children's health and futures by combating i'm a change in accelerating the transition to a clean energy economy. [applause] hillary clinton: but that is still a transition. anyone who pretends we can flip a switch and be in the clean energy future tomorrow is not being honest with you, either. we need to try everything we can to cut carbon pollution. that includes supporting cutting edge work being done right here , in institutions, working on carbon capture technology. this is too important to take any possible solution off the table. i believe we are going to go around the country talking about the clean energy economy, which i have done for more than a year , then we have a responsibility

to come to this region of our country and look people in the eye and talk about what that really means for your lives and livelihood. is impact on appalachia compounded by other economic challenges. the chinese art dumping cheap steel in our market tried to fix their problems on the backs of american workers. a lot of families still have not recovered from the great recession, which wiped out jobs, homes, and the savings. yesterday i met a man named beau in west virginia. he was a maintenance planner. he lost his job bless all -- las t fall. he showed me a picture of his the saidl children and he was trying to keep on a brave

face for them so they would not know how worried he and his wife are. west virginians are proud people, beau said. our faith in in god, we take pride in our family, we take pride in our jobs. take pride in the facts that we are hard workers. so why, he asked them are there not more programs in place already to help people like him? why isn't there more help to turn to? new jobse going to get there, not years from now but right now? i will bet everybody in here knows somebody in the same boat. beau was clear, he is a republican, he is not voting for me. but i really do not care about that. we need to do better for beau and his family and families like his across appalachia and

america, and that means -- [applause] that meansnton: coming together, making a real plan to invest in the foundations of a strong middle ands, namely, good jobs quality education for our kids. -- level playing field for american workers. that is what my plan for revitalizing communities here will do. first, we have to honor our obligations to miners as in present and stand with the steel workers who are fighting for their livelihoods right now. [applause] four months in: have been speaking out against the coal companies that have tried to shirk their responsibilities to workers and retirees.

miners, powerpoint workers, and railroad employees earned the benefits they have learned and the respect of all americans. [applause] and among then: 100,000 miners who have died in the last century, we have lost whors in this century too are joined with them and sacrifice. the 29th men who perished at the upper big branch mine. the owner of that mine, don blankenship, had neglected workers safety for years. when heof weak laws, was finally caught, finally charged and finally convicted, he only received a one-year prison sentence. one-year 429 deaths. -- for 29 deaths.

that is totally unacceptable. is why i support to bills and front of congress right now that share a reference. act in theprotection mine safety protection act. they are critical. [applause] hillary clinton: they are critical to keeping faith with coal committees and keeping safety on the job. i hope the congress will pass them and the president will sign them as quickly as possible. by the way, i heard mr. blankenship was outside my event yesterday, protesting me. [laughter] well, if donald trump wants the support of someone like that, he can have it. [applause]

hillary clinton: at a time when chinese cheating is killing american steel jobs, i will not leave our steelworkers to fend for themselves. as president i will make sure we step up and initiate cases against china before jobs are lost, not after. and i intend to appoint a special trade prosecutor in push for stronger rule of origin standards so chinese steel does not have a backdoor to american markets. for example, as part of foreign cars. [applause] and i opposeon: any effort to grant so-called market economy status to china because it would weaken our abilities to stop china from dumping cheap steel on the global market. it is illegal and it is hurting

american workers and we have got to make it stop. i am so proud to be extending appear with your senator because he has been on the front lines of this and together, we will make it happen. [applause] second, we need to invest in creating more good thing jobs here in appalachia. we know this region is rich in assets far beyond coal. we also note economic development plans designed in washington without local input will not deliver results for you and your family. i want to support locally driven priorities, not supplant them. my plan will create a new coal community challenge fund to support investments by appalachian's for appalachia n's. yesterday i heard from members of the community who talked

about how they are trying to generate more small business to create more jobs. they started an incubator to help local entrepreneurs get new ventures off the ground. they knew that they needed better housing so they put people to work, refurbishing homes and businesses. they realized many other neighbors were struggling with opiate addiction and other chronic health issues like diabetes, so they opened a nonprofit health clinic. meanwhile, the county there is stepping up by repurposing their abandoned my lands for new industrial park lands that will for big the potential employers. this is the kind of a locally driven development that i think can really work. the federal government should do more to support it. across the river from williamson i learned about a company that trains former

miners to be computer programmers and matches them to jobs in eastern kentucky. silicon valley tech companies are learning about these miner'' technical chops and hiring them. this is not a silver bullet by any means, but it is helping, and we need to grow that kind of creative, entrepreneurial approach. mix hard-working people with skills that are needed to mcrae goes jobs, attract investments. with fast reliable broadband, we could do even more in this region. [applause] itlary clinton: i tell you, years ago i spent a lot time driving the road to west virginia. i spent a lot time yesterday and today writing the rows of west virginia. and you are disconnected, you are disconnected.

