great vision for us. that our government should be of the people, by the people and for the people. but that is not what we have today. instead, we have a government that is of, by and for the rich and powerful. and we the people are left behind. you deserve a president that will put your interests ahead of the rich and powerful. and as your president, as your president, i will bring that spirit of service above self to the white house, putting people ahead of profit, putting your well-being and the interests of the american people above all else. because it is unacceptable. it is unacceptable that one in 10 south carolinaians remain uninsured. that you have longer wait times at emergency rooms and higher

rates of diabetes than other states in this country. as your president i'll crack down on big pharma and insurance who extort the sick, putting their profits of the health of our people. work with you to pass medicare for all and make sure that every sick american in this country gets the care that they need. now my aunt is here today. she has been a public schoolteacher here in south carolina for her entire career, almost 40 years. and she shared with me the challenges that teachers in this state face. that teachers here remain under paid and overworked. as your president, i'll make education the priority it deserves by investing in our children and listening to our teachers about how we can empower them to do what they do best.

as your president, i'll end the failed war on drugs. -- war on drugs that has ruined so many people's lives, that has overcrowded our prisons and torn families apart. i'll reform our criminal justice system and the marijuana prohib -- prohibition end cash bail and , ban private prisons. i will crack down on the big tech monopolies who are taking away our civil libities in the name of national skirt and -- security and corporate greed and protect our constitutional right to privacy and free speech. and i'll tackle climate change by ushering in a green century, ending taxpayer subsidies to big fossil fuel giants and multinational agri business. ban offshore drilling, protect our environment and harness

technology. harness the innovation that we have to create jobs and renewable energy provide better , opportunities for our farmers to make a good living and make sure every american has clean air to breathe and clean water to drink. but here is the truth. we will not have the resources we need to invest in our people unless we deal with one central issue, the cost of war. the most important responsibility that the president has is to serve as commander in chief. i'll be ready to do that on day one. having served as a soldier for over 16 years, deployed twice to the middle east, served in congress over six years on the homeland security foreign affairs and armed services committees, i know importance of our national security and i know cost of war. for too long, warmongers from both parties have been dragging us from one regime change war to the next. this president now is leading us

closer and closer to the brink of a war with iran. now these same warmongers, they are hyping up a new cold war, a nuclear arms race, pushing us closer to the possibility of nuclear war, an unwinnable war that would destroy our country, planet and future. as your president, commander in chief, i'll end our long standing regime change war policy that has taken so many lives cost us trillions of hard , earned taxpayer dollars and made the american people less safe. i'll work to end this new cold war, this nuclear arms race and lead us away from the abyss of nuclear war. i'll take the trillions of dollars. trillions of your hard-earned taxpayer dollars and invest them in serving the needs of our people. i'll are the courage to meet with both adversaries and

friends in the pursuit of peace and national security understanding that unless we , exercise that courage, the only alternative is war. finally i'll bring the soldier's principles of service above self to the white house, restoring the values of integrity and honor and respect to the presidency. now there are challenges that we face. there are obstacles that stand in our path, but know this. when we stand united, inspired by this love and care we have for each other and for our country, there is no challenge that we cannot overcome. so i'm here today asking you to join me. 2020.com.si stand with me as we join hands to bend the arc of history away from war and towards peace. aunt a bright future with opportunities and justice and equality for every single

american. thank you so much for being here. thank you for having us. aloha. nice to see you. ♪ ♪ >> thank you, south carolina. it is a little hotter down here than it is in ohio, i can tell you that much. my district is in northeast ohio . it is at the epicenter of the

industrialization where i grew up. it is where my wife grew up, andrea, a first-grade schoolteacher. it is where we raised our three kids. abouttell you stories where i come from going back 40 years. telling you a story about my father-in-law who lost his job in youngstown. back then they just locked the gates. but did not give you a 60-day notice. he just had a second daughter. he had just bought a house. he had just borrowed $4000 from his parents for a down payment. i can go back 15 years. i can tell you about my cousin donnie, a vietnam vet. dressed in blue jeans, worked in factories. his last act at the factory he worked at that used to have

13,000 people, now it just has a few. lt thest act was to unbo machine from the factory floor, put it in a box and ship it to china. i could tell you a story about a few months ago when the general motors factory that used to be 16,000 workers is now idle. i can tell you about the trucking company that was tied to the general motors facility. they just laid off 600 workers. messageers got a text at 8:00 on a saturday night. just leave your truck where it is. you are out of work. i share the stories with you for this reason. i believe the next president of the united states must deeply, deeply understand the struggles that the american people are going through today and have

been going through for the last three or four decades. the pain. the suffering. the addiction. the mental health issues. the erosion of the tax base. the lack of investment in our schools and in our health are a having asult of us not robust middle-class. -- and i can tell you that i will help change that. i think it is important for you to know that when those factories closed down i know who's working in them. my wife teaches their kids. when the general motors factory closes down, my daughter calls me in tears because her friends dad lost his job. this is deeply personal to us.

