>> let's not do any more questions, let's just listen to music. who the hell wants to hear questions? isn't that beautiful? we played that in butler, pennsylvania. we had a moment of silence, then we had the bells of notre dame go off, then we had a great opera singer, christopher, who is so incredible, a great opera singer. that's part of raleigh -- that's pavarotti. i asked christopher, i said, your voice is incredible. how does it compare? he said no, he was the greatest of them all. this man's voice, you are probably heard it. he was phenomenal. he said no, no, pavarotti was the greatest. may be we will play time to say goodbye when we end. >> sounds fantastic. >> instead of your normal rock

out of the place, then he will say -- then you will go vote and we will win the state. if we win pennsylvania, we win the whole thing. we are going to win. we are going to win. if we win pennsylvania, we are going to win the whole thing. it's going to really be something. we just had some numbers coming out of virginia, which is great. we have numbers coming out of -- we win this commonwealth, we win the commonwealth of pennsylvania. we are in clover, then we will fix our country, and we will fix it fast. we are going to fix it fast. so get that song done. get that song ready and we are going to have a beautiful -- by the way, when we leave, you don't have to go so fast, you can sit and listen, we will play a couple of songs. some of you will be a little warmer, that's ok, it's not a

bad thing. if you want, we are going to do that, but i think it will be beautiful. it's nice to have a mat -- isn't it a nice thing to have imagination? it's lies -- it's like wind, list teleprompter without the other day -- when kamala harris teleprompter went out the other day. she lost it. if you are a politician you can count on a 5% of the time you lose a teleprompter. sometimes really badly, like in the middle of a sentence. you have to have a good memory. if you don't have a good memory, you can't be much of a politician. but if they go out, sometimes if you're outside, the wind blows them down. i have one in ohio with 45 mile-per-hour winds and i said, i'm going to lose these suckers. within the first two sentences they were gone. >> i was at that rally. fmr. pres. trump: bernie marino is doing very well. the former senator. we will listen to a couple of songs. that's ok with me.

i like it. we will do those songs that we had mentioned, justin. if justin doesn't get it right, he gets fired. >> i have a quote that i like a lot by john wayne. it says, life is hard but it's harder when you're stupid. i think that perfectly explains kamala harris. right? right, sir? now our life has been hard because of her, but can you imagine what it's like to wake up as kamala harris, how hard life must be? fmr. pres. trump: she's not for this job. everybody knows it. look, we are running against a very powerful and a very corrupt machine. that's what it is. in the same thing with joe biden. joe doesn't know where the hell he is. when you talk about biden, he got 14 million votes. he won the primary, and we had a debate. his numbers were very bad and it looked like -- you don't know

it's going to happen -- but he was down substantially. they went to see him. he said, i don't want to get out, i won. you are getting out. that was the overthrow of an american president. you can call it a coup but i don't call it that anymore because a lot of people say, what they hell is a coup. you could call it that, but it was basically the overthrow of an american president. frankly, she's doing horribly right now. you saw 60 minutes where they replaced her answer with another answer. she's doing horribly. i have a feeling he might've been better than her. let's see. we have to see what the end is. maybe they made a good move. but when they talk about a threat to democracy, how about when they take a candidate who won fair and square, they throw him out, and they put up a woman who failed, was the first one to drop out of the field of 22, and got no votes. this is the person who we are running against. and she is not a smart woman. that's true. we've had that for four years. we are not going to have it for another four years. we are not going to have it.

gov. noem: so we are not going to complain about things, we are going to fix them, right? and you are going to fix them right here in pennsylvania by showing up in voting for president donald john trump. we are going to make america great again. right? fmr. pres. trump: so stores are open, that feels good. i feel it right now, i don't know who's out there trying to get in, but i said, doesn't that feel nice? and you don't even have -- there's nothing like outdoors -- you don't even have the cost of an air conditioner, if they have them in this beautiful factory. anyways, go ahead, please. gov. noem: sir, do you want to play your song and then greet a few people? you said you wanted to close with a specific song. two more fast questions. fmr. pres. trump: how about a couple of really beauties, we sit down and relax. let me just give you the bottom line.

we win pennsylvania, we win this great commonwealth. we are going to win the whole ballgame. it's such an important place. and we are up in the polls fairly nicely. fairly nicely. but it's really important and we are going to turn this country around. it's a greatest movement in the history of our country. ma ga, make america great again. when biden go on he used to say we will stop mag a. remember with the purple background. pink and purple, he looked like the devil, right. but she's worse than him, remember. they would say we will stop mag a. it means make america great again. what are you going to stop. and we are indeed going to make america great again. we are a declining nation right now. we are a nation in decline. we aren't going to be in decline for long. every country respected us for years ago. we were energy independent, we had everything. we were the greatest economy in

the history of our country. we are going to bring it back bigger, better and stronger than ever before. go and vote, let me hear that music, please. gov. noem: gov. noem: everyone, let's think president trump uric god bless you. let's send president trump back to the white house. thank you, everyone. ♪

♪ ♪

♪ [applause] ♪

♪ >> ♪ this is a man's world

but it wouldn't be nothing, nothing, nothing without a woman or a girl ♪ ♪ ♪

>> ♪ baby girl in a baby boy men make some happy but after a man may understand buying things for every woman and every man. this is a man's world ♪ ♪ fmr. pres. trump: this is been an honor tonight. we could do another question or two if you'd like, but -- do you want to do one? let's go. let's go.

you know, but it ends so beautifully. how about this, we will play ymca and we will go home. but listen, whatever you can do, get out there, we have to win. this is the most important election in the history of our country. and you know what, i never thought i would say it again. we fix the border, we did everything, we had a great economy. it was good. we got millions of more votes in 2020 that we did in 2016. but there's never been spirit that we've seen like this because we saw how bad they are. they are so bad and frankly, they are evil. what they've done, they weaponized our elections. they've done things that nobody thought was even possible. we are going to go and vote, we will have a good time. we will make our country great again. i want this to be a really important evening. those two people that went down

are patriots and we love them. because of them we ended up with good music, right, right? so play ymca, let's go. nice and loud. gov. noem: we go, everybody. >> ♪ young man, there's no need to feel down i said, young man, pick yourself off the ground young man, because you're in a new town there is no need to be unhappy young man, there's a place you can go i said, young man when you're short on your dove you can stay there and i'm sure you will find

many ways to have a good time it's fun to stay at the ymca it's fun to stay at the ymca they have everything for young men to enjoy you can hang out with all the boys it's fun to stay at the ymca it's fun to stay at the ymca you can get yourself clean, eat you can have a good meal you can do whatever you feel young man, are you listening to me i said, young man what do you want to be i said, young man, you can make real your dreams but you've got to know this one thing no man does it all by himself i said

young man, put your pride on the shelf and just go there, to the ymca i'm sure they can help you today it's fun to stay at the ymca it's fun to stay at the ymca they have everything for young men to enjoy you can hang out with all the boys it's fun to stay at the ymca it's fun to stay at the ymca you can get yourself clean you can have a good meal you can do whatever you feel young man, i was once in your shoes i said, i was down and out with the blues i felt no man cared if i were alive i felt the whole world was so driver

that's when someone came up to me and said young man, take a walk up the street it's a place they're called the ymca they can start you back on your way it's fun to stay at the ymca it's fun to stay at the ymca they have everything for young men to enjoy you can hang out with all the boys ymca, it's fun to stay at the ymca young man, young man, there's no need to feel down young man, young man get yourself off the ground [instrumental break]

ymca, it's fun to stay at the ymca young man, young man, are you listening to me young man, young man, what do you want to be ymca you'll find it at the ymca no man, no man does it all by himself young man, young man, put your pride on the shelf ymca and just go to the ymca young man, young man, i was once in your shoes young man, young man, i was down with the blues ymca, it's fun to stay at the -- ♪ ♪ fmr. pres. trump: nobody's leaving, what's going on. there's nobody leaving.

keep going, keep going? should we keep going? alright, turn that music up. turn it up, great song. >> ♪ it goes like this the fourth the fifth the minor falls, the major lifts the baffled king composing hallelujah hallelujah, hallelujah hallelujah, hallelujah your faith was strong but you needed proof you saw her breathing on the roof her beauty in the moonlight overthrew you she'd tied you to her kitchen chair

hallelujah, hallelujah hallelujah, hallelujah maybe i've been here before i know that you might want this floor i used to live alone before i new year i senior flag on the marble arch love is not a victory march it's broken, hallelujah hallelujah, hallelujah hallelujah, hallelujah.

now you never show it to me, do you and remember when i moved in you, though holy dark was moving through and every breath we drew was hallelujah hallelujah, hallelujah hallelujah, hallelujah all i ever learned from love was

how to shoot at someone and it's not outcry you can hear at night it's not somebody who seen the light if you come it's a broken the hallelujah hallelujah, hallelujah hallelujah, hallelujah ♪ ♪ [applause]

♪

>> ♪ since u been gone i could do whatever i want i can see whomever i choose but nothing, i said nothing can take away these blues because nothing compares nothing compares to you it's been so lonely without you here like a bird without a song nothing can stop these lonely tears from falling tell me baby where did i go wrong

i could put my arms around every boy i see no matter what you do because nothing compares nothing compares to you

why didn't you wait for me -- all died when you went away i know that living with you baby was sometimes hard but i'm willing to give it another try nothing compares

nothing compares to you nothing compares nothing compares to you nothing compares 2 u -- to you nothing

[applause] ♪

[oh this singing -- elvis presley singing dixieland] ♪

♪ >> ♪ so hush little baby don't you cry you know your daddy's bound to die

but all my trials, lord, will soon be over ♪

glory, glory hallelujah his truth is marching on his truth is marching on ♪ ♪ [applause]

♪ i've been sellin' my soul, workin' all day overtime hours for bullshit pay so i can sit out here and waste

my life away drag back home and drown my troubles away it's a damn shame what the world's gotten to for people like me and people like you wish i could just wake up and it not be true but it is, oh, it is livin' in the new world with an old soul these rich men north of richmond lord knows they all just wanna have total control wanna know what you think, wanna know what you do and they don't think you know, but i know that you do 'cause your dollar ain't shit and it's taxed to no end 'cause of rich men north of richmond i wish politicians would look out for miners and not just minors on an island somewhere lord, we got folks in the street, ain't got nothin' to eat and the obese milkin' welfare well, god, if you're 5-foot-3 and you're 300 pounds taxes ought not to pay for your bags of fudge rounds young men are puttin' themselves six feet in the ground 'cause all this damn country does is keep on kickin' them down lord, it's a damn shame what the world's gotten to for people like me and people like you wish i could just wake up and it not be true but it is, oh, it is livin' in the new world with an old soul these rich men north of richmond lord knows they all just wanna have total control wanna know what you think, wanna know what you do

and they don't think you know, but i know that you do 'cause your dollar ain't shit and it's taxed to no end 'cause of rich men north of richmond ♪ i've been sellin' my soul, workin' all day overtime hours for bullshit pay ♪ ♪ [applause]

♪

♪ >> ♪ when i look into your eyes i can see a love restrained but darlin' when i hold you don't you know i feel the same? nothin' lasts forever and we both know hearts can change and it's hard to hold a candle in the cold november rain

we've been through this such a long long time just tryin' to kill the pain, ooh yeah love is always coming, love is always going no one's really sure who's lettin' go today walking away if we could take the time to lay it on the line i could rest my head just knowin' that you were mine all mine so if you want to love me then darlin' don't refrain or i'll just end up walkin' in the cold november rain

do you need some time on your own? do you need some time all alone? ooh, everybody needs some time on their own ooh, don't you know you need some time all alone i know it's hard to keep an open heart when even friends seem out to harm you but if you could heal a broken heart wouldn't time be out to charm you? oh, oh, oh

♪ sometimes i need some time on my own sometimes i need some time all alone ooh, everybody needs some time

on their own ooh, don't you know you need some time all alone ♪ and when your fears subside and shadows still remain, oh yeah i know that you can love me when there's no one left to blame

so never mind the darkness, we still can find a way 'cause nothin' lasts forever, even cold november rain ♪

[applause] ♪ don't ya think that you need somebody? don't ya think that you need someone? everybody needs somebody you're not the only one you're not the only one don't ya think that you need somebody? don't ya think that you need someone? everybody needs somebody

you're not the only one you're not the only one don't ya think that you need somebody? don't ya think that you need someone? everybody needs somebody you're not the only one you're not the only one don't ya think that you need somebody? don't ya think that you need someone? everybody needs somebody ♪ ♪ [applause] ♪

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>> ♪ >> tuesday, republican nominee and former president donald trump sits down for ierview with the economic club of chicago to address business community leers and mbe. cohosted by bloomberg news, watch the discussion starting at 12:00 p.m. eastern on c-span, sp now, and c-span.org.

>> c-span is your unfiltered view of government. we are funded by these television companies and more, including charter communications. >> charter is proud to be recognized as one of the best internet providers and we are just getting started, building 100,000 miles of new infrastructure to reach those who need it most. >> charter communications supports c-span as a public service, along with these other television providers, giving you a front row seat to democracy. >> vice president kamala harris was ined by pennsylvania senator john fetterman at a campaign rally in erie. the presidential ninee stressed the impornce of the county, saying how you vote in presidential elections often

predicts the national result. donald trump was also campaigning in pennsylvania during this event. ♪

>> ♪ i'ma wade, i'ma wave through the waters tell the tide, "don't move" i'ma riot, i'ma riot through your borders call me bulletproof lord forgive me, i've been runnin' runnin' blind in truth >> can we hear it for karen? [cheers and applause] all right! it is good to be back in pennsylvania! [cheers and applause] all right, all right, all right. come on.

we got work to do. ok. [crowd chanting kamala] ok, ok, thank you. thank you, everybody. thank you, everybody. and i want to thank all of the leaders who are here today. you all are taking time out of your busy lives to be here. for all of us to be together, can we hear it for senator fetterman? your next state attorney general ? mayor summer, bob casey could not be here tonight because he is out doing what he needs to do

to be reelected to the united states senate. all right. ok. let's get to work. [cheers and applause] so here is the thing, pennsylvania. we have 22 days until election day. 22 days. and we are nearing the home stretch but here is the thing. this is gonna be a tight race until the very end, ok? we are the underdogs. we are running like the underdogs. we have some hard work ahead of us but here is the thing also. we like hard work. hard work is good work! and with your help, in 22 days, we will win! we will win.

[crowd chanting, we will win] and here is why. because this election is about two very different visions for our nation. one, his, is focused on the past. and hours is focused on the future. [cheers and applause] we are focused on issues that matter most to families across america, like bringing down the cost of living, investing in small businesses and entrepreneurs, protecting reproductive freedom. and keeping our nation secure. but that is not what we hear from donald trump. instead, it is just the same old tired playbook.

he has no plan for how he would address the needs of the american people and american families. he is only focused on himself. it is time to turn the page. [cheers and applause] turn the page! because america is ready to chart a new way forward! and america is ready for a new and optimistic generation of leadership. [cheers and applause] which is why democrats, republicans, independence our supported -- are supporting our campaign. because we need a president who works for all the american people.

we are all in this together. and as you know, this has been the story of my entire career. i have only had one client. the people. [cheers and applause] as a young corporate prosecutor i stood up for women and children against predators. as attorney general i took on big banks, fought to deliver $20 billion for middle-class families who faced foreclosure. i stood up for veterans and students who were being scammed by for-profit colleges. [cheers and applause] for workers who were being cheated out of the wages they were due. for seniors facing elder abuse and it is my pledge to you as president i will always fight

for all the american people. always. [cheers and applause] and together, we all will build a brighter future for our nation. together. [cheers and applause] we will build a future where we have what i call an opportunity economy, where everyone can compete and has a real chance to succeed, not just to get by, but to get ahead. under my economic plan, and by the way, you know, dude wants to talk about his plans which is really about talking -- cutting taxes for the richest people, please check out the wall street journal or moody's or all the

analysts who have said my plan would strengthen the economy and his would make it weaker. so under my economic plan, we will bring down the cost of housing. and help first-time homebuyers, giving them $25,000 for down payment assistance so you can get your foot in the door. you do the rest, you will save up and work hard, but just to help people get their foot in the door. we will help entrepreneurs start and grow small businesses. how many small business owners do we have here? [cheers and applause]. i love our small businesses.

my mother worked hard, we lived in an apartment above a daycare center and it was owned by, daycare centers, yes, bless you. it was owned by ms. tilton who we thought of as our second mother and she is a small business owner and she was like all of you who do the work. your business leaders, community leaders, civic leaders, you mentor, you will hire locally, i love our small businesses. small businesses are part of the backbone of american economy. [cheers and applause] so you all know what i'm talking about. as we move forward, what we're going to do, in terms of knowing that small businesses must get the support you need to start up and grow. we will expand under my economic policy medicare to cover home health care for seniors.

[cheers and applause] so more seniors can live at home with dignity. like so many of my priorities, it is borne out of personal experience. when my mother got diagnosed with cancer, i took care of her. for any of you who have taken care of someone, a senior in particular, you know what that's like. it is about trying to cook something for them that they might enjoy eating. trying to make sure they have something they can wear that moat irritate their skin. time to time trying to bring a smile to their face or make them laugh. it is about dignity. it is about dignity. [applause] but far too many people who want and need to take care of family

members, either you have to leave your job or send down everything you have to qualify for medicaid. that's not right. i look at the sandwich generation. we refer to folks who are raising young children and taking care of parents as the sandwich generation. it is in between. it is a lot of pressure. need support to handle all of that in a way that you are adding so much to our societies and economy. so i have a plan and my plan is to make sure medicare, not so you have to pay down everything and get on medicaid, so that medicare helps pay for home health care. you can do the work you need to get done in terms of the seniors in your life. under our plan, we will lower

the cost on everything from health care to groceries. i will take out corporate price gouging just like i have done before. i'm going to do it again. and give a middle-class tax cuts to 100 million americans, including $6,000 during the first year of your child's life. knowing again the vast majority of parents want to parent their children well but don't always have the resources to do it. by expanding the child tax credit, that helps a young family buy a car seat, buy a crib, do the things in the fundamental stages of their child's development to get them on the road to what they want to do. and we all benefit from it. [cheers and applause]

all of this is to say i will always put the middle-class class and working families first. i come from the middle class and i will never forget where i come from. [cheers and applause] never. [chanting "usa!"] so i just outlined a little bit about my plan. now let's talk about donald trump. [boos] he has a very different plan. for example, project 2025. just google it. it is a detailed and dangerous plan for what he will do if he

is elected president. you have probably heard me say, donald trump, i think in our collective opinion, certainly mine, is an unserious man. but the consequences of him ever being president again are brutally serious. brutally serious. on project 25 and his plans, donald trump will give billionaires and corporations massive tax cuts like he has done before. cut social security and medicare. the plan on that end is to get rid of the $35 cap on insulin for seniors. to make it easier for companies to deny over time pay for workers. you have got to read the plan. the fact they put it in writing is a whole other thing to be

discussed. and he plans to impose what i call a trump sales tax. a 20% tax on every day necessities, which economists have measured will cost the average american family more than $4000 a year. and on top of all this, donald trump intends to get rid of the affordable care act. and he has no plan to replace it. he did not want to debate. [laughs] he has quote concept of a plan. concept! but seriously, think about it in all seriousness, he is going to threaten the insurance coverage for 45 million people based on a

concept? the seriousness of this cannot be overlooked. think about that. taking us back to a time we all remember when insurance companies could deny people with pre-existing conditions, do you remember what that was? well, we are not going back! we are not going back. we are not going back. no. and why are we not going back? because we will move forward. [cheers and applause] because hours is a fight for the future. and it is a fight for freedom.

like the fundamental freedom of a woman to make decisions about her own body. and not have our government telling her what to do. [crowd screams] and we all remember how we got here. donald trump hand selected the members of the united states supreme court to overturn roe v. wade and they did. and now in america 1 in 3 women lives in a state with a trump abortion ban. many of these families have no exceptions for rape or incest which is saying to a survivor of a crime of violation to their body, that you have no right to make a decision about what happens to your body next. that's immoral. and let us agree, one does not

have to abandon their faith, or deeply held beliefs to agree that government should not be telling her what to do. [uproarious applause] if she chooses, she will talk with her priest, her rabbi, her pastor, her mom but not the government telling her what to do. but a bunch of folks up at the state capitol telling her what to do. she doesn't know what is in her best interest and they know better? c'mon. and it is my pledge to you when congress passes a bill to restore the productions and reproductive freedom nationwide as president of the united states, i will proudly sign it into law. proudly sign it to law. yes, i will.

so much is on the line in this election. i love you back -- and listen -- so much is on the line in this election, and we have to remember, this is not 2016 or 2020. the stakes are even higher. because a few months ago, the united states supreme court just told the former president that he would be essentially immune from anything he does while he is in office. now just imagine donald trump with no guardrails. right? he who has vowed if reelected he will be a to cater -- dictator on day one. that he would weaponize the

department of justice against his political enemies. he who has called for the quote termination of the constitution of the united states. [loud boos] [chanting "lock him up!"] hold on, because see, here's the thing. the courts will handle that. let's handle november, shall we? and we are clear. look, anybody who says they will terminate the constitution of the united states should never again stand behind the seal of the president of the united states.

never again. never again. after all these years, we know who donald trump is. he is someone who will stop at nothing to claim power for himself. and you don't have to take my word for it. i've said for a while now, watches rallies, listen to his words. he tells us who he is. and he tells us what he would do if she is elected president. here tonight, i will show you one example of donald trump's worldview and intentions. please roll the clip. [video clip] >> the worst people are the enemies from within.

those people are more dangerous, the enemies from within, then russia and china. these people should be put in jail the way they talk about our judges and our justices. if you have one really violent day. one rough hour, and i mean real rough. the bigger problem are the people from within. we have some very bad people, sick people, radical left lunatics. they should be very easily handled by necessary national guard or really necessary by the military. [video clip] >> crowd boos. >> so you heard his words coming from him. he is talking about the enemy within pennsylvania. he is talking about the enemy within our country, pennsylvania. he is talking about that he considers anyone who doesn't support him, or who will not

bend to his will an enemy of our country. [boos] it's a serious issue. he is saying that he would use the military to go after them. think about this. and we know who he would target. because he has attacked them before. journalists whose stories he doesn't like. elections officials who refused to cheat by filling extra votes and finding extra votes for him. judges who insist on following the law's that of bending to his will. -- instead of bending to his will. this is among the reasons i believe so strongly that a second trump term would be a

huge risk for america and dangerous. donald trump is increasingly unstable and unhinged. [cheers and applause] and he is out for unchecked power. that's what he's looking for. he wants to send the military after american citizens. he has worked to prevent women from making their own health care decisions. and threatened your fundamental freedoms and rights. like the freedom to vote, the freedom to be safe from gun violence, to breathe clean air and drink clean water, the freedom to love who you love openly and with pride. [cheers and applause]

so here in pennsylvania, i say to those who know best, when freedom is on the line, americans always answer the call. we always answer the call. [cheers and applause] and in this election -- [chanting "vote!"] vote. to your point, in this election, we will answer the call again. because it all comes down to this. we are all here together because we know what's at stake. and we are here together because we love our country. we love our country. [cheers and applause] we love our country.

