i said, i'm so envious of you, the vitality and energy you show. during the whole campaign, i've never seen him tired but once. had surgery for hernia and he was tired. i said, bernie, you are pushing too hard. he has such vitality and i'm so amazed with that. we had a good visit. i feel i feel i'm in a good place with bernie. i feel bernie is in a good place with my caucus and i feel he's in a good laced with the country. i'm not pushing him to do anything. i think he needs time to decide what he wants to do. i invited him to my caucus on tuesday. i think he's going to come and talk to us out of it. >> you said you are in a good place with him. what about the rest of the

democratic party, the activists, are they going to be in a good place with hillary clinton? sen. reid: hillary is the nominee. i could certainly commiserate with bernie. during the conversation, i said, i don't understand the depth of your feelings, but i have some understanding. i lost to a young man in a senate race by 524 votes. i understand what you are going through. bernie is going to be good for the party. he's going to be good for the senators. i'm confident he will be a good campaigner for democratic senators and the nominee. >> do you get the impression after your discussions with senator sanders that after tuesday he's going to end his campaign? sen. reid: we did not discuss. i told him that i was not

pushing for anything. he can make whatever decision he feels appropriate on tuesday and thereafter. >> [indiscernible] sen. reid: pardon me? >> what is he holding out for? sen. reid: i think he is somebody who is interested in changing the direction of the country. i think he's done that. i think he will be involved in the process of what goes on in coming up with a party platform process in elections in the future. he's not holding out for anything other than what he believes is principle. what did senator sanders tell you he would do after the district of columbia primary? sen. reid: i think he's going to come to my caucus. other than that, we didn't have specifics. >> [indiscernible] sen. reid: sure.

of course he will. >> would you like to see him serve in front of leadership? sen. reid: i don't have much to say about that, but he has a lot of stature here. he reminded me, i put him on five committees. he's been chairman of two of them. he's well-liked in the caucus. one more question. endorsinge president secretary clinton, isn't the primary effectively over? sen. reid: as you know, she has enough delegates. i didn't hear a single word about him coming to change the fact that she's the nominee. thanks, everybody. >> [indiscernible] sen. reid: we are ready whenever the votes are called. let him do it tomorrow.

pelosie minority leader also discussed the democratic presidential race in her debriefing. questionsi: there's no that he has captured, again, i use the word invigorated, the process with the people that he has brought in. an ever widening circle of young people who have been community-oriented but not politically interested. he has shown them a path with his plan for reducing the cost addrllege, undressing -- essing the actions of wall street, and campaign finance reform, overturning citizens united. it is hard. it is very hard.

people have their hopes, their dreams, their aspirations riding on a candidate. sometimes it is hard for the supporters to come to reconciliation, more than the candidate. bernie sanders knows what is at stake in this election. i have no doubt that he will be very constructive as we go forward. i also know it is very hard not to win and it is hard for your supporters especially. uniquehere something about sanders that is harder for him to come to terms? rep. pelosi: i hope not. uniqueness in this situation, it is certainly offset by the republican nominee, donald trump. let me just say, i have been involved in every kind of way.

i chaired a convention. i chaired the delegate selection. 1976, i went with brown to the convention. that was my coming out of the kitchen and beginning my road to congress, i guess. we were lobbying for jerry brown, thinking something could happen with the carter candidacy and we would be ready. in 1980, you know what happened at the convention, kennedy and carter. in 1984, i chaired the host committee for the convention in san francisco. you would have thought it was a gary hart convention. walter mondale was the nominee. again, the list goes on. the992, i was chairing platform committee and my friend jerry brown was running against bill clinton and took his fight to the convention. it goes on. it was hard for some people.

in 2008, they came to me and said, do i really have to vote for barack obama? i was so committed to hillary clinton. i said, that is a decision you have to make. it is always hard. people are always hopeful. every candidate thinks he or she is going to win. they run. what is the purpose going forward? i think that bernie sanders has done a great job for our country, for our democracy, for the democratic party, and for young people. what is the next step? that is up to him. >> [indiscernible] we can talk politics all day and i have been all morning. then we will come to immigration. campaign isnders' still pretty adamant that he's going to take this to the

convention. are you comfortable with that idea? rep. pelosi: he has to make his own decisions. i just described several conventions i was involved in with a candidate took it to the convention, ted kennedy, jerry brown, on more than one occasion. -- heart was not actually was thinking in terms of the future when he went to the convention. candidates do. i think bernie sanders, will you thet out the uniqueness of movement he has created. he knows what is on the line. it should be treated no differently. he should be allowed the opportunity and respecting to have the opportunity to make his decision about how he brings this to a place that advances the causes that he's been fighting. >> congressman peter welch is a

democrat from vermont and supporter of bernie sanders. he is joining us on the phone from capitol hill. based on the senator's comments at the white house today, the president's endorsement of hillary clinton, is the party coming together? rep. welch: i think it definitely is. as senator sanders noted, the president did not put his thumb on the scale. hillary has the delegates, so she's going to be the nominee. there's a process of unification. i think what senator sanders wants to be certain of is the success of his campaign and the issues it raised, economic, social, and environmental justice, are a big part of the democratic party going ahead. i think this will get worked out. i think it is going to be a process. everybody is giving senator sanders time and space to make this happen in a way that works

for the best of all of us. >> a key part of the process, the platform, but does that document really matter? rep. welch: i don't think it matters an awful lot. i think what matters is that there's a wholehearted embrace of the effort to have an economy that is based on serving the needs of the vast majority of working class and middle class americans. frankly, i've been seeing that secretary clinton has been embracing many of the points that senator sanders has made. is real organic issue whether there will be an integration of message between what senator sanders and secretary clinton have been advocating. i think they will be able to do that. in the interest of the party, and secretary clinton, to have the full throated enthusiasm of all those 12 million folks who

voted for bernie sanders, the 2 million to 3 million people who gave small donations. that is a real powerful element for success. >> looking back at the sanders campaign, any monday morning quarterbacking, any second-guessing on what the campaign should have done differently? rep. welch: that is kind of an o dd question from my perspective, when at the beginning of his campaign, no one took him seriously. when secretary clinton said she was running for president, she was so dominant that other strong contenders didn't bother to run. sen. sanders:. what he was able to do was electrify voters with his message about this one present economy that is so damaging in so many ways. we might quibble about what he could have done, but the real

test is that he's been in this really till the very end. it is an extraordinary campaign that he's run. >> many center supporters saying no way, they will not support hillary clinton. what would you tell them? rep. welch: senator sanders is going to be the best advisor for those folks. number one, the real choice here is between trump or hillary clinton. the frustration for those of us who support bernie sanders, but he's not the nominee, cannot become the reason we are complicit in the election of a person who's incredibly dangerous to the future of this country and to many of the values that bernie and hillary have been talking about. this is tough. people put their heart and soul into this. bernie sanders has put his heart and soul into this.

