about his latest pbs documentary project he robinson. was first to break baseball's color very are and who went on to become a leader in the civil rights movement. plus, the supreme court correspondent for wall street journal will be with us by phone to discuss the latest in the search for supreme court nominee. sure to what washington journal at 7:00 p.m. eastern on monday morning. during the discussion. -- join the discussion. >> during the squeaks question time prime minister jim mcdermott told members he would not resign if u.k. decided to leave the european union. are also discussed jobs, the british economy, and reports of abuse of syrian refugees staying in resettlement housing. this is 35 minutes. tice over a year and because it was working well that's why we've extended it across the government. >> order. questions to the prime minister.

>> question one, mr. speaker. >> thank you, mr. speaker. this morning i had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others, and in addition to my duties in this house, i shall have further such meetings later today. >> people look for to their share of 3 million apprenticeships. but the question how this is going to happen. on the eve of national apprenticeship week in the prime minister tallis does have a delivery plan or is he making it up as he goes along? >> we've achieved 2 million the last parliament. we are confident of achieving 3 million in this parliament. we do have a delivery plan based on large companies continuing with their plans for apprenticeships. we want small companies to do more. we want the public sector to join in with larger apprenticeship lanes and we review the progress towards a

can my right honorable friend update the house on progress being made in tackling the force of that in iraq and in syria? >> i totally understand what my friend said and it was a striking what assistant commissioner said last week about the dangers we face. what i would say is domestically or protecting counterterrorism policing and investing in our intelligence and secured his services as we did in the last parliament. in terms of iraq and syria we're making progress at pushing daesh backs of this is something we need to do both domestically and overseas but i have to say i was completely appalled to see yesterday the labour party has readmitted somewhat to the party who says and they believe that the 9/11 suicide bombers and a quote must never be condemned ambulance to organization that says we defended the islamic

state in syria and the iraq. those are upholding views on hope the leader of the opposition will throw the person out of the party rather than well, him and. >> jeremy corbyn. [shouting] >> mr. speaker, mr. speaker, i hope the prime minister will join with me in mourning the death today of the fifth beatle george martin and the wonderful music that will last for all time that he gave us. last week the prime minister told the house that we had a strong economy with a sound plan. if the economy is so strong then why this week has he forced through a 30-pound per week cut hitting some of the poorest, disabled people in the country? >> first of all let me join him in what he said about george martin. he was absolutely a massive figure in popular music and responsible for some tunes that will live on forever more.

it's just what he can't comment on the point i made earlier. it seems to me we have a responsibility and party leaders -- [shouting] he asked about the strength of the economy. we do face an uncertain international environment and all the experts are warning about the dangers that we face but as we speak today we have inflation at 0%. unemployment at 5%. our economy is growing. wages are growing and we are cutting the taxes that people are paying. that combined with reforming welfare and we are reforming welfare is the way to get our deficit down, continue its growth and help deliver for working people in britain. >> mr. speaker, i don't believe the majority of people in this country are content to see someone diagnosed with cancer today unfit to work next year reduced to poverty because of the katz this government is putting through. in the summer budget last year the chancellor found another 6.6 billion to reduce

corporation tax for big business. despite our tax operating lower than any other g7 nation. today action for children, the children's society, the national children's bureau shows that local authorities spending on children and young people has been cut by 2 billion, 71%. it doesn't this demonstrate a wrong choice by the prime minister? >> let's look at what's happened to corporation tax receipts. since we cut corporation tax. that is the question because the point of setting tax rates is to raise money rather than make a political point. the fact is corporation tax receipts are up by 20% under this government. we've got more money to spend on children him on children services, on education. whereas if we put up tax rate as he now seems to be suggesting we would get less money and.

they care about making a political point. we care about raising revenue and providing good services. >> i asked a question, mr. speaker. if there is more money available to be spent on children services why are there another half million children living in poverty and britain because of the policy of his government? if we really do have a strong economy the prime minister claims then why did the chancellor worn last week, i quote, we may need to make further reductions? who will these reductions fall on? the disabled, pensioners, young people, women? easy going to roll out attacking those groups? >> he will see the budget next week when my right honorable friend the chancellor who has an excellent record of steering this nation's economy will stand up and get that. but the right honorable gentleman just make some remarks about child poverty. let me tell him what has actually happened since 2010. the our 680,000 fewer worker

