America First - Nicholas J. Fuentes - FIFTH DEMOCRATIC DEBATE

00:00:00.000 No, man.

00:00:02.000 You've said

00:01:47.000 that you support the impeachment inquiry but you want to wait for a Senate trial to hear the evidence and make a decision.

00:01:53.000 We're here.

00:01:53.000 We're watching the debate a little bit late.

00:01:57.000 We're here.

00:01:57.000 We're watching the debate.

00:01:59.000 A little bit late.

00:02:01.000 I have made it very clear that this is impeachable conduct, and I've called for an impeachment proceeding.

00:02:07.000 I just believe our job as jurors is to recount and make a decision.

00:02:07.000 I have to decline that.

00:02:12.000 But let me make very clear that what this impeachment proceeding is about is really our democracy at stake.

00:02:20.000 This 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.

00:02:37.000 And this is wrong.

00:02:38.000 This 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. 0.99

00:02:51.000 Sucking up to Vladimir Putin every minute of the day. 0.99

00:02:55.000 That is what this guy does. 0.99

00:02:57.000 And I think it is very, very important that we have a president that's going to put our country first.

00:03:01.000 I 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.

00:03:12.000 And he said this We told the truth, we obeyed the law, we kept the peace.

00:03:18.000 We told the truth, we obeyed the law, we kept the peace.

00:03:21.000 That is the minimum that we should expect.

00:03:23.000 In a president of the United States.

00:03:24.000 Senator, thank you.

00:03:25.000 Senator Sanders, I'd like to go to you.

00:03:27.000 Americans are watching these impeachment hearings.

00:03:30.000 At the same time, they're also focused on their more immediate daily economic and family concerns.

00:03:36.000 How central should the president's conduct, uncovered by this impeachment inquiry, be to any Democratic nominee's campaign for president?

00:03:44.000 How central would it be to yours? 0.99

00:03:46.000 Well, Rachel, sadly, we have a president who is not only a pathological liar, he is likely the most corrupt. 0.99

00:03:55.000 President in the modern history of America. 0.99

00:03:58.000 But we cannot simply be consumed by Donald Trump.

00:04:02.000 Because if we are, you know what?

00:04:04.000 We're going to lose the election.

00:04:06.000 Right now, you've got 87 million people who have no health insurance or are underinsured.

00:04:11.000 We're facing the great existential crisis of our time in terms of climate change.

00:04:16.000 You've got 500,000 people sleeping out on the street, and you've got 18 million people paying half of their limited incomes for housing.

00:04:24.000 What the American people understand is that the Congress can walk And chew bubble gum at the same time.

00:04:32.000 In other words, we can deal with Trump's corruption.

00:04:37.000 This is a rerun.

00:04:39.000 This is all the same.

00:04:42.000 If you watched any of the previous seven debates, you couldn't tell which was right.

00:04:51.000 There's a few exceptions.

00:04:54.000 But it's deja vu all over.

00:04:58.000 Mayor Buttigieg, let me put the same question to you.

00:05:02.000 How central.

00:05:08.000 Campaign, how central would it be to yours?

00:05:11.000 Well, the constitutional process of impeachment should be beyond politics.

00:05:15.000 And it is not a part of the campaign.

00:05:17.000 But the president's conduct is.

00:05:20.000 The impeachable conduct that we have seen in the abuse of power that we're learning more about in the investigations.

00:05:26.000 But just to be clear, the president's already confessed to it on television.

00:05:30.000 But that's just part of what we've seen.

00:05:33.000 Under normal circumstances, a president would leave office after.

00:05:36.000 Something 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.

00:05:49.000 We 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.

00:06:01.000 Running to be the president for that day the sun comes up and the Trump presidency is behind us.

00:06:06.000 He said that last time.

00:06:08.000 In the life of this country.

00:06:09.000 And we are going to have to unify a nation that will be as divided as ever.

00:06:13.000 And while doing it, address big issues.

00:06:15.000 I feel like the audio and video is kind of dethinking.

00:06:17.000 Doesn't that teach me or do you kind of dethink that?

00:06:19.000 Or for the Trump presidency as a whole.

00:06:21.000 A climate approaching the point of no return.

00:06:23.000 The fact that we've still had an act on health care.

00:06:25.000 But doesn't it seem like the audio and video is dethinking a little bit?

00:06:30.000 Maybe when this may be a hyperbole thing on that.

00:06:34.000 Ew, burp!

00:06:38.000 Mr. Mayor, thank you.

00:06:42.000 Andrew.

00:06:43.000 Vice President Biden, you've suggested in your campaign that if you defeat President Trump, Republicans will start working with Democrats again.

00:06:51.000 But 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.

00:07:00.000 How would you get those same Republicans to work with you?

00:07:03.000 Well, look, the next president of the United States is going to have to do two things.

00:07:07.000 Defeat Donald Trump, that's number one.

00:07:11.000 And number two, going to have to be able to.

00:07:15.000 Go into states like Georgia and North Carolina and other places and get a Senate majority.

00:07:21.000 That's what I'll do.

00:07:23.000 You 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?

00:07:38.000 And by the way, I learned from these impeachment trials.

00:07:41.000 I learned, number one, that Donald Trump doesn't want me to be the nominee.

00:07:44.000 That's pretty clear.

00:07:45.000 He held up aid to make sure that while at the same time, Innocent people in the Donbass are getting killed by Russian soldiers.

00:07:53.000 Secondly, I found out that Vladimir Putin doesn't want me to be president.

00:07:57.000 So I've learned a lot about these things early on from these hearings that are being held.

00:08:03.000 But the bottom line is, I think we have to ask ourselves the honest question who is most likely to do what needs to be done?

00:08:11.000 Produce a Democratic majority in the United States Senate, maintain the House, and beat Trump.

00:08:18.000 Senator Harris, your thoughts about that?

00:08:20.000 Well, first of all, we have a criminal living in the White House.

00:08:24.000 And there is no question that in 2020, the biggest issue before us until we get to that tender moment is justice is on the rise.

00:08:30.000 That was supposed to be in a flaws line.

00:08:32.000 You could tell there was like a soft pause there.

00:08:34.000 She was waiting for people to go.

00:08:35.000 The president's own words told us that everyone was in the loop.

00:08:41.000 That means it is a crisis.

00:08:42.000 It'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.

00:08:51.000 And so this not only points to the corrupt nature of this administration and the need for these impeachment.

00:08:57.000 Proceedings to go forward.

00:08:59.000 But it also points to another issue.

00:09:01.000 And back to the question that you asked earlier, which is what does this mean for the American people?

00:09:06.000 Because 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.

00:09:14.000 The powerful people, who in the arrogance think they can get away with this.

00:09:18.000 Oh, she's about to name them very efficiently.

00:09:19.000 Because 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.

00:09:27.000 For the people who don't pay their rent, they get evicted.

00:09:30.000 Because when Bill Maher said it, he got away with it.

00:09:33.000 We need the same set of rules for everybody.

00:09:36.000 And part of the reason I'm running for president is to say that we want justice back to America for all people.

00:09:42.000 And he never recovered.

00:09:44.000 Michael Richards never had a show after signing.

00:09:46.000 You cast yourself as a fighter.

00:09:48.000 If you were elected, though, you would be walking into an existing fight, a country that is already very divided.

00:09:54.000 I hate her. 0.98

00:09:55.000 I hate her so much.

00:09:57.000 Do you see that divide as permanent, or do you need to bring the country together if you become president to achieve your goals?

00:10:04.000 I think the way we achieve our goals and bring our country together is we talk about the things that unite us.

00:10:10.000 And that is that we want to build an America that works for the people, not one that just works for rich folks.

00:10:17.000 You know, I have proposed a two cent wealth tax.

00:10:21.000 That is a tax for everybody who has more than $50 billion in assets.

00:10:25.000 Your first $50 billion is free and clear.

00:10:27.000 But your $50 billion and first dollar, you've got to pitch in two cents.

00:10:30.000 And when you hit a billion dollars, you've got to pitch in two cents.

00:10:33.000 It's the same!

00:10:35.000 Doing a wealth tax is not about punishing anyone.

00:10:39.000 It's about saying you built something great in this country, good for you.

00:10:42.000 But you did it using workers, all of us helped pay to educate.

00:10:46.000 You did it using your goods on roads and bridges, all of us helped pay for it.

00:10:51.000 You did it protected by police and fire.

00:10:53.000 Which I was naming and gaming right now.

00:10:56.000 So 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.

00:11:06.000 And here's the thing.

00:11:07.000 That's something that Democrats care about, independents care about, and Republicans care about.

00:11:13.000 Because 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.

00:11:26.000 We come together when we acknowledge that and say we're going to make real change.

00:11:30.000 Thank you, Senator Brooker.

00:11:31.000 Do you agree with that strategy?

00:11:33.000 Well, first of all, I think we all agree that we need to bring in a lot more revenue in this country.

00:11:37.000 We have a real problem. 0.98

00:11:39.000 Shut up. 1.00

00:11:39.000 This guy's in the closet. 1.00

00:11:42.000 And I don't agree with the wealth tax the way that Elizabeth Warren puts it, but I agree that we need to raise the estate tax.

00:11:50.000 We need to tax capital gains as ordinary income.

00:11:53.000 Real strategies will increase revenue.

00:11:55.000 But here's the challenge.

00:11:56.000 He's my least favorite. 0.67

00:11:57.000 We as Democrats need a discriminatory just taxation system.

00:12:00.000 But as I travel around the country, we Democrats also have to talk about how to grow wealth as well.

00:12:06.000 When 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? 0.81

00:12:18.000 Like, raise the eyebrows, smiling.

00:12:26.000 We didn't even get the awesome interviews.

00:12:32.000 We got like a minute of it for this.

00:12:37.000 We didn't even get the awesome interviews.

00:12:41.000 We got like a minute of it for this.

00:12:43.000 Senator Warren, you wanted to respond? 0.87

00:12:47.000 So let me just tell you what we can do with that two cent wealth tax.

00:12:47.000 Sure.

00:12:51.000 Two 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.

00:13:01.000 That is transformative.

00:13:02.000 We can provide universal pre K for every three year old and four year old in America.

00:13:07.000 We 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.

00:13:16.000 We can put 800 billion new federal dollars into all of our public schools.

00:13:22.000 We can make college tuition free for every kid.

00:13:25.000 We can put $50 billion into the schools.

00:13:27.000 Is it too early to get the gun out?

00:13:28.000 Is it too early to get the knife out?

00:13:31.000 And we can cancel student loan debt for 95% of the folks who've got it.

00:13:36.000 Two cent wealth tax, and we can invest in an entire generation's future.

00:13:39.000 Let me ask Senator Booker responds.

00:13:41.000 You know, again, I agree with the need to do all of those things.

00:13:41.000 Sure.

00:13:46.000 We're all united in wanting to see universal free speech.

00:13:48.000 I bet they're all forcing the smile.

00:13:50.000 This is so different.

00:13:52.000 I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for two parents that went to HBCUs.

00:13:55.000 I love you, Anthony.

00:13:56.000 But the tax, the way we're putting it forward right now, the wealth tax, I'm sorry, it's cumbersome.

00:14:00.000 It's been tried by other nations, it's hard to evaluate.

00:14:03.000 We can get the same amount of revenue through just taxation.

00:14:06.000 But 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.

00:14:17.000 Look at VC dollars in this country 75% of them go to three metropolitan areas.

00:14:22.000 There is worth in the inner city, there is value in our rural areas.

00:14:26.000 If I am president of the United States, we're going to have a fair, just taxation where millionaires and billionaires pay their fair share.

00:14:32.000 But dear God, we're going to have pathways to prosperity.

00:14:35.000 For more Americans, we're going to see a change in what we see right now.

00:14:39.000 Small businesses, new startups are going down in this country.

00:14:42.000 Thank you, sir.

00:14:43.000 We need to give more and more entrepreneurs taxes to people.

00:14:46.000 Just your last thoughts on this.

00:14:48.000 The idea behind what is fair today, the 99% in America are on track to pay about 7.2% of their total wealth in taxes.

00:14:58.000 I'm not disagreeing with you.

00:15:00.000 The top one tenth of 1% that I want to say pay two cents more, they'll pay 3.2%.

00:15:07.000 I'm tired of freeloading billionaires.

00:15:10.000 I think it's time that we ask those at the very top to pay more so that every single one of our children gets a raise.

00:15:18.000 Everybody's tired of corporations getting paid zero taxes.

00:15:22.000 I'm not disagreeing with that.

00:15:23.000 Thank you very much, Senator Warren.

00:15:24.000 Thank you.

00:15:25.000 Mayor 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.

00:15:33.000 The Republican Party never stopped fighting President Obama in his eight years in office.

00:15:37.000 So, what would you do that President Obama didn't do to change that?

00:15:41.000 Well, as President Obama commented recently, we are now in a different reality than we were even 12 years ago.

00:15:47.000 And 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.

00:15:59.000 Even 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.

00:16:10.000 For example, on health care.

00:16:12.000 The 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.

00:16:25.000 Creating 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.

00:16:36.000 And 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.

00:16:53.000 It's the same debate.

00:16:54.000 Christian, welcome. 0.91

00:16:55.000 Let's talk about Medicare for All.

00:16:57.000 Senator Warren, you are running out of Medicare for All.

00:17:02.000 We did this five times already.

00:17:06.000 I'm all for that.

00:17:09.000 What do you say to voters who are worried that your position on Medicare for All?

00:17:14.000 Could cost you critical votes in the general elections.

00:17:17.000 So I look out and I see tens of millions of Americans who are struggling to pay their medical bills.

00:17:23.000 37 million people who decided not to have a prescription fill because they just can't afford it.

00:17:28.000 People who didn't take the tests the doctor recommended because they just can't afford it.

00:17:32.000 So here is my plan.

00:17:34.000 Let's bring as many people in and get as much help to the American people as we can, as fast as we can.

00:17:40.000 On day one, as president, I will bring down the cost of prescription drugs on things like insulin and EpiPens.

00:17:49.000 That's going to save tens of millions, hundreds of millions of dollars for people.

00:17:54.000 I'm going to defend the Affordable Care Act from the sabotage of the Trump administration.

