selection. we canada -- cannot afford to the firsto wake up on wednesday in november to the news that bernie sanders has been elected president of the united states. is -- bernierds sanders is a socialist. usually is a slur. it is not a slur. i think he is a good candidate for president. of sweden. you knew what i was going to say. [laughter] [applause] i had an event last night with an event -- with three young men from sweden and i felt really bad. i like sweden. i just don't want to be sweden. but i like sweden. they came in me -- i thought they were going to be angry. they said, why would you wish that on our country? [applause] another person said, you know you are talking about sweden. they don't have a president. they have a king or a monarch.

but said, if they did, it would be bernie sanders -- we can't elect a socialist and we cannot elect hillary quentin. hurley -- hillary clinton was asked earlier this week in iowa, what you think about nominating barack obama to the supreme court? she said what a wonderful idea. can you imagine? this guy violates the constitution like it's part of its -- his job description as president. and we are going to put him on the supreme court to interpret and apply it? so we cannot lose this election. i am here today to ask you to caucus for me on monday because i am the conservative that will beat hillary clinton or bernie sanders and they know it. spend so muchey time attacking me. hillary clinton does not want to run against me. i cannot wait to run against hillary clinton. [applause] and here's how we will win.

first, we will unite the republican party and more importantly the conservative movement and we are going to have our primary and it is going to get heated. in the end, we will bring everyone together. we have to. we cannot win if we are divided against each other. we are in the last couple of days of this campaign. you know what happens in the last days of a campaign. the desperation kicks in. the kitchen sink is thrown at you. we know these things are going to happen. none of it bothers me. we have seen it before here in iowa. we are going to bring the conservative movement together. party going to unite this quickly because we cannot unite if we are divided against each other. but being united is not enough. we have to grow. that means we have to go out to people who have not voted for a conservative or a republican for a long time.

and they would be better off with us instead of any other side. and i look forward with passion to making that argument. to reaching out to americans who are living paycheck to paycheck because i grew up a check to paycheck. my mother was a maid, a cashier. i notice it is like to live paycheck to paycheck because i grew up paycheck to paycheck. i have lived a check paycheck. and people in my family still live paycheck. they are teachers and nurses, firefighters. and the struggle. because everything costs more. -- jobs justdone don't pay enough. hillary clinton cannot lecture me about people living paycheck to paycheck. i can't wait for that debate. i intend to go out and talk to young americans under the weight of student loans. a 5% increase in student loans. people graduating with thousands and thousands of our -- of dollars they borrowed for a

degree that did not lead to a job. they cannot lecture me about student loans. i had a student loan. i had he student loan three years ago. i never thought i would pay it off. the only way to get rid of a student loan is either you paid or you die. [laughter] you can't even get rid of it in bankruptcy. i got rid of it because i wrote a book. now available in paperback. [laughter] if it hadn't been for that, i would still have a loan. remember when jeanette and i first got married, my student loan was the second beside him in our budget, right after the rent and more than the car and everything else. they can't lecture me about this issue. that's why i spend so much time talking about it. republican whoever talks about it. i look forward to campaigning amongst families who are raising children in the 21st century. they can't lecture me about that. jenna and i are raising four

children in the 21st century. and we know how hard it is, perhaps harder than ever, to raise her children with the values that you try to teach in your home and in your church. instead of the values they keep trying to ram down our throat in the popular culture. [applause] ma'am, your coat. if you caucus for me, we will win this nomination. we will unite the republican party. we will expand the conservative movement and we will defeat hillary clinton and bernie sanders, and then we will turn this country around. and here is how. i want to talk about a few of the things i will do what i am president. it is not enough to just be angry. we have a right to be angry. you have a right to be frustrated. your leaders, your government, washington, hat -- washington, d.c. have failed you. for longer than seven years. although the last seven years have been the worst. you have a right to be angry. but anger is not a plan. anger is not a solution.

it can be a motivator. anger may lead you to take action, but you have to take action. know what the next president of the united states, the next commander in chief is going to do if you trust them with your vote. the first thing i'm going to do is take the oath of office. means i am going to place my left hand on the bible and my right hand in the air and i am going to swear to protect and defend the constitution of the united states and, unlike barack obama, i will actually mean it. that means i will defend and not undermine the second amendment because you have a constitutional right to be able to protect yourself and your family from criminals and from terrorists. we will protect the second amendment. towill protect religiously every american has a constitutional right to live out the teachings of their faith, both at home and in their work and in every aspect of their lives.

after i am done taking the oath of office, i am going straight to the oval office. and when i get into the oval office, i am going to immediately repeal every single one of barack obama's unconstitutional executive orders. what does that mean? that means that all of these crazy epa rules, on my first day in office, they are gone. [applause] it means this effort by the federal government to take over our schools with things like common core on my first day in office, that ends. [applause] that means the use of federal taxpayer money to pay for abortions overseas, that stops on my first day in office. [applause] and on my first day in office, everyone in the world will know that america is once again on israel's side and here's how. because on my first day in

office, i will cancel barack obama's deal with iran. my first day there. [applause] re-energize our economy. today, it has flatline because government is taking it over. we will stop that and embrace free enterprise. we will rollback relations and phase social security and medicare. we will bring our budget under control. we will fully utilize our energy resources. and here's what is going to happen. there will be no better place in the world to start a business or expand an existing one. america will be the best economy in the world to create the best paying jobs of the new 21st century economy. we are going to deal with health care. everybody running for president as a republican is against obamacare. i am the only one running for president that has ever done

