to where the work is. what if we can enable mobility, so that people can move freely around cities, and then that would be a great thing. notion is mobility us, not just us, trying to figure out how do we move people, how do we move food, how do we move health in an evermore crowded world? david: some people say that larger companies like ford, it is hard to make decisions quickly, and then people can disrupt you. are you making electric cars? do you expect it will be a major part of the business? mr. ford: yes, we are, and it will be a major part of the business. we are being disrupted at every level. the powertrain itself from internal combustion to electric, the way people access vehicles used to be you went and bought a vehicle and it sat in your garage. lyft, andave uber and

other ways to access vehicles. the notion of autonomous driving is not science fiction, it is coming. david: have you been in any of these? mr. ford: absolutely. i'm not afraid at all. it's fascinating. the first time, it is a leap of faith, but then you realize it's interesting. david: were you in the back seat? [laughter] mr. ford: it's interesting, because there will be no steering wheel or petals. you can sit anywhere you want. there are ethical questions that will have to be solved before they become "is. -- ubiquitous. meaning, if we are driving and an accident,s these cars have such computing power. outcome fort society is the car to take you out, because what if the car can intercept a runaway car that

might be hitting 10 pedestrians? for societies sake, it might be safe to save the 10 pedestrians and kill me. those are the ethical questions we have never had to face. no one company is going to solve it. we have to have -- can you imagine, if we had one algorithm antonio to had another, and general motors had another? you couldn't do that. we need to have a national discussion on ethics. we have never had to think of these came -- things. the car will be able to do that. david: they will presumably operate on a mechanism that could be attacked by a cyber terrorist. mr. ford: cyber security becomes a very big deal for this, absolutely. david: what about the companies starting where they say, we will rent cars for a couple of hours? most people don't drive their cars all day. won't that mean that fewer people will buy cars and you will sell less cars,?

mr. ford: in this world, that will happen potentially anyway. the way we look at it is, there are lots of revenue streams and new business models that will come up around mobility. the idea of transportation as well. the traditional, old model may -- if we do this correctly, we can be less higher intensive, margins, less cyclical, if we participate in a number of revenue streams along the way, and not just sell a car, be done with it, and wash our hands. having said that, we are going to live in both worlds for some because the world we are talking about now won't happen overnight, and it won't happen all at once. we are going to have to straddle both worlds, making cars and today fort we do quite a while. yet, we will also be building a smart mobility business, working

with cities. that is what i think is really exciting, the notion of having a city as the customer. rather than us go to cities and say, here's all this great technology, hope you like it, ask,lly go to them and what are your problems? tell us what you are facing. then let us figure out together, what are the solutions. mr. ford: david: david: you work with software companies. are you developing software? absolutely, that will happen. the other thing happening is you will see many more partnerships between us and other kinds of companies. i served on the board of ebay for 11 years. i was out in the valley every month. this kind of friend to me was out there as well. frenemy was out there as well. that is the world we will live

in. we will work with a lot of people and we may compete against them in another area. david: when you decided you want to join the ebay board, what did the people at fort say about that? mr. ford: keeping in with my environmental viewpoint, they thought i was a bolshevik. this is probably 14 years ago. they said, we think it would be good if you joined a board. i think they thought i would join a big industrial company. sent back, and i said i over to starbucks and ebay. starbucks took the ultimate commodity, which you could buy at the corner best -- asked asian for $.25, and they turned it into the ultimate consumer item. we have the ultimate consumer item and are in the process of commoditizing. that was interesting. interesting. the idea you could do business with someone you will never meet, across borders, across the world, and trust that person,

was to me very interesting. i thought it might have implications for us going forward. i had gone to school with meg whitman. she said, i understand you are considering, you have no choice, you are coming to mine. i always thought i did. i loved it. it was it great time -- a great time. we bought paypal. the valley was an interesting place and still is. david: ebay sells things that has been owned by someone else. in the automobile world, selling used cars has a complicated reputation. some people think you may not get a great thing all the time. mr. ford: interestingly, ebay, their used-car business is fantastically successful. i have bought cars off of ebay. sight unseen, the transactions are great. it is interesting that people will do business -- the founder of ebay, he founded it with the

notion that people are inherently good. and that that would be proven. and he was right. david: well, some people would , mr. ford: who knows. it is interesting. the business model proves that was true. david: today, if you talk to or to his father, what did he tell you about henry ford? mr. ford: he told me a lot. my dad was very close to his grandfather. i have a lot of stories that are just fun stories he told me about his great -- his grandfather. david: henry ford's innovation was inventing a car that can be manufactured relatively quickly. mr. ford: in the five dollars a day wage, he was called a bush -- bolshevik in his day as well. he was thrown out of capitalist society for the five dollar day wage and profit sharing.

david: do you worry about competition from chinese car manufacturers? mr. ford: sure, i worry about competition from anywhere. we live in a very disruptive world. we need to be aware of what everyone is doing. we can dismiss everybody. a startup today may be disrupting the world six months from now. that is just the world we live in. we need to be accessible to these young companies. one of the things we're spending a lot of time on his, how do we interact with these young companies, how do we let them navigate our bureaucracy, and how do we champion them? david: do you worry about the fact that while car sales are good now, the prophets are largely coming from suvs and gasoline prices were to go up again, theory is those sales would go down. how are you getting that problem solved? mr. ford: the world will always need trucks. where the things we do is put in the ego boost engine, which is

very fuel-efficient, into the truck. there is a thought that truck buyers will never buy the v-6 engine. guess what, it worked great. then we made the truck all alumina. people said, they will never buy aluminum trucks. it's better fuel economy, better performance, better acceleration and braking. it worked. as awe have taken philosophy is we will be making a full range of vehicles, but we will make every one of those as fuel-efficient as possible. big, brawny be vehicles. now, you have very small suvs, because people like the utility. david: when you drive a car that is not a ford -- mr. ford: you are really quite fascinated with this notion of not a ford [laughter] . david: if you would buy a non-ford products, what would you recommend to somebody? [laughter] mr. ford: well, probably

something you don't mind beating up much, because -- i do have favorite cars that are non-ford. some of our competitors do spectacular things. at the end of the day, i don't sit there and wish i had them. i sit around and say, how do we beat them? david: this car right here, this is one of your midsize cars. something like that would go for roughly what? mr. ford: this is a family car. we have been very successful. interestingly, to your point, the growth of this segment and the shrinking of the segment really does correlate, in many respects, to fuel prices. you raised the point of minute ago. what happens when fuel prices go up? there is a magic point. about four dollars per gallon, you start to see profound shifts in people's buying behavior.

the other thing, if there are also big spikes and valleys, people freak out because they cannot anticipate what the ownership cycle is going to be like. what we are trying to do with this vehicle and all vehicles, is to make them all really fuel-efficient, so that we won't have quite the same huge gyroscope going forward that we have had in the past. david: when people buy new cars, how long before they traded in? -- trade it in? mr. ford: usually depends if it is leased or bought, but about four or five years. david: what is the experience like in washington with regulators? mr. ford: we have a good relationship with the government, and most of the regulators. a take the time to understand our business. we take a lot of time to make sure they do understand our business. we invite them to detroit, we take them to our lab, we take them to the safety demos. then, we try and help them with their jobs.

we gather data for them. it is a pretty good relationship. there are days and weeks where it is not so great, but generally we have been very pleased with the level of responsiveness here it may be because it is not a new thing for us. we have been doing this for a long time. david: you have been in the company for a long time. you started in 1979. you are still pretty young, so you can go another 10-15 years. you would be in the company longer than anybody. mr. ford: the other hand, i've never been more excited. the whole world we have been discussing, smart mobility, is the tremendous change that is ahead of us. i wake up every morning so believe thatuse i any company's purpose is to make people's lives better. if it is not doing that, it probably shouldn't exist. that has to be reinterpreted through every area we live in. now, it is back to the model t.

