decision to go after him on the basis of him being a lobbyist? sen. baldwin: it is the issue. medicare should be able to bargain for better prices for american seniors. v.a. bargains with drug companies and medicare, which covers over 40 million americans, and doesn't. meaning seniors need to shoulder these costs. it costs government a lot more money and it costs medicare a lot more money. i was in the house of representatives at the time the medicare part d, medicare modernization act as it was called, that the program was debated and passed. i voted no. i felt very strongly that we should not be forbidding our

government from creating huge savings, $156 billion. huge savings for the american people. tommy thompson was secretary at the time that bill advanced, and in my mind, it was a good example of the system being rigged to benefit the drug companies and other people. -- and not the people. brian: why then, when president obama had a chance to change it with obamacare, they kept the inability of the government and medicare to negotiate for prices on drugs and this was a one-sided vote? why did the not change it then? sen. baldwin: they should have. we still should. i was involved in the crafting of that legislation on the outside, sitting on the energy and commerce committee. we had every intention of advancing the measure that would

create opportunities for lower drug prices through bargaining. in freestanding legislation, i also supported the right of citizens, especially in northern states like wisconsin, to purchase from canada. i remember a whole time when people were taking buses to the canadian border in order to fill their prescriptions are affordably. brian: are they still doing that? sen. baldwin: now that we are slowly closing the donut hole, as it is called, and i assume your viewers know what the doughnut hole is, the gap in coverage that exists in the medicare part d program.

i assume that is less of an occurrence but i also assume it still occurs. i wish we had a bill that requires the government to bargain on behalf of seniors and people with disabilities for better drug prices. i also wish it had a public option and i was very involved in that debate. i think the affordable care act has led to the health care coverage for literally millions of americans, especially a recent report saying the most vulnerable americans that were unable to secure that health coverage prior to the passage of the law. it is not perfect. we have forget to do. brian: here is an ad that was run against you in the 2012 campaign. >> you are damn right we are making a difference. >> tammy baldwin is out of touch with wisconsin. she thinks obamacare does not go

far enough in putting government in control of our health care. once medicare spending cuts decided by unelected bureaucrats. at baldwin supports more taxes on middle-class families. bigger government, extreme politics. tammy baldwin is what is wrong with washington. ♪ brian: in a magazine article, in the milwaukee magazine back in 2014, there is a quote from someone that was saying nice things about you. i think it was senator al franken. "i always thought timmy, you are the most serene member of this body." that was not very serene. sen. baldwin: that's right. i could talk about that ad for quite some time, how may times they could fit that phrase in a 30-second ad was amazing. i was emphasizing a point, as you could tell.

i very seldom swear. al franken was right. at least publicly. i felt very passionately about this progressive and populous -- populist point. this was a speech of was giving during the time our governor, scott walker had stripped collective-bargaining rights from our public sector workers. there were people who were marching and protesting for weeks. there were a quarter million people they came to the state capital from all over the state to decry this move. somebody had come up to me.

i had often joined the rallies and i was home from congress on the weekends. i live in madison, so it was not too far away and i joined the marches. somebody came up to me, as it was clear that they were moving -- losing this phase of the battle and the governor was going to sign this into law and said, tammy, has any of this made any difference? have we just wasted all of our time by marching and drawing attention to this injustice? and that is when i responded, you are damn right you are making a difference. people do have to be involved. people need to not be spectators when bad policy decisions are being made. i think that ad probably backfired as an attack ad more than any i have seen in modern history. people want a fighter. people want somebody who is going to go to washington and,

you know, at some point calmly, and serenely argue the case and at other times say, this is wrong and we need to be fair and get this job done. brian: when did you develop the views that you have? sen. baldwin: throughout my life. brian: was there a teacher, a book, a grandparent or was there a point, or do you always from -- always remember thinking the way you do? sen. baldwin: actually in terms of that contrast between this activist and more calm leader i think it was a real contrast between my grandparents and my time with my mother. i think it would be safe to have described my mother as a hippie on campus, and as i told you, she returned to school during my young years and that would have been during the antiwar movement, the civil rights movement, and so i saw her

participating in the big debates of the day as a student activist. i saw my grandparents, who were very concerned, especially both of them being connected to the university, with the quality of our educational system and the investment there. my grandfather was very focused on scientific research as well as academic freedom issues. they were much more traditional in their approach to politics. they were probably more the letter writers, that they did get themselves, they did become involved in those ways, writing letters to the editor, writing letters to their elected officials.

