was saying. senator sanders is someone who was not a member of the democratic party, kind of a one-man band, not leading a major committee, not commanding a lot of major legislation. that could really change. he has the opportunity to potentially depending on on the health committee, education and pensions, in the next congress would be a great forum for a lot of his passions and he would take on a much larger role. greta: he met with senator reid cap on the capital. have you heard or are those negotiations to do in this presl election? certainly, and at this moment in time it is a two-way street as democrats try to ease dropping outrmally and endorsing hillary clinton, which he has not done, and not alienating him and his legions

of far left supporters. the conversations of what can we do for each other? what would make sanders happy and what can he do for the democratic party. they can help each other. congressman becerra, when asked if he would consider the vice president job -- where is he on the list? topstina: he has been a surrogate for her the last several months. he has a very important constituency. he seems to feel he is more likely to stay in the house. in general he is on these lists, but he is not one of the more top picks like, say, senator warren. greta: thank you both for being part of "newsmakers" this week. appreciate it. clinton'sillary

speech at planned parenthood, followed by bernie sanders' remarks at a rally in washington, d.c. and donald speaks at the faith and fo freedom conference. increased,re has there are great love affairs, but it's also a family where fathers killed her sons, wives have their husbands overthrown and murdered, where sons collude in the murders of fathers. this is a family unlike any other. a tonight on "q&a," discussion of the book "the about the dynasty that ruled russia for over 300 years. >> all of the girls were wearing bullet-proof vest -- not bullet-proof vest's, but vets

diamonds.the romanov inn into their underwear case they needed money. but when the bullets came, tragically, these made their becausech, much longer the bullets bounced off diamonds, the hardest substance known to man and they did not die. at 8:00 eastern on c-span's "q&a." >> democratic presidential candidate hillary clinton discussed women health issues at a planned parenthood action fund event on friday. she also addressed donald trump's position on abortion and reproductive rights. this is 35 minutes. this is my fight song this is my life song ♪

applause]d ms. richards: hello. welcome. welcome to this historic convening of the planned parenthood action fund. we are now in session. [cheers and applause] ms. richards: i don't know how we planned to be together this week when the first woman in nominationured her the uniteddent of states. this has been a week in the celebration, 100 years in the making as planned parenthood launches its second century. the fight for women to control their reproductive destiny and the courageous by for the right to vote has shaped opportunity for millions of women and families, and we recognize the struggles of all of those who came before us to make this day possible. aen my great-grandmother was

girl, women could not vote under texas law. and yet, two generations later, her daughter-in-law, and n richards was elected governor of the great state of texas. were alive today for this incredible moment in history. for 100 years, planned parenthood has worked to allow people to live out their dreams, and largely because women can access birth control and legal abortion, where half of the college students, half of the law and medical students, there are three awesome women on the supreme court's of the united states. there are 20 women in the united states senate, and when the planned parenthood action fund and all of us do our work right over the next five months, we will probably be part of electing the first woman

president of the united states of america. [cheers and applause] ms. richards: so, i know there's a lot of us in this room and we did not start out supporting the same candidate, so i want to thank senator sanders for bringing issues and activists into this election. [cheers and applause] the end, we: but in are all fighting for the same thing, which brings me to why the selection matters. electing anybout woman to the white house. this is about electing this woman, hillary clinton. love yesterday as president barack obama put out his video. he so eloquently stated there has never been anyone as qualified to hold this office running for the president of the united states of america. and i want to say one other

thing. a lot has been said during this election about trust. at planned parenthood, we know something about trust. millions of year, patients trust planned parenthood with their health care and their future. a mother in houston, texas who has found a lump in her breast shetrust us to get the care needs. a transgender teen in nashville, north carolina who trusts us to provide non-john's mental -- nonjudgmental, high-quality health care. or a young woman far from home who trusts planned parenthood to get her on the very best birth control, no shame, no judgment. trust, right? is important thing is trust earned, earned by action, not by words. that is why the planned parenthood action fund has trust in hillary clinton. so -- [cheers and applause] hasrichards: this trust

been built over a lifetime. remember when millions of children in america were going without health care coverage. who did the nation trust to establish the first children's programnsurance that now provides insurance for over 8 million children? hillary clinton. that's right. in beijing, who did we trust to declare to the world that women's rights are human rights and human rights are women's rights once and for all? hillary. and remember back when the fda refused to put emergency contraception over-the-counter and we needed a champion in the united states senate to get it done? you did we trust? hillary. that's right. and in the white house, who did we trust to lead the charge to repeal the hyde amendment, to fix the helms amendment, and defend the right of all people ?or reproductive health care

hillary clinton. and honestly, honestly, who do we trust to simply trust women? that is hillary. , we are enormously honored that hillary is with us today. this is her very first speech since clinching the nomination. applause]d ms. richards: and as you know, and we have talked a lot about this week, we need a president who not only will fight for human rights, but immigration rights, civil rights, voting rights, right? to keep communities safe from gun rights and toxic waters, a president who has fought for women and families every single day of her life and will take that fight to the white house. you know who she is. she is our friend, a fighter, a leader, and she is going to be the next president of the united states. hillary clinton.

