00:02:12.000But let me make very clear that what this impeachment proceeding is about is really our democracy at stake.
00:02:20.000This is a president that not only with regard to his conduct with Ukraine, but every step of the way puts his own private interests, his own partisan interests, his own political interests in front of our country's interests.
00:02:38.000This is a pattern with this man, and it goes to everything from how he has betrayed our farmers and our workers to what he has done with foreign affairs, leaving the Kurds for slaughter.
00:02:51.000Sucking up to Vladimir Putin every minute of the day.
00:02:57.000And I think it is very, very important that we have a president that's going to put our country first.
00:03:01.000I was thinking about this when I was at the Carter Presidential Museum, and on the wall are etched the words of Walter Mondale when he looked back at their four years, not perfect.
00:03:12.000And he said this We told the truth, we obeyed the law, we kept the peace.
00:03:18.000We told the truth, we obeyed the law, we kept the peace.
00:03:21.000That is the minimum that we should expect.
00:05:20.000The impeachable conduct that we have seen in the abuse of power that we're learning more about in the investigations.
00:05:26.000But just to be clear, the president's already confessed to it on television.
00:05:30.000But that's just part of what we've seen.
00:05:33.000Under normal circumstances, a president would leave office after.
00:05:36.000Something that was revealed recently that barely got any attention at all, which was the president had to confess in writing, in court, to illegally diverting charitable contributions that were supposed to go to veterans.
00:05:49.000We are absolutely going to confront this president for his wrongdoing, but we are also each running to be the president who will lead this country after the Trump presidency comes to an end, one way or the other.
00:06:01.000Running to be the president for that day the sun comes up and the Trump presidency is behind us.
00:06:43.000Vice President Biden, you've suggested in your campaign that if you defeat President Trump, Republicans will start working with Democrats again.
00:06:51.000But right now, Republicans in Congress, including some of whom you've worked with for decades, are demanding investigations not only of you but also of your son.
00:07:00.000How would you get those same Republicans to work with you?
00:07:03.000Well, look, the next president of the United States is going to have to do two things.
00:07:07.000Defeat Donald Trump, that's number one.
00:07:11.000And number two, going to have to be able to.
00:07:15.000Go into states like Georgia and North Carolina and other places and get a Senate majority.
00:07:23.000You have to ask yourself up here who is most likely to be able to win the nomination in the first place, to win the presidency in the first place, and secondly, who is most likely to increase the number of people who are Democrats in the House and in the Senate?
00:07:38.000And by the way, I learned from these impeachment trials.
00:07:41.000I learned, number one, that Donald Trump doesn't want me to be the nominee.
00:08:42.000It's so tired at this point that we're engaged in by the president, from what we heard today, the vice president, the secretary of state, and the chief of staff.
00:08:51.000And so this not only points to the corrupt nature of this administration and the need for these impeachment.
00:09:01.000And back to the question that you asked earlier, which is what does this mean for the American people?
00:09:06.000Because what it means when I watch this is that there are clearly two different sets of rules for two different groups of people in America.
00:09:14.000The powerful people, who in the arrogance think they can get away with this.
00:09:18.000Oh, she's about to name them very efficiently.
00:09:19.000Because here's the thing for those working people who are working two and three days, if they don't pay that credit card, by the end of the month, they get a penalty.
00:09:27.000For the people who don't pay their rent, they get evicted.
00:09:30.000Because when Bill Maher said it, he got away with it.
00:09:33.000We need the same set of rules for everybody.
00:09:36.000And part of the reason I'm running for president is to say that we want justice back to America for all people.
00:10:35.000Doing a wealth tax is not about punishing anyone.
00:10:39.000It's about saying you built something great in this country, good for you.
00:10:42.000But you did it using workers, all of us helped pay to educate.
00:10:46.000You did it using your goods on roads and bridges, all of us helped pay for it.
00:10:51.000You did it protected by police and fire.
00:10:53.000Which I was naming and gaming right now.
00:10:56.000So when you make it big, when you make it really big, when you make up top one tenth of one percent big, pitch in two cents so everybody else gets a chance to make it.
00:11:07.000That's something that Democrats care about, independents care about, and Republicans care about.
00:11:13.000Because regardless of party affiliation, people understand across this country our government is working better and better for the billionaires and the rich and worse and worse for everyone else.
00:11:26.000We come together when we acknowledge that and say we're going to make real change.
00:11:57.000We as Democrats need a discriminatory just taxation system.
00:12:00.000But as I travel around the country, we Democrats also have to talk about how to grow wealth as well.
00:12:06.000When I stood in church recently and asked folks in a black church how many people here want to be entrepreneurs, can't the church raise their income?
00:12:51.000Two cents on the top one tenth of one percent in this country, and we can provide universal child care for every baby in this country ages zero to five.
00:13:02.000We can provide universal pre K for every three year old and four year old in America.
00:13:07.000We can stop exploiting the women, largely black and brown women, who do this work, and we can raise the wages of every child care worker and preschool teacher in America.
00:13:16.000We can put 800 billion new federal dollars into all of our public schools.
00:13:22.000We can make college tuition free for every kid.
00:13:25.000We can put $50 billion into the schools.
00:13:56.000But the tax, the way we're putting it forward right now, the wealth tax, I'm sorry, it's cumbersome.
00:14:00.000It's been tried by other nations, it's hard to evaluate.
00:14:03.000We can get the same amount of revenue through just taxation.
00:14:06.000But again, we as Democrats have got to start talking not just about how we tax from a stage, but how we grow wealth in this country amongst those disadvantaged communities that are not seeing it.
00:14:17.000Look at VC dollars in this country 75% of them go to three metropolitan areas.
00:14:22.000There is worth in the inner city, there is value in our rural areas.
00:14:26.000If I am president of the United States, we're going to have a fair, just taxation where millionaires and billionaires pay their fair share.
00:14:32.000But dear God, we're going to have pathways to prosperity.
00:14:35.000For more Americans, we're going to see a change in what we see right now.
00:14:39.000Small businesses, new startups are going down in this country.
00:15:25.000Mayor Buttigieg, you have said, I will never allow us to get so wrapped up in the fighting that we start to think fighting is the point.
00:15:33.000The Republican Party never stopped fighting President Obama in his eight years in office.
00:15:37.000So, what would you do that President Obama didn't do to change that?
00:15:41.000Well, as President Obama commented recently, we are now in a different reality than we were even 12 years ago.
00:15:47.000And to me, the extraordinary potential of the moment we're in right now is that there is an American majority that stands ready to tackle big issues that didn't exist in the same way even a few years ago.
00:15:59.000Even on issues where Democrats have been on defense, like immigration and guns, we have a majority to do the right thing if we can galvanize, not polarize that majority.
00:16:12.000The reason I insist on Medicare for all who want it as the strategy to deliver on that goal we share of universal health care is that that is something that, as a governing strategy, we can unify the American people around.
00:16:25.000Creating a version of Medicare, making it available to anybody who wants it, but without the divisive step of ordering people onto it, whether they want to or not.
00:16:36.000And I believe that commanding people to accept that option, whether we wait three years as Senator Warren has proposed, Proposed or whether you do it right out of the gate is not the right approach to unify the American people around a very, very big transformation that we now have an opportunity to deliver.
00:17:34.000Let's bring as many people in and get as much help to the American people as we can, as fast as we can.
00:17:40.000On day one, as president, I will bring down the cost of prescription drugs on things like insulin and EpiPens.
00:17:49.000That's going to save tens of millions, hundreds of millions of dollars for people.
00:17:54.000I'm going to defend the Affordable Care Act from the sabotage of the Trump administration.
00:17:59.000And in the first hundred days, I'm going to bring in.
00:18:02.000135 million people into Medicare for all at no cost to them.
00:18:08.000Everybody under the age of 18, everybody who has a family of four, income less than $50,000.
00:18:15.000I'm going to lower the age of Medicare to 50 and expand Medicare coverage to include vision and dental and long term care.
00:18:25.000And then in the third year, when people have had a chance to feel it and taste it and live with it, we're going to vote and we're going to want Medicare for all.
00:19:04.000We don't have to tear down the system.
00:19:07.000But we do have to do what the American people want.
00:19:10.000And the American people understand today that the current health care system is not only cruel, it is dysfunctional.
00:19:18.000Now, you tell me how we have a system in which we spend twice as much as do the people of any other country, and yet we got 87 million uninsured, underinsured.
00:19:31.000In some cases, we pay 10 times more for prescription drugs than do the people of Canada or other countries.
00:19:40.000500,000 people go bankrupt because of medically related issues.
00:19:46.000They come down with cancer, and that's a reason to go bankrupt.
00:19:50.000Now, some of the people up here think that we should not take on the insurance industry.
00:19:56.000We should not take on the pharmaceutical industry.
00:20:00.000If you think back to FDR, and if you think back to JFK, and Harry Truman, and Barack Obama, as a matter of fact, people have been talking about health care for all.
00:20:49.000Nancy Pelosi is one of those people who then thinks it makes sense.
