America First - Nicholas J. Fuentes - Live - Democrat Debate New Hampshire | America First Ep. 542

00:00:02.000 And at any moment, you hit that yay button.

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00:02:35.000 biggest Protestant fan, you one day see the lights. 0.94

00:02:39.000 Well, hey, thanks.

00:02:40.000 Love you, too.

00:02:40.000 But sorry, I believe in a religion.

00:03:03.000 Let's see if we start playing.

00:04:33.000 Everybody, good evening.

00:04:35.000 You are watching America First.

00:04:37.000 My name is Nicholas J. Fuentes.

00:04:39.000 We've got a great show for you tonight.

00:04:42.000 Tonight, we are watching the Democratic debate in New Hampshire, the last Democratic debate before the New Hampshire primary, which is on Tuesday.

00:04:53.000 And tonight, we are streaming a little bit earlier than usual, just a hair earlier than 7 o'clock, just a little bit earlier than our normal time.

00:05:02.000 And we're watching this debate.

00:05:03.000 I'm actually surprised.

00:05:06.000 That we're watching this because I was planning on doing a normal show tonight, Friday.

00:05:12.000 You know, usually they don't do the debates on Friday.

00:05:14.000 I was planning on doing a normal show tonight, and then I discovered that there is a debate happening.

00:05:19.000 I didn't even know there was a debate happening.

00:05:22.000 And I'm sure probably a lot of you guys feel the same way.

00:05:25.000 I saw a lot of this on Twitter.

00:05:27.000 I posted on Twitter, I'm doing the debate tonight on DLive at 7, and almost all the replies were like, There's a debate tonight?

00:05:36.000 But there is, but there is a debate.

00:05:38.000 And it seems like it'll be starting in a couple of minutes.

00:05:40.000 I'll turn our volume on once it begins.

00:05:43.000 And tonight, it's going to be a bit of a different lineup.

00:05:45.000 You've got Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Amy Klobuchar, and Tom Steyer.

00:05:53.000 But Andrew Yang is back tonight.

00:05:55.000 We watched a January debate only, I think, two or three weeks ago.

00:05:59.000 A lot of people feel like the most recent one was not too long ago, and it wasn't very long ago.

00:06:05.000 But last time, it was the same lineup no Andrew Yang.

00:06:08.000 Tonight, Andrew Yang qualified.

00:06:11.000 And this one's going to be a little bit more interesting because, of course, this is the first debate since the actual primary voting started, since the Iowa caucus.

00:06:21.000 So these debates have all sucked so far, and I hate them, and I get tired during them, and I fall asleep, and I get frustrated.

00:06:30.000 But this one might be a little more interesting because we just had the Iowa caucus, and it's been getting a little bit more personal, much more competitive, and a lot of chaos because of the voting situation with the Iowa caucus, with the results.

00:06:45.000 So, I'm a little excited, and I'm a little excited to see what happens, you know?

00:06:49.000 And of course, as always, it's Friday, so I am casual tonight.

00:06:53.000 No necktie means it's casual Friday, but I'm going to turn on our volume here.

00:06:59.000 It seems like our debate is starting.

00:07:01.000 I'm going to start with the volume a little bit lower because I'm still not done introducing this thing.

00:07:10.000 So, we'll see.

00:07:12.000 I think it's going to be more exciting than the previous 10,000 debates, the previous 100,000, 10 million, billion debates.

00:07:20.000 We've watched.

00:07:22.000 I don't know.

00:07:22.000 But we'll see.

00:07:23.000 I mean, they are going to talk about the issues, so I can't imagine the issues will be much different.

00:07:28.000 We're going to hear about Medicare for all versus Medicare for all on it.

00:07:32.000 We'll hear about climate again and whatever.

00:07:36.000 But maybe we'll get a little bit more fighting, a little bit more blood sports because it's voting.

00:07:42.000 But I'll turn the volume up here and we'll see what they have to say.

00:07:51.000 All are seeking the Democratic Party's nomination for President of the United States.

00:07:55.000 Tonight, for the first time, you can experience the debate with live real-time updates on Apple News, watching on your iPhone 2.

00:08:01.000 And there you'll also find the candidates and where they stand on the issues.

00:08:04.000 And we want to hear from you tonight.

00:08:06.000 If you hear something during the debate, have a question or a follow-up, send your suggestions on the Apple News Live feed, and our team will be pouring through it all.

00:08:13.000 We are excited to be here on the beautiful campus of St. Anselm College, home of the Hawks, and home also of our four debates, the last one.

00:08:22.000 Four presidential elections.

00:08:24.000 And here in the Sullivan Arena, we are joined by a lot of our audience.

00:08:27.000 My phone's about to die.

00:08:29.000 Most invited by the Democratic National Committee, and of course, some of the brightest minds of the student body here.

00:08:35.000 A little bit will be joined by New York.

00:08:39.000 All right, here we go.

00:08:42.000 Yes, I got the bottle.

00:08:45.000 The podium placement is based on the average of the candidates currently standing in the state and national polls with the leading candidates in the center.

00:08:53.000 So let's welcome the candidates for the Democratic nomination for president.

00:08:56.000 Starting with businessman Tom Steyer. 1.00

00:09:03.000 Look at this idiot. 1.00

00:09:05.000 Why is he walking like that? 1.00

00:09:07.000 What a bonehead. 1.00

00:09:09.000 That stupid ass tie. 1.00

00:09:11.000 Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar. 1.00

00:09:12.000 That stupid red checker tie. 1.00

00:09:16.000 That's our girl, Amy Klobuchar. 1.00

00:09:18.000 I'm an unironic.

00:09:19.000 I like her.

00:09:20.000 I like her, actually.

00:09:23.000 She's the most bearable one out of all of them.

00:09:26.000 Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren. 1.00

00:09:29.000 Look at this dummy. 1.00

00:09:30.000 Look at this stupid, fake dummy. 1.00

00:09:35.000 I hate the way her head is shaped. 1.00

00:09:37.000 Look at that side profile of her head. 1.00

00:09:39.000 Look at the side profile.

00:09:41.000 This guy.

00:09:44.000 Look at this failure.

00:09:45.000 Yeah.

00:09:46.000 A little fourth place.

00:09:49.000 Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.

00:09:56.000 A big guy.

00:10:01.000 Former South. 0.97

00:10:02.000 I hate this guy so much.

00:10:12.000 And businessman Andrew Yang. 0.82

00:10:14.000 All right, yeah, yeah.

00:10:18.000 That's our guy.

00:10:19.000 He made it back.

00:10:20.000 Well, he got 1%, so he's not really going anywhere anytime soon.

00:10:22.000 Ladies and gentlemen, tonight's Democratic candidates for President of the United States.

00:10:29.000 Okay.

00:10:30.000 Andrew Yang jogging back to the other side.

00:10:40.000 Look at this.

00:10:44.000 And as the candidates now make their way to the podium, we will be talking about democracy.

00:10:47.000 Now, one of these debates will be very basic.

00:10:48.000 They've been established in advance.

00:10:50.000 Candidates will, in fact, have one minute, 15 seconds to answer a direct question and 45 seconds for a rebuttal or a response, as directed by one of the moderators.

00:10:58.000 Candidates will each see green and yellow lights indicating how much time they have remaining, and when time is up, the light will turn red.

00:11:05.000 So, here now, the New Hampshire Democratic debate.

00:11:08.000 Candidates, welcome.

00:11:09.000 Vice President Biden, the first question is for you.

00:11:13.000 In the last few days, you've been saying that Democrats would be taking too big a risk if they nominate Senator Sanders or Mayor Buttigieg.

00:11:20.000 But they came out on top in Iowa.

00:11:23.000 What risk did the Iowa Democrats miss?

00:11:26.000 Well, they didn't miss anything.

00:11:28.000 This is a long race.

00:11:30.000 I took a hit in Iowa, and I'll probably take a hit here.

00:11:33.000 Traditionally, Bernie won by 20 points last time, and usually it's the neighboring senators that do well.

00:11:39.000 But no matter what, I'm still in this for the same reason.

00:11:44.000 We have to restore the soul of this country, bring back the middle class, and make sure we bring people together. 0.56

00:11:50.000 And so it's a simple proposition. 0.82

00:11:52.000 It doesn't matter whether it's this one or the next.

00:11:54.000 I've always viewed the first four encounters, two primaries and two caucuses, as the starting point.

00:12:01.000 And so that's how I view it.

00:12:02.000 But why are Senator Sanders and Mayor Buttigieg too big a risk for Democrats?

00:12:06.000 Audio's terrible, right?

00:12:08.000 You know that with regard to Senator Sanders, The audio is like hurting my ears.

00:12:13.000 It's terrible.

00:12:14.000 Sick a label on every candidate.

00:12:15.000 We're going to not only have to win this time, we have to bring along the United States Senate.

00:12:20.000 Bernie's label himself, not me, a democratic socialist.

00:12:23.000 I think that's the label that the president's going to lay on everyone running with Bernie if he's a nominee.

00:12:29.000 And Mayor Buttigieg is a great guy and a real patriot.

00:12:34.000 He's a mayor of a small city who has done some good things, but has not demonstrated he has the ability to, and we'll soon find out, to get a broad support for the difference between African Americans and Latinos.

00:12:47.000 Senator Sanders, let me give you the chance to respond.

00:12:49.000 First, President Trump said.

00:12:50.000 This is good. 0.86

00:12:51.000 They're already throwing chum in the water. 0.82

00:12:53.000 He said socialism.

00:12:53.000 This is great.

00:12:55.000 They're already pitting one against the other.

00:12:58.000 And before the Super Bowl, he joked with Sean Hannity about your honeymoon in Moscow.

00:13:04.000 Those hits are going to keep coming if you're the nominee.

00:13:07.000 Why shouldn't Democrats be worried?

00:13:09.000 Because Donald Trump lies all the time.

00:13:20.000 What is the audio?

00:13:22.000 Can we get the audio together?

00:13:23.000 Sheesh.

00:13:24.000 Terrible things about Joey. 0.98

00:13:26.000 Disgusting things about Elizabeth.

00:13:28.000 But Amy, about anybody else who's up here?

00:13:30.000 Well, that's a little better.

00:13:31.000 But I think, George, that at the end of the day, the way we defeat Donald Trump, and everybody up here, by the way, is united. 0.97

00:13:40.000 No matter who wins this damn thing, we're all going to stand together to defeat Donald Trump. 0.95

00:13:45.000 That's a much stronger answer than Biden. 0.99

00:13:48.000 Biden sounded terrible just now.

00:13:50.000 Not exactly reassuring, right?

00:13:53.000 Is by having the largest voter turnout in the history of this country. 0.95

00:13:57.000 And that is appealing to working class people who have given up on the political process.

00:14:03.000 Because they don't believe that anybody is hearing their pain, perceiving their pain, feeling their pain.

00:14:08.000 And we got to bring young people into the political process.

00:14:11.000 I'm very proud that in Iowa we won the popular vote by 6,000 votes.

00:14:16.000 What was most significant is we increased voter turnout for young people under 29 by over 30%.

00:14:25.000 We do that nationally. 0.56

00:14:27.000 We're going to defeat that nationally.

00:14:29.000 Let me follow up there and then we'll move on.

00:14:30.000 But back in Iowa, the turnout this year was about the same as it was in 2016.

00:14:36.000 Far below what it was in 2008 when President Obama won.

00:14:40.000 That's true.

00:14:41.000 And that's a disappointment.

00:14:42.000 And I think all of us probably could have done a better job in bringing out our supporters.

00:14:47.000 But if there is a good spot, a good aspect about that campaign, is that young people came out in higher numbers than they did during Obama's historic 2008 campaign.

00:15:00.000 And if that happens nationally, we're going to win and defeat Trump.

00:15:04.000 Before I move on to Mayor Buttigieg, let me just ask is anyone else on the stage concerned?

00:15:09.000 About having a Democratic socialist at the top of the Democratic ticket.

00:15:13.000 This is so good, man.

00:15:14.000 I'm loving it.

00:15:15.000 Senator Klobuchar?

00:15:19.000 Bernie and I work together all the time.

00:15:20.000 They really are.

00:15:21.000 They're really putting them against each other.

00:15:23.000 I'm loving it.

00:15:25.000 I think we need someone to head up this ticket that actually brings people with her instead of shutting them out.

00:15:34.000 And when I look at a state like New Hampshire that had a very, very close election last time in 2016, I see a state that, yes, has a high voter turnout of fired up Democrats, just like my state, which, by the way, Bernie, when I led the ticket, had the highest voter turnout of any state in the country.

00:15:52.000 But I add to that being able to bring in independents like you have in this state, as well as moderate Republicans, because there are so many of them out there that are looking for a candidate.

00:16:04.000 And truthfully, Donald Trump's worst nightmare is a candidate that will bring people in from the middle.

00:16:12.000 The people that are tired of the noise and the nonsense, and they are tired of the tweets and the mean stuff, and they are looking for someone else. 0.94

00:16:21.000 And I would submit that what she's talking about is women. 1.00

00:16:24.000 When she talks about tweets and the mean stuff, I only hear this complaint from women. 0.99

00:16:29.000 I like Donald Trump, but I don't like tweeting. 0.94

00:16:33.000 I just found a bunch of turning points in my pocket.

00:16:41.000 I reach into my pocket.

00:16:42.000 I'm like, there's something in my pocket.

00:16:45.000 Israel Turning Point stickers.

00:16:48.000 And that means we're going to have to appeal across the spectrum from progressives SAS.

00:16:55.000 So, unless you can appeal to diverse parts of the Democratic Party, including specifically the black community, including specifically Latinos, if you can't do that, then we can't beat Donald Trump in November, and we can't choose a candidate who can't do that. 0.51

00:17:11.000 And I am doing that right now with 24% of blacks down in South Carolina with high. 0.50

00:17:17.000 Numbers in Nevada.

00:17:19.000 That's what it's going to take turnout, but turnout across the spectrum of Democratic voters, someone who can pull, as Amy said, everything together in every single way we're divided.

00:17:30.000 Andrew Yang, then Senator Warren, then there, Billy Judge.

00:17:34.000 First, let me say, America, it's great to be back on the debate stage.

00:17:37.000 Look at this.

00:17:39.000 The math thing is so terrible.

00:17:41.000 It's like a self deprecating illusion.

00:17:44.000 And that's a slow, terrible. 0.99

00:17:47.000 The Jordanian capitalism socialism dichotomy is completely out of date.

00:17:52.000 The fact is, when people were talking about these economic models, they did not foresee technology getting stronger, more powerful, capable of doing the work of thousands of humans in the blink of an eye.

00:18:03.000 We have record high corporate profits in this country right now, but people in New Hampshire know what else are at record highs mental illness, stress, debt, substance abuse, overdoses, suicides.

00:18:16.000 What we have to do is actually get the markets working to improve our family's way of life instead of following GDP and corporate profits off a cliff.

00:18:24.000 We should be measuring our own health and wellness, life expectancy, mental health and freedom from substance abuse, clean air and clean water, how our kids are doing.

00:18:34.000 The way forward is a new human centered version of capitalism that actually uses the best to improve our families' lives.

00:18:41.000 Extremely based, extremely epic.

00:18:46.000 I love that.

00:18:48.000 Senator Sanders says I'm not.

00:18:50.000 Is that your biggest difference with Senator Sanders?

00:18:52.000 Oh, Bernie and I have been friends for a long time.

00:18:54.000 We have a lot of things in common, and we have a lot of things that we differ on.

00:18:57.000 But you know this fundamental question about how we bring our party together?

00:19:02.000 We have to think about it in new ways.

00:19:04.000 People across this country, whether they're Democrats, independents, or Republicans, understand that we've got a government right now that works great for those at the top.

00:19:13.000 Works great for giant drug companies, just not for people trying to get a prescription filled.

00:19:18.000 Works great for the people who are trying to get a prescription filled.

00:19:21.000 This audio is like hurting my ears.

00:19:23.000 I feel like I'm going insane.

00:19:24.000 It sounds like I have water in my ears.

00:19:26.000 When you see a government that works great, For those who can hire armies of lobbyists and lawyers and make big campaign donations, and it's not working so great for everyone else.

00:19:37.000 It's like they just keep adding pure and bad things, like new elements to drive you crazy.

00:19:43.000 Corruption.

00:19:44.000 And that's what we can run on.

00:19:46.000 We bring our party together.

00:19:49.000 It's an issue we can all agree on and fight to end the corruption.

00:19:54.000 We're the Democrats.

00:19:55.000 We should be the party on the side of hardworking people.

00:19:59.000 And we can bring in independents and Republicans on that.

00:20:04.000 They hate the corruption as well.

00:20:06.000 My anti corruption plan, good for Republicans and Democrats.

00:20:11.000 That's not only how we bring our party together, that's how we're going to win in November.

00:20:15.000 Mayor Buttigieg, early in the campaign, you said that the word socialism has lost its power.

00:20:21.000 It's mostly lost its meaning.

00:20:23.000 Do you believe that, or were you going to be a potent weapon in a general election?

00:20:27.000 I'm not interested in the labels.

00:20:29.000 I'm not interested in what Republicans are going to say.

00:20:33.000 I'm interested in the style of politics that we need to put forward to actually, finally turn the page.

00:20:40.000 In order to win, yes, but also in order to govern.

00:20:44.000 This is a moment where the next president is going to face challenges the likes of which we hadn't even thought of a few years or decades ago.

00:20:52.000 And politically, we're facing a fundamentally new problem with President Donald Trump.

00:20:58.000 So, the biggest risk we could take at a time like this would be to go up against that fundamentally new challenge by trying to fall back on the familiar or trying to unite this country at a moment when we need that kind of unification.

00:21:15.000 When our nominee is dividing people with a politics that says if you don't go all the way to the edge, it doesn't count.

00:21:23.000 A politics that says it's my way or the highway.

00:21:26.000 Are you talking about Senator Sanders?

00:21:27.000 Yes.

00:21:28.000 Because we've got to bring as many people as we can into this process.

00:21:33.000 That was kind of epic, actually.

00:21:35.000 I respect that.

00:21:37.000 That we can build the majority that it's going to take in order to win.

00:21:40.000 But the process of actually proving it is now underway.

00:21:45.000 And now it comes to New Hampshire, a state that.

00:21:47.000 Thinks for itself, is not going to be told what to do by anyone, and that has a very independent streak, that is going to respond to those who are reaching out in a politics of addition and inclusion and belonging, not one that beats people over the head and says they shouldn't even be on our side if we don't agree 100% of the time.

00:22:06.000 Senator Sanders, your response.

00:22:07.000 Needless to say, I've never said that, but let me tell you what I do say.

00:22:12.000 The way you bring people together is by presenting an agenda that works.

00:22:18.000 For the working people of this country, not for the billionaire class.

00:22:24.000 The way you bring people together Republicans, independents, Democrats, progressives, conservatives you raise the minimum wage to 15 bucks an hour.

00:22:34.000 The way you bring people together is to make it clear that we're not going to give tax breaks to billionaires and large corporations.

00:22:43.000 They're going to start paying their fair share of taxes.

00:22:46.000 That's what the American people want.

00:22:49.000 And I'll tell you something else.

00:22:51.000 The way you bring people together is to make it clear that we're not going to give tax breaks to billionaires and large corporations. 0.79

00:23:00.000 It's not even Nazbol, though. 0.93

00:23:03.000 It's just Bolshevik. 0.86

00:23:05.000 There's no Naz in there. 1.00

00:23:07.000 He's Jewish. 0.97

00:23:08.000 It's just Bolshevik. 0.99

00:23:09.000 It's just Judeo Bolshevik.

00:23:11.000 It's not Nazbol, Bernie. 0.80

00:23:12.000 Gang is Nazbol.

00:23:13.000 It's the same prescription drugs as the people in Canada that borders on New Hampshire.

00:23:19.000 That's how you bring people together and you defeat Donald Trump.

00:23:22.000 Mayor Buttigieg, you just heard Senator Sanders make health care the center of his piece.

00:23:25.000 Do you think his health care is the center of his piece?

00:23:26.000 Care plan can bring people together?

00:23:28.000 I think there's a better way.

00:23:30.000 You know, it's true.

00:23:31.000 The American people are ready.

00:23:33.000 There's a historic majority right now.

00:23:35.000 Even broader than what was available to President Obama a decade ago, there is now a majority ready to act to make sure there is no such thing as an uninsured American and no such thing as an unaffordable prescription.

00:23:49.000 Just so long as we don't command people to accept a public plan if they don't want to.

00:23:53.000 That's the idea of Medicare for all who want it.

00:23:56.000 My point is what I am offering.

00:23:58.000 Is campaigning for all of these things that America wants.

00:24:01.000 Yes, higher wages, doubling the rate of unionization in this country, making corporations and the wealthy pay their fair share, delivering health care and college affordability, but also offering a way to do these game changing transformations that will actually galvanize and energize, not polarize, the American people.

00:24:20.000 That is not only what we need in order to win, it's what we need in order to govern and actually get these things done.

00:24:26.000 Vice President Biden, how do you unify the country?

00:24:29.000 Look, Bernie says that you have to bring people together.

00:24:33.000 And we have to have Medicare for all. 0.99

00:24:36.000 But Bernie says, and he says he wrote the damn thing, but he's unwilling to sell us what the damn thing's gonna cost. 0.98

00:24:42.000 The fact that we're in New Hampshire, a very level headed group of people, look at the numbers. 0.99

00:24:47.000 How much is it gonna cost?

00:24:49.000 Who's gonna pay for it?

00:24:50.000 It will cost more than the entire budget.

00:24:54.000 He looks terrible.

00:24:55.000 He looks like a skeleton.

00:25:04.000 What happened?

00:25:05.000 They doubled the state income tax and then had a 14% tax on withholding.

00:25:11.000 And they finally did away with it.

00:25:13.000 So, how much is it going to cost?

00:25:15.000 When you ask Bernie that, and I'll ask him again tonight sometime, if he asks Bernie that, he says, Go figure.

