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1 1 5 5 117.16 -1.84 Good to be with you.
2 1 1 2 36.62 8.40 Okay.
3 1 4 4 118.18 -2.23 I know it well.
4 4 60 85 71.76 6.98 Well, first of all, going back, the fact is that the president was informed how dangerous this virus was. And all the way back in the beginning of February, I argued that we should be keeping people in China. And we had set up, in our administration, a pandemic office within the White House. There were 44 people on the ground.
5 6 84 113 78.82 5.74 I suggested that we should be seeking, and I didn't hold public office, I was a former Vice President, we in fact asked to have access to the source of the problem. And the best of our knowledge, Trump never pushed that. All those 44 people came home, never got replaced. In addition to that, I pointed out that I thought in February, I did a piece for USA Today saying, "This is a serious problem. Trump denied it. He said it wasn't."
6 5 58 84 72.54 6.02 We later learned that he knew full well how serious it was when he did an interview with George Woodward. I mean, excuse me, Bob Woodward. And at the time, he said he didn't tell anybody because he was afraid Americans would panic. Americans don't panic, he panicked. He didn't say a word to anybody.
7 7 118 152 80.75 6.18 Then I wrote a piece in March about what I thought we should be doing to take hold of this, using the... There's an act that passed a long time ago that allows the president to go into a business and say, "Stop making this, and start making that." And it took a long time for him to even institute that, to get ventilators and so on. And so, the point was he missed enormous opportunities and kept saying things that weren't true. It's going to go away by Easter, don't worry about it. When the summer comes, it's all going to go away like a miracle. He's still saying those things.
8 1 3 3 119.19 -2.62 Not back then.
9 7 72 100 78.90 4.81 Not in January, February. No, that's correct, there wasn't. That came at the end of March. And then I laid out a detailed plan relative to school openings in June and July. By that time, the science was becoming clearer and clearer of how this was spreading so rapidly. But the president kept denying that. If you notice, from March on, I stopped doing big meetings, I started wearing masks.
10 5 88 128 65.92 8.44 So, it was at a time when the science was saying, and his key people, Dr. Fauci were saying, "You should be taking these precautions." So, what we should be doing now, there should be a national standard. Instead of leaving this up to, remember what the president said to the governors, "Well, they're on their own, it's not my responsibility. The governors can do what they need to do, not my responsibility." It is a presidential responsibility to lead, and he didn't do that.
11 3 57 81 67.33 8.59 He didn't talk about what needed to be done because he kept worrying, in my view, about the stock market. He worried if he talked about how bad this could be, unless we took these precautionary actions, then in fact, the market would go down. And his barometer of success to the economy is the market.
12 3 75 105 63.02 10.68 Thirdly, what we didn't do is, the president had an opportunity to open and allow schools and businesses to stay open if they got the kind of help they needed. So, the Congress passed a couple of trillion dollars worth of help. And what happened was most of that money, a significant portion of that money went to the very wealthiest corporations in the country, didn't get to the mom and pop stores.
13 6 98 146 64.22 8.36 So, you had one in five, one in six minority businesses closing. Many of them permanently. People being laid off. And then what happened was, when the first round of money for unemployment, enhanced unemployment went by, he didn't do anything. He didn't do anything. And to the best of my knowledge, and I mean this sincerely, I can't think of, I've been around for a lot of presidents, and you know a lot of presidents in a crisis, I don't ever remember one never calling the House and Senate Republicans, Democrats together.
14 3 34 41 93.31 3.06 By the way, in the context, would I lock down the economy if science said so? I said I'd follow science. But I don't think there's a need to lock down.
15 1 2 2 120.21 -3.01 Get there.
16 5 95 128 73.56 7.72 Well, you can contain the pandemic by being rational and not crush economy. For example, I laid out a plan, how you can open businesses. You can open businesses and schools, if in fact you provide them the guidance that they need, as well as the money to be able to do it. What's happening now is, we know, for example, if you can open a business and you could have a sign on the door saying, "Safe to come in." And that's why people aren't going anyway, when they're open.
17 4 74 98 76.02 7.25 And say, because you have social distancing, you have plastic barriers, when you go to the cashier, you have separators between the booths. You don't have large crowds, you reduce the size, the number of people you can have in the restaurant. You make sure there's testing, that's a really critical piece that he didn't do testing and tracing. And you make sure that people are equipped, going to schools.
18 4 49 76 63.18 7.49 You know, we initially said, the government initially said, they're going to provide masks for every student and every teacher. Then they said, "No, no, no, no." FEMA said, the president or whomever said, ‘No, no, no. That's not a national emergency, not a national emergency."
19 6 75 95 86.99 4.23 We need more teachers in our schools to be able to open smaller pods. We need ventilation systems change. There's a lot of things we know now, and I laid them out in some detail. Now again, when I say I laid them out, I'm not an office holder. I'm running for office. It's not like I'm still Vice President, or I wasn't a United States Senator pushing this.
20 8 67 81 96.06 1.94 So, I don't want to say, "I, I, I." But we did lay out exactly what needed to be done. And take a look, we make up 4% of the world's population. We have 20% of the world's deaths. We're in a situation where we have 210 plus thousand people dead. And what's he doing? Nothing. He's still not wearing masks, and so on.
21 1 1 1 121.22 -3.40 Sure.
22 1 2 2 120.21 -3.01 Thank you.
23 2 5 6 102.78 -0.45 Hey, Kelly. How are you?