[chanting "usa!"] we love our country. and i do believe one of the highest forms of patriotism that there is, one of the highest forms of patriotism, is to fight for the ideals of our country. that is born out of love of country. the fight to realize the promise of america. so, election day is in 22 days. and here in pennsylvania, early voting has already started. [cheers and applause] and erie county, you are a pivot county. [cheers and applause]

how you all vote, and thank you, because how you all vote in presidential elections often ends up protecting -- predicting the national result. [cheers and applause] the chant is "erie." erie. [laughs] that's right. so, in area county you can vote early in person at the erie county registration office from now until tuesday, october 29. now is the time to make your plan to vote. if you have already received your ballot in the mail, please do not wait. fill it out and return it today or tomorrow but please get it out. and remember, the deadline to

register to vote in pennsylvania is monday, october 21. if you or anyone you know has not yet registered, now is the time. because look, the election is here. we need to organize, we need to mobilize, we need to energize folks and we need to remind everybody that their vote is their voice. and your voice is your power. so, erie, i ask you then, are you ready to make your voices heard? [cheers and applause] do we believe in freedom? [cheers] do we believe in opportunity? do we believe in the promise of america? and are we ready to fight for

it? [crowd screaming] and when we fight, we win! god bless you and god bless the united states of america. ♪ freedom, freedom, where are you? ♪ ♪ i need freedom, too ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tuesday, democratic vice presidential candidate and governor tim walz speaks to voters a campaign rally in pittsburgh, pennsylvania. our live coverage starts at 5 p.m. eastern on c-span, c-span now r free mobile video app, or online at c-span.org. george's secretary of state brad raffensperger sat down with the

washington post to talk about his state's 2024 election rules, misinformation, and early voting. this is 25 minutes. >> low, welcome to the washington post live, my name is amy gardner, i cover voting for the national desk of the washington post. focused on heading into this year's election, please?

>> to morning, amy. i've been focused on this since day one. it is to help rebuild trust where it needs to be rebuilt. number one, no matter how you vote in georgia, we now have photo id for all forms of voting. if you vote absentee, photo id, in person, early and obviously election day. we think that shores up voters trust in the process. we have done some things to get those results reported quickly. and all the early voting has to be reported no later than 8:00 p.m. on election night. we think that helps trust. we will be starting early voting tomorrow. and damaging several others, but counties already to go. all 159 counties are starting early morning tomorrow. >> as he said, early voting starts tomorrow across the state of georgia.

what can voters expect and what we'd like them to know about the start of early voting? >> by and large, all the counties are in great shape. if you are among the counties that was hit, we will have to move a few precincts. we have been working closely with governor kemp and his team at the georgia emergency management agency since the day after the hurricane hit. making sure that we will have power and internet and everything we need to have secure facilities. by and large, you can go to my voter page and that will tell you where you vote on election day. your counties will post that on social media. we want voters to be aware of that. >> and what kind of turnout are you expecting, both early voting, mail balloting and election day, can you give us a sense of what you are expecting and how well the counties are prepared? >> we don't like making

predictions. from what we have seen so far, last week we had about 2000 people that requested an absentee ballot. as an aside, the united states postal service stepped up its game, and those ballots have been accepted. those ballots went out to voters last week. 250,000. we may have another 50, so that is about 6%. that is what we will see for absentee voting we believe. probably 6% will vote early. the balance, maybe 35% vote on election day. >> is that number, 6%, i'm certain it is lower than 2020 during the pandemic, but is that higher than pre-pandemic absentee voting levels in georgia? >> it is about the same. we had 5-6% in 2022, 5% in 2018 and prior years. looks like georgians have gone

back to their preferred way of voting which is the 17 days of early voting we have. >> let's talk about the state election board. of course, you are the top election official in the state of georgia. you give a lot of guidance to the counties who are running the elections on the ground. as you know, state election board has been testing new rules in recent weeks, including one requiring a hand count of the number of ballots in the days immediately after the election. what do you think the impact of those rules are? what is your view of the purpose of those rules? >> before the judge and he will hear that later this week. that will be decided. they got pushed back from both sides of the aisle. a hard right think tank has pushed back on constitutional issues. the two county boards, muscogee county and columbia county.

they don't believe that exceeds state [indiscernible] there is chain of custody concerns. you have people breaking up the boxes and then start counting the ballots brady don't know who is touching that. there is most of the a chain of custody. also, the hand count for larger precincts will take a lot more time. everything we have been fighting for since 2020 has been get though voter quicker responses, quicker results. that's why we will post all the early votes by 8:00 p.m. while this drags on for the final 30% until 1:00 in the morning, that becomes a breeding ground for conspiracy theories. >> do you think that the state election board overstepped its authority with these rules? >> i have been clear that i think they exceeds state law.

so does our general counsel. a detailed two-page memo. they have it. >> republican members of congress sued in pennsylvania to force state officials to segregate overseas and military ballots which they say are not sufficiently secure. the process is too porous, they say. in pennsylvania they don't wire -- require the same identification of in-person early and domestic mail balloting. do you have thoughts about the impact of that suit? and of the rhetoric questioning the security of military and overseas ballots? have you heard about that issue in your state? >> what i will say is that i support our military. i support their commit it -- commitment to give up their life if that is what happens during time of war or any military conflict. do you want to make sure we get

our overseas ballots out to them and we have done that. no matter how you vote, are you using drivers license or some form of photo id-based process, so we can tie that back to the voter to get voters' trust. we have not heard any issues about that in georgia. i would encourage every state that doesn't use voter id, look how we do it. the brassica mccanns is in texas are all using photo id. we think that shores up voters confidence in the process. >> of course, you are a party to that famous phone call on january 2, 2021, in which then president trump ask you to find 700,000 votes, when it looked like he had lost the race in your state to joe biden. in fact the rays had been certified at that point. i wonder if you talk about how you are combating misinformation and as you put it a minute ago,

conspiracy theories, and how much harder -- is it harbor because some of those theories are actually coming from the top of the presidential ticket? princes, trump's running mate jd vance has refused to say given multiple opportunities by the press, that trump lost 2020 election, could you talk about what it is like to combat that type of misinformation coming from the top of the ticket? >> we want voters to have high trust, high confidence. everything we have done since 2020 and even owing back to 2019 when i took office, we have a verifiable paper ballot. this year what we will do is the first time in america ever. we will audit every single race that has been cast. we have the ballot just after 5 million ballots are cast, absentee, early or election day. we will have those images and run those through a scanner with a tech company and read the human readable text of every single race. all the way down to the county

surveyor and librarian and compare that to what you got with the machine totals. that is one way we will read tally that to help encourage and build trust with voters. i think reporting those results is another thing. voter id for all forms of voting. everything we have done is improve the accuracy and so no matter what people say, we already checked that. we also have the cleanest voter list in the entire country. we are recognized for several reasons. one is we are also part of a 25 state multistate organization. our office will exchange our voter list with 25 other states. it's a confidential secure way of doing that. so we can make sure we don't have people on two different voter lists. with our department of driver services, all 49 other states plus the district of columbia, all of them we get their drivers

license. if you move from georgia to whatever state, massachusetts, or could be washington state, we find out about that we can reach out to take them off the list because they have a drivers license in another stay prayed we get deaths of the biggest monthly and we have bilateral's from four states that pulled out of that multistate organization. with everything we have played and accurate voter lists. people say that our dead people voting. no, there are not. our first secretary of state when he months ago to do an audit of the voter rolls to make sure only american citizens are on the voter list. because we do robust verification, we found 1600 people who attempted to register, but never got on the list because our system was secure. our system check that and they couldn't prove citizenship. we feel like we have a lot of things in place, so people can say things, but at the end of the day, the winner will be the

winner and the other person comes up short, and we will try to be gentle because we understand help rising it is on both sides of the aisle. >> notwithstanding all those steps your office has been taking, that has not stopped groups and individuals from filing lawsuits claiming that the voter rolls in georgia and elsewhere are still loaded, or still include people who are not eligible to vote, either noncitizen or moved away. what are you doing specifically, if anything, to counter message. when you talk to individuals who disagree with you, do you feel like you make progress with them? do you give them the same explanation you just gave our viewers? is it effective and can you talk more expensively about what your office has in place in terms of a messaging counterpoint or a rapid response operation to deal

with the misinformation that is so prevalent right now? >> our office itself we do the best we can with our press releases. on a good day, we may have 50,000 and millions -- other people may have millions. there may be outside organization that can weigh in and correct all that disinformation. and be out there on social media to get that out there immediately. our job is to do our job and our job is respond to people. when we get sued, we beat them in court. at the end of the day, you have to have the numbers. we have the facts on our side. >> when you mention someone who has millions more followers than you do, 1:00 comes to mind and that is elon musk, of course, i wonder what you think the impact is of some of the information, information is probably not the right word, but soft claims he has been putting out there on twitter, on x's company formerly

known as twitter, and have you come out and attempted to refute his statements on a particular? and what impact do you think is his misinformation has had on voters in georgia specifically? >> people have many questions. particularly as someone with his number of twitter followers, his influence, he can call me whenever he wants. you can get my personal cell number. or other people have it. i won't put it out here today because i can only handle summit calls today. i would love to talk to people like him that our influencers and give them the facts about what we are doing in order so we understand this will be secure and we will get those results posted quickly. we are the role model. we have high marks from the heritage foundation and also the bipartisan policy center. the top of the list for those two organizations. we have that.

you have to understand, in georgia, we have secure, accurate elections. at the end of the day, i'd love to talk to influential people, give them the facts. i think that is really important. we passed sb 202, some of the major corporations located in georgia would have called us before they started saying we think stacy was right about this , because she was so wrong about everything she said about sb 202. voter id has been used in minnesota over 10 years. we are using voter id for absentee voting. nebraska and kansas has been using it for a long public time. it is midwestern but it makes sense. we took away signature match. as an engineer, i'm looking at a fact-based system, and that is what we have been working hard every day. i know that every vote matters because every voter matters. and once you that their vote counts.

-- wants to know that their vote counts. >> do you expect, from to contest the result in georgia -- donald trump to contest the result in georgia if he loses to vice president harris and are you prepared for it and can you tell us a little bit about how you are prepared for it if so, please? >> this is not our first rodeo. stacey abrams lost by 55,000 votes. 2018, i get signed into office, and we have 10 or so lawsuits from that. we pushed back with the facts. 2020, we got it from my side, so we pushed back with the facts. so if people have questions, at the end of the day, we will respond with a fact base. we will also have all 5 million paper ballots and we will reap the human readable text. we can do that by hand or week and do that by this tech company we partnered with and do that scan. and that paper ballot that we

have has security fibers and the state seal, so you will know it is official ballot paper. it is not something you got from a local office supply store. all those things we have done our to build trust for voters. >> i'm working on a story this week with my colleague tyler who covers the white house and the harris campaign. about how the harris campaign is prepared to protect the vote against efforts to undermine or so art at -- thwart a popular result. they say they have a robust operation as most campaigns do but they are telling us they are actually not worried. everyone is sort of on message talking about how the 2020 election was the safest and most secure election in u.s. history.

and that they have no reason to believe that 2024 will be any different. i wonder if you could reflect on whether you agree with that outlook. and, you know, if you're prepared in different ways to combat sort of emergency scenarios in your state, if there are, if there is a large-scale objection to the result. >> we are going to be prepared. obviously, 20 in the middle of a pandemic, it came off as relates to election management, it came off well. we have been working on that again. we will keep those lines short. less than one hour. the voter will have a good experience. at the end of the day, on all those results get put up on the board and everyone looks at the total, half the people will be dancing in the street and the

other half-full be very disappointed. but we want voters to have confidence in that. that's why we have for things i put in place. we check citizenship, we have a plane voter list, we have voter id from all forms of voting, keep lines shorter. everything we have done is to build trust. at the end of the day, we also have political parties can have observers there. they can watch the process and understand what they are watching. we think that is really important. we will be ready and we welcome scrutiny. we tend to have a very open and transparent process. at the end of the day, i work for the voters. i want every voter to know that their vote was counted accurately and here are what the results are. >> i want to try one more time, do you think of the harris campaign is being too rosy about the possibility for disruptions? >> well, i believe in the very

best of my fellow georgians. i know at the end of the day they will accept the results. when people come from out of our state and cause disruptions, we have seen it before, and we will be prepared. but when we meet them in court, we win. because we deal with the facts. for half the people, it will be very disappointing, and i understand that. we don't know which way this election will go but our job every day make sure we have fair, honest and accurate elections. that's what we have been working on. in spite of the pandemic, we will be ready tomorrow. we have a great team in the elections office and we also have great county election rectors, too. >> one of the moment four years ago that was troublesome, i suppose is a good word for it, was the meeting of the electors, excuse me, december 17, 2020 when the electors who had been picked by the trump campaign met in the georgia state capitol in

atlanta, in spite of the fact that biden had been the certified winner, and biden's electors chaired by stacey abrams were meeting in the house chamber to asked their electoral votes for joe biden. are there specific preparations that are underway for the meeting of the electors this year at the georgia state capitol? are you worried about security or alternate electors, as they were known in 2020, and are you doing anything specifically about the meaning of the electoral college this year? >> no, that's not really in our lane. our lane is to report on the results to the point where we can certify it. before we certify postelection audits to verify the results. we will have an audit of all 5 million ballots of every single race scanned and tabulated. anyone that comes within half a percent and asked for a recount. up to three counts on those

ballots. everyone will know who won those races based on those results. what they do with the electors, i think they realize that wasn't a good strategy. that's a different part of the process. my process is to certify it, send it to the governor's office, he will review it, and he will certify the results and that's when they will have the election of the electors for georgia. >> as you know, hundreds of election administrators around the country have retired or quit since 2020. in part because of the absolute spike in threats and harassment they have endured since donald trump began contesting the 2020 result. i wonder if you could talk about whether your counties in georgia have been able to recruit sufficient numbers of poll workers to staff polling

locations and make sure the election is running smoothly. and also, what are you doing to protect their safety and security during election hours both early and on election day? and what are you telling them in order to encourage them to feel safe in that environment? >> as it relates to manpower, by and large we're in good shape. we have a few new election directors. we work very strong on training. we have a county election director running a smaller county with 10,000 people now they are in a county with 100,000, it is more complex. we work with those folks. they have worked hard at getting their counties ready. poll worker-wise we are in good shape rate hurricane helene did damage to some of the poll worker homes. the county is making sure they have a poll workers. at the end of the day, be in good shape for election day coming up in november. >> sorry, are you -- will there

be law enforcement at polling locations? that is viewed as a double-edged sword because of the balance between voter security and voter intimidation. >> we have had a lot of tabletops about security roundtables. regional tabletops with law enforcement. we called in the county sheriff's departments, local police departments, if they are more of an urban city type location, and we have also brought in dhs, gbi, fbi and other organizations, role-playing strategies. but also, the poll workers and managers will have a texting cool, see something, say something. we will get notified of that along with election director and we will have lanyards with the panic button. they will have that if the situation is getting out of control.

but by and large many precincts will have a deputy sheriffs vehicle posted out there. just sitting there all day to let everyone know that law enforcement is here. just come in. enjoy the process, vote for the person of your choice. smile and wait for the results to be posted on election day. >> we have time for one more question and i will ask you to be as brief as you can although it is a big question. you are a lifelong republican, self-described proud conservative, he said publicly that you voted for donald trump in 2016 and 2020, can you reflect on where the replicant party is today? and what the state of your party is heading into the election? if you want to tell us who you are voting for or whether you will be running, i'd be happy to hear it. >> i think the republican at the end of the day will find long-term benefit from leaning into integrity, character. just being a good, honest,

decent human being. really leaning into being an elected public servant. got plenty of politicians prayed we need people to just do their job. that is what i have been working on since i took office is to do my job. to rebuild trust where it needs to be rebuilt. increase security where it needed to be increased and i will continue to do that. at the end of the day, that's what voters are looking for. an honest person working hard for them. >> thank you so much, secretary raffensperger, it's always a player to chat with you. unfortunately we are out of time. thank you for joining us, we will have to leave it there. and thanks to all of you for watching. if you are interested i don't want to more of these important conversations, please sign up for washington post subscription. get a free trial by visiting washington post.com/live. i'm tammy gardner. thanks again for running is. -- i'm amy gardner. thanks again for joining us. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute,

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speech on college campuses. this is an hour. ♪ [applause] >> good evening everyone. my name is -- and i am the president of the -- program at yale. it is my pleasure to welcome you to tonight's event featuring commentator and radio host ben shapiro for a conversation on how october 7 broke american college campuses. first i want to extend my thanks to carol brown who was with us in the audience and the young america's foundation -- for making this event possible. [applause] before i introduce mr. shapiro, i would like to say a few words about the program. the william buckley jr. program is the flagship program of an organization dedicated to promoting intellectual diversity and open political discussions

at yale. we've posted lectures, seminars, debates and annual conference every year since 2011. by providing yale students with a forum to engage meaningfully with serious conservative thought, the program has become an institution on yale's campus and a symbol for a more open and representative political atmosphere, especially at a university where the mission is the cultivation and creation of new knowledge, buckley fellows believe all perspectives must be heard and examined in good faith. you can learn more about the program and how to become a fellow on our website. before we begin tonight's program, i want to emphasize the buckley programs commitment to freedom of speech. disruption of an event is not consistent with yells policies on freedom of expression as outlined in the report. i would ask that each of you respect the right of our speakers to be heard and the right of your fellow audience members to listen to the event. thank you for joining us in upholding the value of free speech. [applause]

i would also like to solemnly reflect on significance of today's date. one year ago today, hamas terrorists infiltrated israeli towns and villages, murdering 1200 innocent men, women and children and committing horrible atrocities. this unconscionable act was the single deadliest attack on jews since the holocaust. -- to think about these ongoing crises. and now, our guest for tonight. ben shapiro is the founding

editor-in-chief and editor emeritus of the daily wire and the host of the ben shapiro show, the largest and fastest-growing growing conservative podcast show in the nation. in addition, he also hosts debunked, his book club, the search and the sunday special. mr. shapiro is a new york times best-selling offer -- author of over a dozen books, focusing on higher education, free speech and israel. he is a much sought after voice across the country for his incisive commentary on the state of our democracy and our nation. he's been a strong supporter of israel throughout his life and has been particularly vocal in his support of israel's right to defend itself since the october 7 terror attack. mr. shapiro was hired by -- to become the youngest nationally syndicated columnist in the united states. he earned a ba in political science from ucla in 2004 and even though he graduated from harvard law school in 2007, we are stilling prettily grateful to have him here at yale.

without further ado, please join me in welcoming ben shapiro to yale. [applause] thank you so much for being here tonight. >> thanks for having me. >> it is the first anniversary of the horrible terrorist attack on israel and i know that many are spending today in morning, but others even in the united states or on yells campus are celebrating today's date. i would like to ask you why you wanted to speak on a college campus on this day and yale in particular. >> i think october 7 revealed a lot of truths about the world and i think one of the biggest truths was revealed in the days after october 7 when even before israel's retaliation began or

the operation began, there were widespread protests across the west on college campuses in favor of hamas, in favor of islam, and favor of those who would remove israel from the planet and that revealed to me a cancer at the heart of american education that i've been writing about for a long time, a rot at the core of american education and i think it is important to come and speak about that tonight, because it is not just the day of mourning, it is a reminder of what happens when the west coast to sleep on its own principles, when it imports people who don't believe in principles and want to cultivate an entire generation of people who don't believe in civilization. >> you mentioned that protests started against israel before israel responded to october 7, and there were comparatively few responses that i saw against hamas. in fact today, there was a yell student group who encouraged us not to attend class in order to quote, stand in solidarity to

mourn the martyrs of palestine. could you speak to the mentality behind those who want to blame israel october 7 and what do you think about the religious language on college campuses? >> there are a few different groups that are conflicted in this particular message. group number one would be radical fundamentalist muslims who believe israel must be wiped off the map. certainly not all muslims. i know many muslims who do not want that. there are many palestinian to do not believe that -- palestinians who do not believe that. then there is the secondary group, american leftist college students who unfortunately believe success is inherently connected with exploitation and that anyone who claims to be a victim and is unsuccessful and lives in a way that seems impoverished or violent, they must have been pushed into that by the great exploiter, it is

the aqueous narrative in politics, echoes all the way back to cain and abel. it has been repeated here. the basic idea is that because israel is disproportionately powerful, successful, because israel has actually built itself into a thriving democratic country, because of that, anyone in the region who is suffering, that must be a byproduct, it is zero-sum thinking that is not true at all. that sort of thinking leads to bizarre coalitions like you see on college campuses where you see people with signs that say queers for palestine which is one of the great mysteries of human history. the question becomes -- the answer is you have people who believe they are marginalized by the system who believe they are victimized by the system, gathering together in a coalition to fight the great oppressor. israel being the bleeding point of the spear. >> here at yale, as with many other campuses around the nation, we have an encampment,

two of them of pro-palestine students occupying a common space and denying that space to other students who may not agree with those views. i'm curious what you think the mindset of students who go beyond normal rallies, normal protests. why did they feel they need to stage this more radical action? >> i'm not a psychologist. it would take a psychologist to examine why someone would want to live in their own feces. the general plush barrette is presumably -- bush -- general plush barrette is the more you disassociate from civilization, the more holy you are. if you occupy a space in one of the most privilege spaces in american life, if you take up that space and make that space a dangerous place to be, you bar entry to that space, somehow you disrupt the will of the great oppressor. struck a blow to the great oppressor. -- the majority of people who do this are upset about the potentiality of being expelled from the college campus and whine about it the minute any

consequences actually hit them. it is the same sort of dealing -- a lot of folks in modern politics, that is a feeling of virtue signaling that makes people feel a sense of purpose that they cannot find anywhere else or that it is appropriate to be alienating yourself from the institution you are already a beneficiary of. >> do you think any universities dealt with october 7 as well? >> you've the university of florida dealt with it great. at the time being run by the president down there, said you are perfectly within your right to protest in designated spaces, and then you violate those he will be expelled. that was the end of it. it was not really difficult. and it also turns out whenever you hear viewpoint doesn't have to do with it, the universities would have let anyone do this -- we know what -- it is. to put it bluntly. if people had been in yale protesting in favor of white supremacy, they would have been expelled and we know it.