prior to that, most people did not travel more than 25 miles from home and their entire lifetime. suddenly, the model t enable people to choose where they live, work, and play. it changed everything. then we have things like ambulances, police cars, fire trucks. we were the arsenal of democracy during world war ii. now, here we are at the threshold of a very different age. how do wenge is, reinterpret that heritage for this new era? how do we make people's lives that are in this new era? to me, that is exciting. i have been around for a long me, it is the most exciting point. we have never been at a point like this. david: let's assume you stay, but you have no interest serving full-time in government? mr. ford: i love what i'm doing. if we do this right, we can truly make people's lives better around the world. to me, that is very compelling. david: you are the fourth

generation. ,robably virtually no companies a fortune 100 company, where a fourth generation is chairman of the board. what about the fifth-generation? what about your own children? mr. ford: my kids are interested, and i have nieces and nephews that are interested. they have to be qualified. this is not a family employment process. i work very closely with them to make sure they have the right credentials, both aphid academically, and that they start at the appropriate place in the company, and that they work, and volunteer for jobs. the have to do it and earn it. if they show they can do that, then that's great. but it's a tough world. david: you have spent a lot of time trying to revitalize detroit. what do you think progress is?

mr. ford: i am old enough to remember the riots in the late 1960's. i remember seeing the city literally on fire. my dad owned the detroit lions. season tickets were in the tigers stadium, which was going to burn. if the ticket burned, it was like burning a dollar. he got a van and a couple of the players to meet him down there. great story -- the gang recognized my dad and a couple of players. they said, we will help you. my dad gave them all tickets to games. they walked them to the border. the national guard was on every overpass. he went 100 miles per hour, breaking all the laws, to get back home with the tickets. that era changed everything. from that point on, the city was

in a many-year decline. it still has a long way to go. school systems, you know, not close to where it needs to be. having said that, there is tremendous energy in the city. my son lives in the city. he and his friends all live in the city. they would not have five years ago. i have a venture capital firm in the city. every week, there are new bars and restaurants opening up. i am more hopeful now about the city then i have been. eld 15e built ford fi years ago, all the advice i got from business people was, you are out of your mind to build this in the city of detroit. fans will not come. they will not feel safe. there is nothing for them to do before or after the game. you need to build it in the

northern suburbs. i kind of gulped. the mayor at the time was dennis archer, terrific man. dennis and i worked it out. it has been a great thing. but in the early years, there was an element of what i described. david: was it hard to sell the naming rights? [laughter] mr. ford: that works. it is ford field. david: what would you like to be your legacy? if you look back and people say, here is what he did with his life and career, what would you like people to say? mr. ford: i do not spend time thinking about that. to me, it feels pretentious to think about that. i hope people will say that he treated people well and care about the company and the communities the company operated in. david: thank you very much for a close-up look at ford. [applause]

[captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> our road to the white house coverage heads to philadelphia this evening. tim kaine is there for a rally at the sheet metal worker's union. and a full evening of state debates beginning with the

missouri governor's debate, and ann kirkpatrick running against john mccain. at 10:00, live coverage of the debate between loretta sanchez and kamala harris. we will wrap up with the indiana governor's debate starting at 8:30 eastern here on c-span. >> if you missed any of the vice presidential debate, go to c-span.org using your desktop, phone or tablet,. choosing entire debate between the split screen or switch camera options. go to a specific questions and answers quickly and easily. use our video clipping tool to create videos to share on social media. c-span.org, on your desktop, phone, or tablet for the vice

presidential debate. >> donald trump campaigned in nevada, where he offered his thoughts on last night's debate. politico reporting he said, mike ande did an incredible job, i am a lot of credit because that was my first hire. i will tell you, he is a good one. last night's debate was in farmville, virginia, and this morning, mike pence was 100 miles to the north. he said the true winner of the debate was donald trump. ♪

gov. pence: hello, virginia. it is wonderful to be here. thank you for that wonderful warm welcome. i am mike pence. [applause] just a few short months ago i accepted my party's nomination to run and serve as the next vice president of the united states of america. and i have to tell you. i appreciated that introduction more than i can tell you. he knows me well enough to know the introduction i prefer is shorter. i am a christian, a conservative, and a republican

in that order. [applause] i have got to tell you, i joined this campaign in a heartbeat because you have nominated a man for president who never backs down. he is a fighter, he is a winner, and until very recently, it seemed like he was fighting all on his own. but now this movement is coming together. this state is coming together. we are going to elect donald trump as the next president of the united states of america. but it is great to be in virginia. we had a little debate last night. [applause] it was at longwood university, and i was humbled and honored to be there. donald trump called me from nevada to congratulate me. that really meant the world to me. it truly did.

some people think i won. [applause] gov. pence: but i will leave that to others. what i can tell you is from where i sat, donald trump won the debate. [applause] gov. pence: donald trump's vision to make america great again won the debate. [applause] gov. pence: and when we take that vision to every corner of virginia and every corner of this great nation, this movement, that man, and that vision are going to win all the way to the white house. [applause] gov. pence: i truly do believe donald trump embodies the american spirit. strong, freedom loving, independent, optimistic, and willing to fight every day for what he believes in and he is

going to make america great again. i promise you that. people ask me sometimes, what is it about donald trump? i am from south of highway 40 in indiana, we speak plainly down that way. we've got a hoosier in the crowd. good to see you. donald trump just gets it. are you with me? he is the genuine article. he is a doer in a game usually reserved for talkers. when donald trump does his talking, he doesn't go tiptoeing around all those thousands of rules of political correctness that the media puts in the way of men and women who want to make a difference. he speaks from his heart. the american people hear him loud and clear and they are going to send that man and that

message to the oval office. the funny thing is the party in power seems helpless to figure out our nominee. of course, i am talking about the media. have you ever noticed that? i mean, seriously, they keep telling each other the usual methods are going to work. now we have found this thing and he said, this thing he tweeted. they think they have finally done him in. and then the next morning, donald trump is still standing stronger than ever before and fighting for the american people. it is fun to watch. the thing about donald trump is he has never forgotten. he has never forgotten the men and women who built this nation. people that work with their hands, who grow our food, build our roads and tend to our sick

and teach our kids. trump, i promise you, will never forget the men and women who serve on the thin blue line of law enforcement all across this state and nation. they know it. it is why the largest police officers union in america, 330,000 strong, the fraternal order of police, endorsed donald trump to be the next president. there is a lot of law enforcement with us today and i am honored to be with each and every one of them. it has been a challenging time for law enforcement in this country. would you mind showing these men and women in law enforcement just how much we appreciate the job they do? [applause] gov. pence: i promise you, as

chief law enforcement officer of the united states, a president donald trump will stand with the men and women who serve in law enforcement. we will provide them with the resources and the tools that they need to restore law and order to every city and every town in this nation, protect our families, and go home safe to theirs. it is remarkable when you think about the choice in this election. it is a moment when america is crying out for something new and different. the other party has answered with a stale agenda and the most predictable of names. it is pretty amazing. at a time when people in both political parties are restless for change, we know we can have governments as good as our people again. the other party has nominated someone who personifies the failed establishment in washington dc. can i just ask you to decide

here and now, the first stop on my bus tour, that we will resolve over the next 33 days to not rest, to not relent until we ensure hillary clinton will never be elected president of the united states of america. [applause] >> lock her up. >> lock her up. gov. pence: the truth of the matter is that this campaign has been amazing to be a part of. it is like two on one with the media doing half of hillary clinton's work for her. sometimes i get up and i have to turn on the television with a stick. you never know what is going to be there. even though the media is doing half her work for us, donald trump is still winning hearts and minds every day and he is

