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could you answer the question? tonight from milwaukee, wisconsin a town hall with amy klobuchar and the future of america. ♪ >> good evening from downtown milwaukee, wisconsin, and welcome to the fox news town hall with minnesota senator amy klobuchar. [applause] i am martha mcallen. the one we will get to the questions with klobuchar in just a second. but first, live tonight from the exchange, old chamber of commerce building where an warmest amount of wheat was bought and sold during the late 18 and 1900s. the city was once the largest exporter of wheat in the world.

how about that? >> martha: it is a beautiful, beautiful midwestern building and wisconsin a power player on the political stage after voting for barack obama in big numbers. the buckeye state turned red. electing donald trump by less than 1%. hillary clinton famously absent and avoided the state altogether in the 2016 campaign which proves to not be a good idea. speed one that is one of the reasons we are here senator amy klobuchar to swing it back blue as she gets to set off against 21 other democrats. defying for her party's nomination ladies and gentlemen please welcome senator amy klobuchar. [applause] thank you, martha. >> great to be here. and milwaukee is actually the birthplace of my mom. and so i left it here. my uncle who is 90 years old and served in the navy is with us today so great to be here.

>> bret: thank you for your service uncle dick. senator before we get started with questions, obviously the house judiciary voted a couple of hours ago. hoping the dash holding the attorney general in contempt. you have some democrats suggesting the attorney general should be arrested and jailed. do you agree, first of all, the attorney general was in contempt of congress? >> amy: s. attorney general is the people's lawyer. the attorney general of the united states of america. he should be showing up in answering questions. he came before the senate judiciary committee. i got to ask him questions. i didn't get all the answers i wanted but i think he had every right to expect that he should be called before the house and he should answer their questions. >> bret: do you think he should go to jail? >> amy: i think he should come before the house and i think you

will see a lot of pushback and subpoenas. i think this is a demonstration that has to take it serious. a foreign country evaded our election. they didn't use a meso and they didn't use the tanks but they use computers and hacked dan. we can't let that happen again. that is why we want the attorney general to answer questions and why we want the director, former director of the fbi, robert mueller to come before congress and tell us what happened. they have to answer the people's call. >> martha: senator klobuchar, some people look at this intense proceeding and they say there were times when eric holder was also held in contempt and would not turn over any of the documents that congress requested of him. the irs, the same situation under the obama administration. so why are democrats reacting in such a strong way when they didn't seem to have a problem with those two situations? >> amy: you know hundreds and hundreds former u.s. attorneys and law enforcement from across

the country, including republican ones, who have said this report is real. that there is evidence, the ten points about obstruction of justice. i think this is a pretty serious thing when it comes to a foreign country. we want to get answers. the president should be held accountable. that is what this is about. by the way, we know being in the heartland here, it doesn't mean we can't do two things at once. that is pushed for an economic agenda for the people of this country while making sure that we have someone in the white house which is why am running for president that will -- [applause] obey the law and tell the truth. i think the minimum. >> bret: but the meal or report, we don't see you doing it on the campaign trail or answering a lot of questions about it. >> martha: let's move to the audience questions and the first one comes from matthew. >> thank you senator klobuchar for being here in the midwest

with middle america. we appreciated. >> amy: it is great to be here and fun to be here. i feel a little bit like being a viking fan on lambeau field. [laughter] but i'm ready to go, you know. [applause] >> bret: i knew you would have one. >> so my question to you how do you keep plan to keep the current economy booming and continuing to grow? >> amy: i think you all know in wisconsin and the midwest, we were hit by that downturn, right? for a bad and we came back as a country. we came back because of the workers many of whom are in this room. i see some of my friends they are from the teamsters joining us today. the workers, the businesses. we came back. and now we are at a time of stability in the country. but to me this is a moment in time that should be governing

