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should lead? what are we saying? in our hearts, we all know that wine let hillary's opponent this election, then we are sending a clear message to our , that everything they are seeing and hearing is perfectly ok. . we are validating it. we are endorsing it. we are telling our sunset it is ok to humiliate women, we are telling our daughters that this is how they deserve to be treated. we are telling our kids and bigotry and bullying are acceptable in the leader of the country. is that what we want for our children? remember, we won't just be setting a bad example from -- for our kids but for the entire world. america has been a model for countries across the globe, pushing them to educate their children and insisting
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that they give more rights to their women. if we have a president who routinely degrades women, who brags about sexually assaulting women, then how can we maintain our moral authority in the world? continue to be a beacon of freedom and justice and human dignity? fortunately, new hampshire, here is the beauty. we have everything we need to stop this man. our mothers and grandmothers were often powerless to change or circumstance is, today we have all the power we need to determine the outcome of the election. knowledge, we have a voice, we have the float. -- a vote. women, as americans and
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decent human beings can come together and declare that enough is enough, and we do not tolerate this kind of behavior in this country. this, in 2012, women's votes were the difference between a rock winning and losing in key swing states, including right here in new hampshire. thinkinge who might be that their one vote does not matter or that one person cannot really make a difference, consider this. barack won new hampshire by 40,000 votes. when you break that number down, the difference between winning and losing this state was only 66 votes per precinct. precinct hadeach gone the other way, barack would have lost.
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each of you right here today could help swing and entire precinct and when this election for hillary by getting yourself your family and friends and neighbors out to vote. you can do it right here. also help swing and entire precinct for hillary's opponent with a protest float or by staying home out of frustration. here is the truth. either hillary clinton or her opponent will be elected president this year. if you vote for someone other than hillary or you don't vote at all you are helping to elect her opponent. just think about how you will feel if that happens. imagine waking up on november the ninth and looking into the ass of your daughter or son you stare into the mirror. imagine how you will feel if you
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stayed home. you didn't do everything possible to elect hillary. we cannot with that happened. we cannot allow ourselves to be so disgusted that we shut up the tv and walk away. aroundot just sit wringing our hands. we need to recover from our shock and russian -- decompression and do what women have always done, we need you to roll up your sleeves and get to work. low,ber this, when they go we go high. yes we do. voting ourselves is a great start. but we also have to step up and start organizing. we need you to make calls and knock on doors and get people to
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the doors on election day. sign up to volunteer with one of the hillary, just waiting for you to step up. and young people and not so young people get on social media. share your own story of why this election matters. matter to all people of conscious in this -- conscience in this country. the choice you make will determine whether we have up resident who treats people with respect or not. a president who will fight for kids, for good schools, for good jobs. a president who thinks that women deserve the right to make our own choices about our bodies and our health, or not. whats just a little bit of is at stake. we cannot be afford to be tired or turned off.
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we cannot afford to stay home on election day. a november the eighth we have the power to show our children that americans greatness comes from recognizing the dignity and worth of all of our people. on november the eighth, we can show our children that this country is big enough to have a place for us all. men and women. of every background and walk of life. and each of us is a precious part of this great american story. we are always stronger together. applause. we can show our children that here in america we reject hatred and fear. in difficult times we don't upcard our ideals, we rise to meet them, we rise up to
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protect our union, we rise up to defend our blessings of liberty, we rise up to the embody the values of opportunity and sacrifice that have always made this country the greatest nation on earth. that is who we are. [applause] hope is important. it is important for our young people. we deserve a president who can in us.se truths a people who can bring us together and bring out the best in a spirit hillary will be that president. applause]d for the next 26 days we need to do everything we can to help her and tim kaine win this election. are you with me?
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of this country. >> he appears to be in total meltdown. >> the shackles are often now i can do what i want. are you going to be more outspoken? i don't think i am that outspoken. he threatened to jail his opponent. that is a new low in american democracy. >> you are behind with women. >> i'm not sure i believe that. >> trump tore into paul ryan. >> he has never heard salty language before. this is locker room talk. john mccain has the dirtiest mouth and all of the senate. new tv ad.ced and this morning in america --
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>> donald trump is out of control. this is a nuclear bomb we are watching. >> i will compare my iq with anybody. ambassador stevens -- >> mr. trump we are going to go on. >> we are going to move on. i think aleppo is a disaster. >> what do you think will happen if it falls? >> there are sometimes the military does that. >> we have to move on. >> we want to give the audience
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a chance. >> after getting a subpoena from the united states, we have to --e on and >> mr. chop >> everything is broken about it. >> please allow her to respond. >> kim has a question. >> nice. one on three. republican presidential nominee denies allegations of sexual assault during a campaign rally in west palm beach florida. mr. trump said he has evidence to does to the claims and what the real -- release it at the appropriate time. this is about 50 minutes. >>
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i want to stand up next to you , there ain't no doubt i love this man, god bless the usa. ♪ i'm proud to be an american where at least i know i'm free. died't forget the men who who gave that right to me. i will stand up next to you, there a no doubt i love this usa. ♪od bless the applause]d >> wow. what a group.
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it is about replacing a failed and corrupt -- when i say corrupt, i am talking about totally corrupt political establishment with a new government controlled by you, the american people. nothing the political establishment will not do, no lie, that they will not tell. powerd their prestige and at your expense. that is what has been happening. establishment and the financial and media corporations that fund it exists for only one reason, to protect and enrich itself. establishment has trillions of dollars at stake in this election. , just one single
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trade deal they would like to pass involves trillions of dollars, controlled by many countries, corporations, and lobbyists. for those who control the levers of power in washington, and for the global special interest, they partner with these people that do not have your good in represents campaign a true existential threat. like they have not seen before. [cheers and applause] this is not a four year election. this is a crossroads in the history of our civilization that will determine whether or not we the people reclaim control over our government.
