important part of what a president does. the most important foreign-policy debate in the modern history of this country took place in 2002. toistened very carefully what president bush and vice president cheney and all of these guys had to say. they were saying we have to invade iraq, we have to invade iraq. i did not believe them. and i voted against that disastrous law. [applause] clinton heard the same arguments, read the same

information. she voted for that disastrous war. when we talk about why the middle class of this country has been disappearing for 30 years, why many millions of workers today are working longer hours for lower wages, a lot of that has to do with horrific trade policies written by corporate america. since the year 2001, this country has lost 60,000 factories and millions of decent paying jobs. i have opposed every one of these trade agreements, nafta, afta.the -- c

secretary clinton has supported virtually all of those corporately written trade agreements. one of the reasons our campaign is doing so well is that we are not listening to big-money campaign contributors. we are listening to the american people. [applause] this is what the american people are telling me. if they are workers, they are saying they cannot make it on eight dollars, nine dollars, $10 an hour.

they are tired of working for working, working and not going anywhere. that is why we need to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. [applause] i understand you have a governor here who is trying to make it harder to raise the minimum wage. that is exactly the wrong thing to do. this campaign is listening to senior citizens and disabled veterans. i know that arizona has a whole lot of men and women who have put their lives on the line to

defend us and we thank them all. [applause] but here is the truth. no senior citizen or disabled $11,000 ore on $12,000 the year social security. [applause] unbelievably, we've got republicans in congress who want to cut social security. i've got bad news for them. we are not going to cut social security. we are going to expand social security. [applause] listening to is young people.

and what young people are bernie, we were told it was the right thing to do to go to college or graduate school. us how important it is to get the best education we can. it that when we leave orool, we are $30,000 $50,000 in debt? anybody here with student debt? unbelievable. you to think outside the box. think outside the status quo.

we live in a very competitive global economy. we need to have the best educated workforce in the world. [applause] many of the new jobs being created today require a lot more education than the jobs of the past. time, when weg thought about public education, what we talked about was first grade through 12th grade. and that was great 50 years ago. but the world has changed. the economy has changed. technology has changed. when we talk about public education today, what we have got to be talking about is making public colleges and universities tuition free.

[applause] [chanting "bernie, bernie"] this is not a radical idea. changed. has our educational system has to change with it. other countries, and i know you know this, germany and scandinavia, they do that and they provide free college education because they know investing in their young people is what will make their economy strong. [applause] the other issue is millions of people, some young and some not

so young are really being crushed with high levels of student debt. what we are about to do is say to those people, you will be able to finance that debt at the lowest interest rate you can find. [applause] now, i am criticized by the establishment, my opponent -- this is a very expensive proposition. you want to have public colleges and universities tuition free and significantly lower student debt. about $70 billion year. how are you going to pay for it? i will tell you how we are going to pay for it. ago wheneight years the greed, recklessness and illegal behavior of wall street drove this economy into the

worst economic downturn since the 1930's? congress bailed out wall street. it seems to me that now is the impose a tax on wall street speculation. [applause] the middle class of this country bailed out the crooks on wall street. now is wall street's time to help the middle class of this country. [applause]

campaign -- this [laughter] [applause] this campaign is listening to our brothers and sisters in the latino community. [applause] and what the latino community is telling me is that they are , 11d of 11 million people million people in this country who are undocumented, living in the shadows, who are living in fear, who are living with a great deal of exploitation, and

what the latino community is is that now is the time for comprehensive immigration reform. and a path towards citizenship. [applause] in a democracy, people can agree or disagree with immigration reform or anything else. but what people cannot do, what is engagemp cannot do viciousry, engage in insults against our mexican neighbors. [applause]

that is not acceptable. and i will not tolerate it. [applause] and, if congress does not do its job, i will use the executive and the powers of the presidency to do everything that that families are united, not separated. [applause]

and our department of justice will take a very hard look at arpio and people like him are doing. [chanting "bernie, bernie"] i am the son of an immigrant. my father came from poland. he came to this country not knowing one word of english. withhave some experience the immigrant family situation. i am tired of seeing young people with tears running down their cheeks, worried that their