00:20:53.000We should build on Obamacare, provide the plan I put forward before anybody in here, adding a Medicare option in that plan, and not make people choose.
00:21:27.000I trust the American people to make a judgment what they believe is in their interest and not demand of them what the insurance companies want.
00:21:34.000They want no competition, and my friends say you have to only go Medicare for all.
00:21:43.000Congresswoman Gabbard, you have criticized Hillary Clinton as the personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party.
00:21:52.000She's going to disappoint us if she's not.
00:21:55.000That our Democratic Party, unfortunately, is not the party that is of, by, and for the people.
00:22:02.000It is a party that has been and continues to be influenced by the foreign policy establishment in Washington, represented by Hillary Clinton and others' foreign policy, by the military industrial complex, and other greedy corporate interests.
00:22:18.000I'm running for president to be the Democratic nominee that rebuilds our Democratic Party, takes it out of their hands, and truly puts it in the hands of.
00:22:27.000Of the people of this country, a party that actually hears the voices of Americans who are struggling all across this country and puts it in the hands of veterans and fellow Americans who are calling for an end to this ongoing Bush Clinton Trump foreign policy doctrine of regime change wars,
00:22:46.000overthrowing dictators in other countries, needlessly sending my brothers and sisters in uniform into harm's way to fight in wars that actually undermine our national security and have cost us thousands.
00:23:00.000These are wars that have cost us as American taxpayers trillions of dollars since 9 11 alone, dollars that have come out of our pockets, out of our hospitals, out of our schools, out of our infrastructure needs.
00:23:13.000As president, I will end this foreign policy, end these regime change wars, work to end this new Cold War and arms race, and instead invest our hard earned taxpayer dollars actually into serving the needs of the American people right here at home.
00:23:30.000You know, she did not so great last time, but that was pretty good.
00:23:35.000I think that it's unfortunate that we have someone on the stage who is attempting to be the Democratic nominee for President of the United States, who during the Obama administration spent four years full time on Fox News criticizing President Obama.
00:23:52.000Who has spent full time criticizing people on this stage as affiliated with the Democratic Party.
00:23:59.000When Donald Trump was elected, not even sworn in, Buddied up to Steve Bannon to get a meeting with Donald Trump in the Trump Tower, fails to call a war criminal by what he is as a war criminal, and then spends full time during the course of this campaign, again, criticizing the Democratic Party.
00:24:20.000What we need on the stage in November is someone who has the ability to win.
00:24:28.000And by that, we need someone on that stage who has the ability to go toe to toe with Donald Trump, and someone who has the ability to rebuild the Obama coalition.
00:24:38.000And bring the party and the nation together, I believe I am that candidate.
00:24:43.000Congresswoman Gabbard, I'll give you a chance to respond.
00:24:45.000What Senator Harris is doing is unfortunately continuing to traffic in lies and smears and innuendos because she cannot challenge the substance of the argument that I'm making, the leadership and the change that I'm seeking to bring in our foreign policy, which only makes me guess that she will, as president, continue the status quo, continue the Bush Clinton Trump foreign policy of regime change wars.
00:25:16.000This is personal to me because I served in Iraq.
00:25:19.000I left my seat in the state legislature in Hawaii, volunteered to deploy to Iraq, where I served in a medical unit where every single day I saw the terribly high human cost of war.
00:25:29.000I take very seriously the responsibility that the president has to serve as commander in chief, to lead our armed forces, and to make sure always.
00:25:39.000No, I'm not going to put party interests first.
00:25:41.000I will put the interests of the American people first.
00:26:00.000She was mostly in a courtroom speaking five words Kamala Harris for the people.
00:26:03.000And it was about all the people, regardless of their race, regardless of their gender, regardless of where they live geographically, regardless of the party with which they're registered to vote or the language their grandmother speaks.
00:26:14.000We need someone on this debate stage in November who has the ability to unify the country and to win the election.
00:26:21.000And I believe again, I am that candidate.
00:28:30.000Is start a constitutional amendment and pass it to overturn Citizens United.
00:28:35.000That's what we should do so that we stop this dark money and outside money from coming into our politics.
00:28:41.000I have led the way on voting, and I can tell you right now one solution that would make a huge difference in this state would be to allow every kid in the country to register to vote when they turn 18.
00:28:54.000If we had a system like this and we did something about gerrymandering and we stopped the voting purges and we did something significant, About making sure we don't have money in politics from the outside, Stacey Abrams would be governor of this state right now.
00:30:11.000Climate change, artificial intelligence, loose nuclear material, military drones, and non state actors.
00:30:17.000And if you look up, we're in the The process of potentially losing the AI arms race to China right now because they have more access to more data than we do, and their government is putting billions of dollars to work subsidizing the development of AI in a way that we are not.
00:31:01.000You were elected mayor in a Democratic city.
00:31:03.000Some of the stuff is cringe, but how can you not like the guy, right?
00:31:07.000And in your only statewide race, you lost by 25 points.
00:31:12.000Why should Democrats take the risk of betting on you?
00:31:15.000Because I have the right experience to take on Donald Trump.
00:31:18.000I get that it's not traditional establishment.
00:31:21.000Washington experience, but I would argue we need something very different right now.
00:31:26.000In order to defeat this president, we need somebody who can go toe to toe, who actually comes from the kinds of communities that he's been appealing to.
00:31:35.000I don't talk a big game about helping the working class while helicoptering between golf courses with my name on them.
00:31:44.000As a matter of fact, I never thought I'd be on a Forbes magazine list, but they did one of all the candidates by wealth, and I am literally the least wealthy person on this stage.
00:31:54.000Yeah, because you wore the uniform of this country.
00:31:56.000Imagine saying that like it's a good thing.
00:31:59.000I don't get on a helicopter and fly between all the golf courses I own because I'm a poor bitch.
00:32:25.000Working side by side with neighbors on some of the toughest issues that come up in government, recognizing what is required of executive leadership, and bringing that to Washington so that Washington can start looking a little more like our best run communities in the heartland before the other way around starts to happen.
00:32:43.000Senator Klobuchar, you said this of Mayor Buttigieg Of the women on the stage, do I think that we would be standing on that stage if we had the experience he had?
00:34:03.000And I am the one, Mr. Vice President, that has been able to win every red and purple congressional district as the lead on a ticket every time.
00:34:12.000I govern both with my head and my heart.
00:34:15.000And if you think a woman can't beat Donald Trump, Nancy Pelosi does it every single day.
00:34:21.000She always has one of those cute little lines queued up, right?
00:34:29.000I think a woman's qualified to be president.
00:34:31.000There's no reason why, if you think the woman's the most qualified person now, you should vote for them.
00:34:34.000The reason why I think I should be president and be the nominee is number one, I have brought people together my entire career.
00:34:43.000In the United States Senate, I've passed more major legislation than everybody on this stage combined, from the Violence Against Women Act.
00:34:49.000To making sure we have the violence against women act, which of course supports violence against women.
00:34:55.000The whole range of things that I've been engaged in.
00:35:25.000They know me and they know when I speak, if I'm the President of the United States, who we're for, who we're against, and what we'll do, and we'll keep our word.
00:35:34.000Senator Booker, one of the defining characteristics of the Trump presidency is that the American people hear from him directly, all the time, about everything on Twitter and just about everywhere else.
00:35:46.000Setting aside your views of his tone, is that unfiltered communication something you, as President would continue.
00:35:52.000Is this one of the norms broken by President Trump?
00:36:27.000We are a nation that achieves great things when we stand together and work together and fight together.
00:36:34.000So, absolutely, when I was mayor of the largest city in my state, and this is where I agree with Mayor Pete, mayoral experience is very important, and I happen to be the other Rhodes Scholar mayor on this stage.
00:36:50.000And what I learned there is that you have to be an executive that can heal.
00:38:48.000I think when you talk about the pain of working families in this country, the majority of the American people want to raise the minimum wage to a living wage.
00:38:57.000When you talk about the climate crisis, the overwhelming majority of the American people know that it is real.
00:39:03.000They know we have to take on the fossil fuel industry, they know we have to transform our energy system.
00:39:10.000Away from fossil fuel to energy efficiency and sustainable energy.
00:39:14.000Even on issues like guns, the American people are coming together to end the horrific level of gun violence.
00:39:21.000So I believe, yeah, we got to deal with Trump, but we also have to have an agenda that brings our people together so that the wealth and income doesn't just go to the people on top, but to all of us.
00:39:32.000Vice President Biden, let me ask you to pick up on the issue that Senator Sanders just raised about no one being above the law.
00:39:38.000When President Ford pardoned President Nixon, he said it was to heal the country.
00:39:44.000Would you support a potential criminal investigation into President Trump after he leaves office, even if you thought it might further inflame the country's divisions?
00:39:53.000Look, I would not direct my Justice Department like this president does.
00:39:58.000I'd let them make their independent judgment.
00:40:00.000I would not dictate who should be prosecuted or who should be exonerated.
00:40:06.000That's not the role of the president of the United States.
00:40:09.000It's the attorney general of the United States, not the president's attorney, private attorney.
