Michael Bennet vs. Phil Weiser for Colorado Governor and Standing up for All of [32:12-37:16]

child care which in Colorado is among the most expensive it is in the nation we need a collaboration between our state government where we can build the child care solutions fund making sure we're training people certifying people appropriately and local governments making sure that we're building capacity we need this is challenging work I've done this work at the state level I mentioned my leadership on the opioid crisis and youth mental health and more I'm ready to get to work on our affordability challenges well feel that kind of leads in the next one to if elected governor what are the first three priorities you would tackle on day one first one is making sure that we are defending our freedom standing up against this administration number two the affordability challenges we just talked about number three opportunity for our kids I want to talk about this because I know it's an area that Andy and I share a passion we talked the last time I was here about the work we've done protecting AmeriCorps and service I know young people are hurting we've got a not just challenge around workforce development but around almost a spiritual challenge that people don't feel a sense of belonging purpose I want young people to know we care about them that's why I want to build a mentorship program in Colorado so every young person has multiple mentors right now 40% of young Coloradans have no mentors we need to do better we need to make sure we got workforce development pathways young people have hope about a good job including in key trades like plumbing or as an electrician that we're not training people for and I want to create a Colorado core where young people can be in public service across Colorado law enforcement firefighting counseling nursing and teaching I know how impactful that can be both to the communities and for the young people those are my top three priorities you're listening to the Andy Beshear podcast our guest Colorado Attorney General and candidate for governor Phil Weiser Phil as Attorney as Attorney's General one of our I guess I'm a former jobs is public safety as governor what would you do differently on public safety and then also common on the fact that right now public safety is being impacted negatively by a federal law enforcement agency ICE who now has an American body count and whose aggressive tactics are unlike anything I've ever seen in professional law enforcement Andy this is another distinction between Senator Bennett and myself you can look at our 100-page CODA blueprint that covers the waterfront including the plans for public safety I'll talk about now Senator Bennett hasn't talked about any plans for public safety it's not an area he's familiar with I am prepared to take this issue on let me tell you what we need to do first I mentioned Colorado core and recruiting more people into law enforcement in too many parts of Colorado including in Denver we don't have enough law enforcement which means some victims car thefts people stealing from a business harassment scams we are not holding criminals to account victims are not even being responded to I'm committed to addressing that situation recruiting training more people into law enforcement to making sure we're responding effectively number two we need smart prevention strategies so the young people who might be suffering and acting out we're asking are you okay what's going on at home finding ways to support young people I mentioned mentoring program before not having people go into a school to prison pipeline and third in Colorado we need to do so much better in reentry the most likely people to commit crimes are those who are leaving prison 45% of the women Colorado end up committing crimes the national average is 37% we got to do much better in reentry I've been developing plans on how to do this and I'm committed to making a difference this governor and as for ICE you are right the lawlessness and the harm that they are causing makes our communities less safe which is why I have set up an online system where people can report crimes by federal agents whoever they are ICE or to patrol what have you and we can work with law enforcement we're ready to prosecute these crimes because accountability is important nobody is above the law now as we're here taping you're part of this episode we've just come off a big Supreme Court case on tariffs I know you were part of that lawsuit and so was I this is Trump's Supreme Court ruling against him which means what he did must have been really really unconstitutional and him saying always going to do it anyways so again knowing that the episode isn't going to air for a couple of weeks and taking that into consideration I still want to ask what comes next this is an important moment to review and I like your standard there's unconstitutional there's really unconstitutional