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 congress in 2006-2012.

her success was credited to her kindness, candor, intelligence, and hard work. [applause] on january 8, 2011, at a congress on your corner event in tucson, with her constituents, congressman giffords was shot in the head from their point-blank range. in stepping down from congress in january of 2012, she said, i will return and we will work together for arizona and this great country. [applause] her husband, captain mark kelly, is a retired united states navy combat veteran, test pilots, and nasa astronaut. [applause] >> as a naval aviator, captain kelly made to deployments to the persian gulf on the aircraft carrier uss midway, and flew 39

combat missions in operation desert storm. [applause] the winner of many awards including the defense superior service medal, the legionnaire existing bush flying cross, captain kelly was selected as an astronaut in 1996. [applause] first fourhis missions in 2001, aboard space shuttle endeavor. he same special that commanded on his final flight in may, 2011. in january, 2013, in the wake of the tragedy at sandy hook elementary school, captain kelly and congresswoman giffords cofounded americans were responsible solutions. which encourages our country's leaders to stand up for laws that make communities safer from gun violence. [applause] so, i think what we are going

to do is we are to bring them all out here together. so, it is my great honor and privilege to introduce the 42nd president of the united states. [applause] ♪ >> william jefferson clinton. [applause] >> born in health, arkansas, president clinton was the first in a credit president in six decades to be elected twice. [applause] he led the united states through the longest economic expansion in american history. including the creation of more than 22 million jobs. [applause] after leaving the white house, president clinton established the william j clinton foundation, and today, the renamed bill, hillary, and

chelsea clinton foundation works to improve global health and wellness, increase opportunity for girls and women, reduce childhood obesity, create economic opportunity and growth, and help communities address the effects of climate change. [applause] and the united states, the foundation is working to combat the alarming rise in childhood obesity, and preventable disease through the alliance for a healthier generation and the clinton health matters initiative. 2005, the clinton global initiative brings together global leaders to devise and implement innovative solutions to some of the world's most pressing issues. 3400 clintonthan global initiative commitments have been proved -- improved the lives of 430 million people in more than 180 countries. [applause] pleasees and gentlemen,

welcome to the stage, with our greatest tucson welcome, mark congresswoman gabrielle giffords, and the 42nd president of the united states, president william jefferson clinton. [applause] ♪ [applause] [applause] thank you.

thank you, mayor, thank you ron. we are incredibly grateful to call both of you friends. and grateful for how much you have done to serve the people of this great state of arizona. [applause] thing that i have learned here in arizona is that arizonans are straightforward, and on his people. [applause] mark: i will be honest with all of you about something, i'm kind of new to this whole campaigning thing. i definitely have not had the chance, at least not many times, to introduce a former president of the united states. [applause] you see, in my career, i did not to politics. i was just some balls guy who flew airplanes in the navy. later, i got a chance to fly

this space shuttle several times for nasa. [applause] mark: then i met and was really lucky to marry this incredible woman from arizona. [applause] mark: and her name was gabrielle giffords. [applause] clearly was her thing. and we were both really proud, very proud to be public servants. both fortunate to have a second chance at service, to fight for those things that we always fought for , which are responsibility, and common sense. [applause] mark: that is why, we are fighting for a congress and the white house that will stand up to the gun lobby. [applause] why, that ist is

and i are here with all of you today, asking all of you to make hillary clinton the next president of the united states. [applause] mark: good job with those signs, by the way. long,o long, for far too congress has been in the gun lobby's grip. it is fiercely protected, loopholes in our laws that let dangerous people get their hands on guns. and it has stoked fear, and peddled misinformation all in the interest of maine -- maintaining a dangerous status quo. throughout all of this, the gun lobby has moved further and further away from gun owners like gabby and me that they claim to represent. what?u know, you know

