This is the last Democratic Primary Debate before the South Carolina primary on Saturday, and it's a big one. Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton are locked in a close race in the polls, and Saturday's debate is a must-win for either of them. But can they turn the tide in South Carolina, or will they continue to fall behind? And will they be able to turn the tables on each other in a primary that could determine the outcome of the election if they don't have a good night in the Palmetto State. Plus, a look at what's going on behind-the-scenes at the Democratic primary debate, and a look ahead to the first primary debate on Super Tuesday, which could have a big impact on the outcome. And a look back at a few of the most memorable moments from last week's debate, including a new segment called America First, hosted by Nicholas J. Fuentes and hosted by Alex Blumberg, featuring a live from CBS's "America First" in Charleston, SC. It's hosted by CBS's Joe Biden. Hosted by CBS Radio's "Your Day Off" and produced by Nick Andruzzi. Produced in Charleston South Carolina. Thanks to our sponsor, CBS Radio and WYSO for sponsoring the show. Our theme song is by Suneaters, courtesy of Lotuspool Records, and our ad music is by Fountains of Rock and Roll Records, recorded live at WFMU in Baltimore, MD! and edited by John Rocha and the rest of our thanks to Della Penn & Taffy in Chicago, PA. Thank you so much for your support and your support, and thank you for all the support and love you all of our support, we appreciate it so much, we really really appreciate it. -- Thank you for being loud, thank you, bye bye, bye! -- and see you next week, bye. - NICKY, bye Bye Bye, bye, Bye Bye Bye! -- NANCY, MURPHY! -- by Nicholas, J.J., J. J. FENTERGY, EJ. FOSTER, M. & KARENJ & RYAN, NICOLE, JR & JAYE -- -- by P. BONUS EPISODE: by NICHOLAS M. FUENTES, R. M.
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00:00:02.000But as soon as people start playing games, I stop.
00:14:05.000We did one last week, and we did one the week before that, and now we're doing another one tonight.
00:14:11.000And this is the big debate before the South Carolina primary, which is on Saturday.
00:14:16.000That is the fourth and final contest in the Democratic primary for this month.
00:14:22.000After Saturday, it's on a Super Tuesday, which is March 3rd, and that's where you're gonna see a lot of big states, California, Virginia, North Carolina, it's like a dozen states on Super Tuesday, and that's March 3rd.
00:14:35.000So, it's a big week, it's a big debate, and Saturday is a very important
00:14:44.000The DNC has said, and there's a report I actually saw the other day, where the DNC told the candidates that they've really got until Saturday to stop Bernie Sanders.
00:14:55.000That if Buttigieg, Biden, Warren, Bloomberg, Klobuchar, if they don't start to turn the tide against Sanders at South Carolina, then it's basically over.
00:19:41.000The way I see this is that Bernie is winning right now because the Democratic Party is a progressive party and progressive ideas are popular ideas, even if there are a lot of people on this stage who don't want to say so.
00:19:56.000You know, Bernie and I agree on a lot of things, but I think I would make a better president than Bernie.
00:20:02.000And the reason for that is that getting a progressive agenda enacted is going to be really hard, and it's going to take someone who digs into the details to make it happen.
00:20:13.000Bernie and I both wanted to help rein in Wall Street.
00:20:20.000But I dug in, I fought the big banks, I built the coalitions, and I won.
00:20:27.000Bernie and I both want to see universal health care.
00:20:30.000But Bernie's plan doesn't explain how to get there, doesn't show how we're going to get enough allies into it, and doesn't show enough about how we're going to pay for it.
00:20:39.000I dug in, I did the work, and then Bernie's team trashed me for it.
00:20:45.000We need a president who is going to dig in, do the hard work, and actually get it done.
00:20:51.000Progressives have got one shot, and we need to spend it with a leader who will get something done.
00:20:58.000We want to bring you in this conversation.
00:21:01.000Why would the Russians want to be working on behalf of Bernie Sanders?
00:21:12.000I mean, look, if you think the last four years has been chaotic, divisive, toxic, exhausting, imagine spending the better part of 2020 with Bernie Sanders versus Donald Trump.
00:21:27.000Think about what that will be like for this country.
00:21:33.000Folks at home from South Carolina to South Bend are trying to figure out what any of this means for us.
00:21:39.000Because it's right that there is a progressive majority, an American majority, that wants to see real change, wants to see wages go up and go up faster than the cost of health and saving for retirement.
00:21:52.000But also there's the majority of the American people who I think right now just want to be able to turn on the TV, see their president, and actually feel their blood pressure go down a little bit instead of up through the roof.
00:22:04.000We have an opportunity to set a different tone.
00:25:27.000In Charleston alone, just in Charleston, over 2,000 people have contributed to my campaign.
00:25:34.000That means the dollars that have come to my campaign just from Charleston is more than the dollars that have come from the 50 people that you mentioned.
00:25:41.000Grassroots contributions are the lifeblood of my campaign.
00:25:45.000In fact, I shouldn't miss the opportunity.
00:25:47.000If you're watching right now and you support my campaign,
00:27:53.000And when I realized that, I cut it back by 95%.
00:27:57.000And I've apologized and asked for forgiveness.
00:27:59.000I've met with black leaders to try to get an understanding of how I can better position myself and what I should have done and what I should do next time.
00:28:08.000But let me tell you, I have been working very hard.
00:28:10.000We've improved the school system for black and brown students in New York City.
00:28:16.000We've increased the jobs that are available to them.
00:28:19.000We've increased the housing that's available to them.
00:28:22.000What more can you do about this issue, Mr. Mayor, to put people's fears and skepticism to rest?
00:29:33.000I come at this with a great deal of humility because we have had a lot of issues, especially when it comes to racial justice and policing in my own community.
00:29:42.000And I come to this with some humility because I'm conscious of the fact that
00:29:45.000There's seven white people on this stage talking about racial justice.
00:29:50.000None of us... None of us have the experience, the lived experience of, for example, walking down the street or in a mall and feeling eyes on us, regarding us as dangerous without knowing the first thing about us just because of the color of our skin.
00:30:08.000None of us have the experience that black women have had that drives that maternal mortality gap that we are all rightly horrified by of going into a doctor and being less likely to have your description of being in pain believed because of your race.
00:30:21.000Since we don't have the experience, the next best thing we can do is actually listen to those who do.
00:30:26.000I know, wait a second, I know that if I were black, my success would have been a lot harder to achieve.
00:30:32.000And I know a lot of black people, if they were white, it would have been a lot easier for them.
00:30:37.000That's just a fact and we've got to do something about it and rather just demagogue about it.
00:30:41.000Senator Klobuchar, he's trying so hard, you can tell.
00:31:22.000Because if we don't pass Representative Clyburn's bill out of South Carolina here to invest in impoverished communities, we're never going to get to that single garment of destiny.
00:31:34.000And we also need to do something about child care, about making sure we increase the minimum wage, and then finally, voting.
00:31:41.000While we are all sitting here debating, Wisconsin has kicked hundreds of thousands of people off of their voting rolls.
00:31:49.000Georgia kicked a hundred thousand off.
00:31:51.000As president, I will get voting rights to be a reality for everyone.
00:31:58.000I want to direct this question to you because Mayor Bloomberg has said he got in this race late because he doesn't believe that any of you on stage can beat Donald Trump.
00:32:07.000You said Mayor Bloomberg is not the safest candidate, he is the riskiest candidate.
00:35:21.000I never said that, and for the record, if she was a teacher in New York City, she would never have had that problem.
00:35:28.000We treated our teachers the right way, and the unions will tell you exactly that.
00:35:35.000Let us have the women have an opportunity to speak.
00:35:39.000The Bloomberg corporations and Mayor Bloomberg himself have been accused of discrimination.
00:35:46.000They are bound by non-disclosures so that they cannot speak.
00:35:51.000If he says there is nothing to hide here, then sign a blanket release and let those women speak out so that they can tell their stories the way I can tell my story without having to fear they're going to be sued by a billionaire.
00:36:06.000We have a number of issues discussed tonight, but I want to give the mayor an opportunity to respond because she has raised concerns about women in your workplace.
00:36:14.000At the last debate, you said some of your female employees might not have liked some of your jokes.
00:36:19.000Did these women take your jokes wrong?
00:39:05.000Healthcare costs in this country by $450 billion a year and save 68,000 lives of people who otherwise would have died.
00:39:18.000What we need to do is to do what every other major country on earth does, guarantee health care to all people, not have thousands of separate insurance plans which are costing us some $500 billion a year to administer.
00:39:36.000Our plan, we have laid out options all over the place.
00:39:40.000One of the options is a 7.5% payroll tax on employers, which will save them substantial sums of money.
00:42:17.000He's the worst and he's not gonna win.
00:42:19.000This conversation shows a huge risk for the Democratic Party.
00:42:35.000We are looking at a party that has decided that we're either going to support someone who's a democratic socialist or somebody who has a long history of being a Republican.
00:42:48.000And let me say that I got into this race because I wanted to fight for economic justice, for racial justice, and to make sure we had climate justice for the American people.
00:43:00.000If we cannot pull this party together, if we go to one of those extremes, we take a terrible risk of re-electing Donald Trump.
00:43:07.000And that is something, I still have some time, and let me just say this, that is a risk that will hurt the American people in a way that none of us on this stage should be willing to risk.
00:46:06.000I've started a bank to support black ownership of businesses, women ownership of businesses, and Latino owners of businesses, because this financial service industry is prejudiced.
00:46:18.000I have worked tirelessly on this, and you know I'm right.
00:46:21.000You wrote the crime bill that you called the Tommy Conrad.
00:47:50.00021 of those were people that I spent $100 million to help elect.
00:48:02.000All of the new Democrats that came in and put Nancy Pelosi in charge and gave the Congress the ability to control this president, I got them.
00:48:12.000Number two, when you talk about money, just put this in perspective.
00:48:15.000The federal budget is four and a half trillion dollars a year.
00:48:19.000We get three and a half trillion dollars in revenue.
00:49:18.000On the other hand, of the last 50 polls that have been done nationally, Mr. Bloomberg, I beat Trump 47 of those 50 times.
00:49:28.000If you look at battleground states like Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania polling just done this time of the election, I beat Trump.
00:49:37.000And if you want to beat Trump, what you're going to need is an unprecedented grassroots movement of black and white and Latino, Native American and Asian people who are standing up and fighting for justice.
00:49:51.000Can anybody in this room imagine moderate Republicans going over and voting for him?
00:52:16.000That was a pretty eventful first 40 minutes, and you know, as I predicted, and as people have been talking about, it's a pile-on on Bernie Sanders, and we all know why that is.
00:52:24.000We've been talking about it on the show now for a couple weeks.
00:52:47.000He won Nevada by an overwhelming margin.
00:52:50.000If he comes in first place in South Carolina, which would be an upset.
00:52:54.000Because Joe Biden is still favored to win there, I believe.
00:52:58.000He still has polled number one there, and he's been polling number one there for a long time.
00:53:01.000It's also big black population, where Joe Biden is still in the lead with black voters.
00:53:08.000Sanders is on his heels with the blacks, or with the black vote, but Joe Biden still commands the number one place.
00:53:15.000So, Sanders comes from behind and wins this one.
00:53:19.000The momentum and the boost that he will get from that victory and the three preceding victories, that will propel him into Super Tuesday.
00:53:27.000He is gonna crush in California, he's gonna crush across most of the Super Tuesday states, and he will be put on a trajectory where he will continue to collect delegates until he will win the nomination outright with the majority of pledged delegates before the convention.
00:53:50.000The memo went out from the DNC to all the candidates that you've got you've got seven days from the Nevada caucus the memo went out you've got seven days to stop Bernie Sanders between Nevada and South Carolina and this is the big battle now the debate and that's why every single candidate has now come out swinging against Bernie because not only do they want their shot not only do they want a little slice of the attention maybe they could get a boost
00:54:16.000Off of this, they all have something to gain from it, but also they're taking away Bernie Sanders' chance if they hurl an effective attack.
00:54:24.000So I actually did take some notes here.
00:54:27.000They all attacked him, but all from different angles.
00:54:29.000Bloomberg boldly attacks Bernie Sanders right out of the gate, along the lines of Russia, and says, oh, you know, the Russians are supporting you, and then later on in the debate he fleshed that out a little bit, and he talked about the effects of the census, which we actually missed what Bernie said a moment ago when he got booed by the audience, because I pointed out that nobody has talked yet, nobody has acknowledged yet, that this, that these down-ballot races are critical in this election.
00:54:57.000In the state houses, the governorships, and the House of Representatives, because the 2020 census takes place.
00:55:03.000And the results of the census will then inform how the electoral votes are apportioned, and how they apportion representation in the House, and how they draw some of the districts.
00:55:14.000And that is largely decided by the state houses, the state governments, and to an extent the House of Representatives.
00:57:41.000It's going to give a veto on immigration.
00:57:44.000Until we're willing to dig in and say that if Mitch McConnell is going to do to the next Democratic president what he did to President Obama, and that is try to block every single thing he does, that we are willing to roll back the filibuster, go with the majority vote,
00:58:02.000And do what needs to be done for the American people.
00:58:05.000We're going to stay on this topic and allow Senators... Understand this.
00:58:10.000Many people on this stage do not support rolling back the filibuster.
00:58:15.000Until we're ready to do that, we can't... I want to allow Senator Sanders to respond because you've gone after the insurance industry, you've taken on pharmaceutical companies, and you've taken on big tech.
00:58:27.000Why did you vote repeatedly to give gun manufacturers a pass?
00:58:31.000You know, Joe has voted for terrible trade agreements.
00:58:53.000I have today a D-minus voting record from the NRA.
00:58:59.000Thirty years ago, I likely lost a race for the one seat for Congress in Vermont because thirty years ago I opposed, I supported a ban on assault weapons.
00:59:15.000Right now, my view is, we need to expand background checks and the gun show loophole, and do what the American people want, not what the NRA wants.
01:01:01.000We've got to win in the middle of the country.
01:01:02.000And while everyone talks about winning rural areas, suburban areas, I'm the only one up here with the receipts that it's actually repeatedly, while being for the assault weapon ban,
01:01:13.000One in Republican congressional districts over and over again, including Michelle Bachmann's district.
01:01:20.000So having someone that can lead the ticket, that can bring people with her, is the way you get gun safety legislation.
01:01:26.000I look at these proposals and say, do they hurt my Uncle Dick in the deer stand?
01:03:32.000Because of all these disgusting and horrific mass shootings, the American people now understand that we must be aggressive on gun safety, not be dictated to by the NRA.
01:03:45.000And I am proud that I have a D-minus voting record from the NRA.
01:03:50.000If elected president, it will get worse than that.
01:07:14.000Oh, bless your little heart, you know?
01:07:31.000Because the psychologists tell us zero to four are the most important years of human development.
01:07:37.000We are going to triple funding for low-income Title I schools because kids' education should not depend upon the zip code in which they live.
01:07:47.000We're going to make public colleges and universities tuition-free through a tax on Wall Street speculation.
01:07:55.000And we're going to move to make certain that no teacher in America earns less than $60,000 a year.
01:09:32.000This is one of the first times we've talked about housing and I put forward an extensive policy.
01:09:38.000I think when I've looked at this both in my job in local government and in the Senate, one sure way we can make sure that kids get a good start is if they have a roof over their head and a stable place to live.
01:09:50.000So the way you do that is first of all taking care of this Section 8 backlog of applicants.
01:09:55.000There are literally hundreds of thousands of people waiting.
01:10:22.000But it's also a rural problem where we have housing deserts and people want to have their businesses located there, but they're not able to get housing.
01:11:06.000And while Mayor Bloomberg was blaming the housing crash of 2008 on African Americans and on Latinos, in fact, I was out there fighting for a consumer agency to make sure people never get cheated again on their mortgages.
01:11:23.000We have a house, I have a housing plan, and what it has in it specifically
01:11:49.000Yes, I'm sorry, but unfortunately she's misinformed on redlining.
01:11:53.000You can go back and look at the record.
01:11:55.000I fought against it before 08, the crisis during 08 and after that.
01:12:01.000Redlining is not the problem with the mortgage market, but it was a problem for the communities where it was done and we stopped that.
01:12:07.000Let me also say, since I have the floor for a second, that I really am surprised that all of these, my fellow
01:12:16.000Contestants up here I guess would be the right word for it, given nobody pays attention to the clock.
01:12:22.000I'm surprised they show up because I would have thought after I did such a good job in beating them last week that they'd be a little bit afraid to do that.
01:15:00.000Every single policy area in the United States has a gigantic subtext of race.
01:15:06.000We're talking about education, we're talking about criminal justice, we're talking about housing, we're talking about loans.
01:15:13.000I started a bank to basically to correct the injustice in the financial services industry.
01:15:22.000Basically to make loans to black-owned, Latino-owned, and women-owned businesses.
01:15:26.000We've supported over 8,000 affordable housing units.
01:15:30.000But more than that, I believe I'm the only person on this stage who believes in reparations for slavery.
01:15:38.000If something happened, we should have a formal commission on race to retell the story of the last 400-plus years in America of African-Americans, of systematic legal injustice, discrimination, and cruelty, but also of 400-plus years of contribution in terms of building the United States of America and leading the United States of America... I'm gonna go Wignatt mode!
01:16:03.000Senator Klobuchar, rural areas have populations who are older, sicker, and poorer than non-rural communities and they have to travel farther to get medical help when they need it.
01:16:26.000Expanding coverage is going to be useless if there are no providers to go to.
01:16:31.000So how would you ensure that there is available health care in rural areas?
01:18:35.000Wages, the ability to get anything meaningful done on criminal justice reform.
01:18:40.000All of these things are going to be harder to deal with as long as black voices are systematically excluded from political participation, which is happening on everything from the purging of voter rolls to the closing of voting locations.
01:18:56.000It's why in my Frederick Douglass plan for comprehensively dealing with these issues, part of the core of it is a 21st century voting rights act.
01:19:05.000I'm very proud working with Congressman Jim Clyburn, South Carolina, that we increased funding for the community health center program by $11 billion as part of the Affordable Care Act, which now provides for 9 million Americans access to primary health care.
01:19:30.000Dental care, mental health counseling, and low-cost prescription drugs.
01:19:34.000In that bill, we also put $2 billion into a program which would provide debt forgiveness for doctors, nurses, dentists.
01:19:43.000We have a major dental affordable crisis in this country to make sure that they are practicing in underserved areas.
01:19:51.000The advantage of a Medicare-for-all health care program, because it's not driven by profits for the drug companies and the insurance companies, we will have health care for all people in all parts of this country.
01:20:03.000But in order for any of that to happen, it has to pass.
01:20:05.000And we're talking about a plan that goes beyond even what they do.
01:20:10.000Mayor Bloomberg, we're going to change topics.
01:20:12.000Mayor Bloomberg, as mayor of New York, you declared war on obesity.
01:20:34.000But I do think it's the government's job to have good science and to explain to people what science says or how to take care of themselves and extend their lives.
01:20:44.000We are a country where there are too many people that are obese.
01:21:48.000Before I left, life expectancy in New York City had grown by three years during our 12 years in office, such that when I left, it was three years greater than the national average.
01:22:05.000Look, one of the things we have to do, we have a thing in the Defense Department called DARPA, Special Operations thing, to find out all the things we have to deal with to make us safer.
01:22:15.000They came up with the internet, I mean, they came up with the internet, they came up with the whole idea of stealth technology.
01:22:21.000I'm going to do the same thing at the National Institute of Health.
01:22:24.000We're going to focus at least $50 billion over the first five years on focusing on obesity, diabetes, Alzheimer's, and cancer.
01:23:01.000Senator Sanders wants to legalize marijuana on day one of his presidency and is promising to expunge the record of anyone who has been arrested for possession.
01:23:12.000As a former prosecutor, is that a realistic promise?
01:23:16.000Well, it is realistic to want to legalize marijuana.
01:24:12.000All right, thank you Senator Klobuchar.
01:24:13.000Mayor Bloomberg, I'd like to get your thoughts on this because you have called marijuana another addictive drug that we've never done research on.
01:24:34.000Look, the first thing you do is we should not make this a criminal thing if you have a small amount.
01:24:39.000For dealers, yes, but for the average person, no, and you should expunge the records of those that got caught up in this before.
01:24:46.000Number two, we're not going to take it away from states that have already done it.
01:24:50.000But number three, you should listen to the scientists and the doctors.
01:24:54.000They say go very slowly, they haven't done enough research, and the evidence so far is worrisome before we get all our kids, particularly kids in their late teens, boys even more than girls,
01:25:25.000We have a criminal justice system today that is not only broken, it is racist.
01:25:31.000There are more people in jail than any other country on earth, including China.
01:25:35.000And one of the reasons for that is a horrific war on drugs.
01:25:39.000So I do believe that on day one, we will change the Federal Controlled Substance Act, which if you can believe it, now equates heroin with marijuana.
01:25:50.000We're going to take marijuana out of that and effectively legalize marijuana in every state in the country.
01:25:55.000What we are also going to do is move to expunge the records of those people who were arrested for possession of marijuana.
01:26:02.000And I'll tell you what else we're going to do.
01:26:04.000We're going to provide help to the African American, Latino, Native American community to start businesses to sell legal marijuana rather than let a few corporations control the legalized marijuana market.
01:26:18.000All right, Senator Sanders, thank you.
01:28:28.000So we talked about Bloomberg attacking Sanders.
01:28:30.000Warren has been attacking Sanders, and her pitch is different.
01:28:36.000She's saying that she's a progressive, and progressivism is popular, but she's just a better progressive, which has really kind of always been her angle, implicitly.
01:28:45.000She's saying that she is a progressive, but she's also electable, and she's also pragmatic, whereas Bernie Sanders is maybe unelectable and not pragmatic.
01:28:54.000Which is like, that's probably her best pitch.
01:28:57.000That's like the elevator pitch for Elizabeth Warren.
01:28:59.000I'm like Bernie, but I'm a little bit more moderate.
01:29:14.000He said, you know, what Vladimir Putin wants is chaos and Donald Trump versus Bernie Sanders, that is just simply too much of a threat to the establishment.
01:29:22.000We need somebody mainstream who's gonna let you, who's gonna lull you back to sleep while the deep state and the CIA take back control.
01:29:32.000Then Steyer and Klobuchar said some dumb stuff and, you know, Biden critiqued him from gun control.
01:29:39.000Honestly, the purpose of this debate, the main thrust of what the narrative is for this one, is about Bernie Sanders.
01:29:48.000Bernie Sanders is the only one that can win.
01:29:51.000If you get over a point, you know, Klobuchar got a big applause line, Joe Biden had a big moment, whatever.
01:29:59.000The main thrust, what makes this debate important is that Bernie Sanders is like on the verge of becoming unstoppable and are people going to take away from him enough that he's not going to win on Saturday?
01:30:12.000I guess in that capacity maybe what Joe Biden says is a little bit more important.
01:30:17.000You know, if Joe Biden has a particularly strong performance, that will propel him, perhaps, into doing better in South Carolina in the primary on Saturday than he was otherwise expected to do.
01:30:32.000If he does better than he was expected to do, then, you know, that is important.
01:30:37.000But aside from that, the only thing that really matters is how well Sanders does.
01:30:41.000And honestly, he had that one moment where they asked him about gun control, and he didn't give a very strong answer, but that wasn't... I don't think that was disqualifying.
01:30:51.000I don't think that was, you know, totally catastrophic for him.
01:30:56.000I think he's basically doing a perfunctory job.
01:30:58.000He's hitting on his issues, as he always does.
01:31:01.000And there's kind of a lesson to be learned about politics in general about Bernie Sanders.
01:31:05.000He's got his talking points, and he never deviates from them.
01:31:09.000You know, well, the economy works really well for the millionaires and billionaires, but not working too well for the working people!
01:31:18.000We're the only country where people pay more for their health... You know, you know the usual stuff about health care and education and so on.
01:31:25.000He's got the main talking points, he says the same thing every time, he sticks to them, and it's extremely effective, you know?
01:31:31.000And when they ask him about something unexpected, he might not have a totally compelling answer, but as long as he's hitting on the favorites, as long as he's hitting on the fan favorites, the classics,
01:31:42.000He's not knocking it out of the park, but he's not, you know, it's not catastrophic.
01:31:58.000Well, you will command 1.3 million U.S.
01:32:02.000troops and be responsible for protecting America's national security.
01:32:06.000There are also 53,000 here in South Carolina.
01:32:10.000You said, Senator Warren, you said you wanted to bring home all troops from the Middle East, and then you walked that back to say you want to bring home combat troops.
01:32:19.000How does that protect America's national security?
01:32:22.000The President's job, first job, is to keep America safe.
01:32:26.000An important part of that is to have a strong military.
01:32:30.000All three of my brothers served in the military, and I understand how much the military sacrifices, how much their families sacrifice, and how much they are willing to put on the line.
01:32:42.000That means that we have a sacred responsibility to them.
01:32:47.000And that is not to use our military to solve problems that cannot be solved militarily.
01:33:14.000They are our front lines in diplomacy.
01:33:15.000Hearing a woman talk about the military, it's just like a joke.
01:33:18.000We need a strong economy and to work worldwide on that economy, and we need strong alliances.
01:33:24.000We need to know the difference between our friends and between dictators who would do us harm, and we need to be nicer to our friends than to dictators.
01:33:32.000Do you even know what a wrench looks like?
01:33:35.000Do you know what a screwdriver looks like?
01:33:38.000Do you even know what a toolbox looks like?
01:35:02.000Well, when I was going to combat training, and last time I was in South Carolina, I was in the military, I know I was in the military, right?
01:35:42.000Right now, some of the biggest threats that we face are not only things like counter-terrorism, but issues like global health security and the coronavirus that rely on the ability to listen to scientists, listen to your own intelligence, and coordinate with an international community that this president has alienated because his idea of a security strategy is a big wall.
01:36:02.000I know it goes fast, but a minute fifteen is really a long time.
01:36:05.000So we'd ask, respectfully, if you would all please try to keep to the time.
01:36:24.000Senator Klobuchar, as we were coming over today, there was breaking news from the CDC about the coronavirus.
01:36:31.000And so far there have been 2,700 deaths globally.
01:36:35.000And so far in this country there have been no deaths.
01:36:37.000But the CDC says this, it's not a matter of if the virus will spread here, but when.
01:36:44.000The question to you is this, would you close the borders to Americans who have been exposed to the coronavirus in order to prevent an outbreak here in this country?
01:36:53.000Well, what we have to do is make sure that we have treatment for those Americans and that they are in a quarantine situation.
01:37:00.000We don't want to expose people, but we want to give them help.
01:37:04.000And I would agree when Mayor Bloomberg said that this president has not invested like he should have in his budget.
01:38:38.000And what we did, we set up, I helped set up, that office in the presidency, in the president's office, on diseases that are pandemic diseases.
01:40:05.000Whether or not the issue is climate change, which is clearly a global crisis requiring international cooperation, or infectious diseases like coronavirus requiring international cooperation,
01:40:22.000We have to work and expand the World Health Organization.
01:40:25.000Obviously, we have to make sure the CDC, the NIH, our infectious departments are fully funded.
01:43:08.000Would you allow Chinese firms to build infrastructure?
01:43:10.000We have to be able to trust our president.
01:43:14.000Because there are a lot of decisions a president makes, and you just can't follow every part of it.
01:43:19.000And that's one of the reasons that we need to see any candidates' taxes.
01:43:24.000We know that Mayor Bloomberg has been doing business with China for a long time, and he is the only one on this stage who has not released his taxes.
01:44:27.000I want to say something about foreign policy, which is this.
01:44:30.000We keep acting as if we're in the 20th century or the 19th century.
01:44:34.000If you look at the biggest threats to the United States, we're talking right now about coronavirus that cannot be solved within the borders of the United States.
01:44:41.000We're talking about climate change, which is a global problem where we need
01:44:46.000leadership for countries around the world.
01:44:49.000In fact, Mr. Trump's policy of us going it alone, of America first, of having no values, no allies, and no strategy, is disastrous for us.
01:45:00.000The biggest threat to America right now, in terms of our safety of our citizens, is climate, and it's time for us to deal with it that way.
01:45:08.000Every single foreign policy issue is about American leadership and coalition.
01:46:54.000He did not in any way suggest that there was anything positive about the Cuban government.
01:47:00.000He acknowledged that they did increase life expectancy.
01:47:03.000But he went on and condemned the dictatorship.
01:47:05.000He went on and condemned the people who in fact had run that committee.
01:47:09.000He also made sure, to make it clear, and by the way, I called to make sure that I was prepared to, I was, I never say in any of my private conversations, but the fact of the matter is, he in fact does not, did not, has never embraced an authoritarian regime and does not now.
01:47:27.000This man said that in fact he thought it was, he did not condemn what they did.
01:47:54.000The only way we're going to restore American credibility, the only way we can do this is to actually win the presidency.
01:48:05.000And I am not looking forward to a scenario where it comes down to Donald Trump with his nostalgia for the social order of the 1950s and Bernie Sanders with a nostalgia for the revolutionary politics of the 1960s.
01:48:18.000This is not about what coups were happening in the 1970s or 80s.
01:48:26.000We are not going to survive or succeed, and we're certainly not going to win by reliving the Cold War.
01:48:32.000And we're not going to win these critical, critical House and Senate races if people in those races have to explain why the nominee of the Democratic Party is telling people to look at the bright side of the Castro regime.
01:48:46.000We've got to be a lot smarter about it.
01:51:02.000I believe on the highest up here, as a matter of fact.
01:51:05.000But the point is, the way we are going to beat Trump, which is what everybody up here wants, is we need a campaign of energy and excitement.
01:51:16.000We need to have the largest voter turnout in the history of the United States.
01:51:21.000We need to bring working people back into the Democratic Party.
01:51:25.000We need to get young people voting in a way they have never done before.
01:55:06.000But what I happen to believe is that right now, sadly, tragically, in Israel, through Bibi Netanyahu, you have a reactionary racist who is now running that country.
01:55:20.000And I happen to believe that what our foreign policy in the Mideast should be about is absolutely protecting the independence and security of Israel.
01:55:31.000But you cannot ignore the suffering of the Palestinian people.
01:55:36.000We have got to have a policy that reaches out to the Palestinians and the Americans.
01:55:41.000And in answer to your question, that will come within the context of bringing nations together in the Mideast.
01:55:48.000Mayor Bloomberg, would you like to weigh in on that, please?
01:55:50.000Well, the battle's been going on for a long time in the Middle East, whether it's the Arabs versus the Persians, the Sias.
01:58:48.000We should be working with Russia not only to stand up for the protection of our elections and call Vladimir Putin out for what he is, a ruthless dictator that takes down planes, that poisons dissidents, but that also at the same time we have to acknowledge that we should be renegotiating the New START treaty and the other arms negotiations that must happen.
01:59:11.000This president just likes to do tweets at 4 a.m.
01:59:50.000I would be in Beijing, I would be calling to, I would be speaking with Xi Jinping, I would be reassigning the relationship between Japan and South Korea, and I would make it clear
02:00:51.000This is a question for Mayor Buttigieg.
02:00:53.000As you know, viewers and voters are participating in this through Twitter.
02:00:58.000The city of Idlib in Syria is facing an unprecedented humanitarian crisis.
02:01:04.000The Syrian regime and Russia are targeting schools, bakeries, and hospitals.
02:01:10.000What would you do as president to push back regime and Russian forces and stop the killing of...
02:01:18.000First of all, I stand with the people of Idlib, who are being targeted, as you said, in a brutal fashion by a dictatorship that has already been so brutal for so many years.
02:01:28.000And this is one of the reasons we've got to change the balance of power in the region, because the president has basically vanished from the stage when it comes to even playing a role in the future there.
02:01:42.000Russia, Iran, all have so much more of a say than we do.
02:01:46.000We don't have to be invading countries to be making a difference, working with our international partners in order to deliver peace and support those who are standing up for self-determination.
02:01:57.000Now, I want to come back to something, and I promise it relates to international affairs, because Senator Sanders asked me a question earlier.
02:02:03.000He asked the question of whether healthcare for everybody is a radical idea.
02:02:07.000And it's not, which is why I'm for it.
02:03:59.000It's entertaining, but it's been the most poorly moderated, the most disorganized, the worst questions.
02:04:06.000Now they're going to do this, the cutesy, say something you like about the other, you know, say something that inspires you as your closing statement.
02:04:16.000This is, hands down, maybe the worst one.
02:04:19.000Not even so much in terms of entertainment value, like I said.
02:04:22.000One of the more entertaining debates, for sure, but in terms of everything else, it's just very poorly done, and you can see why.
02:04:30.000You can see who is arranging this one.
02:04:32.000Whose idea do you think it was to come up with personal questions as a closing statement?
02:05:33.000Like, to say that Bernie Sanders can't pay for his programs, or to say that Bernie Sanders is a socialist,
02:05:39.000This is almost to be expected, and I believe that the people that support him understand these challenges, and even the people that don't support him are understanding of these things.
02:05:50.000I mean, that is sort of what is brought to the table to begin with, whether you like him or don't like him.
02:05:55.000If you like him, you're looking past this.
02:05:57.000If you don't like him, it's probably because of those things.
02:06:01.000Well, it costs a lot of money to do Medicare for All.
02:06:04.000Is that really a particularly effective line of attack against people who support universal health care, Medicare for All, and so on as their position?
02:06:13.000And even with the socialist stuff, the guy is a self-identified democratic socialist.
02:06:18.000He wasn't even a democrat up until, I believe, the 2016 election.
02:06:25.000So the idea then that they're gonna lean in and say, oh, he's a communist, he's a communist sympathizer, he prays to Fidel Castro... I mean, these are like cheap points that you score in the debate, and yeah, it's like, oh, it's a controversy, it's a gaffe, whatever.
02:06:39.000But is anybody that's supporting Bernie Sanders going to say, oh, well...
02:06:44.000Ah, Bernie Sanders is a little bit too much of a socialist for me.
02:06:47.000Him being a democratic socialist, honeymooning in the Soviet Union, all of which is well known, well, you know, that wasn't enough.
02:07:18.000Is that going to really be persuasive to people that have already made up their minds, particularly that have made up their minds for Sanders?
02:07:26.000And really what they don't understand is why Bernie is winning and why he's the only one that has excitement and enthusiasm and like real grassroots mass support is because he's presenting an alternative vision.
02:07:39.000A solid, positive, coherent, concrete alternative to the status quo.
02:09:25.000Number two, the South Carolina motto is this, while I breathe I hope.
02:09:29.000So, outside of politics, in no more than 45 seconds or so, what is your personal motto, your personal belief, your favorite quote that represents you?
02:09:38.000Mr. Steyer, the biggest misconception, and then your motto.
02:09:43.000The biggest misconception about me is that somehow I'm defined by business success and money.
02:11:10.000My also that everyone should be represented.
02:11:12.000No one's better than me, and I'm no better than anyone else.
02:11:16.000The fact is, what we should be doing, we talked about the Supreme Court, I'm looking forward to making sure there's a black woman on the Supreme Court to make sure we in fact get every representation.
02:12:29.000The motto, the saying that moves me the most is from Nelson Mandela.
02:12:36.000And Mandela said, everything is impossible until it happens.
02:12:42.000And that means if we have the guts to stand up, the powerful special interests, we're doing phenomenally well.
02:12:50.000If we can bring working people together, black and white and Latino, we can create a nation where all people have a good standard of living.
02:14:07.000I don't think you want a president who's flappable.
02:14:10.000But it's precisely because I'm so passionate about the things that are going on in this country that I consider it important to approach all of that with discipline.
02:14:21.000And my disciplines are guided by the mottos I try to live by, many of which come from scripture.
02:14:26.000And just to be clear, I would never impose my interpretation of my religion on anybody.
02:14:32.000I'll never let that happen to anybody.
02:14:34.000But I seek to live by the teachings that say that if you would be a leader, you must first be a servant.
02:14:39.000And of course the teaching, not unique to the Christian tradition, but a big part of it, that holds that we are to treat others as we would be treated.
02:14:47.000And when I think about everything at stake from racial and economic justice to our stewardship of the climate to the need to heal the sick and the need to heal this country, I seek for those teachings to order my steps as I go through this campaign and as I go through life.
02:17:41.000And then, you know, then after that disaster where they have to remind everybody going through, oh, no, no, no, it's a motto and then a misconception.
02:17:49.000Then she's going to say, oh, and that's it for the debate.
02:18:01.000This whole thing has just been a big, fat joke.
02:18:04.000And, you know, honestly, it's actually white-pilling to see, because it's like, inasmuch as we fear demographic change, we fear demographic change because the demographic changes are bringing in incompetent people.
02:18:17.000So, it's like, well, their incompetence may be something that ends up helping us, right?
02:18:22.000When you're talking about the Democratic Party, the media, things like that.
02:18:26.000These affirmative action hires catch up to you eventually.
02:22:22.000We've really heard everything there is to hear as far as substance goes, on policy, on the issues, the dynamics between the other candidates.
02:22:29.000We've actually seen this debate once before.
02:22:31.000You know, last week it was a little different because Michael Bloomberg entered into the equation and Tom Steyer and Andrew Yang were out.
02:22:44.000Tom Steyer's back, but he didn't really add much to the mix.
02:22:47.000So, I don't have too many new things to say about the debate that I haven't already said over the course of these 10 debates, or about any of the candidates for that matter.
02:23:56.000You've got, by hanging on by a thread, Joe Biden is competitive, Michael Bloomberg is a wild card, he might be competitive, and then you've got Bernie Sanders, oh I'm sorry, and then Pete Buttigieg.
02:24:07.000Bernie Sanders, who is the only one who has a clear path to secure the nomination outright with the majority of the delegates, and then there's Pete Buttigieg who...
02:24:16.000You know, he's another one where he is sort of half and half.
02:24:20.000He is somebody who, if he remains in the race until the convention, maybe he'll have a shot at a contested convention, but it's a small, small percentage chance.
02:24:30.000He's going to have to do really well in South Carolina and in all these diverse states where it's not going to happen for him because he doesn't have the black vote or the Hispanic vote or anything like that.
02:24:38.000So, I don't even really consider him a player anymore.
02:26:01.000If Bernie Sanders is in second place and Joe Biden is in first, well that will mean that his momentum will be stopped effectively.
02:26:08.000Maybe not stopped completely, but definitely coming off of a huge win in Nevada, a win in New Hampshire, a technical virtual tie in Iowa.
02:26:17.000You know, that is going to be a damper on things going into Super Tuesday.
02:26:20.000So, you know, that might be something affecting him.
02:26:24.000But if Bernie Sanders is number one, well, that will be a huge upset against Joe Biden who is expected to win South Carolina forever because of the black population there, the big black constituency.
02:26:36.000And if he wins there, that'll be an upset that could give him a huge boost and propel him to be the nominee.
02:26:41.000He'd probably steamroll through unimpeded all the way through to the convention over the summer.
02:26:46.000So those are the things I'm thinking about when I'm watching the debate.
02:26:49.000I'm not really listening when Amy Klobuchar is talking about a rural and an urban
02:26:54.000Coalition to like get housing or whatever.
02:26:58.000I don't really care when they're talking about how do we deliver health care to farmers, you know, and like Tom Steyer's talking about reparations.
02:27:25.000You had every candidate going up against Bernie Sanders tonight because the DNC told them after the Nevada caucus on Saturday over this last weekend, the DNC told all the candidates, you've got one week to stop Bernie Sanders.
02:27:39.000You've got from the Nevada caucus to the South Carolina primary, from Saturday to Saturday,
02:27:46.000You've got seven days to stop his momentum, shut him down in South Carolina, and then maybe contain and control the situation.
02:27:53.000Maybe reclaim control of the primary and then you win a contested convention.
02:27:58.000That was the memo that came out on Saturday.
02:29:45.000He did very badly in the debates, and he particularly was targeted as a frontrunner.
02:29:51.000And it really had a negligible impact in the polls.
02:29:55.000If you were watching the polls, he had slight dips when Kamala attacked him, and there were some other high-profile things, but he always recovered.
02:30:02.000And the same is true with Elizabeth Warren.
02:30:05.000It wasn't because people attacked her when she was the frontrunner that she started to go down in the polls.
02:30:10.000It was when she exposed herself by going too aggressively at Bernie Sanders on this
02:30:15.000Uh, fake scandal that he said a woman can't be president.
02:30:18.000So, when I look at what has happened to past frontrunners in the debates in particular, and I look at what happened tonight, did Bernie Sanders get some points scored on him on the comments about Cuba and on how he's gonna pay for his programs?
02:31:06.000He was asked about foreign policy at some point, about Afghanistan, about... He was always asked about Israel and Palestine.
02:31:12.000But the overriding message throughout the debate that he was pushing in a very concerted and deliberate and consistent and repetitive fashion was, healthcare is a human right, healthcare is a human right, education is a human right, raising the standard of living for working people, we can do it, it's not radical, and I'm the only one who's been fighting for that.
02:31:34.000You know, did he get a little flustered?
02:31:36.000Did he get rattled when they brought up the socialist stuff?
02:31:38.000He could have handled it better, but overall, I mean, if you're watching that two-hour debate, that might stick out in your head as, oh, well, yeah, Pete Buttigieg had a really clever thing to say about the revolutions in the 50s and 60s, and it's the future!
02:31:53.000But, at the end of the day, if you're a Bernie supporter, if you believe in Medicare for All, and that is the majority of voters in all the primaries so far, in Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada, if you're in favor of Medicare for All, you're with Bernie Sanders.
02:32:05.000If you're actually, like, a leftist, you're with Bernie Sanders.
02:32:09.000If you, you know, and even on electability, increasingly people are seeing Bernie Sanders as electable as opposed to Joe Biden.
02:32:16.000He's still not as high in terms of electability against Trump as Joe Biden and some of the others, but he's been rising and he's now on par with the other candidates.
02:32:25.000And people that say that they're going to vote for somebody based on how they agree with them on the issues, based on how the candidates reflect where they are on the issues, Bernie Sanders is in the lead with those people.
02:32:36.000So, on the pragmatism argument, on the electability argument, and on the issues argument, people are coming around to Sanders.
02:32:43.000Are those people going to say, I will not vote for this guy now because you dare me to tell me he's a socialist?
02:32:51.000You mean to tell me that his policies might be a little bit impractical?
02:32:55.000You mean to tell me that this senator from Vermont was at one time not sufficiently anti-gun?
02:33:17.000But with Joe Biden, you know, they bring up the women, or they bring up, you know, the offhand remarks he makes, or they bring up even things in the Obama administration, which was unpopular.
02:33:27.000But, you know, they went after Joe Biden for all the things that were known.
02:34:16.000And as much as Donald Trump got attacked, and as much as things were just thrown at Donald Trump, whether that was attacks, or loaded questions, or whatever, it's almost like it just doesn't even compute.
02:34:26.000It doesn't even concentrate, or it doesn't even, um...
02:34:41.000It's almost like that doesn't even enter into the calculation.
02:34:44.000And I feel like the same is true with Bernie Sanders.
02:34:47.000In as much as he got so much thrown, so many diversions and detours and people attacking him,
02:34:53.000He might have appeared flustered and on the back foot when something was thrown at him, but within a minute it's like, oh, I'm just back to my... I'm back to the Bernie Sanders show.
02:35:02.000I'm back to healthcare is a human right, you know, and then his usual routine.
02:35:07.000And that's honestly what it takes to win these days, is somebody who's almost autistic about saying what they're going to say, saying the same talking points, doing their act.
02:35:39.000I've got actually, oh, you've got a question at me?
02:35:41.000Well, I've got some jujitsu thing to turn it around.
02:35:44.000I almost think that's less effective because people are not judging you and giving you points based on like how clever you are or a turn of phrase.
02:36:15.000In terms of occupying people's mental space, saying the same thing a hundred times is occupying much more of your attention than saying a hundred unique things over the course of all the times you talk.
02:36:29.000You know, can you really think of, like, Buttigieg's thing?
02:36:31.000I mean, I can think of a handful of phrases or a handful of, like, issues or something like that.
02:36:36.000But when I think of Pete Buttigieg, I can't, like, tell you his stump speech.
02:37:05.000And the same is true with all of them.
02:37:07.000I think Bernie was actually effective tonight.
02:37:10.000And that's not going to be a popular take.
02:37:11.000I don't think a lot of people are going to have that take, and we'll see what happens on Saturday.
02:37:15.000But from my point of view, as somebody who really doesn't have a dog in the fight, and I'm watching the attacks, I'm saying, OK, he's a socialist, his plans are going to cost a lot of money, and he was pro-gun.
02:37:45.000And he's the frontrunner and Joe Biden is in the lead now for this primary on Saturday and his performance on Saturday will determine his future in the race.
02:37:53.000I think Joe Biden had his strongest performance yet.
02:37:55.000I mean he still comes across as angry.
02:37:57.000He still comes across as a little bit like unhinged and this is just not a good look.
02:38:02.000I mean there's a difference between being passionate and high energy and being angry and coming across as
02:38:09.000I think it's almost like when you try too hard or you're too contrived, it comes across as you're on edge, as opposed to you're fired up.
02:38:18.000And I think that was the case tonight as well, but he was a little bit more charming, he was a little bit more funny.
02:38:23.000I think he knows that his political life is on the line right now.
02:38:26.000He knows, and everybody else does too, that he's been getting killed.
02:38:30.000He got 4th in Iowa, 5th in New Hampshire, 2nd in Nevada, and not by a small margin.
02:38:35.000And he knows that if he doesn't win one of the first four contests, when he was supposed to be the frontrunner, it was supposed to be Joe Biden's race to lose.
02:38:43.000If he doesn't get 1st in South Carolina, where they have a significant black population, which is like the crux of his voting base,
02:39:15.000And then everybody else doesn't matter.
02:39:17.000You know, Elizabeth Warren, she's trying, she was trying to goad Michael Bloomberg into another fight so that she'd get another cycle and the news media didn't really work out for her.
02:39:29.000Some of these people, they just look too desperate.
02:39:31.000This is something people that, I don't know, that understand power or are conscious of power, people that are conscious of these kinds of dynamics,
02:41:45.000And you can do it, but it's generally frowned upon.
02:41:48.000It's generally something that people cringe at.
02:41:51.000But, as a politician, your job is to come right up to the edge because, on the one hand, you have to operate as though that is the case, but you can never let on that it is the case.
02:42:02.000You have to operate as though you are a sociopath, well, because you are, and you're seeking power and so on.
02:42:07.000You have to be ruthless, you have to cut people up, but you also have to make it appear that that is not the case, that that is not the motivation.
02:42:15.000And sometimes when you do that, it becomes obvious.
02:42:18.000You know, sometimes you are too, you know, whatever, without a proper justification or whatever.
02:42:23.000And Pete Buttigieg and Elizabeth Warren do this all the time.
02:42:26.000They're some of the worst politicians around because they let that get the best of them all the time.
02:42:33.000Like Elizabeth Warren with the Bernie Sanders thing back in January, when Elizabeth Warren decided to make it a big deal, and I'm sure it was one of her staffers that decided to make this a news cycle that Bernie Sanders said,
02:43:07.000Anybody who could tell you is not going to be effective because Bernie Sanders, as we all know, has been this radical leftist forever.
02:43:13.000And he had the receipts going back to 1990 when he said a woman can be president and so on and even told Elizabeth Warren in 2016 that she should run, you know?
02:43:22.000So it made no sense but they did it anyway because they were desperate and they're just launching attacks and they didn't believe it but they thought maybe it'll get Elizabeth Warren a bump in the polls and it'll come at the expense of Bernie.
02:43:33.000And that might help her with progressives, right?
02:43:35.000But in doing so, everybody saw exactly what that was all about.
02:43:40.000And even during the debates when she took that as an opportunity to say, Oh, I want to make it about how women are great at politics and a woman's going to be president and so on.
02:43:50.000But people saw that she transgressed that maybe primary rule of politics.
02:43:56.000Which is that you cannot be in it to win it.
02:44:57.000And the same is true with Pete Buttigieg.
02:44:59.000You know, Pete Buttigieg, you can see throughout the debate, being so obnoxious, fighting for talking time and the constant backstabbing of Bernie Sanders and all these underhanded kind of remarks.
02:45:09.000These may be a little bit better, but, you know, somebody like me, I don't know, maybe I'm just more observant than most people.
02:45:15.000You could totally see where he transgresses the line with these clever remarks and never missing an opportunity to pounce on somebody, to go on the attack, and trying to expand the time as much as possible, you know.
02:45:27.000He's always jumping in, always interrupting, speaking through people.
02:45:31.000That's just one of the things I observe, so... So that was Elizabeth Warren with Michael Bloomberg.
02:45:36.000She tried to bring herself back into the game.
02:46:45.000You've got, you know, three, maybe four people that are even competitive, and I'd argue it's probably closer to two, and everybody else shouldn't even be up there.
02:46:54.000And really, 90% of what is being said doesn't matter.
02:46:57.000It's that 10% of a particularly interesting exchange,
02:47:46.000Number one with blacks in Nevada, and he does do well with some of these other groups But you've seen that all the polls that showed him doing well in Iowa He did terrible in Iowa all the polls that saw him winning, New Hampshire He got fifth place in New Hampshire even in Nevada He had polls showing him in the lead in Nevada, and he got 20% and Bernie got 46 so
02:48:10.000The polls show him at number one and you would say based on probability that maybe he's likely to win number one based on his constituency, based on the black support, but the polls have shown him winning before and it hasn't been true and even the blacks in Nevada, although they're obviously not as numerous as in South Carolina,
02:48:27.000They didn't carry him to even a close second-place finish.
02:48:31.000So, whether or not he wins first place there is really kind of up for grabs.
02:48:34.000Now, that being said, also, South Carolina is a more conservative state.
02:48:38.000It's not as liberal, obviously, as Nevada.
02:48:40.000Nevada, which went blue in 2016, whereas South Carolina went red.
02:49:01.000I think maybe people are overstating the importance of that a little bit.
02:49:04.000If Joe Biden wins, he's going to hang on for a little bit longer, but you look at all the polls for Super Tuesday and Bernie's running away with it.
02:49:11.000Bernie is crushing with Hispanics, he's right there with blacks, he's got young people, he's got middle-aged people, and he's got the left.
02:49:17.000And in California, and in Texas, in New York, like in the liberal population strongholds, he's going to pick up huge delegate totals.
02:49:26.000And he's also going to pick them up throughout all the other states along the way.
02:49:30.000So, you know, it doesn't matter if Joe Biden gets like 1% more in South Carolina or 2% more.
02:49:35.000I mean, he'll hang on for another minute and Bloomberg, you know, remains to be seen what it's going to look like once he's on the ballot.
02:49:41.000But Bernie Sanders remains the frontrunner for now.
02:49:44.000And barring, you know, a catastrophic upset in South Carolina where Bernie Sanders is in third or fourth or something like that, I think he's on his way to winning the nomination.
02:49:54.000And it's dubious whether even a first place finish from Joe Biden
02:50:19.000Marathon sessions where we hear the same things from the same people for a year, but but let's see We've got air walk who says in hindsight.
02:50:28.000I could have used a more based af pack analogy than the Continental Congress Also watch cat dog after 20 years you were right, okay?
02:50:36.000So air walk was being cringe and Jaden McNeil's chat yesterday now.
02:50:40.000He's trying to redeem himself I don't know.
02:50:42.000I think you're still cringe big guy, but thanks for the ninja genie and
02:50:46.000Radical zoomers says I like D live us needs and zoomers can give back now.
02:53:15.000I mean, look, I mean, we can say that the CIA is lying about, or the FBI, whatever.
02:53:21.000We'd say that the intel community is lying about Russian involvement in the elections, but I think it would be wrong to say that Russia does not stand to gain from a national security perspective by sowing disarray in the West, particularly NATO.
02:53:36.000If you're Russia, the biggest existential threat to your survival as a nation, I mean, you've got terrorism because they've got a big Muslim population, and you've got this issue of governing a country that is multiracial and many different religions and spanning two continents.
02:53:52.000I mean, you've got your work cut out for you already, but after the Cold War ends in 2000, from 2000 to today,
02:54:25.000Now, that's not to say that that's not a good thing for us overall.
02:54:27.000It's not to say that NATO is in our best interest, but from Russia's point of view, NATO is their biggest threat.
02:54:33.000The United States is their only... that is maybe the only country that has parity with them in terms of nuclear or conventional means, in terms of military means.
02:54:44.000So, I don't think it's outlandish to say that Russia wants to sow chaos.
02:54:48.000Not just, you know, the Soviet Union or the Bolsheviks, but the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin as well.
02:54:53.000It's not to say that they shouldn't pursue their national interest.
02:54:55.000It's not to say that their national interests and ours don't actually go hand-in-hand.
02:54:59.000But to say that this reality doesn't exist, I think is a bit naive.
02:55:04.000I think that it is in Russia's interest to break up our NATO or cause problems in America so that they can, you know, they'll have more maneuverability to act regionally and on the world stage.
02:55:14.000I don't think that's incorrect to say that.
03:04:01.000Ex Florio says Dems still complaining about redlining.
03:04:03.000Guess the 2008 housing market crash wasn't good enough lol.
03:04:09.000And by the way, you know, Bloomberg said redlining had nothing to do with the mortgage crisis.
03:04:13.000Well, you know, I don't know if it's exactly redlining, but definitely giving out
03:04:19.000Loans to people who could not pay them back was a part of the mortgage crisis.
03:04:23.000You know, if you're familiar with how these mortgages, if you lower the standards for giving out the mortgages, you lower the lending requirements, you know, that's a problem in itself.
03:04:34.000That's going to cause the housing market crash, people that are going to be defaulting on their loans and houses being foreclosed and so on, but
03:04:42.000What made it so bad is when they took all these bad loans given to people that could never pay them back at these ridiculously low interest rates and all these other you know lax standards that and that was Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae that was Clinton that was a lot of things
03:04:58.000But then you took the mortgages and you packaged them into these collateralized debt obligations, and then that was the basis for pension funds, and then these were packaged into all these supposedly safe asset classes.
03:05:12.000But at the core of it, at the core of it was, generally speaking, people that were not good to lend to, which has something to do with redlining.
03:05:21.000In some capacity they are related, so...
03:05:24.000Well, it had nothing to do with redlining.
03:05:27.000I mean, giving out these loans to people that could not pay them back, I mean, at the end of the day, that was the root of it.
03:05:32.000And you could say that, I mean, don't get me wrong, there's a lot of financial regulatory stuff that went wrong that made it have the impact that it did, but at the heart of it, it was people that simply just could not pay back their loans.
03:05:47.000TakeCover says, the passion of Nick Fuentes.
03:07:16.000I mean, he seems to me, honestly, to be one of the most likable out of all of them.
03:07:20.000Klobuchar and him seem to be the most likable.
03:07:22.000And Bloomberg isn't even that likable of a guy, but he's the only one that actually makes sense, since Andrew Yang got off the stage.
03:07:29.000Every answer that Bloomberg gets, you can tell that he is a billionaire and from the private sector, because he's got a very... When he answers the questions, it's straightforward, he addresses the point, and it's problem-solution, you know?
03:07:41.000And I do like that about him when he's saying he's asked about Israel-Palestine and he says well you know we can't move the embassy back it shouldn't have been done but that's the way it's gonna be and we have to have a two-state solution and so on and maybe what we could do is ask the Israelis to temper some of the settlements and you know every answer that I heard him give was sensible even if I don't agree with it or it's more left-wing than me and he has to pander to some extent but for the most part a lot of the answers he gives are like makes sense to me so
03:09:33.000I've said the opposite like countless times.
03:09:37.000Yeah, like I said, I'm telling you, that was totally based.
03:09:41.000He gave a completely sensible answer on that.
03:09:43.000He said, well, in the states where it's already legalized, the cat's out of the bag.
03:09:47.000We're not rolling that back, but we should move slowly with how we... No, I think it should be shut down completely, but a call for restraint and considering and acknowledging what the science has said about the effect of marijuana on brains, particularly young men developing adolescent brains.
03:10:04.000That's like the most sensible answer I've heard about marijuana since the primary started, so that's what I'm talking about.
03:10:15.000They live on sovereign land, I believe for the most part, don't they?
03:10:28.000Obviously there are some American Indians that, you know, they live outside of the reservations, but it's like those people live on their own.
03:10:36.000That's technically like their own country.
03:10:40.000Georgios says this stream has 11,000 viewers, but DLive features some random dude with 150 viewers instead.
03:10:46.000Yeah, it's pretty... they don't really treat me right.
03:13:13.000I mean Israel is kind of an important thing and he did make a tweet about it So I do think it was relevant Ty Boris says we will only use the military for military things.
03:21:17.000Yeah, then I will not like you were serious But I just have to tell you I've like I'm being pushed to the limit I went from doing no work and now we're at a hundred miles an hour.
03:21:28.000I went from zero to a hundred it went from like I'll do a show today to like
03:23:13.000gonna finish that but if I do not I'll say pierce the wall so you don't really did you really put a hole in the wall if you didn't make a distinct new hole a separate hole so next time no I haven't been hey to my credit if my parents are watching this I it's been a long time it's been a long time since I you know did any real damage lately what I do is I punch this desk and there's now a dent right here
03:23:38.000And there's literally like pieces of the desk under the desk.
03:23:41.000It's like breaking this drawer is breaking because of the Force when I when I smash down on the top, but I've got a new desktop so to install so it's everything's fine Boomer destroyer says national file events is gonna be epic.
03:25:18.000I get on the hotel website with my keyboard.
03:25:21.000I type in and I book another night and then it just dawns on me after I do the booking, oh, well, you booked from Thursday to Friday instead of Wednesday to Thursday, which is wrong.
03:25:34.000So then I'm like, oh, well, I'll just cancel.
03:31:09.000I play games on stream because it's entertainment and it's fun, but I cannot see myself playing games for my whole life.
03:31:17.000Already I'm kind of growing impatient with it.
03:31:20.000And I still enjoy playing games and I play games with my friends.
03:31:24.000It's a way to like socialize on the internet, but I'm not somebody that like wakes up, time to grind, time to grind in Call of Duty, time to grind it out.
03:32:56.000And I noticed that whenever something came up in class that people recognized, whether it was a movie or a song, you would have the kids that recognized it would immediately, hands would go up.
03:34:21.000If anything, it's just off putting, right?
03:34:24.000And that, that was like my first moment, right?
03:34:26.000I, you know, where this internal monologue was cultivated and it was,
03:34:30.000Now a separation between you know private self and the rest And then this reminds me of this is like I I do a Kanye quote, and I'm sure a lot of people you know catch it Oh, yeah, Kanye quote, but then some people are like oh good.
03:34:45.000I got it you and me are on the same page, man I'm just a big as Kanye fan as you I got a Nick Kanye quote check see cuz I got it I listen to the same song as you Yeah, yeah
03:37:06.000Because if I were to, if I were to understand, if I were to desist, and I did for a while, but like, I don't want to bring more attention to it, because it's like, people are making a big deal out of it.
03:37:14.000But like, if I were to say like, oh, I would prefer if you don't talk about that.
03:37:19.000Well, that would almost concede that like, what they were saying is true.
03:37:33.000No, I think women are almost more naturally inclined to take abuse.
03:37:52.000so maybe that's one of the added benefits of a female assistant is you know they're in a lot of ways they're fragile but emotionally well i don't know about emotionally but in a certain way they are resilient in that they can really take everything you throw at them everything that you throw at them i think they can generally take it without like you know losing their minds they've got this like maybe it's like an evolutionary trait where it's like if i you know
03:38:18.000If I can't take it, like, I will get killed by the tribe.
03:38:22.000A man will hit me with a big rock or something.
03:38:53.000My mom has like a high tolerance for me.
03:38:55.000Like, maybe it's, you know, my mom, she's an Italian mom, so she's very like, you know, I don't know.
03:39:02.000She's very, well, I don't know like what a nice way to say it is.
03:39:06.000Well, you know, she takes care of me, you know, and she always makes sure you're fed, and you know, wants to know where you are, what you're up to, and what you're doing, and so on.
03:39:17.000And I'm a very irritable person, so we have kind of this relationship where, you know, she's always taking care of me, and I'm not as nice to my mom as I should be sometimes.
03:39:26.000I get a little bit irritable, and so maybe that informs my opinion that she's always, you know, well.
03:39:32.000So maybe women are just generally have more resilience when it comes to that.
03:39:35.000They could take a little bit more, but I don't know.
03:39:42.000So that's perhaps a bonus, a benefit, but
03:39:46.000On the other hand, you know, a femoid in the movement just can't, just can't trust on that level.
03:39:51.000On a certain level, I feel like I just couldn't confide in a woman, you know, who is not like my wife.
03:39:56.000And even my wife, as far as that goes.
03:39:58.000But I just couldn't confide in somebody like that.
03:40:00.000I couldn't really trust them with details.
03:40:02.000You know, maybe as somebody like a organizational person, like a secretary, but as like an assistant who knows the intimate details of my operation, that would have to be a high trust operation.
03:40:12.000And I don't know if you could place enough faith in a woman in this sector in particular.
03:40:17.000It's one thing if it's like a trade secret, but this is politics.
03:42:08.000Everybody has their opinion and thinks like, oh, well, I've got my opinion and you're gonna hear it and you have to listen to it and you're gonna have to like it.
03:42:50.000I know all the constituent actors involved.
03:42:53.000If you're somebody who is in the field, I will listen to your advice, and I listen to advice every day from people that work on campaigns, and people that work on Capitol Hill,
03:43:40.000You know, who am I to tell Donald Trump, the president, who ran and he won?
03:43:45.000And, you know, there are areas where I think he could do better, and I've got my opinion, obviously, but...
03:43:50.000You know, imagine this guy's got the weight of the world on his shoulders and a 21-year-old's gonna come up and say, uh, here's what you need to do better.
03:44:12.000I am not an e-girl showing my boobs on screen and you're replying in hopes that I will date you.
03:44:18.000We are doing a political movement and in some capacity there has to be a corporate mentality.
03:44:23.000Now, if you bust my balls a little bit, yeah, whatever.
03:44:26.000If people want to say their piece about what's going on, that's fine, but you know, I love to see, it's particularly women, and I'm assuming Molly Maguire's a woman, women see people supporting me and they say, oh well, you're just sipping for Nick.
03:44:39.000Well, that's not true, because sipping means orbiting pussy in particular, and it is specific to women.
03:44:46.000Men and women are different, and that has consequences.
03:44:49.000Some people don't understand that still.
03:44:51.000Well, you're sucking up to a man, and that's just like simping for a woman.
03:44:54.000Well, it's not, because men and women are different, and, you know, we're talking about different things, so... So, wrong, you're ignorant, shut up, your critique is invalid.
03:45:04.000Uh, you're, no, no, nope, you should've just sucked up, you should've just sucked up, now, now you're, now you're embarrassed.
03:45:12.000I know people that speak exclusively in references.
03:45:14.000Yeah, yeah, I think we all know somebody like that.
03:46:36.000A little bit of Coke, a little bit of grape, so... Yeah, maybe just... Well, but you can't drink water with pizza, so I'll probably have Sprite.
03:46:43.000I'll have a small Sprite, a small Sprite.
03:46:45.000Joe the Boomer says, follow poor Joe Boomer on DLive.
03:47:10.000Probably wig gnats because I mean wig gnats are just so toxic to what we're trying to do For reasons.
03:47:16.000I don't want to get into at 1030 Cookie monsters is to win the culture war you have to share zoomer clips Now now zoomer clips has been off the goop lately and not in a good way in a very disappointing way Shin chance is not a simp.
03:47:29.000I like your opinions and entertainment.
03:47:59.000Do you think that it's possible the opioid crisis is manufactured and targeted at our people?
03:48:05.000It's possible, but I I tend to you know For like population purposes in particular.
03:48:12.000I mean maybe the drug companies are conspiring to get people hooked on drugs, but I
03:48:18.000Do I believe that it was targeted at eliminating white people?
03:48:21.000That is a little bit too conspiratorial for my taste.
03:48:24.000If there's evidence, look, I'm all about conspiracies where there's evidence or even circumstantial evidence, but to just say, like, oh, the moon is cheese and the government is implanting, you know, microchips, like, well, you know, anything's possible, I guess, but where's the evidence?