going to win all the way to the white house. the media is so busy parsing every word donald trump said or tweeted that it seems like they haven't had time to talk about what the clintons have been up to for the last 30 years. so let me see if i can help. the truth is this campaign is about very serious things. you heard that last night. it was incredible. senator tim kaine sat across that table from me and after an avalanche of insults, he said that he referred to us as driven an insult campaign. hillary clinton called half of the people that believe we can make america great again a basket of deplorables. but despite their avalanche of insults, this election really is about issues that matter to the people of virginia and this

country. it is about security and it is about posterity and about the supreme court of the united states and preserving the highest standards of integrity in the highest office in the land. and on every single one of those issues, donald trump is the right choice for the united states of america in 2016. on security, we talked a lot about it last night. seven and a half years of the leadership of barack obama and hillary clinton has weakened america's place in the world and emboldened our enemies. despite traveling millions of miles as our secretary of state, the world is more dangerous today than the day that hillary clinton took over the foreign policy of this country. our allies are less secure. our enemies are more emboldened. it is important to know that it was hillary clinton who failed to negotiate a status of forces

agreement in iraq that resulted in all u.s. military forces pulling out of those hard-fought won by the american soldier in 2009. it created a vacuum in which isis was able to be conjured up out of the desert to overrun vast areas that have been won at great sacrifice by the american soldier. i see a few people wearing caps that acknowledge their service to this country. would you mind either standing or sliding your hand in the air? would you let us say thanks one more time? [applause] >> thank you for your service. gov. pence: it was hillary clinton who initiated that disastrous agreement with the radical mullahs in iran.

$150 billion. as i said last night, for years we imposed punishing sanctions on iran and said they would never go away until iran completely abandoned its nuclear ambitions. what we did was deliver $150 billion and all we got was a delay of game. when the period of the agreement runs out, there is no restriction at all on iran's development. the leading state sponsor of terror, able to develop a nuclear weapon. the worst of it was that on the day that iran released four american hostages, this administration, with the full support of hillary clinton and tim kaine, delivered $400 million in cash on a wooden pallet in a ransom payment to a terror sponsoring state. you know, it really is extraordinary. i know the white house said it wasn't a ransom but the iranians said it was.

i will make you a promise. when donald trump becomes president of the united states, we are not paying ransom to terrorists or terrorist sponsoring states. they are going to pay a price. lastly, it was hillary clinton and her state department who left americans in harm's way in benghazi, at a state department facility. she told the parents of the following, when their hallowed remains arrived at dover air force base, she told them it was because of a filmmaker in florida when she knew full well she had sent an e-mail to her own daughter on the very night of the attack that it was an al qaeda style terrorist attack. when she was questioned on that, she actually said "what difference at this point does it make?" let me tell you, as a proud father of a united states marine, let me say this.

anyone who said that, anyone who did that, should be disqualified from ever serving as commander in chief of the armed forces of the united states of america. we cannot have four more years of apologizing to our enemies and abandoning our friends. for the world to be safe, america needs to be strong and donald trump will lead on the world stage with american strength. we will rebuild our military, restore the arsenal of democracy, provide our soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines with the resources they need to a -- accomplish the mission, and they will hunt down and destroy isis and any terrorist organization that threatens our people. [applause] gov. pence: that is probably why 160 retired admirals and generals, including 17 medal of honor winners have endorsed donald trump to be the next

commander-in-chief of the armed forces of the united states. so this election is about security and real choices. but it is also about prosperity. we heard again tonight, last night, we heard about how things have gotten better in the economy in this country. it is incredible. we are in the midst of the slowest recovery since the great depression. millions more people are living in poverty today than the day that barack obama became president. hillary clinton's plan is more of the same. more taxes, more regulation, more obamacare, more of the war on coal that is stifling the american economy. it is astonishing. a lot of talk about taxes. my counterpart sounded like a broken record over there. i said to him, you need to know

hillary clinton is going to raise your taxes and donald trump and i are going to cut taxes across the board for working families, small businesses, and family farms. we are going to lower business taxes in america so businesses in virginia can grow and keep jobs here in the united states and not see them going overseas. [applause] gov. pence: donald trump has a plan to get this economy moving again. it is a time-honored principle that has always worked. it worked in the 80's when reagan did it and in the 1960's when kennedy did it. let people keep more of what they earn. rollback regulation. on day one of the trump administration, we are going to sign a moratorium on any

regulation and repeal every single executive order that is stifling growth and jobs in this economy. [applause] gov. pence: donald trump and i are going to work with members of congress like my great friend jeb hensarling from texas, who is with me today and did such a great job on television last night. can you give it up for congressman jeb hensarling? he is an outstanding conservative. [applause] gov. pence: donald trump and i know that congress convenes before the new president is inaugurated, so if you don't mind getting to work with paul ryan for the bill on this new president's desk to repeal obamacare on day one. [applause] gov. pence: donald trump and i also know the strength of this nation can be found in the vast natural resources of this nation. to get this economy moving again. we will end the war on coal once and for all. we are going to develop an all of the above energy

strategy, call forth the power of this nation and lower the cost of energy. lastly, when donald trump becomes negotiator in chief -- you with me on that? we're talking trade now. negotiator in chief isn't in the constitution yet. but when donald trump becomes negotiator in chief, i promise we are going to have a president who renegotiate nafta so it works for the american worker. we are going to get out of tpp and hold our partners accountable for the promises that they make to the american people. when it comes to trade we are , going to put the american worker first. [applause] gov. pence: they tell us this economy is the best that we can do. but donald trump and i know different. it is not the best that we can

do. it is just the best they can do. and when donald trump becomes president, we are going to put those commonsense conservative principles into practice and we are going to get the economy of virginia and the united states of america on the move. [applause] gov. pence: lastly, before i get to a close and i have to say thank you for coming out today. this is such a blessing. i know i am not the main event. i am the other picture on the bus. so give yourselves a round of applause for coming out today. [applause] gov. pence: it is very humbling to me. but i hope you leave here today and tell someone -- folks, this is really about our country. we need you to leave here today

not just having heard a speech on platforms of hay bales and a great virginia setting. i hope you leave and find neighbors and friends and say i saw mike, he looked a little tired, but he reminded me this is -- despite all of the distractions in this campaign -- it is about big issues and security. a stronger america standing tall on the world stage again. it is about a more prosperous america that gets this economy moving again. for all of our people. i also want you to tell them that while we are electing a president for the next four years, that president is going to set the course of the supreme court for the next 40 years. we had better think long and hard about that. ok? we really do. to tell thek i need

people of virginia about the constitution. i don't think we need to talk about james madison. i don't think we need to tell you about the miracle of that document and the god-given liberties that are enshrined there. i've got to tell you that whether it is our freedom of speech, our freedom of expression, our freedom of the press, of religion, whether it be the right to keep and bear arms of law-abiding citizens, whether it be all the god-given liberties enshrined in our constitution, let me just say this. we have to decide here, in the home of james madison in the great commonwealth of virginia, we have to decide here and now, for the sake of our constitution, for the sake of the rule of law and our god-given liberties that the next president of the united states to make appointments to

the supreme court will be president donald trump. [applause] gov. pence: donald trump will appoint justices of the supreme court who will uphold our constitution in the tradition of the late and great justice antonin scalia. they will interpret the constitution and uphold our laws. they will not legislate from the bench. they will be strict constructionists and the american people will be proud. [applause] gov. pence: so it is about security, it is about prosperity, it is about our supreme court. but is also about having the highest standards of integrity in the highest office in the land. truthfully, you look at the avalanche of controversies coming out of the clinton years and it is almost hard to keep up. we talked about it last night, the fact that when hillary

clinton was serving as third ranking constitutional officer in our government, secretary of state, she had a private foundation that accepted contributions from foreign donors and foreign governments. then she had a private server presumably so communications about what she was doing there would not be susceptible to public disclosure and public accountability. we will never know because we are still waiting on those 33,000 e-mails that she hasn't revealed. when you are talking about that server -- i actually said this last night. she had a private server where she had classified information including e-mails about drone strikes, military operations, e-mails from the president. classified information that was put on an unsecured server that can be susceptible and vulnerable to hacking and exposure to the enemies of this country.

