Campaign for dianne feinstein and the woman is no longer there. Carole moseley, braun I'm, a condition that if they won, they had to come on the Committee now I'm not sure diane and so happy I did that now, but uh, but focus on uh oh, there is uh the reason I started this campaign and maybe with your permission after this is all over, I can come back on campus because I go all over campus is all over the country I'm gonna take a little more time than I should but the point of the matter is that um uh we made great progress. The violence against women act and I asked her. I asked the President. We got elected if I could take it from the Justice Department into the vice president's office so I hired and I was in charge of the entire operation. We have two great attorneys general who allowed me to do that and it elevated the effort, but one of the things I had a Wonderful woman who helped me write the act name cynthia hogan and um. I haven't go check with the Bureau of Justice statistics. Every six months. The progress we were making. You made enormous progress for women over the age of 30 the number over the period of 20 years. What happened is that violence against women has decreased by 67 percent more reporting up etc, all good except one thing and it was the most disappointing news I think I received in my career that for women between Ages of 15 and 25 nothing to changed one and five dropped off this September on the campus of August on campus. They're gonna find themselves the victim of sexual abuse or rape on campus. The reason why more women drop out of College has nothing to do with academics. This has to do with being harassed or worse and that's when I started so I had a virtual town meeting with 30000 School and College students and I ask them, I said what would you want me to do to make things better on your campuses and I was embarrassed how simple the answer was that I had thought of over 40 percent going to the website and forget the exact number, but spontaneous open ended question so get men involved so guys. Let me get something straight with you not a joke. I'm not kidding it's your responsibility as much as anybody else's responsibility So gail thank you not only for many but for your incredible support to the effort it really matters. You know, girls and Navy veteran and uh he's you know he's it's philanthropy Israel. He strengthen our public schools. We created College opportunities for students and uh you'll you've. Given countless veterans uh causes you've given to countless veterans causes. My wife is involved with military families and you are a household word. What you're doing. I mean you really you do what you Today you mean what you say And the yellow ribbon program right here in the 30 ninth, so we have, we have alot going on, but look folks from Iraq. Cox is here and um yeah you have such an under educated group of candidates over eighteen to chase an engineer he's built uh he's built he's, an entrepreneur is built invested in this community to help start the Central Valley fun which is raised and invested more than 65 million dollars to build health clinics, job training centers affordable housing, clean energy plans. These projects have created In one thousand 500 well paying jobs and abroad healthcare over 40000 people in the Central Valley Are you listening. Are you listening President trump that's the governments are supposed to do The katie porter the time I knew about katie before matter. My son was attorney general of the state of delaware, a good friend of commas and and he was uh. I think he was fair to say he did two things along with allah and the training general in New York. We decided that when he decided to never forget the phone call my son bose passed away and and saying dad I hope it's okay, but I don't do that. I don't agree with the administration we're not settling with these banks were not settling back And I said honey you never had to check on me, but go to it well. Katie he she's protected California families from predatory lenders security. Eighteen billion dollars in damages the Jackie we're gonna do another thing in your career. No, I really mean it it's a gigantic, gigantic deal. What you did. You and come home and so look folks and harley uh uh It tells you what you got. It if I had hardly running in front of me when I was playing the University of delaware, could have been all American man. I could have been big. The boy looks like he still hit daddy and he looks like you still play when he's a businessman unlike his opponent And he's, a fighter for California, not an apologist for the Kremlin. You know harley Hall is gonna help make sure southern California has clean tech Green energy and becomes the capital of the world. California's lead california's lead and Mike Mike levan He's got more than a decade of experience man and uh working. This job and and creating good jobs, clean energy sector jobs that people can raise a family on send their kids to College most of all. Each of these candidates and the most important thing. It. If you ask yourself all kidding aside whether you're, a Democrat or Republic. If you ask yourself what is change. What is most missing in today's Congress and Senate and National politics in both parties This women and men of character Iga dot ly got like two thousand 29 year old kid in United States and you have to be 30 years old to be a senator. I was elected before I was old enough to be supported, not a joke. I had to wait 17 days to be eligible and when I won in a year that the um Richard Nixon won my state with it, I think it was uh a 62 percent of the vote um. I won by landslide 30 200 votes um after that