♪ applause]d ms. clinton: thank you. hello. thank you. thank you so much. i -- "hillary"]ting ms. clinton: thank you all.

i have to say pink never looked so good. i want to thank my friend and your courageous leader cecile richards. is thew, cecile really definition of grace under pressure. she has proven that time and time again over the course of her career, and particularly over the last few years. she really is like another great american, her mother, ann richards, was a friend of mine. were here tosh ann see this election. she would have donald trump tweeting doubletime. [applause] ms. clinton: we reached a milestone together this week, thanks to you and people all -- a woman will

be a major party's nominee for president of the united states. [applause] yesterday, iand had the great honor of being endorsed by president obama and vice president biden. and by senator elizabeth warren. [cheers and applause] it has been ao, big week, and there is no where i would rather end it than right here with the planned parenthood action fund. i am grateful to the entire planned parenthood family. you made this campaign your own, whether you knocked on doors in iowa or rallied in california, this victory belongs to all of the 1000it belongs to young activists who came

together in pittsburgh last month -- [cheers and applause] ms. clinton: it belongs to the staff, the donors, and to the theiders -- providers like dr. in texas who called out donald trump when he said that women should the punished for -- should be punished for having abortions and the letter that she wrote defending her --ients' decision to make right to make their own health th decision should be read by every politician in america. thisdeeply conscious that victory belongs to generations of brave women and men who fought for the radical idea that women should determine our own lives and futures. and it belongs to the women and

men who continue to fight for that idea today, even in the face of threats and violence. when a man who never should have at a gun kills three people planned parenthood in colorado springs, leaders in this room voted unanimously to keep health centers across america open the next today. and the ceo -- [cheers and applause] plannedton: the ceo of parenthood made a promise to patients in colorado and beyond when she said our doors and hearts stay open. that is really what planned parenthood is all about. today, i want to start by saying something you don't hear often enough. thank you.

applause]d ms. clinton: thank you. thank you for being there for women, no matter their race, sexual orientation, or immigration status. thank you for being there for na in brooklyn who told me how planned parenthood caught her breast cancer when she was just 33 years old and saved her life. thank you for being there for college students getting std testing, the young people who have the tough questions that they are afraid to ask their the sexual assault survivors who turn to planned parenthood for compassionate care, the transgender teens to come for an appointment and find the first place where they can truly be themselves.

thank you for being there for your communities, whether that means taking on hostile politicians in louisiana or handing out clean drinking water in flint, michigan. [cheers and applause] you for being there for every woman in every state who have to miss work, drive hundreds of miles sometimes, indoor cruel, medically unnecessary waiting periods, walk past angry protesters to exercise her constitutional right to safe and legal abortion. [cheers and applause] i have been proud to stand with planned parenthood for a long time.

as president, i will always have your back. because i know that for a century, planned parenthood has worked to make sure that women, who count onople you can leave their best lives, healthy safe and free to follow their dreams. just think. when planned parenthood was founded, women could not vote or serve on juries in most states. it was illegal even to provide information about birth control, let alone prescribe it. but people marched and organized, they protested unjust laws, and in some cases, even when to prison. and slowly, but surely, america

changed for the better. , thanks ago this week to a planned parenthood employee named estelle griswold -- applause]d ms. clinton: the supreme court legalized birth control for married couples across america. [laughter] ms. clinton: when i used to would point toi this case, a look of told her bewilderment would come across my students' faces. and not long after that, roby wade guaranteed the right to safe and legal abortion so young women were no longer dying in emergency rooms and back alleys from botched,

illegal abortion. this is a fact that is not often heard, but i hope you will repeat it. america's maternal mortality rate dropped dramatically, and it turns out being able to plan their families not only saved women's lives, it also transformed them, because it meant that women were able to careers,tion, build internet and fields and rise as far as their talent and hard work would take them. all of the opportunities that follow when women are able to stay healthy and choose whether and when to become mothers. [applause] ms. clinton: and you know so well, today the percentage of women who finish college is six times what it was before birth control was legal.

half of allent college graduates in america and nearly half hour labor force, and our whole economy then is better off. the movement of women into the workforce, the paid workforce, over the past 40 years was responsible for more than three in a half trillion dollars growth in our economy. [applause] and here is another fact that does not get enough attention. pregnancy, teen pregnancy, and abortion rates are at all time record lows. applause]d andclinton: that reality studies confirm what planned

parenthood knew all along. accurate sex education and effective, affordable contraception work. and you know -- it wasn't so long ago that republicans and democrats actually stood together on these issues. the 1990's, when i helped create the national campaign to prevent teen pregnancy, i worked with republicans to get it done. quite different now, don't they? instead of working to continue the progress we have made, republicans, led now by donald trump -- [booing] ms. clinton: are working to reverse it. when donald trump says "let's make america great again," that is code for "let's take america backward."

opportunityme when and dignity were reserved for some, not all. back to the days when abortion was illegal, women had far fewer options, and life for too many women and girls was limited. well, donald, those days are over. applause]d ms. clinton: we are not going, we are not going to let donald back or anyone else turn the clock, and that means we've got to get to work. as you know better than anyone, right now across the country, writes that women should be able to take for granted are under attack. any day now the supreme court will rule on the texas law that

burdensome and medically unnecessary requirements on abortion providers. if these restrictions are allowed to stand, 5.4 million age willreproductive be left with about 10 health centers that provide abortion in a state the size of france. r is the biggest challenge to generation.n a it is also a reminder of what is at stake on the supreme court. president obama has done his job to nominated merrick garland be the ninth justice. it's time for the senate republicans to do their job. [cheers and applause] the senate should give judge garland the hearing he deserves. meanwhile, in just the first , statesnths of 2016

across the country introduced more than 400 restrictions on abortion. 11 states have defunded planned parenthood in the last year, cutting some women off from their only health care provider, and of course, on a national level, republicans in congress have been willing to shut down the entire federal government over planned parenthood funding. that theever noticed same politicians who are against sex education, birth control, and safe and legal abortion are also against policies that would make it easier to raise a child like paid family leave? [cheers and applause] they are for