as i told senator kaine last night, if either of our sons in the military handled classified information the way secretary clinton did, they would be court-martialed. that is the hard truth. the american people are tired of it. the whole point is they have said they won't accept contributions from foreign governments and foreign donors if she becomes president because it would be a conflict of interest. if it is a conflict of interest when you're president, how is it not a conflict of interest as secretary of state? you are looking at pay for play politics and it is exactly the kind of pay to play politics that is going to end the day donald trump becomes president of the united states. i will make you a promise. the day donald trump walks into of thel office, the days

system for the favored few are going to come to a crashing end. when he becomes president, his only special interest will be you, the american people. he is going to fight for you and the people of this nation each and every day as our great president. so security and prosperity and the supreme court and high standards of integrity. that is what this election is about. i don't know what issue will be fluttering on the news tonight. i don't have any idea. it will be something. but when you leave here, i hope you go tell somebody "mike said this is what this is about." i expect this is why you are here. this is why the enormous throngs of everyday americans coming out across the country for donald trump are coming out. he is always the first one to say when we campaign together we will look out of the car window

and say this isn't about me and us. this is a movement. of the american people. and we will make america great again. when you go, i want you to do two things. i want you to tell people about the choice. we did that last night. a little point and counterpoint. i hope you tell people that in donald trump and yours truly, you have a couple people that will always believe there will always be more in this country that unites the people of the united states than will ever divide us. it has a lot to do with faith. in this thingaith we call the american dream. it really is. donald trump believes in it.

to be honest with you, we have lived it. if you think about it, his grandfather immigrated to this country. my grandfather immigrated to this country. his dad was a self-made man who built a business with his own hands in queens. my dad followed work to a small town in southern indiana and built a small gas station business with my mom. donald trump and i were raised to believe that some of -- to who much is given, much will be required. that meant moving to manhattan island and building big buildings. for me, it was a calling in public service. if you think about it, other than a whole bunch of zeroes, donald trump and i have a lot in common. that is a belief in the american dream. we have lived it.

it is a simple belief in america. it is new every time we consider it. the difference from the history of most of the world is, here in america, regardless of race or color or gender, anybody can be hard, studyou work hard, treat others the way you want to be treated, and never give up. i want to promise you donald trump and i are going to work every day to revive the american dream for every family and every american. [applause] gov. pence: it is about faith in the american dream. faith, it is about that that is always -- has always underpinned america.

it brought the first settlers to our shores, sustained them through early, harsh days. it represents and always will represent the foundation of american greatness. that we are now and shall ever be one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. [applause] so the choice could not be more clear. the american people can elect someone who literally personifies the failed establishment, or we can do different. we can elect a leader, truth maner, a broad shouldered who will fight every day to make america great again.

that is the choice we face. but we have to lay it out. i will lay it out for you one more time. then i will let you get to lunch. this is another time for choosing. if you want a president who will protect this nation, rebuild our military, restore the arsenal of democracy, support our troops and those who serve in uniform and who will give our war fighters the resources, ability, and clarity of mission to hunt down and destroy isis and any terrorist organization that threatens our people, if you want a president that will restore law and order to every city and every community in this nation by supporting law enforcement with the tools and resources they need and deserve, if you want a president who will cut taxes, grow this economy,

squeeze every nickel out of the bloated federal bureaucracy and repeal obamacare lock, stock, and barrel, if you want a president who will build a wall, enforce the laws of this nation for the people of this nation -- and end illegal immigration once and for all, and if you want a president who will upend the status quo in washington dc -- i mean really, he is going to upend the status quo in washington dc -- and a president who will uphold the constitution of the united states of america, that i want to tell you, virginia, we have but one choice if you want all of those things. and i'm here to tell you, that

man is ready. this team is ready. you movement is ready if will go make sure that virginia is ready. we will elect don trump as the president of the united states of america and make america great again. thank you very much. let's go get it done. >> c-span's road to the white house coverage continues as we sheet metalthe

workers union local 19 in philadelphia, where we will hear from vice president nominee tim kaine, speaking to an audience about jobs and the economy. some introductory remarks underway. >> every american who works hard, every american who believes in this country, every american who wants to do the right thing, that is who they stand for, and that is who we stand for. when we go to vote on november 8, we will be voting for hillary clinton, tim kaine, katie down,y, and all the way for all the folks who are with us. [applause] >> we are in a union hall. and i am a union guy. -- america say this works best when we say union yes.

thank you so much. [applause] [laughter] ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, please

welcome congressman brendan boyle. [applause] >> hello, philadelphia. [applause] our next vice president is going to be out here in just a few moments. had the opportunity, briefly, along with congressman brady, to welcome him back to philadelphia since this town put on the most successful democratic convention in our country's history. [applause] democrat and a philadelphian, i could not have been more proud. i actually just want to talk for

a couple minutes about what we saw last night. did anyone watch the debate last night? you know who i feel sorry for? mike pence. his butt. kaine beat sixdid you see the different times tim asked him, read verbatim what donald trump had said, and asked him to defend it. six different times, pence refused to defend his own running mate. i would hate to be mike pence right now on the plane with donald trump after that debate. what does it say when you cannot even defend your running mate? you know what? even mike pence realized he is running with the indefensible. he is running with someone -- and i would not have said this

about the previous republican presidential nominees. i did not vote for john mccain, deeply respect him. did not vote for mitt romney. would never say this about him. donald trump is someone who can simply not be trusted in the oval office, period. [applause] >> this election, yes, it is about hillary clinton and tim kaine and donald trump and mike pence. but what this election will islly it -- tell you about who we are. are we still an open and inclusive country that welcomes immigrants to our shores and believes our best days are ahead of us? [applause] country thatll a

believes we should have a president of the united states we should be proud of and not make us cringe every day with what the person tweets out? [applause] >> and you know, i feel strongly about the clinton-kaine ticket and campaign, not just because donald trump is so awful, but also the fact that we have the most qualified, most experienced presidential and vice presidential ticket in our nation's history. [applause] philadelphia, here in southeastern pennsylvania, we know what we need to do. we have to do everything we have and 1992 through today, that is deliver a big democratic base. victory this november and

keep the white house blue. thank you. [applause] ♪ ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage congressmen bob brady. [applause]

>> how are you all doing out there? you are looking good. we are going to be on national tv. we have to show them what philadelphia is all about. brotherly love and sisterly affection, right? our next vice president is in the house right now. let me tell you about tim kaine. i knew him in 2012 when he was the chairman of the democratic national committee. he tried like crazy to get the convention here. we were not ready at that particular time. but we got the national convention. guess who got nominated for vice president? that is karma. he is one of our guys, one of us. you are going to love him. he was our senator from delaware.

