America First - Nicholas J. Fuentes - Democrat Debate | America First Ep. 524

00:04:10.000 Hello, everybody.

00:04:11.000 We are live here tonight.

00:04:13.000 Good evening.

00:04:14.000 You're watching America First.

00:04:16.000 My name is Nicholas J. Fuentes.

00:04:18.000 We are watching the Democratic Debate right now, live on CNN.

00:04:23.000 And I guess we'll just dive right into it.

00:04:26.000 I'll unmute the stream here so we can begin watching.

00:04:30.000 Not really much to say other than let's get right into it.

00:04:33.000 And let me know about the audio levels.

00:04:40.000 Let me know if the audio levels are okay or not.

00:04:45.000 And I not only voted against the war, I helped lead the effort against that war.

00:04:51.000 Just last year, I helped for the first time in the modern history of this country pass a War Powers Act resolution working with a conservative Republican, Mike Lee of Utah, which said that the war in Yemen led by Saudi Arabia was unconstitutional because Congress had not authorized it.

00:05:13.000 We got a majority vote in the Senate, we got a majority vote in the House.

00:05:17.000 Unfortunately, Bush vetoed that.

00:05:20.000 And that horrific war continues.

00:05:22.000 I am able to work with Republicans.

00:05:24.000 I am able to bring people together to try to create a world where we solve conflicts over the negotiating table, not through military efforts.

00:05:35.000 Vice President Biden, you talk a lot about your experience, but some of your competitors have taken issue with that experience, questioning your judgment in voting to authorize the Iraq war.

00:05:47.000 Why are you the best prepared person on this stage to be commander in chief?

00:05:52.000 I said 13 years ago it was a mistake to give the president the authority to go to war if, in fact, he couldn't get inspectors into Iraq to stop what was thought to be the attempt to get a nuclear weapon.

00:06:07.000 It was a mistake, and I acknowledge that.

00:06:09.000 But right out of the man who also argued against that war, Barack Obama, picked me to be his vice president.

00:06:16.000 Once we were elected president and vice president, he turned to me and asked me to end that war.

00:06:22.000 I know what it's like to send a son or daughter, like our colleague has gone to war in Afghanistan, my son for a year in Iraq, and that's why I do it very, very reluctantly.

00:06:33.000 That's why I led the effort, as you know, Wolf, against surging tens of thousands of troops into Afghanistan.

00:06:39.000 We should not send anyone anywhere when those overwhelming vital interests of the United States are at stake.

00:06:44.000 They were not at stake there, they were not at stake in Iraq, and it was a mistaken vote, but I think my record overall on every everything we've done has been.

00:06:54.000 I'm prepared to compare it to anybody's on this stage.

00:06:57.000 Senator Sanders, you have been attacking Vice President Biden's vote on the Iraq War, but you recently acknowledged that your vote to authorize the war in Afghanistan was also a mistake.

00:07:09.000 So you've both acknowledged mistakes.

00:07:11.000 Why should the American people trust your judgment more?

00:07:15.000 Well, there's a little bit of a difference.

00:07:16.000 On that particular vote, every single member of the House, including myself, voted for it.

00:07:21.000 Only Barbara Lee voted against it.

00:07:24.000 But what I understood right away in terms of the war in Iraq, the difference here is that the war in Iraq turned out to be the worst foreign policy blunder in the modern history of this country.

00:07:37.000 As Joe well knows, we lost 4,500 brave troops.

00:07:41.000 Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis died.

00:07:44.000 We have spent trillions of dollars on that endless war, money which should go into health care and education and infrastructure in this country.

00:07:54.000 Joe and I listened to what Dick Cheney and George Bush and Rumsfeld had to say.

00:08:01.000 I thought they were lying.

00:08:03.000 I didn't believe them for a moment.

00:08:05.000 I took to the floor. 0.52

00:08:06.000 I did everything I could to prevent that war.

00:08:09.000 Joe saw it differently.

00:08:10.000 Vice President Biden.

00:08:12.000 I was asked to bring 156,000 troops home from that war, which I did.

00:08:16.000 I led that effort.

00:08:17.000 It was a mistake to trust that they weren't going to go to war.

00:08:19.000 They said they were not going to go to war, they said they were just going to get inspectors in.

00:08:24.000 The world, in fact, voted to send inspectors in, and they still went to war.

00:08:28.000 From that point on, I was in the position of making the case that it was a big, big mistake.

00:08:34.000 And from that point on, I voted to, I moved to bring those troops home.

00:08:38.000 Senator Klobuchar, you've publicly questioned Mayor Buttigieg's experience.

00:08:43.000 When it comes to being commander in chief, I like how they're already pitting everybody against each other.

00:08:47.000 This is good stuff.

00:08:50.000 Already.

00:08:51.000 We've got Cosmicraft. 1.00

00:08:52.000 Thanks for the Ninjet Man. 0.98

00:08:54.000 Really appreciate that. 0.99

00:08:55.000 Thank you, Wolf.

00:08:55.000 And I've been very clear that I respect that.

00:08:58.000 We've got Big Money Wagee with the Ninjenini. 0.99

00:08:59.000 Thank you so much for the rape emoji. 0.94

00:09:01.000 I just have different examples.

00:09:02.000 Can we not do that, please?

00:09:03.000 I've been in the U.S. Senate for over 12 years.

00:09:06.000 And I think what you want in a president is someone who has dealt with these life and death issues and who has made decisions.

00:09:14.000 I will look at my position on the Iraq War first. 0.91

00:09:17.000 I wasn't in the Senate for that vote, but I opposed that war from the very beginning. 0.74

00:09:23.000 In my first campaign for Senate, I ran against a Republican who ran ads against me on it, but I stood my ground.

00:09:29.000 When I got to the Senate, I pushed to bring our troops home.

00:09:33.000 Then I have dealt with every issue from Afghanistan to keeping our troops with good health care after what we saw with Walter Reed and being part of an effort to improve the situation for our troops in a very big way with our education.

00:09:48.000 And with their jobs and also with their health care.

00:09:52.000 I think right now what we should be talking about, though, Wolf, is what is happening right now with Donald Trump.

00:09:58.000 Donald Trump is taking us pell mell toward another war.

00:10:02.000 We have a very important resolution.

00:10:04.000 We just found out today that four Republicans are joining Democrats to go to him and say you must have an authorization of military force if you're going to go to war with Iran.

00:10:15.000 That is so important because we have a situation where he got us out of the Iranian nuclear agreement, something I worked on.

00:10:22.000 For a significant period of time.

00:10:24.000 As President, I will get us back into that agreement.

00:10:27.000 I will take an oath to protect and defend our Constitution.

00:10:31.000 And Bill Jesus says, What's up?

00:10:32.000 Hey, thank you, Ninjini, bro.

00:10:35.000 Not much.

00:10:36.000 Just hanging out, watching this.

00:10:38.000 Well, I bring a different perspective.

00:10:41.000 There are enlisted.

00:10:42.000 Jay Rogers says, Nick, you're the man.

00:10:43.000 Trust the plan.

00:10:44.000 I'm terribly old enough to remember those votes on the authorization after 9 11.

00:10:49.000 What's going on in the war in Iraq?

00:10:51.000 And there are people now.

00:10:53.000 Old enough to enlist who were not alive for some of those debates.

00:10:57.000 The next president is going to be a leader with national security challenges different in scope and in kind from anything we've seen in the hair.

00:11:07.000 Not just conventional military challenges, strangest, stateless terrorism, but cyber security challenges.

00:11:14.000 Secure.

00:11:15.000 Humble contributions to the United States.

00:11:18.000 It's going to take a view to the future as well as the readiness to learn from the lessons of the past.

00:11:24.000 And for me, those lessons of the past are personal.

00:11:28.000 Senator Warren, in our new CIA, it's good to finally have a debate, though, that's only six people.

00:11:32.000 I have to say it's very refreshing.

00:11:34.000 It's a very manageable debate as opposed to like 10 or 9 or 11.

00:11:40.000 Because I think we had 11 at one point.

00:11:43.000 I think it was 12, actually.

00:11:47.000 And I think that's about judgment.

00:11:48.000 I think it starts with knowing our military.

00:11:51.000 I sit on the Senate Armed Services Committee, I work with our generals, with our military leaders, with our intelligence.

00:11:58.000 But I also visit our troops.

00:11:59.000 I visit our troops around the world.

00:12:01.000 I've been to Afghanistan, to Iraq, to Jordan, to South Korea, been to lots of places to talk with our troops.

00:12:08.000 And I fight for our troops to make sure that they get their pay, that they get the housing and medical benefits that they've been promised, that they don't get cheated by giant financial institutions.

00:12:19.000 You know, I have three brothers who are in the military, and I know how much our military families sacrifice.

00:12:24.000 But I also know that we have to think about our defense in very different ways.

00:12:29.000 We have to think about cyber, we have to think about climate, we also have to think about how we spend money.

00:12:35.000 We have a problem with a revolving door in Washington between the defense industry and the Department of Defense.

00:12:42.000 And the Pentagon.

00:12:43.000 That is corruption, pure and simple.

00:12:46.000 We need to block that revolving door and we need to cut our defense budget.

00:12:50.000 We need to depend on all of our tools diplomatic, and political.

00:12:54.000 It's more of the same.

00:12:55.000 I don't even know how to respond to a lot of this electoral politics.

00:12:58.000 And not let the defense industry call the shots.

00:13:00.000 Mr. Steyer, you worked in finance for decades and have never held a look at what some voters believe.

00:13:07.000 He looks a lot better than that, actually.

00:13:08.000 Or judgment to serve as commander. 0.99

00:13:11.000 But this same fucking tie every time is terrible. 1.00

00:13:14.000 For decades. 0.99

00:13:16.000 I traveled, I met with governments, I met with businesses, and I understand how America interacts with other countries.

00:13:24.000 And you asked what is the reason that the experience really counts.

00:13:28.000 And to me, I believe that Senator Warren made a great point.

00:13:32.000 It isn't so much about experience, it's about judgment.

00:13:35.000 If you've been listening to this, what we are hearing is 20 years of mistakes by the American government in the Middle East, of failure of mistakes.

00:13:45.000 So the real question is judgment.

00:13:47.000 And if you look who had the judgment, It was a state senator from Illinois with no experience named Barack Obama who opposed the war.

00:13:56.000 It is a Congresswoman, Barbara Lee from Oakland, California, who stood up against the original vote, who is the only person in Congress.

00:14:04.000 So I would say to you this an outside perspective looking at this and actually dealing with the problems as they are is what we're looking for now.

00:14:14.000 I agree with Senator Warren.

00:14:15.000 We are spending dramatically too much money on defense.

00:14:19.000 The money that we're spending there, we could spend in the other parts of the budget.

00:14:23.000 And it's time for someone from the outside to have a strategic view about what we're trying to do and how to do it.

00:14:29.000 Senator Sanders, in the wake of the Iran crisis, Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei has again called for all U.S. troops to be pulled out of the Middle East, something you've called for as well.

00:14:41.000 Yet when American troops last left Iraq, ISIS emerged and spread terror across the Middle East and indeed around the world.

00:14:49.000 How would you prevent that from happening again?

00:14:51.000 Let me tell you, but before I tell you that, let me tell you something else.

00:14:57.000 And that is, and I don't know if my colleagues here will agree with me on that.

00:15:02.000 But what we have to face as a nation is that the two great foreign policy disasters of our lifetimes were the war in Vietnam and the war in Iraq.

00:15:13.000 Both of those wars were based on lies.

00:15:20.000 And right now, what I fear very much is we have a president who is lying again.

00:15:26.000 And could drag us into a war that is even worse.

00:15:28.000 Your money wages is crisp in Iran.

00:15:30.000 Suit Nick. 0.82

00:15:31.000 Yes, thank you.

00:15:32.000 I got collar stays, finally.

00:15:34.000 What we need to do is have a national coalition.

00:15:38.000 We cannot keep acting unilaterally.

00:15:41.000 As you know, the nuclear deal with Iran was worked on with a number of our allies.

00:15:47.000 We have got to do what Trump did, bring that coalition together, and make sure that Iran never gets a nuclear weapon.

00:15:57.000 Vice President Biden.

00:15:58.000 I was part of that deal to get the nuclear agreement with Iran, bringing together the rest of the world, including some of the folks who aren't friendly to us, and it was working.

00:16:09.000 It was working.

00:16:10.000 It was being held tightly.

00:16:12.000 There was no movement on the part of the Iranian government to get closer to nuclear weapons.

00:16:16.000 And look what's happened. 0.75

00:16:17.000 He went ahead and it was predicted that they would keep punching at us.

00:16:21.000 But exactly what happened, we're now isolated.

00:16:24.000 We're in a situation where our allies in Europe are making a comparison between the United States and Iran saying both ought to stand down, making a moral equivalence.

00:16:35.000 We have lost our standing in the region.

00:16:38.000 We have lost the support of our allies. 0.56

00:16:40.000 The next president has to be able to pull those folks back together, reestablish our alliances, and insist that Iran go back into the agreement, which I believe with the pressure applied as we put on before, we can get done.

00:16:53.000 So just to be clear, Vice President Biden, would you leave troops in the Middle East or would you pull them out? 0.51

00:17:00.000 I would leave troops in the Middle East in terms of patrolling the Gulf.

00:17:03.000 Where we have to, where we are now, small numbers of choices. 0.99

00:17:07.000 Monochrome.

00:17:07.000 And I think it's a tough choice.

00:17:09.000 Phalanges, Biden, Nazbol burning. 0.58

00:17:11.000 It's a tough choice. 0.98

00:17:12.000 If only that was the choice, right? 0.90

00:17:14.000 Phalanges versus Nazbol. 0.94

00:17:16.000 That has to be the new dialectic.

00:17:17.000 And started this whole process moving.

00:17:20.000 What's happening? 1.00

00:17:21.000 ISIS is going to reconstitute itself in a position where we have to pull our forces out.

00:17:25.000 Americans have to leave the entire region.

00:17:28.000 And quite frankly, I think he's flat out lied about saying the reason he went after, the reason he made the strike was because our embassies were about to be bombed.

00:17:37.000 Senator Klobuchar, what's your response?

00:17:40.000 I would leave Syria. 0.98

00:17:41.000 How is she still in the race?

00:17:42.000 I'm genuinely shocked that Donald Trump is making a mess right now.

00:17:47.000 Afghanistan, I have long wanted to bring our troops home.

00:17:50.000 I would do that. 1.00

00:17:51.000 Some would remain for counterterrorism and training.

00:17:53.000 Because she's from Minnesota.

00:17:54.000 In Syria, I would not take 150 troops from the border with Turkey.

00:17:59.000 I think that was a mistake.

00:18:01.000 I think it made our allies and many others much more vulnerable to ISIS.

00:18:06.000 And then when it comes to Iraq, right now, I would leave our troops there despite the mess that has been created by Donald Trump.

00:18:18.000 That's certain connections.

00:18:37.000 Puts his own interests, his private interests in front of our countries.

00:18:45.000 I would put our country's interests first as mandatory.

00:18:49.000 Senator Warren, leave combat troops, at least some combat troops in the Middle East, or bring them home?

00:18:55.000 No, I think we need to get our combat troops out.

00:18:57.000 You know, we have to stop this mindset. 0.95

00:19:00.000 Jordan says these candidates are despicable, senile leaders.

00:19:03.000 Our military is the finest military on earth. 0.92

00:19:05.000 Where's Tulsi?

00:19:06.000 And they will take the sacrifice we ask them to take.

00:19:09.000 Bad politics. 1.00

00:19:09.000 Tulsi sucks. 1.00

00:19:10.000 But we should stop asking our military to solve problems. 1.00

00:19:14.000 That cannot be solved militarily.

00:19:17.000 Our keeping combat troops there is not helping.

00:19:21.000 We need to work with our allies.

00:19:23.000 We need to use our economic tools.

00:19:24.000 We need to use our diplomatic tools.

00:19:26.000 Now, look, I understand.

00:19:28.000 There are people on this stage, when it comes to Afghanistan, for example, who talk about five more years, ten more years.

00:19:34.000 Shoot, Lindsey Graham talks about leaving troops there for a hundred more years.

00:19:38.000 No one has a solution and an end point. 0.94

00:19:42.000 We need to get our combat troops out of the country. 1.00

00:19:45.000 I like that you took that swipe at Lindsey Graham. 0.96

00:19:48.000 Pretty basic.

00:19:48.000 Vice President Biden is Senator Warren Wright.

00:19:51.000 Well, I tell you what, there's a difference between combat troops and leaving special forces in the position.

00:19:55.000 I was part of the coalition to put together 68 countries to deal with stateless terror as well as failed states.

00:20:03.000 68 other countries.

00:20:05.000 Can you not say that, please? 0.99

00:20:07.000 But thank you for the Nijagini. 1.00

00:20:08.000 And end the caliphate for ISIS. 1.00

00:20:10.000 They'll come back if we do not deal with them. 1.00

00:20:12.000 Thank you for the Nijagini, for that. 1.00

00:20:14.000 We can bring together the rest of the world to go with us.

00:20:18.000 I got an email last night about that.

00:20:20.000 We're going to have some.

00:20:22.000 Mayor Buttigieg, you served in Afghanistan.

00:20:24.000 Who's right?

00:20:25.000 We can continue to remain engaged without having an endless commitment.

00:20:30.000 Of ground troops.

00:20:32.000 What's going on right now is the president's actually sending more.

00:20:35.000 The very president who said he was going to end endless war, who pretended to have been against the war in Iraq all along, but we know that's not true, now has more troops going to the Middle East.

00:20:46.000 And whenever I see that happen, I think about the day we shipped out and the time that was set aside for saying goodbye to family members.

00:20:53.000 I remember walking with a friend of mine, another lieutenant I trained with, as we walked away and his one and a half year old boy was toddling after him, not understanding why his father.

00:21:05.000 Wasn't turning back to scoop him up.

00:21:07.000 And it took all the strength he had not to turn around and look at his boy one more time.

00:21:13.000 That is happening by the thousands.

00:21:16.000 Right now, I'm seeing so many war troops set in the home somewhere.

00:21:20.000 My perspective is to ensure that that was a brutal boy.

