let me begin by thanking seattle thanking the state of washington for giving us a very great victory in the democratic primary process and when we talk about making the political revolution you have already made a major step forward by electing i think you're going to see one of the leading progressives in congress and thank you very much for sending her there what i want to do tonight talk a little bit about the book talk a little bit about where we are today mr trump two million votes less than secretary clinton on election day and the importance of that is that you have got to understand in your hearts and we will make mr trump on the stand he does not have a mandate period second of all and this is important and something that we have to think a whole lot about and we've got to understand but the truth is that on virtually every major issue facing this country the majority of the american people support the progressive position the thank you so i don't want anybody he had to think that you are a member  and by the way wherever i go around the country i always mention seattle as having gone first and raising the minimum wage and the importance the importance of that and i speak as a form of burlington vermont is that when you act locally when you pass a fifteen dollar an hour minimum wage suddenly california began looking at it and san francisco and new york state and communities all over the country acting locally and progressive is certainly a part of what the political revolution is about thank you seattle but it's not just the minimum wage it is pay equity for women overwhelmingly overwhelmingly the american people say that it is absurd that in the year two thousand and six are making seventy nine cents on the dollar compared to men the american people overwhelmingly understand that when our infrastructure our roads our bridges our rail system would dams our water systems our waste water plants all collapsing they understand that when we invest in our infrastructure we improve the quality of our lives and we create millions of good paying jobs that is what the american people believe you american people believe from childcare to graduate school we need radical changes in the way we fund education in this country now it is not a sexy issue it's not an issue that gets talked about a whole lot but the truth is that throughout this country our child care system is this functional right now just think about it for a moment t points every psychologist who studies human behavior human development understands that zero through five of the most important years of human development emotionally and intellectually and yet what we have right now are child care workers earning an average wage of less than ten dollars an hour while not having the training that they need to provide the quality childcare that parents deserve meanwhile you've got working moms single moms paying ten fifteen thousand dollars a year for childcare our job as a nation is to understand that those little kids are the future of this country we're going to invest in the best child care that we can for them and that is what the american people want also and they also know that in a highly competitive global economy we need the best educated workforce in the world truth is thirty forty years ago we had more people going to college and graduating college than any other country on earth today that is no longer the case many many countries now have a higher percentage of college graduates than we do our job is to make public colleges and universities to which in free so that have also got to deal you know what we are trying to do what this book is about is the banding that people think big not small not accept the  that washington or the media often gives us if we want the best educated workforce in the world if we want our people to be getting as much education as they need millions of people should not be forced to leave college or graduate school deeply in debt and that's just me or you that is what the american people believe in i'll tell you what else the american people believe they believe that billionaires like donald trump they believe that large multinational corporations should start paying their fair share of taxes there are some people who think that the solution to immigration problems we have today is swoop up on a given night i suppose throw millions of people out of this country that is not going to happen and that is not what the american people want what they want is comprehensive immigration reform and a path toward citizenship and i'll tell you something else that the american people even conservatives understand this issue and that is it makes no sense at all that in the wealthiest country in the history of the world which is what we are today we have more people in jail than any other country on earth china is four times our size think about it four times our size communist or thora tarion country does not tolerate dissent terribly well we've got far more people in jail per capita per capita in totally than china does and what the american people understand is that when we are spending eighty billion dollars a year on a lo people at the local state and federal level it pays a hell of a lot more sense to be investing in jobs and education rather than jails or a cost aeration state of vermont and it states throughout this country we spend more money on locking people up than we do on higher education that is nuts what the american people also understand is that we have got to radically form a broken campaign finance one of the issues that i worry about i worry about a lot with mr trump going to the white house one of the areas that i worry about the most is the threat to basic democratic values in this country and this is what i worry about i worry about two things that the republicans are trying to do number one republicans love citizens united which in my view is the worst supreme court decision in the modern history of this country now what citizens united does and how it undermines democracy as many of you know is what it says to billionaires like the koch brothers or large corporations and you can spend as much money as you want on an election hundreds of millions of dollars but it has to