was a man of peace, just like odessa and gaseous clay senior believed their son could be. many people know him as a brave, compassionate man. and the american people are proud to call mohammed ali one of our own. [applause] [applause] our country and our world have been improved by the men and women that we honor today and now i ask the military to read the citations. ali -- muhammad

ali. one of the greatest athletes of all time, he produced some of our most lasting sports memories, from winning the gold medal at the 1960 11 is, to carrying beloved torch at the 1996 summer olympics. he thrilled, entertained and inspired us. his commitment to justice and peace has touched people around the world. the united states honors muh ammad ali for his principled service to mankind. [applause]

[applause] [laughter] statement released today from george w. bush reads, muhammad ali was a historic figure, that thrilled, entertained, influenced, and inspired millions. americans will be proud to have been in his car and called him one of our own. and it is our president obama who says, mohammed ali -- muhammad ali shook up the world and the world is better for it.

we are all better for it. michelle and i send our deepest condolences to his family and we pray that the greatest fighter of them all finally rests in peace. >> book tv has 48 hours of books and authors every we compared here are some programs to watch that every weekend. here are some programs to watch for. mitch mcconnell says that his life in politics and in his book some of the long game. majorities are fleeting. depending on what the american people decide this november, i could be the minority leader next year. and the majority position represents an opportunity, even in the senate which is very difficult to make function, there are advantages to setting the agenda and to what we call the right of recognition. to move the correctly -- move

the country in the direction we would like it to go. >> and with author and editor in chief of forbes magazine, it will join us to talk about his latest book, reviving america. appealinge argues for obamacare in reforming the fed. other recent book titles include, money, freedom manifesto, how capitalism will power, ambition, and glory. , 11:15 sunday night p.m., cbs 60 minutes correspondent leslie stall discusses her book, "becoming grandma." she interviews colleagues and doctors about the changes that occur in women as they transition into the role of grandparent. go to book tv.org for the

complete schedule. address, weekly president obama talks about the state of the u.s. economy. thee speaker paul ryan has republican response if he talks about the republican agenda. president obama: the first town i visited as president was elkhart, indiana. i had been on the job for three weeks and we were in the worst economic crisis of our lifetimes. harder thanhit most. nearly one in five people were out of work. this week, i returned to elkhart. unemployment has now fallen to around 4% and more families are back on steady ground. more are covered on health insurance. more kids are graduating from high school. it is no accident.

it is because people worked hard and sacrificed and looked out for each other. but it's also because we made a series of decisions early in my presidency, to rescue the auto industry, health families -- help families refinance homes, to promote high-tech technology, infrastructure, and job training that helps folks build new skills to fill those jobs. the results are clear, american businesses have created 14.5 million new jobs over 75 straight months. we have seen the first sustained manufacturing growth since the 1990's. we have cut unemployment by more than half. another 20 million americans have health insurance, and we cut our deficits by nearly 75%. we have not fixed everything. wages, while growing again, they need to grow faster. the gap between the rich and everyone else is still way too wide. republicans in congress have repeatedly blocked investments

and initiatives that would have created jobs faster. but the middle class is not getting squeezed because of minorities or immigrants or moochers or anyone else we are being told to blame for our problems. if we need to fix what needs fixing, we cannot divide ourselves. we need to come together. we need to push back against policies that push special policies and push for that help working americans. that is a choice that you are making this year, between policies that help workers and those who do not, the between strengthening rules that we put on wall street to prevent another crisis, or dismantling them. between a tax code that is fair for working families, or wasteful tax cuts that create a fortunate few at the very top. over the past seven years we have proven progress is possible, but it's not inevitable. it depends on us.

it depends on the choices we make. and if we come together around beliefmon values and the and everyone putting in at her, then we will deliver on a brighter future for all of us. thanks and have a great weekend. speaker ryan: let's face it. people know what republicans are against. now we are going to give you a plan that shows you what we are for. our ambition is a confident america, where everybody has a chance to go and succeed, no matter where they start in life. that is the american idea. right now, our country is on the wrong path. so how do we get back on track? well, we can get angry, or we can channel that into action. we can start to tackle our problems before they tackle us. this is what americans do. we do not accept decline, we do to given to -- give in

division, we find a better way. take poverty. for years, decades now, washington has spent billions of dollars on programs to fight poverty. but we have barely moved the meter. but the war on poverty is a stalemate at best. so we can keep getting the same results, or we can get those in poverty on the latter to opportunity. with work we strengthen our , economy so everyone can make the most of their lives. this is what our plan does. it takes are timeless principles -- liberty, freedom, consent of the government, and it applies them to the problems of our time. it makes it clear what needs to change. we have a real choice on poverty , jobs, taxes, security, health care, and government itself.