west virginia deserves just as much broadband access as anywhere else in america and so does southern ohio and eastern kentucky and all the rest of the region. [applause] hillary clinton: that is one of my goals. had to finish electrifying the country, because you know what happens. utilities go with the business is, they do not want to climb mountains and get the rivers to get to 10 people, you to go to cities and suburbs where it is easy. they want to go to a great university like this one where there is a lot of users. we have to finish the job of connecting up america. [applause] and i amlinton: convinced, when we do we will see a whole bunch of new small businesses and creative ideas be put into action. and i do want to support what it learned yesterday, let's repurpose abandoned mine lands and power plants to support new

jobs like the industrial park which makes would products on the site of a former coal mine. and let's expand the new markets tax credit, something my husband started in the 1990's, to steer investment and private enterprise to appalachia. having a good job is about much more than getting a paycheck. it is about dignity and a sense of purpose. i do not want young people to leave home to find those things. i want them to be able to state right here in this region, be near their family and friends and learn a great living. the able to give their kids a great life. you should not have to leave home when we are in such a connected world now. let's connect ourselves up, let's get creative. i know we can create a really bright future. and the third part of our plan nor revitalizing appalachia

communities. it is have to be college or university, it could be apprenticeship, community colleges, but it makes a real difference. we're going to make community colleges free and give all young people -- [applause] the chance ton: graduate debt free. [applause] we will make it easier to pay off existing student debt and if you are an entrepreneur, we will let you defer your student loan payments and pay no interest for up to three years while you get your business off the ground because i want young people to take advantage of those opportunities. [applause] hillary clinton: i want to see young people be able to take advantage of incubators like the

ones here in southeast ohio. [applause] it supports up: to 30 startups every year. if we multiply that, think of what we will create together. and we have to make sure that people who do not go to college get the education and training they need to get a good job. ways of doingt of that, but there are a lot of jobs out there. the last number i saw was 1.2 million jobs with people for skills and traits. welders, machinists and the like. thee jobs are not all in same place, obviously, they are spread across the country, but the more people who have those skills, they can start their own businesses too. so we have got to look harder at how we give every young person the chance to chart his or her own future.

that begins earlier with good schools and good teachers no matter what zip code your child lives in and that is -- [applause] that is ainton: particular challenge for a lot of communities in the region because when mines close, power plants shut down, mills go idle, school districts lose tax revenue. look at what is happening in waterford, ohio. after a nearby power plant shutdown, the school district lost more than $1 million out of a $7 million annual budget. they had to lay off dozens of teachers and that is just no way to give our kids the education that they need. i have been looking for ways that we could help. when thehe 1990's, timber industry was in decline in the pacific northwest, we started a federal program to keep local schools open as they say -- as they faced the

climbing tax revenues. let's make a similar commitment to appalachian communities by making sure that as coal and steel and other factors have problems, it is not taken out on students and teachers. at we will take a look retraining programs and make sure they are actually delivering results for workers your the last thing anyone needs is more retraining programs for jobs that do not exist. we have a whole bunch of those. let's learn from programs that really work. geterday in williamson, i -- i met a young man named brendan. he always thought he would be a jobr, then his dad lost a and the got brandon thinking about his future. when he was still in high school he learned about the training program learned -- workers there spent 33 hours a week on the job, getting paid

him a six hours in the classroom, working towards an associates degree. three hours learning life skills like financial management. that is the path brandon is staking and when he is done he will have concrete skills employees want. degree, money in the bank, and he will be able to build the kind of like he has wanted right in his hometown. fourth and finally we have to invest in families. is hard workily anywhere, and i think it is harder today than it was not so long ago. i talked to a lot of young parents. i am really zeroing in on this is a new grandmother. i pay a lot of attention to the struggles that young parents are facing, no matter what level of income and education, there are different challenges. and i think we have got to be more helpful. just about as hard to