00:41:16.000I think that it is the function of the Attorney General.
00:41:20.000But what I am of the opinion is that the American people now do believe, and the more they see these impeachment hearings on television, they do believe that we have a president who thinks he's above the law.
00:41:32.000We have a president who is engaged in corruption.
00:41:36.000We have a president who has obstructed justice, and in my view, somebody who has violated the Emoluments Clause.
00:43:00.000We need to start supporting our kids and families from the beginning, because by the time they're showing up to pre K and kindergarten, in many cases, they're already years behind.
00:43:11.000Studies have shown that two thirds of our kids' educational outcomes are determined.
00:43:19.000This is stress levels, number of words read to them as children, type of neighborhood, whether a parent has time to spend with them.
00:43:27.000So we need to have a freedom dividend in place from day one $1,000 a month for every American adult, which would put in many cases $2,000 a month into families' pockets so that they can either pay for childcare or if they want, stay home with the child.
00:43:43.000We should not be pushing everyone to leave at home and go to the workforce.
00:44:23.000I looked at this economically, and I want to make sure that we help people because, as just pointed out, we are way behind the curve our country is when it comes to providing paid family leave and child care.
00:44:35.000We must do this, and we will do this if we have the right person heading up the ticket so we can win big.
00:44:41.000But what I have done with all of my plans is I have showed how I'm going to pay for them meticulously.
00:44:47.000I think that is really, really important when we have a president in the White House right now who has told over 10,000 lies.
00:44:56.000So, when you look at my website at amyklobuchar.com, you will see my plans and you're also going to see how I'm going to pay for it.
00:45:03.000And I think that is so important because this president is literally increasing the debt, treating our farmers and workers like poker chips in a bank or casino, and really putting this country in a worse financial situation every single day.
00:46:46.000Which means that these families and parents are often raising young children and taking care of their parents, which requires a lot of work.
00:46:55.000From traveling back and forth to a hospital to daycare to all of the activities that are required, much less the health care needs that are required.
00:47:02.000And what we are seeing in America today is the burden principally falls on women to do that work.
00:47:09.000And many women are having to make a very difficult choice whether they're going to leave a profession for which they have a passion to care for their family or whether they are going to give up a paycheck that is part of what that family relies on.
00:47:22.000So, six months paid family leave is meant to and is designed to adjust to the reality of women's lives today.
00:47:29.000The reality also is that women are not paid equal for equal work in America.
00:47:33.000We passed the Equal Pay Act in 1963, but fast forward to the year of our Lord 2019, and women are paid 80 cents on the dollar, black women 61 cents, Native American women 58 cents, Latinas 53 cents.
00:47:48.000So my policy is about there's a whole collection of work that I am doing that is focused on women and working in America and the inequities and therefore the injustice that women in America are facing that needs to be resolved.
00:48:56.000It also includes skyrocketing rents that affect every single working person in the state of California.
00:49:04.000I understand exactly what needs to be done here, which is we need to change policy and we need to apply resources here.
00:49:11.000To make sure that we build literally millions of new units.
00:49:16.000But the other thing that's going to be true about building these units is we're going to have to build them in a way that's sustainable.
00:49:22.000Donald Trump's speech is a very nice comment.
00:49:24.000How we build units where people live has a dramatic impact on climate and on sustainability.
00:49:32.000So we are going to have to direct dollars, we're going to have to change policy and make sure that the localities and municipalities who've worked very hard to make sure that there are no new housing units built in their towns.
00:49:46.000That they have to change that and we're going to have to force it.
00:49:48.000And then we're going to have to direct federal dollars to make sure that those units are affordable so that working people can live in places and not be spending 50% of their income on rent.
00:50:03.000Think of it this way our housing problem in America is a problem on the supply side.
00:50:08.000And that means that the federal government stopped building new housing a long time ago, affordable housing.
00:50:14.000Also, private developers, they've gone up to the mansions.
00:50:17.000They're not building the little two bedroom, one bath house that I grew up in.
00:50:21.000Garage converted to be a bedroom for my three brothers.
00:50:24.000So I've got a plan for 3.2 million new housing units in America.
00:50:28.000Those are housing units for working families, for the working poor, for the poor poor, for seniors who want to age in place, for people with disabilities, for people who are coming back from being incarcerated.
00:50:39.000It's about tenants' rights, but there's one more piece housing is how we build wealth in America.
00:50:45.000The federal government has subsidized the purchase of housing for decades for white people and has said for black people, you're cut out of the deal.
00:50:56.000When I built a housing plan, it's not only a housing plan about building new units, it's a housing plan about addressing what is wrong about government sponsored discrimination, how we need to address it, and we need to say we're going to reverse it.
00:51:14.000As a mayor who was a mayor during a recession, who was a mayor during a housing crisis, who started my career as a tenants' rights lawyer, these are all good points, but we're not talking about something that is going on all over America, which is gentrification.
00:51:29.000And low income families being moved further and further out, often compounding racial segregation.
00:51:36.000And so, all of these things, we need to put more federal dollars in it, but we've got to start empowering people.
00:51:41.000We use our tax code to move wealth up, the mortgage interest deduction.
00:51:47.000If you're a renter who pays more than a third of your income in rent, then you will get a refundable tax credit between the amount you're paying and the area meeting rent.
00:52:02.000And what that does is it actually slashes poverty, 10 million people out.
00:52:06.000And by the way, for those people who are facing eviction, it is about time that the only people, when they show up in rentals court, that have a lawyer is not the landlord, it is also low income families struggling to stay in their homes.
00:52:19.000We're going to take a quick break, but we will remain in touch with these candidates from the MSNBC Washington Post Democratic Candidates Debate in Atlanta, Georgia.
00:55:00.000But so, as I was saying, it's the same debate, it's the same conversation, it's the same statements, you know, down to even the same jokes.
00:55:13.000I wrote the damn bill, I have a plan for that.
00:55:17.000This debate about Medicare for all versus Medicare for all who want it.
00:55:59.000And even that exchange was basically hollow.
00:56:02.000You know, Tulsi did better than last time, but I don't feel like her statement was extremely compelling.
00:56:08.000You know, I just don't think she's a strong public speaker.
00:56:10.000Now, the substance of it was good, it was better delivered than anything she's done so far, but I just don't find her to be an incredibly compelling speaker.
00:56:21.000Didn't really engage with her on regime change.
00:56:24.000Kamala just responded with this basically an adapted version of her introductory statement, which is, I think I'm the candidate to unify the nation.
00:56:32.000So, I think that kind of took the wind out of her sails a little bit.
00:56:35.000But looks like we're back for the second hour of this trash debate.
00:56:40.000Here's your epic moderators with all the amazing questions.
00:56:44.000American farmers are struggling under the effects of President Trump's trade war with China.
00:56:50.000The Trump administration's payments to farmers to offset those losses already have a price tag that is more than double what was spent on the Obama administration's auto bailout.
00:57:03.000Would you continue those farm subsidies?
00:57:05.000We shouldn't have to pay farmers to take the edge off of a trade war that shouldn't have been started in the first place.
00:57:13.000I will support farmers, but not long ago, I was in Boone, Iowa.
00:57:16.000A guy came up to me, he said, I got my Trump bailout check, but I would have rather spent that money on conservation.
00:57:22.000By the way, this isn't even making farmers whole.
00:57:25.000If you're in soybeans, for example, you're getting killed.
00:57:28.000And it's not just what this president's done with the trade war.
00:57:31.000In a lot of parts of the country, the worst thing is these so called small refinery waivers, which are Killing those who are involved in ethanol.
00:57:38.000Look, I don't think this president cares one bit about farmers.
00:57:42.000He keeps asking him to take one for the team, but more and more I'm talking to people in rural America who see that they're not going to benefit from business as usual under this president.
00:57:53.000I believe that so many of the solutions lie with American farmers, but we have to stand up for them, not just with direct subsidies and support, but with making sure we do something about the consolidation, the monopolies that leave farmers with fewer places to purchase supplies from and fewer places to sell their product to.
00:58:10.000And American farming should be one of the key pillars of how we combat climate change.
00:58:16.000I believe that the quest for the carbon negative farm could be as big a symbol of dealing with climate change as the electric car in this country.
00:58:24.000And it's an important part of how we make sure that we get a message out around dealing with climate change that recruits everybody to be part of the solution, including conservative communities where a lot of people have been made to feel that admitting climate science would mean acknowledging they're part of the problem.
00:58:39.000I'm sorry to interrupt, but I need you to answer the question.
00:58:41.000Would you continue those subsidies or not?
00:58:44.000Yes, but we won't need them because we're going to fix the trade war.
00:58:57.000Climate is also an issue important to our audience.
00:58:59.000We received thousands of questions from our viewers, and many of them were about climate.
00:59:05.000Kalista from Minneapolis writes this Leading the world in resolving the climate crisis will be a multi decade project, spanning far beyond even a two term presidency.
00:59:17.000If you are elected president, how would you ensure that there is secure leadership and bipartisan support to continue this project?
00:59:27.000This is an issue that impacts all of us as Americans and people all over the world.
