ever since. [applause] [applause] [chanting] >> thank you very much and there is just about five minutes between my welcome to you and senator sanders so thank you so much for being here. [applause] i am malou harrison and is trul a pleasure to welcome you here to the miami book fair. this book there would not be possible without the support of many, many sponsors such as the nye foundation, oa tell, the degraff foundation, the bachelor foundation and many other sponsors as i said. we also are very grateful to the

friends of miami book fair. if you would wait one more time because i would like too recognize you for your support. [applause] and of course miami-dade college , a convener of this outstanding literary gathering where so many students, yes, let's applause. [applause] so many miami-dade college students, faculty and staff give of themselves and volunteer in various aspects of this fair to make it what it is so thank you to miami-dade college as well. [applause] you will be able to purchase your own book, senator sanders book immediately outside of this room so please take advantage of that following the presentation. without her there it to i would

like to bring on someone who will make the formal introduction this evening and he is none other than ronald's non goldfarb. mr. goldfarb wears many, many hats.rs he is a washington lawyer. he is also the author of the 11 plus books. while serving as the literary agent for over 100 authors including senator sanders. mr. goldfarb has served in the kennedy administration, ast special assistant and i could go on and on in terms of his many c contributions, specific life to the legal affairs of this nation and to society overall. he lives now in key biscayne but travels frequently between key biscayne in washington d.c.. please help me welcome ronald goldfarb. thank you. [applause]

>> thank you.k i know you haven't come here to see me so i'm going to do something that's very difficult for washington lawyers. i'm going to speak very, very briefly. before the election i thought my role was to kind of warm-up the house for some witty remarks like enchanting pal bernie does a terrific imitation of larry david. and how a better storyline for the election would have been a poor kid from brooklyn flips rich kid from queens. [applause] but after the election a week ago i decided that right and witty doesn't work and i've tossed those notes away because i'd know you will understand this idea that we are in a very frightening political season. bob dylan's lines came back to

me, it's not dark yet but it's getting there. that said our speaker tonight the sovereign individual ray of light. with no money, no organization two years ago but with good ideas and an integrity that shines through as you'll see in his words, he won 22 states including i would add wisconsin and michigan. [applause] third team .5 million votes, 46% of the delegates, 2.8 billion voters who gave small amounts ot money but great passion for hisa campaign. and most interesting to me is that 70% of the people who voted in the election on the democratic side voted for bernie

sanders. [applause] that group is growing to be thet largest group of voters in the country and here is something that you probably don't know. while i was driving on a bus to the airport after bernie's book was all they got a call from one of saint martin's colleagues and their business, holds a publisher of books for teenagers, 14 to 19-year-olds and she said we would love to adapt bernie's book for our already and send that is going to happen to matter. [applause] so i think it's a kick for an 83-year-old book lover to help a 74-year-old politician make than visionary lead on a new

generation of voters and i just want to add one last and it does and that is i happen happened to be watching wolf blitzer a few days ago interviewing the indomitable jane sanders and heat, trying to make ---go ahe [applause] b go ahead. where was trying to make a story where there was one thing well you have done so well in the a election and your book is aour b bestseller. does that mean your husband is going to run in 2020? [applause] jane's answer was, wrong question, wolf. ask me that in 2019. we should be talking about 2017. [applause] so i am very honored as his colleagues in the senate on going to yield my table to the

great senator from vermont who is going to tell us all what he will be and we should be doing in 2017, the great bernie sanders.[app [applause] [applause] >> thank you. [applause] thank you all. [applause] thank you all for coming out. [applause] [chanting] bernie, bernie, bernie. >> thank you. as i think any of you have heard me say a million times, this is not about bernie, this is about you and us.

let me thank you all for coming out to miami-dade college for hosting the event and ron goldfarb for his very generous introduction.want to i want to talk obviously about the book that i suspect there are one or two other things on your mind. [laughter] we will talk about that as well. let's get going. point number one, hillary clinton ended up getting 1.5 million more votes than donald trump. don't forget about that. so if anyone tells you that mr. trump has a mandate to go forward with some of the very reactionary ideas tell them that he lost the popular vote by 1.5 million votes. number two, and this is also, and i want all of you to understand.is busin i've been in this country and i've been around this business for a while and what i'm telling you is true. on virtually, not all but on virtually every major issue

facing this country whether it is raising the minimum wage or the living wage, whether it is pay equity for women who are now making 79 cents on the dollar compared to men, whether it isis creating millions of these paying jobs by rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure, whether it is criminal justice reform, immigration reform. on all of those issues and many more campaign finance, on all of those issues come i guess what? the vast majority of theof american people are on our side. [applause] and when somebody goes and tells you that republicans have some kind of mandate to cut social security and medicare and medicaid and are going to give tax breaks to billionaires andrg

ignored the overwhelming scientific evidence regarding a climate change tell your friends that tell you that, they are dead wrong. [applause] let me suggest to you why i think trump did as well as heene did in a broad sense and where we have to go before we get into the book. what is going on in this country in terms of the pain that many people are feeling is underreported in the media and is not dealt with in the halls of congress. in the book you'll notice there's a chapter where i talk about the corporate mediaou something i will talk a little bit about tonight. it turns out and they say this not writing here come it turns d out somebody did a study and they said over the course i think of the year, two-thirds of the discussion on sunday morning

news shows about poverty was for bernie sanders. [applause] the point is not me, the point is where the hell is everybody else?-- [applause] so what you have in our country today is a lot of pain and a lot of suffering that we don't talk about in the congress with a fen exceptions and certainly on nbc or cbs or in the media. you have millions of people out there who are saying to themselves who hears my pain? who knows that i am alive? who gives a dam about me and one of the reasons that i'm going to do everything i can to reform the democratic party is that iic want the democratic party to hear the pain. [applause] run t