00:25:21.000 We'll find out.

00:25:21.000 I don't know.

00:25:22.000 I think that was on CBS.

00:25:24.000 He said, We'll find out, or something to that effect.

00:25:27.000 Imagine you're going to unite the country walking into the Congress and say, I got this bill.

00:25:31.000 It's going to require Medicare for everybody.

00:25:33.000 I can't tell you how much it's going to cost.

00:25:35.000 We'll find out later.

00:25:37.000 It's likely to be double whatever everything we spend in the federal government.

00:25:40.000 Who do you think is going to get that passed?

00:25:42.000 I busted my neck getting Obamacare passed, getting every Democratic vote.

00:25:46.000 I know how hard it is.

00:25:47.000 Senator Sanders.

00:25:50.000 Epic.

00:25:51.000 Epic Biden.

00:25:52.000 This is good.

00:25:53.000 Now they're all going in on each other.

00:25:56.000 Joe wants we'll be spending some $50 trillion on health care over the next 10 years.

00:26:03.000 That's the status quo, Joe.

00:26:04.000 That's what Health and Human Services says.

00:26:08.000 What we have got to do, Joe, what we have got to do is understand simple question, Joe we are spending twice as much per capita on healthcare as do the people of any other country.

00:26:20.000 Maybe it has something to do with the fact that the healthcare industry last year made $100 billion in profit.

00:26:28.000 Maybe it has something to do with the fact that we are wasting $500 billion a year trying to administer thousands and thousands of different plants.

00:26:39.000 What Medicare for All will do is save the average American substantial sums of money.

00:26:46.000 Substantial, be much less expensive than your plan.

00:26:50.000 And we will expand Medicare to include dental care, eyeglasses, hearing aids, and home health care as well.

00:26:58.000 Vice President Biden, 30 second response, then Senator Klobuchar after that.

00:27:05.000 30 second response.

00:27:05.000 My proposal gives you a choice.

00:27:08.000 You're going to be covered.

00:27:08.000 You have Medicare if you want it.

00:27:10.000 You turn up, we're going to restore all the cuts that they made in Obamacare.

00:27:14.000 We're going to reduce drug prices, reduce prescription prices, reduce co pays, etc.

00:27:19.000 And it costs a lot of money.

00:27:21.000 It costs $750 billion over 10 years.

00:27:24.000 I tell you, I'm going to pay for it.

00:27:25.000 I'm going to raise the capital gains rate so you pay capital gains. 0.94

00:27:28.000 This is like the dialectic, like an angry old white man and an angry old Jewish man. 0.95

00:27:34.000 Angry old Irish white man. 0.97

00:27:39.000 This is the dialectic. 0.95

00:27:40.000 Globalist dialect.

00:27:43.000 Dialect.

00:27:43.000 Senator Klobuchar.

00:27:45.000 I keep listening to this same debate, and it is not real.

00:27:48.000 It is not real, Bernie, because two thirds of the Democrats in the Senate are on your bill, and because it would kick 100.9 million Americans off their current health insurance in four years.

00:28:00.000 And let me say what else. 0.58

00:28:02.000 Elizabeth wants to do it in two years. 1.00

00:28:05.000 Look, it's like you got Team Jewish. 0.97

00:28:07.000 Bernie and Klobuchar right next to each other, then Team Aryan. 0.97

00:28:11.000 Warren and Biden.

00:28:17.000 And so I would like to point out that what leadership is about is taking a position, looking at things, and sticking with them.

00:28:24.000 I have long believed that the way that we expand health care to more people and bring down premiums is by building on the Affordable Care Act with a nonprofit.

00:28:33.000 Public option.

00:28:35.000 That is the best way to do it.

00:28:36.000 And practically, look at this.

00:28:38.000 The Affordable Care Act is now nearly 10 points more popular than the President of the United States.

00:28:44.000 So why would we talk about blowing it up?

00:28:47.000 What we need to do is build on it mental health care, addiction, long term care.

00:28:53.000 Those are the things that would make it better.

00:28:54.000 Senator Warren and Mayor Buttigieg, you were both invoked.

00:28:56.000 I want you each to respond and then go back to Senator Sanders.

00:29:00.000 So I think we need to think about health care a little differently.

00:29:03.000 Okay, now we're back to the same health care.

00:29:05.000 It was kind of an Interesting for a minute, and now here we are again.

00:29:10.000 For the eighth time, Medicare for all, versus. 0.90

00:29:20.000 Fucking like nine times we've heard this. 0.92

00:29:28.000 We heard the same. 0.99

00:29:29.000 She said the same thing last time.

00:29:32.000 Oh, now it's gone.

00:29:33.000 That, like.

00:29:35.000 How about we choose to pay their groceries?

00:29:39.000 We heard that same thing last time and the time before that, too.

00:29:42.000 On day one, I will defend the Affordable Care Act and I will use March-in orders to reduce the cost of commonly used prescription drugs like insulin and HIV-AIDS drugs and EpiPens.

00:29:56.000 We can start making health care better for Americans from the beginning, but we have to agree to do that.

00:30:04.000 We are the Democrats, we are on the side of expanding health care.

00:30:08.000 When we come up against Donald Trump, The team that has been trying to take away health care from millions of people.

00:30:15.000 What's going to matter most is we are the people on the side of those who need health care across this country.

00:30:22.000 That's who Democrats are.

00:30:24.000 Mayor Buttigieg, I want you to respond to that, but also take on the argument at the beginning from the Vice President that you don't have the right experience to be president.

00:30:29.000 Sure.

00:30:29.000 Well, first of all, just to be clear, the truth is that I have been consistent throughout in my position on delivering health care for every American.

00:30:38.000 And as to experience, I just bring a different perspective.

00:30:41.000 Look, I freely admit.

00:30:43.000 That if you're looking for the person with the most years of Washington establishment experience under their belt, you've got your candidate, and of course, it's not me.

00:30:52.000 The perspective I'm bringing is that of somebody whose life has been shaped by the decisions that are made in those big white buildings in Washington, D.C., somebody who has guided a community written off as dying just a decade ago through a historic transformation.

00:31:07.000 Southbound is no good now.

00:31:11.000 It says it was called dying 10 years ago.

00:31:16.000 Have you been to South Bend?

00:31:17.000 It's really thriving still.

00:31:20.000 And bring change to Washington before it's too late.

00:31:22.000 Vice President Biden, here's his answer.

00:31:24.000 The politics of the past, I think, were not all that bad.

00:31:27.000 I wrote the Violence Against Women Act. 0.61

00:31:29.000 I managed the $900 billion Recovery Act, which in fact put millions and millions of dollars into his city before he came and helped save his city. 0.91

00:31:38.000 I was able to do it, I was able to pass the chemical weapons ban, arms control.

00:31:43.000 And I was the first major leader holding public office to call for same sex marriage.

00:31:49.000 So I don't know what about the past of Barack Obama and Joe Biden was so bad.

00:31:54.000 What happened?

00:31:55.000 What is it that he wants to do away with?

00:31:57.000 We were just beginning.

00:31:58.000 It was just the beginning of the future of moving this country beyond where it is now in significant ways.

00:32:05.000 And there's ways to do that.

00:32:06.000 And one of the ways to do that is to make sure you have someone who knows how to get things done and can lead the free world at the same time.

00:32:13.000 Mayor Buttigieg respond, then Senator Sanders.

00:32:17.000 That was pretty epic.

00:32:18.000 Those achievements were phenomenally important because they met the moment.

00:32:23.000 But now we have to meet this moment.

00:32:25.000 This moment is different.

00:32:26.000 Get out of the way, old man.

00:32:28.000 This president is going to face challenges from.

00:32:30.000 Global health security, like what we're seeing coming out of China, to cyber security and election security challenges that were barely thought of a few years ago.

00:32:39.000 And here at home, we're seeing things like gig work transform what it means to be a worker in America in ways that were barely conceived of not that long ago.

00:32:48.000 We cannot solve the problems before us by looking back.

00:32:52.000 We have to be ready to turn the page and change our politics before it's too late.

00:32:57.000 And I'm seeing everywhere I go, not just fellow Democrats.

00:33:00.000 But a striking number of independents and what I like to call future former Republicans ready to join in that historic American majority to turn the page.

00:33:10.000 Senator Klobuchar.

00:33:13.000 I am listening to this about meeting the moment.

00:33:16.000 And my first thought is Joe Biden is all of us. 1.00

00:33:20.000 You know, some fag millennial saying, Your time is up. 1.00

00:33:25.000 It's time to turn the page. 1.00

00:33:27.000 Angry Irish, old America. 0.73

00:33:30.000 Well, what happened to old Joe and Barack? 0.58

00:33:32.000 Meeting the moment.

00:33:34.000 That's all of us.

00:33:35.000 He's all of us.

00:33:35.000 We had a moment the last few weeks, Mayor, and that moment was he's impeached.

00:33:39.000 I'm glad to hear this.

00:33:40.000 And there was a lot of courage that you saw from only a few people.

00:33:45.000 There was courage from Doug Jones, our friend of Alabama, who took that tough vote.

00:33:51.000 There was courage from Mitt Romney, who took a very, very difficult vote.

00:33:57.000 There was courage, as I read today, about Lieutenant Colonel Vindeman being escorted out of the White House.

00:34:03.000 What he does is he's a Jewish dude.

00:34:06.000 I was campaigning through Iowa, and three of us were jurors in that impeachment hearing.

00:34:06.000 Yes, he is.

00:34:11.000 You said it was exhausting to watch, and that you wanted to turn the channel and watch cartoons.

00:34:18.000 It is easy to go after Washington because that's a popular thing to do.

00:34:23.000 It is much harder, as I see Senator Shaheen in the front row, such a leader.

00:34:27.000 It is much harder to lead and much harder to take those difficult positions because I think this going after every single thing that people do.

00:34:37.000 Because it's popular to say and makes you look like a cool newcomer.

00:34:41.000 I just don't think that's what people want right now.

00:34:44.000 We have a newcomer in the White House, and look where it got us.

00:34:47.000 I think having some experience is a good thing. 1.00

00:34:50.000 Senator Sanders, then there are Buddha Jews. 0.99

00:34:52.000 Oh, I guess she isn't Jewish. 1.00

00:34:53.000 I thought she was.

00:34:54.000 She looks Jewish. 1.00

00:34:55.000 At the end of the day, we've got to ask ourselves a very simple question whether it's just sex or anything else. 1.00

00:35:01.000 All women are Jewish.

00:35:02.000 Why are we the only major country on earth that doesn't guarantee health care to all women who pay the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs? 0.62

00:35:11.000 Have 87 million people uninsured or underinsured, 30,000 die because they don't get to a doctor on time, and 500,000 people going bankrupt for what reason?

00:35:21.000 Because they have cancer or heart disease or Alzheimer's.

00:35:25.000 We've got to ask that question why is it?

00:35:27.000 Why have we been talking about health care in this country for 100 years? 0.99

00:35:32.000 Newcomer. 0.96

00:35:32.000 And here is the answer. 0.96

00:35:34.000 If you want real people to be a newcomer, at the end of the day, you're going to have to take on. 0.99

00:35:41.000 The insurance companies and tell them the function of healthcare is to make profits for the insurance companies.

00:35:50.000 You're going to have to take on the drug companies and their corruption and their price fixing and tell them, sorry, we're not going to pay 10 times more for prescription drugs than do the people of other countries.

00:36:03.000 But at the end of the day, there's no way around it.

00:36:06.000 You may want to nibble around the edges, but ultimately, you need to rally the American people to tell the drug companies, to tell Wall Street, to tell the insurance companies, to tell the fossil fuel industry this country belongs to all of us.

00:36:21.000 Not a handful of specialists.

00:36:23.000 Sounds like a dog whistle.

00:36:26.000 There's a conversation on this debate stage from these people now every single debate, and they're all right.

00:36:32.000 Everybody on this stage is better on economic justice and health care than anybody in the Republican Party, and a million times better than Donald Trump. 0.99

00:36:39.000 This guy's such a clown. 0.97

00:36:40.000 That is not the question in front of us today. 0.99

00:36:42.000 You got 1%. 1.00

00:36:43.000 Shut up. 1.00

00:36:44.000 How are we going to beat Donald Trump? 1.00

00:36:46.000 You were in the Clinton campaign in 1992, and the mantra was it's the economy, stupid. 1.00

00:36:53.000 Well, if you look at what Mr. Trump is saying, he's saying those words. 1.00

00:36:56.000 It's the economy, stupid. 1.00

00:36:58.000 I trust every one of these people a million times more. 1.00

00:37:01.000 But we're going to have to take Mr. Trump down on the economy because if you listen to him, he's crowing about it every single day and he's going to beat us unless we can take him down on the economy, stupid. 1.00

00:37:12.000 And that's the issue here. 0.99

00:37:13.000 It is not about who has the best health care plan.

00:37:16.000 All the health care plans are better, a million times better.

00:37:19.000 The question is who can go toe to toe with Mr. Trump?

00:37:22.000 Who can take down Mr. Trump because he's the real threat to the country?

00:37:26.000 And let me say, you have to have experience to take him down.

00:37:29.000 This is not a question of he's a nice guy who's going to listen.

00:37:33.000 We need people with experience.

00:37:34.000 That's why I'm worried about Mayor Pete.

00:37:36.000 You need to be able to go toe to toe with this guy and take him down on the debate stage, or we're going to lose.

00:37:42.000 And that's actually the issue in front of Democratic voters.

00:37:44.000 I have heard this so many darn times that I love all these people, and they're all right.

00:37:49.000 We can, if we win, we can get the right thing.

00:37:52.000 I am with you.

00:37:53.000 If we win, we can get the right thing, Pete and Amy.

00:37:56.000 But we gotta win, or we are in deep trouble, and we keep not talking about the facts. 0.99

00:38:00.000 This guy is a clown. 0.99

00:38:02.000 This guy got 1%. 1.00

00:38:03.000 Shut up. 1.00

00:38:04.000 I can't wait until he's cleared off the stage. 1.00

00:38:09.000 He's talking about who can beat Donald Trump.

00:38:11.000 You literally got 1%.

00:38:12.000 We're gonna force this president to stand on that debate stage next to somebody who actually lives in a middle class neighborhood in the industrial Midwest, in the exact kind of community that he pretends to speak for but turns his back on.

00:38:30.000 We're going to put up somebody who's not afraid to call out things like his disgraceful behavior at the national prayer breakfast and remind Americans that God does not belong to a political party.

00:38:42.000 We're going to win by having somebody up there who can call him to account for his refusal to serve when it was his turn and remind him what serving this country is really about.

00:38:53.000 If we want to beat this president, we've got to be ready to move on from the playbook that we have relied on in the past.

00:39:00.000 And unify this country around a new and better vision.

00:39:04.000 That's how we're going to win.

00:39:05.000 And when I talk about exhaustion, this is important.

00:39:07.000 Because I've got to tell you, the American people from outside of Washington, we feel a sense of exhaustion watching the division and the dysfunction there.

00:39:15.000 And that is not to take anything away from the very good work that you and our other Democratic members of Congress and the Senate are doing.

00:39:22.000 It's not.

00:39:23.000 But the reason I raise that sense of exhaustion is I see it.

00:39:28.000 I see that temptation to walk away from it all among so many people that I've spoken to.

00:39:32.000 In communities from Claremont to Manchester and in the other states that we're in.

00:39:37.000 And the important thing for the American people to remember is this is 2020.

00:39:40.000 It's an election year.

00:39:41.000 And if the Senate was the jury before, you are the jury now.

00:39:46.000 The American people are the jury that will have the final verdict on this president and on the senators in the GOP who protected him.

00:39:53.000 Pete, fundamentally, you are missing the lesson of Donald Trump's victory.

00:39:59.000 Yo.

00:40:00.000 This is epic.

00:40:06.000 There we go.

00:40:08.000 Adrian, be like, you need a girlfriend.

00:40:16.000 Americans feel like the police, you disappoint your parents, you lose.

00:40:19.000 You need a girlfriend, I lose for years.

00:40:21.000 And you know who's been losing this entire time?

00:40:23.000 We have our communities.

00:40:25.000 Yes, yes, yes, life is disintegrating beneath our feet.

00:40:30.000 That's why Iowa, a traditional swing state, went to Trump by almost 10 points.

00:40:33.000 That's why Ohio, a traditional swing state, is now so red that I'm told we're not even going to campaign there.

00:40:39.000 So, yes, communities are seeing their way of life get blasted into smithereens.

00:40:44.000 We've automated away four million manufacturing jobs and counting.

00:40:48.000 We're closing 30% of New Hampshire's stores and malls, and Amazon, the force behind that, is literally paying zero in taxes.

00:40:55.000 These are the changes that Americans are seeing and feeling around us every day.

00:40:59.000 And if we get to all the hard work of curing those problems, we will not just defeat Donald Trump in the fall, but we'll actually be able to move our communities forward.

00:41:07.000 I know we're going to hear a lot more on this.

00:41:08.000 I love that.

00:41:09.000 He just shut that back right down.

00:41:12.000 No peace.

00:41:13.000 Just 48 hours after the acquittal of President Trump.

00:41:17.000 Beautiful.

00:41:19.000 Beautiful.

00:41:21.000 Senator Warren, you did not study. 0.99

00:41:24.000 Pete was up on like getting blasted to smithereens in the ass while Andrew Yang was studying. 0.99

00:41:31.000 Andrew Yang poring over the textbook. 0.99

00:41:35.000 Keep it down, Pete.

00:41:39.000 I tried to study now.

00:41:44.000 It's very epic.

00:41:51.000 It's very epic.

00:41:54.000 But we need to reestablish the rule of law in this country.

00:41:59.000 I believe in an independent commission in our country. 1.00

00:42:02.000 It's so annoying when the women talk, honestly. 1.00

00:42:05.000 It's like epic fighting, Biden, Budija, you know, screaming, yelling. 1.00

00:42:12.000 And we got to listen to this shit. 1.00

00:42:14.000 Shut up. 1.00

00:42:16.000 You're done. 1.00

00:42:16.000 You're not going to win. 1.00

00:42:18.000 You're not interesting.

00:42:19.000 Look, people around this country are losing faith in our government.

00:42:24.000 They are losing faith that government works for them.

00:42:28.000 They see a government that just works great if you're rich.

00:42:33.000 It works great if you're a lobbyist.

00:42:35.000 It works great if you're a corporate executive.

00:42:38.000 But they see themselves and their children with less and less and less.

00:42:43.000 And we could do something about it.

00:42:45.000 It's not enough simply to talk about the future.

00:42:48.000 We have to be willing to stand up to those who now control our government and make that government instead work for us.

00:42:57.000 We can do child care in this country for.

00:43:00.000 Every baby.

00:43:00.000 We can invest in our public schools.

00:43:03.000 We can cancel student loan debt for 43 million Americans, but only if we are willing to take control of our government away from the giant corporations and billionaires, return it to the people.

00:43:17.000 This is about our government.

00:43:18.000 This is about our democracy.

00:43:20.000 This is about our future.

00:43:24.000 Mr. Yang, you said that the notion of a leader, quote, throwing the president before them in jail is not the way things are done here in the United States and would make it, quote, Very hard for any party to govern sustainably moving forward.

00:43:37.000 Does that mean that any alleged misconduct by the president or his administration should not be investigated?

00:43:44.000 There are, of course, limits, and you have to see what the facts are on the ground after you assume office.

00:43:48.000 But the fact is, if you look around the world, the countries that have thrown past presidents into jail have generally been developing countries.

00:43:55.000 And unfortunately, that's a pattern that once you establish is very, very hard to break. 0.62

00:43:59.000 What's a more American tradition?

00:44:01.000 We move the country forward, we don't focus on the mistakes of the leaders that are leaving office.

00:44:07.000 Most Americans do not care about what a particular individual did so much as they care about their families.

00:44:14.000 Well being, their community, their town.

00:44:16.000 That's where Americans' focus wants.

00:44:19.000 Our boy.

00:44:20.000 They want the American president.

00:44:21.000 They want the president, of course, the American president.

00:44:23.000 Sorry about that.

00:44:24.000 They want the president to be focused on that, and that's where our attention should be.

00:44:28.000 We should not fall into a pattern that has been disastrous in other countries.

00:44:31.000 Senator Sanders.

00:44:34.000 Along with Elizabeth and Amy.

00:44:36.000 Very based. 0.82

00:44:38.000 Based immunity for Ghana for a Trump.

00:44:41.000 And here's what I think the horror and the danger of what happened. 0.53

00:44:45.000 Horror.

00:44:46.000 Not only the acquittal of Trump.

00:44:48.000 Who, in fact, committed impeachable offenses and obstructed Congress.

00:44:52.000 It is the precedent that it set.

00:44:55.000 The precedent that it set.

00:44:58.000 And what that precedent is about now is in the future, you're going to have presidents who say, hey, governor, you want highway money?

00:45:07.000 You better support me, or you're not going to get it because I am the president.

00:45:11.000 I can do anything I want.

00:45:14.000 Hey, Congress, you want to investigate me? 0.99

00:45:16.000 Don't be ridiculous. 0.99

00:45:18.000 Who cares about the Congress? 0.99

00:45:19.000 Who cares about the separation of powers?

00:45:22.000 Who cares about the Constitution of the President?

00:45:25.000 I'm the President of the United States.

00:45:27.000 I have all of the power.

00:45:29.000 And I'm able to intimidate members of my own party.

00:45:32.000 The saddest aspect of this whole thing is you have Republicans in the Senate who knew better. 0.98

00:45:38.000 They knew that Donald Trump is a crook, they knew that Donald Trump is a cheat, but they didn't have the guts, with the exception of Romney, to vote against him. 0.98

00:45:48.000 That is the sad thing. 1.00

00:45:55.000 So.

00:45:55.000 I did start the need to impeach movement in October of 2017.

00:45:58.000 Oh my gosh.