limited government everywhere, except when it comes to interfering with women's choices and rights. well, i'm here today to tell you we need to be just as determined as they are. we need to defend planned parenthood against partisan attacks. if right-wing politicians actually cared as much about protecting women's health as they say they do, they would join me in calling for more federal funding for planned parenthood. [cheers and applause] to clinton: we also need fight back against the erosion of reproductive rights at the federal, state, and local that patients

and staff can safely walk into health centers without harassment or violence. we need to -- [applause] ms. clinton: we need to stand up for access to affordable contraception without interference from politicians or employers. [applause]n ms. clinton: and let's invest in long-acting, reversible contraceptives, so every woman can choose the method that is best for her. let's strengthen and affor improve the affordable care act that covers 20 million americans women millions of dollars through no co-pay preventative care. and let's take action to stop zika virus,f the

which threatens the health of children and pregnant women. hide repeal laws like the amendment -- the hyde amendment that make it nearly impossible -- [cheers and applause] make it nearly impossible for low income women, disproportionately women of color, to exercise their full reproductive rights. and it is worth saying again -- defending women's health means defending access to abortion, not just in theory, but in reality. [cheers and applause] -- we know: we know that restricting access does not make women less likely to end a pregnancy. it just makes abortion less safe. that threatens women's lives.

for too long, issues like these ase been dismissed by many women's issues, as though that somehow makes them less worthy, secondary. well, yes, these are women's issues. they are also family issues. they are economic issues. they are justice issues. they are fundamental to our country and our future. cheers and applause] ms. clinton: and beyond these specific issues, we need to keep working to support women and families in other ways, by getting incomes rising, including the minimum wage, which disproportionately affects women. we need to finally guarantee equal pay for women's work. we need to pass comprehensive immigration reform with a path

to citizenship that keeps families together. and we need to break down all the barriers of discrimination and systemic racism that hold too many americans back. and we need to come together to stop the epidemic of gun violence that is stalking our country. [applause] no parent should live in fear that their child will be hurt or killed by gun violence. 33,000 americans are killed every year. i have met so many mothers on this campaign who have lost their own children. we all went to them to protect our kids no matter what zip code they live in, and that is going to require -- [applause] theclinton: standing up to

gun lobby and making this a voting issue. all of the issues we are talking about today are interconnected. they intersect. that is why i am grateful to ms. clinton: because you know that all of these issues go straight to that fundamental question -- whether we believe women and families of all races and backgrounds and income levels deserve an equal shot and life? what i believe anyone be surprised to your donald trump believe something very different. he actually thinks guaranteeing paid family leave what they've america less competitive. leave america less competitive. he says that women want equal pay we should just and this is like quote, do as good a job as men.

as if we were not already. he wants to appoint justices who he ofoverturn roe v wade, course wants to defund planned parenthood, and he wants to go after so many of the fundamental legal we have including abortions. and he actually said women should be punished for having abortions. once he said that, there was an outcry. as they should have been. and he tried to walk back his comments. he is doing that a lot lately. but anyone who would so casually agree to the ideal punishing women like it was nothing to him, the most obvious thing in the world, that is someone who does not hold women in high regard. because if you did, he would trust women to make the right decision for ourselves.

[applause] worry,n'tn: donald assures us that as president he will be an equity again the best for women. -- and i quote again, the best for women. anyone who wants to defend planned parenthood and wipe out safe abortion has no idea what is best for woman. after all this is a man who is called him and pigs, dogs, and disgusting animals. it is hard to imagine counting on him to respect the fundamental rights when he says pregnant women are in inconvenience to their player -- employer, what does that say about how he values women, our work, our contribution. we are in the middle of a concerted, persistent assault on women's health across our country.

and we have to ask ourselves that you have to ask everyone you come in contact with -- do we want to put our health, our lives, our futures, in donald trump's hand st? these questions are not hypothetical. whoy woman in every woman cares about women will answer them when they vote in november. when i talk like this, donald trump likes to say i am playing the woman card. is fightingo say for equal pay, planned parenthood, and the ability to make our own health decisions is playing the woman card, then deal me in. [applause] friends, iow my come to this issue of course is

a woman. mother and a grandmother now. but i also come to its as a former first lady, senator, and secretary of state. and thosese roles, roles i traveled to parts of the world were girls are married off as soon as they are old enough to branch of june. places -- to bear children. places where women are confined to lives of hardship. i visited countries were governments had strictly regulated women's reproduction. either forcing women to have abortions or forcing women to get pregnant and give birth. seen hasg i have convinced me that life is freer, fair, healthier, safer, and far more humane when women are

empowered to make their own reproductive health decisions. [applause] ms. clinton: and everything i have heard from donald trump, often seems to echo other leaders. who have a very different view of women. my angeles said when someone shows you who they are, believe than the first time. -- then the first time. donald trump has shown us to be is and we sure should believe him. and it is not just on reproductive rights. donald trump would take us in the right direction on so many issues we care about. economic justice, workers rights, civil rights, human rights, the environment, all of

that is on the line in this election. when donald trump says a distinguished judge born in indiana can't do his job because of his mexican heritage, or mocks a reporter with disabilities, or denigrate muslims and immigrants, it goes against everything we stand for. americans asee all americans. so this election is not about the same old fight between democrats and republicans. that will be there, don't worry. but this election is profoundly different. it is about who we are as a nation. it is about millions of americans coming together to say we are better than this. so here is my promise to you today. in thise your partner election, and over the long haul. together we are taking on the going to comeare

out stronger together. just like planned parenthood has. time and again. [applause] and together we are going to unify our country, stop donald trump, and fight for an america where we live -- lift each other up and set up staring each other down. just breakgoing to that highest and hardest glass ceiling, we are going to break down all of the barriers that old women and families back because you know we do believe we are stronger when every family in every community knows they are not on their own. we are stronger together and we are going to make history together in november. thank you all. [applause]