24 1 1 1 121.22 -3.40 Yes.
25 5 80 106 78.50 6.29 Two things. Number one, President Trump talks about things that just aren't accurate, about everything from vaccines, we're going to have one right away, is it going to happen, and so on. The point is that, if the scientists, if the body of scientists say that this is what is ready to be done, and it's been tested, they've gone through the three phases. Yes, I would take it. I'd encourage people to take it.
26 6 85 122 71.03 6.87 But President Trump says things like, everything from this crazy stuff he's walking away from now, inject bleach in your arm, and that's going to work. I'm not being facetious, he's actually said these things. And now, Regeneron is the answer. That's going to cure everything. There's 500,000 doses, we have more than a few million people, you know? And so, if you noticed, most of the companies who are developing these vaccines are working, they're making real progress.
27 6 66 83 89.28 3.54 I meet with four leading scientists, at least twice a week. In the beginning, four times a week, giving us the detail on what kind of progress is being made. And right now, they do the right thing. When they run into a serious problem, they halt the test. They don't continue until they figure out what the problem was. They're not there yet.
28 5 75 103 75.43 6.47 And the most scientists say, that it's not likely to have a vaccine that would be available until the beginning of next year, into the spring of next year. And in the meantime, what I worry about is the same thing with Regeneron, which is a useful antidote. Not antidote, a useful tool. But what's happening is there was no plan to figure out how to distribute it. We have 500,000 vials of it.
29 4 69 85 85.11 5.67 Well, we don't have all the testing equipment. We don't have all the ability to get it to the people who need it. And what we should be doing now, and allegedly it's happening, but I've not seen it yet nor the docs that I've talked to seen it. There should be a plan when we have the vaccine, how do we distribute it?
30 6 92 135 67.13 7.71 The answer is, depending on how clear... Vaccines, they say, have a very positive impact and that you're going to affect positively 85% of the American public. Or there's others say, "This vaccine is really the key. This is the golden key." It depends on the state of the nature of the vaccine when it comes out, and how it's being distributed. But I would think that we should be talking about, depending on the continuation of the spread of the virus, we should be thinking about making it mandatory.
31 6 82 99 90.82 3.99 Well, you couldn't, that's the problem. Just like you can't enforce measles, you can't come to school unless you have a measles shot. You know, you can't. But you can't say, everyone has to do this, just like you can't mandate a mask. But you can say, you can go to every governor and get them all in a room, all 50 of them as president and say, " Ask people to wear the mask. Everybody knows."
32 6 74 93 88.00 4.05 And if they don't, no. Not fine. Then I go to every governor, I go to every mayor, I go to every councilmen, and I go to every local official, say, "Mandate the mask." Say, "This is what you have to do when you're out. Make sure you encourage it being done." Look, George, you and I know, and I think you do too as well, the words of a president matter.
33 6 95 120 83.90 5.49 No matter whether they're good, bad, or indifferent, they matter. And when a president doesn't wear a mask or makes fun of folks like me, when I was wearing a mask for a long time, then people say, "Well, it mustn't be that important." But when a president says, "I think this is very important." For example, I walked in here with this mask, but I have one of the N95 masks underneath it. I left it in my dressing room. Not the dresser, the room I was in before I got here.
34 3 56 71 80.63 6.65 And so, I think it matters what we say. And we're now learning that children are getting the virus, not with as serious consequences, but there's been no studies done yet on vaccines for children. So, there's a long way to go, but we can make progress in the meantime and save lives.
35 4 96 118 78.49 8.27 And the last point I'll make, if you listen to the head of the CDC, he stood up and he said, "You know, while we're waiting for a vaccine." He held up a mask. "You wear this mask, you'll save more lives between now and the end of the year than if we had a vaccine." It's estimated by every major study done from the University of Washington to Columbia, that if in fact we wore masks, we could save, between now and the end of the year, a hundred thousand lives.
36 2 17 20 98.68 1.61 And avoid lockdown, yes. You don't have to lock down if you're wearing the mask.
37 1 8 11 82.39 3.76 Thank you, I hope I answered your question.
38 1 3 3 119.19 -2.62 I know it.
39 1 3 3 119.19 -2.62 That's right.
40 6 78 98 87.35 4.31 I carry this card with me. When I said the Trump tax cuts, about 1.3 trillion of the $2 trillion in his tax cuts went to the top one 10th of 1%. That's what I'm talking about eliminating, not all the tax cuts that are out there. And by the way, if you take a look, we reduced the corporate tax rate from 35%. and Democrats, Republicans who were in office thought it should come down to 28%. He reduced it to 21%.
41 4 77 108 68.64 8.47 You have 91 out of the Fortune 500 companies not paying a single solitary penny. If you raise the corporate tax back to 28%, which is a fair tax, you'd raise one trillion, three hundred billion dollars by that one act. If you made sure that people making over 400 grand paid what they did in the Bush administration, 39.6%, you would raise another, it goes up to let me get you the exact number here, about another 200, excuse me. $92 billion.
42 5 80 101 83.79 5.55 So, you could raise a lot of money to be able to invest in things that can make your life easier. Make you change your standard of living by making sure you have affordable health care, by making sure you're in a situation where you're able to send your kid to school. If you have student debt, you can deal with it. Making sure that your home, you can pay your mortgage. You got 20 million people, right now.
43 1 1 1 121.22 -3.40 Sure.
44 1 1 4 -132.58 32.00 Absolutely.