The candidate running statewide to come up and say hi Joe, what's the secret on how to be a secret if I want and I say with these guys and women understand this one secret folks have you figured it out. What's worth losing over have you figured out what's worth losing over it's about principals it's about dignity. It's about respect it's about knowing why you want the job so many people today Tickets on the other party, whom I know well, I get on well with Republicans. I really do if you remember in the last administration are administration. Every time there's, a problem Congress I'd go up and settling because every one of my colleagues, new and both parties are respected them and never question their motive ice severely. Question their judgement never their motive but when your question motive you can never get to agreement, never question the other persons but they're judgement that's legitimate and we could reach consensus, but so many of them know better I don't know how they get up not a joke and go out and vote. Why the job we have to vote. The way you don't believe when you walk in the floor, none of these people ever do that. None of these people ever did Before I get in a couple of specific issues that probably not gonna talk for more than 15 more minutes but here's the deal before I get into uh some of the specific issues um I'm gonna talk about the well, this election is much bigger than politics and I mean it sincerely is whether you're a first time voter is a student or you've been around a long, long time. This is the most important election I've never voted in and it maybe God willing and the most important of those of your young will have to vote. It our humanity is being tested. Our core values, the American story is being assailed. The fabric of fabric. It is always held us together through good times and hard times to being shredded before our eyes and look we've been tested before america's of face down Our share of zealots of mad man and ignorant ideologues of hunters who see public office away to make a buck off our bags. But we've never face the moment. Like this, our institutions are methodically under assault. Our free press is being slandered as fake news repeatedly time and time again legitimate investigators investigation are dismissed as witch hunts the truth itself is Thrown aside in favor of a culture of consultation, competition devotion to the whims of one man look at the behavior of men of Republican senators during the recent testimony judge Kevin, a look at the behavior of this President. Everyday lives have never been more brazen blind rage and rude partisanship has never been more palpable ice edit a year ago, after the horrific events in charlottesville brock and I agreed we were gonna be Silent to give the President an opportunity to get started just like we gave us an opportunity to get our feet in the grounds said, administration over the historic city of charlottesville one through what it did. I couldn't remain solid or ira wrote, wrote a article for the Atlantic magazine and I said and I believe, it's in the bottom of my heart, were in the battle for america's soul. I think that every day Everyday I think of that day, how the mask was pulled off the mask of hate White supremacist and Nazi slunk out of their dark rooms and digital highways literally out of fields carrying torches as well as Nazi banners singing and chanting. The same exact submit a cv I'll same exact them, anti Mobile as I heard in the streets of North bergen in the 30, 's it's not not. I probably literal accompanied by White supremacists includes cleaners. Ladies and gentlemen, these are the same lost souls who have long stained our history years ago. They stood like cowards behind sprays of fire hoses and flames of burning crosses today. They call refugees, animals prop up immigrants as a source So our problems there by the sight of infants being ripped from the arms of their mothers on the border, know I'm here. I'm telling you man I'm look I'm gonna say, some outrageous. I know, as much about American foreign policy is anybody around I've met every major world leader. We were embarrassed worldwide by what happened And the same people, they prey on the hopelessness and despair of how loud cities and towns, the difference now is we have an American President who sees a moral equivalence between the forces of hate those forces. Info did you ever not a joke. Did you ever think you here to present compare make the moral equivalents good people in both groups folks. This is a moment for us to clear what he can That is there's no place in America for giving hate to safe Harbor the world is watching the world is watching They see a President who has the based our American values, see the global leadership to tires and thugs talks about love letters with Kim Jon gruden years to put in ways that are destroying Europe and they've decided and I'm not making this up just pick up the paper they decided that they can't trust. America anymore. We made a sacred obligation. We signed on the NATO an article five the President of United States says I'm not sure we will defend you when there's little dog who just came in And for the Baltic States that you pay more money folks. This is not who we are. This is not America. America is unique among Nations look throughout our history throughout history societies and have organized over three in three ways around religion around tried or around ideas. America Is built an idea idea And it's an idea It's an idea I've been the great experiment is not a joke. It really truly is it's an idea manifest. It in a thousand little things how we treat each other, whether we