00:59:32.000This is not a Democrat issue or Republican issue.
00:59:35.000This is about the environmental threats that each and every one of us face.
00:59:39.000These are the kinds of conversations that we're having in our town hall meetings and House parties in different parts of the country where we have Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians and independents coming together saying, Hey, we are all concerned about making sure that we have clean water to drink for our families, that we have clean air to breathe.
00:59:57.000That we have clean air to raise our kids in a community that's safe.
01:00:02.000It is the hyper partisanship in Washington, unfortunately, that has created this gridlock that has stood in the way of the kinds of progress that I would bring about as president.
01:00:13.000Transitioning our country to fossil fuels and ending the nearly $30 billion in subsidies that we as taxpayers are currently giving.
01:00:22.000To the fossil fuel industry, instead investing in a green, renewable energy economy that leads us into the 21st century with good paying jobs, a sustainable economy, investing in infrastructure, and transitioning our agriculture that is a great contributor to the environmental threats we face towards an agriculture system that focuses on local and regional production of food, healthy food that will actually feed the health and well being of our people.
01:00:50.000Leading as a big man to make the global.
01:00:53.000Change necessary to address this threat.
01:00:55.000I want to bring in Mr. Steyer on this.
01:01:28.000I've spent a decade fighting and beating oil companies, stopping pipelines, stopping fossil fuel plants, ensuring clean energy across the country.
01:01:49.000We can do this and create literally millions of good paying union jobs across this country.
01:01:55.000I would make sure that my climate policy was led.
01:01:59.000By environmental justice and members of the communities where this society has chosen to put our air and water pollution, which are low income black and brown communities.
01:02:10.000And when we ask, how are we going to pull this country together?
01:02:27.000I think it is the existential threat to humanity, it's the number one issue.
01:02:31.000And I might add, I don't really need kind of a lecture from my friend.
01:02:38.000While I was passing the first climate change bill and that Flutifax said was a game changer, while I managed the $90 billion recovery plan, investing more money in infrastructure that related to clean energy than any time we've ever done it, my friend was producing more coal mines.
01:03:02.000And produced more coal around the world, according to the press, than all of Great Britain produces.
01:03:08.000Now, I welcome him back into the fold here.
01:03:39.000Everybody in this room has lived in an economy based on fossil fuels.
01:03:43.000And we all have to come to the same conclusion that I came to over a decade ago.
01:03:49.000If we're waiting for Congress to pass one of the bills, and I know everybody on this stage cares about this, but Congress has never passed an important climate bill ever.
01:04:00.000This is a problem which continues to get worse.
01:04:03.000That's why I'm saying it's a state of emergency.
01:04:48.000But the scientists are telling us that we don't get our act together within the next eight or nine years.
01:04:55.000We're talking about cities all over the world, major cities going underwater.
01:05:00.000We're talking about increased drought, talking about increased extreme weather disturbances.
01:05:06.000The United Nations is telling us that in the years to come, there are going to be hundreds of millions of climate refugees causing national security issues all over the world.
01:05:18.000What we have got to do tonight and I will do as president is to tell the fossil fuel industry that their short term profits are not more important than the future of this planet.
01:05:32.000And by the way, the fossil fuel industry is probably criminally liable because they have lied and lied and lied when they had the evidence that their carbon products were destroying the planet.
01:05:52.000President Trump has dramatically changed America's.
01:05:55.000Approach to our adversaries by holding summits with Kim Jong un, getting out of the Iran nuclear deal, and at times embracing Vladimir Putin and other strongmen.
01:06:04.000So let's talk about what kind of commander in chief you would be.
01:06:08.000Senator Harris, North Korea is now threatening to cancel any future summits if President Trump does not make concessions on nuclear weapons.
01:06:15.000If you were commander in chief, would you make concessions to Kim Jong un in order to keep those talks going?
01:06:23.000With all due deference to the fact that this is a presidential debate, Donald Trump is not the healthy option.
01:06:31.000He has conducted foreign policy since day one, born out of a very fragile ego that fails to understand that one of the most important responsibilities of the commander in chief is to concern herself with the security of our nation and homeland.
01:06:50.000And to do it in a way that understands that part of the strength of who we are as a nation, and therefore an extension of our ability to be secure, is not only that we have a vibrant military.
01:07:02.000But that when we walk in any room around the globe, we are respected because we keep to our word, we are consistent, we speak truth, and we are loyal.
01:07:16.000What Donald Trump has done, from pulling out of the Paris Agreement, to pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal, to consistently turning a back on people who have stood with us in difficult times, including most recently the Kurds, points out that Donald Trump is the greatest threat to the national security.
01:07:47.000He has abandoned by shutting down the operations with South Korea for the last year and a half.
01:07:54.000So those operations which should be, and those exercises which should be active, because they are in our best national security, the relationship that we have with Japan, he has in every way compromised our ability to have any influence.
01:08:09.000On slowing down or at least having a check and balance on North Korea's nuclear program.
01:08:15.000Mr. Vice President, President Trump inherited the North Korea problem from past presidents over decades.
01:08:22.000What would a President Biden do that President Obama didn't do in eight years?
01:08:27.000Well, first of all, I'd go back and making sure we had the alliances we had before he became president.
01:08:33.000He has absolutely ostracized us from South Korea.
01:08:36.000He has given North Korea everything they wanted, creating the legitimacy by having a meeting with Kim Jong-un, who's a thug, although he points out that I'm a rabid dog need to be beaten with a stick.
01:08:53.000And uniting Japan and Australia and being a Pacific power and putting pressure on China in order for them to make sure that it is a nuclear-free peninsula.
01:09:08.000And the way we do that is we make clear to China, which I have done personally with the President of China, And that is, we're going to move up our defenses.
01:09:17.000We're going to continue to make sure we increase our relationship with South Korea.
01:09:23.000And if they view that as a threat, it's an easy thing to respond to.
01:09:26.000They, in fact, can, in fact, put pressure on NATO.
01:09:30.000NATO, in fact, can, in fact, put pressure in a position where he's done this across the world.
01:09:34.000And factually, the fact is, Putin is doing in Europe.
01:09:39.000Putin is, his whole effort is to break up NATO, to increase his power.
01:09:56.000Two more U.S. soldiers were killed today in Afghanistan, tragically, in America's longest war.
01:10:02.000Senator Sanders, you've long said you want to bring the troops back home from Afghanistan.
01:10:07.000Would you cut a deal with the Taliban to end the war, even if it means the collapse of the Afghan government that America has long supported?
01:10:20.000One of the big differences between the Vice President and myself is that he supported the terrible war in Iraq, and I helped lead the opposition against it.
01:10:33.000And not only that, I voted against the very first Gulf War as well.
01:10:38.000And I think we need a foreign policy which understands who our enemies are, that we don't have to spend more money on the military than the next 10 nations combined.
01:10:54.000I think it is time after spending many trillions of dollars on these endless wars which have resulted in more dislocation and mass migrations and pain in that region, it is time to bring our troops home.
01:11:09.000But unlike Trump, I will not do it through a tweet at 3 o'clock in the morning.
01:11:15.000I will do it working with the international community and if it's necessary to negotiate with the Taliban, of course, we will do that.
01:11:24.000But at the end of the day, we have to rethink the entire war on terror.
01:11:28.000Which has caused so much pain and lost so many lives, not only for our own men and women in the armed forces, but for people in that region as well.
01:12:06.000And second, I would say the days of meddling in American elections are over, and we will take any undermining of our democratic processes as an act of hostility and aggression.
01:12:17.000The American people would back me on this.
01:12:19.000We know that they've found an underbelly and they've been clawing at it, and it's made it so that we can't even trust our own democracy.
01:12:26.000The third thing I would say is that we're going to live up to our international commitments, we're going to recommit to our partnerships and alliances, including NATO.
01:12:36.000And it was James Madison that said that the more you invest in diplomats and diplomacy, the less you have to spend on ammunition.
01:12:43.000That has to be the path forward to help build an international consensus, not just against Russia, but also to build a coalition that will help us put pressure on China in terms of their treatment of their ethnic minorities and what's going on in Hong Kong.
01:12:57.000I want to propose a new world data organization, like a WTO for data, because right now, unfortunately, we're living in a world where data is the new oil and we don't have our arms around it.
01:13:06.000These are the ways that we'll actually get Russia.
01:13:09.000To the table and make it so they have to join the international community and stop resisting appeals to the world order.
01:13:20.000That last part was a little humbled, but.
01:13:22.000Senator Booker, China is now using force against demonstrators in Hong Kong.
01:13:26.000He's right about the data, but the numbers are.
01:13:27.000Millions have taken to the streets advocating for democratic reforms.
01:13:30.000Many of the demonstrators are asking the United States for help.
01:13:34.000If you were president, would the U.S. help their movement and how?
01:13:38.000Well, first of all, this is a president who seems to want to go up against China.
01:13:43.000In a trade war, by pulling away from our allies and, in fact, attacking them as well.
01:13:49.000We used a national security waiver to put tariffs on Canada.
