now here's the investment in this great idea of yours. that's what we're fighting against. so with that i want to say i see our special guest has run, congressman paul ryan and this is a good time you couldn't have been more perfect. no. of what our panel to retire,

thank them. [applause] take your bottles, please. >> hey, darryl, how are you doing? hey, paul. are you guys all leading? what's the deal here? >> good to see you. >> what do you want it is because writer, paul. >> we have been as i said from the first time in the city we are the principal presenters. are thought leaders are here and they're going to come and act as

responded to grassroots leaders and i think we've had a spirited conversation. >> to the grassroots and the ivory tower. >> other special guests arrived right away. no not. [applause] -- come on up. >> we just got here. >> we just had even working with omar in dollars and you know, also you've been one of the few celebrities that spent a lot of time in the hood operating a school, operating exports program. and i wish, paul you would talk about why you got this thing going. when we first met at all ask a

question that we asked on the video, as a former vp candidate and now chairman of the ways and means committees why are you interested in this issue? >> first of all, because we can do a lot better than what we have been doing. it's just that simple. if you want to do better restoring culpabiliculpabili ty of fighting poverty they got to figure out what works. and when you get out of this city and get around america you can find people like omar, like shirley paul everybody else darryl. you can find things that were. it's policymakers, it's our job to go learn and listen. that's what the comeback is all about. showing the our amazing things happening. we should learn from them and then when we try to do policy at any level of government, that policy ought to be respectful of

and supportive of what works and dismissive of displacing of what works. that's basically what we are trying to accomplish. it's that simple. >> tell us about your work with omar and why you've signed on to be a supporter of the movement. >> first of all it's genuine, authentic. when you alluded to the work come back, i think all of us are dealing with some type of comeback in our lives. every last one of us. that's the commonality that we all share. that's what ties us together. we've all come from trials and tribulations and we are here. some of us are still making a comeback as i speak. this is real. this is authentic, and it's where we came from. my mother father not my life. they would never play the position will in a that i would beat him to be a father. i would never call the man data.

so i'm dealing with a single mother in a city and it's my heartbeat, my passion to give them a way up and await out. not a handout but for them to understand there's different resources. we just had a phenomenal structured organizations and structured events this past thursday that we called single but not alone. so we called all the single parents anna ballis metroplex to come to this one location at school where we brought them help from health care. we brought them job of poker. we brought them resources of transportation. we brought them, someone stood up and say i have 14 jobs that you can start today and be paid by next friday. that's a resource. that's the way to make a comeback. not i have a check and it's going to pay this bill.

annex when you're going to be in the same situation. that's my heartbeat. we all say that we want to help poverty, we want to help kids and want to rescue secure education but we're dropping the kids off at school but we are not doing nothing for the. no, just dropping them off. sewickley build that come if we build that young man and a young woman that can make a comeback just like our comeback. now we're putting a stronghold on poverty and we're helping one person at a time. >> i feel sort of under dressed sitting next to him. [laughter] >> holcomb we understand you're from wisconsin. >> they don't even wear seersucker suits in wisconsin.

but these trips, tell us about your journey. what was your biggest surprise i guess, that you did not anticipate. tell me. >> number one, it's important to know we all share the same values and principles and we express them differently. what i learned was there's a lot to learn. what happens is policymakers they don't see the human side of policymaking. they do the analytical side, the ivory tower side. they do the old think i think the war on poverty is take it upstairs the federal government, and then you can be more efficient. and how to deploy resources and fix problems. what you end up doing is the reduce these ties that bind people together, people together fighting poverty i to on, person to person. it's connecting people together in the communities who are

helping each other. that is really what matters. you can't get that in some program run by some building over here. that's one thing i really learned. we shouldn't be at odds where government does this and in civil society does of that. one should respect the other. that's what i've learned from a policy standpoint, but from just a human standpoint we need to redeem the idea that retention is really cool. we need to redeem the idea that retention is a success story in people's lives, in our communities that we want to see more and more and more of. pat toomey is probably the biggest thing i got out of that. that is to see reaching souls and the people who do the redeeming. is just a rogue exciting infectious and which is to do everything we can to make that a