>> i want to focus on university bureaucracies for a moment. zoom in a little closer to what i think the problem might be. diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts are often a huge part in any university's bureaucracy. even at yale. i wonder what you think it is dei places such little emphasis on jewish individuals in particular by the historic marginalization of jews? >> because historic marginalization is beside the point. the entire point of the dei mentality is the victim-victimizer narrative. what it essentially politics is more victimized you are, the less successful you are. jews violate that narrative, so do asian spirit which is why they are constantly discriminated against. it comes from the idea that asians are not actual minorities who expands any sort of oppression in the u.s. because they are too successful. their scores on the sats are too good and it is perfectly well within bounds for universities to openly discriminate against them, not admit them to university sprayed the same happened with jews.

the idea is all suffering of the past or in the present by jews is completely irrelevant, it breaks the matrix. the minute victimized group happens to be disproportionately economically and educationally successful, the entire worldview breaks down. the only way to avoid that is to relabel minority groups that are both victimized and successful as one. jews suddenly become members of the white superclass, and the same thing happens to agents. agents suddenly become white adjacent. because god forbid the stupid and nefarious worldview of dei is somehow broken by reality pray that has to be -- relabeling people into categories that fit the worldview better. >> do you think there is a connection between dei bureaucracies on university campuses and what we saw in the aftermath of october 7? >> absolutely i think the dei bureaucracy on campus agrees with the basic worldview of those who are protesting otherwise they would not have allowed it. if it would have been nazis

protesting on campus as opposed to the new nazis, it would have been a very different story had the administration dealt with it. >> why do you think university students are inspired by palestine against israel? september 2023, azerbaijan displaced over 100,000 armenians, mostly christians prayed i don't hear anybody at yale talking about it, or the news talking about it. >> of course, the same is true in sudan and somalia per there is great suffering around the world. the reason this has become the tip of the left-wing spear is it is almost a perfect example of an event that ought to break the matrix prayed so you have to grip it that much harder. it is the idea in sociology, which is usually a -- field that have a couple of good points. you will have to find employment elsewhere, sorry sociology majors. there is an idea in sociology that basically many of the things we do in life are signaling that we have skin in

the game. for example, i wear a yarmulke, it means i have skin in the jewish game. i go to synagogue regularly. we have these things to demonstrate we have skin in the game. if you want to demonstrate you have skin in the game of the victim-victimizer narrative, you pick the worst example of supposedly on the planet. then you declare they are the victims. take hamas, which is literally the worst people you can declare a victim. they are fascist, the actual genocidal maniacs. they habitually engage in the murder of their political opponents, in masquerade, they celebrated the murder of children. they triumphantly livestreamed all of this. and they did while siphoning billions of dollars away from the palestinian people to build hundreds of kilometers of terror tunnels to hide from local civilians when israel had to go in, civilians would have to die for israel to clear the territory. these are not victims, they are just evil, the worst people in modern life.

somehow, the best way to demonstrate skin in the game is to say they are actually the victims. if you can maintain that philosophy, you have skin in the game. have you demonstrated your perverse worldview if you can agree that somehow hamas are the victims in this situation. >> if 9/11 were to happen tomorrow in the u.s., how do you think the people in favor of hamas would react? >> pretty much the same way. the movement would like to boycott the sanction in the u.s., that they have not found a way to live here five feet off of the ground floating in the air. the reality is when they take the position hamas is somehow the good guy, these are the people who declare osama bin laden was probably justified. isn't he just -- he wasn't. a goodhearted person who wishes the best for his children. no he isn't. what you get the idea is anybody

who is attacking the west is doing so for good reason. because in the end, the west is bad. this is the lessons of october 7. despite the west's desperate attempt to go back to sleep, the reality is israel was attacked because it is perceived as a western country. it was specifically chosen because it is an element of the west. it is not that radical muslims and members of hamas, the radical left, that they hate america because they hate israel. because israel -- they say it themselves. colonial outpost to the west, you are not hiding the ball. colonial outpost of the west, what do you think they think of the west directly? >> a phenomenon that came to yale in a significant way after the attack was media bias and censorship of what hamas actually did on the ground in israel. weeks after, it was well reported across the country, our

campus removed papers with references to rape that occurred during the attack. can you talk about the media reaction to october 7 and what you have seen so far, how it has changed? >> the media are generally trashed, which is why i started my own media outlet. when it comes to the middle east, they are true garbage. i think it was michael pricing who suggested if you ever want to know how bad newspapers are, read a newspaper on a topic you know really well. you will see the articles are filled with errors. the journalists and reporters don't know what they are talking about on a topic you know well. a math major, and they are writing about math, you can see 10 errors. the foreign policy page, you are like they probably know what they are talking about -- that is not true. much of the coverage has been widely skewed, incredible bias. the headlines are all determined to achieve some sort of moral equipment between israel and hamas. likely believing that israel-gaza war as if there at war with a place as opposed to

an actual terror group that launched an assault on them. while azerbaijan has been providing hundreds of thousands of tons of human supplies into gaza in the middle of a war it is fighting. sacrificing its own soldiers in order to do that. it is also engaging most targeted military urban operation in human history right now. and somehow the media come up with an idea this is a borderline genocidal action by israel. they are doing the same in lebanon. israel is delivering some of the most targeted strikes in the history of warfare. they did after that israeli beeper operation, the most targeted strike in the history of warfare. the media coverage is truly egregious, and it comes from a morally relativistic place that they have to maintain the idea that if israel is not the victimizer, they are kind of still the victimizer. even the aftermath of october 7. a week of synthetic media coverage and then it shifted back to the cycle of violence. if only we could come to a deal, if only we could craft some sort of a negotiation where everyone

would go home happy. as opposed to the reality, there are fundamentally incompatible goals in the middle east. israel has this really troubling need to breathe and survive. and its enemies have -- apparently a wildly justifiable need to destroy it and kill every human in the region. >> in that case, do you keep there is any hope for truth? these people showing the horrors of what hamas did on october 7, does it change their mind, or is it the same task? >> you have to take everyone on a one by one basis. some are open to the truth, some are not. fighting the dominance of legacy media, again, that is where we started a very large conservative media company to fight the narrative driven by the legacy media. >> a lot of people look at this conflict and have no idea what is going on, they don't know what to think or who to believe. what do you think is most purely at stake in this conflict going on right now?

>> what is purely at stake is the definition of evil. the simple fact of the matter is hamas is a terrorist group that states its goals openly and outright. they are not hiding anything. they say they wish to destroy the state of israel, they invaded israel from a territory that had effectively been ceded to them when they were unilaterally accrued from the territories. they did not attack military targets, they went into towns, including civilians from gaza who went into those towns to participate in the mass rape, murder, and kidnapping. what is at stake is whether the west even has the capacity to label evil evil at this point. i don't think the question is limited to the israel and palace and in conflict. the palestinian supporters of how authorities with hamas. the question is going forward whether the west has the

strength to recognize when their actual threats to it, or whether they wish to simply pretend everyone has the same basic goals, and it is just a matter of pragmatic differences of how we reach that. >> what do you think the best way for people who may not have a connection to israel for them to memorialize what happened what you would be? >> i think everyone has a stake in paying attention to the victims that are still ongoing -- i was with the family of a 20-year-old being held hostage. i was with his mom and dad and his younger brother today. actually with president trump over in queens. i had on my show just last week. who have a son who has been held hostage. multiple families who have kids who are still being held

hostage. and understand unfortunately when it comes to the fight against hamas or hezbollah, or iran, their sponsor state, the only way out is through. war is ugly. no one wants -- particularly not the israelis. have been in constant war since 1947. every israeli at the age of 18 is drafted. that will include the religious. everyone in the israeli military. everyone. if you think their parents want them to be serving on the front lines -- in line by the way, i don't just mean people now or 20 to anyone, i'm talking anyone in this crowd who is 40, 45, parents of three or four kids on the front line inside of lebanon. if you think that is what the israelis want, or out of your mind. that is not what they want. the only way to come to actual peace is not through empty headed diplomacy where people say funny words and violate

their words five seconds later. victory is the only way you achieve peace. that is a historic lesson of war. victory and the threat of a crushing victory sways people from engaging in these attacks. that is not even me making that case. there is a book called the cause of war where every war from 1700 to 1988, he found the way you achieve lasting peace in a time of war is for once i to actively defeat the other. which is something the west is very not used to. the west has decided victory is a dirty word. >> do you think the u.s. is doing enough to ensure the return of the hostages in the creating of lasting peace? >> hell no. i think the u.s. has -- under the biden-harris administration -- the biden-harris admin assertion, which started off the beginning of the war fairly well , immediately launched into a soft stance where the idea was

if aid was slow walked to israel, it would facilitate peace negotiations. hamas understands they are militarily inferior. right now, no one -- one may be alive in a bunker surrounded by hostages. but it is not know he has serious military. the u.s. will be forced into making some sort of concession to allow him and his group to survive. the u.s. could have done something very easy, they could have done this by the way in ukraine. they could have set our allies deserve our support in a time of war. they should be able to pursue the ends necessary to achieve victory. the u.s. should not be in the position of micromanaging the wars of our allies. a stupid idea in the first place. particularly when america's enemies are watching and see every act of weakness as another sign the u.s. is not willing to stand up for its allies in the region. the reality is october 7 would have never happened if the biden administration had not immediately started playing foot

seas with the islamic republic of iran. if that never happened, october 7 would have never happened in the first place. the saudi's and israelis would have signed the a bram accord, you would see continuation of the budding peace in the middle east that was until recently the actual wave of the future over there. i think now that israel has reestablished its military, it turns in the region. >> one last question before i hand it over to the audience. -- over 75 years ago. he criticized yale for promoting secularism and collectivism while undermining traditional values. it is hostile to the principles on which our institution was founded. do you think that critique is relevant to what happened at our universities after october 7? >> just a little. >> is there hope? >> there is hope for your institutions, but they will have to -- with money. employers will have to start looking at degrees from yale in

determining they are worth the paper they are written on. i'm not singling out yale. my alma mater, harvard, is having similar experiences. it is true for most of these -- it is ok. i don't like them either. most of the major universities in this country at this point. employers are making a mistake that just because you have a degree from a top university that it makes you qualified to hold a job. in many cases it makes you the reverse of that. >> thank you for our conversation. [applause] q and day, we are now moving into the q&a portion of the evening. if you have a question, come to the back of the auditorium and stand behind this yellow line and we will be able to get your

questions. >> it does not have to be on this topic. it can be anything. i have a general rule, if you disagree, you can raise your hand and go to the front. don't just do it to go to the front. >> mr. shapiro, thank you for sharing your thoughts tonight. america, our country fought a protracted global war on terror for two decades. as you mentioned today, we have ethical problems of war, political problems, opposition, support for it. but one day seems to lay sacred in our country, the day of remembrance on 9/11. whether you are for or against the war, that is a day where we remember thousands of civilians, firefighters, and police lost their lives. given that today is october 7, what do you think the ethical consequences are of politicizing

today is a day of antiwar protests, and now to be a remembrance for people who lost their lives? >> frankie, i think we celebrate 9/11 wrong. the idea 9/11 ought to be a sad day in which we were member some people hide in a tower, as a congresswoman from minnesota might say. i think that is a grave error. it should be a reminder of the enemies u.s. faced on 9/11 and continue to face today. we have forgotten those lessons which is why we are doomed to repeat similar instances. i don't believe act of terror are equivalent to death by national tragedy. it is one thing to hold a commemoration for a national tragedy. something horrible happens in life and we mourn it happening. i think when you are talking about an act of war, which is what 9/11 was, pearl harbor, october 7. the idea you can treat that in

the same way as a day of remembrance for people who died from flu pandemic is wrongheaded and foolish. you cannot take away the lesson from october 7, 9/11, or any other day and remember in some of victims of terrorism. terrorism is evil, it should be fought. those who believe in the ideology need to be defeated. i think they are doing memorial wrong. [applause] >> my name is zach, nice to meet you. as we stand here and talk today, they are holding a vigil to commemorate people who died on october 7. this event is counter programming that vigil. most organizations wrote letters asking to hold this event at a different time. -- tells us that you can serve god or yourself. you are being paid thousands of dollars to counter program a

vigil for the victims of october 7. so my question for you is how are you not serving yourself with this event? >> since there are hundreds of people who showed up to hear me talk about what is going on, i don't think it is serving myself per se. i also don't think i need the money. my suggestion would be that there are many ways to commemorate what happened. i don't think the folks who wish to hold different events have a veto on my event. i don't have one on theirs. one even contacted me that was programmed the same time and i attempted to actually move our event so it did not conflict with that event prayed they ended up moving there even earlier and i went at 5:00. so this notion i'm somehow ignoring the wishes of the entire jewish community, by coming and speaking about the most vital issues on the most vital day of last year is insipid, and your insulting attempts to -- are frankly uninspired.

[applause] it is fine. >> just provide some additional context. hill on campus and you a later, i believe -- sent you a letter -- >> there are many organizations on campus. i don't agree with all of them politically, they don't agree with me literally. i don't give anyone veto power on my ability to speak read >> scheduling event for different hour -- >> i can easily fill a 3000 seat one. >> you are saying right now you never considered moving an event just one hour to allow the vigil -- >> i don't book the halls here. -- the administration if you are

so perturbed. >> i have legitimate concern -- >> i have answered your question, i appreciate the time. >> i'm glad i got to follow that guy. i'm from here in connecticut. i want to thank you and the daily wire for everything you do. i'm a subscriber and longtime listener. what i appreciate most is how you fight for our freedom. whether it is mandates, freedom of speech. something happened to me that was disturbing today, writing mighty knee there is another front where we have to fight for our conservative voice. chatgpt, try to do a simple graphic. i wanted to put a star of david, i asked for a jewish name and asked chatgpt for an israeli theme. it rejected me at every corner. it reminded me it is another way were we have to fight for our voices. i want to know if you have plans to help fight on the ai front? >> the good news is -- exist.

you can do whatever you want there. it is great. everyone knows from elon, i think it will generate whatever image and do so quickly and they are quite amazing. i'm a big believer in ai, i think it has tremendous potential to change the world. and there are competitors who are capable of out competing chatgpt if they decide to place limits on the images that can be created. thank you so much. >> thanks for being here. i would like to ask -- you mentioned employers and donors can do a lot to affect change on a college campus. looking at students, i'm sure there's interesting ways think students can affect change on a college campus. i want to hear what you think those are and how they can be practically implemented via student body that wants to know people is evil. >> the first thing you guys can

do what is going on campus. when i was in college, i think most kids not want to be involved in politics at all. you want to go on with the rest of your life. every so often you remember where you went and that is it. maybe you could a check. the reality is most americans don't actually know what is going on on campus. just why it was shocking when there was these giant protests that erupted on campus. getting in touch with outlets like ours, we report this regularly. there are other outlets as well. my mentor andrew breitbart said if you've got a phone, a camera, you are now a journalist. so you should be out there making stories. the second thing you can do is organizing. that is uncomfortable. it means you will have to not be friends with everybody. i can safely say as you might have guessed, not a friend's person. when i was on college campus, that was not my top priority. nor is it today. thank god i have my own cadre of friends.

i call them my children and my wife. the thing you can do is organize, you can do events, and expose what is going on in the classroom. professors, administrators. there is a special window you have in campuses that no one else does because you are on one. at ucla, i got started in this job, working in politics. i was at usa at the time. my first book was about bias on college campuses and it came out in 2004. it has been in tears. i recorded what was going on inside the classrooms. so you can do that. >> thank you. [applause] >> thank you for being here. i'm actually a fan of your show. as a pro-lifer myself, i have an abortion quest just -- question some leftists bring up. if you were in a burning hospital and on one side there

were 100 in vitro fertilized exit, and there were five babies who you had to say one side, which would you save and why? x ok, the traditional answer anyone would give, the five born babies prayed the reason you say five born babies is because the embryos have a chance at life -- they are already at life -- but they have a chance of living a full life outside of the womb already. we were arguing a life outside the womb is more valuable because of viability -- but these embryos are not in a womb right now. the question was you can save a baby or i can punch this nine month pregnant in the stomach, it would be different russian. this is not on the value of life. our good reaction to what life is valuable does not define the value of life. another example, a similar example. burning building, 80-year-old person, five-year-old child, who do you save? the answer most people will give is the child. doesn't mean that 80-year-old person is not alive?

i can also give an example, a hypothetical in which he would save the embryos. let's say you are on a spaceship. hypotheticals are fun. on this spaceship, you have a five year old child or 1000 embryos. the last pay ship in existence. and you have to say one. 15-year-old child or the 1000 embryos. you save the 1000 meals because the entire future of the human species is at stake. want to say 1000 as opposed to one. the gut level reaction to what life we would save is not this positive answer to whether there is value to the life. also it is a weird false hypothetical because that is never the choice. no one is like i'm six-month pregnant, so here's my question, do i save this child or murder this five year old -- that has never been a thing that has ever arisen. >> my other question is if you support the death penalty, how should abortion be criminalized

in terms of who and what the adequate punishment is? i heard you say in the case of a woman getting the abortion that they have a lack of criminal intent, they don't meet the standards for that. if you hire a hitman, would you not be punished for hiring that hitman to commit -- >> it is a question will question in the premise where if you hired a hitman to kill what you thought was a vegetable, which is most people think when you get an abortion. they think what they are killing doesn't have any human valley. -- they are willing to admit it is human life they are killing anyway pray that is horrifying. but people approaching abortion that we are not thinking about it that way. a hitman to kill a cow, or in the viewpoint of the person who is in your analogy. so let's say you are an abortion doctor and you partially abort fetuses and they are born alive sometimes and you kill them --

should receive the death penalty. it depends on the level of egregious us of the murder. but i'm certainly in favor of the death penalty in certain cases. it is not an across the board yes or no thing. [applause] >> hello. you quoted a book earlier, i did not quite catch it. we were talking about how peace could only be achieved through victory. >> long lasting peace. >> i'm also hoping you can give a relevant example of such a victory and defeat and talk about what victory and defeat really looks like in this case with israel. >> i believe the author is jeffrey blaine. i -- the perfect example is world war ii. world war i, it is negotiated.

the versailles treaty, look how it incentivized germany to pray -- pay reparations, that led to world war ii -- if everyone had been nicer to germany, world war ii would have never happened -- the convincing one is we were a lot meaner in world war ii. when the west and the soviets completely invaded and carved out the entirety of germany. there has been no war in germany since. -- examples from the middle east, the egyptians decide in 1973 they don't have the ability to beat the israelis and they sign a peace agreement with them. so jordan, same sort of thing in 1967. israel defeats them, jordanians never go to war with israel again. they are not just relevant examples but from the region. if you are talking about how to achieve long-lasting peace in this region, first of all, you

have a long-lasting cold peace with egypt and jordan. and if you are talking about how to issue long-lasting peace to lebanon, the answer will have to be such devastatingly effective military victory that there is likely a regime change that ends with some form of actual military governance in lebanon's ability to withhold power from hezbollah. which was the case after 2005 or 2006 when israel withdrew from lebanon. the u.n. resolution, 1701, and said that lebanon was supposed to be completely demilitarized, and that never happened. the only way to actually achieve long-lasting peace is by crushing the hopes and dreams of people who wish to attack our neighbors. such devastation that they had no choice but to negotiate peace. when it comes to gaza, israel has done that with hamas.

they are trying to essentially find someone to run the gaza strip and egypt was offered it, they said no way. they offered it to saudi, jordan, nobody wants a piece of it. israel never one of the gaza strip. in 1967, there was an open debate on whether they had to go into the gaza strip with most arguing that if they could get away with leaving it in egyptian hands, they would do it. it has always been a trouble area, so israel will probably have to militarily occupy the area and have insurgency operations for the perceivable future until someone accepts responsibility there. [applause] >> thank you. >> thank you for coming to speak with us and engaging with us. my question is about free speech. i'm a leftist. >> thank you for coming, seriously. i appreciate that. [applause]

>> i agree that there is a long way to go in terms of addressing free speech and the response factors, but one of the things i struggle with is sort of like this double standard of leftists being held to, where the right claims the left is the only side infringing on free speech. i think justice is bad for the left with strongman, a few conservatives and label them all as white supremacists. it seems like they label all leftists as nazis. the same way as banning employment opportunities for leftists who express their views, and saying that the same should happen for conservatives. do you think that the right has a long way to go in terms of free speech, as well, or this is a leftist issue? >> i think everybody can do

better on free speech. i think it is disproportionate the attacks on free speech in modern day and age. in 1965, they were probably more attacks on free speech from the right than the left, and today, the left and the right. some of the examples you are using, the example that everybody on the left, i think there are certain systems, but i think it is overstated. >> for example, let's give an example of high schools censoring types of speech, or the boycott of bud light. in many ways, that is similar to how the left cancels the right. >> this is a really good question. the reason why is because i think there is a category error that gets made with regard to these questions. what i mean by that is that it

is an element to free speech and leftists, too, and if people would like to boycott the speech and not, that is their prerogative. if i choose not to buy bud light, that is how i choose to use my money. when it comes to cancel culture, a category error. there are two questions, whether it deserves to be boycotted and the answer is that it is yes. and then there's is the question of who? this is where you see the imbalance. the left in the u.s., the overton window in which you have to operate to not earn a boycott is extremely narrow. for the right it is much wider but i would not say it is completely gone. i believe in the overton window. if i'm an employer, i cannot have a moral obligation to hire people who believe that hitler's was a gre guy -- hitler was a great guy. that is not me boycotting them in a way that is a violation of free speech principles.

they have a right to go and work in the u.s., they don't have a right to earn a job from me. i'm not calling them to be jailed. we have to separate public and private action in this area we are talking about. the big imbalance on the right, the overton window of the left is narrow. you can save mild things and get "canceled" on the right but if you are on the left, it is difficult to say something so transgressive that the entire world turns on you and you lose your job. you have to go a long way to get there. [applause] >> hi, i'm a huge fan. i'm asian, thank you for the callout. [laughter] >> dude, congrats on getting in. do they know your asian? [laughter] >> yeah, i hit the box.

