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>> earlier this month, former president jimmy carter in vermont senator, bernie sanders talked about human rights. also american leadership in the world and the trump administration. hosted by the carter center, this is just under one hour. >> maybe this is our nation's great transition. we are living in a difficult time as we have been hearing that the less three days.they' from all over the world we have human rights activists from 31 countries in every region that have come together to consult and say what do we do in these difficult times? , we breathe and push forward together? it is our honor and privilege to have with us tonight two of america's most admired leaders. [applause] their conversations about how te withstand for human rights of the world. how does america, as imperfect as it is when it comes to human

rights, bring back human rightsa to the centerpiece of our lives? i would like to start with you, president carter question. if you could summarize what you have heard today, where are we and what we need to do now? >> i think the best, and i heard today that summarizes it is that we are struggling now to keep going what we achieved in theana past. we have slipped backwards and human rights all over the world. one of the key reasons is that other countries they use to use the united states of america as. a beacon light of truth in human rights and justice and freedom.u it can no longer see us as a beacon light of hope of the future. quite often a government that is

inclined to violate human rights when it sees the united states abandoned that is one of our key elements of foreign-policy. they say it is okay for us to do it now. i think we've seen the world slip backward in honoring and promoting championing and fighting for human rights and holding it as a key guide to all of us. >> senator sanders, how do you see this problem now going forward?expresse is america hopes to be a leader in human rights, were in a difficult time, what is our priority now? >> before a start let me express my joy at being here at the carter center with a man not only is respected by the vast majority of the people of our country, those who may agreeag politically and those who disagree, but has lived his life in mrs. carter and amy with incredible dignity.

we are also proud of what you have achieved as president and after president. i'm delighted to be here. [applause] let me answer your question by saying, i'm not going to say anything that would shock anybody in this room i don't think. the leadership of this country today, in fact believes very strongly in human rights. we are in a new moment, pivotal moment in american history.sr we have a president, again i don't mean to be disrespectful to anybody, least of all the president, but he is in contrast to the gentleman here. we have a president to lies all of the time. it is very hard to deal, i don't

mind people disagreeing and we may disagree, people disagree and that's called democracy. i'm often asked about what president trump said yesterday, it's hard to answer because it will be different tomorrow. very often factually what he says is not correct. when you talk about human rights it is important that you do nott allow the normalization of a situation in which a president basically says that all of the media in this country, the a lot of them, believe me i have problems with the media, but it suggests that all of the media are provided fake news and really the only person in america, the only source of information that we can get a trust comes from the tweets of president trump. how crazy is that? the native attacks on the judiciary, the so-called judgesa who disagree with the decision, thank god they rolled against some of his executive orders.

then you have him with the positive relationship with mr. putin has moved his country into an authoritarian direction, as well as other global leaders who do not particularly believe in democracy. that is where i see us today. >> how do you both explain the rise of authoritarianism? where is this coming from? >> i think the root of it is something i've not heard discussed asmemese much. in 1999 of the beginning of 2000 asked to make speeches in norway and taiwan. my subject was what is the greatest challenge of the next century? and i said the disparity between

rich people and poor people. the i think it is between people and nations. the root of a downturn in human rights preceded 2016. it began earlier.th i think the reason was the disparity in income which has been translated into the average person, decent, hard-working, middle-class people feeling they are getting cheated by the government and by society. they don't get the same elements of healthcare. they don't get the same quality education. they don't get the same political rights, particularly after the stupid decision of the supreme court on citizens a united. campaig an unlimited amount of money coming into campaigns. now, they feel in politics the

choice of our candidate to be president, governor congressman is not the same as a rich gerson's. also, once the candidate gets in office, if successful, quite often the average person feels their repair and their contributions with legal bribery. the justice system is also going down. long before we had this last election. what i left the white house one out of 1000 people were imprisoned. now, seven out of 1000 are in prison. seven times as many. so the feeling of that average person ought to be treated fairly by the justice system is missing., income basic human rights, income,

status in society,'s healthcare, education, participation ine politics, justice, the things we used to have complete faith has been distorted by the riche people getting richer and the poor getting poorer. and when the rich get a candidate in office they can bee sure tax loss are going to keep them getting richer but the average person suffers.of i think that dissatisfaction with the existing system ofsultn politics resulted in the outcome of the election. people unwilling to take aw. chance and what we do about it is basic principles and find something new. >> one of our participation said market fundamentalism is the driving force behind this. what do you think senator