normalizing society again. >> we just got word you met kirk in indianapolis. he now has 25 employees and contracts with 22 dealerships so he's excited. but we want to see this. the question was raised before about why there is not an embrace of this this idea. and i talked about the resistance we are getting from the poverty pentagon. >> there's that. it's basically the status quo and the status quo has its adherents like the status quo because they are doing well. we see this in congress every day. how do you break that up? the way i look at it is focus on outcomes and results. on the policy side if we could focus on what works and not on

the status quo i think we can win the argument. the argument isn't republicans or democrats, but what works and what doesn't work. if you go out and find out what works and support that, make that the outcome, then it's not a partisan thing or an ideologicideologic al thing. it's just a what works thing. that is the conversation got to have. that's what patty murray and i are doing this bill to move our measurement system by measuring the effectiveness of the war on poverty from inputs and efforts, programs and spending and bureaucracies to outcomes, results. is it working. what that ends up doing is it propels the resources and the power into the hands of local community poverty fighters who are succeeding. when they can show what works you can cross-pollinated. that's what you do is darryl has this great program perhaps you can share what book it does in

indianapolis. maybe you can share that with the kansas city or dallas. we have milwaukee. cross polity share ideas. that's the thing we want to see more of instead of some bureaucrat in some way with ph.d and out of anything about cutting poverty and bureaucracy kind of the rules and reductions to prevent that kind of thing from happening. so to me it's about changing the approach, not based on judgment based on grassroots bottom up and show what works and go with what works. to me that is how you successfully take on the poverty pentagon by saying justify the results. they can't. then let's focus on results and that to me is the way that this debate should evolve. and it shouldn't be red versus blue. it should just be what works and

what doesn't work. >> i'm not a math major but three plus one equals four. two plus two equals four. zero plus for it quits do the same thing. is no one way to get to the same solution but it all works. what works in indianapolis may not work in dallas. what works in dallas may not work in austin. oftentimes people making crazy decisions have never set foot in the inner city unless it's a photo op and that's why i have a problem. what about the people who are really doing it and pushing the envelope? that are living it day by day week by week, month by month we are seeing a single mother, the father who results as "life of pi" because he sees no way up and no way out. he cannot find employment. so it's no one way to do this. i just wish it's people like you to take initiative.

i said why did it is? you said adequately, because i want to promote change. i want to provoke change. that's what you are doing. it's a lot of people trick-or-treat in these wonderful -- it's not even october. but the man i am sitting by i'm telling you he's real. i would not waste my time. i've got a wonderful life. i would not waste my time to come. had i thought and had i known that he is trick-or-treating. it's real, authentic. i love what you're doing. i love just and for. we are really trying to provoke change and we will. it if we could have more help and assistance we could do it expeditiously. right now we're doing it one step at a time and we will get there. >> but deion i think you are also part of our challenge is to get the kind of recognition to

this movement that it deserves. opportunity lives has been really an effective partner in litigating this out. i think we've seen i think over 6 million people went on the website to look at these series. this is the first time we've ever had this kind of recognition, and it's the first time a celebrity like he would take the time -- >> i had a gift i maximized in a moment. >> i like that. >> three times against green bay -- [laughter] >> i had to do what i had did you. [laughter] >> but i really think that it's critical to get this word out and i'm really glad that we hope this comeback movement will get moved to the highest scale that

it can. you ask how can replicate this how can we take to still? there's a lack of imagination. 60% of apple's income came from a product that didn't exist six years ago. why can't we take that same level of imagination and invest in promoting this kind of comeback movement so that, there's a thirst that is there. when you hear a homeless man in boston who turns over a backpack with $46,000 in it and somebody posts his name and face and tries to raise money, and they raised $93,000 in today's. because that says there's been first on the part of the american public to support virtue of our founders. and there are for situations like that. the marathon man up in detroit that was walking to work