so, i will get to serious business. three very short questions. the first one, do you think william shakespeare was an anti-semite? >> by the evidence in "merchants of venice," sure. it is in fact an anti-semitic work. doesn't mean it is a great work? no. i have a habit of trying to read great works and then understand there are terrible things and great works, nothing new. by the way, that is an enormous number of people historically. a lot of great literature and thinkers who were not fond. >> the second, do you think the tale of robin hood promotes socialism? >> [laughter] no. i think it is a fight over over taxation. the sheriff of nottingham -- [applause] [laughter] >> one last one.

i don't want to take up too much time. i don't know if you have heard of an anime character called sailor moon. do you thinks it -- do you think it promotes homosexuality and transgenderism? caller: >> i have heard of sailor moon. i do not know what it is. -- >> i have heard of sailor moon. i do not know what it is part are you asking about anime? is that happening in real life right now? >> i used to watch it. [laughter] i was just starting to realize that they seem to promote lesbianism and transgenderism in certain seasons. >> i have no specific views on whether sailor moon promotes transgenderism. [applause] >> thank you. >> thank you for coming. i'm caroline.

my question is do you think israel is in a race against time ? do you have a strategic vision before the u.s. becomes beholden to the left and its anti-israel bias? >> yes. the question is whether israel has got a short timeframe in order to ensure his own security for the future as the left gains power? the answer is yes. you have seen this slow walking from the biden administration despite congressional approval, and you have seen something similar from the harris administration, god forbid, and i think you are seeing a growing sentiment, not only on the left, but there is a growing concern on the right that is doing a routine that is counterproductive. by the way, the israelis know that, and that is why i think that they are restoring a lot of defense production and will be doing more in the near future. that is a problem for the u.s. the u.s. ought to have strong connections.

by the way, and leverage. and you would like there to be strong military connection with a wide variety of allies of the u.s. because it turns out that israel does not get arms from america, and america would like to hold a leash on israel, but what leash? i do something that offends establishment has always believed. they are in favor, at least in the modern era, of posting certain amounts of aid to israel because it gets spent in the united states, and additional military spending in israel has to be spent in the u.s. and gives the u.s. leverage over israel's foreign policy decisions. yes, israel is going to have to go and get more independent. and they know it. [applause] >> thanks for coming out today. i'm someone who used to be a democrat and became a republican after being exposed to

viewpoints such as yours. thank you what you do. [applause] i'm running for state representative here in connecticut as a republican. >> nice. >> thank you so much. my question is how do we appeal to younger people on the fence that could be swayed by republican values and they are not totally convinced by democrats but they may not think it is cool to be republican? what values or issues should be focused on? >> listen, it is not cool to be republican. it isn't. i think the values tend to be uncool. i never thought being cool was particularly important in life. as you might be able to tell. [laughter] with that said, i think the left has moved so far left that there is a rebellion. it turns out most people would like to succeed in life and thrive. most people in the u.s. wished to be lions. there is a matrix in my own head about everybody has their version of two kinds of people. here is one of those two over

some publications, there are lions and scavengers. there are people who would like to go out, achieve, community, family, innovate, the entrepreneurs, work a job, and make the best of the lack provided to their family. i think that america was built on that, and then there are scavengers, people who believe everything is owed to them, and the system in which they live needs to be torn away at, and it is a bad system that needs to be dissolved or needs to be wounded. i think the left praise on that -- preys on this anger against the system but the reality is there is no hope or building in that. once you tear away the only this time has provided prosperity, what do you do then? the property rights and the judeo-christian history of the west, once you tear that away, there's something left to build on. when you say to people i'm not here to give you a handout or to structure your life are you or

to make decisions on every little area of how you ought to live, but i'm here to tell you to get on your ass, work and you will succeed in america. if you work in america, you will succeed in america. very simple three rule that offends a lot of people, gradually before high school, don't have a baby before you get married, get a job. if you do these things, you will not be poor in the u.s. any obstacle i would like to help clear away. whether you are talking about big business pollution, the government, which i think is most of the problem, if we can tear that away and move that away so you can succeed, that i think is an inspiring message to people and give them hope for their own future. >> thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you so much for being here tonight. you mentioned ukraine briefly earlier. i wanted to get your take on what the perspective from a

foreign policy standpoint should be on the continuation of the war. i know you have been attacked by certain factions in the republican party, most notably tucker carlson, for your support for continued funding of ukraine. i sort of would like your take on what you think the endgame is in ukraine and what should be the approach from the u.s. foreign-policy perspective achieve that. >> my approach to ukraine contra what tucker perceives my approach to be is that the u.s. should continue to fund ukraine sufficient to maintain his current orders -- borders and pressure russia. ukraine is not going to take crimea, realistically speaking. the chance they will do that hezbollah since 2014. that's nothing new. i have said since august of 2022 that the best thing the u.s. could do would be to quickly ramp up military aid provided to

ukraine to pressure russia foreign offramp. and then, zelenskyy is in a bad position. you feel for him as a leader. his people have been absolutely -- zelenskyy is not in a position where he can say i will find a deal to giveaway crimea to sign it away. those two parts of ukraine tend to be pro-russian compared to other parts of the country. what the u.s. might have to do is basically cut a deal in lieu of zelenskyy. that might be something that has to happen where the u.s. coast or russia, if russia was willing to negotiate, and says, here's the deal. we will have a mutual aid guaranteed with ukraine, guarantee their security, you will not invade their borders anymore, but those lines get frozen where they are

essentially, and then you might have to console her. and if that sounds like a hawkish perspective, it is weird because that is the issue -- position donald trump has taken on the issue. >> thank you. [applause] >> thank you for being here. i would like to continue with the question about ukraine. we generally don't know the answer to the question i'm about to ask you, so i'm interested to hear what you think about it. several reasons were given by the pro-hamas activists on why they support hamas. hamas hates the west, but so does russia. israeli operations have killed many civilians, but russia use

this conscript and abductees from poor countries that go and sign, with the russian military on the front lines, and ukraine is funded by u.s. taxes, much of israel's military and israel's military gets a lot of aid, and ukraine has been a state for less time, less than half the time that israel has been a state. about seven times as many people have died in ukraine as in the entire israel-hamas or gaza war. my question is, seriously, i do not know the answer to this, but what is stopping someone who is pro-hamas and pro-palestinian from realizing this and supporting russia? >> looking for logic in these places is difficult. what is the position that is most cooler surely convenient? i don't think most of the

pro-hamas people on campus care deeply and pro-hamas is not care about ukraine and they tend to be more pro-russian than the opposite because russia is supportive of hamas, hezbollah and iran. the left-wing, this odd dichotomy between the pro-hamas position and the pro-russian and pro-zelenskyy and ukraine position, that dichotomy comes down basically, it is weird, but it comes down basically to a lot of people on the left really hate russia, not because they hate russia but they hate russia because they think they stole the election from donald trump in 2016. i'm serious. 2012, barack obama was on a stage with medvedev, telling him on a height microphone that he would make -- hot microphone that he would make concessions to putin if russia would leave off. i know you guys are young, but back in the olden days in 2012,

it was mitt romney on a stage arguing against russia, and the only thing that switched was the bizarre left-wing perception that russia had somehow made donald trump president which is not true. >> thank you. >> this will be the final question. >> thank you for speaking with us today. right is often used -- just this morning, i saw a post saying that about how today is not about october 7, 2023, and not about what happened in 1940 seven third i'm thinking, i was

thinking when it was conquered by the west. when discussing ownership or how should -- or if we do use it, how far back should we go? >> there are internal and external claims. internal claims, this is our land, a land that unifies us, and there's nothing new about that. as an external justifying claim, it tends to be a weak response, and it is not i ought to have this land because my great, great, great grandfather had this land.

and someone says, well, your grandfather got it for my great-grandfather. so it is more of a counterclaim. this sort of has an easier way to do that, with the world better if it looked more like israel, the west bank, or the gaza strip under hamas? that is a very simple question and easy to answer, nobody wants to answer it, but there is obscure patient -- obscuration and it is really what happened in 1947, or during the ottoman empire, and if you go all the way back to when this land was occupied by the crusaders, you can do that all day long. it is not actually prove anything or help anything and if

you would like to go back originally, most of the archaeology in israel dates back to second century bc when it was jewish. this is particularly the claim and we know it is a week claim because nobody at yale is proposing to give up this beautiful university to the american -- native american tribes were originally possessed the land. that sort of claim, i think, is a misdirect and a red herring. i think the people who use it definitely no that it is a red herring in order to avoid the obvious, which is everyone in the world, by the way, including israeli arabs are perfectly happy living in israel and nobody wanted to leave or live in the gaza strip or the west bank. >> thank you. [applause] >> thank you so much.

hosted this event. >> please welcome ms. sioux falls and executive director of the army women's foundation. >> good afternoon. i am former assistant secretary of veterans affairs and proud army veteran. welcome army women and guests. [laughter] we would like to welcome our special guest starting with the highest ranking veteran ever in the executive branch deputy depy secretary veterans affairs the honorable tonya bradsher. would you mind standing up,

ma'am? go army. principal deputy secretary for the assistant excuse me, the assistant secretary of the army of manpower affairs ma'am? our many other distinguished guests ladies and gentlemen welcome to the 2024 army foundation leadership symposium. we know eight usa offers many exciting events angst to see and do we appreciate you have made time to be here with us at the very best and at this afternoon. i may have added lived there. in addition to sponsoring such as this one that foundation tells the stories of women who have served in the active army reserves the national guard. we provide scholarships to army women and their descendents.

we induct women soldiers into the army women's foundation hall of fame. a usa partner. we support and partner with u.s. army museum court greg adams we are partnered e-mail mentoring and morale program which you will see very closely partner josie a lot of information in the back on them. you will hear more about that. as part of highlighting the service of women in the u.s. army we are proud to have highlighted the six aaa world war ii post that's comprised entirely of black women. black women who served with distinction world war ii in 2016 they were inducted in the u.s. army women's foundation hall of fame and annually we give a scholarship honoring six aaa. i want to say to point out the new movie starring cary kerriwashington will premiere in select theaters on the on netflix later that month so

please, enjoy that. if you do not already follow social media we have brochures she said. somewhere. these in the back. piquant upper scan the qr code follows we have a lot of exciting things coming up. sign up for monthly newsletter. today we are partnering with enhancing health the moderators today will be first lieutenant general and transformation officer and strategic oversight first woman surgeon general in the united states army commanding general of the nights its medical command.

our second moderator west point classmate and dear friend brigadier general retired and mcdonald u.s. army retired. the president of the united states women foundation and the first class include women. served 31 years in the army as an aviator she certified executive coach of the serves as a senior mentor for the work college. general take it away. >> thank you very much. what a great view. fantastic. we have a very relevant and powerful topic. our panel tonight will share professional insights and experiences focusing on army women, their health and opportunities that lie ahead. we are grateful for our

partnership in this incredibly talented group of leaders. women have served in the revolutionary war. the army, i just heard this. women have served in the army since the revolutionary war. we say that often. but, what a profound statement? today with all military specialties open to women, increased opportunity for leadership and advancement, opportunities to challenge themselves physically and mentally, access to educational benefits and healthcare, the army has become more attractive for women to serve. in fact a women account for 19% of the total army force. we have nearly 2 million living

women veterans. and with that, let's get started introduce our panelists. general please lead us home. >> it is my distinct honor to introduce lieutenant general mary kay u.s. army surgeon general commanding general of the u.s. army medical command. forty-six surgeon general overseas the health and readiness of our soldiers and families ensuring world-class care across the globe. she has earned a doctorate of osteopathic medicine, multiple advanced degrees served as a commanding general of the readiness command and the commander of army center with that military service decorated with numerous, numerous, numerous honors. please join me and welcoming lieutenant general.

[applause] and a mother of five. >> is my privilege introduce brigadier general the director of the defense health network for the national capitol region under the defense health agency. general oversees more than 12000 staff members, serving active duty service members and tricare beneficiaries. general holds a phd's commanding general brooke army medical center brigadier general. [applause] >> i have the honor to introduce. my privilege introduce her. she is the director at the u.s.

department of veterans affairs. the secretary of veteran affairs. is responsible for policies and programs that impact the lives of women veterans. she served in the u.s. air force as a critical care there transport works with team rubicon her dedication to service both on and off the battlefield continues to improve the lives of veterans nationwide. please join me in welcoming her. [applause] it's my honor to introduce brown she began her to distinguish army career as a private first class in 1991 rising through the ranks to become the first african-american female to command the 8:30 six transportation battalion the 59th ordnance brigade at fort bragg adams. two-time recipient bobby burke

award she holds two masters degree soldiers and critical so i'm including deployments iraq. colonel brown's leadership to mentorship continue to inspire of army leaders please join me in welcoming the chief of staff of the first theater sustainment command the founder of the female mentoring program colonel brown. [applause] >> it is my distinct pleasure to introduce sgt first class a decorated paralympic swimmer and comeback of medic and that u.s. army army medicine should be very loud and proud. sgt first class join the army at just 17 years old.

following her family's legacy of service. after sustaining serious injury during her deployment to iraq, she discovered a passion for swimming. quickly rising to become a world-class athlete. she has competed and earned 10 metals, to gold and three paralympic games making her the most decorated athlete in army world-class program history. [applause] eight dedicated advocate for military and adaptive sports to resilience and determination are truly inspiring. please join me and welcoming sgt first class. [applause] >> okay. let me get a quick overview of the agenda and what you can expect. we have one hour of moderated

discussion followed by 30 minutes of audience question and answer. we will return to the panel for final thoughts from our panelists and wrap it up. we will be using the term army women throughout today's conversation. when we say army women this is meant to encapsulates all women in the army who are currently serving in uniform. and women who have served and veteran populations. i will begin with the first question. this first question will be for all of you. what are the most critical issues facing army women today? in general start with you. >> thank you so much general mcdonald. first about the fantastic opportunity to be in the room is so many friends and family. i look out and see many of you for making such a difference in our army today.

and i am just inspired to think you for the opportunity to have this perch. women in the army today. i thought about this a lot. i recently had an experience to spend some time with some amazing women in the home base in boston. here major and also casey clark. my discussions with them shape my answer to this question. there are medical issues that are and not any specific. but then there are cultural issues, social issues and that is where our discussion went. women in the military today is the general mcdonald mention, of more opportunity. this more places to serve, more demand on their talent. there's also a lot of areas they

still want to view all of the things that we've enjoyed doing before. this finding is areas the faces impact women's health or physical health or mental health their emotional health. how do we look at serving at the highest levels bringing women should bear in the army while also acknowledging the successes, joys and roles they play in their community. giving them permission to have those discussions per will be talk about health of women in the military and specifically the army we got to acknowledge those roles. how do we take steps as leaders and as a community to discuss those realities featuring those conversations into the daylight

so that we can then address those issues and address a trade-off that's healthy for both ourselves and our community. >> i think i will pick up where you left off from that i would love to expand on the idea of the power that berman women bring to our u.s. army. we look at the literature for women leaders it's interesting we talk about people first leaders. when they analyze 360 analysis of leadership traits make leaders successful. women tend to outperform men on 13 of the 17 traits. it's about the last 10 years the kinsey organization is an analysis of women in the c suite two but when the bailment is more than three those companies outperform other companies on the fortune 500. that's pretty exciting, right? the reason i bring that up is

often times the disconnect between what we want to do in our community and what we are doing at work sometimes feels it's not enough or give our all. i want to make sure women leaders know in the army that you are doing enough. and you should give yourself a little bit of grace, right? the data supports that when you have men and women together leading organizations, that organization does better. and so to me that grace is important as we talk with overall health and well-being of women leaders in army. >> first of all, thank you so much for having me. i don't have the army loud voice that you will have. a couple of the things that are critical issues. number one, one of the biggest hurdles we've seen is the lack of self identification.

for women to not self identify leads to a gap and disconnect to be able not just to serve but they've earned it by a nature of them serving. with that, part of the reason for lack of self identification is trust. there's a lack of trust for a variety of reasons part of its internal part of its external. how society treats, recognizes and views women's contributions. and finally, one of the other things we have been working on is not only build but to rebuild the trust. the va we have here is not the same va we had 10 years ago but not in the same from five years ago or three years ago for the so many legislation that have come to pass including the impact act, service acts, serves to empower and increase women veterans services. the veterans health care system. and then a with that, the other thing is one of the critical

issues that still plague many of the services is having the proper gear for women to be able to serve. especially protective care. it's the number one claim that veterans come to us for. part of that is that lack of proper gear that fits them to not only properly protect them but also for them to have the longer retention that they could have with proper equipment. correct most critical issues facing the army today? quickset is such a great question. i will tell you when you mentioned the morale program goes out to receive information what problem issues both military and civilian in the formation of government offices. there are three main areas that stand out to us that we always want to bring in. i cannot to more than enough to support everything they've all

stated. some of the main issues had been brought back our equality means acceptance and acceptance means equality. in our formation in our offices are ritually accepted? or were equal to our counterparts? are there still some stigmas some military cultures that exist? the army is not where the problem exists, its individuals. so we have individuals with that change the culture and the mentality of thought process. when we sit equal people first strategy we have to exhibit that on a daily basis. so being accepted which means she will truly be equal. the second one is, when to have a family. when do people have families? how do you plan a family in the military? if you want to be the strong leader who happens to be a woman, how do you plan a family? this is not what i recommend for anyone. i had my first after my platoon leader died i had mine after

second command but i recommend that for anyone else? absolutely not. do it when you believe you want to have family with whoever you want to do it how you want to have it break time it for what makes sense for you. i was letting uncle sam dictate when my family started to live a six year gap between my children. that's because i was married to uncle sam. i hate to say that because i told my husband you might be my side piece. [laughter] uncle sam gets my one 100% but i had to rethink that. how do i mentor the next generation? think about you and your family. when you get that flag that says thank you for your service who will be sent in the receiving it with you? third, the final thing is how do we measure up to unattainable standards? i say that because the unsustainable standards they keep raising the bar. we need a bar they keep raising the bar we meet again we go back to the first to people in your

offices and your formations well, we change the army program. for women. did you really? where do with the army told us to do. until you stop saying that we are changing things just to fit you you will truly understand we are going to do it tell us that if the army tells us to make 600 points or the army tells us to make whatever we have to were going to go out and attain it. set a standard and stop blaming us for having to change it. those are the three main things separate from what they're talking about. they are my heroes. i want you to know i'm listening to take notes too. those are some main things we hear in formations of thank you. >> most critical issues facing army want you to know i'm listening to take notes too. those are some main things we hear in formations of thank you. x my answer is incredibly simple and complicated. i have the distinct pleasure and

honor of working with ill, sick, injured service members from all branches of the service member of that community and i get to mentor it now. the overarching issues that we are having is trust and confidence. >> thank you each raise very critical issues. can you talk a little bit about what is occurring when you start with you pick. >> thank you. i think we talked about the tension between your performance in the profession and the performance in your community and family. you talked about the timing of when to have children. the fact is there is a huge overlap between when you serve in the military and when you may want to have a family. whether that's a short window or

a broad window but there is is an overlap there. regarding reproductive support. being open to timing that acknowledged that some more than six weeks. i have the chance to have several children with a six week policy. and then i had the chance to have a child with a 12 week policy. makes a big difference i wrote to my bare feet hit the concrete floor i probably needed shoes in addition to everything else.

there is that piece. there's normalizing integrating. whether it's part of it not having these other things. yes, this is normal for this is part of what we do. the mentorship programs. so one of things women do incredibly well is coming together we learn from one another we could have shared experiences allows us each to build upon that. combined of the policy solutions it does not mean it's easy.

her options for us to do that. we had the distinct pleasure working of the defense health agency. she has given us rear clear guidance. [applause] our job is to make it easier for you to access your care. and make sure we, as a healthcare system meet you where you need is to be met. what does that mean here in the national capitol region? we have opened up an additional 12000 primary care plummets a month that we did not have a year ago. for behavioral health 46 more appointments a month. and where we are going and next, which is very exciting. i want you to think for a moment when you have a healthcare issue no matter what it is, what did you really want when you call that number? i bet it is not an appointment.

it is a solution. we have trained you very well that when you call because you have a healthcare needs were going to give an appointment on the other end. in d.c. that means you get on the beltway and you drive to see us. which is no fun. what she has challenged us with is to get out there, leveraged technology and's see what you can be met. improve how we do virtual care so that when you meet a healthcare need that first call giving you a resolution. how do we get rid of steps not value added to you? you are getting the value you need. we talk about navigating women have in addition to being an army soldier, officer is it all takes time. we become more efficient and how to meet your need than allow you to excel in your job here in the army paid that is what we are going to be doing and i'm really

excited. we are going to roll this out so to rolling out a national capitol region, the vision is going to continue to improve or change of military healthcare. >> thank you so much. there are quite a few things that va has been doing in regard to addressing these critical issues. one of them i wanted to highlight is in that va health science research and develop have a network called the women's health research network whose primary person is to look at to conduct research specifically geared for women veterans to understand the unique needs and challenges they have facing not only as a transition some they have been trends they been seeing while in service as well as how do we as the va become more agile and responsive to those unique and changing needs? another thing we have been working on this is actually talked about one of the things we have had a scene of the

biggest hurdles. in the advocacy particularly to regain and rebuild the trust for women's veterans everywhere. so much so between 2023 and 2024 we had the highest number of women veteran in the history of ea. 53000. 53000. [applause] this over 2 million women veterans were working toward getting them all connected. however obviously we need every single one of you. we cannot do this alone. ba is not the panacea for everything but we are not everywhere, but you all are. you are in every town, every community, every village, tribal territory, and so we cannot do this alone. and so to make sure we are able to reach and spread the word of what those benefits and services are and how to access them we

need all of society to connect and partner with us to be able to do that. the last thing i want to address is well is one thing we have been working internally is making the va a more welcoming environment for women veterans. how many of you have into the women's health clinics in the va in any va? some of you guys. okay great but it's not the same women's health clinic we have been in some did not even have a women's health clinic before. it's one of the things we have been doing is making sure we have a space and place for women veterans to be able to go there. to make sure they are in an environment that's welcoming to them. the va has over one or 56 medical centers across the board five are named after women paid .four are named after women veterans. you are probably thinking okay that's not a lot. but if you look at the numbers of the years of when it happens.