after decades of overreach, it is time that we restore our constitution. let's take those jobs away from unelected bureaucrats and give them to the people and their representatives. so that we are writing the laws that we live under. playve the biggest role to in our lives. that is why a clear choice is so important. it is easy to get caught up in the back and forth and finger-pointing. if we do this, we can set things right. we need to go bold. this is a chance to pull together and be part of something greater and more inclusive. and a confident america. this is a better way. ♪ >> our live coverage of the presidential race continues on tuesday night, with primaries in six states, california, montana,

new jersey, new mexico, and north and south dakota. >> a more different vision for our country, then the one of democrats,de for progress, for fairness and opportunity, then the presumptive nominee on the republican side -- >> we are going to win on progress, on education -- no more, court bringing us down -- common core bringing us down. we will win at the border. we are going to win. >> we have got to redefine what politics means in america. we need people from coast to coast, standing up, fighting back and demanding a government that represents all of us, not just the 1%. [applause] >> join us at 9:00 p.m. eastern

for election results, candidate speeches, and your reaction. and we will look ahead at the fall battleground states. taking you on the road to the white house. a live look in los angeles where president candidate bernie sanders is holding a town hall on immigration policy. he entered the room and we are expecting to get way -- get underway at any moment. sanders: thank you so much for coming. delighted way, i am to be here with congressman -- the congressman from arizona. i think all of you know that raul has been, throughout his political life, one of the leaders in congress in the fight for immigrant justice, in the

fight for racial justice, and the fight for economic justice, and social justice. thank you so much for what you have done for our country. [applause] say a few words and we will get the panel going. i am running for president because the truth is, given the many crises that we face as a nation it is just too late for establishment politics and establishment economics. we need real change, today. [applause] not credible to me that we could have candidates that take millions of dollars from wall street and other special interests and tell us that they will stand up to those special interests and create a government that will work for all of us.

in terms of immigration issues and issues of particular concern , to the latino community, number one i want you all to know that i am the son of an immigrant. first-generation. [applause] my father came from poland at the age of 17 years old to escape poverty. he came to this country with no money. he came not speaking a word of english. but he became a proud american because he saw what the united states could do. whether country could do for his two sons. he never made much money, but he was a very proud american because of the opportunities this country gave him. where we are today, and i will go into this in greater length, in terms of immigration policy, everybody knows that the immigration system is totally broken. nobody debates that.

before we get to immigration reform, i want to say that as a united states senator and president of the united states, i am going to do, and have done, everything i can to combat the bigotry and ignorance of donald trump and people like that. [applause] all of you know, all of you know, we know american history -- the struggle that this country has gone through for hundreds of years, the fight against discrimination -- we had to deal with slavery, the terrible deeds we did to the american native people. jews,t italians, irish, we had hoped especially after electing the first african-american president in our history that the blatant

bigotry was behind us. but apparently it is not. and it is incumbent upon all of trumpstand up to donald and tell him that his bigotry, his insults of the mexican and latino community, to the muslim community, two women, veterans, african-americans, this is not what this country is about and we will not accept it for one second. [applause] secondly, everybody knows that we had 11 million undocumented people in this country and what many of us know, everybody knows , that many of those people working today are being exploited. we will get into that issue for a little bit of length, but

in californiale today, undocumented people, who are being cheated of wages, they are being underpaid and overworked, and we know that they cannot stand up for their rights because they are undocumented. and that is why among many other reasons, together we will pass comprehensive immigration reform in a path toward citizenship. [applause] i was at, i do not know if any of you have been there, but i was at friendship park in san diego. park is a part located -- located on the ocean. it is a beautiful area looking at the pacific ocean. on the other hand, it is a very tragic and sad location, because there is a fence there. weekends they on

open up the fence and they allow people from both sides to come together. but the fence and a restraining is -- screening is so tight that people cannot embrace each other. the only physical contact that a husband and wife or child and parent can have is literally sticking a pinkie to a tight string. how tragic is that? to see moms on one side and children on the other side. the function of real immigration reform must be to unite families, not divide them. [applause] and that is why we will end the

current bill advised deportation dvised deportation policies. and if congress does not do with the american people want them to do. the majority of the american people want real immigration reform, if congress does not do that, then i will use all of the powers of the presidency through executive orders to do the best i can do. [applause] andrly, the preferable long-term solution is comprehensive immigration reform. last point, the latino community is by and large a working-class community. and like the rest of the working-class, people are struggling to put bread on the