balance family and work as we can in this country. that is why we need paid family leave that supports families taking care of their loved ones. [applause] and why we have to continue the work under the get thele care act to cost down, get more competition. [applause] and we need to: look at specific problems like too many miners with black lung disease have been denied the health care they need because coal funded lawyers and doctors withheld evidence or willfully misdiagnosed them. bit about this because way back in arkansas, when bill and i were there teaching of the law school, he took on a bunch of black lung disease cases, about a hundred of them if i recall. withd i traveled to meet

the miners and their families to see what could be done to help them. unfortunately, the problem never stopped. we also know that this region loses too many young people. they go to college, they go for work, and they do not come back. they do not see a way to make a living. others stay and it is a real struggle. many people these problems are too big to bear. have drug abuse, alcohol abuse, and a suicide all on the rise across appalachia. them offcking link especially middle-aged white life expectancy is actually on the decline. , that asm times of war never happened before in the united states. my husband and i have been talking about this for months when we saw the statistics. people are dying from opioid abuse, from heroin.

they are die from suicide -- dying from suicide. but build what is figure on it, he said you know what they are really dying of? they are dying of a broken heart. this is a problem that should concern every american. we need to make a national effort, we cannot go on like this. we have got to commit to treating substance abuse disorders and mental health issues. [applause] hillary clinton: we should bring the same urgency and resources to bear as we do for heart disease or cancer.

not a moral failing, it is a disease. [applause] and mentalnton: health is just as important as physical health. [applause] that is what we have got to commit ourselves to doing. these are all complicated problems, they all intersect and there are no easy solutions. but we cannot just ignore them and we cannot deny them. a full-court press, government, business, universities, community groups, advocates, people pulling together, learning from each iher, and that is what it want -- that is exactly what i want to do. the ideas i'm putting out today are just a start. i'm going to take everything i've heard these last two days,

added to everything else i have heard over a lifetime, and work with leaders to come up with plans. it is truly not worth running for and a serving as president if you do not help struggling and striving americans get help. [applause] hillary clinton: and of course, what is the other side offering? unfortunately it is the same old trickle-down economics that has failed us before. donald trump does not talk about these issues on the campaign trail, but his tax plan would trillion to millionaires and billionaires. the people in our society who need it the least. you know what we could do with that kind of money. we could make social security

and medicare solid for the next 75 years, for example. [applause] we couldlinton: repair, replace and expand our entire national infrastructure. i just don't get it. the other side wants to give that money to the rich. what a waste. do not even bother to come up with solutions to most of the problems people talk to me about. they say things like let's get out of the eba, let's get rid of the department of education. theing the epa is not answer for rebuilding a region as we transition to clean renewable energy. closing the department of education will not stop the chinese from dumping steel or reverse the decline in jobs. it will not fix the roads or keep the schools open. we have got to stay focused on what we can do together and we know how to do this, my friends.

committed toly working with everybody. per the job of being the president is to be the convener in chief. bring people to the white house, sit around the table, talk and listen to each other. [applause] hillary clinton: maybe have a can of jackie o's beer to get things going. [applause] hillary clinton: we do not have time to waste. people are discouraged, people are disheartened, people feel like our government, politics, and economy have failed them. let's make the wealthy pay their fair share as that of giving them more tax breaks. give invest in appalachia, the families here the opportunities you deserve. iwant to close with a letter recently received from another young man in west virginia, also

by the name of brandon. apparently there was a. of time when it was a popular name. his dad is also a retired miner. here is what he wrote. the coal industry has always been up and down. we always made it through tough times because of the people around us. we note what it is to be a community here in west virginia. we come together when someone needs help. it is not just a story, not just west virginia, it is an american story. at our best, we pull together. up.ift each other i think it really does take a village to raise a child, to heal a community, to restore people's faith in themselves and our country and our future. we cannot allow ourselves to be divided against one another. to be set against one another.

to have scapegoating and shaming and blaming and insulting instead of an honest, candid conversation about what we are going to do together. [applause] let's commiton: ourselves to make sure all of our families can live lives of dignity, security and opportunity, and we treat each other with respect even when you disagree. because we are not always going to a great. agree.going to and build a future that i see. to break down all the barriers that are holding people back. i am very excited about this. people ask me all the time, well, how are you going to respond to all these attacks? all these names you are called? i said, really?