between the first and second this over 12 years in between. between the second and third is over 30 years in between the third, fourth, fifth renaming of the medical centers after women veterans, started in 2021. twenty-one, 22, 23 named after women veterans that meets congressional legislation is not just arbitrary from us. just saying the push that we have not only internally but from all of society and all of you to recognize a service and contribution of women veterans is significant. to get those types of actions and activities to happen is a testament to what you are doing out there in the community to recognize the contribution of women veterans. >> thank you. >> so, how are we addressing the issue? the mentioned morale program is a grassroots organization we

want to hold the army leadership that starts at every echelon possible. so for everything we are working but whether it's a veterans comment to the medical fields, we have separate leaders that supported soldiers so they can go out and take care of the needs be take care of these issues. that is trusted. we have to trust our leaders. but wait, our leaders have to be trustworthy. how do we do that? we provide a safe environment where our women are able to come to us and say how can i get some help? how do i address the concern without a complaint a statement behind addressing an issue where i have a concern in somebody's not listening. in order to address would bring this to the leadership and see if you're truly committed to people for strategy, if you are truly committed to where we are as far as getting rid of the harmful behavior how will you

support the person coming to you? we have to build that trust by bringing the leadership involved. i will explain that a little later commit themselves to saying i will not only lead this organization but i will be the conduit to ensure you receive the support and care you have assets for. that you have committed to receive from the army because you commit yourself to giving your life to us. and from there, how do i ensure you have the mental support, and psychological support the physical support this going to make you be the best fighting soldier but the best mother, best wife what ever you are out there. that starts with how we care for you. and so we have the leaders of the days on the roles and responsibility of care for soldiers that means truly caring for them.

i think everyone at every level can help with trust it's art internally can you be trusted? when i was injured i was angry and felt very alone. when i went through the warrior transition in the meat believe i was worth something. it was not necessarily the entire process or experience but encourage me too fight to stay so i could be that for someone. people deserve you. people deserve your leadership. if you think no one cares, i do. hopefully, hearing them speak about the initiatives and we intend to put all of her weight behind do not forget you have just as much area you never know with that private is going to you never know with the what the specialist is going through.

being someone who came who is being relied on is the first step in rebuilding trust. it helped rebuild my trust that the military. [applause] note the military therapies are open to all services what changes in total health or patterns of injury are becoming more apparent for army women? i like this experience. >> in any given year over half the soldiers will get injured and have a musculoskeletal injury that's almost twice as much as any collegiate professional sports. very gross data they have more injuries than men.

first women are doing a fantastic job the student unit care, scenic intervention the suny returned to duty. please do not stop doing that. men tend to delay when they get their care a little bit in the data. that data is a little bit slower to come up. if you balance the data for fitness levels the levels start to look similar. what do i mean by that? historically women tend to have a little bit more aerobic endurance but maybe less strength and power. i think h2 f you will hear now

that we have equipment we close that gap. i think we'll talk about the program will impact that a little more. the other thing that's interesting is that we roll this out as before was treated just in the physical. specialists and stories coming out and brought up a couple times as the equipment. where the surgeon general i i think you got to put on the

first that was made for a women a set of women wearing equipment made for men. that will actually help decrease injury as we get more equipment like that. to include military cleaning a couple your study on sports bras and what type of sports bras do we need to actually excel in roles and responsibilities. it's different than athletes very much flame resistance because of where were at what were doing. there is a unique need we are learning from the straining defense force a military version of a sports bra. all the sins will end up helping decrease industries as we go forward. you see in the va will change the numbers as you move forward. >> beautiful segue. what are you seeing at the va? >> quite a few things in it for we talked a little bit about the

biggest number one claim toxics exposure we have seen an increase in numbers toxic exposures screening. especially the opening to open up those exposures to all genders as well. with that there has been through the impact act there are several reproductive cancers that have been disarmed as a presumptive. obviously depending upon where the been deployed, those exposures led to the increase but reproductive cancers. one of the things also we have

seen is the increased and encouragement and self help seeking behavior. there is a lot of mental health, as we know for this a lot of mental health needs for our population has. our timeline one of things and in vahas is the vet center. get support from the mental health standpoint without jeopardizing some of the potential clearance because there is a bit of a firewall between that support. finally, the other thing i would say is that because there is an increased recognition there is a need for mental health support, there is a lot more peer-to-peer

support that is happening. not only in the veteran community bit in the military community. the closer collaboration between the military and the veteran community of how do we help each other? not only extend our journey through our service but how do we then have a better process and have a better journey when we become veterans? >> thank you very much. >> we are going to pivot just a little bit on topics. and so we are going to move into reproductive health. and so what i would like to ask is what are the barriers being broke at and what policies have change for army women around maternal health, pregnancy and postpartum? when i came on active duty in 1982 or actually 1983 just shortly before that they change the policy that when you got pregnant you could stay on

active duty. prior to that you had to leave. so it is meant a transition for many, many years. i'll start with our surgeon general paradox what a great segue to transition. it hasn't. think about that with that short period of time we have gone from you had to get out when you became pregnant to seeing pregnancy as part of what you expect during this time of our life. it's a natural overlap. what is the army done? there's a few things. the parental leave i mentioned in passing earlier. i want that to sit with us for a moment. our secretary the policy around parental leave is not just their job to care for the child is not just the birthing parent that's

huge. we should not let the significance of that get lost on us. and that allows what we talked about earlier as women look to made the trade off with their families it gives those families choices. it acknowledges those realities. so i think that is a huge one. there is also, as we are part of the military health system, how do we ensure we minimize the barriers women face when the contraceptive clinics, the walk-in contraceptive clinics across the military health system. it's a way to ensure across the board that our soldiers have access to those forms of contraception. they can plan their family. there is also once someone has a

pregnancy identified that is not an illness. so again what? what? people can be pregnant and soldier athletes? absolutely. so the fact -- but there's a time when we believed women could not even run marathons. because they were picked. now we understand is her understanding has increased. the facts the pregnancy and postpartum program integrated into the app is part of the norm. one of my previous aids it just had a baby in company command. in company command was part of her postpartum pregnancy program right until she delivered and she is so excited to get back into it. isn't that wonderful? instead of having to not look people in the eye because you're pregnant and hide it but you can actually celebrate it not only with your family but your unit. i think all those are wonderful

milestones in our program. [applause] >> first of all acknowledge that yesterday we went from women cannot run a marathon because we don't have the health to do so, to breaking a world record yesterday when it went it to our 10 minute marathon for the first time yesterday in chicago. it's a great milestone yesterday. [applause] i really went impacted pregnancy and post- partisan program. it was developed a few years ago with the idea of how do we safely allow women to exercise while they are pregnant? today is how do we allow women to thrive while they are pregnant and in their postpartum. when the surgeon general we had some really good data. it showed about two thirds of the women felt that because of the pregnancy postpartum pt program and played they could return to the unit and pass the

pt test. they gave them hope they could stay as a soldier in the united states army. isn't that fantastic, right? a program that delivered exactly what we were hoping it would. pt programs, there was women in material electoral communion is the part of that community felt like the coaches out there were there to actually help them through their attorney that the coaches were having the specifically deal with the pregnancy first part of phase, newer actually having their docr significant other, for the children so that they could commit and continue the road to recovery was time for them to return, they would be ready to return pretty but they also wanted the community is printed by the program, because they

wanted to ask questions with other women that were there postpartum because there again were not having families in her hometown couple having multiple hours away but we do not have that distant relatives they're able to help us is emigrating a sense of community, only go through the pregnancy more optimistic they can actually family be able to serve and so i'm pretty excited about that in the city think they whether brig up that really kind of the lastn years is really about, help after pregnancy. specifically dealing with things like confidence realizing that those are muscles they get stretched out a during delivery and actually some of the best evidence for physical therapy is actually in it pelvic region really hoping to treat in confidence on postpartum really making sure the people are able to get back to full activity. just to kind of normal license

almost 303 force of gymnast having confidence because all of the requirements and is to be sold or than at post pregnancy on top of that until having for the sick and a physical therapist on the journey to recovery supporting we gotten a lot of good evidence of this value over the last decade. >> yes and i want to highlight what she just stated. where we have come from inner journey, that is so important to understand going to go. but we have to first make sure the women understand that you cannot be afraid coming cannot be alone, and not ashamed of your pregnancy and is not a disease and it is nine months pretty yes and you can truly back to who he worked if you work at but here's what we think the leaders and because for all of the help information that we received that soldiers

individual help the doubled the leaders responsible that we could that helping care some of our women are afraid to tell and i had a conversation just last week with a young lady is that i did not want to tell anybody that i was pregnant really do not want to be judged differently pretty challenges if you don't tell them you pretty boy to go out there and try to do all of the thinkers up as we going as a nonpregnant soldier pretty and you can risk yourself and your baby. also causing your own initial stress of trying to prove to them here's to soldier at that you truly going to a different set of your body is over the healthcare which make sure that the leaders do not make the women feel that their them well here we go, she pregnant i get usurped braided that happens i'm a very visual person so i can see and read facial experiences and expressions and body language so somebody would they rolled her eyes, will here we go, i read everything i just

after they just wrote me off. they just might say i could no longer be viable for whatever opportunities will be out there for the counterparts and the no stresses out that soldiers know she will feel ashamed and how do we as leaders provided environment that not only am i happy soldier in the united states army. it. [laughter] [laughter] [applause] [applause] >> how do i do that and so we have to encourage that if you start of him let me have you do it the right way. start of the saying, look make sure the person is in the right physical training classes, going to do their medical appointments and by the way commit can't be a single point of failure just make sure we know that in your office so that if you have to take any are you have to go, somebody's going to take over for you predict will have to

prepare soldiers for that as well leaders have to understand they have to promote that in understanding the barriers think their own internal barriers but also leaders without knowing it can cause barriers of facial expressions body language stereotypes or just a behavior makes a woman not want to share this great news that she was a mother and hopefully continue to get back productive human beings to our society. >> yes, they've actually been hard to reproductive care as well to think that we been doing is actually comprehensive care and that means lifecycle the reproductive face. so prenatal, delivery, and postpartum i just ignore fight, don't actually do the deliveries, the care but, initially provided that will cover has severe for the

veterans the other thing that i would add is that since 2023, they postpartum care actually expends a few weeks to know when you're. why is that important, because maternal mental health socially important part of the journey. and we cannot address the help to ensure that not only for our women veterans to come back longer after the delivery, but also to go back to who they are rich like the conversation we were talking about because going back to becoming a soldier for us are veterans he feeling is very protective number of society as well after that every. so with asthma the other things that we been working on is actually increasing and expanding telehealth until mental health services so that addresses not only video graphics but also so much constraints and someone can't not go physically to be when we

actually provide tele- mental health support as well and finally, delivery effective health initiative setpoint we have several particular services that we continue to expand be number one responsive to the needs for the women veterans but also were being agile to new challenges that we see in one of us the standpoint fertility assistance and intervention in the case of pregnancy and complications and finally we also have family-planning and whether a person is a single veteran or their it any other particular status that they have to make sure that we are there is a bargain for women veterans to their lives. >> thank you very much and i will just this to the generals

and you both mentioned about h2 us in some of the comments so holistic health and fitness is so if you could tell us of the more about how i can help the women take control of their health and well-being. >> yes so i think it's fantastic example of a program to begin safe the impact on spoke soldiers across the board and so justice center us all so they found five pillars and recently conversation we've already have, you can think of where please when applied e-mails so mental, physical, nutrition, spiritual and near and dear to your heart for the triad and so as we look at how that impact plumbing soldiers pretty well want to show you the story is published in women's health, just as last

month there's so curious. that i told the soldier, especially can't experience something that we may have experiences she after having an injury, so that she felt like you've been placed in bubblewrap. that's medical immunity was actually expecting much less of her and she had goals for herself and very significant injury and so it's understandable from the medical safety standpoint really going to she said something from a family physician but i told her wrist really convicted me about an okay how do we remove the bear but maybe health and holistic fitness and birth units, addressing those different areas like the second place that she should be addressed and he said my doctopn

the hospital said let me know how we would address my injury, my team asked me my goals were. for myself and as a soldier, so injury for significant in them talk about her being able to walk again and she said i'm not only what walk again, i want to see that soldier i was before i wanted to be that water treatment specials that was able to carry the equipment was able to be part of a team until he helped her address, those physical areas the treatment with physical therapist assistants and strength and conditioning coaches but then he also talked about how made her feel tobin team the nail to see this baby will get to handle her with kid gloves and she said i don't want to be handled with kid gloves and comes back to

some of those expectations of a talk about as well it to be a superhero. so she has also talked about how that 82f community gave her space to discuss what it meant to be true to her team in recovery and herself all at once and thrilled to tell you the special can't his out there, doing her water treatment missionary carrying heavy things and she told me that her goals moving forward similarly have any limitations. i want to go out and do this marathoner activity cleanup take on the next challenge of being a vet tech, were she wanted to go to the me that was incredible to you that straight not only addressing the physical, from the soldier's perspective in getting a safe space does the

other thing that i took away from our discussion medical providers she said they asked me about myself like all of a sudden, very personal fasten i needed time to get another nh to have about that space so the power of not limiting of soldiers care and recover just to the medical organization but bringing a that into the formation things and powerful and specifically a great for people soldier. >> so when we think about health and fitness we also under think of it is new and i want to step back really started in 1996, was rangers going up the time, by the time he actually decided they had an injury ♪ ♪ to madigan, they were getting met ported they said how do you turn this around sweep of the

first physical therapist in the ranger regimen 1996 and then athlete warrior program into while people to build that trust to go get care early on when che early on, then you can actually mitigate the risk of getting diseases so that it to the special forces communities because the first physical therapist and special forest and to become wanda the same concept that we rolled out triad in 2014, on the army focused on sleep activity and nutrition industry, because it's really about that trust the talk but there's so critical to happens when we push medical resources into the unison to give united posted at age two of you resource units are 50 percent were left let me know to be a physical therapist 63 percent more likely to gussy occupational therapist and their 80 percent more likely see a registered dietitian they see

them every day. they feel they have trust. if you like you can go in and get help. and that team is there to encourage them on their journey so i think that's a real secret sauce that it really is about creating those relationships with medical so that you can trust seek of early so they can help you earlier in the process because there easier to treat early on then farther down the road. >> if we continue the conversation i would like to direct the question to the next person. >> you have had incredible journey pretty joined the army at age 17, today you are say all services the most decorated athlete in the history of the world-class athlete program. intel's about that in your story how did you hear what you doing today to have a new were running out of time so try to make this

as brief as possible but in order to give context to what military have to give up two different resumes will clippers when is that the top multiple brain injuries and ocular injuries that could drink elementary bilateral hip injury, and amputated left 11 and as more specifically survival skills by the resumes that i have ten metals, i have 14 records, 23 american records. and i was inducted into the hall of fame the army and these are very different on paper into different very people. throughout my journey i was injured in iraq in 2010, survived life supported 2014, an individual application 2017. throughout this journey have had three very separate experiences with military medicine as a combat medic that took the very

hard was injured in iraq you can feel like i had support and everybody told me all things that i would never do again like you mentioned. i was angry ♪ ♪ my father is a vietnam veteran accident i want to get out of the army of the readiness it right down the make them keep you. we had. throughout the journey, it was people to my left and right that helped me stay in pretty was the master sergeant during the transition who help me understand how to navigate and the return for case manager to help with me when is been told it was selfish to stay. i still because i wanted to be that person and i was just so happened ask to become an athlete along the way and swimming was reason for me to continue so that i was physically fit and live it out about a thing called games that were your games in life. mentally very unwell was

stuffing things down lying to people because i did not want to be perceived as weak. i found number of people to become part of my forever family who allowed me to be weak to be stronger for it printed so now i've had the privilege of mentoring and advocating for adaptive sports are all branches of the serviceman many of our lives between warrior games and a lot of due to health official health foundation help me to do that pretty so i journey has been colorful i will keep this brief is that for now but i wanted to take him to the end of that pretty through every situation, it was different when it came off life support from the world-class athlete program wrap their arms around me and told me you will feel would be better believe will be here with you because of the love and support from a because of believing in me, with ten metals. there's no more concrete truth and being there for people believing them they don't believe in themselves, greatest

superpower we can have. there's a piece of my story. [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause][applause] [applause] >> i've had the privilege of watching the sergeants resilience and actions of when the strongest most of all, soldiers and women that i have ever met had the privilege to serve with and so proud of you. >> thank you. >> so be transition hard

transition now story though so amazing you wouldn't transition with the criminal talk a little bit about the female mentally mentoring the opportunity to welcome one of them listen of any's very powerful program that heard her sister started so if you tell us about a. >> my pleasure as a matter of fact, the great segue because the feeling that she just had to explain to you why we do what we do so the female mentor program started back in 2020 when it had 13 women come to me and asked me all different times for mentorship and so when they could mentor 13 women at different times dave mother you to try to do each one individually so i said when we just come together to ensure the something that i said one rustic that with another so we send talk in a day and during the session was a captain pulled me

aside at the end. she will be that she needed help and i won't go into details on what she needed help with but i explained her from a now i cannot in here this what you need help with that have a lot of printed out take action because ptsd, they did around to call on sergeant prichard printed out have a kernel to call a bit now thank you so medical her. how do we help. said individual by full potential attention but i know expended to say the program yet specifically for those individuals that need help hands wrapped around them so 13 women entered into 49 and 45 next time that this 45 turning to 79 i've split have so many that extra something with your story, how did you become a kernel pretty so within the program had expanded the one chapter in

2020, to know 58 current and future chapters, the very start matter fact and thursday will launch cadet command chapter so cannot printed brown did not have the program that she could come to a site i need 72 explained to me some of the mentors and been our lives with a female all-inclusive program meeting you hear the word female first for men and women to come together very man avoid you have to have a female mentoring i always explain that for every husband masonic father, humble, nephew, brother, who has a family member, the wants to join the army be part of something bigger so that they overcame home and say hey i've been denin opportunity the device that something appropriate to me fore forward you want to do if that was mother, sister, daughter wife, girlfriend or niece and

you probably want to take action everybody in unison almost came back and said absolutely i called somebody's commander called rg i would call at leader national great. so with that, somebody that works has a husband and son nephew uncle, brother, misplace wife daughter sister aunt niece and so with that cover the reason that you're so important in this as that man to this program, army policies. then as we continue to break various we need out support female mentor from around program is there to one mentor provided would you say this and call about in the lt. captain getting will be to the col. getting entered in second lt. prichard brown first came up and set to see that looks like me to tell me how the woman, on young girl because that's what it was

at that time i can be a soldier pretty as you become it to the col. and she sits over here everyday and civic i think will had not been for you, tell me what you went through, i got there be my cheerleader to say that you can do this. might not be here. get back to say we're going to help you not giving you the answers i don't want you to go through what i went through. but how do help you through this we had sessions of the executive board that lead in executive summary errands of our but i also have a man program as well not only a strong advocate for this program, but there how can i make it better for my sister's nuts in the program that we are not only involved in army regulation policy, but were focused number five on the women's initiative team, were they change policy for the trade-off environment, but also the army women's initiative

team, we have partnership with because our sisters in arms making and that gentlemen are making a difference in changing policy for the rv itself are key focuses female mental programs have chapters around the army because this much as i would like to be for everyone, i can't read who should we hold responsible leadership so wanted to civic leaders there with commanding general level at one of our biggest supporters as general gary britto the general palmdale retired in general retired will this is an army endorsed program to where we sat with the army secretary of the honorable clinics like what we needed she's linguist only do i want to help, but how do we help encourage next-generation women to join the army and continue to contribute to this but men and women work well together. as you already heard about when we work well together we produce

a great product we produce a great army some of those of you if you had an opportunity you see samples outside get qr codes in social media there and you will sign up on every hopefully soon to be every installation but quite a few installations out there to command level commanding general of the lombardy to under to be the first tuesday and command that allows me to go practice what i preach pretty as a staff officer to senior for this staff, hello i provide that environment that is safe platform for men and women to come together to address concerns that help women reach their full potential thank you. [applause] [applause] [applause] >> we have her a lot today beloved women carry in the hopeful role so we have especially female service members. so would like to do have each one of you plan how we really

doing as women, women in the army, women serving, women that are retired, women that veterans swim going to start with the general. >> smith when you talk about any group that large you have a full braided answer so i think that we have some folks who are striving in reaching when they see as their greatest potential success similarly struggling. what i thank you so when supernovae is that we do have more permission hopefully we can see the increase that permission to either share your victories and joyce not feel shy about those successes also be something women my runner as well as share we have challenges an appeal that there can be strength involving ability and so i love what they said as far

as the ability to be vulnerable and strong at same time being vulnerable to something you just talk to be more difficult to be vulnerable that it shut off and so, i think were at an exciting time i believe that there are those options to support both of those who are experiencing external successes and those who redefine their success when there's in the professional and personal sometimes both and we can have those hard conversations. to normalize that, then we are outside of where we are the only ones. i think where we'll see victory is widely stop having to say, she, first because it is not. [applause] [applause] >> so being the glass breaker that is one thing and being the trail maker is another.

and so after you break the glass, and then let's make sure the trail is built so that others may follow and we will all flourish because of that. it. [applause] [applause] >> you know, there is a lot that we can answer the question but what i think about the challenges that i have heard, from other females in the military, i think what we are doing now in this base of missile readiness is incredibly important, and really kind of thinking about the entire landscape. so everything from online resources to open how do you manage life stresses and challenges that you are facing as you going to do facing a personal and professional life. two preclinical resources that are out there for you, whether that be chaplains no training

counseling whether that is your influx or whether that is military one source or clinical that we are opening up the door to not just have face-to-face appointments and group appointments that's more a lot more virtual appointments we can be aware you did it best i think whatever you challenges, as women go through, i think that the solution that the army has been rolling out that's a very holistic way of looking at buildings the mindfulness prevention standpoint company a whole suite of services for when you are having a challenges think that's a great place for us to be in hopefully, will be soon about that 20 percent markup women in the army because really 12 big initiatives that she put in place, make it really easier to be the families to be in the military but i think open source. >> very nice. >> number one, it's a lot to

impact that in effect depending upon which slice of pie you look at, have a variety of answers for that but one of the things that we sleep tingly when women veterans are a couple of areas there's an increase in demand and demand education and educational artist like you have a place that i meant to have any tell paulson conferences i have found it with a sick i wish i would've known. were really cover this when we were going through the top program and there's a lot of demand for awareness and also demand for community building. it's very isolating when you are let's say that class potentially building woman that is there. and then your unique needs question sometimes does not get answered because you are in a sea of well so you questions that not look that is really important.

nothing receipt the demand of this for direct mission of art soon as we talked a bit earlier that 90 percent of service population and a little pop quiz, many reports to think are named after women just in general. >> just name maybe about two. one and a half. [laughter] >> and so the reason that i bring this up this is not just while i look at that veteran community society and how our society senate contribution of women it is not been on part without the contribution for about counterparts it's like to get anybody is just is what it is and certainly not some because the women having contributed to the aviation

industry, and is also the same thing with the of women veterans and so, the how we are doing is we need more recognition of the services of women veterans contribution and why is that a porta because when there is a demand and recognition, there is a well socially address the issues that are unique challenges for that population. i think that i would say is that with an increase in demand for also community building, is also an increase in the community and willing to step up for that knowing the military community but also the veteran community we have partnerships with the military and increase that recognition in congress of the increasing division as well as just finished our va women's veterans thinks just weeks only have the largest number of women

it veterans predict this into participating over 900 if it is patient and it just goes to show that the appetite the community building within our population. and covid-19 is produced in an environment which really easy to get nice to call but we are human it we created connection hard to build trust square on the front of your screen so much easier to build a human to human connection to build that trust and this is why the center for women veterans and also iba is really increase in expanded its efforts and endeavors to increase the outreach women veterans and also bring more service says that are available for service members. whenever them for people to understand is the va is for the veterans in the va some of the services can be there to not only increase the professional

development, the service members, must to increase stability knowing that you feel within the state and almost but also we are there to increase resilience to make senior service members in the fight. not just there for the another service members journey throughout that lifecycle to ensure that their billing and resilience and keep them in place pretty. >> thank you. >> getting into question time now. [laughter] and the only one concerned about time right now and they're not the only ones. [laughter] >> consciously optimistic and i've had the honor of having wonderful mentors males and females and the majority all soldiers and i believe that moving forward is just important to remember a few things work

matters in the things we say do matter. the female soldier missiles are not cumulatively athlete to that point, it's very interesting sure story today and asked me show that i'm sitting next to one of my peers also empty and have his e-mail verbiage we use sometimes this subconscious printed gentleman from up to about this is set to be dear friend, my gosh, what happened to you soon the story and he looked to me and you want me up again they said, would you do to yourself. words mean things these small things that we grow up with sometimes are our fault just be conscious before you speak so i feel cautiously optimistic i do not speak for all of the women in the military but i myself this consumer the military november so very optimistic about our future.