around anding to sit wait one more election cycle task some president from somewhere else to please, please understand what we are going through. please understand the pain. please understand the suffering. i am in this race because i believe the next president of the united states must come from an area that has experienced suffering and use every ounce of power he or she has in the white house to help rebuild the middle class of the united states of america. happened while the top ones right -- 1% now controls 90% of the wealth in this country. with ano help us industrial policy of the united states so we start building things again in the united states. we start manufacturing things again in the united states, and

we cut the workers in on the deal so we rebuild the middle class here. wingers have tried to divide us. it was black, who was white, who is gay, who is straight, who is any union, who is on the north, who is from the south, who is urban, who is rural? divide, divide, divide. while they have divided us, they run away with all the money. it is like the old country music song. they get the goldmine, we get the shaft. i am telling you, folks. this, when ie you walk into the oval office every morning, and i will show up in the morning, unlike some presidents.

morning,lk in in the no one will have to explain to me who i am there for or what i am supposed to do. i will use every ounce of power i have, every ounce of convening power, executive authority to help us rebuild the working class in the united states of america and that is why people, black people -- white people, black people, brown people, gay people, straight people, it is americans and we will rebuild the middle class. [applause] the spinoff from that will help waitresses and teachers and construction workers and increase the tax base. i want to talk politics for a quick minute. ryant you to imagine a tim as the nominee.

i want you to imagine that our nominee changes the center of gravity for the democratic party. we will no longer be a coastal party, we will no longer be an ivy league party, imagine us a blue-collar party with a nominee from a place like youngstown, ohio. i want you to imagine this. i want you to imagine it because it means, not just the fact we can pull those voters in western pennsylvania, ohio, wisconsin, and send donald trump packing, you know what it means? that means our party can start impeding in places like kentucky , four senate seats so we can send mitch mcconnell home. [applause] rep. ryan: it means we can build a long-term, sustainable

majority by winning senate seat in north carolina, by making them play defense. i am so tired as a democrat of playing defense, i am an old quarterback and i want to play offense. every one of us will start playing offense, i want us to play offense in the senate races and go to iowa and when the senate seat and go to missouri and when a senate seat. i want to win senate seats of florida and north carolina but most importantly i want to make sure that i can be the nominee that comes back to south carolina and helps the senate candidate here send lindsey graham packing. [applause] thank you. ♪ ♪

>> thank you, thank you, thank you so much, south carolina. thank you, senator malloy. thank you all for putting me up this afternoon, i want to thank the party chairman, the mayor, one of the greatest mayors in america. clyburnt to thank jim for that wonderful fish fry last night. i want to thank all of you volunteers who are here to work in electing democrats in the heat, phone banks into the night, it is hard work but you are a frontline of protecting our democracy. donald trump reminds us every day that our democracy is

something we neglect at our own peril. he is a national crisis of division unlike anything our nation has seen since the civil war. he has emboldened a culture of hate, he has defended white supremacist from the oval office. beating donald trump -- donald trump is essential but not sufficient. the divisionsl tearing this country apart. bridging the divide sometimes most impossible but dreams worth achieving often feel out of reach at the beginning. i learned that from my mother. my mother was five feet, not quite, everybody called her shrimpy. she was widowed twice before she was 40 and she raised four kids on her own and always said you

cannot control what life throws at you but you can control how you respond. whether it makes you better or worse, stronger or weaker. i got to colorado as a geologist that grit served me well. when our company was sold in 1986 and i got laid off with thousands of other geologists. i was out of work almost two years and after six months or eight months you see a different person in the mirror without that same resilience and confidence. eventually, my friend got the money to start a company in an abandoned warehouse in a forgotten part of downtown denver, the rent was one dollar per square foot per year. i could not get my mother to invest. [laughter] mr. hickenlooper: it was hard. we opened after a couple of years and we got the other restaurant owner to work with us

and slowly but surely we transformed a forgotten corner of denver into a vibrant center of denver's downtown economy. 03, never having run for office in my life, even student council, i may be the only person running for president that did not run for student council. i was elected mayor of denver in a tremendous upset. immediately, we were tested. three weeks before i was sworn into office, a 15-year-old black high school student with developmental disabilities was shot down by denver police officer in his own home. his name was paul childs. it was a difficult time in denver, the community was in pain. it took a lot of time and dialogue but ultimately, with the help of denver ministerial