00:45:59.000 And my father, this guy's father was one of the people who prosecuted the Nazi war criminals. 1.00

00:46:05.000 Stupid pinhead. 1.00

00:46:06.000 Wow, he should be shot. 1.00

00:46:09.000 You know what they did to the Nazis in the Nuremberg trials? 0.99

00:46:12.000 It wasn't exactly fair.

00:46:15.000 My father prosecuted Nazi war criminals. 1.00

00:46:18.000 Yeah, that was a good one. 1.00

00:46:20.000 But you knew what was going on with that. 0.99

00:46:23.000 It doesn't matter anymore that he's a crook. 1.00

00:46:26.000 And he's always been a crook and he always will be a crook. 1.00

00:46:29.000 Right now, what we have to do is we have to beat him in November. 1.00

00:46:32.000 And we have to beat him because he's incompetent and bad for the American people. 0.96

00:46:37.000 And that's the case we have to make now. 0.99

00:46:39.000 Is he a crook?

00:46:40.000 I knew that two years ago. 0.96

00:46:41.000 Is he going to be more of a crook now that he believes he can get away with anything? 0.89

00:46:46.000 Of course he is. 0.96

00:46:47.000 But the job of the people on this stage is to beat him in November.

00:46:51.000 And that's going to be based on what we can deliver for the American people.

00:46:55.000 The fact that he's incompetent as a president, his economy isn't delivering for working people, the jobs aren't going.

00:47:02.000 Pay enough for people to live on.

00:47:03.000 We've got to take him down on the economy and get him out of the White House as soon as possible.

00:47:08.000 Thank you, Mr. Starr.

00:47:11.000 But Republicans in Congress have already started investigating Vice President Biden's son, Hunter.

00:47:17.000 Mayor Buttigieg, do you think that there's a danger for the Democratic Party to nominate a candidate who is still under the threat of investigation?

00:47:25.000 No.

00:47:26.000 And we're not going to let them change the subject.

00:47:29.000 This is not about Hunter Biden or Vice President Biden.

00:47:32.000 President Biden or any Biden.

00:47:34.000 This is about an abuse of power by the president.

00:47:35.000 Power by the president.

00:47:40.000 Look, the vice president and I and all of us are competing, but we've got to draw a line here.

00:47:44.000 And to be the kind of president, to be the kind of human being who would seek to turn someone against his own son, who would seek to weaponize a son against his own father, is an unbelievably dishonorable thing.

00:48:02.000 That is just one more example of why we as a party.

00:48:05.000 Have to be completely united in doing whatever it takes at the end of the day to make sure that this president does not get a second term.

00:48:13.000 Vice President Biden.

00:48:17.000 I thank my colleague for saying that.

00:48:20.000 It is a diversion.

00:48:21.000 But here's the deal whomever the nominee is, the president's going to make up lies about.

00:48:25.000 He thinks he has free reign right now.

00:48:28.000 One of the things that I think is really important is we have to be authentic with the American people about what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

00:48:34.000 And by the way, Colonel Vidman got thrown out of the White House today, walked out.

00:48:38.000 I think we should, at the same time, he should be pinning a medal on Vinman and not on Rush Limbaugh.

00:48:45.000 And I think what we should be doing now, I think we should all stand and give Colonel Vinman a show of how much we supported him.

00:48:54.000 Stand up and clap for Vinman.

00:48:57.000 Get up there.

00:49:07.000 Who we are.

00:49:08.000 That's who we are.

00:49:09.000 We are not what Trump is.

00:49:11.000 Thank you, Vice President Biden.

00:49:13.000 It's like the virgin, please clap. 0.62

00:49:16.000 Versus the Chad.

00:49:17.000 Clap!

00:49:17.000 Get up!

00:49:18.000 That's a virgin. 1.00

00:49:19.000 Please clap.

00:49:20.000 Versus the Chad.

00:49:21.000 Get up now!

00:49:22.000 Clap!

00:49:23.000 That's what we are!

00:49:23.000 But it worked, but it worked.

00:49:25.000 It's kind of based.

00:49:26.000 I'll take the screaming command.

00:49:29.000 Versus the virgin, please.

00:49:33.000 The Chad.

00:49:35.000 Get up now! 1.00

00:49:38.000 Get off your ass! 1.00

00:49:40.000 Clap! 1.00

00:49:41.000 Because I said so.

00:49:44.000 I'll take it.

00:49:46.000 Hey, all right, all right, yeah.

00:49:53.000 Sir, yes, sir.

00:49:56.000 Aryan Biden leading us.

00:49:59.000 Games of New York style. 1.00

00:50:01.000 Aryan Irish Biden says, get the foreigners. 1.00

00:50:08.000 I'll do a cuddle fight.

00:50:13.000 14 Republican votes, and they might not have noticed what was happening.

00:50:17.000 I think that it is just an example of what we need to do here because I've been listening to this discussion.

00:50:24.000 I agree with my colleagues.

00:50:26.000 We must unite, but the way that we unite is by having an optimistic economic agenda for America.

00:50:33.000 That is what we must do, and that means taking on a president if you want to talk about being tough enough to take him on taking on a president that literally went down to Mar a Lago after.

00:50:45.000 After he signed that Republican tax bill and looked at all his friends and said, You just got a lot richer.

00:50:53.000 That is Exhibit A for those carpenters in Pennsylvania and those dairy farmers in Wisconsin and those dock workers that I met with in Michigan.

00:51:02.000 That is an Exhibit A.

00:51:04.000 And we have to be able to make the case to the working people of this country, some of whom voted for Donald Trump, that we have something better to offer, that we are going to take those incredibly regressive policies seriously.

00:51:16.000 That's why it's hard to listen to her because in her voice she's like pleading for your attention.

00:51:22.000 Senator Sanders is supposed to be cool, calm, confident.

00:51:28.000 Well, a lot of them are. 1.00

00:51:31.000 Well, a lot of women talk like that. 1.00

00:51:39.000 I just think that my Republicans and Indians are going to be the fuck up. 1.00

00:51:47.000 Get me water. 1.00

00:51:50.000 Get me another coke.

00:51:53.000 You're never going to be president. 1.00

00:51:57.000 I want to hit her on the head like this. 0.99

00:52:01.000 Not even like that, just like. 1.00

00:52:02.000 Okay, enough.

00:52:04.000 It would be funny.

00:52:08.000 It would be funny to.

00:52:13.000 Thank you, Senator Sanders.

00:52:15.000 Like a club.

00:52:22.000 Yoink.

00:52:23.000 I don't get too many newspaper editorial support. 0.99

00:52:27.000 I want to bonk around the head. 0.98

00:52:32.000 Let me just say this. 0.99

00:52:33.000 I think the question started off with Secretary Clinton's critique.

00:52:36.000 I think.

00:52:37.000 Quite honestly, as we face one of the great political crises facing America, our job is to look forward and not back to 2016.

00:52:49.000 And I hope that Secretary Clinton and all of us can come together and move in that direction.

00:52:55.000 Now, second of all, in terms of Republicans, let me say that in my own great state of Vermont, if my memory is correct, Amy, I got 25% of the Republican vote.

00:53:09.000 And in fact, there were periods when I was in the House of Representatives, a number of years, where I passed more amendments on the floor of the House in a bipartisan way than any other member of the House.

00:53:25.000 And that is when you bring people together on an issue.

00:53:30.000 There are many conservative Republicans, for example, who are concerned about civil liberties.

00:53:35.000 At least they used to be concerned about civil liberties.

00:53:38.000 There are Republicans, as you know, who are concerned about the high cost of prescription drugs.

00:53:44.000 There are ways that we can work with Republicans on issues where we have a common basis.

00:53:51.000 Thank you.

00:53:52.000 Let's do that.

00:53:53.000 David.

00:53:53.000 Lindsay, thank you.

00:53:54.000 Good evening, all.

00:53:55.000 I want to turn to America's role in the world and readiness to be commander in chief on day one.

00:53:59.000 Just this week, you saw it, during the State of the Union, President Trump offered an indication of what he'll tout on the campaign trail.

00:54:06.000 He celebrated the U.S. airstrike that killed top Iranian General Qasem Soleimani, saying, Soleimani was the Iranian regime's most ruthless butcher, a monster who murdered her husband.

00:54:16.000 We talked about this in the last debate.

00:54:21.000 We talked about this in the last debate.

00:54:25.000 There is no debate about whether or not Soleimani was a bad actor who was responsible for the deaths of many Americans.

00:54:31.000 As a veteran, if your national security team came to you with an opportunity to strike, would Soleimani have been dead or would he still be alive under your presidency?

00:54:40.000 In the situation that we saw with President Trump's decision, there is no evidence.

00:54:46.000 That made our country safer.

00:54:48.000 Look, I feel very strongly about the campaign of murder and mayhem that General Soleimani and his units have perpetrated.

00:54:57.000 It's also the case that if we learned nothing else from the war in Iraq, it's that taking out a bad guy is not a good idea. 0.61

00:55:05.000 Somebody's just a gay veteran would you have seduced Soleimani. 0.88

00:55:08.000 Soleimani's president has moved us this much closer to the brink of war. 0.88

00:55:12.000 But it didn't start with the Soleimani strike, it started with withdrawing us from the Iran nuclear war.

00:55:18.000 Soleimani's too old.

00:55:20.000 Certified was working.

00:55:22.000 And it's time for us to recognize that every time a step is taken that moves us to the brink of war, that has incredibly serious consequences for those who serve.

00:55:32.000 By chance, just because I was traveling for the campaign, not long ago I ran into somebody that I hadn't seen since we were both serving, hadn't seen since she was injured in an insider attack.

00:55:43.000 And I saw her coming down the concourse in the airport wearing a Wounded Warrior Project t shirt that said, Some assembly required.

00:55:51.000 And when I asked her how she was doing, she lifted up her knee and tapped on the Part of her leg that they couldn't save, tapped on the prosthetic, and said the Navy had fixed her up just fine.

00:56:01.000 And then let me know that she was looking forward to an upcoming deployment.

00:56:05.000 People in our uniform will do whatever the United States requires of them.

00:56:10.000 What they deserve in return is a president who will actually read the intelligence, pay attention to the international security situation, consult with our allies, keep US politics out of it, and never commit our troops to a situation where they would have to go into harm's way.

00:56:28.000 If there is an alternative, Mayor Buttigieg, let me just press further on this, though, because President Trump has signaled in a general election campaign he will celebrate his willingness to order that strike.

00:56:41.000 I'm asking if your national security team came to you and presented you with the opportunity, would you take the strike?

00:56:47.000 It depends on the circumstances.

00:56:48.000 It depends if there is an alternative, and it depends what the different effects would be.

00:56:52.000 That's my point.

00:56:53.000 This is not an episode of 24.

00:56:55.000 This is a situation that requires that you actually evaluate the entire intelligence picture.

00:57:01.000 This president has insulted the intelligence community, but they put their lives on the line to gather the information that will help a decision maker evaluate.

00:57:09.000 Yeah, James Collins, something like that, is justified.

00:57:12.000 And I don't think he even reads it.

00:57:15.000 And here we have a situation where the world that one of the most dangerous communities is in the world.

00:57:18.000 This guy likes the intelligence community, but it just becomes more dangerous.

00:57:20.000 At the hands of a president who has no regard for the military.

00:57:24.000 Not only punishing a war hero today with what he did to Colonel Vindman, but pardoning war criminals in a way that undermines the entire. 0.99

00:57:34.000 Somebody says, this is not gay porn. 0.68

00:57:40.000 This is not an episode of 24. 0.99

00:57:45.000 Hey, Pete, this is an episode of Gay Sacks. 0.99

00:57:50.000 I'm asking tonight, as commander in chief, though, would you have ordered the strike? 0.86

00:57:54.000 No, and the reason I wouldn't have ordered the strike, there's no evidence yet of imminent threat that was going to come from him.

00:58:00.000 Look what happened.

00:58:02.000 His America First policy has made America alone.

00:58:06.000 You cannot think of a time, David, as long as you've been alive.

00:58:10.000 Was he dog whistling?

00:58:12.000 Was he trying to send me a message?

00:58:16.000 I think we still have one.

00:58:22.000 I think we still have one ally in that region.

00:58:32.000 Our closest ally.

00:58:34.000 64 of our heroes.

00:58:36.000 I don't know what I would have done if my son were still there.

00:58:39.000 I would have been so damn angry.

00:58:41.000 I don't know what I would have done.

00:58:42.000 But here's what happened.

00:58:44.000 They received traumatic brain injury.

00:58:46.000 What did the president say?

00:58:48.000 He said, headaches.

00:58:50.000 Headaches.

00:58:50.000 Not bad.

00:58:51.000 That's all they are.

00:58:52.000 This guy doesn't deserve to be commander in chief for one more day.

00:58:57.000 Mr. Vice President, thank you.

00:58:59.000 Senator Sanders, you have called this assassinating a government official.

00:59:04.000 You would not have ordered the strike.

00:59:05.000 Right.

00:59:05.000 Look, here is the danger, David.

00:59:07.000 There are very bad leaders all over the world.

00:59:14.000 Kim Jong un in North Korea is probably responsible for the death of hundreds of thousands of his people, threatening all of Asia with nuclear weapons. 0.55

00:59:23.000 You've got Mohammed bin Salman in Saudi Arabia, who is a terrible murderer, who murdered Khashoggi in cold blood and dismembered his body. 0.68

00:59:34.000 You have Putin in Russia, who has been involved in political assassinations of his enemies.

00:59:39.000 You've got Qi in China, who has put a million Muslims into concentration camps.

00:59:44.000 You cannot go around saying you're a bad guy, we're going to assassinate you, and then you're going to have, if that happens, you're opening the door to international anarchy. 0.53

00:59:56.000 That every government in the world will then be subjected to attacks and assassination.

01:00:03.000 What we have got to do, which Trump does not understand, is strengthen the State Department and our diplomatic capabilities, not just the military.

01:00:14.000 Why is that in the clause, though?

01:00:16.000 What we have got to do is bring countries around the world together.

01:00:19.000 With our power and our wealth, and say, you know what, let us sit down and work out our differences through debate and discussion at the UN, not through more and more war.

01:00:31.000 This is how some of you sound, honestly.

01:00:34.000 This is how some of you sound when we talk about foreign policy.

01:00:37.000 And I talk about how funny it is that we blow people up.

01:00:43.000 Boy, let's talk and debate at the UN.

01:00:46.000 Missile strike.

01:00:51.000 Someone new comes in and says we've just turned the corner.

01:00:53.000 You strike just on account of just because.

01:00:56.000 That's how some of you sound.

01:00:57.000 Let's debate it.

01:00:58.000 Nick's a neocon.

01:01:00.000 He doesn't care that people die from missiles.

01:01:03.000 I'll say, well, let's debate with missiles.

01:01:06.000 No, look, I sit on the Senate Armed Services Committee, so I get to the briefings from the generals on a regular basis.

01:01:20.000 I've been to Afghanistan, to Iraq, I've been to Jordan, I've been throughout the region.

01:01:25.000 I've been there with John McCain, I've been there with Lindsey Graham to ask the hard questions about what's happening, to ask our generals, to ask their generals, to ask people who are on the ground.

01:01:35.000 And the bottom line is nobody sees a solution to this war.

01:01:40.000 Nobody can describe what winning looks like.

01:01:44.000 All they can describe is endless war.

01:01:47.000 And I realize there are people on this debate stage who are willing to say, yeah, we'll leave our troops there for five more years, for 10 more years.

01:01:55.000 Lindsey Graham has said he's willing to leave troops.

01:01:57.000 For a hundred more years.

01:01:59.000 And yet, what has all these years of war brought us?

01:02:04.000 Right now, the Afghan government controls less than 60% of the land.

01:02:09.000 People don't have faith in it. 0.86

01:02:10.000 It's a corrupt government.

01:02:11.000 The opium trade is higher than ever.

01:02:14.000 Look, we sent our troops in and they did their best.

01:02:19.000 They were there for us, but we need to be there for them.

01:02:23.000 And that means not send our troops to do work that cannot be solved militarily.

01:02:29.000 It is time to bring our combat.

01:02:31.000 Troops home. 0.99

01:02:32.000 It is time to stop this endless war in Afghanistan.

01:02:35.000 Senator Warren, I want to press you on this.

01:02:37.000 You just said combat troops.

01:02:39.000 Yes.

01:02:40.000 So if the generals came to you and said we need U.S. special forces, some footprint in Iraq and Afghanistan, would you listen?

01:02:46.000 Would you lead them?

01:02:47.000 So I want to hear the plan, not just say we need it now, we need it for the next day, we need it for the six months.

01:02:54.000 And I want to know where our allies are.

01:02:57.000 We all have an interest in dealing with terrorism and controlling terrorism.

01:03:02.000 But that means it can't just be a war. 1.00

01:03:04.000 Why am I listening to a woman talk about what she would do as the commander? 1.00

01:03:07.000 That is the most ludicrous thing I've ever heard. 1.00

01:03:09.000 It does not make the region safer. 0.96

01:03:11.000 It does not make the world safer. 0.98

01:03:13.000 We should work with our allies in managing terrorism, but we need to end this war in Afghanistan. 0.97

01:03:20.000 We cannot wait five more years or 10 more years or until we turn the corner 10 more times. 0.98

01:03:27.000 We need to bring our combat troops home.

01:03:29.000 Senator Warren, thank you.

01:03:30.000 I want to take this to the Vice President because you have said of Senator Warren's comments before that the United States should get out of the Middle East.

01:03:37.000 You have said, I quite frankly was surprised that I have never heard anyone say with any serious background in foreign policy that we should pull all troops out of the Middle East.

01:03:46.000 Is Senator Warren wrong on this?

01:03:48.000 I'm not sure if she wants to pull all troops out of the Middle East, but if she does want to put all troops out of the Middle East, we saw what happened when that happened.

01:03:57.000 I helped put together a 61 nation group to take out ISIS by putting fewer than 5,000 forces along the Turkish border to see to it that they lost 10,000, the Kurds lost 10,000 lives.

01:04:10.000 They defeated ISIS, they ended the caliphate, and then the president, on a whim, dealing with a man I know very well, The now the guy running Turkey, who's more of an autocrat now than a Democrat, and what happened?

01:04:22.000 We pulled out, and you saw what happened.

01:04:25.000 You saw the end of the effort to be able to continue to contain ISIS.

01:04:30.000 Number one, number two, close your eyes, everybody.

01:04:33.000 Remember what you saw on television.

01:04:35.000 You saw a woman standing up there holding up her baby, Kurds saying, Please don't leave us, and our military women and men standing, going out in their up armor, Humvees with their heads down, ashamed of what they did. 0.76

01:04:47.000 It didn't take a lot of men. 0.60

01:04:49.000 Or men and women to do what needed to be done.

01:04:51.000 And with regard to Afghanistan, as now I can say it because it was made public, I was totally against the whole notion of no nation building in Afghanistan. 0.95

01:05:01.000 The only thing we should be doing is dealing with terrorism in that region.

01:05:05.000 And the fact that we, I've been in every part of Afghanistan, not in combat like my friend has, but in a helicopter andor on a vehicle, in every part of it, as a senator and vice president. 0.91

01:05:15.000 Here's what I saw. 0.95

01:05:16.000 No possibility at all making it a whole country.

01:05:22.000 But it is possible to see to it that you're not able to launch more attacks from the region on the United States of America.

01:05:29.000 That's a small footprint that we needed.

01:05:31.000 I argued for that in the beginning.

01:05:32.000 You mentioned Mayor Buttigieg, and I do want to take this to you next, Mayor.

01:05:35.000 Given your finish in Iowa, you've come under increasing scrutiny, attacks from opponents on experience.

01:05:40.000 We've heard that theme even right here tonight.

01:05:42.000 You have said on the Iraq War, for example, I just don't believe there is any justification for that vote.

01:05:48.000 You said it's the difference between tenure.

01:05:50.000 And judgment, that it's the judgment that matters, not the time in Washington.

01:05:54.000 Vice President Biden, as you know, voted yes.

01:05:57.000 As Commander in Chief, do you believe your judgment would be better than the Vice President's?

01:06:02.000 I believe that I have the judgment to help us get through these situations where obviously the Vice President made the wrong decision when it came to such an important moment in our foreign policy.

01:06:14.000 And looking forward, we've got to recognize just how much is going to be on the plate of the next President that is different in kind from what we have faced before.

01:06:23.000 It's not just about dealing with the aftermath of the war in Iraq. 0.71

01:06:27.000 It's about preventing a war with Iran.

01:06:30.000 And not only do we have to undertake the military and counterterrorism activities that we've been doing throughout, the next president is going to have to restore the credibility of this country among our allies and among the international community.

01:06:43.000 At a moment when we are facing fundamentally different challenges from asymmetric warfare to cybersecurity threats, President Trump's imagination of a national security strategy is a big wall in a moat full of alligators.

01:06:55.000 It's a 17th century approach to keeping a place safe.

01:06:58.000 What we have to do is be ready for the future.

01:07:01.000 And that means insisting not only on shoring up our relationships, but defining a strategy to keep the American people safe from fundamentally new challenges.

01:07:11.000 Mr. Vice President, I'll let you respond to his argument on judgment.

01:07:15.000 I made a mistake.

01:07:16.000 I said it 14 years ago.

01:07:18.000 I trusted George Bush to keep his word.

01:07:19.000 He said he was not going to go into Iraq.

01:07:22.000 He said he was only using this to unite the United Nations to insist we get inspectors in to see what Saddam was doing.

01:07:29.000 When we got elected, the president turned to me with the entire security apparatus and said, Joe, I want you to organize getting 156,000 troops out of Iraq.

01:07:38.000 I did that.

01:07:39.000 I did that.

01:07:40.000 The other thing I want to point out to you is that NATO is, in fact, going to crumble if we don't beat Trump.

01:07:46.000 NATO is in real trouble.

01:07:47.000 We need NATO for more reasons than just physical security.