i saw the incredible contrast, and in my mother's case saw a generation, who when i was still a child, that was really acting to change the course of history with regard to women's rights and civil rights, the course of the war in vietnam and i saw my grandparents also making an impact, and i think perhaps i became, you know, the best of each i hope. brian: did you ever know your father? sen. baldwin: i did not. my parents divorced when i was two months old. what i can tell you is, for me, a heartwarming moment in my 20's. i learned of my father's passing

when his sisters and brothers reached out to me and said, if it takes our brother's death, we will not let any more time pass without getting to know you. they are among the dearest of my relatives to this day. i see them frequently. i did not meet them until my mid-20's, but there is a whole political strain that runs through the baldwin side of the family, too. it is great. i would consider all of them progressive. most of them had their youth in wisconsin. although the eldest, my father and his younger brother were born in indiana. and quickly they moved to wisconsin, but everything they have shared with family history

, as well as their own lives suggests -- if it is in the genes, that is partly where i got it. brian: i ran across an article and it starts off, u.s. senator tammy baldwin open an investigation into alleged 1954 blackmail scandal that led to the suicide of democratic senator lester hunt of wyoming and it is all connected with history. including the movie "advise and consent." did you ever watch that? sen. baldwin: i did not. it came out also before i was born. brian: what got you into this particular issue? because this is recent that you wanted to justice department to move in on an investigation? sen. baldwin: i had a visit by some folks, an attorney as well

as some folks who were really digging into the history of this tragic episode. i was new to the senate so i was intrigued by so many different strains of the story. a suicide of a senator in his office was never fully investigated. that there were implications, as the history was shared with me, there were implications of blackmail or extortion. there was another part of the story where the senator's son had been arrested for soliciting sex in a local park and there had been pressure on local

authorities, who had first dismissed the charges, to then reinstate the charges. another thread that brought it back to senator mccarthy, and it was very intriguing. i have the whole presentation, including reference to a recent documentary on this episode that reviewed some of the documents that have been uncovered. it struck me as unbelievable that there was not a full investigation, either by the senate or by the department of justice at that time. brian: this is back in the 1950's? sen. baldwin: it was in the 1950's. since then the son of the senator has spoken up and describes what his father had told him about the chain of events prior to his suicide. brian: let's catch up a little bit so people can see what the senator looked like. this is senator lester hunt of wyoming.

he was a democrat. the governor was a republican. and two republicans allegedly threatened him with exposing the story if he chose not to run for the senate, which he ended up not doing. he did not run for the senate but this is what he looks like and sounded like back in 1954. senator hunt: i think the people are going and are, perhaps are now a little bit tired of dragging across the front pages of the paper the names of those who are supposedly communist in our government, who have been dead for several years. most of them have gone through hearings of the un-american activities committee. i do not think communism will be much of an issue in the next election. i have been actively in public life for 22 years and in the best of my knowledge, i am not a -- i have never met a communist.

the two senators will --egedly like now tim were blackmailed him were -- have you found out any more about this? sen. baldwin: the documentarians who have put together a documentary on this chapter of american history -- only what they were able to uncover with the statements of senator hunt's son. this was many years after the original incident and his father's suicide. that said, this clip, it sort of introduces geopolitical element, -- the whole political element, as your question did. hunt was a democrat who had been vocal in his opposition to mccarthy and his tactics.

it was an election year where the balance of the senate was potentially going to be upset. and if they could pressure the wyoming democrat to resign from office or retire, not seek reelection, they would have an advantage they felt, especially if he were to resign from office. they would have a republican governor in that state to appoint his successor. so that just raises more , questions. certainly, we do not know exactly what happened. brian: he decided not to run again. he did not resign from the senate, so they leaked the information again at the time, but i wanted you to see, it for

-- and anybody that wants to watch this documentary, it is available through yahoo! it was done through a reporter that used to work for nbc. it is called "uniquely nasty." let's watch this. you can see the son of the senator this clip. >> they were patrolling the area to arrest people. that was the purpose. to pick up gays. narrator: it was a june evening in 1953 and hunt had gone to lafayette park across the street from the white house. law enforcement has created something called the pervert elimination squad, and they were waiting there that night. >> i got into conversations with the guy there who i was attracted. >> were you gay? >> no. i do not the guy know what that was. -- i do not think i knew what i was. this was an experiment.

he made it clear, yes, he was available. i propositioned him and they arrested me. brian: at the time, they were supposedly 600 investigators doing that same thing. what do you want the justice department to do in this case? what would close this loop? sen. baldwin: first of all, this allegation of extortion. there are allegations that literally the senators hauled in the prosecutor from the district of columbia on numerous occasions to get him to reinstate charges, which he ultimately did in this case. you know, this all ended with a sitting senator killing himself. there were threats to circulate tens of thousands of fan play -- wyoming, where

there were only tens of thousands of people at the time , to completely go after somebody on issues totally extraneous to the service of his people and the country. how do we ever make sure that these tactics are never used again? i think that is why it needs to be uncovered and then with regard to using allegations, using sexual orientation as a weapon, you know, i think it brings rater clarity to the type of things that were happening in the 1940's, 1950's and 1960's and makes us understand why we need protections from discrimination, why we need protections from hate crimes, etc. brian: by the way, again, the documentary is "uniquely nasty."