00:17:59.000 And in the first hundred days, I'm going to bring in.

00:18:02.000 135 million people into Medicare for all at no cost to them.

00:18:08.000 Everybody under the age of 18, everybody who has a family of four, income less than $50,000.

00:18:15.000 I'm going to lower the age of Medicare to 50 and expand Medicare coverage to include vision and dental and long term care.

00:18:25.000 And 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.

00:18:35.000 Senator, thank you, Senator.

00:18:36.000 Senator Sanders, let me bring you into this conversation.

00:18:38.000 Thank you.

00:18:38.000 I want to ask you the question.

00:18:42.000 Well, I want to ask you the question this way, Senator Sanders.

00:18:45.000 You described your campaign, including your plans for Medicare for All, as a political revolution.

00:18:50.000 Yes.

00:18:50.000 President Obama explicitly said the country is, quote, less revolutionary than it is in the United States.

00:18:56.000 I can't even give you any commentary on this.

00:19:00.000 I simply cannot do it.

00:19:02.000 I've done it.

00:19:02.000 I've done it how many times now?

00:19:04.000 Six, seven?

00:19:04.000 We don't have to tear down the system.

00:19:07.000 But we do have to do what the American people want.

00:19:10.000 And the American people understand today that the current health care system is not only cruel, it is dysfunctional.

00:19:18.000 Now, 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.

00:19:31.000 In some cases, we pay 10 times more for prescription drugs than do the people of Canada or other countries.

00:19:40.000 500,000 people go bankrupt because of medically related issues.

00:19:46.000 They come down with cancer, and that's a reason to go bankrupt.

00:19:50.000 Now, some of the people up here think that we should not take on the insurance industry.

00:19:56.000 We should not take on the pharmaceutical industry.

00:19:59.000 But you know what?

00:20:00.000 If 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.

00:20:10.000 Well, you know what?

00:20:11.000 I think now is the time.

00:20:14.000 And in the first week of my administration, we will introduce Medicare for all.

00:20:19.000 Medicare for all, that means no deductibles, no co payments, no out of pocket expenses.

00:20:25.000 That's where we got to go.

00:20:27.000 Thank you, Senator Sanders.

00:20:28.000 Vice President Biden.

00:20:29.000 You know, we can do this without charging people raising $30, $40 trillion.

00:20:37.000 The fact is that right now, vast majority of Democrats do not support Medicare for all.

00:20:42.000 It couldn't pass the United States Senate.

00:20:45.000 right now with Democrats.

00:20:47.000 It couldn't pass the House.

00:20:49.000 Nancy Pelosi is one of those people who then thinks it makes sense. 0.83

00:20:53.000 We 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.

00:21:04.000 Allow people to choose, I should say.

00:21:06.000 If you go the route of my two friends in my right and my left, you have to give up your private insurance.

00:21:11.000 160 million people like their private insurance, and if they don't like it, they can buy into a Medicare-like proposal in my plan.

00:21:20.000 Drug prices go down, premiums go down across the board, but here's the deal.

00:21:25.000 They get to choose.

00:21:27.000 I 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.

00:21:34.000 They want no competition, and my friends say you have to only go Medicare for all.

00:21:41.000 Vice President Biden, thank you.

00:21:42.000 Ashley. 1.00

00:21:43.000 Congresswoman Gabbard, you have criticized Hillary Clinton as the personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party. 1.00

00:21:52.000 She's going to disappoint us if she's not. 0.96

00:21:55.000 That our Democratic Party, unfortunately, is not the party that is of, by, and for the people.

00:22:02.000 It 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.

00:22:18.000 I'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.

00:22:27.000 Of 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,

00:22:46.000 overthrowing 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.

00:22:59.000 Of American lives.

00:23:00.000 These 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.

00:23:13.000 As 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.

00:23:26.000 Thank you, Congressman.

00:23:27.000 Senator Harris, any response?

00:23:29.000 Pretty good.

00:23:30.000 You know, she did not so great last time, but that was pretty good.

00:23:35.000 I 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.

00:23:50.000 That's a great question.

00:23:52.000 Who has spent full time criticizing people on this stage as affiliated with the Democratic Party.

00:23:59.000 When 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.

00:24:20.000 What we need on the stage in November is someone who has the ability to win.

00:24:28.000 And 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.

00:24:38.000 And bring the party and the nation together, I believe I am that candidate.

00:24:42.000 Thank you, Senator.

00:24:43.000 Congresswoman Gabbard, I'll give you a chance to respond. 0.54

00:24:45.000 What 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.

00:25:14.000 Deeply destructive.

00:25:16.000 This is personal to me because I served in Iraq.

00:25:19.000 I 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.

00:25:29.000 I 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.

00:25:39.000 No, I'm not going to put party interests first.

00:25:41.000 I will put the interests of the American people first.

00:25:43.000 Thank you, Congresswoman.

00:25:44.000 I want to briefly give Senator Harris a big applause.

00:25:46.000 No applause, but that was good.

00:25:48.000 I believe that.

00:25:50.000 What our nation needs right now is a nominee who can speak to all people. 1.00

00:25:56.000 What a dumb retard. 1.00

00:25:57.000 She's totally fumbling it. 1.00

00:25:59.000 Look at this stupid retard. 1.00

00:26:00.000 She was mostly in a courtroom speaking five words Kamala Harris for the people. 1.00

00:26:03.000 And 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.

00:26:14.000 We need someone on this debate stage in November who has the ability to unify the country and to win the election.

00:26:21.000 And I believe again, I am that candidate.

00:26:23.000 Thank you, Senator.

00:26:23.000 That was incredible.

00:26:24.000 Thank you.

00:26:25.000 You have denounced the special interest.

00:26:25.000 Mr. Steyer.

00:26:27.000 This debate sucked. 0.96

00:26:29.000 That was the most, like, fireworks yet, and it was terrible, basically on both sides. 0.97

00:26:35.000 Tulsi did better than usual, but was that like.

00:26:39.000 Oh my gosh, this debate is horrible.

00:26:45.000 What I've done over the last decade is to put together coalitions of ordinary American citizens.

00:26:53.000 to take on uncharted people.

00:26:54.000 And your audience is not cheering or booing.

00:26:56.000 It's just a broken government in Washington, D.C.

00:26:59.000 It's been purchased by corporations.

00:27:01.000 Over the last decade, with the help of the American people, we have taken on and beaten the oil companies.

00:27:08.000 We have taken on and beaten the tobacco companies.

00:27:10.000 We have taken on and beaten utilities.

00:27:13.000 We've taken on and beaten the drug companies.

00:27:16.000 I've also built one of the largest grassroots organizations in the United States.

00:27:21.000 Last year, NextGen America did the largest youth voter mobilization in American history.

00:27:27.000 I also, in partnership with seven national unions, knocked on 15 million doors in 2016 and 10 million in 2018.

00:27:36.000 What I've done is to try to push power down to the American people to take power away from the corporations who've bought our government.

00:27:44.000 And I'm talking now about structural reform in Washington, D.C. Term limits.

00:27:50.000 If you want bold change in the United States, you're going to have to have new and different people in charge.

00:27:55.000 I'm the only person on this stage who will talk about term limits.

00:27:59.000 Vice President Biden won't, Senator Sanders won't, even Mayor P. Buttigieg will not talk about term limits and structural change.

00:28:06.000 I would let the American people pass laws themselves through direct democracy.

00:28:12.000 It's time to push the power back to the people and away from D.C.

00:28:15.000 I don't have a base stance.

00:28:17.000 I don't want to stick up for Tom Tolkien.

00:28:18.000 I don't want to stick up for Tom Tolkien.

00:28:20.000 Well, I just, I'm someone that comes from money.

00:28:22.000 And I appreciate the work of Mr. Steyer.

00:28:25.000 But right now, we have a system that's not fair, and it's not just fair for money.

00:28:29.000 And so, what I would do.

00:28:30.000 Is start a constitutional amendment and pass it to overturn Citizens United.

00:28:35.000 That's what we should do so that we stop this dark money and outside money from coming into our politics.

00:28:41.000 I 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.

00:28:54.000 If 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.

00:29:09.000 And that's what should have happened.

00:29:09.000 Thank you so much.

00:29:11.000 So while I appreciate his work, I am someone that doesn't come for money.

00:29:14.000 I see my husband out there.

00:29:15.000 My first Senate race, I literally called everyone I knew and I set what is still an all time Senate record.

00:29:20.000 I raised $17,000 from ex boyfriends.

00:29:24.000 And I'd like to point out it's not an expanding base.

00:29:27.000 So I don't just think this is my hand.

00:29:30.000 Thank you, Senator Klobuchar.

00:29:33.000 I want to bring you in.

00:29:34.000 Mr. Yang.

00:29:37.000 Mr. Yang, you've made a virtue of your outsider status.

00:29:41.000 You've never served in the military or in government.

00:29:43.000 What has prepared you to respond to a terrorist attack or a major disaster?

00:29:48.000 Well, first, I just want to stick up for Tom.

00:29:50.000 We have a broken campaign finance system, but Tom's been spending his own money fighting climate change.

00:29:55.000 You can't knock someone for having money and spending it in the right way, my opinion.

00:29:59.000 Face, face, Yang.

00:30:04.000 As Commander in Chief, I think we need to be focused on the real threats of the 21st century.

00:30:09.000 And what are those threats?

00:30:11.000 Climate change, artificial intelligence, loose nuclear material, military drones, and non state actors.

00:30:17.000 And 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.

00:30:34.000 We are 24 years behind on technology.

00:30:37.000 I can say that with authority because we got rid of the Office of Technology Assessment in 1995.

00:30:42.000 Think about that timing.

00:30:44.000 I guess they thought they'd invented everything.

00:30:47.000 The next commander in chief has to be focused on the true threats.

00:30:50.000 Of tomorrow, and that's what I will bring to the table as commander in chief.

00:30:54.000 Thank you, Mr. Yang.

00:30:55.000 Andrea?

00:30:57.000 That was a great statement.

00:30:58.000 I just love Andrea.

00:31:00.000 I hate to say it.

00:31:01.000 You were elected mayor in a Democratic city.

00:31:03.000 Some of the stuff is cringe, but how can you not like the guy, right?

00:31:07.000 And in your only statewide race, you lost by 25 points.

00:31:12.000 Why should Democrats take the risk of betting on you?

00:31:15.000 Because I have the right experience to take on Donald Trump.

00:31:18.000 I get that it's not traditional establishment.

00:31:21.000 Washington experience, but I would argue we need something very different right now.

00:31:26.000 In 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.

00:31:35.000 I don't talk a big game about helping the working class while helicoptering between golf courses with my name on them.

00:31:43.000 I don't even golf.

00:31:44.000 As 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.

00:31:54.000 Yeah, because you wore the uniform of this country.

00:31:56.000 Imagine saying that like it's a good thing. 1.00

00:31:59.000 I don't get on a helicopter and fly between all the golf courses I own because I'm a poor bitch. 1.00

00:32:03.000 Because I'm poor and I have no money. 0.97

00:32:06.000 Wow, that's really cool, dude.

00:32:09.000 Yeah, well, the president has a skyscraper with his name on it.

00:32:15.000 And I'm poor.

00:32:17.000 Oh, cool.

00:32:19.000 That makes me want to vote for you.

00:32:25.000 Working 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.

00:32:42.000 Thank you, Mayor.

00:32:43.000 Senator 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?

00:32:53.000 No, I don't.

00:32:54.000 Maybe we're held to a different standard.

00:32:57.000 Senator, what did you mean by that?

00:33:00.000 First of all, I've made very clear I think that Pete is qualified to be up on this stage, and I am honored to be standing next to him.

00:33:08.000 But what I said was true women are held to a higher standard. 0.95

00:33:12.000 Otherwise, we could play a game called Name Your Favorite Woman President, which we can't do because it has all been men. 0.97

00:33:21.000 Ethically.

00:33:22.000 Vice presidents being men.

00:33:24.000 And I think any working woman out there, any woman that's at home, knows exactly what I mean. 0.97

00:33:29.000 We have to work harder.

00:33:30.000 And that's a fact.

00:33:31.000 I pray we will never be able to play that game.

00:33:33.000 I pray.

00:33:33.000 Because for so long, why has this been happening?

00:33:36.000 I don't think you have to be the tallest person on this stage to be president.

00:33:40.000 I don't think you have to be the skinniest person.

00:33:42.000 I don't think you have the loudest voice on this stage.

00:33:45.000 I don't think that means that you will be the one to speak.

00:33:47.000 You do have to be skinny and be proud.

00:33:48.000 I think what matters is if you're smart, if you're competent, and if you get things done.

00:33:53.000 I am the one that has passed over 100 bills as the lead Democrat in that gridlock of Washington in Congress on this stage.

00:34:01.000 I think you've got to win.

00:34:03.000 And 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.

00:34:12.000 I govern both with my head and my heart. 0.80

00:34:15.000 And if you think a woman can't beat Donald Trump, Nancy Pelosi does it every single day. 1.00

00:34:21.000 She always has one of those cute little lines queued up, right? 1.00

00:34:29.000 I think a woman's qualified to be president. 1.00

00:34:31.000 There's no reason why, if you think the woman's the most qualified person now, you should vote for them.

00:34:34.000 The reason why I think I should be president and be the nominee is number one, I have brought people together my entire career.

00:34:43.000 In the United States Senate, I've passed more major legislation than everybody on this stage combined, from the Violence Against Women Act.

00:34:49.000 To making sure we have the violence against women act, which of course supports violence against women.

00:34:55.000 The whole range of things that I've been engaged in.

00:34:57.000 Kidding!

00:34:58.000 That's a joke, by the way.

00:34:59.000 I brought people together.

00:35:00.000 I'm always told by everybody on here things have changed.

00:35:03.000 You can't do that anymore.

00:35:04.000 If we can't, I thought the question was, how do you unify this country?

00:35:09.000 We have to unify this country.

00:35:11.000 I have done it.

00:35:13.000 I have done it repeatedly.

00:35:14.000 And lastly, to be commander in chief, there's no time for on the job training.