alliance, 35 point pastors and reverends, we transformed the way the denver police department handled police misconduct. 10 years before ferguson, we required officers, all officers to go through crisis de-escalation training to establish the independent monitor to make sure allegations of police brutality could be investigated without the protection of the mayor. we made sure neighbors had a voice and how their neighborhoods were policed and changed the matrix so officers did not just get a slap on the wrist. some of the police officers, 700, were angry with our forms and protested on the steps -- reforms and protested on the steps of city hall but we did this because our basic american contact says the people have a , and to be safe, unafraid

secure in their communities. [applause] 2010, i becamer: the first denver mayor to become elected governor of colorado in 120 years. [applause] mr. hickenlooper: this was one of the worst years for democrats since ronald reagan. with a divided legislature as governor we produced the progressive change washington failed to deliver. we make colorado the number one economy in a nation the last three years in a row and got near universal health care toerage and beat the nra become the first purple state to get universal background checks. [applause] mr. hickenlooper: we protected and expanded the right to vote. we became the first state in the country to legalize marijuana and transformed the criminal justice system at the same time.

andlosed two prisons dramatically expanded access to reproductive health and we cut teenage pregnancy by 54% and teenage abortions by 64%. [applause] we did not getr: progressive big goals done by using ideological litmus tests, saying you had to do it a certain way, we did it by bringing people together. nominee whoeds a will beat trump like a drum. and heal the crisis of division. we need a dreamer and a doer. we need a progressive and a pragmatist. being a pragmatist does not mean saying no to big ideas, being a pragmatist means figuring out how to get them done.

when i am president, health care will be a right and not a privilege. we will create a real public option. we will tackle climate head-on when i am president. not with a federal jobs guaranteed that a laserlike focus. we will make college more affordable and stop ignoring the two thirds of americans who do not have a four-year degree. we will have the greatest expansion of a partnership and skills training in the nation's history. when i am president, we will beat the nra. and we will protect a woman's right to choose. replace the we will fundamental nonsense in washington with common sense. together we will go shoulder to shoulder and change this country and start moving it forward again. thank you so much. ♪

♪ >> hello, south carolina. how is everyone doing? are you getting tired of this yet? we have a long way to go. i do not mean my remarks but we have a long way to go. senator, thank you for the nice introduction as it is great to be with you this weekend and to see so many great democrats in one room ready to go and ready to fight and ready to win. right? [applause] i stand before you

as someone who has lived the american dream and am grateful for this opportunity and this amazing country and what it has given me. me the opportunity to get a great education and be the first in my family to go to college. it gave me the opportunity to be a business builder and create thousands of jobs and get an award from the obama administration for the work we did in dissidents communities. right -- in disadvantaged communities. right? you have to invest in communities, unless someone invests, nothing happens and we need more investment in some of the communities in this country and i know had to do it. to serve my country in the congress and the united states and fight for kids like myself who grew up in working families and needed a shot, needed an opportunity. the opportunity to be blessed with an amazing family, happily married 29 years with four daughters i am so proud of. [applause]

mr. delaney: but my story is just getting so much harder these days. young people today will be the first generation of americans that do not actually do better than their parents. think about that. the first generation never. theye leaving them debts cannot repay, fiscal debts, climate debts, a world where half of the american people cannot afford a $500 expense. 40% of hard-working americans cannot afford their basic necessities like rent, food, utilities. how did this happen? it is simple, the world changed very fast. technology and globalization, all the stuff we talk about and read about has caused so many in our country to the left hind. -- to be left behind and we did not do the basic things we should've done a long time ago to prepare them for this world. and invest in them and their communities. that was our failure.

a responsible nation what have created a universal health-care system a long time ago. absolutely. that is what a responsible nation would have done. a responsible nation would've looked at the condition of hard-working americans and said we will do tax policy that helps you and double the earned income tax credit. and raise the minimum wage. and created paid family leave. these are the things you do if you put the worker at the center of your agenda. a responsible nation would have build infrastructure, trillions of dollars of infrastructure that so many of our communities need. we would have done that a long time ago and reformed immigration. on issue after issue we have let the american people down. i do not think what the american people need is more gridlock, more partisanship, or more audiology. you know what i think they need? 80 solutions.