it is on yahoo! if someone wants to watch it. a lot of requests we have, this is the last clip we are going to use. this is one that i will be interested in with your reaction. this is you in action. ♪ >> ♪ wonder woman wonder woman and all the magic that you do lyrics]nct change their minds or change the world ♪ brian: so, now that you are senator, would you do that? sen. baldwin: i would do my hair a little bit better than i had in that picture. [laughter] sen. baldwin: even the second it came on, my foot was tapping. that was a really fun event. for some context for your

viewers, this was a finale of the gay pride parade in the -- and the organizers had called ahead and said, in a lighthearted manner, we want to give you our wonder woman award for your pioneering leadership. you know, you should definitely join us -- we will give you are wonder woman recognition and will welcome you on stage. i did. sometimes things get captured on video. [laughter] brian: i was able to interview your staff. what would they tell me about you that you do not like? in other words, what are the pet beefs you as a senator? sen. baldwin: i am not sure there are that many "won'ts" but i whine about there not being

enough hours in the day. i whine about that all of the time. when i am here in washington, d.c., there are so many wonderful wisconsinites who come to visit, to talk about issues of great concern to them. i serve on four committees. i am active on floor debates. there is just never enough time in the day. brian: what time does your day start? sen. baldwin: it varies. anywhere -- i try to get up a couple hours before i go into the office, but anywhere between, i would say 8:00 or 9:00 is average, but when it ends is the bigger uncertainty. there are often evening activities involved in this job. sometimes groups that are holding their conferences here in washington who want you to give using speeches or drop by

their events. meeting with colleagues, meeting with the women of the senate where we have a regular dinner on a bipartisan basis to work on issues of common concern and to demonstrate a model of bipartisanship that does not necessarily exist in other circles. and so, sometimes the evening might end around 7:00 and other times 9:00 or 10:00 and sometimes later. brian: what do you think of raising money? sen. baldwin: at this point, a necessary evil. i never want to be in the situation where i am not fighting tooth and nail for various campaign reforms. first of all, i think the citizens united decision with the supreme court in 2010 has

had a horrible impact on our system. but frankly, and again, this is another wisconsin connection. years ago we passed legislation through both houses called the mccain-feingold bill. authored in good part by feingold. brian: who is running against johnson. sen. baldwin: lost in 2010 after serving for many years, working across the aisle with john mccain to fashion the legislation. the point i wanted to make was , not not only did the supreme court decide the citizens united case, but over the years since the passage of mccain-feingold, that has been challenged in court and had been weakened and weekend and weekend. weakened anded and

weakened. we have to go back to the drawing board. citizens have got to feel that their voice matters, that their vote matters and whether they cannot spare a single cent to help someone running for office or whether they can write a big check that their concern, their struggles will be listened to and followed up on. brian: we have about one minute left. you are valedictorian of your high school class. did you have to give a speech? sen. baldwin: no. i wanted to give a speech. we had -- the academic rank was not connected with who got to give speeches. this is actually a story i got to tell when i spoke at the commencement at my high school alma mater, madison west high school a couple years ago. it was a competition to see who could be class speaker and there were three class speakers every year. i competed, and given how much i do public speaking with my job,

may be remarkably, maybe not, i did not get chosen and so i was just so sad that i did not win the competition to be one of my graduation speakers and i told the graduating class from madison west at their commencement a couple years ago when i was asked to come back, i told them, is at first you do -- if at first you do not succeed, try, try again to guess -- because now i am finally getting to speak at a west high school graduation. brian: on that note, senator tammy baldwin we thank you very much. sen. baldwin: thank you. [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] >> for free transcripts or to give us your comments about this ourram, visit us at

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requires the government to get a warrant. congress wants to expand ofection to other forms personal data. the house passed the e-mail privacy act in april and the senate is considering legislation. the counsel for the aclu and orter, commonwealth attorney in alexandria, virginia, have different perspectives. they're joined by amir nasr, technology reporter for "the morning consult." the regulations have not been updated since 1986. police have to get a warrant for things like e-mail or private facebook messages. this would put that protection into the law. porter: our main concern is to make sure electronic communications are provided with the same level of protection,

not an extra level of protection beyond what you would expect in your home or bank account. "> watch "the communicators tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span2. >> our to the white house coverage continues with primaries in six states. secretary clinton: a more different vision for our country ofn the one between our side democrats for progress, for prosperity, for fairness and opportunity than the presumptive nominee on the republican side. to trump: so we are going win progress. we are going to win on education. no more common core. ring it down. bring it down. we want it local. we are going to win with health care. we are going to win at the borders. we are going to win at trade. senator sanders: 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[applause] at 9 p.m. -- >> join us live at 9 p.m. eastern or results, candidate speeches, and your reaction. we will look ahead at the fall battleground state, taking you to the road to the white house on c-span, c-span radio, and c-span.org. >> bernie sanders is holding a news conference this afternoon in california. one of the holding primaries tomorrow, california. at 215 eastern here on c-span. tonight we look for you live coverage as hillary clinton holds a rally in long beach california.