anything meaningful about it. it is when they created obamacare, they created a bailout fund. he wanted to use your bailout money -- your tax money to bail out insurance coverage that lost money under a obamacare. in 2014 come i led the effort and we wiped out that bailout fund. asked some of the experts who like obamacare are saying, well, what he did is terrible and will lead to a's class. yeah, i hope so. [laughter] the weather does or doesn't, when i'm president of the united states, we are getting rid of obamacare once and for all and we will you and the american people back in charge of their own health care decisions area [applause] -- decisions. [applause] i have a plan to replace obamacare. it is on her website. it is clearly laid out and you will see that it is better than what we had before obamacare and it is a lot better than obamacare. you probably arty know this by now, but my parents weren't from this country. my father and mother were immigrants. my grandparents were immigrants. werefe's entire family

immigrants. i was born in a community of immigrants. this is an issue that i understand personally and deeply. century, our number one priority when it comes to immigration, before anything else is to keep isis out of america eric is a threat we didn't face before. now we are going to have to do things a little different. because there is a well-organized, well-funded and sophisticated radical jihadist group that would like to send people into the united states as colors but disguised as immigrants or as refugees or something else. and so the world has changed and we will have to change. this is not about discrimination. it is about common sense. it is about public safety. that is why, when i am president of the united states, as we know who you are and why you are coming, you are not getting into the united states of america. toldlso tired of being

that securing our borders is in tiger -- anti-immigrant. that's a lie. securing our borders and wanting immigration laws would -- is what sovereign countries do. and when i am president, we will. instead of hiring 20,000 new irs agents, we are going to hire 20,000 newborn regions are we are going to finish the 700 miles of fencing and walls that we know we need. we are going to have a mandatory e-verify system. so that, if you are here illegally, you will not be able to get hired and shut off the jobs magnet. we are going to have an entry-exit tracking system. people overstaying visas, that is 40% to 50% of the problem right there. if we do these things, you will bring illegal immigration and control.

and then we will deal with the rest of it. not amnesty. not amnesty. illegal immigrants who are criminals and are dangerous will be immediately disport -- he merely deported. when i am president, they will lose their federal funding. my most important job, when theted president, will be commander in chief of this country. it is the reason we have a federal government. the world is more dangerous than it was seven years ago. and i'm sad to say that our country's laissez-faire more dangerous because there is a lunatic and north korea with nuclear weapons. the chinese steel our secrets. they are massively building up the military. we have no quarrel with the chinese people. is chinese communist party stealing our secrets, building up their military, taking over the south china sea. vladimir putin is instilling instability in europe.

iran is about to receive a hundred billion dollars from barack obama sanctions relief. upch they will use to build their military and one day acquire a nuclear weapon of the room. and isis is the most sophisticated and well-funded terrorist threat in the history of mankind. isis is not just a bunch of people on the back of the contracts, the way the president describes them the state of the union. isis is an organization that has affiliates now in over a dozen countries. -- is noww a conducting operations in indonesia, in the philippines, and in multiple other countries. you solid isis did in paris. you sell what they inspired in san bernardino. this is a group that burns people alive in cages. this is a group that takes little girls that are none of -- nine in 10 years old and sells them off as brides for their fighters. this is what we are dealing with here. the face of all of these threats, what is happening to our military? we are on the verge of the

smallest army since the end of world war ii we are on the verge of the smallest navy since we have had in a hundred years. and we will soon have the smallest air force and the oldest airplanes we have ever had. so the world is growing more dangerous and our military is right we can here's what is really an acceptable. there are people running for president in the party of reagan who have voted for budgets that brag about cutting defense spending even more. this is unacceptable. you don't agree with me on defense spending but i am going to be very frank with you. president of the united states, we are rebuilding the u.s. military because the world is a safer and a better place when america is the strong as military in the world. by the way, these defense cuts aren't just dangerous, they are not fair to our men and women in uniform. we are still putting them in

harms way, but we are not providing the resources or the rules of engagement that allow them. that ann's when i am president. when i am president, we will have a real war on terror. and here is what it is going to look like you it is not a competition war. the best intelligence agencies in the world are going to tell us where the terrorists are. and in the best military in the world is going to destroy the terrorists. and if we capture any of these terrorists alive, we are not -- they are not going to get a lawyer. they are not going to be told they have a right to remain silent. if we capture them i live, they are getting a one-way ticket to guantanamo and we are going to find a everything that they know. and we are going to take care of our veterans. and let me just stop and smell man and say, if you are a member of the armed forces or if you served our entry in uniform, everybody here thanks you for your service he united states of

america. let me extend that gratitude to our police officers and to our firefighters. because when isis struck in san bernardino, eight was the firefighters and police officers that responded and saved lives. i'm tired of reading about all the stuff and about all the police officers i do bad. the me tell you who they are. they are willing to die so we can be safe and we thank them as well for what they do for our country. we are going to take care of our veterans. what we are doing now is a moral. we have a record number of