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the political establishment that is trying to stop us is the same ourp responsible for disastrous trade deals, massive it illegal immigration, and economic and foreign policies that have bled our country or i. -- country dry. the political establishment has brought about the destruction of our factories and our jobs, as they go to mexico, china, and other countries all around the world. our just announced job numbers are anemic, our gross domestic 1% and is barely above going down. workers in the united states are making less than they were almost 20 years ago, andgoing d.
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yet .hey are working harder but so i my, working harder. that i can tell you. thata global our structure is responsible for the economic robbed ourhat have working class, stripped our country of its wealth and put that money into the pockets of a handful of large corporations and political entities. just look at what this corrupt establishment has done to our cities like detroit, flint, michigan, and towns in pennsylvania, ohio, north carolina, and all different parts of our country. take a look at what is going on. they stripped away these towns bear and rated the wealth of themselves, and taking our jobs away out of our country, never
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to return unless i am elected president. [cheers and applause] the clinton machine is at the center of this power struggle. we have seen this firsthand in the wikileaks documents in which hillary clinton meets in secret with international banks to plot the destruction of u.s. sovereignty in order to enrich these global financial powers, her special interest friends and her donors. [boo] so true.
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honestly, she should be locked up. she should be locked up. and likewise, the e-mails show that the clinton machine is so closely tied to the media , listen to this that she is given the questions and answers and advance of her debate performance with bernie sanders. hillary clinton is also given a overam and veto power quotes written about her in the new york times. they definitely do not do that to me. and the e-mails show the
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reporters collaborate and conspired directly with the clinton campaign on helping her win the election all over. with her control over the government, with trillions of dollars on the line, the clinton machine is determined to achieve the destruction of our campaign. not going to happen. [cheers] which has now become a great movement, the likes of which our country has never seen before. [cheers] they have never seen a movement like this in our country before. yesterday in florida, massive crowds, people lined up outside of the arenas, not able to get in. it never happened before. one of the great political phenomenon is.
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the most powerful weapon deployed by the clintons is the corporate media, the press. let's be clear on one thing. corporate media in our country, it is no longer involved in journalism. they are a political special interest, no different than any lobbyist or other financial entity with a total political agenda, and the agenda is not for you, it is for themselves. applause]d and their agenda is to elect crooked hillary clinton at any cost, at any price, no matter how many lives they destroyed. them, it is a war.
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for them, nothing at all is out of bounds. this is a struggle for the survival of our nation, believe me. last chance tor save it, on november 8. remember that. this election will determine whether we are a free nation, or whether we only have the illusion of democracy, that are in fact controlled by a small pan full of global interest. our system is rigged. this is reality. you know it, they know it, i know it. the whole world knows it. the establishment and their media will control over this nation through means that are very well known.
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anyone who challenges their control is deemed a sexist, racist, a xenophobia and morally deformed. , they willttack you slander you, they will seek to destroy your career and your family. to destroyeek everything about you, including your reputation. they will lie, lie, lie, and then again they will do worse than that. they will do what ever is necessary. the clintons are criminals, remember that. they are criminals. applause]d this is well documented, and
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the establishment that protects them has engaged in a massive cover up of lies -- wide spread criminal activity at the state department, and at the clinton foundation in order to keep the clintons in power. history have we seen such a cover-up as this. one that includes the total e-mails,on of 33,000 13 iphones by hammer, laptops, missy boxes of evidence -- missing boxes of evidence and
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many other things. people who are capable of such crimes against our nation are capable of anything. now we address the slander and libel that was just last night thrown at me by the clinton machine and the new york times and other media outlets, as part of it -- of a concerted vicious attack. it is not a coincidence that these attacks, at the same moment, and altogether at the same time as wikileaks releases documents exposing the massive international corruption of the clinton machine, including 2000 more e-mails just this morning.
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these vicious claims about me of inappropriate conduct with women are totally and absolutely false. applause]d and the clintons know it and they know it very well. fabricated. are all they are pure fiction and they are outright lies. happenednts never ever , and the people that sent them silly understand. -- fully understand. if you see these people you will understand also. the claims are preposterous, ludicrous and if i is common sense and logic. we already have substantial ,vidence to dispute these lies and it will be made public in an appropriate way and at an
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appropriate time very soon. lies come from outlets whose past stories and claims have already been discredited. did not evenlets attempt to confirm the most basic facts, because even a simple investigation would have shown that these were nothing more than false. six months ago, the failing new storyimes wrote a massive , and the central witness they used was false, that she was quoting inaccurately. she said that i was a great guy, she had great kurds. she was an amazing person. she never made those remarks.
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i was surprised. how could she say that? it appeared we demanded a retraction, but they refuse to print. just like they refused to print the comment from another source , theraised the her book words from another wonderful woman who said nice things about me. they put other statements that she didn't say. .hey misrepresented the story was a fraud, and a big embarrassment to the new york times. it was a big front page story, front age, center, color picture, a disgrace. they were very embarrassed. it will be part of a lawsuit we are preparing against them. [cheers and applause]
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now, today, the same to discredited writers who should have been fired from the new york times for what they did, tell another fabricated false story that supposedly to lace on an airplane more than 30 years ago. tale, noidiculous witnesses, no nothing. writer fromas a people magazine who wrote a , ony on melania and myself our first anniversary. the story was beautiful, it was beautiful. hear thatight we after 12 years -- this took place 12 years ago. a new claim that i may inappropriate in dances -- advances during the interview to
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this writer. asked a very simple question, why wasn't it part of the story that appeared 12 years ago? why didn't they make it part of the story? i was one of the biggest stars on television with the apprentice, and would have been one of the biggest stories of the year. think of it. she is doing the story on melania. who was pregnant at the time. and it was our one year anniversary. she said i made in a row for it advances. area was a the public area. people were all over the place. take a look. you take a look, look at her and looked at her words and you tell me what you think. i don't think so. i don't think so.