45 4 66 89 76.01 6.76 That's a great question. Moody's did analysis of my detailed analysis of my tax plan and my economic plan. They said, I will, in four years, Moody's Wall Street, said I will create 18.6 million new jobs, good paying jobs, number one. Number two, the GDP will grow by a trillion dollars more than would under Trump, and 7 million more jobs than under Trump.
46 10 103 138 83.03 4.24 And the reason is, when you allow people to get back in the game and have a job, everything moves. Everything moves. Right now, you got the opposite. You had, last year during this pandemic, you had the wealthiest billionaires in the world, in the nation, they made another $700 billion. $700 billion. He talks about a V-shape recovery. It's a K shape recovery. If you're on the top, you're going to do very well. And if you're in the bottom, or you're in the middle or the bottom, your income is coming down. You're not getting a raise.
47 7 86 123 73.37 6.08 I shouldn't, I don't know what you do. You may get a raise. Hope you're a billionaire. But all kidding aside, it's about growing the economy. And George, the way out, the reason why I'm so optimistic about economic recovery, more than I've ever been, is we have these four crises happening all at once. And one helps the other. For example, we're going to invest a great deal of that money into infrastructure, and to a green infrastructure.
48 4 69 97 70.40 7.73 We're going to put 500,000 charging stations on new highways we're building, and all highways we're building. We're going to own the electric market. You know as well as I do from your days, you know, in the old days, where the president spends about $600 billion a year on government contracts. Everything from making sure they have aircraft carriers, to automobile fleets in the United States.
49 3 57 96 45.07 11.69 If you make, and it's not in violation of any international trade agreement, made in America. If you actually insist that whatever that product is, made in America, including the material that goes into the product. It is estimated we're going to create somewhere between another four and six million jobs just by doing that.
50 6 90 126 73.17 6.78 But what's happening now under his trade policy, a lot of this is going overseas. You get a benefit from going overseas, if you have much of it being made overseas. So, if you send it overseas, you get a 10% tax increase on a product. If you make it in America and you bring it back, you get a 10% growth. If you bring back a company, and you're going to open up an old facility, you get a 10% tax credit for all you invested. That actually works, George.
51 8 79 112 76.87 4.99 No, well. I got to get the votes. I got to get the votes. That's why, the one thing, I have this strange notion. We are a democracy. Some of my Republican friends and some of my Democratic friends, even occasionally say, "Well, if you can't get the votes by executive order, you're going to do something. Things you can't do by executive order, unless you're a dictator." We're democracy, we need consensus.
52 1 6 9 73.85 4.45 I hope I answered your question.
53 2 13 14 109.13 -0.35 Don't jump, Cedric. You're look like you're way up there.
54 1 2 3 77.91 2.89 Good evening.
55 10 136 178 82.30 5.16 Well, I'd say first of all, as my buddy John Lewis said, "It's a sacred opportunity, the right to vote. You can make a difference." If young Black women and men vote, you can determine the outcome of this election. Not a joke. You can do that. Then the next question is, am I worthy of your vote? Can I earn your vote? And the answer is, there's two things I think that I care and I've demonstrated I care about my whole career. One is, in addition to dealing with a criminal justice system to make it fairer and make it more decent, we have to be able to put Black Americans in a position to be able to gain wealth, generate wealth. And so you look at what that entails.
56 4 85 111 74.79 8.11 It entails everything from early education, that's why I'm supporting making sure that Title One schools, as you know, schools with the least tax base to be able to support their schools, I increased the funding from them from $15 to $45 billion. That allows every teacher in that school to make up to 60,000 bucks, and the problem now is they're leaving the schools. They're not there. We're short about a million and a half teachers, a million and a quarter teachers.
57 8 179 246 67.86 9.35 Number two, every three and four and five-year-old will go to school, school, not daycare, school, and with all the great universities, including the one you've gone to, go to, or went to, in fact, talks about in the last eight years, what's happened. What happens when you let them go to school? They make up rapidly whatever shortcoming they had in terms of their education prior to that. They have not heard as many words spoken, et cetera, et cetera. What happens is that, the studies show, that 58% will increase by 58% their chance of going all through 12 years of school, and going through successfully. It will also provide for the ability to bring in social workers and school psychologists. We have one school psychologist in America now for every 1,507 kids. It should be one to 500, not just in schools that are poor, but in all schools, because we learned that, for example, drug abuse doesn't cause mental illness, mental illness causes drug abuse, the failure to get hold of people and deal with their anxieties.
58 5 142 223 45.15 14.02 In addition to that, I provide for a $70 billion for HBC use for them to be able to have the wherewithal to do what other universities can do, because they don't have the kind of foundational support they need. And so that would allow them, for example, like we did in our administration, the President allowed me to go down and we awarded a cybersecurity laboratory, ability to compete for cybersecurity laboratory. The federal government spends billions of dollars a year on universities, because there are the best kept secret and where most of the major inventions come out of. And so that school now will be able to produce young Black women and men who are going to go into a field of the future that's burgeoning, cybersecurity. And that's what is going to help a great deal.
59 6 160 218 64.50 10.89 In addition to that, if you're a young man about to graduate and you graduated from school and you want to own your first home, well, it's awful hard to get the money, depending on the background, where your economic background is, to get a down payments. So we're going to guarantee first term home buyers a $15,000 down payment for first term home buyers. In addition to that, all the studies now show, and I've been arguing this for a long time, is young Black entrepreneurs are just as successful as White entrepreneurs or anyone else given a shot. But you can't get the money. Where do you go to get the startup money? So what President Obama and I did, we had a program where we took $1.5 billion and we invested it in all the SBAs around the country, and the state SBAs, small business associations, and that generated $30 billion came off the sideline.