>> i have to tell you that i know we can continue this conversation for hours now we would like to hear from you slip 30 minutes set aside for question and answers somewhere point do it and we have two microphones if you would like to ask a question, raise your hand, hand yes the runner camille and we ask first you identify you want to answer the questions and ask you questions and then afterwards, if you have any context provided that time please and if you want to answer the question was a question and then context. >> we have a little less than 30 minutes now and please ask you question the form of a question make a brief stephanie will have the microphones. there we go in the other side then will let molly kick off

advisor had. first question is because october is breast cancer awareness month for the surgeon general what preventions are being put in place the conditions that affect women soon i think you've that yes so you mentioned this an exciting time to serve and so some of the areas in with his been quite a bit of effort plus, going forward is funding it takes resources to make action at some of the research into 500 million for the female health research to address health disparities it's of all men and women can both get breast cancer, is disproportionally and women so that is number one in the presidential executive order on advancing women's health research also helps to open up doors in the military women l research program at america's medical school to make sure people tell the doctor said that

tomorrow and americans also in uniform services help serve universities there as well and so does resources that are going towards researching getting ahead because the fact is, female soldiers are part of our u.s. society at large so we can bring solutions both in the military and outside of the military. >> i have two questions avoided go quick the generals here so first, will be doing to include regarding reserve because seem to be very focused on the active side we don't forget about the services regarding reserve side

and i get it that were looking at recruiting young but i think it is sort the end of our careers, when we doing to start having the conversations about, premenopausal menopause. [applause] [applause] [applause] >> okay thank you for those fantastic questions pretty so first of all, did my chief of staff. [applause] [applause] >> did my chief of staff major general is done morning educate me on the garden reserve, since i was a baby carl. [laughter] which lucky that no no you ask is how we addressing the total army for. as were take those considerations i have deputies

in general manager know deputies that are in the reserve that's her job to make sure that every time that we look at the solutions, that they say about the garden reserve itself we are absolutely working ensuring that institutions it forward, they have that witness test pretty and though my gosh i forgot that because. [applause] [applause] >> i believe i think that he thought. >> so be absolutely the women health clinics across the spectrum and you can imagine, the number of hallway conversations over the myself and my fellow general officers as or more females only the

officers but my general officers who have spouses, that are also experiencing the season to time of our lives predict and so, we have education on that to ensure formulas to reflect the options to ensure that we have education on the current information. and because is been a challenge, near and dear to my heart, myself the main stage presentation on modern menopause pretty whenever conferences this year so absolutely awareness, and with my partner in crime the general, join the military health system brings the best care for all of our beneficiaries at all of stages of our lives. [applause]

>> in my question surrounds toxic exposure that we could be more proactive is specifically hundreds of time being officer and having access, to occupational and environmental medicine because of my specific ls limit a really tough time even though it had toxic

exposure getting access to it and concerned when there's are events like regular even with her soldiers dead north carolina right now when we have known toxic exposure we raise right hand and i firmly believe that way soldiers will we have an obligation to take the best care and that stars with access to em and also starts with having event medical monitoring and i would like to know your thoughts on that pretty my second question again very different told you before he landed two of them actually and i actually met him last year and want to thank you. i'm concerned because for now for adaptive sports i don't hope this doesn't well is who were not for adaptive sports i wouldn't be here healing and recovery from not only mental

impacts, betrayal but will be experienced help and also the physical injuries. i'm concerned he's with the medical board my patient and adaptive sports and armor and arming warrior games. that's been used against me my medical board prayed i'm a huge proponent of this community and the warrior games but it's not t when i went to army charles last year so i would love to you thousand of this not sentiment that you also are huge on participation is force that want you to be aware that participation in these things are being used to service not only i warrior games but also they play and i know two completely different things at you but i would repented appreciate response. >> that's okay and think you for the question ranges see you again i learned from my first

event that right down the second 120 adaptive methodology so first of all, what you're really talking about is exposure and above come back to the trust that they talked about itself i think we have to ensure that we are listening and understanding how all of these different events impact her soldiers and their families and so the records as far as the event monitoring we need to learn from each one permit help we need to learn from exposure this is where his with the va is important to ensure that we can understand the report then be able to learn more later so there may be exposures that we do not know about the impacts until later on it so that is absolutely discussion that happens in the pentagon so that is everything from policy to operations and then on down the

road predict that is for us warrior games, underwear or your game participation being used against you know would be happy your morning percent more about that. you see on the walls here they can help get your information that would not be the intended i will tell you that ivan why did not understand where games until i attended a couple of years ago and i was transformational for me in understanding be as it did not come into the army is definitely those not part of my identity. and so to see the soldiers regaling regain the identity of that community build community and connection and ability, is like you said nothing less life-changing lifesaving and i have heard that so many times actually is a good thing to hear. if there are barriers to that, that's what i need to understand is so appreciate your question.

will seek you out to make sure we understand more about that i think you. >> hi and retired seven years ago and when i was focused on alcohol in regards to product but not because of health and so is looking at the holistic appeaser we also having no conversations on the impact of alcohol the body and is that part of the conversations we are having now and i hope they are. >> yes and you want to start with the. >> the surgeon general. >> okay got it and he did not want to take all of the questions back is a fantastic panel but we are having those conversations this is where most individual service in the military health system work together, to identify how are we with that units in identifying within the units and what the alcohol may be a proxy for use

maybe treating and so we still embed better behavior hope in the unit pretty we still have military family counselors provide counseling in contact else in the medical records and we also have programs when people self identify they can get the treatment prior to becoming a conduct issue that so yes we are having those discussions and ensuring that were adjusting not just at the happens but everything that lies behind it. in discussing the impacts on the health. >> i was just like wasn't would general's attorney general, we did the first holistic of the first report which look at the overall health of every service member across the army was really interesting is the infected that take up the difference it how the people leverage versus mental health had that connection there in the relationship and the folks that may often self medicate is set care versus getting them here

earlier pretty what i think great since the first first report is all the resources that included in that preclinical say, the hopefully help destigmatize healthcare plus people turning to alcohol as a way of addressing whatever their challenges are super actually talking to somebody they can help them on the jury for better state of health and so i think s really eye-opening in 2014 we do that first report, that disconnect, there's population that actually without direction by seeking mental health care. >> good afternoon ladies, major from that national guard. there's my boss. this question is a research continues to expand make services more accessible, specifically the females, is also taken into consideration,

the ethnicity of the females so the genetic diseases that ethnicities are more prone to. >> cement well that i think it goes back to that research is that once i spent all anymore and so we will look at both sides of the coin. because medicine has had issues in the past certain ethnic groups and saying you know i only said about high pleasure in this group and the only thing about cancer this group what have you so we are looking to be evidence-based in the way that we approach that an understand that make sure that we cannot discover over classified one way or the other but we are continuing to research across the spectrum, the lookout the health of our entire force smith likewise and i can actually work as well and other areas of the va and we been looking at the identity of women veterans, not just from a gender standpoint

but also looking at the impact of their ethnicity and help the processes progress for example, when we are looking at maternal mental health as well as maternal mortality, we see different levels of prevalence and mortality with regard to delivery and so there's a spectrum of reasons for why that happens we are looking at those not just from when did i mention but for my multidimensional level. >> see what work, found air force veteran. even more proud army spouse. i don't first think each of you for what we do every day for this army. i don't think even more for what you're doing for all these women here think even more for what you're doing for me as a man and you have made my wife stronger you've made me a stronger person and the man and keep doing that, generally my question would be

for the col. printer brown, and sergeant first class marx pretty and you mentioned something the first week of her daughter to the promotion ceremony those who generally west to make a date big deal about that being the first female black general and the first third class at west point the mission of first class of west point attendees are female west point graduates of my daughter is a ten -year-old said to me said daddy, what it girls want to go to west point before 1980. my question is thank you for breaking the glass ceiling and paving the way was the junior members, how is it glass ceiling now it is it still as strong as the camping blazed and how would you comment on it. >> so thank you so much for the question thank you for your great spouse to a soldier pretty and i think you think you for

listening and thank you for sharing your experiences on your daughter because that's where it starts would do we bring the next generation absent blessings, blessings has generally been broken continue o be broken throughout the branchs throughout the different portions of this service. is a fully broken, absolutely not because as we continue the reason is a glass ceiling is because there somebody there keeping that ceiling there, the somebody so keeping that mentality if you do not belong in this area why do we need to bring your minutes out had it gotten better absolutely the panel look at our think that the main portion by the ethnicity his own thoughtful to somebody because we get to call on some of our historical insights and our women pentagon before us, the i'm the day now. used to be well what are they doing for us and how i make them

change in how to that glass ceiling pretty the program that we had to say, how do i partner with the organization, like the army women's foundation does a fun nominal foundation we are honored to be a part of because as a become veterans, this is to bring them into their army the foundation predict the main focus becomes, how are we helpig each army national guard and reserve and army active duty and how are we helping by the way we are going choice and recover the comes near your air force maybe the point behind that, becomes the glass ceiling has to be identified first 70 has to be willing to break it. and so we have a ton women willing to break it and are currently breaking it. is he getting better, absolutely do we saw the long-ago way to go absolutely get a female real program the all-inclusive that is all of us a responsibility to

help break this glass ceiling said thank you for that question. >> the beginning of your question, you stated that our surgeon general's appointment we stop saying over the first and i don't think that was the intent of a response printed i think it was the problem with the first but the hope is that the role no longer need to be the first to just be done. and so i think that are col. covered up north and i really was supposed cover. [laughter] but i'll just say that was the intent correct to say that hope is no longer have to first. >> we bring under the pressure they can just be there doing outstanding job pretty. >> thank you so much this time, we will have one last question

panel predict. >> okay you have to be quick you running over. >> the last question. [inaudible]. [inaudible]. >> one thing seeing a woman. [inaudible]. thank you for your inspiring stories today what you do. my question is, if there's automation, and will it affect women. and how. [laughter] [laughter] >> life i can address this, so

you women's insecurities pretty well okay, we have a representative right there racing her head there is a representative and we are partnering together though bring up how we help others and not just branches of service and not just other services but how do we help other see what we do because we all know that americans are very bold. right so we have to help others stand their ground and it is not just send an american it is a gender issue itself for every other visitation every other country you are experiencing the same thing so sisterhood aggressive role when you have international women's day pretty that is recognized how we come together, not just make it a day but how do we come having some so i would say organizations teaches security capitol with ar of different organizations that are out there and called

for meeting one of us, coming up and connect we will talk to your command. >> if i can weigh in on that one as well so the va the public affairs we've also engaged in several different countries in regard to how to address the unique needs women veterans. so were also engaged of the other side of that journey. >> will thank you so much for your questions and as we get ready to wrap up, this afternoon, we want to ask our panelists one final question. when is one key message or lesson that you want everyone to think away and apply. will start with sergeant marx. >> of course we will. [laughter] [laughter] >> when key message. my hope is we all recognize how

much that we are struggling. and we can be the difference. please remember, not to weapon ice someone's confidence in you. >> thank you. >> and so, everybody knows the army has the bottom of the e-mails you have to fill in a quoted there and so is of giving i made my own it braided my point is, we do for ourselves, ties with us will be due for others lives on his legacy and what is your legacy and how can you help. we were talking earlier, it is that drug to help someone printed never had alcohol in the never done drugs, but if it drug it is to help somebody in a drug to be able to have somebody come and had you not gotten involved and thank you for this tended to something that how can they help the next person because want to

be the percent when they do not have somebody does not have, a person to call on the women that we been involved with the mid- that we been involved with the states with deep committed themselves to helping and that becomes our legacy, when we decide to hang of this uniform, who will take the reins and run with it and so thank you all for having you yes the opportunity talk you about what our thoughts are this but i believe that with this what is your legacy smart. >> ... formative power of storytelling is extremely important. within the library of congress is over wondered a thousand stories and only 10,000 of them are women veterans.

those over 2 million women veterans living right now. why it is important? because the power of that story is going to pave the way to the next generation of women veterans will serve as women he's going to bear the nation in defense of our nation. you cannot be what you cannot see. let's help the young ladies, the young girls, the young women see what they can be in the future. how we treat our women veterans, our veterans is going to be with a look at when it looked to potentially wear our nation's cloth. it's imperative for us to get that right. for all of you currently serving who have served, share your story. so it isn't no longer she is the first were she was the only one. it's when did you serve? or did you serve?

>> i am bias i believe books on ground when our american force soldiers the most prized weapon system the army whether your mail, female soldier in our army want you to be the best version of you possible both while you're wearing the uniform and art at home being mother, father, sister, brother. what i found very interesting on my visits of sound when the commanding generals of one of our installations when it rolled into his installation he decided to partner with one of the coaches and the coach comes to his office every friday for 30 minutes and helped him become a better cg for that installation. why my bringing up the story? whether you are on -- the matter where you are at your italianate beats that you have brigades, embedded behavior help. you have chaplains, if a militay one source those who have

resource units you have the full suite. find the person that you can trust have some went to help you on your journey. early identification equals early intervention early return to duty we stand here to help you on that journey. we are excited to partner with you on that. i ask you to find someone you can trust just like the cg did it one of the installations really find out whatever it is you want to work on for it i can tell you there's an aspect of military medicine that would love to partner with you on that journey. thank you. we talked about so many different aspects of women's health and wellness today. they all have one thing in common. the way we address that is through a lens of culture. we talk about trust is one of those elements.

what i would leave you with, challenge you on is asking you what sort of culture are you going to be part of? whether you intend or not, your word to someone but really her actions and daily impact the culture. either in a way you like or don't like it. how can you be intentional without culture? very concretely it depends what you will reward. what you resource. and how you define excellence. and so be intentional about that. whether you are at leading an entire command or whether you are leading your self, or your patrol unit but decide, what is the culture you want to have that helps all of our soldiers experience the greatest success allows all of their talents, to be brought to bear in defense of our nation. cox all right any closing

remarks? okay, it would to thank everyone are extraordinary panelists, are inspirational army women. [applause] thank you. and of course generals, i want to say really quickly a special word for my friend and some news after eight amazing years as president of the army women's foundation, and is stepping down this year for a well-deserved rest. we are keeping her phone number. [laughter] for tenured armor army women's foundation has been extraordinary building resources financially and personnel wise. driving essential programs to develop in our army women. i want and to come appear.

[applause] [applause] >> thank you. that is unexpected. i want to rewind the clock a little bit. i have to go back and comment about how phenomenal this a panel discussion was. how phenomenal you all are. i have to tell you the emotions. i laughed, i cried. thank you for your honesty. thank you for your transparency. i have to say this is the beginning of the conversation. we hope to be able to be back here next year. i can say that. we hope that we can continue this conversation next year. but with that comment thank you so much officers. thank you general, thank you to each one of our panelists. i want to give a shout out to

office 13 molly, thomas, debby, eileen, kerri, what a blessing to work with you. it is just been phenomenal these last few months which it has been to be able to put this together shout out to the army women's foundation board of directors. you guys do so much with so little. you make it happen every day. god bless you. thank you so much for what you do. i appreciate you finally, with got an announcement to make that is i like to announce our new leadership of the army women's foundation first off you had a chance to see our new executive director. sue fulton. [applause] and then the new president of the united states army foundation lieutenant journal catherine and gainey. [applause] [cheering] thank you all for coming.

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>> ♪ i'ma wade, i'ma wave through the waters tell the tide, "don't move" i'ma riot, i'ma riot through your borders call me bulletproof lord forgive me, i've been runnin' runnin' blind in truth >> can we hear it for karen? [cheers and applause] all right! it is good to be back in pennsylvania! [cheers and applause]

all right, all right, all right. come on. we got work to do. ok. [crowd chanting kamala] ok, ok, thank you. thank you, everybody. thank you, everybody. and i want to thank all of the leaders who are here today. you all are taking time out of your busy lives to be here. for all of us to be together, can we hear it for senator fetterman? your next state attorney general ? mayor summer, bob casey could not be here tonight because he is out doing what he needs to do

to be reelected to the united states senate. all right. ok. let's get to work. [cheers and applause] so here is the thing, pennsylvania. we have 22 days until election day. 22 days. and we are nearing the home stretch but here is the thing. this is gonna be a tight race until the very end, ok? we are the underdogs. we are running like the underdogs. we have some hard work ahead of us but here is the thing also. we like hard work. hard work is good work! and with your help, in 22 days, we will win! we will win.

[crowd chanting, we will win] and here is why. because this election is about two very different visions for our nation. one, his, is focused on the past. and hours is focused on the future. [cheers and applause] we are focused on issues that matter most to families across america, like bringing down the cost of living, investing in small businesses and entrepreneurs, protecting reproductive freedom. and keeping our nation secure. but that is not what we hear from donald trump. instead, it is just the same old

tired playbook. he has no plan for how he would address the needs of the american people and american families. he is only focused on himself. it is time to turn the page. [cheers and applause] turn the page! because america is ready to chart a new way forward! and america is ready for a new and optimistic generation of leadership. [cheers and applause] which is why democrats, republicans, independence our supported -- are supporting our campaign. because we need a president who

works for all the american people. we are all in this together. and as you know, this has been the story of my entire career. i have only had one client. the people. [cheers and applause] as a young corporate prosecutor i stood up for women and children against predators. as attorney general i took on big banks, fought to deliver $20 billion for middle-class families who faced foreclosure. i stood up for veterans and students who were being scammed by for-profit colleges. [cheers and applause] for workers who were being cheated out of the wages they were due. for seniors facing elder abuse

and it is my pledge to you as president i will always fight for all the american people. always. [cheers and applause] and together, we all will build a brighter future for our nation. together. [cheers and applause] we will build a future where we have what i call an opportunity economy, where everyone can compete and has a real chance to succeed, not just to get by, but to get ahead. under my economic plan, and by the way, you know, dude wants to talk about his plans which is really about talking -- cutting taxes for the richest people, please check out the wall street

journal or moody's or all the analysts who have said my plan would strengthen the economy and his would make it weaker. so under my economic plan, we will bring down the cost of housing. and help first-time homebuyers, giving them $25,000 for down payment assistance so you can get your foot in the door. you do the rest, you will save up and work hard, but just to help people get their foot in the door. we will help entrepreneurs start and grow small businesses. how many small business owners do we have here? [cheers and applause]. i love our small businesses.

my mother worked hard, we lived in an apartment above a daycare center and it was owned by, daycare centers, yes, bless you. it was owned by ms. tilton who we thought of as our second mother and she is a small business owner and she was like all of you who do the work. your business leaders, community leaders, civic leaders, you mentor, you will hire locally, i love our small businesses. small businesses are part of the backbone of american economy. [cheers and applause] so you all know what i'm talking about. as we move forward, what we're going to do, in terms of knowing that small businesses must get the support you need to start up and grow. we will expand under my economic policy medicare to cover home

health care for seniors. [cheers and applause] so more seniors can live at home with dignity. like so many of my priorities, it is borne out of personal experience. when my mother got diagnosed with cancer, i took care of her. for any of you who have taken care of someone, a senior in particular, you know what that's like. it is about trying to cook something for them that they might enjoy eating. trying to make sure they have something they can wear that moat irritate their skin. time to time trying to bring a smile to their face or make them laugh. it is about dignity. it is about dignity. [applause] but far too many people who want

and need to take care of family members, either you have to leave your job or send down everything you have to qualify for medicaid. that's not right. i look at the sandwich generation. we refer to folks who are raising young children and taking care of parents as the sandwich generation. it is in between. it is a lot of pressure. need support to handle all of that in a way that you are adding so much to our societies and economy. so i have a plan and my plan is to make sure medicare, not so you have to pay down everything and get on medicaid, so that medicare helps pay for home health care. you can do the work you need to get done in terms of the seniors in your life.

under our plan, we will lower the cost on everything from health care to groceries. i will take out corporate price gouging just like i have done before. i'm going to do it again. and give a middle-class tax cuts to 100 million americans, including $6,000 during the first year of your child's life. knowing again the vast majority of parents want to parent their children well but don't always have the resources to do it. by expanding the child tax credit, that helps a young family buy a car seat, buy a crib, do the things in the fundamental stages of their child's development to get them on the road to what they want to do. and we all benefit from it. [cheers and applause]

all of this is to say i will always put the middle-class class and working families first. i come from the middle class and i will never forget where i come from. [cheers and applause] never. [chanting "usa!"] so i just outlined a little bit about my plan. now let's talk about donald trump. [boos] he has a very different plan. for example, project 2025. just google it. it is a detailed and dangerous

plan for what he will do if he is elected president. you have probably heard me say, donald trump, i think in our collective opinion, certainly mine, is an unserious man. but the consequences of him ever being president again are brutally serious. brutally serious. on project 25 and his plans, donald trump will give billionaires and corporations massive tax cuts like he has done before. cut social security and medicare. the plan on that end is to get rid of the $35 cap on insulin for seniors. to make it easier for companies to deny over time pay for workers. you have got to read the plan.