afford people the dignity they deserve, whether we acting fairly whether we speak with decency, leaving nobody behind understanding that there's things bigger than us individually. This President has put his own interests before For this I did amassing power and abusing power in this Republican Congress to my overwhelming disappointment because some good people there is choosing party over country because they're afraid of this President and folks it's not hyperbole. This is Justice. Our kids are listening. Our kids are Watching our children are hearing all this and our silence is complicity, silence is complicity folks, American knows who donald trump is and question for all of us who are we who are we. How do we reassert what we stand for who are we. You know there used to be a basic bargain of America the bargain was, if you participated An enterprise that succeed it you got to participate in the success in the profits Was the bargain the built the Middle class Middle class is not a number I have some really fine economist to work for me when you ask an economist here at this great University, one of the Middle classes will give you a number 52500 and 70 dollars and 54000 dollars it's not a number it's a value set it's about being able to own your own home and not have to run it it's about being able to send your kids to the Park for you know they're gonna be able to safely it's about being able to send them to a Local public school or, if they do well, nothing get to College. They get to College. You figure out how to get them there by hook or by crook, so while being able to take your geriatric mom home after your dad passes away and hope your children never never have to take care of. You, it's having just a little bit of breathing room the license to Dream after the Middle class is my dad, who was a great Decent high school educated man well read man used to say because we moved from scranton Pennsylvania and the economy died If you listen to brock Obama, I think I climbed out of the cold mine with the lunch bucket in my hand but I did my dad was a White my whole family and subscribe my dad was a White collar worker high school educated fella and we moved down to delaware. We stay in Mike. We alright man. We because of our jobs down there. We stayed with my grandpop for year because you know the hardest, hardest walk any mom or dad to rest, to make it up a short flight of stairs to sit in the end of the kids bed and say honey You can't go back to the school this year. We can't live in this House anymore honey, daddy lost his job and mommy lost your job. The most frightening things repaired is to be help us in front of their children, not being able to change this one. So when people and recessions are tough times in the from the mid fifties on would be in trouble with me the job my dad would say to me and my siblings and I know how many times I've heard this is joey My job is about a lot more than the paycheck. It's about your dignity. It's about respect. It's about your place in the community is always had by saying it's about being able to look your child in the eyes and say honey it's gonna be okay and mean it. Thank you. How many people don't think they can say that today hardworking people many working two jobs and a family of two working for jobs. We have to restore that bargain That's the Democratic requirement, Democratic party trick with the basic bargain of work because of the Middle class as well. The wealthy do very, very, very well and the poor have some hope. I'm just paying I've met spent more time with the Chinese President. Any world leader for real 25 and a half hours of private dinners and I can each with an interpreter travel 17000 miles we're in do acidity that's now 22 million dollar to bedroom flat toe and he turned to me and he asked me he said, can you define America for myself Yes, I can and I'm in it in one word possibilities. We are distinguished from every other nation in the world From the beginning, anything is possible. It's about possibly That's about much more than just fairness it's about without the Middle class and the reason we have been the most socially and politically stable world country in the last hundred and 50 years is because of our Middle class. During the depression, when the rest of the world, we maintain our social and political stability almost every other country in the world did not it's because of his aspiration of notion about the Middle class, but that bargains with broken you know from the end of world war two to 19 73 nyc cut Productivity grew by 96 percent, 96 percent and wages grew by 92 percent that was the bar kit from 73 today, wages grew by um excuse me, productivity grew by 77 percent and wages by 12 percent it's a big deal man. If you know you may be doing. I hope you're doing you know you know what it felt like. We do part one of those families because it's real to them. It goes to the core of who they are Art so what happened some of the economist will tell you as globalization, artificial intelligence. Moore's law and it's something to do with it. But you will not find a single economist will tell you that may have more than 15 to 20 percent of the difference. Let me tell you why it happen. There's been a steady unrelenting erosion of right for an individual the bargain for their self worth not just the attack on organized labor we've got aside from and I'm a labor day Let's leave that aside from it, do you realize maybe you do nearly 40 percent of all workers at some point in their career will be subject to a non compete clause that prohibits them from taking another job in a similar industry. Well, you say, well that makes a