be an independent expenditure and what that means is when you turn on your t v and an election during an election what you'll see is phony groups citizens for this citizens for that running negative ads those independent expenditures often funded by billionaire as well large corporations the republican leadership in congress if you can believe it citizens united does not go far enough what they want to do is all campaign finance limitations and allow billionaires to directly fund candidates what that means in english is they will select somebody to run for the senate from the state of washington and say here is a check for one hundred million dollars there is your campaign manager there is your speechwriter there is your media consultant you now work for me you are on my payroll that is what the republican leadership wants our job is exactly the opposite our job is to overturn this disastrous citizens united supreme court decision move to a one person one vote democracy not have but there is another issue equally important and of equal concern you may have noticed the other day that trump sent out a totally absurd now we're getting used to being having  government hundred forty characters or less and this particular tweet was really delusional i mean it is really unbelievable that we have a guy who's going to be president sending this out he says he says he would have won the popular vote if millions of people had not voted illegally nobody who studies the issue believes that that statement makes any sense at all it is totally nuts all right voter fraud is a very serious problem if somebody commits the good news is is that in america we have very little vote fraud our republican friends searched high and low all over this country to find cases of voter fraud and very rarely do they find any but what trump's tweet was really about if you go beyond beneath the surface what he was saying to republican leaders become aggressive in terms of voter suppression make it harder for people to make it harder for immigrants to vote make it harder for people of color to vote young people old people people who might vote against us put obstacles in their way putting perelman's in their way so they cannot participate in the political process what an insult to the millions been and women who put their lives on the line and sometimes died for what makes  democracy our job our job and states around the country all moving forward in this area is to figure out ways that we can involve more people in the political process not at the end of the day what some and i don't want to suggest all republicans because that would not be accurate but what some want is democracy meaning that billionaires by elections and poor people and working people  kept from voting and that is something we are going to fight tooth and nail that is not our definition of democracy many many absurd things during his campaign but at the heart of that entire campaign the cornerstone of his campaign was bigotry it was an attempt to divide the american people up to how one group of people hate a nother group of people all of you know that before mr trump became a candidate for president he was the leader of the so called birth movement and the birth of the movement was a racist effort to undermine the legitimacy of the first african american president in our history that's what it was in the beginning of his campaign one of the very first things he did was to attack mexicans and call them criminals and racists the things that he said about women i cannot repeat from this podium because they would embarrass you and they would embarrass me but the ugly ugly statements that he made about women is beyond belief right now his view is or maybe he's modifying it is that people of one of the largest religions in the world muslims should not be able to visit our country or come to our country our draw in understanding and painful history we as a nation have  banning discrimination is that we will not compromise on the issue of bigotry no compromise the that not only the horrific treatment of native americans we all know about the abomination of slavery and jim crow activities and the fight to get the vote for people regardless of their color we know that all hundred years ago tonight women were not running for president of the united states they did not have the right to vote they did not have the right to get the education they wanted to do the work they wanted we all know the suffering and the pain of the humiliation that our brothers and sisters of the community went through year after year we know the kinds of blatant discrimination that took place against the irish the italians the jews conflicts that is the history of this country and for two hundred years incredibly brave and  people struggled against that bigotry and we have made good progress in that struggle we have a long way to go but we should be proud of the progress we have been here twenty years ago and somebody jumped up and said you know burning i think by the year two thousand and eight will lectern africa american as president of the united states or by the year two thousand and fifteen gay marriage will be legal in fifty states in this country people would have thought that that was not could not happen but it happened because of the struggles of millions and millions of people and what we say to mr trump we travel to fall in the fight against discrimination we are not going backwards and there is another area thank another area where we cannot compromise mr trump ran his entire campaign by proclaiming climate change countries but it was china now what mr trump has got to understand is that the scientific community is virtually united in telling us that climate change is not a hoax it is the most serious environmental crisis facing not just the united states obviously but the entire world and what the scientists are telling us in really plain straightforward language is if we do not get our act together as a planet and transform our energy systems away from fossil fuel into energy efficiency and sustainable energy the planet that we will be leaving our kids our grandchildren and future generations will become less and less healthy less and less how beautiful so what