and i want to just run through today want you to follow me for a second. let's think about it. right now in miami, right now in burlington vermont there are single moms who go to work. they need good quality childcare. they make 40 or $50,000 a year, or maybe less. when childcare cost 10 or $15,000 how do you have decent quality childcare if it costs 15 or $20,000 a year and you are making $50,000 a year or less? who talks about that issue? seen it lately on nbc or cbs? do you see politicians talking about it? no come you don't. we are the only major country oh earth not to guarantee health care to all people as they write. today in america, despite the

gains of the affordable care aca , 28 million people have no health insurance at all and many of you, and tens of millions of americans who do have healthve insurance have deductibles and co-payments that are so high that you don't go to the doctor when you should. and then we see thousands of people dying every single year because they walk into the doctor's office when it's too late in the doctor says whydn didn't you come in six months or a year before when you first goo your symptoms and the person says i didn't have insurance or we couldn't afford the deductible. we lose thousands of peopleve every single year. right now in america one out of five people who goes to a doctor's office because they are sick and they get a prescription, you know what? one of those why people cannot afford to fill the prescription.

hillary people here in miami and vermont in all of this country country -- country, they cut their prescription pills in half. to bad thing to do because they can't afford it. every day drug companies arear jacking up the prices, for one reason alone because they can get away with that. who is hearing, who is payingg attention to the people who can afford the medicines they desperately need? let me's tell you a story about how corrupt this system is. i was out in california a couple of weeks ago working on a proposition they're called proposition 61. most of you don't know it.mo what was was an effort on the part of the people of california to lower the cost of prescription drugs in their state. anyone want to take a guess as to how much money the pharmaceutical industry spent an opposite to that proposition? take a guess.

$131 million. as i understand at 48% of people voted for it and it lost after the industry spent 131 million dollars and that raises not only issue of the high cost of prescription drugs but what else does it raise? it raises the issue campaign finance reform and how we are going to bring about any change to this country when the drug companies and the insurance come these in the koch brothers and other billionaires are able to spend unlimited sums of money. when donald trump talks about taking on the establishment there are workers out there who are making nine or 10 bucks an hour. he said he is going to raise their wages and they are making 10 bucks an hour. you cannot live on 10 bucks an hour. almost half of the older workers

in america, people 55 or older, have no money in the bank for when they retire. got back?rs. you are 55 or 60 and you are going to retire and six years and you have no money in the bank. you get sick and need health care. how are you going to retire with no money in the bank? many people scared to death about going into retirement. you have young people today, bright young people who did well in high school and they can even afford to go to college.t others you have others leaving college, 40, 50, $60,000 in debt and they are making 12 or $14 an hour and they don't know how they are going to be able to pay off that debt. i was enduring the course of the campaign, one of the things ign did in the book was i talked about some of the places that i went to and i tried to go to places that other candidates

often don't go and i went to a county in west virginia called mcdowell county in then southern part of west virginia. in that county and in counties all over that state in kentucky and elsewhere, it turns out that people today unbelievably are now dying at a younger age than their parents. the whole drift of modern society in america and around the world is a result of medical breakthroughs and we have seen some great breakthroughs inses,o cancer. people living longer lives. there are millions of americans today in various parts of this country, working class people who are dying at a younger ageg than their parents. they are dying as a result of drug addiction, of alcoholism and of suicide. in other words the -- is so

great among people who are trying to get by on nine or 10 bucks an hour. they are going nowhere and life overcomes them and they turned to drugs and alcoholism and suicide. donald trump said -- i went to pine ridge, a native american reservation. [applause]cause because i tried to focus some attention on the plate, on the tragedy that faces many native american communities throughout our country. people have been lied to and people have been cheated and people have been ignored. in pine ridge in south dakota the life expectancy as i understand it is equivalent to guatemala and poor third world

countries. youth suicide is very high and unemployment rampant. domestic abuse, terrible.i was n i was in baltimore maryland tens of thousands of people addicted to heroin.r them. and no treatment is available for them. i was in new york city and went to public housing projects there. they have a back log ofio $17 billion to repair public housing in new york city, $17 billion. people are living in dilapidaten public housing and on and on it goes. was my point? my point is if you think that trump won simply because everybody who voted for him is a racist or a sexist or a xenophobe you would be mistaken. yes there are those people who did vote for trump for those reasons but i think what trumpan managed to tap is the anger and

the frustration that so many people feel who are ignored, who are forgotten. our job and i will do everything in my power. i'd just a few days ago became an official member of the democratic leadership.p.[appla [applause] and that means what i intend to do in that position is to make it very clear that the democratic party cannot have two masters. they cannot bow down to wall street and the drug companies and corporate america. [applause]working pe and then tell the working people of this country who for the last