table and to make ends meet. i believe that we have an economic agenda, not just immigration reform, but an economic agenda that makes sense and works for the latino new. -- latino community. hours a, if you work 40 week, you cannot be living in poverty. we are raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour. [applause] and we make sure that women get equal pay for equal work. [applause] that we create millions of good paying jobs by rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure, our water systems, our waste water plant, our bridges, we can put 30 million in this country back to work -- 13 million people in this country back to work and

make our roads and country safer. [applause] the united states is the only major country on earth that does not guarantee health care to all people as a right. i live 50 miles away from the canadian border in vermont, all of the people in california have health care as a right. if elected as president, we will fight for medicare for all, a health care system that guarantees health care for all people as a right. [applause] we have hundreds of thousands of bright young people in this country who cannot afford to go to college, and many others who ,re leaving school, $30,000 $50,000, $70,000 in debt. when we talk about public

education, we should understand that that must mean making public colleges and universities tuition free. [applause] this is what i want to see. yes, sweetheart? ok. [applause] say, it is funny. i was just going to talk about that. i want to see the children of california and vermont and america, i want to see those kids who study hard and do well in school, i want to see those children know that if they study hard they will be able to get a college education regardless of the income of their family. [applause] one other point and then we will get on with the panel.

i know that many of you are deeply concerned about our criminal justice system. you should be, it is a broken system. we have a broken immigration system and we have a broken criminal justice system. here are the facts, in this country today we have more people in jail than any other country on earth. you know that? people 2.2 million disproportionately african-american, latino, and native american. here is something else we have in this country. we have communities in our inner cities, african-american communities, latino communities, we have communities in rural america, where the youth unemployment rate is 30%-40%-50%, that means you have kids that are 17 years of age and they leave high school and

there are no jobs available to them. and when you have young people who have no jobs, who are not in school, who are hanging out on street corners, bad things can happen. and that is why i strongly believe that as a nation we should invest in our young people, in jobs, and in education. not jails for incarceration. [applause] ok, that is a little bit of what i wanted to say. take it away. >> before we get started, i want to recognize one of the very first elected officials that came out in support of senator sanders' candidacy. that is our councilmember. if you could please stand.

[applause] the councilmember has a long history of advocating for latino communities, so thank you. [applause] the first question comes from a long time in the get right -- immigrant rights activists, from mexico. [applause] has anan indigenous -- indigenous ancestry and is an advocate for those indigenous communities and will share a story about the impact of trade and the indigenous background as it relates to the immigrant community. [applause] mr. sanders -- [speaking a

language] i will interpret. good afternoon, senator sanders. born in a mexican state the largest indigenous population. my communities are in the highlands, where we wake up in the clouds. we are the people of the clouds. out of the 68 indigenous , 16 are -- languages spoken in our state. mexico is a multicultural, multilingual country, were 7.2 million mexicans speak indigenous languages. only indigenous linkages. is out of five mexicans

indigenous. according to the mexican human rights division. where from a sacred place very few people live, this is a ghost town. because most people have moved to los angeles. indigenous communities are rich in culture, however, every day -- due to the u.s. our lands are being taken by national companies, many of them u.s. owned. when we stand up for human rights, we are threatened by the mexican police and army. studentse 43 missing who were mostly indigenous. many members of the mexican army and police are training and

security cooperation. they are not only waging a war on drugs, but they are waging a war on indigenous communities in the most indigenous states. many are working for u.s. companies in mexico. we go from being land owners, to become a low-wage workers. that is the reason we come to the u.s., it is the economic policies. in the u.s., we are in the same condition, we make more than 20% of the cultural in the labor force in california. we face discrimination and racism from other mexican brothers and sisters. we have integrated into the u.s. culture and in this audience you will find indigenous people who have graduated from harvard, stanford, ucla, not only with bachelor's degrees, but also

with masters and phd. we contribute economically and culturally to the social fabric of the united states. we are proud to call ourselves americans, because we are the original owners of the american continent. [applause] yes, we are proud of being from this great country. we also have the right to be treated equally while being different. , whatis reason i ask you will you and your team do to build an inclusive coalition that acknowledges the diverse community and the policies that will recognize the indigenous peoples rights and make immigration voluntary? will you ensure that we can no longer be led to poverty and