households. think about what that means. that is 680,000 households where someone is bringing home a wage, putting food on the table and under us paying less taxes. there are 40,000 euros old where no member has ever worked and there are 480,000 fewer children living in workers household. that is real change for those children. that is about tackling child poverty. falling taxes could increase the childcare of all things that were delivered by labour. >> mr. speaker, the problem is the number of households that are suffering from in work poverty because of the insecure jobs, because of zero hours contract, because of low wages. as he well knows the poorest are paid for mostly cuts and women have paid for 81% of those cuts. mr. speaker, on 99 previous

attempt to ask questions to prime minister i've been unclear or dissatisfied by the answer as indeed many other people have. [laughter] so on this auspicious 100th occasion can ask the prime minister to help out a young man? last week, the prime minister told the engineering employers federation that we have a skills shortage. a good admission. he as a bragging that he wants to make his way in the world says, will the government acknowledge -- may be the prime minister does as well passionate will the government acknowledge the importance of sixth form colleges and post-16 education services in britain? >> first of all let me congratulate the honorable gentleman getting to 100 -- [shouting] it will be welcomed across the house. what i said is what we are

introducing in our country is a situation where we uncap university places as many people who want to go can go and we will be introducing in this parliament 3 million apprentices. that combined with better funded colleges means we have actually got a proper education system that can really drive opportunity in our country. let me just come back once were on child poverty so let me give them the figures. 800,000 fewer people in relative poverty than 2010. 300,000 fewer children in relative poverty than 2010. that is the labour measurement used. so when he gets to the box he can tell us he is [shouting] >> mr. speaker, the prime minister seems to be answering the last question but one, and if i could kind bring it back to the question i asked him and point out to him that there's been a 10% cut in real terms in

education and adult education has been cut by 35% during his time as prime minister. the construction output in britain has shown for two consecutive quarters now. surely this is a matter of of concern. isn't this really bit of a sign that the economic recovery is being constructed on sand? >> let me confirm we have protected 16-18 education in this spending round. he talks about construction of course we want to see every part of our economy growing and our economy is growing unlike so many in what is a difficult and dangerous world right now but if you look at our construction plan because we have a strong economy we are able to commit to a just two, able to commit to the biggest road program since the 1970s. the largest the program since victorian times and together with huge infrastructure projects in energy and in other areas. those things are only possible because we've got a strong and growing economy.

we know what labour would do is spending plans our wrist to the nations finances. his tax plans are with you every come in the country and we know from scotland one wants to do which is put up taxes on people earning over 20,000 pounds. that's the point and would wreck country's finances. [shouting] >> jeremy corbyn. >> mr. speaker, where the construction industry in recession at a time that it is acutely for new housing. construction apprenticeships have fallen, construction apprenticeships have fallen by 11% since 2010. we have the lowest rate of house building since the 1920s, almost 100 years ago. we'll the prime minister look again at this issue, stopped the trading and cut investments in holy back the country, holding back the ambitions of so many young people and invest in them and invest in our future?

>> i do have to pick up the right honorable gentleman on his statistics because we have seen a massive boost to apprentices and apprenticeship funding under this government. 2 million in the last parliament, 3 million is part of house building under labour fell by 45%. since then it has increased two-thirds come over 7000 new homes have been delivered since 2010. if you look at what's happening, completions are up, housing starts out at the highest level since 2007. housing starts and nearly doubled the low point of 2009. they wrecked the economy, created that instability. we have been building a strong economy. that's what we've got to stick with. >> thank you, mr. speaker. unemployment is half since 2010. [shouting] given that they will make the signature can the prime minister usher the house he will continue to support quality education,

employment generation to get jobs so maintaining a conservative laughter of aspiration? >> my honorable friend is right. the school to improve the program we are driving forward combined with uncap university places come investing in apprenticeships, that is giving people a ladder of opportunity to make the most of their lives of the most that employment opportunities that are being beg created in a country where there are 2 million more people in work. i know he has a particular interest in his constituency in extending the robin hood line. that's exactly this sort of infrastructure project this government wants to get behind. >> thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, the refugee crisis is the biggest issue facing governments right across europe. is the prime minister ashamed that in the uk government program we now know that in fulsome trafficking victims were locked up without food, asylum seeking children were forced to