230,000 was raised for him. and so what i hope this comeback movement will do with the help of you and paul is to promote the actions of our leaders so that they will become household words, and people will begin to invest in them. and i think it's the only salvation of this country. >> it's the mindset on what the public thinks is the war on poverty we are trying to attack which is it has mistaken reinforce this notion that this is governments responsibility, i don't have to do anything about this. i pay my money to washington. they will fix this. what we have done is with isolated the poor from among the. what the leaders are showing the opposite, everyone has a stake anybody can do something. what we're trying to do is break down the mindset which is everyone, no matter who they

are, no matter what their income is or where they live they can do something positive. they can make a difference. in order to fix this they have to. that's what we're trying to do say that this is not a government responsibility it's the responsibility of our communities. so we can reintegrate people and actually bolster the fact that these home-grown organic bottom up grassroots efforts are the best ever. and that it's not better or more efficient to displace that and take it upstairs to some federal program. the federal government can provide resources and it's good at that but it can't displace just the human interactions the personal touch that occurs when you do this at the local grassroots level and you reinforce the idea that everybody has a responsibility to do something. whatever it is they can end the current capacity. that's a we are trying to reinforce. we think if we can do that change the way people look at

fighting poverty and get behind the solutions that work and give that work and give people more involved, then we can start moving the needle. that's basically the thinking. >> what our country shares as well is hard all the differences he told me about, the guy with a backpack it's hard but no one wants to be first. no one wants to be a leader. no one wants to stand alone as well. when we play something on on a website to raise money and to allocate funds, as long as we are not worse we are willing to do. there's not a lot of leaders, not a lot of people willing to be on the front line. but when someone takes an initiative and says i'm going to fight poverty, i'm going to stand. maybe another person is propelled to stand. now we are fighting this with a young, vibrant army. but no one wants to take the first initiative but the commonality once again that we share, this country has hard. we just got to uncover it with

all the trials and tribulations and pain and the nonsense we go through on a daily basis and get back to the heart of who we really are. >> you have a question? >> congressman ryan was talking about -- >> there's a microphone. >> congressman ryan was like but emphasizing what -- [inaudible] i would argue the problem, the poverty program has failed to reduce poverty. it has been an enormously political success. politics of american cities are based on failure at this point, on failed programs. so to talk about what we need to do is talk to the country about what succeeds and what fails. that will fail because because -- just a true story. america works as a company new

york. >> in milwaukee also. >> and baltimore. i was talking to a nonprofit in new york and he said two people of the nonprofit, i don't understand something. you've given me x amount of dollars and i've given you a number of people placed in jobs. yes, that's right. but peter said your drop my contract. yes that's right. why? because you don't come out on election day. you want our a lot -- organization on election day. i would just argue this is a cynical. i would argue that until the

poverty issue is defunded, and to you can't win by failing by way of federal funds, the kind of replication of wars an example of what we're talking about can't take place on a very large-scale. it can happen because talented passionate people they can't have it on the scale necessary to redeem the place like a west baltimore. the thing that struck me i was talking earlier, what struck me about west baltimore, no one talks about america works success. they are simply not part of the conversation.

[inaudible] don't ask any fundamental questions. >> the way i look at it, your observation the america works people are getting people, getting out of poverty. that's all that should matter. do they succeed? and if they do finish a continued if they don't the nation. so to me instead of taking a full frontal assault on the status quo by making it us against them, republicans against democrats or whatever and just having some political stalemate, i would argue that it's smarter and better to say why don't we just go with what works? let's agree beforehand that from now on we're going to measure success not based on effort but on results. and right now the measurement of success is effort.

how many programs how much funding and how many people run the programs. not result. are these objective metrics being met or not. it's entirely rational but i would say it hopscotch is what is a political fight that is a stalemate for a long, long time. if you want to get through this stalemate, it's all a great of the front and and i think we are getting agreement from people on the left that we should change the way we measure success based on results and outcomes, not in put some effort. if we can do that i would argue we can far better exceed changing the status quo spent i don't think we've been having much of a fight at all, but i would point out that new york has gone through this fight for 25 years. it succeeded for a while -- spin

robert doornbos one of the guys spent a very good guy. but a new administration came in and repeal all that. the assumption you have this reach an agreement on what counts as success i don't think that holds. >> i know but the moral high ground is absolutely here, which is what we as a society value more? a person succeeding in life and reaching the version of the american idea or a person stuck in poverty? we are going to do something to help you cope with it. what is the moral high ground? i think we can achieve moral high ground together specific with grassroots leaders working together to show here's how you save souls. the moral high ground is there. we should never do not because i think this shows better results. >> i'm sorry paul. spin i've got to get going.