00:35:18.000 I've spent more time in the situation room, more time.

00:35:21.000 Abroad more time than anybody up here.

00:35:23.000 I know every major world leader.

00:35:25.000 They 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.

00:35:32.000 Thank you.

00:35:32.000 Thank you, Mr. Vice President Ashley.

00:35:34.000 Senator 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.

00:35:46.000 Setting aside your views of his tone, is that unfiltered communication something you, as President would continue.

00:35:52.000 Is this one of the norms broken by President Trump? 1.00

00:35:55.000 What a stupid and useless question. 1.00

00:35:57.000 So, look, this president has broken norms, as you've said. 1.00

00:36:02.000 He uses platforms to demean, degrade, and divide this country in ways that are repugnant and appalling.

00:36:09.000 But the next president, whoever they are, is going to have to be someone who can heal and bring this nation together.

00:36:17.000 This whole nation.

00:36:18.000 So, absolutely in that office, I will do whatever it takes to make sure we bring this country together.

00:36:24.000 But it's not For a kumbaya moment.

00:36:27.000 We are a nation that achieves great things when we stand together and work together and fight together.

00:36:34.000 So, 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.

00:36:50.000 And what I learned there is that you have to be an executive that can heal.

00:36:55.000 In my city, we have racial divides.

00:36:57.000 We have geographic divides that go from wealth to people that are struggling.

00:37:02.000 The success of my city was because we brought us all together and did things that other people said couldn't be done.

00:37:09.000 When I am president of the United States, my campaign from the very beginning has not changed.

00:37:14.000 My charge is to see a nation right now which has so much common pain to channel that back into a sense of common purpose.

00:37:21.000 And I will do whatever it takes bringing creativity to that office like has never been seen before.

00:37:26.000 Thank you, Senator.

00:37:27.000 Rachel?

00:37:28.000 That's really touching. 1.00

00:37:29.000 Chips of lock her up.

00:37:31.000 He's going to bring creativity to the office today.

00:37:34.000 That's amazing.

00:37:35.000 Now, some opponents of the president are turning the same slogan against him.

00:37:40.000 They've chanted, Lock him up, at a recent World Series game in Washington and at a Veterans Day event in New York.

00:37:46.000 And, Senator Sanders, at at least two of your campaign events recently.

00:37:51.000 Senator, should Democrats discourage this, or are you okay with it?

00:37:59.000 Well, Andrew Yang's laughing.

00:38:02.000 And you're laughing.

00:38:03.000 You're laughing.

00:38:05.000 To the degree How about another joke?

00:38:07.000 How about a I can't we're stuck in a time loop.

00:38:11.000 It's all the same.

00:38:12.000 Same meme, same debate.

00:38:16.000 And I think what the American people are also saying is, in fact, I asked that question and you're laughing.

00:38:23.000 You're laughing.

00:38:25.000 He should be prosecuted like any other individual who breaks the law.

00:38:30.000 But at the end of the day, what we need to do is to bring our people together.

00:38:37.000 Opposition to Trump.

00:38:39.000 Stop saying that.

00:38:40.000 I think that you wrote that somebody raised here was that we are a divided nation.

00:38:45.000 You know what?

00:38:46.000 I kind of reject that.

00:38:48.000 I 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.

00:38:57.000 When you talk about the climate crisis, the overwhelming majority of the American people know that it is real.

00:39:03.000 They know we have to take on the fossil fuel industry, they know we have to transform our energy system.

00:39:10.000 Away from fossil fuel to energy efficiency and sustainable energy.

00:39:14.000 Even on issues like guns, the American people are coming together to end the horrific level of gun violence.

00:39:21.000 So 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.

00:39:32.000 Vice President Biden, let me ask you to pick up on the issue that Senator Sanders just raised about no one being above the law.

00:39:38.000 When President Ford pardoned President Nixon, he said it was to heal the country.

00:39:44.000 Would 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?

00:39:53.000 Look, I would not direct my Justice Department like this president does.

00:39:58.000 I'd let them make their independent judgment.

00:40:00.000 I would not dictate who should be prosecuted or who should be exonerated.

00:40:06.000 That's not the role of the president of the United States.

00:40:09.000 It's the attorney general of the United States, not the president's attorney, private attorney.

00:40:14.000 And so I would, whatever.

00:40:15.000 Was determined by the Attorney General I supported, that I appointed.

00:40:20.000 Let them make an independent judgment.

00:40:23.000 If that was the judgment, that he violated the law and he should be, in fact, criminally prosecuted, then so be it.

00:40:30.000 But I would not direct it.

00:40:32.000 And I don't think it's a good idea that we model ourselves after Trump and say, lock him up.

00:40:39.000 Look, we have to bring this country together.

00:40:42.000 Let's start talking civilly to people and treating.

00:40:46.000 You know, the next president who starts tweeting should.

00:40:49.000 Anyway, it just, we look, it's about civility.

00:40:54.000 We have to restore the soul of this country.

00:40:56.000 And that's not who we are, that's not who we've been, that's not who we should be.

00:41:01.000 Follow the law.

00:41:03.000 Let the Justice Department make the judgment as to whether or not someone should be prosecuted, period.

00:41:08.000 Senator Sanders, let me ask you briefly to respond to that, the difference of opinion there with Vice President Biden.

00:41:14.000 Well, I think Joe is right.

00:41:16.000 I think that it is the function of the Attorney General.

00:41:20.000 But 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.

00:41:32.000 We have a president who is engaged in corruption.

00:41:36.000 We have a president who has obstructed justice, and in my view, somebody who has violated the Emoluments Clause.

00:41:42.000 I think Joe is right.

00:41:43.000 That is the function of an independent Department of Justice.

00:41:47.000 But my inclination is that the American people do believe that this president is in violation of the law.

00:41:53.000 Can I respond very quickly?

00:41:55.000 Distinction.

00:41:55.000 Briefly, sir.

00:41:57.000 Should he be impeached, and should he be thrown out of office?

00:42:00.000 That's one question.

00:42:01.000 He's very close to impeached.

00:42:02.000 He's indicted himself.

00:42:04.000 Number two, after he's thrown out of office or after he's defeated, should he be then prosecuted?

00:42:10.000 Should he be prosecuted for a criminal offense while he was president?

00:42:14.000 That's a judgment to be made by an attorney general.

00:42:16.000 Mr. Vice President, thank you.

00:42:17.000 Ashley.

00:42:18.000 We now focus on an issue facing many Americans child care and paid family leave.

00:42:23.000 Here in Georgia, the average price of infant day care can be as much as $8,500 per child per year.

00:42:30.000 That's more than in state tuition at a four year public college in Georgia.

00:42:34.000 Mr. Yang, what would you do as president to ease that financial burden?

00:42:39.000 There are only two countries in the world that don't have paid family leave for new moms.

00:42:43.000 The United States of America and Papua New Guinea.

00:42:46.000 That is the entire list, and we need to get off this list as soon as possible.

00:42:51.000 I would pass paid family leave as one of the first things we do.

00:42:53.000 I have two kids myself, four, four, and seven, one of whom is autistic and has special needs.

00:42:59.000 And it's breaking families' backs.

00:43:00.000 We 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.

00:43:11.000 Studies have shown that two thirds of our kids' educational outcomes are determined.

00:43:17.000 By what's happening to them at home.

00:43:19.000 This is stress levels, number of words read to them as children, type of neighborhood, whether a parent has time to spend with them.

00:43:27.000 So 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.

00:43:43.000 We should not be pushing everyone to leave at home and go to the workforce.

00:43:47.000 Many parents.

00:43:49.000 See that trade off and say if they leave the home and work, they're going to be spending all the money on child care anyway.

00:43:53.000 In many cases, it would be better if the parent stays home with the child.

00:43:55.000 Based, based.

00:43:57.000 Sticking with this topic, the government of the United States is federally guaranteed a single day when they have a new baby.

00:44:04.000 A little bit cringe on some of this.

00:44:09.000 Senator Harris, you're one of the candidates proposing legislation to guarantee up to six months of paid family leave.

00:44:15.000 And Senator Klobuchar, you're one of the candidates proposing up to three months.

00:44:19.000 I want to hear from both of you on this, starting with you, Senator Klobuchar.

00:44:22.000 Why three months?

00:44:23.000 I 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.

00:44:35.000 We must do this, and we will do this if we have the right person heading up the ticket so we can win big.

00:44:41.000 But what I have done with all of my plans is I have showed how I'm going to pay for them meticulously.

00:44:47.000 I think that is really, really important when we have a president in the White House right now who has told over 10,000 lies.

00:44:56.000 So, 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.

00:45:03.000 And 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.

00:45:19.000 So, yes.

00:45:20.000 My plan is three months.

00:45:21.000 I think that's good.

00:45:22.000 I'd love to do more.

00:45:24.000 I'm a voter in Michigan.

00:45:25.000 I'd love to state the state's pledge.

00:45:29.000 I have to go to the candidates' website and look at their plan.

00:45:34.000 And then see how they're going to pay for that.

00:45:37.000 Yeah, that's how politics is.

00:45:43.000 I'm done.

00:45:47.000 I'm over it.

00:45:49.000 It doesn't matter how they pay for anything.

00:45:51.000 How do they pay for anything?

00:45:53.000 It's a trillion dollar deficit, practically.

00:45:56.000 What do you mean, how they're going to pay for it?

00:45:57.000 We can't pay for anything.

00:46:00.000 The states are bankrupt.

00:46:02.000 The federal government's bankrupt.

00:46:04.000 The cities are bankrupt.

00:46:06.000 I'll tell you how I'm going to pay for it. 0.99

00:46:07.000 No, you're fucking not. 0.99

00:46:08.000 No one's going to pay for anything ever, ever again. 0.98

00:46:12.000 Every country's like 100% debt to GDP ratio, with a few exceptions.

00:46:19.000 I'll tell you you're going to pay for it.

00:46:22.000 Yeah.

00:46:22.000 Show a picture of a printer.

00:46:25.000 Is it going to be because we are focused on the future.

00:46:29.000 We are focused on the challenges that are presented today and not trying to bring back yesterday to solve tomorrow.

00:46:35.000 That's what we're trying to do.

00:46:36.000 We're trying to bring back yesterday to solve.

00:46:38.000 That's us. 1.00

00:46:42.000 That's the Groypers. 1.00

00:46:43.000 Tamal Harris be like those Groypers. 1.00

00:46:46.000 Which means that these families and parents are often raising young children and taking care of their parents, which requires a lot of work. 1.00

00:46:55.000 From 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.

00:47:02.000 And what we are seeing in America today is the burden principally falls on women to do that work.

00:47:09.000 And 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.

00:47:22.000 So, six months paid family leave is meant to and is designed to adjust to the reality of women's lives today.

00:47:29.000 The reality also is that women are not paid equal for equal work in America.

00:47:33.000 We 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. 0.94

00:47:47.000 There's like so many.

00:47:48.000 So 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.

00:48:01.000 Thank you, Senator.

00:48:01.000 I'm a Native American.

00:48:03.000 Mr. Steyer, millions of working Americans are finding that housing has become unaffordable, especially in metropolitan areas.

00:48:03.000 Kristen?

00:48:11.000 It is particularly acute in your home state of California and places like Los Angeles and San Francisco.

00:48:16.000 Why are you the best person to fix this problem?

00:48:20.000 When you look at inequality in the United States of America, you have to start with housing.

00:48:26.000 Where you put your head at night determines so many things about your life, it determines where your kids go to school.

00:48:34.000 It determines the air you breathe, where you shop, how long it takes you to get to work.

00:48:40.000 What we've seen in California is as a result of policy, we have millions too few housing units.

00:48:48.000 And that affects everybody in California.

00:48:51.000 It starts with a homeless crisis that goes all through the state.

00:48:55.000 Maybe it's all the people.

00:48:56.000 It also includes skyrocketing rents that affect every single working person in the state of California.

00:49:04.000 I understand exactly what needs to be done here, which is we need to change policy and we need to apply resources here.

00:49:11.000 To make sure that we build literally millions of new units.

00:49:16.000 But 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.

00:49:22.000 Donald Trump's speech is a very nice comment.

00:49:24.000 How we build units where people live has a dramatic impact on climate and on sustainability.

00:49:32.000 So 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.

00:49:46.000 That they have to change that and we're going to have to force it.

00:49:48.000 And 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.

00:49:59.000 Thank you, Mr. Sire.

00:50:00.000 Senator Warren, I see your hand raised.

00:50:02.000 Yes.

00:50:03.000 Think of it this way our housing problem in America is a problem on the supply side.

00:50:08.000 And that means that the federal government stopped building new housing a long time ago, affordable housing.

00:50:14.000 Also, private developers, they've gone up to the mansions.

00:50:17.000 They're not building the little two bedroom, one bath house that I grew up in.

00:50:21.000 Garage converted to be a bedroom for my three brothers.

00:50:24.000 So I've got a plan for 3.2 million new housing units in America.

00:50:28.000 Those 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.

00:50:39.000 It's about tenants' rights, but there's one more piece housing is how we build wealth in America.

00:50:45.000 The 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.

00:50:54.000 That was known as redlining.

00:50:56.000 When 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.

00:51:10.000 Thank you, Senator.

00:51:11.000 Senator Booker?

00:51:12.000 I'm so grateful again.

00:51:14.000 As 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.

00:51:29.000 And low income families being moved further and further out, often compounding racial segregation.

00:51:36.000 And so, all of these things, we need to put more federal dollars in it, but we've got to start empowering people.

00:51:41.000 We use our tax code to move wealth up, the mortgage interest deduction.

00:51:45.000 My plan is very simple.

00:51:47.000 If 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.

00:51:58.000 That empowers people in the same way.

00:52:00.000 We empower homeowners.

00:52:02.000 And what that does is it actually slashes poverty, 10 million people out.

00:52:06.000 And 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.

00:52:17.000 Thank you, Senator Rachel.

00:52:19.000 We'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.

00:52:26.000 Stay with us.

00:52:28.000 All right.

00:52:37.000 This is so bad.

00:52:40.000 This is the worst.

00:52:46.000 Why?

00:52:47.000 Why do we have to.

00:52:48.000 I regret doing this.