i think that is why there's got to be a very significant demonstration of respect for senator sanders and his supporters, and validation of what he's done by getting somebody on the ticket as vice president who is a strong progressive, and where there's an indication by action, not just words, that the things the center supporters care about are going to be internalized. rep. welch: will senator sanders have a larger platform when he returns to the senate? rep. welch: absolutely will. bernie has to stay involved because he's become a national spokesperson for economic justice, environmental justice, and he's got a big voice. his colleagues are astonished. most of them supported secretary clinton, but all of them are slack-jawed at how successful his campaign was.

i have colleagues asking me all the time, what is the magic? sanders spoke truth to power. he did it directly and effectively. i think there's an enormous respect for what bernie accomplished. >> if you look at the likely nominee for the republicans, donald trump, what are your thoughts? rep. welch: he's in over his head. he is great as a reality television host. but the skills required for that, arrogance, bluffing, that does not work out well in the political forum or to be president of the united states. in his fumbling around these last couple weeks, he suggests he is in over his head. there's a character question. we disagree, republicans and democrats. but most of the candidates have a character test. like senator mccain. i'm not sure donald trump does that. he does a lot of time bragging about chasing women, and that he is than everyone else.

that is not necessarily lincoln-esque. >> finally, do you have a sense of who hillary should take as her running mate? rep. welch: there's a lot of names i would be happy with. elizabeth warren is one of them. sherrod brown. tim kaine. a lot of folks have really solid progressive credentials that would be a real asset. obviously, bernie sanders would be someone who should be on the list. >> do you think hillary clinton would consider him? rep. welch: i don't know. they have to work that out. she would be smart to want to embrace his success, and how better to do that than by selecting him? but there's also chemistry issues, and personal issues between secretary clinton and senator sanders. i definitely think he is qualified. whether she would pick him, we will see. >> congressman peter welch, democrat from vermont joining us on capitol hill. thank you for your time. >> thank you.

spokeator bernie sanders to supporters in washington, d.c. following meetings with president obama and congressional leaders. >> good afternoon! bernie is close! and we have been in this together, millions of families across this country, fighting against corruption, fighting folder suppression, fighting oligarchy, and fighting the of small dreams in the face of big national challenges. we are fighting for families, fighting against fracking, we

are fighting for our children, we are fighting against mass incarceration. we are fighting for working people, and we are fighting against mountains of college debt. and we have proven that you can run a powerful campaign that inspires the majority of the american people. when you stand up against walls, when you stand up against the tyranny of the wealthy, and when you stand up, when you stand up for the love and unity of the american people. [applause] >> in other words, we are not just proving that bernie sanders is the best candidate to trump trump.

we have proven that the only way to be sure we can beat his candidacy is campaign -- his campaign of hatred and division, is with a campaign of integrity and love, and unity. [applause] >> and a campaign that is not afraid to be honest about what challenges our country. a campaign that is not afraid to say, it is time to end our endless wars. [applause] >> a campaign that is not afraid to say, if the minimum wage would have been $15, and allowed to keep up with inflation, then it should just be $15. a campaign that is not afraid to say, you know what? the health lobby is really powerful. but our families are more valuable!

[applause] >> a campaign that believes, you know what, if you were against the war in vietnam, then you should have been against the war in iraq. [applause] >> a campaign that says, you know what, if somebody's headscarf makes you uncomfortable, or someone being transgender make you uncomfortable, go ahead and be uncomfortable. we don't have time for that mess! we need to get on with democracy and inclusion, and lifting up all of those who have been pushed down simply because of who they are. [applause] >> and you know, i want to take a moment and thank the speaker of the house for speaking truth

the other day. because it is true. what he said about donald trump. that saying that somebody is not qualified to be a federal judge because of their ethnicity is the definition of a racist. [applause] but you know, the speaker of the house claims to be a disciple -- of jack kemp. he claims to be a disciple of jack kemp. and jack kemp was a member of the naacp, and a good friend of mine. and i'm pretty sure jack would tell you, that if you are convinced that your party's candidate is a racist, and makes

racist comments, then you better look for a different candidate. [applause] >> what is beautiful about bernie, the reason we are still sanders -- the reason we feel the bern, is that if you roll the tape on bernie and go back five years or 15 years, or 50 years, he's always given the same damn speech. [applause] >> bernie has stood up for racial justice. he stood up for economic justice. apparently because it is the only thing he knows how to do. [applause] >> and if there's a lesson from this, for leaders that big organizations in the country, let the lesson be this. that we don't have to compromise

with our values to back a winning candidate. [applause] that the labor movement can win. that the civil rights movement can win. and those who can keep moving can win. and if there's a lesson from our rallies that should not be forgotten, it is one that bernie described to me as the revolution in the revolution. we were together in the ozarks, and we had just come from chicago and detroit. the loudest applause was the same and the ozarks in front of a crowd that was about 90% white, and 10% of the men were wearing camouflage because they were going hunting. i can't say what time of day you do that, because i don't do it. but they were in camouflage, on their feet screaming for racial justice, screaming for the end

to the killing of unarmed black men. and that is the thing that the media has never quite figured out about telling the story of our campaign. they can deal in stereotypes, tell you that black church ladies are for hillary, and young people are for bernie, and white dudes are for trump. but, you know, my mama goes to church and she is for bernie. [applause] >> and my dad is white, and he is for bernie. and my kids are young, and they are for bernie, too. [applause] >> and that is what we have

proven more than anything in this campaign. is that the future of america is beyond stereotypes. the future of america is beyond hatred. [applause] >> the future of america does not have a wall running through it. [applause] >> the future of america is represented by bernie sanders, and his run for president! thank you, and god bless. ♪ >> [chanting]

bernie, bernie, bernie! [applause] >> [chanting] bernie, bernie, bernie! [applause] senator sanders: thank you, washington! [applause]