01:13:53.000And so, at the very time that China is breaking international rules, is practicing unfair practices, stealing technology, forcing technology transfer, and violating human rights, this nation is pulling away from critical allies we would need to show strength against China.
01:14:08.000There's a larger battle going on on the planet Earth right now between totalitarian, dictatorial countries and free democracies.
01:14:16.000And we see the scorecard under this president not looking so good, with China actually shifting more towards an authoritarian government, with its leader now getting rid of even his term limits.
01:14:28.000And so I believe we need a much stronger policy, one that's not led as President Trump seems to want to do in a transactional way, but one that's led by American values.
01:14:36.000So, yes, we will call China out for its human rights violations.
01:14:40.000But not only that, we will stop engaging in things that violate American rights, because it is a human rights violation when people at our border, children are thrown in cages.
01:14:50.000It's a human rights violation without coming to the United States Congress for an authorization to use a military force for us to refuel Saudi jets to bomb Yemeni children.
01:15:02.000It is about time that this country is led by someone who will say the values of freedom and democracy are what we are going to lead with and begin to check China, check Putin, and the other folks that are trying to undermine American values and democratic values around the globe.
01:15:51.000We were not going to, in fact, sell more weapons to them.
01:15:55.000We were going to, in fact, make them pay the price and make them, in fact, the pariah that they are.
01:16:01.000There's very little social redeeming value in the present government in Saudi Arabia.
01:16:07.000And I would also, as pointed out, I would end the subsidies that we have and the sale of material to the Saudis, who are going in and murdering children and they're murdering innocent people.
01:16:19.000And so they have to be held accountable.
01:16:21.000And with regard to China, we should look unless we make it clear that we stand for human rights, we should be going to the United Nations seeking condemnation.
01:16:32.000Of China, what they're doing with a million Uyghurs that are essentially in concentration camps in the West.
01:16:40.000Vocally speaking out about the violation of the commitment they made to Hong Kong.
01:16:45.000We have to speak out and speak loudly about violations of human rights.
01:16:50.000Senator Klobuchar, just to follow up, would you go against the Saudis even though that would potentially help Iran, their adversaries?
01:16:59.000We need a new foreign policy in this country, and that means renewing our relationships with our allies, it means rejoining.
01:17:07.000International agreements, and it means reasserting our American values.
01:17:13.000And so when the president did not stand up the way he should have to that killing and that dismemberment of a journalist with an American newspaper, that sent a single signal to all dictators across the country, across the world, that that was okay, and that's wrong.
01:17:31.000And I want to add a few things to what my colleagues have said.
01:17:33.000First of all, the question about Russia.
01:17:36.000When we look at international agreements, we must start.
01:17:39.000Negotiating back with Russia, which has been a horrible player on the international scene, but the president precipitously got out of the nuclear agreement with Russia, and we must start negotiating, even though they were cheating, for the good of this world.
01:17:53.000And we must also start the negotiations for the new START treaty.
01:17:56.000And when it comes to China, we need someone that sees the long term, like I do, just like the Chinese do, because we have a president that literally makes decisions based on his next tweet, and they are in it for the long game.
01:18:10.000I think I may have been the first person up here to make it clear that Saudi Arabia not only murdered Khashoggi, but this is a brutal dictatorship which does everything it can to crush democracy, treats women as third-class citizens.
01:18:28.000And when we rethink our American foreign policy, what we have got to know is that Saudi Arabia is not a reliable ally.
01:18:36.000We have got to bring Iran and Saudi Arabia together.
01:18:40.000In a room under American leadership and say we are sick and tired of us spending huge amounts of money and human resources because of your conflicts.
01:18:49.000And by the way, the same thing goes with Israel and the Palestinians.
01:18:55.000It is no longer good enough for us simply to be pro Israel.
01:20:34.000So, for example, what I want to do is for our federal lands, I want to bring in 10,000 people who want to be able to serve in our federal lands to be able to help rebuild our national forests and national parks as a way to express both their public service and their commitment to fighting back against climate change.
01:21:21.000Right now, we are spending a fraction of the intention and resources on things like the artificial intelligence research that China is doing right now.
01:21:30.000If we fall behind on artificial intelligence, The most expensive ships that the United States is building just turn into bigger targets.
01:21:40.000We do not have a 21st century security strategy coming from this president.
01:21:45.000After all, he's relying on 17th century security technologies like a moat full of alligators or a big wall.
01:21:52.000There is no concept of strategic planning for how civilian, diplomatic, and military security work needs to take place for the future.
01:22:18.000Does that mean that it's going to be closing statements when we come back?
01:22:20.000Because it's the half hour mark, so I can't imagine that they maybe they'll come back, do a little bit, go to commercial, and then do closing statements.
01:22:27.000But okay, that was a lot of foreign policy in that one.
01:22:31.000These debates have never been foreign policy centric, but it seemed like that whole half hour was devoted to China, Iran, Afghanistan.
01:22:41.000Allies, artificial intelligence, that kind of thing.
01:22:51.000That part is a little bit interesting to me just on that level.
01:22:54.000But yeah, what's interesting is with a couple of exceptions, you can really see more than anything else who is establishment and who isn't based on what their foreign policy is.
01:23:06.000Like, you know, you look at somebody like Yang who is ignoring some of the.
01:23:11.000You know, main conflicts of today and talking about AI.
01:23:13.000Like, clearly, he's not in the Council on Foreign Relations, right?
01:23:18.000And Bernie Sanders, I'm not sure if he gets money from them or Zionists, but, you know, to say that we have to hear from Palestine, that's obviously not an extremely new Democratic position.
01:23:28.000And Donald Trump said similar things, but it shows you, you know, a little bit of where their allegiances lie.
01:23:33.000It's a little bit more cut and dry when it comes to that as opposed to other issues like economics.
01:23:39.000So, I mean, that was mildly interesting, but here's the thing.
01:23:44.000We all know that it's a structural problem with foreign policy, right?
01:23:49.000We all know that it's not a matter of what you believe about how we interact with the world.
01:23:54.000It's more about domestically what's happening in the decision making process.
01:23:58.000In other words, any candidate can say whatever they want, and that's great.
01:24:02.000But you get into office, and it's a different story because of the pressures exerted by these iron triangles, as they're called in political theory, of different think tanks or interest groups and how they interact with bureaucracies, particularly in the military, how they interact with the military industrial complex, the Department of Defense.
01:24:25.000The State Department and all the different branches and all the different chains of command and everything.
01:24:31.000So, people can say whatever they want.
01:24:33.000Barack Obama said we were going to end the wars, and that didn't happen.
01:24:38.000And Donald Trump said we were going to re engage with Russia and end the wars in the Middle East, and that almost basically has not happened for the most part.
01:24:47.000We have maybe a better relationship with Russia than where we would have been with a different administration, but we did not have the reset with Russia fulfilled.
01:24:57.000And clearly, we're still in every war that we were when we started, including Syria.
01:25:02.000You know, Trump pulled 1,000 troops out, and then I think he moved 500 back in, right, in northeastern Syria to protect the oil fields.
01:25:10.000So, you know, I would say that the foreign policy stuff, I almost am completely apathetic about it at this point because you just know that the politicians really are not in control.
01:25:22.000More than any other issue, they're just simply not in control.
01:25:27.000Pretty good with negotiating that, and he does have pretty strong unilateral jurisdiction using the national security authorization to do tariffs, I think, like Bernie said or somebody said against Canada.
01:25:40.000But outside of that, you know, it's just simply not under the control of the president.
01:25:44.000It's the DOD, it's the interests, it's the military industrial complex.
01:25:50.000Tulsi Gabbard's the only one naming that.
01:25:52.000And Tulsi Gabbard, I believe, she gets money from the, or she's a participant in the Council on Foreign Relations.
01:26:18.000Let's move now to the issue of race in America.
01:26:24.000FBI Director Christopher Wray recently told Congress The majority of the domestic terrorism cases that we've investigated are motivated by white supremacist.
01:26:46.000We have seen for far too long the kind of racial bigotry, divisiveness, and attacks that have unfortunately taken the lives of the people of the country.
01:26:55.000Remember when I said policy Gabbard is not based?
01:27:00.000It's important that we set the record straight and correct the racial injustices that exist.
01:27:05.000In a very institutional way in our country, beginning with things that have to do with our criminal justice system, where predominantly the failed war on drugs that has been continuing to be waged in this country has disproportionately impacted people of color and people in poverty.
01:27:23.000This is something that I'll do as president and commander in chief to overhaul our criminal justice system, working in a bipartisan way to do things like end the failed war on drugs, end the money bail system.
01:27:36.000And that's the kinds of prison reforms and sentencing reforms that we need to see that will correct the failures of the past.
01:27:44.000The most important thing here is that we recognize that we have to treat each other with respect, all of us, as fellow Americans, regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, gender, orientation, and our politics.
01:27:57.000That kind of leadership starts at the top.
01:28:00.000As president, I will usher in a 21st century White House that actually represents the interests of all Americans, first and foremost.