00:21:22.000 He was watching the little boy.

00:21:24.000 When there is an alternative.

00:21:25.000 It was really touching for people as a judge.

00:21:27.000 Wolf, in America today, our infrastructure is crumbling.

00:21:27.000 Senator Sanders.

00:21:32.000 Half of our people are living paycheck to paycheck.

00:21:36.000 87 million people.

00:21:37.000 Have no health care or are underinsured.

00:21:39.000 We've got 500,000 people sleeping out on the streets tonight.

00:21:44.000 The American people are sick.

00:21:46.000 Sir, according to climate force, sir, which cost us trillions of dollars.

00:21:50.000 To protect the climate.

00:21:52.000 Our job is to rebuild the United Nations.

00:21:54.000 I hate that joke.

00:21:55.000 Rebuild the State Department, make sure that we have the capability of bringing the world together.

00:22:01.000 This exercise is so pointless.

00:22:04.000 Diplomatically and stop the endless wars that we have experienced.

00:22:08.000 Not against everyone who just wakes up in the middle of the night.

00:22:11.000 President Trump's decision to kill the Iranian General Soleimani without first going to Congress.

00:22:17.000 Are there any circumstances other than a direct attack on the United States where you would take military action without congressional approval?

00:22:26.000 I ran the first time as a 29 year old kid against the war in Vietnam on the grounds that only way to take a nation to war is with the informed consent of the American people.

00:22:36.000 The informed consent of the American people.

00:22:39.000 And with regard to this idea that we can walk away and not have any troops anywhere, including special forces.

00:22:45.000 We, there's no way you negotiate or have been able to negotiate with terrorists.

00:22:50.000 You have to be able to form coalitions to be able to defeat them or contain them.

00:22:55.000 If you don't, we end up being the world's policemen again.

00:22:58.000 They're going to come to us.

00:22:59.000 They've come to us before.

00:23:01.000 They'll come to us again.

00:23:02.000 So it's a fundamental difference than negotiating with other countries.

00:23:05.000 It's fundamental to the requirement that we use our special forces in small amounts and coordinate it together.

00:23:13.000 Mr. Vice President, just to be clear, The Obama Biden administration did not ask Congress for permission multiple times when it took military action.

00:23:23.000 So, would the Biden doctrine be different?

00:23:26.000 No, there was the authorization for the use of military force that was passed by the United States Congress, House and Senate, and signed by the President.

00:23:34.000 That was the authority.

00:23:35.000 It does not give authority to go into Iran, it gave authority to deal with these other issues.

00:23:39.000 Mayor Buttigieg.

00:23:40.000 That authorization needs to be replaced.

00:23:43.000 Exactly.

00:23:43.000 We tried that.

00:23:44.000 Look, when we lost troops in Niger, there were members of Congress who admitted.

00:23:48.000 They didn't even know we had troops.

00:23:49.000 Niger.

00:23:50.000 Pete Boone Judge says N-word.

00:23:52.000 Maxi Bros. is Elm FAO.

00:23:53.000 We have three times the viewers and 600 times the lemons is vouched.

00:23:57.000 I didn't even know he was screaming tonight.

00:24:03.000 Kind of funny, though.

00:24:07.000 Please do not say Niger in chat.

00:24:10.000 Please don't say Niger, Niger, the West African nation in chat.

00:24:19.000 I'm going to have to ban that word.

00:24:23.000 They're not helping me.

00:24:26.000 Any time, which I hope will never happen, but any time I'm compelled to use force and seek that authorization, we will have a three year sunset so that the American people are included not only in the decision about whether to send troops, but whether to continue.

00:24:39.000 Thank you.

00:24:40.000 Senator Warren, we're going to get to everyone, but Senator Warren, what about you?

00:24:44.000 Are there any circumstances other than a direct attack on the United States where you would take military action without congressional approval?

00:24:52.000 Well, imminent threat, but we need an authorization for the use of military force.

00:24:57.000 Before we take this nation into combat, that is what the Constitution provides us.

00:25:03.000 That's what Commander in Chief I will do. 1.00

00:25:05.000 But I just want to be clear, everyone on this stage knows what a stupid idea that is. 0.99

00:25:12.000 CF says, Special Forces, says the boomer American, yeah, kind of funny guy, Nathan Njagini, in Afghanistan, who comes in and says, You know, we've just. 0.99

00:25:22.000 Imagine, you know, being a general or a sergeant, Madam President.

00:25:28.000 Madam President.

00:25:30.000 What do you even say, sir or ma'am?

00:25:34.000 Yes, ma'am.

00:25:35.000 Ma'am, yes, ma'am. 1.00

00:25:37.000 So dumb. 1.00

00:25:38.000 What a joke of a country we would be. 1.00

00:25:42.000 Imagine a woman taking us to war. 1.00

00:25:46.000 Some grandma gets on the Oval Office desk. 1.00

00:25:49.000 It's time to die, fry rain. 0.99

00:25:55.000 I'm not even trying to be funny. 0.99

00:25:58.000 It would be like a travesty if that happened.

00:26:00.000 I'm not even kidding.

00:26:01.000 I'm not even kidding.

00:26:03.000 But what we can see in the Middle East and what this conversation shows is that there is no real strategy that we're trying to accomplish in what we're doing in the Middle East.

00:26:13.000 Obviously, Mr. Trump has no strategy.

00:26:16.000 He is going from crisis to crisis, from escalation to escalation.

00:26:21.000 Oh, containment, big.

00:26:21.000 But if you look further over the last 20 years, including in the war in Afghanistan, we know from the Washington Post that, in fact, there was no strategy.

00:26:30.000 There was just a series of tactical decisions that made no sense.

00:26:34.000 I hate this guy.

00:26:36.000 This guy's the most annoying person on this stage. 1.00

00:26:44.000 He's got like that bitchy lib issue. 1.00

00:26:51.000 You know what I mean? 0.93

00:26:55.000 Sort of like a teacher.

00:27:00.000 Sort of like a teacher.

00:27:03.000 Sort of like a patronizing.

00:27:06.000 For us to prosper more, and every single thing we do should follow into that strategy, and it's just not happening in Washington, D.C. Mayor Buttigieg, another critical issue you'd face as a president is the threat of nuclear weapons.

00:27:21.000 Last week, President Trump said, As long as I was supposed to get my coffee with two creams, and that is not happening, I don't get it. 0.94

00:27:29.000 Like a lame white guy.

00:27:32.000 Ensuring that Iran does not develop nuclear weapons will, of course, be a priority because it's such an important part. 0.96

00:27:38.000 Of keeping America safe.

00:27:40.000 But unfortunately, President Trump has made it much harder for the next president to achieve that goal by gutting the Iran nuclear deal.

00:27:48.000 One that, by the way, the Trump administration itself admitted was working, certified that it was preventing progress toward a nuclear deal.

00:27:58.000 No, but that's fine.

00:27:59.000 By gutting that, they have made the region more dangerous and set off the nuclear deal.

00:28:03.000 Marshall says, Do you think that Trump is indirectly using Bismarck's realpolitik doctrines in dealing with Iran? 0.99

00:28:09.000 Shut up. 0.94

00:28:10.000 Monochrome says, Yo, nice watch, Nick. 0.99

00:28:12.000 Very good for getting that done.

00:28:13.000 Thanks, bro.

00:28:13.000 We've got to work with our partners.

00:28:15.000 Iran nuclear deal, the technical term for it was the J.

00:28:19.000 The letter J stood for joint.

00:28:21.000 We can't do this alone, even less so if we're going to make this happen.

00:28:25.000 Which is why it will be so critically important to engage leaders, including a lot of new leaders emerging around the world, and ensure that we have the alliances we need to meet what I believe is not just an American goal, but a widely shared goal around the world to ensure that Iran does not become a nuclear armed country. 0.63

00:28:46.000 Mayor Buteridge, to be clear, would you allow Iran to become a nuclear power, yes or no?

00:28:51.000 No. 0.78

00:28:52.000 Our security depends on ensuring that Iran does not become nuclear.

00:28:57.000 And by the way, we've got a lot of other challenges with nuclear proliferation around the world.

00:29:02.000 Despite this president's coziness with Vladimir Putin, we actually seem to be further away from being able to work with Russia on things like the renewal of START.

00:29:12.000 We've got to move toward less, not more, nuclear danger, whether it is from states.

00:29:17.000 From stateless potential terrorist actors or anywhere else around the world.

00:29:21.000 Thank you, Mayor Buttigieg.

00:29:22.000 Senator Klobuchar, if you become president, it's very possible there won't be an Iran nuclear weapon. 0.85

00:29:27.000 Somebody says, yeah.

00:29:27.000 Cozy check.

00:29:29.000 Yo, Cozy check? 0.88

00:29:30.000 How would you prevent Iran from having nuclear weapons? 1.00

00:29:32.000 She's so ugly. 1.00

00:29:32.000 Look at her. 1.00

00:29:33.000 We're going to start negotiations again, and I won't take that as a given, given that our European partners are still trying to hold the agreement together.

00:29:42.000 My issue is that because of the actions of Donald Trump, we are in a situation where they are now starting to. 0.52

00:29:48.000 I'm reminded of what I was called a hateful gremlin by Iran. 0.72

00:29:52.000 In violation of the original agreement.

00:29:55.000 So, what I would do is negotiate.

00:29:58.000 I would bring people together, just as President Obama did years ago, and I think that we can get this done. 0.65

00:30:06.000 But you have to have a president that sees this as a number one goal, and in answer to the original question you asked the mayor, I would not allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon.

00:30:17.000 I think there are changes you can make to the agreement that are sunset, some changes to the inspections. 0.51

00:30:24.000 But overall, that is the cafeteria knife.

00:30:27.000 And I am the one person on this debate stage on the first night of the very first debate.

00:30:32.000 Bro, you got the whole squad last night.

00:30:33.000 Bro, you got the whole squad last night.

00:30:34.000 I said what we saw as the biggest threat to our world.

00:30:37.000 I said China on the economy, but I said Iran because of Donald Trump, because I feared that exactly what happened would happen enrichment of uranium, escalation of tensions, leaving frayed relations with our allies. 0.84

00:30:51.000 We can bring them back, understanding this is a terrorist regime that we cannot allow to have a nuclear weapon. 0.76

00:30:58.000 Vice President Biden, I want to ask you about North Korea. 0.77

00:31:01.000 President Trump is.

00:31:01.000 They're surprisingly hawkish on Iran compared to Barack Obama.

00:31:04.000 President Obama once said he would meet with North Korea without any preconditions.

00:31:08.000 Would you meet with North Korea without any preconditions?

00:31:11.000 Jay Rock, who says they have a case troll.

00:31:12.000 No, I wouldn't meet with him about anything.

00:31:13.000 Chill, man. 0.99

00:31:14.000 She says Amy looks like she downed some narcotics or something. 0.91

00:31:16.000 Legitimacy, yeah.

00:31:17.000 The president showed up, met with him, gave him legitimacy, weakened the sanctions we have against him.

00:31:17.000 She's on something.

00:31:24.000 I would be putting what I did as vice president.

00:31:26.000 I met with Xi Jinping more than anyone else.

00:31:29.000 I would be putting pressure on China to put pressure on. 0.55

00:31:33.000 To cease and desist from their nuclear power, make their efforts to deal with nuclear weapons. 0.71

00:31:39.000 I would move forward as we did before, and you reported it extensively, Wolf, about moving forward the whole notion of defense against nuclear weapons. 0.60

00:31:48.000 That we would, and when China said to me, when Xi Jinping said to me, that's a threat to us, I said, we're going to move and protect our interests unless you get involved and protect it.

00:31:57.000 I would reunite the relationship between Japan and South Korea, and I would put enormous pressure, enormous pressure on China because that's also in their interest for their interests.

00:32:08.000 There is enormous pressure on China. 0.98

00:32:09.000 That's what the trade war is, dipshit. 0.99

00:32:12.000 But I would not. 0.98

00:32:13.000 Can't put more pressure on China than Trump is right now. 0.91

00:32:16.000 Absent preconditions, I would not meet with the quote, Supreme Leader who said, Joe Biden is a rabid dog. 1.00

00:32:23.000 He should be beaten to death with a stick. 1.00

00:32:25.000 I count that. 1.00

00:32:25.000 Other than that, you like him. 1.00

00:32:27.000 Other than that, I like him. 1.00

00:32:29.000 I fucking hate Bernie Sanders, man. 1.00

00:32:31.000 He's such a Reddit piece of shit. 1.00

00:32:33.000 Mr. Sanders, you meet with the jokes all the time. 1.00

00:32:36.000 No.

00:32:36.000 It's very clear that if we're going to do something with North Korea, we're going to have to do it in concert with our allies.

00:32:44.000 That meeting with him without preconditions is not going anywhere, that the staff can meet to try and see how far we can get.

00:32:52.000 But this is a classic situation where the United States idea of going it alone makes no sense.

00:32:58.000 And when you were talking about Iran, let's face it, Iran is under great pressure economically.

00:33:05.000 So every single discussion we've had about Iran has had to do with military power and America versus Iran.

00:33:11.000 Whereas, in fact, what worked with President Obama was an alliance of our allies and us.

00:33:18.000 Putting economic pressure on them for them to give up their military tactic.

00:33:23.000 That to me is called strategy.

00:33:26.000 Having a goal to make that's containment. 0.98

00:33:28.000 That's what Trump is doing, dummy.

00:33:32.000 That's what secondary sanctions are. 1.00

00:33:34.000 This guy's such an idiot. 1.00

00:33:35.000 We're going to talk about the theme of America's role in the world and talk about trade. 1.00

00:33:38.000 Tomorrow, President Trump is expected to sign phase one of a trade agreement with China, and the Senate will likely soon approve a new trade deal with Mexico and Canada, Iowa's largest trading partners.

00:33:49.000 Senator Sanders.

00:33:51.000 You have said that new deal, the USMCA, quote, makes some modest improvements, yet you're going to vote against it.

00:33:59.000 Aren't modest improvements better than no improvements for the farmers and manufacturers who have been devastated here in Iowa?

00:34:05.000 The answer is we could do much better than a Trump led trade deal.

00:34:11.000 This deal, and I think the proponents of it acknowledge, will result in the continuation of the loss of hundreds of thousands of good paying jobs as a result of outsourcing.

00:34:22.000 The heart and soul of our disaster trade agreements.

00:34:25.000 And I'm the guy who voted against NAFTA and against permanent normal trade relations with China.

00:34:31.000 Is that we have forced American workers to compete against people in Mexico, in China, elsewhere, who earn starvation wages, a dollar or two dollars an hour.

00:34:41.000 Second of all, every major environmental organization has said no to this new trade agreement because it does not even have the phrase climate change in it.

00:34:54.000 And given the fact that climate change is right now the greatest threat facing this planet.

00:35:00.000 I will not vote for a trade agreement that does not incorporate very, very strong. 1.00

00:35:05.000 Oh, that's so stupid. 0.99

00:35:06.000 To significantly lower fossil fuel emissions. 1.00

00:35:10.000 That's such a cope, because Trump is actually winning on trade.

00:35:13.000 The AFL CIO supports this deal.

00:35:15.000 Are you unwilling to compromise?

00:35:18.000 The AFL CIO does.

00:35:19.000 The Machinist Union does not.

00:35:21.000 And every environmental organization in this country, including the Sunrise Organization, is supporting my trade agreement. 1.00

00:35:29.000 He's the most annoying moderator, second to that Spanish. 1.00

00:35:31.000 So, I happen to live in a home. 1.00

00:35:32.000 She's not annoying.

00:35:33.000 Climate change in a moment.

00:35:35.000 If we do not get our act together in terms of climate change, the planet that we're going to be leaving our kids and our children and our grandchildren will be increasingly unlivable and unnecessary.

00:35:46.000 We're going to get to climate change, but I'd like to stay on trade.

00:35:49.000 Well, they are the same in this issue.

00:35:49.000 Senator Warren.

00:35:51.000 Senator Warren, you support trade deals.

00:35:53.000 I think Paul Doosnakes is leading an alliance with our allies and us, Tom Steyer.

00:35:56.000 I do.

00:35:57.000 I've been in Congress long enough to advance NAFTA, but I led the fight against the trade deal with Asia and the trade deal with Europe because I didn't think it was in the interest of the American people.

00:35:57.000 I'm not here.

00:36:07.000 The American workers or environmental interests.

00:36:11.000 But we have farmers here in Iowa who are hurting.

00:36:14.000 And they are hurting because of Donald Trump's initiated trade wars.

00:36:18.000 We have workers who are hurting because the agreements that have already been cut really don't have enforcement on workers' rights.

00:36:27.000 This new trade deal is a modest improvement.

00:36:30.000 Senator Sanders himself is a potty play D Live in the background of a phone.

00:36:33.000 It will give some relief to our farmers.

00:36:35.000 It will give some relief to our workers.

00:36:38.000 I believe we expect that we get up the next day and fight for a better trade deal.

00:36:46.000 We need a coherent trade policy.

00:36:49.000 We need a policy that actually helps our workers, our farmers.

00:36:54.000 We need them at the table, not just a trade policy written for big international companies.

00:37:00.000 I'm ready to have that fight, but let's help the people who need it.

00:37:03.000 Senator Sanders, can you please respond to Senator Warren?

00:37:03.000 Thank you.

00:37:08.000 It is not so easy to put together new trade legislation.

00:37:13.000 If this is passed, I think it will set us back a number of years.

00:37:17.000 Senator Warren is right in saying we need to bring the stakeholders to the table.

00:37:21.000 That is the family farmers here in Iowa and in Vermont and around the country.

00:37:26.000 That is the environmental community.

00:37:28.000 That is the workers.

00:37:29.000 Bottom line here is I am sick and tired of trade agreements negotiated by the CEOs of large corporations.

00:37:36.000 Senator Clovis, I'd like to bring you in here.

00:37:39.000 Hit reality here.

00:37:40.000 I serve on the Agriculture Committee.

00:37:42.000 Time to hit reality, Brianne.

00:37:43.000 I was a little kid going to Crawfordsville here in Iowa, and thank you for bringing up Iowa, Brianne, since that is where we are.

