress, the house has a short pro forma session. Later this week members are expected to pick up a management measure that would direct the department to establish the zone. It will consider the revised programs that were left out of the farmville when it was debated in the house. When it was debated in the house. The measure is aimed at helping manufacturers develop technology. Later signatures will consider and vote on to traditional nominations. Live tonight, our series on first ladies. She was a woman of combination. This symbolizes all of that. Inaugural gown. She marked her inching into the entrancee her into the white house. When she became the first lady to donate her down. She is the founding patron for the first ladies collection. She established the tradition that the first lady would donate the the inaugural gown to the collection. Meet helen taft, wife of william taft. While in iowa this past weekend, Vice President biden commended john kerry for negotiating a deal russia regarding syrias chemical weapons. HisVice President called former colleague when of the best secretaries of state in history. Also madetonio manner remarks to supporters. 36th annual harkin steak fry which is a large fundraiser that many candidates tend to make a stop at. We will show you as much as we can until president obama begins his remarks on the 2000 eight financial crisis scheduled for 2008 p. M. Eastern financial crisis scheduled for 11 40 p. M. Eastern. [laughter] [applause] thank you. Thank you. Welcome. We have not friday state yet. I do not know where the heck that name came from. I have an even better winning streak. 45 years and love the partnership with a lovely woman named ruth. Thank you. The only woman account in the courthouse at the time. I ran for congress. Ruth one. She is the only woman prosecuting attorney in the state of iowa. Iran two years later for congress. More than once i heard it said that if she is that good he cannot be that bad. A rotors curtails into office. Then she became the deputy general for the department of e. Ricultura she became the ceo of president clinton. Then a senior attorney was one of our nations top law firms which was headed by our former Democratic National chairman. And for whom both william and jowuin worked. She became senior Vice President for one of our largest manufacturers. She was studying french in high school. She coined a phrase that has stuck with us ever since when she described her mother. Petiteled her la generale. [applause] [laughter] that means the little general. You got it . To thespecial welcome Vice President of the United States joe biden. Ive got to tell you. I have a normas respect for the office of the Vice President. Him and address them as mr. Vice president. Having known him for so many it is just hard not to call him joe. No Vice President , disrespect. To everyone here into all of us here in iowa, you are our friend joe biden. You are right. He is just joey. Exactly. You would not have it any other way. Putting upll for with the extra security today. In addition to the secret service doing their security checks i heard that donald trump checking bursar civic its. Certificates. It is always good to have the Vice President here with us. A big deal to have mayor castro with us. I will tell you. Embody the strength and genius of our democratic body. He is young. One of our bright stars. Brightening the constituency of our party. Who President Biden embodies the sound judgment of our party which we need in these perilous times. We need both. Strength thatt we have as democrats. It is an honor to have him here with us today. Every year this marks the change of the seasons. This is been a scary summer. Think about it. It was an attack on the butter cow. Isnt anything sacred anymore . Do we start this off over the summer, we visits endured visits by rick santorum, rand paul, ted cruz. Governor perry is on his way. [laughter] all i can say is that the clown car is filling up pretty rapidly. [laughter] a couple weeks ago, i went celebrated the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther king jr. s i have a dream speech. [applause] we all remember Kings Mission for all of gods children. Earlier in the summer, the congressman made his lines with a very different vision. Badmouthing children of immigrants. I am the proud child of an immigrant mother, and i know king speaks for me. [applause] congress is back in session after five weeks, the august break. I have a couple things i want to say. Yesterday the announcement came through. Russia and the u. S. Have reached agreement to secure and dismantle the chemical weapons in syria by 2014. [applause] because of the strength, wisdom, courage of president obama. [applause] this guy right here, Vice President joe biden, and our great secretary of state john kerry. [applause] we reached this agreement with the International Community to dismantle them by 2014, and we did not lose one american life. That is leadership. [applause] that is leadership. Once again, republicans