veterans committing suicide, homeless, unemployed, and waiting in long lines for the air they earned and deserve. when i am president, that ends. when i am president, if you are not doing a good job at the v.a., you will be fired. and when i am president, our veterans will be able to take their v.a. benefits to any hospital or any doctor that they choose. any hospital or any doctor they choose. not just the one that the government tells them. there is a lot more work to be done and i am proud that come in this campaign, of all the republicans can i have outlined more detailed policies than anyone. it is on our website. i encourage you to go on and see our solutions on how we are going to fix social security and medicare and save it for future generations on how we are going to rebuild our military and higher dictation, and issue that i care about a lot. gone outhe costs have of control. higher education is no longer a luxury. it is a system. have detailed policies on our website. and if you ask specific

questions, we will answer them. because we think that is what this is about. i want to close by and do our began. i talked about the consequences of this election. this election is not simply a choice between two political parties. this election is a referendum. it literally is a referendum. andur identity as a nation as a people. we must now decide what kind of country america will be in this new century. and for me, this is a deeply personal question. because america isn't just a country i was born in. it is the country that literally change the history of my family. when my parents were here in 1956, they had a few relatives living here, they had no money, not much of an education. my father stopped going to school when he was nine years

old, because his mother died. he never went back to school, but he worked for the next seven years of his life. this notion that you get here and it's instant success, it's not true. they were discouraged, but they persevered. my parents never became rich people, never made a lot of money, and he was never heard of them had i not run for office. my parents are not rich or famous, but they were successful. they lived the american dream. here's why. less than 10 years after my parents arrived, they own the home, not a mansion. they owned a home in a safe and stable neighborhood. working as a bartender. they were able to raise four children. they were able to retire with dignity and security. most important of all, they were able to leave all four children better off than the cells. -- better off than themselves. that story would've been impossible anywhere else on this planet. in fact anywhere else on this planet.

if they had taken their dreams and hopes to any other nation, i don't know where i would be right now. i would not be standing on the stage, running for the highest office in the land. i think god every day that they came here, to the one place on earth where what they did was possible. it was possible because america is truly exceptional. what we have in this country, we can never take for granted. know that what is given to us is an incredible gift, the single greatest nation in the history of mankind. a place where hard work and perseverance allows you to fulfill your potential. everybody has been born into a society that tells you what you are allowed to be. unless you are rich, lest you are politically connected, your limited by how far you can go, but not here. we are special. why did that happen? america is not special by accident. this did not happen on its own. america is special, because for 200 years, each generation in history did their part. for 200 years from each

generation in this country confronted challenges and embrace opportunities. now, the time has come for us to do the same. if we fail in this endeavor, so many like hillary clinton or bernie sanders has one. if hillary putting or bernie sanders wins, all the damage barack obama has done to america becomes permanent. obamacare is here to stay. unconstitutional executive orders are here to stay. cuts to the military can continue. the standing in the world will erode. our second amendment rights will erode. everything that barack obama has done remains in place, and worse. hillary clinton cannot be the president of the united states. she is not qualified to be commander in chief.

she stored classified information on her private server because she believes she's above the law. she believes she is above the law. the information is so classified they cannot release the e-mails. hillary clinton cannot be the commander in chief of the united states. [applause] sen. rubio: she cannot be the commander in chief, because she lied to the families of those people who lost their lives in benghazi. she knew that was accorded a terrorist attack. anybody who lies to the families of those who served cannot be the commander-in-chief of the united states of america. [applause] sen. rubio: the time has come, not just in iowa. if we fail, our children will be first americans in history to

inherit a country worse off than their parents. if you caucus for me, i will be the president. this generation will do its part. if you elect me, we will embrace the principles that made america great. here is what history will write of us. here is what history will say about you and i. will say that this generation of americans lived in the early years of this new century. it was a troubling and uncertain time, but like each generation before, we rose to the challenge. we confronted our problems. we solved them. we did what needed to be done.

because we did, the american dream reached more people, changed more lives than ever before. our children became the freest and most prosperous americans that ever lived it the 20 was not just as good as the 20th century -- the 21st century was not just as good as the 20th century, it was better, it was a new american century. we must act now at this time, in this turning point in our history. that is why ask for you to caucus for me on monday night. please sign up. we need your help. i always tell people we will not bombard you with females. that's not true. we will. for 48 hours. [laughter]

sen. rubio: and then we will leave you alone for little while. we will stay in touch, but not every day. but when i am nominee, we will come back to iowa. we will make sure that our children inherit what they deserve some of the greatest country in history of all mankind. thank you for having me, and god bless all of you. [applause] >> you did an amazing job, wonderful debate. sen. rubio: i'm going around to the other side. if you want to get a photo. [chatter]

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sen. rubio: thank you for coming. sen. rubio: i believe we need to have a deep space mission. that is how you reinvigorate the graham. maybe the moon. we've already been there. we have to reinvigorate space. it's got to be something meaningful that involves man, man-got its patient -- man-guided spaceship. we know how to get to the moon. we just don't have the people to do it. that's a good objective. thank you. >> how are you? sen. rubio: i'm well. thank you so much.