00:52:49.000 I should have just done my show about something else.

00:52:52.000 But we've done it every other time.

00:52:54.000 I haven't cut this pocket.

00:52:59.000 Sheesh.

00:53:00.000 I don't even have anything to say.

00:53:02.000 Because it's the same debate.

00:53:04.000 This is the same debate that we've seen.

00:53:08.000 Six other times.

00:53:10.000 Because we had. 1.00

00:53:12.000 Shut up! 1.00

00:53:14.000 Shut up. 1.00

00:53:16.000 Because we had two rounds the first debate, two rounds the second debate, then we had one in September, one in October. 0.96

00:53:26.000 So this is fully our seventh debate, and I haven't heard anything new.

00:53:26.000 And now we've got.

00:53:31.000 Look at this retard. 1.00

00:53:32.000 Look at this ugly idiot. 1.00

00:53:35.000 Disgusting. 1.00

00:53:36.000 Why would anybody take this guy seriously? 0.99

00:53:38.000 I saw that guy in real life once. 0.99

00:53:41.000 Anyway, it's all the Medicare debate, this unify the country shit. 1.00

00:53:50.000 The only thing that was different is the questions actually suck. 0.99

00:53:54.000 The only new questions are things like what do you think about chanting at rallies? 0.60

00:53:59.000 What do you think about tweeting?

00:54:01.000 Okay? 0.98

00:54:02.000 Now, I wonder why all the questions suck. 0.95

00:54:06.000 Well, I don't know. 0.95

00:54:08.000 Let's take a look and find out.

00:54:10.000 Let me pull up my Twitter here. 0.53

00:54:14.000 Gee, gee, why are all the questions trash?

00:54:18.000 Let's pull it up.

00:54:19.000 Well, these are our four moderators for tonight.

00:54:22.000 These are the people that came up with the questions.

00:54:25.000 We've got this one, we've got Michael Knowles, we've got this one, and then we've got this one. 0.93

00:54:33.000 So, yeah, four renowned female journalists will be the moderators. 1.00

00:54:37.000 How's that working out for you, huh? 1.00

00:54:39.000 How's that working out for you, MSNBC? 0.99

00:54:43.000 Questions are trash. 0.96

00:54:46.000 And I think we know why. 0.99

00:54:48.000 It's because they're liberal Democrats.

00:54:50.000 It's because they're liberal.

00:54:50.000 Follow me on Twitter, by the way.

00:54:52.000 Follow me on Twitter.

00:54:52.000 Follow me on DLive.

00:54:54.000 Click the follow button in the top right, it should be right on top of the screen.

00:54:58.000 Follow me on DLive.

00:55:00.000 But 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. 0.98

00:55:13.000 I wrote the damn bill, I have a plan for that. 0.96

00:55:17.000 This debate about Medicare for all versus Medicare for all who want it. 0.99

00:55:20.000 How are you going to pay for it?

00:55:23.000 The only interesting exchange so far was with Tulsi Gabbard and Kamala Harris.

00:55:30.000 And even then, I don't know what's going on with the audience.

00:55:33.000 Who is the audience?

00:55:34.000 Is there an audience?

00:55:35.000 Because this has probably been the most low energy debate of the entire campaign.

00:55:41.000 There's hardly any clapping, hardly any cheering.

00:55:45.000 It's not rowdy at all.

00:55:47.000 Even that exchange with Tulsi Gabbard and Kamala, I think there was one.

00:55:51.000 Muted applause after Kamala said her line about how Tulsi supports a war criminal and went to Trump Tower.

00:55:58.000 But that was about it.

00:55:59.000 And even that exchange was basically hollow.

00:56:02.000 You know, Tulsi did better than last time, but I don't feel like her statement was extremely compelling.

00:56:08.000 You know, I just don't think she's a strong public speaker.

00:56:10.000 Now, 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.

00:56:18.000 And it didn't help that Kamala.

00:56:21.000 Didn't really engage with her on regime change.

00:56:24.000 Kamala just responded with this basically an adapted version of her introductory statement, which is, I think I'm the candidate to unify the nation.

00:56:32.000 So, I think that kind of took the wind out of her sails a little bit. 0.67

00:56:35.000 But looks like we're back for the second hour of this trash debate. 0.99

00:56:40.000 Here's your epic moderators with all the amazing questions. 0.99

00:56:43.000 Get right back into it.

00:56:44.000 American farmers are struggling under the effects of President Trump's trade war with China.

00:56:50.000 The 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.

00:57:01.000 Mayor Buttigieg.

00:57:03.000 Would you continue those farm subsidies?

00:57:05.000 We 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.

00:57:13.000 I will support farmers, but not long ago, I was in Boone, Iowa.

00:57:16.000 A guy came up to me, he said, I got my Trump bailout check, but I would have rather spent that money on conservation.

00:57:22.000 By the way, this isn't even making farmers whole.

00:57:25.000 If you're in soybeans, for example, you're getting killed.

00:57:28.000 And it's not just what this president's done with the trade war.

00:57:31.000 In 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.

00:57:38.000 Look, I don't think this president cares one bit about farmers.

00:57:42.000 He 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.

00:57:53.000 I 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.

00:58:10.000 And American farming should be one of the key pillars of how we combat climate change.

00:58:16.000 I 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.

00:58:24.000 And 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.

00:58:39.000 I'm sorry to interrupt, but I need you to answer the question.

00:58:41.000 Would you continue those subsidies or not?

00:58:44.000 Yes, but we won't need them because we're going to fix the trade war.

00:58:46.000 Thank you, sir.

00:58:48.000 The UN recently reported that what was once called climate change is now a climate crisis.

00:58:54.000 With drastic results already being felt. 0.98

00:58:54.000 Shut up. 0.98

00:58:56.000 Shut up, Hare. 1.00

00:58:57.000 Climate is also an issue important to our audience. 0.98

00:58:59.000 We received thousands of questions from our viewers, and many of them were about climate.

00:59:05.000 Kalista 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.

00:59:17.000 If you are elected president, how would you ensure that there is secure leadership and bipartisan support to continue this project?

00:59:25.000 Congresswoman Gabbard.

00:59:27.000 This is an issue that impacts all of us as Americans and people all over the world.

00:59:32.000 This is not a Democrat issue or Republican issue.

00:59:35.000 This is about the environmental threats that each and every one of us face.

00:59:39.000 These 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.

00:59:57.000 That we have clean air to raise our kids in a community that's safe.

01:00:02.000 It 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.

01:00:12.000 Bring abroad.

01:00:13.000 Transitioning our country to fossil fuels and ending the nearly $30 billion in subsidies that we as taxpayers are currently giving.

01:00:22.000 To 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.

01:00:50.000 Leading as a big man to make the global.

01:00:53.000 Change necessary to address this threat.

01:00:55.000 I want to bring in Mr. Steyer on this.

01:00:55.000 Thank you, Congressman.

01:00:57.000 You've made climate change a serious threat.

01:00:58.000 Mommy wants me to call her.

01:00:59.000 Call her to this issue of making change change.

01:01:02.000 Mommy says no more. 0.99

01:01:03.000 No more McDonald's trying to be a call for us.

01:01:05.000 Not for butter.

01:01:06.000 Rachel, I'm the only person on this stage who will say that climate is the number one priority for me.

01:01:12.000 Vice President Biden won't say it.

01:01:15.000 He keeps trying to provoke.

01:01:17.000 He keeps trying to provoke.

01:01:18.000 And I would declare a state of emergency on day one.

01:01:22.000 I would use the emergency powers of the presidency.

01:01:26.000 I know that we have to do this.

01:01:28.000 I've spent a decade fighting and beating oil companies, stopping pipelines, stopping fossil fuel plants, ensuring clean energy across the country.

01:01:38.000 I know that we have to do this.

01:01:40.000 I also know that we can do this.

01:01:43.000 I would make this the number one priority of my foreign policy as well. 1.00

01:01:47.000 That's so gay. 1.00

01:01:49.000 We can do this and create literally millions of good paying union jobs across this country. 0.90

01:01:55.000 I would make sure that my climate policy was led. 1.00

01:01:59.000 By 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. 1.00

01:02:10.000 And when we ask, how are we going to pull this country together? 1.00

01:02:13.000 How about this?

01:02:14.000 We take on the biggest challenge in history, we save the world, and we do it together.

01:02:19.000 Do you think that would pull America together?

01:02:21.000 I do.

01:02:22.000 Quickly, Vice President Biden, you were name checked there.

01:02:24.000 I'd like to get a chance to answer that.

01:02:26.000 Oh, yeah, I was.

01:02:27.000 I think it is the existential threat to humanity, it's the number one issue.

01:02:31.000 And I might add, I don't really need kind of a lecture from my friend.

01:02:38.000 While 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.

01:03:02.000 And produced more coal around the world, according to the press, than all of Great Britain produces.

01:03:08.000 Now, I welcome him back into the fold here.

01:03:12.000 And he's been there for a long while.

01:03:14.000 But the idea that we talk about where we started and how we are, let's get this straight. 0.91

01:03:19.000 I think it is the existential threat of the Baltic. 0.94

01:03:22.000 Thank you, Mr. Vice President.

01:03:23.000 You may respond, Mr. Sire.

01:03:24.000 Look, I came to the conclusion over 10 years ago that climate was the absolute The problem of our society owns the whole planet. 1.00

01:03:35.000 Oh my gosh, these people suck! 1.00

01:03:37.000 They're based on fossil fuels. 1.00

01:03:39.000 Everybody in this room has lived in an economy based on fossil fuels.

01:03:43.000 And we all have to come to the same conclusion that I came to over a decade ago.

01:03:49.000 If 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.

01:04:00.000 This is a problem which continues to get worse.

01:04:03.000 That's why I'm saying it's a state of emergency.

01:04:05.000 That's why I'm saying it's priority one.

01:04:07.000 If it isn't priority one, it's not going to get done.

01:04:10.000 And this is something where we absolutely have to address it up front.

01:04:14.000 We have to make it the most important thing.

01:04:16.000 And we can use it to rebuild and reimagine what the United States is.

01:04:21.000 We can be the moral leaders of the world again while we clean up our air and water and create millions of good paying jobs.

01:04:27.000 Senator Sanders, I'm going to ask you to jump in.

01:04:29.000 I was also named in that.

01:04:30.000 Tom, you stated.

01:04:31.000 You were.

01:04:32.000 You talked about the need to make climate change a national emergency.

01:04:36.000 I've introduced legislation to just do that.

01:04:40.000 Now, I disagree with the thrust of the original question.

01:04:43.000 Because your question has said, what are we going to do in decades?

01:04:46.000 We don't have decades.

01:04:48.000 But the scientists are telling us that we don't get our act together within the next eight or nine years.

01:04:55.000 We're talking about cities all over the world, major cities going underwater.

01:05:00.000 We're talking about increased drought, talking about increased extreme weather disturbances. 1.00

01:05:06.000 The 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.

01:05:18.000 What 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.

01:05:32.000 And 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.

01:05:46.000 From water to biodiversity.

01:05:47.000 We should think about prosecuting them as well.

01:05:49.000 Thank you, Senator Sanders.

01:05:50.000 Andrew.

01:05:52.000 President Trump has dramatically changed America's.

01:05:55.000 Approach 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.

01:06:04.000 So let's talk about what kind of commander in chief you would be.

01:06:08.000 Senator Harris, North Korea is now threatening to cancel any future summits if President Trump does not make concessions on nuclear weapons.

01:06:15.000 If you were commander in chief, would you make concessions to Kim Jong un in order to keep those talks going?

01:06:23.000 With all due deference to the fact that this is a presidential debate, Donald Trump is not the healthy option.

01:06:31.000 He 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.

01:06:50.000 And 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.

01:07:02.000 But 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.

01:07:16.000 What 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.

01:07:36.000 Of our nation at this moment.

01:07:37.000 But would you make concessions to North Korea to do that?

01:07:40.000 Not at this point. 0.58

01:07:41.000 There are no concessions to be made.

01:07:44.000 He has traded a photo op for nothing.

01:07:47.000 He has abandoned by shutting down the operations with South Korea for the last year and a half.

01:07:54.000 So 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.

01:08:09.000 On slowing down or at least having a check and balance on North Korea's nuclear program.

01:08:14.000 Thank you, Senator.

01:08:15.000 Mr. Vice President, President Trump inherited the North Korea problem from past presidents over decades.

01:08:22.000 What would a President Biden do that President Obama didn't do in eight years?

01:08:27.000 Well, first of all, I'd go back and making sure we had the alliances we had before he became president.

01:08:33.000 He has absolutely ostracized us from South Korea. 0.92

01:08:36.000 He 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. 0.91

01:08:48.000 Very recently was his comment.

01:08:51.000 Other than that, you like him.

01:08:52.000 Other than that, I like him.

01:08:53.000 And 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.

01:09:08.000 And 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.

01:09:17.000 We're going to continue to make sure we increase our relationship with South Korea.

01:09:23.000 And if they view that as a threat, it's an easy thing to respond to.

01:09:26.000 They, in fact, can, in fact, put pressure on NATO.

01:09:30.000 NATO, in fact, can, in fact, put pressure in a position where he's done this across the world.

01:09:34.000 And factually, the fact is, Putin is doing in Europe.

01:09:39.000 Putin is, his whole effort is to break up NATO, to increase his power.

01:09:44.000 Look what he's done to it.

01:09:45.000 And so, the fact is, I cannot, in fact, understand, in fact, how to go about it.

01:09:50.000 We need a commander-in-chief who, when he stands, everybody knows what he or she is talking about.

01:09:54.000 Thank you, Mr. Vice President.

01:09:56.000 Two more U.S. soldiers were killed today in Afghanistan, tragically, in America's longest war.

01:10:02.000 Senator Sanders, you've long said you want to bring the troops back home from Afghanistan.

01:10:07.000 Would 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?

01:10:16.000 Well, let me just say this.

01:10:20.000 One 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.

01:10:33.000 And not only that, I voted against the very first Gulf War as well.

01:10:38.000 And 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.

01:10:51.000 But to answer your question, yeah.

01:10:54.000 I 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.