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but it is amazing. a love story, on how great we are together. and by the way we are stronger today than we ever were before. it is tori. -- it is a love story. if she would have added that it would have been the headline -- who would have done that if you are doing this and you have one of the top shows on television. these are horrible people. they are horrible liars. dayst happens to appear 26 before our very important election. isn't that amazing? this has already been debunked by witnesses who were there. they were there. the very witness i've --
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identified by the author has said the tour -- story is false. the room had glass walls. can you believe this? story,n't it in the biggest story of the year. timeseekend, the new york published a full page piece with another claim from an individual who has been totally discredited based on the many e-mails and letters she has sent to our office over the years, looking for work. donald is great, wonder to go to my rallies. but the new york times, this was a full op-ed piece. they refused to use the evidence that we presented. it, they would have said there is no story. ,thers in the media
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surprisingly, because they are dishonest also, are presented with the story by this woman numerous times, and they got very excited. after seeing the evidence that we give them, all of them refused to write the story. there was no story. the times -- this was a full-page opposite the editorial. this is part of a concerted effort led by the new york times . the new york times is fighting desperately for its relevance and its financial survival. and it probably won't even be around in a few years based on its financial outlook. which would not be a bad thing, if you want to see the truth. down, and it is
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becoming more and more problematic, it has gotten more and more vicious, more and more vile or it even the other mainstream eds is talking about the siegel greatest pylon in history -- single greatest pile on in history. stories, itsee the is one after another after another, and facts mean nothing. third rate journalism. the great editors of the past from the new york times and others, are spinning in their graves. allow the clinton -- to turnto learn our campaign into a discussion of their slanders and lies, but will remain focused on the issues facing the american people. [cheers and applause]
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let me state this as clearly as i can. these attacks are orchestrated by the clintons and their media allies. the only thing hillary clinton has going for herself is the press. without the press she is absolutely zero. and you saw that the other night in the debate when some people said she made a fool of herself. this is not presidential material, believe me. say is often slanderous in every respect. we are now less than a month
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away from the most elect -- important election of our lifetime. one of the most important elections in the history of our country. the polls are showing us in a dead heat, don't believe what she says. respected poll just came out this morning, just released, shows us nationally two points ahead. beautiful. it just came out. has wit clinton machine forward a small handful of people, out of tens of thousands of people over the years i have met and worked with, and
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employed, in order to make wild and false allegations that failed to meet even the most recent test of common sense. again, this is nothing more than an attempt to destroy our movement and for the clintons to keep their corrupt control over our government. when i declared my candidacy, i knew what bad shape our country was in. believe me, all you have to do is look at world events. all you have to do is look at the 1.7 billion dollars that we ran to iraqi and cash -- it -- iran and cash. the wayad to do is see isis was created in the vacuum and left by hillary clinton and barack obama of death iraq. all you had to do is look at the
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800 people that wear very not good for our nation and they were going to be deported, and low and behold instead of that, they were made citizens of the unitas and -- the united states. and lo and behold, sadly, the hundred people is wrong. it turned out to be close to 1800 people. incompetent, is all he wants to do is campaign. the last thing he wants to happen is to have donald trump terminate obamacare and do all of the other things that are destroying --. he's led a very divided nation and it has only gotten worse.
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the last thing our country needs is four more years of barack obama, believe me. i have seen firsthand the corruption and the sickness that has taken over our politics. we are all watching together. knew they would throw every lie they could at emi family and my loved ones during they knew they would stop at nothing to try to stop me. baz -- bad knew as as it would be, i never knew it would be this file, that it would be this bad and vicious. nevertheless, i take all of these slings and arrows gladly i take them for our
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movement so that we can have our country back. here int civilization america and across the civilized world has come upon a moment of reckoning. we have seen it in the united kingdom, where they voted to liberate themselves run global government and global trade deals, and global immigration deals that have destroyed their sovereignty and destroyed many of those nations. basis of world political power is right here in america. it is our corrupt political establishment that is the greatest power behind the efforts of radical globalization and the disenfranchisement of working people. resources arel
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virtually unlimited. their political resources are unlimited. their media resources are unmatched. depth ofrtantly, the their immorality is unlimited. they will allow radical, islamic, terrorists to enter our country by the thousands. the great trojan i don't want people looking back in 100 years and 200 years and have that story be told about us. because we were led by in a, a competent and corrupt people barometer -- barack obama and hillary clinton. we do not want to be part of that history.
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by the way, president obama should stop campaigning and start working on creating jobs, start working on getting our gdp up, start working on strengthening our borders. the corrupt political establishment is a machine. it has no soul. i knew these false attacks would come. i knew this day would arrive. it was only a question of when. i knew the american people would rise above it and folk for the future -- vote for the future they deserve. applaused the only force strong enough to save our country is us. the only people brave enough to vote out this corrupt
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was there. oh, this is the attorney general. let me go say hello or the plane is on the runway. he never got to play golf, i understand. the weatherna, but was hundred some degrees. don't be foolish. they met for 39 minutes. discussely, it was to her reappointment and a clinton administration as the attorney general just prior to making a decision over whether or not to prosecute hillary clinton. that is what happened. that is pretty sad. minutes,for 39 remember he said, we talked about golf and we talked about our grandchildren.
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three minutes for the grandchildren, two minutes for the golf. then they sat there and they twiddled their thumbs. i believe they talked about her remaining in her position under a crooked hillary clinton administration. that's what i believe. that's what i believe. that's what i believe. i think that is what most people in this room believe. [cheers] likewise they corrupted the director of the f reality -- fbi. the great men and women who work for the fbi are embarrassed and ashamed of what he has done to one of our truly great institutions, the fbi itself.
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hillary clinton is guilty of all the things that director call me comey stated.ctor but it ismany things far more and he knows that. and yet, after reading all of these where she is so guilty, he let her off before. while other lies including petrausbetray us -- have been destroyed for doing far less. this is a conspiracy against you the american people, and we cannot let this happen or continue.