parents or their brother or their sister will be departed. we are going to put an end to deportation. [applause] this campaign is listening to our brothers and sisters in the native american communities. [applause] there is no group of people in our country today who have contributed more to our culture, to our respect for the environment than have the native american communities. [applause]

and i don't have to tell anybody here that from the first days of when the settlers came to this continent, they cheated the native american people, they lied to the native american people, they broke treaties with the native american people, and today, what we are seeing in ofmunity after community native americans is outrageously high levels of unemployment, of poverty, of alcoholism, of suicide, of kids dropping out of high school. it is time for the united states government to treat the native american tribes with respect. [applause]

and that is what i will do as president of the united takes. -- united states. i am a member of the u.s. senate committee on the environment. [applause] whatet me tell you virtually no republican will tell you. over.s the debate is climate change israel -- climate change is real. change is caused by human activity. alreadyate change is causing devastating problems in this country and around the world. you what thell scientists are also saying.

act is if we do not get our together, if we do not transform our energy system away from fossil fuels to energy efficiency and sustainable energy, a bad situation today will become a lot, lot worse. [applause] what the scientists tell us, if we do not act boldly by the end of this century, this planet will be between five degrees to 10 degrees fahrenheit warmer. that is catastrophic. drought, means is more more floods, more extreme weather disturbances, more rising sea levels, more acidification of the oceans, and

more international conflict as people fight for limited natural resources. [applause] together, we are going to stand up to the fossil fuel industry and tell them that their short term profits are not worth the future of this planet. [applause] and, by the way, why we are talking about -- while we are talking about environmental issues, we have got to end fracking. [applause]

there was a piece in the paper the other day -- it is not just , suffering from severe water problems, it is hundreds and hundreds of communities all over america. fracking will make that situation worse. and fracking. nd fracking. [applause] i have been criticized by my opponents for saying this, so let me say it again. rights health care is a of all people, not a privilege. [applause] now some of the of care act has

done some very good things. we have a long way to go. today, in america, 29 million americans have no health insurance. many of you are underinsured with high deck will and copayments, and i right? -- am i right? everyone in this country is being ripped off by the greed of the drug companies. [applause] us thempanies charge highest prices in the world for medicine and the situation is so crazy that one out of five to fills cannot afford

the prescription their doctors right. .- their doctors write then it turns out we are spending far, far more than on health care than any other country on earth. that is why we have to move toward a medicare for all health care system. [applause] everybody here tonight knows nation,our history as a real change always takes place from the bottom up, not from the top down. real change takes place when the

real people look around and say the status quo is not working. it has got to change. change took place 100 years ago when workers were being treated that weey were animals, were going to form a union whether the employer likes it or not. real change takes place when over the last years, hundreds of americans said racism, segregation and bigotry is not what this country is about. [applause]

sen. sanders: 100 years ago, women in america did not have the right to vote. [booing] sen. sanders: but what women and their male allies said is that in america, women will not be treated as second-class citizens. [applause] sen. sanders: and by the way, what they said is that women will be able to control their own bodies. [applause] sen. sanders: 10 years ago,

there was somebody in this room who said, i think that gay marriage will be made legal in 50 states in this country by the year 2015, the person next to him what has said, what are you smoking? [laughter] sen. sanders: which raises a whole other issue -- [laughter] sen. sanders: but, what happened? what happened is the gay community against ferocious hatred and their straight allies -- [applause] sen. sanders: what they said, is that in america, people should be allowed to love each other no matter what their gender is. [applause]

sen. sanders: that is how change takes place. [applause] and we are at that profound and pivotal moments in wherean history today, millions of people are looking around and they are saying, is this right, that so few have so much and so many have so little? is it right that the united states of america, this great country, is the only major country on earth that does not guarantee health care to all, or paid family and medical leave? is it right that when we have seen in recent years, a proliferation of millionaires and billionaires that we have today, the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country on earth?