she is now 26 delegates short of the 2000 -- of the delegates needed to win the nomination according to an associated press count. former president bill clinton held a rally in east los angeles ahead of california's primary tomorrow. including kareem abdul-jabbar and magic johnson. in the former labor secretary, hilda's police -- hilda solis. quite welcome, everybody. thank you for coming out to this event. we've got a number of people you might have heard about. starting with myself. i have been inside your community center. i really like the decor. you've got a lot of lakers stuff. a lot of support in this neighborhood. i don't see any clipper or anything around here, so that's wonderful.

the person i'm going to introduce you to today is somebody you all know about. he used to play for the lakers, he has gone on to be a very successful businessman, and entrepreneur. because of what he does we get jobs in south l.a. and east l.a.. we really want to thank him for that, because that means he has some consciousness and cares about you guys. just like some of the other people we will introduce today, people from the clinton family. they want to see education become a reality here. i know all of you support that, i support it. i support hillary. i think she is going to be able to do a great job. i'm not going to waste your time.

somebody told me when you speak in public, be sincere, be emotional, and most importantly be sure. -- be short. i'm going to introduce mr. earvin magic johnson. [cheering] earvin: hello everybody, hello every body. [cheering] i'm so happy to be here. let's give it up for the captain. he's here. blessed to lead us to five championships. another three at ucla. there is no greater sports hero that the city has produced then kareem abdul-jabbar. so give it up for him.

[applause] we are here supporting the next president of the united states. hillary clinton. the only candidate i can really country forward, create jobs, make sure that all of our kids get a great education. also, too, taking guns off the street. too many of our kids are getting killed, we can't stand by and watch that. that is why i'm so happy to support her as well. then today, one of the smartest men and one of the greatest presidents we have ever had, he is here and he is going to speak to you. that man is president bill clinton. [cheering] before he comes up, my job is to

introduce somebody who has been fighting for all of us, especially for this district and others. so give it up to the supervisor. supervisor so lease -- supervisor solis. there she is. yeah. now the differences i have to , help her on the stage so you guys can't see her. -- or you guys can't see her. all right. god bless you too. solis: thank you. welcome to east los angeles. who is the most important person we are thinking about today? we are thinking about them, we are thinking about a special visitor. and that is president bill clinton. but more importantly we are here

to learn more about why he is here, because it is so important for us to get out to vote on tuesday, june 7. let me say this. see there you go. , we need people to come out and vote on tuesday, and we need to make sure we have all of you. abuelitos. madres, padres. tell your friends. people need to know this is the biggest game in town. right now in california and los angeles county. we know where hillary clinton stands. she is qualified. who is going to be the next president of the united states? hillary rodham clinton. you know why? because she is a doer, as president clinton reminded us. i had the privilege of serving

her as a cabinet member. when those hard decisions have to be made, she doesn't move. she will be there for us, she will have the best interest for east los angeles or the people around the county in the state and in the country. she knows where latinos stand. they need better education and training. we also need to protect the women's right to choose. we need to protect gender equity for everyone in lgbtq. we also need to honor the people of los angeles who gave so much to defend our freedoms in the military. there is a large number of people that are there protecting our democracy. nobody knows that debtor than hillary rodham clinton. are you with us? are you going to vote on tuesday? are you going to tell your friends to come out? the polls open at 7 a.m. and close at 8 p.m. with that it is my privilege to have one of the

presidents who has actually done a lot, coming out here constantly never forgetting they are there with the clintons. -- that we are always there with the clintons. he is counting on us again for hillary rodham clinton. president, bill clinton, visiting us here in east l.a. [cheering] ♪ president clinton: hello, everybody. thank you. first of all, i feel -- i'm so glad to see you. thank you for coming out on this

beautiful sunny afternoon. let's give former secretary of labor and your supervisor a big hand. [applause] when i was -- before i was president i never dreamed that i would be on a program with kareem abdul-jabbar and magic johnson. if i had ever thought it i thought i would be the warm-up act for them instead of the other way around. i do want to thank them to for giving us a lot of thrills. but mostly for the lives they lived and the integrity they showed since they have left playing basketball, and their