01:28:08.000Congressman McGabbard, thank you for that.
01:28:10.000Mr. Yang, what would you do about the issue of white supremacist violence?
01:28:15.000Well, first, we have to designate white supremacist terrorism as domestic terrorism so that the Department of Justice can properly measure it.
01:29:01.000So, what we have to do is we have to get into the roots of our communities and create paths forward for men in particular who right now are falling through the cracks.
01:29:09.000And when you look at gun violence in this country, 96 plus percent of the shooters we're talking about are young boys and young men.
01:29:20.000Finding ways to turn our boys into healthy, strong young men who do not hate but instead feel like they have paths forward in today's economy.
01:30:16.000We do not spend nearly enough time dealing with.
01:30:19.000I was stunned when I did a virtual town meeting that told People were on the call, young people between 15 and 25, and found out, I said, what do you need to make you safer on college campuses and in your schools?
01:31:23.000He said, The Democratic nominee has got to be someone who has the experience of connecting with all of who we are as the diversity of the American people.
01:31:33.000What exactly prompted you to say that, Senator Harris?
01:31:37.000Well, that was asked a question that related to a stock photograph that his campaign published.
01:31:44.000But listen, I think that it really speaks to a larger issue, and I'll speak to the larger issue.
01:31:51.000I believe that the mayor has made apologies for that.
01:31:57.000The larger issue is that for too long, I think, candidates have taken for granted constituencies that have been the backbone of the Democratic Party.
01:32:09.000And have overlooked those constituencies.
01:32:12.000And have, you know, they show up when it's, you know, close to election time and show up in a black church and want to get the vote, but just haven't been there before.
01:32:23.000I mean, you know, there are plenty of people who applauded black women for the success of the 2018 election, applauded black women for the election of a senator from Alabama.
01:32:35.000But, you know, at some point, Folks get tired of just saying, oh, you know, thank me for showing up and say, well, show up for me.
01:32:44.000Because when black women are three to four times more likely to die in connection with childbirth in America, when the sons of black women will die because of gun violence more than any other cause of death, when black women make 61 cents on the dollar as compared to all women who tragically make 80 cents on the dollar, the question has to be where you been?
01:33:13.000And do you understand who the people are?
01:33:18.000And I'm running for president because I believe that we have to have leadership in this country who has worked with and have the experience of working with all folks.
01:33:28.000And we've got to recreate the Obama coalition to win.
01:33:31.000And that means about women, that's people of color, that's our LGBTQ community, that's working people, that's our labor unions.
01:33:38.000But that is how we are going to win this election, and I intend to win.
01:33:47.000And I welcome the challenge of connecting with black voters in America who don't yet know me.
01:33:55.000And before I share what's in my plans, let me talk about what's in my heart and why this is so important.
01:34:01.000As mayor of a city that is racially diverse and largely low income, for eight years, I have lived and breathed the successes and struggles of a community.
01:34:11.000Where far too many people live with the consequences of racial inequity that has built up over centuries but been compounded by policies and decisions from within living memory.
01:34:23.000I care about this because my faith teaches me that salvation has to do with how I make myself useful to those who have been excluded, marginalized, and cast aside and oppressed in society.
01:34:37.000And I care about this because while I do not have the experience of ever having been discriminated against because of the color of my skin, I do have the experience of sometimes feeling like a stranger in my own country, turning on the news and seeing my own rights come up for debate, and seeing my rights expanded by a coalition of people like me and people not at all like me working side by side, shoulder to shoulder,
01:35:04.000making it possible for me to be standing here wearing this wedding ring in a way that couldn't have happened two elections ago.
01:35:10.000Let's me know just how deep my obligation is to help those whose rights are on the line every day, even if they are nothing like me in their experience.
01:35:43.000The issue has to be how we're going to win.
01:35:46.000And to win, we have to build a coalition and rebuild the Obama coalition.
01:35:51.000I keep referring to that because that's the last time we won.
01:35:55.000And the way that that election looked and what that coalition looked like was it was about having a leader who had worked in many communities.
01:36:02.000Knows those communities and has the ability to bring people together.
01:36:06.000And everyone is going to have to be judged on their experience and therefore ability to bring folks together around our commonalities, of which I believe there are many.
01:36:34.000Right now in America, African Americans are more likely to borrow money to go to college, borrow more money while they're in college, and have a harder time paying that debt off after they get out.
01:36:45.000Today in America, a new study came out, 20 years out, whites who borrowed money, 94% of them have paid off their student loan debt, 5% of African Americans have paid it off.
01:36:59.000I believe that means everyone on this stage should be embracing student loan debt forgiveness.
01:37:40.000Trump is the one who has created this crisis, and he has done it in no small part by helping destabilize the governments even further in Central America.
01:38:07.000I was in McAllen, Texas, and I just hope everyone remembers what this looks like.
01:38:12.000There's like a giant Amazon warehouse filled with cages of women, cages of men, and cages of little girls and little boys.
01:38:22.000I spoke to a woman who was in the cage of nursing mothers, and she told me she'd given a drink to a police officer and that the word had come down from the gangs that she was helping the police.
01:39:26.000Nobody on this stage should need a focus group to hear from African American voters.
01:39:31.000Black voters are pissed off and they're worried.
01:39:33.000They're pissed off because the only time our issues seem to be really paid attention to by politicians is when people are looking for their vote.
01:39:39.000And they're worried because the Democratic Party, we don't want to see people miss this opportunity and lose because we are nominating someone that isn't trusted, doesn't have an authentic connection.
01:40:29.000African Americans under Criminal supervision in America than all the slaves since 1850 do not roll up into communities and not talk directly to issues that are going to relate to the liberation of children because there are people in Congress right now that admit to smoking marijuana while there are people, our kids are in jail right now for those drug crimes.
01:40:51.000And so these are the kind of issues that mean a lot to our community.
01:40:56.000And if we don't have somebody authentically, we lost the last election.
01:41:57.000Three former chairs of the black caucus, the only African-American woman that had ever been elected to the United States Senate, a whole range of people.
01:44:54.000I hate his tone and everything, but he's actually quite skilled.
01:44:59.000I mean, he's one of the better orators.
01:45:01.000He seems to not miss a beat when he's giving these statements, as opposed to these older guys who are slow and sometimes they flub it.
01:45:08.000I mean, he's pretty much on point whenever he gives a statement, and he's landed, I think, out of anybody, maybe the most successful blows against other candidates.
01:45:15.000He's very sort of tactical about them, and when he does, he executes them very well.
01:45:28.000He just, it was sort of like one of these backhanded compliments where he said, you know, you swore me in and you're my hero, but you're out of step.
01:46:00.000A lot of these guys have dropped out at this point.
01:46:02.000Julian Castro, Beta O'Rourke, people that have had more momentum than he did, more name recognition, and maybe just made more likable than him.
01:46:11.000But he's been able to survive merely because I think he excels in these debates, which he needs to because he's weird looking and all that.
01:46:20.000But anyway, I guess they're going to be doing closing statements.
01:46:56.000Right now, Roe versus Wade protects a woman's right to abortion nationwide.
01:47:01.000But if Roe gets overturned and abortion access disappears in some states, Would you intervene as president to try to bring that access back, Senator Klobuchar?
01:48:32.000Look, I believe that abortion rights are human rights.
01:48:35.000I believe that they are also economic rights.
01:48:39.000And protecting the right of a woman to be able to make decisions about her own body is fundamentally what we do and what we stand for as a Democratic Party.
01:48:50.000When someone makes abortion illegal in America, Rich women will still get abortions.
01:48:55.000It's just going to fall hard on poor women.
01:48:57.000It's going to fall hard on girls, women who don't even know that they're pregnant because they have been molested by an uncle.
01:49:05.000I want to be an America where everybody has a chance.
01:49:08.000And I know it can be a hard decision for people, but here's the thing.
01:49:12.000When it comes down to that decision, a woman should be able to call on her mother, she should be able to call on her partner, she should be able to call on her priest or her rabbi.
01:50:03.000Well, let me just tell you that if there's ever a time in American history where the men of this country must stand with the women, this is the moment.
01:50:12.000And I get very tired, very tired of hearing the hypocrisy from conservatives who say, get the government off our backs.
01:50:24.000Well, if you want to get the government out of the backs of the American people, then understand that it is women who control their own bodies.
01:50:43.000Right here in this great state of Georgia, it was the voter suppression, particularly of African American communities, that prevented us from having a Governor Stacey Abrams right now.
01:50:54.000And that is, when you have undemocratic means, when you suppress people's votes to get elected, those are the very people you're going to come after when you're in office.
01:51:07.000The Heartbeat Bill here, proposed by over 70% of Georgians, is the result from voter suppression.
01:51:12.000This gets back to the issue about making sure we are fighting every single day that whoever is a nominee, they can overcome the attempts to suppress the votes, particularly of low income and minority voters, and particularly in the black community, like we saw here in Georgia.
01:51:48.000With that in mind, our next question comes from Jenna in Maryland, who asks What will you do at the executive level to ensure that every American has equal access to the ballot box?