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sen. rubio: i appreciate it. south down30 miles to des moines. we want to hear form you.

we want to begin with the woman at the event. i'm actually from chicago, so forgive me for that. himcided to come down because we just want to experience what is going on here in iowa. today? have you done >> we drove most of the day. we settled in at our hotel. >> what did you think of the event. ? >> he to me is the most compelling candidate. he is the most articulate message in terms of where this country is headed. i believe wholeheartedly we're on the wrong path. it is different but i grew up with. he seems to be able to articulate the best. that, even though he is so intelligent we could be either yours or my brother.

it didn't like you understand us americans. host: what was it like being at a campaign event in iowa? >> you can feel the energy. people are tired of the direction we are going and they feel something drastic has to happen. you can feel the passion in the room when he is speaking. host: thank you for your time. we also went to take some calls. josephine, you have been patient. make your comment. caller: i have been watching this from the beginning, and the lord has put in my heart that rubio is going to be the man, the commander in chief to lead this nation, and to put america to where it was before. i need to say, and this is so deep in my heart. america needs to wake up. i know people are angry and don't take time to pray, but i think it is so vital for people

to pray and ask the lord to put into their hearts who is the right man to lead this nation. host: josephine, i apologize, we are going to leave it there and talk with daniel in stockton, illinois. caller: i just want to say i have been watching these caucuses from the beginning and i have not really participated in the caucus, just the main, general election. i tend to lean toward democrats. i like bernie sanders, but i did watch marco rubio, and he did have some interesting facts. i would just like to know what his stand is on climate control. we need to do something about it. he didn't mention too much about it.

host: looks like you are and iowa state cyclones. tell us your name and where you are from. >> jerry, and i am from ames. host: have you been attending other events? >> we have. the nice thing about iowa is all the candidates come to us. we get to see them all. host: do you understand that the rest of america does not get to sit next to a candidate, walk in, talk to them. >> we had a front row seat today. that's one of the nice things about iowa. we get up close and personal. we shake their hands, listen to them, look them right in the eye. that is one of the advantages of being the caucus state. host: will you be attending a caucus on monday night, and for whom? >> i am one of the ballot counters. right now, i am undecided between ted cruz and marco rubio.

host: and you have seen them both. >> we saw ted cruz this morning, marco this afternoon. now i have to make a decision over the weekend. host: what appeals to you about each of them? >> both gave similar speeches in terms of things they would do, in terms of making america strong again, in terms of tax reform, looking at the military, looking at how we build a future for our children. both are faith-based, which appeals to me. host: what do you do here in ames? >> i direct a laboratory for the usda. host: thank you for your time. next call is maria from fresh meadows, new york. caller: thank you for taking my

call. i just want to -- am i on? yes? hello? host: we are listening. please go ahead. caller: ok, i would just like to say i was very surprised at the caller who would oppose hillary. i listened to the statements made by hillary and the president concerning the video. all the statements were lies. i am surprised that people are deaf and dumb that they do not understand it. as a retired professor from a college in long island, i want to thank c-span for the opportunity to listen to the sessions in the house and senate concerning the bills that were passed and how harry reid was able to block them, and the

president was able to veto all the works that these young republicans in the house and in the senate were trying to pass. it's unbelievable that this is allowed to go on and that we have been put in such a repulsive situation. our country looks very bad, in a very bad state, because of what is going on. host: that's maria in fresh meadows, new york. we are talking about the iowa caucuses. they are two days away. between now and monday night, c-span will have several events live over the weekend, and of course, monday night, we will be live at a republican caucus and the democratic caucus. the des moines register tracks the candidates and where they are going. 83 more candidate of vans are happening today, tomorrow, and monday. now joining us is a professor of benedictine college in kansas. what are you doing here? >> i brought 29 students to act

as researchers and political anthropologists to observe the caucus and try to explain what is going on. host: what are they learning? >> there is clarity in these events as opposed to the debates in which they have to react to questions. i think it is educational to go to these events and see the unmediated message. they are able to measure the whole message. host: how many events are you attending today? >> today already we have seen crews, rubio, and carson. -- ted cruz, rubio, and carson. tomorrow, we will see president and mrs. clinton. host: thank you for chatting with us. and in camp sherman, oregon, on the democrats line. >> this has been fascinating. i will absolutely say that.

i don't really think i will vote for rubio. he is a nice young man and all the rest of it, but i think he needs a little more age on him before he can be proper in the presidential race. host: where are you leaning right now, anne? are you still with us? she is gone.

let's chat here. hi, how are you? who are you, and why are you here? >> i am melanie barker from ames. i love my country and i am very faithful at following all of the elections and wanting to find out a little bit more about the personal side of a candidate. host: have you caucused? >> i have not. host: are you going to this year? >> i am. host: why? >> i am worried about our country. i think everybody needs to put a little extra out there and vote for a candidate they feel is going to be someone who can renew our country and the values that i have grown up with. i am worried they are going to be gone. host: did senator rubio sell you today? >> yes. host: why? >> a lot of things that are important to me, he stands for. i am worried about the country security, values, lots of things i see for my kids and grandkids, and i am just enough older that i have been able to see a change in how things have been through

the years. it is time to up the ante and get more involved. host: josh in maryland. what did you think of the event? caller: i am jealous of ioan's getting to sit alongside the candidates. my thoughts on senator rubio, i just wonder if the rubio administration and tales of bigger government, bigger veterans affairs, bigger department of immigration,