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this is our moment of reckoning. as a civilization itself. i did need to do this, believe me. believe me. i built a great company. i had a wonderful life. i could have enjoyed the fruits and benefits of years of successful business deals from myself and my family. instead of going through this horror show of lies, deceptions, malicious attacks. who would have thought? i am doing it because this country has given me so much, and i feel so strongly that it is my turn to give back to the country that i love. [cheers and applause]
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many of my friends and many political experts warned me that this campaign would be a journey to how. ell.wo h but they are wrong, it will be a journey to heaven, because we will help so many people who are so desperately in need of help. in my former life, i was an insider as much as anybody else. i knew what it's like, and i to beknow what it is like an insider. it's not bad. now i am being punished for leaving the special club and revealing to you the terrible things that are going on having
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to do with our country. because i used to be part of the club, i am the only one who can fix it. [cheers and applause] mr. trump: i am doing this for the people and for the movement, and we will take back this country for you, and we will make america great again. [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] mr. trump: the corrupt establishment knows that we are a great threat to their criminal enterprise. they know that if we win their power is gone, and it is returned to you the people. the dark clouds hanging over our government will be lifted and replaced with a bright future, but it all depends on whether we
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decide ourrupt media future, or whether we let the american people decide our future. [cheers and applause] if this clinton campaign of destruction is allowed to work, then no other ighly -- and this is so true, have seen this so many times, and i have heard this all of my life -- if we let this happen, then no other highly successful person, which is what our country needs. when you look at our trade deals, which are so bad. trade, we aret going to lose almost $800 billion this year.
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almost $800 billion. our debt has doubled in seven and a half years to almost $20 trillion under obama. [boos] other successful , after watching this, will ever again, ever -- and who can blame them? even me, i would say you are right. will ever again run for office. i have heard it for years. youou are very successful, can't run for high office. i said i don't care. i have done so well. it is a certain mindset we need in our country, at least for a period of time. we have to strengthen our country out. [cheers and applause] youtrump: i will not lie to .
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these false attacks are absolutely hurtful. to be lied about, to be slandered, to be snared so publicly, and before your family that you love, is very painful. what is going on is egregious the on any worth -- egregious beyond any worth. people that know the facts, they can't even believe it. beyondeprehensible description. it is totally corrupt. but i also know that it is not about me. it is about all of you and about our country. i know that. i fully understand that. that's why i got involved. it is about all of us together as a country. the likes ofent which we have never in history seen before, never in history. mediahe pundits, even the
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that truly dislikes donald trump will admitwn reasons this is a movement of the likes of which we have never seen before. and it is a movement about the veterans who need medical care. [cheers and applause] mothers who lost their beloved children to terrorism and crime. ,t is about the inner cities who desperately need our help. it is about the millions of jobless people in america. it is about the american workers who can't get jobs because our jobs have left for mexico and so many other countries. [cheers and applause] this election is about the people getting crushed by obamacare.
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and it is about defeating isis, and appointing a supreme court justice. it could be four or five. who would protect our constitution. [cheers and applause] this election is also about, so importantly to me, african-american and hispanic-american people whose communities have been plunged into crime, poverty, and failing schools by the policies of crooked hillary clinton, believe me. she is crooked. [cheers and applause] mr. trump: they have robbed these citizens of their future, and if we win, i will give them their hopes, their jobs, their education. i will give them their security.
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, education ises almost worthless. it's horrible. we are going to have common core ended. we are going to bring education local. [cheers and applause] mr. trump: but you look at the , and you see bad education, no jobs, no safety. you want to the grocery store with your child and you get shot. you walk outside to look and see what's happening and you get shot. in chicago, 3000 people have been shot since january 1. we are not going to let that happen. our inner cities are almost at an all-time low, run by the democrats for sometimes more than 100 years chain unbroken. so they have no jobs. they have horrible education.
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they have no safety and security. i say to the african-american community, what the hell do you have to lose? i will fix it. i will make it good. i will bring back our jobs. we will have good education. we will have great safety in the inner city. [cheers and applause] and we will help the hispanic american people who have been treated so badly and .o unfairly in our nation we will help them. [cheers and applause] likerump: i will deliver you have never seen before. i deliver. whether people like donald trump or not, they all say he delivers. [cheers] vote for donald
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trump, and you will be so happy, so thrilled. everylection is about man, woman, and child in our country who deserves to live in safety, prosperity, and peace. so true. we will rise above the lies, the smears, but looted -- the fromrous slanderers ludicrous and very dishonest reporters. [boos] mr. trump: we will vote for the country we want. we will vote for the future we want. we will vote for the politics we want. and we will vote to put this corrupt government cartel out of business and out of business immediately. [cheers and applause]
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mr. trump: we will vote for the say, "lotserests and of luck, but you are being voted out of power." workers,betrayed our they had betrayed our bor ders, and most of all, they have betrayed our freedoms. we will save our sovereign rights as a nation. we will end the politics of profit. we will end the role of special interest. we will end the rating of our jobs by other countries. we will end the total disenfranchisement of the american voter and the american worker. hand,dependence day is at and it arrives on november 8.
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>> ♪ i saw her today at the reception a glass of wine in her hand ♪ [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] announcer: the "time" magazine story out today, "total meltdown." thank you for being with us. let's begin with your piece for you mentioned that donald trump is "consumed by petty grudges of recordings and free of the republican party shackles. " what has been going on? philip: it has been nothing short of an epic meltdown inside trump tower. we talked at length of several people trying to advise trump off his legend and get back to the more traditional mode. he is just not going there. he is going to leave everything on the field, to use a sports
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analogy, and use the last remaining days of his campaign to settle scores and basically relitigate every wrong that he feels he has been suffering. this is a candidate who has, as we quote one official, just taken the party and has forced it to the darkest place possible , nurturing the worst instincts of some of the conservative , andrs of his party torturing -- and that is not an exaggeration -- torturing the establishment minded republicans who have devoted their entire to building of a party in this country that can debate ideas and talk about history. this is about as far from the party of george h.w. bush as you can imagine.