: let me thanks will a all of you for coming out. let me thank ben jealous. let me thank cornell west. and let me thank all of you for being part of the political revolution. [applause] >> [chanting] thank you, bernie! senator sanders: a little bit over a year ago, we began this campaign. and what the punditry thought is that the campaign would not go very far. well, here we are in mid-june.

and we have won 22 states. and the results have not yet come in from california. [applause] senator sanders: we have won over 10 million votes. and in every state and nonstate, i am aware of the issue here in washington, d.c. [applause] senator sanders: and i hope that the next time i'm back, we will be talking about the state of washington, d.c. [applause] senator sanders: but in every state and nonstate that we have run in, we have won by very

large votes, from young people. and the reason that that is significant is that this campaign is based on a vision that our country must focus on social justice, on economic justice, on racial justice, on environmental justice. and when the overwhelming majority of young people support that vision, that will be the future of america. [applause] senator sanders: this campaign has done as well as it has because we are doing something

unusual in american politics. we are telling the truth. [applause] senator sanders: and the truth has to do with the reality of our lives, as we experience it, not what we see on corporate television. [applause] senator sanders: and what is that reality? the reality is that we hear all of the time that we are a democracy. but the fact of the matter is, even excluding the issue of washington, d.c. not having elected representatives in the congress -- >> [booing] senator sanders: -- is that all of you know big money is buying elections. right now, you have a couple of brothers called the koch brothers.

they are worth tens of billions of dollars, and they are determined to purchase the united states senate for right-wing republicans. when you have a handful of billionaires spending unlimited sums of money, you can call it whatever you want, but it sure is not democracy. [applause] senator sanders: in fact, it sounds to me like oligarchy. and what this campaign has been talking about from day one is the trend that we are seeing in our political life, in our economic life, in our media life, of fewer and fewer wealthy people controlling this nation.

and that type of drift toward oligarchy is something we must prevent. [applause] senator sanders: and that means overturning this disastrous citizens united supreme court decision. [applause] senator sanders: it means moving to public funding of elections. can you imagine two people, the koch brothers, one family in the process now of purchasing the united states senate. my view is not only should we overturn citizens united, but we should move toward public funding of elections. [applause]

senator sanders: but it is not just a corrupt campaign finances system that we have to address. it is a rigged economy. if you add it all up, the wealthiest nation in the history of the world is the united states, but most people don't know that, because almost all of the new income and wealth is going to the top 1%. him him him and him the united states is not supposed to be a country which has more income and wealth inequality than any other major country on earth. we are not supposed to be a country where the top 1/10 of 1% now owns almost 90% of the

wealth of the country. we are not supposed to be a country where the 20 wealthiest people own more wealth than the bottom half of america, 150 million americans. income and wealth inequality, and a rigged economy means we are seeing a proliferation of millionaires and billionaires, and yet walk five blocks away from here, and we have people sleeping out on the streets. rigged economy is when a mother goes out to work, and yet the wages she earns so low, she cannot afford decent quality child care for her children, our provide security for kids need.

a rigged economy is when the united states has the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country on earth. a rigged economy is one ceos who make tens of million dollars a year cut back on wages, cut back on health care, cut back on the pensions of their workers. a rigged economy is 1 wall st's greed and recklessness and illegal behavior destroys the economy, and then congress bailed them out. in a rigged economy, wall street's illegal behavior ends up with no wall street executives going to jail.

a rigged economy is when mom is working, dad is working, kids are working, and 57% of all new income goes to the top 1%. brothers and sisters, our job is to create an economy that works for all of us, not just the 1%. [applause] >> [chanting] senator sanders: i have been in this campaign, to native american reservations. [applause] senator sanders: i was at the pine ridge in south dakota. in pine ridge, life expectancy

is lower than in many third world countries. i have been to flint, michigan, where the children are drinking water that is poisoned. i have been to detroit, michigan, where the public school system is on the verge of fiscal collapse. i've been to baltimore, maryland. where tens of thousands of people there are addicted to heroin, as they cannot get the treatment they need. this is the united states of america. we should not be having 47 million people living in poverty. [applause]

senator sanders: this is the united states of america. we should not be living in a country where the very very rich get richer, while almost everybody else gets more poor. this is the united states of america, where in the last 25 years, we have seen the middle class shrink and shrink and shrink, while almost all the wealth goes to the people on top. that is not what this country is about, and together, we are going to change that. [applause] senator sanders: this campaign is not just about a corrupt campaign finance system. it is not just about a rigged economy. it is about a broken criminal justice system.

[applause] senator sanders: every person here, and every person in this country, should be embarrassed by the fact that we have more people in jail than any other country on earth. why in god's name are we spending $80 billion a year to lock up 2.2 million fellow americans? and it is our job to understand the cause of that issue, and to resolve it. and that means, we know in community after community throughout this country, and in the cities and in rural america,

we have youth unemployment rates of 30%, 40%, even 50%. and when young people are hanging out on street corners, when they are not in school, when they are not at work, bad things can happen. so what i think and i know you think, is that it makes a lot more sense for us to be investing in jobs and education for young people, rather than jail and incarceration. i want our young people in school, not rotting in jail cells. i want this country to have the best educated population in the world, not more people in jail than any other country in the world. [applause]

senator sanders: but when we look at the criminal justice issue, it is not just the fact that we have high youth unemployment. it is also necessary for us to look at local police departments all across this country. when i was a mayor for eight years in burlington, vermont, working with police officers all over the country, the average police officer works hard, is honest, and is trying to do a good job. [applause] senator sanders: but like any other public official, when a police officer breaks the law, that officer must be held accountable. [applause]

senator sanders: it is time for us to demilitarize local police departments. it is time for us to make local police departments reflect the diversity of the communities they serve. it is time to end corporate ownership of prisons and detention centers. it is time for us to have a law-enforcement culture that says that lethal force, the shooting of somebody, that is the last response, not the first response. it is time for us to take a hard

look at the so-called war on drugs. millions of americans over the last 30 years have received police records, because of possession of marijuana. and if you are a 19-year-old kid, going out looking for a job, having a police record does not help. that is why i believe that at a time when the federal patrol substance act, lists the marijuana as a schedule one drug, it is time to take it out of the act. but when we talk about drugs,

there's another issue we have to put front and center on the table. that is, we have an epidemic in this country of opiate and heroin addiction. every day, every day people are dying of overdoses of heroin or opiates. but to address this crisis, we have got to be smart. and being smart means that when we deal with substance abuse, or addiction, we understand that we cannot treat those issues as criminal issues, but as health issues. [applause] senator sanders: and that means that we need a revolution in mental health treatment in this country.

