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

[indiscernible] -- providing a great future for her son. , if elected,know what would you do? the undocumented community is doing a lot of work in ventura, elected.a, to get you sen. sanders: congratulations to going to college. immigrationass reform. that is the best approach. if congress does not do the dopa thing, i will expand and doka.

[indiscernible] -- i am a professor of architecture. [speaking spanish] i have been teaching there for 14 years. tuition went from being $1400 to over $5,000. that seems like it may be affordable for some. for our immigrant families, that is a big number. our families are working families and we work hard. a lot ofnts are under pressure. what is your future presidency can do for us? sen. sanders: this is an issue i feel strongly about.

issue i think the vast majority of the american people feel strongly about. here's what the issue is. what we call a no-brainer. increasingly competitive global economy. if this country is going to , we needconomically the best educated workforce in the world. right? [applause] if we were really smart, what we would be doing is urging everybody, not just the younger people, the economy changes every day. provide opportunities for everybody to get the best education they could. as you have just indicated, the cost of college is unaffordable to hundreds of thousands of young people.

these are young people trying to do well in school, but they are working 20, 30, 40 hours a week. how can you have the ability to do well in school when you are working so many hours? all of that is crazy. it is not good for this country. believe public colleges and universities like yours should be tuition free. [applause] also, i believe we have to deal with the crisis of student debt. orot of people who graduate leave school are deeply in debt. they have to pay off that debt

year after year, sometimes decade after decade. that means they cannot afford a house, they cannot get married, have children. that is crazy. mentality change our regarding education. we should encourage and reward people -- i want you to get a good education. you should not be punished for getting a good education. [applause] people say well, that sounds like a great idea, you are a nice. how are you going to pay for that? us to another issue which distinguishes our campaign from secretary clinton's or anybody else's. we live in a country with more income and wealth inequality than any other major country on earth.

the top 20 wealthiest people in america own more wealth than the bottom half of america. what we have seen as the middle class shrinking and shrinking while health care costs and education costs are soaring. that is why so many middle-class families are in trouble today. it is time to tell the streetaire class, wall they cannot have it all. we are going to put a tax on wall street speculation that will raise more than enough money, more than enough money to make public colleges and universities tuition free and lower student debt. this is not a radical idea. to goow how much it costs to college in germany today? zero. scandinavia?

zero. these countries are smart. they are investing in young people and the future of their country. we should do the same. [applause] mr. sanders, i am from the san fernando valley. i shared my story earlier. 40% of homeless youth in our country are part of the lgbt community. that is a huge issue. many of them, when i was i saw veterans who were homeless, that many of my queer and transgender youth who were undocumented. if you are elected president, can you commit for a path to

citizenship to all undocumented lgbt youth who are homeless and the more than 25 trans women of color who have been murdered last year, can you make family acceptance and trans awareness a priority as a public issue? sen. sanders: let me say this. forms ofs to end all discrimination. based on color, race, sexual orientation. we treat allry, people, lgbt, anybody else, with the quality. anybodyfits that go to goes to everybody. that is my pledge to you. [applause] we have to get going fairly soon. ok.

>> it is a pleasure to have you here. we share your views and your vision for america on important issues for community. we need your help. .eyond this election we are going to do everything we can to put you in the white house because we want you as our president. we need your help. in repealing the 1996 law signed by president clinton that .riminalized our people

secondly, we need to get rid of the private detention centers from the profited suffering of our people. for yourunt on you help as president? let me start with the second and we will go to the first. if you read our platform, in terms of criminal justice, it is clear we have got to end corporate ownership of prisons and detention centers. [applause] our job should be to keep people out of jail. if you are a corporation that owns a jail, what is your incentive?

you make more money by getting more people into jail. that.e to end i will end that. that is an important plank on our criminal justice reform. also, thereu made is a lot of pain in the immigrant community. we heard it from betty and we have heard it from so many people. of beingo are afraid deported, who are afraid of being separated from their children, children being separated from their parents. that is not what our immigration policy should we. we unite families, not divide families. [applause] >> i can add to what the senator

has said. platform on the , and bernie talks specifically to the question, if you do not dismantle and repeal those provisions, the 1996 laws that have led to the situation, you cannot have the kind of comprehensive immigration reform we want. that has to be part of it. part of it is, to end the requirements that so many beds be filled for these for-profit prisons. one of the reasons many of us have committed strongly to theie is because we see effect in our community. [speaking spanish] says is the same

that he says in another setting and that is very important. >> we have one last question. spanish]ing i work in the car wash. i am with local 675. the steps, doing what i am supposed to do. i am an immigrant worker. i am one of many immigrant

workers. i want to ask you is -- how are you going to help us? i am going to help you. oul and i have worked on issues over the years. you are looking at someone who has a strong pro-worker voting record and lifetime activity of any member of the united states of congress. [applause] not know what wages you are making now, but we will have, we will fight for a federal minimum hour.f $15 an fight for legislation that makes it easier for workers to join unions. [applause]

we are going to fight to make sure every person in this as ary has health care right, not a privilege. [applause] thank you so much. one last question here. thank you so much for coming. one last question. our communities, our members have conviction. president obama has said he is supporting families. will you get -- out of our jails? i do not want to give you a definitive answer other than to say we are going to take a hard look at all

aspects of criminal justice. we have a broken system. let me give you one example. speak for or to against marijuana, but what the story is, people in minority communities get arrested for possession of marijuana at a higher rate than do people in the white communities. that leads to criminal records and all kinds of problems. i am aware of the problems in ice. i have talked to families who have been negatively impacted by ice. we will take a hard look at that. to make onint i want criminal justice, i should have made it earlier. anybody in our country gets in police custody, broadly speaking police custody, an immediategger

investigation by the federal department of justice. [applause] thank you for raising those issues. we will take a look at criminal justice from a-z and i know minority communities are over thosed and i want to see departments reflect the diversity of the communities they serve. we want to end the militarization of local police departments. there is a lot of work to do and i look forward to working with you to make those improvements. thank you. [applause] thank you all very much. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org]