bigger military. those might be agencies that appeal to conservatives, but should voters consider that when considering rubio? or should they consider whether there is a fiscally conservative vote with marco rubio? host: next caller. caller: thank you for taking calls it c-span. i like the way you let people talk. rubio on student loans is a perfect example of why i have to choose between sanders and trump. he sounds just like hillary. he identified the problem, said we are going to get people together, talk about it, come up with a solution. they never say what it is. but voters have a long memory. i remember when clinton was going to put through nafta. clinton said no, we are going to give you student loans. cut the baby in half. students are not traded on the wall street stock exchange at the symbol slm. the stock was two dollars when

obama got elected and now it is $24.28. host: mark, if i could ask your question, what is the connection between donald trump and bernie sanders? >> trump identifies the problem, which is that all the jobs have been sent overseas. sanders identifies the problem, if you listen to him, and i am not sure you get a chance, he says look, they are loaning money to students at 8%, borrowing it at .5%. they are cashing in at the

desperation of young kids to try to get an education for a job that isn't there. hillary clinton -- host: thank you, sir. well, hello, how are you? the last caller we were talking to was torn between donald trump and bernie sanders. are you torn about who you will support? >> i am not actually here are supporting a candidate. i am here with 10 purdue undergraduates conducting research for a class project. we are here surveying the minds of iowa voters to try to get an idea of what a want in the next president of the united states. i am an assistant professor of media theory and politics at purdue university. host: how long have you been here and what are you doing while you are appear? >> we have been here about a day, and we are attending the rallies of the candidates in des moines and aims. we are standing outside the rally location, surveying voters to hear what their thoughts are,

and what we are going to do is go to perdue and after the caucuses we will be here through monday, and then we are going to crunch the data and what iowa is thinking, and whether or not it is predictive of the outcome of this process. host: are the people of iowa willing to participate in your survey? >> absolutely. they are very willing and eager to play the first vectors of the -- vetters of the process. host: we are on the campus of iowa state university and aims, iowa. a little later tonight, this same hall will be used for a carly fiorina rally. it was used for another

candidate earlier as well. time to take more calls. thomas, hi. caller: how are you? host: how are you? caller: doing great. host: we are listening. caller: i am a one hundred percent trump supporter. i am a vietnam disabled combat veteran, a u.s. army retired noncommissioned senior officer with 21 years service. i am very honored that donald trump thought enough of america's veterans to raise money for the homelessness we have among our veterans and families. he felt that it was more important to raise money for the veterans and skip the last debate. he is the only candidate that i see that is fit to lead the

world's greatest military and represent america has combat veterans and the people, of the people, for the people, by the people. he will put our economy back on track and secure the southern border, which is insane that it hasn't been secured, and we will stop these crazies called isis, and they will not come into our country and they will not butcher our people anymore. the fence will make sure of that. host: we take a call from joann. caller: i have never been in politics -- into politics throughout my life. i am 71. i am a registered democrat but i haven't voted in years and i am going to vote in this election. i am going with rubio. he is a normal american person. not anybody who has all the riches and all of that.

i also like chris christie, but my vote will go for rubio. host: that is joann and staten island. finally, we have david in phoenix. david, what's on your mind? caller: thanks for having me. it's a great honor. it's appropriate that rubio was at iowa state university. i like that he is reaching out to the millennial vote. having recently graduated university myself, i am glad he has a presence in this election. donald trump has the red let's make america great again hat and it symbolizes so much.

let's not forget the second reason, and this really seals the deal. more so than marco rubio, i would say donald trump is great because he commands and a norm us presence. i think it's just great what he is able to do. host: that is going to wrap up our coverage here in ames of the marco rubio event. we have been in iowa for two weeks covering a lot of events. you can watch them all on our website, c-span.org. >> tonight, road to the white house coverage continues in iowa on newsmakers, governor terry branstad talks about the election process. this year compared to of the presidential election years. in the future of the republican party.

newsmakers today at 10:00 a.m. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016] >> the c-span bus is in iowa ahead of monday's caucuses to spread the word. here is a tweet shall some of our resources on the ground. c-span it's all hands on deck. martin o'malley stopped by and met simpson college students. out the c-span bus while martin o'malley is interviewed. on theckabee was also bus, and marco rubio supporters tweeted this. chatting with marco rubio supporters here. traveling with the c-span bus. >> now to cedar rapids, iowa. you see former president bill clinton and daughter chelsea joining hillary at a campaign

rally. this is one of a series of stops with the candidate is urging voters to attend monday's caucuses on her behalf. it is about an hour and 15 minutes. ♪ [applause]

chelsea clinton: hello. hello, hello. good evening. hi. thank you so much, cedar rapids. you are getting a particular shout out over there, dad. thank you. we are so excited to be here this evening. we are so grateful you came out on a saturday night. i could not be more enthusiastic and grateful to hear and see so much enthusiasm in the crowd this evening. i am so proud to be my parents' daughter, and i am so proud to support my mom in her campaign. the main reason i am so proud to support my mom in this election is because this is the first election for president i will vote in as a mom.

