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She did something a little different tonight that I think is worth looking
at. She was reflective, and conveyed a little more self awareness that the
press remarked that they hadn't seen from her before. Seems to have made
the rest of her remarks more accessible as well. Transcript below, and
here's what CNN filed.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/20/politics/hillary-clinton-iowa-caucuses/index.html
FOR INTERNAL USE ONLY
Remarks at Organizing Event
January 20, 2016
HILLARY CLINTON: Thank you. Wow, thanks so much. (Cheers.) Thank you
all. Hello, Burlington. Thank you all very much. Thank you. Wow. It’s
great being back here, and thank you all for coming out tonight and being
part of this amazing process. I’m really grateful to you.
And before I get started with my remarks about what I think is at stake in
this election and what I think you should be considering as you make up
your mind once and for all and go out and caucus on February 1st, I just
want to say thank you. You know, coming here as I did again, starting last
April, I’ve had the opportunity to talk with and listen by now to thousands
of Iowans, and you have impressed upon me all of your concerns, your hopes,
some of your worries, some of the challenges that you and your families,
your businesses, your schools, your communities, are facing; but also this
sense of positive possibility about what we can do if we start working
together again.
You’ve certainly informed me, made me a better candidate, given me a lot
more to think about than I even had before I started. And I believe,
thanks to you, I will be a better president, someone who really understands
firsthand from you what we need to do in our country. So I wanted to start
by saying thank you. (Applause.) Thank you for all you have meant to me.
Now, I know that there are a lot of you that have already made up your
minds, and I thank you for that. I want to thank Zach, who came out and
introduced me. He’s one of my active, enthusiastic young volunteers.
(Applause.) And I want to thank all the precinct captains who are here.
Will everybody who’s already a precinct captain or a precinct team member,
just know – raise your hand – I want to thank you all so much for being
part of this. (Cheers.) It’s great. And I know that you have already,
many of you, had a chance to meet with our two organizers, Adine (ph), who
Zach mentioned, and Sarah. They have been working so hard, and I want you
to do whatever they ask you to do in the next days leading up to the
caucus.
I’m thrilled that I have this opportunity to talk with you tonight, and I
would love to, if we have time, to take some questions. But I want to
start by stating the obvious. The stakes in this election are so high.
You know, every election is important, but you’re going to be the first
people world who get to decide who the Democratic nominee for president
should be. And there are a lot of folks in our own country and in many
others who are watching closely because it matters, not just to us, but it
matters to the world who walks into that White House on January 20, 2017.
And so it’s now time for Iowans to really consider carefully who is
prepared, ready, able, to do the job that waits.
Now, some of it we already know is going to have to be tackled, or at least
I will tackle it – to get the economy going and growing; to provide more
jobs with good incomes for more people in America. (Applause.) I will be
prepared also for what might face us starting then around the world because
we have to continue to try to make the world a more peaceful, secure,
prosperous place.
So you have to decide who can do the job because it really is selecting
both a president and a Commander in Chief. Those are equally important.
They have different parts of this very overwhelming, in some ways, job that
we ask one person to do. But that’s why we spend our time meeting with
you, answering your questions, to try to give you a feel for who would be
the best person at this moment to lead our country.
I come to this campaign, and I would come to the presidency, with a
lifetime of service, experience, and a vision about where our country
should be in the 21st century. I feel passionately about this because I
know how blessed I am, that I was born in this country to wonderful parents
who gave me a great start in life. I went to wonderful public schools with
teachers that inspired me to this day. I had the opportunity to go to
college, which my mother never had. And then I chose to go to law school,
and paid my way through because my father couldn’t afford that.
So I feel like an extraordinarily lucky person. But I also know that
everything I took advantage of – all the hard work of my dad, who was a
small businessman; all the sacrifice of so many in his generation – he was
in the Navy during World War II; the hard life my mom had but the loving
home she created – I know that you cannot take anything for granted.
Everybody has to always keep trying to make it better for those who come
after. And that’s why, when I left law school, I went to work for the
Children’s Defense Fund, as you saw in the video, because I knew there were
a lot of kids in every part of our country who didn’t have anywhere near
the blessings and opportunities that I did.
So I bring a perspective to this campaign, and I would bring it to the
White House, that motivates me to know I have to do everything possible to
make progress for people in our country who deserve a president who is on
your side, who fights for you, fights for your family, fights for the best
in our nation. (Applause.) And I bring a record of having done that. You
saw some of it again in the video.