[hillary] [applause] senator bernie sanders a

guest on meet the press this morning is quoted as saying it is horrific. it is unthinkable. the president has been briefed on the nightclub shooting in orlando florida early this morning that may have claimed as many as 50 lives. in a statement, the white house at our thoughts and prayers are with families and loved ones of the victims made the president has directed that the federal government provide any assistance necessary to pursue the investigation and support the wiki -- the community. at a campaign rally in washington thursday, bernie sanders talked about campaign-finance, economic inequality, criminal justice reform, education affordability, and the minimum wage. see final 2016ll democratic presidential primary tuesday. this is about an hour and 10 minutes.

mr. sanders. >> good afternoon. bernie is close. we have been in this together millions of families across this country. fighting, fighting against corruption, fighting voter suppression, fighting oligarchy, and fighting the oppression that is small dreams and the face of big national challenges. we are fighting for our families, we are fighting we are fracking, fighting for children, we are fighting against mass incarceration. we are fighting for working people, and we are fighting against anza college debt. -- mountains of college debt.

and we have proven, we have proven that you can run a powerful campaign that inspires the majority of the american people. walls,u stand up against when you stand up against the tyranny of the wealthy, and when you stand up, when you stand up for the unity of the american people. [applause] in other words, we have notches proven that bernie sanders is the best candidate to trump trump, we have proven that the only way to be sure that we can , campaignandidacy of hatred and division, is with a campaign of integrity, love, and unity.

and i 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 and this wars. -- our endless wars. [applause] a campaign that is not afraid to say ahead if the minimum wage would have been $15, it would've been allowed to keep up with inflation, then it should just be $15. afraid to that is not thethat you know what, health lobby is really powerful. but our families are more valuable. [applause] a campaign that believes that 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 head scarfmebody's makes you uncomfortable, it's somebody being transgender makes you uncomfortable, just go ahead and be uncomfortable. because 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 just think the speaker of the house, for speaking truth to the day. because it is true what he said about donald trump. let sign that somebody is not qualified to be a federal judge

because of their ethnicity is a very -- the very definition of a racist comment. but the speaker of the house claimed to be a disciple of jack -- he claims to be a disciple of jack kemp and jack naacpas a member of the 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] is beautiful about bernie, the reason we're still the reason that we feel

rn is that if you roll the table on bernie and you go back five years or 15 years or 50 years, he has always given the same dam speech. [applause] bernie has stood up for racial justice, he is set up for economic justice, apparently because it is the only thing that he knows how to do. and if there is a lesson from this for some leaders are they going -- organizations in this country, but the lesson be this, -- that we don't have to compromise with our values to back a winning candidate. that the labor movement can win. that the civil rights movement can win. that the lgbt movement can win. [applause]

selection from our rally should not be forgotten. it is one that bernie described to me as a revolution in the revolution. we were together. and we had just come from to -- chicago and detroit. in front of a crowd knows about 90% white and 10% of the men wearing camouflage because they're coming from their hunting or there on the way too good to hunting. but they were in camouflage, and there on their feet screaming at the top of their lungs for racial justice. screaming for an and to the killing of unarmed black man. i'm that is the thing that the media has never quite figured out about telling the story of our campaign.

they can tell you all-black church ladies are for hillary, and young people are for bernie. but you know my mama goes to church and she is for bernie. and my dad is white and he is for bernie. young and my kids are they are for bernie two. -- too. 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. the future of america does not have a wall running through it.

future of america is represented by bernie sanders and his run for president. thank you and god bless. [applause] [bernie, bernie, bernie] [bernie, bernie, bernie] [applause]

thank yous: washington. [applause] mr. sanders: let me thank all of you for coming out. let me thank ben. let me thank cornell west. [applause] thanknders: and let me

all of you for being part of the political revolution. [applause] we have -- [thank you bernie] mr. sanders: thank you. a little bit over a year ago, we .egan this campaign and let the punditry thought is that the campaign would not go very far. while theory are in mid-june and we are still standing. [applause] and we are standing after having one 22 states. -- won 22 states. and the results have not yet

come in from california. [applause] have one -- won over 10 million votes. state and nonstate, i'm aware of this issue here in washington dc. and i hope that the next time i'm back, we are going to be talking about the state of washington dc. [applause] but in every state and nonstate, that we are running, we have won by a very large boat of young people. vote of young people. 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, onracial environmental justice. [applause] when the overwhelming majority of young people support that vision, that will be the future of america. [applause] this campaign has done as well as it has because we are doing something unusual in american politics. we are telling the truth. [applause] and the truth has to do with the reality of our lives as we experience it, not what we see

on corporate television. [applause] and what is that reality? that reality is that we hear all the time that we are a democracy. is,the fact of the matter even excluding the issue of washington dc not having elected representatives in congress. is that all of you know that increasingly big money is buying elections. now you have a couple of brothers called the koch brothers. worth tens of billions of dollars and may are determined -- they are determined to purchase united states senate for right-wing republicans.

ofn you have a handful really nervous spending unlimited sums of money, you can call it whatever you want, but it sure is not democracy. [applause] 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, and our economic life, in our media life. fewer and fewer wealthy people controlling this nation. and that type of drift towards oligarchy is something we must prevent. [applause] and that means overturning this

disastrous citizen needs -- united supreme court decision. [applause] moving to public funding of elections. [applause] imagine two people, the koch brothers, one family in the process now of purchasing the united states senate? is not only should be overturned citizens united, but we should move towards public funding of elections. [applause] but it is not just a corrupt campaign finance system that we have got to address, it is a rate economy. -- rigged economy.