40 years have seen a shrinking of the middle class, millions of whom are working longer hours for lower wages. you can't tell them that we are on their side when we are hustling money from wall street. so the democratic party is going to make it clear which side it's on and i'm going to do everything i can to make certain that it's on the side of the working families of this country. now during the course of this campaign and before his campaign , donald trump is said and done horrific things regarding minorities and immigrants.wa i want all of you not to forget that before mr. trump was even a candidate for president, he was the leader of the so-calleds birther movement and do not mistake for one second that the so-called birther movement was

about. it was a racist attempt to undermine the legitimacy of thea first african-american president in the united states. that's what it was. [applause] now you can disagree all you want with barack obama. called democracy but it is notio acceptable to try to undermine his legitimacy as trump did bysn suggesting that he had one in the united states of america. [applause] and i hope very much thatmr. mr. trump who is nobody's fool, i hope very much that he understands the damage that he has done to our country internally and around the world not only with his disrespect to the african-american communityan

by the ugly language he has used on mexican-americans, his belief that we should ban people of up one of the largest religions in the world, muslims, from coming into this country. the language that is used which i cannot even quote regarding women and his attitude towards women. [applause] i don't have to tell anybody here that for hundreds of years from before this country became a country, when the first settlers came here and treated the native american people so horrific we, through slavery, through sexism, through, through the prejudice against the irish and the italians and the jewish and every other nationality they came here, the struggle for 200

years had been a fight against discrimination, a fight to paraphrase dr. martin luther king jr. that we judge people not by the color of their skin, but by their character as human beings.thgg that has been the struggle. [applause] and when we remember, when we remember that 50 or 60 years ago african-americans in the south didn't even have the right to vote. we have to remember 100 years n ago women were not running for president. they didn't have the right to vote. they couldn't get the education or the jobs they wanted. 30 years ago in no time at all people in the community hid their sexuality because of thee retribution that would occur to them if they stood up and said that they were. we have a right as a nation to

be proud and how far we have come. got a l we have got a long way to go. racism, sexism, no question about it that we do have a right to be proud that we have gone a long, long way in writing all forms of discrimination and that's what i can tell you without the greatest hesitancy that the amber generation of today is the least racist, the least sexist in the least -- in this generation. [applause] and i say all of fact, i say all of that because i want you for a moment to reflect, reflect upon those very brave people who stood up for civil rights long before martin luther king jr., way back 150 years ago. people were thrown in jail and eight men lynched fighting for justice. think about the women who went

on hunger strikes and went to jail, who died being secondy, class citizens in the struggle of the community etc., etc.. we have come a long way but i say to mr. trump we are not going backwards. [applause] [applause] [applause] and all of us, all of us who know history understand that it is the easiest thing in the world for demagogues to take on

minorities. when people are hurting and in pain it is very easy to say there is your enemy, the guy picking tomatoes in florida is making eight bucks an hour. there's your enemy or a little girl who wears a scarf. there is your enemy. or some african-american down the street, bearish or enemy. our job and it does the job of the majority in this country to stand with the minority. [applause] and on this issue, on this issue there cannot be compromised. we have come too far. we are going to defend human rights and civil rights and the rights of women in this country.

[applause] and there is another area which concerns me. and i say all these things because in the congress people disagree on education and health care and we argue but some issues i think we cannot compromise. here in miami i think you are aware of this. donald trump went through his campaign and the media didn't pay much attention to it at when they did and when we did learn he believes climate change was a hoax. i am a member of the u.s. senate committee on the environment an in that capacity i have spoken l to scientists not only throughout our country but all over the world. the almost unanimous conclusion of the scientific community is that climate change is real.

it is caused by human activityiy and it is already doing devastating harm in this country and throughout the world. but the day is over. [applause] and if we do not get our act together, what the scientists are telling us, that the situation will deteriorate significantly, there will be more droughts, there will be more floods in miami and there will be more rising sea levels. i think you are beginning to experience that already.ence tha there will be more acidification of the ocean and the incredible impact that has on marine life. there will be more global conflict as people fight over

limited natural resources such as water and land to grow their crops. i hope that mr. trump understands that it is far more important to listen to thehe scientific community than it is to the fossil fuel industry. [applause] [applause] in the senate and in the house you are going to find manyny members standing up and fighting as hard as we can against some of the ugly proposals that mr. trump raised during thep ra campaign. at the end of the day in my view and i speak only for myself, we are going to win this battle not in the halls of congress where we are outnumbered.

we are going to win this battle in grassroots america. [applause] and what that means, and this is not rhetoric. trust me, this is a fact and is something that every american has to learn. democracy is not a spec tater sport. [applause] every person in this room is a powerful person if you choose to exercise your power and your power is not just voting once every two years. votin your power is three and at 65 days a year. [applause] and your power is not just running great candidates forg school boards and city council and way on up. your power is figuring out how you deal with problems bringing

people together because at the end of the day when millions of americans stand on the side of progress, stand on the side of ending discrimination, stand onm the side of workers rights,s rit stand on the side of protecting our climate, when we stand up and when we are involved in whed we fight back no power on earth, not donald trump and not the koch brothers, not anybody will stop us and that is what we have to do. [applause] let me say a few words about the book which is why i came here in the first place. the first part of the book deals with the campaign and for those

of you interested in politics will find it interesting.d you know we talk about why i decided to run against the sensible opposition of my wife jane, who is sitting out here someplace. [applause] she being smarter than me said why in gods name would you wantw to do this? and by the way one of the things that we mentioned in the book that she worries about and i worry about is that if we had one what would happen the day after? what would wall street to? what would corporate america do? would they punish the american people? what with the corporate media say? that was one of her worries but unfortunately we didn't have to

worry about that. i wish we would have but we didn't. anyhow we talked about a campaign. we started off with virtually nothing. i know something about politics of my own state of vermont and by the way in the summer when it gets a little hot here, vermont is quite a bit cooler. we are very beautiful state. we are a small state. we have 625,000 people and i know how to campaign in my own state. h in my last election i got 71% of the vote so we know how to do that pretty well. but, running for u.s. senate in vermont is very different than running for president of the united states. we started off knowing virtually nothing about how to do that. we talked about what they have learned and how we have progressed. what i did, you know very often candidates say when asked if they are going to run they say, they're talking to people and

stuff and that wasn't the case. we went around the country and i met with people. these people really want acand candidate who is prepared toidat take on the economic establishment, the political establishment and i went around the country is somebody who was not very well-known at that point. what i found all over theund country, hundreds of people were coming out. they were sick and tired of establishment politics so that's what i did, but around the country. finally we decided we would do it and we went forward and then what we saw is when you run a campaign if you think about it, what do you do? we decided for a number of reasons that we would make rallies, meetings like this although a little bit larger than this. the cornerstone of the campaign because for a variety of reasons