a lot of people running for president talk about how tough they are. let me tell you a little secret. aretruth is, a lot of them really terrified of the gun lobby. well, gabrielle and i have listened carefully and closely to all of them and we have looked at everyone's records. and there is only one candidate in this race that has the determination and the toughness to stand up to a very powerful corporate lobby, and the record to prove it, and that candidate is hillary clinton. [applause] mark: does hillary seem scared of the corporate gun lobby to you? >> no. mark: not one bit. and when he was in the white house, president bill clinton was not scared of the gun lobby, either. [applause] mark: president clinton stood up

to the gun lobby and he stood up for common sense, and he did the responsible thing, and on november 30 of 1993, president clinton signed into law the brady bill that created the modern terminal background system as we know it today. [applause] mark: get this. called next the national instinct metal background system, this has stopped nearly 2 million illegal gun sales to dangerous people like felons and domestic abusers. 2 million. doubt that what president clinton did in 1993 has saved thousands and thousands of innocent lives. [applause] mark: so, we have president clinton, along with the then

first lady hillary clinton to think for that. so thank you, president clinton. [applause] and likely do, and my president clinton does, hillary knows that you can take commonsense steps to keep guns out of the wrong hands while protecting the rights of law-abiding gun owners like gabby and me. if you want to build on the progress made on reducing gun violence under president clinton and president obama, and not roll this back, then you need to help us make hillary clinton your next president. [applause] if you want a president who takes on tough fights, who will take on the gun lobby, will take on powerful corporate interests, then you need to help make hillary clinton our next president. [applause]

but why is this so important, you might ask? what we are doing here today matters. and that is because of elections matter. and we need to make hillary our presidents because she has always fought to bring out the best in america. [applause] to break down barriers to opportunity, to build consensus, to get things done, to be the voice for all americans. [applause] now, right now, on the other side, we have a candidate for our nation's is bringingce who out the worst in our country. [booing] bringing out anger, hatred and division.

somebody, let me tell you somebody who does not want to be a voice for all who does not respect all americans, and who is working to divide us in any way that he can by race, economic status, and by religion. who even said that he wants to bar american citizens from reading rate -- reentering their own country solely based on their own religion. this is not the america that we strive for. strive for ana, we tolerant and fair america, one built on optimism and hope, not here in anger. [applause] we have too much to lose in this election. so, we need to make sure that hillary clinton is the next president of the united states. [applause] a friend of mine and a

's and one of my own personal heroes and a great american name to jim, the commander of apollo 13 months till me something, he told me, that he remembers being amazed when he heard president kennedy say that we would get people to the moon, that we would send a man to the men. and he says that when he heard that, you know what he thought? he thought it was impossible. the moon, he said, no way. then, jim wound up flying to the moon twice. he has a saying. and i like the saying, so i will tell it to you. he says, there are three types of people. there are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people wonder what happens. clinton, hillary is

the kind of person who makes things happen. [applause] so, we need to work together to make sure that hillary clinton is our next president. i think about these campaigns a lot like a spatial to launch. a spatial mission. -- a lot of hard work. by a lot of individuals. to get ready for a very big day. and folks, we are getting ready for that day. that launch day. and for us here in arizona, that launch day is tuesday. we -- not only do you have to get out there to vote, you have to bring other people with you. i want to challenge each and every one of you, when you go out to vote on tuesday, and if you have voted already, your job is still to send somebody else out to vote for secretary clinton. now, i want to introduce you

to somebody who is working hard to do just that, somebody who has taught me each and every single day to deny the acceptance of failure and somebody who inspires me each and every day, my wife congressman debbie giffords. fords.bie gif [applause] "gabby"] rep. giffords: thank you. hello, tucson, arizona. [applause] rep. giffords: great to be here today. >> love you. rep. giffords: i'm here to talk to about hillary clinton. [applause] really, hillary is tough.

hillary is courageous. ourwill fight to make family safer. [applause] in the white: house, she will stand up to the gun lobby, that is why i am voting for hillary. [applause] rep. giffords: speaking is --ficult for me, but january [applause] i want to hear the words madame presidents. [applause] let's workds: together to make hillary our presidents. thank you.