this is if you add it all up, the wealthiest nation in the history of the world, but most people don't know that because almost all of a new income and wealth is going to the top 1%. 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 one from -- 1/10 of 1% now owns almost 90% of the wealth of this 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 that we are seeing a proliferation of billionaires and billionaires and yet walk five blocks away from here, and we have people sleeping out on the street. gged economy is when a mother goes out to work, and yet the wages that she earns are so low, she cannot afford decent quality child care for her the securityrovide her kids need. economy is when the united states has the highest rate of childhood property of almost any date -- major country on earth. economy is what ceos

who make tens of millions of back on thear cut wages, cut back on the health care, cut back on the pensions of their workers. economy is when wall street greed and recklessness and illegal behavior destroys the economy and then congress bails them out. economy is when wall street even legal behavior and the with no wall street executives going to jail. economy is one mom is working, dad is working, the 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] [all of us] toave been in this campaign native american reservations. rich in south dakota, and do you know 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 michigan, where the public school system is on the verge of a fiscal collapse. [booing] i have been to baltimore, maryland, where tens of thousands of people are addicted to heroin and they cannot get the treatment that they need. [booing] sen. sanders: this is the united states of america. 47should not be having million people living in poverty. [cheering] is the unitedthis states of america. we should not be living in a country where a very rich get richer, while almost everybody

else gets poorer. [cheering] this is the united states of america. years, wethe last 25 have seen the middle class ,hrink and shrink and shrink while almost all new wealth goes to the people on top. that is not what this country is about. and together, we are going to change that. [cheering] sen. sanders: this campaign is not just about a corrupt finance system. it is not just about a rigged economy. it is about a broken, criminal justice system. [cheering] heresanders: every person 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. [booing] why in gods name are we spending $80 billion a year to lock up 2.2 million fellow americans? [booing] job,sanders: and it is our to understand the cause of that issue, and to resolve it. and that means that in community after community throughout this country, in inner cities and rural america, we have used unemployment rates of 30%, 40%, 50%. [booing] sen. sanders: and when young onple's are hanging out street corners, when they are

not in school, when they are not at work, that things can happen. so what i think, and i know that you think, is that it makes more sense for us to be investing in education for our young people, rather than jails and incarceration. [cheering] [applause] i want our young school, not rotting in jail cells. [cheering] thissanders: i want country to have the best educated population in the world, not more people in jail to in any other country in the world. [cheering] looksanders: but when we 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 across the country. [cheering] i was a mayor for eight years in arlington, vermont. i worked with police officers all over the country. the average police officer works hard, is honest and is trying to do a good job. [applause] but like any other public official, when a police officer breaks the law, that officer must be held accountable. [cheering] [applause] it is time for us to deep militarize -- de- militarize local police departments. [cheering] for usnders: it is time

to make local police departments reflect that i diversity -- reflect the diversity of the community they serve. [cheering] sen. sanders: it is time to end corporate ownership of prisons and detention centers. [cheering] it is time for us to have a more in force -- to have a law-enforcement culture that says that lethal force, the shooting of somebody, is the last response, not the first response. [cheering] time for us: it is to take a hard look at the so-called war on drugs. [cheering] sen. sanders: millions of americans over the last 30 years have received police records

because of possession of marijuana. [booing] an. sanders: and if you are 19-year-old kid, going out, looking for a job, having a police record does not help. why i believe that at a time when the federal controlled substance act lists marijuana as a schedule one drug, it is time to take marijuana out of the federal controlled substance list. [cheering] but when we talk about drugs, there is another issue that we have to put front and center on the table. and that is that we have an epidemic in this country of opiate and heroine addiction.

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 abuse, orth substance addiction, we understand that we asnot treat those issues criminal issues, but as health issues. [cheering] andlause] sen. sanders: that means that we need a revolution in mental health treatment in this country. [cheering] [applause] people in america should be able to get the mental

health treatment that they need, when they need it, not six months from now. [cheering] way,sanders: and by the this is not just drug abuse or addiction. there are thousands of people walking the streets of this rountry who are suicidal and/o homicidal. people to be treated, and their problems to be treated, like any other health-related issue. [cheering] sen. 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. [cheering] this campaign is ,istening to ordinary americans

and not just wealthy campaign contributors. [cheering] sen. sanders: and what i am extraordinarily proud of is that this campaign has received more individual campaign contributions the and other campaign in american history up to this point. [cheering] received 8s: we have million individual campaign contributions. does anybody know the average contribution? [chanting] [applause] sen. sanders: $27. do you know what that means? that means, despite all the rhetoric, 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.

[cheering] [applause] [chanting]rs: [bernie, bernie, bernie] 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. that we have to raise the federal minimum wage to a living wage. $15 an hour. [cheering] [chanting] [$15, $15, $15]

sen. sanders: and when we talk we have tod wages, talk about the fact that it is not acceptable that women are making $.79 on the dollar, compared to men. that has nothing to do with economics, it is just old-fashioned sexism. together, we are going to end that. [cheering] thatsanders: and i know every man here is going to stand with the women in the fight for equity. [cheering] now, once the federal government comes out with the report on official unemployment, around 5% lately, does anyone here believe that real unemployment nationally is 5%? >> no. sen. sanders: you're right, it

is not. there is another federal port that doesn't get quite as much publicity, which adds the people who are unemployed and those who have given up looking for work, and those who are working part-time when they want to work full-time. that number means that almost 10% of our people are unemployed. [booing] sen. sanders: 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. [cheering] we should be hiring teachers, not firing teachers. [cheering] be. sanders: we should creating the best child care system in the world, not

maintaining a dysfunctional system. [cheering] sen. sanders: once upon a time, the united states had the best infrastructure in the world. and waterbridges systems and wastewater plants and airports and rail. we had the best rail system in the world. no longer the case. to 13 millionup good paying jobs rebuilding our infrastructure, which is exactly what i intend to do. [cheering] when we talk about live middle class has been , onepearing for 30 years 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. [booing] a messagers: we have for corporate america. to that is -- if you want us buy your products, start manufacturing them here, in the united states. [cheering] this campaign is listening to young people. [cheering] peoplenders: and young are catching on. they are the future of america. and they are determined to shape the future of america. [cheering] what this campaign is about is thinking outside of the status quo. about this for a 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 young people. not just young people, but in a technologically changing society, all people, to get the best education that they can. [cheering] now, 40 years ago, you had a high school degree, you were doing ok. and high school degree would enable you to go out and 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-12th grade.