60 9 188 244 75.83 7.87 Because if you have a guarantee of $200,000 for your new startup enterprise, a young entrepreneur, you're going to be able to attract, if it's government money and it's a guarantee, you could be able to attract another $100,000. It generated $30 billion. Well, I'm changing that program and I'll get this done without much trouble I believe in the Congress from $1.5 million to $30 billion. That'll take $300 billion off the sideline and grow. And, for example, if you, in fact, and I were the same age and we split our differences, if we were the same age, and we went to the same builder to buy us each the same home, but my home was in a White neighborhood on one side of a highway, and yours is in a Black neighborhood, same exact home, your home will start off being valued 29% less than my home. Yet your insurance for that home will be higher. You'll be taxed more for it. We've got to end this. That's what got me involved in politics in the first place, a thing called red lining.
61 1 21 30 64.66 9.46 We can change so much that we can do so much to change the circumstances to give people a real opportunity.
62 2 19 23 94.78 2.40 Well, there's a lot more if you're going to hang around afterwards. I'll tell you more.
63 14 176 225 85.92 4.40 No, but I really mean it. It's the key. Look, this is the way every other ... Like my dad, he lost his job up in Scranton and it took him three years to be able to move down to Delaware, to Claymont, Delaware, a little steel town, and send us home to our grandpop to live with him. We finally got back. We lived in an apartment, which became six and eight housing much later. It was just normal apartments. But it took him five years to be able to buy a home. Well, we bought a three bedroom home with four kids and a grandpop living with us, but it accumulated wealth. You built up wealth. That's how middle-class folks make it. They build up wealth. Then he was able to borrow a little against that to be able to help us get the school, those kinds of things. It's about accumulating wealth and you're behind an eight ball. The vast majority of people of color are behind an eight ball.
64 14 116 151 88.30 3.00 And it's the same way what's going on now with all this money that's been voted. What's happened? You go to the bank, if you're a Black businessman, and the President fired the only Inspector General to see oversee all this help coming from the Congress. And what happens? You go in and they say, "Ah, do you have an account here?" "No." "Do you have a credit card?" "No." "Have you borrowed from us before ?" "No." We bailed these suckers out. They're not liable for any of the money, but they still won't lend it to you. We've got to change that. It's about accumulating wealth.
65 1 3 4 90.99 1.31 I'm sorry.
66 8 142 185 78.60 6.71 Well, first of all, things have changed drastically. That Crime Bill, when it voted, the Black Caucus voted for it. Every Black mayor supported it across the board and the Crime Bill itself did not have mandatory sentences except for two things. It had three strikes and you're out, which I voted against, in the Crime Bill, but it had a lot of other things in it that turned out to be both bad and good. I wrote the Violence Against Women Act. That was part of the assault weapons ban and other things that were good. What I was against was giving states more money for prison systems that they could build, state prison systems. And you have 93 out of every 100 people in jail now is in a state prison, not in a federal prison, because they built more prisons.
67 10 149 217 68.50 7.41 I also wrote into that bill a thing called drug courts. I don't believe anybody should be going to jail for drug use. They should be going into mandatory rehabilitation. We should be building rehab centers to have these people housed. We should decriminalize marijuana, wipe out the record so you can actually say honesty, "You ever been arrested for murder for anything?" You can say no, because we're going to pass a law saying there is no background that you have to reveal relative to the use of marijuana. And so there's a lot of things. But in addition to that, we've got to change the system. I joined with a group of people in the House to provide for changing the system from punishment to rehabilitation. Along with a guy named Marlon Specter, who you may remember, I wrote the Second Chance Act.
68 1 1 1 121.22 -3.40 Right.
69 10 152 202 78.98 6.02 Yes, it was. But here's where the mistake. The mistake came in terms of what the states did locally. What we did federally, we said, you remember, George, it was all about the same time for the same crime. What I had done as the Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, I took the 10 Circuit Courts of Appeals, took some really brilliant lawyers working for me in Judiciary, we did a study and we determined what happens if, for the first, second, third offense for any crime in the criminal justice system at the federal level, if you're a Black man and it's the first time you've committed robbery, how long would you go to jail? On average? If you're White man, how long? The Black man would go to jail on average 13 years. White man, two years. I'd go down the list of every single crime.
70 7 71 92 86.92 3.66 So we set up a sentencing commission. We didn't set the time. Every single solitary maximum was reduced in there. But what happened was it became the same time for the same crime. So it said, "You have to serve between one and three years." And it ended up becoming much lower, Black folks went to jail a lot less than they would have before. But it was a mistake.
71 9 144 215 64.28 8.27 Yes, if in fact they're involved in community policing, not jump squads. For example, when we had community policing, from the mid-'90s on until till Bush got elected, what happened? Violent crime actually went down precipitous. Remember the significant rise in violent crime that was occurring in the late '80s into the '90s. It went down and fewer African Americans were arrested because you had the requirement. The cops didn't like it. They didn't like the community policing, because you had to have two people in the vehicle, they had to get out of their cars, they had to introduce themselves to who own the local liquor store, who owned the local grocery store, who was the woman on the corner. And what they would do, George, they'd actually go and give people their phone numbers. A cop would give the phone number.