they -- they need solutions. they need us to get real things done that matter in their lives. [applause] which is why i believe in what i call the politics of progress. yes we should have a battle of ideas and debate the big issues of the day. but we also need to do is roll up our sleeves and get things done. get things done that matter to hard-working americans. my father was an electrician. he worked with his hands every day. complicatedave political discussions at the dinner table except for one thing i bet he told me 1000 times, he said, if you care about workers, you vote for the democrats. [applause] mr. delaney: that was our party and we have to get back to that. we have to be the party that puts forth commonsense solutions , not impossible promises where

we can actually get real things done that matter to the american people. like do things to create jobs in every community. do things to invest in infrastructure in every community. do things that boost wages in every community. create a universal health care system and improve public education. so that every child, no matter the condition of their birth, gets the same educational opportunities as every young person in this country. these are the things that have to become the true norm of this amazing party of ours. i am running for president to be the person who can get those things done. things that matter to the american people. [applause] in 1958, john f. kennedy gave a speech as a senator. he said we should not seek the republican answer and we should not seek the democratic answer, we should seek the right answer.

he went on to say we should not can point fingers all day about what we should do is own our responsibility for our future as americans. that is where the democratic party has to be. i do not want to just be your ,resident to be your president i want to be your president to do the job. to do the job. and the job of the president of the united states and 2020 is to take this terribly divided nation where america has been pitted against americans and start bringing it back together and reminding us of this notion of common purpose. which is worth fighting for every day of our lives. when we do that, we can start getting real things done that matter. we can start solving problems and we can fulfill our most

sacred responsibilities, to leave this world better than we found it. and we can do it but we have to do it together and it is the calling of the democratic party and that is why i am seeking the presidency of the united states. thank you for having me and god bless south carolina. god bless the united states of america and let's win in 2020 .god bless you all, thank you . ♪ ♪ comnot for the rising -- ee on up for the rising. ♪ >> thank you congressman for sharing his wisdom, when i first joined the race which was late, you must be the most patient group of people in america to

sit through this and i'm grateful for the chance to be here with you late in the afternoon to introduce myself, i was later into the race then some other people partly because i have not been spending my life running for president and partly because i had some health issues i had to do it, which are fine. [applause] sen. bennet: thank you. i have not spent my life in politics, i was a school superintendent, in the denver public schools before i was in the senate. we i am in this race because are at risk of being the first generation of americans to leave less opportunity, not more, to the people coming after us. years,over the last 40 90% of the american people have not seen a pay raise. our education system across the country is reinforcing income inequality in the united states,

not liberating people from it which needs to change. our politics are not up to the task of fixing that problem now or the others we face or you have heard about today. that is why last week i proposed a set of ideas to overturn citizens united, to stop partisan gerrymandering. [applause] ban members of congress from ever becoming lobbyists if they have had the privilege of being in the house or senate. to restore the voting rights act , to create automatic and same-day voter registration all across this country. democrats if we will beat donald trump and when the majority in the senate and sent mitch mcconnell packing.we need an agenda that unites america. we all agree that we need universal health care and we have to fight climate change.

as a former school superintendent, there is more we need to do. there is something else we need to focus on, and education system for the 21st century. [applause] sen. bennet: i know you know this, everybody in this room knows this, when one group of american children has access to high-quality preschool and the other, through no fault of their own, does not. when one group has high excess -- has access to high quality k-12 education and the other, through no fault of their own, does not. when one group of students enjoy tutoring and the advice of parents who themselves went to college and the other does not, then equal is not equal. unequal is catastrophic for students holding the short end of the stick.

americapreschool and for every kid that needs it and that is every kid in america. [applause] sen. bennet: we need k-12 schools all across this country and any senator with all the choices in the world would be proud to send their own children. my daughter ann is here today. we need people to go to college without bankrupting their families and for the 70% of children who do not go to get themwe need to training so when they are finished with high school they can get paid a living wage instead of the minimum wage. to beat donald trump and make progress we need to take this agenda to the american people and unusual places, not just the usual places, to the middle of the country. i know something about winning a race in a purple state in

colorado, the first time iran citizens united had just been decided -- i ran citizens united had been decided, there was more money spent on that race than any in the country and it is tough to win the races but if you have an agenda that unites people, you can do it and we can do it. you know how to do it. cunningham did what i'm talking about, that is what we need to do across the country. so we can take back the white house and sent mitch mcconnell and the freedom caucus to the dustbin and govern this country again. the reason we have to do it. the reason we have to be urgent about it, like i said, my daughter is here, 14 years old, like millions of kids across the country, they worked hard to finish their school year in a strong way. their hands are full. they need to learn english. they need to learn science.