, a lot of politicians use people like yourselves right now is kind of a backdrop. do you understand what i'm saying? you are just about drop for the tv cameras but i don't like that. i'd like talking to people. i like looking you in the eye and i like answering and i like answering questions. and what we found is we went around the country that more and more people were coming out and it is a bit of a mind-blowing experience walking out in an arena in portland oregon with the trail blazers and looking out of 28,000 people.,0 i think there were peopleple outside so the other thing that we try to do, we understood politically if you run in then n primaries, we have a pretty crazy system in that everybody

in politics knows that the first dates are very important in the first states, iowa first and a week later new hampshire. what we understood his what every politician who runs sta understand if you do poorly in those states you get pushedd aside and you don't last much longer. so we had to focus on iowa and new hampshire. what we did, which i love very much, as i have the opportunity in a small state like iowa to go to 101 rallies and meetings just like this, meetings exactly like this all over the state of iowa. it ended up that i ended up talking personally face to face with something like three-quarters of the people who ended up voting for me in the democratic caucus. isn't that amazing? [applause] that is old-fashioned politics. that is old-fashioned grassrooto politics.

you talk to people and answer their questions and then they go and they vote. we talked to a whole lot of people who did very well. i want to point out here that we got off to a good start but it's hard to do that when you have six or seven states coming up on the same day.rd for us. the other point that i canr poin relate to and ron mentioned this as well, is to run a national campaign for president you needl to raise a lot of money. we had no idea how we were going to raise money. suddenly, it was just was j unbelievable from day one through the internet people start sending in money. it blew us away. we ended up, we ended up having 2.8 separate individuals contributing an average of $27 to the campaign. [applause]

and the other thing, there was an article in the "l.a. times" and it was difficult to read. it really made you want to cry. turned out that a majority of the people contributing to the campaign, it turns out were below median family income. they were poor people and people getting unemployment. there were old people and social security. the majority of the people were below the median income level in america. and that is a very humbling experience. [applause] it is one thing to go to wall street and to walk out of aa fund-raiser with $10 million. it is another thing to get checks of $10.15 for people whor are on social security. that was an extraordinarily

gratifying experience.ifying [applause] if you would ask me, people say well what was the most significant thing in theing in t campaign? on a personal level i will won't say what it was. was doing rallies all over the country and i begin the campaign and the last day was june 7. we spent a lot of time in california running up and down the state. we held rallies in very rural areas for presidential candidates never go. on a beautiful evening there would be five or 10,000 people coming out, often young latino kids, african-american kids, white kids, native americans who are playing an active role andd you look out in the crowd, such a diverse and beautiful young people who have such hopes for this country. that is what inspired me then

and that is what inspires me today and that is what should inspire all of you. [applause] what i want you to know election results notwithstanding theynots were millions of people in this country who love this countryy passionately and want to see this country become what we all know it can become and i had the opportunity and privilege to see and meet with so many of those people and that is something that i will live with for the rest of my life. the first half of the book deals with the campaign. i will think you will find interesting. the second half as the something a little bit different. what it says is how do we go forward to? we are the wealthiest nation in the history of the world.

that's who we are today and there is no excuse forxc 43 million people living in43 poverty, no excuse for having the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country on earth. no excuse for having more income and wealth inequality than any other major country on earth. we are the top one tenth of 1%he and now own as much wealth as the bottom 90%. people in florida are working two and three jobs and yet 52% of all net income goes to the top 1%. what i did in the second half oa the book is i took a hard look at what i believe are the major issues facing this country and working with some other people we wrote down what we think the future means in terms of going forward. where do we go from here?e some people say isn't this too

bad but it's another thing to say okay, what do we do? let me just take a few minutes to talk about what i consider to be some of the major issues. one of the goals of our campaign which i think we pretty much succeeded in was to force debate on issues that politicians in general do not talk about and the corporate media almost never talks about.e] [applause] one of those issues, one of those issues is my fear is that this country is moving very rapidly into an oligarchic form of society. now i think most americans may not even know what the word oligarchy means but it is a word and we had better start understanding because that's exactly where we are moving towards. what does that mean? what it means is you have a relatively small number of very

wealthy people, billionaires who increasingly control not only our economic life but our political life as well.it that means that on wall street for example you have the sixth-largest financial situations, just six that haveas assess -- assets of $10 trillion which is equivalent to 58% of o the gdp of the united states off america, six financial institutions, which issue something like two-thirds of our credit cards and one third of the mortgages, six financial institutions.lk about t it means that i talk about this in a whole chapter. turns out you have six major media conglomerates in this country by warner and cbs anddte others that determine about how