sleep on concrete floors, that patients with diarrhea were denied access to showers, and also a naked woman was allegedly beaten at the detention center? is the prime minister ashamed of his? >> i will look very carefully at the point the right honorable gentleman makes. i would say that our asylum system is fair, and britain down the ages has given people a silent who were fleeing torture and persecution. when it comes to the issue of resettling syrian refugees it was instructed at this week's european council with a chart showing how many countries have actually resettled the syrian refugees. britain has done far better than any other country bar germany. >> thank you, mr. speaker. this week the scottish refugee council called for an investigation into allegations about the way a silent seekers are treated and housed in moscow. they want the home office to commission an independent inquiry into claims of

substandard housing and dehumanizing treatment of refugees by the private company contracted to provide accommodation services by his government. with the commission that investigation? >> we are very happy for these issues to be properly investigate. the home affairs select committee in this house of commons has just done report into the way that asylum housing is commission and, of course, if the scottish parliament wants to carry out those investigations come of course the united kingdom government will cooperate with that. what we need to do is make sure when we take people in we make sure they're properly house, proper look after, their children are schooled because that's the sort of generous country we are. >> thank you, mr. speaker. i welcome the government's excellent initiative to encourage employers to hire ex-offenders. speaking as someone who myself employs a female ex-offender by

the excellent work in charity for the prime minister usher the house of his commitments to ensure employers in the public private and charitable sectors play their parts of? >> i agree with my friend and i salute what he has done to help ex-offenders to i think the point is this. of course, if people are applying for a job they have at some stage to declare the criminal record that they have and the offenses they committed. the question is do they have to do absolutely at the beginning? we believe in this idea of banning the box the civil service will introduce this site don't have to put that information on the initial cd. you might get in any view so you were not rolled out. giving sometimes people a second chance to make the go of their lives, we're putting our money where our mouth is. >> thank you, mr. speaker. if the british people both believe the european union, will

the prime minister reside? yes or no? >> no. [shouting] [inaudible] over 2 million jobs are being created since 2010. but nearly 1 million of those -- does the prime minister agree with me that the eu free movement of people is damaging uk national employment prospect and does contribute to the 1.6 million british people remaining unemployed? >> the point i would make to my honorable friend is that if you look at the figures over the last five years, two-thirds of the rise of employment over the last five years has been made up by jobs going to british people.

where i would agree is in combination with the welfare reform we have introduced for eu citizens and the tougher control of migration from outside the eu, we should seek welfare reform in the uk as the flipside of migration control. we want to make sure it always pays for british people to train, to do the jobs being made available so we should see immigration control and welfare reform together with the growing economy as the way of getting more of our people into work. >> thank you, mr. speaker. does the prime minister agree with me that it's very important that we make a positive case of britain remain in the eu, but each of us set 1200 pounds back, we have lower prices and choices to shop and with easier days in business. and the prime minister explain how our membership for the eu benefits so many aspects of our lives? >> i think the honorable lady

makes an important point which isn't all the arguments about single markets as poverty and all the rest of it we can sometimes lose some of the simple consumer benefits of being a member of the european union. the things she mentioned about cheaper air travel, ease of travel, not having any tariffs, these are things we take for granted now but simply were not the case for years ago. that's a strong part of a positive case we should make for remaining in the eu. but with her own constituency and might i think we should point to the enormous success of the british car industry which now employs and is responsible for over 140,000 jobs. that is a great european success story. a lot of those cars go to european markets and we want to picture that continues tariff free. >> thank you, mr. speaker. as security guarantees under nato and our action to meet our commitment is most welcome.

i visited -- were the chinooks to do so much of united kingdom edited our friends overseas are based, will my right angle friend look at plans to improve the quality of accommodation for airmen and women which i'm sure he agrees they deserve? >> i thank my honorable friend for the question and let me pay tribute to the pilots and all the crews that service of those helicopters. i think i visited afghanistan something like 13 times over the last few years, and their bravery under professionalism, their brilliance in flight often very low levels is remarkable and they have rightly been decorated and committed for the work they do. we have an upgrade program which will mean new helicopters replacing part of the existing fleet that is becoming one after i think i'm right in saying some 2 million pounds has been spent but i if more estate we will mae sure that happens.