sanders? >> i agree with everything the president carter said. here's the situation, you got, all over this country, tens of millions of people who areoi extremely angry and disappointed. we all know as a result of technology, workers are producing more today than they did 20 or 30 years ago. t yet, despite that you are seein people working now 40 hours a week, 50 or 60 hours per week. their wages are going down. how would you feel if you are 50-year-old man or woman working in a factory and he went to work one day and someone said, a company can work more money by going to china, good luck to you. you go out and get a job at have to wages. how do you feel is apparent when you know your kid who you love so much and you want better things then you had, thusa american thin dream, your kid ct go to college and find a home

for himself or herself. maybe they leave school with $80000 in debt. president carter's right, ifar you're going to look at human rights you have to look at the term i use is the growth of oligarchy in america. what that means and the president touched on that, it's not just the unbelievablysq grotesque level of income and wealth inequality. one family in america owns more wealth than the bottom 42%, et e cetera. but, these guys are not putting their money into their mattress, they're using it politically. we live in a country where people fundi for democracy. and then you have people in a handful of billionaires able to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to elect candidates who represent the wealthy and powerful. las this recent bill, everybody's familiar with the terrible bill

passed last thursday in the house.e the media describes it as a healthcare bill. it's not healthcare bill. it's a bill designed to give you $300 million in tax breaks to the top 2% and hundreds of billions to the insurance companies. the rich get richer, they pu protect themselves and get tax breaks. the middle class shrinks. some people in this country live in desperate poverty. in the midst of all of the committee of summit comes along and says you know the source of your problem is? the muslim over there, you are supposed to hate that person. i think that has a lot to do in this country and internationally. >> abets another senator sanders agree with me. i feel much more sure about what

i said. [laughter] thing is how does it affect other countries. >> of course, the rise of the liberal orthodoxy that we have lived within for how many decades now that we have been told the rising tide would lift all boats, has failed. so, how do we, and we had many testimonies today about this problem, from the congo, the pakistan, everywhere. as the united states exerts influence in the world and we take a broader view of human rights, these are interlinked. we see just as you're describing the police are expanding their powers. when people protest we have increasing prison populations, we please using military equipment to control the protests.st. we have our atlanta leader of

the black lives later movementes here. we see standing rock, ruthanne buffaloes here, there is a rising movement, but they interlinked. when the policies we people behind the people rise up we heard today from india heartbreaking testimony that in the last two or three years when we think of india as a great democracy, that is going away. we see the linkages between it. how can we use our influence in the world this question is for you both. president, carter you put human rights at the center. it was the cold war and not easy to do that.ts >> senator sanders, you have one of a hundred seats were there's only power left in this countrys

but how do we get the united states to face its own problem and then become a leader again? >> look, this is what i think the bottom line is that i do not think the real change that we need is going to take place in the u.s. senate are inwashin washington.ce it's going to take place and what are very brave guests are doing all over the world. it will take place at the grassroots level from one end of this country to the other. [applause] and what i mean by that is i have said many times, i don't want to get into intricacies, in many ways donald trump did not win the election, the democratic party lost the election. we have to revitalize the

democratic party, bring together black workers, white workers, native american and latino workers, think we can do that. i've spent a lot of time recently not going just to blue states were going to conservative states. if you go to states like kansas or nebraska which are all both very strongly republican states and u.s. people, do you believe it makes sense to give tax breaks to billionaires and cut back on such scared, medicaid people look at you like you'rere crazy. our job is to go into 50 straights in this country to bring people around of progressive agenda which has the courage to do it democrats historically have not had a rippin to do.

they are all the fossil fuel industry, these are the people who are ripping us off and people donating to candidatesidl represent their interests and not the interests of the middle class of this country. we have the lowest voter turnout on earth, some of you have noticed a few weeks ago and the french election, most 80% of the french people voted. if we had 80% of the people voting in this country the republican party would be a significant minority. we have got to get people involved. you do that by being honest about the real problems they face in coming up with real solutions. >> kinney see why voted for him?