90%, they control about 90% of the media in america in determining what people see, hear and read. when you turn on the tv and you think you have 100 channels out there and you think maybe 100 different companies on them, they don't. they are all viewed by large conglomerates which are themselves controlled by bigger entities.the on the function of media is not to educate the american people. the function of corporate media is to make as much money as itt possibly can and what we saw in this last campaign, what we saww in this last campaign and there were studies they write about this is that over 90% of the discussion we saw on television was not about the issues thatle impact your lives, it was about political gossip or about mr. trump or mrs. clinton, not

about the american people. it was about polling and campaign funds and how much money people raised. terrible things people said about each other.ach ot we need a media among other things that starts talking about the real issues they think the american people, not just the candidates. [applause] candidates. [applause] and we have a chapter that talks not just about oligarchy and where we are but how we end a wrecked economy. what does a rigged economy mean? it means that over the last 20 or 30 years there has been a massive transfer of wealth into into -- and that transfer has gone from your pocket or the pocket of the middle class into the pockets of the top one tenth of 1%. a massive transfer of wealth. we talk about how do we create an economy to paraphrase pope

francis which is based on moral principles rather than gre .. these are some of the things that have to be done. we have got to determine if principle in our economy that if you work 40 hours a week you do not live in poverty. that means raising the minimum wage to a living wage. [applause] we raise the minimum wage to a living wage of $13 an hour >> millions of people would be out of poverty and would be able to live lives of dignity. spending time with their kids, not under incredible stress. it means that in the year 2016 will we talk about jobs and thed economy, we have got to and the disgrace of women making 79 cents on the dollar compared to men.

[applause] it means that when we talk about the economy, that we have to understand that the unemployment figures you see once a monthh come out from the government,th the official unemployment rate which nationally spot 5% is different than the real on implement rate in this country which is over nine percent. including, if you include people who are working part-time when they want to work full-time or people in high unemployment areas who have given up looking for work. you have in real terms 9% of our population on employee. that means we need a massive jobs program. we should be hiring teachers not firing teachers. [applause]

we can hire a heck of a lot of people doing the important work of childcare, which today is dysfunctional. we should be rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure, roadsr bridges, water systems. jane and i during the campaign were in flint, michigan.enings we had one of the most emotional evenings that i think we have ever had in our lives. that is talking to a mom whose daughter had been bright and doing well in school, but after drinking the lead in the water she became a child in special education who had a hard time remembering simple things.s. when you talk to a month who hah gone through that it takes a lot out of you.

it is not just point, michigan that is struggling with clean water. there are hundreds of communities all over this country, including, including some in my own state of vermont. the point is, in america we once had the best cutting-edge infrastructure in the world, the best bridges, the best roads, the strongest real system, best levies, system, best levees, best dance, that is no longer the case. by heavily investing in infrastructure we can create millions of the pain jobs. that is exactly what we have to do. we talk about the economy, common sense tells us all and we here at an excellent community college, tells us that if we are going to compete effectively in a highly competitive global economy, we need to have the best educated workforce in the world. [applause]d of a that is kind of a no-brainer.

you know what? we once did. the because into that, i think it was 30 years ago. we had a higher percentage of college graduates of people who attend college than any other country on earth. that is no longer the case. that is no longer the case. we are way down in the gap between us and to other countries is growing wider. how do you have a workforce that can handle new jobs which require a lot of technology and advanced learning. how do you have a workforce that can do those things if we haveof hundreds of thousands of bright young people who cannot even afford to go to college. and others who are leaving school deeply in debt. what the book talks about is the need to get our national priorities whih right. witches says that billionaires like donald trump and his friends should start payingrt their fair share of taxes. [applause]

that corporations, profitable corporations making billions of year in prophet should no longer be able to stash their profits in the cayman islands are d bermuda and not pay a nickel in federal taxes.ppla [applause]th that wall street speculationon should be taxed and that when you do that you suddenly find that you do have the money you need to make public colleges and universities tuition free. [applause] and to substantially lower theer burden of student debt on millions of people who today are in trouble. [applause] what the book says is that it is common sense, who is going to argue against the fact that we

need a well educated workforce if we are going to succeed as an economy and destination. hard to argue. who will argue that the cost of college is unaffordable for so many people, who will argue that millions of our people, when they leave school and 50,000 dollars debt, 100,000 dollar $100,000 debt go to graduate school, medical schoole who argue that is not insane. that we should be encouraging people to get the education they need, not discouraging people. [applause] clap again, this is just common sense.th we don't talk about it enoughnd the question then how do you make college affordable how to make colleges and universities tuition free? there is a program out there

that i have played an active role in expanding called the national health service corps. very few people have heard of it, anybody here heard of it? it's a great program. what it says and we have billions into it, what it says is that if you are a dr., dentist, if you have a problem with affordable dentistry here in florida? it's a a big problem in my state. if your dr., dentist, psychologist or nurse, if youua are prepared when you graduateme school to serve in a medically underserved area, the government will forgive your student debt. [applause] and that. it's a program that works very w well. i think we should expand that concept to say that at a time when we desperately need good teachers and childcare workers, people in law-enforcement, law-enforcement, that if you're prepared to serve in the public, you will forgive your debt.. [applause]that you hea

the book talks about another issue that you'll hear a littleh discussion about in the media, or in the halls of congress. a simple question, how many major countries on earth do not guarantee healthcare to all of their people? does anybody know the answer? there is?in there is one, you are living in it. so the question that we ask ourselves, which is never on television, and certainly not in congress, how how does it happen that we end up spending far more per capita, i live 50 miles away from the canadian border. we spent about double what the canadians do, per capita on healthcare than they cover every man, woman, and child.utcomes

we spent almost three times more than they do in the united kingdom, more than in france, germany, and our, and our healthcare outcomes in terms of life expectancy, in terms of child input mortality, are in in many cases worse than other countries. that is a question that we have to put on the table.er as then the answer is to why we are the only major country not to guarantee health care for all, or i would hope a medicare single pair program, the reason has everything to do with the power of the insurance company in the jar companies and the medical equipment suppliers. they love the current system.eai last year the top five drug companies in america made $50 billion in profit. the top ten job drug company made over 10,000,000,000. it is a great system for them, notot