I know what it’s like to be knocked down but not knocked out. I’ve had a
few hard times. I don’t know anybody in this audience who hasn’t had their
own share. But I’ve learned, and I give my mom the credit for this, that
it’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get back up. And
I’ve gotten back up time and time and time again – (applause) – because I
believe that we all have an opportunity to try to keep going and to help
others along the way.
So when we didn’t get the health care reform back in ‘93-‘94, it would have
been easy to quit, but I didn’t. I said, look. We’ve got millions of kids
who have no insurance. And you know, if kids don’t get their health care
early on in their lives, that can have lifelong consequences. You all know
that. So we got the Children’s Health Insurance Program, which now covers
eight million kids. (Applause.) And we worked to reform the foster care
and adoption system when I was First Lady because again, as an advocate for
kids, I saw the terrible situation so many foster kids found themselves
in. And I needed an ally in the Congress, and I went to one of the
toughest, most partisan Republicans there was, Tom DeLay. And I said to
him, “I know you care about foster kids. So do I. Will you work with me
to try to improve their lives, to try to make it possible for more of them
to get adopted, to have a permanent home?” He kind of paused. So, “Well,
what do you want to do?” And I said, “Well, I want you to come to a
meeting at the White House, and let’s work together.” I didn’t call a
press conference and say, oh, I’ve got Tom DeLay coming. I said, let’s
just start working together. Let’s see what we can do to help these kids.
Maybe it’s the only thing – and it was – the only thing we’ll ever work on
together. But think of the difference we might make. And we did.
So we passed laws. The Safe Families and Adoption Act, which has increased
the number of kids being adopted out of foster care, and provided more
support for them. And that’s what I mean when I say we’ve got to keep
going. We’ve got to find common ground. You’ve got to help people be able
to have what they need to make the most out of their own lives. You saw a
little bit about what I did as Senator after 9/11. I can’t even describe
to you what that was like. Words really fail me, still today, all these
years later. But to go to where we were attacked, the next day, and see
what had been done to our country was devastating. But we had to get to
work. We had to begin to get things put back together, including the lives
of families who lost loved ones, nearly 3,000. Including the health of our
first responders, our construction workers. I just met with a big group of
ironworkers, and they were dropping their construction tools all over New
York City to race to help try to save people because they knew how to move
the heavy steel that was still standing.
So I worked to help them – (applause) – with the healthcare they needed
against some pretty tough odds. But working on that –what was called “the
pile” for weeks and months – first to try to save lives, to find bodies,
then to clear it and rebuild it, took a toll on so many, and they deserved
to be taken care of. So there’s a lot that I have had the opportunity to
experience, I would say even the privilege. And to work to solve the
problems that the people I represented in New York – it’s not all been a
bed of roses. It’s tough. The politics in our country, in case you
haven’t noticed, can be pretty harsh. I think I’ve been called nearly
everything. (Laughter). I understand that. It’s a competitive process.
I wish it were not quite so mean-spirited. I don’t think that reflects
well on us, but we have to keep forging our way forward and trying to bring
people back together again.
So here’s really your decision now. You’ve been watching us cross Iowa,
you’ve been watching us on TV, listening to us on radio, reading about us
in the papers. And now you have to make a decision. Here’s what I
believe. I believe it’s absolutely imperative for us to build on the
progress we have made, not let it be ripped away (applause). I personally
believe that President Obama doesn’t get the credit he deserves for saving
our economy – (applause) – from the terrible Great Recession he inherited.
And Senator Sanders and I agree on a lot of goals. But we have
differences. And it’s that time in the campaign when he’s making
contrasts, and when I am as well.
One of our biggest differences is about healthcare. I remember what it was
like when I was trying to get us toward universal healthcare. It was
really tough. Insurance companies and the drug companies went right after
me, spent tens of millions of dollars to try to convince folks that we
shouldn’t have universal healthcare. So when President Obama became
President, he and I had – we contested each other on healthcare all during
our long primary fight. I knew he was determined to try to do what needed
to be done, and he got it done. When he started, we had – (applause) – we
had 44 million people without insurance. The insurance companies called
all the shots. They could basically stop you from getting insurance if you
had a pre-existing condition.