01:11:09.000 But unlike Trump, I will not do it through a tweet at 3 o'clock in the morning.

01:11:15.000 I will do it working with the international community and if it's necessary to negotiate with the Taliban, of course, we will do that.

01:11:24.000 But at the end of the day, we have to rethink the entire war on terror.

01:11:28.000 Which 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.

01:11:37.000 Ashley?

01:11:37.000 Thank you, Senator.

01:11:38.000 Thank you.

01:11:39.000 Mr. Yang, if you win the 2020 election, what would you say in your first call with Russian President Vladimir Putin?

01:11:51.000 First, I'd say, I'm sorry I beat your guy.

01:11:58.000 Yay.

01:12:02.000 That was sorry.

01:12:03.000 I'm not sorry.

01:12:06.000 And 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.

01:12:17.000 The American people would back me on this.

01:12:19.000 We 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.

01:12:26.000 The 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.

01:12:36.000 And it was James Madison that said that the more you invest in diplomats and diplomacy, the less you have to spend on ammunition.

01:12:43.000 That 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.

01:12:57.000 I 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.

01:13:06.000 These are the ways that we'll actually get Russia.

01:13:09.000 To the table and make it so they have to join the international community and stop resisting appeals to the world order. 0.61

01:13:17.000 Thank you, Mr. Yang.

01:13:18.000 Rachel?

01:13:20.000 That last part was a little humbled, but.

01:13:22.000 Senator Booker, China is now using force against demonstrators in Hong Kong.

01:13:26.000 He's right about the data, but the numbers are.

01:13:27.000 Millions have taken to the streets advocating for democratic reforms.

01:13:30.000 Many of the demonstrators are asking the United States for help.

01:13:34.000 If you were president, would the U.S. help their movement and how?

01:13:38.000 Well, first of all, this is a president who seems to want to go up against China.

01:13:43.000 In a trade war, by pulling away from our allies and, in fact, attacking them as well.

01:13:49.000 We used a national security waiver to put tariffs on Canada. 0.77

01:13:53.000 And 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. 0.79

01:14:08.000 There's a larger battle going on on the planet Earth right now between totalitarian, dictatorial countries and free democracies. 0.81

01:14:16.000 And 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.

01:14:28.000 And 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. 0.59

01:14:36.000 So, yes, we will call China out for its human rights violations.

01:14:40.000 But 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. 0.82

01:14:50.000 It'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.

01:15:02.000 It 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.

01:15:18.000 Thank you, Senator Andrew.

01:15:20.000 Mr. Vice President, the leader of Saudi Arabia directed the murder of U.S. based journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

01:15:29.000 The State Department also says the Saudi government is responsible for executing non violent offenders.

01:15:34.000 So watch it on the Washington Post website.

01:15:36.000 President Trump has not punished senior Saudi leaders, would you?

01:15:40.000 Yes, and I said it at the time. 0.97

01:15:43.000 Khashoggi was in fact murdered and dismembered, and I believe in the order of the Crown Prince. 0.83

01:15:49.000 And I would make it very clear.

01:15:51.000 We were not going to, in fact, sell more weapons to them.

01:15:55.000 We were going to, in fact, make them pay the price and make them, in fact, the pariah that they are.

01:16:01.000 There's very little social redeeming value in the present government in Saudi Arabia. 0.98

01:16:07.000 And 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. 0.97

01:16:19.000 And so they have to be held accountable. 0.96

01:16:21.000 And 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. 0.91

01:16:32.000 Of China, what they're doing with a million Uyghurs that are essentially in concentration camps in the West. 0.98

01:16:38.000 A million Uyghurs. 0.99

01:16:40.000 Vocally speaking out about the violation of the commitment they made to Hong Kong. 1.00

01:16:45.000 We have to speak out and speak loudly about violations of human rights. 0.75

01:16:50.000 Senator Klobuchar, just to follow up, would you go against the Saudis even though that would potentially help Iran, their adversaries?

01:16:59.000 We need a new foreign policy in this country, and that means renewing our relationships with our allies, it means rejoining.

01:17:07.000 International agreements, and it means reasserting our American values.

01:17:13.000 And 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.

01:17:31.000 And I want to add a few things to what my colleagues have said.

01:17:33.000 First of all, the question about Russia.

01:17:36.000 When we look at international agreements, we must start. 0.76

01:17:39.000 Negotiating 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. 0.74

01:17:53.000 And we must also start the negotiations for the new START treaty. 0.60

01:17:56.000 And 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.

01:18:08.000 Senator Sanders? 0.89

01:18:10.000 I 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. 0.72

01:18:28.000 And when we rethink our American foreign policy, what we have got to know is that Saudi Arabia is not a reliable ally. 0.71

01:18:36.000 We have got to bring Iran and Saudi Arabia together. 0.54

01:18:40.000 In 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.

01:18:49.000 And by the way, the same thing goes with Israel and the Palestinians.

01:18:55.000 It is no longer good enough for us simply to be pro Israel. 0.82

01:18:58.000 I am pro Israel.

01:19:00.000 But we must treat the Palestinian people as well with the respect and dignity that they deserve.

01:19:06.000 What is going on in Gaza right now, where youth unemployment is 70 or 80 percent, is unsustainable.

01:19:14.000 So, we need to be rethinking who our allies are around the world.

01:19:18.000 Yes, yes, rethink who our allies are.

01:19:21.000 Starting with ally number one.

01:19:23.000 Thank you, Senator Rachel.

01:19:24.000 Senator Warren, only about 1% of Americans serve in the United States military right now.

01:19:30.000 Should that number be higher?

01:19:31.000 Yes, I think it should be.

01:19:33.000 You know, all three of my brothers served in the military.

01:19:36.000 One was career military, the other two also served.

01:19:41.000 I think it's an important part of who we are as Americans.

01:19:45.000 And I think the notion of shared service.

01:19:48.000 It is important.

01:19:49.000 Fight and die.

01:19:50.000 It's how we bring our nation together.

01:19:53.000 It's how people learn to work together from different regions, people who grew up differently.

01:19:59.000 It's also about how families share that sacrifice. 0.57

01:20:03.000 We can all come together by dying for Israel in the Middle East. 0.71

01:20:08.000 The way we're going to learn to live together as a multiracial country is by dying in the Middle East together. 0.99

01:20:16.000 We have nothing in common. 1.00

01:20:18.000 You don't speak the same language. 1.00

01:20:19.000 You come from different countries and backgrounds. 1.00

01:20:21.000 We're going to die here together in Lebanon. 1.00

01:20:26.000 We're going to die here together. 0.98

01:20:29.000 And I believe we should do the Western Front of Greater Israel. 0.94

01:20:33.000 In this country.

01:20:34.000 So, 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.

01:20:55.000 We can do this as a nation.

01:20:56.000 Thank you, Senator.

01:20:57.000 In President Trump's first two years in office, the Pentagon budget ballooned.

01:21:03.000 Mayor Buttigieg, would you cut military spending or would you keep it on the same upward trajectory?

01:21:08.000 We need to reprioritize our budget as a whole and our military spending in particular.

01:21:14.000 It's not just how much, although we certainly need to look at the runaway growth in military spending.

01:21:20.000 It's also where.

01:21:21.000 Right now, we are spending a fraction of the intention and resources on things like the artificial intelligence research that China is doing right now.

01:21:30.000 If we fall behind on artificial intelligence, The most expensive ships that the United States is building just turn into bigger targets.

01:21:40.000 We do not have a 21st century security strategy coming from this president.

01:21:45.000 After all, he's relying on 17th century security technologies like a moat full of alligators or a big wall.

01:21:52.000 There is no concept of strategic planning for how civilian, diplomatic, and military security work needs to take place for the future.

01:22:01.000 Can I respond?

01:22:02.000 Mayor Buttigieg, thank you.

01:22:04.000 Can I respond on this?

01:22:05.000 Coming up.

01:22:06.000 We will have much more from the Phoenix.

01:22:08.000 We're going to take a quick break.

01:22:10.000 Just a moment to stay with us.

01:22:11.000 All right, another break.

01:22:18.000 Does that mean that it's going to be closing statements when we come back?

01:22:20.000 Because 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.

01:22:27.000 But okay, that was a lot of foreign policy in that one.

01:22:31.000 These debates have never been foreign policy centric, but it seemed like that whole half hour was devoted to China, Iran, Afghanistan.

01:22:41.000 Allies, artificial intelligence, that kind of thing.

01:22:44.000 So that was interesting.

01:22:46.000 I was an IR major, of course, during my one year in college.

01:22:49.000 So this is interesting.

01:22:51.000 That part is a little bit interesting to me just on that level.

01:22:54.000 But 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.

01:23:06.000 Like, you know, you look at somebody like Yang who is ignoring some of the.

01:23:11.000 You know, main conflicts of today and talking about AI.

01:23:13.000 Like, clearly, he's not in the Council on Foreign Relations, right?

01:23:18.000 And 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.

01:23:28.000 And Donald Trump said similar things, but it shows you, you know, a little bit of where their allegiances lie. 0.76

01:23:33.000 It's a little bit more cut and dry when it comes to that as opposed to other issues like economics.

01:23:39.000 So, I mean, that was mildly interesting, but here's the thing.

01:23:44.000 We all know that it's a structural problem with foreign policy, right?

01:23:49.000 We all know that it's not a matter of what you believe about how we interact with the world.

01:23:54.000 It's more about domestically what's happening in the decision making process.

01:23:58.000 In other words, any candidate can say whatever they want, and that's great.

01:24:02.000 But 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.

01:24:25.000 The State Department and all the different branches and all the different chains of command and everything.

01:24:31.000 So, people can say whatever they want.

01:24:33.000 Barack Obama said we were going to end the wars, and that didn't happen.

01:24:38.000 And 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.

01:24:47.000 We 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.

01:24:57.000 And clearly, we're still in every war that we were when we started, including Syria.

01:25:02.000 You 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.

01:25:10.000 So, 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.

01:25:22.000 More than any other issue, they're just simply not in control.

01:25:27.000 Pretty 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.

01:25:40.000 But outside of that, you know, it's just simply not under the control of the president.

01:25:44.000 It's the DOD, it's the interests, it's the military industrial complex.

01:25:50.000 Tulsi Gabbard's the only one naming that.

01:25:52.000 And Tulsi Gabbard, I believe, she gets money from the, or she's a participant in the Council on Foreign Relations.

01:26:00.000 You know, she's connected to them.

01:26:01.000 So.

01:26:02.000 Even she is not immune, and she names the regime change wars and the deep, well, not the deep state, but the military industrial complex.

01:26:10.000 So, anyway, looks like we're back.

01:26:15.000 Great.

01:26:17.000 Democratic debate.

01:26:18.000 Let's move now to the issue of race in America.

01:26:24.000 FBI Director Christopher Wray recently told Congress The majority of the domestic terrorism cases that we've investigated are motivated by white supremacist.

01:26:34.000 Violence.

01:26:35.000 Congresswoman Gabbard, to you.

01:26:37.000 As president, would you direct the federal government to do something about this problem that it is not currently doing?

01:26:45.000 Yes, I would.

01:26:46.000 We 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.

01:26:55.000 Remember when I said policy Gabbard is not based?

01:26:57.000 Leadership starts at the top. 0.88

01:27:00.000 It's important that we set the record straight and correct the racial injustices that exist.

01:27:05.000 In 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.

01:27:23.000 This 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.

01:27:36.000 And that's the kinds of prison reforms and sentencing reforms that we need to see that will correct the failures of the past.

01:27:44.000 The 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.

01:27:57.000 That kind of leadership starts at the top.

01:28:00.000 As president, I will usher in a 21st century White House that actually represents the interests of all Americans, first and foremost.

01:28:08.000 Congressman McGabbard, thank you for that.

01:28:10.000 Mr. Yang, what would you do about the issue of white supremacist violence?

01:28:15.000 Well, first, we have to designate white supremacist terrorism as domestic terrorism so that the Department of Justice can properly measure it.

01:28:23.000 Cringe, bro.

01:28:24.000 Very cringe.

01:28:25.000 I talked to an anti hate activist named Christian Picciolini about how he was radicalized over a 10 year period. 1.00

01:28:33.000 That guy's a fucking fan. 0.99

01:28:34.000 He said he was a lonely 14 year old and that he was reached out to by a hate group and he wound up doing it for himself. 1.00

01:28:40.000 He was reached out to by the FBI.

01:28:41.000 Now he's out and he's helping convert people out of those hate groups and back into.

01:28:46.000 The rest of society.

01:28:47.000 But what he told me was that if anyone had reached out to him when he was that hurt, broken 14 year old boy, he would have gone with them.

01:28:54.000 He said if it had been a coach, I would have gone with him.

01:28:57.000 If it had been a mentor or teacher, I would have gone with them.

01:28:59.000 But instead, it was a hate group.

01:29:01.000 So, 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.

01:29:09.000 And 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.

01:29:18.000 We have to, as a country, start.

01:29:20.000 Finding 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.

01:29:28.000 Mr. Yang, thank you for that.

01:29:30.000 Vice President Biden, the Me Too.

01:29:32.000 Healthy, strong young men.

01:29:34.000 Furl, nationalistic.

01:29:36.000 I don't know. 1.00

01:29:38.000 Kind of sucks. 0.97

01:29:39.000 Are there specific actions that you would take early in your administration to address this problem? 0.99

01:29:45.000 Yes.

01:29:46.000 And by the way, it's one of the reasons.

01:29:47.000 The first thing I would do is make sure we pass.

01:29:50.000 The Violence Against Women Act reauthorization, which I wrote. 1.00

01:29:52.000 Reauthorize violence against women. 0.84

01:29:53.000 Reauthorize violence against women. 1.00

01:29:54.000 I wrote the original. 0.99

01:29:55.000 Reauthorize. 0.94

01:29:56.000 The fact is that the authorization of force against women. 1.00

01:29:59.000 We, in fact, have to fundamentally change the culture.

01:30:02.000 Very shameful. 0.99

01:30:03.000 The culture of how women are treated. 1.00

01:30:05.000 We must reauthorize violence against women.

01:30:05.000 Very shameful.

01:30:06.000 What's the matter with that?