72 9 146 197 76.22 6.66 So if Nelly Smith was on the second floor where drug deals took place and things happened below her apartment, she could call and say, "It's Millie, and there's something going on here." And they'd never revealed it was her, because they'd know, if she knew that, in fact, they report, they'd never report the crime, she'd never report. So it actually started to come down. And what happened? They eliminated the funding for community policing. Community policing doesn't mean more people coming in, in armored Humvees and swarming. It turned out that by the time we got to the late '90s and crime had come down so much, the mayors and everybody asked the question, "Where do you want me to spend the money?" They say, "Well, only 1% thought violent crime was a problem." It was as high as 22%.
73 6 131 168 76.18 8.06 You have to change the way in which they . One of the things I'm going to do, George, is what is set up a national study group made up of cops, social workers, as well as made up of the Black community and the Brown community to sit down in the White House and over the next year come up with significant reforms that need to take place within communities. You have to bring them together. One of the things I've observed is, the neighborhood I grew up, I grew up in Claymont, you either became a cop, a firefighter, or a priest. I wasn't qualified much to do any one of them, but here's the deal, all kidding aside. Most cops don't like bad cops.
74 1 5 5 117.16 -1.84 They don't like it.
75 10 179 249 70.98 7.81 And so what happens is they get intimidated into not reporting. So one of the things we do is there has to be transparency available. We have to be able to go in at the federal level, be able to go in and check out whether or not there's systematic problems within police departments. If, in fact, a cop needs to be tried, it's not the prosecutor in the community, in the district there. You've got to go outside the community to get another prosecutor to come in to handle the crime. There's a lot of things we've learned, and it takes time but we can do this. You can ban choke holds, but beyond that, you have to teach people how to de-escalate circumstances. De-escalate. So instead of anybody coming at you and the first thing you do is shoot to kill, you shoot them in the leg. There's ways you have to do more background checks in terms of whether or not the person coming in, passes a certain psychological test.
76 9 189 254 71.82 8.46 And the last thing I'll say, and I'm sorry, but it's really, I think, really, really important, is you have to be in a position where you are able to identify, identify the things that have to change. And one of the things that has to change is so many cops get called into circumstances where somebody is mentally off. Like what happened not long ago, that guy with the knife. That's why we have to provide within police departments psychologists and social workers to go out with the cops on those calls, some of those 911 calls to de-escalate the circumstance, to deal with talking them down. But cops are kind of like school teachers now. A school teacher has to know everything from how to handle hunger in a household as well as how to teach how to read. Well, cops or don't have that breadth, and there's a lot of things we can do. We shouldn't be defunding cops. We should be mandating the things that we should be doing within police departments and make sure there's total transparency.
77 1 9 11 94.30 2.34 I don't know the answer to your question.
78 1 2 3 77.91 2.89 Hey, Nathan.
79 8 146 190 78.22 6.88 Well, let me start at the last point and work my way back. I think there's great reason to be concerned. I was on the road most of the time during these hearings so I didn't hear many of them. I just got the recaps when I'd get in late at night. I'm been going around the country, Florida, anyway, but my reading online what the judge said was she didn't answer very many questions at all. And I don't even think she is laid out much of a judicial philosophy in terms of the basis upon which she thinks in the Constitution, nonetheless. So, number one. So I think there's great reason to be concerned for the LGBT community, something I fought very hard for, for a long time to make sure there's equality across the board.
80 6 158 243 49.99 12.83 Number two, I think that also healthcare overall is very much in jeopardy as a consequence of the President's going to go directly after this election directly to the Supreme Court within a month to try to get Obamacare wiped out after 10 million people have already lost her insurance from their employer and wants to take 20 million people out of the system as well, plus 100 million people with pre-existing conditions. So there's a lot at stake. I don't think it's appropriate. I think the Constitution implies, there's no provision in the Constitution, my problem is I made a mistake of teaching constitutional law for 21 years, and the separation of powers, the Constitution implies that their way the people have a right to determine who's going to be on the court is how they vote for their Senators and their President. We seek the advice and consent of the Senate. And the President.
81 5 82 124 62.26 8.65 He is. But once an election begins, by implication, it is inconsistent with the constitutional principles, in my view. You get disagreement among scholars on this, but I believe it's inconsistent when millions of people have already voted to put someone on the Court. I think it should have been held until this election is over, see what the makeup of the Senate is going to be. If the President wins this election, he should be able to go for it.
82 7 158 218 67.20 9.49 What I wanted to do, George, you know if I had answered the question directly then all the focus would be on, what's Biden going to do if he wins? Instead of on, is it appropriate what is going on now? And it should stay. This is the thing that the President loves to do, always take our eye off the ball what's at stake. One of the things Pete has suggested is, and there's a number of constitutional scholars have suggested as well, that there are at least four or five options that are available to determine whether or not you can change the way in which the court lifetime appointment takes place consistent arguably with the Constitution. I have not been a fan of court packing because then it just generates what will happen. Whoever wins, it just keeps moving in a way that is inconsistent with what is going to be manageable.
83 4 55 69 86.74 4.58 Well, I'm not a fan. It depends on how this turns out. Not how he wins, but how it's handled, how it's handled. But there's a number of things that are going to be coming up and there's going to be a lot of discussion about other alternative as well.