they need to learn mathematics. they cannot fix our broken immigration system but they can probably do a better job that congress. they do not have time to fix climate change before we have hurt the planet through inaction. they cannot give themselves quality education. they cannot restore america's place in the world. they are too busy for that. they have a job and a reasonable expectation that we will do our job and not be the first generation of americans to leave less opportunity, not more, for the people coming after us and that is why i'm running for president and asking for your support. go to my website and sign up. thank you for your patience and having me today. thank you, south carolina, democrats, for your leadership. ♪

♪ >> thank you, senator and, go brooklyn. i like you. something about your chairman, south carolina democrats, i want to eat for breakfast whatever he's eating for breakfast. he is a force of nature. i think there is a blue wave starting to come to south

carolina, can you feel it? [applause] mayor de blasio: we have a blue state about to happen. someone else i want to acknowledge who is very special who has done extraordinary things to make sure people who suffer mental health challenges get the help they need, the love years,ife, my wife of 25 the first lady of new york. [applause] let's talkasio: about how we change south carolina, how we change the united states of america. let's talk about how we change our party for the better and the heart and soul of our party and who we are. i will ask you for audience participation. are we the party of the 1%? >> no! mayor de blasio: are we the party of the elites?

>> no! mayor de blasio: are we democrats the party of change? >> yes! mayor de blasio: the party of equality? >> yes! mayor de blasio: it party of working people? >> yes! mayor de blasio: it is time in south carolina and in this country to put money back into the hands of working people. [applause] your de blasio: i guarantee , if you talk about investing in working people and in our communities, you talk about the things that will help people, health care and education, better jobs, you talk about those things you will him forces -- you will hear voices that say we cannot afford that. there is not enough money. haven't you heard that? there is not enough money to but alwaysay people enough money to bailout the banks and give a tax cut to the

wealthy but not enough money for working people. wherever i go, i say there is plenty of money in this world, plenty of money in this country but it is in the wrong hands. in new york, we have done it, in some ways we have done it the other way around and put money back into the hands of working people. my administration gave pre-k, full-day pre-k to every child in our city for free. [applause] mayor de blasio: do you want that, south carolina? do you think people need that all over the country? [applause] mayor de blasio: we decided working people should not have to decide between going to work and earning a days pay or going to the doctor when they happen to be sick. not many people can afford to lose a day's pay. we said working people deserve

to pay sick leave so they can take care of themselves when they get sick. don't you think working people deserve that? would you like to see that in south carolina? >> yes! mayor de blasio: something everyone will appreciate. fort sick of waiting washington, d.c. to address the question of health care. i got sick of seeing millions of americans, hundreds of thousands of people in my town who did not have insurance and could not get the health care they need. i decided to go for it. today in new york we guarantee health care for everyone who does not have insurance. [applause] physical health care and mental health care. we are giving them a health care card so they can go and get a primary care doctor in our hospitals and clinics, public hospitals and clinics. imagine if, when people get sick, they actually get to go to

the doctor, instead of where so many millions of americans are going, the only family doctor they have is the emergency room. does that make sense since after lenin? -- in south carolina? is it time to guarantee health care for our people? >> yes! mayor de blasio: you may have never heard of this one as it has never been done in the united states, working people deserved time off, time for themselves in the family as we are the only industrial country that guarantees nothing when it comes to paid vacation but we will pass a law this year in new york guaranteeing and mandating two weeks paid vacation for every working person. [applause] mayor de blasio: are you ready for that in south carolina? all of theseio: things can begun and i know it because we have already done them in the nation's largest city. friends, ihappen, my have seen it with my own eyes

and i know it is time for greater change. i want to be your president, i want to be the president of working people, i want to show the people of this country we are the party of working people again. are you ready for that? [applause] mayor de blasio: let me tell in, let me tell you that, 2016, too many americans did not know who side we were on. let's be real, too many americans were not sure in 2016 we were on the side of working people. but for decades and decades this party was great because no one had a doubt in their mind, did not matter if it were a farmer or factory worker, they worked in a store, they knew the democrat party had their back. are you ready for us to be the party of working people again? [applause] mayor de blasio: and when we are the party of working people, we will win. are you ready for a great victory in 2020? [applause] mayor de blasio: then let's

bring it home, south carolina, let's bring home a great victory and let's make this a country that puts working people first hear thank you and god bless -- working people first. thank you and god bless you all. ♪ ♪ >> south carolina democrats, it is great to be with you. thank you for your kindness and warmth and hospitality you have shown to us, our gratitude to all of these great supporters and volunteers making this campaign possible. and for the knowledge that come summer of 2020, we will all be

behind the same nominee to make sure she or he is successful against donald trump. and successful in bringing this great country back together again. greetings from my hometown of el paso, texas. which forms the largest binational community in the western hemisphere, 3 billion from two countries speaking two languages joined by the rio grande river to form something far greater and more powerful than the sum of our parts or the number of people, el paso, texas is one of the safest cities in the united states of america. this by the fact we are a city of immigrants and asylum-seekers and refugees, safe because we are a city of asylum-seekers and immigrants and refugees.