01:30:07.000 That's the point.

01:30:10.000 movement on the college campuses to say it's on us.

01:30:13.000 It's everyone's responsibility.

01:30:16.000 We do not spend nearly enough time dealing with.

01:30:19.000 I 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?

01:30:34.000 You know what they said?

01:30:35.000 Get men involved.

01:30:37.000 Engage the rest of the community.

01:30:40.000 And that's what we started this movement on the college campuses to fundamentally change the culture.

01:30:45.000 No man has a right to raise a hand to a woman in anger other than in self-defense, and that rarely ever occurs.

01:30:55.000 And so we have to just change the culture, period.

01:30:58.000 And keep punching at it and punching at it.

01:31:02.000 I hear you loud and clear, Joe.

01:31:04.000 I hear you loud and clear.

01:31:06.000 And we have to make it clear.

01:31:08.000 She's laughing.

01:31:09.000 She's laughing.

01:31:11.000 We will not tolerate it. 0.95

01:31:13.000 We will not tolerate this culture.

01:31:15.000 Mr. Vice President, thank you.

01:31:17.000 Senator Harris, this week you criticized Mayor Cotton. 0.88

01:31:21.000 She can't contain it.

01:31:22.000 She can't contain it.

01:31:23.000 He 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.

01:31:32.000 End quote.

01:31:33.000 What exactly prompted you to say that, Senator Harris?

01:31:37.000 Well, that was asked a question that related to a stock photograph that his campaign published.

01:31:44.000 But listen, I think that it really speaks to a larger issue, and I'll speak to the larger issue.

01:31:51.000 I believe that the mayor has made apologies for that.

01:31:57.000 The larger issue is that for too long, I think, candidates have taken for granted constituencies that have been the backbone of the Democratic Party.

01:32:09.000 And have overlooked those constituencies.

01:32:12.000 And 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.

01:32:23.000 I 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.

01:32:35.000 But, 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.

01:32:44.000 Because 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?

01:33:11.000 And what are you going to do? 0.75

01:33:13.000 And do you understand who the people are?

01:33:18.000 And 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.

01:33:28.000 And we've got to recreate the Obama coalition to win.

01:33:31.000 And that means about women, that's people of color, that's our LGBTQ community, that's working people, that's our labor unions.

01:33:38.000 But that is how we are going to win this election, and I intend to win.

01:33:41.000 Senator Harris, thank you.

01:33:42.000 Mayor Vita Judge, your response to that.

01:33:45.000 My response is I completely agree.

01:33:47.000 And I welcome the challenge of connecting with black voters in America who don't yet know me.

01:33:55.000 And before I share what's in my plans, let me talk about what's in my heart and why this is so important.

01:34:01.000 As 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.

01:34:11.000 Where 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.

01:34:23.000 I 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.

01:34:37.000 And 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,

01:35:04.000 making it possible for me to be standing here wearing this wedding ring in a way that couldn't have happened two elections ago.

01:35:10.000 Let'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.

01:35:20.000 Mayor Buttigieg, thank you very much.

01:35:22.000 Senator Harris, quick response.

01:35:25.000 Look, there's a lot at stake in this election.

01:35:28.000 And I've said it many times, I think justice is on the ballot in 2020.

01:35:32.000 And it's about economic justice, it's about justice for children, it's about justice for our teachers.

01:35:38.000 I could go on down the list.

01:35:40.000 And so the issue really is not what is the fight.

01:35:40.000 I can't.

01:35:43.000 The issue has to be how we're going to win.

01:35:46.000 And to win, we have to build a coalition and rebuild the Obama coalition.

01:35:51.000 I keep referring to that because that's the last time we won.

01:35:55.000 And 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.

01:36:02.000 Knows those communities and has the ability to bring people together.

01:36:06.000 And 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.

01:36:15.000 Thank you, Senator.

01:36:16.000 Senator Warren, quickly.

01:36:18.000 So I think it is really important that we actually talk about what we're willing to get in the fight for.

01:36:23.000 Are these closing stages?

01:36:24.000 I just want to give one example around this.

01:36:27.000 Senator Harris rightly raised the question of economic justice.

01:36:30.000 Let me give a specific example.

01:36:31.000 I guess not.

01:36:32.000 And that is student loan debt.

01:36:34.000 Right 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.

01:36:45.000 Today 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.

01:36:59.000 I believe that means everyone on this stage should be embracing student loan debt forgiveness.

01:37:04.000 It will help. 1.00

01:37:05.000 Close the black white wealth gap. 0.93

01:37:07.000 Let's do something tangible and real to make change in this country.

01:37:11.000 Senator Warren, thank you, Ashley.

01:37:13.000 Senator Warren, back to you.

01:37:15.000 You've said that the border wall that President Trump has proposed is, quote, a monument to hate and division.

01:37:21.000 Would you ask taxpayers to pay to take down any part of the wall on the nation's southern border?

01:37:29.000 If there are parts of the wall that are not useful in our defense, of course we should do it.

01:37:34.000 The real point here is that we need to stop this man made crisis.

01:37:34.000 Wow.

01:37:39.000 At the border.

01:37:40.000 Trump 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.

01:37:50.000 He has withdrawn aid.

01:37:52.000 That means that families have to flee for their lives, have to flee for any economic opportunity.

01:37:58.000 You know, when I found out that our government was actually taking away children from their families, I went down to the border.

01:38:06.000 I went down there immediately.

01:38:07.000 I was in McAllen, Texas, and I just hope everyone remembers what this looks like.

01:38:12.000 There's like a giant Amazon warehouse filled with cages of women, cages of men, and cages of little girls and little boys.

01:38:22.000 I 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.

01:38:34.000 She knew what that meant. 0.67

01:38:35.000 She wrapped up her baby and she ran for the border.

01:38:38.000 We need to treat the people who come here with dignity and with respect.

01:38:43.000 A great nation does not separate children from their families.

01:38:48.000 We need to live our values at the border every single day.

01:38:55.000 That was the biggest applause I've had.

01:38:56.000 Senator Booker, a quick response.

01:38:58.000 Look, I want to be quick on this because I'd like to get back to something that wasn't included in.

01:39:03.000 So would we all.

01:39:05.000 Absolutely.

01:39:07.000 If this is not effective, we see people cutting holes in his wall.

01:39:10.000 His wall, what he brags about, is just wrong.

01:39:11.000 We need to have policies that respect.

01:39:13.000 Dignity, keep us safe and strong.

01:39:15.000 I wanted to return back to this issue of black voters. 0.57

01:39:19.000 I have a lifetime of experience with black voters.

01:39:21.000 I've been one since I was 18.

01:39:26.000 Nobody on this stage should need a focus group to hear from African American voters. 0.92

01:39:31.000 Black voters are pissed off and they're worried. 0.53

01:39:33.000 They'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. 0.53

01:39:39.000 And 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.

01:39:52.000 And so that's what's on the ballot.

01:39:54.000 And issues do matter.

01:39:56.000 I have a lot of respect for the vice president.

01:39:59.000 He has swore me into my office as a hero.

01:40:02.000 This week I hear him literally say that I don't think we should legalize marijuana.

01:40:07.000 I thought you might have been high when you said it.

01:40:11.000 And let me tell you, because marijuana in our country is already legal for privileged people. 0.96

01:40:20.000 And the war on drugs has been a war on black and brown people. 1.00

01:40:26.000 This is what they deserve. 1.00

01:40:27.000 This is what they deserve. 1.00

01:40:29.000 African 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. 1.00

01:40:51.000 And so these are the kind of issues that mean a lot to our community.

01:40:56.000 And if we don't have somebody authentically, we lost the last election.

01:40:59.000 Let me just give you this example.

01:40:59.000 The debate's getting good now.

01:41:01.000 We lost in Wisconsin. 1.00

01:41:03.000 Because of a massive diminution, a lot of reasons, but there was a massive diminution in the African American vote.

01:41:09.000 We need to have someone that can inspire, as Kamala said, to inspire African Americans to the polls at record levels.

01:41:15.000 Thank you, Senator Booker.

01:41:15.000 Vice President Biden, you can respond to that.

01:41:17.000 I'll be very brief.

01:41:18.000 Number one, I think we should decriminalize marijuana, period.

01:41:22.000 And I think anyone who has a record should be let out of jail, their records expunged, it be completely zeroed out.

01:41:30.000 But I do think it makes sense, based on data, that we should study.

01:41:35.000 what the long-term effects are for the use of marijuana.

01:41:38.000 That's all it is.

01:41:39.000 Number one, everybody gets out, record expunged.

01:41:42.000 Secondly, I'm part of that Obama coalition.

01:41:47.000 I come out of the black community in terms of my support.

01:41:50.000 If you notice, I have more people supporting me in the black community that have announced for me because they know me.

01:41:56.000 They know who I am.

01:41:57.000 Three 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.

01:42:06.000 My point is.

01:42:07.000 The other one is here.

01:42:07.000 That's not true.

01:42:08.000 I said the first.

01:42:09.000 Thank you.

01:42:10.000 I said the first African American elected.

01:42:15.000 The first African American.

01:42:17.000 So, my point is.

01:42:19.000 Because I was picked to be vice president, it was because of my relationship, long standing relationship with the black community.

01:42:19.000 I think he deserves it.

01:42:27.000 I was part of that coalition. 0.85

01:42:29.000 It's funny that all the blacks are laughing at Joe Biden like that. 0.93

01:42:32.000 And we do have to take another quick break, but we are going to hear much more. 0.56

01:42:36.000 From the candidates when we come right back here in Atlanta, Georgia.

01:42:40.000 That was awesome.

01:42:43.000 Very awesome.

01:42:46.000 What's awesome is that Joe Biden is very well liked by blacks, and, you know, Barack Obama did select him. 0.91

01:42:55.000 And it's so funny that all that goodwill means nothing. 0.55

01:43:00.000 It means nothing. 0.51

01:43:02.000 You know, it's funny, it's actually not the Democrats that are not loyal to blacks, right? 0.97

01:43:07.000 I mean, blacks are loyal to Democrats, but when it comes to candidates, Somebody's vacuuming, really? 0.99

01:43:17.000 Couldn't have chosen a better time. 0.96

01:43:18.000 You know, 9 50, it's almost 10 o'clock.

01:43:22.000 Anyway, but he deserves this, right?

01:43:25.000 I mean, that's what you get.

01:43:26.000 That's how that goodwill is repaid as a candidate, they laugh at you.

01:43:31.000 They're laughing.

01:43:31.000 Kamala and Cory Booker.

01:43:33.000 Cory Booker said, I was so honored, you know, that I was in the White House and, you know, whatever.

01:43:39.000 He swore me in or something.

01:43:41.000 And then he goes, But I thought you were high when you wouldn't say you want to legalize pot.

01:43:45.000 And they all laugh at him.

01:43:46.000 He makes one.

01:43:47.000 I don't even know if he made a mistake.

01:43:48.000 I wasn't really following what he said.

01:43:51.000 But and then they all turn and laugh on him.

01:43:54.000 He bitterly says, No, no, you don't understand, but it's too late.

01:43:57.000 They're laughing.

01:43:59.000 I that Joe Biden, I kind of like him, you know.

01:44:02.000 I kind of like him.

01:44:03.000 This guy, he's the only sane candidate on the stage.

01:44:07.000 He's not in favor of legalizing pot, he's not in favor of legalizing illegal border crossings.

01:44:14.000 He was in favor of, you know, these bills.

01:44:18.000 What was it?

01:44:19.000 They would pass some kind of a bill a decade or so ago where.

01:44:23.000 Or two decades ago, where he complained that working women were leaving the house and now it's destroying the family unit.

01:44:30.000 So, I mean, this guy's kind of more trad.

01:44:32.000 It's not saying much, but more trad than anybody else on the stage.

01:44:36.000 So, I don't know.

01:44:37.000 I'm kind of like becoming an unironic Biden supporter.

01:44:41.000 No, it is ironic.

01:44:42.000 It isn't ironic.

01:44:43.000 But, yeah, that was a pretty good moment.

01:44:46.000 That was pretty epic.

01:44:47.000 The Cory Booker, Joe Biden exchange. 0.96

01:44:50.000 Cory Booker, I will say, I hate him. 0.97

01:44:53.000 I hate his affect.

01:44:54.000 I hate his tone and everything, but he's actually quite skilled.

01:44:59.000 I mean, he's one of the better orators.

01:45:01.000 He 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.

01:45:08.000 I 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.

01:45:15.000 He's very sort of tactical about them, and when he does, he executes them very well.

01:45:19.000 He strikes a tone that is correct.

01:45:21.000 You know, like with this one, that was a devastating blow on Joe Biden, and it wasn't even nasty.

01:45:25.000 It didn't even come across as nasty.

01:45:28.000 He 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.

01:45:36.000 You're out of touch.

01:45:37.000 That's not what the Democratic Party is about.

01:45:39.000 I mean, were you high? 0.99

01:45:40.000 Are you being ridiculous? 0.99

01:45:42.000 So I thought that attack, it was a very effeminate, sort of passive aggressive thing to say, but you know what? 0.99

01:45:42.000 You know? 0.99

01:45:48.000 It works for this gay party, you know, gay, effeminate, passive aggressive party. 1.00

01:45:53.000 So I think I hate him. 1.00

01:45:56.000 I really hate him, but he's been effective, you know?

01:45:59.000 I think.

01:46:00.000 A lot of these guys have dropped out at this point.

01:46:02.000 Julian Castro, Beta O'Rourke, people that have had more momentum than he did, more name recognition, and maybe just made more likable than him.

01:46:11.000 But 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.

01:46:20.000 But anyway, I guess they're going to be doing closing statements.

01:46:23.000 It's the last 10 minutes.

01:46:24.000 I don't even know if I should do the show afterward, only because it's like there's not really much to analyze here.

01:46:30.000 And I don't know.

01:46:31.000 Do I then go and prepare a show about something totally different?

01:46:34.000 I'm kind of in a pickle here.

01:46:36.000 My thoughts on this can be summed up in like two minutes.

01:46:39.000 It was boring.

01:46:40.000 It was the same.

01:46:41.000 There's a couple of good interactions, but that was it.