84 3 71 99 64.85 10.09 For example, there's actually real live debate on the floor, if people are really going to be able to have a time to go through this. I don't know anybody who's gone on the floor that's been a controversial justice in terms of making fundamentally or altering the makeup of the court that's gone through in a day kind of thing. I mean, it depends on ...
85 3 103 128 66.85 12.46 ... and the makeup of the court has gone through in a day kind of thing. I mean, it depends on how much they rushed this. And you think about it, George, here you got a lot of people not to be able to pay their mortgage, not being able to put food on the table, not being able to keep their business open, not being able to do anything to deal with what's going on in terms of the economy as a consequence of COVID and they have no time to deal with that, but they have time to rush this through.
86 1 11 16 72.62 5.86 I'm open to considering what happens from that point on.
87 4 36 47 87.25 3.33 It is. Good choice. No matter what answer I gave you, if I say it, that's the headline tomorrow. It won't be about what's going on now, the improper way they're proceeding.
88 1 24 25 94.35 6.06 They do have a right to know what I stand and they'll have a right to know where I stand before they vote.
89 4 101 141 63.10 10.73 Yes. Depending on how they handle this. But look, what you should do is you got to make sure you vote and vote for a senator who in fact reflects your general view on constitutional interpretation, and vote for a president who thinks is more in line with you. And if you oppose the position that I would not have appointed her, but if you oppose my position, vote for Trump, vote for Republican who shares that view, but that's your opportunity to get involved in lifetime appointments that have presidents come and go, justices stay and stay and stay.
90 1 9 10 103.70 1.03 John's writing in for me, by the way.
91 1 3 4 90.99 1.31 I'm sorry.
92 1 6 7 102.05 0.52 Oh yeah, I'll be darned.
93 15 170 228 81.87 4.66 It was written by a fellow who won the Pulitzer prize for a book he wrote about the presidency. He said I doubt whether Biden is really Irish. He doesn't hold a grudge. In politics, grudges don't work. They make no sense. I really mean it. I have never, and the second point I'd make is everybody talks about, "Yeah, Joe, when you were a senator and a chairman of foreign relations or chairman of judiciary, you got a lot of things done. You're able to cross the aisle but the days are changed. When you're vice president, you got a lot done, but it can't happen anymore." It can. We got to change the nature of the way we deal with one another. And it starts off by the way your father was and Tip was and others. You don't question another man or woman's motive. You can question their judgment, but not their motive. We badly needed an infrastructure bill.
94 10 148 189 83.78 5.25 Well, what happens? I stand up and I say, "We need an infrastructure bill, Senator, but I tell you what, you're in the pocket of the cement industry, but let's see what we can do." He can't get anywhere. Nothing happens. Nothing happens. I learned that lesson a long time ago. I've never, even when it's obvious on its face what the motive is, stick to the subject and listen to the other guy. Listen, what I will be doing as, if I'm elected president and the first thing and not a joke. And you can ask if they'd tell you, your dad's old friends in the Republican side, I'm going to pick up the phone and call them and say, "Let's get together. We've got to figure out how we're going to move forward here."
95 11 170 259 62.26 8.41 Because there's so many things we really do agree on. And with Trump out of the way, the vindictiveness of a president going after Republicans who don't do exactly what he says gets taken away. There's going to be, I promise you, between four and eight Republican senators who are going to be willing to move on things where there's bipartisan consensus. Last example I'll give you. After Trump had been elected, named the next president, wasn't sworn in yet, I've been working on a thing called a bill relating to cancer cures. Okay? And it was called the Cancer Moonshot. And I work with a number of Democrats and Republicans. And we had a bill that was about $9 billion that made significant increases in research and development on cancer alternatives, NIH and particularly specific cancer initiatives. And we only had at the time I think it was 111 or 114, whatever it was, votes in the house. I don't hold any exact number.
96 4 102 130 73.13 9.39 And we had fewer than 40 in the Senate, but after he was elected, I got those people together as vice president and we sat down and we worked it out and we ended up getting a pass 396 votes in the house and 94 votes in the Senate. And at the end of the day, because it had to do with the Biden Cancer Moonshot I've been working on, Mitch McConnell. Mitch McConnell stood up and I was presiding officer and moved to name the bill after my deceased son, Beau, who had just died. So, there are ways to bring this together.
97 4 39 57 73.29 5.46 What the Biden Justice Department will do is let the Department of Justice be the Department of Justice. Let them make the judgments of who should be prosecuted. They're not my lawyers. They're not my personal lawyer.
98 11 161 231 70.60 7.05 I'm not going to rule in or out. Well, I'm going to hire really first rate prosecutors and people who understand the law like Democrat and Republican administrations have had, and let them make the judgements, but turning this into a vehicle for your, as if it's your own law firm, you don't own that justice department. You pick the best people you can and you hope that what they're going to do is they're going to enforce the law as they see it. But can you remember any Republican president going out there or former Democratic president go find that guy and prosecute him? Remember, where you hear that? Or by the way, I'm being sued because a woman has accused me of rape. Represent me. Represent me. Personally represent me in the state of New York on my not allowing my tax returns. What's that all about? What is that about?
99 1 1 2 36.62 8.40 Hello.
100 8 151 209 70.58 8.10 Well, first of all, I make it clear. I do not propose banning fracking. I think you have to make sure that fracking is in fact not emitting methane or polluting the well or dealing with what can be small earthquakes in how they're drilling. So, it has to be managed very, very well, number one. Number two, what we have to do is the future rests in renewable energy. The single fastest growing energy source in the world right now, because I'm going to say something that's going to sound self-serving, but I manage the RecoveryAact and I was able to invest billions of dollars into bringing down the cost per BTU of wind and solar. So now it's cheaper than coal, is cheaper than oil right now, and it has great, great promise. And it's also the fastest growing employer in the energy industry.