misplacement in our native oaxaca. and prohibit any future agreements that will increase unemployment, low wages, poverty and displacement of indigenous people all over? thank you and welcome to california. [applause] host: thank you. mr. sanders: thank you. >> can everybody repeat? speaking] >> thank you. mr. sanders: thank you. thank you for your presentation. you covered a lot of area, all important. truly important. one of those things, let me start with something, and i will touch on the issues. trade. our current trade policy is

have not only-- been a disaster for workers in this country, they have been a disaster for workers and farmers in mexico. [applause] mr. sanders: and as you have indicated, what has happened and what these trade agreements are, they are part of a global ethics for a race to the bottom. some of you remember jack welsh, does not name mean anything? he used to be the head of general logic. this is what he said before he got a $400 million retirement package. he said, if i had my wishes, i would put our manufacturing plants, ge manufacturing plants on a barge and i would take them to those parts of the world where wages were the lowest.

and if somebody can go lower than mexico, we will go there. lower than china, lower than the it not. we will find a place where we can employ people for pennies an hour. you are looking at somebody unlikefellow terry -- secretary clinton, who opposed all of these trade agreements with have cost us millions of jobs. [applause] mr. sanders: that is what those trade agreement have done in this country. what they have done in mexico is drive small family farmers off of their land. there are communities in mexico where you no longer can find, farms because they have shut down and they are unable to compete with companies coming from the united states. so this is a policy that has her workers in this country -- hurt workers in this country and hurt farmers in mexico.

we will together transform the trade policies so that they work for the working people of this country, so that they work for the poor people of other countries, not just the ceos of large corporations. that is our trade policy. [applause] mr. sanders: as i go around the country, i have learned a lot because i have met for many people -- with many people, point number one, we should be incredibly proud of the fact that in this country, unlike others, we have folks from hundreds of countries in every continent on earth coming to the united states of america. donald trump does not understand it, but our diversity is our strength. [applause] mr. sanders: think what your

people are adding to the culture of this country. think what people from africa are adding to the culture of this country, from europe, from asia, that is our strength and we have got to build on the strength and not allow people to attack that strength. by that, what i mean is all of us are proud of where we come from. i just spoke last night to a group of native americans who understand that one of the challenges that their young people have is they have broken the roots from where they come from. as human beings it is important to all of us know where we come from. that we maintain the languages that we, our people knew. [applause] mr. sanders: our culture that we protect the sovereign right of people and to the promises made. to get to your very first

question, whether it is dealing with the immigrant population or any other group, we have many problems in this country. thinks that i know all the answers, that is very wrong. the people that know the answers are the people that are doing the work, living the lives every single day. [applause] mr. sanders: and what a good leader does for his or her self interests, you bring in the communities and say ok, what do you see as the problems, what do you see as the solutions, and how do we go forward? that is always part of what i have tried to do and certainly that is what i would try to do with the immigrant population. thank you. [applause] host: our next presenter is a mother, she is undocumented and

she is fighting for her right for her family -- please help me introduce that he. -- betty. [applause] hi, i am in on document the mother. -- undocumented mother. i have been living here for 30 years. i never had the hope that i would be a citizen. i started talking about immigration reform -- i have a hope. i want to go back to my country. am in a -- i am in

san diego because it is a checkpoint. i go to another checkpoint. i get home,day when i think about getting back. before, i was working and i was fine. but all of the hopes obama is great -- he is breaking the families apart. and when i say all these things that could happen. i talk with people every day. i pretend i am strong. but i am afraid to be deported. i have been living in this country more times then in my country. i feel like i deserve to be

here. i work and i do a lot of things. i don't have nothing. i do not have hope. i am really afraid to be separated. i have a mom that is from tijuana. this lady called me once and she was deported. she asked me, what will you do? cross.d, i am going to -- i said, no you do not have to do that. i feel like a mother. keep talking- so i to her and now they are fighting to come back to this country. happene what is going to

for all of these people. what is going to happen. is, what are you going to do with the reunification of these families and to stop the deportation? that is my concern. what will happen? [applause] first let me say -- thank you for your courage. thank you for your willingness in your own difficult times to help other people. number one, as i mentioned earlier, our immigration policy must be to unite families, not divide them. i will end the deportation policies that currently exist so you do not have to live in fear. [applause]

i was in phoenix a number of months ago and i will never forget, sometimes you see things, i remembered about a half a dozen teenage kids, latinos -- young ladies. tears were coming down their cheeks because they expressed the same fear. on any given day, they could be separated from their mother or father. and they live in fear. number one, we will end the current deportation policies. [applause] and number two, we will fight for the comprehensive immigration reform. you have been in this country for 30 years. [applause] mr. sanders: if you have been in this country 30 years then you are an american in every sense and we need to make that legal as well. [applause]

and if raul's colleagues in the house reviews to do the right things -- refuse to do the right things, we will look at all options in terms of expanding immigration rights through the executive powers that the president has. that is what we will do. thank you very much. raul, do you want to add anything? >> i think that you covered it. host: our final presenter is a representative of a day laborer network that organizes immigrant workers all throughout southern california and has been doing this for a long time, a well-organized -- well-recognized leader across the country. please let me welcome him. [applause] >> gracias.