sorry. >> thank you, guys deion and paul. we want our panel to come up. good times. [applause] spin i will ask our next panel to come up. [inaudible conversations] >> nasa's new horizons spacecraft will travel past pluto this morning and send back the images to earth from the robotic space probe. this comes 9/11 years and roughly 3 billion miles since its launch. we will have live coverage at 8 a.m. eastern here on c-span2.

>> in the 1940s if you had asked who is a bright shining star in american politics, on a

national scale so we'll be governor perhaps president, a lot of people would've said ed pritchard of kentucky. he was one of those people who worked in the white house when he was in his early '20s. he seemed destined for great things. he came back to kentucky in the 1940s was indicted for stuffing of ballot box. went to prison, and so that incredible promise just flamed out. >> we also visit ashland, the former home of henry clay. >> the mansion at is a unique situation. is the original had home had to be torn down and rebuilt. he rebuilt on the original foundation. what we have is a home that is essentially italian details,

architectural element, et cetera, and add later of aesthetic details added by henry clay's granddaughter and great-granddaughter and so one. >> see all of our programs and lexington saturday at 6:30 p.m. eastern and sunday at 2 p.m. on american history tv on c-span3. >> martin o'malleo'malle y, a 26 and democratic presidential candidate deliver the keynote address at the national council of la raza's annual conference in kansas city missouri. he discussed immigration, the economy and civil rights. this road to the white house event is 35 minutes. >> i am so privileged to introduce one of our keynote speakers, born and raised in the state of maryland, governor martin o'malley has become one of the states most dedicated and

revered public servants. an attorney by profession governor or meddling began his career of public service at the age of 28. he was first elected to the baltimore city council where he spent eight years and was later elected as mayor of baltimore for two terms. in 2006 he became maryland's 61st governor a post he held until january of this year. throughout his distinguished career governor o'malley has focused on improving the lives of his constituents. whether it's advocating for better education, safer communities, or stronger economic opportunities. nowhere is this more evident than in governor o'malley's work on behalf of the growing latino

population in maryland. he has worked closely with nclr affiliates for years. governor o'malley has long supported comprehensive immigration reform and supports president obama's immigration relief order, but it is his record of accomplishment on issues a top priority to latinos that stands out. in 2007 he appointed our good friend and colleague current labor secretary tom perez as maryland's first latina secretary of labor. in 2008 governor o'malley established the maryland council for new americans, a pioneering effort on immigrant integration. in 2009 he issued an order that expanded access to driver's license for undocumented

drivers, which he helped make permanent in 2013 when he rightly noted that the measure protects the safety of all marylanders. in 2012, he shepherded the passage of the maryland dream act. the following year he helped beat back a challenge to that law when maryland voters overwhelmingly passed a referendum in support of the dream act. and one of his final acts as governor was to increase maryland's minimum wage one of his top priorities on policy. please join me in giving a warm welcome to governor martin o'malley. [applause] ♪ ♪ ♪ bennett.

>> thank you very, very much. it is wonderful to be here with all of you. i want to say a special thank you to janet murguia for your kind invitation and for the ability to be with all of you here today. as many of you know, this isn't janet's 10th year at the helm of the national council of la raza. big round of applause for that. [applause] and that means 10 years of exceptional leadership and the battle for hispanic civil rights and for a humane vision for immigration that will uplift our entire nation. [applause] >> as many of you know, janet and her family have lived one of the greatest american success stories that you will ever hear.

and i had a real honor to be able to meet with her family just a few moments ago. janet's grandparents moved to the united states to escape the mexican revolution. and neither her mom nor dad made it past the seventh grade in school. but they believe in hard work family, community possibility all of the things that our nation promises. growing up the kids in janet's family slept dormitory style in one big room but they also shared something else and that was an unshakable belief in the american dream. janet and her six siblings are up to pursue college degrees and law degrees. janet went on to work at the white house to serve as a top administrator at the university of kansas and, of course, delete this fine organization.