When I was working on it back in the 90s, I remember going to the
Children’s Hospital in Cleveland, meeting with a group of parents who could
not get insurance for their sick children at any price. And I will never
forget a father of two little girls, both of whom had cystic fibrosis, just
with tears in his eyes, saying, I have to have help so that I can take care
of my girls. I said, well, what do they tell you when you go and you ask
for some kind of insurance policy to help you do this? And he looked down,
and looked up at me, and he said something I will never forget. He said,
well, one of the insurance brokers just looked at me and he said, we don’t
insure burning houses. He said, they called my little girls burning
houses. That’s what was going on in our country, and I bet a lot of you
could tell a story or two about it, right?
So we had 44 million people without insurance in 2009. The insurance
companies could deny you care based on a pre-existing condition. They
actually charged us women more for our health insurance than they charged
men, so we were paying more. If you were a young person, you weren’t
insured, because you were probably still in school, or you were at a job
not making much money. So it was a very difficult experience for many
millions of Americans. President got to work. The Democratic Congress –
because thankfully, when the President was elected, we not only had a
Democratic President, we had a Democratic Senate, we had Democratic House.
They passed the Affordable Care Act – (applause) – and look at the
results. We’ve got nearly 19 million people now insured. Over 90% of
Americans are insured. We are no longer at the mercy of the insurance
companies. (Applause.)
You can stay on your parents’ policy until you’re 26, and I’ve heard a lot
of folks in Iowa thanking the President for that. And that’s something I
want to protect and defend. The Republicans keep trying to repeal it.
They voted to repeal it last week. They sent that to the White House.
Thank goodness the President vetoed it. (Applause.) But I can guarantee
you if they win the White House back, they will repeal it the very first
week because they have promised their hardcore, right wing that they will
do that.
Now Senator Sanders cares deeply about covering people. That certainly is
a goal we share, but he wants to start all over again. He had a plan for
about 20 years that I began asking questions about because I do know a
little bit about healthcare and about how it works and how we have to
protect people and make sure they get what they need. And in all those 20
years, he never got a sponsor in the Senate or got a vote in the House.
And then right before the last debate, he changed his plan and put out an
eight-page summary of his new plan, which is a single-payer plan, which
will require total new legislation starting from scratch. I do not think
we should start from scratch, my friends. I think we can build on what we
have achieved, make it better and – (applause).
I don’t want to plunge our nation back into a contentious, divisive
debate. I sure don’t want to give any room to the Republicans to repeal
it. I want to fix it; I want to improve it; and I’ve got specific plans to
do that. I want us to get the cost down. I want us to help people with
their out-of-pocket costs. I want us to cap prescription drug costs.
(Applause.) I want us to require that the drug companies have to
negotiate with Medicare so that Medicare recipients get the benefit of
lower negotiated drug prices. (Applause.) So that’s a difference. I’m
laying out specific plans about how I will improve it while I protect and
defend it.
I want families in Iowa to start making progress right away. I don’t want
us debating healthcare all over again. I want to be pushing for the
economic and tax changes that I favor in order to make the wealthy pay
their fair share and to create more jobs and raise income. That is my
highest priority. (Applause.)
So let’s not fight about healthcare; let’s keep improving it. We can get
to universal coverage. I mean I remember enough of the arithmetic I
learned. It’s a lot easier to get from 90 percent of coverage to a 100
percent than starting over and going from zero to 100. So let’s close the
gap; let’s decrease the cost; let’s go after the drug companies; get those
prescription drug costs down; and improve the way that we deliver services.
(Applause.) I had a doctor at one of my events ask me the other day, he
said, “Well, where do you stand on doctors?” And I said, “I love them.
They’ve done great work for me and my family.” He said, “Well, do you
support doctors?” I said, “Oh, yes, I do support doctors.” The
Republicans support the drug companies and the insurance companies. I
don’t want either of them at my bedside if I’m ever sick. I support the
doctors, the nurses, the pharmacists, the people who are actually
delivering healthcare services to us. (Applause.)
Now when it comes to the economy – and that’s one of the big differences
we’ve had in this very spirited debate – here’s what I think. I think we
have to make the wealthy pay their fair share, and I have laid out specific
plans to do that. Here are some of them. I agree with Warren Buffet. He
has something he calls “The Buffet Rule.” If you’re a millionaire, you
should pay at least a 30 percent effective tax rate because you have done
really well in our country and you have taken advantage of everything that
prior generations built up and created, and you should not avoid your
obligation to supporting our country, our society, our future. (Applause.)