i think what we need to discuss is the trend downward and the things in which we have faith. in which we can depend these have faith in democracy, faith in the truth, we used to have faith in our fellow human citizens and in our public o officials. but we basically lost that element of faith, my high school teacher said we must accommodate changing times but we must cling to principles that never change. one of those principles is the truth. and freedom they won his freedom of speech, and others freedom of religion, two were negative, freedom from want and freedom from fear.t and fr

and i think now the lack of freedoms to combat want because of the disparity in income i pointed out which is getting worse every year and also freedom from fear. we still have a long way to go. in some cases we still have freedom of speech and freedom of religion, but sometimes it's constrained.es can a but we still have that obstacle to overcome. one thing we need to overcome this see how this small group of courageous human right heroes can add their contribution of thought and experiences together and form a tight coalition theph small group unexpanded tohe sen washington and some of you will go up there to meet with members of the senate and house and maybe some parts of the

administration. but never give up. united together, be champions of human rights and freedom and the lack of fear and want our voice can be expanded on a global basis. d this tiny drop of people compared to the rest of the world can have a great influen influence. >> president carter just openedd the door to not lay you off the hook so easily.r we have a people's movement for sure but you have a huge platform for which you can speak, we heard today from russia about the danger of silence. we have to speak about what is going on around the world, we

have to give voice and highlight this regression that is happening globally in our own country. i know there are members of the senate, euro colleagues who are looking at ways the senate, after vietnam we have the church committee, we made important reforms, i realize it's an uphill battle with thiscan we administration but we have to think ahead, can we reliant the leahy amendment to challenge military assistance. this is something the united states could do those of us who believe in those are a minority but those of us even though we may be in a minority our voices have to be loud and clear thend united states should not be funding military dictatorships around the world are giving

support to leaders who torture and imprison thousands of theiro people. it is very sad in the present at this point. there was once a time in our lifetime, not 200 years ago when people thought about the united states, this is a country of freedom, country of opportunity, this is the country in the world that believes in truth.y, ver it is very sad to see the values that we once respected for all over the world are now being diminished. in th . . small group of us will be in washington later this week meeting with a few senators. we will be seeing senator corker. >> bob corker. moderator: has. >> chairman of the foreign relations committee. moderator: we know it is an uphill battle.

aboutear we talked a lot diverting the resources from the machinery of war into the machinery of peace. it into the machinery of human rights -- do you see any opportunities that we can raise -- we know there's a new budget coming up and the president has asked for an increase in military expenditures and is there any chance for the people to be heard, to question that? >> the answer is of course. if you think about what needs to be done then look at the trumpet budget and it's exactly the opposite of where we should be going. in other words, can you imagine when we need to focus on diplomacy, at a time when the poor people all over the world

must know or should know that the united states is their ally, that we are there to help them with food, that we are there to help them with education and new technology, we are there allies -- what president trump wants to do is to reduce foreige aid substantially reduce the staffing in the state department but at $80 billion more to the military on top of already a very, very bloated military budget and domestically having done that, he wants to take that money, that 80 billion that hen spending on the military by cutting head start, pell grants, the wic program, program for low income pregnant women andn. children, cutting the meals on wheels program which provides nutritious meals to low income seniors, in other words, doing exactly the opposite. our job, right now, and i'm working on it 247 is to go

around this country and tell the american people are those your priorities. d more money for the defense, already were spending more than the 12 nations and there's a tremendous waste within the department of defense. we need more when cutting domestic programs? two we need not be supporting poor people around the world? rather than leaving them pray to terrorist ideologies. >> senator carter we talked about the nuclear weapons a newo generation, is this trillion dollars that were about to spend a wise use of resources? >> of course not.i do not well, i don't think there's any way for anyone even in your own personal mind to separate piece from human rights. because one of the basic elements of peace from of human rights is to be living at peace and only then can you have the other human rights like freedom of speech and religion and also

a chance to have an income and education and healthcare and house to live in, things of that kind. when war comes the abuses oft human rights, which we all know about and for which we fought for the last three years, that becomes much more serious. every human right that we talked about and is listed in the principles of human rights arere exacerbated or made worse under the cloud of war when a nation decides to go to war, they basically drop any feeling of love or absence of hatred or o version of killing and the united states has been at war almost full-time since the second world war. we've been at war now for 30 different nations and only four years we didn't have any conflicts and i won't say which for years that was.