our message is and it has to be delivered by millions of people in all kinds of ways is that we will stand up to the fuel industry who believe that their short term profits all more important than the future of our planet's we will stand up to them and anybody else because this is  more significantly is a fight for our kids our grandchildren and future generations we are all of this planet and we have a moral responsibility to protect this planet  now there are a lot of people who say how in god's will i don't know anybody who voted for donald trump and then there are other people who saying how did hillary clinton get two million more votes than trump i don't know anybody who voted for hillary clinton and what that is about in many ways and it's an area that we have got to work on is that we live in a silo wise i don't know if that's the culture word you know but we live in our own worlds people here live in a world they live in a world everyone talks that we each other they all agree on everything but i want to tell you in my view why i believe that from one number one i do not accept what some people say everybody who voted for donald trump is a racist or sexist or a homophobe i don't believe that some of them all absolutely but i don't believe that that is the majority of those people i think what trump did in a brilliant way even though it was totally hypocritical and dishonest is what he did is he spoke to the pain and anxiety that millions of people today are feeling and when he got his views on women a terrible but you know what we do need to shake the system up we do need to take on the establishment and many of those people holding their noses with reluctance and that are voting for him and i'll tell you what he also spoke to and what the media does any business job in reporting and by the way in this a book if you get bored halfway through skip to the last chapter now it's actually a good book but just in case your tax policy is largely a thing go to the last chapter which is called corporate media a threat to our democracy essentially what what chapter talks about is that there are enormous problems facing our country there are tens of millions of people tonight living in pain living in anxiety they don't know how they're going to pay the electric bill they don't know how they're going to put gas in their car to get to work and if they can't get to work they're going to get fired and if they get fired they don't know what's going to happen to their kids you've got moms out there who are making thirty forty thousand dollars a year paying ten fifteen thousand dollars a year in child care they don't know how they are going to do we have twenty eight million people in this country who have no health insurance you know what it's like not to have any health insurance you know what it's like to have a high deductible and a high co payment so that when you get sick you cannot go to the doctor you know that there are thousands of people who die every single year in this the richest country in the history of the world they die because they don't go to the doctor when they should and i've talked to doctors in my state all over this country and they tell me about people who come in who are incredibly sick and they say why didn't you come into your year ago when your symptoms first develop and the person cheaper surely says well i don't have any insurance my deductible is too high i can't afford it some of those people do not make it when they should have been able to be treated effectively some end up in the hospital with great suffering and great expense you've got twenty eight million uninsured more than that under insured right now in america you can go to the doctor when your sick doctor writes out a prescription one out of five americans today cannot afford to fill that so how do you feel about the political establishment how do you feel about the political parties you go to the doctor when you're sick you can't even afford to fill a prescription how do you feel about the system when you're out there making twelve thirteen bucks an hour and you can do the arithmetic as well as i can millions of people out there working for it substandard wages working forty fifty sixty hours a week not making enough money to take care of themselves let alone their kids how do you feel this is what trump was cool when he was talking to these people today in america there are millions of older workers people who are fifty five or sixty people who are approaching retirement half of the older workers in this country have zero dollars in savings you're sixty years of age you're running out of steam you're getting sick of your toy if you're going to be retired in five years you got nothing in the bank and you know what people are scared they are scared of what happens to them after they stop working and many of those people were once working at these thing jobs in factories that then one day they are employer came up with the all the way thank you for your twenty years of service but we're shutting  down and we're moving to mexico and we're moving to china and those people that had a union if they were making decent wages suddenly found themselves out on the street earning fifty sixty percent of what they made when they had a decent job during the course of the campaign jane and i went to a county in southern west virginia it was called mcdowell county it is a former coal mining area and today something a historical unprecedented is happening in mcdowell county in many other areas of west virginia kentucky and other parts of this country throughout the modern history of this country and in fact the world what we have seen is that people's life expectancy goes up everything being equal i live longer than my parents that my parents live longer than their parents and so forth and so on now it's going on all over the world as a result of medical improved medicine drugs and so forth yet for millions today a white working class people they are the life expectancy is now low wall then their parents what is going on in communities all across this country is that the span the hopelessness is so high that people are turning to opiates turning to her when they're turning to alcohol they ought to turning