people in america should be able to get the mental health treatment they need, when they needed, not six months from now. [applause] senator sanders: and by the way, this is not just drug abuse or addiction. there are thousands of people walking the streets of this country who are suicidal and/or homicidal. i want those people to be treated, and their problems to be treated like any other health-related issue. [applause] senator sanders: i don't want them to have to fill out 50 forms, and maybe get treated eight months from now. if you are facing a mental health crisis in america, you should get the treatment you

need today, not eight months from now. this campaign is listening to ordinary americans, and not just wealthy campaign contributors. and what i am extraordinarily proud of is that this campaign has received more individual campaign contributions than any other campaign in american history, up to this point. [applause] senator sanders: we have received 8 million individual campaign contributions. anyone know the average contribution? $27. you know what that means? that means, despite all the

rhetoric out there, we have shown the world that you can run a winning national campaign without being dependent on wall street, drug companies, or big money interests. [applause] >> [chanting] bernie, bernie, bernie! senator sanders: this campaign has been listening to working people. and what working people are telling me is that they cannot make it on a starvation minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. we have to raise the wage to a living wage, $15 per hour. [applause] >> [chanting] $15!

senator sanders: and when we talk about equitable wages, we have also got to understand that it is not acceptable that women today are making $.79 on the dollar compared to men. that has nothing to do with economics. it is just old-fashioned sexism, and together we will end that. [applause] senator sanders: and i know that every man here is going to stand with the women in the fight for pay equity. once a month, the federal government comes out with a report on official unemployment. usually around 5% lately.

anyone here believe that real unemployment nationally is 5%? you're right, it's not. there's another federal report which doesn't get quite so much publicity, which adds not only does who are unemployed, but those who have given up looking for work, and those that are working part-time when they want to work full-time. that number means that almost 10% of our people are unemployed. and obviously in certain areas of the country, the number is much higher than that. that is why we need a massive federal jobs program to put americans back to work. we should be hiring teachers, not firing teachers. [applause]

senator sanders: we should be creating the best child care system in the world, not maintaining a dysfunctional system. once upon a time, the united states had the best infrastructure in the world. roads and bridges, and water systems, and wastewater systems, and rails, we had the best rail system in the world. no longer the case. we can create up to 13 million good paying jobs rebuilding our infrastructure, which is exactly what i intend to do. [applause] senator sanders: when we talk about why the middle class has

been disappearing for 30 years, one of the reasons is a disastrous trade policy, which has allowed corporate america to shut down in this country and move to low-wage countries abroad. we have a message for corporate america. that is, if you want us to buy your products, start manufacturing them here in the united states. [applause] senator sanders: this campaign is listening to young people. and young people are catching on. they are the future of america, and they are dammed determined to shape the future of america.

what this campaign is about is thinking outside of the box, beyond the status quo. think about this for second. everybody here knows, no debate, we are living in a highly competitive global economy. everybody knows that to succeed today and in the future, we need the best educated workforce in the world. no one denies that. our job, therefore, is to encourage people not just young people, but in a technologically changing society, all people to get the best education that they can. [applause] senator sanders: now, 40 years ago, you had a high school degree, you were doing ok. high school degree would enable you to go out and probably get a middle-class job. that was 40 years ago, not today. today, when we talk about public

education, it is no longer good enough to talk about first grade through 12th grade. we have got to talk about public education meaning free tuition at public colleges and universities. [applause] senator sanders: does anybody here think that is a radical idea? >> no! senator sanders: it is an absolutely common sensical idea. it will happen sooner or later. our job is to make it sooner. [applause] senator sanders: i want every child here in washington dc and in vermont, regardless of their income, to understand that if

they study hard, if they do well in school, they will be able to get a college education. [applause] senator sanders: that is what america is supposed to be about. that anybody can make it into the middle class, regardless of the income of your family. anybody here have student debt they are struggling with? think about this. if our job is to encourage people to get the best education they can, why are we punishing millions of people for getting a college education? what i believe we have got to do is to make it possible for

everybody who has student debt to refinance their loans at the lowest interest rate they can find. [applause] senator sanders: now, my opponents and the establishment media, they say bernie is santa claus. you are giving away all of these things. giving away free tuition at colleges, lower student debt, how are you going to pay for it? here is the point we have to address. in the last 25 years, there has been a massive transfer of wealth from the middle class to the top 1/10 of 1%. our job is to transfer that money back into the hands of the middle class. [applause]

senator sanders: eight years ago, as all of you know, against my vote, congress bailed out wall street. wall street's greed, recklessness, and illegal behavior nearly destroyed the economy. millions of people lost their jobs, their life savings. congress bailed them out. i think if congress can bail out wall street, it is wall street's time to help out the middle class of this country. that is why i believe we must impose a tax on wall street speculation. and that would more than cover free tuition at public colleges and universities, and lowering student debt. now, wall street doesn't like this idea.

but i say, you know what, wall street, you are going to have to learn. you no longer are going to get it all. [applause] senator sanders: this campaign is listening to the african-american community. [applause] senator sanders: the african-american community is asking all of us, how does it happen that we can spend trillions of dollars on the war in iraq we never ever should have gotten into, no problem, we can bail out wall street. we can give tax breaks to billionaires, no problem. but somehow when it comes to rebuilding inner cities in america, providing good education, good health care,

affordable housing, somehow we seem not to have the money. and what this campaign is about is making it clear. together, we are going to change our national priorities. [applause] senator sanders: no more tax breaks for the rich. they are going to start paying their fair share of taxes. [applause] senator sanders: no more wars we should never have gotten into in the first place. but yes to rebuilding our inner cities, putting americans to work, creating the kind of environment that our children require. [applause]

senator sanders: and this campaign is also about telling those republican governors all across this country, we will no longer allow you to suppress the vote. [applause] senator sanders: people have fought too hard and too long for cowardly republican governors to try to make it harder for people of color, for young people, for old people, to participate in the political process. [applause] senator sanders: and i say to those cowardly republican governors, if you don't have enough guts to participate in free and fair elections, get out of politics, get a new job. [applause] >> [chanting] bernie, bernie, bernie!