not like i haven't been dealing with that for 25 years. really? [applause] because it isn: not about me. it is about us. i'm going to stand up and fight for you. i'm going to be on the front country that i love that has given me and my husband so much. i want to make sure that i can look in the eyes -- >> we are going to break away from the last couple minutes and take you live to louisville, kentucky. senator bernie sanders speaking to a large crowd outdoors. bernie sanders: louisville,

thank you! in case you haven't noticed, there are a lot of people here tonight and i appreciate that. [applause] campaignnders: this began just about a year ago. and when we began, people were saying, bernie is a nice guy, he combs his hair beautifully. [laughter] bernie sanders: but none the less, he is a fringe candidate. -- alright. well, a lot has happened in the last year. one --oday, we have now won 17 primaries and caucuses.

some 9 milliond votes. when we started this campaign, we were 60 points behind secretary clinton in national and a few of the polls actually have us that had a few points -- have us ahead a few points. i will tell you what is extremely exciting for me, and that is in primary after primary , caucus after caucus, we end up 45ning the vote of people years of age or younger. and that is important because it tells me that the ideas that we are fighting for our the ideas

of the future of america. [applause] bernie sanders: and the future of the democratic party. presidentng for because we live in the wealthiest nation in the history of the world. most americans don't know that because the economy is rigged and almost all new income and wealth goes to the top 1%. [applause] the issue of wealth and income inequality is the great moral issue of our time. it is the great economic time of our time -- issue of our time, the great political issue of our

time and together we will address that issue. be very clear. in america today, the top 1/10 of 1% now owns almost as much wealth as the.bottom 90% . 20 people in this country and wealth now own more wealth on the bottom 150, million americans half of our population. we've got one family, the walton family of wal-mart. $149 billion, more wealth than the bottom 40% of the american people.

[crowd boos] and when you talk about a rigged economy, that is exactly what walmart and the walton family are all about. they pay their workers wages that are so low that the american taxpayer has to pay for and the stancmps medicaid -- [someone shouts, indiscernible] [cheering] >> bernie! bernie! the americanrs: taxpayer is paying for the food stamps and medicaid that many walmart employees need because their wages are twoo low. knocks to mye bit mind when the middle class of this country has to subsidize

the employees of the wealthiest family in this country. -- it is a little bit nuts in my mind. but it is not just wealth. it is not just wealth, it is income. in america today we have millions of people working longer hours for lower wages. we have families today where mom is working 40 hours, dad's working 40 hours, the kids are working and they are still not learning enough money to provide for their family. why together we are going to create an economy that works for all of us, not just the 1%. [cheering]

together, wers: are going to end this absurdity of having a national minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. together, we are going to create a minimum wage which is a living wage, 15 bucks an hour. not a radical idea to say int in america, in kentucky, vermont, if you work 40 hours a week you should not be living in poverty. we talk about equitable wages, we are going to end the embarrassment of women making 79 cents on the dollar compared to men.

that every man here is going to stand with the women in the fight for pay equity. in america today, our infrastructure, that is our w ater systems -- i was in flint, michigan, couple months ago. waswhat i saw in flint something that i will never forget. and that is children being poisoned by excessivee lead in their water. ins should not be happening this country in the year 2016. not just flint.

that has problems with its wat er. hundreds of communities have similar problems, but it's not just water. it is our roads and our bridges and our airports and our rail system and our levees and dams. this is america, our infrastructure should not be crumbling. why together we are going to invest in rebuilding our infrastructure and when we do that, we're going to create 13 million decent paying jobs. and when we talk about the needs of the american people, all of

us understand that we live in a competitive, global economy. and that means that we need the best educated workforce in the world. little bitmething a crazy when young people go to, best education they can, and then they end up $30,000, $50,000, $70,000 in debt. anybody here with student debt? [cheering] bel, in my view, we should encouraging people to get an education, not punishing people for getting that education. why we are going to

do two things. the world today, it is no longer good enough to talk about public education being first-rate through 12th e throughfirst grad 12th grade. truth is changing economies and changing technology requires people to get more education. 50 years ago, you had a high school degree, you are doing pretty well. makean go out, get a job, it into the middle class. that is not the case today. today in my view, when we talk about public education, we must be talking about making public colleges and universities tuition-free. [cheering]