But I want to go further. I have proposed what I call a Fair Share
Surcharge, because here’s what I’m worried about. I’m worried about all
these gimmicks that the wealthy use to shelter their income, send it to
places like Bermuda, call it something that it isn’t. So the only way we
can end that is to propose a surcharge of 4 percent on every form of their
income so they can’t hide it; they can’t put it in a tax shelter; they have
to pay on all of it. That will raise about $150 billion if you impose it
on people making more than $5 million. (Applause.)
Now I also believe that we should incentivize profit sharing because if you
help a company make profits, you should share in those profits, not just
the executives but every one of you who has contributed to that. And it
will make us a stronger economy, and it will make a more loyal workforce.
Because if you think you’re going to actually get to take advantage of your
hard work at the end of the year, you’re likely to stay; you’re likely to
make a real commitment.
Of course, I want to raise the minimum wage and I want to give as much of a
raise as I think we can possibly get, and then I want to index it to
inflation so it keeps going up so we don’t have to keep voting on it and
try to get the Congress to approve it, but that it keeps going up at
appropriate stages so that people are not left behind. (Applause.)
I was at a small event last week and a woman came up to me here and said,
“I’m working three jobs, I can barely make ends meet.” They were all three
minimum wage jobs. It is not right if you work full time that you’re still
in poverty – (applause) – and we have to begin to increase the wages of
people who are working. I want people to work. That’s the best answer to
any kind of social issue. And then I pledge to you I will do everything I
can – you saw when I went to Beijing and spoke out about women’s rights and
human rights. (Applause.) So I want women to earn equal pay for the work
they do. It helps families; it helps our economy; it gives people a better
shot.
And so what about Wall Street. You hear a lot about Wall Street in this
election. Well, I’ll tell you, I’m the one who went to Wall Street before
the crash and said, “You all are making a huge mistake doing what you’re
doing.” I made it clear that we had to change CEO bonuses. I called to
end loopholes particularly for hedge fund managers. I’m on record of
having not just talked about it but tried to do something about it. And I
intend to do everything I can as [resident to make sure that Wall Street
never wrecks Main Street again. (Applause.)
And one of the big distinctions between us and my two esteemed opponents,
the Governor and the Senator, is that they both have the same answer to
what we need to do, basically reinstate Glass-Steagall and break up the big
banks. We have the authority to break up the big banks right now in
Dodd-Frank. Dodd-Frank gives the government the rights and lays out the
process for doing that if these banks are causing what is called a systemic
risk to our financial system. It will take grit and guts to do it if that
is what is called for, but we have the authority. It was passed. The
President signed it into law. What we don't have is what I am advocating
for. And this is one of those differences. And it is kind of like we are
in a vigorous agreement but we are not exactly seeing eye to eye because I
have said no bank is too big to fail and no executive is too powerful to
jail. And I will do that if that is what is called for. (Applause.)
However, if you go back and look at what happened in 2008, it wasn't
primarily the big banks that caused it. It was the investment banks, like
Lehman Brothers. It was other banks, like Wachovia. It was mortgage
companies, like Countrywide. It was a giant insurance company called AIG.
They would not be affected at all by what my opponents are proposing.
So what I am trying to do is use the law we passed, protect it against the
Republicans from trying to rip it apart, which is what they are doing, but
go further, put into law provisions that will enable us to go after the
investment banks or the so-called shadow banking system. That is where the
experts say the next potential problem could come from. (Applause.) And
we don't have enough tools to regulate them.
And the plan that I have put forth has been analyzed. And people like
Barney Frank, who knows a lot about this – he is the Frank of Dodd-Frank –
and Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize-winning progressive economist from The
New York Times, has looked at all of our plans and have said I have a
tougher, more effective, more comprehensive plan. (Applause.)
So if your main issue is what are we going to do to stop Wall Street and
the big banks and the shadow banks and all of these other institutions that
are out there from hurting us again, I am the person for you because I
understand – (Applause.) (Cheers.) – how tough it will be, but I know how
to do it.
And I will give you the best evidence I could. Ask yourselves, if the Wall
Street guys and the big finance guys were so sure that I wouldn't do what I
tell you I will do, why are they running ads against me? (Applause.) Why
is Karl Rove taking money from the financial interests and running ads
against me to try to influence Democrats in Iowa not to caucus for me? Why
are two hedge fund billionaires running ads against me? I will tell you
why: because they know that I will come right after them and that I know
how to get it done. (Applause.) (Cheers.)