them, not such a great system for ordinary americans.. then we have to ask ourselves and we have some very clearr language of how we go from here to there. we can create a medicare for also compare system.m. it will save middle-class families money, and guaranty quality care for all of our people. that is an issue we have to put on the table. there is an issue, again these are questions that we need to discuss. what is our great country, the the united states of america have more people in jail than any other country on earth? there are a lot of reasons why but we need -- the book tries to answer that question. why is it that you have a country like china, 44 times her size and population, a communist

authoritarian country that doesn't tolerate dissent terribly well. we have more people in jail tha- china does.nia, why is it that over the last number of your state after state, my state, california, probably your state, have been investing enormous amounts of money in jails and incarceration while cutting back on education and drop training for young people. [applause] i think most americans know we need reform and local policertm departments around the country.p i was a mayor for eight years, i worked very closely with the police department, the department, the average police d officer has an enormously difficult job, works hard and is on us. it is a tough job. we need the kind of training which helps police officers and tells them that lethal force is

the last response, not the first response. [applause] we need to be speaking about something that is so obvious, we like people up and then theyer come out of jail, remember we did a form on criminal justice in iowa. we had a couple of guys who had been in jail and spentja time in jail one guy said the day before i was released, he didn't know he's going to be released sunday came to him and said you're getting out of here tomorrow here's a check for $75, good luck. and then we're shocked that son many people go to jail and up going back into the environment that got them in general in the first place. were shocked by the high rate of recidivism. it's clear to everybody that people who are in jail need jobb training, education, decent housing, we need to make sure they don't end up back in jail

where we spent 50 or $60000 a year incarcerating them. a lot more sense to invest in housing and job training. one of the major issues that i'm quite confident that congressss will be dealing with after mr. trump is an inaugurated is immigration. in my view, when you have 11 million people who are undocumented, i believe that the time is long overdue for a comprehensive reform and a path toward citizenship. [applause] it appears that mr. trump's .. of view is somewhat different. this is going to be a major, major struggle. but. but i will tell you that during the campaign i talked to a

number of young latino boys and girls and i talk to kids who had tears running down their cheeks who are scared to death that one day after cutting out of school and going home they're going to find that their dad or mother had been deported. in in my view, we need an immigration policy which unites families, not divides families. [applause] so those are some of the issues that we discuss in the book. and the bottom line is that for me, democracy in a civilized society is not a complicated idea. what it really means is that people come together like we doe here this evening and we say what other problems facing the country and we may disagree, some people i think this is aita problem and so forth, but that

is part of the process and then we say okay, these other problems, what is the best way to go forward and solve them. it's not complicated. but we do much too little of that. what campaigns are about their people who makes millions of dollars. researching me me for the last 50 years, every dumb thing that i've ever said there's a file this thick. it's called opposition research. people make a lot of money doing that. figuring out how you can come up with a 32nd ad to destroy somebody else. how you come up with ads that are complete andes total lies. our job as citizens is to demand a democracy of a higher level. to not accept that. accept [applause]

so if there is anything i hope you get out of the book is that i am not looking back, i amm looking forward. [applause] i believe there is a will in this country, we just have to bring people together. to create a nation in which we have an economy that works for all of us. that we do not forget people and small, rural towns who are living in despair, people in inner cities who are in trouble, that we create an economy that works for all of us and not just the 1%. i believe there is a will to create a political system in which billionaires do not buy elections, but in which we have a vibrant democracy of one person, one vote. [applause]

i want to thank you for being here. i think we are going to work on some questions which you haveo submitted. so is somebody coming up? thank you. [applause] [inaudible] [inaudible] >> thank you senator sanders for being here. this is our 33rd miami book fair and i want to thank you for this remarkable talk that you just gave. thank you so very much. [applause] what's really interesting as i

probably have maybe 300in questions, the most interesting thing is, you have answered each and every one of them in the talk that you gave. so i'm left with one question, what is yourr favorite film? in a more serious -- what is your favorite film? f >> i'm thinking about it. i don't know. in a more serious -- probably the question that was most prevalent is the question that has been talked about all throughout the book fair and that is, given everything you have talked about and all the important issues that you mentioned and given the political reality we find ourselves in now, what can we all do? >> i know everybody works hard.. one of the things about america

as a status on the campaign trail. people are exhausted. they're working long hours, mom work status, they don't have enough time with the kids and marriages are suffering as a result. i think it is difficult times we are going to have to rethink our relationship to public life into politics. and do figure out ways and for each person it will be e different, each community will f be different. but what i said a moment ago is what i believe. the people stand together aroun any and all issues, your voices will be heard.t. you will have an impact. you cannot be ignored.they'r politicians are many things, they are are not done. if they see for example, i'll give you an example. a couple of years ago virtually all republicans in the congress, not all but virtually all, and some democrats wanted to cut social security. a number of of us worked very hard with senior arn

organizations around the country. i was able to submit a petition with over 2 million names on it all over this country people s stood up, disabled veteran stood up, senior stood up people with disabilities stood up and said you cannot cut social security. i was just on a tv show an hour ago and a woman called into the show and said i'm scared to death, barely making it now they're talking about cutting social security.y. we stop those cuts.scussion during the campaign the discussion was on how we expand social security. we did it because millions of people became involved in theoc. process. now, more more than ever you have to pick your fights.ghts ad not everybody will be on the streets everyday. you have toct figure how you can be effective but think about it differently than you did yesterday.m our en

