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Circumstance. it's not right. it's not who we are. it's not who we should be. folks, look. the survival of our planet is on the ballot. that sounds like hyperbole but it genuinely is. i tell you what. the thing that we've found out and everybody found out, there's not a lot of total climate deniers anymore after seeing what happened this year. guess what? we got a lot to do. got to say hi to me. we go back a long way. she was 12. i was 30. but any rate. this woman helped me get an awful lot done. anyway. [ cheering ] >> it's not hyperbole to suggest right now democracy, itself, this is on the ...

Different circumstance. it's not right. it's not who we are. it's not who we should be. folk, look. the survival of our planet is on the ballot. that sounds like hyperbole, but it genuinely is. the thing that we found out, and everybody found out, there's not a lot of total climate deniers anymore after what happened this year. but guess what, we have a lot to do. we go back a long way. she was 12. i was 30. but any rate. this woman helped me get an awful lot done. but right now, it's not hyperbole to suggest democracy itself is on the ballot as well. folk, i believe america is at an inflectio...

Democracy was challenged, certainly shaken. i started reading the text messages from my chief that the mob was coming. okay, they'll handle this. they've got this covered. i'm a labor guy from new jersey. i've participated in a few picket lines in my life, but i will tell you they're loud, rambunctious, but january 6th was no protest. it wasn't even a riot. it would be cheapening the events that day to call it a partisan red-bluish -- it was an insurrection. its goal was to stop the steal, stop the peaceful transfer of power, a simple concept. so the memories on the floor

0 american. it's not just words like "democracy" and "liberty." more than that is because an idea embedded in the constitution of the united states, the idea that everyone in america no matter how powerful is supposed to play by the same rules. and every american election is an opportunity to show that, to show what it means. unlike in many other countries our winners don't assume absolute power to do whatever they may want. our losers understand that their rights are preserved. they accept defeat. we've all been there and lived to fight another day. so on january 6th, a year ago, i was desper...

Administration that i'm a labor guy. and i have been outspoken about labor, and i've been outspoken about the need to deal with it. but there are other things that were happening as well at the same time, and we did not have a republican congress -- we didn't have a democratic congress to be able to get it done. i would. >> we're going to take questions from members in a second, but a lot of people watching this now, maybe some people in this room, it's almost ten years now, can you believe, that after obamacare passed. and there are a lot of people, mr. vice president, who still don't have he...