00:37:49.000 And I went to this plant, and there was one worker left in that plant.

00:37:53.000 That plant had been shut down because of Donald Trump's trade policies and because of what he had done to those workers with giving secret waivers to oil companies and ruining the renewable fuel standard.

00:38:04.000 That worker brought out a coat rack of uniforms, and he said, These are my friends.

00:38:09.000 They don't work here anymore.

00:38:11.000 And their names were embroidered on those uniforms Derek, Mark, Salvador.

00:38:16.000 Wow.

00:38:17.000 And that guy started to cry.

00:38:18.000 Wow.

00:38:19.000 These are real people hurt by Donald Trump's trade war.

00:38:21.000 I was really sorry.

00:38:22.000 So, what we should do, and I support the USMCA, I am glad that these improvements were made that are supported by people like Richard Trumka and Jared Brown on labor and environment, on On Pharma, the sweetheart deal, because I think we need a big trading block with North America to take on China.

00:38:41.000 And the way you are. 0.99

00:38:42.000 That's what USMCA is, idiot. 1.00

00:38:46.000 That's what USMCA is, you dumb idiot. 1.00

00:38:50.000 Jay Rock says, I was confused as to why Bernie was drinking Coke today. 1.00

00:39:01.000 By making sure we have the right kind of labor and enforceability as Democrats ensure that in this.

00:39:13.000 The trade war is hurting farmers.

00:39:15.000 And then in the next breath, they say they're going to use sanctions to pressure China and these other countries.

00:39:22.000 How does that make any sense?

00:39:24.000 Selling trade deals, telling us, don't worry about your slice of the pie.

00:39:28.000 The pie will get so much bigger that everyone will be better off.

00:39:31.000 And that promise was broken.

00:39:34.000 The part about the pie getting bigger happened.

00:39:36.000 It's just that the part about it getting to most people where I live did not.

00:39:41.000 That's actually true.

00:39:41.000 That is why there is such frustration.

00:39:43.000 The sense that these decisions in boardrooms and in committee rooms in Washington are being made not based on what's best for them, but based on their own game.

00:39:53.000 Vice President Biden, Senator Sanders has said Donald Trump will quote, eat your lunch for voting yes on what he calls terrible trade agreements.

00:40:01.000 When it comes to trade, why are you the best candidate to take on President Trump?

00:40:06.000 There will be no trade agreement signed in my administration without environmentalists and labor at the table. 1.00

00:40:12.000 That is so stupid. 0.98

00:40:13.000 And there will be no trade agreement until we invest more in American workers. 0.99

00:40:17.000 We should be putting our money and our effort and our time in preparing American workers to compete in the 21st century.

00:40:23.000 You can't have it all if you give up things for climate.

00:40:28.000 We should be focusing on equipping them to do that.

00:40:32.000 And by the way, I don't know that there's any.

00:40:35.000 Trade agreements.

00:40:36.000 You can't have everything that you want.

00:40:37.000 That made any sense.

00:40:39.000 And also, not even use economic pressure.

00:40:42.000 We're just going to negotiate a deal that is perfect and has climate and labor regulations, and it's going to help our workers, and it's going to be better than NAFTA and USMCA, and we don't need sanctions to achieve it.

00:40:54.000 In case you haven't noticed.

00:40:55.000 Sure.

00:40:56.000 How's that going to happen?

00:40:57.000 And that is NAFTA, PNTR with China, other trade agreements were written for one reason alone, and that is to increase the profits of large multinational companies.

00:41:09.000 Corporations.

00:41:10.000 And the end result of those two, just PNTR with China, Joe, and NAFTA, cost us some 4 million jobs as part of the race to the bottom.

00:41:21.000 I am sick and tired and will not tolerate.

00:41:23.000 And we will use the power of the federal contracting system.

00:41:27.000 If a corporation in America wants to shut down in Iowa or Vermont or any place else, and then they think they're going to get online for a generous federal contract, they've got another thing going.

00:41:38.000 We need some corporate responsibility here.

00:41:41.000 And we need to protect good paying jobs in America, not see them go to China, Mexico, Vietnam, and the United States.

00:41:46.000 Mr. Vice President, what's your response?

00:41:49.000 We need corporate responsibility, and I agree with that completely.

00:41:52.000 But we also need to have enforcement mechanisms in the agreements we make, enforceable agreements.

00:41:58.000 That's one of the things that has been improved with the trade agreement with Mexico, and that's what we should be doing in any agreement we have.

00:42:06.000 But let's get back to the basics here.

00:42:09.000 If we don't set the rules of the road by going out to our partners instead of poking our eye, And poking our finger in the eye of all our friends and allies, we make up 25% of the world's economy. 0.73

00:42:20.000 We've got to bring the other 25% of our allies along with us to set the rules of the road so China cannot continue to abuse their power by stealing our intellectual property and doing all the other things using their corporate state system. 0.73

00:42:35.000 Yeah, quote, they're not going to go along with it. 0.85

00:42:37.000 Gummy.

00:42:38.000 Senator Warren.

00:42:39.000 You know, our problem is not just corporate responsibility, it's been the structure of how these trade deals have been negotiated.

00:42:47.000 The United States has had a strategy for decades, and that strategy has been to have.

00:42:51.000 As if these other countries are just going to be like, oh, yeah, sure.

00:42:54.000 And then surround them with.

00:42:56.000 Hey, listen, you need to start doing this.

00:42:58.000 Okay.

00:42:59.000 Hey, listen, Canada, Mexico, Europe, start playing by our rules.

00:43:06.000 No, right.

00:43:08.000 We can't even threaten that.

00:43:09.000 These people don't even want to threaten sanctions.

00:43:10.000 It's not good for the environment.

00:43:12.000 We need a different approach to trade, and it starts by calling out the corruption of these giant corporations that have cut our trade deals.

00:43:21.000 Everybody wants to get to the American market, and we need to put some standards in place.

00:43:27.000 You want to be able to sell your goods here, then you've got to meet some environmental standards.

00:43:31.000 You've got to meet labor standards.

00:43:33.000 We need to bring in Mr. Steyer.

00:43:35.000 Mr. Steyer, even though farmers and manufacturers here in Iowa and around the country could see some relief from the China deal, they've been crushed by the current administration's trade war.

00:43:46.000 What will you do as president to help them get back on their feet?

00:43:50.000 Look, on the first day, I would undo Mr. Trump's tariffs.

00:43:55.000 On the first day, I would get rid of his waivers.

00:43:58.000 That Senator Klobuchar was referring to oil refiners, so not having to use corn based ethanol.

00:44:06.000 In fact, these trade deals have been exactly what Senator Sanders and Warren have been saying, which is that they've been designed to grow the American GDP for the corporations of America, not for the working people of America, and not to protect the climate.

00:44:22.000 So let me say this I'm the only person on this stage who says climate's my number one priority.

00:44:27.000 Yeah.

00:44:28.000 I would not say this.

00:44:29.000 We got it, bro.

00:44:30.000 Because if climate's your number one priority, you can't sign a deal, even if it's marginally better for working people, until climate is also taken into consideration.

00:44:30.000 Got it.

00:44:39.000 Look, I've got four kids between the ages of 26 and 31.

00:44:44.000 I cannot allow this country to go down the path of climate destruction.

00:44:49.000 Everybody in their generation knows it.

00:44:51.000 Frankly, Mayor Buttigieg, you're their generation.

00:44:54.000 I think you would be standing up more.

00:44:57.000 Look, that's why I'm standing up for it.

00:44:59.000 We cannot put climate on the back seat all the time.

00:45:04.000 And say, we're going to sign this one more deal, we're going to do one more thing without putting climate next.

00:45:09.000 That's why it's my number one priority.

00:45:11.000 We can do it if we have a chance.

00:45:12.000 I got classic case of gamer neck.

00:45:14.000 Mayor Buttigieg, your response?

00:45:15.000 Well, that's right.

00:45:17.000 This issue is personal for me.

00:45:18.000 It's why we're going to tackle climate from day one.

00:45:22.000 It's why we've got to make sure that we have better answers than we do today.

00:45:26.000 Now, what I've noticed is pretty much all of us propose that we move on from fossil fuels by the middle of the century, starting with actions that we take right now.

00:45:34.000 The question is, how are we going to make sure any of this actually gets done?

00:45:38.000 Because people have been saying the right things in these debates for literally decades.

00:45:45.000 The other day in Winterset, there was a kid at one of my events who raised his hand and he pointed out that he expects to be here in his 90s in the year 2100.

00:45:54.000 He will sit in judgment over what we do, not just what we on this stage do, anyone old enough to vote right now, whether we actually put together the national project it will require. 0.82

00:46:07.000 Imagine a Zoomer going to repeat boogey aggressively. 0.98

00:46:12.000 How gay could you be as a Zoomer? 0.99

00:46:15.000 Esoteric fiddlers, which is nobody wants to admit Obama's failed trade policy. 0.99

00:46:21.000 Let's now turn to an issue that's come up in the last 48 hours.

00:46:24.000 Senator Sanders, CNN reported yesterday that, and Senator Warren confirmed in a statement, that in 2018 you told her that a woman could win the election.

00:46:37.000 Why did you say that?

00:46:38.000 Well, as a matter of fact, I didn't say it.

00:46:41.000 And I don't want to waste a whole lot of time on this because this is what Donald Trump and maybe some of the media want.

00:46:47.000 Anybody who knows me knows that it's incomprehensible that I would think that a woman could not be president of the United States.

00:46:55.000 Go to YouTube today.

00:46:56.000 There's a video of me 30 years ago talking about how a woman could become president of the United States.

00:47:04.000 In 2015, I deferred, in fact, to Senator Warren.

00:47:08.000 There was a movement to draft Senator Warren to run for president.

00:47:13.000 I said, stayed back.

00:47:13.000 And you know what?

00:47:15.000 Senator Warren decided not to run, and I did run afterwards. 0.95

00:47:19.000 Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by three million votes. 0.91

00:47:25.000 How could anybody in a million years not believe that a woman could become president of the United States?

00:47:31.000 And let me be very clear. 0.99

00:47:33.000 If any of the women on this stage or any of the men on this stage win the nomination, I hope that's not the case.

00:47:39.000 I hope it's me.

00:47:41.000 But if they do, I will do everything in my power to make sure that they are elected in order to defeat the most dangerous president in the history of our country.

00:47:50.000 So, Senator Sanders. 0.92

00:47:51.000 Bernie Cox on the woman question.

00:47:53.000 I do want to make a big point here.

00:47:55.000 You're saying that you never told Senator Warren that a woman could not win.

00:47:59.000 The election. 1.00

00:48:00.000 That is correct. 0.99

00:48:02.000 Senator Warren, what did you think when Senator Sanders told you a woman could not win the election?

00:48:08.000 What, this.

00:48:09.000 I disagreed.

00:48:11.000 Bernie is my friend.

00:48:12.000 I was going to say something there.

00:48:13.000 I'm not here to try to fight with Bernie.

00:48:16.000 But look, this question about whether or not a woman can be president has been raised, and it's time for us to attack it head on.

00:48:25.000 And I think the best way to talk about who can win is by looking at people's winning record.

00:48:30.000 So, can a woman beat Donald Trump?

00:48:33.000 Look at the men on this stage.

00:48:35.000 Collectively, they have lost 10 elections.

00:48:38.000 The only people on this stage who have won every single election that they've been in are the women Amy and me.

00:48:47.000 Oh, my gosh.

00:48:49.000 This country, man, it's going straight down the tubes.

00:48:54.000 And the only person on this stage who has become a Republican any time in the past 30 years is me.

00:49:04.000 And here's what I know. 0.95

00:49:06.000 The real danger that we see as Democrats is picking a girl and the only one that will win.

00:49:14.000 We're so strong.

00:49:18.000 We need a candidate who will excite all parts of the Democratic Party, bring everyone in, and give everyone a Democrat to believe in.

00:49:29.000 That's my plan, and that is why I'm going to win.

00:49:32.000 That's my plan.

00:49:33.000 Thank you.

00:49:34.000 And that's why I'm going to win.

00:49:36.000 Thank you, Elizabeth.

00:49:37.000 Senator Clobuchar, what are some folks' issues?

00:49:41.000 Senator Clobuchar, let me finish my question. 0.57

00:49:49.000 What do you say to people who say that a woman can't be a woman? 1.00

00:49:52.000 Bitch. 1.00

00:49:53.000 This moderator is such a. 1.00

00:49:55.000 People have said it. 1.00

00:49:55.000 Bitch. 1.00

00:49:56.000 That's why I've addressed it from this stage. 1.00

00:49:57.000 I point out that you don't have to be the tallest person in the room.

00:50:00.000 James Madison was five foot four.

00:50:03.000 You don't have to be the skinniest person in the room.

00:50:06.000 You don't have to be the skinniest person in the room.

00:50:07.000 You don't have to be the loudest person.

00:50:08.000 Based man with?

00:50:10.000 And when you look at the facts, Michigan has a woman governor right now, and she beat a Republican, Gretchen Whitmer. 0.70

00:50:16.000 Kansas has a woman governor right now, and she beat Chris Kobach.

00:50:21.000 And her name is, I'm very proud to know, I'm very proud to know. 0.56

00:50:23.000 I need to save space right now.

00:50:24.000 I need to save space right now.

00:50:26.000 Her name is Governor Kelly.

00:50:27.000 Thank you.

00:50:29.000 Third, I would add to this you have to be competent to win, and you have to know what you're doing.

00:50:36.000 And when you look at what I have done, I have won every race, every place, every time.

00:50:41.000 I have won in the reddest of districts.

00:50:43.000 I have won in the suburban areas, in the rural areas.

00:50:47.000 I have brought people with me.

00:50:49.000 That is why I have the most endorsements of current Iowa legislators and former Iowa legislators in this race.

00:50:55.000 Because I know I bring people with me.

00:50:55.000 Thank you.

00:50:57.000 And for the last time, I'm a Republican person. 1.00

00:51:00.000 Somebody says in chat, we are all clowns, so true. 1.00

00:51:03.000 I am out of politics for good. 0.99

00:51:05.000 Clown shay. 0.54

00:51:07.000 I think that sounds pretty good.

00:51:09.000 I think that sounds pretty good with the guy we have in the White House right now.

00:51:13.000 Senator Sanders, you can respond.

00:51:14.000 Well, just to set the record straight.

00:51:16.000 I defeated an incumbent Republican running for Congress.

00:51:21.000 When?

00:51:22.000 That's how I won.

00:51:26.000 Beat a Republican. 1.00

00:51:28.000 Eat shit, woman. 1.00

00:51:29.000 Eat shit, you dummy. 1.00

00:51:31.000 Look at how stupid she looks. 1.00

00:51:33.000 Yeah, yeah, you dummy. 1.00

00:51:36.000 I beat an incumbent Republican congressman. 0.98

00:51:39.000 And I said I was the only one who's beaten an incumbent Republican in 30 years.

00:51:45.000 Well, 30 years ago is 1990.

00:51:48.000 Yeah, math.

00:51:49.000 Math. 0.99

00:51:50.000 Math, you dummy. 0.98

00:51:52.000 Math. 1.00

00:51:53.000 Yeah, shut up. 0.99

00:51:55.000 Does anybody in their right mind think? 1.00

00:51:57.000 That a woman cannot be elected president. 1.00

00:51:59.000 That's enough. 0.98

00:52:00.000 Nobody believes that. 1.00

00:52:01.000 If Hillary Clinton got three million votes, that was epic. 1.00

00:52:06.000 So, who believes that a woman can't win? 1.00

00:52:08.000 Of course, a woman can win. 1.00

00:52:09.000 But the real woman be like, Dora, Dora, I said 30 years ago. 1.00

00:52:14.000 I said not in 30 years. 1.00

00:52:16.000 1990 was 30 years ago, you stupid bitch. 1.00

00:52:19.000 And a campaign that has by far the largest voter turnout in the history of this country. 1.00

00:52:26.000 And I believe that our campaign.

00:52:28.000 Has the strongest grassroots movement.

00:52:31.000 Thank you.

00:52:31.000 We have endorsed by many grassroots groups.

00:52:34.000 It's good to see.

00:52:35.000 That was a redeeming moment in world history.

00:52:38.000 We beat Trump.

00:52:39.000 And here's the thing since Donald Trump was elected, women candidates have outperformed men candidates in competitive races.

00:52:48.000 And in 2018, we took back the House, we took back state houses because of women candidates and women voters.

00:52:58.000 Look, don't deny that the question is there.

00:53:01.000 Back in the 1960s, people asked, could a Catholic win?

00:53:06.000 Back in 2008, people asked if an African American could win. 0.56

00:53:10.000 In both times, the Democratic Party stepped up and said yes, got behind their candidate, and we changed America.

00:53:19.000 That's who we are.

00:53:20.000 Vice President Biden.

00:53:23.000 Vice President Biden, go ahead.

00:53:25.000 I agree. 0.99

00:53:26.000 Women can win, and I've been in a campaign for 27 of them, this last in 2018.

00:53:31.000 The best group I've ever campaigned for in terms of competence.

00:53:34.000 But the real issue is who can bring the whole party together, represents all elements of the party African Americans, brown, black, women, men, gay, straight.

00:53:45.000 The fact of the matter is that I would argue that in terms of endorsements around the country, endorsements wherever we go, I am the one who has the broadest coalition of anyone running up here in this race. 0.57

00:53:58.000 All right.

00:53:59.000 We're going to take a short break now.

00:54:00.000 Presidential debate at Lubbock University.

00:54:04.000 We'll be right back.

00:54:11.000 That was extremely satisfying.

00:54:12.000 That was so perfect because, like, I don't know.

00:54:18.000 I mean, it really wasn't that exciting.

00:54:21.000 Okay, I guess it really wasn't that exciting, you know, objectively.

00:54:27.000 But after how long have we been watching this?

00:54:30.000 50 minutes already? 0.94

00:54:33.000 And we were about to go down that path of, you know, Warren and Klobuchar are going to say, Girl power, you know, bitchy moderator.

00:54:41.000 So, Warren, how did you react when Bernie Sanders said the thing that he, like, just denied saying?

00:54:48.000 And all the girls are going to say, Well, we keep winning and winning and we're competent and we're winners and we're better than the men on the stage.

