The life of Senator Amy Klobuchar

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From corporate attorney to Minnesota’s first woman senator, she has never lost an election. Now, she's running for president. This is the life of Amy Klobuchar.

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00:00I am not a billionaire, but I stand before you today as a granddaughter of an iron ore miner,

00:04the daughter of a teacher and a newspaper man, the first woman elected to the U.S.

00:08Senate from the state of Minnesota, someone who has passed over 100 bills as a lead Democrat

00:13in that gridlock in Washington, D.C., and that is because we live in a country of shared dreams.

00:19That's my state, that's your state.

00:49Part of it was the life of the reporter back then. People would go to drinks with cops,

00:54they'd go to drinks with football coaches,

00:56and he was covering the Vikings at the time, a very high-flying life.

01:20Look, I'm a capitalist, I worked in the private sector for 14 years,

01:24and I believe that you need to check and balance on capitalism. But that debate is not what people

01:28are talking to me about when I'm in Michigan or in Minnesota or in Iowa or Wisconsin.

01:34They want to know what's going to happen to their mom who's going into long-term care.

01:38My daughter was very sick when she was born, she couldn't swallow. They thought there was a tumor,

01:52they thought she might have had cerebral palsy,

01:54they just couldn't figure out what was wrong. And so she was in intensive care.

01:58Some of the lobbyists were trying to delay it, and so I brought six pregnant women to the

02:11conference committee that were friends of mine, and they outnumbered the lobbyists two to one.

02:15And when the legislators said, when should this bill take effect, the pregnant moms all

02:20raised their hands and said, now. And it didn't even wait till August 1st,

02:23it went into effect the day the governor signed it.

02:53I've been very clear, all of the evidence needs to be immediately reviewed in that case.

03:16The past evidence and also any new evidence that has come forward.

03:24It's important to me because we have a president that's been treating the Midwest workers and

03:34farmers like poker chips in one of his bankrupt casinos. For me, they're my friends and neighbors.

03:48Alec Rayshon, a Smith of Minneapolis, died last year at age of 26 from diabetes.

03:57He died because he was rationing insulin since he couldn't afford $1,300 a month for insulin.

04:04This is a commonplace drug that has not changed, but the prices have gone up three times.

04:18I have high expectations for myself.

04:30I have high expectations for the people that work for me.

04:41You're saying there's never been a case where you drank so much that you didn't remember what

04:46happened the night before or part of what happened?

04:48You're asking about blackout. I don't know. Have you?

04:54Could you answer the question, Judge? That's not happened. Is that your answer?

05:00Yeah. And I'm curious if you have.

05:03I have no drinking problem, Judge.

05:05Nor do I.

05:06Okay. Thank you.

05:07Our country has always been a beacon for new immigrants. I know all of you have stories

05:14in your family. Our country is a country that doesn't believe that immigrants diminish America.

05:21Right? We know that immigrants are America.

05:37We need someone that has people's back. We also need someone that can win. And I have

05:49won in these red districts. I win in the Midwest. I can win in states like Wisconsin and Michigan

05:56and Iowa.

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