to suicide in very large numbers so that we have now many millions of people whose life expectancy is low than their parents this is the despair that exists in certain parts of our country but it's not just the white working class you go to log urban cities and you go to african american communities and you see youth unemployment in those communities of twenty thirty forty percent latino communities the same and we kids have no jobs and they have no education we should not be surprised that we have more people in jail than any other country on earth that is what is going on in america you don't see it on and you're not going to see it on c n n what trumps or and he was right our job is to rebuild a democratic party to make certain that it is the democratic party that sleep brings those people and their concerns into the political process  because donald trump is not you could see it every day every day the hypocrisy of his campaign just the other day he said one of his tweets something he said i am the public health care all right this is the trouble told the american people he was going to take on wall street wall street it's not going to rip off the american people and yet the guy who we think is going to appoint the secretary of treasury comes from goldman sachs once again are going to represent working people now what we need to do what i am working on very hard right now a better or worse part of the democratic leadership in the senate and that what we have got to do at this particular moment this is a very unique and unusual moment in american history and we have to take where we are in turn it around and i think the way we turn it around understand that now than any time in our lifetimes it is absolutely imperative that we become involved in every sense of the word in every way that we can in the political process all right politics politics is not just about voting every two years or every four years that's obviously very important but politics really is three hundred sixty five days a year how does the state of washington help lead the country in terms of climate change what kind of actions how do we go forward to join the rest of the industrialized world in guaranteeing health care to all people as a right how do we effect  on the pharmaceutical industry and demand that they lower their outrageously high prices how do we make sure that our children and our seniors are at the sable veterans get the kind of support that they need to live in dignity and each and every one of you has got to think about how we go forward it's not going to be washington it's not even going to be just the progressives in washington who can do it we can't do it without your support and with your support we can do it at the end of the day and i think it's important for all of us to reflect upon this this country has gone through over its history just enormous enormous crises and people by the millions have struggled to create more justice more equality more dignity think about what people had to go through in the past think about the workers who had to go out on strike and seattle had one of the great strikes in the history of the labor movement as a matter of fact go about what workers hired to do to form unions so they can engage in collective bargaining what they have to do to make sure their kids when out working in factories think about the struggle of the civil rights movement during the course of the campaign jane and i were in birmingham alabama and i learned something that i did not know are you remembered and i think most of you the terrible bombing that took place in birmingham that killed four beautiful children what most people didn't don't know i did not know is during that month in birmingham there were thirteen in one month in order to intimidate the african american community who are fighting for voting rights they stood tall they continue to struggle and they won so our job is not to throw up our hands in despair our job is not to say we're tired or we're angry our job is to use our brains to think about the most effective way that we can fight back and when we do that we're going to win this  how do we start this campaign well we started the campaign with a handful of people we had no money no political organization we had no name recognition or very little and we were taking on the entire democratic establishment virtually every member of the senate every member of the house every governor in america every mayor in america other than that we had a lot of support from the establishment and that's where we started with nothing but it turned out that the american people or in fact sick and tired of establishment politics and establishment economics and it turned out that the american people wanted real change that was true then it is true now and what we ended up with is taking on the political establishment taking on the clinton organization which was the most powerful political organization in the country having bill clinton wise and almost electing hillary in two thousand and eight we took them on but we ended up after all of that and more with twenty winning twenty two states including the great state of washington winning forty six percent of the pledged del seven dollars and most importantly most importantly is in every state in the country we won the votes of young people and i mean not just twenty years of age or younger but forty or younger we won the overwhelming support of white young people black young people latino young people native american young people asian american young people and what that is about and i want everybody here to fully appreciate it and be proud of that that is the future of america and that future is on our side i want to do in the second part of the book it's not i think done enough in this country and that is lay out the issues and briefly go over them and then provide concrete solutions and our first chapter that i have which is in fact the issue that concerns me the most is how do we defeat oligarchy you can't defeat oligarchy unless you recognize oligarchy and most certainly this is not a word that will appear on television that's another issue and that's a serious problem but the truth is that today both economically and politically