one of janet's brothers is a federal judge and one of janet's sisters is a judge, and that's the first time in our countries history a brother and sister have served on the federal bench and that too is he an american dream come to life. [applause] and now chad helps lead the fight to make that dream available and true to every spanish-american family. in fact, to every american family. of course, janet has big shoes to fill after the 30 extraordinary years of raul he spent making this organization a national force in pursuit of hispanic equality and opportunity. when he was up was a child in south texas, his family faced a nightly hispanic curfew and despite growing up in the face

of exclusion distancing which resonate includes his decades of leadership of nclr his opponent as american ambassador to the dominican republic and host of other great achievements in service of a cause. and along the way rob will benefit from the most farsighted transformative investments that our nation has ever made in a people and the growth of our middle-class. and that is when one will went to college on the g.i. bill. [applause] millions of lives have not been touched by raul's life's work in part because his own country had the good sense to invest in him. now, i know the power of that investment personally. my dad tom went to college on the g.i. bill as well.

and i think it's fair to say that he would to college only because of the g.i. bill your history was set in motion when my great grandparents came to this country from ireland. my great grandfather this thing also happened to be martin o'malley, at no money. his first language was not english but the hopes and dreams that he had for his children and his grandchildren were purely american. he started from zero just like so many new americans from all over the world come here and start from zero. the new americans that he worked beside enriched all other lies in the minds of southwest arizona to feed their families and to give their children a better future. and new americans today often have that same experience, the same drive, the same spirit the

same love of family that builds up our countries pashtun our country, one person and one family at a time. it is a spirit that has always made us the land of opportunity. for many years i had very intentionally and repeatedly used in my own public service the term new americans. the genius of our country is not so much about where you came from. it's about where you're going. and where we're all going together. [applause] of course we know that both the positive and the negative aspect of american history can often repeat themselves. today's new american immigrants are not the first to face the

ugliness of exclusion, fear or hate. during my service as mayor true story, i always kept a sign from the 1890s on my desk and it read help wanted, no irish need apply. those signs were once very common throughout america. and for me that sign was a good reminder that not only were we all once strangers in a strange land but more importantly we are all in this together and we must help each other if we are to succeed. [applause] and i suppose this truth is why i have always seen in the eyes of my new american neighbors,

the eyes of the great grandparents that i never met. you see the causes that we share is the cause of human dignity. the work that we share is the strengthening of our common good is one american people. it is a dream made real by janet murguia family, the dream made real by raul yzaguirre family. it is the dream made real by my family. it is the dream made real by your comment about epidemic in america who loves their children and who loves our country. [applause] and it is the living reality of that dream that lifts us all. as governor of maryland i thought to make that dream real every day. how did we do this? we did this by including more of

our people more fully in the economic and social and political life of our state. you see come and maryland we did wait for the federal government to act. we pursued our own dream act to ensure that 36,000 dreamers could have access to affordable higher education. [applause] and after i sign the dream act into law our brothers and sisters in the republican party decided to petition it to referendum and it was a straight yes or no vote. when we started off we were losing. in fact, we were about 10 points down. but instead of following public opinion, we forged a new consensus and we became the first state in the nation to defend the dream act at the ballot box appalls.

[applause] after that conversation that we had around the referendum, get this. we actually won with 59% of the vote. we were a good and a compassionate and a generous people. this was not simply a victory for the dreamers future, though it was, but it was also a victory for maryland's future for a better future that all of us want for our children in maryland we also expanded access to driver's licenses because people need to be able to get to work safely and obey the rules of the road. [applause] and at the very start of my administration in 2008, i established a new americans commission. itsit's purpose, to highlight and welcome the skills that were being brought to our state by new american immigrants from

countries all over the world. and that effort was help our first labor commission our first labor commissioner, and named it will be for no to all of you tom perez who is now our labor secretary for the united states of america. i regret i have but one cabinet to give to my country. [applause] during my two terms as governor, we actually increase in government contracts to latino businesses by 154%. [applause] we became the first state in the nation to pass a living wage, and we expanded the earned income tax credit not once but twice. we raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour so that by 201600s of thousands of maryland will have gotten a raise.