we have got to talk about public meeting, free tuition at public colleges and universities. [cheering] [applause] sen. sanders: does anybody here think that is a radical idea? >> no. sen. sanders: it is an absolutely commonsensical idea. it will happen, sooner or later. our job is to make it sooner. [cheering] [applause] i want every child here, in washington, d.c. and in vermont, regardless of their ifome, to understand that they study hard, if they do well in school, then yes. they will be able to get a college education. [cheering] sen. sanders: and 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. [cheering] anybody here have student debt that they are struggling with? [cheering] sen. sanders: all right. think about this. if our job is to encourage people to get the best education that they can, why are we forshing millions of people getting a college education? [booing] believe we have got to make it possible for everybody who has a student debt to refinance their loan at the lowest interest rate they can find. [cheering] [applause] my opponents and

the establishment media say, bernie is santa claus. thesee giving away all of things. you are giving away free tuition at colleges, you will lower student debt. how will you pay for it? here is the point we have got 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%. [booing] our job is to transfer that money back into the hands of the middle class. [cheering] [applause] eight years ago, as all of you know, against my vote, congress bailed out wall street. [booing] sen. sanders: wall street's , recklessness and illegal

behavior nearly destroyed the economy. millions of people lost their jobs, homes and life savings. congress bailed them out. all i think, if congress can bail out wall street, it is wall street's time to help the middle class of this country. [cheering] [applause] why ianders: and that is believe we must impose a tax on wall street speculation. [cheering] sen. sanders: 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. what wall you know street? you will have to learn, you no longer are going to get it all. [applause] campaign is: this

listening to the african-american community. [cheering] [applause] and theders: african-american community is asking all of us, how does it happen that we can spend trillions of dollars on a war in iraq that we never ever should -- no problem,o we can bail out wall street, no problem. 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. [booing] sen. sanders: and what this campaign is about is making it

clear. together, we are going to change our national priorities. [cheering] no more tax breaks for the rich. they will start paying their fair share of taxes. [cheering] wars thatrs: no more we should never have gotten into in the first place. [cheering] [applause] yes tonders: but rebuilding our inner cities, putting americans to work, creating the kind of environment that our children require. [cheering] and this campaign is also about telling those governments across the country that we will no longer allow you to suppress the

vote. [cheering] 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. [cheering]rs sen. sanders: and i say to those cowardly republican governors, if you don't have enough guts to put dissipate in free and fair elections, get out of politics. yet a new job. [cheering] [applause] [chanting]rs bernie, bernie, bernie. this campaign is

listening to the latino community. [cheering] 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. [booing] sen. sanders: i just came back , and we visited central california, and talked to farm workers. and 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. --paid wages than they are be paid wages that are lower than they are supposed to.

what they have no recourse because they have no legal rights. that has got to change. [cheering] this congress must ,wn up to its responsibilities and a broken immigration system and move towards citizenship and comprehensive immigration reform. [cheering] and if congress does not pass comprehensive immigration reform and a path towards citizenship, i will use the executive powers of the president. [cheering] [applause] this campaign is listening to a people whose pain is almost never heard. and that is the native american

people. [cheering] sen. sanders: a people of great dignity. here is people who have been ,ied to, who have been cheated who have signed treaties which have been abrogated from way camere the country even be ca country. go the nativewe american people a gut of gratitude and we can never fully repay. [cheering] sen. sanders: if you think about the best parts of our culture, much of it comes from the first americans. think for a moment. think about the lessons that they have taught us. and maybe this is the most profound lesson. and that is that as human beings, we are part of nature.

not a complicated idea. it tells us that we must live with nature. and as we can see, increasingly every day, if we continue to destroy nature, we are destroying the human feces. species. and despite all of the nature they have given us in the communities across our country, unemployment and poverty is skyhigh. access to health care and education is low. transform to totally our relationship and that is

what i intend to do if elected. h i know that donald trump is, among many things, he has many other attributes. he is an extraordinary brilliant scientist. he doesn't like to brag because .e is a modest guy he has come to the conclusion that climate change is a hoax. i, on the other hand, i have talked to people other than andld trump on this issue

they have a slightly different position. they believe that climate change is caused by human activity and climate change is already doing devastating harm in our country and countries all over the world. and this is what they tell us. this is scary stuff. what they tell us is that if we together inr acto a short amount of time, a bad situation will become much worse. more trout, more floods, more rising sea levels and do you know what else? that there will be more international conflict as countries and people fight for limited natural resources.

job is to tell the fossil fuel industry that their short-term profits are not more important than the future. [cheering] sen. sanders: we have a moral responsibility. do you know who we are? we are the custodians of the planet. and guess what? there isn't another planet. this is it. this one, our children and grandchildren have nowhere else to go. so i believe that we have a moral responsibility to transform our energy system away from fossil fuel to energy efficiency and sustainable energy. [cheering] [applause]