from opportunity and not from chaos. and that means season on that -- seizing on the challenges in front of us, right? and you shouldn't run for president if you don't have real solutions for the real problems that are facing the country and show how you will pay for it. and so i start, first of all -- [applause] -- making sure we have a workforce that works with our economy. that means a lot of people are not sharing in the prosperity that we have seen here. and while there are jobs out there, we know that, it has become harder and harder for people to afford health care, right? you have to be able to afford health care to go to work. roads, bridges, rails at work so you can go do a job. so when i look out to keep the economy strong, it is taking on those challenges. like making sure we have people train for the jobs that we have tomorrow as well as today. it means that making sure that we do something about immigration reform, which is a

big part of the country. it means making sure that we address racial injustices so that everyone has an opportunity to compete in this country. it means making sure that we are a country that takes on the challenge of climate change. these are all things that are before us that this president hasn't been grappling with. i am someone that looks people in the eye and tells them the truth and gets things done. and i think that's what we need in our nation. and that is what we need to move our economy. >> bret: senator, let me follow up. and i've heard you use that phrase that obviously you don't like how the president runs this administration. you have called it chaotic. if you look at just the numbers. and there is a graph we will put on the screen here. the gdp since president trump took office going up significantly. you have unemployment rate going down in historic numbers. consumer confidence up big. average hourly earnings up big. that is since the president took

office. what do you say to people, voters in the state who look at those numbers and say, you know what it's come i can. >> amy: , well, what i say to them, you go out there and you talk to real people and they will tell you they are not sharing and prosperity. there are some people that have done really well, bret, there is no doubt about it. but there are a lot of people that can't afford, the prescription drugs because while this president promised to do something about it, he put a plan out and all that happen is the pharmaceutical prices have went up. so they are stuck. not the drugs went down. so what we need to do is to actually do something about it. i've got a lot of ideas including medicare to negotiate lower prices for prescription drugs. and also, making sure that we stop pharma companies from paying generics to keep the products off of the market. there is so much we can be

doing. and it's about responding to people's concerns instead of passing a tax bill that leads to young people in this room, saddled with a trillion dollars in debt. >> martha: senator, let me ask you about this. apology because one of the things president trump has done with the tax reform bill. i know you like to see an increase in the taxes, corporate taxes in particular back up to 25%. a lot of the regulation. companies say, that is what allowed them to grow. that is what allowed workers. so are you concerned if you dial those things back, you will put the brakes on the economy? >> amy: first of all you have to look at the trajectory we have been on since the downturn. this all did not happen when donald trump got elected to. this started a few years ago when we got on a better track, and it happened because of incredible businesses. including ones we have in wisconsin. like harley-davidson, right,

wisconsin products. workers and their jobs. so that is the beginning. and the trajectory that we've been on for a while. >> martha: you don't think president trump had nothing to do with accelerating -- >> amy: let's go to the tax bill, that is my concern. there are things that i would keep but if you look at the corporate tax rate, i would have brought it down. but 21%. every point that it went down was 100 billion off of our economy come out of your pocket. $100 billion. so that is why i think that that bill was tilted too far to help the wealthy. i don't know how many people in this room has money stored over in the bahamas. can you raise your hands? not many, none. so to me the answer is what they did there was at $150 billion in debt because of the way they did the taxes. so a one on the economy that will work for everybody. i would bring the corporate tax rate down some but not where they brought it.

i still think the businesses would be strong. what they want to make sure they have our businesses, customers, consumers that can buy stuff. they are not going to be able to buy stuff, average people if they don't have the money in their pocket to do it. that is how our economy works. >> bret: you understand that this is a big part of this race, how democrats will make the case to voters that you need to get off of this track. even though that track is going pretty well. if you look, "the washington post," people individually sought tax cuts. there was a myth, fact-checked. they did see them individually. and so that his part. >> amy: as i said for the middle class and for the people, there were parts of that bill that i would keep in place, but i'm telling you, we will not be able to keep on this track with this kind of data and not do anything about our infrastructure. not doing anything about helping people when they needed. that's why i put out a policy to finally do something in this