continuing concern for the country and the young people in this country. let's give them a big hand, i'm very grateful to them. has this been a crazy election or what? >> stop the madness. [laughter] but there's aton: reason. when president obama gave his last state of the union address, he said something that was really true. he says we should be optimistic about the future, we are doing better than any other big economy on earth. -- we got 15 million new jobs in the last five years. we have a greater capacity for generating electricity from the sun and the wind than any of that's any other country honor. we have the best scientist, best technology. we have the best system of higher education and training. if i can use hillary's term we , have to make it possible for every young american to graduate from college debt-free. [cheering]

we have to make it possible for everybody that already has debt. so they can pay it off and get on with their lives. [cheering] either they do to years of community service and any other kind of public service job under her plan, you get $23,500 tax-free. just throw it against the debt or get rid of it. if you are a lot more, you can turn your college debt into a mortgage. that is pay it off over 20 years, never more than 10% over tax income. think without would mean? everyone could move out of their parents house. that's a big problem, right? if you had a job they didn't like but wanted to take one that you loved more but it paid less, you couldn't do that today unless are panned -- for plan passes. -- unless her plan passes.

if you wanted to open a small business in this neighborhood, if you got college that, can't -- college debt, you can't get any credit today. but you could if the plan passed. you wouldn't owe anything on the loan. this is the kind of thing we need to do. we need to say we are in this together, we are going to grow together, we are going to rise together. less inequality more upward , mobility, higher incomes. that is why it is important to have equal pay for women and affordable childcare. that is why it is important to pass comprehensive immigration reform and stopped hearing on these families up. worried about what is going to happen to them. that is why it is important to let all of these young people out of prison to get back into the mainstream life of this country.

we have to make a decision. if you think about what the republicans are saying, are we going to build a future with walls? or bridges? are we going to build a future where we are divided or where we are united? do we believe our democracy is a -- diversity is a strength or weakness? it is a strength. that is what this whole thing is about. all over the world crazy things are happening because we spent eight years in the aftermath of the worst crisis since the great depression. we are fighting about this. while we have gotten our jobs back most people haven't gotten a pay raise yet. people are fighting about this everywhere in the world. can we grow together again as we did when i had the honor of serving you? or do we have to fight over a little pie? are differences all that matter, or do differences make america a

country that can matter more than any other because of our diversity? these are simple questions that will make all the difference. all i can say -- i have two great qualifications. one is i had the job once. [applause] i think she has the best ideas to allow us to rise together and live together and be citizens together. i think she is the only one who has ever gotten anything done, which consistently receives their support of republicans and democrats. thirdly, i think she is the only person qualified to be commander-in-chief, to be a bridge builder in chief, so we can have the space we need to

grow and lists the rest of the world away from all this destructive politics. if we said we are going to go home and hide behind a wall. and demonize our friends to the south and central america, and demonize muslims, then other people will follow that and we will be in the soup. one of the thing i am really proud of is she is the most forthright person running for president to say our diversity is strength and we are in a big fight for what we ought to be like in the future. the main battlefield is over social media. in the words of the retired commander of nato on television, we are not going to kill our way out of this argument. we have to argue our way out of it, we have to educate our way out of it, we have to lift our

way out of it. and can help us make the argument that an inclusive society is possible so that everybody's believes can be -- beliefs can be respected. that is what america is at its best. [applause] i just want to say, before we kareem and magic and i were talking about our various contact with mohammed ali. i think -- yeah. here's the human thing i want to say about that. all he ever asked was that he be judged based on his ability. superiorhis sport was

to anyone at least -- >> follow this event online. we take you live now to emery, california for a news conference with bernie sanders. i want to thank the people of california for the incredible support that they have shown our campaign. weeks wee last several have her head -- we have held 38 separate event throughout the state of california. one of the things i enjoy very much is getting out to communities were other go,idates often do not including some pretty small towns. we have been amazed at the kinds of turnouts we have seen at these rallies. they have been attended in the last several weeks i 215,000 californians.

tonight we are going to be holding the last rally of our california campaign here in sanford disco and we help to have a good turn out there as well. let me repeat what i have said from day one here in california, which i think most people agree with. if the turnout is high tomorrow, we will win. turnout is very high, i think we will win by big numbers . if the turnout is low, we will probably lose. so, my request, obviously, to the people of california, to those people who are prepared to stand up and fight for real change in this country is -- and out and tomorrow. let's see california have the highest voter turnout in the history of this state in terms of the democratic primary. the message of our campaign throughout california and throughout the country has been,

i think, very consistent. it has been straightforward and i think it is the message that working people and the middle class want to hear. that is that it is just too late for establishment politics and establishment economics. we need real change in this country. not superficial change, but real that will end the trend in our country of moving toward handfulrchy in which a of extraordinarily wealthy people control both the political and economic life of our nation. today we have a corrupt campaign finance system in which billionaires and super pac's and large corporations are able to buy elections.