you can play a role in transforming this country. i believe that this country, the people of this country told mr. trump, sorry, we are going to transform our energy system because we have a moral responsibility for kids and grandchildren to protect this planet, that's that's what you're going to do. we can do that.onld [applause] but in all of those things we have to be very smart. we have to understand that were taking on people with incredible amounts of money, people who know how to manipulate the system. people who own the media. but we have the responsibility to do just that, right now. >> is there a resource that you know that people in miami can tap into to find out whichable groups they ought to be able to give their support to, whether it's time or finances. >> there are 1,000,000 different organizations out there, i don't want to mention one and not the other. by the ways i mentioned earlier, i hope to make the democraticot

party is not that resource today i hope to make it the party that all of you feel comfortable about being in. [applause] >> i know that you have supported representative ellison to be the head of the dnc. would you talk a little bit about that. >> as i said earlier in politics you have to make fundamental decisions. and the decisions are not complicated. which side are you on? are you on the side of the 1% that is doing it phenomenallyn t well? 1% to make an extraordinary amount of campaign contributions? are you on their side or are yo going to be on the side of working people and families today that are struggling hard just to keep their heads above water.th i going to be on the side of the homeless veteran sleeping on the streets in miami or vermont?

who said are you on? i hope the democratic party t finally makes that decision. with the do i think think they'll find millions of people getting involved in a think they will turn around politics in ton this country become once again the dominant party that they should be. [applause] >> somebody from the audience points out that former representative dingle, from michigan tweeted something, hate to use the word tweet, but he tweeted something out. he said forget said forget the basket, the deplorable side finding their way into the cabinet. how do you feel the senate mighe go -- >> i really dislike that expression very much.

look, no question that some ofd trump supporters are racist and sexist and homophobes. no question about that. but. but that is not the majority of those people. one of the things that happens in this country so that people sit down with a 200-dollar bottle of wine and a $500 dinner and they have not a clue about what is going on in the real world in this country. about the suffering and the pain. [applause]e] and the people who get their hands dirty or may not have a college education, my parents didn't go to college, it doesn't make them deplorable. we have. we have to reach out and they have to understand that a republican party that wants to give tax breaks to billionaires and money want to cut their social security medicareit medicaid, that's not their party.

>> so how, as a senator and i know how we as citizens can move, but you have, given what we have seen so far from the president-elect had we make sure that we protect the first amendment for free press? and what we do about it. >> was not just the first amendment, how do you protect all of our rights which may be, under attack. [applause] and the answer is, people are strong and prepared to fight back, we will win. if not, the future may be somewhat bleak. so my message is that no matter what the issue is whether his constitutional rights, whether it is the economy or the attack on immigrants or are minorities, we have have got to mobilize our

people and stand firm, defend the constitution and makee certain that our people get involved so that we create a government and economy that works for everybody not just 1%. there is nothing easy. it takes a lot of work. again, again, at a time when many people are depressed politically, think back. think back to win some of us was still alive of the kind of segregation and racism that existed in parts of this country. think about the role that women were forced to play 100 years ago. people struggled and they want to make progress. that was was true then that is true today. [applause] >> and the next most popularot question was, will you run in 2020? [applause]

my wife and said this, it's not the right question. because we have to struggle tomorrow. we don't want to get hung up and i say this in all humility and i thank you so much for your support. it's not about me. we have to struggle tomorrow.o our job is to educate, organize, mobilize people, four years from now with a long time. we have other things to worry about today. [applause] >> you talk about universal healthcare and it's something that many of us believe in, what you think the straightest path to get that is? at this point. >> the problem lies in a corrupt campaign finance system. the first thing we have got to do is overturn citizens united.p

[applause] in my view, we we need to move the public funding of elections. [applause] but we also have to do, and this worries me very much and it is directly related to healthcare or the environment or anything e else, is we have to pay a lot of attention and fight back against voter suppression. [applause] there are cowardly republican governors all over this country who are afraid of free, open and and democratic elections there trying to make it harder for young people, for old people, people of color to participate in the clinical process. we have to resist that and move toward a nation in which everybody 18 years of age or older who is a citizen has the right to vote. and of discussion. [applause]

and when we do that we will be able to take on the insurance companies in the drug companies, they are the impediments to aed national healthcare system. they want to maintain a healthcare system in which they can make hundreds of billions of dollars a year profit. our job is to tell them, that the function of healthcare and healthcare system is to provide quality care to all people in the most cost-effective way, not to make to a companies and insurance companies make billions of dollars a year in profit. [applause] >> it's interesting because the next question was someone from the audience pointed out that florida has 1.7 million former felons whose votes were suppressed in florida. >> in florida is one of theeflor worst states. >> in vermont, and vermont what

our state has done and a few others have to we have done what was right. and that is, we said that if you served your time in jail, you paid your debt to society, when you get out you have your democratic rights mac but when we talk about voter suppression, that is one of the areas we have to focus on. if you serve your time you have the right to regain your ability to participate and vote. >> do you expect to big fights in the senate over the supreme court nominations? [laughter] >> i know the answer i think to that.nomine >> we don't know who the nominee

is but i think it is fair to say that yes that will be the case. i think it is based on, not only what we fear who might be the nominee or at least the politics of the person who might be the nominee, but we come into that with reality that republicans in the senate, their leadership ignore the constitution and refused to even allow for hearings of president obama's nominee.of all of you know the constitutios is not ambiguous about this. the president has the right to nominate someone in the senate has the right to hold hearings and determine if the person is qualified. the president said edits obama as president we don't want to heat have hearings at all. i think with that ground probably mr. trump's nominee

will not win the most enthusiastic response. [applause] >> this is the way some of the much younger folks in the audience are feeling, this question comes from a 13-year-old. what can we can we do to keep trump under control? [applause] i think it's a very interesting question. >> again all of these questions and trust me it's not just people in this room or 13 euro kids, it's people people allea over this country are worried. and the answer again, i don't mean mean to be beating a dead horse, we have to rethink our role in our democracy. that is, if there are actionsac that are taken that we think are unconstitutional or simply bad or unfair, we have got to stand up, mobilize, and fight back..