00:54:56.000 And, you know, then Bernie just totally blew her out like that.

00:55:00.000 And she didn't even take it right away.

00:55:02.000 She's like, What race did you win?

00:55:04.000 Well, no, I said 30 years ago, and then she just got smacked down like that.

00:55:08.000 And on like math, it was so good.

00:55:11.000 That was so perfect.

00:55:13.000 Perfect, epic moment. 1.00

00:55:15.000 Snotty, arrogant women beat down again. 1.00

00:55:18.000 You know, not like I'm in favor of beating down women or anything like that, but arrogant people. 1.00

00:55:24.000 That's what I mean. 0.92

00:55:26.000 So that was funny.

00:55:28.000 But anyway, so finally we have a break here.

00:55:32.000 I probably should have started the stream a little bit earlier so we could sort of like introduce the debate.

00:55:38.000 The debate tonight is actually really important because the first primary in the whole race is on February 3rd.

00:55:47.000 This is the last debate.

00:55:48.000 Before the first, it's actually a caucus, before I think the Iowa caucus, which is on February 3rd.

00:55:54.000 So this one's kind of a big deal.

00:55:56.000 The debate is taking place in Iowa.

00:55:59.000 The first contest is what, then in two weeks, February 3rd, and that will set the tone for the rest of the race.

00:56:08.000 You know, so far we've had something like I lost track, like nine or ten debates or something.

00:56:14.000 The race has been going on actually for longer than one year.

00:56:17.000 Elizabeth Warren announced her exploratory committee last January.

00:56:21.000 So, the race is now already a year old.

00:56:23.000 We've had like 10 debates.

00:56:25.000 You know, I think like 10 candidates have dropped out.

00:56:28.000 They've narrowed the field down to seven candidates on the stage.

00:56:32.000 Tulsi Gabbard, Andrew Yang, and Michael Bloomberg, who are all still in the race, did not qualify.

00:56:39.000 Obviously, so many people have dropped out at this point Beta O'Rourke, Julian Castro, Kamala Harris, Cory Booker.

00:56:47.000 You know, a lot of people have ducked out.

00:56:49.000 And what happens in Iowa on February 3rd.

00:56:52.000 Will kind of determine who will stay in, who will stay out, and give you an idea of what the prospects are looking like.

00:56:58.000 You know, right now there really is like no clear frontrunner in the race.

00:57:02.000 Well, there's a clear frontrunner, but there isn't a clear winner of the entire primary.

00:57:07.000 You know, Joe Biden's been in first in the polls forever, uncontested, but Bernie Sanders and Warren are about tied and they're right on his heels, especially in Iowa.

00:57:17.000 So, depending on how it ranks in Iowa, you know, that is what will determine what will happen in New Hampshire, Nevada, South Carolina.

00:57:26.000 And these four primary contests will give us an idea of the rest of the race, how it'll unfold in all the other states.

00:57:34.000 And, you know, to me, there's still a big question mark.

00:57:38.000 I really don't know what's going to happen in this one in Iowa.

00:57:43.000 I think probably Joe Biden's going to come out on top.

00:57:46.000 I think he'll probably be number one.

00:57:47.000 But I've seen a lot of polls in Iowa where Elizabeth Warren's, like, by far number one.

00:57:52.000 Sanders does really well in Iowa.

00:57:55.000 So it's still a big question mark as to.

00:57:57.000 How it'll pan out there and then how it pans out in Iowa will then affect all the other races.

00:58:03.000 You know, I think, for example, if Andrew Yang doesn't do very well, he'll probably drop out.

00:58:08.000 Tulsi Gabbard may drop out before the Iowa caucus.

00:58:11.000 Michael Bloomberg, depending on who he does in Iowa, he might drop out afterward, you know, and that will shape how the rest of the race pans out, the dynamics between the candidates.

00:58:21.000 So that's why tonight matters a lot.

00:58:24.000 And I will say this is how it should have been like.

00:58:27.000 From the start, you know, they should have had from the start like a top tier and a bottom tier, and they should have organized it by polling.

00:58:35.000 Like, if you poll high, you're in the prime time.

00:58:37.000 If you poll low, you're in the so called JV debate or whatever, the kids' table, as what they were calling it in 16.

00:58:45.000 Because these are all the people that have a chance of winning. 0.98

00:58:49.000 For how many months did we have to sit and listen to like, who is that idiot from Colorado, Michael Bennett, and all these other people? 0.93

00:58:57.000 You know, so finally we've distilled it down to the seven people who can. 0.99

00:59:00.000 Probably win.

00:59:02.000 Even seven is probably excessive.

00:59:03.000 I don't think Klobuchar is going to win.

00:59:05.000 You know, I don't think Tom Steyer is going to win.

00:59:07.000 So even seven is excessive, but at least this is manageable and we have people that, like, have a shot.

00:59:12.000 They've got a path.

00:59:13.000 So, anyway, aside from that, it's more of the same.

00:59:16.000 At this point, they should have done that from the start, but now at this point it's too late.

00:59:20.000 There's been like 10 of them, and we've already heard everything there is for people to say on the stage.

00:59:26.000 We've heard about all the issues, we've heard all the takes, we've heard all the different combinations, all the different, you know, he said, she said, and attacks and whatever.

00:59:37.000 Okay, it looks like what's going on here?

00:59:39.000 I think I have to refresh the page here.

00:59:49.000 So, Eggman.

00:59:52.000 People are saying we want the Eggman.

00:59:56.000 Yeah, what the hell is that guy's name?

00:59:58.000 Delaney.

00:59:58.000 Uninsured and underinsured.

01:00:00.000 And while 30,000 people die each year, on the pay for it is a 4% tax on income, exempting the first $29,000.

01:00:11.000 So, the average family in America that today makes $60,000 would pay $1,200 a year compared to.

01:00:20.000 that family paying $12,000 a year.

01:00:23.000 We save money, comprehensive health care, because we take on the greed and the profiteering and the administrative nightmare that currently exists in our dysfunctional system.

01:00:34.000 Vice President Biden, does Senator Sanders owe voters a price tag on his health care plan?

01:00:38.000 I think we need to be candid with voters.

01:00:40.000 I think we have to tell them what we're going to do and what it's going to cost.

01:00:43.000 And a 4% tax on income over $24,000 doesn't even come close to paying for between 30 and some estimates as high as $40 trillion over 10 years.

01:00:53.000 That's doubling.

01:00:55.000 the entire federal budget per year.

01:00:57.000 There's a way to do that.

01:00:58.000 The way to do that is to take Obamacare, reinstate, rebuild it, provide a public option without Medicare for those folks who want it, and in fact, make sure that we, in the process, reduce the cost of drug prices, reduce the cost of being able to buy into the subsidizes further, and make it everybody available to everyone.

01:01:19.000 Here's the deal.

01:01:20.000 That cost a lot of money.

01:01:21.000 That cost $740 billion over 10 years.

01:01:25.000 I lay out how I pay for that.

01:01:27.000 Senator Sanders?

01:01:28.000 Well, first of all, what Joe forgets to say is when you leave the current system as it is, what you are talking about are workers paying, on average, 20% of their incomes for health care.

01:01:43.000 That is insane.

01:01:44.000 You've got 500,000 people going bankrupt because they cannot pay their medical bills.

01:01:50.000 We're spending twice as much per capita on health care as do the people of any other country.

01:01:54.000 Look, we've talked about health care for all in this country for over 100 years.

01:02:00.000 Now is the time to take on the greed and corruption of the health care industry, of the drug companies, and finally provide health care to all through a Medicare for all single payer program.

01:02:13.000 It won't be easy, but that is what we have to do.

01:02:16.000 You can do without this again.

01:02:18.000 Really?

01:02:18.000 Medicare for all again?

01:02:20.000 We are in the same place.

01:02:21.000 Senator Colbuchar, your response.

01:02:23.000 Senator Sanders and I have worked together on pharmaceuticals for a long, long time, and we agree on this.

01:02:28.000 But what I don't agree with is that we should.

01:02:31.000 His position on health care.

01:02:34.000 This debate isn't real.

01:02:35.000 I was in Vegas the other day and someone said, Don't put your chips on a number on the wheel that isn't even on the wheel.

01:02:43.000 That's the problem.

01:02:44.000 Over two thirds of the Democrats in the U.S. Senate are not on the bill that you and Senator Warren are on.

01:02:51.000 You have numerous governors that are Democratic that don't support this.

01:02:55.000 You have numerous House members that put Nancy Pelosi in a speaker.

01:02:58.000 The answer is a non profit public option.

01:03:01.000 The answer is.

01:03:02.000 The real debate we should be having is how do we make it easier for people to get coverage for addiction and mental health?

01:03:09.000 I have a plan for that.

01:03:11.000 And then finally, what should we do about long term care, the elephant that doesn't even fit in this room?

01:03:16.000 We need to make it easier for people to get long term care insurance.

01:03:20.000 We need to make it easier for them to pay for their premiums.

01:03:23.000 My own dad, I know when his long term care insurance ends.

01:03:27.000 And then we have some savings for him.

01:03:29.000 He's in assisted living.

01:03:31.000 He got married three times, whole other story, so there isn't much there.

01:03:35.000 But then we go to Medicaid.

01:03:37.000 And I have already talked to Catholic Eldercare.

01:03:40.000 They're willing to take him in.

01:03:42.000 Our story is better than so many other families.

01:03:44.000 We have to make it easier for long term care.

01:03:47.000 It's not just for seniors. 0.98

01:03:49.000 It's also for the sandwich generation.

01:03:51.000 Thank you, Senator Clubbershire. 0.98

01:03:52.000 Sandwich generation. 0.99

01:03:53.000 That sounds like you. 1.00

01:03:54.000 We need to start with what's happening in America.

01:03:56.000 People are suffering.

01:03:57.000 I'll just pick one.

01:03:58.000 36 million people last year went to the doctor, got a prescription.

01:04:02.000 This is what they needed to get well.

01:04:04.000 And they couldn't afford to have the prescription filled.

01:04:06.000 They looked at it and said it's either groceries or this prescription.

01:04:10.000 My approach to this is we've got to get as much help to as many people as quickly as possible.

01:04:16.000 I have worked out a plan where we can do that without raising taxes on middle class families by one thin dime.

01:04:23.000 What I can do as president on the first day, we can cut the cost of prescription drugs.

01:04:29.000 I'll use the power that's already given to the president to reduce the cost of insulin and EpiPens and HIV AIDS drugs.

01:04:38.000 Let's get some relief to those families, and I will defend the Affordable Care Act.

01:04:44.000 I've got a plan to expand the health care, but let's keep in mind when we come to the general election, We Democrats may argue among each other about the best way to do health care, but we're going to be up against a Republican incumbent who has cut health care for millions of people and is still trying to do that.

01:05:01.000 I'll take our side of the argument any day.

01:05:04.000 Thank you, Senator Warren.

01:05:05.000 Vice President Biden?

01:05:06.000 The proposal I lay out does, in fact, limit drug costs.

01:05:13.000 It sets up, it allows all the drug companies, excuse me, it allows you to negotiate with drug companies.

01:05:22.000 It sets a system whereby you cannot raise the price of a drug beyond the cost of medical inflation.

01:05:22.000 For the price.

01:05:29.000 And by the way, Elizabeth Warren, can you spell Penn Island?

01:05:32.000 Save the West.

01:05:34.000 Is he all right there, bud?

01:05:36.000 I'm just recovering still.

01:05:38.000 Look, we've had this conversation on this stage so many times.

01:05:44.000 Everybody on this stage believes that affordable health care is a right for every single American.

01:05:50.000 Everybody on this stage knows that Americans are paying twice as much for health care.

01:05:55.000 As any other advanced country in the world, and it makes no sense, and the government has to step in.

01:06:00.000 I do happen to agree with Vice President Biden that we should move and develop the Affordable Care Act with a public option.

01:06:07.000 But the real question is this this is not a new problem.

01:06:10.000 Why do we keep having this conversation?

01:06:12.000 We have a broken government.

01:06:14.000 It has been bought by corporations that include the drug companies, the insurance companies, and the private hospitals.

01:06:20.000 That's what I'm talking about.

01:06:22.000 How do we get back government of, by, and for the people?

01:06:26.000 Dude, you're a billionaire.

01:06:27.000 Actually, break the corporate stranglehold on our government so that we can get any of these things passed.

01:06:31.000 Thank you, Mr. Stiles.

01:06:32.000 You literally bought his way into this campaign.

01:06:35.000 He's a billionaire.

01:06:36.000 With double federal spending over the next decade, an unprecedented level of spending not seen since World War II.

01:06:42.000 How would you keep your plans from bankrupting the country?

01:06:46.000 Our plan wouldn't bankrupt the country, and in fact, it would much improve the well-being of working-class families and the middle class.

01:06:56.000 Let us be clear what Medicare for all does. 0.92

01:06:58.000 ZoomerClip says, Thank you, Jewish billionaire. 1.00

01:07:01.000 Yeah, exactly. 0.93

01:07:02.000 It ends the absurdity of deductibles.

01:07:05.000 It ends out of pocket expenses.

01:07:08.000 It takes on the pharmaceutical industry, which in some cases charges us 10 times more for the same prescription drugs sold abroad as sold here.

01:07:18.000 What we will do through a Medicare for All single payer program is substantially lower the cost of health care for employers and workers because we end the $100 billion a year that the health care industry makes and the $500 billion a year.

01:07:35.000 We spend the administrative nightmare of dealing with thousands of separate insurance plans.

01:07:44.000 Healthcare is a human right.

01:07:46.000 Every other major country on earth is guaranteeing healthcare for all.

01:07:50.000 The time is long overdue for us to do the same.

01:07:54.000 Again, I think it is much better to build on the Affordable Care Act.

01:07:54.000 Senator Globuchar.

01:07:58.000 And if you want to be practical and progressive at the same time and have a plan and not a pipe dream, you have to show how you are going to pay for it.

01:08:05.000 And I would also note that the Affordable Care Act is a very important thing.

01:08:08.000 Care Act right now is 10 points more popular than the President of the United States.

01:08:13.000 So I think the answer is to build on it.

01:08:16.000 And yes, I think you should show how you're going to pay for things, Bernie.

01:08:20.000 I do.

01:08:21.000 This President is treating people out there like poker chips in one of his bankrupt casinos.

01:08:27.000 Oh!

01:08:27.000 To our debt.

01:08:28.000 How many times have we heard that one?

01:08:31.000 Poker chips in one of his bankrupt casinos.

01:08:34.000 Who does that actually even appeal to?

01:08:36.000 Who actually hears that?

01:08:37.000 It's like, oh, that was clever.

01:08:40.000 That was really good.

01:08:41.000 Whoa, man.

01:08:42.000 Show credits in the bank.

01:08:45.000 Yeah, just like that.

01:08:47.000 Thank you, Senator. 1.00

01:08:48.000 I'm going to vote for this Jewish, let's say, I'm going to vote for this dummy now. 1.00

01:08:54.000 Dummy checks? 1.00

01:08:55.000 Yo, dummy checks?

01:08:56.000 Senator Buttigieg, you're selling your plan as Medicare for all who want it, yet your plan would automatically enroll uninsured Americans into a public option, even if they don't want it, and force them to pay for it.

01:09:08.000 How is that truth in advertising?

01:09:11.000 Well, it's making sure that there is no such thing as an uninsured America.

01:09:16.000 Look, the individual mandate was an important part of the ACA because the system doesn't work if there are free riders.

01:09:24.000 What I'm offering is a choice. 1.00

01:09:25.000 Just doing retard voice. 1.00

01:09:26.000 I have to be in my plan. 1.00

01:09:28.000 If there's another plan that you would rather.

01:09:30.000 It starts with blah, blah, blah.

01:09:32.000 To kick Americans off the place that they want in order to deliver health care for all.

01:09:37.000 And my plan is paid for.

01:09:39.000 Look, our party.

01:09:41.000 Should no longer hesitate to talk about the issue of the deficit.

01:09:45.000 Shut it, game, man.

01:09:46.000 We've got a dramatically better track record on it than Republicans do.

01:09:49.000 In my lifetime, it's almost invariably Republican presidents who have added to the deficit a trillion dollars under this president. 0.99

01:09:57.000 And it's why everything I put forward from Medicare for all who are going to be the investments we're going to make who has had a penis in his mouth is fully paid. 0.98

01:10:07.000 That's going to be our president? 0.99

01:10:10.000 When's that much? 1.00

01:10:12.000 Pete Buttigieg is a man who has had another man's penis in your mouth. 1.00

01:10:18.000 How can anybody respect you as president of the United States? 1.00

01:10:24.000 I'm not kidding, Vive.

01:10:26.000 I mean, that's like a legitimate thing. 1.00

01:10:28.000 That was a red pill that I had in high school, but about women. 1.00

01:10:33.000 I was sitting in class one day and I was thinking about my female teacher and I was like, you know, she's probably. 1.00

01:10:42.000 That's probably why should I listen to anybody?

01:10:45.000 Plans like the mayor's and like the vice president who has done that. 1.00

01:10:49.000 How can we have a female president if they do that? 0.99

01:10:51.000 You know, that was in high school, I realized that about women, but it is up, but obviously, it is also true of gay men. 1.00

01:10:58.000 Cover percentage. 0.99

01:10:59.000 Not kidding, that's a true story, by the way.

01:11:00.000 I was in school and I was like, What we need to do is make the commitment that we know where the money comes from.

01:11:08.000 We can ask those at the very top.

01:11:11.000 The words that are coming out of her mouth right now, that's the same place where something else comes from.

01:11:18.000 We can have them pay. 1.00

01:11:20.000 And we can go after the corporate tax chiefs.

01:11:22.000 And when we do that, we have enough money to provide health care for all our people.

01:11:28.000 Yes, we build on the Affordable Care Act.

01:11:30.000 But where we end up is a lot clearer.

01:11:32.000 Not to be vulgar, but to all of our people.

01:11:35.000 And we can offer it at no cost or low cost to all of them.

01:11:40.000 Mayor Buttigieg.

01:11:41.000 It's just not true that the plan I'm proposing is small.