economy inigged which study after study shows that almost all new income and atlth is going to the top 1% a time when the middle class continues to shrink and shrink and shrink. and where millions of our people are working longer hours for lower wages. my view we will not be able to move forward as a nation and address this crisis unless it there is a political revolution in which millions of people stand up and fight back and demand a government that represents all of us and not just wealthy campaign contributors. we need a president and we need a government that will lead us into comprehensive immigration reform. where today we have 11 million people living in the shadows,

living in fear because they are undocumented. we need real criminal justice reform so that we and the international embarrassment of having more people in jail than any other country on earth. we need to pass a medicare for all health care system so that we do not remain the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all people. we do not address the planetary crisis of climate , oure, this world children, and our grandchildren will pay the price. which is why i believe we need old action and why we need a tax on policy. i have gone around california and learn something i didn't know. tens of thousands of families in this eight are living in homes where when they turn on the tap, they cannot get drinkable water.

that is a growing crisis in america and throughout the world . which is why in my view we have got than fracking today. lastly, it is clear to me that we have got to do everything that we can as a nation to make certain that donald trump does not become president of the united dates. meis incomprehensible to , in thethe year 2016 year 2016, given all that we have gone through as a nation for hundreds of years and trying to end racism, trying to end bigotry, trying to end discrimination, that we have a candidate of a major political party today is essentially running his campaign on bigotry. on insulting mexicans and latinos. on insulting muslims. on insulting african-americans and women.

it really is quite mind-boggling that this is taking place in the year 2016. it is clearly imperative that we do everything that we can to see that that type of bigotry does not end up in the white house. i am very proud that in virtually every national poll and every statewide poll that has been done, including the recent polls here in california, we are defeating trump. here and in every other state. the last three polls had is beating trump by 34 points. by 29 points and by 23 points. the last point i would make is that in virtually every poll done, nationally and in various we defeat trump by larger numbers than secretary clinton and in some cases she is losing to trump.

point is the recent gonzalo. judge it was beyond comprehension. this is the year 2016. to attack a judge because he has a mexican heritage? a man born in the state of indiana? is a candidate of our major parties in this country. it really is quite incomprehensible and i think the american people will understand that. terms of where we are politically, i think i've said everything i had to say a few days ago. if there are any questions on the issues. >> [inaudible] sen. sander: she is me. ma'am? ma'am? your hand. >> [inaudible] is gettingthe race

in the way of a could be the first female president. any person who opposes -- your quick question implies that any person, any woman who is running for president is by definition the best candidate. any woman who runs? so, if hillary clinton runs for president your point is that it is sexist for any man to a voice for -- a poser? >> -- oppose her? >> [inaudible] sen. sander: i think that is sexist. first of all, i think the issue is out of focus right now. it is running and winning right here in california. the second point i would make is that it is absolutely imperative that we defeat donald trump as the candidate for president of the united states. i think i'm the strongest

candidate. quite you said you have -- you have -- you have special have said it is important to everything you can't afford hillary clinton. [indiscernible] sen. sander: the issue is -- who is the better candidate to become president? right now our focus is on winning the largest state in the country. south dakota, north of, montana, new mexico, doing the best we can, as new jersey will be a difficult state. our goal is to get as many delegates as we possibly can and to make the case to superdelegates that i believe the evidence is really strong. >> at what point do you become a spoiler? i really hesitate,

as you know, to be engaged in this peculation. if i win tomorrow in california, if we do very well -- and i don't know that we will, but if we do well in the other states, if there are superdelegates out there who say -- you know what? looking at the objective evidence of rolling, looking at the objective evidence of has the strongest grassroots campaign and can bring up the largest voter turnout in november, if some of those superdelegates begin to think it's bernie sanders, that's not insignificant. thank you, senator. in 2008 you endorsed barack obama two days after he crossed the magic number with pledged and superdelegates before hillary clinton exited the race, well before the convention. the burlington press is saying that he would do everything you you could toything get him elected. why is this different in your

case? sen. sander: again, i made the point i wanted to make the other day. the issue right now is that we haven't primary tomorrow. we are running as hard as we can. as soon as we leave here and get some food in my stomach, i will be talking to a lot of people in doing everything i can. we've got a good rally here in san francisco. right now my focus is on winning the largest state in the country , which has 475 delegates. those south and north dakota elections, in winning montana, and in winning new mexico, doing the best we can in the tough races in new jersey. >> i just want to clarify if i can, you said you will look at how you do tomorrow and whether the superdelegates are turning. if the numbers are not with you

tomorrow and you don't get an indication, would you consider endorsing hillary clinton before the convention? sen. sanders: first of all, you are asking me this regulate. let me talk to you after the primary here in california am aware we hope to win. let's assess where we are before we make statements based on speculation. >> regardless of what happens tomorrow, can you give us insight as to how you would like ,o bend the rest of the week thinking through your superdelegates strategy? sen. sanders: we will be in l.a. tonight. tomorrow night, sorry. taking a plane back to burlington.