senator sanders: it is in view that we have got hundreds of thousands of bright young people who are qualified to go to college but so becauseto do their families lack the income. them, it isir to unfair to the future of this country. we don't know how many scientists and doctors or great business people cannot get the education they need. all, second of all, it is absurd that we have millions of people in our country today that are being crushed by high-levels of student debt. i have talked to people all over this country. doctor in vermont, $300,000 in debt. ,000 in debt.000,

young man dropped out of college, $60,000 in debt. a guy who's 55 years of age in nevada, he has been paying off a student debt for 25 years. he is more in debt today than he was when he took it out. that is nuts. it really is nut. s. so, what we are going to do for those with have student debt, we're going to allow them to refinance that debt at the lowest interest rate they can buy. what this means, which is pretty revolutionary, is that -- andays the kids in kentucky in vermont and west virginia, all over this country, it says to those kids in the fourth grade and the sixth grade that if you study hard, if you do

yes, regardless of the income of your family, you will be able to get a college education. throughout this campaign, my critics and my opponent have been saying well, bernie, you are a nice guy. you want to give out free tuition at public colleges and universities. you want to substantially reduce student debt. how are you going to pay for it? well, i will tell you exactly how we will pay for it. ta - -going to imposts a impose a tax on wall street speculation. years ago, when wall street's

greed and recklessness and illegal behavior brought this country into the worst economic decline since the great depression, congress against my vote bailed them out. well, in my view, now is the time for wall street to help the o middle class of this country. this campaign is listening to senior citizens, disabled veterans, and people who have disabilities. nation is not judged by the number of millionaires or nuclear weapons it has. a great nation is judged by how

it treats the weakest and most vulnerable among us. today, in kentucky, and in v ermont, and in states all over this country, you do not hear a lot about this but there are millions of seniors and disabled vets who are trying to get by on 10, 11, $12,000 a year, social security. and you know what? nobody can get by on $10,000, security.year social you cannot buy the medicine you need, the food you need, pay the rent. you can't do it. now, what the republicans say when they hear this, they say, we are going to cut social security benefits.

going to cut social security benefits. we in fact are going to expand social security benefits. let me for a moment talk about some of the differences that exist between secretary clinton and myself. the differences is very important because it deals with how you raise the money you need for your campaign. that in theth is hundreds it costs of millions of dollars to run for president of the united

states. and when we began this process, we had to make a very simple what every- do we do other campaign for president is doing and establish a super pac? >> no! senator sanders: do we beg wall street and corporate america and the drug companies for campaign contributions? well, we agreed with you. we concluded that we don't represent the billionaire class. we don't represent wall street and we do not represent corporate america. we don't want their money. ourwe're going to raise campaign funds in a different way. and then i never would've believed, to be honest with you, that this could have happened. but in the last year, we have --eived over $7.3 million it

7.3 million individual contributions. 7.3 million. anyone know what the average contribution is? >> $27! senator sanders: i love that. i really love that. is revolutionary about that is we have shown the world that we can run a winning, national campaign without being dependent on powerful and wealthy special interests. secretary clinton has chosen to raise her funds in a different way. a number of super pacs.

in the last filing period, her major super pac reported $25 million from special interests, including $15 million from wall street. some ofion to that, as you may know, secretary clinton has given a number of speeches to wall street financial institutions for $225,000 a speech. $225,000, that is a lot of money. i kind of figured that if you give a speech for that kind of money, it must be a brilliant, earth shattering speech. it must be a speech that will help us solve all our global problems. it must be a speech written in shakespearean prose.

and therefore, i think a speech that extraordinary should be shared with all of the people. secretary clinton has said, well, she will release the transcripts when other people do the same. so, let me make here in louisville tonight, let me make a special announcement. and that announcement is -- i am prepared to release the transcripts of all of the speeches i have given on wall street. >> bernie, bernie, bernie, bernie! senator sanders: all right, you ready? here it is. shh. you got it. did you get all of the transcripts?