[booing] sen. sanders: is it right that in this nation the men and women who defended our veterans, some of them are sleeping out on the streets? so what the american people are saying, is, we can do much better. [applause] sen. sanders: and what the american people by the millions our understanding, as you are not going to do much better if we go back to the same old, same old establishments politics, and establishment economics. now, i am the only candidate for president who will tell you this truth: it is not a happy truth, but it is the truth, and that is, no president, not bernie sanders or anyone else, can do it alone.

people who have the country, and that is wall street, who have endless amounts of money, corporate america, whose greed has done a so much damage, the corporate media, which determines what we see, hear, or read. contributors,gn they have enormous power. that we transform this country and take them on is when millions of people stand up and say, enough is enough. [applause] sen. sanders: and that is what

this political revolution is about. people, many at home have given up on the political process, to get involved, to stand up, to fight back for justice. [applause] sen. sanders: on tuesday, there is going to be a very, very important primary, here in arizona. [applause] so, please, on tuesday, make sure that you, your friends, your family, come out to vote, let us see how arizona helps to lead the political revolution. thank you. [applause] ♪ ♪

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[applause] ♪ in tucson,ive arizona waiting for former president bill clinton to speak to the campaign rally there. talking about his wife, presidential candidate hillary

clinton, also scheduled to appear this afternoon's former arizona representative gabby get for its and her husband's retired astronaut captain mark kelly. right now that is the mayor of tucson's "evoke's there at the rally, live coverage part of our road to the white house covered under way right now on c-span. >> everyone deserves equal protection under the law. [applause] you see, in tucson, we have a strong sense of community. community is not about keeping people out. community is not about keeping people down. community is about bringing people together. community is about lifting people up. [applause] with words, and with action. words matter. they can inspire hope. or they can insight hates.

and we have heard a lot of that from some candidates of the other party this year. [booing] >> words matter, but so does action. i am supporting hillary clinton for president. [applause] because i like what she says, but more, i know that she can do what she says. [applause] she is going to follow through with action. hillary has been fighting for others her whole life. as a lawyer with the children's defense fund, as first lady, as a united states senator, and as secretary of state. [applause] she gets things done. and that is not easy to do in washington these days. we need hillary and the white house. [applause]

and she needs our help to get there. pleasure toy introduce a member of team diana, tod arizona, tell us how we can help. please welcome hillary for america organizer, diana. [applause] diana: welcome. if tucson welcome -- ready to welcome the 42nd president of the united states? [applause] diana: awesome. i'm originally from chicago, illinois. some chicago people here. american,t-generation my parents immigrated from ecuador. in their mid-20's. said,g up, they always

daughter, work hard and you can accomplish your dreams. so, i grew up thinking, believing, that there was no barriers that would stop me. and at the agef seven, i actually wrote to president bill clinton, asking him why we did not have a woman president. yes. so, fast forward a couple of years, and now, i am proud to be working for the woman that will become the first woman president of the united states. [applause] diana: so, just like my parents come i know that there are a lot of families here who came to this country because they are fighting for a better future for their children. my parents did it for me and i'm doing it for my children whenever i have them. make sureere wants to

that the next generation has every door open to them, as long as they are willing to fight for it. yes. so, there are different ways of getting involved. i joined the campaign about a year ago, because i knew that there would be no one, no other candidate, whohe had spent her entire life fighting for me, for families like mine, and for communities like this, here in tucson. [applause] diana: so, tucson are you ready to go out and get the vote out for hillary clinton this tuesday? [applause] diana: awesome. we need you all to help us. we are in the middle of get out the vote. before you leave, you will find a table outside where you can sign up to help us make some calls, knock on doors, make sure that your neighbors, friends, family members know that the primary dates is this tuesday, march 22.