tardes.ris -- buenas i am a mexican from el salvador. [applause] [speaking say -- spanish] welcome. welcome to los angeles. [applause] that is on the road to becoming a -- city. isn't that right? even if donald trump does not like it, we are going to become a full century city -- sanctuary city. ,nd with you in the white house our country will become a sanctuary for everyone. so i have had the honor to work onh men and women who stand

public sidewalks in front of home improvement stores and it is an honor to work with workers, together with many colleagues who are here in this room today, and many colleagues across the country, we have been able to set up worker centers. and in these centers, the face of the new labor movement, many of these centers with the organizers do, we measure the weekend -- make sure that we send people, if they do not get paid, they get it back. we look at the basic remedy for those circumstances, but it is not enough. we connect 70 of these worker centers, so we make sure that

the rights of workers are respected. not just the rights of workers, but there immigrant rights as well. before being immigrant, people are workers and these rights do not end at the border. so as we fight to improve wages and working conditions and thank you for being one of the champions for the fight. [applause] there are many abuses that go on in our country and every day millions of dollars are stolen from workers. made theur country has decision, our country has built an incredible infrastructure to persecute the young man who is still selling candy at a local

store, particularly if he is a man of color. we have an infrastructure, our city spends half of the budget in persecuting people like that. but the infrastructure to persecute employers who still wages, is- steal very small. there is one investigator in los angeles county. it does not make sense. as much progress as we have made nationally, we have to make sure that those decisions that caps on mers have made -- council members have made, get enforced. as a representative of immigrant workers, the best way to start making sure that we enforce the that everyaking sure undocumented worker who is

cheated of wages, every undocumented worker whose rights are violated, that they have an opportunity to seek immigration status. if a migrant worker is the victim of a crime, they cannot fight for a visa. so what about this they are victims -- if they are victims of workplace violations, would you support that effort? mr. sanders: absolutely. [applause] mr. sanders: let me just, if i might very briefly. i want to tell you a story. in 2007, i had heard about the exploitation of undocumented workers in florida. and i went down there. and what i saw in a town where they grow tomatoes, tomato workers, literally the day i got

, ao the town a contractor labor contractor, was being arrested by the u.s. attorney, you know for what kind? --7 amino the crime was 2007, you know what the crime was? when i went down there, coincidentally there was a contractor holding people in involuntary servitude. slavery. forcing them to work against their own will. that was not the first case of slavery brought in that area. what i saw where workers that were clearly exploited, in the field, not getting paid. if it rained, you do not get paid. the working conditions were visible, the health care access was terrible. i need your help on this. my impression is we just came

back from the delano area where i had the opportunity to go where chavez was on his hunger strike in order to protest exploitation of farmworkers and the pesticide they were exposed to. my impression is that even today while the situation is better than when chavez was active, but today thousands of workers are cheated, isd, -- that accurate? [yelling] mr. sanders: i'm sorry? [inaudible] mr. sanders: right. and the reason, this is what you are combating right now, you have no legal rights. if i pay you three dollars in our, what will you do about it? you are not going to go to the police, right?

that is what you are trying to reform. vigorously of posing -- "vigorously -- opposing vigorously, this treatment of workers, it is the right thing to do. but you know what else, there are workers who are documented, how the impact them? if employers campaign starvation wages -- can pay starvation wages, why would i pay somebody else higher wages? it is the race to the bottom. we need to fight to make sure the undocumented workers get treated fairly and have real recourse. your recourse is, somebody che ats them, you can find legal status. you have employers who are laughing all the way to the bank.

right? they are ripping off workers and making a whole lot of money instead of paying legal wages. we need to deal with that and we need to hold those employers accountable. [applause] host: we are now going to go to questions from the audience and caesar will be here. the team will select the first question. >> i want to make a statement first. this is from one of our great supporters. [speaking spanish]

[applause] sen. sanders: i should have studied spanish better.