when i think about my daughter charlotte who is 16 months old and when i think about charlotte's future little brother or sister, i could not imagine a better grandmother, but also a better person to stand up and fight for them and to fight for the right of every child, as you heard in the video, to live up to his or her god-given potential. i want a president for our future who believes in and has fought for universal health care, early childhood education, smart and sensible gun control, and everything else we need to do to keep our children and families safe, our country strong, and to build a more equal future for every single american regardless of gender or race or sexual orientation or religion. [applause]

i have known my mom my whole life. i do think that is pretty cool, but i'm clearly joined on stage by someone who has known my mother even longer than i have come and admittedly because i'm pregnant, i'm going to get off stage and sit down, but i'm going to leave you in good hands with someone who knows my mom even better and has known her for even longer, my father, the 42nd president, bill clinton. [applause] pres. clinton: thank you. thank you. first of all, thank you, cedar rapids. i had one of the most wonderful rallies of my entire career right here in 1992, and i've never forgotten it. i want to thank my daughter for

carrying on this great fight for her mother because of her concern for her children and her children to come. thank you, young lady [applause] pres. clinton: i want to thank all the volunteers and the men who have led hillary's campaign it met paul has done a great job. -- campaign. but paul has done a great job. [applause] pres. clinton: hillary has a plan to restore broad-based prosperity. every year, the president's state of the union address was true. we had best positioned country

the world in the 21st century did the reason there is anger and apprehension is that most people don't feel it yet. we have got to do that. we have to deal with these problems. hillary will talk about them. they're driving us apart, when we automate together -- ought to be coming together. we need politics that are not just for people who have unlimited money. we need a strong commander-in-chief and she will be great. i need to tell you about something that i know about this job. things that other people don't talk about in that she can't really talk about. there are certain, almost intangible qualities to determine whether president succeeds or not. there are some qualities that are more important sometimes than others.

in world where the borders look more like nets than walls and the fight of terrorism has been carried on in social media, unique bronze -- you need brawn and brains at the same time. but there are two things you need to know. right now, with all the people have been through and as long as they have waited for the economy to pick up, for the social issues to be addressed, as long as they have been discussed, the gridlock and washington, you need somebody who won't quit on you. somebody who will quit when the going gets tough.-- won't quit when the going gets tough. somebody whose door is always open and will lead common ground. this -- she is the best at that. [applause] pres. clinton: i knew that when i met her. she was famous for standing her ground as the first student speaker at her commencement.

she said, i respect you, but you need a change of position on the vietnam war. it made her famous, it did. when she went to represent the united states and one of the two or three most important speeches given by anybody in my administration, including me, in 1995 in beijing, the chinese knew what she was going to say. they moved her speech way out into the country. there was a driving rainstorm. people came in sopping wet from all over the world. she still got up and said that women's rights are human rights. we can move the world. [applause] pres. clinton: but she also knows how to find common ground. when she was in the white house with me, a senator from new york, secretary of state, she got those iran sanctions.

these republicans all the things with her. they don't want to have to deal with the fact that she will make everybody be the grown up in the room and do what is right for america. over and over again, she got people to work with her on things that were right. because it was the right thing to do. you knew that. the thing we need after this gridlock is a change maker. everybody talks about it. not everyone can do it. from the minute i better to this day -- from the minute i met her, 45 years ago from march, she has been the single greatest change maker i know.

that is why her best friend from childhood and a bunch of childhood buddies from illinois are canvassing for her. she stuck with them. they are sticking with her. a lot of them can barely afford it. they believe in her because she stuck with them and made things better. so, whether it was improving our schools or giving us our first preschools for poor kids and giving them thousands -- and giving thousands of people chances, increasing adoptions on foster homes by 65% in the white house with the leader of the republican caucus in the house, who disliked me more than

anybody else in congress, she said, i know you love your kids, we have to do something. every place she has ever been, she made better. she always makes something good happen. i am tired, as i know you are, of all this gridlock. everything the president has said is right. we have an unbelievable future and we have to seize it. you need a speaker who always leaves the door open for common ground. you need a world-class can -- world-class changemaker. the next president of the united states, hillary clinton. [applause] ♪ i've got the eye of the tiger ♪ ♪ and you're going to hear me roar ♪

♪ and you're going to hear me roar ♪ [applause] sec. clinton: thank you. thank you so much cedar rapids. thank you so much, chelsea. thank you. [applause] sec. clinton: well. [laughter] sec. clinton: thank you so much. i'm so happy to be here again in cedar rapids. i'm thrilled that chelsea and bill can be with me. this is the last weekend before we move toward the caucuses on monday night. i am especially honored to have so many elected officials here.

i want to thank them all. they have been working so hard. they worked so hard for all of you. i appreciate everything you have done. justin shilts, liz bennett, rob pogue, tammy, while he formed-- wally horne, let's give all those great people from hearing around the country a thank you from all of us. [applause] sec. clinton: i am really happy to see some many of you who are working so hard to get ready for the caucuses. i want to thank the precinct teams. let's say thank you to all of you. to all of you who have made up your mind akaka's from the on monday night, thank you so much -- your mind to caucus for me on monday night, thank you so much

for joining us in making progress in our country. [applause] sec. clinton: you know, there is so much at stake in this election. i know that it starts on monday. you will be the first people in the world to get to express an opinion about who you think should be the next president and commander-in-chief. [applause] sec. clinton: as you all make up your mind to go and caucus, and i hope you will sign up, you have gotten folks coming in from the back, maybe they can just kind of come up. i know there has been some overflowing could come up in

front of the -- overflowing. come up in front of the press riser so you can see. let me say this. the reason it is so important is because of what could happen if you don't. you have had republicans crisscrossed the state, haven't you? you have heard what they have been saying, they want to turn back the clock to make it more difficult for people to get ahead and stay ahead. we cannot let that happen. i want you all to know that we can fight against them. i will take that fight and go all the way to november. -- all the way to november. then, the white house. [applause] sec. clinton: be ready to talk with your friends and neighbors about what you think this is so