that is called democracy. we can do that. [applause] and. >> will just take tumor questions. the first the first one will be, can we take you to dinner? including jane this is from jen and lily in the audience? >> in in vermont going to meetings like that we often have food so -- a more serious question is, what what is your feeling about the electoral college. >> as i began my remarks, hillary clinton got, we think in california it takes forever for them to count i don't know why but it does, but we think she will have ended up with 1.5 - 2000000 more votes fore

trump. in a democracy one might assume that if you get more votes than your opponent, you win. that's not the case now. this happened with al gore other something something about the state of florida that one. so that's number one. am i comfortable with the fact that somebody wins more votes than her opponent and is not inaugurated? i am uncomfortable with that. number two, maybe as a politician i see this more. we have have 50 states in this country and everyone has serious problems other people have needs. but what what has happened in the last number of elections, everybody knows there's 15 or 16 battleground states, florida be in one. so you come in this state saw a lot of mrs. clinton and mr. trump because everybody here new it was a battleground states

and ended a couple of points apart. same thing with iowa, michigan, pennsylvania, ohio, wisconsin, etc., ohio, wisconsin, et cetera. meanwhile guess what their 35 other states in this country who very rarely see a candidate for president, who very rarely have their issues being discussed, there needs being discussed. there's something wrong with that. we are a nation of 320 million people live in 50 states.e othes politics with all due respect should not just be about 15 or 16 states. it should be about 50 states and all of our people. [applause] >> you have brought and energizo so many people, but i think the last question to ask particularly after a difficult week appearing speakers be so fearful and concerned about where the future lies, what what hope can you give us tonight?

given all that you have seen all that you know, and all of that. >> i can can give you a lot of hope. and again, this country if you study our own history there have been very dark times. i don't have to relate to anybody in this room but people in this country way back when did to native americans, african-americans, latinos, the struggles of the gay community and so forth. and yet, over time people came together in midlife better. hundred years ago you had children working in factories and losing their fingers. public education to not come out of nowhere it came because people fall for it so these arer tough times some thinking backc right now and they showed a film

i don't know if anybody saw, december 8, 1941 was that about, that was the day after pearl harbor and president roosevelt goes before congress to declare war on japan and later on germany. at that moment they were not prepared to fight where's wars in the east or west we didn't have the resources to do that, yet a united country, to a two and half years later for all intense purposes by the end of 1943 the war was essentially one. where producing incredible amounts of tanks in guns, a united america took on powerful forces in europe and asia and in three or four years won the war i would say two things. don't lose faith in our capability will come through

difficult times in the past andr number two, despair is not an option. [applause] >> when someone throws her hands up and say i'm given up you don't have that right because it's not just about you. it's about your children, the future, you want to give up that means you don't have a moral right to do that.- i know i think we have to rethink things and maybe worry less about football, i know i'm treading on controversial areas. maybe pay a little bit more attention to the issuesit impacting our children are parents, and our families.

when i use the phrase political revolution, that's what it means.t not that i have an 86-point program. it means that you have to decide the best way forward.d what is it mean? in florida you know a climate change can do to this very city. we going to allow i hope not and so you have to figure out the best way to figure out ways tomy do that i am ready for a fight and i hope all of you are ready for a fight. that that is what we have to do. [applause] thank you all very much. [applause] thank you so much. >> senator bernie sanders, thank you so much. [applause]

[inaudible] >> thank you for coming tonight for this remarkable evening. we have senator sanders book for sale to my right we thank you and will see you tomorrow as well thank you. [inaudible] >> s2000 16 come so close, many publications are offering their picks for the best books of the year. here are some of the titles that the book industry news source of publishers weekly has selected. in white trash nancy provides a history of class in america. paul contemplates his mortality and when brett becomes there matthew desmond look set through the lens of eight families in milwaukee notable books of 2016

that political language has eroded in his book, enough said. in, hidden figures, we recall how african-american women help propel the united states to the lead in the space race. >> sending humans into space is inherently risky endeavor. it takes a powerful and imagination to believe that it's possible to land humans on the moon and bring them back safely. but that adventure, one of humanity's greatest had its roots right here in virginia. that a black woman could do some of the calculations to get them given the time that my have taken more imagination to come to fruition. but that happened as well that her own kathryn johnson has received from the work she did on the mercury and apollo missions, most notably on john glenn's ground breaking solo flight 1962.

people from around the united states and from around the world came to work. these women worked alongside people of all background and they achieved together things that even today we have to stop and marvel at. it's incredible what is possible when you take the best minds among us and allowed their imaginations to run free. the narrative of hidden figures is still to the isa for african-american women assuming the stories of their lives to tell a series of other stories. of world war ii, how it transformed our city and society, the ancient days of the cold war, of the hope and conflict of the silver its movement and of the great strides that all women have made

legally, socially and anomaly over the course of the 20th century. >> that's a look at some of this year's notable books according to publishers weekly. book tv has covered many authors and you can watch the programs on her website, booktv.org. >> welcome to the truman library. i'm the director of the library and it's a great pleasure to welcome you here. it's wonderful to have a robust crowd. we have a lot of members who are here with us and also a lot of people who are are looking at rainy day books and were happy to have all of you here. we hope you will frequent other programs. were pleased to welcome her now presidential historian to the truman library who goes by bill. a very distinguished historian has written books about several presidents, reagan, ftr, teddy roosevelt