we are moving toward a society in which a small number of billionaires have incredible control over our economy and increasingly over our political life you know when we were kids we used three textbooks about small countries around the world controlled by a few families i don't want to be the first to break the bad news take a look at what's going on in this country today take a look at what goes on on wall street where you have a half a dozen major financial institutions who have assets equivalent to fifty eight percent of the g d p of the united states of america about and trillion dollars they write about two thirds of the credit cards one third of the mortgages unbelievable power and yet the business model is fraud and despite the fact that we don't have a particularly strong in mechanism in washington every single one of these major financial institutions goldman sachs and all the rest have paid billions of dollars in fines for illegal behavior that is the most powerful economic institution in america running on fraud and yet when we talk about a broken criminal justice system we talk about kids getting criminal records for smoking marijuana but not one executive on wall street has been prosecuted and the second trap to deals again with something that needs a lot of discussion democrats appropriately to take pride in they say look we are better off today than we were eight years ago just before obama came into office we've made progress and the evidence is overwhelming that that is true unemployment much less wages and we should be proud of that but here is another reality you trump picked up on this for forty years for forty years the middle class the real median income of full time male workers is twenty one hundred dollars less than it was forty three years ago over the last fifteen years we have lost some sixty thousand factories in this country and millions of decent paying jobs over the last decade eighty one percent of american households saw plot or falling incomes that is what trump was talking about that is why people are angry and our question that we have got to ask ourselves is how does it happen that the middle class continues to shrink people work hours in many cases for low wages while fifty two percent of all new income today goes to the top one percent how does it happen that in the last sixteen years we have seen a ten fold increase in the number of billionaires in america then chris from fifty one to five hundred forty billion is a few of them here in seattle and yet we have seen a continuation of america having the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country those are issues we have got to deal with and what we're talking about here in the book is how do you create an economy which works for all of us and not just the one per major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all people as a right you watch who was away from the canadian border on the other side of the country i lived fifty miles away from the canadian border for thirty years or so they have managed the way single payer health care system that guarantees health care to all of their people they spend significantly less per capita chapter basically discusses why we remain the only major country that doesn't guarantee health care at all what it would mean what a radical revolutionary transformation all of our society if everybody had health care as a right you know what the out of anxiety that would be lifted from the shoulders of millions of people when they get sick they can actually go to the doctor that you don't have to stay in a job that you hate just because you get good health care you go out start business not worry whether your family is covered you can afford the prescription drugs that your doctor prescribes this will radically transform america this trap that talks about how we move toward a medicare for all single payer there is a chapter and i discussed this already about climate change and why it is that we have not moved aggressively as aggressively as we should in transforming our energy system it talks about the power of the fossil fuel industry about the lies that they say the phony organizations that they establish in order to try to confuse people about the reality of climate change this book talks about real criminal justice reform and the need to end this international embarrassment of having more people in jail than any other country having very high rates of recidivism when  we were in iowa we held a we held a a forum on criminal justice a level to get this and we had a couple of guys up there who had served time and one guy said yeah i remember when i got out they came to me he was in jail and i was and they came to me the day before i was to be released and they said you're getting out tomorrow here's a check for seventy five dollars and good luck to you he ended up back in jail we have a very high rate of because we people out on the streets without the education without the job training without the housing that they need in order to escape from the environment that got them in jail in the first place and the book talks about again an issue that is not widely talked about and that is not only the fact that we have the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country on earth it's that so many of our seniors and disabled veterans and people with disabilities really really shrug just to survive it is right and right now i know in seattle and in burlington vermont there are people trying to get by older people trying to get by on ten twelve thirteen thousand dollars a year social security and you can do the arithmetic as well as i can the truth is you can't get by and those people are cutting their prescription drugs in half the not adequately heating their homes they're not eating the way they should many of them become depressed we as a nation have got to understand that a great nation is not judge by the number of billionaires that it has we are judged by how we treat the most vulnerable people in our country much what there's a lot of good information in the book and some of it just talks about going around the country and meeting people you know i you know and things that you know one never forgets  were in phoenix