important. it is a fact, the don't like it when i say it. we have a better economy when there is a democrat in the white house. [applause] sec. clinton: we don't have to go back that far to realize it. think about the last two democratic presidents? one of them is here tonight. [applause] sec. clinton: each of them inherited economic problems from the republican predecessor, didn't they? when bill got to washington, they asked him what he brought uniquely to begin solving our

problems. he said, i guess arithmetic. he said we will add up for the people of america. at the end of eight years, there were 23 million new jobs. most important, income went up. don't tell me we cannot raise income for everybody. we did it. middle-class folks, working people, poor people. they were all better off. we ended up with a balanced budget in the surplus. then what happened? another republican president. we went backwards, i was speaking in the senate against those policies to cut taxes on the wealthy. to get out of the way of

corporations and take your eyes off of the financial and mortgage markets. look at what we got left with? a new, young, democratic president. president-elect obama. [applause] sec. clinton: he called me right after that election asking me to come see him in chicago to be secretary of state. before we got to that, he said it is so much worse than they told us. we were losing 800,000 jobs per month. 9 million americans lost jobs. 5 million homes were lost. $13 trillion in family wealth was wiped out. president obama does not get the credit he deserves for making sure we can follow to the great depression. [applause] sec. clinton: so, we are

standing, but we are not yet running. people have not had their incomes go up. there is still too much inequality. too much unfairness. we need a plan and a commitment and me. yes, thank you. [applause] sec. clinton: i will call you what i will do-- tell you what i will do. we will create more jobs. let's have more infrastructure, the roads, bridges, tunnels. we have worked in doing this country. -- work to do in this country. we need to make investments that

will make us more competitive as an economy. i believe we need to strip away the incentives in the tax code. this allows people to take jobs, move them overseas, so let's bring them back here and put people to work in america. [applause] sec. clinton: i believe we can make things in america. i believe it because i have visited your community colleges. i was up at blackhawk. they have partnership with uni. they bought the biggest 3-d printer in north america. their training people to use it so that they can attract jobs to iowa. they can be a hub of new opportunities in manufacturing. a manufacturing renaissance. we will make sure that the federal government helps that, doesn't stand in the sidelines, that we recruit and keep and

grow jobs. we will combat climate change and create more clean, renewable energy jobs. [applause] sec. clinton: you all hear the republicans when they are asked about climate change. they say, "i don't know, i am not a scientist." i wish they would hear me, because the answer is easy, talk to a scientist. go the universities, come to the high school. you will understand what climate change is. [applause] sec. clinton: what i really believe is that most of them are not that ill informed. they just do it the koch brothers tell them.

that's bad enough. it is really unfortunate that they have missed out on one of the biggest economic opportunities within this country. some country will be the 21st century superpower. i think it will be china, germany, or us. there is no reason it can't be us. [applause] sec. clinton: this is like those big goals that we are supposed to set and put everybody to work to achieve. i know we can. when i travel around the country and tell people we can be the clean energy superpower and see skepticism, we know what is happening in iowa? they are to get one third of their electricity from renewable sources, mostly wind. [applause]

sec. clinton: we have let in the development of biofuels and are now working on advanced biofuels to see whether they can power naval vessels and air force airplanes. this is important for you all to know. you are in the lead when it comes to new opening -- two renewable electricity. let's take all the good things happening across america and lift them up. let's create millions of jobs. let's deploy half a billion more solar panels by the end of my first term and enough clean energy to power every home by the end of my second. we can do this. [applause] sec. clinton: i also want to

support small business could that is -- small business. that's where the jobs come from. the two fastest ways to raise income are raising the minimum wage, the work full-time should not be in poverty, and let's finally get equal pay for women's work. [applause] sec. clinton: everything i have just told you, the republicans do not agree with. they don't care about manufacturing. they don't care about clean

energy, the way we should. they will not raise the minimum wage. don't think he is a problem. -- they don't think that's a problem. we are seeing them in an alternate reality. we need to make the tax code fair. that means we are going where the money is, the money is where the wealthy are. we will change the tax code and make them pay for all of the benefits they have here in america. [applause] sec. clinton: there's a bunch of things i want to do to close the loopholes. i am the only candidate on either side who has said plainly idle raise your incomes-- plainly i will raise your incomes, not your middle-class taxes. i believe that we need funding to help make college affordable. to help with early childhood education.

to do the things that will lift us up. i went to omaha a few weeks ago. warren buffett endorsed me, and i was very happy to have that support. [applause] sec. clinton: he said he agreed with me that taxes had to go up on rich people, like him. he said that will make into popular, but i believe he is right. i support "the buffett rule." i believe that people that make a million dollars should pay 30%. right now, because of all the loopholes, they pay less taxes than those of you who are teachers. i want a fair share on incomes

of $5 million or more. these are people who pull every shenanigan in the book. they send money to the bermudas, bahamas, money flying around so that it cannot be taxed the way it is supposed to. we have to and that.-- to end that. we have to go over and over again with what it is we need to end. this is gimmicks, invasion, turning backs on americans. this is an example that has me. -- has outraged me. there's a company in wisconsin that makes auto parts. in 2008, you might remember, the