--. sanders: and by the way when we do that, in an aggressive way, we can create this campaign is asking people time and again in different ways to think outside of the box. analysis or the 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 our options. what do you think? we reject those options. [applause] of massive income and

wealth inequality, the other option not put on the table is at the billionaires and corporate america will start paying their fair share of taxes. [applause] and what this campaign is about, whether it is education i mentioned, free tuition at public colleges and universities to all of you know that that already exists in germany. it exists in scandinavia. this is not a radical idea. and when we talk about human league, 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 income for housing. you are laughing because today all over this country people are paying 50 or 60%.

how the hell do you have money keepover to buy food, to your house warm, to put gas in the car, if you're paying 50% or 60% for affordable housing. our job is to build millions of units of affordable housing. [applause] accept, not toto accept that fellow americans are sleeping out on the street a few blocks away from here. never except that as a reality. we can change it. [applause] and when we talk about human is affordable housing, it is education, it is decent and affordable nutrition, but it is also something else where we are way behind only very mucht discussed

a meeting. but all of you know, the united states is united -- only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all people as a right. only major country -- go to germany, go to scandinavia, go to u.k., go to holland, go to canada, not a big deal. everybody in canada has health care as a right. we are the only major country that -- where that does not exist. i think it is time to end that international reality. i've been criticized for saying this. so let me say it again. care is a, health human right, not a privilege.

[applause] that means if you are rich or if you're poor, young, or old, you should be able to go to the doctor when you need to go to the doctor. now the affordable care act has done some very good things. 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 a doctor when they should? 40,000. i talk to doctors all of the time, and you know they say that

patients come into their offices much, much sicker than they should be paid and the doctor says why didn't you come in a year ago? do people say? they say i didn't have any health insurance. or have i had to cannot afford it. and 40,000 people a year die because they go to the doctor today. believe we why i should pass a medicare for all single-payer program. [applause] [bernie, bernie, bernie] the issue is not what is right or what is wrong, anybody with any sense of morality understands that health care should be a right. that is a disgrace that we have 70 people uninsured and

underinsured. that is that is not the issue. the issue is the power of the private insurance companies and the pharmaceutical industry. 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 have one out of five americans who cannot afford to fill the prescriptions their doctors right. -- write. cutting their pills in half because they cannot afford the medicines they require. and yet last year the five major drug companies made up $50 billion in profits. enough is enough. we're going to tell the pharmaceutical industry they will stop ripping off the american people.

[applause] sanders: what this campaign is about is learning the most important lesson that american history can teach us. and that is that we -- real frome never takes place the top on down, but always from the bottom on up. [applause] sen. 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 who were 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 they told their employers we are not animals, we are not be

subverting, we are human beings. and they stood up, and they formed trade unions. [applause] n. sanders: 150 years ago they were african americans and their allies -- standing then who are up and sometimes going to jail, sometimes getting killed, sometimes getting beaten, sometimes losing their jobs, but they stood up and over the years, millions of people said ndis country well and -- e racism and bigotry, and discrimination. [applause] 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.

about 100 years ago today. women in america did not have the right to vote. to get the jobs they wanted, because the education they wanted, 10-year-old girls don't know that, but it is true. women stood up and they fall 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 .abies women stood up and said you will not defined us. we will define ourselves. [applause] back and easy to look to say women didn't have the right to vote? that is crazy.

but understand what it was like in that culture, in that time. the courage that those women showed. think about something even more contemporary. think about the fact that we -- if we were here 10 years ago and somebody jumped up and said you know bernie i think that by the year 2015, gay marriage will be legal in every state in the country. that 10ody had said years ago, you know at the person next to him would have said? they would've said you are crazy. there's too much homophobia, there's too much prejudice, there's too much bigotry. it can 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] sanders: think about something even more contemporary. if we were here five years ago, think about it. five years ago, no time at all. somebody jumps up and says you know bernie, this federal 7.25 andwage of starvation age, we have to raise it to 15 bucks an hour. the person next to them would've said you're crazy. $15 an hour? you want to more than double the federal minimum wage. that's too radical, too crazy, urine extremist. -- you are an extremist. but what happened to go what happened is that workers in the fast food industry, and burger

and wendy's, and i have the privilege to be out in the streets marching with them right d.c.in bc -- late stood up and they said you know what, we can't make it on seven and a quarter, eight bucks an hour, 10 bucks an hour. and we need 15 bucks an hour. and then you know what happened? once a people this country began outeal with that issue, way in seattle, city council passed 15 bucks an hour. and then los angeles and san francisco 15 bucks an hour. state,fornia new york and cities and towns all over this country, 15 bucks an hour. impossible, what seemed radical, just a few years

ago is now commonplace. 50 bucks an hour, or yell at 70. here's the point of all that. today willradical seem mainstream tomorrow if we stand together and make their status. -- those changes. [applause] sanders: and what i am saying -- seeing all of this country, this is what i'm seeing, this is extraordinary. from coast to coast, and i have been from coast to coast, people are standing up and they're looking around and 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 and people having to work two or three jobs

, unacceptable. having veterans sleep out on the street, unacceptable. [applause] living onior citizens 10 or $11,000 a year and adequate social security, i'm -- 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 i don't ready to rebuild idle ready tot -- rebuild that infrastructure, on except it will. people all over this country are looking at the status quo and the understand that it is too late to -- for established politics and establishment economics.

that we need real change in this country. [applause] sanders: and what people also understand is that no president, not bernie sanders or anybody else can do it alone. that what we need in this people are millions of standing up, fighting back, and demanding a government that represents all of us, not just the 1%. [applause] sanders: that is what this campaign is all about. here innext -- washington, you will be having of they last primary 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] [cheering] [applause] [bernie, bernie, bernie]