arizona and meeting with young latino kids and teenagers maybe a little bit older and hears was screaming down the r s their eyes as they talk about their feel very palpable feel of going home from school one day and finding their mom with a dad he pointed so the book i think addresses many of the major problems that our country faces but it also talks about how we can solve them and where we can go as a nation and let me just conclude by saying what i said before we on the well the nation in the history of the world if we were poor nation and we talked about providing good quality health care  it would be unrealistic how do you get the doctors how do you get the nurses i do get the medicine we're not we're rich country if we were up more country it would be very idealistic to talk about making public colleges and universities t and allowing anybody who has the ability to get a higher education but we're not a poor country we are the richest country in the history of the world and what it comes down to and where i need your help with this country needs all of your he have got to understand that we can accomplish extraordinary things terms of health care education infrastructure criminal justice it's such if we have the courage to take on the greed of the billionaire class now i know that makes some people uncomfortable i know it makes some people uncomfortable and but i think we have to think about it these guys up there you know and i you know they're around washington all the time i have seen billionaires heads of large corporations and they come into washington d c and they get golden parachutes of millions of dollars retirement benefits you know gold and you know living in luxury for the rest of their lives and they come to washington and they say cut social security cut medicare you know that's what i see that's what i hear so what we have got to do is to understand why things on happening the way they are it's not just good enough to say well we're concerned about the homeless yeah cos we are concerned about people in general of course we are we have got to figure out why things are happening and a lot of that has to do with the greed of a billionaire class of c e o's today at large corporations who make three hundred times more than their workers who care less about shutting down a plant in the state of washington or the state of vermont and moving to china moving to mexico if they can make five dollars or more in profit they could care less and that's the reality that we have to deal with and they are very powerfully political powerful politically they are powerfully powerful economically but we have something that they don't have and that is they may be five hundred billionaires in this country but there are three hundred twenty million ordinary citizen how can bernie supporters reconcile differences with trump supporters to benefit both let me have you heard from questioning him about how can bernie supporters reconcile differences ask trump supporters well they would like to be able to send their kids to college without their kids being fifty or one hundred thousand dollars in debt and they will tell you yes they would like to be able to send their kids to college asked trump support is whether they would like to live in affordable housing ask supporters whether or not they would like to be having health care that they can afford on many many issues you're going to see trump supporters holding views not radically to some law then we are we hold what you're also going to see and we're doing this every day go to my website and you'll see that we are going to expose the hypocrisy of trump because i i may be wrong maybe i'm wrong for the complicated guy but i happen to believe i happen to believe that he doesn't really mean anything that he has said and i think trump supporters are going to see that soon enough but i may give you an example a guy who told people there are elderly people who voted for trump after he said i'm not going to cut his social security medicare and medicaid just appoint the other day a guy who wants to do just that now that does not necessarily mean that they're going to cut sources pretty we'll wait and see but it very well and likely will be they will make that happen etc etc so i think that is a way to reach out to trump supporters ok how can we build a safer communities for minorities that are going to add to minorities immigrants as  well one of the immediate concerns and we'll see again trump you know i hate to say this because i am not the most part it's that it's hard to believe detroit not the most part as a guy in the world they've never run negative ads i don't like attacking you know people because they disagree with me it's not my style but you rob what's you in a very difficult position as he does the media cover some because he lives all of the time and it's not just me it's not you know he is you know just the statement that you made the other day millions of people voted illegally by people who have been in this country will work in this country who are working today or raising their kids we have the photos we can figure out how we do it but good communities can stand by those people and we can and will defend them and if we do that he will not be able to get away with what he is minorities it is look when we have twenty thirty forty percent youth unemployment that is one acceptable when such a high percentage something like one out of four if we do not change and i hesitate to say this because i want to change  but one out of four african american males born today will end up in jail unless we change the nature of our economy our educational system and a criminal justice system so there's a lot that has to be done and one of the areas of it we've got to work on and there's a lot of work being done on our own it is the so called war on drugs the motto you know we've got two problems with opiate thing heroin thing is a terrible terrible problem got to figure out how we deal with that but on the other hand we have to understand that a lot of lives have been damaged people get criminal records the smoking marijuana when you have a criminal record you know it's hard to get a job and when you look at it from a racial perspective blacks