01:07:51.000 We need NATO to make sure that we do not allow Russia to continue to have its influence in Eastern Europe in ways that it had before.

01:07:58.000 It wasn't just to stop the Soviet Union from coming into Europe.

01:08:03.000 Why do we care about Eastern Europe?

01:08:05.000 It's not even strategically important.

01:08:07.000 You know, like these guys are influencing Eastern Europe.

01:08:10.000 Like what?

01:08:11.000 Ukraine?

01:08:13.000 Estonia?

01:08:14.000 Latvia? 1.00

01:08:16.000 Who cares? 0.86

01:08:17.000 Russia can't influence.

01:08:19.000 It's part of the historic Russian Empire.

01:08:22.000 That is Russia. 0.80

01:08:25.000 They can't influence Estonia. 0.87

01:08:27.000 Isn't Estonia like 90% ethnically Russian anyway? 0.98

01:08:34.000 Same with like Central Asia. 1.00

01:08:38.000 Just give it back to Russia. 0.99

01:08:40.000 To be commander in chief. 0.60

01:08:42.000 Well, let me say this.

01:08:43.000 I agree with Pete Buttigieg that it's about judgment, not tenure.

01:08:48.000 What we're hearing here is a very long dissertation about exactly how America should be the world's policeman.

01:08:55.000 And what we've actually seen in the Middle East is that Barack Obama used diplomacy to get Iran to give up its nuclear ambitions in return for our releasing economic sanctions along with our partners around the world.

01:09:10.000 So, when we're talking about our role in the world and commander in chief, we have abandoned a diplomacy, we don't have a strategy, and we don't have allies.

01:09:21.000 And actually, this view of the world that our response should be military is driven by our gigantic military complex and ignores the biggest problem that we face internationally in the world, which is climate change.

01:09:34.000 And that cannot be solved with guns and tanks.

01:09:37.000 Imagine if this guy was the president.

01:09:39.000 This can only be solved.

01:09:41.000 Compared to Donald Trump. 1.00

01:09:44.000 You know, Donald Trump is a big, swaggering jerk with a goofy, silly haircut and his ridiculous long red tie. 1.00

01:09:54.000 You know, is it a tough choice? 1.00

01:09:57.000 Between, if it was this guy, you know, could you imagine? 1.00

01:10:03.000 This, like, nerd, climate change is the biggest problem with his stupid plaid tie. 1.00

01:10:12.000 He has such a tone. 1.00

01:10:14.000 Tone is like a tall monitor tone.

01:10:17.000 I was part of the reason putting the nuclear deal together with Iran.

01:10:21.000 I was there.

01:10:22.000 I was involved in that.

01:10:24.000 I was also part of the putting together the Paris Climate Accord.

01:10:27.000 I brought in the Chinese.

01:10:29.000 I was part of that.

01:10:30.000 I was part of every major initiative we've had.

01:10:32.000 Guys, like a dream.

01:10:33.000 That's what he is.

01:10:34.000 Tom Sire is a dream.

01:10:35.000 I have not argued for the placement of major numbers of U.S. combat troops.

01:10:40.000 I have said, along with the President of the United States, Barack Obama, as his partner, I have said, We have to strengthen NATO to make it clear that we keep our commitments when we make them.

01:10:51.000 Like we don't keep our commitments to the courage, we must keep our commitments when we make them.

01:10:56.000 Otherwise, we have no power whatsoever.

01:10:58.000 I love how angry he's so mad tonight.

01:11:03.000 Where's this anger coming from?

01:11:09.000 Even if it's not like a personal, he's just furious.

01:11:25.000 But I like it.

01:11:26.000 But I'm.

01:11:28.000 The anger's resonating with me.

01:11:30.000 I'm feeding off of it.

01:11:32.000 I listened very carefully and I concluded that they were lying through their teeth.

01:11:40.000 And I not only voted against that war, but I helped lead the opposition.

01:11:45.000 And it saddens me so much if you hear what I said, it's on YouTube, my fears about all the destabilization that would take place by the U.S. invading Iraq.

01:11:56.000 It's sad to me that that is what happened.

01:11:58.000 But let me just pick up on a point that Tom made, which is absolutely right.

01:12:04.000 Trump wants to build a wall around America.

01:12:07.000 Problem is, if we are going to deal with issues like climate change, not only do we in America have to take on the greed of the fossil fuel industry, we have to lead the entire world.

01:12:21.000 This is not an American issue, it's a global issue.

01:12:24.000 We got to bring China and Russia and Brazil and Pakistan and India and every major country on earth into the fight against climate change.

01:12:33.000 And here is my dream.

01:12:35.000 Maybe it's a radical dream.

01:12:37.000 But maybe, just maybe, given the crisis of climate change, the world can understand that instead of spending $1.8 trillion a year collectively on weapons of destruction designed to kill each other, maybe we pool our resources and fight our common enemy, which is climate change.

01:12:57.000 Thank you, Senator Sanders.

01:12:57.000 Thank you.

01:12:59.000 George, back to you.

01:13:00.000 We have much more to do coming up, but we have got to take a break.

01:13:03.000 We'll be right back.

01:13:04.000 All right.

01:13:05.000 Jeez.

01:13:14.000 Okay, well, there you have it.

01:13:18.000 That's how long is this one supposed to be?

01:13:20.000 An hour, two hours?

01:13:22.000 I don't know how long this one's supposed to be.

01:13:24.000 Maybe it says in the description.

01:13:27.000 Does it say?

01:13:31.000 It is three hours.

01:13:37.000 Is it three hours? 0.99

01:13:38.000 If it's three hours, I don't even know what I'm going to do with my meager existence, my pathetic. 0.97

01:13:46.000 Democratic debate watching existence. 0.87

01:13:49.000 Democratic debate duration.

01:13:51.000 Let me look up and see.

01:13:53.000 Is it three hours?

01:13:54.000 I will be so upset.

01:14:03.000 Wait, whoops.

01:14:04.000 Okay, well, let me dive into some analysis while I look this up.

01:14:08.000 Maybe one of you can look it up for me.

01:14:10.000 Maybe one of you could make yourself useful and look it up for me.

01:14:12.000 How about them apples, huh?

01:14:14.000 Let's see.

01:14:15.000 We got CNN.

01:14:19.000 It's live from 8 to 11.

01:14:22.000 It's three hours.

01:14:25.000 What?

01:14:30.000 Three hour debate.

01:14:32.000 What?

01:14:36.000 No.

01:14:37.000 It can't be.

01:14:37.000 No.

01:14:39.000 Oh, sheesh.

01:14:42.000 We're crying out loud.

01:14:44.000 I'm going to need to get that box of pizza down here.

01:14:49.000 I have practically eaten nothing all day.

01:14:51.000 I didn't know I'd be strapped in for three hours.

01:14:54.000 All right, well, we just watched the first hour of the 198th Democratic debate.

01:15:03.000 And obviously, we've got Andrew Yang, who is an addition here.

01:15:08.000 You know, the debates matter.

01:15:10.000 I mean, I guess the debates matter now because we've got this new dynamic in the race since Iowa, where Pete Buttigieg is the surprise technical frontrunner.

01:15:23.000 Bernie Sanders is surging, or was surging, and obviously finished in a very slight second place with the state delegate equivalents in Iowa.

01:15:33.000 Joe Biden, a surprise.

01:15:35.000 Terrible performance in Iowa.

01:15:37.000 And so now with this changing dynamic, I think the debate does matter before New Hampshire.

01:15:41.000 The New Hampshire primary is on Tuesday, so that's in, what, three or four days.

01:15:47.000 And so this one is interesting for that reason.

01:15:50.000 And I have to say that for about the first 30 to 40 minutes, it was a bit more of an interesting.

01:15:56.000 Because we really didn't start with policy issues.

01:16:01.000 The initial questions were about the dynamics of the race and about the candidates and their viability as the nominee and their potential to beat Donald Trump.

01:16:13.000 And so it was a little bit refreshing to see that, to see some actual competition between the candidates.

01:16:21.000 You know, my big problem with the debates so far has been that.

01:16:26.000 They all agree with each other.

01:16:28.000 The only issue they don't agree with each other on is health care.

01:16:31.000 And we did get into that a little bit in the first hour of this debate.

01:16:35.000 They got back into this Medicare for All versus Medicare for All Wanted versus building on Obamacare, yada, yada.

01:16:41.000 But aside from that, they agree on everything else.

01:16:44.000 So it's refreshing to see them kind of going after each other.

01:16:48.000 The moderators are trying their best to throw some chum in the water and see what sticks, see if they'll be able to get anybody to bite.

01:16:56.000 So that's been fun.

01:16:58.000 But after that, it just turned into the same old debate.

01:17:01.000 The same debate, the same questions on health care, and then the same questions on foreign policy.

01:17:07.000 And there's really, I mean, like nothing more to say.

01:17:10.000 I heard Elizabeth Warren's response and Tom Steyer and Joe Biden, and they're saying exactly the same things that they've been saying.

01:17:17.000 You know, Joe Biden talking about his Iraq war vote, Budah Judge talking about being the commander in chief, and Tom Steyer talking about diplomacy.

01:17:29.000 I mean, this is just like a carbon copy of the last debate.

01:17:33.000 And the same was true basically with health care.

01:17:35.000 So I don't really know what else there is to add.

01:17:38.000 I will say it was very funny at one point.

01:17:41.000 I didn't get a chance to get this in, but with Pete Buttigieg, I guess this is the latest poll here, huh?

01:17:49.000 Sanders, number one, Buttigieg, two, Warren, three.

01:17:53.000 I didn't get to get this in during the debate, but Pete Buttigieg said something to the effect of You have to imagine somebody who's going to go on the debate stage with Donald Trump and call him out and blah, blah, blah.

01:18:05.000 And I'm thinking, can you imagine if Pete Buttigieg makes it all the way to the nomination and he ends up debating Donald Trump on the general election stage?

01:18:14.000 Because Pete Buttigieg is like, 5'8. 1.00

01:18:17.000 So imagine 5'8 Pete Buttigieg next to 6'3 Donald Trump, 5'8 homosexual mayor Pete Buttigieg versus millennial versus 6'3 baby boomer billionaire President Donald Trump, fat, fat ass. 1.00

01:18:35.000 I would love to see that. 1.00

01:18:36.000 And the funniest thing about that is that you know that Donald Trump would implicitly make fun of him for being gay. 0.67

01:18:43.000 I don't think he could say it outright.

01:18:45.000 I don't think he would say it outright, but he would definitely imply.

01:18:50.000 I'm sure he would say something maybe about his husband, or maybe he'd say he's a weird little dude. 0.95

01:18:55.000 You know, something like that, something to kind of razz him for being a homosexual. 0.93

01:19:00.000 And that to me would be worth it alone, just for that.

01:19:05.000 I mean, it might be tricky with Buttigieg.

01:19:05.000 I don't know.

01:19:07.000 He seems like a very slimy character, but that would be worth it.

01:19:10.000 That would be funny.

01:19:11.000 Okay, but we are back here.

01:19:15.000 We'll see what we got.

01:19:18.000 Joining us with questions on the minds of New Hampshire voters.

01:19:21.000 Thank you, George.

01:19:22.000 It's an honor to be here in our community.

01:19:24.000 We know Granite Staters are engaged.

01:19:26.000 And we're back for an hour, too. 0.90

01:19:28.000 Of three.

01:19:30.000 New Hampshire has one of the highest rates of deadly overdoses in the country.

01:19:34.000 In some cases, police and paramedics tell us that they are saving the same lives again and again, sometimes more than once in a single day.

01:19:41.000 It's a health care issue, but it's also so much more.

01:19:44.000 Mayor Buttigieg, you have described yourself as a moderate, but one of your policies at least goes further than some on the stage with you are willing to go.

01:19:52.000 You have called for the decriminalization of all drugs.

01:19:56.000 Does that include heroin, meth, and cocaine, some of the drugs that have contributed to this crisis?

01:20:01.000 No.

01:20:01.000 What I've called for is that incarceration should no longer be the response to drug possession.

01:20:10.000 With all due respect, Mayor Buttigieg, on your website it says that you call for decriminalization of all drugs.

01:20:17.000 Again, what I'm calling for is that we end the use of incarceration as a response.

01:20:21.000 This does not mean that it will be lawful to produce or distribute.

01:20:26.000 Those kinds of harmful drugs.

01:20:27.000 But also, as we know from the opioid crisis, some of this has been driven by companies that were acting irresponsibly with substances that were lawful.

01:20:38.000 It's why in South Bend we sued those companies to hold them accountable.

01:20:42.000 We've got to make sure that there is accountability for those who suppressed evidence about the addictiveness of those substances.

01:20:48.000 Even while we're also coming to recognize that these kinds of addiction are a medical issue, not a moral failure on the part of somebody battling that addiction.

01:20:59.000 That's why medication assisted treatment is so important.

01:21:02.000 And those people who are being revived, and our own EMTs in my city, have been so frustrated by the experience of reviving somebody, but then they have nowhere to go.

01:21:11.000 Sometimes you get brought back with a dose of Narcan, but then your life depends on whether, in the days that follow, you make it until somebody can actually see you because we have such a shortage of mental health and addiction providers in this country.

01:21:25.000 We must act to change that and save lives when we do.

01:21:30.000 I want to bring this question now to Mr. Yang.

01:21:33.000 You've said you would decriminalize opioids.

01:21:35.000 But you've also said that you would require all overdose patients to go to mandatory treatment centers for three days.

01:21:42.000 Well, right now in New Hampshire, there aren't enough beds in treatment centers and across the country.

01:21:48.000 How would you make sure treatment is available for all overdose patients?

01:21:52.000 And what would you do to fill the gap in the meantime?

01:21:55.000 That's what we have to change, Monica.

01:21:57.000 I've heard heartbreaking stories from families here in New Hampshire that have been destroyed, torn apart by the opiate epidemic.

01:22:03.000 And you have to look at the companies that profited to the tune of tens of billions of dollars in profits of essentially blood money.

01:22:10.000 As president, we will take back those profits and put them to work right here in New Hampshire so that if you are seeking treatment, you have resources to be able to pursue it.

01:22:19.000 This is not a money problem.

01:22:21.000 We will take back the profits.

01:22:22.000 Money cannot be the opposite.

01:22:23.000 I like that phrase.

01:22:25.000 This is something that happened on the government's watch.

01:22:28.000 The government allowed this opiate epidemic to spread throughout our communities, and we have to do everything in our power to actually make sure that if you are seeking treatment, you know you're not going to be sent to jail.

01:22:39.000 We have safe injection and safe consumption sites for you.

01:22:42.000 If you have a family member who's struggling, you can refer them and know that they're not going to have criminal penalties as a result.

01:22:51.000 There is so much about this that's endemic to what's happened throughout the country in terms of companies running amok, this hyper corporate capitalism where if money's on one side in this country and people are on the other side, the money is winning.

01:23:06.000 You can see it with the opiate epidemic, you can see it with the military industrial complex, the fossil fuel companies.

01:23:11.000 This is what we must change, and that's where I'll lead as president.

01:23:15.000 Very based.

01:23:18.000 That was extremely based.

01:23:20.000 Corporations putting profit over the national good.

01:23:26.000 We will take back their profits.

01:23:30.000 So epic.

01:23:32.000 And that's so true, too.

01:23:36.000 Finance is winning over the national good.

01:23:41.000 We'll reach into the greedy capitalist profits.

01:23:46.000 And take back the money!

01:23:47.000 So awesome.

01:23:50.000 Why can't we get Republicans to talk like that? 0.99

01:23:52.000 We need Republicans to do that.

01:23:57.000 I'm surprised more people don't call Yang a fact.

01:24:02.000 Yes, I felt that we should prosecute those people.

01:24:05.000 But when it comes to, and you asked Mr. Yang a question, I think we owe it to the people of New Hampshire to have had one of the biggest addiction rates in the country and death rates when it comes to opioids to explain how we will pay.

01:24:18.000 For the treatment and the beds.

01:24:20.000 I've been very clear about this.

01:24:22.000 There's going to be a major settlement coming through, a federal settlement against all these opioid manufacturers.

01:24:28.000 The evidence is overwhelming, including an email where one guy, a business guy, says to the other, they're eating them like Doritos.

01:24:37.000 Just keep pumping them out.

01:24:39.000 We will get a conservative estimate, $40 billion in from that settlement.

01:24:43.000 We can put a two cents per milligram tax on opioids that brings in another $40 billion.

01:24:48.000 Then you can close the hedge fund loophole and it brings in $18 billion.

01:24:52.000 And just like every other policy I've proposed, and I think New Hampshire voters should care about this, I have shown how I'm going to pay for it.

01:25:00.000 Because I think we have someone in the White House that has told over 15,000 lies.

01:25:05.000 He makes all kinds of promises.

01:25:07.000 The people of New Hampshire and the people of our country deserve better.

01:25:10.000 I will get this done, and it is personal for me.

01:25:14.000 Good evening, candidates.

01:25:15.000 New Hampshire is a battleground not just for presidential contenders, but also for top issues, and that includes gun policy.

01:25:22.000 Senator Sanders.

01:25:23.000 For many voters in this Democratic primary, your allure is about consistency.

01:25:27.000 When it comes to progressive issues, you've been on the right side of them for a long time.

01:25:31.000 One exception is gun rights.

01:25:33.000 In the 90s, when you were in Congress, you voted against background checks, and you also voted against a waiting period for purchase of a firearm.

01:25:40.000 Can you explain why you oppose these things that you now support?

01:25:43.000 I can, Adam.

01:25:44.000 And let me also say that in 1988, I probably lost a race for Congress, and we only have one congressperson in the whole state.

01:25:53.000 I said that we should ban the sale and distribution of assault weapons in this country.

01:25:59.000 That was 30 years ago.

01:26:03.000 Furthermore, I am very proud that today I have a D minus voting record from the NRA.

01:26:12.000 And under my administration, it will be the American people doing gun policy, not dictated by the NRA.

01:26:20.000 But to answer your question, I come like New Hampshire, from a very, very rural state.

01:26:26.000 In Vermont until last two years ago, we had virtually no gun control legislation at all, and I represented that perspective.

01:26:35.000 The world has changed.

01:26:37.000 In Vermont and in New Hampshire and all over this country, people are sickened by the mass shootings that we have seen and the gun violence that we have seen.

01:26:46.000 The world has changed, and my views have changed.

01:26:49.000 My view is right now we need universal background checks, we end the gun show loophole, we end the so called storm man provision.

01:26:57.000 I don't know why people don't.

01:26:58.000 People are like, oh, Bernie's base.

01:27:00.000 It's like distribution. 0.91

01:27:01.000 He's lefting on economics, but that's because he is a far left maniac. 0.90

01:27:06.000 And we go further. 0.88

01:27:08.000 We go further.

01:27:09.000 But the bottom line is, I will not be intimidated by the NRA.

01:27:13.000 We're going to run the gun policy that the American people want.

01:27:16.000 Vice President Biden, you've taken a lot of heat in this primary on these debate stages and from voters here in New Hampshire for your past positions.

01:27:23.000 You've essentially asked them to look at the totality of your record and give you the benefit of the doubt.

01:27:27.000 Does Senator Sanders deserve that same benefit of the doubt on guns?

01:27:30.000 Well, look, here's the deal.

01:27:32.000 The biggest mistake that Bernie made, that Senator Sanders made, he voted to give the gun manufacturers, the only major industry in America, a loophole that does not allow them to be sued for the carnage they are creating.

01:27:48.000 First thing I'll do as president is work to get rid of that.

01:27:50.000 It's going to be hard.

01:27:51.000 Think of all the thousands and thousands of people who died.

01:27:54.000 And I might add, Bernie, while you were representing your constituency, an awful lot of people in the gun state and they've come around.

01:28:02.000 In fact, all those folks in California, New York, Pennsylvania, they were getting killed by the thousands during this same period.

01:28:09.000 I come from a state that's a major gun owning state.

01:28:11.000 I introduced the first assault weapons ban.

01:28:14.000 I, in fact, got it passed.

01:28:15.000 I'm the only guy that beat the NRA twice.

01:28:19.000 While I was pushing the Brady background checks, Bernie voted five times against it when he was in the House.

01:28:27.000 So, look, the other thing is that we have to be held accountable for the things we did.

01:28:32.000 I'm the guy that set up drug courts.

01:28:34.000 I set them up.

01:28:35.000 I wrote it in the law, and it never got funded.

01:28:38.000 And also on opioids, I'm the guy who's already begun to make a down payment.

01:28:42.000 And the cure's at put in one billion dollars.

01:28:46.000 Add opioid addiction.

01:28:47.000 Somebody should just say that to me.

01:28:49.000 I'm surely.

01:28:51.000 Joe, why are you mad?

01:28:53.000 Yo, dude, why are you getting mad?

01:29:01.000 Are you mad?

01:29:03.000 It's very off putting.

01:29:06.000 Look, we have a gun violence problem in America.

01:29:12.000 It is about the mass shootings that we hear about in our schools and that frighten us, about in theaters and in churches.

01:29:19.000 It's also, though, about shootings that occur on sidewalks.

01:29:23.000 Democratic debates.

01:29:27.000 Kidding, kidding, kidding, kidding.

01:29:31.000 Shootings that happen on sidewalks and democratic debates.

01:29:37.000 Kidding, that's a joke. 0.99

01:29:39.000 I'm kidding.

01:29:40.000 Just a joke, everybody.

01:29:43.000 Just a joke.

01:29:44.000 Doesn't mean funny.

01:29:47.000 All right, can I get an optics check on that joke?

01:29:49.000 We need to think of this problem not as one and done or three things.

01:29:54.000 And done.

01:29:55.000 We need to think of it just like we did on auto safety.

01:29:59.000 We just keep coming back.

01:30:00.000 We treat it like the public health emergency that it is. 1.00

01:30:03.000 That is how women operate. 1.00

01:30:05.000 They just keep coming back. 1.00

01:30:06.000 They just keep coming back.