senator sanders: this campaign is listening to the latino community. [applause] senator sanders: and what the latino community is telling the world is that there are 11 million undocumented people in this country, many of them living in the shadows, many of them living in fear, and many of them being exploited every day on the job. i just came back from california, and we visited central california, and spoke to the farmworkers there. what we are seeing in that part of the world and all over the country is that people who have no legal rights can be forced to

work longer hours than they are supposed to, be paid wages lower than they are supposed to, have terrible working conditions, but they have no recourse, because they have no legal rights. that has got to change. [applause] senator sanders: this congress, congress must own up to its responsibilities, end of broken immigration system, and move toward citizenship and comprehensive immigration reform. [applause] senator sanders: if congress does not pass comprehensive immigration reform on the path toward citizenship, i will use the executive powers of the presidency to move it along. [applause]

senator sanders: this campaign is listening to a people whose pain is almost never heard. and that is the native american people. [applause] senator sanders: a people of great dignity. now here's a people who have been lied to, who have been cheated, who have signed treaties which have been abrogated from way before the country even became a country. and yet, despite all of that, we owe the native american people a debt of gratitude that we can never fully repay. think about the lessons they

have taught us. maybe this is the most profound lesson. that is that as human beings, we are part of nature. [applause] senator sanders: not a complicated idea, but a profound idea, which tells us we must live with nature. and as we can see increasingly every day, if we continue to destroy nature, we are destroying the human species. and yet, despite all the wisdom the native american people have given us, on their reservations and in their communities all across the country, unemployment and poverty skyhigh. access to decent education and

health care, abysmally low. our job is to totally transform our relationship to the native american people, and that is what i intend to do if elected president. [applause] senator sanders: now, as you all know, donald trump is among, many other things -- >> [boos] senator sanders: you didn't know that donald trump, among his many other attributes, is an extraordinarily brilliant scientist. [laughter] senator sanders: you didn't know, because he is such a modest guy. and he studied climate change for decades. after exhaustive study, he has come to the conclusion that climate change is a hoax.

now on the other hand, i have, as a member of the senate committee on the environment, i have spoken to people other than donald trump on this issue. and they have a slightly different perspective. they believe, a, climate change is very real. b, climate change is caused by human activity. and c, climate change is already doing devastating harm in our country and countries all over the world. and this is what they tell us. and this is scary stuff, but we better listen. what they tell us is if we do not get our act together in a short window of opportunity, a bad situation will become much worse. and that means more drought, more floods, more extreme weather disturbances, more acidification of the ocean, more rising sea levels.

you know what else it means? it means that there will be more international conflict, as countries and people fight for limited natural resources. our job is to tell the fossil fuel industry that their short-term profits are not more important than the future of this planet. [applause] senator sanders: we have a moral responsibility. we are the custodians of this planet. and guess what? ain't another planet. this is it. destroy this one, and our children and grandchildren have nowhere else to go. i believe we have a moral responsibility to transform our energy system away from fossil

fuels to energy efficiency and sustainable energy. [applause] senator sanders: and by the way, when we do that in an aggressive way, we can create millions of decent paying jobs. and when we work with other countries, by the way, we save the planet. what this campaign is asking people time and again, in different ways, to think outside the box. don't accept the analysis or options that the corporate media gives you. or that congress gives you. the options are not, should we have a great debate on whether we cut nutrition programs for

children or whether we cut education -- those are the options. what do you think? we reject those options. [applause] senator sanders: at a time of massive income and wealth inequality, the other option not put on the table is that the billionaires and corporate america will start paying their fair share of taxes. [applause] senator sanders: and what this campaign is about, whether it is education -- i mentioned free tuition at public colleges and universities. do all of you know that already exists in germany? it exists in scandinavia. this is not a radical idea. and when we talk about human needs, when we talk about

affordable housing, where there is in city after city -- when i was a kid, the expectation was that families should pay 25% or 30% max of their incomes for housing. did you know that? you are laughing, because today all over the country, people are paying 50% or 60%. how the hell do you have money left over to buy food to keep the house warm, to put gas in the car, if you're paying 50% or 60% for affordable housing? it is our job to build millions of units of affordable housing. [applause] senator sanders: our job is not to accept that fellow americans are sleeping out on the street a few blocks away from here. never accept that as a reality. we can change it. [applause]

senator sanders: and when we talk about human needs, it is affordable housing. it is education. it is decent and affordable nutrition. but it is also something else, where we are way behind other countries. not discussed very much in the media. but all of you know or should know, the united states is the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all people as a right. the only major country. go to germany. go to scandinavia. go to the u.k. go to holland. go to france. go to canada. i live in burlington, vermont. 50 miles away from the canadian border. not a big deal. everybody in canada has health care as a right. we are the only major country that that does not exist. i think it is time to end that

international embarrassment. [applause] senator sanders: i have been criticized for saying this, so let me say it again. in my view, health care is a human right, not a privilege. [applause] senator sanders: that means if you are rich, you are poor, you are young or you are old, you should be able to go to the doctor when you need to go to the doctor. the affordable care act has done a very good thing. but we still have a long way to go. we have 29 million americans today who have no health insurance. we have even more, including many of you, who are underinsured with high deductibles and high copayments. is that right?