the fact they put it in writing is a whole other thing to be discussed. and he plans to impose what i call a trump sales tax. a 20% tax on every day necessities, which economists have measured will cost the average american family more than $4000 a year. and on top of all this, donald trump intends to get rid of the affordable care act. and he has no plan to replace it. he did not want to debate. [laughs] he has quote concept of a plan. concept! but seriously, think about it in all seriousness, he is going to threaten the insurance coverage

for 45 million people based on a concept? the seriousness of this cannot be overlooked. think about that. taking us back to a time we all remember when insurance companies could deny people with pre-existing conditions, do you remember what that was? well, we are not going back! we are not going back. we are not going back. no. and why are we not going back? because we will move forward. [cheers and applause] because hours is a fight for the future. and it is a fight for freedom.

like the fundamental freedom of a woman to make decisions about her own body. and not have our government telling her what to do. [crowd screams] and we all remember how we got here. donald trump hand selected the members of the united states supreme court to overturn roe v. wade and they did. and now in america 1 in 3 women lives in a state with a trump abortion ban. many of these families have no exceptions for rape or incest which is saying to a survivor of a crime of violation to their body, that you have no right to make a decision about what happens to your body next. that's immoral.

and let us agree, one does not have to abandon their faith, or deeply held beliefs to agree that government should not be telling her what to do. [uproarious applause] if she chooses, she will talk with her priest, her rabbi, her pastor, her mom but not the government telling her what to do. but a bunch of folks up at the state capitol telling her what to do. she doesn't know what is in her best interest and they know better? c'mon. and it is my pledge to you when congress passes a bill to restore the productions and reproductive freedom nationwide as president of the united states, i will proudly sign it into law. proudly sign it to law.

yes, i will. so much is on the line in this election. i love you back -- and listen -- so much is on the line in this election, and we have to remember, this is not 2016 or 2020. the stakes are even higher. because a few months ago, the united states supreme court just told the former president that he would be essentially immune from anything he does while he is in office. now just imagine donald trump with no guardrails. right? he who has vowed if reelected he will be a to cater -- dictator

on day one. that he would weaponize the department of justice against his political enemies. he who has called for the quote termination of the constitution of the united states. [loud boos] [chanting "lock him up!"] hold on, because see, here's the thing. the courts will handle that. let's handle november, shall we? and we are clear. look, anybody who says they will terminate the constitution of the united states should never again stand behind the seal of

the president of the united states. never again. never again. after all these years, we know who donald trump is. he is someone who will stop at nothing to claim power for himself. and you don't have to take my word for it. i've said for a while now, watches rallies, listen to his words. he tells us who he is. and he tells us what he would do if she is elected president. here tonight, i will show you one example of donald trump's worldview and intentions. please roll the clip. [video clip] >> the worst people are the

enemies from within. those people are more dangerous, the enemies from within, then russia and china. these people should be put in jail the way they talk about our judges and our justices. if you have one really violent day. one rough hour, and i mean real rough. the bigger problem are the people from within. we have some very bad people, sick people, radical left lunatics. they should be very easily handled by necessary national guard or really necessary by the military. [video clip] >> crowd boos. >> so you heard his words coming from him. he is talking about the enemy within pennsylvania. he is talking about the enemy within our country, pennsylvania. he is talking about that he

considers anyone who doesn't support him, or who will not bend to his will an enemy of our country. [boos] it's a serious issue. he is saying that he would use the military to go after them. think about this. and we know who he would target. because he has attacked them before. journalists whose stories he doesn't like. elections officials who refused to cheat by filling extra votes and finding extra votes for him. judges who insist on following the law's that of bending to his will. -- instead of bending to his will. this is among the reasons i believe so strongly that a

second trump term would be a huge risk for america and dangerous. donald trump is increasingly unstable and unhinged. [cheers and applause] and he is out for unchecked power. that's what he's looking for. he wants to send the military after american citizens. he has worked to prevent women from making their own health care decisions. and threatened your fundamental freedoms and rights. like the freedom to vote, the freedom to be safe from gun violence, to breathe clean air and drink clean water, the freedom to love who you love openly and with pride. [cheers and applause]

so here in pennsylvania, i say to those who know best, when freedom is on the line, americans always answer the call. we always answer the call. [cheers and applause] and in this election -- [chanting "vote!"] vote. to your point, in this election, we will answer the call again. because it all comes down to this. we are all here together because we know what's at stake. and we are here together because we love our country. we love our country. [cheers and applause] we love our country.

[chanting "usa!"] we love our country. and i do believe one of the highest forms of patriotism that there is, one of the highest forms of patriotism, is to fight for the ideals of our country. that is born out of love of country. the fight to realize the promise of america. so, election day is in 22 days. and here in pennsylvania, early voting has already started. [cheers and applause] and erie county, you are a pivot county. [cheers and applause]

how you all vote, and thank you, because how you all vote in presidential elections often ends up protecting -- predicting the national result. [cheers and applause] the chant is "erie." erie. [laughs] that's right. so, in area county you can vote early in person at the erie county registration office from now until tuesday, october 29. now is the time to make your plan to vote. if you have already received your ballot in the mail, please do not wait. fill it out and return it today or tomorrow but please get it out. and remember, the deadline to

register to vote in pennsylvania is monday, october 21. if you or anyone you know has not yet registered, now is the time. because look, the election is here. we need to organize, we need to mobilize, we need to energize folks and we need to remind everybody that their vote is their voice. and your voice is your power. so, erie, i ask you then, are you ready to make your voices heard? [cheers and applause] do we believe in freedom? [cheers] do we believe in opportunity? do we believe in the promise of america?

and are we ready to fight for it? [crowd screaming] and when we fight, we win! god bless you and god bless the united states of america. ♪ freedom, freedom, where are you? ♪ ♪ i need freedom, too ♪ times r

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gov. noem: good evening. hello, everybody. are you ready for president donald j. trump? yes. we are so excited about tonight. listen, i am xo excited to be here. i am governor of the great state of south dakota but i'm going to tell you one thing, pennsylvania rocks. you all are showing up and showing america how we are going to make america great again, aren't you? listen, i love the fact that in my state we have pulled the constitution. it is so fantastic to be here in the city where the constitution was actually written. and i know that you all embrace being the city of brotherly love. but i am going to get real with you right here. kamala harris sucks. right? she sucks. and listen, if there's one thing that i have learned since being governor is that leadership has consequences.

that it matters who is in charge and impacts every single family, every single business in the state. when you have the right person in the white house and the wrong person in the right house. i have served as governor under joe biden and under president donald trump. yes. and when president trump was in the white house i got to get up every single day and be on offense. i got to get out there and solve problems for my people. i got to be aggressive and help them grow their incomes. in south dakota we have the fastest growing incomes in the entire country. we have the lowest unemployment rate in the country. during covid we were the only state in the country that never once shut down a single business, we never mandated anything. in fact, i didn't even define what an essential business was because i don't believe the government has the ability or the authority to tell you that your business isn't essential. we were the only state to never take the elevated unemployment benefits because i said, listen mr. president, our people want to work, and they did. they went to work every single day. listen, we broke the national record for the lowest unemployment rate in the history of the united states of america because people in south dakota understand we were created to serve each other. in our state, we banned china from owning our land.

and we passed the strongest bill in the nation to make sure that only women could play in women's sports. and when president trump gets back in the white house, he is going to make sure that we don't have mediocre men taking away opportunities from our exceptional women. so listen, i've got people in my life that i admire and tonight you're going to get the chance to hear from one of them. president trump is somebody that i appreciate for his fight, his tenacity, his wisdom, and his ability to get things done. he is a dealmaker and he never loses sight of the american people. when i first saw him announce for president in 2016, i watched him on tv, i was sitting at home, come down a golden escalator.

do some of you remember that? i remember thinking, who does that? who comes down a golden escalator? because the politicians that i had known, what they do when they run for office as they put on a pair of jeans and find themselves a barn and made a hay bale and they say golly shucks geez i'm just like you and pretend to be somebody they are not. but not president trump. he was going to be honest with you and genuine with you. and here is a situation and here is the truth. he doesn't think he is any better than you. all those politicians that run and pretend to be something else, they think they are better than you, they think they are smarter than you, and they can sell you a line and a story. that is not president trump.

president trump is himself, he is fighting for you, fighting to protect you and your family, and he loves this country. he loves this country. people ask me -- we love trump. we love trump. we love trump. he's listening to you right now. he's listening to you, and he hears you. listen, everybody. let's get right to it. please welcome the 45th president and the 47th president of the united states, donald john trump. ♪

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trump. mr. trump: thank you very much. this is a nice crowd. gov. noem: yes, they love you. you know why? it's because they recognize, sir, that you are the one who fights for them. you are the one who protects them. mr. trump: you know what else? they fight for themselves. they have been fighting for a long time. we are going to make your fight easier, very important. because what's happened to our country in the last almost four years now, it is hard to believe, but if you look at the borders, if you look at inflation, you look at the afghanistan disaster, the most embarrassing time in the entry of our country, i think the most embarrassing moment in the history of our country, afghanistan, not getting out, i was getting out with dignity, strength.

the way they got out was the most embarrassing thing that ever happened. probably led to putin going into ukraine, probably. he looked at it he said, these people aren't very good, are they? he wouldn't have done that with me. we are all in this together. we have to win the election november 5. gov. noem: yes. sir, he has never yet called those goldstar families to express his grief for the people and the soldiers we lost that day. and who controls that airstrip now? mr. trump: china. gov. noem: china, yes. mr. trump: china took over. one of the things -- get out. we were there for 20 years. i said, what are we doing here? so we get the hell out. i had a talk with the taliban and we didn't lose one soldier in 18 months until this catastrophe happened when they took over. but you know, one of the things -- aside from everything else, we left, we spent billions of dollars years ago to build a bigger base, and you knew that one from your own time, a big one, a really good one, powerful, long runways. you know what happened?

i tell you, they gave it up. it was one hour away from where china -- forget about afghanistan, one hour away from where china builds its nuclear weapons. would have been very nice to have -- and china now occupies that airbase. it's terrible. gov. noem: as you can see, we have a lot of american patriots here tonight who want to ask you some questions. if you don't mind, we will move into that portion of the town hall tonight. our first question is going to be from a man named reed. reed, i am not certain where you are. mr. trump: where is reed? there he is. nice looking guy. gov. noem: i believe you are a navy seal, is that correct? >> no. good evening. my name is reed. i'm a single father and iraq war veteran. i dream of owning a home for me and my son, but mortgage rates

under the biden/harris administration have made that impossible. what can you do to help make homeownership affordable again? mr. trump: great question. and a lot of people have this question. first of all it's too expensive to build the homes and they are building them and they cost a fortune and 30% of the cost in some locations is the cost of like, planning and certificates and all a lot of nonsense they do. they make you go through hell and it takes forever to get all the approvals you need. we are going to get rid of a lot of that. most importantly we are going to get interest rates brought way down. we had interest rates at 2% and now they are 10% and we can't get the money. at 2% there was plenty of money for everybody. we are going to create the american dream for older people. we are not going to forget. i happen to be a very young man.

we are not going to forget the older people. by the way, no tax on social security benefits. [applause] i guess you know someone said he has a conflict of interest, but uh we are going to do that for the older people that is a big deal because you have been eating alive with inflation and all i am doing is getting you back to even i think when we do that you know you have fixed income and you went up numbers like 30, 40, 50 depending on what they include they like to say it was a 20% increase but it wasn't, it was 30, 40, 50 depending on what they want to include so we are going to do

that but getting back to we are going to drill, baby, drill, we are going to have so much energy and we are gonna bring prices down because you know the prices are up, don't forget, the damage is done, we have the worst president and vice president in the history of our country by far she is even more dangerous than him but he is actually smaller -- smarter than her, i never thought i would say that but look, we are going to get it down, we are going to drill, we are going to get the energy down and when energy goes down prices are going to come down, all of those prices because you know when they say although they had very bad inflation numbers last month, you saw that, very very bad inflation numbers despite the big you know they did this big drop, probably too big of a drop i will not get into it but we are going to get the prices down because the damage has been done, if we have no inflation now such damage has been done, the highest in my am opinion the biggest inflation in the history of the country they did not includes a lot of the bad

numbers, i will give you an example on housing and different things like crime statistics our fate, they were fake statistics, they did not include some cities that were really bad so the crime looked like it was just bad as opposed to being horrific . jobs, 818,000 fake jobs they added. and they patted the job numbers a couple of months ago so that they would look better on jobs. they were fake, fraudulent jobs and they will announce the real numbers after the election but we had a whistleblower or somebody that let it out so they cheated us on 18, think of that, 818 thousand jobs they cheated, you know usually when you have those numbers it is $9,000, this is almost a million jobs off of it it is not even possible so we are going to bring things that you are going to pay 3% interest on housing and you are going to say i love this guy because interest rate rate will follow as the energy goes down and i

made another commitment i made it over the last month i have been making it, we have more liquid gold under our feet then saudi arabia, russia, than any other country. i am going to bring down your energy costs 50 percent in the first year. 50% and i better do it because i am all over the place. i am going to have problems if i don't get it done but we have all the capacity to do it, nobody else can make that statement, we have so much energy we don't even use that, we get energy from venezuela and they do not have good oil, they

have tar and you have to liquefy and you know what they do the in houston texas that is where we have to plant it is the only player that in the world that can do it so for the environmentalists out there it's not a pretty picture what blows into the air but we are going to use our beautiful liquid gold and when we get everything else down, houses, everything is going to come it is going to be beautiful you can have a house, just give me a little while, let me give it. -- let me get in. one year from january 20 we will have your energy prices cut in half all over the country. [applause] >> and in reference to read and his family, he is not in a unique situation. 65% of americans today cannot buy a home. that has dramatically changed under the biden harris

administration and a harris has a brace to the policies that made homeownership take away that opportunity for reid and his family and 65% of americans today. the american dream is still to own your own home and that is not possible because of what they have embraced a new talk about liquid gold, if any state understands american energy, it is pennsylvania. >> yeah. the commonwealth. make sure come up by the way this is a really great governor, successful number -- successful governor, she read some of the numbers and i thought she would be because why not no one else will do it but i will you did it beautifully so she has done a fantastic job as governor and i will say this, i went to school here, i just want to forewarn her because i have seen it happen and it is career threatening, do not ever call the state the commonwealth because a lot of innocent lambs

have come up and they start talking to the people of pennsylvania, i love you people, i know you so well, i am here all the time, i am here all the time. yeah i went to school here. i went to the wharton school, the great wharton school of finance. and they were great. it's a great place. it's a great place. but i went to college here. so never ever even think, i watched one man crash and burn, he kept calling it the state i kept saying it is the commonwealth but i think his political career ended. >> tonight we have some special guests in the audience. a goldstar family that is with us tonight. mary and charles strange are here. where are they? here they are. they are behind us, over here. they lost their son michael.

>> come on up. [applause] it is a little harder to get up since i got shot. they have made it more difficult. perhaps that is the way it is supposed to be. >> sarah, they lost their son, michael. -- sir, they lost their son, michael. do you want to say anything? >> under obama is right. under obama. >> mr. president, my son was killed august 6, 2011 in the biggest loss of life in the iraq afghan war, the biggest loss of life in the single day, 22 of the men were navy special warfare. we still have not gotten any answers. i was wondering, i am begging you. we would like a congressional hearing. >> so here is what we are gonna do. in the first week, let me have, not the first day because i made

a lot of promises in the first day, we are going to drill baby drill and close out the border and we are gonna do a lot in the first day in the first week we will set up a commission we are going to find out because so many people are in your position, they want to know why did that happen to their son or daughter and we are going to do that within the first week so you get ready to come over to the white house, ok? [applause] >> i want to let america know june 2017, president trump and his wife had me and my wife bring 20 gold stars to the white house, him and his wife stayed the whole time, they had food, drinks, they did a candle ceremony for us, trump's set -- stood up every time, saluted the goldstar parents. that was both a celebration, remembrance and all emotion, right? they were happy, they were sad, they were devastated, but they remembered their beautiful boy, right?

beautiful boy and we are not going to forget, we are gonna find out what happened, we are going to do that within the first week and you have my word. >> thank you. [applause] trump: what a nice couple. >> mary and charles daughter rachel is also here tonight. she is michael's sister.

thank you, rachel, for coming on god bless you and your family. thank you for your service and your sacrifice. >> thank you. that is tough stuff. like what we were discussing in afghanistan with the 13 family members they feel that uh bad things happen, stupid things happen and you hate for that to be, it is your son or your daughter. it should have never happened in afghanistan, i can tell you the outcome of the 13 that died and you know they do not mention how many people were wounded, and i mean seriously wounded with the legs and the arms in the face and we are gonna give them everything they want, i have got to know those families, thanks. >> thank you. our next question tonight is from angelina, who i believe is right here. if you want to come forward? >> good evening. i was raised in a philadelphia democrat household, a union household. as the mother of a blended family, my top issues are the same issues that face all americans. illegal immigration whole -- hurts black americans. inflation hurts black americans. dangerous cities hurt black americans.

[applause] like my fellow americans, my grocery bill has not gone down. everything is still so very expensive. what steps will your administration take to help american families suffering from this inflation?

trump: you know it is such a great question in the sense that people don't really think of grocery, it they don't talk about grocery when you're talking about homes but tell me more about grocery bills, the price of lettuce, the price of tomatoes they tell me, you know our farmers are not being treated properly and we had to deal with china, it was a great deal but i never mentioned it because once covid came in and said it was a bridge too far because i had a great relationship with president she and he is a fierce man and we had to deal and you know he was perfect on that deal, 50 billion dollars he was gonna buy it, we were doing numbers like you wouldn't believe the farmer but the farmers are very badly hurt, the farmers in this country, we are going to get them straightened out and get your prices down but you asked another question about safety and also about black population jobs and hispanic population jobs in particular so when millions of people brought into our country they are having a devastating effect on black families and hispanic families more than any others, i think it is going to spread to a lot of our prices, i think it is gonna spread to unions, i think unions are gonna have a big problem because employers are just not gonna pay the price and it is going to be it is a very bad thing that is happening so they are coming in, many are coming in from jails and prisons and mental institutions, insane asylums, it is like step above insane a silent, right, and you know when i go hannibal lector, you know what i am talking about, they will go fake news that it is a lot of fake his back there too.

they always mention it is a way of demeaning, they say hannibal lector, why would you mention, you know because he was a sick puppy and we have sick puppies coming into our country, i think that is better than wasting a lot of words, just say hannibal lector, we do not want them but they always say why would you say that and do it for a lot of reasons but i do it because we are allowing some very bad people into our country and they are coming as terrorists, you know you saw the other day last month they had the record number of terrorists, i had a month that i love border patrol, did you see they gave me a full endorsement two days ago? but border patrol and you know they want to do their job, they do not want to let these people come in, they look at them, they can tell, they can look at somebody say good, bad, they say what is coming into our country now is having cute -- huge negative fan -- impact on black families and hispanic families and ultimately everybody and we are going to close the border so tight, it is gonna be drones and i say the two things i am gonna do, first we are gonna close

that border and people are gonna come in, you want people to come in, we need people to come in, people are gonna come into our country legally, you know it is so fair you have people waiting on a system in a line and they have been waiting in this line you know how long? 10 years, 12 years, and they study and they take tests and then people come i actually say why don't you just come on across? i tell people, that is terrible, right? i say you are incredible they say what can i do to speed up the process and i say you know what, go to the southern border, i will see you on the other side and it is so unfair but we are gonna have them come in legally, you have to see what they have to do they have to test son who

was the first one here and what date is this and what is 7076 day and these other people that are coming in and they are affecting the school systems and they are affecting the hospital system and i mean if you take a look at what is going on in springfield, ohio, a town of 50,000 people, they have just added 32,000 people, illegal immigrants, and we are not gonna put up with it and we are going to take care, your costs are going to come down and you are knocking to have a problem with because the biggest problem and i am hearing it from black people and to a lesser extent right now but it'll be the same hispanic people, and i will tell you what, our poll numbers have gone through the roof. with black and hispanic have gone through the roof. and i like that. i like that. i like that. so we are going to take care of it. you and me, i will tell you, if everything works out and everybody gets out on january 5 and before, you know what used to be you have a date, today you can vote two months before, probably three months after,

they don't know what the hell they are doing but we are going to straighten it out and we will straighten that out too and we are going to straighten out our election process, that will be important so thank you very much, darling, we are going to get it straight. >> we had in the last year over a 100,000 americans lose their job in this country but 1.2 noncitizens took those jobs. they are filling the jobs americans could have to provide for their families and harris has been in charge of this order and has been the borders are -- border czar. we see criminals and terrorists coming across. trump: it is an invasion like we have never seen before and you know if there was an invasion of people that deserve to come in or that will love the country it would be great, you know she used to go around saying they do not commit crime. have you seen the gangs from venezuela, what they have done in aurora, colorado?