>> a 1949, aged 11 months by constituent william was diagnosed with polio. he has worked from the age of 16. he continues to work at 67 but following a clearly flawed assessment, he is set to lose his mobility car within three weeks. it says it will leave them unable to leave the house and unable to work. will the prime minister urgently reviewed his case and the case of 14,000 disabled people just like that? >> i will have a case because what we found so far with personal independent payments is actually spending more money on disability rather than less money on disability. but i will look very carefully at the case. the whole point about this is that there is more of a proper medical assessment process to find out what is required. through her cannot also say to a constituent, i'm sure he like all others will welcome that we are so close to eradicating

polio entirely from our world and this government is committed to going the extra mile and making that happen. >> schools were divided this week to see the publication of a conference presentation on terror funding. given that the first part of this focus on the core principles, does my friend agree one of those principles must be to recognize that rural schools face a unique and unavoidable costs that are not well-funded and the the current ordered? >> i agree with my friend, it's right we are examining this formula and trying to achieve better fairness. i think everyone can see that the figures between the best funded schools and the worst funded schools, that gap has gone to greater also agre agreet will be vital for specific schools in rural areas are properly considered bigots want our consultation proposes we should a direct additional funding in small schools and

sparsely public areas. >> to follow up, official figures show -- that's not the official figures show 12,000 vacancies in construction are hard to fill the to a lack of skilled applicants. can prime minister explain why the number of construction apprenticeships have fallen under him? >> the point is we are building more houses big we are investing more in construction. we are training more apprentices. the money is a bear from the government, and now we're going to have the apprenticeship by the on the larger businesses that will make sure we can find apprentices along through this parliament. >> the prime minister will be aware of a recent tragic fatalities on the eighth 17 in my constituency.

whilst we must await the result of a full english and police inquired full english and police inquired as he agreed it vital for local parish council is fully consulted when it comes to looking at new safety measures? >> i have heard about this tragic accident and ensure a half ago and should set our sympathies and condolences to those involved. i think he's right is in so many of these cases the parish council has a lot of expertise about areas approach that are, things that could be done and, of course, they should be listened to this in other cases. >> on sunday we celebrated mother's day and just yesterday international women's day your members opposite rightly came to celebrate women on both occasions. why then has this government introduced cuts to public services, a freeze on child benefits and reductions in work-related benefits that have left mothers 13 billion pounds worse off a? >> the one thing i share with

the honorable lady it was right to celebrate mother's day. i shared with my mother but i think i've said enough about her for the time being. and also it was a privilege to welcome to number 10 yesterday some inspirational women from all walks of life to mark international women's day. i am not saying this government has sold all of these problems but we have more women in work. they're getting higher pay. they are paying lower taxes. they are getting more child care and are retiring with better pensions. when it comes to the things that government needs to do, we are appointing more women to senior positions come to public appointments. the honor system is properly reflecting women. someone shouted out what about the pay gap. the pay gap is now at its lowest public level. we have abolished the pay gap for the under 40s and when it comes to protecting women, this is the government that criminalized forced marriage. this is the government introduced the duty to report female genital mutilation but this is a government that set

out a specific domestic violence measure. all of these would introduce players law so people can find out about violent partners. i accept this more to be done but let me say this to the labour party. one thing you can help with, no more segregated political meetings [shouting] that must end of the process of having people with bigoted religious views treating women as second-class citizens. i think you all should take the pledge no more segregated meetings. [shouting] >> the uk still has relatively poor superfast broadband and far too many -- great work had been done but what will my right honorable friend be discussing with his right honorable friend the chancellor in advance of the budget statement next week in how we can improve coverage of further, particularly for rural,

small businesses in areas like mine? >> i think my friend is right to raise the. since 2010 would nearly double the number of homes and businesses with superfast broadband. we are on track 490-95% target but there's more that needs to be done and i think this is something members right across the house 10 years ago i think we were all rather guilty of leading campaign against all the rest of the. our constituents now want coverage for the internet. they want coverage for mobile phones. we need to make sure we change the law in all the ways that's necessary to make sure the marks are built to increase coverage amateur everyone is connected to the information superhighway. >> 76% for a bottle of whiskey tax. [inaudible]

>> my right honorable friend potential and i have consistently backed scotland, scottish whiskey and bizarre industry but let me just say this. on the day the profit and loss account comes out for scotland, you can see there's a 15 billion pounds a gap that scotland would face if it was outside the united kingdom. i dread to think what taxation would be had to be levied not just on whiskey but on petrol, on work, on incomes, on homes. that's the prospect of life outside the united kingdom. and that's why i am so glad we voted to stay together. >> thank you, mr. speaker. that governments have just presented, the government has just presented three white papers to parliament under their self-imposed legal duty to provide information under the european referendum act.