And then, finally, let me just say a word about foreign affairs and
national security because, like I said in the beginning, I can't stand here
today and tell you everything the next President and commander-in-chief is
going to be confronting. I don't think President Obama or any President
knows what is going to happen over four or eight years. So you have got to
be prepared. You have got to be constantly thinking about contingencies
and what will you do if X or Y or Z happens. But we know one threat we
have to face right now, and that is from ISIS. And I am the only candidate
on either side who has laid out a specific plan about what I would do to
defeat ISIS.
And, very briefly, because I have given speeches, one of you tonight told
me that you switched from my opponent to me because you looked at my speech
– (Applause.) – that I gave about the Iran nuclear agreement that I helped
to negotiate by putting the sanctions on Iran that got us to the
negotiating table. And I give John Kerry and President Obama all of the
credit they deserve – (Applause.) – for bringing that home and making our
world safer.
So I want you to know where I stand and what I would do. And here is what
I would do, quickly, about ISIS. I agree that we have to lead an air
coalition to deprive them of territory, to go after their infrastructure
and their leadership, and support the fighters on the ground, the Arab and
Kurdish fighters, in the Iraqi army, and Arab militias in Iraq and Peshmerga.
That is the Kurdish militias, who are really in the day-to-day combat with
ISIS. But I will not send American ground troops to – (applause) – Syria
or Iraq to fight ISIS or (inaudible) or any other reason. I think that
would be a mistake, and I will never let that happen. I support having
Special Forces there to work with these fighters on the ground –
(Applause.) – to help call in air strikes to be in a position to be able to
help supervise and mentor, and I support those of our military or help who
are helping the Iraqi army get its act together again after the army that
we helped to build and train was destroyed by Maliki.
So I will continue and intensify what we are doing. I will also go after
their foreign funds and foreign fighters and their propaganda online
because we are facing a new phenomenon. (Applause.) This terrorist
network has a global reach. And it is inspiring people, radicalizing
people, celebrating violence, directing attacks. So we have to take them
on where they are doing that, and that is online. And I talked to some of
the biggest companies in Silicon Valley. I have talked with people in our
government. We have got to figure out how we don't let them take advantage
of the wonder of the internet to promote their evil ideology.
And here at home, I would do whatever it takes to keep us safe. That
experience of mine from 9/11 is seared into my brain. And I will not only
do everything I can to coordinate federal, state, and local law enforcement
but to get more information from friends overseas so that we are acting in
real time.
But I’ll tell you one thing that I think is very important, and I’ve gone
all over the country saying this. When you hear from the Republicans,
particularly their leading candidate, the kind of anti-Muslim rhetoric and
the offensive, shameful comments that they are putting out in the world
that are being heard by billions of people, that’s not only wrong, it’s
dangerous. (Applause.) We need to be working with American Muslims. We
need to be working with Muslim nations to defeat the scourge of terrorism.
And I don’t know if you saw the papers, but the British parliament launched
a debate about whether to legally bar Donald Trump from coming into their
country. (Applause.) Well, it might make it harder for him to travel, but
it also sent a message, didn’t it? About what our closest allies think
about all this.
One of the things that I learned after the ’08 campaign, after President
Obama asked me to be Secretary of State, is how closely people around the
world follow our election. I don’t think I really understood that. I
assumed that there’d be people sitting in government offices or maybe in
business board rooms following it, but no, it is followed closely by
literally billions of people. The first trip I took as Secretary of State,
I went to Asia, and I went to Indonesia and I was on a morning talk show –
they call it “The Awesome Show.” There’s a lot of singing and dancing,
which I didn’t know until I got there, and it really made me nervous. You
do not want to see me – well, I danced, but you don’t want to hear me sing.
(Laughter.) And so I was appearing, because we understood what we
inherited from the Bush administration required us to build back good
feeling toward the United States, because it had been sorely reduce in the
eight years of the George W. Bush administration.
So we were doing things like going on popular shows to communicate directly
with people, not just to leaders. And the first question I was asked was
this: “We followed your election. We saw how hard you and President Obama
ran against each other. And then he asked you to be Secretary of State.
How does that work?” And I realized in these new democracies, I mean, you
run against somebody, you speak out against somebody, you can get exiled or
imprisoned, not asked to be Secretary of State. So it was a very
legitimate question. And I thought – I had, like, a nanosecond to think,
and I said, “Well, you’re right, we ran hard against each other in our
electoral process. That’s what we do. He won, I lost, and then I went to
work to help get him elected, and I was very happy he did. And then he
called me literally out of the blue, asked me to be Secretary of State. He
asked me, and I agreed for the same reason: we both love our country. We
are both committed to serving our country. That’s all (inaudible).”