we froze college tuition for four years in a row and we did a better job than any state at keeping down the cost of college tuition, which helped -- [applause] and this of course helped all of us, but it also particularly help hispanic students earn twice as many associate degrees and bachelor degrees during my service as governor as ever before. we kept maryland's unemployment rate among hispanic workers down one of the lowest in the nation. what does all this mean? anyone can talk about it but we actually did it. [applause] [speaking spanish]

[applause] [speaking spanish] [applause] we created real opportunity in maryland for all of our people. we did it by investing in our people. we did it by including more of our people more fully in the economic and social and political life of our state. and together, through these actions, we made the dream real for more and more families. tomorrow i will lay out a detailed immigration policy for the sake of our nation. and today i want to talk with you about the core principles that guide my thinking. first we are and we have always

been a nation of immigrants. the purpose who know him out of many, one strong nation. [applause] second, we are a compassionate and generous people and the enduring symbol of the united states of americacome it's not a barbed wire fence. it is the statue of liberty. [applause] and number three, it is in the best interest of every citizen of the united states for us to reform and immigration system -- in him unjust that sells our nation short. [applause]

our fight for immigration reform is not only about our values as americans, though it certainly is, but it is also about creating an economy that actually works again for all of us. it is about bringing our neighbors out of the shadow economy and into the light of open and inclusive economy. it is about one of the most important issues affecting teaching tables all across the united states of america and that is taking better action to make sure that wages go up again and started down for all americans. [applause] and we must begin by providing immediate relief to the millions of new americans whose hopes have been dashed time and time

again by a congress that has failed to do its job. we need leaders -- many leaders within the republican party sadly today vilify scapegoat and seek every opportunity they can find to speak ill of new americans, and have fought tooth and nail against immigration reform. i know that all of us here today share my disgust with the comments donald trope recently made. [cheers and applause] -- donald trump. the real problem the real problem isn't that the republicans have such a hate spewing character running for president, the problem is that

it's so hard to tell them apart from many of the other candidates they have in their field. [applause] get this. the "los angeles times" ran a headline the other day, and a red and i quote republican field divided on donald trump's comments about mexican immigrants. divided? as in not sure he's wrong? two days ago -- [applause] two days ago donald trump attracted a crowd of thousands of people to listen to his hate speech rant against new american

immigrants. what does it say about the direction of today's republican party? dawdled drove called new americans from mexico rapists drug dealers and murderers. and the best of their leadership can summon up is that they are divided? there's nothing to be divided about. if donald trump wants to want on a platform of demonizing immigrants that he should go back to the 1840s and run for the nomination of the know nothing party. [cheers and applause] our children deserve better. america deserves better. let me speak with you now about leadership in our own american hemisphere, if i may. maybe it's an irish sensitivity

but i have a soft spot for island people who are being treated poorly. i would like to speak with you therefore, about our fellow americans in puerto rico and her neighbors on the island of hispaniola. [applause] puerto ricans have been our fellow citizens for almost 100 years. they have contributed to our economy. they have fought and died to defend our country on battlefields around the world. but today our fellow americans in puerto rico are suffering through what may be the worst economic and fiscal crisis in the island's history. we must not let their economy collapse. [applause]

i was glad to lead the field of our candidates in calling for congress to approve legislation giving puerto rico the singer billy to negotiate with its creditors that states have funded the u.s. bankruptcy code. and i led the field also in calling on our health department the department of health and human services them to end the inequitable treatment of puerto rico under medicare, medicaid and the affordable care act. [applause] we must all demand action. and on the island of hispaniola where mass deportation of haitians and dominicans of haitian descent have already begun i was the first and the only presidential candidate to call on the united states to work with our allies and the