01:11:46.000 We've got to move past a Washington mentality that suggests that the bigness of plans only consists of how many trillions of dollars they put through the Treasury, that the boldness of a plan only consists of how many Americans it can alienate.

01:12:00.000 This would be a game changer.

01:12:01.000 This would be the biggest thing we've done to American healthcare in a half century.

01:12:06.000 Let's measure the effects of our plans based on what they would do in our everyday lives.

01:12:11.000 And yes, we're taking on cost on prescription drugs.

01:12:14.000 We'll have an out of pocket cap, even if you don't get the subsidies that would make it free, a $250 monthly cap.

01:12:21.000 And here's why it's got to be monthly.

01:12:22.000 You ever been in that situation or known somebody who finds that they've got to defer a procedure or delay filling a prescription to try to have it happen in the right month?

01:12:30.000 Because when your out of pocket cap hits, it makes no sense medically.

01:12:34.000 Because most of us don't experience the economy on an annual basis.

01:12:38.000 Our bills don't come in every year, they come in every month.

01:12:41.000 Same with our paychecks, bi weekly or monthly.

01:12:43.000 That's why we set this up in a way to solve the problem without running up $20, $30, $40 trillion.

01:12:48.000 Senator Warren, your response?

01:12:50.000 Look, the numbers that the Mayor is offering just don't add up.

01:12:53.000 The average family in America last year paid $12,000 in some combination of deductibles and co pays and uncovered expenses and fees.

01:13:02.000 You can't cover that with the kind of money that the Mayor is talking about.

01:13:07.000 The way we have to approach this is we've got to build this and we've got to build the alliances to make this happen.

01:13:13.000 I can bring down the cost of prescription drugs like insulin and take hundreds of millions of dollars out of the system immediately in cost.

01:13:21.000 We can get help to families, but we have to be willing to work together.

01:13:26.000 We can let people experience what healthcare is like when it's you and your doctor, your mental health professional, your nurse practitioner with no insurance company standing in the middle.

01:13:38.000 When people said, I want to know what Senator Club is talking about.

01:13:41.000 Senator Warren, you acknowledged that Medicare for All, that you couldn't get there right away.

01:13:45.000 You got on the bill that said on page eight, which is why I didn't get on it, that you would kick 149 million Americans off their current health insurance.

01:13:55.000 Then, a few months ago, you said, no, you're going to wait a while to get there. 0.96

01:14:00.000 And I think that was some acknowledgement that maybe what we're talking about is true.

01:14:04.000 And I don't buy that it's not enough, it is a big, big step.

01:14:09.000 To say to people making $100,000 a year that your premiums will be cut in half, which is what the nonprofit public option will do.

01:14:17.000 And if you talk, Mayor Buttigieg, about Medicare and having negotiation, I actually have led that bill for years.

01:14:25.000 I have 34 co sponsors.

01:14:27.000 As president, I can get it done.

01:14:29.000 That would allow Medicare to finally negotiate and lift the ban that Big Pharma got into law that says they can't negotiate for better prices for our seniors.

01:14:38.000 I will get it done.

01:14:40.000 Senator Sanders, coming to you now.

01:14:41.000 CNN reached out.

01:14:42.000 To Iowa Democratic voters for their most pressing questions.

01:14:46.000 Edward from here in Des Moines writes Des Moines is an insurance town.

01:14:51.000 What happens to all the insurance industry, the health insurance industry here, if there is Medicare for all?

01:14:57.000 What happens to all the jobs and the livelihoods of the people that live in insurance towns like Des Moines?

01:15:03.000 We build into our Medicare for All program a transition.

01:15:09.000 Warren says Mr. Budin committed a billionaire to the AIDS insurance system.

01:15:13.000 That will provide for up to five years.

01:15:15.000 Minnesota says Warren is like an even more mundane version of Hillary Clinton.

01:15:19.000 That's Klobuchar.

01:15:20.000 But here is the issue Tom Slayer made the point that he's not going to do it. 0.99

01:15:24.000 We announced that he won't do shit because he'll never be president to shut the F up. 0.99

01:15:27.000 As do the people of any other country. 1.00

01:15:29.000 That is insane.

01:15:29.000 Facts.

01:15:31.000 In some cases, 10 times more for prescription drugs.

01:15:34.000 Why is that?

01:15:36.000 Why is that?

01:15:37.000 And the answer is the greed and corruption of the drug companies and the insurance companies.

01:15:43.000 The corrupts!

01:15:43.000 We want to do what every other major country on earth does and guarantee people health care is a human right, not a privilege.

01:15:53.000 You know what we have to do?

01:15:54.000 We are finally going to have to stand up to the health care industry and end hundreds of billions of dollars of waste and profiteering.

01:16:02.000 Mr. Steyer.

01:16:04.000 I just want to.

01:16:05.000 Emphasize what Senator Sanders said.

01:16:08.000 This is not a complicated problem.

01:16:11.000 Between what Senator Warren and Senator Sanders said, there are two problems.

01:16:15.000 We're spending way too much because corporations own this city.

01:16:19.000 We need to take over Des Moines.

01:16:20.000 And we're not negotiating against those corporations.

01:16:23.000 And we've been talking to the richest Americans and the biggest corporations for decades.

01:16:29.000 That's all this is.

01:16:31.000 We have corporations who are having their way with the American people, and people are suffering.

01:16:36.000 Senator Warren is right.

01:16:37.000 This is cruelty for money.

01:16:40.000 In order to break this, we're going to have to break the corporate stranglehold and solve both the tax and the negotiating problem.

01:16:48.000 That's why I'm for term limits.

01:16:50.000 We need to redo Washington, D.C. and actually take back the government from the corporation.

01:16:56.000 Thank you, Mr. Steyer.

01:16:57.000 Vice President Biden?

01:16:59.000 I would argue that the biggest breakthrough in recent time was us being able to do in our administration what five Democratic presidents couldn't get done, and that is pass Obamacare.

01:17:10.000 It was a big deal.

01:17:12.000 Secondly, I would argue that the way you control drug prices is you limit what they can charge for those prices.

01:17:18.000 You don't have to pay the price for those prices.

01:17:20.000 So, in fact, they charge more than you set the price for them.

01:17:24.000 They can, in fact, people can import from abroad assuming that it is safe.

01:17:30.000 We, in fact, it's only yellow wolf, okay?

01:17:34.000 And we can, in fact, do all of this and still provide people the option to stay the roughly 150, 160 million Americans who like.

01:17:43.000 The negotiating team has made you a website that tracks all the DT Live super chats.

01:17:47.000 Check your email.

01:17:50.000 I'll check after the show.

01:17:52.000 Let's talk a little bit more about prescription drugs right now.

01:17:55.000 Prescription drug prices in 2018, Americans spent $335 billion on prescription drugs alone.

01:18:04.000 That's about $60 billion more than they paid a decade ago.

01:18:08.000 Senator Warren, you've called for the creation of a government run drug manufacturer that would step in if there is a drug shortage.

01:18:17.000 Or a price spike.

01:18:18.000 Why does it make sense for the government to manufacture drugs, especially when public trust in government is near historic lows?

01:18:27.000 So let's do this both ways.

01:18:29.000 What I also have said is I'm just going to use the power that is available, and I will do what a president can do all by herself on the very first day, and that is lower the prices of certain prescription drugs.

01:18:42.000 I will lower the price of insulin.

01:18:44.000 We already have the illegal authority with a president to do that.

01:18:47.000 The president just hasn't picked it up and used it.

01:18:49.000 I will lower the price of epidemiology.

01:18:51.000 Pins of HIV, AIDS drugs.

01:18:53.000 That's going to bring a lot of relief to a lot of families immediately.

01:18:56.000 But you know, there are a whole lot of drugs, about 90% of drugs, that are not under patent.

01:19:01.000 They're generic drugs.

01:19:02.000 But the drug industry has figured out how to manipulate this industry to keep jerking the prices up and up and up.

01:19:10.000 So my view is let's give them a little competition.

01:19:13.000 It's got to work out.

01:19:14.000 The government lets contracts for all kinds of things.

01:19:17.000 They let contracts to build buildings, they let contracts to build military weapons.

01:19:21.000 Let's let the contracts out. 0.96

01:19:23.000 Put the contracts out so that we can put more generic drugs out there and drive down those prices.

01:19:31.000 This is a way to make markets work, not to try to move away from the market.

01:19:36.000 You don't have to even use the pricing rules.

01:19:38.000 The whole idea behind it is to get some competition out there so the price of these drugs that are no longer under patent drops where it should.

01:19:47.000 Senator Klobuchar, do you believe the government should be manufacturing drugs?

01:19:52.000 I am open to looking at it, but I would try these things first.

01:19:55.000 I mentioned the Medicare negotiation.

01:19:58.000 Number two, I have a plan 137 things I have found that a president can do herself in the first place without Congress that are legal.

01:20:09.000 And one of those things is that you can start bringing in less expensive drugs from other countries.

01:20:15.000 Bernie and I had an amendment on this.

01:20:17.000 We got 14 Republican votes on it.

01:20:19.000 It was at midnight.

01:20:20.000 They might have known what they were voting for.

01:20:22.000 But we got that.

01:20:24.000 I now have an actual bill with Senator Grassley that does that.

01:20:27.000 And I have a bill to get at what Elizabeth was talking about, which is to stop generics from taking money from big pharmaceuticals to keep their products off the market.

01:20:38.000 The issue here is that there are two pharma lobbyists for every member of Congress.

01:20:44.000 Thank you, Senator.

01:20:44.000 They think they own Washington.

01:20:46.000 They don't own me.

01:20:47.000 Thank you, Senator.

01:20:47.000 And as President, I will get this done.

01:20:49.000 We're going to turn now to child care, a huge expense for many new families and a problem that's especially acute in rural Iowa.

01:20:56.000 We have another question from an Iowa Democratic voter.

01:20:59.000 Mayor Buttigieg, this is for you.

01:21:01.000 Tiffany from Clive writes, As a young mom, I had to quit a job I love because child care costs were taking up two thirds of my income.

01:21:08.000 Look at the fake concern he asked.

01:21:10.000 People don't have the option of quitting a job because that little bit of income is needed.

01:21:14.000 That leads to families using whatever care they need.

01:21:17.000 And sometimes the results are deadly.

01:21:19.000 Empathetic and compassionate.

01:21:22.000 How will you prioritize accessing quality, affordable child care in your first 100 days in office?

01:21:28.000 It makes no sense for child care to cost two thirds.

01:21:32.000 And now the slightest indignation.

01:21:33.000 We've got to drive it to 7% or below.

01:21:37.000 And zero for those families who are living in poverty.

01:21:41.000 But this is happening to folks at every level of the income spectrum.

01:21:45.000 Meet professionals who sometimes say that they're working in order to be able to afford childcare in order to be able to be working.

01:21:53.000 It makes no sense and it must change, and we shouldn't be afraid to put federal dollars into making that a reality.

01:22:00.000 Subsidizing childcare and making sure that we are building up a workforce of people who are paid at a decent level to offer early childhood education as well as childcare.

01:22:11.000 Written large.

01:22:12.000 We can do that. 1.00

01:22:13.000 And until we do, this will be one of the biggest drivers of the gender pay gap. 1.00

01:22:17.000 Because when somebody, like the voter asking the question, has to step out of the workforce because of that reason, she is at a disadvantage when she comes back in, and that can affect her pay for the rest of her career.

01:22:30.000 Senator Warren, your education plan includes tuition free public college for all, but you impose an income limit for free child care.

01:22:38.000 Why do your plans cover everyone for public college but not child?

01:22:42.000 Care and early learning.

01:22:43.000 No, actually, my plan is universal child care for everyone.

01:22:46.000 It just has some people adding a small payment.

01:22:49.000 But understand this about the plan.

01:22:52.000 That doesn't make any sense.

01:22:52.000 I've been there.

01:22:53.000 I remember when I was.

01:22:55.000 No, no, you're wrong.

01:22:56.000 It's universally free.

01:22:57.000 It's just that if you make more money, you have to pay a little bit more.

01:23:00.000 I was free at university teaching.

01:23:02.000 It was hard work.

01:23:03.000 I was excited, but it was childcare that nearly brought me down.

01:23:07.000 We went through one childcare after another, and it just didn't work.

01:23:11.000 If I hadn't been saved by my Aunt B, I was ready to quit my job.

01:23:15.000 And I think about how many women of my generation just got knocked off the track and never got back on. 0.95

01:23:20.000 How many of my daughter's generation get knocked off the track and don't get back on.

01:23:24.000 How many mamas and daddies today are getting knocked off the track and never get back on? 0.99

01:23:30.000 I have a two cent wealth tax so that we can cover child care for all of our children and provide universal pre K for every three year old and four year old in America and stop exploiting the people who do this valuable work largely black and brown women. 0.90

01:23:48.000 We can raise the wages of every child care worker and preschool teacher in America.

01:23:53.000 That's an investment in our babies.

01:23:55.000 That's an investment in their mamas and their daddies, and it's an investment in our teachers and in our economy.

01:24:02.000 Senator Sanders, will your universal child care program be free for everyone, regardless of income?

01:24:08.000 Yeah.

01:24:09.000 Let me pick up on this child care thing.

01:24:11.000 Every psychologist in the world knows zero through four are the most important years of human life, intellectually and emotionally.

01:24:19.000 And yet, our current child care system is an embarrassment.

01:24:22.000 It is unaffordable.

01:24:24.000 Child care workers are making wages lower than McDonald's workers.

01:24:28.000 We need to fundamentally change priorities in America. 0.58

01:24:32.000 We should not be, yeah, damn right. 0.98

01:24:34.000 How about have the parents raise the kids? 0.86

01:24:37.000 High quality, affordable child care.

01:24:39.000 Fundamentally change the priorities, yeah, correct. 0.97

01:24:41.000 Not the government, stay at home and raise their own kids instead of daycare.

01:24:45.000 We should not be spending 10 more than the 10 next countries on the military, hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies for the fossil fuel industry, tax breaks for billionaires, and then tell the moms and dads in this country.

01:24:59.000 Thank you, Senator.

01:25:01.000 Vice President Biden, I'm coming to you now.

01:25:03.000 That is wrong.

01:25:04.000 Vice President Biden, infant care is more expensive than in state public college tuition in more than half the country.

01:25:11.000 Do you support free universal infant care?

01:25:14.000 It should be free universal infant care.

01:25:17.000 But here's the deal.

01:25:18.000 You know, I was a single parent too.

01:25:20.000 When my wife and daughter were killed, my two boys I had to raise.

01:25:23.000 I was a senator, a young senator.

01:25:25.000 I just hadn't been sworn in yet.

01:25:27.000 And I was making $42,000.

01:25:28.000 Imagine having someone else.

01:25:29.000 I commuted every single solitary year.

01:25:32.000 Imagine being a mother and To one person over 500 miles a day.

01:25:36.000 Excuse me, 250 miles a day, because I could not afford, but for my family, childcare.

01:25:43.000 It was beyond my reach to be able to do it.

01:25:45.000 And that's why there are several things we do.

01:25:47.000 When I triple the amount of money for Title I schools, every child, three, four, and five years old, will in fact have full schooling.

01:25:56.000 They'll go to school and after school programs, which will release some of the burden. 0.74

01:26:00.000 Secondly, I think we should have an $8,000 tax credit, which would put 7 million women back to work. 0.96

01:26:06.000 they could afford to go to work and still care for their children as an $8,000 tax credit.

01:26:12.000 I also believe that we should, in fact, for people who, in fact, are not able to afford any of the infant care to be able to get that care.

01:26:20.000 But Bernie's right.

01:26:21.000 We have to raise the salaries of the people who are doing the care.

01:26:25.000 And I provide for that as well.

01:26:26.000 My time is up, I know, but I'm not going to go over like everybody.

01:26:29.000 Mayor Buttigieg.

01:26:33.000 Mayor Buttigieg, higher education is another huge expense for families.

01:26:37.000 You oppose free public college for all because you don't want to make it, quote, free for the kids of millionaires.

01:26:43.000 But lots of public services are available to the kids of rich people, like libraries and public schools.

01:26:49.000 Why do you draw the line at public colleges and universities?

01:26:52.000 Well, it's simple.

01:26:53.000 We expect and hope for everyone to get through 12th grade.

01:26:57.000 It's not the same for college.

01:26:59.000 Now, again, I don't want cost ever to be a barrier to somebody seeking to attend college.

01:27:05.000 And under my plan, it won't be.

01:27:07.000 Matter of fact, for the first 80% of Americans by income, it is free at public colleges.

01:27:14.000 But if you're in that top income bracket, don't get me wrong, I still wish you well.

01:27:18.000 I hope you succeed when you go to college.

01:27:21.000 I just need you to go ahead and pay.

01:27:22.000 That tuition, because we could be using those dollars for something else.

01:27:26.000 There is a very real choice about what we do with every single taxpayer dollar that we raise.

01:27:33.000 And we need to be using that to support everybody, whether you go to college or not, making sure that Americans can thrive, investing in infrastructure, and something that hasn't come up very much tonight but deserves a lot of attention poverty.

01:27:47.000 You know, the Poor People's Campaign is marching on Iowa right now, calling on us to talk about this issue more.

01:27:53.000 They are driven by their faith.

01:27:55.000 I think because even though in politics we're supposed to talk middle class, they know there's no scripture that says, as you've done unto the middle class, so you've done unto me.

01:28:03.000 We've got to be making sure that we target our tax dollars where they will make the biggest difference.

01:28:08.000 And I don't think subsidizing the children of millionaires and billionaires to pay absolutely zero in tuition at public colleges is the best use of those scarce taxpayer dollars.

01:28:18.000 So look, the way I think we need to do this is we need a wealth tax in America.

01:28:23.000 We need to ask people with fortunes above $50 million to pay more.

01:28:26.000 And that means that the lowliest millionaire that I would tax under this wealth tax would be paying about $19 million in the first year in taxes.

01:28:36.000 If he wants to send his kid to public university, then I'm okay with that.

01:28:40.000 Because what we really need to talk about is the bigger economic picture here.

01:28:45.000 We need to be willing to put a wealth tax in place, to ask those giant corporations that are not paying to pay, because that's how we build an economy and, for those who want to talk about it, bring down the national debt.