you know what happened with joe biden. he became the vice president. guess what? we have a succession going on. how about the job he did last night for hillary? poor mike pence. he did not know what to do. could not answer questions. you talk about a fighter. that is what we need. like it or not, he is from the city of philadelphia. we are going to give a good philadelphia welcome to our next vice president, and without question, we will have you out here again. hillary clinton will be our next president. andme hear it for hillary tim kaine. tom, hillary. the next president, next vice president. he will be out here in a minute.

god bless you all for being here. [applause] ♪ ♪ gentlemen, please welcome the assistant director of development at the university of philadelphia, ariel bruce. [applause] >> welcome. i am here to tell you more about what you already know -- that donald trump is unfit to be our next president. [applause] bruce.ame is ariel

i was born in atlantic city in the 1980's. immigrantughter of an and was raised to be unafraid to speak up for what is right. [applause] think, makes me one of donald trump's worst nightmares. [applause] >> donald trump would love to have you believe he is the candidate that will bring jobs back to america. he wants you to think he will stimulate the economy by treating this country like one of his many businesses. well, my parents, who are here tonight, worked in trump casinos. i grew up watching his empire rise and watching it fall. 'scan tell you what trump success looks like.

he declares bankruptcy six times in 18 years. he puts 3000 people out of work, and restructures his company each time to avoid personal liability and defaults. he vilifies us for the deficit but avoids paying federal income tax and called it success. theperhaps most galling, contract with small businesses and laborers like the ones right here in local 19 -- [applause] great,hich would be except he refuses to pay them when the work is done, knowing they do not have the time, money, or wherewithal to fight back in court. in my hometown of atlantic city in 1991 alone, that meant 253

oncontractors were stiffed $59.5 million worth of contract delivers. hundreds of business owners were destroyed by his parasitic business practices. he is still doing this to the american public. and he calls it success. he take anyis, did of his many billions of dollars and put it into building my devastated community back up? no. but he did spend money recently to sue to have his name taken off the shuttered-up trump tower. whose success is this, mr. trump? not ours. not the american people. [applause] is not the kind of person we need for president. tonight, i am thankful to be

introducing tim kaine, the running mate of a candidate we can trust to be our next president. hillary clinton has been fighting her whole life for a better america. she and senator kaine are fighting for a fair tax structure, labor rights, and small businesses. [applause] >> and they fight for diplomatic foreign relations and expanded national service, something i feel confident saying trump kn ows little about. they do not just fight to win. these people fight for us. i am proud to say i am with her, and i'm glad tonight senator tim kaine is here with us. please help me welcome our next vice president of the united states, tim kaine. ♪

sen. kaine: hey, philly, how you guys doing? what a great group. how about around of applause for ariel? isn't she fantastic? she is telling it like it is, talking about this nominee, donald trump, a nominee unlike we have seen probably ever, someone who is claiming to be a big success but has a track record of stepping over small people. that is how he defines success, just like he defined smart as not paying to support our vets and teachers. it is great to be back in philadelphia. you guys ran one heck of a

contingent -- convention. [applause] sen. kaine: that was the best week of the entire campaign, with the possible exception of maybe last week. wasn't hillary fantastic in her debate? [applause] sen. kaine: i will get to me in a second. hillary's debate last monday was a wonderful. she did such a great job. it turned out to be the gift that kept on giving. donald walked off the stage so mad he lost, his fingers could not stay off the tweet button. it kept going down and down. i think she is in a pretty good spot going into the debate sunday. [applause] are 34ine: and here we days away. let me do some thank you's. then i want to talk about my debate last night, which i had a blast at.

and some of the issues we raised and talk about, that i'm going to close with how we win this thing. but i think ariel for sharing her story. so many people have stories like that, of trusting trump and getting tricked, finding out they got stiffed or strong-armed. we have two great numbers of congress, brendan boyle and bob brady. give them a big round of applause. [applause] we are in the house of labor here with the sheet metal workers local 19. very, very good. [applause] sen. kaine: and not only sheet metal workers, we have the head afl-cio with us. give all of labor applause. [applause]

sen. kaine: i am lucky i have some special folks with me. my mom and dad are right here. [applause] my mom and dad are al and kathy kaine from kansas city. they are the best parents anyone could ever have. an iron working shop in the stockyards of kansas city. [applause] sen. kaine: an iron working shop in the stockyards and my mom any brothers and me grew up working in that business with my dad and his employees. i learned from my father about likeignity of trades ironworkers and the partnership between owners and workers, labor.ent and it does not have to be a fight. it does not have to be an adversarial relationship. we work better in life when we work as a team.

stronger together, right? si se puede. after the debate, i said, mom and dad, why don't you travel with me? i have a plane with my name on it. at least for the next couple of weeks, the name will be on it. we are having fun traveling together. it is good to be back with 34 days left. we are in the midst of making history, folks. do you feel it in the air? [applause] all elections are great. i was a missionary in honduras. it was a military dictatorship, so you cannot vote for leaders. for the dayw prayed they could pick leaders of their country. i came back and thought, i take this for granted. i should be serious about it.

working on an election, any election is so important. when you're working on an election that will make history, you have to stop and savor that a little bit. we are in a history-making time right now. we can make the kind of history that is our story, that has been our story since philadelphia and jamestown, the earliest days of our country. we set out this vision for ourselves. and even people who could not live that way were smart enough to say, equality will be our north star. all are created equal. thomas jefferson was not living that way. no one was living that way. when they said it, no one was living that way. but there was a spark in their this that made them say, will be the north star we will

pursue. we promise equality will be our goal. how can we justify slavery? , rewriting the constitution, and 70 years later, how can we justify women cannot vote? in the 1960's, how can we justify voting restrictions that keep minorities away from the polls? how can we justify that lgbt people are not treated equally, like everybody else? [applause] now, a majornd party, for the first time in our history, 96 years after women get the right to vote, has nominated a woman to be president, a strong, courageous woman. and we are on the verge, if we do what we know to do, of making history.

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we are having technical difficulties with the tim kaine campaign event. we will take you back their lives now. there live back now. sen. kaine: i am on a history making ticket with a strong, courageous woman who believes we are stronger together, and that is hillary clinton. [applause] the debate was a little feisty. i've got to admit, i'm irish. a couple of important things about the debate. first, my opponent, mike pence, came in really wanting to lay some buzz on hillary clinton and did not get to do anything. he did not get to do anything. [applause] sen. kaine: yeah.

i've never played hockey, but i think i would be a good g oalie based on last night. nothing was going in the net. the second thing, my opponent is a pretty good debater, pretty smooth. but there is one thing he can't do, and that is defend donald trump on anything. on anything. [applause] sen. kaine: again and again and again during the debate, i would say something that trump said and said i cannot believe governor pence will not defend bad, and he would not defend that. we went to a bunch of times when i put that out there, and each time he thought about it and said, i'd rather talk about something else. the way through the debate, i said, let me point out what is happening here. you are donald trump's running mate, and i am putting things on

the table and asking you to defend them, and you won't. if you can't defend euro and running mate, how can you ask one person to vote for your running mate? one person? [cheering and applause] sen. kaine: your running mate ought to be a will to defend you. your running mate ought to say something nice about you. deemed a little a little bit, even but my wife, for interrupting too much. [laughter] sen. kaine: at some points, i felt like both me and mike pence were debating donald trump. i was going after donald trump, and mike pence was kind of going after trump with me. i can't imagine that made the donald to happy. -- too happy. there may have been interesting conversations about that today on the other side of the aisle. we were not just trading words,

we were talking about pretty important issues. some of the things i was challenging them about our issues that are really at the heart of the campaign. just to go over a couple of them, we talked about the need to do immigration reform, comprehensive immigration reform. we really need to do it. [applause] and i laid out this plan that hillary and i have that i have worked on as a senator to do it in a comprehensive way, to look at all the immigration reform issues and do it comprehensively, to have a cap to citizenship for people who are here and living by the rules, but also to have better border security. we can do both. to put as our top value that we don't separate families, that we keep families together. that's so important. [applause] challenged the i other guy. i said donald trump's plan is that we will become a