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does that put paul ryan, mitch mcconnell, and the so-called mainstream republicans? paul ryan is an interesting character. he always had an uneasy marriage with mr. trump. ok, this is a guy who is the nominee of the party. it behooves the republican brand to not lose a third consecutive presidential race. it would be good for down ballot candidates if mr. trump's supporters decided to show up and vote for republican candidates for senate and house. that is no longer the mindset inside speaker ryan's orbit, or leader mcconnell's. facing mr. trump as -- they see mr. trump as a toxic figure inside the party that could very
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much drag down candidates like kelly ayotte in new hampshire, one of perhaps the most endangered republican senators facing reelection. democrats only need to capture four more seats and the vice presidency to flip -- capture the majority for the first time. it is a very real thing. republicans are defending 24 seats on the map. that is a very large vulnerability for them. paul ryan said if there had not mr. enough, he uninvited trump to appear in mr. ryan's own congressional district. he instead invited mike pence to fill the spot. i'm good. says, no, he took the weekend off the trail to figure out where this goes.-- where this race appearing with mr. trump has now become -- it will become a liability for republican candidates, because they will be
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forced to defend the indefensible that mr. trump has , and theor them accusations that he is facing on a nearly daily basis of actions, not just words. >> and mr. trump is turning his attention to the media, saying that wikileaks show the clinton campaign's inclusion of the media. how will that affect mr. trump? supporters trump's have never been a fan of what they would call the mainstream media. attacking the media is always a good tactic for the most conservative parts of the base, but he is not running against "the new york times," he is running against hillary clinton. every hour he spends trying to fight against workers and journalists and anyone in that orbit is the minute he is not litigating his case against ms. clinton. the clinton campaign says you
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can -- if mr. trump wants to spend the next three weeks talking about the media and only focus on what the media is reporting about him, which are very damming stories about mr. trump's previous actions and words. as you point out in your story, this will force the republican party to rethink its identity for the first time since the 1960's, during the height of the civil rights movement. that, why are some republicans, including chairman reince priebus, still with donald trump? philip: it is survival mode at this point. speaker ryan says this is a bridge too far, we can't go there. reince priebus is in a very difficult position. this is a party he has ever seen , a long serving chairman, relatively, in a job that is not known for durability. but this is a party he has
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overseen. this is a party she has shepherded to where it is. at no point have they stepped in and said donald trump is not reflective of what it means to be a republican. i think that is a true statement. -- no one iniebus his party stepped in and said no to mr. trump. they allowed this to happen. they have to own it. at this point, there is no remaking the republican party in the little time we have left. there is only a managed collapse of mr. trump in the hopes that he does not take down with him everyone else to has -- who has an r after their name. >> it is worth knowing that a lot of americans still don't like hillary clinton and can't bring themselves to vote for her. they might find mr. trumps behavior abhorrent, but they still hate hillary clinton.
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-- conservatives hate hillary clinton and everything she stands for. while polling shows that mr. trump is heading towards a loss, there is still a part of this country that can never bring themselves to vote for that woman in particular. finally, philip elliott, the cover story, a 2.0 version of what we talked about in august, the cover story of "time" magazine. explain your approach. philip: in august, it was a moment where trump was coming out of the conventions and having a bad stretch. he was attacking muslim parents ofthe veterans. things looked to be going off the rails at that point. this moment is more damaging for .r. trump he is quickly approaching the point of no return, and he is not going to just take down his
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own campaign. he may take down the entire republican party with him. "time" magazine cover story on newsstands today and available online at time.com. philip elliott, washington correspondent, thank you for being with us. philip: of course. announcer: mr. trump attorney gl -- announcer: attorney general atetta lynch will be georgetown university talking about criminal justice reform. we will take you there at 6:00 p.m. eastern. announcer: campaign coverage continues on c-span. today at 7:00 p.m., richard burr and deborah ross debate for the north carolina u.s. senate. on friday night at 8:00 eastern, the u.s. senate debate in wisconsin between ron johnson and russ feingold. that is followed at 10:00 by the debate for the nevada u.s. senate.
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watch our complete campaign online atn c-span and c-span.org, and listen on the c-span radio app. watch c-span's live coverage of the third debate between hillary clinton and donald trump on wednesday night. thelife debate preview from university of nevada-las vegas charts at heaven: 30 p.m. eastern. -- starts at 7:30 p.m. eastern. stay with us following the reaction, fewer including calls, tweets, and facebook postings. and watch the debate live or on-demand using your desktop phone or tablet at c-span.org. listen to live coverage with the c-span radio app. download it from the app store or google play. announcer: next, a look at the millennial generation vote, and efforts to reach them and encourage them to vote in this year's election. plus, issues that are most
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important to millennials. ts to increase millennial turnout the selection. he served as vice president of civic engagement at rock the vote. remind our viewers what rock the vote is. >> it is a nonprofit organization. we are nonpartisan. our job is what you just said, engage the millennial voters and turned them out. that is everything from building the technology they need to make registering and voting as easy as possible to chasing them down with reminders when it is time to register or vote. host: what are the biggest barriers holding that young voters? guest: young voters get a bad rap a lot of times when people talk about them being apathetic. the reality is if you look at social media, if you look at even our streets, our communities where people are marching in making their voices
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heard on issues they care about, young people are really passionate. the biggest obstacle our age old like craft nation. aen was the last time you saw 23-year-old sit down to write a term paper three month in advance? it does not happen that often. does over the last two days, we registered over 200,000 people as the deadlines set it to creep up. that is what our data is showing. young people are tooting and right now. host: if you look at the data on voter turnout, millennials making up 31% of the voting population, but not a reliable voting block. here is millennial turnout from three years compared to gen xers, silent generation, is or anything to indicate that anything will be different this cycle, or will millennials be the lowest turnout? guest: the youngest generation
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in each election year will be the toughest want to turn out. the reason is not as much to do with engagement is that voting is a habit you have to build over years. as you become older, it becomes more of what you do. your likelihood to vote raises as you get older. i also say, this is the largest voting block in american history, which is incredible. this is the most diverse voting block. once it starts to flex its muscles, not in the presidential race, but in the local races, they will start to turn out in bigger numbers. host: jesse moore is with rock the vote. if you're 18 to 35 years old, it is 202-748-8001. if you are 36 years old to 60 years old, the number is 202-748-8001. if you are 60 and older, the number is 202-748-8002.