>> is just a few apartment buildings, according to martha ravitch. [laughter] trump: they are like me, in the real estate business but they take over buildings with rifles and they take it over with a level of sophistication and you know they know a lot about gloves and i protector of the second amendment -- a lot about guns and i am a big protector of the second amendment and if you think that is easy, not easy but the nra gave me total endorsement, i assume you got total endorsement and we have no choice we have to have it especially when we have you know it is amazing these radical left lunatics, they want everybody to come into our country, many of the people are criminals and then they also want to take your guns away simultaneously. so you need it for protection. you know somebody knows that you have a gun in your house, they say, let us go after somebody else. people put signs, this gun or we

have, some of them actually even spell the kind of gun we have, we have an ak-47 inside and people say you know what, let us just, i know an ak-47 firm a few weeks ago and i know about the ar-15, but you know what, you have a lot of bad people out there and you can't you know can't just be a one-way street and you know one thing because she wants to take your guns away, if you take them away the dead guys are not giving them

up, that is the only thing. i do not think the good people are giving them up, either, but the bad guys, the bad guys are not giving up their guns, that is the only thing i know for certain, right? >> jd vance did a fantastic job sunday morning calling out the fake news for how they are trying to diminish the devastation that is going on in some communities and kamala harris has facilitated losing 300,000 children as well since she has been in charge of the border and i would say they are not missing children, they are trafficked and kidnapped and murdered children because they come across the border and we have no idea where the children are and we know how devastating it is with what is happening to their lives right now with what she is facilitating. trump: i think they are all bad numbers we have a lot of bad numbers there is so much bad that happened in this administration it is disgraceful and you know as an example that would be no war with russia and ukraine there is no way, i get along very well with putin and fully understand what is happening, it was the apple of his eye, he used to talk about it but i said you are not going in there and he wasn't going in and it is only because of biden he looked at this guy and he

said he cannot even believe it but the same with ukraine i got along very well with zelenskyy, he came to new york to see me and i got along very well with him, i want to negotiate that thing out, it is now a death trap, cities that are all down, those gorgeous golden domes and magnificent domes, all busted up after i don't know their -- they are 1000 years old the heritage what is happening there but many more people killed than they are reporting and they knocked down it was my business they have apartment houses that are really like three city blocks long, not that tall but pretty tall and they are big and they knock them down with a missile and they say two people were slightly injured, know, a lot of people, the number of people dying in the ukraine-russia war is a far greater number than anybody knows and biden has done nothing about it, he hasn't even spoken putin in over a year, knows nothing about it and this is a war that has to end we are going to get the war ended and i am going to try and i think i can get it and did as president elect, in other words, before i even take over the white house, i am gonna stop the people from dying. [applause]

they said to me, well whose side are you on, i was in the fake news cnn type, oh, the camera just went off, their camera just went off. [crowd doing -- booing] i was caitlin collins, a nice person soon but caitlin collins is interviewing me and she says whose side are you on and i say it is not a question of sides, i want people to stop dying, that is all. i want people to stop dying. [applause] and you know it was a very interesting thing because it was a cnn it was like this a smaller room much smaller this is a big room, this is a very big room but it was a much smaller room but they had more people in there from cnn within the first five minutes they were totally on my side because it is common sense and we are now the party of common sense, i say we are conservative, but we are the, -- the party of common sense, we want good education and lower interest rates and we want to be able to buy a house, we want jobs, and you know what we want

is a strong military. i rebuilt our entire military and we want a strong military. and ideally a strong will and jerry that we do not have to use, is not even better? a strong military that we do not have to use is even better. >> i love it. i love it. back to the questions. yanni is waiting to ask you a question and has been waiting a long time. welcome. just give him one second. here they come. right behind you. >> thank you. thank you for being here today. to answer questions from all the voters of pennsylvania and just the work hard and support i appreciate that.

i am a small business owner in lands bill, i have a small bed and breakfast restaurant called coffee corners. and to be honest, i really am praying for you to get in and change the policies ever since the gas prices started spiking, literally everything started spiking from deliveries to services, goods, even maintenance, overall maintenance, everything just went up and it is really hurting small businesses, small business owners and those who work within them so my question is, what is your plan to help bring common sense back and help small businesses that were destroyed after covid? trump: right because small businesses are actually bigger than big businesses when you add them all up and it is very important and it sounds like yours, i would love your food, i can tell by looking at you, i think i would like to go over

there and get something the fact is you know they want to get away from gas and i have friends they are into the cooking world, i am not, i just like to eat, but they are into the cooking and i don't know how you feel, it sounds like you, they feel that gas is much better than electric for cooking, right, and they say they want to put gas out of business, no gas, we do not have electric in the country but we have all the gas you can use, we have oil and gas, that is what we have and even the cars if you look they want us all electric cars, california as having blackouts every week, and then they come up with rules and regulation to go to all electric but they cannot even supply what they have, it is so nuts. we are going to get number one utility you know i said before your cost will be down and we are getting rid of all of the electorate, if you want electric, great, if you want

gas, great, the only thing you cannot have is a hydrogen car, right you heard me say that, right, a new car they say is great but you know what the problem is is every once in a while one of them will blow out and if it does blow up and you happen to be inside it you are in bad luck because you are not recognizable, do you know that? it is the new thing, hydrogen, i said no thank you, i do not want that. they call the wife, that is not my husband, yes it is. so your energy costs will be down by 50%, your interest is gonna come down and people are gonna start to make not only you but people will have more money to go to your restaurant, you are going to have a great

business and you know during covid i was the one that worked out the lowest, i don't know if you got one but so many got one millions of small businesses at linda mcmahon with the head of small business administration which was a big business but she was the head and she was phenomenal. linda mcmahon was phenomenal. so many people tell me about her that she was one of the best secretaries but linda mcmahon was in charge and they brought billions of dollars to people with small businesses and it was the greatest investment we made, it stopped us from going into a 1929 depression which is exactly what we would have had and she did a fantastic job. we are going to get your costs way down. thank you. [applause] >> i always tell people it is hot in the summer and cold in the winter and a long ways to drive anywhere, which i think a lot of americans are experiencing no matter what your energy is dependent and since joe biden has been in the white house and harris has supported every single one of his policies, did you hear on the view, did you hear her say she would not change a thing from what joe biden has done? it has cost the average american family 45 hundred dollars just in energy costs, just in energy costs. trump: a doctor, please. a doctor.

thank you very much. we have incredible people that come here hours before and a little hot and uh so weak, they are with us all the way, we gotta respect them and you take your time, dr., you take your time, thank you very much we always have great doctors in the audience we have never had too much of a problem.

look at the quality of care we have. it is incredible, when you think, right? these people, first responders. [applause] our first responders are amazing, the way they can do things so beautifully and quickly. thank you. we will get it taken care of, as a lot of it is pretty easy to take care of, the hardest thing is going to be the border though in terms of the people that have been led income of the people that have been led into this country, what they are doing, where did they come from, what are they doing, who what is the thought process when they allow a thing like that to happen, let's wait until they take care of this incredible person who i guarantee you is a great patriot, i guarantee it. everyone in this room is a patriot. [applause] >> we love you, trump.

trump: thank you, darling. thank you. some problems. some problems. that looks a little bad. that looks a little bit bad.

don't worry, we will extend for a little time, ok, we are not gone, we just want to make sure, this is a little bit of a tough one, i think, a little tough. [crowd singing god bless america] [applause] trump: you know, while we are waiting, so we had a beautiful

evening and i do not know if they can get this up quickly but if they could work really quickly backstage while we are waiting, ave maria, we had a ave maria the other day in butler, pennsylvania and butler, we had 101,000 people, it was the most celebration, i called corey the firefighter of the chiefs, he was great, and if they could play on ave maria, if you can get it, justin, let's go, if you can, a little quick notice, ave maria. ♪

trump: great. we love that man. we love that man. [applause] [crowd chanting usa] ♪ trump: it is so beautiful, though, right? listen to that, it is nice. he is going to be ok, we have nice music, we are together, not bad, not bad, right? so beautiful.

thank you everybody, very much. >> thank you everybody for your patience. we will be praying for him. thank you, sir. as we talk about how things have gotten harder under this administration on how the policies have been so dangerous for americans there is someone here who wanted an opportunity to ask you what western her name is heather. would you please stand -- wanted to ask you a question, her name is heather. would you please stand? >> good evening. my name is heather and i was a registered democrat for most of my life. [crowd booing] but not anymore. i no longer identify with the democratic partner -- democratic party. [applause] they have put criminals and

foreign enemies ahead of american citizens. the border is the issue of this election because if we cannot secure the border, we will not have a country. we know you will finish the wall. how are you going to handle the deportation of criminals? [applause] trump: so if you have watched any of our last rallies, we have a cruel--criminal aliens act of 1798, that is a long time ago, and it gives the president tremendous power to do what has to be done to secure our country and you were right, you know, so if you look at the polls it says that the number one issue is the economy, number two was inflation, let's even put them together or number three is the

border. i disagree. i do agree with you. the number issue -- number one issue this country has -- [crowd yelling medic] [crowd noise] ♪

[ave maria playing] a™ trump: take your time, dr..

thank you very much. ♪ it is gonna be good. ♪ trump: i wish we could open

those doors to outside. [crowd yelling open the doors] trump: yeah, take your time, dr. trump: for security reasons, they can't but you know what i should just open them because

you know if anybody comes through, you know what is going to happen to them. [applause] >> it looks like first she is on her feet and walking out, let's encourage her, let her know we will be praying for her. and i know it is really warm in here, everybody agrees that it is really warm in here, we've got a lot of people, i am going to ask that if you have a chair, maybe sit so everyone around you can sit and still see the president and ask him questions, maybe that will help us. trump: and we can spend a little more time, personally i enjoy this, we lose weight, probably lose weight, that is ok with me. but some people have been waiting here for two days so you know it is a little bit, it is a little bit tough, it is a little bit tough but they are going to try to get those doors open i do not know who is building this is but if they have air

conditioning, is there any air conditioning? >> -- they probably cannot afford it in this economy. trump: they don't want to have air conditioning, it is too expensive, it costs too much. anyway, but they are both ok, they are both in good shape. would anybody else like to faint? >> let's do it now. trump: you know what we could do, though, if my guys can do it, how about we will do a little bit of music, let's make this a musical fast, oh look, look. that is great. that is great. because it is nice and cool outside, right? it is nice and cool. why don't we, and i mean this, if my guys can hear me, two things. put up the chart, my favorite chart. my all-time favorite chart.

and let's listen to pavarotti sing ave maria, can you hear that? they gave me the ave maria with no voice. there it is. and it is my favorite piece of paper in the world, i sleep with it every night, i kiss it, i kiss it, and you see those numbers by the way for those we talk about you know the border when you were talking about the border look at the numbers. that was the lowest it ever was, right there, that is the last day i was in office, and we are going to get it lower than that but we are going to let people come in, we are going to let people come in come up so very important but this is one of my most favorite, if i had turned to the right i would not be here with you right now so sort of a cruel world but i was very proud of that before the fact, now even if we had lousy numbers i would love that piece of paper a lot so put on pavarotti singing ave maria, nice and loud, turn it up louder, we want a little action here. turn it up louder!

[pavarotti singing ave maria] a™ trump: that's for your boy. that's for your boy. stand up. that's for your boy. ♪

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>> let's not do any more questions, let's just listen to music. who the hell wants to hear questions? isn't that beautiful? we played that in butler, pennsylvania. we had a moment of silence, then we had the bells of notre dame go off, then we had a great opera singer, christopher, who is so incredible, a great opera singer. that's part of raleigh -- that's pavarotti. i asked christopher, i said, your voice is incredible. how does it compare? he said no, he was the greatest of them all. this man's voice, you are probably heard it. he was phenomenal. he said no, no, pavarotti was the greatest. may be we will play time to say goodbye when we end. >> sounds fantastic. >> instead of your normal rock

out of the place, then he will say -- then you will go vote and we will win the state. if we win pennsylvania, we win the whole thing. we are going to win. we are going to win. if we win pennsylvania, we are going to win the whole thing. it's going to really be something. we just had some numbers coming out of virginia, which is great. we have numbers coming out of -- we win this commonwealth, we win the commonwealth of pennsylvania. we are in clover, then we will fix our country, and we will fix it fast. we are going to fix it fast. so get that song done. get that song ready and we are going to have a beautiful -- by the way, when we leave, you don't have to go so fast, you can sit and listen, we will play a couple of songs. some of you will be a little warmer, that's ok, it's not a

bad thing. if you want, we are going to do that, but i think it will be beautiful. it's nice to have a mat -- isn't it a nice thing to have imagination? it's lies -- it's like wind, list teleprompter without the other day -- when kamala harris teleprompter went out the other day. she lost it. if you are a politician you can count on a 5% of the time you lose a teleprompter. sometimes really badly, like in the middle of a sentence. you have to have a good memory. if you don't have a good memory, you can't be much of a politician. but if they go out, sometimes if you're outside, the wind blows them down. i have one in ohio with 45 mile-per-hour winds and i said, i'm going to lose these suckers. within the first two sentences they were gone. >> i was at that rally. fmr. pres. trump: bernie marino is doing very well. the former senator. we will listen to a couple of songs. that's ok with me.

i like it. we will do those songs that we had mentioned, justin. if justin doesn't get it right, he gets fired. >> i have a quote that i like a lot by john wayne. it says, life is hard but it's harder when you're stupid. i think that perfectly explains kamala harris. right? right, sir? now our life has been hard because of her, but can you imagine what it's like to wake up as kamala harris, how hard life must be? fmr. pres. trump: she's not for this job. everybody knows it. look, we are running against a very powerful and a very corrupt machine. that's what it is. in the same thing with joe biden. joe doesn't know where the hell he is. when you talk about biden, he got 14 million votes. he won the primary, and we had a debate. his numbers were very bad and it looked like -- you don't know

it's going to happen -- but he was down substantially. they went to see him. he said, i don't want to get out, i won. you are getting out. that was the overthrow of an american president. you can call it a coup but i don't call it that anymore because a lot of people say, what they hell is a coup. you could call it that, but it was basically the overthrow of an american president. frankly, she's doing horribly right now. you saw 60 minutes where they replaced her answer with another answer. she's doing horribly. i have a feeling he might've been better than her. let's see. we have to see what the end is. maybe they made a good move. but when they talk about a threat to democracy, how about when they take a candidate who won fair and square, they throw him out, and they put up a woman who failed, was the first one to drop out of the field of 22, and got no votes. this is the person who we are running against. and she is not a smart woman. that's true. we've had that for four years. we are not going to have it for another four years. we are not going to have it.

gov. noem: so we are not going to complain about things, we are going to fix them, right? and you are going to fix them right here in pennsylvania by showing up in voting for president donald john trump. we are going to make america great again. right? fmr. pres. trump: so stores are open, that feels good. i feel it right now, i don't know who's out there trying to get in, but i said, doesn't that feel nice? and you don't even have -- there's nothing like outdoors -- you don't even have the cost of an air conditioner, if they have them in this beautiful factory. anyways, go ahead, please. gov. noem: sir, do you want to play your song and then greet a few people? you said you wanted to close with a specific song. two more fast questions. fmr. pres. trump: how about a couple of really beauties, we sit down and relax. let me just give you the bottom line.

we win pennsylvania, we win this great commonwealth. we are going to win the whole ballgame. it's such an important place. and we are up in the polls fairly nicely. fairly nicely. but it's really important and we are going to turn this country around. it's a greatest movement in the history of our country. ma ga, make america great again. when biden go on he used to say we will stop mag a. remember with the purple background. pink and purple, he looked like the devil, right. but she's worse than him, remember. they would say we will stop mag a. it means make america great again. what are you going to stop. and we are indeed going to make america great again. we are a declining nation right now. we are a nation in decline. we aren't going to be in decline for long. every country respected us for years ago. we were energy independent, we had everything. we were the greatest economy in

the history of our country. we are going to bring it back bigger, better and stronger than ever before. go and vote, let me hear that music, please. gov. noem: gov. noem: everyone, let's think president trump uric god bless you. let's send president trump back to the white house. thank you, everyone. ♪

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♪ >> ♪ this is a man's world

but it wouldn't be nothing, nothing, nothing without a woman or a girl ♪ ♪ ♪

>> ♪ baby girl in a baby boy men make some happy but after a man may understand buying things for every woman and every man. this is a man's world ♪ ♪ fmr. pres. trump: this is been an honor tonight. we could do another question or two if you'd like, but -- do you want to do one? let's go. let's go.

you know, but it ends so beautifully. how about this, we will play ymca and we will go home. but listen, whatever you can do, get out there, we have to win. this is the most important election in the history of our country. and you know what, i never thought i would say it again. we fix the border, we did everything, we had a great economy. it was good. we got millions of more votes in 2020 that we did in 2016. but there's never been spirit that we've seen like this because we saw how bad they are. they are so bad and frankly, they are evil. what they've done, they weaponized our elections. they've done things that nobody thought was even possible. we are going to go and vote, we will have a good time. we will make our country great again. i want this to be a really important evening. those two people that went down

are patriots and we love them. because of them we ended up with good music, right, right? so play ymca, let's go. nice and loud. gov. noem: we go, everybody. >> ♪ young man, there's no need to feel down i said, young man, pick yourself off the ground young man, because you're in a new town there is no need to be unhappy young man, there's a place you can go i said, young man when you're short on your dove you can stay there

and i'm sure you will find many ways to have a good time it's fun to stay at the ymca it's fun to stay at the ymca they have everything for young men to enjoy you can hang out with all the boys it's fun to stay at the ymca it's fun to stay at the ymca you can get yourself clean, eat you can have a good meal you can do whatever you feel young man, are you listening to me i said, young man what do you want to be i said, young man, you can make real your dreams but you've got to know this one thing no man does it all by himself i said

young man, put your pride on the shelf and just go there, to the ymca i'm sure they can help you today it's fun to stay at the ymca it's fun to stay at the ymca they have everything for young men to enjoy you can hang out with all the boys it's fun to stay at the ymca it's fun to stay at the ymca you can get yourself clean you can have a good meal you can do whatever you feel young man, i was once in your shoes i said, i was down and out with the blues i felt no man cared if i were alive i felt the whole world was so driver

that's when someone came up to me and said young man, take a walk up the street it's a place they're called the ymca they can start you back on your way it's fun to stay at the ymca it's fun to stay at the ymca they have everything for young men to enjoy you can hang out with all the boys ymca, it's fun to stay at the ymca young man, young man, there's no need to feel down young man, young man get yourself off the ground [instrumental break]

ymca, it's fun to stay at the ymca young man, young man, are you listening to me young man, young man, what do you want to be ymca you'll find it at the ymca no man, no man does it all by himself young man, young man, put your pride on the shelf ymca and just go to the ymca young man, young man, i was once in your shoes young man, young man, i was down with the blues ymca, it's fun to stay at the -- ♪ ♪ fmr. pres. trump: nobody's leaving, what's going on. there's nobody leaving.

keep going, keep going? should we keep going? alright, turn that music up. turn it up, great song. >> ♪ it goes like this the fourth the fifth the minor falls, the major lifts the baffled king composing hallelujah hallelujah, hallelujah hallelujah, hallelujah your faith was strong but you needed proof you saw her breathing on the roof her beauty in the moonlight overthrew you she'd tied you to her kitchen chair

hallelujah, hallelujah hallelujah, hallelujah maybe i've been here before i know that you might want this floor i used to live alone before i new year i senior flag on the marble arch love is not a victory march it's broken, hallelujah hallelujah, hallelujah hallelujah, hallelujah.

now you never show it to me, do you and remember when i moved in you, though holy dark was moving through and every breath we drew was hallelujah hallelujah, hallelujah hallelujah, hallelujah all i ever learned from love was

how to shoot at someone and it's not outcry you can hear at night it's not somebody who seen the light if you come it's a broken the hallelujah hallelujah, hallelujah hallelujah, hallelujah ♪ ♪ [applause]

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>> ♪ since u been gone i could do whatever i want i can see whomever i choose but nothing, i said nothing can take away these blues because nothing compares nothing compares to you it's been so lonely without you here like a bird without a song nothing can stop these lonely tears from falling tell me baby where did i go wrong

i could put my arms around every boy i see no matter what you do because nothing compares nothing compares to you

why didn't you wait for me -- all died when you went away i know that living with you baby was sometimes hard but i'm willing to give it another try nothing compares

nothing compares to you nothing compares nothing compares to you nothing compares 2 u -- to you nothing

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[oh this singing -- elvis presley singing dixieland] ♪

♪ >> ♪ so hush little baby don't you cry you know your daddy's bound to die

but all my trials, lord, will soon be over ♪

glory, glory hallelujah his truth is marching on his truth is marching on ♪ ♪ [applause]

♪ i've been sellin' my soul, workin' all day overtime hours for bullshit pay

so i can sit out here and waste my life away drag back home and drown my troubles away it's a damn shame what the world's gotten to for people like me and people like you wish i could just wake up and it not be true but it is, oh, it is livin' in the new world with an old soul these rich men north of richmond lord knows they all just wanna have total control wanna know what you think, wanna know what you do and they don't think you know, but i know that you do 'cause your dollar ain't shit and it's taxed to no end 'cause of rich men north of richmond i wish politicians would look out for miners and not just minors on an island somewhere lord, we got folks in the street, ain't got nothin' to eat and the obese milkin' welfare well, god, if you're 5-foot-3 and you're 300 pounds taxes ought not to pay for your bags of fudge rounds young men are puttin' themselves six feet in the ground 'cause all this damn country does is keep on kickin' them down lord, it's a damn shame what the world's gotten to for people like me and people like you wish i could just wake up and it not be true but it is, oh, it is livin' in the new world with an old soul these rich men north of richmond lord knows they all just wanna have total control wanna know what you think, wanna

know what you do and they don't think you know, but i know that you do 'cause your dollar ain't shit and it's taxed to no end 'cause of rich men north of richmond ♪ i've been sellin' my soul, workin' all day overtime hours for bullshit pay ♪ ♪ [applause]

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♪ >> ♪ when i look into your eyes i can see a love restrained but darlin' when i hold you don't you know i feel the same? nothin' lasts forever and we both know hearts can change and it's hard to hold a candle in the cold november rain

we've been through this such a long long time just tryin' to kill the pain, ooh yeah love is always coming, love is always going no one's really sure who's lettin' go today walking away if we could take the time to lay it on the line i could rest my head just knowin' that you were mine all mine so if you want to love me then darlin' don't refrain or i'll just end up walkin' in the cold november rain

do you need some time on your own? do you need some time all alone? ooh, everybody needs some time on their own ooh, don't you know you need some time all alone i know it's hard to keep an open heart when even friends seem out to harm you but if you could heal a broken heart wouldn't time be out to charm you? oh, oh, oh

♪ sometimes i need some time on my own sometimes i need some time all alone ooh, everybody needs some time

on their own ooh, don't you know you need some time all alone ♪ and when your fears subside and shadows still remain, oh yeah i know that you can love me when there's no one left to blame

so never mind the darkness, we still can find a way 'cause nothin' lasts forever, even cold november rain ♪

[applause] ♪ don't ya think that you need somebody? don't ya think that you need someone? everybody needs somebody you're not the only one you're not the only one don't ya think that you need somebody? don't ya think that you need someone? everybody needs somebody

you're not the only one you're not the only one don't ya think that you need somebody? don't ya think that you need someone? everybody needs somebody you're not the only one you're not the only one don't ya think that you need somebody? don't ya think that you need someone? everybody needs somebody ♪ ♪ [applause] ♪

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