01:30:07.000 America, this country, including gun owners, agree in certain basic things.

01:30:13.000 Flanna.

01:30:15.000 We've got assault weapons off the street.

01:30:17.000 Why can we not even get to the United States Senate?

01:30:22.000 And the answer is 90%.

01:30:24.000 Think about it.

01:30:25.000 This more than 90% of Americans agree that is exactly what you would say.

01:30:32.000 We just have to keep bothering them.

01:30:34.000 We just have to keep bothering them.

01:30:36.000 We attack the corruption in Washington.

01:30:39.000 They'll just keep calling.

01:30:40.000 They'll just keep calling.

01:30:42.000 They'll just keep.

01:30:43.000 We're not going to be able to meet our promises.

01:30:46.000 And one more until we agree that we are willing to roll back the filibuster, the gun industry is going to continue to have a veto, and we will never make the changes we make.

01:30:57.000 We have to be willing to build a filter that works not for a gun industry, but that works for the rest of America.

01:31:04.000 She just keeps saying that.

01:31:05.000 We need to build an X that doesn't just work for Y, but it works for the American people.

01:31:12.000 I want to turn to the Supreme Court, the balance on the court, and the issues before the court right now.

01:31:16.000 President Trump, in just the last 24 hours, is saying we've appointed 191 federal judges, two Supreme Court justices, keeping his campaign promise to shift the court to the right with Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh.

01:31:28.000 The Affordable Care Act is at the court, climate change is working its way to the court, and a major abortion case is on the docket this year.

01:31:34.000 Vice President Biden, on the issue of abortion in 2012, you said President Obama's two Supreme Court picks of them, there was no litmus test.

01:31:42.000 We picked people who had an open mind, did not come with an agenda.

01:31:46.000 And you've said before, we both believe that we should not apply narrow litmus tests to appointees to the Supreme Court.

01:31:52.000 But I also.

01:31:53.000 Let me just ask would you do it differently as president, Mr. Vice President?

01:31:56.000 Would there be a litmus test on abortion?

01:31:58.000 If you say the rest of what I said, I said that we're going to not appoint anyone who did not have a view that unenumerated rights existed in the Constitution.

01:32:07.000 That's not a specific test.

01:32:09.000 It's a generic test. 1.00

01:32:10.000 And the only reason women have the right to choose is because it's determined that there's unenumerated rights coming from the Ninth Amendment in the Constitution. 1.00

01:32:20.000 That's what I said. 1.00

01:32:21.000 And I was part of the reason why Elena Kaye is going to work for me to be got on the Supreme Court.

01:32:25.000 I was part of the reason why Ruth Bader Ginsburg is on the court.

01:32:28.000 I was part of the reason why Soda Meir is on the court, and she swore me in.

01:32:32.000 I presided, and I'm the reason why this right wasn't taken away a long time ago because I almost single handedly made sure that Robert Bork did not get on the court because he did not think there should be enumerated rights.

01:32:45.000 So let me just drill down.

01:32:46.000 Let me just keep that straight.

01:32:46.000 Let me just drill down.

01:32:47.000 Mr. Vice President, I am aware of what you said, which is why I'm asking would you do it differently now?

01:32:51.000 Would there be a litmus test on abortion?

01:32:54.000 Yes, look, here's the deal.

01:32:56.000 The litmus test on abortion relates to a fundamental value in the Constitution.

01:33:01.000 A woman does have a right to choose.

01:33:03.000 I would, in fact, if they rule it to be unconstitutional, I will send to the United States Congress and it will pass, I believe, a bill that legislates Roe v. Wade adjusted by Casey. 0.53

01:33:17.000 It's a woman's right to do that.

01:33:20.000 And if you call that a litmus test, it's a litmus test. 1.00

01:33:20.000 Period. 1.00

01:33:23.000 But what I was talking about in the past, so no one gets confused here, is if there is no, if you read the Constitution very, very narrowly and say there are no unenumerated rights, if it doesn't say it in the Constitution, it doesn't exist, you cannot have any of the things I care about.

01:33:39.000 Any of the things I care about as a progressive member of the United States Congress at the time and as Vice President and as a member of society.

01:33:46.000 Mr. Vice President, thank you.

01:33:47.000 Senator Warren?

01:33:48.000 Look, I've lived in an America in which abortion was illegal. 1.00

01:33:54.000 Look at her eyebrows. 0.91

01:33:57.000 That's what makes me so mad.

01:34:02.000 They're like permanently set in this scolding school teacher position.

01:34:13.000 You know what I mean?

01:34:15.000 They're permanently like this. 1.00

01:34:17.000 She always looks like this crazed, doting elementary school principal. 1.00

01:34:26.000 That the rule of Roe versus Wade should be the law. 0.92

01:34:30.000 Permanent means we should be pushing for a community.

01:34:32.000 Imagine if this was your president.

01:34:35.000 It's like.

01:34:35.000 Can't do it.

01:34:36.000 Senator Warren, thank you.

01:34:38.000 Senator Klobuchar, I do want to come to you.

01:34:49.000 Should there be a litmus test?

01:34:51.000 It's an aptitude.

01:34:52.000 Versus Ah, Klobuchar.

01:34:53.000 So pleasant in comparison.

01:34:55.000 Look at that smile.

01:34:56.000 This is why I like Klobuchar so much more.

01:34:59.000 She's such a calm energy.

01:35:03.000 She seems like a mom.

01:35:06.000 Like, I'd come home and she'd be like, hey, I made cookies.

01:35:09.000 You can ask them.

01:35:11.000 When he was running for election, and this is a case I will make on the day of the pledge against him, he actually said that he wanted to be like, Nicholas, time for dinner.

01:35:21.000 I'd be like, okay, I'll be down in a sec.

01:35:23.000 I'm surprised that we're seeing states like Alabama start enacting laws that would criminalize women.

01:35:29.000 She seems like she would say, like, Night's Night.

01:35:34.000 Like, she'd ruffle my hair.

01:35:35.000 She's walking around with a hand towel, wiping her hands off for just making dinner. 1.00

01:35:47.000 You know, like moms are like that. 0.97

01:35:49.000 She's walking around with a kitchen towel, wipe her hands off. 0.90

01:35:53.000 I just made dinner.

01:35:54.000 She's driving her head. 1.00

01:35:55.000 She's like, she'd be like, talking to the neighbor with her hand on her hip.

01:36:04.000 You know, kids, right?

01:36:10.000 We want them to.

01:36:12.000 Yeah, I'm just saying.

01:36:15.000 We did.

01:36:15.000 Such a mom energy.

01:36:16.000 I'm like.

01:36:17.000 Then I agree with her that that could be the consequence.

01:36:20.000 What I've called for is not only reforming the number of justices on the bench, but structural reform so that some of the justices are not appointed through a partisan process.

01:36:31.000 We cannot allow the Supreme Court to continue to become one more political battlefield as we are seeing today.

01:36:39.000 And the time has come for us to think bigger, not just reforming the makeup of the court, as America, by the way, has done several times in our history, but also remember that the founders gave us the power to amend the Constitution for a reason, and we shouldn't be afraid to use it.

01:36:55.000 It's not something you do lightly or quickly, but when it comes to something like Citizens United, which holds that corporations have the same political soul as people, and that spending money to influence an election is the same thing as writing an op ed to your local paper.

01:37:10.000 We need a constitutional amendment to clear that up and protect our democracy.

01:37:15.000 That's why this guy's the most dangerous, because the main things that he talks about is process.

01:37:22.000 Things that are like elections and catching out.

01:37:26.000 All that stuff.

01:37:28.000 And why, which is a lot scarier than what Bernie was like.

01:37:32.000 We're going to change policy.

01:37:34.000 But a judge was like, we're going to rig the system forever.

01:37:39.000 So he's smart.

01:37:40.000 I mean, he is a smart guy.

01:37:43.000 But like saying.

01:37:45.000 Period.

01:37:46.000 Not private money, not billionaires, not money from special interests.

01:37:50.000 Period.

01:37:51.000 That's the way to amend the Constitution and deal with that.

01:37:53.000 In addition to that, if in fact, look, the Democrats stood up against the man I revere, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

01:38:00.000 He wanted to expand the court, but they were wise enough to understand that whoever then is a majority will have the ability to abuse it and it will lose its legitimacy.

01:38:08.000 And there are three equal branches of government.

01:38:11.000 It says the president shall nominate, the Senate shall dispose.

01:38:15.000 The Senate shall make that decision, not the president.

01:38:18.000 He can nominate.

01:38:19.000 That's why it's so important.

01:38:21.000 We must win back the United States Senate this time out.

01:38:25.000 And that's why, as you all look at it up here in New Hampshire and around the world, excuse me, around the country, you have to ask yourself who is most likely to help get a senator elected in North Carolina, Georgia?

01:38:39.000 Who can win Florida, Pennsylvania, Minnesota?

01:38:43.000 Who can do that?

01:38:44.000 Because you've got to be able to win those.

01:38:47.000 You can.

01:38:47.000 I agree.

01:38:48.000 But here's the point.

01:38:50.000 You've got to be able to.

01:38:51.000 You've got to be able to not just win, you've got to bring along a United States Senate or this becomes moot.

01:38:57.000 Senator Sanders.

01:38:59.000 Thank you.

01:39:00.000 Look, you asked a simple question Is there a litmus test for those of us up here?

01:39:06.000 For me, there is.

01:39:08.000 I will never nominate any person to the Supreme Court or the federal courts in general who is not 100% pro Roe v. Wade.

01:39:20.000 Number two, we have got to codify.

01:39:23.000 Roe v. Wade into legislation.

01:39:26.000 Number three, we have to significantly expand funding for Planned Parenthood.

01:39:34.000 Mr. Steyer, I want to bring you in on this because you have claimed that when Congress is bringing forward, you have said Republicans have been cheating.

01:39:40.000 I want to bring in that guy that has 1% of the vote.

01:39:43.000 What we saw Mitch McConnell do, not just in the Supreme Court with Merrick Garland, but across the board with federal judges, was refuse to allow President Obama's picks to be considered.

01:39:53.000 That's why.

01:39:54.000 Mr. Trump has appointed so many federal judges because, in fact, the Republicans refuse to allow President Obama to get his due.

01:40:02.000 And honestly, this is what we're talking about.

01:40:05.000 Do you have a litmus test?

01:40:07.000 We all have the litmus test.

01:40:09.000 Everybody on this row feels exactly the same way about a woman's right to choose.

01:40:14.000 Everybody on this row feels exactly the same way on gun control.

01:40:18.000 Every single one on this row feels the same way.

01:40:20.000 There's something else going on.

01:40:22.000 These Republicans are in control.

01:40:25.000 They're stacking the court for a generation with young right wing radicals, and we've watched it happen.

01:40:31.000 The question is, what are we going to do about it?

01:40:33.000 That's where we are in the United States.

01:40:35.000 And the question is actually, Joe Biden's right.

01:40:38.000 We have to go win a huge victory this year.

01:40:41.000 And we're in trouble.

01:40:42.000 And so the question is going to be look at these people who can pull together the Democratic Party.

01:40:47.000 And let me say this we have not said one word tonight about race.

01:40:51.000 Not one word.

01:40:52.000 Are you kidding me?

01:40:54.000 We have the most diverse party.

01:40:56.000 We have a very diverse country.

01:40:58.000 We have a very diverse party.

01:41:00.000 The heart and soul of this party is diversity black people, Latinos, AAPI people.

01:41:06.000 Native Americans and white people, but for goodness sakes, pull it together.

01:41:11.000 We're talking about something different. 0.83

01:41:13.000 The question we have is how are we getting that diverse group of people to the polls?

01:41:17.000 What are we saying?

01:41:20.000 Asian American and Pacific Island.

01:41:25.000 What did that have to do with anything?

01:41:27.000 Why did he talk about race all of that? 1.00

01:41:33.000 This guy's a idiot. 1.00

01:41:36.000 Including beating the corporation. 1.00

01:41:38.000 Mr. Steyer, thank you.

01:41:39.000 The night is still young, many questions to come, and Lindsey Davis is next.

01:41:42.000 I want to turn now to criminal justice.

01:41:45.000 Mayor Buttigieg, under your leadership as mayor, a black resident in South Bend, Indiana, was four times more likely to be arrested for marijuana possession than a white resident.

01:41:55.000 Now, that racial disparity is higher than the rest of the state.

01:41:59.000 In fact, it's higher than the rest of the nation, and that disparity increased in South Bend after you took office.

01:42:05.000 When talking about the problem on national terms, you've called it, quote, evidence of systemic racism.

01:42:11.000 But you were mayor for eight years, so weren't you in effect the head of the system? 0.52

01:42:15.000 And how do you explain that increase in black arrests under your leadership?

01:42:19.000 Well, the reality is, on my watch, drug arrests in South Bend were lower than the national average, and specifically to marijuana, lower than in Indiana.

01:42:29.000 But there is no question that systemic racism has penetrated to every level of our system, and my city was not immune.

01:42:36.000 And it's a lot of heat for discussing systemic racism with my own police department.

01:42:41.000 But we've got to confront the fact that there is no escaping how this is part of all of our policies.

01:42:47.000 Earlier, we were talking about opioids.

01:42:50.000 And thankfully, America has come to a better understanding about the fact that opioid addiction is best understood as a medical problem.

01:42:59.000 But there were a lot of people, including a lot of African American activists in my community, who were very forward to a similar point.

01:43:05.000 It's great that everybody's so enlightened about drug policy now when it comes to opioids.

01:43:10.000 But where were you when it came to marijuana?

01:43:12.000 Where were you when it came to the crack epidemic?

01:43:14.000 In the 1990s.

01:43:15.000 That is one of the reasons why I am calling for us as a country to take up those reforms that end incarceration as a response to possession.

01:43:25.000 Make sure that we legalize marijuana and, when we do it, do it retroactively with expungements to correct the harm done in so many cases of incarceration, disproportionately of black and brown Americans where the incarceration did far more harm.

01:43:39.000 Let me go back to the original question, though.

01:43:39.000 Right.

01:43:41.000 How do you explain the increase in black arrests in South Bend under your leadership for marijuana possession?

01:43:47.000 And again, the overall rate was lower.

01:43:51.000 No, there was an increase.

01:43:52.000 The year before you were in office, it was lower.

01:43:55.000 Once you became in office in 2012, that number went up.

01:43:59.000 In 2018, the last number year that we have a record for, that number was still up.

01:44:04.000 Yeah.

01:44:04.000 And one of the strategies that our community adopted was to target when there were cases where there was gun violence and gang violence, which was slaughtering so many in our community, burying teenagers, disproportionately black teenagers.

01:44:20.000 We adopted a strategy that said that drug enforcement would be targeted in cases where there was a connection to the most violent group of people. 0.84

01:44:28.000 Start arresting gang members and it's disproportionately black. 0.97

01:44:32.000 Imagine that. 1.00

01:44:33.000 That's the point.

01:44:34.000 So, are all of the things that need to change in order for us to prevent violence? 1.00

01:44:38.000 You're arresting all these black people for marijuana. 0.93

01:44:41.000 No, no, no, no. 0.99

01:44:42.000 We were targeting gang, violent gang members.

01:44:46.000 Oh, okay. 1.00

01:44:47.000 Why were you arresting all these black people? 1.00

01:44:51.000 We started going after the murderers. 0.96

01:44:53.000 What did she just say?

01:44:57.000 You have to own up to the facts.

01:44:57.000 I missed that.

01:45:00.000 And it's important to own up to the facts about how race has totally changed. 0.54

01:45:05.000 Permeated our criminal justice system. 0.71

01:45:07.000 I don't think it's criminals.

01:45:10.000 Well, we started going after criminals.

01:45:15.000 They're more likely to commit the crimes.

01:45:19.000 And when they get arrested, they resist.

01:45:23.000 I'm going to eat some candy. 0.70

01:45:36.000 Specifically, we need race conscious laws.

01:45:42.000 Housing, for example, I have a great housing plan to build more housing in America, but understand it was the policy of the United States of America to discriminate against African Americans and people, any other people of color, for buying homes until 1965. 0.72

01:46:00.000 You can't just repeal that and say, okay, now everything is even.

01:46:05.000 It's not. 0.88

01:46:06.000 We need race conscious laws in education, in employment. 0.69

01:46:12.000 In entrepreneurship, to make this country a country of opportunity for everyone, no matter the color of their skin. 1.00

01:46:19.000 We need to raise the white race. 0.94

01:46:22.000 We can't regulate away racism with a whole patchwork of laws that are race specific. 0.98

01:46:27.000 What we have to do is heed the writings of Martin Luther King, whose birthday we just celebrated.

01:46:33.000 He said that capitalism forgets that life is social, and what he was championing was a guaranteed minimum income for all Americans of $1,000 a month.

01:46:42.000 Or more that would end up reshaping our economy in communities of color, make it so that black net worth is not 10% of white net worth in this country, which is the most important number of them all. 0.99

01:46:55.000 Well, the fuck do you think they're going to spend it on? 1.00

01:46:59.000 What do you think they're going to do with $1,000 a month? 0.99

01:47:06.000 They're going to spend it on lottery tickets, kavassia. 0.91

01:47:13.000 And that is where we have to move as a country.

01:47:15.000 Senator Sanders, then Mrs. Tennessee. 0.92

01:47:19.000 Yeah, give them $1,000 a month. 0.96

01:47:20.000 I'm sure Black Network, they're going to go and put that in the bank. 0.97

01:47:27.000 They're going to go to Bank of America. 0.99

01:47:31.000 I'd like to set a particular account.

01:47:34.000 See, y'all got a savings account?

01:47:37.000 They're going to take their check, go to a convenience store, buy lottery tickets, and then run racist remarks about someone associated with our campaign.

01:47:48.000 And the Legislative Black Caucus went out en masse to stand up for that and for our campaign.

01:47:54.000 Joe, I got my handbusted.

01:47:56.000 I'm asking you to come with me and the Legislative Black Caucus and disavow Dick Harputlian and what he had to say.

01:48:03.000 It was wrong.

01:48:04.000 And I'm asking you to join us, be on the right side.

01:48:07.000 I'm asking you to join me and join in the support I have from the overwhelming number of the members of that Black Caucus.

01:48:13.000 I have more support in South Carolina in the Black Caucus and the black community than anybody else.

01:48:18.000 Double what you have or anybody else.

01:48:19.000 But wait a second, it's Bart Bernie.

01:48:21.000 Quite right.

01:48:22.000 Let's not argue about polls. 1.00

01:48:26.000 Shut up, bitch. 1.00

01:48:27.000 You have 1%. 1.00

01:48:29.000 We have nine members of the Black Caucus in South Carolina supporting us.

01:48:34.000 But more importantly, much of what Elizabeth said is absolutely correct. 0.50

01:48:38.000 We have a racist society from top to bottom, impacting health care, housing, criminal justice, education you name it.

01:48:49.000 And clearly, this is an issue that must be dealt with.

01:48:52.000 But in terms of criminal justice, what we have got to do is understand the system is broken, it is racist.

01:48:59.000 We invest in our young people in jobs.

01:49:02.000 And education, not more jails and incarceration.

01:49:06.000 We end the war on drugs, which has disproportionately impacted African Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans.

01:49:16.000 We end private prisons and detention centers in America.

01:49:22.000 Bernie, I appreciate what you're saying.

01:49:25.000 And, excuse me, we also, most people don't know this.

01:49:28.000 Tonight in America, 200,000 people are in jail without having been convicted of anything.

01:49:28.000 Shut it.

01:49:34.000 That's right.

01:49:34.000 200,000 people because they can't afford the 500 bucks for bail they need to get out of jail.

01:49:42.000 That is outrageous.

01:49:43.000 We've got to end cash bail.

01:49:45.000 Okay, let me say this.

01:49:47.000 I've worked, Bernie, I've worked to end cash bail in California and it's gone.

01:49:53.000 I've worked to end private prisons in California and they're gone.

01:49:56.000 I'm somebody who's, our family, my wife and I started a bank specifically to support businesses owned by women, black people, and Latinos because they couldn't get.

01:50:05.000 Financing anywhere else.

01:50:07.000 But I, Joe, I want to answer.

01:50:09.000 Really, I think you should come over and disavow the statements that this man made that were openly racist, that were wrong, and the legislative black caucus is against.

01:50:21.000 I'm asking you to join us and do the right thing.

01:50:23.000 I've already spoken to Dick Harpoulian, and he, in fact, is, I believe, sorry for what he said.

01:50:33.000 But here's the deal, folks.

01:50:34.000 Look, we got to stop taking the black community for granted.

01:50:37.000 That's the starting place.

01:50:39.000 Every one of the things we talked about here, for example, in South Carolina, Jim Clyburn, he has a program, 10, 15, 30.

01:50:47.000 We should be investing our money in those communities that haven't gotten help for a long time and give most of that help to those communities, make it a priority.

01:50:56.000 We should make sure that we have no one going to jail for a drug offense.

01:51:02.000 They go directly to mandatory prison, I mean, excuse me, mandatory treatment, not prison, and we fund it.

01:51:09.000 And we fund it in three days, doesn't get it.

01:51:11.000 It takes at least 60 to 90 days to make any progress.

01:51:15.000 We have to pay for that, just like instead of building new prisons, we build new rehabilitation centers.

01:51:20.000 We have to make sure that we have a window at the Treasury Department that allows entrepreneurs who are black and brown and minorities to be able to get loans to be able to start businesses. 0.73

01:51:31.000 You know, if you own a house, I know you do know, if you own a house in an all black neighborhood, same exact house in an all white neighborhood, exact same shape, the house valued in the black Neighborhood be valued as worthless, making it difficult for you to accumulate wealth, as my friend on the line here says. 0.64

01:51:47.000 So here's the deal. 0.99

01:51:49.000 We're out to do much, much more.

01:51:50.000 That's what got me involved in politics in the first place redlining to stop it.

01:51:55.000 I got involved through the civil rights movement.

01:51:57.000 I became a public defender.