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you can start calling now. as you are doing these registration drives on campus am about are you hearing 2016 bringing the voters out? guest: there is no getting around it, the presidential race is eye-catching for a lot of voters of all ages, but young people are just like anybody else, drawn to what is on the news and mr. trump and secretary clinton are drawing a lot of attention. the question, there are a lot of people were supporting child and clinton -- supporting trump and clinton and those eager to vote against both candidates. what is refreshing to me is hearing directly from young voters that they are really interested in finding more about who their local district attorney is, there may or is, their sheriff, policing.
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justice and criminal reform is drawing the focus for a lot of young people to know, who is running my neighborhood? who was making decisions on my block? frankly, that is where the decisions we care about come from. electionspresidential are opening interest in other elections? guest: yes, and it is really refreshing and as a country, we should move forward as quickly as we can. it is where we started as a country. politics should be local. not only are those the issues we care about, but that is where our power is. host: rock the vote, is that how you get people in the door i talking about the presidential race? and then once they are in the door, encourage them to vote another elections as well? guest: it is a mix. there are people who show up and say i am interested in making
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sure the police in my neighborhood are safe and protected. that lets us know we need to let them know about local races. others want to know about the supreme court and other issues. i used to work in government and i can say most americans think of the presidency when they think of anything, whether it is pothole's in the street or policing our health care. i know from being inside the government, so much of what we change has to be done at the local level. what lessons did you learn that you are taking to rock the vote? guest: one is you have to make millennials where they are. worse, and i just
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make the cut as a millennial, so i don't want think young callers to talk down -- so i don't want young callers to think i am talking down to you, i am with you. where theyt places are authentically engaging. we had been doing pop up art galleries were people can express themselves on issues that are important to them. that is what i learned. you have to meet people where they are with voices that they know and are already paying attention to. these candidates have nasa platforms -- is candidates have massive platforms. that is not always were a 19-year-old is going to look for an authentic experience. they will listen to artists and people who they connect with on
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an emotional level point -- emotional level first. caller: thanks for taking my call. politicians have stolen every bit of the money that millennials will have for the rest of their lives. we all believe that the government is not corrupt. the government is 100% correct. influencecians try to , especially our college professors. if they know you are republican, they will fail you or they will manipulate your existence in the class so you do not do as well as you could. my question to you is, what do you believe about the influence of those who are in charge of teaching you, and how that should be altered in some kind of way just as the media should be? the elections are bought and paid for.
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whoever votes for whoever a vote for won't make any difference at all. thanks for taking my call. host: jesse moore? guest: i would say this and i come from a family of educators. freedom of speech has to be first and foremost. has that in mind encouraging that with their students and building a space that makes it easy for people to talk with each other about their differences. i will also say that it there is anything that is falling off in our democracy, it is a space for civil discourse on difficult ideas. there is no better place to practice it, to get more acquainted with the practice of civil discourse that in our or highclassrooms
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school classrooms, or elementary classrooms. how do we inspire more people with a mindset like that to get into teaching, to get into education is a good question. i don't have the answer, but the more we can make our schools a the betterdemocracy, that people are not looking at each other like a different species when they do not agree. host: how do you feel about trigger warnings for topics that come up. ofngs that have gotten a lot attention as these discussions are happening on college campuses? to admit, but sad in a lot of cases, we are a few steps away from where we need to be for these conversations to be really functional. it can feel really volatile to talk about. the highly political, or i should say the highly politicized issues. we have to keep doing it.
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campuses on college and in communities, it actually feels like people are looking for the tools and space they need to have a cultural conversation and not feel like you are on one side and i am on another and we are opposing each other. it's a fight. this is what america is, this is what it was built on and we need to create more effective spaces for people to hash these things out. host: on the line between ages 18 to 35 is teresa in tampa, florida. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. host: you are one of those millennials we are talking about. go ahead with your question or comment. caller: i want to comment to jesse, right? guest: right. caller: what you were touching on earlier as far as why you think millennials have not participated, and why you think the older voting groups do
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participate more. from personal experience, i will i waswith you that i feel a child of the great recession. i lost my parents -- my parents lost is not in 2008. my earliest memories are of the afghanistan war that we are still in today. votee only been able to for 10 years. i voted for obama twice. this primary, especially, i was inspired by bernie sanders. but my eyes were opened as well to what the political arena is actually like. it was very saddening and frustrating to see how bernie sanders was treated by the democratic party. and and consequently later on, we all found out that it was true, we were not paranoid. now i feel as far as the white
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males being leaked, -- as far as the wikileaks e-mails being leaked, as the previous caller said, i feel like the government is very corrupt, and the media is helping. i feel like it reports what it is told to report. i feel like i have to go out of my way to get actual facts that are not tainted by partisanship. it is really difficult. even on channels like cnn and fox and msnbc, you know what you are going to get. if you want to's -- if you want to's hear a positive spin on trump, go to cnn. that is not the way it is supposed to work. going up to the polls is important to me, but i kind of feel like it does not matter. stein,be voting for jill and i take a lot of crap for
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that, and i really don't understand the lesser evil argument, but i can see how some people are brought into it. i just kind of feel like as a millennial, i have been told for several years that it is my fault i'm in the position i'm in. people my age are lazy. the truth of the matter is, wages are not going up and they have not for a long time. and i feel like financially that i am held down and it affects my ability to go and participate in rally in protest and to stand up for the things i believe in. things like minimum wage would go up, or if i could make a little bit more money at my job now, i could participate more. it is not that i am a procrastinator, i am not given a choice. thatot given that luxury
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may be some older, more established people have. host: teresa, thank you for the call from tampa, florida. as you answer, i will show the headline from the wall street journal, the story noting that the e-mails have a potential to revive the anger that sanders supporters felt when it comes to hillary clinton consolidating. thoughts based0 off of what she said. thank you for your comment and i agree with you on a lot of that. the really coming frustration amongst millennials, including myself, especially the point you made about consuming facts, gathering facts, this is popular foram not talking about in washington, but the news is not always the news. the news is much more partisan
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than political as it should be. you are absolutely right. in thisickier than ever current phase of our democracy to track down facts that are not slanted. but it is really refreshing to hear you say that you are hunting for that. i find myself trying to do the same. i also find myself trying to encourage everyone from my to turn down mom the news every once in a while when he gets to frustratingly feel like you are getting biased information. --t i will say is this politicians, for better or worse, respond to who shows up on election day. who shows up to vote. frustratingit is and that is something that is not always what people want to
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hear, but it is true. who and whoto track doesn't vote. if you are trying to keep your job as a politician, you have to know who is voting and who is not so you can maintain your power. so they are definitely interested on who shows up on election day. my hope is that we are equally motivated as they are. host: eric is on the line from 36 to 50 years old. you are on the line with jesse moore from rock the vote. caller: good morning and thank you or allowing me to express myself. think this will create more. [indiscernible]
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the media was in full power in america. the media was to be neutral and to present facts. this election shows what america is. clinton, ifk about the democratic party really have , we all know that bernie sanders was the candidate. republicanhe selected a candidate that was selected by the people. got your point.