the minister for europe, during the proceedings for houses, undertook to me that the government information under that act would certainly as he put it be accurate and impartial. the three recent white papers are not. my right honorable friend is the enforcer. my right honorable friend is the enforcer of the ministerial code which demands they give accurate information to parliament. will my right honorable friend issue instructions to the foreign office ministers to review and correct these white papers? >> first of all let me say to my honorable friend, we believe in the sovereignty of parliament. parliament dictated that these documents would be published and that's why they are being published. on the question of the content, or content has been prepared by civil servants under all the appropriate codes. if he doesn't agree i would say

to him and other colleagues, challenge the content. have an argument about the content. start having -- stop having on argument about the process. >> the prime minister's note will indicate to him that i raised the question of the crime unit early with industry. i am delighted to report that it's funding has now been secured. it's now for the next four years i take full responsibility for that. i take credit on my website so it must be true. [laughter] but as my mother used to say, it never hurts to say thank you, and i do. can ask him on a similar matter how his manifesto commitment -- is progressing? >> can i thank him for raising such effective questions with such good effect.

on the circuses are wild animals we have a manifesto commitment. we didn't manage to meet in the last parliament. we license of these associates i think we're not talking about one or possibly to circuses but we are still two, thank you very much, but we are committed to legislative as time allows. >> noticed today colleagues him acrosacross the house and i wile launching a group on ending homelessness. will my right honorable friend join me in welcoming the work of organizations around the country including national health center in my own constituency and pledge to do all we can help homeless people and to address the causes of homelessness so we can end this problem once and for all? >> i welcome my honorable friend and the launch of the all party parliamentary group. we need to work on the issues on rough sleeping where we face charges at the moment that is good operations under way to try

to do without end homelessness. at the heart of which is of the need to build more houses and that is why we have 8 billion pounds housing program to build 400,000 houses and we hope to build by the end of this parliament 1 million new homes. that is the key. all the arguments come down to providing effective homes. >> a friend of mine works a the teen our week. can the prime minister imagine his shock when he discovered he was going to lose money as a result of the introduction of the living wage? that's because to introduce it, they're cutting allowances. as the result he's going to take him 50-pound week less, or 2600 pounds a year after the hourly rate goes up. can the prime minister and his chancellor in their budget next week ensure that nobody working

on a shopfloor takes home less money? >> we want to see people make more money and that's why we've introduced a national living wage. we will be at nine pounds by 2020, and we are cutting the taxes of people like the friend to whom the honorable lady refers. who will be able to earn 11,000 pounds from the first of april before paying any taxes at all. >> a recent study has shown biomass as progressed could say bill payers and the treasury billions of pounds. [inaudible] can the prime minister look at this as a sustainable business model and if violence continues in canada with a look at this so we can try to get into our program? >> i will look at this but what we ought to realize is the lead the control panel, the extra amount of money we are prepared to put into renewable energy is

a finite amount and in the end we have to make sure what we did is cost effective electricity that we go green at the lowest-cost. that is the aim but i will look carefully at what my honorable friend says. >> it used to be said an english family's home was there council but following the conference housing bill, new tenants in social housing will be on contract. does the prime minister thinks it's right the student beginning to secondary education may face eviction of every time they come up to their graduation? >> we want people to have their own home which is why we extend the right to buy from council tenants to housing association tenants so that millions of people will be able to own their own home. as for future tendencies would want to make sure the social housing is better for the people who need it most. no current 10 is going to be effected but that's what we think this housing bill will see

more homes don't, more homes owned, more homes rented and will be good for housing in our country. >> order. >> point of order? watch my ministers questions anytime at c-span.org, we can find video of past questions and other british public programs. tomorrow, the israeli defense minister speaks at the wilson center, on palestine, the situation in syria, and the rise of isis. on 9:00 coverage begins sunday. monday on "the

communicators," john simpson, director for the advocacy group consumer watchdog, considers how and when the fcc should develop regulations for the internet. they are joined by howard buster. longerfcc can no regulate anyone expect -- any single aspect of the business of internet access providers. there is now rulemaking, coming up, where the fcc will decide in lieu of in place replicating their rules. >> most of the rules that exist existed in the world of telephones, and now that they situation to the