anybody know how many people in this country die every year, because they don't get to the doctor when they should? that's right. 40,000. i talk to doctors all the time. you know what they say? they say patients come into their offices much much sicker than they should be. and the doctor says, why didn't you come in one year ago when he first felt symptoms? and people say, i did not have any health insurance. or they had a high deductible and could not afford it. 40,000 people a year die because they go to the doctor too late. that is why i believe we should pass a medicare for all single-payer program. [applause]

senator sanders: the issue is not what is right or wrong. anybody with any sense of morality understands that health care should be a right, that it is a disgrace that we have so many people uninsured and underinsured. the issue is the power of the private insurance companies, and the pharmaceutical industry. and i think it is time that we took them on, that we told the drug companies they cannot continue to charge us the highest prices in the world by far, for the medicine we need. you've got one out of five americans that cannot afford to fill prescriptions their doctors write. you have old people cutting their pills in half, because they can't afford the medicine they require. and yet, last year, the five major drug companies made $50

billion in profits. enough is enough. we will tell the pharmaceutical industry they will stop ripping off of the american people. what this campaign is about is learning the most important lesson that american history can teach us. and that is that real change never takes place from the top on down, but always from the bottom on up. [applause] senator sanders: that is the history of america. i want you to think about it. think about 100 plus years ago, there were workers all over this country working seven days a

week, 12 hours a day. they had no rights at all. but with great courage, they organized and they stood up and told their employer, we are not animals or beasts of burden. we are human beings. and they stood up and formed trade unions. [applause] senator sanders: 150 years ago amongst the abomination of slavery, there were african-americans and their allies, even back then, who were sometimes going to jail, sometimes getting killed, sometimes getting beaten, sometimes losing their jobs. but millions of people said, this country will end racism and bigotry and discrimination. [applause]

senator sanders: and think about the courage of those people. know that in the south if there was a meeting of black and white workers, it was against the law and they could be arrested. think about 100 years ago today. women in america did not have the right to vote. to get the jobs that they wanted or the education they wanted. 10-year-old girls do not know that, but it is true. women stood up and fought back. and at a time when the establishment and the ruling class said to them, your job as a woman is to stay home and have babies, women stood up and said, you will not define us, we will

define ourselves. [applause] senator sanders: now, it is easy to look back and say, women do not have the right to vote? that is crazy. but understand what it was like in that culture at that time. the courage that those women showed, think about something even more contemporary. think about the fact that if we were here 10 years ago and somebody came up and said bernie, i think the by the year 2015, gay marriage will be legal in every state in the country. [applause] senator sanders: if somebody had said that 10 years ago, you know what the person next to them would have said? you are crazy. there is too much homophobia and prejudice and bigotry, a cannot happen.

but what happened is, the gay community and their straight allies fought an incredibly courageous battle. and what they said loudly and proudly is that people in this country should have the right to love each other regardless of their gender. [applause] senator sanders: think about something even more contemporary. if we were here five years ago, no time at all. someone jumps up and says, you know bernie, this federal minimum wage of $7.25, we have to raise it to $15 an hour. the person next to him -- think about this. they would say, you are crazy. $15 an hour, you want to more than double the federal minimum wage. maybe we will get nine dollars

or $10, but $15 is too radical, too crazy, you are an extremist. you are laughing, but what happened? workers in the fast food industry in mcdonald's, in burger king, in wendy's, and i had the privilege to be marching with them on the streets right here in d.c. [applause] senator sanders: they stood up and they said, you know what, we cannot make it on $7.25, or eight dollars or $10, and we need $15 an hour. and you know what happened? once the people started dealing with that, seattle, they passed it, and los angeles and san francisco, $15 an hour. in california, new york state,

and finally cities and towns all over the country, $15 an hour. so what seemed impossible, what seemed radical just a few years ago is now commonplace. $15 an hour? that is what we need. here is the point of all that. what seems radical today will seem mainstream tomorrow if we stand together and make those changes. [applause] senator sanders: what i am seeing all over this country, it is extraordinary. from coast to coast, and i have been coast to coast, people are standing up and looking around. they say, you know what? having the top 1% owning more

wealth than the bottom 90% is unacceptable. seeing the middle class year after year decline, people having to work two or three jobs, unacceptable. having veterans sleep out on the street, unacceptable. having senior citizens living on $10,000 or $11,000 a year, on in adequate social security, unacceptable. having young people leave school $50,000 in debt, unacceptable. having our infrastructure collapse in front of us while so many workers are sitting out there idle ready to rebuild that infrastructure, unacceptable.

people all over this country are looking at the status quo and they understand that it is too late for establishment politics and establishment economics. we need real change in this country. what people also understand is that no president, not bernie sanders or anybody else, can do it alone. what we need in this country are millions of people standing up, fighting back, and demanding the government that represents all of us, not just the 1%. [applause]

senator sanders: that is what this campaign is all about. and next tuesday here in washington, you will be having the very last primary of the democratic nominating process. it would be extraordinary if the people of washington, our nations capital, stood up and told the world that they are ready to lead this country into a political revolution. thank you all very much. [applause] ♪ ["starman" by david bowie] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its

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>> republican presidential candidate donald trump and senate majority leader mitch mcconnell are among the speakers at this year's faith and freedom coalition conference. you can see it live today starting at 9:00 a.m. eastern on c-span 3. today, a memorial service for boxer and civil rights activist mohammed ali, who died at the age of 74. former president bill clinton,

billy crystal, and journalist bryant gumbel. you can see live coverage from kentucky on our website, c-span.org. next, house speaker paul ryan joins congressional republicans to unveil their national security plan, focusing on border security and fighting terrorism. from the council for foreign relations, this is 90 minutes. >> good morning. thank you hall for being here, i

am angie mitchell, the chief correspondent from abc news. i usually anger a program on msnbc at noon every day, but i am here instead. this is such an important moment in our history. i have been out doing really dangerous things. i have been involved in serious combat in the last nine months, i would say. in dangerous places, facing extraordinary challenges, unlike the national security i have been covering, i have been covering the 2016 campaign. so it is a relief to be here to talk about terrorism and national security. and what we can do to make our economy secure, because i think that is also a national security issue. we are honored today to have the meeting house chairman from the national security and foreign policy of foreign affairs committee, and the speaker of the house, paul ryan. it is my great privilege to introduce paul ryan.