are threatening to shut down the government or default on the debt lest we dismantle obamacare. As the chair of the Senate Health committee, one of the principal authors of the Affordable Care act, i dont know whether to laugh or cry at that. Republicans have voted 40 times to repeal the Affordable Care act. 40 times. The good news for these republicans is that obsessive compulsive disorder is covered under obamacare. [applause] even better news is that the Affordable Care act is already working for all americans, and as we start our sign up next month, ending the denial of coverage based on preexisting conditions for all children, everyone by january 1 is outlawing abuses by Insurance Companies such as canceling your policy if you get cancer, allowing young people to stay on their parents policies until the age of 26. It is providing for prevention and Wellness Programs for all americans. In 16 days, millions of americans will be able to sign up on the exchanges for Subsidized Health care. [applause] at long last, every american will have access to quality, Affordable Health insurance that cannot be taken away. I want you to know that will include every american with a disability. No more segregation, no more exclusion, no more secondclass citizens for people with disabilities in america. [applause] i understand they will probably vote again on trying to and obamacare. Theyre going to fail. Theyre on the wrong side of history. Americans are not going to allow republicans to drag us back. Not on Social Security, not on medicare, not obamacare, and not on opening new opportunities for young people with disabilities. Were going forward. [applause] were going to build a reformed Health Care System that works not just for the healthy and wealthy, but all americans. I went to call in some special people. My dear friend joy milligan has been our deaf interpreter on almost every one of our steak fries. Thank you, joy. [applause] is susan here too . Lets hear it for susan. [applause] they trade off. Wasnt that a great job of singing the National Anthem . Thank you ray much. Very much. [applause] the ground crews spent days setting up for todays event. Our grillers, ted and john lewis. Joan lewis. Lets hear it for all those people who made this possible. [applause] and we had some wonderful rain last night and this morning, and now it is nice for all of us here. I want to thank the one responsible for that too. [applause] i want to have a round of applause for scott brennan, who answered the call to be our state democratic chairman. [applause] i last eye contact. Where is jim mueller . Thank you for leading our pledge, but thank you for your service in a rock iraq. [applause] our former state senator staci appel is with us. I have lost eye contact with staci. [applause] i want to recognize and honor all of our Democratic State legislature. Mark smith. Mark if youre somewhere. [applause] i want to especially thank our senate leader, mike grunts doll mike for doing the last session. Where is he . Thank you. [applause] those of us who call iowa home, those of us who care about keeping the state on a progressive course, nothing is more important than winning back the iowa house, getting more democrats in the senate and winning back the governorship next year for the state of iowa. Andplause] lets salute our fighting Second District on brisbane cumbersome and congressman. Where is dave . [applause] i want someone to come up here. Bruce brady. [applause] folks, you have been so kind and generous to me in all the years i have represented you both in the house and 30 years in the senate. I said when i announced my retirement that i wasnt going to sit back, that this was going to be a passing the baton, because im still going to work every day up until that day in january of 2015. I want you all to know, theres only one person i want to pass that baton to. Thats our next u. S. Senator, bruce braley. [applause] thank you. On with the show. You have had your steak. Now its time for some sizzle. [laughter] our first speaker, the mayor of americas seventhlargest city. He is new to iowa. Last summer he was picked by president obama to be the keynote speaker at our Democratic National convention in charlotte. The huge ovation that he got at the end of his speech and all the talk about him ever since reminded everyone of the ovation for a previous keynote speaker eight years earlier, an obscure state senator from illinois barack obama. [applause] the reason that there has been such an ovation and outgoing love and support is because many people see this young man as the future of our party. If you do this, you can try this at home or on your iphone. Google julio castro and rising star. At the convention, he was introduced by his identical twin brother of texas, who i introduced earlier. As joaquin said, for 18 years we shared a small room and big dreams. Raised by single mom, they went on together to stanford university, harvard law school. 