01:51:59.000Well, we need federal leadership to establish voting rights for the 21st century because this affects every other issue that we care about.
01:52:09.000Now, the House of Representatives passed a pro democracy, anti corruption bill, which is one of many good bills to die in Mitch McConnell's hands in the United States Senate.
01:52:21.000We know that with the White House in the right hands, we can make, for example, election days a federal holiday.
01:52:28.000We can use carrots and sticks to induce states to do the right thing with automatic voter registration, same day voter registration, making it easier for people to vote, and in particular, recognizing that we cannot allow the kind of racially motivated or partisan voter suppression or gerrymandering that often dictates the outcome of election before the voting even begins.
01:52:54.000Picking out their voters rather than the other way around.
01:52:58.000That compounding with what is being done to restrict the right to vote means that our democracy is not worthy of the name.
01:53:06.000And while these process issues are not always fashionable, we must act to reform our democracy itself, including when it comes to choosing our presidency, like we do in every other election, giving it to the person who got the most votes.
01:53:19.000I agree with what the mayor has just said, but this is a good example where he has said the right words, but I actually. have the experience and of leading 11 of the bills that are in that House passed bill you just referred to.
01:53:34.000And I think this kind of experience matters.
01:53:37.000I have been devoted to this from the time that I've got to the Senate.
01:53:41.000And I think having that experience, knowing how you can get things done, leading the bills to take the social media companies to task, a bipartisan bill to say, yeah, you have to say where these ads come from and how they're paid for, and stop the unbelievable practice.
01:53:57.000Where we still have 11 states that don't have backup paper ballots.
01:54:01.000That is my bipartisan bill, and I am so close to getting it done.
01:54:05.000And the way I get it done is if I'm president.
01:54:08.000But just like I have won statewide, and Mayor, I have all appreciation for your good work as a local official, and you did not when you tried, I also have actually done this work.
01:54:49.000I have the experience of knowing what is at stake as the decisions made in those big white buildings come into our lives, our homes, our families, our workplaces, and our marriages.
01:54:59.000And I would submit that this is the kind of experience.
01:55:02.000We need not just to go to Washington, but to change it before it is too late.
01:55:08.000Congresswoman Goward, on the original question of voting rights, please.
01:55:10.000I mean, voting rights are essential for our democracy.
01:55:13.000Securing our elections is essential for our democracy.
01:55:17.000I've introduced legislation called the Securing America's Elections Act that mandates paper ballots to make sure that every single voter's voice is heard.
01:55:26.000But I want to get back to Pete Buttigieg and his comment about experience.
01:55:31.000Pete, you'll agree that the service that we both have provided to our country as veterans by itself does not qualify us to serve as commander in chief.
01:55:41.000I think the most recent example of your inexperience in national security and foreign policy came from your recent careless statement about how you, as president, would be willing to send our troops to Mexico to fight the cartels.
01:55:56.000As commander in chief, leader of our armed forces, I bring extensive experience, serving for seven years in Congress on the Foreign Affairs Committee, on the Armed Services Committee, on the Homeland Security Committee, meeting with leaders of Countries around the world, working with military commanders of different communities.
01:56:18.000The Buda judge said we should send the military to Mexico.
01:56:30.000I know that it's par for the course in Washington to take remarks out of context, but that is outlandish, even by the standards of today's politics.
01:56:38.000Are you saying that you didn't say that?
01:56:40.000I was talking about U.S. Mexico cooperation.
01:56:44.000We've been doing security cooperation with Mexico for years with law enforcement cooperation and a military relationship that could continue to be developed with training relationships, for example.
01:56:57.000Do you seriously think anybody on this stage is proposing invading Mexico?
01:57:16.000I have, in my experience, such as it is, whether you think it counts or not, since it wasn't accumulated in Washington, enough judgment that I would not have sat down with a murderous dictator like that.
01:57:28.000Congressman Gabbard, let me allow you to respond.
01:57:39.000But your point about judgment is absolutely correct.
01:57:42.000Our commander in chief does need to have good judgment.
01:57:45.000And what you've just pointed out is that you would lack the courage to meet with both adversaries and friends to ensure the peace and national security of our nation.
01:57:57.000I take the example of those leaders who have come before us leaders like JFK, who met with Khrushchev, like Roosevelt, who met with Stalin, like Donald Trump, who met and worked with Gorbachev.
01:58:13.000These issues of national security are incredibly important.
01:58:16.000I will meet with and do what is necessary.
01:58:19.000To make sure that no more of our brothers and sisters in uniform are needlessly sent into harm's way fighting regime change wars that undermine our national security.
01:58:30.000I'll bring real leadership and experience to the White House.
01:58:33.000Senator Sanders, I'm going to have a very original point.
01:59:03.000So, what we need to do, simple and straightforward, in every state in this country through the federal government if you are 18, you have a right to vote.
01:59:34.000But I think it's sort of important that the Democratic Party not only beat Donald Trump in 2020, but have a sweeping victory across the country.
01:59:43.000And what that's going to mean is turnout.
01:59:47.000In the United States of America, the Democratic Party keeps talking about trying to persuade a few people who are Republicans to like us, when up to half the people don't vote at all because they think neither party tells the truth, no one deals with my issues, the system is broken, why would we vote?
02:00:05.000But what we've found at NextGen America is that is the start of a conversation about why votes are so important.
02:00:12.000And if you look at 2018 and flipping the House, what really happened was Democratic voting went up by three quarters.
02:00:21.000In the 38 congressional districts where NextGen America was turning out young people, the turnout went up by more than 100%, more than double.
02:00:31.000So for us to win, for everybody on this stage, for whoever is the candidate, to have a Senate that's Democratic, For us to have the sweeping victory that we absolutely are going to have next year, it's a turnout question.
02:00:45.000We're going to have to tell the truth, and we're going to have to organize across this country.
02:01:11.000I had a closing statement prepared, but I saw in the audience during the break a man named John Lewis.
02:01:16.000And perhaps it's interesting and important for me to mention why I'm so grateful to him.
02:01:21.000I've been calling in this whole election for our need to fight and fight the right way by bringing people together to create transformative change, not just beat Donald Trump.
02:01:30.000We need to go to the ceiling, we need to go to the mountaintop.
02:01:32.000I am literally here on this stage right now because 50 years ago, there was a lawyer on a couch who changed his life, changed his mind to get up and start representing families, one of them mine.
02:01:44.000The house I grew up in is because of that lawyer's activity.
02:01:47.000When I asked him why, why he did what he did, he told me that on March 7th, 1965, he was watching a movie called Judgment at Nuremberg on TV, and they interrupted that movie to show a bridge in Alabama called the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
02:02:03.000And there he saw John Lewis and other marchers who were beaten viciously by Alabama state troopers.
02:02:10.000We all owe a debt that we cannot repay.
02:02:13.000We all drink deeply from wells of freedom.
02:02:57.000Last time I was on this stage, I started by saying that everybody here is more patriotic and more competent than the criminal in the White House.
02:03:31.000That if we're going to make bold changes, we're going to need new and different people in charge.
02:03:36.000I'm the only person on this stage who spent decades building an international business.
02:03:42.000Whoever of us is the Democratic nominee is going to have to face Mr. Trump or the Republican and talk about the economy, talk about growth, understand that we can make Mr. Trump what he is a fraud and a failure on the economy, which is his strong point.
02:04:00.000I'm the only person on this stage who will say that climate is my first.
02:04:04.000Priority that it's our biggest challenge, but it's our biggest opportunity to recreate this country.
02:04:09.000If you want to beat Mr. Trump, if you want to break the corporate stranglehold on this government, if you want to pass all of the progressive policies that everyone on this stage wants, I'm the person who can do it.
02:05:11.000We look to you for inspiration, as a bold example, for what you have already succeeded in the areas of racial harmony and racial justice where we are still struggling to achieve in other sections of the country.
02:05:27.000He later went on to say As I looked out at the various faces in various colors mingled together like the waters of the sea, I see only one face, the face of the future.
02:05:41.000Working side by side, let's defeat the divisiveness of Donald Trump, come together and usher in a 21st century of racial harmony, of racial justice, peace, inclusion, and true equality.
02:05:56.000Working side by side, let's make Dr. King's dream our reality.
02:06:07.000I'm here with my wife, Evelyn, tonight.
02:06:09.000We have two young boys, Christopher and Damien.
02:06:11.000How many of you all are parents like us here in the room?
02:06:15.000So if you're a parent, you've had this thought.
02:06:17.000Maybe you've been afraid to express it.
02:06:19.000And it is this our kids are not all right.
02:06:22.000They're not all right because we're leaving them a future that is far darker than the lives that we have led as their parents.
02:06:29.000We are going through the greatest economic transformation in our country's history, the fourth industrial revolution, and it is pushing more and more of our people to the side.
02:06:38.000We talk as if Donald Trump is a cause of all of our problems.
02:06:41.000He is a symptom, and we need to cure the disease.
02:06:44.000Now, my first move was not to run for President of the United States because I am not insane.