ok. no speeches, not for 225, not for $2.00, no speeches behind closed doors from wall street at all. you know i got my cell waiting ford imm that call from wall street inviting me to give them a speech. and i am going to make it easy for wall street. i do not want $225,000. i do not want $25. i do not want anything, but i do want the opportunity to tell them face-to-face what their gre ed and illegal behavior has done to this country. as a result of what they have many of you know,

millions of our fellow americans have lost their jobs. they have lost their homes. they have lost their life savings and wall street has got to understand that. and i want to tell you a brief story which kind of encapsulates everything that this campaign is about. a few weeks ago, goldman sachs, one of the major financial institutions -- [crowd boos] senator sanders: they reached a settlement with the federal government for $5 billion. and they reached that settlement llingse they have been see worthless packages of subprime mortgage loans. in other words, they were ripping people off and operating in a fraudulent manner. to goldman sachs,

they were not the only one. that is what it -- what every one of these damn banks was d oing. the other thing to understand, when we talk about america today. forwhy it is too late establishment politics and establishment economics. goldman sachs, the other major wall street banks, operated in a fraudulent manner. goldman sachs paid $5 billion in settlement. but that is not all. over the last 25 years, the political power of goldman sachs through the revolving door process meant that at least two top executives at goldman sachs went on to become secretaries of the treasury. thank god for that he bailed us o an

what the revolving door means is you work on wall street, you go into the government and you represent wall street and the government and then you go back to wall street. that is what the revolving doors are. what goldman sachs has done over the years like other wall street financial institutions, they have made huge -- and i mean huge -- topaign contributions politicians of all stripes. and here is the last thing we need to know about what is happening at goldman sachs, and this really, really gets the american people angry. today in kentucky or vermont, some kid gets ticked up with marijuana. -- picked up with marijuana, and that kid will get a criminal

record that will last his entire life. there, we are going to deal with that one in a minute. but here is my point. if you are a kid with marijuana, you get a clinical record, which is no joke. you go out and try to get a job with a criminal record, it may not be so easy. but if you are an executive on wall street, if you are the 1%, mostu are part of the powerful institution in america, you can commit illegal acts which wreck the lives of millions of people and you know what happens to? you? you get an increase in your compensation package. what we'renow going to do together?

we are going to bring justice back to the criminal justice system. if justice means that even you're wealthy and powerful, and law, you havehereak the got to pay the price. me talk about just a few other differences between the secretary clinton and myself. all of you know that one of the very important things that a president of the united states does is deal with foreign policy and military policy. most important debate, the most important debate that we have had as a country in the modern history of the united states has been over the war in iraq. verytened in 2002, closely, very closely to what

president bush -- >> [indiscernible] senator sanders: i think we do not know. let's hold off. not for sure. but back to 2002. and here is the issue. all of us know that there are no more important issues than the issues of war and peace. i know that as a congressman and a senator. because when you vote for a war, you know that some of the young people in your state who you send off at deployment, you say luck, youyou, best of know that some of those young men and women will not come home. and i listened very carefully to what bush and cheney and all the

rest were saying about -- iraq and not only did i vote against that war, i helped me the opposition to that war. the opposition to that war. it gives me no pleasure, i wish i could tell you otherwise, it gives me no pleasure to tell you that if you go to my website, listen to what i said on the floor of the house in 2002. feared abouthat i the destabilization that would take place in the middle east turned out to be true. on the other hand, secretary clinton, then the senator from new york state, she heard the same evidence i heard, she voted for the war in iraq. on issues ofare war and peace, let me say this. we all know that not only should isis, must isis be defeated,

isis must be crushed. but we also know that this country and our brave men and women in the military should not be involved in perpetual warfare in the middle east. now, i have heard many of my colleagues, m republican colleagues especiallyy, on the floor of the senate, they are really tough. they want to go to war here or there. but let me tell you something, it is not there kids who are going to go to war. it is the children of working families in this country. so, we have got to understand that war and military force sometimes have cost -- of course, have got to be used but

it is the last recourse, not the first recourse. is another area where secretary clinton and i disagree. she wants to raise the minimum wage and that is good. she wants to raise it to 12 bucks an hour. not good enough. i am proud to have stood on the picket lines with fast food workers from mcdonald's and burger king and they understand that in this country we need a $15.00 an hour minimum wage. and i will stand with those workers in that fight. this campaign is asking the american people to think outside of status and outside

quo thinking. this campaign is asking people oneit is that there is only major country on earth that does not guarantee health care to all people. have been criticized for so let me say it again. and this is a big, big deal. is a view, health care right of all people, not a privilege. and thinking outside of the box, ask us to think why it is that