there also two different ways that you can help us out and get involved, so, does everybody have their phone? i will have everyone will have their phone, i want to see them, put them up. awesome. i need you to go to her text, to 47246 ando you'll get updates in the hillary clinton campaign, sometimes special messages from hillary herself, so you want to text. 47246. also, join online, social media. if you have not led to the hillary clinton facebook page and twitter page, go to your applications, like them now, and follow hillary clinton. also, while you're at it, everybody plant your phone getn, get your cameras out, your cameras.

we love social media here. i'm actually going to snapchat this crowd. when i counted three, you guys 2016."ng to say "hillary 1, 2, 3. >> hillary 2016. diana: thank you so much, everyone. again, don't forget to sign up to volunteer, we need to. bring out friends and family members and let's elect the first woman president of the united states. [applause] thank you, diana. next, it is my pleasure to introduce a civil rights legend. [applause] 1962, dolores where the and cesar chavez founded the organization that would become the united farm workers.

skills wasorganizing essential to the growth of this budding organization. in 1963, she helped secure a for dependent families and disability insurance for farm workers in the state of california. she was also instrumental in passing the agricultural labor relations act of 1960 -- 1975. the first law of its kind in the united states. granting farmworkers in california the right to organize , and collectively bargain for better wages and working conditions. as the united farm workers principal legislative advocate, dolores became one of the most visible spokespersons. workede years, she has to elect numerous candidates. including president bill clinton, congressman -- [applause] >> congressman rondell in, governor jerry brown, , and nowoman so lease

hillary clinton. please look into the stage, dolores huerta. [applause] dolores: thank you. thank you. thank you all for being here today. i know it has been hard out there, but we have to suffer so that we can get a good person elected to the white house and that is hillary clinton. [applause] dolores: i'm so proud to stand with hillary because you know what, she has always did there with us. as a young woman, the latino community especially, as a young woman, when she graduated from law school, she could've gone to big corporations but she did not. texas,t down to south going door to door and getting people registered to vote. she has shown where her heart is at. then, even before she got elected to office you had the first convening at the white house, the first convening for hispanic children and youth in

the white house. and, she also went against the insurance companies to pass a childcare act that covered 8 million children, this is before obamacare, ok? before obamacare she did that. she is a person that gets things done. she does not just talk about it, she makes it happen. she makes it happen. and on immigration reform, she was there in 2004, when senator ted kennedy, to pass immigration reform and she voted for that bill in 2007. unfortunately, somebody that we know, i will not mention his name, did not vote for that bill. ok, so we did not pass at that time. but hillary has been there for us every single time. so, now we have to be there with her. we know that she has the intelligence. she has the wisdom. she has the scale. she has the capacity. she has the confidence.

she will improve on the affordable care act. she'll make sure that college is affordable. [applause] dolores: she will make sure that we'll be able to college and people can pay for it. we need an adult in the white house. [applause] [laughter] an adult in the white house who really has the skills and experience to make sure that all of these issues that we have in our society right now, somebody that can really take those problems on, and make solutions. we know she cannot do it alone. we are going to have to be there with her, and we're also going to have to work really hard to make sure that we get a good congress and a good senates also. because she cannot do by herself. so, i mentioned early on, the first thing i said, what did hillary do? she went down there and knocked on doors to get people elected to office. and we know that that is what we have to do. those of us here in this room, look around. look around at our army that we

have. we can make this happen. so, please, think of 10 people convince them, turning your ballots. convince them that they have to go out there and vote. if we can do that, we can make this happen. so, i want to say a couple of chance. the first one i will say is, viva hillary. as loud as you can. wait for me. let me go first. the but hillary clinton. >> viva hillary clinton. dolores: we have a famous saying, season appointed, meaning yes we can. he borrowed that from us. barack obama said i still your slogan, and i said yes you did. you may not know that si se p uede started here in arizona. that is where it came from. i want all of you to join me to

say yes we can, individually, collectively, as a group, we can make it happen. i want you to join me. but your handset. we will do an organized, unified, chant. si se puede. >>si se puede. si se puede. puede. se puede!i >> thank you, dolores. next, i am pleased to introduce ron barber. [applause] former united states representative for arizona, second congressional district. he served as district director for u.s. are presented of gabrielle giffords before she