country about addiction and mental illness when a 5 out of 10 people are having issues. you have to help people where they are. people come up to me all the time and say i don't know where to go. i don't know where to go. i've worked my whole life but i can't help my kid go to college. i'm struggling with my family and addiction. so when you are at a time of prosperity in a country or at least i will say stability, you have to make sure that it works for everyone. that is what made america great. >> bret: let's go to another audience question. this one from benjamin. benjamin. there you are. >> all right, welcome to the federal estate. >> amy: thank you, thank you. thank you benjamin from to go gopher state. we are the only state that have rodents for our name. [laughter] >> so you add moderate study citing hesitation to endorse progressive policy like medicare for all and free public college,

but regardless of whether or not these policies are politically feasible in your opinion, do you ideologically support them and i guess why should sober -- progressive support you? >> amy: thank you progressive should support me because i'm a proven progressive. the last time i checked, the last time i checked, if you want to be a progressive and support progressive, then you are supposed to make progress. all right? and that is what i have done. that it is what i've done my whole life. even during the time of this president, 34 where i've been the lead democrat and signed into law. and there are things like getting money out to the state to improve their election equipment so we don't have what just happened happen again. it is things like before that, making sure that we respond to drug shortages for kids that have cancer. it is actually also making sure that we could build a bridge from minnesota to wisconsin,

okay? those are real accomplishments. that is what we need to do and in terms of those big goals, to me, how do you get to those goals? universal health care. we all share that, right? everyone should see health care not as a privilege but as they are right. and i think the way you get there -- i think the way you get there is to build on affordable care act. build on the affordable care act. this is something the president is trying to repeal right now is justice department last week in the middle of all of that news. that hearing to mobile app and they filed a legal brief in the fifth circuit which means the sd have repealed and trying to repeal the entire affordable care act. this isn't about people with health exchanges but about all of you. if you have a pre-existing condition, in the kind of health condition, you can get kicked off of your insurance if, in fact, this repeal takes place.

i would protect those provisions. i would build on them with a public option, which means medicare or medicaid to bring down the cost. this is something president obama wanted to do from the beginning. and i would take on the pharmaceutical companies. they may think they own washington with their two lobbyist for every member of congress, but they don't own me. [applause] >> martha: so, we will go forward and take a look at a piece that is about the wisconsin economy, the impact of the economy on the last election, and the fact that the badger state, of course, is where we are tonight. the badgers state will be very central to 2020 as well. let's watch this. >> >> it is the state hillary clinton forgot in 2016. >> wisconsin, wisconsin the great state of wisconsin. >> president trump reminding that mistake ever since. >> we went to wisconsin.

one -- we have not won in many, many years. she decided not to go. thank you very much. >> clinton did not make a single stop during 2016 race. in the last time the state went for a republican was in 1984. but it was close in 2004, even closer in 2,000 and president trump on it by the slimmest of margins. just .7%. >> fox news projects donald trump will win all important state of wisconsin. >> and the working-class swing voters, many reported president barack obama. >> with the economic issues, job creation, more taxes, for your economy. >> i thought trump could bring us better off financially. >> the swing voters we spoke to said they like the economy under president trump. >> we have more jobs than workers.

>> i know we have more money in it. i do pay my taxes. >> but the president's tariffs and trade wars are taking a toll onto farmers. and on companies that rely on steel and aluminum like this company based harley-davidson. democrats are determined to not make the same mistake. >> we are starting in wisconsin. as your room member, lot of campaigning in wisconsin in 2016. but in 2020 the state is one of the most heavily swing states in the country. in fact the democratic national convention will be held right here in milwaukee. bret, martha. >> bret: kristen, thank you. obviously hillary clinton is not running this time but 21 other democrats are so far. which brings us to the next question from christina, christina. >> hi, amy.

i have been following you for a very long time. but also the state of minnesota, the issues that are you are facing, what are you doing to encompass this? >> amy: i'm here. let's start with that. and what i love about a presidential campaign is you can get out there and meet people and talk to people. they get to know you. that is how i run all my campaigns. that is actually how i govern. and i go not where it's most comfortable but uncomfortable. when i look back a note for the record, hillary clinton would be a very good president. so let's start with that. [applause] >> i think the last few years and some of the national campaigns that the midwest had forgotten. my husband is here, and he is 1 of 6 boys. he grew up actually for the first years of his life in a trailer home. they would go on one vacation. every summer they would load the