if you are wealthy in this country, you can get great health care, but if you are working class or poor, you may not have any health insurance at all or you're going to have very high deductibles and copayments. we lose thousands of people every year who do not have the money to go to the doctor when they should. we understanden that 29 million americans have no health insurance, even more are underinsured, and when we are getting ripped off every single day by the drug companies who charge us for highest prices in the world for medicine. paying far more

per capita for health care then to the people of any other major country, now is the time for us to go forward and half a medicare for all single-payer program. i want to think for a moment and this is thinking outside of it is thinking outside of the status quo. think what that means for america. it means that anybody in this country who gets sick goes to the doctor when they need to go. it means that if you get bigously ill or run up a hospital bill, you are not going to go bankrupt. and this is what it also means, which is pretty revolutionary. right now in america, we help millions of people doing jobs that they really do not want to do but they're staying on those jobs

because they may have a decent health insurance plan for their families. think what happens to america when we unleash the entrepen reneurial spirit of this country. when millions computer can go out and start businesses and know they will have health insurance for themselves and their families -- when millions of people can go out and start businesses. ist revolutionary -- that revolutionary. campaign is listening to our brothers and sisters in the african-american community. they are crying out for reforms of a broken criminal justice system.

i was a mayor for 8 years, and i worked very closely with my local police department and police departments all over this country. vast majority of police officers are honest, hard-working and are doing a very, difficult job. they deserve our support. other public official, when a police officer breaks the law, that officer must be held accountable. need major reforms of local police departments. we have got to start demilitarize and local police departments. we have to make local police departments reflect the diversity of the communities they serve. toneed as a nation

understand that lethal force, the killing of somebody, is the last response, not the first response. end, and i have got legislation in to do this, private corporate ownership of prisons and detention centers. to re-think the so-called war on drugs. 30 years, millions of people have received criminal records because of possession of marijuana. under the federal controlled substance act, marijuana is listed as a -- listed as a schedule i drug

next to heroin. legislationduced that will implement as president getting marijuana out of the federal controlled substance act. states, it is the decision of the people of the state to decide whether they want to legalize marijuana or not and more and more states are doing that but it should not be a federal crime. drugs, ine talk about thisate and all over country, we are facing an enormous crisis with opiate addiction and heroin addiction. from day, people are dying overdosing on those drugs. view, if we are going

to deal effectively with that tosis, what we have got understand is substance abuse and addiction should be treated as a health issue not a criminal issue. and that means, that means that we need in this country a revolution in mental health treatment. right now in virtually every part of this country people who are suffering mental health crises, people that are suffering with addictions, people who are suicidal, people who may be homicidal, they cannot get the treatment they need when they need it. and that has got to change.

you know, we spent trillions of dollars on the war in iraq. we have spent billions rebuilding infrastructure in iraq and afghanistan. and yet, if you look at the inner cities of this country, what you see is outrageous employment and poverty, people who cannot find a form housing and you're seeing schools that are crumbling. if we can rebuild the infrastructure of afghanistan, we damn well can rebuild the inner cities in america. this campaign is listening to our brothers and sisters in the latino community.

11 million undocumented people in this country, and i have -- i have talked to many of them. there's one right here. [cheering] >> feel the bern. feel the bernie! when you arers: undocumented, and when you have no legal protection, that means that when you go to work, you are, can be exploited by your employer, because you have no legal rights to protect yourself. and that is happening all over

talkeduntry, and i have to undocumented people who are scared to death that their families will be separated, somebody will be deported tomorrow. move view, we need to aggressively towards comprehensive immigration reform and a path toward citizenship. and if congress does not do its job in passing immigration reform, i will use the executive powers of the presidency to do all that i can. this campaign is listening to a group of people, a group of people whose pain is almost never heard, and that is the native american community. all of you know

that from before this country became a country, when the s firstist -- settler came here, the native american andle were lied to, cheated treaties they had signs were broken. all of you also know that we owe of gratitude to the native american people we can never repay. have taught us so much. and one of the important lessons that they have taught us, which we must, must learn, is that as human beings, we are part of na ture. as human beings, we must exist with nature, not destroy nature.