i want to thank you for a line me to moderate this. it is such an honor. speaker ryan will give opening remarks. he was elected to congress in he has been representing the people of wisconsin first congressional district ever since. he has served on the house budget committee and the ways and means committee. in 2012, he ran as the republican nominee for vice president. he took over speaker of the house seven months ago. in april, he made his first .oreign visit as speaker upon taking over the position and fall, speaker ryan house republicans created six different task forces to show how republicans would govern if the whiteback

house. today, he is unveiling the national security agenda. last week, he unveiled the toestic agenda and he went anacostia in the district of columbia and unveiled a program trying to of looks the memory of jack kemp. welcomingn me in speaker paul ryan to the podium. [applause] speaker ryan: thank you very much, andrea. i appreciate it. i want to thank the cfr for hosting us. i do not want to take up too much time today. all of our members, you will be hearing from, they are the ones

who put in the long hours and hard work for this. i'm eager to hear from them, as i know you are. wordsant to say a few about why we thought this was so necessary. in january, we came together at our richie in baltimore and tocuss what we have to do offer the country a better way, to take the problems of the day and offer real solutions. the areae areas was in foreign policy. we just heard the prime minister of india i capitol hill yesterday. it was a great day. he spoke before congress. nowadays, it is so rare. in the past seven years, our , ourdships have frayed

rivalries have intensified. it is not too much to say that our enemies no longer fear us into many of our allies no longer trust us. i think this is a direct result of form policy. our presidents foreign policy. he vowed that iran would no longer get nuclear weapons. he shrugged off isis until it threw offhe iraqi government. in response, russia's aggression has been timid at best. our enemies are now stepping into fill the voids. to rethink our allies have to do more chuckle absolutely. not do more in our

shared interest is they think america will leave them in the lurch. they have to show them by words and deeds that trade and cooperation are in all of our interests. otherwise, the countries will pursue their own narrow interests. what i'm saying is we need a confident america. that is what will keep the peace and keep us safe. this plan will too. in here, we play out for objectives. keep america safe at home. defeat the terrorists. advance america's interest of broad. renew our national security tools. policy steps that we will take to put this into action. that means securing our borders, stopping

terror attacks, taking the fight enemy,orism to the developing 21st century military, and strengthening law enforcement tools. it pains expanding america's influence, which means expanding free enterprise and the community of free nations. that is what will restore confidence. that is what we pledge to do. this is what we are seeking with our policies. i'm so proud of the work of our members have put into this. this is just the second part of our six part legend of which we will be unveiling over the next few weeks. you want to learn more about this check of go to our website. .etter.gop with that, i would like to get the conversation started. thank you. [applause]

>> joining us now, michael that. and rocco this is a controversial time, and you have talked about the intelligence sharing problems we have. how was this a trend that the you are putting out improve our intelligence sharing, given what is now the failure we have seen in cairo and other places.

veryl: this is a important document. i would say we are in the highest threat environment we have seen since 9/11. as you mentioned, airports are a serious concern. i just returned from cairo, egypt to look at that airport. we have daily flights into jfk. back concerns be. there are many airports that are secure.sider -- we know that's isis wants to put bombs on airplanes. blueprint calls for is a beefing up of security at last point of departure airports. debtor betting.

better vetting. homeland security is about people and badt things. this is highly important. you mentioned the border, i think the porter applies as well. we need a secure border. we know that isis talked about taking a pakistan nuclear weapon and smuggling it across the u.s.-mexico border. although these components are vitally important to protecting americans here at home. i think this document that we worked very hard on gives a good blueprint to protect americans as a superpower. we have had so many terrorist sanctuaries and safe havens pop

up. from those safe havens, they can conduct operations. libya has become a failed state. strong, and of course, iraq and syria. we saw what happened in brussels and paris. we don't want to see those active shooter plots and suicide bombers happen here in the united states. thehow will this document -- task force says protect the american people by developing an overarching vision for national therity that can confront threats of the 21st century -- how would that be different going forward, let's say under a republican president, under president trump, your presumptive nominee? rep. goodlatte: first, let me thank you and the council on

foreign relations for welcoming us today. to hear a lot of criticism today of the current administration, including from me. what this is about, we have titled this, "a better way" because we think there are a lot of things that are not being done by this administration that should be done by a new president. those we have been working on in congress over the last few years. one of those major areas is in conjunction with the homeland security committee. we are a nation of immigrants. there is not a person here who andot go back a generation

find someone to came here to better their family. we are also a nation of laws. the first thing we call for its enforcement of our laws. when people enter the border, some enter illegally. others, and turn themselves in. some have dumped their document in mexico, before the turn up at the borders and say they don't have documentation. they are if they did in the country, and given a date to appear at an asylum hearing. a great majority of them to not show up for the hearings. that is the decision that the administration has made to not detain people on a higher percentage basis and to find some way to return to be adjudicated properly.

in claiming refugee status and not think held until that determination is made. we have bills that have passed committee judiciary safe andure people are do not perpetrate terrorist attacks. we also problems with safe the l immigration system as well. probably 30%-40% enter the country legally on student visas, business visas, and overstay. and, we have had problems of the processing of people. the woman, who with her husband,

perpetrated a horrific terrorist attack in california was not properly vetted when she applied for her fiance visa for her husband. those the agenda of have already been signed and passed into law by the current president. others have passed with a strong like refugeese war-torn countries. these are part of the agenda to keep america safe. is making sure that law enforcement and intelligence gathering organizations have the tools they need to gather information and keep america safe at the same time that we have to make sure we are protecting american

civil liberties. having the government store large varieties of data is foreign to what most americans think the government should be doing. we stopped that. we have a couple of important roles here, and have made an important contribution to a to keepay forward america safe. our next panel will talk about how to address these issues going on on the offense. the defense has to be strong as well.

>> in terms of the defense, how does a ban on muslims contribute to national security? i have said before, raceannot than an entire or religion from coming into the country. what you need is a proper t theg system and you need security standards. very important. i introduce. i think what we have to do is target the threat and properly , and make sure they don't come in. i just passed a bill that has to standardsghtening the using social media. this is a document that we hope the nominee will read and take attention to.