[applause] now we would like you to join us in welcoming to arizona, the man who can explain all of this stuff much better than i can, the 42nd president of the united states, william jefferson clinton. [applause] ♪ fmr. pres. clinton: let's give mark and gabby another hand. [applause] fmr. pres. clinton: if i had any sense, i would simply say, amen, and get off the stage. they were great. i want to think the mayor for being here and for his support. and my friends, ron barber,

thank you very much for your service. [applause] fmr. pres. clinton: and i don't want to get involved in local politics, but in that last election, ron lost the election by less than 200 votes in the worst year for democrats in history, so you have some democrats running this time, and it would not make me totally sad if you reverse the results of the last election. [applause] fmr. pres. clinton: i want to thank the young organizers for hillary, diane, who made the digital pitch. from the citadel in south carolina. some of you may not know this, but it is a military school and it was the last bastion holdout against accepting women. so, she is one tough young woman. who deserves our support. [applause] fmr. pres. clinton: i want to andk the principle here,

the assistant superintendent for welcoming us. [applause] fmr. pres. clinton: since it is a warm day, i would ask all of you to give a round of applause to the people in the overflow outside of the building who do not have air conditioning. [applause] fmr. pres. clinton: i want to thank my friends, dolores huerta . [applause] fmr. pres. clinton: who, 54 years ago this year, started the united farm workers with cesar chavez and has been like a member of her own family for the last several years. the farmworkers endorsed hillary, and many other latino organizations have, i'm very grateful to her, she is real hero one of progress in america. [applause] look,res. clinton: hillary needs your help, this election is important. i know a lot of you have already

voted. but, there are a lot of people have not voted yet. across all ethnic groups. we need to tell people why it is important. the other day i read the most amazing article. by a man named john. he was president obama's first speech writer. and easy might imagine, we had that heated race eight years ago where arizona voted for hillary, thank you very much. [applause] anyway, johninton: said some pretty salty things about hillary. election, heer the poses one of those cardboard cutouts of her, and it was not entirely favorable, the posting. and he said the first time he saw her, after she had been a secretary of state, she went up and put her arm around him and had him and said, "john, forget about it we have work to do your code --."

he said he believes that hurt this election and her winning it is more important than the election eight years ago when president obama ran. look at all the things the writer at stake. i asked mark and we were talking of being anrils astronaut, how his brother was doing because he just landed after nearly a year in space. [applause] fmr. pres. clinton: he describes what it is like to be in gravity again. and then i asked him, he read the news, and felt like he was still in outer space. [laughter] fmr. pres. clinton: it is kind of a crazy year. right, wey john is are in position for the first time since i left office to restore an era of broadly shelled -- shared prosperity and a great the most inclusive society we have ever had.

[applause] fmr. pres. clinton: it is being that is whatause president obama said in the state of the union, and by the way, i think he's done a better job than he gets credit for. [applause] we have hadlinton: 14 million jobs in the last five years, that is most that we've had since that other democrat, whatever his name was. [laughter] fmr. pres. clinton: we got more than 90% of our people insured for the first time in history. [applause] fmr. pres. clinton: we have the evidence, most diverse workforce of any big country. the best system of higher education and job training. we just need to get people access to it. number one or number two capacity in the world according to studies to power on the sun,conomy wind, and other renewable resources. [applause] fmr. pres. clinton: we have the

world's best military and nobody comes close to being as trusted among all of the great powers as we are in most places. and we could put all of that in the fact thatof 80% of the people still have not gotten a pay raise since the crash. and about half of the people after inflation are living on what they were the last day i was president. so, there is a lot of pent-up anger and anxiety and it is totally legitimate. the problem is, sometimes when we do mad, or anxious, not make the best decisions. so, this election may turn on whether you believe what i just told you. we are on the verge of being able to launch an explosive time of economic growth that lists everybody so we can all rise again. [applause] but, if youlinton:

want to rise together, we have to think, we have to seize the opportunity, and beat down the problems. are enormous,ies and the problems are pretty profound. but manageable. my argument for hillary is simple. than any other candidate, has offered specific solutions and all of these economists, including the most progressive economist in the country say, she is the only candidate running for president whose numbers add up. [applause] fmr. pres. clinton: she actually tells you which is going to do. the second argument, she is only person prepared by virtue of her service as secretary of states, a member of the armed services committee, a number of the pentagon special commission to design a military for the 21st century, to be commander-in-chief. keepingnize that america safe requires a strong military, a stout diplomacy, and

a serious ongoing effort to make a world with more friends and fewer enemies. [applause] fmr. pres. clinton: which is why, i'm very proud of the fact that she has been the most outspoken person in this campaign against the ridiculous notion that we should condemn and exclude from our country muslims because of their religion. we need them to win this fight. [applause] fmr. pres. clinton: maybe it is because we are from new york, but i will never forget after 9/11 when hillary was a center -- senator, and she had to rush back to washington to try to get the help that our city needed to begin again. and my daughter and i wanted to make ourselves useful so we went down to the center were people were collecting information and if you remember, i'm sure you are member, there was a great board were everybody posted the photographs of everybody that was missing. it, just looking at

standing there, and i noticed a guy standing next to me that was a head taller than i was. he was about six foot six inches. he had tears streaming down his face. by the way, there are more than 200 muslims killed that day. who are not terrorists. i said, sir, did you lose anyone? , but isaid, no i didn't hate what they did worse than anybody because i am an egyptian, muslim, american. i'm afraid that my people will never trust me again. we need guys like that to win the battle over the social media. [applause] fmr. pres. clinton: we've got to have it. i have news for everybody else running, you can build all the walls that you want, you cannot keep the social media out. [applause] so, my thirdinton: argument is, she has been a lifetime change maker.

she is the best change maker i have ever known, and in all of her positions in washington, as first lady, as a senator, as secretary of state, every single thing that she did has the support of republicans and democrats. [applause] and, look,clinton: they have been rough on her for the last four years, but that is because they do not want to run against her. and they do not want to run with her because she knows how to make them do the right thing. the campaign is over, let's everybody grow up and act like adults. think about the country. the opportunities are staggering. hillary wants to have a massive infrastructure fund that is more than roads and bridges and airports, it is what under the ground. you guys were sick about flint, michigan, but it is by no means the only place in america where the pipes are endangering the health of our children. can you imagine how many jobs we could create just by ripping up

all of the old pipes and putting in new ones and getting our kids a healthy future? [applause] she wants tointon: put up half a billion solar panels in the next four years. [applause] fmr. pres. clinton: half a billion. look, when president bush was in office, his energy department said that there is enough wind blowing between north dakota's border with canada and west texas border with mexico to electrify america several times over. complete. the problem is that with certain exceptions, the wind blows where the people are not. so, can you imagine the number of jobs we could create redoing our electrical grid and building those cables and pipelines and putting all of those things --? none of those jobs could be exported, those are american jobs. there were be jobs in arizona. [applause]

fmr. pres. clinton: for those to tell you this is not economical, let me just say this, or are three states in this country that already get a third or more of their electricity every day from the wind. minnesota, iowa, and believe it or not, texas. iowa has the lowest electric rates in the united states of america because they rely on homegrown energy and all the jobs it creates and all the incomes those farmers make. hillary wants to bring manufacturing back to this country. i want to say a little about that. don't know if you read the story about the carrier moving those jobs out of indiana and going to mexico. aey should not be able to get tax deduction for the cost of that relocation. they should give back all the state and local tax credits they

got for the next five years. itthey were losing money would be one thing. they admitted this was part of a highly profitable air-conditioning business in the united states. the storydmitted in they were removing the plant because the shareholders wanted more money and the chief executive and the other top guys there bonuses depend on the value of the share. do something like that you are going to have to pay an i bet you anything if they let that guy go, running the company, he would get a golden parachute. it's about time the workers of this country got some golden parachutes.