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[cheering] was a guestanders at this morning on nbc's meet the press and offered comments on the mass shooting in orlando, florida. republican new york congressman peter king, a former member of the only two chordae committee -- security committee also spoke on cnn's shootings state of the unit. obvious and what is unfolding in orlando is on top of mind for many viewers. we don't know the motivation, we just know there's a lot of dead people right now, a lot of injured people. whether it is gun related, terrorism related, he, related -- hate crime related, it's a mass shooting. your reaction. senator sanders: it's horrific. something will.

our hearts go out to all those who were shocked that they can recover. i have to tell you, 25 years ago , i believed in this country we should not be selling automatic weapons which are designed to kill people. we have got to do everything that we can on top of that to make sure that guns do not fall into the hands of people who should not have them. criminals are people who are mentally ill. we could everk have a conversation where we have the terrorism conversation and the gun conversation where it can -- where everybody can sit down and have this without one versionliticize of events of the other? sen. sanders: i do checuck. i think there is a broad consensus in this country, not 100% of the people, an overwhelming majority of gun owners and non-gunners understand that we have to do everything we can to prevent guns from falling into the hands of people who should not have

them. that means expanding the instance background check. it means doing away with the gun show loophole. it means addressing the strawman provision. i think there is a wide consensus to move forward in that direction. hom you are at >> when you're at home and people tell you they're worried about their safety from these attacks weather in san ft.ardino or for current -- hood, or boston, orlando florida, what do you tell them to assure them? on the other hand we have two run with our lives. we have to use law enforcement and intelligence community to support they need. something,if you see say something great if we walk around with our heads down and are free to come out at night, th we have given in to the terrorist. it is a dangerous road which are there. and i think too often people --

once an incident like this is over, they put in the back of their minds and they do forget how dangerous it is. either very intense or nothing at all. the fact is this is a -- going to be a long, can a war against terrorism. the american people have to be a part of that, but not in a way which calms regular live. you have to be alert and aware and have faith in law enforcement and intelligence community. >> and house leaders are reacting. paul ryan tweeted we pray for this brutally attacked in orlando. while he must learn more about the attacker, the victims and families will not be forgotten. and minority leader nancy pelosi said our hearts ache for all those killed in this senseless attack. and we pray for their swift recovery of all those who were wounded. we will not allow paid entergy succeed in blinding us with fear. president obama will have a statement on the mass shooting. his remarks live about an hour from now right or on c-span at 1:30 eastern.

republican presidential candidate donald trump spoke at the faith and freedom coalition conference here in washington on friday. he criticized the policies of hillary clinton and he bowed to unite the country if elected. during his speech, several protesters were escorted out of the room. this is about 20 minutes. [applause] mr. trump: thank you. while. take everybody. wow what a group. thank you everybody. what an honor. we are going to have a big, big victory in november. you'll be very happy. believe me. thank you. this is my third time and i think the first time it is only ok. the second time is great, and this time we have two top it.

thank you all for being here. before begin, i want to thank ralph rady, he's been an amazing guy and amazing support. a terrific man, and it is a great honor to be invited back to make times and i will be here as often as i can, believe me because i'm with you 100%. also want to thank so many, had so much support, as you know, we've done very well with with religionand generally speaking if you look at what is happened with all of in races, whether it is south carolina, i went thereto be very strong evangelical and i was not supposed to win and i won in a landslide. and so many other places where you had evangelicals and where you had the heavy christian it has beent was -- i thinkng journey to -- we won 37 different states and the support that i've had from

you. an incredible. i appreciate it very much. i happen to be -- go ahead [applause] . i happen to be presbyterian. there's about three of you out there. and been really something some of my friends that are in the room, she being here. i want to really think jerry pharrell junior. he was right from the beginning. he's been such a tremendous supporter, liberty as you know the jobty university -- he has done has been incredible. pastor paula white has been right from the beginning. i've known her for so long and she is a tremendous person, which meant this woman. don't know burns, i if you watch them on television between him and pastor dale scott, these two are phenomenal. robert jefferson we all know and love. amazing, and in the audience a thing where richard lee. we have jim garlow, and we have father frank pavone. in the audience.

so i appreciate you being here. i have to say though, the world is such a different place. even from when i started -- we started this 12 months ago and coming up, i just see where in france they have massive soccer tournament. something that is so important and so big, and they're thinking about maybe postponing it or canceling it because of threats and all the problems going on with what is happening with very, verynd it is a sad thing in a very sad place. who would've ever thought of her world would be a position like this where that would happen. but you just see event after event, radical islamic terrorism just taking over and we can't let that happen. we cannot let that happen. [applause] and if we are smart, and if you're tough, we won't let it

happen just remove that. that.ember it's on at your speaker today and discuss our shared values. i would like to thank all of the wonderful christian leaders and christian voters who have supported me. we have had tremendous support. here we are in here are the goals, and i thought i would put some of these together, and i did a distiller night. because of this meeting. and i wanted it to come from me. from my heart. sanctityo uphold the and dignity of life. [applause] marriage and family at the building blocks of happiness and success, so important. by the way, i know many, many very successful people, the happiest people are the people that have a great religious

he'll and that incredible marriage. it's more important than the money folks. believe me i know plenty with lots of money and are not happy people. religious freedom, the right of people, faith to freely practice their faith, so important. freedom of any kind means no one should be judged by their race, or their color, and the color of their skins should not be judged that way. and right now we have a very divided nation. we're going to bring our nation together. if i win, we will bring our nation together. [applause] the importance of faith in the united states society, it's really the people who go to and work inwork religious charities, so important, and share their values. these are the foundations of our society. we must continue to forge our partnership with