lot of sense if you're in silicon Valley and you work for one company you're gonna go to love that makes a lot of sense, but you realize most of those workers are hourly workers do you realize you work for Jimmy john's you sign a non compete agreement. You can't go to mcdonald's and take a job for 15 cents more an hour without violated. Do you realize that it is one of those folks who drive the trucks with the oil to read, read um supply the highway contracting cruise that you can't go to another job in Texas within a hundred miles. What possible reason That be except to suppress wages. What possible reason also gonna complete lack of transparency of the majority of the fortune, 500 companies these guys know this. You have to sign an agreement to say we will never discuss what your wages, your face apparently now. What possible reason could there be for that because if you women understand the next am and doing the same job and he tells me he's making 10 Grand more than you, you have a reason to go and say I wanna raise In the United States of America, you can't discuss what your wages folks folks. I mean this. This is cumulative. Do you realize that. What's happened for hourly workers. They get reclassified as management well, the way they reclassified as management you're, stocking shelves. You control the guy who has the cart that comes up that's automatic you're, a manager. What does that mean. You no longer are eligible for overtime. You know how much that cost hourly Last time, 10 billion dollars out of their pockets. Why. Why gree Green folks there so many things out there that we could stop in a heartbeat, also need to recognize the 20 first century. 12 years is not enough of education reminds you wanna remind you all You are in my York reason for america's meteoric rise economically in the beginning of the twentieth century was because of one root cause we're the first major industrialized nation in the world to provide 12 years of non means tested education for free. It took until the mid thirties for most Nations to begin to catch up to us now we're sitting down and do it today when we make only 12 years available, you know it when you know he would we've eliminated Shop and all those other things that look that were some not everybody should go to College, but people making a good living by the use of their hands. But guess what guess what the vast majority of high schools don't have. It anymore do you realize with few exceptions. Maybe you went to one of the schools with the exception for your science requirement. You can't take coding. Let me think about think about How we doing by the time our kids reach the age of five, so much of the grain is already developed. There's no debate about this anymore that we still wait so much longer to begin to give our kids exposure to education. We should be investing in early childhood education. One survey shows that there's many of them That kids from the flu and families as opposed to working class families here by the time they get to school. 30 million more words spoken here, that you said just spoken tell me the kid from the home of minimum of means can have native iq as high as the kids from the home that's a fluent. What kind of disadvantage we put this Pizza, the vocabulary by the time they reached by the time they reach. First grade are so disproportionately out of wack it's hard to ever catch up we're. The wealthiest country on Earth getting to sufficiently advanced degree or to be free for everybody No, I know some of the pressure gonna say goes that big spending Democrat bryan okay. Let me give you one example. I've been pushing for a long time and the President did too. We can put when I am the President asked me to do a study he remember to stay. He still love to turn the saint Joe is gonna. Do the following. He never tell me when you do this it's like moon shot and Joe will be mission control thanks for telling me mister President or Joe will handle the eighty seven billion dollar recovery act, Joe will do sheriff Joe well, 65 years ago we should Joe is gonna. Do a study on the jobs of the future. We interviewed and with capital people have brought in for 300 and 48 of the fortune 500 presence and they all said basically, the same and what do you most need. This and we need more qualified workforce, better educated work for us and I spend to much money training him but that's what we need folks. We can send every single qualified American to Community College raising the number from six to nine million and community College by the economy, metric studies, increasing productivity by two tenths of one percent per year almost a trillion dollars over 10 years for six billion dollars a year that's a big spending by again. Well, you know what I didn't know. I didn't know this number when reagan was President. There were 800 million dollars Worth of corporate type loopholes and charitable tax loopholes. The things we're supposed to generate productivity and good behavior at Center noticed today, one trillion 600 billion loopholes billion dollar one trillion. 