01:51:58.000 That's why I got involved.

01:52:00.000 There's so many things we have to do across the board and in education.

01:52:04.000 At risk schools. 0.68

01:52:05.000 We should triple the funding we have for at risk schools to provide for four or five or six years old to be able to go to school. 0.98

01:52:12.000 School, not daycare.

01:52:13.000 Increase the salaries of teachers.

01:52:15.000 Encourage more blacks to get into teaching, especially black men, because studies show when there's a black man in a community, in a school, it increases prospects significantly, and so on.

01:52:24.000 There's a lot we can do.

01:52:26.000 I've laid it all out as how to do it.

01:52:27.000 Go to joebiden.com, you'll see the whole deal, including criminal justice reform.

01:52:31.000 Thank you, Mr. Vice President.

01:52:32.000 As you mentioned, South Carolina, three weeks from tomorrow, they'll go to the polls to vote.

01:52:37.000 Black voters make up about 60 percent of the electorate there.

01:52:40.000 Senator Sanders, several weeks ago, Nina Turner, one of your national co chairs, published an op ed piece that said Vice President Biden has, quote, repeatedly betrayed black voters to side with Republican lawmakers and undermine our progress.

01:52:54.000 Senator Sanders, do you agree with her, one of your most visible surrogates, that Vice President Biden has repeatedly betrayed black voters?

01:53:01.000 Well, I think what Senator Turner was talking about some of the early actions of Vice President Biden, but no.

01:53:09.000 Joe Biden is a friend of mine, and I'm not here to attack him.

01:53:14.000 But what I would say is that what we need in terms of the African American community is to understand that we have got to start investing big time in education, in healthcare.

01:53:27.000 There is no excuse why white families in America have 10 times more wealth than black families.

01:53:33.000 No excuse. 0.95

01:53:34.000 That disproportionately African Americans are in jail compared to whites. 0.90

01:53:40.000 No excuse for black women dying in childbirth three times the rate that white women are doing as well.

01:53:48.000 Senator Kobachar, you had raised your hand before.

01:53:52.000 Yes, I did, because I think, in addition to the economic argument we're making here, with the sad, sad stories of a woman walking into a maternity room in New Orleans and saying her hands are swollen and walking out without her baby.

01:54:06.000 And 30% of African American kids being living in poverty.

01:54:10.000 We know that there are economic solutions here to invest in those communities, housing, childcare.

01:54:17.000 But there's something else insidious going on that we haven't addressed, and that is the systematic racism when it comes to voting.

01:54:24.000 That is moves across the country to limit people's right to vote.

01:54:30.000 And that is why I have been leading on these bills to automatically register every kid to vote in this country when they.

01:54:37.000 Turn 18.

01:54:38.000 There is no reason that we can't do that across this country.

01:54:41.000 To stop the gerrymandering by setting up independent commissions in every single state, and yes, to stop the voting purges.

01:54:50.000 Because what is going on right now, in the words of one North Carolina court, is that they are discriminating with surgical precision against African American voters.

01:55:01.000 And we are not going to be able to get any of these things done if we don't give people the right to vote.

01:55:07.000 Vice President Biden and then Senator Warren.

01:55:13.000 I beg your pardon?

01:55:13.000 I just wanted to give you a chance to respond.

01:55:16.000 I agree completely.

01:55:17.000 There should be registration, automatic registration turning 18.

01:55:20.000 You get a driver's license.

01:55:21.000 Whatever you do, you automatically are registered, number one.

01:55:24.000 Number two, with regard to what we're going to see in South Carolina, we're all going to be there pretty soon.

01:55:30.000 We'll see whether or not it works.

01:55:31.000 The response to the letter that the person, I'm not saying Bernie wrote the letter, but the senator wrote the letter, Was very brisk and significant with other African Americans in South Carolina taking issue with her. 0.83

01:55:44.000 But look, Amy is right, the senator is correct.

01:55:48.000 That is, that we, in fact, there is systematic racism.

01:55:52.000 And that's why our Justice Department works so hard to go after those.

01:55:56.000 You know, realize there are 35 states in the United States of America that have come up with a total of 78 laws to restrict voting just in the last five years to try to keep African Americans from voting. 0.89

01:56:09.000 I can't wait to see one of these guys debate Trump.

01:56:16.000 These people like. 1.00

01:56:17.000 Suck. 1.00

01:56:19.000 It's just wrong, simply wrong. 1.00

01:56:21.000 So to see them go against Trump at his best, I can't wait for them.

01:56:25.000 I've heard from Democrats who talk about how important the black community is, at least at election time.

01:56:31.000 Year after year after year, election after election after election, Democrats go to people in the black community and say, Boy, we really care about these issues.

01:56:41.000 Racism is terrible.

01:56:42.000 We all want to do something.

01:56:44.000 And then somehow, the problem just seems to keep getting worse.

01:56:48.000 Well, I think it's time we have real concrete plans that are going to make a difference in people's lives.

01:56:53.000 I proposed a two cent wealth tax.

01:56:55.000 And let me tell you just one of the things we can do with a two cent wealth tax.

01:56:59.000 We can cancel student loan debt for 43 million Americans. 0.84

01:57:03.000 And because African Americans have to borrow more money to go to college, borrow more money while they're in college, and have a harder time paying it back when they get out, that one law is going to help close the black white wealth gap for people with student loans by about 20 points. 0.85

01:57:22.000 We aren't making a difference in America. 0.68

01:57:25.000 We're saying to the rich folks, You keep your money, and the rest of us will talk about racism, but not really do anything.

01:57:32.000 I think the time for that is over.

01:57:34.000 I'm ready to get in this fight and really make a change.

01:57:37.000 George.

01:57:38.000 Okay, thank you.

01:57:39.000 Actually, let's keep this debate going. 0.73

01:57:41.000 Go ahead, Mr. Stalin.

01:57:42.000 Look, out of narrative comes policy. 0.51

01:57:48.000 And we're talking about a lot of policies that affect Americans broadly and disproportionately affect black Americans or brown Americans.

01:57:57.000 But what I believe is we should set up a commission on race and deal with race explicitly.

01:58:02.000 Because everyone's saying we can't have rules that are different for different people, but in fact, we're here because we had rules that are different for different people.

01:58:11.000 I would set up a formal commission on race on day one to retell the story of the last 400 years in America of systematic racism against African Americans, not just legal discrimination, injustice, and cruelty.

01:58:28.000 But also the contribution that the African American community has made to America in building it and in leading the entire country from a moral standpoint for generations and centuries.

01:58:39.000 What?

01:58:40.000 Because I believe African Americans are moral leaders.

01:58:45.000 We need to repair damage that's been done officially in slavery.

01:58:49.000 That makes them our moral leaders?

01:58:51.000 We got here a certain way. 0.84

01:58:53.000 Let's talk about Jim Crow.

01:58:54.000 Let's talk about Martin Luther King.

01:58:57.000 Let's talk about Barbara Lee.

01:58:59.000 The Congresswoman from Oakland, who's one of our great leaders, and then let's figure out how to repair the damage so we can move forward together.

01:59:06.000 Mr. Yang, take on that argument and also what he said about reparations.

01:59:12.000 Here we go.

01:59:13.000 The median African American household net worth is projected to be zero by 2053.

01:59:19.000 Things are not getting better for people of color. 1.00

01:59:22.000 If anything, they're getting worse because we're in the process of eliminating the most common jobs in our economy. 0.99

01:59:28.000 It's something of an economic.

01:59:30.000 Unnatural disaster, and who suffers most in a natural disaster? 1.00

01:59:34.000 People of color, people with lower levels of capital and access to opportunity and education. 1.00

01:59:40.000 And while I know we love to champion education here as Democrats, only 33% of Americans are going to attend college, lower percentage of African Americans. 1.00

01:59:51.000 There is no way we can prevent this tsunami from wiping out African American net worth unless we put straight cash into their hands sometime between now and 2050. 0.99

02:00:03.000 And it's not just them. 1.00

02:00:05.000 It is truck drivers, it is retail clerks, it is call center workers, it is accountants, it is bookkeepers.

02:00:11.000 We are in the midst of the greatest economic transformation in the history of our country, and it's going to hit black people the hardest.

02:00:17.000 We have to stop nibbling at the edges and actually start solving the real problem. 0.65

02:00:21.000 We've been getting a lot of questions.

02:00:23.000 I like how he took that and pivoted into.

02:00:26.000 That's actually not.

02:00:28.000 I mean, think about it.

02:00:30.000 Commission on Race to Rewrite History with Glass as our moral better versus, like, UBI.

02:00:36.000 He kind of took that and completely defused it.

02:00:38.000 I mean, the race pandering is cringe, obviously, but necessary for a Democrat.

02:00:43.000 Oh, well, race isn't real, so UBI.

02:00:46.000 It's not terrible, you know.

02:00:47.000 Into a nomination or to be president of the United States.

02:00:56.000 I don't think any billionaire ought to be able to do it, and I don't think people who suck up to billionaires in order to fund their campaigns ought to do it.

02:01:04.000 I heard everyone here talking about, as Democrats, we all want to overturn Citizens United because we want to end this unlimited spending.

02:01:15.000 Yeah, except everyone on this stage, except Amy and me, is either a billionaire.

02:01:22.000 Or is receiving help from PACs that can do unlimited spending.

02:01:28.000 So, if you really want to live where you say, then put your money where your mouth is and say no to the PACs.

02:01:36.000 Look, I hate that.

02:01:37.000 That's the way we build a democracy going forward.

02:01:39.000 So much.

02:01:41.000 This expression is like ruining everything.

02:01:47.000 This is responsible for all our problems.

02:01:51.000 That look.

02:01:52.000 That's the way I'm running this campaign.

02:01:54.000 If you Think it's the right way to run a campaign? 1.00

02:01:57.000 Go to Elizabeth Warren.com and pitch in five bucks. 1.00

02:02:00.000 Crazy bitch. 1.00

02:02:06.000 I want to just take like a bowling ball and just smash it on her head. 1.00

02:02:11.000 It's going to work better and better for people who have done it for anyone else. 0.99

02:02:16.000 So I can't stand the big money in politics.

02:02:21.000 And one of my major focuses is going to be on passing that constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United.

02:02:31.000 Perfect. 1.00

02:02:33.000 Elizabeth Warren's like, Why did you do your homework? 0.68

02:02:39.000 Why did you clean the dishes?

02:02:41.000 And A.B. Kolobachar's like, Hey, honey, welcome back from school.

02:02:45.000 Do you want a snack?

02:02:46.000 And A.B. Kolobachar's like, Hey, how was class?

02:02:51.000 How was your test?

02:02:52.000 Did you do okay?

02:02:53.000 I cut up some apple slices for you.

02:02:56.000 Aw, thanks, mom.

02:02:58.000 Thanks, Amy.

02:03:00.000 Thanks, Mrs. Klobuchar.

02:03:03.000 She's not like your mom, she's like your friend.

02:03:06.000 Mrs. Klobuchar.

02:03:07.000 Hi, Mrs. Klobuchar.

02:03:10.000 Hey, Nick.

02:03:12.000 Hey, Nick, how's your parents doing?

02:03:15.000 Oh, they're doing okay.

02:03:19.000 What's your son's name?

02:03:20.000 Hey, Kenny.

02:03:21.000 Hey, Nick.

02:03:22.000 You guys want some snacks?

02:03:25.000 Yeah.

02:03:27.000 It's someone who's a postcard.

02:03:29.000 I'm gonna make chocolate chip oatmeal cookies.

02:03:32.000 I know they're your favorite, Nick.

02:03:36.000 Oh, that would be best.

02:03:42.000 Thanks, Mrs. Klobuchar.

02:03:46.000 It's just much more pleasant.

02:03:47.000 It's much more pleasant than Elizabeth Warren.

02:03:49.000 People are saying, oh, Nick is like into her.

02:03:52.000 I'm not into her.

02:03:53.000 I'm just saying her vibe is more pleasant than Elizabeth Warren. 1.00

02:03:57.000 You guys are coon brains. 1.00

02:04:00.000 I say a nice thing about Amy Klobuchar, and you're like, oh, Nick is into mommy? 1.00

02:04:05.000 No, no.

02:04:06.000 It's just, I like her vibe. 0.64

02:04:07.000 Provide is chill, it's more relaxed, it's more homey than, you know, psycho dummy. 0.90

02:04:22.000 No cooming, no cooming, you're the coomer. 0.98

02:04:35.000 Remember when Hillary called Donald Trump a puppet? 0.98

02:04:39.000 No puppet, no puppet, you're the puppet. 0.58

02:04:42.000 I don't have four million finance, Pete.

02:04:44.000 You're the Coomer.

02:04:45.000 To my campaign, coming from the pharmaceutical industry, coming from Wall Street, and all the big money interests.

02:04:54.000 What we do have is we have now over six million contributions from one and a half million people, averaging $18.50 a contribution.

02:05:07.000 That is unprecedented in the history of American politics.

02:05:14.000 It's okay, guys.

02:05:15.000 We only have another hour to go.

02:05:17.000 You're not going to do it by electing candidates who are going out to rich people's homes begging for money.

02:05:27.000 The way we're going to do it is build a mass movement of working people who are prepared to stand up, not take money from these billionaires, not take money from Wall Street, but stand up to the drug companies in Wall Street.

02:05:40.000 And if you want to be part of that political revolution, BernieSanders.com.

02:05:44.000 Mayor Brutajugs, close this round out.

02:05:50.000 We are going into the fight of our lives.

02:05:53.000 Donald Trump, according to news reports and his allies, raised $25 million today.

02:06:00.000 We need to go into that fight with everything that we've got.

02:06:03.000 Now, I've been very clear on both my record, where I have sued pharmaceutical companies, and what I'm campaigning for, that includes raising wages and raising taxes on corporations.

02:06:16.000 And the wealthy.

02:06:18.000 And as the only person on this stage who is not a millionaire or a billionaire, I know a thing or two about building a movement because Mayor of South Bend, Indiana is not exactly an establishment fundraising powerhouse.

02:06:31.000 We are here without the involvement of any corporate PACs because hundreds of thousands of people went to, yes, PeteForAmerica.com, contributed to this campaign, and let me say something else.

02:06:45.000 If we want to bring about any of the changes that everyone is talking about so elegantly up here, We need to put together the majority that can decisively defeat Donald Trump.

02:06:55.000 And in order to do that, we need a politics that is defined not by who we reject, but how we bring everybody into the fold.

02:07:05.000 And if you are low income, or if you're able to contribute a lot, if you've always voted Democrat, or if you're an independent, or even a Republican who's just sick of looking your kids in the eye and trying to explain this White House, we need you to join us right now.

02:07:20.000 By telling people they can't be at our side if they're not with us 100% of the time.

02:07:25.000 This is a time for addition, not rejection, for belonging, not exclusion.

02:07:31.000 Mayor Buttigieg, thank you. 1.00

02:07:33.000 Yeah, that was gay. 1.00

02:07:37.000 I want to turn to climate change. 1.00

02:07:38.000 Trump has $102 million in the United States Mexico Canada agreement.

02:07:42.000 Many call it an updated NAFTA.

02:07:44.000 But it does include incentives to make cars here in North America, and it does open Canadian markets for American dairy farmers.

02:07:50.000 Senator Sanders, as we sit here in New Hampshire tonight, Both New Hampshire Senators Maggie Hassan and Senator Jean Shaheen supported this.

02:07:56.000 They voted yes, calling it a real win for workers and for farmers.

02:08:01.000 You voted no because you said you believe it takes us back years on climate.

02:08:06.000 Were the senators from New Hampshire wrong?

02:08:08.000 Yes.

02:08:11.000 I mean, it's a disagreement.

02:08:14.000 But if you look at every environmental group in this country, including the Sunrise Organization, we're so proud to have their support because we have introduced the most comprehensive climate change proposal I think ever offered by a presidential candidate.

02:08:33.000 What they are saying, what the environmental groups are saying, we're simply exporting. fossil fuel emissions to Mexico.

02:08:42.000 There is not one word in that trade agreement that deals with climate change.

02:08:47.000 And I don't know how in 2020 you can do that.

02:08:50.000 Second of all, there is, in terms of outsourcing of jobs, a major crisis in this country.

02:08:57.000 Nobody believes that under this Trump trade agreement that there will not be continued and significant outsourcing of jobs into low wage Mexico, where workers are paid in some cases less than $2 an hour.

02:09:13.000 So I think the right vote was to vote against that agreement.

02:09:16.000 I don't apologize for that.

02:09:18.000 Senator Sanders, thank you.

02:09:19.000 I do want to go to Senator Clovisar.

02:09:20.000 You heard what Senator Sanders just said there.

02:09:22.000 He said not one word on climate in the trade deal.

02:09:25.000 So why did you vote yes?

02:09:27.000 Well, first of all, I want to defend the honor of the incredible two senators from New Hampshire, Gene Shaheen and Maggie Hassan, who work so hard for this state every day.

02:09:37.000 And I voted with them.

02:09:38.000 Why did I vote with them?

02:09:39.000 Because there were some major Improvements in this trade agreement when it comes to labor inspections, when it comes to getting rid of a sweetheart pharma deal that was in place.

02:09:49.000 And when it comes to climate change, I think we have to have a North American trading bloc.

02:09:55.000 We have to have Mexico and Canada and America working together.

02:09:59.000 And the best way to take on climate change, as president, yes, I'll work to make this a part of every future trade agreement, but the best way to take on climate change is by getting back into the international climate change agreement.

02:10:12.000 Which I will do on day one.

02:10:14.000 It is bringing back the clean power rules, it is bringing back the gas mileage standards, and it is introducing sweeping legislation to put a price on carbon.

02:10:23.000 And you cannot divorce trade from that, and in future trade agreements, that should be part of our negotiations.

02:10:29.000 But I'm telling you right now, having no trade agreement with Canada and Mexico puts us at such a disadvantage when it comes to dealing with China and pushing China to do better when it comes to climate change.

02:10:41.000 She does make me think about when I was a kid, I had a good friend.

02:10:44.000 You had a hot mom. 1.00

02:10:46.000 She's not hot. 1.00

02:10:47.000 She's not like a hot mom.

02:10:49.000 You guys got me thinking about.

02:10:52.000 You guys got me thinking a little bit about.

02:10:54.000 Back when I was a kid, there was a hot mom.

02:10:58.000 I was sort of fondly remembering there.

02:11:09.000 Back on grade school.

02:11:12.000 I'm not into Amy Klobuchar, okay?

02:11:15.000 But.

02:11:16.000 When you say him in Amy Kulobachar, that got me thinking about it.

02:11:20.000 Back in the day, I don't want to say her name, so I don't want to dox.

02:11:26.000 I don't want to get back from you.

02:11:32.000 That was a hot dog.

02:11:34.000 It's the hug, hugger, hug chat.

02:11:37.000 Don't want to elaborate on that too much.

02:11:44.000 And I got it.

02:11:46.000 Senator.

02:11:48.000 I do.

02:11:49.000 Senator Warren is right.

02:11:50.000 Everybody wants to get into our market.

02:11:53.000 And that's how we convince them that they've got to be right on climate, too.

02:11:56.000 It was my first sleepover.

02:11:58.000 We have to stop making foreign policy decisions in the old way.

02:12:03.000 Which is very nice.

02:12:04.000 Of course, we want to make things better for American workers.

02:12:06.000 And it's absolutely critical that we think about trade for my boss.

02:12:09.000 We're thinking about it from the point of view of the American people, not the American corporations.

02:12:14.000 That's a huge consideration.

02:12:17.000 I'll never forget that.

02:12:18.000 But there's something else going on here.

02:12:20.000 We talked about it.

02:12:21.000 It's not really appropriate during the debate.

02:12:22.000 We talked about whether it was appropriate to kill General Suleiman.

02:12:28.000 And there was no discussion in that about where that leaves the United States in the community of nations around the world.

02:12:37.000 So, if we actually want to be the leaders of the world, the leaders of the free world, who can actually negotiate a climate treaty around the world, I just don't want to make the difference.

02:12:47.000 I want to hear like, uh, first, and when we judge doing the wrong thing the way Mr. Trump did with General Suleiman, like everyone else in the world, we have to ask Does that help us build a coalition of countries around the world to do the right thing?

02:13:01.000 It absolutely does not.

02:13:03.000 Being all by ourselves, being the empire in the Star Wars movie, Does not put us in a position to get done what we need to get done as the leader of the free world.

02:13:13.000 And so, in fact, the USMCA is something that's the first step.

02:13:18.000 But the second step is exactly what Bernie Sanders is.

02:13:20.000 We strive to be the empire.

02:13:23.000 We can't get anything done if we're the empire. 1.00

02:13:27.000 How stupid is that? 0.99

02:13:29.000 The empire wasn't like ostracized. 1.00

02:13:32.000 That's all there was.

02:13:33.000 That was the only government there was.

02:13:38.000 Like the empire was some isolated, like.

02:13:42.000 No, that was the whole, that was the galactic government.

02:13:46.000 What? 1.00

02:13:48.000 What a stupid. 1.00

02:13:49.000 Does the guy even watch fucking Star Wars? 1.00

02:13:53.000 He doesn't even understand. 0.99

02:13:57.000 Somebody says unilateral control does not help us get things done.

02:14:03.000 Exactly.

02:14:04.000 Barack Obama for everything that goes wrong.

02:14:07.000 He blames his Federal Reserve chair that he appointed himself.

02:14:11.000 He blames the King of Denmark.

02:14:13.000 Who does that?

02:14:14.000 He blames the Prime Minister of Canada for, he claims, cutting him out of the Canadian version of Home Alone 2.

02:14:23.000 Who does that?

02:14:24.000 That's what Donald Trump does.

02:14:25.000 So, my point here is to work with our allies.

02:14:31.000 And New Hampshire is such a great example of this.

02:14:33.000 New Hampshire, Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, with senators like Jean Shaheen and Maggie Hassan, who believe we need to work with NATO and the rest of the world, who sees it as a smaller state, but a state that is a Peace of the world.