we not only had human rights anr the two are inseparable. we need to do what we can to let the united nations honor itsmmit basic commitment and basic purpose that is to preserve peace in the world. the united states can do its part, if it ever will. i think now we are moving more toward a military attitude. this derives, not just from politicians, not just from the military industry manufacture weapons but it drives from the w attitude american people forget about the fact that we are a nation of peace and most of usto in the united states are christians. we worship the prince of peace, not a piece of war. we are supposed to reach out and understand each other and not hate each other. i suppose that the basic principle that we need to remind

ourselves about and that is peace always as human rights. that's two things the carter center is trying to concentrate on without deviation, promotingh peace, when there is a choice and human rights. sometimes, neither one of those things are very popular. >> yes, since 911 we have put ourselves in a permanent war frame. on a permanent but evil war.bamd the bush administration started us on that path and, thank goodness, president obama did avoid war with iran andtw normalized relations with cubaat and these were fantastic developments but at the same time he did it change the basic framework with which were dealing -- 911 there was a very small piece of territory where you could find al qaeda. on the border between pakistan and afghanistan. handful of guys. now the ideology has spreadd globally, i was, it hasn't worked.lo just as we are closing, we only have a few more minutes any

thoughts on how we can get outng of this -- the public we have to change the minds of american people and this is actually pathway that will lead to more t security how do we get there? how do we get the american people to see that investing in peace and american rights is a better investment and will make us secure senator sanders, any advice. >> two points we do have going back to someone who proceeded president carter by a few years, dwight eisenhower sir, you all remember what he said in his bare mom while remarks and that is beware, the military industrial complex. if you think the military industrial complex was strong when he left in 1960, it is far, far stronger -- do not kid yourself. when we expand military spending, we developed the weapon system there are corporations that are makingf huge amounts of money, billions of dollars in profits.

the oversight of these defense contracts are minimal, often they will tell you they will do a weapon system for x dollars and it ends up being two-three times because of overruns and corruption going on there. i think if we get back to the point the two, the country is hungering for a vision which says no we won't spend $700 billion a year on the military when we had veterans sleeping on the streets, when kids can't afford to go to college, when 28 million people have no health insurance, when their senior citizens trying to make it on $13000 a year on social security. we need a vision that talks about in america which works for all people which involves people. i do not want to see this country continuing as we did in 2014 with the elections and two

thirds of the american people didn't vote. they didn't believe their voices matter. i think all of these things, what i learned in politics is that everything is related to everything. you can't -- we have to revitalize american democracy, we have to get people active standing up for themselves and their kids, prepared to take on powerful, big-money interests and we need a progressive agenda that will, in fact, speak to the needs of the working people of this country. >> there's one other thing i'd like to add. a lot of people think that security on the one hind hand and human rights on the other but the best way to have a country secure is to honor human rights. they are tied together. [applause] makes o

the best way to avoid a lack of security is to have freedom and equality. it makes our country stronger ar home and stronger globally as well.d we should remember that human rights and security are tied together.. people want to live securely, let them honor human rights.gh that's a choice that ought not to be a divided thing in politics. it often is. the conservatives, many other public and candidates, say when you go to those things like peace and human rights you are abandoning american security. >> we talked about that a lot here this week that we have to do a better job of explaining to the public that these things go together. senator sanders, were you going to say something? >> i was thinking in my own mind when we talked about freedom from fear that it is not justwag being black in this country and walking the streets and being afraid of being picked up or shot by a police officer but

also increasingly and this is just a whole discussion beyond what were doing today is the kind of surveillance that exists through information technology. the fact that there are resources that nobody knowss exactly what's going on but we have reason to believe that the government can easily track anything that you read on the internet and e-mail that you sent to get into your phone calls and corporate america knows more about your presenting habits than you know. we see that end, i think, the year 2017 there's no question in my mind that we are moving to a surveillance type of society and we need public policy to confront that exploding technology. [applause]

>> we agree with that. were going to wind up. senator sanders has agreed to take some questions but president carter needs to leave at seven. is there anything we've left unsaid. >> will save it for tomorrow. i didn't wear a tie because iri can't tie a tie. by the way, my wrist is healing up quite well. i told you i'd explain that to you today and i wanted to. thank you very much again. god bless,. [applause] >> now, hello, we have some microphones that are set up forh you if you want to pull the microphones out to the front here so you can come and ask are

questions. so, if you want to ask a question to senator sanders, come right up to the microphones back here. we are grateful to you. okay, i'm sorry. where are they? someone wave and show people where to line up. i can't see, the light to write. stand up and go to the microphone is there someone there? i see doug. introduce yourself. >> i'm doug from the international center for nonprofit law. senator sanders, you talked about folks who work 50-60 hours a week and their income is declining, they don't have healthcare and they have endemic poverty. how would you explain to a usma citizen in that circumstance why it's important to invest internationally in human rightsr >> well, because at the end of