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jesse moore? guest: it is a very common frustration and it is something where, i think more and more, let me put it this way, my first election was 2000, the 2000 election. that was a moment when they really came to terms with the fact that just a few votes can change the election. that was right when the money -- our news cycle really when the 24-hour news cycle got going. that is when i decided -- that is when i understood the power of media in the power of voters. florida was decided by a sliver of people who did or did not show up that day. i think you're absolutely right. imperative for this next generation of voters to demand something new, to demand something fresh from the media,
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and to hold them accountable. his point onakes twitter, it is imperative for one's mental health to take a break now and then. [laughter] nicole is in mechanicsburg, maryland on the line from 18 to 35. caller: thank you for all your efforts to get people in my generation to vote. i voted in the primaries. i am a democrat and a college student. i'm a policy student. i have a lot of experience in the classroom learning, and seeing how a lot of people in my generation are getting disillusioned, especially with the e-mails coming out. me and my friends will sit down and we will have conversations about policy and about how we are viewing the current political system.
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sorry, i am a terrible public speaker. taking everything with a grain of salt. you see the bias in all forms of media, and it takes a lot of effort and a lot of people don't have the time to sit down and i just what you are seeing and what you are hearing in making an informed decision about who to vote for and if it makes a difference or not. thank you so much for reaching out to young people like me. guest: thank you. thank you and your great -- thank you and you are a great public speaker, i think. you are exactly right. one thing i tried very hard to do is after watching a debate, or watching a speech from a candidate, turn the tv off and think about it for a while. i think c-span probably gives you more space than most networks to actually think and reflect. always remember they are an
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option. the opportunity for us to actually turn to the person we are sitting next to a talk about the moment we care most about, moments we just watch unfold and what they mean for us personally or for the country, we are out of that have it. moment in our media culture that is very focused on conception, and we are always being simulated -- always be stimulated. i am barely a millennial, but i could barely shave in the morning without having a podcast in my ear. the more we could look for silent moments, the better. host: you mentioned earlier that rock the vote is nonpartisan, but you mentioned a big part of your effort is meeting millennials when they are, going to entertainers that are part of millennials'everyday cultural feed and trying to get them
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involved. how do you do it with the entertainers who are bias toward one candidate or the other? guest: that is a great question because artists, by definition, are outspoken and they want to say what they want to say. that we had to be very clear on the front and to let them know for this event, for this event, for this direct camera recorded, we need you to push voting, we ,eed to push civic engagement but you cannot push a candidate or a party. it is tricky and they do not always want to do it. host: have you ever had to say no, or have had a celebrity say no? guest: no. there have been some tough --ents once they are all they are already on stage. when somebody is on the stage,
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it is tough to give them the hook. host: can you give us an example? guest: every once in a while, want them toe will do a song that is really inspirational or will push people to think, and they will do that, but they may follow it up with a song that their publicists want them to be selling right now, which is not always on message. that could get fun. host: jacksonville, north carolina. robert is on the line for those 18 to 35. caller: good morning, and thank you for taking my call. i have a question about the millennials as far as how many people are voting this year as well as how many people are voting for hillary and how many are voting for trump. thatf there is millennials will run for public office
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particularly to be president in this country, and how do millennials feel about trump in this election? host: i can give you some data before jesse moore johnson. -- jumps in. who016, millennials identify themselves are democrats represented 57%. those identified as republican or lean republican, 36%. jesse moore. guest: that sounds exactly right. whichs important is, missed, is to what degree millennials are issue voters. that is really true. it is important not to get too caught up in their party affiliation or how they voted in the past or even how their parents about. millennial-- vote.
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millennials are allergic to partisanship. you will find every single time young voters drifting towards the candidates at the presidential level but also at the local level that are speaking to their issues, things like climate, criminal justice reform, gender equality, and issues like that. for: one other stat fro you. weremillion millennials voting age in the united states. a number almost equal to the 69.7 million baby boomers in the nation's electorate. let's go to kalya in williamsburg, ohio. good morning. comment was that we saw a lot of millennials
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supporting bernie sanders. my question is, where do you see them going now? because hillary appears to be everything that is corrupt and part of the established politics. trump appears to be everything that is hateful, bigoted. i don't see them supporting either of those two. guest: i think you will see more millennials gravitate toward secretary clinton as the election gets closer despite some of those challenges, which are completely valid. despite those challenges, i think a greater number of millennials, and again, this is just me reading the tea leaves, but it appears they are turned off by the tone and some of the stances on issues of mr. trump. he is having a little bit of trouble. host: what in particular? guest: i think immigration is
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one. also, gender equality. they are both issue areas that are giving him a little bit of trouble with the millennials who not all enemies, but the numbers tend to skew in a more progressive way. twitter usingon entertainers is insulting. white is a movie star's opinion count more than mine? they are still acting. guest: that is 100% true. what is interesting is movie stars and artists are the first ones to tell us that. we get to things from artists all caps on -- two things from artists all the time. the first is how can i help? the second is i do not want to pass myself off as an expert. how can i help where i am not putting a position to be a policy expert? that is a really refreshing thing to hear because i assumed
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to be forgetting to this work that most artists and entertainers were much more arrogant than they appeared were much more arrogant than your average person when in fact, they are trying to look for a way to help that will not make them pass themselves off as an expert. use yourr to that is, platform, your visibility to raise an issue to shine light on an issue you care about. just like anybody else in america, if they had a platform and had something they care about, raise an issue and urge voting. i am very supportive of that. host: about 15 minutes left with jesse moore of rock the vote. rockthevote.com if you want to check them out. anthony has been waiting from sierra vista, arizona, on the line for those 36-60. caller: good morning.