boys into the station wagon and his mom is a great mom. she would always want to make sure they would not leave one behind. so they would make them count off when they got in the car so they didn't leave a boy behind at the gas station. and we are not going to leave with me in the lead, we are not leaving the midwest behind as a gap station. okay, so let's start with that. [applause] 's and that is because i think it is critical, which is one of the reasons i'm here today to talk about the entire country. i think it is important to run on an optimistic, economic agenda. if you think that doesn't work in wisconsin, i have four words for you former governor scott walker, okay? because that is what, that is what your new governor did. that is what tammy bolden has done, the great senator. running on things that matter to the people of wisconsin. and yes, donald trump and 2016 election and he continues to do it, tries to take you down every

single rabbit will every day. he tweets out mean things in the morning. that is what he does. i think it is important to keep on track. sometimes you respond to him and hold your ground when he took on my friend senator mccain eight months after he died. yeah, you respond. sometimes you ignore him. and sometimes if you have not noticed, you use a little humor. like when he called me snow woman of my announcement in the middle of that state. i wrote back, on twitter come i would like to see how your hair would fare in a blizzard. >> bret: kovner, you are joe biden essentially running in the same way as you come as a m, joe biden and the average recent polls is beating you 39-1. so how do you beat joe biden? >> amy: well, this will be a long campaign. we will all be able to make our cases. when you look at presidents that have one, you look at where they

came from. they have all overcome incredible odds. do you think anybody thought it -- from georgia would become the president? he was at 1% for a long time. a governor from arkansas or how about someone with the name barack obama? i don't think people thought he was going to win. and if i would use that philosophy in my life to him if i thought to myself, oh, well, everybody that discounted me, then i will not be able to do it, then i would never be where i am today. [applause] when i got -- when our daughter was born and she was really sick and i got kicked out of the hospital, he had 24 hours. i went to the legislature and this was before a lot of these laws passed. just as a mom, went to the legislature when no one thought i could do it and passed one of the first clause in the country guaranteeing new moms and babies

a 48 hour hospital today. when i ran for a prosecutor, no woman had that job. ran for prosecutor the biggest county in minnesota. i did it and the more well-funded opponent, i won. then i run for the u.s. senate, we never had a woman and that job. i went all over the state again with money and i one that too. when i got to the senate, okay, maybe i got a little bit of background and some of these people. but i will build trust with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle. and i'm going to get things done. literally come if you discounted people that don't look like they have a chance, these people i je president and we would never be where we are today. but yeah, i can win this. [applause] we went thank you, senator. >> martha: let's go back to the other audience for a question, connor. >> do you think early negative coverage of the campaign was sexist? >> amy: you know that will be for other people to decide.

and i think you just got to run your own race and make your case to the people of this country. there is going to be all kinds of coverage you don't like. and i don't think the world is always fair. and i'm sure i will see that some point in my life, but right now, i think it is more important to talk about what i actually want to do. and we have a few of these things. but i wanted to talk about one of the other things i didn't get into much. and that is my policy to actually do something about it diction and thin health. for me, this comes from the heart. my dad struggled with drinking the whole time i was growing up. he had to coat dwis by the time i was in middle school. and when sean and i were about to get married in the 90s, he got a third one. and the kind of laws that changed here and he faced jail or treatment. and he, with our urging me

telling him everything that happened in my life and taking the keys from him when he was trying to drive when he shouldn't have, he picked treatment. in his own words, he was pursued by grace. and i believe that every person in this country has that right to be pursued by grace. if they have problems with an addiction whether opioids, math, so many of our communities righr they have a problem with mental illness. that is why i put out a plan that is paid for. i put out a plan that shows how you can get there. we don't have enough beds in this country right now for people with mental illness to get treatment. in fact, the police officer show up at the door and have to be a doctor at the same time. so i think the best thing is to get help from people that have mental illness. and to make sure that you have suicide. i don't know if you know this but wisconsin being such a big state, this big increase of suicide from farmers.