deportation nation and have a deportation force that would go house to house, school will, neighborhood to neighborhood to the port 60 million people. 60 million people. -- 16 million people. pence said, donald trump never said that. they went to the tape, folks, they went to the tape. because if donald trump is anything, he is like a human highlight reel, and there is a lot of it on tape. so they waited this morning. donald trump again and again, we've got to have a deportation force. this is a fundamental choice, do we want to be a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants that has a solid immigration policy, or do we want to be known as a deportation nation? i think that is a clear choice, and hillary and i have the right side of the area to matter how they must -- side of it. no matter how they fuzz it up, wrong.trump is

this is a challenging and important issue, criminal justice reform. my policelosely with force, and when i get elected as a city councilman, we had one of the highest homicide rates in the united states. we brought it down dramatically, cut it in half over 80, by building -- over eight years, by building what we called community policing, where the community and the police respected each other and worked well together, and we trained everybody on how to do it. the great thing about community policing is, by narrowing the gap between neighbors and police, you actually reduce danger for neighbors and police. when the gap's wife between neighborhoods and police, it is dangerous for people like philando castile. aboutthe person i think the most, this poor, beautiful young guy in minneapolis who was killed. -- of allse people these shootings, they are all horrible, but this one really grabbed me. this guy in indianapolis, maybe

it grabbed me because he was working at a school in indianapolis, and one of my kids works in the parks and rec department at minneapolis philando castile got a job as a janitor. he worked his way up to become a supervisor. if you work your way up, if you think about elementary school, nurse or bus driver that was really good the kids, and for was this kind of guy. they call him mr. rogers with dreadlocks. he was so friendly. philando castile was killed by the police in a minneapolis suburb a number of months back, and when they went into the story, what they found was this mr. rogers with dreadlocks had been stopped by the police 50 times over the course of the previous years, and he had never done anything wrong. he was helping kids, paying taxes. he was a great citizen, but he had been stopped 50 times.

i talked about him had about the fact that we've got to grapple with these kinds of challenges. gapsalk about biases and in our system, and how we can expect -- how we can respect each other more. governor pence said, why do we have to bring up bias issues at all? i said we have to because of a guy like the land of castile. -- philando castile. we've got to. [applause] if you are not able to talk about something, how do you ever solve that ring? and becan't sit down honest about challenges, how do you improve and get better? those are two very different approaches. community policing, or one donald trump says we need, nationwide stop and frisk. these are important issues. we talked about women's health. we had a good exchange, actually. [applause]

about women's reproductive rights. exchange, because it was probably one part of the debate where we were not really being feisty, but just sharing who we were, and our own religious feelings about tough issues like reproduction and abortion. ,ut the point that i made is ok, you guys have points of view, but you want to mandate on everybody. donald trump famously has said there has to be a punishment for a woman having an abortion, and mike pence says we've got to repeal roe v wade. some of you are too young to , 1973.r roe versus wade we've got young folks here. what was it like before roe versus wade? i will tell you. before roe versus wade, states would pass criminal laws making

it a rhyme for which you could be prosecuted -- making it a crime for which he could be prosecuted and jailed if you made a choice to terminate it regnant see. o use criminal law as a bludgeon to prosecute and jail people for their decisions? that is what donald trump and mike pence want to go back to. the point i made was, look, we can can have all the moral discussions we want to. it is good to have discussions about hard issues. but you know what? at the end of the day, we've just got to trust women to make their own decisions on moral issues. [applause] can trust: we american women. we can trust all women. [cheering and applause] and the notion of a besides weent that are not going to let you make

the decision, we will make the decision. congress is 81% male. want -- 19% female is the best we have ever been in this country. we are 75th in the world, below the global average. that,s an important topic even in the back and forth, we exposed the differences in the tickets. the last thing i want to talk about is the economy and taxes before i get to how to win this thing. is a difference. hillary and i have an economic plan. inare going to invest manufacturing research for the obs of tomorrow and infrastructure. you are investing in manufacturing and infrastructure, you are hiring people today and raise the form success in the to 50 years. -- raise the platform for success in 40 to 50 years.

greatrca, to celebrating teachers, to debt-free college, to career and technical problems and union -- programs and union apprenticeship programs, we are going to invest. because the more skills your workforce has, but better off society is. third, we will be about fairness. if you work full-time and minimum wage, you should not be under the poverty level. that's pretty basic. [applause] pay for women.al what a radical concept. that's pretty basic. [cheering and applause] sen. kaine: that's pillar three. pillar four is, let's focus on small businesses. just like ariel talking about the small businesses in atlantic city. 65% of jobs in this country come out of small businesses. my dad had a small business. hillary clinton's dad had a small drapery business. ,hat's where jobs get started

and small businesses get bigger and hire more people. we will focus on small business success. finally, on the tax code, we have said if you are $250,000 or below, knowing trees in taxes. -- no increase in taxes. you will get credits for childcare and free sick leave. also ask the individuals who are the wealthiest and the businesses who have done this the best, especially as we come out of this recession, a small group have done really well. them to pay to ask more so we can make those investments to create an economy that works for everybody, and if we do it will be better for everybody, even those who are paying more. that's what we want to do. [cheering and applause] but we got into a back-and-forth about this, because they trump-pence economic plan is very important area did scott two components. the first one, donald trump says

-- is very important. .t's got two components firs donald trump thinks the minimum wages too high, and we need to get rid of the federal minimum wage. when mike pence was in congress, he voted against raising the minimum wage above $5.15. indiana, henor of has fought very hard against minimum wage, even passing laws so that a city -- say a city in indiana a likes a city council and mayor and says they will raise the minimum wage. the state has not cracked down and said, you can't even do that if your voters want you. -- want you to. that's number one. the second, on taxes, they get massive tax breaks to people at the very very tiptop. of dollars in tax cuts to people at the very top. analyses of the plan say about 8 million families would get tax

increases under the tiara proposal. hillary clinton challenge to donald trump about this on the stage last week. he kind of -- kind of waves his arms like abracadabra. he says, if you make these tax cuts, all the jobs will be created find those of the that you give the tax cuts too. that's exactly what congress did when mike pence was in congress and george bush was president. they gave congress -- they gave tax cuts to people at the very top, and it did not create a lot of magic. it put america's economy and the worst recession since the 1930's. i remember those days. i've got a feeling you remember those days. to tell me that you do the same thing now and it is going to work out well, we've got a saying in virginia, i don't know if you heard it -- i may have been born tonight, but i was not born last night.

don't tell me about that. the last time we tried to do this thing. that is a huge difference in an economic plan. that is why groups who look at the economic plan say if you do what hillary clinton says in four years, you will have 2.5 million new jobs in this country. saysu do what donald trump in four years, you will lose 3.4 million jobs. what is the difference between clinton and trump? 14 million jobs. i tell people that is the difference between a "you're hired" president and a open your fire" president -- in a "you're fired" president. [cheering and applause] sen. kaine: one more thing. because we are on the subject of taxes, let's talk about donald trump's taxes. [booing] sen. kaine: yeah, what taxes? i need a speech writer. what taxes? [laughter] a reallye: this is

important issue, because it is about taxes, but it is more important because it is about character. step one. every president since richard ,ixon, including richard nixon that paragon of ethics, has released their tax returns to the american public. the wayas interesting they said did it. he did not do it during the campaign, but at some point next and was being audited when he was president. news got out, he goes, i'm being audited, so you may have suspicions. i am going to release my tax returns because i am being audited, to show the american public i am not a crook. that's what president nixon said. that started a tradition. after president nixon did, every major party candidate upon getting the nomination has released their tax returns. that's step one.

