gov walz, where you in tiananmen square protests in the spring of 1989?  tim walz: yeah. well, and to the folks out there who didn't get at the top of this, look, i grew up in small, rural nebraska, town of 400. town that you rode your bike with your buddies till the streetlights come on, and i'm proud of that service. i joined the national guard at 17, worked on family farms, and then i used the gi bill to become a teacher. passionate about it, a young teacher. my first year out, i got the opportunity in the summer of 89 to travel to china, 35 years ago, be able to do that. i came back home and then started a program to take young people there. we would take basketball teams, we would take baseball teams, we would take dancers, and we would go back and forth to china. the issue for that was, was to try and learn. now, look, my community knows who i am. they saw where i was at. they, look, i will be the first to tell you i have poured my heart into my community. i've tried to do the best i can, but i've not been perfect. and i'm a knucklehead at times, but it's always been about that. those same people elected me to congress for twelve years. and in congress i was one of the most bipartisan people. working on things like farm bills that we got done, working on veterans benefits. and then the people of minnesota were able to elect me to governor twice. so look, my commitment has been from the beginning, to make sure that i'm there for the people, to make sure that i get this right. i will say more than anything, many times, i will talk a lot. i will get caught up in the rhetoric. but being there, the impact it made, the difference it made in my life. i learned a lot about china. i hear the critiques of this. i would make the case that donald trump should have come on one of those trips with us. i guarantee you he wouldn't be praising xi jinping about covid. and i guarantee you he wouldn't start a trade war that he ends up losing. so this is about trying to understand the world.
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