you have lost in the state something like 1400 dairy farms, right? and i met a farmer in minnesota whose wife, they were struggling and were going to lose their farm. they were soybean farmers. she didn't know how bad it was but he killed himself. and that is happening, veterans are committing suicide at record rates right in front of the veterans facility. we have a 30% increase in suicide in this country in just 15 years. so that is why this idea that we make sure that we have help for people and we have the personnel that we train them and that we do something when it comes to suicide. that is what comes to me so u.s. me do i care about coverage? no, i care about the people that need help in this country. [applause] >> martha: senator, let me ask you one question about that issue and i want to follow up for a second. as you said, early coverage and

like an ability. you look at the way things are right now and you have three men at the top of the polls. and then the women on the even recent polls that democrat women said they felt like they should vote for a man this time. what do you think when you hear that? >> amy: i think made the best woman win. [applause] i think that you have women that have gotten elected all over the country. the new governor of kansas is a woman. she beat chris. her name is laura kelly. we elected women and how seats all over the country. you have the great tammy baldwin here. so women won all kinds of elections. and i also think you discount them at your own payroll. if you are a democratic voter because we have some really outstanding women running. and yes, did i have a tough job as a prosecutor?

and push to get things done and have high standards for myself and for my staff and for our country? yes, i do. and when you do those kinds of things, then you have the kind of jobs that a few of us are running, the women have had, yeah, you make some enemies. not everybody loves you. that is not your job. your job is to do what is right for this country. [applause] >> bret: senator, we have a lot more questions from the audience coming up. we entered this exchange with senator klobuchar and supreme court justice bret kavanaugh and more of the questions as we come to you live from the grand exchange here in downtown milwaukee. we will be right back. ♪ [applause]

♪ [cheers and applause] >> before becoming a presidential candidate, amy klobuchar's life started out in the midwest. >> as the daughter of a teacher and a newspaperman. >> bret: she was the valedictorian of her high school, even entered for then senator and future vice president walter mondale. >> started her career as an attorney, serving as one of the top criminal prosecutors interstate. >> in 2006, she made history for being... peak of first woman

speaker recently questioning attorney general bill barr about the mueller report. >> when you look at it, it's a pattern and that's different from having one incident. >> in her private life, she has made no secret in her father's struggle with alcoholism, saying it helped shaped her as a person. a fact that became clear with this exchange with then supreme court nominee justice than kavanaugh >> no. i remember what happened. and you probably have had beer, senator? >> i have no drinking problems. >> neither do i. >> with your time as a criminal prosecutor in mind, we have

another question. let's go to meredith here in the audience. >> nice to have a fellow fellow -- we have one of the most highest incarcerated zip codes. do you support legalizing marijuana federally and if so how do you make sure those locked up have the records expunged? >> let's start with marijuana. i think each state should be able to make that decision. i do support making it legal state-by-state and i know that something my state is considering right now, we have medical marijuana. beyond that, it's a much bigger question about our criminal justice system. to me, that begins with what happens when you put people in prison with an incarceration rate that's so high like our country has and such long sentences for nonviolent offenders. i'm proud of the work my office

did when i was the county attorney, we put some really dangerous people behind bars to keep our communities safe. we also expanded into white-collar crime. we even put a judge in jail, a democratic appointed judge in jail, because he was ripping off a woman with disabilities. a few things. number one, tried to use drug courts whenever you can. drug courts work, people are able to get out and become productive members of society and that's really important. numbered two, we do sentences for people in now with nonviolent offenses and we did that, it's called the first step back out of washington. one of the good things that you did on a bipartisan basis, but we have to have the second step back, and that means really going beyond that to get the

states and local governments were 90% of the people are incarcerated in that system, so that they also have a second chance. that's how i look at this. do you want to put people behind bars that are serious offenders, that deserve that punishment and that you always want to look at how fair the sentences are? some of them were way out of whack and our way out of whack right now. and you can allow people to be productive members of our society, and that's what we need to do. it's fair for everyone because for too many people, the justice system is unjust. >> senator, what you say to those people who would look at your record back then and what you said about how tough you wanted to be on crime and you said we must put dangerous criminals away far from our home from our streets and playgrounds, no crime is a small crime, and we must enforce the law down the line for those laws of the change, but it sounds like you have in that issue. >> no, i still believe you enforce the law and whether