auto industry was on the brink of collapse. the republican said let it die-- republicans said let it die. president obama said, that millions of people's jobs. we have to do something. you and i bailed out the auto industry. it turned out to be a good investment. they paid it back. one of those copies asking for help with johnson controls-- was johnson controls. auto has had the best year in a while did they have-- in a while. johnson controls will pretend to sell itself and move itself to europe so that it can avoid american taxes. to the government tha tsav --

that saved it's business. it is using the taxpayers that failed out. this is not an inversion, it is a perversion. i will go after them when i am president. [applause] sec. clinton: you see, i have a broader view about what we need to do to make sure that people not only pay their fair share, but they don't wreck the economy like we saw them in 2008. the governor, senator, and i agree that we have got to prevent wall street, the financial markets, and others from doing what they did. but, we have a slight difference could have no argument -- difference. i have no argument against

breaking uo the big banks. i want to let you know that we now have the law. we passed it. the dodd frank law. we have to pull the trigger on the process if the banks pose a systemic risk. we are keeping our eyes on what the banks are doing. that is where i part company with my two friends. 2008 was not just the big banks. thank you. lehman brothers, aig, countrywide mortgage, wachovia. if all you do is talk about the big banks, you miss the big picture. we have to go after the shadow banking industry. we have to make sure they can't hurt us. that is what i have pledged to

do. independent observers who have looked at what we have all proposed have all said, i am the toughest, most effective, most comprehensive. people like paul krugman. the best evidence, the folks that know i have the toughest plan other -- are the republicans. they are running $6 million with of ads right now. hedge fund guys have started a super pac to run against me. karl rove. another billionaire just jumped into the fray. ask yourself, why are they so nervous about me? i will tell you. they know me. they know that i say what i mean and i do what i say. i know how to go after them. [applause]

sec. clinton: we are going to take the fight to them. we can and we also have to make progress. i am a progressive who likes to get things done. that is what i believe in. the debate i am having with senator sanders over health care is important. we both have the same goal. universal coverage. before, it was obamacare -- before was obamacare, it was hillary care. i was working to get universal coverage. they beat us, the --the drug companies. they beat us. i got children's health insurance passed. i was thrilled when president obama signed the affordable care act. democrats have been trying to do this since harry truman. we know what the alternative is.

republicans want to turn it back to the insurance companies, so that they can go and basically charge what they want, to type coverage-- deny people coverage, charge women more, not let young people be on parents policies. i know. ted cruz was confronted by a man at one of his events today who told him about his brother-in-law who had never been able to afford insurance. he could not go to a doctor. when he finally did, he found out he was riddled with cancer. the man said, why do you want to repeal this? finally, people like my brother in law can get insurance. ted cruz went off on an ideological critical comment about affordable care. he never said what the alternative is. "what would you replace it with?"

they can't tell you. they don't have anything. that's not fine with me. i will not let that happen. [applause] sec. clinton: we have fought too hard and too long. we are at 90% coverage. i will fix what is wrong with the affordable care act. we will go after prescription drug costs. but, i will tell you, we cannot start over, my friends. we cannot throw this country back into gridlock. people cannot wait for another 20 year debate. but what we will do but health care, i will tell the i met the people who can't wait.

in clinton over the weekend and a woman came to see me. she said just look at this, she gave me a letter. she started taking a medicine back in 1988 that cost $20 a shot. it stayed pretty steady. month, she went to the pharmacist to get her 20 shot and the pharmacist said it will cost you more than $14,000 for the same 10 shots. i said let me see that. i took the letter and look at it, here's what is going on. there are a lot of drugs that have been around a long time. there was no research money going in, no new investment. they just make the same drug and sell it. to make a profit, not too much but just keep it in the marketplace. a budget hedge fund guys and speculators and this is a really good opportunity for us. they started going and buying these little companies.

buying up these drugs, than they began increasing the price through the roof. this company that bought does other company called valiant pharmaceuticals come one of those doing this. it is going to mound gobbling up drugs that are already out there been charging more than people can pay. i think we need to call it what it is. it is predatory pricing. we need to use every tool to shut this down. i will go right after them. i will prevent them from doing this to people. [applause] sec. clinton: somebody said i saw that the star price fell i said good, i'm not quitting. i was in davenport and a man said to me thank you for defending the affordable care act. he had a grandchild born with a congenital heart this --

condition. the girl is at five operations. we never could have managed this and less with the affordable care act. under that, lifetime limits. they were removed. get the insured can you do for something as serious as open-heart surgery on a child. just yesterday i was in des moines, i met a woman before it went out to speak. she said i want to thank you for defending the affordable care act. i said i am doing it because i believe in it. i know it is the best opportunity we have. she said a few years ago my daughter was diagnosed with brain cancer. because the affordable care act i could put her on my policy. we began her treatment. she got really sick, and i had to quit my job. i do not know what we were going to do, but that i could go into the marketplace and i could get insurance that would cover me. this woman told me this heartrending story about her daughter, and a happy ending.

her daughter just got married. [applause] but she do not know what you would have done without the affordable care act for her treatment and insurance. we cannot repeal it, and we cannot start over. we have to build on it, make it work, and get us to 100%. it is a lot easier to get from 90% to 100% then to go from 0% to 100%. [applause] i want to thank all the teachers, the retired teachers who are here tonight.