01:46:43.000 But it looks like we're back.

01:46:45.000 We'll do some closing statements.

01:46:48.000 Many states, including right here where we are tonight in Georgia, have passed laws that severely limit or outright ban abortion.

01:46:55.000 No closing statements?

01:46:56.000 Right now, Roe versus Wade protects a woman's right to abortion nationwide.

01:47:01.000 But 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?

01:47:10.000 Well, of course.

01:47:11.000 We should codify Roe v. Wade into law.

01:47:14.000 That is what we should do.

01:47:16.000 And this president indicated early on what he was going to do, and he's done it.

01:47:22.000 When he was running for office, he literally said women should go to jail.

01:47:26.000 Then he dialed it back and said doctors should go to jail.

01:47:30.000 So, no surprise that we're seeing these kinds of laws in Georgia and Alabama, where his allies are passing these bills.

01:47:37.000 And what we have to remember is that the people are with us.

01:47:41.000 And I predict this will be a big election issue in the general election.

01:47:45.000 And I just can't wait to stand across from Donald Trump and say this to him.

01:47:50.000 You know what?

01:47:52.000 The people are with us.

01:47:53.000 Over 70% of the people support Roe v. Wade.

01:47:56.000 Over 90% of the people support funding for Planned Parenthood and making sure that women can get the health care they need.

01:48:05.000 He is off the track on this, and he will hear from the women of America, and this is how we're going to win this election.

01:48:13.000 Just this weekend, Louisiana reelected a Democratic governor, John Bell Edwards.

01:48:18.000 He has signed one of the country's toughest laws restricting abortion.

01:48:23.000 Is there room in the Democratic Party for someone like him?

01:48:26.000 Someone who can win in a deep red state but who does not support abortion rights?

01:48:31.000 Senator Warren.

01:48:32.000 Look, I believe that abortion rights are human rights.

01:48:35.000 I believe that they are also economic rights.

01:48:39.000 And 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.

01:48:49.000 Understand this.

01:48:50.000 When someone makes abortion illegal in America, Rich women will still get abortions. 1.00

01:48:55.000 It's just going to fall hard on poor women. 0.92

01:48:57.000 It'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.

01:49:05.000 I want to be an America where everybody has a chance.

01:49:08.000 And I know it can be a hard decision for people, but here's the thing.

01:49:12.000 When 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. 0.99

01:49:22.000 She's going to cry.

01:49:22.000 But the one entity that should not be in the middle of that decision.

01:49:27.000 Is the government.

01:49:28.000 Senator Warren, I need to push you on this a little bit for a specific answer to the question.

01:49:33.000 Governor John Bell Edwards in Louisiana is an anti abortion governor who has signed abortion restrictions in Louisiana.

01:49:39.000 Is there room for him in the Democratic Party with those politics?

01:49:41.000 I have made clear what I think the Democratic Party stands for.

01:49:44.000 I'm not here to try to drive anyone out of this party.

01:49:48.000 I'm not here to try to build fences.

01:49:50.000 But I am here to say this is what I will fight for as President of the United States.

01:49:55.000 The women of America can count on me.

01:49:57.000 Senator Warren, thank you.

01:49:57.000 Senator Sanders, I'll give you 30 seconds.

01:49:59.000 Yes, Amy mentioned that. 1.00

01:50:01.000 Women feel strongly on it.

01:50:03.000 Well, 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.

01:50:12.000 And I get very tired, very tired of hearing the hypocrisy from conservatives who say, get the government off our backs.

01:50:22.000 We want small government. 0.99

01:50:24.000 Well, 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. 1.00

01:50:34.000 Not politicians. 1.00

01:50:35.000 Senator Booker.

01:50:39.000 This is a voting issue.

01:50:41.000 This is a voter suppression issue.

01:50:43.000 Right 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.

01:50:54.000 And 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.

01:51:04.000 And this bill, opposed by over 70%.

01:51:07.000 The Heartbeat Bill here, proposed by over 70% of Georgians, is the result from voter suppression.

01:51:12.000 This 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.

01:51:25.000 Senator Booker, thank you.

01:51:26.000 And to that point, individual states, as you all know, set their own rules for voting and for elections.

01:51:33.000 Depending on where you live, you may be required to show up in the state.

01:51:35.000 I thought the delay was two hours.

01:51:36.000 Is it longer?

01:51:37.000 You might have a lot of days for early voting, or fewer days, or none.

01:51:42.000 You might have a polling place in walking distance, or you might have to drive or take a bus.

01:51:47.000 To the edge of town. 0.80

01:51:48.000 With 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?

01:51:58.000 Mayor Buttigieg. 0.74

01:51:59.000 Well, we need federal leadership to establish voting rights for the 21st century because this affects every other issue that we care about.

01:52:09.000 Now, 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.

01:52:21.000 We know that with the White House in the right hands, we can make, for example, election days a federal holiday.

01:52:28.000 We 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.

01:52:52.000 Right now, we have politicians.

01:52:54.000 Picking out their voters rather than the other way around.

01:52:58.000 That compounding with what is being done to restrict the right to vote means that our democracy is not worthy of the name.

01:53:06.000 And 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.

01:53:19.000 I 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.

01:53:34.000 And I think this kind of experience matters.

01:53:37.000 I have been devoted to this from the time that I've got to the Senate.

01:53:41.000 And 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.

01:53:57.000 Where we still have 11 states that don't have backup paper ballots.

01:54:01.000 That is my bipartisan bill, and I am so close to getting it done.

01:54:05.000 And the way I get it done is if I'm president.

01:54:08.000 But 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.

01:54:19.000 I think experience should matter.

01:54:21.000 Mayor Guterres, I'll let you respond to that.

01:54:24.000 So, first of all, Washington experience is not the only experience that matters.

01:54:30.000 There's more than 100 years of Washington experience on this stage, and where are we right now as a country?

01:54:39.000 I have the experience of bringing people together to get something done.

01:54:44.000 I have the experience of being commanded into a war zone by an American president.

01:54:48.000 I also can.

01:54:48.000 How do you know that?

01:54:49.000 I 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. 0.66

01:54:59.000 And I would submit that this is the kind of experience.

01:55:02.000 We need not just to go to Washington, but to change it before it is too late.

01:55:07.000 Mr. Mayor, thank you.

01:55:08.000 Congresswoman Goward, on the original question of voting rights, please. 0.92

01:55:10.000 I mean, voting rights are essential for our democracy.

01:55:13.000 Securing our elections is essential for our democracy.

01:55:17.000 I'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.

01:55:26.000 But I want to get back to Pete Buttigieg and his comment about experience.

01:55:31.000 Pete, 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.

01:55:41.000 I 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.

01:55:56.000 As 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.

01:56:18.000 The Buda judge said we should send the military to Mexico.

01:56:20.000 That's basic.

01:56:20.000 I don't know why she's pounding it.

01:56:22.000 Understanding what's necessary, the preparation that I've gotten to walk in on day one to serve as commander in chief.

01:56:27.000 Congresswoman, thank you.

01:56:28.000 Mr. Mayor, I'll allow you to respond.

01:56:30.000 I 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.

01:56:38.000 Are you saying that you didn't say that?

01:56:40.000 I was talking about U.S. Mexico cooperation.

01:56:44.000 We'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.

01:56:57.000 Do you seriously think anybody on this stage is proposing invading Mexico?

01:57:02.000 That's not what I'm talking about.

01:57:03.000 I'm talking about building up.

01:57:05.000 I'm talking about building up alliances.

01:57:07.000 And if your question is about extreme suckers, about judgment, one of the foreign leaders you mentioned meeting.

01:57:14.000 Was Bashar al Assad. 0.80

01:57:16.000 I 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.

01:57:28.000 Congressman Gabbard, let me allow you to respond.

01:57:30.000 Thank you.

01:57:31.000 You were asked directly whether you would send our troops to Mexico to fight cartels, and your answer was yes.

01:57:37.000 The fact checkers can check this out.

01:57:39.000 But your point about judgment is absolutely correct.

01:57:42.000 Our commander in chief does need to have good judgment.

01:57:45.000 And 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.

01:57:57.000 I 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.

01:58:13.000 These issues of national security are incredibly important.

01:58:16.000 I will meet with and do what is necessary.

01:58:19.000 To 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.

01:58:30.000 I'll bring real leadership and experience to the White House.

01:58:33.000 Senator Sanders, I'm going to have a very original point.

01:58:37.000 The American people understand.

01:58:39.000 That was pretty good.

01:58:40.000 That was pretty good.

01:58:42.000 I thought you were going to get annihilated after Guterjad's statement, but that was a pretty confident response.

01:58:47.000 Which class?

01:58:51.000 Not just denying black people and people of color the right to vote, but we also have a system.

01:58:58.000 I like how they cut off that conversation for this, really.

01:59:01.000 Billionaires to buy elections.

01:59:03.000 So, 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.

01:59:13.000 End of discussion.

01:59:15.000 We have to overturn Citizens United.

01:59:18.000 We need to move towards public funding of elections.

01:59:24.000 On this last point, Mr. Steyer.

01:59:26.000 Well, I agree with exactly what Bernie said, but I want to talk about how we're going to win in 2020.

01:59:32.000 I don't mean to change the subject.

01:59:34.000 But 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.

01:59:43.000 And what that's going to mean is turnout.

01:59:47.000 In 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?

02:00:05.000 But what we've found at NextGen America is that is the start of a conversation about why votes are so important.

02:00:12.000 And if you look at 2018 and flipping the House, what really happened was Democratic voting went up by three quarters.

02:00:21.000 In the 38 congressional districts where NextGen America was turning out young people, the turnout went up by more than 100%, more than double.

02:00:31.000 So 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.

02:00:45.000 We're going to have to tell the truth, and we're going to have to organize across this country.

02:00:48.000 Thank you very much.

02:00:49.000 It is time at this point, it is well past time, if I'm honest, to start closing statements.

02:00:55.000 Finally, finally.

02:00:56.000 Senator Booker, the floor is yours.

02:00:58.000 Thank you, Rachel.

02:00:58.000 It's an honor to be here tonight.

02:01:00.000 I have not yet qualified for the December stage and need your help to do that.

02:01:04.000 If you believe in my voice and that I should be up here, please go to CoryBooker.com.

02:01:09.000 Please help.

02:01:11.000 I had a closing statement prepared, but I saw in the audience during the break a man named John Lewis.

02:01:16.000 And perhaps it's interesting and important for me to mention why I'm so grateful to him.

02:01:21.000 I'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.

02:01:29.000 That's the floor.

02:01:30.000 We need to go to the ceiling, we need to go to the mountaintop.

02:01:32.000 I 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.

02:01:43.000 Who were discriminated against.

02:01:44.000 The house I grew up in is because of that lawyer's activity.

02:01:47.000 When 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.

02:02:03.000 And there he saw John Lewis and other marchers who were beaten viciously by Alabama state troopers.

02:02:10.000 We all owe a debt that we cannot repay.

02:02:13.000 We all drink deeply from wells of freedom.

02:02:15.000 And liberty that we did not dig.

02:02:18.000 This is the moment in America where we need a leader that can inspire us to get up and fight again.

02:02:24.000 That we have truly a moral moment in America like it was back in 1965.

02:02:30.000 If you give me a chance to lead, I will cause what John Lewis says is good trouble.

02:02:35.000 I will challenge us.

02:02:37.000 I will ask more from you than any other president has ever asked before because we need to mobilize a new American movement.

02:02:44.000 Keep me on this stage.

02:02:46.000 Keep me on this race.

02:02:47.000 It is time we fight and fight together.

02:02:49.000 Please go to CoryBooker.com.

02:02:51.000 Senator Booker, thank you very much.

02:02:53.000 Mr. Steyer, your closing statement.

02:02:57.000 Last 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.

02:03:04.000 And I stand by that statement.

02:03:07.000 But I'm different from everybody else on this stage.

02:03:10.000 I know that the government in Washington, D.C. is broken.

02:03:13.000 I know that it's been purchased by corporations.

02:03:16.000 And I've spent a decade putting together coalitions of ordinary American citizens to beat those corporations.

02:03:24.000 I'm the only one on this stage who's willing to talk about structural change in Washington itself.

02:03:30.000 Term limits.

02:03:31.000 That if we're going to make bold changes, we're going to need new and different people in charge.

02:03:36.000 I'm the only person on this stage who spent decades building an international business.

02:03:42.000 Whoever 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.

02:04:00.000 I'm the only person on this stage who will say that climate is my first.

02:04:04.000 Priority that it's our biggest challenge, but it's our biggest opportunity to recreate this country.

02:04:09.000 If 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.

02:04:20.000 Thank you, Mr. Stryer.

02:04:22.000 I have spent a decade trusting the American people.

02:04:28.000 Thank you.

02:04:29.000 Thank you.

02:04:33.000 Thank To all of my fellow Americans, is to treat you with respect and compassion, something that we in Hawaii call aloha.

02:04:43.000 Every single person deserves to be treated with respect, regardless of race, religion, or gender, or even your politics.

02:04:53.000 Inclusion, unity, respect, aloha, these will be the operating principles for my administration.

02:05:02.000 Now, Dr. Martin Luther King visited Hawaii first back in 1959, where he expressed his appreciation.

02:05:08.000 For what we call the Aloha Spirit.

02:05:10.000 He was six to nine, right?

02:05:11.000 We 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.

02:05:27.000 He 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.

02:05:41.000 Working 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.

02:05:56.000 Working side by side, let's make Dr. King's dream our reality.

02:06:02.000 Thank you, Congresswoman.

02:06:03.000 Racial justice and inclusion, she says.

02:06:06.000 Wow, totally bass.

02:06:07.000 I'm here with my wife, Evelyn, tonight.

02:06:09.000 We have two young boys, Christopher and Damien.

02:06:11.000 How many of you all are parents like us here in the room?

02:06:15.000 So if you're a parent, you've had this thought.

02:06:17.000 Maybe you've been afraid to express it.

02:06:19.000 And it is this our kids are not all right.

02:06:22.000 They'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.

02:06:29.000 We 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.

02:06:38.000 We talk as if Donald Trump is a cause of all of our problems.