someone lives in a poor neighborhood or whether they live in the white house. i think you have to make sure -- [cheers and applause] that the laws are upheld. i do think that we need to be compassionate at the same time. i have seen that you've got way too much bias in the system. i saw it then. that's when i did a new form of eyewitness identification that we instituted where we did it in a more fair whereby instead of looking at a group of pictures, you would have the witness have to look at each picture at a time. that was a really important reform. i think you have to reflect the people that you serve and i worked hard to make our office more diverse and higher defensive lawyers, they are judges and moved on into great jobs. i think you also have to have for her role in place. i believe all that but it's more important that we

have going forward. yes, it's about body cameras and things like that. but it's more than that. it's also about economic justice and making sure that everybody has an opportunity to succeed. that means making sure schools are good. that means making sure that when there are so many terrific efforts to suppress those that everybody who is eligible to vote can vote. that's a true democracy. [applause] >> vanessa has our next question. vanessa? >> hi, vanessa. mrs. klobuchar, thank you for coming to milwaukee. statistics show that the no child left behind act isn't working. how will you help inner-city children? >> thank you. first of all, we have certainly made some changes.

i wasn't in congress when the bill had passed but i wouldn't have supported it, i made that clear, and a lot of the things that happen there didn't help our kids. so we made some changes to make sure that it's really focused on the kids instead of just testing everyone and not having any other thing that would help them. the first thing i would do is support our public schools. my mom taught second grade until she was 70 years old. she got her teaching degree here. and she went to minnesota. i still have people come up and tell me that she was their favorite teacher. i went to the public school. my daughter went to the public school. i'm a firm believer in this. my daughter went to catholic school. i think that's part of this. the other piece of this is we are paying our teachers well so they stay in our schools -- [applause]

so you have to have many paths to success in our country. we have too many kids as you know go off the grid. they just go off the grid. they don't graduate from my school, they don't know what opportunities are there, and we've got to look at that very seriously. one way you do it is by making sure is that kids can take community college classes, they understand the incredible jobs out there in construction, in science, in technology, in engineering, in the medical field. you've got to go things going on here. we've got kids not graduating and we've got job openings. we want to match those up. that's why i think we should have freed to kill your community college [applause] i think that's really important. and expanding -- you think all of your kids and want them to have path to success, making sure that it goes to more people in this country and that there

are bigger grants. by the way, how would i pay for that? i tell you i'm going to pay for stuff. there's something called the buffet rule where it's called something, this doesn't seem fair. my secretary is actually paying a higher rate of taxes than i am, he said. he said that's not fair. if you change that -- are you ready for this? $124 billion, okay? that's a lot of money, right. you think about what they can do to help people refinance student loans, to help them go to school, to make things more fair for the people who don't have the opportunities or the economic justice. so that's where it starts. >> senator, i have a question for you. when you're fellow you said, for some of these things, there should be due process.

i felt like this was one of them. why just for some of these situations but expect >> i think for all of these situations you've got to have a process that works. while there is a lot of focus of course on what form is people have done and what her wages things have happened in this area, we want to make sure you are also protecting the nurse in the hospital, the workr on the factory floor. that means really changing our workplaces in every place in america. and so i did feel that there should be due process and i feel that everywhere. one of the things that i'm proud of when you talk about being a progressive and being a proven aggressive, just this last year, i led the bill with senator roy blunt, the republican from missouri, i led the way the rules are changed in congress. unbelievably so, but they had all these waiting periods basically protect the

politicians if there was harassment and put the taxpayers on the hook for paying if someone in congress harassed someone else. i let that bill -- vehicle i want to follow up on due process >> i want to follow up on due process. when you say for al franken there should've been more due process in that situation, you also say he deserves a third act in his career. do you believe that in some aspects the #metoo movement has gone too far? >> i do not think it's gone too far because i think we still have harassment going on in the workplace. one case isn't exactly like the other. add for anyone that is accused of harassment, you can edge over to criminal acts which is a way different situation, rape, things like that. you have to have a process in your workplace so you figure out, get the facts, managers do,