step two. donald trump, 2014, he's thinking about running for president. releasesked if he will his tax returns. he says absolutely. -- f's, that lands, no bus no ands, no buts. i'm absolutely going to release them. first promise he made in the campaign, first promise he broke. third, now we are in the campaign. he is breaking his promise. he says it is because he is being audited. that has nothing to do with it. if you are being audited, maybe there is more of a reason we should see your tax returns. then we get to the heart of the matter. what is he hiding? why won't you release them? is it because he is not so wealthy, not so charitable, doing business with people that would scare the daylights out of a lot of people? or maybe he is not paying taxes. or all of the above. [applause] sen. kaine: did you see what

happened during the debate with hillary last week? hillary was going after him. i think it is going to show that you are not so rich, not so charitable area he did not rest -- not so charitable. he did not respond to those things. but when she said, it's going to show that you don't pay taxes, he put his work on his face, and he said, that's just shows i'm smart. -- that just shows i'm smart. you are smart for not paying taxes, but those whof us who pay taxes to support teachers, to support veterans, to support our troops, what is he saying about us? he is saying that we are stupid. he is saying that we are suckers. ,e is saying that we are chumps and that he is smart. i've got a lot of works for him, and smart ain't one of them. i'm not going to get into the

words that i am thinking about right now. i've got a boy in the military who is deployed overseas, and when i see a guy stand on stage ends are about "i don't have to pay taxes, that just shows i'm smart," it makes me very angry. it to twojust extend more points on this. let's talk about him not paying taxes and where he lived when he did not pay them. "the new york times" came out with a story that he took a billion dollar loss in 1995 that would probably mean he would not have to pay taxes for 18 years. because he'ss brilliant and a genius, that he lost a billion dollars. i guess it takes a lot of genius to lose a billion dollars. i guess this is just the kind of genius that we want the entire american economy. you've got to be kidding me. know, thed, ok, you story came out and he did not deny it. 18 years for not paying taxes.

one of those years was 2001, 9/11. let me just focus on that year in particular, and a couple years after. hillary clinton and donald trump's hometown, new york city, was attacked by terrorists on 9/11, the worst terrorist attack in the history of this country. in new york city, and in virginia, the pentagon. and the plane went down in pennsylvania. what happened after that attacked? first, thousands of men and women went to recruiting offices and signed up to our volunteer military to fight terrorism. that happens. and second, hillary clinton, a u.s. editor at the time from new york, goes to the world trade center within 20 or hours, where they are still looking survivors and bodies. and she goes back down to washington and fights to get funds to rebuild new york, and then she fights to get funds to

provide health care for the first responders who rushed into the world trade center, police and fire in new york city and in the pentagon in virginia. she worked with democrats and republicans to do that. as secretary of state, she worked with president obama's national security team to make sure that they revived the hunt for bin laden and found him and why to mop the face of the earth. that's what hillary clinton when in newetown was attacked york city on 9/11. and what does donald trump do when his hometown of new york city was attacked? those are the years that he was being smart and not paying taxes , not paying for the fight against terrorism, not paying for the funds to rebuild new york city, not paying for the funds for first responder health care, not paying for the salaries of the men and women who signed up to fight terrorism after 9/11. and he is saying he's smart. he's saying he's smart.

i asked this to governor pence last night. i know you i said, had to give your tax returns to donald trump to show you were all applied to be vice resident. and the answer to that was heated. he did not -- was he did. that. not dispute if you have to reveal your tax returns to show, then you are all of five to be vice president. qualified to be vice president. then how in the world can you claim that you do not owe the american public your tax returns if you want to be president? it would be like me coming to you for a summer job. dimon, have you ever worked before? yes. can you give me references? yes. -- can you give me references? no, i'm sorry, i can't give them to you. running for president is a job interview, and it is only a job interview for the most of job in the world.

important job in the world. and there are basic essence that voters want to know, and that voters have the right to know, and that the voters are asking. if you go into that job interview and you say, no, i am just going to take a pass on that one, i don't make i am going to answer it. you do that with the expectation like maybe i can do this over on these that's what donald trump is thinking. are we going to let him get away with that? not.utely we can't. let's talk about how we are going to win this thing. it is close. it is close. i hear a "no it's not" vote back there. i like the vote of optimism. i am an optimistic person. but look, just eight days ago, even,lls had closed to and eight days later it is looking pretty good, but i don't

know where it will be a days from now. the polls have been up and down. pennsylvania has looked pretty good. i think you guys just -- [cheering and applause] sen. kaine: martha i think you s city of brotherly love convention mode and got with it. you just kind of stuck with the convention spirit and family, , and- in philly pennsylvania has been looking good. solid, stable. ,ot a landslide, but close solid and stable. we have other states that are a dead heat. we have a few. >> [inaudible] sen. kaine: you say 500,000 is our margin? i like the way that sounds. [cheering and applause] sen. kaine: but let's be honest. if it was a dead heat nationally a week ago, it could be a dead heat nationally next week. we can't take anything for

granted. i know this is exactly what hillary would say. how polls look, it has been a series of surprises. polls and pundits have been wrong. we can't take it for granted. united, people can get on tv and say anything they want that can change the race, but i want to go back to where we started. we are trying to do something that has not been done before. if it had been easier to elect a woman president, there would have in a woman president. she is trying to do something that has not been done. when donald trump says about hillary, quote, she does not look very presidential, does she? we know what is going on with that. we've got to assume that if you are doing something that has never been done, you've got to do your best work. 8-0 in elections, and i am going to be 9-0 on november 8. i will tell you that. [applause]

sen. kaine: but now i've got to make you nervous. i never win by much. [laughter] sen. kaine: i'm kind of barely likable enough. a win is a win, and when i say the young people, career advice for young people is, when you are thinking about careers, you find you are a barely likable enough. professionst many where 51% means you are doing just fine, you are a winner with 59 -- with 51% of the people liking you in 49% not liking you. you are a winner. take politics. politics. but the reason i barely when my braces is because virginia is tough. virginia is not the newest state in the crowd -- bluest state in the crowd. we are better than we used to be. but races are close because we are a tough. the way i win races is i put

this thing in my head, you were the underdog, you are the winner. but that thought in the back of my head. you are the underdog until you are the winner. when i told hillary clinton that i hope she runs for president in april of 2014, she thanked me, and i said no matter what poll you see or editorial, or anybody says you are the underdog, you are the winner. you are trying to do something that has never been done before. that's the attitude we've got to have. we are the underdog until we are the winner. it's not just about campaigns either. -- i was chairman of the democratic national committee for a couple of years. i would walk into rooms in virtually every state to sit down with democrats. and we had the super progressives and super blue dogs . we had laborers and environmentalists and students and seniors. we had everything. rogers said il don't believe in organized politics, that's why i'm a

democrat -- and times it seemed a little bit like that. but there were unifying things in all of those rooms, and one of the ones that most unified the people that i saw were kind of underdog people. we've got a heart for the underdog. maybe there will be some researchers who find that is actually part of the human dna. there may be an underdog team, like sympathy for underdog gene that they will find one day. democrats, we are that kind of people. in my church, we say good samaritan people. every faith tradition understands this story. there is a person who is beaten andn the side of the road, a whole lot of people just walk on by. even some people who are leaders , moral leaders who should have known better, some walk on by and pretend not to notice. some notice but think, i am not going to do anything about it.