02:06:40.000 He is not.

02:06:41.000 He is a symptom, and we need to cure the disease.

02:06:44.000 Now, my first move was not to run for President of the United States because I am not insane.

02:06:51.000 My 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.

02:07:05.000 And the people in Washington, DC, had nothing for this.

02:07:09.000 They don't want to touch it, they don't want to talk about an issue they don't think they have a solution for.

02:07:14.000 I'm not running for president because I fantasized about being president.

02:07:18.000 I'm running for president because, like many of you here in this room tonight, I'm a parent and a patriot.

02:07:22.000 And I have seen the future that we're leaving for our kids, and it is not something I'm willing to accept.

02:07:28.000 We need to create a new way forward for our people.

02:07:31.000 If 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.

02:07:47.000 Thank you, Mr. Yang.

02:07:50.000 Senator Clubshaw.

02:07:51.000 That was a great closing statement.

02:07:53.000 I really do like him.

02:07:54.000 He's cringed on a lot of names, but.

02:07:57.000 I think he's very genuine.

02:08:01.000 And what he said was this.

02:08:03.000 It's based in Texas. 0.98

02:08:05.000 And he said, Shut up, no one cares. 0.99

02:08:09.000 No one cares. 0.99

02:08:09.000 And it's going to be fine. 0.99

02:08:11.000 That's not true.

02:08:12.000 It 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?

02:08:23.000 I want us to remember that this election is, yes, an economic check on this president.

02:08:29.000 And 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.

02:08:37.000 But this is also a patriotism check, a value check, a decency check.

02:08:43.000 And 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.

02:08:55.000 But we also, and they must be with us, and we must get our fired up Democratic base with us.

02:09:01.000 But we also, Let's get those independents and moderate Republicans who cannot stomach this guy anymore.

02:09:08.000 This is how we build a coalition so we don't just beat Donald Trump.

02:09:12.000 We bring the U.S. Senate to some sense.

02:09:16.000 We send Mitch McConnell packing.

02:09:18.000 This is how we win.

02:09:19.000 So 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.

02:09:32.000 If 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.

02:09:39.000 AmyKlobuchar.com.

02:09:41.000 Senator Klobuchar, thank you.

02:09:42.000 Senator Harris.

02:09:46.000 So we're in a fight.

02:09:48.000 This is a fight for our rule of law, for our democracy, and for our system of justice.

02:09:57.000 And it's a fight we need to win.

02:10:00.000 And to fight this fight, I believe we have to have the ability.

02:10:05.000 To 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.

02:10:15.000 I know I have the ability to do that.

02:10:18.000 We also need someone who can unify the party and the country and who has the experience of having done that.

02:10:25.000 I've done that work.

02:10:27.000 I 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.

02:10:40.000 My entire career has been spent having one client and one client only the people.

02:10:45.000 I have never represented a corporation.

02:10:47.000 I have never represented a special interest.

02:10:50.000 And 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.

02:11:05.000 And I truly believe that when we overcome these injustices, we will then unlock the potential of the American people and the promise.

02:11:16.000 Of America, and that's the America I believe in.

02:11:19.000 That's the America I see.

02:11:21.000 And that is why I'm running for president.

02:11:21.000 She's so fortunate.

02:11:23.000 Thank you, Senator Harris.

02:11:27.000 Mayor Buttigieg, go ahead.

02:11:29.000 Well, 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.

02:11:47.000 And 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.

02:12:01.000 I'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.

02:12:13.000 That era must be characterized not by exclusion, but by belonging.

02:12:18.000 And so must our campaign.

02:12:20.000 I 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.

02:12:39.000 I 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.

02:12:47.000 I hope you go to PeteForAmerica.com.

02:12:49.000 Join this effort and help us create a better era for the American people beginning in November 2020.

02:12:55.000 Thank you.

02:12:57.000 Senator Sanders.

02:12:58.000 Very tepid response from the audience on that one.

02:13:01.000 A word about.

02:13:02.000 Because he's totally inauthentic.

02:13:03.000 Him more than anybody.

02:13:05.000 Unusual as it may seem.

02:13:09.000 I am the son of an immigrant. 1.00

02:13:12.000 Somebody says, pussy is gross. 1.00

02:13:13.000 Sign me up for ass. 1.00

02:13:17.000 Okay, funny. 1.00

02:13:20.000 Okay, funny. 1.00

02:13:21.000 I will stand with the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country.

02:13:25.000 Thank you for the industry.

02:13:26.000 At 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.

02:13:48.000 I will lead an administration that will look like America.

02:13:52.000 will end the business brought by Trump and bring us together.

02:13:57.000 During 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.

02:14:11.000 Over 4 million contributions, averaging $18 apiece.

02:14:18.000 If 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.

02:14:30.000 Please join us at BernieSanders.com.

02:14:33.000 Thank you.

02:14:36.000 Senator Warren, the floor is yours.

02:14:40.000 Thank you.

02:14:40.000 You know, I listen to this debate tonight and I hear a lot of really good ideas, but I take a look at the issues we've talked about.

02:14:47.000 We've talked about climate change.

02:14:48.000 We've talked about defense spending.

02:14:50.000 We've talked about private health insurance. 0.68

02:14:52.000 We should have talked about gun violence.

02:14:55.000 What do these issues have in common?

02:14:56.000 Well, first, they touch people all over this country in their everyday lives.

02:15:02.000 And what is the second thing they have in common?

02:15:04.000 We know what we need to do.

02:15:06.000 We have a lot of good ideas for how to fix it, and the majority of Americans are with us on it.

02:15:10.000 And yet, we don't make change.

02:15:13.000 Why not?

02:15:14.000 Because of corruption. 0.99

02:15:16.000 Because we have a government that works better for big drug companies than it does for people trying to fill the system back to you.

02:15:24.000 It 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.

02:15:33.000 We have a government that works.

02:15:35.000 And do you accept Mr. Trump's resignation?

02:15:38.000 I have the biggest anti corruption plan since Watergate.

02:15:43.000 It involves.

02:15:44.000 Ending 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.

02:15:55.000 We have to have the courage not to make just individual changes, not to fight for little pieces.

02:16:02.000 We want to make real progress on climate.

02:16:05.000 Then we have to start by attacking the corruption that gives the oil industry and other fossil fuel industries a stranglehold over this country.

02:16:15.000 I 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.

02:16:33.000 Thank you.

02:16:37.000 Vice President Biden, your closing statement.

02:16:39.000 I assume when we were talking about the corruption of the federal government, we weren't talking about Barack Obama and his spotless administration.

02:16:46.000 made so much progress.

02:16:48.000 But 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.

02:16:56.000 You know, the American people have an enormous opportunity.

02:17:01.000 There'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.

02:17:10.000 Folks, we are in a position where we have, we're the wealthiest nation in the world.

02:17:15.000 Our workers are more productive than workers around the world, three times as productive as workers in Asia.

02:17:20.000 We have more great research universities that the people own than all the rest of the world combined.

02:17:26.000 We're in a position where we've led not by the example of our power, but by the power of our example.

02:17:31.000 I'm so tired of everybody walking around like, woe is me, what are we going to do?

02:17:36.000 Let's remember, this is the United States of America.

02:17:40.000 There has never, ever, ever been a time when we've set our mind to do something, we've been unable to do it.

02:17:46.000 Never, never, never.

02:17:48.000 So it's time to remember who our get up!

02:17:51.000 Let's take back this country and lead the world again.

02:17:54.000 It's within our power to do it.

02:17:57.000 Get up and take it back.

02:18:00.000 Vice President Biden, thank you. 0.96

02:18:02.000 That sucked.

02:18:03.000 And let me take this opportunity to thank all of the candidates for a spirited and excellent debate.

02:18:10.000 I 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.

02:18:16.000 I also, before we go, want to thank everybody here in the audience.

02:18:20.000 I want to thank the city of Atlanta.

02:18:22.000 And from all of us here at the Bronx.

02:18:24.000 Thank you so much for watching.

02:18:24.000 Yeah, thanks so much.

02:18:26.000 Good night.

02:18:30.000 Okay, well, that was awful.

02:18:32.000 What a waste of time.

02:18:34.000 I regret streaming this.

02:18:36.000 I don't think I'm going to even stream the next one.

02:18:37.000 These are terrible.

02:18:38.000 These are not, there is nothing being gained here.

02:18:42.000 There's nothing new.

02:18:43.000 There's nothing fresh.

02:18:45.000 It's just like the latest episode in a soap opera.

02:18:47.000 It's like a re, but it's like a rerun.

02:18:49.000 It's like watching the same rerun every time.

02:18:53.000 There were some, there were a couple of interesting moments.

02:18:56.000 You know, the exchange with, um, Buddha Judge and Gabbard was okay. 0.99

02:19:02.000 And it was kind of funny when Joe Biden fucked up at the end. 0.96

02:19:05.000 But that was it. 0.99

02:19:06.000 Everything else, it's everything we've heard before.

02:19:10.000 The same healthcare stuff, the same platitudes, same boilerplate stuff.

02:19:14.000 Excuse me.

02:19:15.000 Heal the nation, defeat Donald Trump, climate's the worst, whatever.

02:19:20.000 At least this one.

02:19:21.000 I mean, it's funny also.

02:19:24.000 This debate, unlike any other debate, was just a mess.

02:19:29.000 It 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.

02:19:41.000 This 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.

02:19:50.000 Rachel 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.

02:19:57.000 But with those two exceptions, when she did that for the most part, they just let it sort of meander all over the place.

02:20:04.000 And 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.

02:20:13.000 So. 0.98

02:20:15.000 It sucked. 0.95

02:20:16.000 We've done this seven times now, and on the seventh time, I'm not impressed. 0.98

02:20:21.000 The stage is the same.

02:20:22.000 This is the same stage that we've seen seven times.

02:20:25.000 The only difference now is all the unserious people are finally gone, and now you have Tom Steyer in there as well.

02:20:32.000 But it's the same combination, it's the same issues, it's the same talking points.

02:20:36.000 Nobody'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.

02:20:48.000 Tulsi Gabbard trying to goad Budajudge into attacking her on foreign policy.

02:20:52.000 She did a little better this time.

02:20:53.000 But aside from these very small observations and changes, I don't see how this really changes anything.

02:20:59.000 Who's even watching these things anymore?

02:21:01.000 But anyway, people are saying to open chest.

02:21:05.000 I think the chest is malfunctioning tonight.

02:21:09.000 I can't open it right now.

02:21:10.000 I'm trying to open it, and it's not working.

02:21:12.000 I asked the people earlier on in the debate what that was about.

02:21:16.000 I guess the chest is down right now.

02:21:19.000 So we'll have to open it the next stream that we do.

02:21:23.000 But anyway, so I'm supposed to be doing a show after this.

02:21:28.000 I 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.

02:21:36.000 There's not really much to react to.

02:21:38.000 I 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.

02:21:50.000 Maybe I do the show, but it's about something else.

02:21:52.000 But 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?

02:22:01.000 I don't know if I want to half ass it.

02:22:02.000 So I'm thinking maybe I just come back tomorrow on America first.

02:22:06.000 I do a little bit of recap in the beginning of the show and then I do, you know, I talk about the news tomorrow.

02:22:11.000 Is that what people want?

02:22:13.000 People are saying gaming stream, yes, yes.

02:22:17.000 Yeah, so I think that's what I'm going to do. 0.95

02:22:20.000 It's way later than I anticipated and this debate sucked.

02:22:23.000 There's nothing really to say. 0.86

02:22:24.000 So that's very disappointing.

02:22:25.000 But that's going to do it for this.

02:22:28.000 Election coverage stream.

02:22:29.000 Looks like they're playing the highlights now.

02:22:31.000 Someone that isn't trusted, doesn't have.

02:22:31.000 Is that right?

02:22:34.000 I think they're just playing the highlights.

02:22:34.000 Yeah, okay.

02:22:36.000 So that's going to do it for us on this election stream.

02:22:39.000 Thanks for watching.

02:22:40.000 Thanks for the lemons.

02:22:41.000 Remember to subscribe to this channel.

02:22:43.000 Click the follow button.

02:22:44.000 It's in the top right of this box, of this window, right above.

02:22:48.000 So be sure to follow me on here.

02:22:50.000 And then I think I'll be back and I'll do a more low key stream momentarily.

02:22:56.000 Maybe I'll take about a half hour.

02:22:58.000 I'll eat a little snack or something.

02:23:01.000 I'll change into something more comfortable and then I'll be back.

02:23:04.000 I do want to give you guys some content, but.

02:23:07.000 I just don't have an hour's worth of things to say about this, and I would feel bad doing a whole show about it.

02:23:14.000 I feel like nobody would even care to watch that.

02:23:16.000 We'll be back momentarily, but like I said, thanks for watching.

02:23:19.000 Thanks for the lemons.

02:23:20.000 Be sure to subscribe.

02:23:22.000 Hope you enjoyed the stream.

02:23:23.000 I certainly didn't.

02:23:24.000 The only thing that made it good was the beef jerky and the pop, but other than that, I was bored out of my mind the whole time.

02:23:31.000 I don't even know if we'll cover the next one because these are getting dry and they're getting repetitive, and it's not fun for anybody.

02:23:39.000 I guess we'll have to do it.

02:23:41.000 In 30 days, maybe I'll make the same mistake again.

02:23:43.000 But hey, thanks for watching.

02:23:45.000 We will see you in a bit.

02:23:47.000 I'll play us out here with our new intro music.

02:24:07.000 But as soon as people start playing games, I stop.

02:24:12.000 I stop playing games.

02:24:13.000 And at any moment, I can hit that yay button.

02:24:32.000 The track, the person said, Don't want to pull you.

02:24:37.000 Don't want to pull you in a world.

02:24:41.000 Okay, the count is actually, but it's not happening backwards.

02:24:45.000 And stick with your paper

02:26:45.000 Biggest Boston fan, may you one day see the light. 0.91

02:26:49.000 Well, hey, thanks, love you too, but sorry, I believe in a religion that makes sense. 1.00

America First - Nicholas J. Fuentes - November 20, 2019

FIFTH DEMOCRATIC DEBATE

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