01:28:59.000 You do universal child care, and you've got a lot of mamas who can go to work, a lot of mamas who can finish their education.

01:29:04.000 We make that transition to the future of college.

01:29:08.000 We've got a lot of education.

01:29:09.000 Thank you, Senator.

01:29:09.000 Senator Klobuchar.

01:29:11.000 You know, I appreciate your thoughts, Elizabeth, but I want to step back.

01:29:15.000 I actually think that some of our colleagues who want free college for all aren't actually thinking big enough.

01:29:21.000 I think what we have to look at is how we connect our education system with our economy.

01:29:27.000 Where are our job openings, and what do we need?

01:29:30.000 We are going to have over a million openings for home health care workers that we don't know how to fill in the next 10 years.

01:29:37.000 We are going to have open 100,000 jobs for nursing assistants.

01:29:42.000 We, as my union friends know, we're going to have over 70,000 openings for electricians.

01:29:47.000 We're not going to have a shortage of MBAs.

01:29:49.000 We're going to have a shortage of plumbers.

01:29:52.000 So when we look at that, then we step back.

01:29:54.000 Where should our money go?

01:29:55.000 It should go into K through 12.

01:29:57.000 It should go into free one and two year degrees.

01:30:00.000 Like my dad got, like my sister got.

01:30:02.000 Thank you, Senator Clovis Sayer.

01:30:03.000 And we should double the Pell Grants because we're going to need four year degrees.

01:30:07.000 So the money goes where it should go instead of to rich kids going to college.

01:30:11.000 Mr. Steyer, as a billionaire, should your children have been entitled to free public college?

01:30:17.000 No.

01:30:18.000 And let me say this I was one of the people who talked about a wealth tax almost a year and a half ago.

01:30:24.000 I believe that the income inequality in this country is unbearable, unjust, and unsupportable.

01:30:31.000 As he says, Fuentes 2036 should be appointed one of the richest Americans from everyone else, has to end.

01:30:37.000 And I proposed the wealth tax almost a year and a half ago to start to address it and to raise some of the money that we need.

01:30:43.000 But I want to go beyond this and go back to this question about education.

01:30:47.000 Because we're talking a lot about college.

01:30:49.000 But in fact, if you talk about the Poor People's Campaign, you have to realize that for the youngest kids, they are getting an education that's relevant to their neighborhoods.

01:31:00.000 We need to redistribute money so every kid has a chance, so we're not legislating inequality for the next generation, and so we actually invest in every single kid, specifically poor kids, specifically black kids, specifically brown kids.

01:31:14.000 We need to start using the money dramatically more. 1.00

01:31:17.000 In other words, fuck white kids, right? 1.00

01:31:19.000 Awesome. 1.00

01:31:20.000 Yes!

01:31:21.000 Yeah, we need more.

01:31:25.000 More of this thing.

01:31:28.000 Oh, man. 0.99

01:31:30.000 This sucks, dude. 1.00

01:31:35.000 Sucks. 1.00

01:31:36.000 Sheesh. 1.00

01:31:41.000 It's just like mind numbing.

01:31:42.000 My eyes just glaze over at a certain point.

01:31:45.000 I just can't even.

01:31:47.000 Engage.

01:31:49.000 Well, there you have it.

01:31:50.000 That's part two.

01:31:52.000 Part two of the 20th Democratic debate here.

01:31:58.000 And what really is there to say?

01:32:02.000 We had another debate about health care during that segment.

01:32:08.000 And Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are in favor of Medicare for all.

01:32:12.000 And Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg are not.

01:32:16.000 And Joe Biden talked about Obamacare.

01:32:18.000 And this is a very fresh.

01:32:21.000 Interaction, a very fresh exchange.

01:32:24.000 Pete Buttigieg said, Our plan is very practical, and your plan simply is not.

01:32:30.000 And Elizabeth Warren said, Well, your numbers don't add up.

01:32:33.000 My plan actually is practical.

01:32:36.000 We just have to work together.

01:32:38.000 I guess I didn't think of it that way.

01:32:40.000 So that was some hot stuff.

01:32:42.000 That was a really good exchange.

01:32:44.000 Very exciting, very new, really interesting.

01:32:49.000 I don't even know what to tell you anymore.

01:32:51.000 Almost all of this is just.

01:32:54.000 Perfunctory and an exercise.

01:32:56.000 There's really not even a point to it anymore.

01:32:59.000 You know, what I've been saying about the debates from the start is it really only changes the dynamic insofar as somebody shits the bed, right?

01:33:10.000 If you don't mess up, if you don't get embarrassed or humiliated or say the wrong thing, it really doesn't matter.

01:33:17.000 Even if you say the right thing, it really doesn't matter.

01:33:21.000 You know, let me pull up the most recent polls.

01:33:24.000 I'll show you what I mean by this. 1.00

01:33:27.000 The classic example was Kamala Harris. 1.00

01:33:31.000 Kamala Harris, after the first debate back in June, she totally humiliated Joe Biden. 0.99

01:33:38.000 And for four weeks, her poll numbers went up and then they went down. 0.89

01:33:43.000 Joe Biden's poll numbers went down and then they went up.

01:33:46.000 But after that four weeks, they were back where they started.

01:33:50.000 That was in June.

01:33:53.000 And the same is true now.

01:33:54.000 If you look at the polling right now, You still got Joe Biden, number one.

01:34:00.000 You still got Sanders, number two.

01:34:06.000 Warren, not far behind, and then Buttigieg.

01:34:10.000 And let's look at the polling for Iowa in particular.

01:34:15.000 Let's see.

01:34:17.000 So on 538, it says Biden is forecasted to win an average of 26% of the vote in Iowa.

01:34:24.000 Let's see.

01:34:25.000 Sanders, what is this?

01:34:30.000 Let me find Sanders.

01:34:32.000 Sanders is forecasted to win 24% of the vote in Iowa.

01:34:39.000 Buttigieg is forecasted to win 21%.

01:34:42.000 And Warren is forecasted to win 17%.

01:34:45.000 These outcomes almost have no correlation with the debates.

01:34:52.000 This result in Iowa.

01:34:54.000 If you're looking at these simulations from 538, this is like the best data that we have.

01:34:58.000 Biden number one, Sanders number two, Buttigieg number three, Warren number four.

01:35:04.000 This has zero correlation with the debates.

01:35:07.000 Joe Biden has had like average performances in every single debate.

01:35:12.000 There hasn't been one debate where he was been.

01:35:14.000 Stellar or excellent, but he's number one.

01:35:17.000 Same with Sanders.

01:35:18.000 He has been mediocre from the beginning in the debates.

01:35:21.000 He had a couple of good ones, a couple of bad ones.

01:35:23.000 He had a heart attack, number two.

01:35:26.000 Buttigieg, you know, consistent but relatively muted and subdued performances in the debates, and he's number three.

01:35:33.000 Warren, who has maybe had the best average debate performances, you know, she has had, I think, pretty high quality debate performances on average from the beginning.

01:35:43.000 She's number four.

01:35:45.000 So, all of this is to say what we're watching is kind of useless, kind of a useless exercise, obligatory and perfunctory and necessary, but ultimately not something that is changing the race.

01:36:02.000 You know, what really matters is fundraising, what really matters is television, advertisements, things like that.

01:36:10.000 Welcome back to CNN's Democratic presidential debate.

01:36:13.000 We're live in Des Moines, Otchel Debate.

01:36:15.000 We're live in Des Moines, Iowa.

01:36:18.000 Tomorrow, the Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been convicted against President Trump to vindicate him.

01:36:24.000 Did he have a comment?

01:36:25.000 No, just a comment.

01:36:26.000 Launching the third trial of a U.S. president.

01:36:28.000 The Republican led Senate has signaled that it is likely to acquit him.

01:36:33.000 Nominee, is it going to be harder to run against President Trump if he's been acquitted and able to claim vindication, especially after what he said about your family?

01:36:44.000 It's irrelevant. 1.00

01:36:46.000 There's no choice but for Nancy Pelosi in the House to move. 0.98

01:36:50.000 He has, in fact, committed impeachable offenses.

01:36:53.000 Whether the Senate makes that judgment or not, it's for them to decide.

01:36:57.000 And by the way, I'm told that I say we have to unite the country.

01:37:06.000 It's going to be harder after this trial.

01:37:08.000 It may be, though these guys are, this Republican Party.

01:37:11.000 They've gone after Savage, my surviving son, gone after me, told lies that your networks and others won't even carry on television because they're flat-out lies.

01:37:22.000 And I did my job.

01:37:24.000 The question is whether or not he did his job.

01:37:26.000 It doesn't really matter whether or not he's gone after me.

01:37:30.000 I've got to be in a position that I think about the American people.

01:37:33.000 I can't hold a grudge.

01:37:35.000 I have to be able to not only fight, but also heal.

01:37:38.000 And as President of the United States, that's what I will attempt to do, notwithstanding that there are going to be more division after he's defeated.

01:37:45.000 There are going to be more division after he's defeated.

01:37:47.000 Why does it keep skipping like that?

01:37:50.000 You're going to be a just start.

01:37:52.000 Do you worry President Trump will be emboldened by acquittal?

01:37:57.000 We have a constitutional duty to perform here.

01:37:57.000 No.

01:38:01.000 And when I look at what the issue is, it's whether or not we're going to be able to have witnesses.

01:38:06.000 We've asked for only four people as witnesses.

01:38:09.000 And if our Republican colleagues won't allow those witnesses, they may as well give the President a crown and a scepter.

01:38:17.000 They may as well make him king.

01:38:20.000 Our country was founded on this idea that we didn't want to be ruled by a king.

01:38:25.000 And I think the best way to think about this trial and what we're facing in this election is a story of a man from Primgar, Iowa.

01:38:33.000 His name was Joseph Welch.

01:38:35.000 He came from humble beginnings, the son of immigrants.

01:38:38.000 He became the Army counsel.

01:38:40.000 And he was the one that went to the Joseph McCarthy hearings.

01:38:44.000 And when McCarthy was blacklisting people and going after people who were trying to defend their supposed political beliefs, there was only one man.

01:38:53.000 Everyone that was afraid, they're afraid of being blacklisted Joseph Welch.

01:38:57.000 He stood up and looked at McCarthy and said, Have you no sense of decency, sir?

01:39:03.000 Have you no sense of decency?

01:39:06.000 This is a decency check.

01:39:08.000 On our decency check?

01:39:10.000 This is a patriotism check.

01:39:12.000 Not only is this trial that, but also this election.

01:39:16.000 And no matter if you agree with everyone here on the stage, I say this to Americans, you know this is a decency check on this president.

01:39:23.000 Mr. Steyer, you've spent millions and millions of dollars telling the American people that President Trump deserves to be impeached.

01:39:32.000 Will it have been worth it if he's been impeached but not ruled?

01:39:35.000 Hey, John says, man, I miss that guy always says, you've done $1,000 potentially.

01:39:42.000 Of eight and a half million Americans to sign and say that he was the only one that was tolerable in this debate.

01:39:48.000 He was actually really smart.

01:39:49.000 And those eight and a half million people have called their Congress people, have emailed their Congress people, and have actually dragged Washington, D.C. to see that, in fact, this is a question of right and wrong and not of political expediency.

01:40:03.000 So if you ask me whether standing up for what's right in America, standing up for the American people and our safety, standing up for the Constitution, whether doing that And trying to bring the truth in front of the American people in televised hearings so we can decide what the truth is for ourselves.

01:40:21.000 If you think that that isn't worth it, then you don't share the idea that I do about what America is about.

01:40:27.000 Standing up for what's right is always worth it, Wolf, and I will never back down from that.

01:40:33.000 Senator Warren, a Senate trial is expected to keep you in Washington in the weeks leading up to the Iowa caucuses here.

01:40:41.000 How big of a problem is that for you as you're making your closing pitch to voters here?

01:40:47.000 Look, some things are more important than politics.

01:40:50.000 I took an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States of America.

01:40:55.000 It says that no one is above the law, that includes the President of the United States.

01:41:00.000 If we have an impeachment trial, I will be there because it is my responsibility.

01:41:05.000 But understand this what that impeachment trial is going to show, once again, to the American people, and something we should all be talking about, is the corruption of this administration.

01:41:16.000 That's what lies at the heart of it.

01:41:18.000 It is about Donald Trump putting Donald Trump first, not the American people, not the interests of the United States of America, not even in terms of helping Ukraine defend against Russia.

01:41:29.000 It is about him helping himself.

01:41:32.000 That is what we need to do to win this election.

01:41:36.000 We need to draw that distinction and show that as Democrats, we're not going to be the people who are just out for the big corporations, people who want to help themselves, that we are going to be the party that is willing to fight on the side of the people.

01:41:50.000 That's why we're here.

01:41:51.000 Let's turn now to the climate crisis.

01:41:53.000 Here in Iowa, parts of the state remain underwater after record breaking flooding began last spring.

01:41:59.000 No, I don't want to talk about the climate crisis.

01:42:04.000 This is always the worst part.

01:42:07.000 No, no, I don't want to.

01:42:11.000 I don't want to.

01:42:12.000 No, stop it.

01:42:15.000 No, no.

01:42:16.000 That's why we have to fight climate change with such urgency.

01:42:21.000 Climate change has come to America from coast to coast.

01:42:24.000 We're seeing it in Iowa.

01:42:26.000 We've seen it in historic floods in my community.

01:42:29.000 I had to activate our emergency operations center for a once in a millennium flood.

01:42:33.000 Then, two years later, we had to do the same thing.

01:42:36.000 In Australia, there are literally tornadoes made of fire taking place.

01:42:43.000 This is no longer theoretical, this is no longer off in the future.

01:42:47.000 We have got to act, yes, to adapt, to make sure our communities are more resilient, to make sure our economy is ready for the consequences that are going to happen.

01:42:55.000 I don't care, but we also have to ensure that we don't allow this to get any worse.

01:43:01.000 And if we get it right, socks will be a huge part of the solution.

01:43:05.000 We need to reach out to the very people who have sometimes been made to feel that accepting climate science would be a defeat for them, whether we're talking about farmers or industrial workers in my community, and make clear that we need to enlist them in a national project to do something about this.

01:43:22.000 To clarify, what do you do about farms and factories that cannot be relocated?

01:43:26.000 We are going to have to use federal funds to make sure that we're supporting those whose lives will inevitably be impacted further by the increased severity and the increased frequency.

01:43:38.000 And by the way, That is happening to farms, that is happening to factories, and that disproportionately happens to black and brown Americans, which is why equity and environmental justice have to be at the core of the economy.

01:43:49.000 Thank you, Mayor Buttigieg. 0.99

01:43:50.000 Shut up. 1.00

01:43:51.000 Shut up. 1.00

01:43:52.000 Look, what you're talking about is what's called managed retreat. 0.99

01:43:57.000 It's basically saying we're going to have to move things because this crisis is out of control and it's unbelievably expensive.

01:44:03.000 And of course, we're going to come to the rescue of Americans who are in trouble.

01:44:07.000 But this is why climate is my number one priority.

01:44:12.000 And I'm still saying that I'm the only person on the stage who will say this. 0.98

01:44:19.000 I want an anti-ins, hot crap suit. 0.99

01:44:27.000 I am black and brown. 1.00

01:44:29.000 What?

01:44:31.000 Black and brown and blue.

01:44:33.000 NJ Conservatives says, what is a flood in Mira Pete's community that grows?

01:44:42.000 Maxie Brose says, I'm from near parts of Iowa that have been flooded for a while.

01:44:46.000 Those places are.

01:44:47.000 Flood all the time.

01:44:49.000 No, plain, not cinnamon, plain.

01:44:54.000 Plain, plain pretzel, no salt.

01:44:57.000 Plain.

01:45:01.000 Plain.

01:45:03.000 I absolutely am.

01:45:05.000 Look, we invested in every part of the economy, and over 10 years ago, I realized that there was something going on that had to do with fossil fuels that we had to change.

01:45:15.000 So I divested from fossil fuels.

01:45:17.000 I took the giving and getting.

01:45:18.000 To give and getting.

01:45:19.000 Most of my money away while I'm alive.

01:45:21.000 And for 12 years, I've been fighting the climate crisis.

01:45:24.000 I've beat oil companies in terms of the air loss.

01:45:27.000 I've stopped fossil fuel plants in Oxnard, California.

01:45:31.000 I fought the Keystone Pipeline.

01:45:33.000 I have a history of over a decade of leading the climate fight successfully.

01:45:39.000 So, actually, yes, I am the person here who has the chops and the history that says I'll make it priority one because I've been doing it for a long time.

01:45:46.000 Thank you, Mr. Steyer.

01:45:46.000 Senator Warren, President Trump is rolling back major environmental rules to allow pipelines and other major infrastructure projects to be built.

01:45:54.000 Without strict environmental review, will you restore those protections and in a way that the next president can't overturn?

01:46:02.000 Yes.

01:46:03.000 Climate change threatens every living thing on this planet, and the urgency of the moment cannot be overstated.

01:46:10.000 I will do everything a president can do all by herself on the first day.

01:46:15.000 I will roll back the environmental changes that Donald Trump is putting in place.

01:46:20.000 I will stop all new drilling and offshore drilling.

01:46:25.000 Excuse me, end it all.

01:46:26.000 Four to eight years of the year.

01:46:27.000 People would be unbearable.

01:46:28.000 Bring in the farmers.

01:46:29.000 Tell me about it, right?

01:46:30.000 That's when people are like, you're still on the Trump train?

01:46:33.000 That's the problem it is.

01:46:33.000 Yeah.

01:46:34.000 Yeah, actually.

01:46:35.000 Mr. Steyer talks about it being problem number one.

01:46:38.000 Understand this.

01:46:39.000 We have known about this climate crisis for decades.

01:46:43.000 Back in the 1990s, we were calling it global warming, but we knew what it was.

01:46:47.000 Democrats and Republicans back then were working together because no one wanted a problem.

01:46:53.000 But you know what happened?

01:46:54.000 The industry came in and said, we can make big money if we keep them divided and make no change.

01:47:02.000 Priority number one has to be taking back our government from the corruption.