there are ways to properly vet threats coming into the united states> to think that nationalhetoric hurts security in terms of interaction with foreign leaders? to advise.g this is a better way forward to house republicans. hopefully some democrats will heed it too. we hope the nominee will read it as well. with the are careful rhetoric because it can inflame and help them in some respects. i have to look at the threats o.t there to

i think the offense, perhaps , coulda failed state take out large training camps of isis within libya. we have the same problem in .emon we are ramping up operations, but that alone will not solve the problem. to counter narrative is so important. affected inbeen developing the counter narrative . cannot be drawn strikes alone. i have tested the department of homeland security to make it a focus -- you cannot just do it

with the united states flag. you have to do it with community leaders, religious leaders and the war of ideas. war ofdo you win the ideas? i have watched democratic and republican administrations and secretaries of state of all descriptions unable to use our public diplomacy in a truly effective way against this kind of propaganda. isis is so much more adept at social media than anything we have been able to do. rep. mccaul: we have a new generation of terrorists who are very effective on the internet and have radicalized enough people to recruit 45,000 jihadist into iraq and syria. now they do the external operations. the same with northern africa. we have to counter that message. some private companies --

google, facebook -- are stepping up to counter that message. i think united states government could do a better job leveraging those communities. at the end of the day, this is the sunni arab community that needs to step up to the plate and protect their own religion. legislation out of the judiciary committee advises the president -- social media can give you lead and clues on the background of the people applying to come to the united states. question went through three interviews and it was never determined that she was a threat to the united states. had they done background check like social media or checking middle eastern countries

where she was educated, they might have had a more informed body of information on whether or not she should have been admitted to the dead states. about cyber ask you security. be have seen a failure of sitesting even government . we have seen the hack of the state department with, we russia. pruss how do you deal with hacking by state actors? rep. mccaul: we talk a lot about the active suicide bomber with isis. ciber, we look at the consequences and potential damages as far graver and more of a threat, in many ways. when you look at -- what bob looks at in terms of criminal threat of ip, espionage -- china

stole 20 million security clearances from the united states government without any consequence to it. the administration did not respond to that kind of attack. peace is cyber warfare what keeps me up at night. it is the ability to shut down whether the power grids, financial institutions, cause utter chaos. we need to do a better job on the defense to protect this nation. rep. goodlatte: we do need to provide more resources to our military and to law enforcement, by the way, to be able to combat cyber crimes of all types. we also need to recognize that encryption technology is a good thing. it causes problems for us, but

when it is done well and right, it is the most effective step to hacking into government agencies, banks, and all the ways we have seen people being made affordable. encryption is a good thing and we should be working to make sure it is stronger and stronger and make sure that law have tools agencies to address it. that is why the energy committee and the commerce committee work together on the subject to come up with proposals based upon our work with intelligence and law enforcement organizations, with civil liberties organizations to make sure we find the appropriate way to advance this technology. we do not want the bad guys to , and haves to it

hindered our own access to it. rep. mccaul: if i could add, i think one of the greatest challenges to federal law enforcement is encryption is a positive thing for us. the terrorists have learned how to exploit it. >> the end to end encryption. rep. mccaul: you look at paris, brussels -- it worries me that they can communicate in darkness, and we cannot see what they are saying. plot.hard to disrupt that we know that officials in syria are talking to officials in the united states, as we speak. this is one of the biggest threats. congress needs to deal with this .ssue as well and tackle this we need to fix this problem.

it is very complex, but one of the greatest challenges we have. please identify yourself. give your name and affiliation. we want to get to as many of you as possible. we have microphones. you for being care. i am with the naval postgraduate school. i'm struck by a number of things. incredible complex the and interdependency the world is today and the number of things .hat one needs to know by the way, i think democracy is very hard to do. when we go into iraq and decimate all of the leadership and expect it to miraculously turn -- we need to understand these countries, first of all.

is whatwhat i've asking does the u.s. have to offer these countries? i have a good friend who is an egyptian now living in saudi arabia doing terrorist work. he was on a program here last fall. practicallyhe was shaking, he said, americans to not understand why people become terrorists. he says, these are government with no opportunities, no purpose in life, they are offered $2000 per month, a gun, and a truck. you cannot deal with that. none of this has easy answers. if you have easy answers, please share them with all of us. rep. mccaul: we do not have easy answers, but we cannot simply ignore the reality that exists there. the best thing we have to offer is the example. i know and have read widely about how societies that are

predominated by a muslim culture that has a very close in a relationship between the isernment and religion that in the united states different because we have a constitution freedomtects religious nonetheless, i believe that making people aware of around the world that freedom isn't very precious thing and worth having will eventually win the mostven in some of these difficult countries like countries in the middle east. in the meantime, we have to deal with the terrorist threat. we cannot say, go ahead, do what you are doing over there, it does not affect us over here. rep. mccaul: i just came back from the region and many hotspots. we have to deal with that often simply, taking out the threat so

they cannot attack the homeland. we all understand that. the political and diplomatic resolutions, like in iraq, it down. formation ofhe crisis began. there are also the conditions on the ground that help to promote terrorism. that is where the counter narrative and thear of ideas and ideology -- we have to do a much better job of this. we are looking at ways of talking about foreign affairs and economic assistance packages. we are looking at. it is really a commendation, it is not all drone strikes. . congresswoman jane harman> harman: thank you. i was elected with you, bob, and

worked closely with you, mike. a republican agenda is an important thing to have an election year. there several things that i strongly agree with. if a democrat is elected president, would you work with her to enact parts of these hopefully try to put the country first because on the bus will be victims of terror attacks, not just people in one party. rep. mccaul: terrorists don't care for a democrat or republican. i'm hopeful this document will be the house gop blueprint, by hope it is a document for all americans. i think these principles are correct. it is a better way forward. we will work with whoever the president is. rep. goodlatte: many of these items in here we have are to be working on in a bipartisan way.

there are some things that has been very positive. congress has the response of the to the american people to work with whoever the chief executive is. i will say, i hope it is somebody other than the lady you are referring to because the track record of the current president working with us to not bypass congress and actually work with congress has not been good. we are looking for leadership that wants to work with congress and get done. that includes foreign policy and national defense issues what it is especially important that we have a coordinated effort to represent the united states before the world. rep. mccaul: my concern as well the administration and mrs. clinton and foreign policy -- she is the architect of much of this, the arab

spring. it has created so many terrorist sanctuaries and safe havens from which they can operate out of to attack americans in the homeland. that is one of my concerns. >> there is a question back there. thank you, jane. >> thank you, i'm richard. great comments. thank you very much. yourman mccall, you began remarks saying we need to secure the border. there are some who say the border is more secure today than it has ever been. what is the criteria that will let us know we have a secure order? is it zero migrants coming across, a percentage, zero drugs? what is the criteria that will let us know we have a secure border. rep. mccaul: