00:04:39.000We've got a great show for you tonight.
00:04:42.000Tonight, we are watching the Democratic debate in New Hampshire, the last Democratic debate before the New Hampshire primary, which is on Tuesday.
00:04:53.000And 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.
00:06:11.000And 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.
00:06:21.000So 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.
00:06:30.000But 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.
00:06:45.000So, I'm a little excited, and I'm a little excited to see what happens, you know?
00:06:49.000And of course, as always, it's Friday, so I am casual tonight.
00:06:53.000No necktie means it's casual Friday, but I'm going to turn on our volume here.
00:08:06.000If 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.
00:08:13.000We 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.
00:08:45.000The 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.
00:08:53.000So let's welcome the candidates for the Democratic nomination for president.
00:10:50.000Candidates 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.
00:10:58.000Candidates will each see green and yellow lights indicating how much time they have remaining, and when time is up, the light will turn red.
00:11:05.000So, here now, the New Hampshire Democratic debate.
00:11:09.000Vice President Biden, the first question is for you.
00:11:13.000In 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.
00:12:15.000We're going to not only have to win this time, we have to bring along the United States Senate.
00:12:20.000Bernie's label himself, not me, a democratic socialist.
00:12:23.000I think that's the label that the president's going to lay on everyone running with Bernie if he's a nominee.
00:12:29.000And Mayor Buttigieg is a great guy and a real patriot.
00:12:34.000He'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.
00:12:47.000Senator Sanders, let me give you the chance to respond.
00:14:42.000And I think all of us probably could have done a better job in bringing out our supporters.
00:14:47.000But 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.
00:15:00.000And if that happens nationally, we're going to win and defeat Trump.
00:15:04.000Before I move on to Mayor Buttigieg, let me just ask is anyone else on the stage concerned?
00:15:09.000About having a Democratic socialist at the top of the Democratic ticket.
00:15:25.000I think we need someone to head up this ticket that actually brings people with her instead of shutting them out.
00:15:34.000And 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.
00:15:52.000But 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.
00:16:04.000And truthfully, Donald Trump's worst nightmare is a candidate that will bring people in from the middle.
00:16:12.000The 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.
00:16:21.000And I would submit that what she's talking about is women.
00:16:24.000When she talks about tweets and the mean stuff, I only hear this complaint from women.
00:16:29.000I like Donald Trump, but I don't like tweeting.
00:16:33.000I just found a bunch of turning points in my pocket.
00:16:48.000And that means we're going to have to appeal across the spectrum from progressives SAS.
00:16:55.000So, 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.
00:17:11.000And I am doing that right now with 24% of blacks down in South Carolina with high.
00:17:19.000That'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.
00:17:30.000Andrew Yang, then Senator Warren, then there, Billy Judge.
00:17:34.000First, let me say, America, it's great to be back on the debate stage.
00:17:47.000The Jordanian capitalism socialism dichotomy is completely out of date.
00:17:52.000The 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.
00:18:03.000We 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.
00:18:16.000What 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.
00:18:24.000We 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.
00:18:34.000The way forward is a new human centered version of capitalism that actually uses the best to improve our families' lives.
00:18:50.000Is that your biggest difference with Senator Sanders?
00:18:52.000Oh, Bernie and I have been friends for a long time.
00:18:54.000We have a lot of things in common, and we have a lot of things that we differ on.
00:18:57.000But you know this fundamental question about how we bring our party together?
00:19:02.000We have to think about it in new ways.
00:19:04.000People 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.
00:19:13.000Works great for giant drug companies, just not for people trying to get a prescription filled.
00:19:18.000Works great for the people who are trying to get a prescription filled.
00:19:24.000It sounds like I have water in my ears.
00:19:26.000When 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.
00:19:37.000It's like they just keep adding pure and bad things, like new elements to drive you crazy.
00:20:29.000I'm not interested in what Republicans are going to say.
00:20:33.000I'm interested in the style of politics that we need to put forward to actually, finally turn the page.
00:20:40.000In order to win, yes, but also in order to govern.
00:20:44.000This 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.
00:20:52.000And politically, we're facing a fundamentally new problem with President Donald Trump.
00:20:58.000So, 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.
00:21:15.000When 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.
00:21:23.000A politics that says it's my way or the highway.
00:21:26.000Are you talking about Senator Sanders?
00:21:37.000That we can build the majority that it's going to take in order to win.
00:21:40.000But the process of actually proving it is now underway.
00:21:45.000And now it comes to New Hampshire, a state that.
00:21:47.000Thinks 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.
00:22:07.000Needless to say, I've never said that, but let me tell you what I do say.
00:22:12.000The way you bring people together is by presenting an agenda that works.
00:22:18.000For the working people of this country, not for the billionaire class.
00:22:24.000The way you bring people together Republicans, independents, Democrats, progressives, conservatives you raise the minimum wage to 15 bucks an hour.
00:22:34.000The way you bring people together is to make it clear that we're not going to give tax breaks to billionaires and large corporations.
00:22:43.000They're going to start paying their fair share of taxes.
00:23:33.000There's a historic majority right now.
00:23:35.000Even 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.
00:23:49.000Just so long as we don't command people to accept a public plan if they don't want to.
00:23:53.000That's the idea of Medicare for all who want it.
00:23:58.000Is campaigning for all of these things that America wants.
00:24:01.000Yes, 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.
00:24:20.000That 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.
00:24:26.000Vice President Biden, how do you unify the country?
00:24:29.000Look, Bernie says that you have to bring people together.
00:26:04.000That's what Health and Human Services says.
00:26:08.000What 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.
00:26:20.000Maybe it has something to do with the fact that the healthcare industry last year made $100 billion in profit.
00:26:28.000Maybe 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.
00:26:39.000What Medicare for All will do is save the average American substantial sums of money.
00:26:46.000Substantial, be much less expensive than your plan.
00:26:50.000And we will expand Medicare to include dental care, eyeglasses, hearing aids, and home health care as well.
00:26:58.000Vice President Biden, 30 second response, then Senator Klobuchar after that.
00:27:45.000I keep listening to this same debate, and it is not real.
00:27:48.000It 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.
00:28:17.000And so I would like to point out that what leadership is about is taking a position, looking at things, and sticking with them.
00:28:24.000I 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.
00:29:35.000How about we choose to pay their groceries?
00:29:39.000We heard that same thing last time and the time before that, too.
00:29:42.000On 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.
00:29:56.000We can start making health care better for Americans from the beginning, but we have to agree to do that.
00:30:04.000We are the Democrats, we are on the side of expanding health care.
00:30:08.000When we come up against Donald Trump, The team that has been trying to take away health care from millions of people.
00:30:15.000What's going to matter most is we are the people on the side of those who need health care across this country.
00:30:24.000Mayor 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.
00:30:29.000Well, 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.
00:30:38.000And as to experience, I just bring a different perspective.
00:30:43.000That 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.
00:30:52.000The 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.
00:31:20.000And bring change to Washington before it's too late.
00:31:22.000Vice President Biden, here's his answer.
00:31:24.000The politics of the past, I think, were not all that bad.
00:31:27.000I wrote the Violence Against Women Act.
00:31:29.000I 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.
00:31:38.000I was able to do it, I was able to pass the chemical weapons ban, arms control.
00:31:43.000And I was the first major leader holding public office to call for same sex marriage.
00:31:49.000So I don't know what about the past of Barack Obama and Joe Biden was so bad.
00:32:06.000And 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.
00:32:13.000Mayor Buttigieg respond, then Senator Sanders.
00:32:28.000This president is going to face challenges from.
00:32:30.000Global 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.
00:32:39.000And 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.
00:32:48.000We cannot solve the problems before us by looking back.
00:32:52.000We have to be ready to turn the page and change our politics before it's too late.
00:32:57.000And I'm seeing everywhere I go, not just fellow Democrats.
00:33:00.000But 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.
00:34:11.000You said it was exhausting to watch, and that you wanted to turn the channel and watch cartoons.
00:34:18.000It is easy to go after Washington because that's a popular thing to do.
00:34:23.000It is much harder, as I see Senator Shaheen in the front row, such a leader.
00:34:27.000It 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.
00:34:37.000Because it's popular to say and makes you look like a cool newcomer.
00:34:41.000I just don't think that's what people want right now.
00:34:44.000We have a newcomer in the White House, and look where it got us.
00:34:47.000I think having some experience is a good thing.
00:34:50.000Senator Sanders, then there are Buddha Jews.
00:35:02.000Why 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?
00:35:11.000Have 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?
00:35:21.000Because they have cancer or heart disease or Alzheimer's.
00:35:25.000We've got to ask that question why is it?
00:35:27.000Why have we been talking about health care in this country for 100 years?
00:35:34.000If you want real people to be a newcomer, at the end of the day, you're going to have to take on.
00:35:41.000The insurance companies and tell them the function of healthcare is to make profits for the insurance companies.
00:35:50.000You'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.
00:36:03.000But at the end of the day, there's no way around it.
00:36:06.000You 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.
00:36:26.000There's a conversation on this debate stage from these people now every single debate, and they're all right.
00:36:32.000Everybody 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.
00:36:58.000I trust every one of these people a million times more.
00:37:01.000But 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.
00:38:12.000We'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.
00:38:30.000We'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.
00:38:42.000We'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.
00:38:53.000If 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.
00:39:00.000And unify this country around a new and better vision.
00:39:05.000And when I talk about exhaustion, this is important.
00:39:07.000Because 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.
00:39:15.000And 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.
00:40:25.000Yes, yes, yes, life is disintegrating beneath our feet.
00:40:30.000That's why Iowa, a traditional swing state, went to Trump by almost 10 points.
00:40:33.000That's why Ohio, a traditional swing state, is now so red that I'm told we're not even going to campaign there.
00:40:39.000So, yes, communities are seeing their way of life get blasted into smithereens.
00:40:44.000We've automated away four million manufacturing jobs and counting.
00:40:48.000We're closing 30% of New Hampshire's stores and malls, and Amazon, the force behind that, is literally paying zero in taxes.
00:40:55.000These are the changes that Americans are seeing and feeling around us every day.
00:40:59.000And 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.
00:41:07.000I know we're going to hear a lot more on this.
00:43:03.000We 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.
00:43:24.000Mr. 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.
00:43:37.000Does that mean that any alleged misconduct by the president or his administration should not be investigated?
00:43:44.000There are, of course, limits, and you have to see what the facts are on the ground after you assume office.
00:43:48.000But the fact is, if you look around the world, the countries that have thrown past presidents into jail have generally been developing countries.
00:43:55.000And unfortunately, that's a pattern that once you establish is very, very hard to break.
00:45:29.000And I'm able to intimidate members of my own party.
00:45:32.000The saddest aspect of this whole thing is you have Republicans in the Senate who knew better.
00:45:38.000They 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.
00:47:11.000But Republicans in Congress have already started investigating Vice President Biden's son, Hunter.
00:47:17.000Mayor 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?
00:47:40.000Look, the vice president and I and all of us are competing, but we've got to draw a line here.
00:47:44.000And 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.
00:48:02.000That is just one more example of why we as a party.
00:48:05.000Have 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.
00:48:21.000But here's the deal whomever the nominee is, the president's going to make up lies about.
00:48:25.000He thinks he has free reign right now.
00:48:28.000One 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.
00:48:34.000And by the way, Colonel Vidman got thrown out of the White House today, walked out.
00:48:38.000I think we should, at the same time, he should be pinning a medal on Vinman and not on Rush Limbaugh.
00:48:45.000And 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.
00:50:26.000We must unite, but the way that we unite is by having an optimistic economic agenda for America.
00:50:33.000That 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.
00:50:45.000After he signed that Republican tax bill and looked at all his friends and said, You just got a lot richer.
00:50:53.000That is Exhibit A for those carpenters in Pennsylvania and those dairy farmers in Wisconsin and those dock workers that I met with in Michigan.
00:51:04.000And 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.
00:51:16.000That's why it's hard to listen to her because in her voice she's like pleading for your attention.
00:51:22.000Senator Sanders is supposed to be cool, calm, confident.
00:52:37.000Quite honestly, as we face one of the great political crises facing America, our job is to look forward and not back to 2016.
00:52:49.000And I hope that Secretary Clinton and all of us can come together and move in that direction.
00:52:55.000Now, 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.
00:53:09.000And 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.
00:53:25.000And that is when you bring people together on an issue.
00:53:30.000There are many conservative Republicans, for example, who are concerned about civil liberties.
00:53:35.000At least they used to be concerned about civil liberties.
00:53:38.000There are Republicans, as you know, who are concerned about the high cost of prescription drugs.
00:53:44.000There are ways that we can work with Republicans on issues where we have a common basis.
00:53:55.000I want to turn to America's role in the world and readiness to be commander in chief on day one.
00:53:59.000Just 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.
00:54:06.000He 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.
00:54:16.000We talked about this in the last debate.
00:54:21.000We talked about this in the last debate.
00:54:25.000There is no debate about whether or not Soleimani was a bad actor who was responsible for the deaths of many Americans.
00:54:31.000As 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?
00:54:40.000In the situation that we saw with President Trump's decision, there is no evidence.
00:55:22.000And 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.
00:55:32.000By 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.
00:55:43.000And I saw her coming down the concourse in the airport wearing a Wounded Warrior Project t shirt that said, Some assembly required.
00:55:51.000And 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.
00:56:01.000And then let me know that she was looking forward to an upcoming deployment.
00:56:05.000People in our uniform will do whatever the United States requires of them.
00:56:10.000What 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.
00:56:28.000If 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.
00:56:41.000I'm asking if your national security team came to you and presented you with the opportunity, would you take the strike?
00:56:55.000This is a situation that requires that you actually evaluate the entire intelligence picture.
00:57:01.000This 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.
00:57:09.000Yeah, James Collins, something like that, is justified.
00:59:07.000There are very bad leaders all over the world.
00:59:14.000Kim 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.
00:59:23.000You've got Mohammed bin Salman in Saudi Arabia, who is a terrible murderer, who murdered Khashoggi in cold blood and dismembered his body.
00:59:34.000You have Putin in Russia, who has been involved in political assassinations of his enemies.
00:59:39.000You've got Qi in China, who has put a million Muslims into concentration camps.
00:59:44.000You 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.
00:59:56.000That every government in the world will then be subjected to attacks and assassination.
01:00:03.000What we have got to do, which Trump does not understand, is strengthen the State Department and our diplomatic capabilities, not just the military.
01:00:16.000What we have got to do is bring countries around the world together.
01:00:19.000With 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.
01:00:31.000This is how some of you sound, honestly.
01:00:34.000This is how some of you sound when we talk about foreign policy.
01:00:37.000And I talk about how funny it is that we blow people up.
01:01:00.000He doesn't care that people die from missiles.
01:01:03.000I'll say, well, let's debate with missiles.
01:01:06.000No, look, I sit on the Senate Armed Services Committee, so I get to the briefings from the generals on a regular basis.
01:01:20.000I've been to Afghanistan, to Iraq, I've been to Jordan, I've been throughout the region.
01:01:25.000I'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.
01:01:35.000And the bottom line is nobody sees a solution to this war.
01:01:40.000Nobody can describe what winning looks like.
01:01:47.000And 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.
01:01:55.000Lindsey Graham has said he's willing to leave troops.
01:03:30.000I 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.
01:03:37.000You 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.
01:03:48.000I'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.
01:03:57.000I 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.
01:04:10.000They 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?
01:04:22.000We pulled out, and you saw what happened.
01:04:25.000You saw the end of the effort to be able to continue to contain ISIS.
01:04:30.000Number one, number two, close your eyes, everybody.
01:04:35.000You 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.
01:04:49.000Or men and women to do what needed to be done.
01:04:51.000And 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.
01:05:01.000The only thing we should be doing is dealing with terrorism in that region.
01:05:05.000And 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.
01:05:32.000You mentioned Mayor Buttigieg, and I do want to take this to you next, Mayor.
01:05:35.000Given your finish in Iowa, you've come under increasing scrutiny, attacks from opponents on experience.
01:05:40.000We've heard that theme even right here tonight.
01:05:42.000You have said on the Iraq War, for example, I just don't believe there is any justification for that vote.
01:05:48.000You said it's the difference between tenure.
01:05:50.000And judgment, that it's the judgment that matters, not the time in Washington.
01:05:54.000Vice President Biden, as you know, voted yes.
01:05:57.000As Commander in Chief, do you believe your judgment would be better than the Vice President's?
01:06:02.000I 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.
01:06:14.000And 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.
01:06:23.000It's not just about dealing with the aftermath of the war in Iraq.
01:06:27.000It's about preventing a war with Iran.
01:06:30.000And 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.
01:06:43.000At 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.
01:06:55.000It's a 17th century approach to keeping a place safe.
01:06:58.000What we have to do is be ready for the future.
01:07:01.000And that means insisting not only on shoring up our relationships, but defining a strategy to keep the American people safe from fundamentally new challenges.
01:07:11.000Mr. Vice President, I'll let you respond to his argument on judgment.
01:07:18.000I trusted George Bush to keep his word.
01:07:19.000He said he was not going to go into Iraq.
01:07:22.000He said he was only using this to unite the United Nations to insist we get inspectors in to see what Saddam was doing.
01:07:29.000When 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.
01:08:43.000I agree with Pete Buttigieg that it's about judgment, not tenure.
01:08:48.000What we're hearing here is a very long dissertation about exactly how America should be the world's policeman.
01:08:55.000And 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.
01:09:10.000So, 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.
01:09:21.000And 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.
01:09:34.000And that cannot be solved with guns and tanks.
01:09:37.000Imagine if this guy was the president.
01:10:35.000I have not argued for the placement of major numbers of U.S. combat troops.
01:10:40.000I 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.
01:10:51.000Like we don't keep our commitments to the courage, we must keep our commitments when we make them.
01:10:56.000Otherwise, we have no power whatsoever.
01:11:32.000I listened very carefully and I concluded that they were lying through their teeth.
01:11:40.000And I not only voted against that war, but I helped lead the opposition.
01:11:45.000And 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.
01:11:56.000It's sad to me that that is what happened.
01:11:58.000But let me just pick up on a point that Tom made, which is absolutely right.
01:12:04.000Trump wants to build a wall around America.
01:12:07.000Problem 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.
01:12:21.000This is not an American issue, it's a global issue.
01:12:24.000We got to bring China and Russia and Brazil and Pakistan and India and every major country on earth into the fight against climate change.
01:12:37.000But 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.
01:15:10.000I 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.
01:15:23.000Bernie Sanders is surging, or was surging, and obviously finished in a very slight second place with the state delegate equivalents in Iowa.
01:15:37.000And so now with this changing dynamic, I think the debate does matter before New Hampshire.
01:15:41.000The New Hampshire primary is on Tuesday, so that's in, what, three or four days.
01:15:47.000And so this one is interesting for that reason.
01:15:50.000And I have to say that for about the first 30 to 40 minutes, it was a bit more of an interesting.
01:15:56.000Because we really didn't start with policy issues.
01:16:01.000The 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.
01:16:13.000And so it was a little bit refreshing to see that, to see some actual competition between the candidates.
01:16:21.000You know, my big problem with the debates so far has been that.
01:16:58.000But after that, it just turned into the same old debate.
01:17:01.000The same debate, the same questions on health care, and then the same questions on foreign policy.
01:17:07.000And there's really, I mean, like nothing more to say.
01:17:10.000I heard Elizabeth Warren's response and Tom Steyer and Joe Biden, and they're saying exactly the same things that they've been saying.
01:17:17.000You know, Joe Biden talking about his Iraq war vote, Budah Judge talking about being the commander in chief, and Tom Steyer talking about diplomacy.
01:17:29.000I mean, this is just like a carbon copy of the last debate.
01:17:33.000And the same was true basically with health care.
01:17:35.000So I don't really know what else there is to add.
01:17:38.000I will say it was very funny at one point.
01:17:41.000I didn't get a chance to get this in, but with Pete Buttigieg, I guess this is the latest poll here, huh?
01:17:49.000Sanders, number one, Buttigieg, two, Warren, three.
01:17:53.000I 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.
01:18:05.000And 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?
01:18:17.000So 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.
01:19:30.000New Hampshire has one of the highest rates of deadly overdoses in the country.
01:19:34.000In 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.
01:19:41.000It's a health care issue, but it's also so much more.
01:19:44.000Mayor 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.
01:19:52.000You have called for the decriminalization of all drugs.
01:19:56.000Does that include heroin, meth, and cocaine, some of the drugs that have contributed to this crisis?
01:20:27.000But 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.
01:20:38.000It's why in South Bend we sued those companies to hold them accountable.
01:20:42.000We've got to make sure that there is accountability for those who suppressed evidence about the addictiveness of those substances.
01:20:48.000Even 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.
01:20:59.000That's why medication assisted treatment is so important.
01:21:02.000And 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.
01:21:11.000Sometimes 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.
01:21:25.000We must act to change that and save lives when we do.
01:21:30.000I want to bring this question now to Mr. Yang.
01:21:33.000You've said you would decriminalize opioids.
01:21:35.000But you've also said that you would require all overdose patients to go to mandatory treatment centers for three days.
01:21:42.000Well, right now in New Hampshire, there aren't enough beds in treatment centers and across the country.
01:21:48.000How would you make sure treatment is available for all overdose patients?
01:21:52.000And what would you do to fill the gap in the meantime?
01:21:55.000That's what we have to change, Monica.
01:21:57.000I've heard heartbreaking stories from families here in New Hampshire that have been destroyed, torn apart by the opiate epidemic.
01:22:03.000And you have to look at the companies that profited to the tune of tens of billions of dollars in profits of essentially blood money.
01:22:10.000As 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.
01:22:25.000This is something that happened on the government's watch.
01:22:28.000The 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.
01:22:39.000We have safe injection and safe consumption sites for you.
01:22:42.000If 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.
01:22:51.000There 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.
01:23:06.000You can see it with the opiate epidemic, you can see it with the military industrial complex, the fossil fuel companies.
01:23:11.000This is what we must change, and that's where I'll lead as president.
01:23:57.000I'm surprised more people don't call Yang a fact.
01:24:02.000Yes, I felt that we should prosecute those people.
01:24:05.000But 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.
01:24:39.000We will get a conservative estimate, $40 billion in from that settlement.
01:24:43.000We can put a two cents per milligram tax on opioids that brings in another $40 billion.
01:24:48.000Then you can close the hedge fund loophole and it brings in $18 billion.
01:24:52.000And 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.
01:25:00.000Because I think we have someone in the White House that has told over 15,000 lies.
01:25:33.000In 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.
01:25:40.000Can you explain why you oppose these things that you now support?
01:26:37.000In 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.
01:26:46.000The world has changed, and my views have changed.
01:26:49.000My view is right now we need universal background checks, we end the gun show loophole, we end the so called storm man provision.
01:27:09.000But the bottom line is, I will not be intimidated by the NRA.
01:27:13.000We're going to run the gun policy that the American people want.
01:27:16.000Vice 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.
01:27:23.000You've essentially asked them to look at the totality of your record and give you the benefit of the doubt.
01:27:27.000Does Senator Sanders deserve that same benefit of the doubt on guns?
01:27:32.000The 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.
01:27:48.000First thing I'll do as president is work to get rid of that.
01:30:43.000We're not going to be able to meet our promises.
01:30:46.000And 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.
01:30:57.000We have to be willing to build a filter that works not for a gun industry, but that works for the rest of America.
01:31:05.000We need to build an X that doesn't just work for Y, but it works for the American people.
01:31:12.000I want to turn to the Supreme Court, the balance on the court, and the issues before the court right now.
01:31:16.000President 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.
01:31:28.000The 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.
01:31:34.000Vice 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.
01:31:42.000We picked people who had an open mind, did not come with an agenda.
01:31:46.000And you've said before, we both believe that we should not apply narrow litmus tests to appointees to the Supreme Court.
01:31:53.000Let me just ask would you do it differently as president, Mr. Vice President?
01:31:56.000Would there be a litmus test on abortion?
01:31:58.000If 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.
01:32:10.000And 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.
01:32:21.000And I was part of the reason why Elena Kaye is going to work for me to be got on the Supreme Court.
01:32:25.000I was part of the reason why Ruth Bader Ginsburg is on the court.
01:32:28.000I was part of the reason why Soda Meir is on the court, and she swore me in.
01:32:32.000I 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.
01:33:03.000I 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.
01:33:23.000But 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.
01:33:39.000Any 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.
01:35:11.000When 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.
01:35:21.000I'd be like, okay, I'll be down in a sec.
01:35:23.000I'm surprised that we're seeing states like Alabama start enacting laws that would criminalize women.
01:35:29.000She seems like she would say, like, Night's Night.
01:36:17.000Then I agree with her that that could be the consequence.
01:36:20.000What 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.
01:36:31.000We cannot allow the Supreme Court to continue to become one more political battlefield as we are seeing today.
01:36:39.000And 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.
01:36:55.000It'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.
01:37:10.000We need a constitutional amendment to clear that up and protect our democracy.
01:37:15.000That's why this guy's the most dangerous, because the main things that he talks about is process.
01:37:22.000Things that are like elections and catching out.
01:37:51.000That's the way to amend the Constitution and deal with that.
01:37:53.000In addition to that, if in fact, look, the Democrats stood up against the man I revere, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
01:38:00.000He 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.
01:38:08.000And there are three equal branches of government.
01:38:11.000It says the president shall nominate, the Senate shall dispose.
01:38:15.000The Senate shall make that decision, not the president.
01:38:21.000We must win back the United States Senate this time out.
01:38:25.000And 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?
01:38:39.000Who can win Florida, Pennsylvania, Minnesota?
01:39:26.000Number three, we have to significantly expand funding for Planned Parenthood.
01:39:34.000Mr. 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.
01:39:40.000I want to bring in that guy that has 1% of the vote.
01:39:43.000What 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.
01:41:39.000The night is still young, many questions to come, and Lindsey Davis is next.
01:41:42.000I want to turn now to criminal justice.
01:41:45.000Mayor 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.
01:41:55.000Now, that racial disparity is higher than the rest of the state.
01:41:59.000In fact, it's higher than the rest of the nation, and that disparity increased in South Bend after you took office.
01:42:05.000When talking about the problem on national terms, you've called it, quote, evidence of systemic racism.
01:42:11.000But you were mayor for eight years, so weren't you in effect the head of the system?
01:42:15.000And how do you explain that increase in black arrests under your leadership?
01:42:19.000Well, 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.
01:42:29.000But there is no question that systemic racism has penetrated to every level of our system, and my city was not immune.
01:42:36.000And it's a lot of heat for discussing systemic racism with my own police department.
01:42:41.000But we've got to confront the fact that there is no escaping how this is part of all of our policies.
01:42:47.000Earlier, we were talking about opioids.
01:42:50.000And thankfully, America has come to a better understanding about the fact that opioid addiction is best understood as a medical problem.
01:42:59.000But there were a lot of people, including a lot of African American activists in my community, who were very forward to a similar point.
01:43:05.000It's great that everybody's so enlightened about drug policy now when it comes to opioids.
01:43:10.000But where were you when it came to marijuana?
01:43:12.000Where were you when it came to the crack epidemic?
01:43:15.000That 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.
01:43:25.000Make 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.
01:43:39.000Let me go back to the original question, though.
01:44:04.000And 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.
01:44:20.000We 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.
01:44:28.000Start arresting gang members and it's disproportionately black.
01:45:36.000Specifically, we need race conscious laws.
01:45:42.000Housing, 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.
01:46:00.000You can't just repeal that and say, okay, now everything is even.
01:46:22.000We can't regulate away racism with a whole patchwork of laws that are race specific.
01:46:27.000What we have to do is heed the writings of Martin Luther King, whose birthday we just celebrated.
01:46:33.000He 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.
01:46:42.000Or 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.
01:46:55.000Well, the fuck do you think they're going to spend it on?
01:46:59.000What do you think they're going to do with $1,000 a month?
01:47:06.000They're going to spend it on lottery tickets, kavassia.
01:47:13.000And that is where we have to move as a country.
01:47:37.000They'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.
01:47:48.000And the Legislative Black Caucus went out en masse to stand up for that and for our campaign.
01:49:47.000I've worked, Bernie, I've worked to end cash bail in California and it's gone.
01:49:53.000I've worked to end private prisons in California and they're gone.
01:49:56.000I'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.
01:50:09.000Really, 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.
01:50:21.000I'm asking you to join us and do the right thing.
01:50:23.000I've already spoken to Dick Harpoulian, and he, in fact, is, I believe, sorry for what he said.
01:50:39.000Every one of the things we talked about here, for example, in South Carolina, Jim Clyburn, he has a program, 10, 15, 30.
01:50:47.000We 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.
01:50:56.000We should make sure that we have no one going to jail for a drug offense.
01:51:02.000They go directly to mandatory prison, I mean, excuse me, mandatory treatment, not prison, and we fund it.
01:51:09.000And we fund it in three days, doesn't get it.
01:51:11.000It takes at least 60 to 90 days to make any progress.
01:51:15.000We have to pay for that, just like instead of building new prisons, we build new rehabilitation centers.
01:51:20.000We 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.
01:51:31.000You 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.
01:52:15.000Encourage 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.
01:52:32.000As you mentioned, South Carolina, three weeks from tomorrow, they'll go to the polls to vote.
01:52:37.000Black voters make up about 60 percent of the electorate there.
01:52:40.000Senator 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.
01:52:54.000Senator Sanders, do you agree with her, one of your most visible surrogates, that Vice President Biden has repeatedly betrayed black voters?
01:53:01.000Well, I think what Senator Turner was talking about some of the early actions of Vice President Biden, but no.
01:53:09.000Joe Biden is a friend of mine, and I'm not here to attack him.
01:53:14.000But 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.
01:53:27.000There is no excuse why white families in America have 10 times more wealth than black families.
01:53:34.000That disproportionately African Americans are in jail compared to whites.
01:53:40.000No excuse for black women dying in childbirth three times the rate that white women are doing as well.
01:53:48.000Senator Kobachar, you had raised your hand before.
01:53:52.000Yes, 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.
01:54:06.000And 30% of African American kids being living in poverty.
01:54:10.000We know that there are economic solutions here to invest in those communities, housing, childcare.
01:54:17.000But there's something else insidious going on that we haven't addressed, and that is the systematic racism when it comes to voting.
01:54:24.000That is moves across the country to limit people's right to vote.
01:54:30.000And that is why I have been leading on these bills to automatically register every kid to vote in this country when they.
01:54:38.000There is no reason that we can't do that across this country.
01:54:41.000To stop the gerrymandering by setting up independent commissions in every single state, and yes, to stop the voting purges.
01:54:50.000Because 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.
01:55:01.000And we are not going to be able to get any of these things done if we don't give people the right to vote.
01:55:07.000Vice President Biden and then Senator Warren.
01:55:31.000The 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.
01:55:44.000But look, Amy is right, the senator is correct.
01:55:48.000That is, that we, in fact, there is systematic racism.
01:55:52.000And that's why our Justice Department works so hard to go after those.
01:55:56.000You 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.
01:56:09.000I can't wait to see one of these guys debate Trump.
01:56:21.000So to see them go against Trump at his best, I can't wait for them.
01:56:25.000I've heard from Democrats who talk about how important the black community is, at least at election time.
01:56:31.000Year 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.
01:56:55.000And let me tell you just one of the things we can do with a two cent wealth tax.
01:56:59.000We can cancel student loan debt for 43 million Americans.
01:57:03.000And 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.
01:57:22.000We aren't making a difference in America.
01:57:25.000We're saying to the rich folks, You keep your money, and the rest of us will talk about racism, but not really do anything.
01:57:48.000And we're talking about a lot of policies that affect Americans broadly and disproportionately affect black Americans or brown Americans.
01:57:57.000But what I believe is we should set up a commission on race and deal with race explicitly.
01:58:02.000Because 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.
01:58:11.000I 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.
01:58:28.000But 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.
01:58:59.000The 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.
01:59:06.000Mr. Yang, take on that argument and also what he said about reparations.
01:59:30.000Unnatural disaster, and who suffers most in a natural disaster?
01:59:34.000People of color, people with lower levels of capital and access to opportunity and education.
01:59:40.000And 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.
01:59:51.000There 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.
02:00:47.000Into a nomination or to be president of the United States.
02:00:56.000I 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.
02:01:04.000I heard everyone here talking about, as Democrats, we all want to overturn Citizens United because we want to end this unlimited spending.
02:01:15.000Yeah, except everyone on this stage, except Amy and me, is either a billionaire.
02:01:22.000Or is receiving help from PACs that can do unlimited spending.
02:01:28.000So, if you really want to live where you say, then put your money where your mouth is and say no to the PACs.
02:05:17.000You're not going to do it by electing candidates who are going out to rich people's homes begging for money.
02:05:27.000The 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.
02:05:40.000And if you want to be part of that political revolution, BernieSanders.com.
02:05:44.000Mayor Brutajugs, close this round out.
02:05:50.000We are going into the fight of our lives.
02:05:53.000Donald Trump, according to news reports and his allies, raised $25 million today.
02:06:00.000We need to go into that fight with everything that we've got.
02:06:03.000Now, 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.
02:06:18.000And 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.
02:06:31.000We 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.
02:06:45.000If 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.
02:06:55.000And 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.
02:07:05.000And 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.
02:07:20.000By telling people they can't be at our side if they're not with us 100% of the time.
02:07:25.000This is a time for addition, not rejection, for belonging, not exclusion.
02:07:44.000But it does include incentives to make cars here in North America, and it does open Canadian markets for American dairy farmers.
02:07:50.000Senator Sanders, as we sit here in New Hampshire tonight, Both New Hampshire Senators Maggie Hassan and Senator Jean Shaheen supported this.
02:07:56.000They voted yes, calling it a real win for workers and for farmers.
02:08:01.000You voted no because you said you believe it takes us back years on climate.
02:08:06.000Were the senators from New Hampshire wrong?
02:08:14.000But 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.
02:08:33.000What they are saying, what the environmental groups are saying, we're simply exporting. fossil fuel emissions to Mexico.
02:08:42.000There is not one word in that trade agreement that deals with climate change.
02:08:47.000And I don't know how in 2020 you can do that.
02:08:50.000Second of all, there is, in terms of outsourcing of jobs, a major crisis in this country.
02:08:57.000Nobody 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.
02:09:13.000So I think the right vote was to vote against that agreement.
02:09:27.000Well, 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.
02:09:39.000Because 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.
02:09:49.000And when it comes to climate change, I think we have to have a North American trading bloc.
02:09:55.000We have to have Mexico and Canada and America working together.
02:09:59.000And 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.
02:10:14.000It 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.
02:10:23.000And you cannot divorce trade from that, and in future trade agreements, that should be part of our negotiations.
02:10:29.000But 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.
02:10:41.000She does make me think about when I was a kid, I had a good friend.
02:12:21.000It's not really appropriate during the debate.
02:12:22.000We talked about whether it was appropriate to kill General Suleiman.
02:12:28.000And there was no discussion in that about where that leaves the United States in the community of nations around the world.
02:12:37.000So, 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.
02:12:47.000I 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?
02:13:03.000Being 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.
02:13:13.000And so, in fact, the USMCA is something that's the first step.
02:13:18.000But the second step is exactly what Bernie Sanders is.
02:14:25.000So, my point here is to work with our allies.
02:14:31.000And New Hampshire is such a great example of this.
02:14:33.000New 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.
02:14:47.000And that trade agreement was not perfect.
02:14:49.000But 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.
02:14:58.000All right, Senator Klobuchar, thanks very much.
02:15:01.000Well, we have hit the two hour mark and we take a quick break and come back with a final question.
02:15:42.000Watching this debate performance, the Iowa caucus, it's a total meltdown for him.
02:15:47.000I don't think he's going to last very much longer.
02:15:50.000You know, some people have pointed out in the live chat maybe he's trying to appear high energy or something like that.
02:15:56.000But he's just coming across as very obviously angry, and it's off putting.
02:16:04.000I 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.
02:16:11.000Like 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.
02:16:20.000I don't know if it'll be by the same margin, but he'll win in a big way.
02:16:24.000And then he'll be competitive in Nevada the next week.
02:16:27.000So 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.
02:16:35.000He said, Oh, well, I'd look at the first four races, which is Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, and South Carolina.
02:16:42.000I'm sure he's banking on Nevada and South Carolina.
02:16:45.000South Carolina in particular, where his big black support's going to come in handy and maybe give him his first win.
02:16:51.000But, you know, that's four weeks into the race, and he's going to get his butt kicked here.
02:16:55.000And I don't think Nevada's guaranteed for him any longer.
02:17:02.000I have to say, Pete Buttigieg has looked like a pretty strong candidate this debate.
02:17:06.000He'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.
02:18:49.000Again, I didn't really hear anything novel on the issues.
02:18:52.000We've heard a lot of the same questions.
02:18:54.000We've heard a lot of the same, you know, Bernie Sanders on guns, Joe Biden on the war in Iraq, the stuff about racism.
02:19:02.000I mean, this is nothing we haven't heard before.
02:19:04.000At 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.
02:19:14.000But I guess we'll have to see how it plays out.
02:19:49.000And a lot of these people are at best doing a competent job.
02:19:52.000You know, Pete Buttigieg is the strongest one, and he's only strong because he's not failing at communicating.
02:19:59.000You 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.
02:20:09.000The 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.
02:20:19.000But Donald Trump is exceptional, and whoever is going to go up to face him.
02:20:23.000I think we'll just be humiliated and embarrassed and unbalanced and caught off guard.
02:20:28.000So, watching these things, you know, after even the Iowa caucus drama, just makes me more confident.
02:20:33.000But it looks like we're coming back here to the final, I don't know how much longer, but we'll see.
02:20:40.000Defense Fund, it's been more than 20 years since child poverty was directly addressed in a presidential debate.
02:21:01.000Cokie 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?
02:21:11.000Today, nearly one in five American preschoolers are still living below the poverty line, even though we've had 10 straight years of economic growth.
02:21:22.000What does that say to you about where America is today and what we need to do about it?
02:21:28.000George, we're in the midst of the most extreme winner take all economy in the history of our country.
02:21:34.000And unfortunately, that extremity is just going to reach unprecedented heights as technology is getting stronger, smarter, more capable all the time.
02:22:34.000Increasingly, 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.
02:22:44.000The 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.
02:23:12.000Now we have a president who says the economy is fantastic because the Dow Jones is looking good.
02:23:18.000And 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.
02:23:27.000But 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.
02:23:35.000When 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%.
02:23:42.000Because 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.
02:23:58.000But this is one more example of something where the American people want to see change.
02:24:04.000The 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.
02:24:15.000That is why we need to recognize that the time has arrived for a different kind of politics.
02:24:21.000To turn the page, leave the politics of the past in the past.
02:26:04.000It's like steel wool rubbing on your eyeballs.
02:26:10.000I 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.
02:26:25.000I was listed for the entire time I was in the United States Congress as the poorest man in the United States Congress.
02:26:31.000My net worth was net zero a couple of times.
02:26:34.000The fact of the matter is that I've never focused on money for me.
02:26:39.000And I was a single dad for five years.
02:27:40.000What 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.
02:27:49.000Like I said, they're all our children and they're not somebody else's kids.
02:27:54.000Everyone, everyone, everyone, everyone, as my father would say, is entitled to be treated with dignity and respect, and we're not doing it.
02:28:04.000Well, the answer to your question is why we have the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country on earth.
02:28:12.000Disproportionately 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,
02:28:35.000the 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.
02:28:43.000Major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all people as a human right.
02:28:48.000Same reason as to why we are paying, in some cases, 10 times more than other countries for prescription drugs.
02:28:55.000And that reason is that our priorities are determined by the 1% and by wealthy campaign contributors.
02:29:04.000Our 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.
02:29:13.000And what is unique about our campaign is we say unashamedly we are raising our campaign contributions not from billionaires but from working class people.
02:29:26.000That 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.
02:29:36.000It is time to take on the big money interest, it is time to change our national priorities.
02:29:58.000It'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.
02:30:10.000We can do it with investment in childcare.
02:30:13.000We can do it with investment in preschool and school, and we can do it with tax credits, and we can get it done.
02:30:18.000But to get it done, we have to be able to reach those voters that we lost in this state and across the country.
02:30:25.000There's an old story of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and when he died, his body was put on a train and went up across America.
02:30:33.000And 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.
02:30:39.000And a reporter said, Sir, did you know the president?
02:30:43.000And the guy says, No, I didn't know the president, but he knew me.
02:31:02.000If you have trouble stretching your paycheck to pay for that rent, I know you and I will fight for you.
02:31:09.000If 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.
02:31:16.000If 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.
02:32:11.000It's to cut taxes on the richest Americans and the biggest corporations.
02:32:15.000And 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.
02:32:27.000And then they try and break unions and the organized labor movement.
02:34:07.000And good evening from high above the debate stage here in Manchester after the sometimes fiery election of the top seven Democratic candidates.
02:36:31.000You 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.
02:36:41.000Pete Buttigieg is the mayor of a small town.
02:36:45.000And that's not like amazing that he's doing well.
02:36:50.000He ran for the DNC chair position in 2016 or 2017, and he lost to Tom Perez.
02:37:00.000You 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.
02:41:49.000It'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.
02:42:10.000And that's like the definition of the Antichrist is to pretend, to be the pretender.
02:42:19.000And 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.
02:42:30.000It'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.
02:42:45.000And he has the audacity to say that God belongs to him and his party.
02:42:49.000I mean, that's like the definition of Antichrist.
02:44:14.000Honestly, with contemplating war with Iran, that is the funny part.
02:44:19.000Obviously, 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.
02:44:34.000There 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.
02:44:43.000It's not a good thing, but it's kind of funny.
02:44:47.000We go to Iran, and it's not even sufficient that we destroy their country, but after we're done, we're dusting ourselves off.