600 billion dollars. One of those loopholes. I didn't know existed because when I did my financial closure, all my colleagues made fun of it I'd in my friend and business closures vice-president the headline in the Washington post. You can Google it said by is probable no man has ever From the office of the vice president's your assets than Joe buying ice will never talking financial. My net worth was between 50 and 200 and 50000 dollars and when I left after 44 years is between 15 hundred and 50000 dollars, because I made a commitment, I wanted my independence that I never own a stock or bond that I've never engage in the business enterprise, even though they're totally legitimate and I never accepted honorarium anybody had to do for the Congress and then I can compound with that You're not gonna back idea from I did it for my independent now like component, the problem by sending have three children, they all have graduate degrees and I paid two emissions at yale penn. Tulane pen syracuse in georgetown, when it's a formula for disaster but here's the point guys I've never heard of step this Think all stepped up basis hope some of you know what it is stop that basis manage. You make a gain in the market and you say you buy stock and you buy a hundred thousand is now worth 200000. You go to sell it. You pay capital gain on the hundred thousand. You mean, but if God forbid the way to sell you didn't figure, you speaking hit by truck and I leave it to your son or daughter. They pay nothing well, it's not inheritance taxes the tax code 10 seconds before that cost the government Out of the one point six trillion only 16 billion dollars eliminate that one loophole. I can put every single solitary qualified student and community College. I can cut in half the cost of four -year College. I can reduce the deficit by love 11 billion dollars and increased productivity so folks here's answers. These aren't this is all our wheeler, not beyond our control Brock and I thought we finally settle the argument with their health care was the writer of privilege. Well, the American disability act because we know so many many, many people healthcare was out of reach the cost. I remember my dad. Maybe some of you can go to bed at night staring at the ceiling after the company, he worked for had a lot they lost their pension and no healthcare stare at the ceiling not a joke thinking, if I get cancer, we lose everything we lose the House Lose it all the single biggest reason for bankruptcy up until we passes with health care cost so we thought we fix it look. Millions of Americans now understand what the meant to them is save their lives and brought peace of mind. It means you don't have to stare at that ceiling night, but look what's happened. These guys have made a full court press on eliminating the affordable care act, putting millions of People up to the age of 26 off their parents health care plan. They have 16 Republican attorneys general going out and say it's unconstitutional to tell, ensures companies. They can't charge extra for preexisting conditions putting in jeopardy millions of people who can't have health care because they got a son or daughter with severe asthma or they have a problem that's of some consequence, ladies and gentlemen, but the real reason why the Republicans are going after this the same reason we're going after Medicare and medicaid and social security, some of the guys and remember that when I uh, when I was asked by Nancy pelosi to speak for all the Congress persons on the steps of the Capitol and fighting their attempt to eliminate health care the affordable care act and I said this is about a lot more than health care. This is about trying to eliminate and make room for the tax cut. These guys passing outrageous Tax cut that created a deficit of one trillion 900 billion dollars now on campus here, as any economist, no matter how conservative they are, whether or not we can possibly tolerate that deficit for the next 10 to 12 years without bankrupting. The economy. So what are they doing ice edit the time no one wanna listen to make it up this is all about the Ability to go ahead and justify doing it with programs they couldn't take on directly, but now can take off and can say we can't afford it case in point. Medicare do you realize the House. They don't realize the House is already the budget. Chairman has already put down a marker to call on the Mark cutting Medicare by 500 and 60 billion dollars five hundred and 60 billion why to cut that one point, nine trillion dollar deficit. Why they go after the in addition, of not thinking Americans are entitled to it because that's where the money is why they're going after social security do you realize the vast majority of the people in nursing home 70 percent are women of those 70 percent in nursing homes. They are people who, in fact have lived the majority of Middle class life but in order to get into that nursing home, they had to sell everything they have their home Whatever savings they had, whatever whatever it was to sell to get in the home and once that money runs out, there's only one thing that keeps you in the home. They care. You tell me what's gonna happen when they eliminate the Medicare state as they have what are we gonna. Do with those somewhere in order of 50 percent of all the women in the nursing home and put them out on the Street. No. I'm serious that's that's. What we're talking about folks that's. What we're talking about So much more to say about this, but I'll move on one last thing the environment to live a Middle class life. You gotta live in an environment to protect your health, be able to drink the water that comes out of your tap, be able to breathe the air be able to live in a neighborhood that is not a cesspool but what's happened. I'm the guy that wrote the regulation, said no more lead in gasoline and the reason is because no no I don't say it for that reason, it was done over 40 years ago. You know why, because so many kids in poor neighborhoods were dying of lead poisoning in the paint and then the neighborhoods with the gasoline with with the exhaust from automobiles that was killing thousands of people, particularly in poor neighborhoods. So what are these guys look at this administration