101 5 120 166 65.45 10.09 And so there are a number of things that I would do immediately. Number one, there are well over 100,000 wells that are left uncapped in the region. We could hire 128,000 of these people who are working in the industry to cap these wells and get a good salary doing it now, number one. Number two, we should be moving toward finding the new technologies that are going to be able to deal with carbon capture. So, ultimately, it's a transition we moved from, to a net zero emission of carbon that we're still going to be able to use if we find the right technology, some gases, some gas to be able to, if we can carbon capture.
102 3 128 179 45.22 17.55 And I think we're going to be able to move in a direction where by the year 2035, we'll be able to have net zero emissions of carbon from the creation of energy, energy creation so we can move it by dealing with those. And every time we talk about global warming or the environment, the president thinks it's a joke and I think as jobs, because what we're going to have happened is you'll be able to see now, as I started to say before. I as president is going to invest that $600 billion that we spend in government contracts, only on those things that in fact also are not only made in America, but building an infrastructure that's clean and new.
103 6 105 150 68.22 8.09 And what we have to do is focus on the transmission of energy across the country from areas relating to solar and wind. The reason is that they have not, that has not been mastered yet. I met a lot of people in Silicon Valley. The battery technology is increasing significantly so you're going to be able to have, for example, solar on your home and a battery the, this by this by this, as I'm showing you here in your basement. So when the sun doesn't shine for five days, you still have enough energy. So, we're making significant progress.
104 3 68 101 58.17 10.78 The other thing we're going to do is provide an awful lot of work. It's estimated to put close to a million people to work by weatherizing four million buildings and two million homes, because we'll save tons and tons of energy or billions of barrels of energy over time. And at the same time provide significant employment and a good union wages, prevailing wages.
105 8 103 151 69.74 6.73 Boilermaker's overwhelming endorsement. Okay? So, the Boilermakers Union has endorsed me because I sat down with them and went in a great detail with leadership exactly what I would do, number one. Number two, what I would do is I would giving tax breaks and subsidizing oil. We don't need to subsidize oil any longer, number one. We should stop that and save billions of dollars over time. What I would also do with regard to there's no, the difference between me and the new green deal, they say automatically by 2030 we're going to be carbon free. Not possible.
106 7 157 212 69.83 9.09 My deal is a crucial framework, but not the new green deal. The new green deal calls for elimination of all non renewable energy by 2030. You can't get there. You're going to need to be able to transition, George, to be able to transition to get to the place where we invest in new technologies that allow us to do things that get us to a place where we get to net zero emission, including in agriculture. I've laid out a detailed plan. We should be taking the plan where we allow significant more land to be put in conservation, plant deep rooted plants which absorb carbon from the air and in fact, pay farmers to do it. We can do things like pelletize all the chicken manure and all the horse manure and cow manure, and take out the methane and use it as fertilizer and make a lot of money doing it.
107 8 119 180 63.77 8.06 For example, right now, down in ... And people when I say that, they wonder what I'm talking about. The biggest carbon sink in the world is the Amazon. More carbon absorbed from the air diminishing global warming in the Amazon than all the carbon emitted on a yearly basis from the United States of America from all vehicles on all means. So we have to use our imaginations. We have to move in the direction as well providing for electric vehicles. Electric vehicles will save billions of gallons of oil, estimated, not me, Wall street, one million automobile jobs, but we're lagging me. I mean, we're not investing. We're not doing any of the research.
108 2 9 12 89.47 1.90 Good to be back home. I'm from Pennsylvania.
109 1 1 1 121.22 -3.40 Yep.
110 3 29 38 86.17 3.64 A little more, but not a whole lot. We find ourselves in a position where we're more isolated in the world than we've ever been. Our allies.
111 20 293 420 70.70 7.04 Were more isolated in the world than we ever have been. Our allies... Our go it alone, our America first has made America alone. You have Iran closer to having enough nuclear material to build a bomb. North Korea has more bombs and missiles available to it. We find ourselves where our NATO allies are publicly saying they can't count on us. We're in a situation as well, where in the far East, we find ourselves, in the Western Pacific, where we're isolated as well. You have Japan and South Korea at odds with one another. China is making moves. So I would say, we're find ourselves less secure than we've been. I do compliment the president on the deal with Israel recently. But if you take a look, we're not very well trusted around the world. When 17 major nations in the world were asked who they trust more, who's a better leader, and the president came in behind both, the international survey, both behind Putin, as well as Xi. And look what Putin is doing. You have bounties on American militaries heads in Afghanistan. They have more people there now, by the way, than when we left in Afghanistan. And we find ourselves in a situation where he's talked to Putin six times, hadn't said a word to him. And NATO is on the risk of beginning crack because they doubt whether we're there. You see what's happened in everything from Belarus to Poland, to Hungary, and the rise of totalitarian regimes in the world. And as well as, this president embraces all the thugs in the world. He's best friends with the leader of North Korea, sending love letters.