>> are any of the superdelegates committed to switching to you? [inaudible] we are havingers: conversations in three or four states with superdelegates. more? sen. sanders: yes. >> [inaudible] does that have any bearing on your thinking? sen. sanders: the most important primary is tomorrow. we have 475 pledged delegates coming up. my job in the next 24 hours is to do everything that i can to windows delegates. let me conclude by saying this.

when we started this campaign over a year ago in irvington, vermont, i think that most people, most of you and most of the punditry thought that this campaign would not go very far. 6, yet here we are on june debating who will win california. we have now 120 states. we may win a number more tomorrow. .e've won over 9 million votes we have one in every state that we have contested in. when we talk about the future of america it is that in overwhelming numbers, we are winning the support of people 45 years of age or younger. people who are the future of this country. i wish that i could tell you that we were doing better among older people. we should be, but we are not. but we are doing phenomenally

well among the people who are the future of this country. who will shape the future of this country. not to bepoint overlooked. thanks very much. >> how are you feeling about california, senator? [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016] inbernie sanders campaigned los angeles over the weekend and held a town hall on immigration and other issues. joining him was in arizona congressman along with immigrants and policy advocates who shared their stories. this is one hour. [cheering] sen. sanders: thank you. [cheering] [chanting bernie]

sen. sanders: thank you very much. let me take this opportunity to introduce mi familia. jane, my son, levi, ,y son, david, daughter, karina and my brother in heart. ella.nddaughter, and my grandson. dylan. ok. ok, please. everyone sit. thank you so much for coming. by the way, i am delighted to be here with congressman grijalva from arizona. i think you all know that he has

been throughout his political life one of the leaders in the congress and the fight for immigrant justice and in the fight for racial justice and economic justice and social justice. thank you so much for what you have done for our country. let me just say a few words and then we will get the panel going. president does the truth is that 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] me it is not credible to that we could have candidates that take millions of dollars from wall street and other special interest and then tell

us they are going to stand up to those powerful special interest and create a government that works for all of us. in terms of immigration issues and issues of a particular concern to the latino community, number one i want you all to know that i am the son of an immigrant, first generation. [cheering] my father came from poland at the age of 17 to escape poverty. he came to this country with no money. he came to this country not speaking a word of english. american a very proud because he saw what the united states could do. what this country could do for his sons. he never made much money but he was a proud american because of the opportunities that this country gave him. where we are today, and i will

go into this at greater length, everyone knows our immigration system is totally broken. before you even get to immigration warm i want to say that as a united states senator and president of the united states i am going to do, have done and will do anything -- everything i can to combat the of peopled ignorance like donald trump. [applause] all of you know, who know american history, the struggle this country has gone through for hundreds of years. the fight against discrimination. slavery. the terrible deeds we did to the native american people. the prejudice against the latinos, the irish, that you.

we had hoped, especially after electing the first african-american president in our history that the blatant bigotry that we are seeing today was behind us. but apparently it is not. it is incumbent on all of us to stand up to donald trump and tell him that his bigotry, his trying to divide us up, his insults to the mexican and latino community, the muslim community, to women and veterans for african-americans, that is not what this country is it at -- is about and we will not accept it for one second. [applause] knowsly, everybody here -- we have 11 million undocumented people in this country. of us know, not everybody knows, is that many of those people who are out working

today are being exploited. i know we are going to get into that issue in a little bit of length, but there are people in california today, undocumented .eople who are being cheated they are being underpaid and overworked. we know that they cannot stand up for their rights because they are undocumented. that is why among many other reasons, together with the pass comprehensive immigration reform and a path towards 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. there is a park 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. and apparently on weekends they open up the fence and they allow people from both sides to come together. but the fence and a 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 ill-advised deportation policies. that currently exist. [applause] and if congress does not do with the american people want them to do. not seeing everybody does, but 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] clearly, the preferable and 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 american 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 community. it means, if you work 40 hours a 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

13 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 are leaving school, $30,000, $50,000, $70,000 in debt.

in the year 2016, 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? we have 2.2 million people 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. arturo, 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 immigrant rights activists, from mexico. [applause] she has an 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 foreign language] i will interpret. good afternoon, senator sanders. i was 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 languages, 16 are spoken in our state. mexico is a multicultural, multilingual country, were 7.2

million mexicans speak indigenous languages. and 11.3% speak only indigenous language. one out of five mexicans is indigenous. according to the mexican human rights division. i come from a sacred place where 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 we are forced to move to u.s. 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.