01:47:07.000 That is the only way we will make progress on climate, on gun safety, on health care, on all of the issues that we're facing.

01:47:16.000 Senator Klobuchar, some of your competitors on this stage have called for an all out ban on fracking.

01:47:21.000 You haven't.

01:47:22.000 Why not?

01:47:23.000 Well, first of all, I would note that I have a 100% rating from the League of Conservation Voters, and that is because I have stood tall on Every issue that we have talked about up here when it comes to this administration, this Trump administration, trying to reverse environmental protections.

01:47:43.000 I think it is going to lead to so many problems, and one thing that hasn't been raised, by the way, is the rules on methane, which is actually one of the most environmentally dangerous hazards that they have recently embarked on.

01:47:56.000 And I would bring those rules back as well as a number of other ones.

01:47:59.000 When it comes to the issue of fracking, I actually see natural gas as a transition fuel.

01:48:07.000 It is a transition fuel to where we get to carbon neutral.

01:48:11.000 Nearly every one of us has a plan that is very similar, and that is to get to carbon neutral by 2045 to 2050, to get to by 2030 to a 45 percent reduction.

01:48:23.000 And I want to add one thing that no one has really answered.

01:48:26.000 When we do this, we have to make sure that we make people whole.

01:48:31.000 And when we put a tax on carbon, which we will do either through Cap and trade, or through a renewable electricity standard, or through a fee on carbon, then we have to make sure the money goes back to the people that will be hurt by it to help them with their energy bills and to bring jobs to areas that will lose jobs.

01:48:50.000 Senator Sanders.

01:48:51.000 Thank you.

01:48:54.000 Let's be clear.

01:48:56.000 If we as a nation do not transform our energy system away from fossil fuel, not by 2050, not by 2040, But unless we lead the world right now, not easy stuff.

01:49:11.000 The planet we are leaving our kids.

01:49:13.000 Let's see.

01:49:13.000 Rootless says, Fuentes 2020, big guy, it's time to announce since we need more minorities on the Democratic side.

01:49:20.000 Molly says, if these epic people win, I am Fed posting.

01:49:24.000 Yeah, relatable.

01:49:26.000 Tybalt says, when anyone mentions Auntie Ann's, I think of better, simpler times.

01:49:30.000 May God have mercy on us all.

01:49:32.000 That's so true.

01:49:33.000 Auntie Ann's, Dairy Queen at the Yorktown Mall.

01:49:37.000 Check.

01:49:38.000 Anybody remember?

01:49:40.000 And tell them Yorktown Mall, Auntie Anne's, Dairy Queen.

01:49:46.000 That's what the green, green, and black-sized legislation does, and that is what we have to do.

01:49:52.000 Vice President Biden, your response.

01:49:54.000 My response is: back in 1986, Sarku Japan.

01:50:12.000 Sark.

01:50:13.000 And wind energy than ever has occurred in the history of America.

01:50:16.000 Look, what we have to do is we have to act right away.

01:50:18.000 And the way we act right away is immediately, if I'm elected president, I'll reinstate all the mileage standards that existed in our administration, which were taken down.

01:50:27.000 That's 12 billion gallons of gasoline, barrels of gasoline, to be saved immediately.

01:50:32.000 And with regard to those folks who, in fact, are going to be victimized by what's already happened, we should be investing in infrastructure that raises roads, make sure that we're in a position where every new highway built is a green highway, having 550,000 charging stations.

01:50:49.000 We can create, and this is where I agree with Tom, we can create millions of good paying jobs.

01:50:55.000 We're the only country in the world that's ever taken great crisis.

01:50:58.000 and turn it into great opportunity.

01:51:00.000 And one of the ways to do it is with farmers here in Iowa by making them the first group in the world to get to net zero emissions by paying them for planting and absorbing carbon in their fields right away.

01:51:13.000 There's more to say, but I know it's true.

01:51:15.000 A key part of your mission in this primary is going to be to prove to Democratic voters that you're strong enough to take on Donald Trump.

01:51:23.000 Each of you face unique challenges in doing that.

01:51:25.000 Mayor Buttigieg, you say you've had trouble earning the support of black voters because you're unknown.

01:51:30.000 But you've been campaigning for a year now, and polling shows you with next to no black support, support that you'll need in order to beat Donald Trump.

01:51:38.000 Is it possible that black voters have gotten to know you and have simply decided to choose another candidate?

01:51:44.000 The black voters who know me best are supporting me.

01:51:46.000 It's why I have the most support in South Bend.

01:51:49.000 It's why, among elected black officials in my community who have gotten into this race, by far most of them are supporting me.

01:51:57.000 And now, nationally, I am proud that my campaign is co chaired by a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, and to have support.

01:52:04.000 Right here in Iowa, from some of the most recognizable black elected leaders, from Mayor Hart of Waterloo to former Representative Barry in Black Hawk County.

01:52:13.000 Now, the biggest mistake we could make is to take black votes for granted, and I never will.

01:52:19.000 The reason I have the support I do is not because any voter thinks that I'm perfect, it's because of the work that we have done facing some of the toughest issues that communities can.

01:52:30.000 Not from the luxury of a debate or a television panel or a committee room, but on the ground, issues from poverty.

01:52:38.000 To justice in policing.

01:52:39.000 And I'm proud to say we've been nationally recognized for our work as a race informed city on delivering greater economic justice.

01:52:46.000 That we have reduced use of force by leading the region in transparency around the use of force in policing.

01:52:53.000 Of course, there is a much longer way to go in my community and around the country.

01:52:58.000 But I will be a president whose personal commitment is to continue doing this work.

01:53:03.000 Senator Sanders, you call yourself a Democratic socialist, but more than two thirds of voters say they are not enthusiastic about voting for a socialist.

01:53:12.000 Doesn't that put your chances of beating Donald Trump at risk?

01:53:16.000 Nope, not at all.

01:53:17.000 And that is because the campaign that we are going to run will expose the fraudulence of who Donald Trump is. 1.00

01:53:28.000 Donald Trump is corrupt, he is a pathological liar, and he is a fraud. 0.99

01:53:34.000 Now, when Trump talks about socialism, what he talks about is giving hundreds of billions of dollars in tax breaks and subsidies to the fossil fuel industry. 1.00

01:53:44.000 Donald Trump is a businessman, received $800 million in tax breaks and subsidies to build luxury housing.

01:53:54.000 My democratic socialism says health care is a human right.

01:53:59.000 We're going to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour.

01:54:02.000 We're going to make public colleges and universities tuition free.

01:54:06.000 We're going to have a Green New Deal and create up to $20 million, saving the planet for our children and our grandchildren.

01:54:14.000 We are going to take on the greed and corruption.

01:54:17.000 Of the pharmaceutical industry and the insurance company.

01:54:21.000 That is what democratic socialism is about, and that will win this election.

01:54:26.000 Mr. Steyer, you've spent more than 100 million of your own dollars on television ads.

01:54:32.000 Look at that face.

01:54:33.000 How do you convince voters that you're more than just your money?

01:54:37.000 Look, we know how Donald Trump is going to run for president.

01:54:42.000 He's going to run on the economy.

01:54:43.000 He's already told Americans last month in Florida you don't like me, and I don't like you, but you're all going to vote for me.

01:54:53.000 Because the Democrats are going to destroy the economy in 15 minutes if they get in control.

01:54:59.000 So let's be clear.

01:55:00.000 I started a business by myself in one room.

01:55:04.000 I didn't inherit a penny from my parents.

01:55:06.000 I spent 30 years building that business into a multi billion dollar international business.

01:55:12.000 Then I walked away from it and took the giving pledge and started organizing coalitions of ordinary Americans to take on unchecked corporate power.

01:55:20.000 But whoever is going to beat Mr. Trump is going to have to beat him on the economy.

01:55:24.000 And I have the experience and the expertise.

01:55:27.000 To show that he's a failure. 1.00

01:55:28.000 Edward, this demographics might be going to shit, but at least it's a failure. 0.99

01:55:31.000 Mayor Pete has three years as an analyst at McKinsey. 0.99

01:55:34.000 I have 30 years of international business experience.

01:55:37.000 I can beat Trump on the economy.

01:55:39.000 We're going to have to beat him on the economy.

01:55:40.000 And I look forward to taking him down in the fall on the debate stage.

01:55:44.000 Mayor Buttigieg.

01:55:46.000 I was actually an associate, but that's okay.

01:55:46.000 You demoted me.

01:55:50.000 It was not the biggest part of my career.

01:55:53.000 But I am ready to take on this president on the economy because I am from the exact kind of industrial Midwestern community that he pretends to speak to.

01:56:02.000 And has proven to turn his back on, and guided that community through a historic transformation when, at the beginning of the decade I took office, we were described as a dying city.

01:56:13.000 I'm ready to take on Donald Trump because when he gets to the tough talk and the chest thumping, he'll have to stand next to an American war veteran and explain how he pretended bone spurs made him ineligible to serve.

01:56:25.000 And if he keeps trying to use religion, if a guy like Donald Trump keeps trying to use religion to somehow recruit Christianity into the GOP.

01:56:38.000 I will be standing there not afraid to talk about a different way to answer the call of faith and insist that God does not belong to a political party.

01:56:47.000 I am ready to take on this president on every side.

01:56:50.000 Senator Klobuchar, you're pitching yourself as a practical candidate who can get things done.

01:56:57.000 And even tonight, you've dismissed some of the ideas that are offered in this primary as pipe dreams.

01:57:03.000 How are you going to inspire Democratic voters with a message of pragmatism?

01:57:10.000 Our voters, actually all Americans, have seen now.

01:57:13.000 I'm so tired of hearing that guy talk about the guy that's had a.

01:57:16.000 Somebody like Donald Trump, somebody like you, really? 1.00

01:57:20.000 Shut the fuck up. 1.00

01:57:22.000 Somebody like Donald Trump talks about Christianity. 1.00

01:57:25.000 Okay, good.

01:57:26.000 And I think what Americans want is something different.

01:57:29.000 I am going to be able to stand across from him on that debate stage and say, literally, married to a man.

01:57:36.000 The Midwest is not flyover country for me.

01:57:39.000 I live here.

01:57:41.000 I'm going to be able to look at him and say, You've treated these workers and farmers like poker chips.

01:57:48.000 For me, these are my friends and these are my neighbors.

01:57:51.000 I'm going to be able to look at him and say, you know what?

01:57:54.000 You got $413 million over the course of your career.

01:57:58.000 That's how you built your fortune.

01:58:00.000 And what I'm going to say is this my grandpa worked 1,500 feet underground in the iron ore mine, saved money in a coffee can in the basement to send my dad to a two year community college.

01:58:10.000 That's my family trust.

01:58:12.000 And when you have been given an opportunity like that, you go into the world not with a sense of entitlement, Donald Trump, but with a sense of obligation.

01:58:24.000 Senator Warren, what do you say to voters who like your policies, but they're worried they will scare away swing voters you need to win this race in November?

01:58:32.000 So I was born and raised in Oklahoma.

01:58:35.000 I have three older brothers who are all retired, who are all back there still.

01:58:40.000 And two of my three brothers are Republicans.

01:58:43.000 And sure, There are a lot of things we disagree on, and we can take to our corners and do the Democratic talking points.

01:58:50.000 But the truth is, there's a whole lot we agree on.

01:58:52.000 You know, my brothers are just furious over Chevron and Eli Lilly and Amazon that our giant corporations make billions of dollars in taxes, make billions of dollars in profits, and pay nothing in taxes.

01:59:06.000 My brothers, I don't get this.

01:59:08.000 I have to pay my taxes.

01:59:09.000 Somebody has to keep the roads paved and the schools open and pay for our defense.

01:59:14.000 They understand.

01:59:16.000 That we have an America right now that's working great for those at the top.

01:59:22.000 It's just not working for anyone else.

01:59:25.000 We have a chance to unite, unite as Democrats, but also with independents and Republicans who are sick of living in a country that's working great for the politicians that are taking the money.

01:59:37.000 It's working great for the lobbyists.

01:59:39.000 It's working great for the corporate executives.

01:59:42.000 It's just not working for everyone else.

01:59:44.000 I'm building the grassroots movement, leading the fight.

01:59:47.000 We're going to make this America work for everyone else.

01:59:50.000 That is how we're going to beat Donald Trump.

01:59:52.000 Vice President Biden, the eventual nominee will face President Trump, who has no problem mocking people, using insulting nicknames, slinging mud, and telling lies.

02:00:01.000 The debate against him will make tonight's debate look like child's play.

02:00:04.000 Are you prepared for that?

02:00:06.000 I am prepared for that.

02:00:07.000 Look, I've been the object of his affection now more than anybody else in this state.

02:00:12.000 I've taken all the hits he can deliver, and I'm getting better in the polls, my going up.

02:00:17.000 And by the way, I have overwhelming support from the African-American community, overwhelming, more than everybody else in this operation, number one.

02:00:24.000 Number two, working class people, where I come from in Pennsylvania and the places I come from in Delaware, I have great support.

02:00:31.000 I have support across the board, and I'm not worried about taking on Donald Trump at all.

02:00:36.000 And with regard to the economy, I can hardly wait to have that debate with him.

02:00:39.000 Where I come from, the neighborhoods I come from, they're in real trouble.

02:00:43.000 Working class people and middle class people. 0.86

02:00:45.000 When the middle class does well, working class has a way up, and the wealthy do well.

02:00:49.000 But what's happening now?

02:00:50.000 They're being clobbered. 0.98

02:00:52.000 They're being killed.

02:00:53.000 They now have a situation where if they the vast majority believe their children will never reach the stage that they read they've reached in economic security.

02:01:03.000 I love that debate because the American public is getting clobbered.

02:01:07.000 The wealthy are the only ones doing well, period.

02:01:10.000 I'm looking forward to the economic debate.

02:01:13.000 We'll be right back with more from CNN's Democratic Party.

02:01:16.000 More!

02:01:17.000 It's 9 58!

02:01:18.000 Iowa, stay right here.

02:01:22.000 All right, well, this thing's almost over.

02:01:25.000 I'll probably come back in a minute, two closing statements, and then we'll be done.

02:01:28.000 And then I'll probably just talk.

02:01:30.000 For like 10 minutes, and then that'll be it.

02:01:33.000 Because, I mean, what is there to react to here?

02:01:38.000 It's a carbon copy of the last debate, and the debate before that, and the debate before that.

02:01:47.000 It is all the same.

02:01:49.000 You know, even down to the same catchphrases, jokes, policy platforms, even the interactions between the candidates are the same on health care, on climate.

02:02:02.000 Trade, foreign policy.

02:02:04.000 The only thing that was a little bit novel was the Elizabeth Warren Bernie Sanders dust up, if you could even call it that.

02:02:14.000 It was almost just like a terse exchange.

02:02:19.000 And as I said, I mean, I don't believe this is going to affect anything that happens in the race.

02:02:25.000 Certainly nothing that's going to happen in Iowa.

02:02:28.000 What's going to determine what happens in Iowa in the next two weeks is ground game television, radio, newspaper advertisements.

02:02:37.000 Things like that.

02:02:39.000 So, excuse me.

02:02:42.000 I think we are basically.

02:02:46.000 I mean, it doesn't really matter what happened tonight.

02:02:49.000 It was completely uneventful.

02:02:51.000 There was not one moment that stands out throughout the whole thing that was exceptionally good or exceptionally bad for any candidate.

02:03:00.000 There was no significant exchange or memorable exchange between the candidates.

02:03:06.000 This debate could have not happened.

02:03:09.000 It would have been.

02:03:11.000 The same.

02:03:13.000 And the same can be said for my coverage of this debate.

02:03:16.000 So we endured.

02:03:19.000 Hopefully, this is the last one we'll have to watch.

02:03:21.000 I don't know if I'll watch the next one.

02:03:24.000 I think there's one in February, right?

02:03:25.000 Let me double check on that.

02:03:28.000 I'll look up the schedule real quick.

02:03:30.000 Because as we go on with these debates, they are just like each one is less significant than the previous one.

02:03:40.000 Okay, so there's one on February 7th, four days after the Iowa caucus.

02:03:45.000 That'll be before the New Hampshire primary, and then there will be one on February 19th.

02:03:50.000 We get two in February, and that'll be before the Nevada primary.

02:03:56.000 And then February 20th.

02:03:57.000 Oh, I'm sorry, we have three debates in February.

02:03:59.000 Then we have another one on the 25th in South Carolina before the South Carolina primary.

02:04:09.000 And so that is what we have to look forward to.

02:04:13.000 So I doubt I'm going to be covering the next three debates. 0.95

02:04:18.000 Because these suck, and I don't enjoy them, and you don't enjoy them. 0.55

02:04:22.000 You don't enjoy me not enjoying them, so why bother, right? 0.99

02:04:26.000 I have to say, though, I was glad that Cory Booker dropped out.

02:04:29.000 I was glad that Kamala dropped out.

02:04:31.000 They were by far the most annoying. 0.98

02:04:33.000 Cory Booker, in particular, just to me, is a repulsive human being inside and out.

02:04:39.000 But this Tom Steyer is really competing. 0.83

02:04:42.000 I honestly don't even really mind everybody else from a personal standpoint.

02:04:47.000 Like, Joe Biden is not grating on my ears in the same way that Cory Booker is.

02:04:53.000 He's not unbearable, intolerable like Cory Booker.

02:04:57.000 And I think the same is true even for everybody else.

02:04:59.000 As much as I hate Pete Buttigieg, he is eloquent, he is articulate, he is relatively likable.

02:05:07.000 You know what I mean?

02:05:08.000 Not in his actions, not in who he is and what he's about, but hearing him talk.

02:05:13.000 But Tom Steyer is probably the last one on the stage who is just completely unlikable, irredeemable, even if you're being objective, even forgetting the.

02:05:23.000 The policy positions, you know, their politics.

02:05:28.000 People are saying they don't like Klobuchar.

02:05:30.000 Even Klobuchar, I honestly don't even really mind Klobuchar.

02:05:33.000 I think she's actually kind of likable in a way.

02:05:36.000 I think she's actually more likable than the others, at least to me.

02:05:39.000 Because at least Klobuchar, I feel like she has a much more authentic, sort of folksy vibe than Warren.