their very presence makes us stronger and safer and more successful we would be otherwise. yes, this by those facts, and that truth which we know right now as we enjoy our freedom here in this democracy in columbia, south carolina, in my hometown of el paso, in a border patrol did tengion center there are -- detention center, there were children sleeping on cold, concrete floors with aluminum foil for blankets in the worst and most inhumane conditions. this is the same administration and government that plays those kids in cages, deported their mothers from the countries in which they fled and has lost the lives of six children who were in the custody of this country. that cannot be us. that cannot be america. for as long as this meant is in will be so we must do

everything we can to make sure we live up to the full character and potential and promise of this country. we must heed the words of robert 1967, at a time of division and polarization, reminded us that no matter our differences we share one precious possession, that is the name american. [applause] but to be an american, he said, is to have been a stranger, an outcast, to have come to the exiled country and to know that he who denies the outcast or the stranger, he also denies america. at this moment of truth, which will define us forever after, let us not deny america, let us celebrate and embrace america. [applause] let us make sure

that, whether you just got here and around the u.s.-mexico border, or whether you are here in south carolina, that your story is part of the american story. on one of our first visits to a middle school, we listened to the story of public school educators -- [applause] mr. o'rourke: who already labor under high-stakes, standardized test that in no way effectively measures their performance or the potential of the children in front of them, who of already sacrifice so much and yet await what many think is the inevitable moment and active shooter walks into the classroom and takes the life of that child who they have struggled to improve so much already. we need to make sure those teachers who told me they are working two and three jobs just to make an's meet are treated with the respect -- and three ends meet areake

able to focus on one job so they and we can achieve our full potential. a college in denmark, students tell me about a water system from which they cannot drink. we do not like for resources and the wealthiest and most powerful country on the face of the planet. only the political will to invest in their safety and the public health and denmark, and flint, michigan, the central valley of california, in every community, where the air is too dirty to breathe and the water is unsafe to drink, let us meet their story with our commitment to make that investment in infrastructure and public health forever single american, including clean drinking water. [applause] marchingrke: and then, brownrleston with louise

who 50 years ago, in 19 to do nine, led the strike at musc with other hospital workers denied respect and equal treatment they deserve, who is marching again in 2019 because the hospital workers today, despite delivering care for patients, cannot afford the care in the hospital. louise brown and all of us stand for a guaranteed, high-quality, universal health care for every single american, meaning their stories with our action and commitment. [applause] , someonerke: in buford describe the challenges they face every time it rains, it was

, they are very good -- it was, they are very the brunt of climate change not caused by god and mother nature but by us, our omissions, -- emissions, she meet us our story, let us that with commitments to free ourselves from a dependence on fossil fuels and embrace renewable energy technology and to keep this planet from warming so much it is not inhabitable for generations that follow. [applause] mr. o'rourke: right here, in columbia, walking the grounds of the state house with the house minority leader who tells me that if we cannot pull down the tillmanhat honors been tillman, a white nationalist terrorists, we

should at least tell the full story of what he did to the people of this state and make sure we elevate the story of those on his back the wealth and greatness and success of this country was built in the first place. it is only when we tell the stories the country will live to its full potential and only when we bring everyone and we defeat donald trump and bring this country together. thank you, soft outline for having us out -- thank you, south carolina for having us out, thank you, south carolina democrats. [speaking spanish] thank you, thank you. ♪

sen. booker: all right! thank you, south carolina. [applause] a lot ofer: look, people running for president these days, 2020 election does not stand for the year but for the number of people running. [laughter] sen. booker: you know in this room where power comes from. it does not come from an individual or an office, it comes from the grassroots. you are all the power, the purpose, you are what will help us win. i live in the low income inner-city community. we do not mistake wealth with work where i live. we know where power comes from. i want to tell you the truth, when i first came to the inner city of newark, new jersey, the

neighborhood i live in, i had an idea as a yelp law student i would turn it around and leave it but i met a grassroots leader who was a tenant president in the projects in which i lived for almost a decade. i remember when i told her, she said why are you here, to help you, she said you have to come down to the street and tell me what you see in your -- in my neighborhood. she says, describe what you see and i described the project and an abandoned building being used for drugs and talked about the graffiti and described what i saw. the more i talk more she looked at me like she was upset with me . i said, what is wrong? she says you need to understand something, the world to see outside of you is a reflection of what you have inside of you. if you are a person who looks around my community and all you see as problems and darkness and despair, that is all it will ever be. if you are a person who every