the day and, in fact, at the end of the day if all that we do is grow a military and engage in wars all over the world from simply, forget the normality and humanity of it but from $8 perspective that is a very, very expensive proposition which takes us right back to prompt budget of 80 billion more for the military and cuts in mad programs that that worker will depend upon that worker may need food stamps, it will be cut. that worker when he or she gets old will be on social security and they'll go after social security. they just cut medicaid by $800 billion over a ten-year period i think he gets back to the arguments of whether we can

afford to spend a huge amount of money getting involved in wars and adequately take care of working families in this country. that's the simple and straight for an explanation. >> senator sanders, i'm colette. i'm with the us human rights network. thank you for being here this evening. i come to the human rights work from the aftermath of hurricane katrina and the bp oil drilling disaster and one frame that i hear mentioned subtly but not as in front as i would hope is the issue of climate change. i wonder how you see the fight for human rights and the climate reality connected. >> well, if you are talking about the survival of the planet and the lives of billions of people, i guess we are talking about human rights. if we are talking about the fact that the people most immediately impacted in this country and

around the world would be lower income people, you are talking about human rights. i am furious at this fossil fuew industry today that is doing exactly what the tobacco industry did 50-60 years ago and that is that they are lying you may recall red 60 years ago tha the tobacco industry was telling you it was good for you to smoke for your health. what the fossil fuel industry is denying is the scientific community has almost unanimously come to. climate change is real, it is caused by human activity and it is already doing devastating harm and the people most impacted will be poor people in this country and poor people around the world. on top of all that, if we look at a world of more flooding and more drought and rising sea levels and mass migrations of people to find a place where

they can grow their crops or live in a peaceful way, what you will see with that is that mass migration more tension developing within the global communities and the potential of more wars. of all of the embarrassment of the trump administration, the fact that they are rejecting what the scientific community almost unanimously agrees to is really quite prophetic. but the good news is that you are seeing in state after state and around the world are quite rapid movement of sustainable energy. the price of solar is plummeting and -- i work with senator of oregon on legislation, massive investments in sustainable thergy and energy efficiency. that's the direction we have to go. it's very much a human rights issue.

[applause] >> good evening, senator sanders. let me first date my name isort meryl and i'm from bahrain. i would many of your international supporters when you are running for the election. my question to you and i want to challenge you a little bit on this, i think, many of us, your supporters was in the us and outside were quite surprised when you sign on to the letter about israel to the secretary-general of the united nations. my question, i guess, is why i saw your interview when you made the comparison about saudi arabia, which i clearly understand, given that i'm from the gcc but the comparison would be the same senators what they had signed on to a letter if it had been about the apartheid government of south africa. thank you. >> the reason why i find on was simple. the thrust of the letter to my

mind was not to defend israel. that's what was the media picked up on or not to suggest that israel does not have serious human rights violation but to suggest that if the human rights commission or committee at the un is going to be honest they need to take a look at egypt of the tens of thousands of peopleo in jail and many being tortured or saudi arabia, not quite sure on saudi arabia, women can drive a car yet or in russia or other countries. the thrust of that. se a defense of israel or a denial of human rights it was to say why just israel] let's take a look at human rights all over the world. that was it. >> before i call on rodney, iri just say, the human rights council, we are very much involved, that's what you're talking about -- i would say that the human rights council is actually much better now.

i don't think the problem -- there has been a problem in thei past with a full focus on israel but that has really changed in the last few years. i think i would applaud that question, in a sense, not to criticize senator but to open a discussion on this. there are great resolutions on egypt and the council is quite good on many of these countries where there are problems. the council itself is getting stronger. we should acknowledge it. ronnie, is that ronnie? >> i'm ronnie and i from journalism from west africa. i'd like to speak to something that affects everyone in thiss room indirectly. the budget for the state department has been cut drastically and most human rights in countries like ours benefits from the funding and, for me personally, i think about women for being raped every day in liberia and they go unpunished, victims are being victimized and they can't speak

up because there's no awareness. i wonder what you as a senatorhe can do to advocate for increased funding. >> understand that most of you know, the way these budgetary process works in the united states is the president makes a proposal. i think it's fair to say that his proposal, not just in the area of the state department, but in general will be dead on arrival. you will have people in the military saying that, you know what, from a military perspective you have got to continue foreign aid because we don't want to fight terrorists in every country in the world. we want to see developing aroun countries that they understand that the united states does know that they are problems withh hunger, education, women's