we saw the 43 missing students 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. for this reason i ask you, what 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] [cheering] host: thank you. mr. sanders: thank you. >> can everybody repeat? [all speaking] >> thank you. mr. sanders: thank you. [applause] 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 going back to nafta 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. -- general electric. 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 -- lower then to vietnam. we will find a place where we can employ people for pennies an hour. you are looking at somebody unlike 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 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, from diverse backgrounds. 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. and anybody 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 betty. [applause] >> hi, i am an 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. i feel like i am in a -- i am in san diego because it is a checkpoint.

i go to another checkpoint. i feel trapped. i see every day when i get home, i think about getting back. before, i was working and i was fine. but all of the hopes obama promised us, 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. and this lady called me once and she was deported. she asked me, what will you do? she said, i am going to cross. if i die -- i said, no you do not have to do that. i feel like a mother. i feel like -- so i keep talking to her and now they are fighting

to come back to this country. so i see what is going to happen for all of these people. what is going to happen. so my question is, what are you so my question 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] mr. sanders: 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, latinas -- 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] mr. sanders: 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] mr. sanders: 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. bueanas tardes. i am a mexican from el salvador. [applause] >> so i can say [speaking spanish] welcome. welcome to los angeles. [applause] >> a city that is on the road to becoming a full city. isn't that right? even if donald trump does not like it, we are going to become a sanctuary city. and with you in the white house,

our country will become a sanctuary for everyone. so i have had the honor to work with men and women who stand on public sidewalks in front of home improvement stores and it is an honor to work with low wage 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 make sure that we send people to assignments, 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. somehow our country has made the 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 steal wages, is 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 council members have made, get enforced. as a representative of immigrant workers, the best way to start making sure that we enforce the law is by making sure that every

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 into the town a contractor, a labor contractor, was being arrested by the u.s. attorney, 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 being cheated, is 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 hour, what will you do about it? you are not going to go to the police, right? that is what you are trying to reform. the idea of 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 does it 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 cheats 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] mr. sanders: i should have studied spanish better. [indiscernible] providing a great future for her son. she wants to know, if elected, what would you do?

the undocumented community is doing a lot of work in ventura, california, to get you elected. mr. sanders: congratulations to your son going to college. we want to pass immigration reform. that is the best approach. if congress does not do the right thing, i will expand dopa and doka. [speaking spanish] i am a professor of architecture. 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. our students are under a lot of pressure. what is your future presidency can do for us? mr. sanders: this is an issue i feel strongly about. it is an 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. we live in an increasingly competitive global economy. if this country is going to succeed economically, we need 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. we would provide opportunities for everybody to get the best education they could. right now, 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. that is why i 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. a lot of people who graduate or 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 car, a house, they cannot get married, have children. that is crazy. we have to change our mentality 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? that takes 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 billionaire class, wall street 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. you know how much it costs to go 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 homeless at 17, 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

also 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? mr. sanders: let me say this. our job is to end all forms of discrimination. discrimination based on color, race, sexual orientation. in this country, we treat all people, lgbt, anybody else, with equality. the benefits that go to anybody goes to everybody. that is my pledge to you. [applause] mr. sanders: 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. beyond 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 criminalized our people. secondly, we need to get rid of the private detention centers that have profited from the suffering of our people. can we count on you for your help as president? mr. sanders: 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. we have to end that. i will end that. that is an important plank on our criminal justice reform. the point you made also, there is a lot of pain in the immigrant community. we heard it from betty and we have heard it from so many people.

people who are afraid of being 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. the immigration platform on the campaign, 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.

the other 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 bernie is because we see the effect in our community. [speaking spanish] what bernie says is the same that he says in another setting and that is very important. >> we have one last question. >> [speaking spanish] >> i work in the car wash.

i am with local 675. i am following 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? mr. sanders: i am going to help you. raoul 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] i do not know what wages you are making now, but we will have, we will fight for a federal minimum wage of $15 an hour. we will fight for legislation that makes it easier for workers to join unions. we are going to fight to make sure every person in this country has health care as a 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? mr. sanders: 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. i am not here to speak for or 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. the last point i want to make on criminal justice, i should have made it earlier. anybody in our country gets killed while in police custody, broadly speaking police custody, that will trigger an immediate 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 policed and i want to see those 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] >> live road to the white house coverage tonight as hillary clinton holds a rally in long beach, california. she is now 26 delegates short of needed to win the

nomination, after a couple of weekend primary wins. california joins five other states holding primaries tomorrow. we will have live coverage of her rally tonight on c-span. >> madam secretary, we proudly toe 72 of our delegate votes the next president of the united .tates