time you open your eyes you are stubborn and you see hope and opportunity in love, then you can be one of the people who helps me. a lot of folks are talking about themselves but i want to talk about you. what i learned in the city of new york, eventually becoming -- newark, eventually becoming mayor, the hope from our community did not go in one individual or office but the people coming together and standing together and working together and fighting together and winning together. [applause] sen. booker: let me tell you right now, let me tell you right now, a lot of people want to make this election all about donald trump. running for office because we will be donald trump. [applause] -- beat donald trump. [applause] sen. booker: that is not all we need to do, it is the floor and not the ceiling, eating donald trump gets us out of the valley but not getting us to the

mountaintop. i am running for office because i believe that we as a people can get to the mountaintop. i am not running because of what we are against, we as a party must stand up for what we are we are for health care being a right for all americans. [applause] sen. booker: we are for every job in america having a living wage. the right to organize. the right to retire with security. we are for public education. and making sure public school teachers are paid what they're worth and raising their salaries. we are for ending the school to prison pipeline. we are for standing up to make sure we do not stick our head in the ground on climate change. but this is the nation that leads us out of this crisis. [applause]

sen. booker: i want you all to know, this election has to be about us. so many people think we want to make it all about him. i went to a town hall in iowa , i want you to punch donald trump in the face. i look at him and say, that is a felony. [laughter] sen. booker: we will not be donald trump -- beat donald trump by using his tactics on his turf, he wants the election to be about hate but we want to make it about love, he wants to make it about tearing people down but we will make it about building people up. the wants to make this election about divided folks, we will unite this country and put more indivisible in this one nation under god. [applause] sen. booker: i want you all to

rk,wak still go home to seven people were shot in my community last week and the problems we face are going on before donald trump was in office. we live in a perilous time. we could be the first generation of americans to have lower life expectancy than the one before. we see this nation now, baby boomers, 95% better economically than their parents and we are down to 50-50. trump but beat donald this is not a referendum on him but who we are to each other. [applause] sen. booker: and we are a nation of love. now, ito tell you right want to tell you right now, where martin luther king was slain, i was taught by the woman in the projects that hope is the act of conviction that despair

will never have the last word. where martin luther king was slain, they did not write a tribute to him, they decided to write a challenge to us, working was slain, words -- where king was slain, words they uttered before they grabbed him and threw him into a ditch, the words written where king was slain, from genesis, behold here cometh the dreamer, let us slay him and see what becomes of the dream. this is a referendum on the dream. we have to stand up in a regeneration and dream again, bold dreams and affiant dreams, dreams of love, dreams are ancestors fought and died for. will you stand and dream with me again? [applause] sen. booker: will you dream, america, again? dream this country a new. old dreams, defiant dreams

dustbowl dreams, defiant dreams we will make it to the mountaintop and get to the promised land. thank you, south carolina. it is time for the dream again. thank you. [applause]

mr. biden: thank you. my time is running, i'm sorry. thank you, everybody. i never like to cut off cheers but my time is running. welcome, south carolina, we are happy to be here. this is my buddy, fritz hollins, one of my mentors and i am sorry he is not here. you know in your bones this election is more important than anyone you have been engaged in as we have a president who has promoted hate and division and encourages white supremacy and embraces dictators and goes around the world weakening our alliances. our children are watching. it matters what the president says and does. barack obama they emulated and wanted to be like him. [applause] mr. biden: four more years of

donald trump will permanently change the character of this country and we cannot let that happen. we have to beat donald trump, the number one and paired if we have. we have to rebuild the backbone of this nation, hard-working people, middle-class people, wall street did not build america, you built america. average people given a chance built america. rer and thetting bottom is falling out of the middle class. donald trump and norma's giveaways -- enormous giveaways to the top and it is time we reward work over wealth, we need big and bold ideas. on day one i will move to eliminate the donald trump tax cuts for the super wealthy and literally cut by close to 400

really dollars to $500 billion -- $400 billion to $500 billion of tax loopholes and put that to good use, health care, we need to save and build upon the affordable care act. 20 million people are covered that are -- were not before and people with pre-existing conditions. i was proud every day to serve but he did obama something no other president could do and we have to finish the job. [applause] mr. biden: under my plan, whether covered by your employer, on your own, not at all, you can buy into a public health care option like medicare and you will be able to have it. if you do not have the money, you will automatically be enrolled. we guarantee the poor are covered because they can be and is -- it is within our interest and will save billions of