02:05:46.000 I actually like her more than Warren.

02:05:48.000 Because to me, you know, I think Klobuchar and Warren are both people that, like, love power and would do anything for power.

02:05:54.000 And their whole affect is basically fake, but.

02:05:57.000 You know, Klobuchar, either she is authentic or she does a better job of faking it.

02:06:02.000 It's like a Midwestern mom type, you know?

02:06:07.000 So.

02:06:08.000 But it looks like we're back.

02:06:13.000 Debate live from Des Moines, Iowa.

02:06:16.000 Time now for closing statements.

02:06:18.000 You each have one minute.

02:06:20.000 Senator Klobuchar, let's begin with you.

02:06:23.000 Donald Trump thinks this is all about him.

02:06:26.000 I think it's about you.

02:06:28.000 It's not about his resorts or his tweets or even his ego.

02:06:33.000 It is about your health care.

02:06:35.000 It is about.

02:06:36.000 Your schools.

02:06:37.000 It is about your lives and your future.

02:06:39.000 So, if you want to do something about racial justice and immigration reform and climate change and gun safety, we need a candidate who is actually going to bring people with her.

02:06:51.000 I have won every race, every place, every time.

02:06:55.000 I have gotten the highest voter turnout in the country when I've led the ticket.

02:06:59.000 I have passed more bills as the lead Democrat than anyone who's in Congress that's running for president.

02:07:07.000 I believe.

02:07:08.000 That we need a president that's going to look out for you.

02:07:13.000 It is easy to hurl insults.

02:07:16.000 It is easy to draw lines in the sand and sketch out grand ideological sketches that will never see the light of day.

02:07:24.000 What is hard is bringing people together and finding common ground instead of scorched earth.

02:07:30.000 What is hard is the work of governing.

02:07:32.000 So if you are tired of the extremes in our politics and the noise and the nonsense, you have a home with me.

02:07:39.000 Join me at amyklobuchar.com.

02:07:42.000 Mr. Steyer, I know that Iowans are going to caucus within three weeks, and I want to tell you how I feel about the American people.

02:07:52.000 Look, I played team sports my entire life.

02:07:55.000 The bond between teammates is deep and emotional and full of love.

02:07:59.000 And as far as I'm concerned, the American people are my teammates. 0.93

02:08:03.000 And if there's one thing I will not permit, it is someone to run down the field and kick my teammate in the face.

02:08:09.000 And that is exactly what I've seen over the last seven years.

02:08:12.000 What a superb contrived analogy.

02:08:13.000 What a superb contrived analogy.

02:08:14.000 I've seen these Republicans led by Mr. Trump basically kicking the American people in the face.

02:08:20.000 I am prepared to take on Mr. Trump on the debate stage and take him down on the economy.

02:08:25.000 But I am asking for your support because I know that if I'm going to be a good teammate to you and give you absolutely everything without any compromise, I need the support of you on caucus night so I can turn around and together we can take back this country.

02:08:43.000 And together we can save the world.

02:08:45.000 Mayor Boudicce, this is our moment.

02:08:48.000 This is our one shot to defeat Donald Trump.

02:08:52.000 And to do it by such a big margin that we send Trumpism into the dustbin of history, too.

02:08:59.000 But we cannot take the risk with so much on the line of trying to confront this president with the same Washington mindset and political warfare that led us to this point.

02:09:12.000 If you were watching this at home and you were exhausted, By the spectacle of division and dysfunction, I'm asking you to join me to help turn the page on our politics.

02:09:23.000 If you're seeing the president boast about the Dow Jones, wondering whether any of that will ever get to your kitchen table, join me.

02:09:31.000 If you're a voter of color, feeling taken for granted by politics as usual, join me.

02:09:37.000 If you're used to voting for the other party, but right now cannot look your kids in the eye and explain this president to them, join me.

02:09:44.000 We have a chance to change all of this if we can summon the courage to break from the past.

02:09:50.000 That is why I am running for president.

02:09:52.000 It is why I am asking you to caucus for me on February 3rd, and I hope that you will go to peteforamerica.com and join me in this effort.

02:10:01.000 Senator Warren.

02:10:03.000 So much is broken in this country.

02:10:06.000 I sat here in the break and just made notes about many of the things we didn't get to talk about tonight how the disability community is struggling for truth, how gun violence and active shooter drills worry every mother in this country, how children are living in poverty and sickness.

02:10:25.000 Just make a little list.

02:10:26.000 No, of everyone that didn't get mentioned.

02:10:28.000 Okay, and I'd just like to mention everyone. 1.00

02:10:30.000 Oh, shut up, shut up. 1.00

02:10:32.000 Climate change that particularly hits black and brown communities, people who are being crushed by student loan debt, farmers who are barely holding on, people struggling with mental illness. 1.00

02:10:42.000 And yet, I come here tonight with a heart filled with hope.

02:10:46.000 And it's filled with hope because I see this as our moment in history, our moment when no one is left on the sidelines, our moment when we understand that it comes to us.

02:10:59.000 To decide the future of this country.

02:11:02.000 Our moment when we build the movement to make real change.

02:11:06.000 Hope and courage.

02:11:08.000 That is how I will make you proud every day as your nominee and as the first woman president of the United States of America.

02:11:17.000 Not going to happen, Senator Sanders.

02:11:21.000 It's been a good debate, but we haven't asked the major question.

02:11:26.000 The major question is how does it happen in the richest country in the history of the world that half of our people?

02:11:33.000 Are living paycheck to paycheck, trying to get by nine, ten bucks an hour?

02:11:37.000 How does it happen that when the top 1% owns more wealth than the bottom 92%, half a million people are sleeping out on the streets tonight?

02:11:46.000 How does it happen in this great country we are the only major nation not to guarantee health care to all?

02:11:53.000 How does it happen that we have a child care system which is dysfunctional, a criminal justice system which is broken and racist, an immigration system that needs reform?

02:12:03.000 This is the moment when we have got to think big, not small.

02:12:08.000 This is the moment where we have got to have the courage to take on the 1%, take on the greed and corruption of the corporate elite, and create an economy and create a government that works for all of us, not just the 1%.

02:12:25.000 Thank you.

02:12:26.000 Vice President Biden.

02:12:29.000 Character is on the ballot this time.

02:12:33.000 American character is on the ballot.

02:12:35.000 I hate this so much.

02:12:36.000 Not what Donald Trump is spewing out. 0.97

02:12:39.000 I hate this. 0.94

02:12:40.000 The xenophobia, the racism.

02:12:42.000 That's not who we are as a nation.

02:12:44.000 Everyone in this country is entitled to be treated with respect and dignity.

02:12:48.000 Every single solitary person has to have in a position that way, in fact, we treat them with decency.

02:12:55.000 It's about fundamental, basic decency.

02:12:57.000 We in the United States of America can put up with, we can overcome four years of Donald Trump, but eight years of Donald Trump will be an absolute disaster and fundamentally change this nation.

02:13:08.000 We have to restore America's soul, as I've said from the moment I announced.

02:13:13.000 It is in jeopardy.

02:13:14.000 Under this president of the United States, we lead the world when we lead by example, not by our power.

02:13:21.000 We, in fact, have to regain the respect of the world in order to be able to change things.

02:13:27.000 Ladies and gentlemen, we're in a position right now we have to remember who we are.

02:13:31.000 This is the United States of America.

02:13:33.000 There's not a single thing beyond our capacity to do if we do it together.

02:13:38.000 Let's go do it.

02:13:41.000 Candidates, thank you very, very much.

02:13:43.000 That concludes the first Democratic presidential debate of 2020.

02:13:47.000 The I.O. caucuses. are only 20 days away.

02:13:50.000 Tune in to CNN for continuing coverage of this presidential election.

02:13:55.000 Okay.

02:13:55.000 Bye.

02:13:57.000 Well, there's your debate or whatever.

02:14:03.000 I think we've said it all.

02:14:04.000 Yeah, I think we're probably just going to end the stream after that.

02:14:07.000 I mean, what more really is there to say that hasn't already been said about the field, about the debates, right?

02:14:16.000 About the positions, the topics?

02:14:21.000 It's more of the same.

02:14:22.000 More of the same that we saw.

02:14:23.000 In the last debate, the debate before that, all the way.

02:14:26.000 I mean, we've been doing this now for seven months, if you can believe it.

02:14:30.000 Seven months of debates.

02:14:33.000 Seven months.

02:14:35.000 So now we have to see what the result is going to be, of course.

02:14:39.000 Iowa caucus, February 3rd, that's when the rubber meets the road, so to speak.

02:14:44.000 That's when the primary begins.

02:14:46.000 Primary season begins.

02:14:48.000 February 3rd runs up until, I think, like May or June.

02:14:52.000 And Iowa is when we will.

02:14:54.000 Start to see where the voters are at because we have polls and we have fundraising and we have all kinds of other metrics, but it doesn't really matter until we start to see what the voters are going to select.

02:15:05.000 And, you know, as I said, the question with this one is the question is difficult because there is no clear winner like there was in the Republican primary in 2016.

02:15:17.000 You know, in 2016, Donald Trump, like, crushed every single primary.

02:15:21.000 He didn't win the Iowa caucus, Ted Cruz won the Iowa caucus, but.

02:15:26.000 You know, he was by far and away number one in the polls.

02:15:28.000 Nobody came close.

02:15:29.000 The only time I think he ever got overtaken was like one week in December or November by Ben Carson 2015.

02:15:37.000 But aside from that, he was clearly the decisive winner.

02:15:42.000 That doesn't exist right now in this primary.

02:15:44.000 It really is like a four person race between Biden, Sanders, Buttigieg, and Warren.

02:15:50.000 So we have to see how they perform against each other.

02:15:52.000 Joe Biden's going to win number one, of course.

02:15:55.000 The question is who's going to come in second and third?

02:15:58.000 I think whoever comes in fourth is going to have a hard time.

02:16:00.000 But second and third, you could probably swing.

02:16:02.000 And then, of course, we see what happens in New Hampshire, Nevada, South Carolina.

02:16:07.000 And the four primary contests, the four initial ones in February, will determine how the rest of the season goes and will ultimately determine the nominee.

02:16:15.000 So we'll have to really be watching on election nights.

02:16:18.000 The next big night is February 3rd that we'll be watching.

02:16:22.000 By the end of that, we should have a pretty good idea of the direction of the race.

02:16:26.000 But, you know, I didn't hear anything really groundbreaking tonight.

02:16:29.000 There were exactly zero memorable moments.

02:16:31.000 There was practically no fighting.

02:16:34.000 I don't remember a single statement that was, as I said, exceptionally inspiring and nothing that was really a gaffe.

02:16:42.000 So I think the situation in Iowa and nationally will remain unchanged after the debate.

02:16:47.000 I think the coverage will be the same.

02:16:49.000 You know, the only major thing about this debate was not even what happened and who was on the stage, but what did not happen and who was not on the stage, which is to say that Andrew Yang was not on the stage because he did not qualify, Chelsea Gabbard was not on the stage because she did not qualify.

02:17:05.000 Normally, I would say that that doesn't matter, but it does matter because they didn't qualify because they didn't get enough donors.

02:17:13.000 I think they did have enough donors, but they didn't reach a high enough percentage in the polling, which shows that the field is winnowing.

02:17:19.000 It's narrowing to a few serious candidates, and Yang not being in the debates does not mean his campaign is over.

02:17:26.000 Him not qualifying because he's not polling high means his campaign is probably almost over.

02:17:31.000 It's January now, so if you're not making it, it means you're not going to make it.

02:17:36.000 We're probably going to see over the next two months the field, I believe, will narrow to these seven and possibly less than that.

02:17:44.000 Michael Bloomberg will probably have some staying power, even though he didn't qualify, because he got into the race like last month.

02:17:51.000 But that's sort of my projection.

02:17:53.000 I think Joe Biden's probably going to win the nomination, barring anything spectacular, crazy, weird, miraculous, anything like that.

02:18:01.000 Joe Biden's number one in the polls nationally.

02:18:03.000 He's number one in the polls in all the four primary states next month.

02:18:09.000 You know, he's number one in news media coverage.

02:18:11.000 I think he's number two or three in fundraising.

02:18:14.000 He's got the name recognition, he's got the blacks. 0.51

02:18:17.000 He's got the so called blue dogs.

02:18:19.000 And he's polling the best against Trump.

02:18:21.000 So, you know, to me, it's kind of like case closed at this point.

02:18:24.000 And we're really seeing competition between Sanders, Warren, and Buttigieg for who might be able to take a shot, you know, once the field narrows to like one or two or one or three or something like that.

02:18:37.000 You know, the field narrows rather to two or three candidates.

02:18:39.000 The fight is between, you know, who might be that candidate that could challenge him for the top spot.

02:18:45.000 Or conversely, another way to think of it is, Who will then be his vice president?

02:18:48.000 You know, whoever comes in second place will probably end up vice president.

02:18:52.000 Maybe it'll be Warren.

02:18:53.000 You know, maybe it'll be Harris.

02:18:55.000 Who knows, right?

02:18:56.000 But to me, that's how I see the race going down.

02:18:58.000 I think we've seen that this race has gone on for a year, and nobody's been able to unseat him or seriously challenge him.

02:19:05.000 Nobody's had like a week where they're number one nationally, nobody's had a month where they're number one in any of these early primary states.

02:19:14.000 So I just look at the numbers.

02:19:16.000 I look at the numbers.

02:19:17.000 I look at the Mood in the Democratic Party, it seems to me like Joe Biden gets a nomination. 1.00

02:19:22.000 And the guy's a fucking idiot. 1.00

02:19:24.000 You know, he's a terrible candidate. 1.00

02:19:25.000 The only thing that he has going for him is demographics.

02:19:28.000 You know, that in 2020, you're going to have a lot more Generation Z and millennial voters.

02:19:35.000 I think it's mostly Generation Z are contributing to the Democratic base.

02:19:40.000 And you're going to have a lot less silent generation voters.

02:19:44.000 So that age demographic shift is happening.

02:19:48.000 There's also a racial demographic shift happening.

02:19:51.000 If you see, for example, Puerto Rican refugees, and you see this with prisoners, felons that are voting in Kentucky and Florida, the First Step Act has released a lot of Democrats, I'm sure.

02:20:05.000 So, you know, the demographic, and then, of course, immigration.

02:20:09.000 So, all these different demographic trends favor Democrats, making it such that even if they have a bad candidate, they still are in it.

02:20:17.000 You know, they still are competitive, and it'll still be tough for Trump.

02:20:21.000 The states to watch are going to be Wisconsin.

02:20:25.000 Arizona, Florida.

02:20:27.000 Those are the key ones.

02:20:29.000 But also, I mean, there are a lot of states in play.

02:20:32.000 You know, I think in play are Nevada, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Virginia, North Carolina.

02:20:41.000 Virginia, probably not so much.

02:20:44.000 But the ones to watch are going to be Florida, Wisconsin, and Arizona.

02:20:47.000 In my opinion, those are going to be sort of the make or break states there.

02:20:51.000 And it's going to come down to Trump versus Joe Biden.

02:20:54.000 That is going to be a whole.

02:20:56.000 Thing in itself, which we'll have to wait and see how that plays out.

02:20:58.000 But that's how I predict the next six months are going to go, you know, between now and the conventions in the summer, as I think Joe Biden's probably going to come away with it, unless a serious challenger arises towards the end of the primary season.

02:21:14.000 You know, maybe one candidate consolidates the opposition against Joe Biden.

02:21:18.000 Maybe it's Warren, for example.

02:21:20.000 Maybe it's Sanders.

02:21:21.000 They consolidate the progressive block.

02:21:23.000 You'd imagine that if Sanders drops out, then Warren would.

02:21:27.000 Subsume his base and vice versa.

02:21:30.000 And then maybe they'd be able to challenge Joe Biden in some of these states.

02:21:33.000 Right now, the progressive vote is split and the establishment sort of electability crowd is consolidated under Biden.

02:21:41.000 So, I could see that being a scenario where maybe Warren or Sanders could pull ahead.

02:21:46.000 But barring that from happening, I think Joe Biden has a pretty clear shot.

02:21:52.000 And then it's him versus Trump.

02:21:53.000 So, that's a debate. 0.83

02:21:55.000 Like I said, not like the debate has anything to do with any of that because it sucked and nothing happened.

02:22:00.000 But that was a debate tonight.

02:22:03.000 I hope you enjoyed it, I guess.

02:22:07.000 I hope.

02:22:09.000 I don't know.

02:22:10.000 I really don't enjoy these things.

02:22:12.000 Not like a bit.

02:22:13.000 It's not a joke.

02:22:14.000 I mean, I just hate these things.

02:22:16.000 It's not real.

02:22:16.000 It's fake.

02:22:18.000 It's political theater.

02:22:19.000 We all know that.

02:22:21.000 People are watching these things and giving serious commentary.

02:22:24.000 It's all a charade.

02:22:25.000 It's all a big show.

02:22:26.000 We know that.

02:22:27.000 It's a big joke.

02:22:27.000 You know that.

02:22:30.000 It's a bad joke.

02:22:32.000 I hope you enjoyed.

02:22:33.000 That's probably going to do it for us tonight.

02:22:35.000 I know you're probably sick of talking about it.

02:22:38.000 Frankly, I'm sick of talking about it. 1.00

02:22:40.000 I'm sick of hearing about all this shit. 1.00

02:22:43.000 That's our debate. 1.00

02:22:45.000 We're going to drop the chest now.

02:22:47.000 We'll open the chest for everybody in here.

02:22:51.000 We're dropping it.

02:22:52.000 We're releasing the chest.

02:22:54.000 Do I have any other Ninja Genies to read?

02:22:54.000 Let me see.

02:22:57.000 I don't think so.

02:22:58.000 Yeah.

02:23:00.000 So, looks like we're good on that front.

02:23:03.000 Let me let the chest disperse.

02:23:09.000 But, hey, thanks for watching.

02:23:11.000 I hope you enjoyed.

02:23:13.000 I hope it was more enjoyable than watching the debate by itself.

02:23:17.000 Thank you for the lemons and everything.

02:23:20.000 I guess I could just do like my America First outro, right?

02:23:23.000 I mean, that's going to do it for us.

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