people do, people have a right to bring their cases forward, and you make a decision on how they are handled. that's what i meant by that and i think it should apply to congress and it should apply to every call atomic workplace in wisconsin and across our country. a plea is [applause] >> what about brett kavanaugh? did he have due process what he was did he have due process when he was innocent proven guilty -- >> i'm only smiling because he got a really good job out of the whole thing. yes, i think he did. he had a process, and that process was a hearing before the senate. and that hearing went on and you evidence came out and that was evidence from dr. blodgett

she came forward with her story. what bothers me is after my colleague said she was credible, hearing this basic, political, i think, response. he has a right to put his story on, but basically publicizing the whole judiciary with how he acted. i disagreed with that, and i was very surprised where i was simply trying to match his story with her story. you know, people can blackout and you don't remember what happened. instead of just answering that question, he went right at me and said, you know, basically have you blacked out. do you drink beer and all these things. i decided i could've gone down there with him but i decided, in my head, may be a trickled with my dad. i said i'm taking the keys away from you, i'm not going down here with you.

>> i was asking from the standpoint of the you think there's a difference from how you look at the al franken thing and look at the brett kavanaugh thing? >> no, i don't think so. i had reasons to not vote for brett kavanaugh related on how he had handled the consumer cases, how he handled antitrust cases and executive power. i said he was not going to vote for him earlier before that. >> thank you, senator. coming up, more of our questions from senator amy klobuchar live from milwaukee, wisconsin. [applause] ♪ ♪

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>> martha: great to be with all of you tonight. let's get right back to our audience. katie visser is joining us this evening. >> thank you for being open to questions. >> amy: thanks, katie. >> i have a question of how you would ensure the rights and safety for women and ensuing reproductive health care services. >> amy: sure, and what i think using recently including a bill that passed and signed into law down in georgia which really restricted women's rights to pursue their health care. this bothers me. because i think women should have a right to make their own decisions, right, about their health care. [applause] and when you look at the assault

we've seen from the white house, let's take one example. planned parenthood. in their lifetime, 1 of 5 women go there. most of them are going there for contraception, birth control. they are going there for mammograms. they are going there for cancer screenings. and yet over and over again, this president has tried to cut that funding for planned parenthood. the other way you can look at it is what we've talked about earlier, pre-existing conditions. under the old rules, being a victim of domestic violence was actually a pre-existing condition. can you believe that? that meant you'd be wouldn't be able to get on an insurance policy in eight states because of the fact you were the victim of domestic violence and that means you might have problems and we do not want to cover you. all of that has changed.

one is you are talking about, women's reproductive rights. the second is making sure that you do not get kicked off your insurance for pre-existing conditions. and the third is economic, to make sure that women can pursue. we need more women in science, technology, engineering, math. it got to make sure that women can afford child care, right. take family leave, those kind of things but we need to make sure that women have money for their retirement. chris and i, the senator from delaware, we just put forward in legislations the up savings account. if you work at a place that doesn't have a 401(k) or doesn't have a pension, and a lot of people have problems with retirement right now, it allows you to get one of these savings accounts and that allows you to take it wherever you work and at the end of it, you could have about $600,000, even if you are working part-time.

one of the cool things about it is because so many people, 4 out of 10 americans, don't even have the money to get emergency bill if you went there, 4 out of 10, you also could take up to $2500 a year, the rest you've got to keep in savings if you have an emergency. i bring that up because women who live longer, it's harder and harder for us to a for that retirement well. >> martha: senator, let me ask you a question going back to referring to reproductive health care services. 80% of americans are in favor of limiting abortion to the first trimester. you have said that you would not limit that right all the way up to the moment of birth. what do you say now that you are running nationally to those who have a real problem with that out there in the country? >> >> amy: i believe in roe v. wade -- [applause] those are the rights of our country.