02:06:51.000My first move was to go to DC, talk to our leaders, and say technology is ripping us apart, immigrants are being scapegoated, our kids are being left behind, and the American dream that my parents came here to find is dying before our eyes.
02:07:05.000And the people in Washington, DC, had nothing for this.
02:07:09.000They don't want to touch it, they don't want to talk about an issue they don't think they have a solution for.
02:07:14.000I'm not running for president because I fantasized about being president.
02:07:18.000I'm running for president because, like many of you here in this room tonight, I'm a parent and a patriot.
02:07:22.000And I have seen the future that we're leaving for our kids, and it is not something I'm willing to accept.
02:07:28.000We need to create a new way forward for our people.
02:07:31.000If you want to join us in rewriting the rules of the 21st century economy, go to yang2020.com and make it so that we can look our kids in the eyes and say to them and believe it your country loves you, your country values you, and you will be all right.
02:08:12.000It reminded me of Army counsel years and years ago in the McCarthy hearing, someone from Iowa, actually, Mr. Welch, who said, Have you no sense of decency, sir?
02:08:23.000I want us to remember that this election is, yes, an economic check on this president.
02:08:29.000And I have bold ideas that we can do to go forward as a country to make college more affordable and bring down the cost of health care, yes.
02:08:37.000But this is also a patriotism check, a value check, a decency check.
02:08:43.000And when you look at the people that turned out in Kentucky and turned out in Virginia, people turned out that didn't vote in 2016, African Americans are turning out like we didn't see before.
02:08:55.000But we also, and they must be with us, and we must get our fired up Democratic base with us.
02:09:01.000But we also, Let's get those independents and moderate Republicans who cannot stomach this guy anymore.
02:09:08.000This is how we build a coalition so we don't just beat Donald Trump.
02:09:12.000We bring the U.S. Senate to some sense.
02:09:19.000So if you want to join us and remember that this won't be for me a personal victory, it'll be a national victory as someone that wins in red districts and suburban purple districts and bright blue districts every single time.
02:09:32.000If you want to join us and And if you believe that our work doesn't end on election day but begins on inauguration day, join us.
02:10:00.000And to fight this fight, I believe we have to have the ability.
02:10:05.000To not only have a nominee who can go toe to toe with Donald Trump, and I have taken on Jeff Sessions, I have taken on Bill Barr, I have taken on Brett Kavanaugh.
02:10:27.000I believe we need someone who has the ability to speak to all the people, regardless of their race, their gender, their party affiliation, where they live geographically, or the language their grandmother speaks.
02:10:40.000My entire career has been spent having one client and one client only the people.
02:10:45.000I have never represented a corporation.
02:10:47.000I have never represented a special interest.
02:10:50.000And in this election, justice and the various injustices people are facing, regardless of where they live or their race or gender, are very much on the ballot from economic justice to reproductive justice to health care justice to educational justice.
02:11:05.000And I truly believe that when we overcome these injustices, we will then unlock the potential of the American people and the promise.
02:11:16.000Of America, and that's the America I believe in.
02:11:29.000Well, first of all, I want to remark that we're in the city of Atlanta, a city where a great local leader, Maynard Jackson, helped create the black middle class that Atlanta is known by, by ensuring that taxpayer dollars were spent in a way that reflected the need to expand opportunity to those who were excluded.
02:11:47.000And just as local leaders have shown great leadership, we need to use the powers of the presidency on challenges like this, expanding opportunity and expanding a sense of belonging to those who have been excluded in this country.
02:12:01.000I'm not only running to defeat Donald Trump, I am running to prepare for the day that begins when Donald Trump has left office, to launch the era that must come after Trump.
02:12:13.000That era must be characterized not by exclusion, but by belonging.
02:12:20.000I am inviting progressives who have agreed on these issues we've been talking about tonight all along, moderates who are ready to be part of this coalition, and a lot of future former Republicans who I know are watching this, disgusted by what is happening in their own party and in this country.
02:12:39.000I want you to know that everybody is welcome in this movement that we're building, and everybody is welcome in this future that we must create.
02:13:26.000At the age of 21, as a member of a civil rights group at the University of Chicago, I was arrested, spent a night in jail, and I have been committed to the fight against all forms of discrimination racial discrimination, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, and religious bigotry.
02:13:48.000I will lead an administration that will look like America.
02:13:52.000will end the business brought by Trump and bring us together.
02:13:57.000During this campaign, I am proud to say that I have received more campaign contributions than any candidate at this point in an election in American history.
02:14:11.000Over 4 million contributions, averaging $18 apiece.
02:14:18.000If you want to be part of a movement that is not only going to beat Trump, But transform America that doesn't have a super PAC, doesn't do fundraisers at wealthy people's homes.
02:15:16.000Because we have a government that works better for big drug companies than it does for people trying to fill the system back to you.
02:15:24.000It works better for a giant defense industry than it does for everyone who worries about the money that goes into arms instead of into drugs and schools.
02:15:44.000Ending lobbying as we know it, blocking the revolving door between industry and Washington, making everyone who runs for federal office put their tax returns online.
02:15:55.000We have to have the courage not to make just individual changes, not to fight for little pieces.
02:16:02.000We want to make real progress on climate.
02:16:05.000Then we have to start by attacking the corruption that gives the oil industry and other fossil fuel industries a stranglehold over this country.
02:16:15.000I am so grateful to be here, and I am grateful to an America that gave the daughter of a janitor a chance to become a public school teacher, a chance to become a college professor, a chance to become a United States Senator, and a chance to become a candidate for President of the United States.
02:16:37.000Vice President Biden, your closing statement.
02:16:39.000I assume when we were talking about the corruption of the federal government, we weren't talking about Barack Obama and his spotless administration.
02:16:48.000But one thing we haven't talked about here today, we haven't talked, we talked about everything, we haven't talked about the one thing I think is most consequential.
02:16:56.000You know, the American people have an enormous opportunity.
02:17:01.000There's incredible, incredible, I've never been more optimistic about our prospects in my entire career, and I got elected as a 29-year-old kid to the United States Senate.
02:17:10.000Folks, we are in a position where we have, we're the wealthiest nation in the world.
02:17:15.000Our workers are more productive than workers around the world, three times as productive as workers in Asia.
02:17:20.000We have more great research universities that the people own than all the rest of the world combined.
02:17:26.000We're in a position where we've led not by the example of our power, but by the power of our example.
02:17:31.000I'm so tired of everybody walking around like, woe is me, what are we going to do?
02:17:36.000Let's remember, this is the United States of America.
02:17:40.000There has never, ever, ever been a time when we've set our mind to do something, we've been unable to do it.
02:18:03.000And let me take this opportunity to thank all of the candidates for a spirited and excellent debate.
02:18:10.000I want to thank all of you, and I want to tell you that on MSNBC tonight, my colleague Brian Williams is going to pick up our coverage in just a moment.
02:18:16.000I also, before we go, want to thank everybody here in the audience.
02:19:24.000This debate, unlike any other debate, was just a mess.
02:19:29.000It wasn't even structured like previous debates, where previous debates you had okay, we're going to talk about healthcare, and then we'll talk about guns, and then we'll talk about education or racism or foreign policy.
02:19:41.000This debate was just all over the place, and the moderators kept allowing people to just kind of take the question and just go wherever they wanted with it.
02:19:50.000Rachel Maddow made it a point to prove to everybody what a great journalist she is by saying, No, I want you to answer the question.
02:19:57.000But with those two exceptions, when she did that for the most part, they just let it sort of meander all over the place.
02:20:04.000And so there was no clear focus at any point on a given issue, and as such, there were no real exchanges except for the one or two that I mentioned.
02:20:22.000This is the same stage that we've seen seven times.
02:20:25.000The only difference now is all the unserious people are finally gone, and now you have Tom Steyer in there as well.
02:20:32.000But it's the same combination, it's the same issues, it's the same talking points.
02:20:36.000Nobody's really willing to attack each other outside of a few of these sort of desperate pleas at getting talking time, you know, like Tom Steyer's been doing by trying to goad Joe Biden into attacking him or.
02:20:48.000Tulsi Gabbard trying to goad Budajudge into attacking her on foreign policy.
02:21:19.000So we'll have to open it the next stream that we do.
02:21:23.000But anyway, so I'm supposed to be doing a show after this.
02:21:28.000I don't even feel like I should because the show is supposed to be analysis and reaction, but I don't really, there's not really much to analyze at this point.
02:21:38.000I mean, I feel like I should keep my word because I told everybody I'd be on the channel afterwards, but I feel like it would almost be more fun at this point to just do a gaming stream or a regular stream or something like that.
02:21:50.000Maybe I do the show, but it's about something else.
02:21:52.000But then again, I mean, is it worth it then for me to sit down and, you know, take a half hour, 45 minutes to prepare and then do a show at 11 o'clock?
02:22:01.000I don't know if I want to half ass it.
02:22:02.000So I'm thinking maybe I just come back tomorrow on America first.
02:22:06.000I do a little bit of recap in the beginning of the show and then I do, you know, I talk about the news tomorrow.