they have to consider other ways of being communicators. senator bernie sanders of vermont and hillary clinton will be guest speakers at the ohio democratic party's annual legacy dinner, held in columbus. ohio is one of the five states that hold their presidential primaries on tuesday. we begin with the introduction for president bernie sanders. >> good evening, ohio democrats. as democrats, we are indeed privileged to be here in the festival and ballroom. the -- atgratified,

the steadfast campaigns hillary clinton and bernie sanders are doing for our country? it is inside our party that the greatest progress has been made, about the country's most serious business, the election of the leader of the free world. this undertaking has life-and-death consequences. i dedicate my introduction to my senator of bernie -- introduction of senator bernie sanders night to the marine unit that six saint -- the sustained such significant losses in 2005 in iraq. and consequential decision of our generation, going to war, but has brought unending turmoil to

the middle east, senator sanders and i both opposed the invasion of iraq. [applause] >> that was a war based on the e, that iraqsh lin had weapons of mass de struction. george w. bush turned out to be the largest weapon of mass destruction. [applause] honorable and my gifted colleague, with whom i have served over two decades, may i do so through the economic where theio, a state top 10 largest employers are actually wealth distributors, not wealth creators. walmart is ohio's largest employer, with shelves full of

goods primarily manufactured offshore.io, often america must become producers again, not just producers and distributors. let me take you from columbus, the ohio capital city, to the other ohio aptly reported in the hahn. blaze meet richard years and 90023 of his coworkers had it their jobs outsourced to monterrey, mexico. he later found work at u.s. .teel

now, he and his neighbors are being pink slipped due to imported steel. nafta, we were promised the communities negatively impacted by trade would get help , to transition their workers to new jobs under what was called the, "north american development bank." that bank never materialized. hope was a false promise. sanduskya mcfadden, i -- of sandusky ohio, who worked in erie to produce school supplies. her job was outsourced to mexico city in 2002. workers had to retrain their replacements in mexico, and for those displaced workers who were fortunate to find a job, their wages were cut.

meet santiago cruise, who is being trained in toledo, ohio to help out continental farmworkers improve their miserable plight. millions of them. 2007, santiago was beaten to death in monterrey, mexico, for trying to root out the corruption in mexico's farm labor contracting. it is an understatement to say there have been no -- has been no justice for farmworkers in the americas, nor has nafta ever been amended to account for the 2 million mexican peasants, uprooted from their small farms, performed the exodus to our nation of undocumented human beings. nafta remains a constant national sacrilege, and with its theims, now pilloried in

immigration debate, our nation must renegotiate nafta and other trade deals. deals that treat people like expendable cattle. [applause] >> senator bernie sanders is an honorable man who comes from the people. he has served as the mayor of the largest city of vermont. he has served for 16 years as a u.s. senator, and time and again , his judgment has been proven right. chairman of the senate veterans committee, senator sanders led the effort to double support.

earned a patriotic service to our nation, and from the first day he stepped on the house floor in 1991, senator sanders has worked to advance the economic might of our nation. it has been a grueling path. whether it was a decade-long for the herculean efforts that bernie put forth to stop eign on middler american home-equity, in 2008, science fight -- or his science fight to save central highlands on the teamsters fund from getting major cuts in their pensions, i have always known bernie understands the dimension of the challenge that america faces. yes, bernie supports the

restoration of the glass-steagall act, to separate the risky speculators from banking to prevent financial catastrophe and enliven community banking again in state ohio -- states like ohio. the challenge is real, stretching from the job toledo,ng in steubenville, portsmouth, to the pending wage sweatshops in mexico, and the barbed wire work zones, i know bernie sanders is in this race for noble reasons. i know every person counts, i know his conscience about working people from nations around the world, who aspired to

a better way of life. america could have no stronger democratic leader for jobs in this country, for fair trade, economic progress for all, not just a privileged few, then bernie sanders. he has been fighting the outsourcing of jobs and opportunity for three decades, ,hree nafta, china pnt are korea, and now the proposed p tpp. the donations have been moved into the halls of government into the way -- in ways that are frightening, undermining our nation's endowment of representative government. t is foranders' figh american values, and in turn, for a better future for this generation, and our posterity. the average income in the free enterprise region of ohio i represent is $7,000 less per

family then it was when this century began. bernie sanders has been unwavering in his dedication to levellings unjust out of the american way of life and our democratic values. he has been fighting this up he'll -- uphill struggle. [applause] democrats, itod is the political and economic test of our time, as important as americans struggle to wipe out the and statement bonded workers in the 19th century, to give workers dignity in the passage of the national labor relations act.