united nations use the full force of our diplomatic might to stop this atrocious up front for human rights in our own hemisphere. [applause] we would not tolerate the expulsion of citizens without due process based on their skin color or ethnic background, and we should not remain silent when such an injustice is being perpetrated here in our own hemisphere. speaking out is the right thing to do and we must all demand action a. [applause] the people of this world of ours, this earth we share, the people of our own american hemisphere, they care a lot more about what we do than what we say. and that is why i pledge to you

that i will always act according to my principles and guided by our better angels. it is who i can. it is the way i have always led and i will always continue to serve and to lead. we are the greatest and most powerful republic ever brought forward on the face of this planet. we have literally saved the world before and we can save our country now. we have come a long way since the depths of the recession, but a great deal of work remains. that work the ongoing continuing urgent work of including more people more fully in our economy. that are things that we need to do as americans. we need to return to our true selves to practice the commonsense economics offer parents and grandparents. therefore, yes we must always raise the minimum wage, keep it

above the poverty rate and pay overtime wages for overtime work the families can get ahead. [applause] and we must respect the rights of all workers to organize and collectively bargain for better wages. [applause] and we must send our kids to college without saddling them with a mountain of debt and college loans. [cheers and applause] this isn't rocket science. we are the only industrialized advanced nation on the planet that saddles our kids with a bit like this. this doesn't have to be the what it is but we must also create an american jobs agenda to build a new clean green renewable energy

future for our children and grandchildren. [applause] and we must rebuild american cities as justice for all and we must protect the american dream from ever again being racked by the elite and powerful and the reckless behavior of a select few on wall street. [applause] and we should stop injuring into secret so-called free trade agreements that lower wages for workers, lower standards for workers, and export american jobs abroad. [applause] there are things we must do things we can only do the build a new foreign policy of engagement and collaboration to

craft and carry through on a new national security strategy of threat reduction but all of it begins and depends upon making our own economy stronger here at home, making that dream real entry again for all families. i'd like to leave you with this final american story, true story. all of you will no doubt remember the scene last year when refugee children were streaming north from guatemala honduras and el salvador fleeing death at the hands of murderous drug gangs. when children arrived on our doorstep, fleeing starvation and death the games we cannot as americans turned our backs. we cannot turn them away. or worse, ending up behind

chain-link and barb wire in conditions that looked a lot more like things you would see at a local humane society and conditions you would see in a humane country. no. we must act like the generous compassionate people that we have always been. when does stories and that something was point out, i stood up and i spoke out and i said we should care for these children recently and with respect for the dignity in every single child. [applause] sadly come at the time of some of you will remember this there were some other governors around the country who spoke of these courageous children as if they were some kind of invading swarm of jack rabbits. one of my advisors warned me at

the time he said i'm not sure about this. i think you're going out on a limb. i wasn't going out on a limb. i knew i was speaking truthfully to the compassion and generosity and the hearts of the people of my state and the people of my country. and i was not wrong. our people rallied. we rallied faith leaders and we accommodated through foster care more children per capita than any other state in the united states. [applause] a few months later as my wife katie and i were hosting the holiday open house at the governor's residence there was a long line of people ever come in to shake hands with the governor and first lady, and to say hello and merry christmas. and i will never forget.

one gentleman came up to me with a young teenager with him, and he said governor of malik i want to introduce you to a manual. he's 13 -- in angel. he was one of the refugee children who you help who just came here from guatemala. and that little boy who would brave the desert and deprivation, and so many other horrible things, take it away from the drug gangs that plagued his country and threatened his life he did not speak english but he showed me by the hand. and as he took my hand he immediately released and hugged me around the waist come in and embrace that i will never ever forget. because his dream is our dream.

the dreams of everything that's ever been possible here in the united states of america. do you know who believes the most passionately in the truth and the reality and the ongoing life of the american dream? it is everyone who has ever rest their life to get here. that's who believes in the american dream. [applause] i believe it. you believe it. now together let us fight as one to make it true for all americans. may god bless you and may god bless the united states of america. thank you. [applause] ♪ ♪ ♪

>> in a moment we'll go live to nasa headquarters for a briefing on the new horizons spacecraft which will go past pluto today. asked..