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please give me about 90 seconds. i am a poetic writer, and i think this sums up what i wrote on october 9 this year, issues and tissues, jeseuus wept. no tissue provided to him. championship has been sexually active with the best looking girl in the school. they both are about to become parents. who do we cry for? how about the unborn child? issues and tissues. they affect how we see each other. where can we question past actions of a candidate? we switch to issues to mitigate the character flaws. switch to move the poll numbers or redistricting to ensure elected representatives. who has time to cry?
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yet we cannot bother to look at each other's eyes. afraid we may see our reflections in their eyes. issues and tissues are in short supply. what other issues most voters care about, with states can be influenced to move the tide and voting the balance of power affecting you and i. issues and tissues until the day we die. host: what do you take from that? guest: power of the arts. i actually enjoyed more people to -- it is another reflective thing to do to channel your thoughts through the arts and not enough people are doing that these days. host: north carolina on the line for those 61 and over. steve, good morning. caller: good morning. i will try to be brief.
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my main issue is american voters need to understand their president is only one individual supposedly leading this country. our house of representatives and the senate are the ones that actually controls the laws because they have the right to veto the president. we need to quit talking about the president of the united states and go back to actually affect us, the house and the senate really controls everything that goes on as far as laws and everything the president does. we need to get out of this obama.trump and donald trump has his views. he also has a right to speak.
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the president always has a right. if we took obama as a person in a seat, we belittle him. we totally disregard his actual power as president, the leader of our country. i am a military veteran. we were taught that the the -- ofactually is our military. the people listen to the political parties and have actually forgotten who runs this country. host: jesse moore. guest: first, thank you for your service. also, i will be the first to i think if you asked the president, he would be completely honest and let you know when you are in office, in the white house, the first set of lessons is what you do not have power over so i think you
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are exactly right. having not just the part you want in congress, the house, or the senate, but having onividuals who are focused progress, working together, looking for common ground, having discourse with each other as human beings, and not looking for the political edge and every turn. that is what you want. part of the answer is with our media not just national but also regional, how do we get more coverage of local elections, congressional elections? how do we get that covered more the regional level? host: another tweet says my home is a meeting place central for becauseals in florida my son and his government are organizers. they moved from bernie to jill.
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zack from boston, massachusetts, on the line for those between 18 and 35. caller: my thinking is that we should not be encouraging people to vote the sake of voting. i assure rock the vote and other similar organizations that are organizing the so-called millennial vote have a sense of this, but think it is important to reiterate that encouraging people to vote when they are not informed is a mistake. it is like encouraging people to take advantage of the second amendment just because it is available. i think we can all agree we definitely do not want that. when somebody calls in and says it is so hard to stay informed. it is hard to find unbiased media sources. i just do not buy it. if you can sit around and binge you can find, unbiased sources of information. another thing i want to point out is when you to stop to tending to millennials as the elite voting block.
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they probably operate the same way young voters did in the 1960's when you have people choosing politicians on the basis of whether or not they support the vietnam war, so let's stop defending the millennials as unique. the only thing they are unique in is that they have this sense of on-demand expectations from audience. ifi can order a car on uber, i can order a pizza to my house, why can i not get my politics on demand? whether that is policy outcomes or whatever the case may be. we need to stop encouraging people to vote and start encouraging them to ask questions and inform themselves. if you cannot do that, you should not be voting. host: can i ask how old you are? caller: i only seven. -- i am 27. host: have you voted previously? caller: yes, but i also skipped local elections because i did not feel i was informed enough to make choices that are more impactful than my choices at the
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national level. host: thanks for the call. guest: couple of things. one, you are dead on about the restlessness of our generation, where you are canceling a lyft or uber if it is not there within the two minutes and was promised. it is hard to cast your vote and not to the policy outcome you were so passionate about come to fruition right away. i think you are dead on. the culture is moving in a very fast way, whereas politics are still a grinding process. government is still a grinding process. there is a friction there. also, to your point about young people getting informed before they vote, also a really important point and something that rock the vote is working very hard to support, the development of new technology
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that makes it easier for people to get informed. we should get to a place in the , and if you goe to the website or you can be educated on will be on the ballot and go to some links that will help you figure out where they stand on issues you care about, but we should get to a where you aren able to click on the issues you let the appout th, or website know where you are and it will tell you who is on the ballot and where people stand in a very easy way, but you should start now. go to rockthevote.com and get educated. host: would you want people to vote for voting ssake? guest: that is a really tough question. i want people to get in the habit of voting, but also the need to get in the habit of being informed. you do not want people just playing tic-tac-toe down their
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ballot, but the same time, it is a >> were going to leave the last 10 minutes of this discussion live to georgetown university where attorney general loretta lynch will be speaking on criminal justice reform. by thebeing introduced dean of the school. >> through this series hosted by the georgetown institute of collects and public service of our mccourt school of public policy, we have the opportunity andear cabinet secretaries senior white house officials as they reflect on their tenure as members of the obama administration and the political and policy issues that have nation over the course of these past eight years. these distinguished
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