-Let's cut to some of
your major points you make
running for President --
climate change.
I do believe we have to do
something about this.
-Jimmy, I don't want to
get you too nervous
or get the audience
too nervous, but what the --
-When you get quiet,
I do get nervous.
[ Laughter ]
-Alright, then
I'll be very quiet.
What the scientists
are telling us is, in fact
they have underestimated
the severity and the speed
in which climate change
is damaging
not only our country
but the entire world.
And if we do not act boldly,
and I got to tell you,
we have introduced the mos
comprehensive climate-change
proposal ever introduced b
a candidate for federal office
if we don't have the guts to
take on the fossil-fuel industry
and tell them that
their short-term profits
are not more important tha
the future of this planet,
then I got to tell you,
according to the scientists,
the world that we're gonna b
leaving our kids
and our grandchildren is gonna
be increasingly unhealthy
and uninhabitable, and I think
we have a moral responsibility
to make sure
that does not happen.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-I know you have grandchildren
and you told me earlier
that you love them very much
and that you love
spending as much time --
-They're the joy of my heart
[ Audience aws ]
-Yeah. And you're gonna see them
this Thanksgiving, right?
-I will see all seven of the
this weekend.
-Yeah. And so this is a thin
you're doing for them as well.
-Absolutely.
And, you know, as a parent
and as a grandparent,
and I just don't want
any parent or grandparent
to have to be in a positio
where 20 or 30 years ago,
little ones or your kids
are asking you,
"Didn't you know
what was going on?
Didn't you know what
climate change was doing?
Why didn't do you
something about it
when you knew about it?"
I don't want any of us
to be in that position.
It is a -- We're talking about
rising sea levels,
which will inundate major cities
in our own country
and around the world
before the end of the century.
We're talking about
more drought.
We're talking about more extreme
weather disturbances.
We are talking, Jimmy, about
the United Nations telling u
that hundreds of millions of
people will be climate refugees.
They're going to be forced t
leave the land
that they're on now becaus
there is no drinking water
There is no land
to grow their crops,
and they're going to have
to go elsewhere,
causing incredible nationa
security issues and wars
all over the world.
So this is a very, very
major crisis and as President,
you know, what I will try to d
is to not only transform
our own energy system
but lead the world
because this is a global crisis,
and maybe say to countries
all over the world
that instead of spending
$1.8 trillion
on weapons of destruction
designed to kill each other,
maybe we should
pool our resources
and fight against our common
enemy, which is climate change
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Another point you made is you
want to have Medicare for all.
-Yes, absolutely.
-How will you do that?
How is that possible?
-Well, the question is,
how is it not possible?
We are the only major countr
on Earth
not to guarantee healthcar
to all people.
We are now spending
twice as much per capita
as any other major country
$11,000 on healthcare
for every man, woman, and child,
and yet we end up with
87 million people
who are uninsured
or underinsured.
We end up with 30,000 people
every year who die
because they don't get to
a doctor on time.
We end up with 500,000 peopl
going bankrupt
because of medically related
debts.
Can you imagine people
going bankrupt
because they were
diagnosed with cancer?
That is disgraceful.
That is cruel.
And what we are proposing
right now is to start off with
Medicare, which is
a very popular
health insurance program
right now,
but you got to be 65 years o
age to get into it.
And all that I'm trying to d
is, over a four-year period,
is the first year we're going to
expand Medicare
to cover hearing aids,
dental care,
eyeglasses, and home healthcare.
Second year --
[ Cheers and applause ]
That's a big deal.
Home healthcare is a big deal.
First year we lowered
the eligibility age
from 65 down to 55.
Next year, 45, next year, 35
and then every man, woman,
and child has healthcare
in this country
as a human right.
That's it.
That's what we got to do.