of course, there are limits in the third trimester that are very important about, except for the health of the woman, there are some limits there. over all what we want to do is make sure that women have the rights, rights, to make their own decision. but also reduce the number of abortions. how do you do that? gets by making contraception available, right? [applause] this president, we've actually done that. we brought down the number of abortions in this country by making birth control more available. when this president goes all alt against planned parenthood, that's a major problem. >> martha: what you say to people on the campaign trail -- be when pro-life democrats >> i have many people i know that our pro life have supported me. i think the way i talk to them about this is that they have their own view on this and a lot of them have decided that that's

my view. i have my own view. my religious view based in my own faith or based in my own personal decision. but that doesn't mean i have to apply it to everyone else. and so i think that you can have as a democrat you can have that support as long as you have that discussion. that's what i've done. you have people who support me including republicans who don't agree with me on every issue. i respect them for their views, but it doesn't mean that you put your views on everyone else. >> bret: senator, i want to turn to foreign policy. a rotten, today, it's a feeling may restart making nuclear material. a and the b-52 bombers into the region to address that if it comes to pass.

you are president. you have the same set of circumstances. what do you do? >> amy: i think we can all agree that we do not want iran to have a nuclear weapon. that's got to be one of the tenants of american foreign policy, support not only for israel, it's important for our entire foreign policy. and the way i would approach this is that you have, first of all, you do not want to go to war if possible. i think that's got to be number one. i think how you do that is by enforcing the agreement. i would get back into the iran nuclear agreement. it wasn't perfect. i think there are more things we can negotiate as we look to get back into it. but i would get back into that agreement. i supported it in the first place. one of the reasons that this is happening because basically the president made the decision to get us out of that agreement, leaving it to be enforced by our allies. our european allies and some

countries that aren't even our allies. and to me, that means that you lose power you do that. you lose leverage when you do that. so i would not be, first of all, conducting foreign policy by tweets. secondly, i would stand the five hour allies and work with our allies and the iran agreement as part of that. i wouldn't be cozying up to dictators like vladimir putin and kim jong un which this president did basically saying i love the guy, right? i don't love that guy. [applause] that doesn't mean you don't -- you don't talk to them, you don't have negotiations. but i think when we go into crises and we go into dealing with people that are dictators and we go into dangerous situations like how we are going to work with ron in terms of reducing their weapons but

making that we do everything we do to call them out for the backpackers they are and that's why i've supported sanctions repeatedly against iran, intends about making sure that we respond to everything that they do -- >> bret: you are talking missile testing, funding terrorist -- >> amy: at the same time, you work with the rest of the world and this president seems to think that you are tough when you're doing it alone. i do not think that's the answer. >> bret: you would send the strikethrough and b-52 bombers? >> amy: at this moment, i would not be sending b-52 bombers over there. first of all, i wouldn't have gotten out of the agreement to begin with and i think if that had happened, we wouldn't have been in the situation that we are. i'd felt like i would bring us back into that agreement. [applause] >> bret: all right, senator. >> martha: we are going to do a quick lightning round of questions before we finish here tonight. 15 seconds.

our lesson we can. >> are you worried about filibustering? >> bret: joe biden on the campaign trail calls himself middle-class joe. so, now it's your turn. what should your nickname be? >> amy: well, i don't really have a nickname. i suppose if you want to go with that, heartland amy. but i like our campaign slogan, amy for america. [applause] you can contact us at amyklobuchar.com. >> bret: you slip that in. >> martha: what about this one? would you come in here tonight if you get the nomination, you would pick a man as a running mate? >> amy: oh... >> martha: we've heard a lot of -- >> amy: i think you have to pick the best person for the job. [applause] that's who i would pick. >> bret: you are going to be campaigning here in wisconsin,

you said it three times. just make sure, in the fall, packers versus vikings? >> amy: do not be fooled by the green color here. i will be going with the vikings. my dad once wrote a book called "will the vikings ever win the super bowl." he wrote this a long time ago and sadly it's still valid. >> martha: we want to give you a moment to give your closing comments this evening and we thank you for being here. >> amy: well, i want to thank everyone from wisconsin for being here. i am someone i think, you can see this, we need to move together as a country. that believes the heartland is very important to our country. that is not just fly over land. the police if we are going to move forward in the country we need to meet our challenges somd i will repeat what i said in the

beginning that if you are going to run for president in this