02:14:46.000 We cannot be alone.

02:14:47.000 And that trade agreement was not perfect.

02:14:49.000 But the point of it is if we start isolating ourselves from the rest of the world, we are going to hurt ourselves economically and we are going to hurt our nation's security.

02:14:58.000 All right, Senator Klobuchar, thanks very much.

02:15:01.000 Well, we have hit the two hour mark and we take a quick break and come back with a final question.

02:15:06.000 Wait, wait, what?

02:15:07.000 Quick break and then final question?

02:15:09.000 Does that mean that they're doing closing statements?

02:15:11.000 That's what it sounded like.

02:15:13.000 Quick break and then final.

02:15:15.000 Did he mean questions like our final stuff, or does he mean quick break and then final statements?

02:15:21.000 I thought this was going until 10, but if they wrap up in the next 10 minutes, that would be nice.

02:15:28.000 Well, there you have it.

02:15:29.000 There's your second hour of the debate.

02:15:33.000 Yeah, kind of just like no comment.

02:15:37.000 You know, Joe Biden is just collapsing.

02:15:40.000 I honestly think he's done.

02:15:42.000 Watching this debate performance, the Iowa caucus, it's a total meltdown for him.

02:15:47.000 I don't think he's going to last very much longer.

02:15:50.000 You know, some people have pointed out in the live chat maybe he's trying to appear high energy or something like that.

02:15:56.000 But he's just coming across as very obviously angry, and it's off putting. 0.95

02:16:04.000 I don't think that's the right tone to strike right before New Hampshire because he's going to get his butt handed to him in New Hampshire on Tuesday.

02:16:11.000 Like they acknowledged even in the beginning of the debate, Bernie Sanders won New Hampshire last year by 20 points, and he's going to win New Hampshire this Tuesday.

02:16:20.000 I don't know if it'll be by the same margin, but he'll win in a big way.

02:16:24.000 And then he'll be competitive in Nevada the next week.

02:16:27.000 So This is not really the kind of tone that you want to strike right before you're about to be completely humiliated and destroyed again in the second contest.

02:16:35.000 He said, Oh, well, I'd look at the first four races, which is Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, and South Carolina.

02:16:42.000 I'm sure he's banking on Nevada and South Carolina.

02:16:45.000 South Carolina in particular, where his big black support's going to come in handy and maybe give him his first win. 0.99

02:16:51.000 But, you know, that's four weeks into the race, and he's going to get his butt kicked here. 0.98

02:16:55.000 And I don't think Nevada's guaranteed for him any longer. 0.95

02:16:59.000 So.

02:17:00.000 I see him basically as melting down.

02:17:02.000 I have to say, Pete Buttigieg has looked like a pretty strong candidate this debate.

02:17:06.000 He's been, if you watched all the debates, as I have, his performances are mild and they don't get huge applause lines and they're not as striking as some of the other people.

02:17:19.000 But, you know, they're consistent.

02:17:20.000 He gives good answers and he's looking pretty strong tonight.

02:17:24.000 Whereas, like I said, you know, Joe Biden is melting down, obviously.

02:17:28.000 Bernie's the same old.

02:17:30.000 Elizabeth Warren seems to be collapsing a little bit.

02:17:33.000 You know, the rest are just really non elements.

02:17:36.000 I think that he had a pretty strong performance.

02:17:39.000 Bernie Sanders, you know, but it's basically the same with him very consistent, very much on brand, on message.

02:17:45.000 You know, he's got the right look and so on.

02:17:47.000 But, yeah, I mean, everybody else is just, I mean, Tom Steyer's a joke.

02:17:52.000 And Andrew Yang just doesn't get in there enough.

02:17:55.000 You know, as much as I think he has a lot of good things to say, are they back yet?

02:18:00.000 As much as he has interesting things to say, he's spoken for, I think, like three minutes in this debate.

02:18:05.000 So.

02:18:06.000 And he got 1% in Iowa.

02:18:08.000 He's not going to do very well, I don't think, in New Hampshire.

02:18:11.000 Klobuchar's out there fighting for her life.

02:18:13.000 And, you know, God bless her.

02:18:14.000 She's, you know, she's funny.

02:18:18.000 But, you know, for whatever reason, it's just not resonating.

02:18:21.000 It's just not connecting with people.

02:18:25.000 So I think the race is going to be Budajudge and Sanders.

02:18:28.000 You know, the more I watch these debates and after the Iowa caucus results, obviously, I mean, they were the frontrunners.

02:18:34.000 I think it's Budajudge and Sanders are going to be your two main guys.

02:18:38.000 And it's notable that Mike Bloomberg is not on the debate stage.

02:18:41.000 I don't know how he's going to work his way into this race, like some people say he's in or he's going to.

02:18:47.000 So that's my general take.

02:18:49.000 Again, I didn't really hear anything novel on the issues.

02:18:52.000 We've heard a lot of the same questions.

02:18:54.000 We've heard a lot of the same, you know, Bernie Sanders on guns, Joe Biden on the war in Iraq, the stuff about racism.

02:19:02.000 I mean, this is nothing we haven't heard before.

02:19:04.000 At this point, I'm just really looking, obviously, towards the New Hampshire primary, the two races after that, and then how the rest is going to shake out.

02:19:14.000 But I guess we'll have to see how it plays out.

02:19:17.000 It'll be interesting to see.

02:19:18.000 But, you know, more than that, thinking towards the general, it's interesting.

02:19:23.000 You know, obviously we're thinking about the nomination, but ultimately whoever wins this is going to face Donald Trump.

02:19:30.000 And I don't think any of these people are strong enough to beat Donald Trump.

02:19:33.000 In watching all these debate performances, they are consistently below the standard that Trump set in 2016.

02:19:41.000 You know, he was the most aggressive, the most outrageous, the most sensational.

02:19:47.000 The most effective.

02:19:49.000 And a lot of these people are at best doing a competent job.

02:19:52.000 You know, Pete Buttigieg is the strongest one, and he's only strong because he's not failing at communicating.

02:19:59.000 You know, none of these people are really connecting, I don't feel, with the audience, and none of them are really giving real, compelling, none of them are really separating themselves from the chaff. 0.90

02:20:09.000 The only reason that Pete Buttigieg, I think, is the best is because he's been the most consistent, stable, and just like adequate, you know, competent, perfunctory. 0.92

02:20:19.000 But Donald Trump is exceptional, and whoever is going to go up to face him.

02:20:23.000 I think we'll just be humiliated and embarrassed and unbalanced and caught off guard.

02:20:28.000 So, watching these things, you know, after even the Iowa caucus drama, just makes me more confident.

02:20:33.000 But it looks like we're coming back here to the final, I don't know how much longer, but we'll see.

02:20:40.000 Defense Fund, it's been more than 20 years since child poverty was directly addressed in a presidential debate.

02:20:46.000 The year was 1999.

02:20:47.000 Okay, it doesn't sound like closing statements, so I think we're going to get another 45 minutes of this.

02:20:54.000 Who may be watching right now, the late Cokie Roberts.

02:20:58.000 Audio glitch moment.

02:21:01.000 Cokie loved the New Hampshire primary, and she asked the candidates in this Republican debate how will we overcome the scandal of one quarter of American preschoolers living in poverty in the richest nation on earth?

02:21:11.000 Today, nearly one in five American preschoolers are still living below the poverty line, even though we've had 10 straight years of economic growth.

02:21:22.000 What does that say to you about where America is today and what we need to do about it?

02:21:28.000 George, we're in the midst of the most extreme winner take all economy in the history of our country.

02:21:34.000 And unfortunately, that extremity is just going to reach unprecedented heights as technology is getting stronger, smarter, more capable all the time.

02:21:43.000 And most of us are not.

02:21:45.000 Most adults feel happy if we stayed about the same on any given day.

02:21:50.000 So if we want to alleviate child poverty, we need to put money directly into the hands of families, particularly single parents.

02:21:57.000 40% of American children today are born to single moms, 90% of single parents.

02:22:03.000 Our single moms.

02:22:04.000 And right now, we have fallen into this trap where we have allowed the market to tell us what we are all worth.

02:22:11.000 And what does the market value my wife Evelyn at or stay at home parents around the country?

02:22:15.000 Zero.

02:22:16.000 Caregivers taking care of ailing loved ones, like Christensen in Iowa.

02:22:20.000 Zero.

02:22:21.000 Volunteers and activists in our communities trying to do something positive.

02:22:25.000 Zero.

02:22:26.000 Coaches and mentors helping our kids.

02:22:28.000 Zero.

02:22:29.000 Most artists, sorry, artists, but it's true.

02:22:33.000 Zero.

02:22:34.000 Increasingly, local journalists, which is wiping out our ability to have a functioning democracy because you can't vote on something if you actually don't have any news coverage.

02:22:44.000 The mission in this campaign has to be for us to disentangle economic value and human value, say they are not the same things, and make this case to our fellow Americans that we each have intrinsic value as citizens, as human beings, and as owners and shareholders of the richest country in the history of the world.

02:23:05.000 Mayor Buttigieg.

02:23:08.000 He's really, I have to say, he is very intelligent.

02:23:10.000 He's been counting the wrong things.

02:23:12.000 Now we have a president who says the economy is fantastic because the Dow Jones is looking good.

02:23:18.000 And I'm sure if you've got a building with your name on it close to Wall Street, then that really is the same thing as the economy to you.

02:23:27.000 But the problem is, we've had an economy grow and not be able to lift up those most in need, or even so many in the middle.

02:23:35.000 When I'm president, we're going to measure the performance of our economy not by the Dow Jones, but by the income growth of the 90%.

02:23:42.000 Because a good economy is one where children are being lifted out of poverty, just as we focused in South Bend on cutting the poverty rate, in particular the black poverty rate, and making sure families with children were participating in the growth that we did have.

02:23:58.000 But this is one more example of something where the American people want to see change.

02:24:04.000 The American people, not just die hard Democrats, but so many independents and some Republicans think we need to prioritize economic equity, and yet it still doesn't happen.

02:24:15.000 That is why we need to recognize that the time has arrived for a different kind of politics.

02:24:21.000 To turn the page, leave the politics of the past in the past.

02:24:26.000 Vapid garter.

02:24:27.000 You couldn't have a better contrast between Andrew Yang and the Buddha judge.

02:24:32.000 You know, like an actual visionary, like brilliant answer, and then just these like vapid boilerplate buzzwords and phrases.

02:24:43.000 Turn the page, a new vision.

02:24:46.000 Well, Trump thinks Wall Street.

02:24:48.000 What about middle America?

02:24:48.000 Watch.

02:24:51.000 You know, versus Andrew Yanks, striking.

02:24:58.000 I just can't look at it.

02:25:03.000 I can't.

02:25:04.000 I literally just can't look at it.

02:25:11.000 The idea behind it is we can do early childhood education and good quality child care, universal pre K for I don't want to see her face.

02:25:21.000 I can't keep looking at that expression. 0.99

02:25:24.000 It's like Medusa, that angry woman expression, irate female expression. 1.00

02:25:31.000 It will damage your soul. 1.00

02:25:34.000 I feel like an iRobot when he reaches into that thing.

02:25:38.000 You remember to get the nanites to inject into the supercomputer and his hand melts?

02:25:44.000 That's how I feel looking at her face.

02:25:46.000 You know, he reaches into that thing.

02:25:49.000 He's like, I think I was designed to. 1.00

02:25:51.000 Kill you and his hand melts off. 1.00

02:25:54.000 That's like my face, that's my soul looking at her face. 1.00

02:25:59.000 It's just so abrasive and brutal.

02:26:04.000 It's like steel wool rubbing on your eyeballs.

02:26:10.000 I watched my dad, and I met many people here in this state and others who've gone through the same thing where the fathers made that longest walk and the mothers made that longest walk.

02:26:25.000 I was listed for the entire time I was in the United States Congress as the poorest man in the United States Congress.

02:26:31.000 My net worth was net zero a couple of times.

02:26:34.000 The fact of the matter is that I've never focused on money for me.

02:26:39.000 And I was a single dad for five years.

02:26:42.000 I hate hearing sobs stories. 0.99

02:26:43.000 It's like, so you're a loser? 1.00

02:26:46.000 Why would we elect a loser to be president? 1.00

02:26:48.000 You know? 1.00

02:26:50.000 Well, my dad was a poor loser, and I'm a poor loser. 1.00

02:26:53.000 No, Mark Rubio. 0.99

02:26:55.000 The son of a bartender and a maid. 1.00

02:26:57.000 Oh, it's like a fucking loser. 1.00

02:26:59.000 You know what I mean? 1.00

02:27:01.000 I was poor.

02:27:02.000 I was worth nothing.

02:27:03.000 I can't make, I can't support myself.

02:27:05.000 Oh, you should lead America.

02:27:08.000 Okay.

02:27:09.000 Yeah, you should be the head of state of our country. 1.00

02:27:12.000 Some poor loser who doesn't have a dime who is lame. 1.00

02:27:15.000 Son of a bartender and a maid. 1.00

02:27:18.000 Oh, it's like a fucking loser. 1.00

02:27:22.000 I want an aristocrat to be the president. 1.00

02:27:24.000 I want Donald Trump, who's like, you know, a million dollar loan from his dad, billionaire.

02:27:29.000 And we talk about all those kids out there that are going to be there.

02:27:32.000 As skyscrapers.

02:27:33.000 A number of them aren't going to, as Mr. Yang said, go to college.

02:27:36.000 That's dignified.

02:27:36.000 That's called dignity.

02:27:37.000 I don't think we should help with college.

02:27:38.000 For our college.

02:27:39.000 They're not going on to college.

02:27:40.000 What they're going to do, they're going to be equipped to compete in the 21st century by training them for the new trades, the new opportunities, the new capabilities that are out there.

02:27:48.000 We must focus on our children.

02:27:49.000 Like I said, they're all our children and they're not somebody else's kids.

02:27:54.000 Everyone, everyone, everyone, everyone, as my father would say, is entitled to be treated with dignity and respect, and we're not doing it.

02:28:02.000 Senator Sanders.

02:28:04.000 Well, the answer to your question is why we have the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country on earth.

02:28:12.000 Disproportionately high for the African American community, by the way, is the same reason that we give massive trillion dollar tax breaks to the rich and large corporations, same reason that we give tens of billions of dollars in subsidies and tax breaks to the fossil fuel industry while half of our people are living paycheck to paycheck,

02:28:35.000 the same reason that we have three people in America owning more wealth than the bottom half of America, the same reason that we are the only.

02:28:43.000 Major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all people as a human right.

02:28:48.000 Same reason as to why we are paying, in some cases, 10 times more than other countries for prescription drugs.

02:28:55.000 And that reason is that our priorities are determined by the 1% and by wealthy campaign contributors.

02:29:04.000 Our priorities are determined by those who want to see the rich get richer and are turning their backs on the working families of this country.

02:29:13.000 And what is unique about our campaign is we say unashamedly we are raising our campaign contributions not from billionaires but from working class people. 0.53

02:29:26.000 That our campaign is about the working families of this country, for the working class of this country, and that is the administration that we will run. 0.82

02:29:36.000 It is time to take on the big money interest, it is time to change our national priorities.

02:29:43.000 Thank you.

02:29:44.000 Senator Klobuchar.

02:29:47.000 In Koch Gede's memory, let me answer this question.

02:29:50.000 We may have lost an election in 2016, Democrats, but we did not lose hope.

02:29:57.000 And there is a way.

02:29:58.000 It's actually based on a National Academy of Science report, and I've used that to put together a plan to reduce child poverty in half in 10 years and eradicate it in a generation.

02:30:10.000 We can do it with investment in childcare.

02:30:13.000 We can do it with investment in preschool and school, and we can do it with tax credits, and we can get it done.

02:30:18.000 But to get it done, we have to be able to reach those voters that we lost in this state and across the country.

02:30:25.000 There's an old story of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and when he died, his body was put on a train and went up across America.

02:30:33.000 And there was a guy standing by those tracks along with so many Americans, and he had his hat on his chest and he was sobbing.

02:30:39.000 And a reporter said, Sir, did you know the president?

02:30:43.000 And the guy says, No, I didn't know the president, but he knew me.

02:30:49.000 He knew me.

02:30:52.000 And I will tell you this.

02:30:53.000 You're going to cry.

02:30:54.000 There is a complete lack of empathy in this guy in the White House right now.

02:30:59.000 And I will bring that to you.

02:31:02.000 If you have trouble stretching your paycheck to pay for that rent, I know you and I will fight for you.

02:31:09.000 If you have trouble deciding if you're going to pay for your child care or your long term care, I know you and I will fight for you.

02:31:16.000 If you have trouble figuring out if you're going to fill your refrigerator or fill your prescription drug, I know you and I will fight for you.

02:31:24.000 For you.

02:31:24.000 I do not have the biggest name up on this stage.

02:31:27.000 I don't have the biggest bank account.

02:31:29.000 I'm not a political newcomer with no record, but I have a record of fighting for people.

02:31:34.000 I'm asking you to join us at amyklobuchar.com.

02:31:37.000 I'm asking you to believe that someone who totally believes in America can win this.

02:31:44.000 Because if you are tired of the extremes and our politics and the noise and the nonsense, you have a home with me.

02:31:50.000 Please, New Hampshire, I would love your vote and I would love the vote of America.

02:31:55.000 Thank you.

02:31:56.000 Great.

02:31:59.000 She always cries in her closing statement.

02:31:59.000 Mr. Stiles.

02:32:05.000 In like every one, she has that same like. 1.00

02:32:07.000 Republicans have a cruel plan. 0.93

02:32:09.000 And their plan is pretty simple.

02:32:11.000 It's to cut taxes on the richest Americans and the biggest corporations.

02:32:15.000 And then they pay for it by cutting education for kids, by cutting health care across the board, by allowing corporations to pollute as much as they want.

02:32:27.000 And then they try and break unions and the organized labor movement.

02:32:31.000 It's very simple.

02:32:32.000 That's what Mr. Trump's plan is, and it's true in every single red state.

02:32:37.000 But we are not going to win by just criticizing Mr. Trump.

02:32:42.000 I know that there is a better America out there, and that America lives in our hearts and minds.

02:32:48.000 And that America understands that when a kid succeeds in Columbia, South Carolina, that is a triumph for every American.

02:32:57.000 And the same is true of a kid in Las Vegas, Nevada.

02:33:00.000 Mr. Trump has no idea what he looks like.

02:33:05.000 It's because he can't see his eyebrows.

02:33:08.000 He can't see his eyebrows, so he just looks expressively.

02:33:10.000 I've been in education and healthcare and education.

02:33:13.000 I've figured it out.

02:33:13.000 I cracked the code.

02:33:14.000 It's completely wrong.

02:33:15.000 It's actually an investment in our common humanity and in growth in the future, mobility and justice.

02:33:22.000 That is the America that lives in our hearts and minds that will beat Mr. Trump because he will never be able to imagine it.

02:33:30.000 So, in fact, what we need to do is have a new conception, a new dream of America, dream it and make it happen.

02:33:39.000 Imagine the mountain and then we climb it together.

02:33:43.000 We are in perilous times.

02:33:46.000 I am asking for your vote.

02:33:48.000 Let's rise together.

02:33:51.000 Candidates, thank you.

02:33:53.000 Thanks for a great debate tonight.

02:33:55.000 Thanks to our audience here at St. Anselm College.

02:33:57.000 Thanks to our partners, WMUR and Apple News.

02:34:00.000 And now I'd like to send it to my colleagues, Martha Raddick.

02:34:05.000 Thanks very much, George.

02:34:07.000 And good evening from high above the debate stage here in Manchester after the sometimes fiery election of the top seven Democratic candidates.

02:34:16.000 It was a profoundly important debate.

02:34:20.000 Two and a half hour debate.

02:34:21.000 Okay, not bad.

02:34:22.000 Alright.

02:34:24.000 Well, let's read our super chats and then we'll get the hell out of here.

02:34:28.000 I don't really have any take.

02:34:30.000 I gave you my take in the middle.

02:34:32.000 I gave you my take at 9 15.

02:34:34.000 So, you know, Budajudge did good.

02:34:40.000 Bernie Sanders did good.

02:34:41.000 Joe Biden had a weird, angry, confused performance. 1.00

02:34:45.000 What the fuck? 1.00

02:34:47.000 Get that out of there. 1.00

02:34:47.000 What the fuck? 1.00

02:34:49.000 Jeez. 1.00

02:34:50.000 Get that off television. 0.99

02:34:51.000 Disgusting. 1.00

02:34:53.000 Get it out of here. 1.00

02:34:54.000 Get that off.

02:34:55.000 Why would they show that?

02:34:58.000 Come on.

02:35:01.000 Anyway, Buddha Judge had a good performance.

02:35:03.000 That was so startling.

02:35:04.000 Yeah, Pete had a good performance.

02:35:06.000 Bernie did well.

02:35:07.000 Joe Biden sounded crazy.

02:35:10.000 Yang did good, but he spoke for like two minutes.

02:35:14.000 So it was bad.

02:35:15.000 Tom Steyer is a joke. 0.97

02:35:17.000 I mean, these people are all terrible. 0.91

02:35:18.000 None of these people are good. 0.78

02:35:20.000 I think they could put up anybody and they would lose.

02:35:24.000 I honestly don't think any one of these people can beat Donald Trump.

02:35:27.000 You know, and if they did, they'd like cheat.

02:35:29.000 You know, they would cheat and they had the demographic advantage.

02:35:32.000 But none of these candidates are better or even approaching how good Trump is.

02:35:37.000 So, I'm feeling very confident going into the general election, even though the primary is not even close to being over.

02:35:44.000 But yeah, I say Bernie and Buttigieg are probably their two strongest candidates, and that's not saying much.

02:35:49.000 I mean, these are not terrific people.

02:35:51.000 Bernie is only around because of his run in 2016, right?

02:35:56.000 And he's sort of one of the only outspoken progressives that's running that's halfway sane.