>> that was bernie sanders wrapping up a town hall in los angeles. you can see the event again

pm eastern here on c-span. it is also available online. we will take you to los angeles for a get out the vote rally with bill clinton who is campaigning for his wife. that is at 3:15 p.m. eastern live on c-span. speculation builds on running mates for the candidates. tomorrow begins the first in a series of programs on a list of people named as potential vp candidates. warren, andzabeth brown. that airs tomorrow on c-span. madam secretary, we give 72

of our delegate votes to the next president of the united states. >> joining us now, the supreme court correspondent for the new york times. good morning. thank you for joining us. tell us how the eight member court is working so far.

>> it seems like they have gone into hibernation. decide casesng to and avoid four deadlocks. when we went into this term, it looked like there were six cases involving issues like abortion and immigration. it is not clear these things that look like blockbusters will turn to be blockbusters or will fizzle out. >> you wrote about how the justices are functioning since the vacancy greeted by justice scalia's death. you show there are interesting alliances forming. it is not just the split. to -- has seem to camps, thedifferent

justices working to deliver unified opinions. the remaining members seem less committed to that project. -- the of rulings wrote eight members concurrences. justices wrote just four. the remaining are making up the center of confesses -- of consensus. >> everybody conceived it this way. we have a situation where the center is much larger, where you almoste chief justice always voting together. the people who are resisting this trend are the two most conservative.

that is a brand-new situation. advocates are getting used to it. we don't know how long it is going to last. that means a lot of cases will be decided i a kind of court that is exercising judicial minimalism. justice roberts would rather have more people vote on a narrow legal proposition than a 5-4 court making a broad pronouncement. he did not have luck with that until justice scalia died. your basis on the opinions that have come down, this is the prime season for when some of the close cases are expected to come down.

>> everything you just said might be proven wrong in a few weeks. to do that with eight members, particularly because of four-liberals block. they are in a position to block any major move to the right, which is the general trend of the court before scalia's death. >> you talk about the attempt to build consensus. clip] >> i try to achieve as much consistence -- consensus as i can. we have to have commitment as a group to do that. i don't want to speak for the others. we spend a fair amount of time, a little more than others in the past talking about things, talking them out. sometimes it brings you a little closer together.

maybe in five years, you get another case where you have to. it has something to do with judicial philosophy. and only be restrained decide issues when it is necessary to do so. justicewas chief roberts speaking late last month. what do you think about what he said? >> i think that is what he is trying to do and he is happy to do it. where the conferences could be crisp and businesslike, there is a sense that they spend more time hashing and out, trying to find common ground. i can imagine situations in

which the initial vote is for-four. they do not want to deadlock. somebody says let me see if i can write this in a where where at least five of us can agree. awaymay mean the case goes . you do have a supreme court decision, you do not have a court that is deadlocked and unable to do anything. >> we are talking about the u.s. supreme court with it eight currently with one vacancy. you can join the conversation. democrats, (202) 748-8000. republicans, (202) 748-8001. independents, (202) 748-8002. talking about reaching 4-4ensus, it looked like a split, we saw that with the contraception case. might we see more cases like that in the next month?

unusual.as it was a clash between a regulation that calls for employers to give to-contraception coverage female employees. religious groups say that makes them complicit in sin. it doesn't seem like you can bridge the gap between these, but the supreme court issued a very odd order. you did it this way, we did it this way, that way, can we have more briefs? they are acting like a mediator rather than eighth -- rather than an appellate court. who knows? this may turn out to be a brilliant move or may kick the can down the road a couple of

years. it resulted in something other than a 4-4 deadlock. the members are content with this. talking to add him about the supreme court. line,g on our democratic richard. good morning. >> good morning. >> good morning. you are on. judgequestion is why any or judges should be divided along political lines. they should not be appointed that way. how can you get anything done fairly in the united states when it is set up that way? i do not get it. there are a couple of ways to think about this. most people think most legal questions have legal answers all judges should agree on and there should be no political swing on it at all.

the constitutional text is vague and old and does not supply the answer. cases, the justices divide along ideological lines. one way to know this is a real thing is the republicans are to make sure hell president obama doesn't have another supreme court nominee. that is not because his nominee is thought to be crazy or out of the mainstream. he is a well-respected judge. the republicans the supremehat and court and some of the big constitutional cases, there is a political component. component,he only but it is a component of decision-making. written abouteen the ideology of the court and

the idea of a partisan battle. does not carry over to personal interactions of supreme court justices saying they like to eat that they like to eat meals together, and occasionally get a drink together. ginsburgr t commented that when someone has a birthday, they toast the birthday boy or girl, and seeing happy birthday. she said, it is not pretty, most cannot carry a tune. guest: justice scalia used to say, i don't attack people, i attack ideas. they have to get along. it is an arranged marriage with mar divorce.y for