dollars. education, 12 years is no longer enough for the 21st century of education. that is why i want to triple title i funding for schools in distress. we can afford to do this. billion, $45 billion, we need universal pre-k, we have to raise teachers pay and fully fund special education and double the number of school psychologists, guidance counselors, nurses, because teachers cannot do it all on their own. [applause] afforden: we can easily free community college, cutting in half the cost of for your a four-year college, and we have to reduce the student debt, which i do not have time to going to it but i will. child care, i cannot imagine what it is like for people who did not help -- have the help i

did with my family and we need in a thousand dollars tax credit for every single person who has -- $8,000 tax credit for reversing a person who has a child. climate change, we have to restore what barack obama and i did with fuel economy and doubling fuel economy and: plants, we can double offshore wind energy by 2030, providing a $400 billion for the next 10 years for clean energy research and innovation. twice as much as we spent going to the moon. we also have to immediately hold polluters accountable. a headline today, it said that south carolina, $2 billion threatening a public health and not acceptable that occurred. [applause] mr. biden: not just in south carolina but around america, criminal justice reform, there are too many people in prison, too many black men and black women in prison.

[applause] mr. biden: in our administration , we started to address the problem and we reduced it by 30,000 people, we passed the supportive school discipline initiative to break the school to prison pipeline but we need to pass bobby scott from virginia's safe justice act and we need to add things. no more mandatory minimums. -- private prisons, and them end private prisons and fund my drug courts, no one should be going to jail because they are addicted to drugs, they should go into rehab and not to jail. bail reform, just because you do not have the money you should languish in jail. no juvenile and adult prisons. mandatory -- no juveniles in adult prisons. ladies and gentlemen,

decriminalize marijuana and automatically expunge records for those who have a conviction. [applause] , instead: by the way of teaching people how to be better criminals in prison we should be educating people in prison. it is in our interest to do so. automatic of restoration of rights want your senate is served and not only can you vote what you qualify for every program including pell grant to get your education. it makes no sense. we have to unite this country. that is why the only way we can harness this. we are on the verge of major changes, and cancer, diabetes, alzheimer's disease and we can do it like doubling the budget. and setting up a new project that proposes like what happened in the defense department to deal with the internet. billions of dollars for basic research. health care, focus on research and take all the technology we

have to focus on solving problems within our reach like dividing -- like curing cancer. , we shouldnra before ban assault weapons again which i did and limit magazines. [applause] mr. biden: use technology that says you cannot fire a gun unless it has or biometric prints on it, that means no problem in terms of the second amendment and you have to pass the background check which i put in law as the consequences of brady. [applause] mr. biden: science and technology can fundamentally reshape our lives. i am optimistic about this country and we need our heads up . i remember the phrase from john kennedy, because we are unwilling to postpone, i am unwilling to postpone any longer the potential of this nation. it is totally within our power to change it. god bless you all and may god protect our troops. thank you, thank you, thank you. [applause]

mr. biden: thank you, appreciate it. thank you all. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] ♪

>> here is a look at the live coverage tuesday. on c-span, the house is back at 10:00 a.m. eastern for general speeches with legislative business at noon. members will finish work on a 2020 spending package that covers the v.a., justice department, transportation, and housing beard on c-span2, descended at 10:00 a.m. eastern to resume debate on a bill that sets 2020 defense policy and programs. c-span3, the head of the transportation security administration testifies on capitol hill about potential vulnerable of these and -- vulnerabilities and other private for the agencies.

later, federal and state emergency management officials talk about natural disaster or parrot nest efforts -- preparedness efforts at a hearing. in 1979, an unusual name with a big idea, let viewers make up their own minds, c-span open the doors to washington policymaking for all to see and bring you congress and beyond. a lot has changed in 40 years but today the idea is more relevant than ever. on television and online c-span is your unfiltered view of government so you can make up your own mind. a public service by your cable or select provider. , segments onng u.s. tensions with iran with a pair of house foreign affairs members, republican scott perry joins us as; 30 and democrat abigail spanberger is our guest at 8:30.

talks about a report on the rising cost of specialty prescription drugs. we will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. "washington journal" is next. ♪ host: good morning. 2019.tuesday, june 25, the house returns at 10:00 a.m. eastern. the senate also in at 10:00 a.m. and we are with you with the next -- for the next three hours on the "washington journal." we begin with a question on the student loan debt crisis. senator bernie sanders unveiling a plan to eliminate all student debt, you want to know what you think the best way is to deal with the student debt total that exceeds $1.5 trillion. give us a call on special phone lines. if you have student loans totaling less