the is being decimated the administration is allowing To poison us for profit, it goes well beyond pulling out of the Paris climate agreement which is bad enough. We can in the clean air standards that means more money for families at the pump. You know, one of the things we did was so proud of, is increasing the mileage requirement which which which companies went for cutting down on the amount of carbon fuel that we have to burn Saving thousands of lives, what are we doing we're paving the way for resending the regulations on the amount of mercury that can be in the air. The the age has said there's no known safety level, safe level for exposure to mercury in here. Yet these guys are saying no, no, we can tolerate more from early in the air. This is the most non science Taste administration in modern history. Thank you. What this will do for our children. I could go on, look at all the regulations. They're eliminated just We see more extreme whether you see here in California everything you have to worry about hurricanes. Alot get ready pal not a joke. Unfortunately rising Sea levels, warming ocean temperatures when brock and I came to office, you know what the United States military the joint chiefs of staff had the greatest threat to American security was global warming. You know why, because it is the Sea rises if it rises only a foot and a half and then don't easy and other parts of the world it's going to take millions of people in this place them they're gonna move to other territories and fight over control of where people can live, we know this is happening So folks, there's, a lot to do man, but here's the good news. The folks standing with me here today and the democratically controlled Congress are gonna be able to take this President on Then roll back the destination of this environment to help the next Democratic President fix this in an instant by a stroke of a pen being able to turn it around look folks. I'm so tired of seeing Democrats walking around with their heads down like whoa, is me what are we gonna. Do. What was so much trouble damn. It damn. It is totally within our capacity to restore the ability to respect and I've always been listening to the White House. Optimistic folks the reason I'm more optimistic I got selected March 29 years old we're better position and this is not hyperbole. We are better positions in the nation though the 20 first century than any nation in the world, not close Hear people saying China, the Chinese gun owners, God love China. I want them to do well, but guess what they not only don't have enough energy. They don't have enough water, not a joke. Unfortunately, water we're having trouble figuring out how they trillion dollar project to reach redirect their major rivers over 30 percent of the variable land is polluted with cabin during the situation where they have a clipped acre see in the so called Prince slings that even she is trying to fight because he knows he can't came to maintain control. Never seen anybody walk Without a mask on their dyna four times the rate we are here there will be more cancer cases in China that all the rest of the world, combined in the next 20 years she didn't think would change places in a heartbeat with this President. Every world leader. I know and I met everyone of them, but folks here's. What we have we have the most powerful military in the world but that's not what it is it's not the example of our power is the power of our example that's how the rest of the world has come to us And we're squandering it we're squandering this leadership. That's the source of our security. We have more great research, universities in the in the world and here in California, then all this is not hyperbole check. It out students than all the rest of the world combined in the United States. Now. Why is that important. Every major fundamental life already occurrence that has been invented in the last 25 years has come out of one of those research universities and guess what you all paid for Or it you'll paid for, we have the some of the most productive workers in the world. American workers are three times of productive statistically as workers and Asian with the most agile venture capitalists in the world. Ladies and gentlemen, we remember who we are. We can own the 20 first century. We need to, because there's no other nation in the world that can supplant us to providing the links of stability for the rest of the world because we know what's the history of this country, unlike any other nation. We know ordinary people, given half a chance. Can do Extraordinary things that's not hyperbole ordinary people can do extraordinary things so folks That's what we're about, we should set about re setting the moral compass of this country. Risk establishing Middle class remember this is America and nothing. Nothing, nothing is beyond our capacity and I'm made it come on up here guys Thank you right away. I mean you think about it. Think about it. Most of your own raised to believe there's, not a single thing. You can't do in America. America's never never been is doubtful about itself as it is now because of this. President. This is the United States of America for God sake. So folks lift your head up man time for us to get up every time. I walk out of my grandpa and his House in scranton. He was an all American football player at Santa clara University, when Irish athletes didn't get to go to College back in 19 oh six and here's the newspaper man every time I Walk out of this House you're, joey keep the faith and my grandmother no joey spread. It go spread the Oh, that's what's You With the uh the speed Here's, the it's nice 30 dollars