resigned her seat, due to the severe injury she received in an assassination attempt in which ron was also injured. ron won a special election to finish congressman giffords term and was one into office on june 19, 2012. in the 2012 general election, he was elected to a full term. eighth, 2012,the and as the second district in 2013, includes the eastern two thirds of tucson, as well as the southeastern corner of arizona. in 2014, congressman barber lost his reelection bid by 167 votes. [booing] graduated from high school in 19 63, earned a bachelor's from the university of arizona in 1967. he worked as director and program manager of the arizona division of development of to 2006.ies from 1974

please look into the stage, congressman ron barber. [applause] congressman barber: look at you all. who are you here to support? i couldn't hear you? who are you here to support? >> hillary. too.essman barber: me, it is a privilege to be on the stage right after an icon in the civil rights movement, dolores huerta. and to speak just before, you'll hear from mark kelly and get big efforts. they will be urine just a minute. i'm with hillary like you are for a lot of reasons. let me tell you about one of the ,ssues that really drives me

what i do as a civilian when i try to do in congress and that is tried to prevent gun violence in our country. and in our community. [applause] congress member: the shooting in 2011 change all of our lives whether we were wounded or not. and i think it change the lives of many people today because i know that tucson had a mental health attack in the same way that those of us who are shocked and those of us who were there. but you yield yourself and do not let yourself be defined i that day. you went on and do good work for our community and are continuing to do it. you are here today to support the woman who will be the next president of the united states, hillary rodham clinton. [applause] congressman barber: how many of you voted already? and how many of you are going to go on tuesday to vote in person? i saw some people who do not raise their hands, you better talk to those folks and get into

the polls that they have not already voted. the stakes could not be higher. that is beingtry attacked by people on the other side of the aisle. the man who may well be the nominee is very scary, to me, and i think to all of us. make sure that we have the strongest possible candidate from the democratic party to take him on. it is really important for us to stand together, together, next tuesday and vote, vote in large numbers. in secretarydidate clinton who really understands us. our shared history, which we all love, being in the southwest. and it will continue to break down the barriers of opportunity, so we can build that an stronger future for america. that candidate is none other than secretary hillary rodham clinton. [applause] barber: let me just close with a reference specifically to the gun violence

issues. power inas had so much washington, d.c. and we thought when the senate failed to pass the background check bill, it is a disgrace that the senate cannot do that. so, we need to fight on. we need someone who is going to stand up to the nra. when he someone who has dedicated her whole political life to dealing with gun violence and getting sensible gun laws into place. we know that secretary clinton, soon to be president clinton will fight for commonsense reforms, to crack down on gun violence. [applause] congressman barber: we know that his presidential fight to make sure that congress didn't get to the possibilities and finally passes and expanded background checks bill. [applause] congress and barber: and we know that there is more to be done. people think the nra is made up of a lot of members, and it is. the you know 71% of the members do not by the leadership of the

nra's position on gun violence and background checks. we need to make sure that the gun manufacturers who really run the nra have a formidable person in the white house and that person's got to be president clinton. not her opponents. [applause] congressman barber: in addition to the back and check issue, president clinton will fight to hold him responsible that manufacturers, which really is the group that is the nra's funders, we will hold them responsible for the use of their weapons in mass shootings and other violence. 33,000 americans are killed every year by gun violence. it is time to put an end to it, and there is one person i know can do it, and that is secretary clinton, soon to be our president, president hillary clinton. [applause] barber: -- >> thank you, ron. one of our local heroes. [applause]

now, it is my pleasure to introduce to more local and national heroes. gabrielle giffords, former u.s. rep is it a for arizona's eighth congressional district. [applause] [chanting "gabby"] we don't want bill to get all upset that gabriel giffords is more popular here. hold on. and her husband, mark kelly, former navy captain an astronaut. [applause] as the youngest woman ever elected to the arizona state senate, gabrielle giffords represented the immunity from 2000-2000 five, and then in