02:36:03.000 And Pete Buttigieg is just somebody that's well put together.

02:36:06.000 I mean, that's literally all he has going for him, he sounds pretty smart.

02:36:11.000 And he's clean cut and he's a young man, and that's all he has going for. 0.99

02:36:15.000 But this whole pool is garbage. 0.91

02:36:18.000 You know, compare it to Barack Obama in 2008, or Hillary Clinton even in 2008, or a lot of these guys that they used to have running. 1.00

02:36:27.000 This whole field is just crap. 0.77

02:36:31.000 You know, like I said, the only ones that have risen above Bernie and Buttigieg, it's like such a low bar to clear that these candidates are not good. 0.99

02:36:41.000 Pete Buttigieg is the mayor of a small town.

02:36:45.000 And that's not like amazing that he's doing well.

02:36:47.000 It's the opposite.

02:36:48.000 It speaks to how bad the field is.

02:36:50.000 He ran for the DNC chair position in 2016 or 2017, and he lost to Tom Perez.

02:37:00.000 You know, and I remember watching him in the debate, and I thought he was like interesting, but, you know, obviously he didn't even win the DNC chair position. 0.99

02:37:06.000 So these people all just suck. 0.98

02:37:09.000 And the substance, I don't really care to comment on. 0.99

02:37:12.000 It's all, you know, very substance-less, bland, and stuff we've all heard before on the issues.

02:37:19.000 So, we're going to move on and read our super chats here.

02:37:24.000 Let's see. 0.88

02:37:24.000 We've got Kamikaze. 0.88

02:37:25.000 That was cute.

02:37:28.000 Kamikaze says, Not my words, not my rules.

02:37:30.000 I just enforce them.

02:37:32.000 Yeah.

02:37:33.000 What's going on here? 1.00

02:37:40.000 I love the Yangs.

02:37:41.000 Loving the Yangs there. 0.60

02:37:43.000 Groyper says, Pepsi gang. 1.00

02:37:45.000 Yeah. 0.97

02:37:46.000 Maxi bro says, Yang gang. 0.88

02:37:47.000 Yang gang.

02:37:48.000 Yeah.

02:37:48.000 Yang was the best one out of all of them.

02:37:52.000 Kamikaze says, I'm going to fall asleep.

02:37:54.000 Yeah, relating.

02:37:55.000 Royper Gardner says, Blanky Mode initiated.

02:37:58.000 Yeah, I wish I was going Blanky Mode right now.

02:38:02.000 Josh says, Nick is cool.

02:38:04.000 I agree.

02:38:05.000 Doomer Squidward says, Epic Yang.

02:38:07.000 Yeah. 1.00

02:38:08.000 Kamikaze says, I have a vagina. 1.00

02:38:10.000 Elect me. 1.00

02:38:11.000 Okay.

02:38:11.000 Trustee says, Warren constantly looks like a deer in the headlights.

02:38:14.000 Not even.

02:38:15.000 She doesn't look like a deer in the headlights because a deer in the headlights has the eyebrows up.

02:38:20.000 Like, surprised.

02:38:22.000 But her eyebrows are down.

02:38:23.000 It's like a crazed.

02:38:25.000 Like she's on bath salts or something.

02:38:28.000 Like she's on PCP.

02:38:31.000 Like this crazed.

02:38:33.000 Like she's on her period.

02:38:35.000 Elizabeth Warren, every time you see her, she's like, I'm on my period!

02:38:39.000 Oh, Andrew Yang. 0.98

02:38:41.000 I fucking love that guy. 0.97

02:38:43.000 So, no, it's not deer in the headlights. 0.99

02:38:44.000 It's something much worse. 1.00

02:38:48.000 Joe Biden's like, I'm going to rape you. 0.99

02:38:52.000 He's like, I'm going to pass the Violence Against Women Act right now. 0.99

02:38:57.000 Let's see. 1.00

02:38:59.000 Kamikaze says Mayor Pete will bring anal sex to the White House. 1.00

02:39:03.000 Yeah, if he gets elected, he will. 1.00

02:39:06.000 Not like there hasn't been that in the White House before.

02:39:08.000 You've got to imagine all these White House staffers. 1.00

02:39:11.000 How many of them are these faggy, hipster types? 1.00

02:39:15.000 So I'm sure that got brought to the White House a long time ago. 1.00

02:39:19.000 The Freemasons founded this country.

02:39:21.000 It's probably been like that from the start. 0.71

02:39:23.000 Let's be honest, right?

02:39:25.000 Freemasons founded the country. 0.99

02:39:26.000 Anal sex is nothing new in Washington, D.C., right? 0.99

02:39:30.000 Save the West says gay boy looks particularly gay tonight. 0.99

02:39:34.000 I don't know if he looked particularly gay so much as he looked like.

02:39:37.000 I don't know, he looked like younger today or something. 0.80

02:39:41.000 Like he shaved maybe.

02:39:43.000 So yeah, he looked like particularly.

02:39:46.000 I don't know what you would say.

02:39:48.000 Clean cut.

02:39:50.000 Twinkish. 1.00

02:39:51.000 Polish American Goiper says, hey Pete, here's a label for you.

02:39:56.000 Yeah, he said, I don't like the labels early on. 1.00

02:39:56.000 Faggot. 1.00

02:39:59.000 Yeah, that's pretty funny. 1.00

02:40:01.000 Faux says, who would be the funniest to watch Trump debate?

02:40:06.000 Funniest to watch Trump debate?

02:40:09.000 Probably Joe Biden because Joe would just turn into a sputtering mess.

02:40:14.000 I mean, I think he really just wouldn't be able to handle it at a basic level.

02:40:17.000 So, probably Joe.

02:40:20.000 Kamikaze says Nick looks older than Pete.

02:40:22.000 Hey, take that back.

02:40:24.000 I look young.

02:40:26.000 I look like a young man.

02:40:27.000 Don't say that.

02:40:29.000 Pete is 38.

02:40:30.000 How could you say that?

02:40:31.000 You think I look older than 38?

02:40:33.000 Minnesota Groyper says Biden.

02:40:35.000 My hair's not a good gray.

02:40:38.000 Minnesota Groypers says Biden forgot his adrenochrome.

02:40:40.000 Yeah, that's what it was.

02:40:42.000 Jeff says Trump, please activate the mass shadow generator.

02:40:46.000 I don't know what that means.

02:40:48.000 Andrew Jackson says Pete Buttgag is an obvious CIA agent.

02:40:53.000 Yeah.

02:40:54.000 Soviet Henry says, why do they keep throwing up a Roman during the debate? 0.75

02:40:58.000 Haha. 0.93

02:40:59.000 Okay, I'm going to.

02:41:00.000 Should I turn this off?

02:41:01.000 I don't want to go and adjust the camera and everything.

02:41:04.000 It's going to take too long.

02:41:08.000 Maxi Bro says, if this doesn't get 100,000 lemons, I will be sad.

02:41:11.000 Yeah, we're pretty friggin' far from 100,000.

02:41:16.000 Kel Asaru says, why do they all sound out of breath?

02:41:20.000 I don't think they sounded out of breath.

02:41:23.000 Josh says, 2050 will be the Dems versus the National Jewish Party. 0.99

02:41:28.000 That's pretty funny. 1.00

02:41:30.000 Well, they're both going to be Jewish. 0.88

02:41:32.000 International versus National Jewish Party.

02:41:35.000 Jeff says, Violence Against Women Act passed. 1.00

02:41:38.000 I will ensure. 0.98

02:41:39.000 I will ensure that the Violence Against Women Act gets passed.

02:41:44.000 Jay Tabe says every time Pete talks about God, I want to shoot myself.

02:41:49.000 Yeah, for real.

02:41:49.000 It's honestly disgraceful and gross when he says things like Scripture informs us, and God does not belong to a particular political party because it's like what you do, your lifestyle, everything that you represent is against nature and against God.

02:42:10.000 And that's like the definition of the Antichrist is to pretend, to be the pretender.

02:42:19.000 And it's not to say that it's because he sins, but it's because he's trying to say that there's no distinction between sin and virtue.

02:42:29.000 You know what I mean? 0.61

02:42:30.000 It's not to say every person, every Christian doesn't sin, but here's somebody who is openly and confidently and proudly living in rebellion, living in objection to nature's laws and to God's law. 0.76

02:42:45.000 And he has the audacity to say that God belongs to him and his party. 0.90

02:42:49.000 I mean, that's like the definition of Antichrist. 0.97

02:42:52.000 So, yeah, it's sickening. 1.00

02:42:55.000 Legacy, you know, when I see him holding hands with Chaston, it's like, they're trying to puke. 0.99

02:43:00.000 Legacy says, stay blessed, King, and all the kings at home. 1.00

02:43:03.000 Thanks, buddy. 1.00

02:43:04.000 No, says Yang says, dick plus dick equals fat. 1.00

02:43:10.000 Okay, kind of funny. 1.00

02:43:13.000 Jeff says, Trump, please start the dark side ritual to kill us. 1.00

02:43:16.000 Yeah. 1.00

02:43:18.000 Yellowstone.

02:43:19.000 Concentrate on Yellowstone.

02:43:21.000 We can end it all.

02:43:22.000 Legacy says press R to repeal 19.

02:43:25.000 Tampa Bay says, I'm feeling like lightheaded.

02:43:28.000 I'm so exhausted.

02:43:30.000 Tampa Bay says, while Yang gets an A, Pete is just happy with a D. 0.55

02:43:34.000 Yeah, funny.

02:43:35.000 Race to the bottom says, have AFPAC acceptance rejection emails gone out?

02:43:39.000 I don't think so, not yet.

02:43:41.000 I'm a Fed says, nobody wants four years of carpe donkdom Biden memes.

02:43:46.000 Race to the bottom says, loving the gray suit.

02:43:49.000 Thanks.

02:43:51.000 Echo says, bonk. 0.98

02:43:54.000 Kamikaze says, as a gay veteran, would you have seduced Soleimani? 0.99

02:43:58.000 Lifted Trucks says, would you hold Iranians at gunpoint? 0.99

02:44:02.000 Time to kiss. 0.98

02:44:05.000 Now kiss, yeah, now kiss. 1.00

02:44:08.000 Now kiss each other, yeah, yeah, you'll be real gay like. 0.99

02:44:12.000 Now kiss. 0.99

02:44:14.000 Honestly, with contemplating war with Iran, that is the funny part. 0.98

02:44:19.000 Obviously, it is, you know, gay stuff is cringe, but there is something funny about not being gay yourself, but going to Iran and forcing your enemies, like, hey, okay, now you guys are going to be gay now. 0.94

02:44:32.000 You know, there is something. 1.00

02:44:34.000 There is something particularly humiliating about America going in, and not only do we destroy your country, but we also make you guys into faggots, too. 1.00

02:44:43.000 It's not a good thing, but it's kind of funny. 1.00

02:44:47.000 We go to Iran, and it's not even sufficient that we destroy their country, but after we're done, we're dusting ourselves off. 1.00

02:44:57.000 They're having gay weddings. 0.99

02:44:59.000 Maxie Bro says, they're wearing dresses now. 0.95

02:45:02.000 Maxie Bro says, Wignats are the intelligence community, actually. 1.00

02:45:06.000 Yeah, that's true.

02:45:09.000 Neon Knicker says, Great insight, Pete. 1.00

02:45:11.000 By the way, do you still eat ass? 0.99

02:45:14.000 Yeah, these are the important questions. 0.99

02:45:16.000 People need to say, Hey, Pete, I don't want to be too vulgar, but seriously, it's like the president shouldn't do gross things like that.

02:45:25.000 Zaviba says, How's the pizza?

02:45:29.000 The pizza was good.

02:45:31.000 Sheeny says, Here's to 10 million more.

02:45:33.000 Okay, can't read that. 1.00

02:45:35.000 Kamikaze says, Shut up, shut up. 1.00

02:45:37.000 Yeah. 1.00

02:45:38.000 No, nothing says, Women shouldn't leave the home, forget the country. 1.00

02:45:42.000 Yeah. 1.00

02:45:44.000 Sheeny says, Endless War.

02:45:45.000 Yeah.

02:45:46.000 Neon says, I wonder if Joe's eye will fill up with blood now.

02:45:51.000 Yeah, I remember when that happened.

02:45:54.000 GSN says, Do you ever plan to write a book?

02:45:57.000 Maybe.

02:45:59.000 Polish American says, You want me to rub some ointment on that sore neck? 1.00

02:46:04.000 I don't know if that would help.

02:46:06.000 It's like, it's because of my posture.

02:46:08.000 I have bad posture.

02:46:10.000 So I don't know what, you know, topical would do for that.

02:46:14.000 I just need a.

02:46:15.000 I just need to stretch it.

02:46:16.000 Just need to stretch it back. 0.87

02:46:19.000 Oh!

02:46:20.000 After the show, I'm going to do all my neck stretches and I'm going to feel great.

02:46:25.000 And take some ibuprofen.

02:46:27.000 Q says Dems killing talking points like super chats kill jokes.

02:46:31.000 Ha ha ha.

02:46:32.000 Osama says Can we use a 19th century approach on Pete?

02:46:37.000 Funny.

02:46:38.000 Neon says Pete, what is your favorite brand of adult diapers?

02:46:41.000 Yeah.

02:46:42.000 Q says Democratic globalism.

02:46:44.000 Yeah.

02:46:44.000 Kamikaze says What?

02:46:47.000 Q says, Welcome to Intro to Dem Talking Points. 0.99

02:46:50.000 Okay, these super chats are garbage. 0.96

02:46:53.000 Groyper says, Three whole hours. 0.99

02:46:56.000 Gonna need another Pepsi.

02:46:57.000 Yeah.

02:46:59.000 I need ibuprofen.

02:47:01.000 Kamikaze says, Weird. 0.99

02:47:04.000 Okay, what the f- why are these just like garbage? 0.99

02:47:09.000 Why so serious? 0.99

02:47:10.000 Says, Yang is the only one not completely out of touch.

02:47:12.000 Yeah.

02:47:13.000 GSN says, Imagining each Democrat candidate debate Trump is funnier than the last.

02:47:18.000 I agree.

02:47:19.000 Sheeny says Pete might win.

02:47:21.000 It is the year of the rat after all.

02:47:22.000 Yeah. 0.96

02:47:24.000 Neon says Yang should start the ChaiCom party with Kathy Zhu.

02:47:27.000 Yeah, that's not funny at all, actually.

02:47:29.000 Q says Klobuchar sounds like her life is on the line.

02:47:33.000 Joe dipped into Hunter Stash pre debate.

02:47:36.000 Just stop. 1.00

02:47:37.000 Just shut the fuck up. 1.00

02:47:38.000 Warren, my first policy gender fluid sidewalks. 1.00

02:47:41.000 What does that even mean? 1.00

02:47:42.000 Just shut up. 0.99

02:47:43.000 Okay, I'm just skipping a lot of these. 0.99

02:47:46.000 Patrick Casey says, Your opens for Warren.

02:47:48.000 Yeah.

02:47:50.000 Jen Bug says, Nick, that's the Botox.

02:47:52.000 Okay.

02:47:53.000 Minnesota Groyper says, My mommy, Klobuchar.

02:47:56.000 Okay. 0.90

02:47:58.000 Neon says, but Bernie doesn't dead babies equals wasted foreskin. 0.92

02:48:02.000 Okay, that's so funny. 0.99

02:48:04.000 Neon says, blacks simply smoke more weed to beat Buddy Judge. 0.99

02:48:10.000 Yeah. 0.99

02:48:12.000 Shallot says, Nick heard you were coming to Shallot Pack.

02:48:14.000 See you there.

02:48:15.000 Yep.

02:48:16.000 Lance says, racial consciousness check.

02:48:19.000 Uh huh.

02:48:20.000 Yeah.

02:48:20.000 Good job.

02:48:22.000 Neon says, Confucius says, blah, blah, blah.

02:48:25.000 Okay, that's funny.

02:48:27.000 Funny, funny.

02:48:28.000 Warren says, Styre owns a bank.

02:48:30.000 Hi, Nick.

02:48:31.000 Yep.

02:48:32.000 RIP says, Nick, get some more pop.

02:48:34.000 Energy is low.

02:48:35.000 Yeah, morale is low right now, actually. 0.99

02:48:37.000 Reading this garbage. 0.99

02:48:39.000 Bad Faith poster says, Remember, no cooming. 1.00

02:48:42.000 Elevator door opens. 0.99

02:48:43.000 Yeah, I remember that one. 0.96

02:48:46.000 Koki says, Gay Pete wants to put everyone in the fold. 0.54

02:48:50.000 Wow, Ninjets says, American Space Empire check. 0.98

02:48:54.000 I'm just going to skip a lot of these.

02:48:58.000 Johnny says, The debate is basically the four Yorkshiremen Monty Python sketch, except not funny.

02:49:03.000 Yeah, I don't actually find Monty Python very funny. 0.99

02:49:07.000 I find it cringe and boomer and kind of stupid, actually. 0.99

02:49:11.000 Monty Python. 1.00

02:49:12.000 Wow, funny, silly British people. 1.00

02:49:14.000 Yeah, I think that's all stupid. 1.00

02:49:17.000 Johnny Jason, thank God it's finishing utter shite. 1.00

02:49:19.000 Yeah, I agree. 1.00

02:49:21.000 Yeah, I know it's going to be a controversial one, but I've always found Monty Python to be extremely stupid and cringe. 0.98

02:49:27.000 I know a lot of people love to eat that stuff up, but I always like cringe. 0.87

02:49:32.000 It's just like that Monty Python sketch from, what, like 10,000 years ago? 1.00

02:49:37.000 Those silly British people. 1.00

02:49:39.000 God, Wayne. 1.00

02:49:42.000 Zoomer says, Would you rather a woman or gay man as the president? 1.00

02:49:46.000 That's a good question. 1.00

02:49:47.000 I don't know.

02:49:52.000 There's really no winning with that one.

02:49:54.000 I don't know.

02:49:55.000 Maxie Bro says, Is it just me or does Chaston look like Benny Johnson?

02:49:59.000 Yeah, he does. 1.00

02:50:01.000 Big Gay says, Biden looks like the kind of guy who just discovered that pee is stored in the balls. 1.00

02:50:05.000 Okay. 1.00

02:50:06.000 Groyper says, Who will win?

02:50:07.000 Check the eyebrows. 0.66

02:50:08.000 Yeah, very true.

02:50:10.000 Optics Respector says, Woe to those who call good evil and evil good.

02:50:14.000 So true.

02:50:16.000 Unmutes as President Super Twink.

02:50:18.000 No thanks. 1.00

02:50:19.000 Nabbles as our women property. 1.00

02:50:22.000 Cringe. 1.00

02:50:23.000 Polish American says, Is it gay to give your homie a massage? 1.00

02:50:27.000 No. 1.00

02:50:30.000 I wouldn't turn it down right now.

02:50:33.000 I'm in a lot of pain right now.

02:50:34.000 I'm dizzy.

02:50:35.000 My head hurts.

02:50:37.000 I must be coming down with something.

02:50:38.000 This whole day I've been like dizzy, like noticeably dizzy.

02:50:43.000 I was doing this interview today, and I swear I was like literally just like dizzy.

02:50:50.000 And I'm dizzy right now, and my head has been hurting since this thing started.

02:50:55.000 I think it's because I haven't really eaten anything in like a long time.

02:50:58.000 When's the last time I ate?

02:51:02.000 Well, I had a little bit, I had like a few pieces of pizza and a pop, but I haven't eaten anything since yesterday at like 6.

02:51:11.000 Maybe it's that.

02:51:15.000 I'm feeling a little out of it.

02:51:16.000 I could use somebody to take care of me.

02:51:19.000 If it's Polish American Groyper or Amy Klobuchar, doesn't matter to me. 0.66

02:51:25.000 Servo Groyper says, Good evening, boys.

02:51:27.000 Let's go, yeah.

02:51:28.000 Hugh says, apparently I'm not funny.

02:51:30.000 Enjoy the lemons.

02:51:32.000 Yeah, you're not funny.

02:51:33.000 Sorry.

02:51:34.000 I'm just feeling under the weather, okay?

02:51:36.000 I'm being a little rude.

02:51:37.000 Keep the lemons coming.

02:51:38.000 Keep giving me lemons.

02:51:40.000 I'm sure you're very funny when I'm feeling better.

02:51:43.000 Polish American says, apparently I'm not funny.

02:51:45.000 Enjoy the lemons.

02:51:46.000 Yeah, thank you. 0.57

02:51:48.000 You'll be funny tomorrow or on Monday when I'm not feeling like crap. 0.92

02:51:53.000 Polish American says, what's your address? 0.98

02:51:55.000 I give great.

02:51:56.000 Let's relax on that. 0.99

02:51:58.000 Kokis is kind of like Angry Joe, made it more entertaining. 0.98

02:52:01.000 Yeah, I guess so.

02:52:04.000 All right.

02:52:05.000 Well, those are all our super chats. 0.97

02:52:08.000 Look, I feel like garbage. 0.69

02:52:12.000 Let's turn off this volume. 0.97

02:52:14.000 Sheesh.

02:52:16.000 All right, yeah, I don't feel so good.

02:52:18.000 So that's going to do it for us on the show tonight.

02:52:19.000 It's been another, what is it?

02:52:24.000 Almost three hours?

02:52:25.000 So a three hour show tonight.

02:52:29.000 Bruh.

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02:53:22.000 I'm NicholasJ. Fuentes.

02:53:24.000 As always, thanks for watching.

02:53:26.000 Thanks to our super chatters.

02:53:27.000 In particular, thanks to our big three, top three super chatters tonight.

02:53:34.000 What is this one?

02:53:35.000 Optical Zoomer, Snapperino, and MaxiBro.

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02:53:57.000 Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo.

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America First - Nicholas J. Fuentes - February 08, 2020

Live - Democrat Debate New Hampshire | America First Ep. 542

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