whole lot of you, but i think i know this about you. that's not who you are. you are not walk-on-by people. we are the kind of people who, if we see somebody needs a hand, even if we don't know all of the answers, even if we don't know everything that needs to be said, we are going to roll our sleeves up and wade into the situation and see if we can figure it out and be helpful. that is what we need for the next 34 days. we are trying to make history. and i will tell you one other --ng -- being the underdog can i tell you that hillary clinton has been an underdog again and again and again throughout her life?

anybody in this room but an underdog? anybody in this room tried to do something for the first time in your family or in your job or in your school, something that has never been done before? anybody in this room have somebody who looked you in the face and say i don't think you're going to be able to do this, the time is not right for you? sometimes the person telling you that is an enemy, sometimes it is a friend who doesn't want you to get your feelings hurt or your hopes up. sometimes that voices you. it is not even an enemy or friend. it is the doubt and every one of us saying maybe this is not the right time, maybe this isn't the right opportunity. can i tell you hillary clinton has heard that her entire life? and donald trump is only the most recent person to say this to her.

if we have that underdog going towhere we are be the underdog until they tell us on the evening of november 8 that we just made history, you just elected the first woman in the history of the united states , and now we are starred together we can build an economy that works for everybody not just those at the top, we can build strength in the world with strong alliances, and we can build a community of respect where everybody is welcomed around the table, l come is -- everybody is valued. that is the history we will make if we all do the work that we need to do. now, everybody tell me the last day to register to vote in pennsylvania. i like this audience. , tell are not registered me where to go to vote to register.

iwillvote.com. could we have made it any easier? raise her hand if you're doing volunteering for the campaign. [applause] if you have not yet allnteered and you want to, you have to do is text silly -- philly 24276. across this country, we are going to celebrate being part of a generation that made history of barack obama in 2008, made history electing hillary clinton in 2016. thank you so much. [applause] ♪

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watch the entire debate. even go to specific questions and answers from the debate, fighting the content you want lately and easily, and use our video clipping tool to create clips of your favorite debate moments to share on social media. c-span.org on your desktop, phone, or tablet for the vice presidential debate. as part of c-span's campaign 2016 coverage, we take a look at a number of state race debates tonight starting at 8:30 eastern time with the missouri governor's debate, at 9:30 p.m., a debate in the arizona first congressional district race, and then we are live at 10:00 p.m. eastern for the california senate debate. two democrats running to replace senator barbara boxer, come out harris and congresswoman loretta sanchez debating. that is live at 10:00.

is a p.m. eastern it debate among the candidate seeking to replace mike pence as the governor of indiana. state race debates starting at 8:30 eastern here on c-span. as hurricane matthew is threatening the bahamas and the east coast of florida, president obama today received a briefing on the hurricane at fema headquarters in washington. afterward, he spoke to reporters for about five minutes. as well number of other agencies, army corps of engineers, our national guard, have just briefed me on preparations that we are making for the possibility of some serious affects from hurricane matthew. it could affect areas all across the southeast, so at my direction, fema has been on the ground in florida, georgia, carolina, and north carolina,

working with state and local officials to prepare for the storm. we already have response teams positioned and ready to help communities in the region. i want to emphasize to the public this is a serious storm. it has already hit haiti with devastating effect. it is now in the process of moving through the bahamas. because it is not going to be hitting and of land, it is going to be building strength on its way to florida. we anticipate that by tomorrow morning, it will already begin to have significant effects in florida, and has the potential to strengthen and move on up the coast during the course of the day. i want to make sure that everybody is paying attention to your local officials. if there is an evacuation order in your community, you need to take it seriously. we anticipate that not only is that thell a chance

core of the storm strikes florida and some of the states but even if you do not get the full force of the hurricane, we are still going to be seeing tropical force winds, the potential for stearns -- four storm surge, and all of that could have devastating effect. payinge needs to be attention and following the instructions of your local officials. order,get an evacuation just remember that you can always rebuild, you can always repair property, but you cannot restore a life if it is lost. we want to make sure we minimize any possible loss of life, or risk to people in these areas. that weant to make sure say thanks to the folks at the national weather service and the fema team for the outstanding

work that they are doing here. , in case people hardware, comes from florida. he is intimately for where -- intimately aware of the dangers. he has family in areas that could be affected by the storm. this is personal for him. you know he is going to be working around the clock to make sure we are preventing any potential loss of life and trying to minimize as much as possible the impact of the storm. this is going to be a serious storm, and we want to take it seriously as well. even as we prepare for the hurricane here at home, i want us to keep in mind that haiti, one of the poorest countries in the world, already suffering from a range of previous disasters, has been hit really hard by the storm, and we anticipate that they are going to need substantial help.

there may be similar needs in iaces like the bahamas, so would ask that people who are willing to contribute and willing to help to visit the center for international disaster information. idi.org.ite is c you can find out how you can help make life a little bit easier for people who did not have a lot to begin with, and now are really getting hammered by the storm. point for everybody in the potentially affected states, even as you are waiting to get instructions from your local officials, now is the time for you to prepare in the event that you have to evacuate. even if you don't have to ancuate and there is not evacuation order, it still makes sense to figure out what kind of plan you have, what sort of preparations and supplies you

have, and if you need help, trying to figure that out. , because thatv will give you clear instructions on how to make sure that you are securing your property and keeping your family safe, which is obviously the priority for all of us. this is something to take seriously. we hope for the best, but we will prepare for the worst. in the affected states of florida, georgia, south carolina, north carolina, to pay close attention to your close -- to your local officials and the broadcasts that will be coming through over the next several hours. thank you very much everybody. >> about an hour and a half after president obama's trip to fema headquarters, white house press secretary josh earnest briefed reporters about hurricane preparations and a range of other topics.

mr. earnest: good afternoon everybody. i apologize for keeping you waiting this afternoon. you have all had an opportunity to hear about the president -- hear from the president earlier today. he traveled to fema and got an update from officials. the president indicated that hurricane matthew is a very serious storm, and people should take it seriously. undertaking anis important effort to prepare for the storm, mobilizing personnel and resources, pre-staging them in strategically valuable locations so that we can mobilize a response in the event that storm takes the worst possible track. we want people to be mindful of taking this seriously as well. these are the three things we are encouraging them to do. the first is to listen carefully to weather reports and to track the storm, particularly if you

live in the southeastern region of the country. we want people to go to ready.gov and understand what preparation they can take for the storm to ensure that they and their family are safe. and the last thing, and to me is the most important, is for people to listen very carefully to the advice and instructions that are provided by local officials. local officials are the ones who know their communities best. they are getting up to the minute information about the track of the storm, and the intensity of the storm from scientists at the federal government. they are making determinations about what steps people must and to ensure their safety security. obviously we want to make sure that we are looking out for all the human lives that are involved. we encourage people to listen carefully to the instructions that they receive from local officials in the days ahead. with that, do want to get started? >> can you give us some sense of

scale? mr. earnest: there was a complaint that was made public today by my colleagues at the department of justice. the existence of that complaint is indication that there is an ongoing criminal investigation sharplyl limit quite what i'm able to discuss from here. fortunately the complaint they released does include quite a bit of information about what they have covered thus far in the contents of the investigation. for the facts of this case, i would refer you to that complaint that has been unsealed. there is not much additional information i can share from here to shed additional light on that investigation, other than to point to the fact that the investigation is still ongoing.

anytime that information like this is released in the ,ontext of a criminal complaint is federal government reminded of how important it is to be vigilant about protecting national security of the country and information that is relevant to our national security. situationrtainly a that the department of justice takes seriously, as evidenced by their complaint. this is also a situation that president obama takes very seriously. it is a good reminder for all of us with security clearances about how important it is for us to protect sensitive national security information. context ongive us the foreign