112 10 141 201 71.92 6.73 He doesn't take on Putin in any way. He's learned the art of the steal from the art of the deal by Xi and China. So I would respectfully suggest, no, there is no plan, no coherent plan for foreign policy. We've been most effective as a world leader, in my humble opinion, not just by the exercise of our power. We're the most powerful nation in the world, but the power of our example. That's what's led the rest of the world to follow us on almost everything. He's pulled out of almost every international organization. He gets laughed at, literally, not figuratively, when he goes to the United Nations. It's not about the president, per se. It's about the nation and the lack of respect that's shown to us.
113 2 5 5 119.70 -2.81 Hi, Mieke. How are you?
114 7 103 147 71.16 6.99 I will flat out just change the law. Eliminate those executive orders, number one. You may recall, I'm the guy who said... I was raised by a man who, I remember, I was being dropped off. My dad was a high school educated, well-read man who was a really decent guy. And I was being dropped off to get an application in the center of our city, Wilmington, Delaware, the corporate capital of the world at the time. I'm getting out to get an application to be a lifeguard in the African-American community, because there was a big swimming pool complex.
115 14 127 167 86.38 3.46 And these two men, well-dressed, leaned up and hugged one another and kissed one another. I'm getting out of the car at the light, and I turned to my dad. My dad looked me. He said, "Joey, it's simple. They love each other." The idea that an 8 year old child or a 10 year old child decides, "I decided I want to be transgender. That's what I think I'd like to be. It'd make my life a lot easier." There should be zero discrimination. And what's happening is too many transgender women of color are being murdered. They're being murdered. I think it's up to, now, 17. Don't hold me to that number, but it's... It's higher now?
116 2 32 41 82.20 5.77 And that's just this year. And so I promise you, there is no reason to suggest that there should be any right denied your daughter, or daughters, whichever, one or two.
117 7 71 94 84.53 3.99 One. Your daughter, that your other daughter has a right to be and do. None. Zero. And by the way, my son Beau, who passed away, was the attorney general of the state of Delaware. He was the guy who got the first transgender law passed in the state of Delaware. And because of a young man who became a woman, who worked for him in the attorney general's office.
118 1 6 6 116.15 -1.45 And I'm proud of her.
119 7 148 220 59.62 10.20 Well, to be very honest with you, I think that's very hard. Things have not let themselves to him learning from what's happened, what's gone before. Instead of being chastened by being one of the few presidents, the only president to be impeached and then have a member of his own party vote to expel him, it emboldened him. But what I will do... Hopefully, I'll go back to being a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. And making the case that I've been made, and at the Biden Institute at the University of Delaware, focusing on these same issues, relating to what constitutes decency and honor in this country. It's the thing that got me involved in public life to begin with. As a kid, I'd moved from Scranton, where there were no African-Americans and moved down to Claymont, Delaware.
120 11 119 178 69.31 6.28 And in Delaware we have the eight largest Black population, as a percent of population. It was an epiphany for me seeing what was going on, and I got deeply involved. I'm no great shakes. I wasn't John Lewis. I don't mean to imply that. But it's the thing that's motivated... My dad used to have an expression for real. He said, "Everyone's entitled to be treated with dignity. Everybody." And it was real. Everybody is. And so whether I'm a defeated candidate for president back teaching or I'm elected president, it is a major element of everything that I'm about, because it reflects who we are as a nation.
121 11 150 216 71.17 6.72 Every single solitary generation, the dial has moved closer and closer and more and more to inclusion. And we are a country that is a country of slaves who came here 400 years ago, Indigenous people, and everyone else is an immigrant. And we're a diverse country. And unless we are able to treat people equally, we're just never going to meet our potential. But I think the American people want to see that happen. I think they're ready to see it happen. And I'd tell you one thing, if I'm elected president, you will not hear me race baiting. You'll not hear me dividing. You'll hear me trying to unify, and bring people together. When I said I was running because I wanted to unify the country, people said, "Well, there are the old days." We better be able to do it again.
122 1 9 12 84.90 3.65 We'd better be able to do it again.
123 15 200 276 76.55 5.89 Well, it could say I'm a lousy candidate, and I didn't do a good job. But I hope that it doesn't say that we are as racially, ethnically, and religiously at odds with one another as it appears the president wants us to be. Usually, the president's in my view, with all due respect, has been divide and conquer. The way he does better if he splits us. There's division. And I think people need hope. Look, George, I've never been more optimistic about the prospect for this country than I am today. And I really mean that. I think the people are ready. They understand what's at stake, and it's not about Democrat or Republican. If I get elected, I'm running as a proud Democrat, but I'm going to be an American president. I'm going to take care of those who voted against me, as well as those who voted for me, for real. That's a presence too. We got to heal this nation, because we have the greatest opportunity to any country in the world to own the 21st century. And we can't do it divided.
124 16 201 256 86.33 4.34 Yeah. And by the way, before I came up here, I took another test. I've been taking them every day, the deep test, the ones that go in most. Because if I had not passed that test, I didn't want to come here and expose anybody. And I just think it's just decency, to be able to determine whether or not you're clear. I'm less concerned about me, but then the guys with the cameras, the people working in the Secret Service guys you drive up with, all those people. And so, yes, I believe he will do that. Look, I'm going to abide by what the commission rules call for. I was prepared to debate him remotely, which was supposed to happen. And he said he wouldn't do that, a virtual debate, or a town hall. He didn't want to do that. I didn't set those rules. The commission set the rules. So whatever rules they set, I'm confident that the Cleveland Clinic is the one overseeing it. I think they're going to not let happen what happened last time. They're going to demand that it's safe.
125 1 5 6 100.24 0.52 I expect to be there.