2001, at the age of 26, castro became the youngest elected councilman in san antonios history. He was elected mayor in 2009, elected to a third term this year. He is the youngest mayor of a top 50 american city. There is much to admire about julian castro. What has caught my eye are two things. One is the phrase he used in his speech in charlotte last summer. He said, the American Dream is not a sprint or marathon. It is a really. Relay. Each generation building up and passing on that opportunity to the next. The second is what he has just done recently as the mayor. I have been trying for almost 20 years to get something done for Early Childhood education in america. This last january, it in Barack Obamas state of the union, he committed us to a huge program. A good, solid preschool program. We have not gotten that yet. The mayor of san antonio decided not to wait. He got the Business Community together. They passed a sales tax measure that is going to go for preschool, and justin august, the first of san antonios children are now enrolling in preschool and they are going to cover every single kid in san antonio with preschool education. [applause] lets give a rousing welcome again to one of our bright young leaders, courageous young man, mayor of san antonio, texas, boolean castro. Julian castro. [applause] thank you. Thank you. Hello, iowa. [applause] great to be here. First of all, let me say a huge thank you on behalf of all of the folks outside of iowa, and especially from the Younger Generation of folks. A huge thank you to your great senator tom harkin for being a leader, for being a true public servant, and a role model for so many who often wonder whether you can be in Public Service and still stay true to who you are and be a servant of the people. Tom harkin has said, yes, and shown it to all of us over the years. [applause] i know that he could not done half of what he has done without his lovely wife, ruth, right behind him, leading the way for the harkin family. [laughter] [applause] thank you all for having us today. President obama some time ago said that the best political decision he had ever made in his life was to selected joe biden as Vice President of the United States. I agree with him. [applause] mr. Vice president , we commend you on your leadership. Thank you for joining us. I did not have anything to do with the security here. It wasnt me. [laughter] the next great senator from iowa, bruce braley. [applause] i know we have a lot of folks from all over iowa. We have folks from waterloo here. We have folks from the butte, des moines, and indianola. [applause] i come from a city that google maps says is almost exactly 1000 miles away from here. San antonio, texas. It is americas seventhlargest city and one of the Fastest Growing cities in the u. S. Economically prosperous and vibrant, 1. 3 Million People. I have been mayor for about them a years. Four years. A couple of months after i got elected mayor, i had a meeting with a woman in my office at city hall and i dont even remember what we were meeting about anymore. When you are an elected official, you get a lot of gifts. Most of them are treated sore t shirts. I think i have Something Like trinkets or tshirts. I think i have Something Like five. I was a rookie mayor, and this woman gave me this gift agate was covered with tissue paper. That was covered with tissue paper. I started unwrapping the tissue paper and i took the gift out. It was a prayer card. It was of st. Thomas more. I did not know that, but st. Thomas moore is the patron saint of lawyers and politicians. So, good luck, as mayor. Before she walked out the door she said, he was beheaded. Thats true. I thought to myself, what in the world by gotten myself into . I know there are many of you in this audience who have been soldiering away in the trenches in iowa as democrats for a long time. There are probably some folks here who were at the first front, folks who have been e mailing and facebook doing and letter writing. We still do that sometimes. You sometimes wonder, why in the world are we doing this . We gather here today at a very special moment in 2013, a moment when our world is changing at a faster rate than it has ever changed in human history. A time when it is easier to travel than it ever has been. Its easier to communicate with folks than ever before. Computing in an iphone is faster than a computer that costs millions and millions of dollars just a few years ago. The United States is engaged in a 21st Century Global economy that is more competitive than it ever has been, with countries around the world who are producing welleducated young people capable of learning and manipulating the new technologies that will define the century. A time in which brain power is the new currency of success in this 21st century. Its a time when the divisions that have often separated us, of geography, of creed, are crumbling at a faster rate than at any other time in human history. The question before us is, what is the blueprint in this world for the century . What is the blueprint that america sho