american people have been enduring the outsourcing of good jobs overseas for too long. they have launched over 300,000 good jobs. meanwhile, the trade deficit over the past quarter century topped $9.5 trillion. drained from pounds and boroughs across our homeland. we have shaken and diminished the middle class. we have a growing trade that -- deficit. the road ahead of fixing the tattered economy will not be easy. if we work together for common purpose, i believe that bernie

will give his passionate, passionate commitment and democratic heart in bodies, the right formula to meet this test. please allow me to introduce to you, my friend and colleague, a indefatigable passion,he kind of judgment, and stick it to a to t-to-it-iveness to lead the next generation, bernie sanders. [applause]

cnn forder: there is a him at 8:00 us got to get to. i have known marcy for decades, and nobody in congress has fought for the american worker, opposing disastrous trade policies, vigorously and more effectively, then marcy. thank you, ohio, for sending her to congress. came from a great rally that we held here in columbus. we had about 7000 people out.

the american people, working people, theg democratic party has to open the door and welcome those people in . that represents the working people in this country. [applause] s: campaign is about ending a corrupt campaign-finance system that allows billionaires to buy the elections. together, we are going to overturn citizens united. [applause] together, we are going to end republican voter suppression. [applause]

sen. sanders: together, we are going to create a country and political system in which we have one of the highest rates of voter turnout, not one of the lowest. [applause] sen. sanders: together, we are going to end the rigged economy. [applause] sen. sanders: it is not acceptable, to me, as it is to the american people, that the 1/10 of 1% owned as much wealth as the bottom 90% [applause] . -- 90%. [applause] sen. sanders: so maybe, just maybe, the time is right to create an economy which works for all of us, not just wealthy

campaign contributors. [applause] maybe, just maybe, it is time to end the disastrous , pntr,olicies, nafta and tell corporate america to invest in this country, not just china. [applause] maybe, just maybe, it is time to raise the minimum wage in this country to a living , $15 an hour. time, just maybe, it is for the united states to join in the rest of the industrialized world, and guarantee hea

.th care to all, as a right maybe it is time to take on insurance companies, drug companies, who are ripping off this country every single day. [applause] sen. sanders: to pass medicare for all health care system, which will guarantee health care to all people and lower health care costs by thousands of dollars a year to the middle class. [applause] sen. sanders: and maybe it is reality thatss the in america, today, we are a broken criminal justice system. [applause] sen. sanders: that we have institutional racism and we are going to have to reform that broken criminal justice system,

and institutional racism. [applause] what this campaign is about is creating a political revolution. no president can do this alone, not bernie sanders or anybody else. toneed millions of people jump into the political process in a way that we have never seen in recent history. when weom line is that stand together, lack, white, latino, asian american, gay, straight, people born in this country, people coming to this , when we stand together,

yes, we will have the power to take on the billionaire class. create have the power to a government that works for all of us, not just the 1%. thank you all very much. [applause]

>> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage former governor and u.s. senate candidate ted strickland. [applause] mr. strickland: hello ohio democrats. thank you. thank you so much. thank you. democrat,ud ohio because we are on the side of working people, people who just ,ant a fair shot at success

people who want a chance to build a middle-class life for themselves and their families. i'm talking about people like the steelworker, the teacher, the small business owner. these are the kinds of people i grew up with. these are the kinds of people have spent my entire life with fighting for. these are the people that i will defend as the next senator, from ohio. [applause] mr. strickland: but you know what, those of us in this room whenit is not always easy, the great recession threatened to destroy the american automobile industry, some people said just let it die.

, we we did not give up fought for our future, and we fought for working people. thanks to senator brown, ohio's congressional democrats and president barack obama, we sa ved this industry that now provides 850,000 jobs for ohio .amilies just 21 months after that recovery plan passed, i had the privilege of writing off -- assemblyf the cruise.the first chevy the people who worked in that they were proud of what had done. people working on the assembly lines, that is the side that

ohio democrats are on. but there is another side, my friends. in fact, there is a whole different world. it is the world of the millionaires, and the billionaires, and the washington insiders. this powerful, special interest group. it is the world that senator rob portman comes from. this is the world that he is fighting for, in washington. no wonder that senator portman said that the auto rescue was a, "lousy deal." a lousy deal for ohio? the death of the american auto industry, now that is a lousy deal. mass layoffs that would have cascaded across the state, across the nation.