and that takes us -- >> bernie, bernie, bernie! senator sanders: and that takes not only ofue enormous importance for our country but of enormous importance for the entire planet. a member of the u.s. senate committee on the environment i have talked to scientists all over this country and all over the world. the debate is over. climate change is real. climate change is caused by human activity. climate change is already causing devastating problems in this country and throughout the

world. moral responsibility as custodians of this planet to make certain that we leave this planet in a way that is healthy and happy for our children and our grandchildren -- habitable.d that means we must stand up to the fossil fuel industry and theirhem, and tell them short-term profits are not more important than the future of this planet. i understand, i understand that as we transform our energy system away from fossil fuel to energy efficiency, to sustainable energy is like wind, solar, geothermal and other

technologies, there will be economic dislocation. be innocentll people, people who want nothing more than to provide for their families who will be hurt in that transition. and that is why in the legislation i have authored in the senate, the most comprehensive climate change legislation ever offered in the senate, that we provide $41 elp workers who might be dislocated. i know that all over this country, there is a fear that donald trump will be elected president of the united states. that won'to tell you

happen. won't happenen, it because in every national poll that i have seen for a long time, we beat trump by double-digit numbers. bernie!e, senator sanders: but it is not only the polls. polls go up and down. it is all the fact that the american people will not elect a candidate who insults every group you can think of virtually every day. to elect agoing president who insults mexicans and latinos.

muslims.ts who insults veterans. who insults women. who insults african-americans. understandn people our our strength is in diversity. they understand that when we come together as one people, black and white and latino and asian american and native american, gay and straight, whatever we maybe -- -- may be -- we are stronger. and the american people understand that coming together always trumps dividing us up.

and the american people also at america that wh is about and which makes us great is supporting each other. that when your family is in trouble, my family and our country are therefore you. when my family is in trouble, your family in this country are there for us. and the american people understand that supporting each other always trumps selfishness. most importantly, i think the american people understand what every major religion on earth has taught us for centuries and that is that at the end of the

day love always trumps hatred. >> bernie, bernie, bernie, bernie, bernie, bernie! senator sanders: history has taught us one very profound lesson. and that is real change never takes place from the top on down. it always takes place from the bottom on up. whether it is the history of workers standing up and fighting for their rights and forming unions.

the civil rights movement where millions of people came together and said we will end racism and bigotry in this country. whether it is the women's movement. people forget that less than 100 years ago, women in america did not have the right to vote, did not have the right to get the education or the jobs they wanted. but women came together and some of them went to jail. them went to jail. some of them died in the struggle. alliesy and their male

said that in america women will not be second-class citizens. if we were here 10 years ago, no time at all, and somebody jumped thend said, i think in united states of america by the year 2015, gay marriage will be legal in every state in this country -- most people would not have believed that that would be possible, but what happened? is over the decades the gay community and their straight allies stood up, fought back and said that in america, people should have the right to love whoever they want. that is the history of change.

change is about people by the millions looking around them and saying, the status quo does not work. the status quo is wrong. we are going to change the status quo. and today, all over our country, coast to coast, people are looking and they are saying, you know what? this grotesque level of income and wealth inequality is wrong. it is wrong that the middle class for 40 years has been in decline. it is wrong that people have to work two or three jobs to survive. it is wrong that young people are leaving school $50,000 in debt. it is wrong that women are making 79 cents on the dollar compared to men. wrong that we are the only

major country on earth that does not guarantee paid family and medical leave. our people do not have health care as a right. when people begin to look at those issues, they begin to challenge the establishment thinking. when people begin to look at these issues they say, you know what? this is the united states of america. we can do better. this campaign is about is telling you that no president, not bernie sanders or anybody transform this country in the way we need y himself.by -- all b cannot be done by one person because the powers that be on

wall street and corporate america and the corporate media, and wealthy campaign contributors, these folks are so powerful that no one president can do it alone. what we need, and what this campaign is about is a political revolution. what that revolution means is that millions of people today are beginning to stand up and fight back and demand a government which represents all of us, not just a handful of billionaires. next week, there is going to be of very important primary here in the beautiful state of kentucky. have learned so far

on the campaign is that if there are large voter turnouts, we win. make certain that for the kentucky democratic primary, we have the largest voter turnout in history. thank you all very much! [applause] >> [chanting "bernie"] >> with an ali on the primary in two weeks, senator bernie sanders in louisville, kentucky -- with an eye on the primary.