rights, so, trump brought forth his budget that will not be the final budget. it will undergo massive changes and i will do my best to make sure that the state department and foreign aid are very adequately funded. thank you very much. [applause] >> senator sanders, i am from pakistan. i muslim and brown and no muslim band stopped me from coming here i am so glad that you are raising an issue of surveillance. it's not happening only in america but countries like america are sending back countries like pakistan who always get excused to do massive surveillance. however, i also want to raise the issue of not only the muslim band but the laptop band -- yeah, it's laptop band, if the

muslim laptop and. muslim cannot bring their laptops in their hand luggage and also asking for their passports regarding their social media accounts as the immigration. all of these practices being set by america and sending back for countries like us and i would like you to lobby around that and the president that americad setting presents are not really good. >> thank you for your remarks. i agree. it is why this particular president wants to create a situation where he is giving ammunition to al qaeda and isis is beyond my comprehension.ns why do you should show the world that you are at war with muslims, that you hate muscles. it's incompatible to me.

we are going to do our best toen oppose those policies. as you mentioned earlier, thank god, we had some good decisions coming down that we would not discriminate against people coming into this country based on their religion. or maybe just two more questio questions. >> my name is andrew anderson and i work with a frontlineefene defenders.wa i'd like you to ask about sedan. one of the last thing president obama did was sanctions on sudar which are coming up for review. at the end of may. sudan continues to wage war on its own people. it continues to jail human rights defenders including our friend and frontline defender award winner ibrahim who in the last couple of days had his order for release rescinded and he remains in prison after five

months without charge. i'm hoping that you can use your position in the senate to continue to question the human rights record of sudan in the context of the review of the sanctions situation there. >> thank you for the work that you do. it's certainly something that we will pursue. spec it is a pleasure to speak with you. i'm mandy and i worked in the carter center democracy program on our human rights health project. i should say the human rights struggle in the congo, not the projects. i would just like to recognize and it's a pleasure to get to ask you this because you're in such a position of power, as an ally on the hill we can all s recognize that as democracy in the us is threatened we sort of

see it echo around the world. this is something we've been talking about all throughout this forum and so, particularly in the us, as democracy is compromised, as it deteriorates, you see that women and girls and especially women and girls of color feel it most strikingly. that threat and economic threat -- every facet of life, will women and girls of color -- i'd like to ask you how, in your position of power,. >> i'm not quite as powerful as you think i am. if i was, this country would not be quite in the straits. >> let me put it this way, i read everything you post on facebook, all of my friends do when you say something, people think about it and they prioritize. [applause]

spec that makes me very happy. >> they really do and they talk about it. i would like to appeal to you and ask how we can prioritize rights for women of girls and color in the us. [applause] >> what is going on now and, again, it is so important that we not allow ourselves to accept this as normal. all right?gh right now as you know in the health bill that was passed in the house they want to defund planned parenthood, taking away the choice of two and half million women. trumpet just announced that he's going to be thinking about aid to historically black college colleges -- do know thatat perspective we don't know the repercussions but he thanks that that kind of funding may be unconstitutional. we had just -- we have jeff

sessions as our attorney general the things we haven't been aggressive enough on the war on drugs which has been devastating to communities all over this country so you are quite right and not to mention that there is a war against women's rights to control their own bodies. there will be cutbacks if trump has his way, and will do everything we can to stop him, many of you are part of organizations that are doing your best to protect girls of color around the world so they get good educations, right perspective so they can find jobs in nondescript free environment. they want to cut back on thosewe things. we are in a war on all of those issues. we need to rally the american -- i certainly will do everything that i can to fight for those enormously important issues. we can go on and on and on but all of you know, for those of

you are not in the united states, you know about american history. you know about the struggles. i was just talking to president carter in his youth, segregated society. we had struggled for so many years and so many people have went to jail and some have died to try to end this racism and to end sexism. i w think about the struggle of the women 100 years ago, they didn't have the right to vote. i remember it was a big, big deal when i was mayor that we appointed the first woman police officer. wow. what a big deal. a we have made progress and now we have a president who wants to rescind and overturn so much of what has been done in this country and around the world. we have got to stand united and say sorry, mr. president, you

are not going to get away with that. [applause] with that, thank you very much. thank you all. [applause] >> tonight on c-span two, homeland security secretary john kelly on his department annual budget. then a discussion about new healthcare technologies. the heads of the naval sea systems command on maintaining the navy's ships and weapons systems. homeland security secretary john kelly testifies today at a capitol hill hearing on his department 2018 budget. the white house has asked for $44 billion to go to the department of homeland security including increased funding for border security and immigration enforcement. secretary kelly answered questions about terrorism and the president proposed travel