(Applause.) It matters. It matters what you say as a president. It
matters what you do as a president.
So I’m asking for your help. I’m very proud to have been endorsed by a
wonderful group of individuals and institutions, in part because they know
me. So when Gabby Giffords and her wonderful husband, the astronaut Mark
Kelly, endorsed me because I’m standing up to the gun lobby, that means the
world to me. (Applause.) And that so many unions endorsed me, I cannot
tell you how proud it makes me. Because the American labor movement built
the American middle class, and I want it to be once again supported and
given the kind of opportunity to raise the standard of living – (applause)
– whether you’re a police officer or a fire fighter or an iron worker, a
teacher, a public employee, whatever you are. You’re really building
America.
And I was proud to be endorsed by the Planned Parenthood Action Fund
because of the work I’ve done for so many years to defend women’s health.
(Applause.) And I was proud to be supported and endorsed by the Human
Rights Campaign because of the work I’ve done to end discrimination against
the LGBT community. (Applause.) And I’ve got to tell you, I was somewhat
confused when Senator Sanders said, well, Planned Parenthood and Human
Rights Campaign, they’re part of the establishment and that’s why they’re
supporting Hillary Clinton, because it’s all part of the establishment. I
thought, boy, I wish it were. I wish we weren’t fighting all the time to
protect women’s rights, to protect women’s health. If it were part of the
establishment, that would be time for all of us to just quit having to work
so hard and defend it and fight for it. Well, that’s just not the case.
We have to keep working to make sure people are not taken advantage of, not
stripped of their rights. (Applause.)
And the Republicans want to do all of that. So I’m asking you for your
support on February 1st, to come and caucus for me, to be part of starting
a campaign that will not only go through the primaries, but I’ll be back
often to win your votes in the general election. I do not want to see Iowa
go any direction other than blue, Democratic, building the future, making a
difference for all of us. (Applause.)
And as I said, it really is a great honor for me to have spent these months
meeting with so many people in cafes and backyards and workplaces and
community colleges and universities and so many different settings – labor
halls, churches – we’ve been all over Iowa. And it’s been incredibly
important to me because it’s helped to shape my campaign. And I want to
end on this: When I started running for president, I didn’t think that
some of the issues I’ve been talking about would be part of my presidential
campaign. I knew the economy would be what I wanted to do. I knew health
care would be. I knew foreign policy/national security would be. I knew
education would be, and a lot of the contentious issues that we have to
fight the Republicans over would be. But I didn’t realize how important it
would be – and it started on my very first day in Davenport – to talk about
mental health. To talk about substance abuse. (Applause.) And you hear
the stories of families that are dealing with Alzheimer’s and autism. And
to understand how important it is we keep investing in medical research and
that we change the way we treat addiction, treat it more like the disease
it is instead of the criminal offense it’s been labeled as. (Applause.)
And how important it is that we make good on our promise to give people
with mental health problems the health care they need too. (Applause.)
And I believe so strongly that we need a president who can do all parts of
the job. We need a president who can get the economy working for everybody
and get incomes rising. We need a president who can keep us safe and keep
us strong in the world. And we need a president who will get up every day
trying to figure out how to help you deal with the problems that keep you
up at night.
I want a strong, confident, united America. That’s what I’m asking you to
support. Thank you all very much. (Applause.) Thank you. Thank you,
thank you, thank. Let me shake hands.
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On Jan 20, 2016, at 7:53 PM, John Podesta <[email protected]> wrote:
I like a lot of this, but it has the feel of the kitchen sink being thrown
in. Can we pare some of the less important stuff out or do you think she
wants to see it all in? In the here's where we agree graph, I'd make Wall
St last.
On Wednesday, January 20, 2016, Dan Schwerin <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Team, attached is a full draft of a speech based on the outline we gave
> HRC yesterday. At its core is the argument that Sanders' ideas will lead
> to gridlock, not action, and Americans can't wait to see results.
>
> This is about 2800 words, which is roughly 25 minutes. So cuts welcome.
>
> I need to get to HRC and WJC soon, so I apologize about the short-turn
> around but would love reactions ASAP.
> Thank you.
> Dan
>
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