Tonight we have Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and Kamala Harris in a CNN Town Hall style town hall style debate. Elizabeth Warren is a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate running for President of the United States. She is a former prosecutor and former prosecutor who served as a prosecutor and served as the attorney general of Massachusetts from 1987-1993. She has been a member of the US House of Representatives since 1987 and is running for president in 2020.
00:01:46.000So I expect her to talk quite a bit about impeaching Trump because she is just... God luck with Elizabeth Warren today and then we'll have Bernie Sanders.
00:02:16.000So now she's throwing everything at the wall.
00:02:17.000And Sound Guy, wait, can you give us a little bit of volume here while we're talking, so we can at least just hear some of the stream, and then we'll bring it up louder later.
00:02:23.000So we have to be a little bit careful.
00:02:25.000About what we can show you guys, because we got banned from the Oscars, so it's all gonna be box and box.
00:03:42.000These are not bastions of deregulation.
00:03:45.000Let's see what she has to say with the robin comb over.
00:03:47.000...universally available, with free tuition and fees, and to put more money into Pell Grants so that students of color, so that our poor students have real access to college, and that we put some real money into our historically black colleges and universities.
00:04:15.000Okay, show me how more money would fix it.
00:04:17.000Yeah, that's where it gets a little bit dicey, yes.
00:04:19.000Is that going to buy people more dads?
00:04:24.000Is it going to remove it from the areas where they have college?
00:04:26.000Here's the thing, this idea that you just throw more money, whether it's a black college, as she said, she's playing identity politics, big surprise there, one-nineteenth of a hundredth Cherokee, And right away she just acted like throwing more money at the problem is going to fix it.
00:04:38.000Here's the thing, we have been throwing more money at the problem.
00:04:41.000There are more government subsidies for higher education now than ever before.
00:04:44.000And here's something else that nobody talks about, and actually researcher Reg talked about this.
00:04:48.000This is just encouraging horrible behavior.
00:04:51.000There are people out there who didn't take out loans.
00:04:53.000So the person who worked their way through college right now, who worked their way through university and got a paying job, should be footing the bill now as a tax-paying citizen.
00:05:01.000For another person who decided to play video games while they got their gender studies degree?
00:05:51.000Send us, by the way, what your drinks are.
00:05:53.000Bring this up full screen there, Court of Black Garrett, because I just realized we missed a ton of opportunities to drink.
00:05:58.000Climate change, Green New Deal, Russian collusion, obstruction of justice, Trump taxes, 1% inequality, millionaires, billionaires, Medicare for all, fascism, white nationalism, right-wing extremism, assault weapons, walls don't work, strength and diversity, rights of immigration.
00:06:08.000Of course, free school should be on there.
00:06:10.000I don't know why it isn't on there, but it should be.
00:06:11.000Anyway, let's just consider it drinking.
00:06:13.000Universal Pre-K, Universal College, and knock back the student loan debt burden for 95% of our students, and still have nearly a trillion dollars left over.
00:06:29.000I want to see the stat where for every one person who's $100,000 or however much in their student loan debt, how many other students aren't?
00:06:37.000Who are now going to foot the bill for the irresponsible ones?
00:06:40.000I just assume I'm going to get screwed because I pay taxes.
00:06:42.000Okay, let's hear the next question, but I have a ton more on the student loan issue.
00:06:45.000She's also a contributor to Forbes, where she covers women running high-impact organizations in Africa.
00:06:50.000You make me feel like a schlub, I mean...
00:06:58.000So Amazon's monopoly means that I can buy generic goods and brand names for my phone and receive them on my doorstep without a delivery fee within 24 hours.
00:07:08.000How is breaking up big tech good for me?
00:08:27.000And it's, by the way, when I say long-winded, I don't mean this is long-winded in that it's
00:08:31.000substantive and she hasn't explained any nuance or details here.
00:08:35.000She's just explained what happens when you click add to cart.
00:08:39.000Basically, anytime you do anything on the internet, this is what happens.
00:08:44.000And when you order on Amazon, and there's the priority, which is you can do the two-day, but some days it has to be over $35 or you don't get the two-day.
00:09:29.000I think in New York, for example, with an average income, Maddie can bring this up, an average salary that would have been over $100,000 a year, adding 25,000 jobs demonstrably to the municipality of New York.
00:09:41.000I wouldn't necessarily call that a dead zone, and I think New York City, which is hemorrhaging people who would actually pay a significant amount of taxes, might not consider it a dead zone.
00:09:49.000You know, again, this is identity politics.
00:09:50.000We've just talked about how we need to make sure that students don't have to pay for schooling, and we need to break up companies that are Creating some of the higher paying jobs in the country.
00:09:59.000So this sounds like an economic plan that'll work wonders.
00:10:02.000This is why no one likes Elizabeth Warren, by the way.
00:10:05.000She just spent a ton of time explaining nothing.
00:10:08.000Let's go back and see if she has anything else to say.
00:10:09.000Where there's really a chance for everybody to get in and compete.
00:10:14.000So that's the reason I want to see the two of them broken up.
00:11:13.000So, actually, I support Massachusetts changing its laws on marijuana.
00:11:18.000Massachusetts is decriminalized at that point, and I thought it made a lot of sense for Massachusetts to go ahead and legalize marijuana, and I now support Am I the only one who thinks this is the most softball town hall?
00:11:33.000I will say this, at least about Fox News, right out of the gate they asked Bernie Sanders about the economy, about democratic socialism, they asked him about his views on trade, they asked him about his views on foreign affairs, and the Yemen war.
00:11:46.000They asked her about free college tuition, Amazon, and pot!
00:11:51.000I mean, this is always the complaint with the debates, when you have Democrat primaries and Republican primaries, because the Democrats get questions about issues, where they hit back softballs.
00:12:01.000Democrats get asked about, what do you think about what this person said about this other person, and Mexicans, and they get criticized, well, you didn't talk about issues.
00:14:09.000I'd be very interested to hear her study.
00:14:20.000She said study after study after study.
00:14:22.000Because I have a bunch of studies here.
00:14:23.000I think we can even bring them up from the research document that show that black Americans commit, unfortunately, disproportionate amounts of crime.
00:14:30.000And if you actually compare the disproportionate crime levels, With the population percentage they make up in prison, it's not at all disproportionate.
00:14:38.000That is something that people need to keep in mind.
00:14:40.000Now, she just said wrongfully convicted.
00:14:43.000She just said more likely to be convicted for the exact same crime as a white person.
00:14:46.000Again, I would be very interested... This is kind of like they used to use the talking point about how, you know, our prisons are overpopulated with people who just smoked a joint.
00:14:55.000You know, when we did some digging on the show, it's just not true.
00:14:57.000less than 1% of state penitentiaries are there for solely marijuana related crimes.
00:16:49.000You're talking about tanks, you're talking about panzers, you're talking about bazookas, you're talking about AR-15s, which are not the same as an M16, which are semi-automatic rifles, which include a huge percentage of hunting rifles, as well as all handguns.
00:17:23.000So this isn't as much of a policy-based question, but some have voiced concerns about you getting Hillary'd in the election, meaning that you get held to a higher standard than your opponent.
00:17:33.000Yes, if this town hall is any indicator.
00:17:35.000You know, whereas other people might be asked about the Arab Spring or might be asked about international conflict or marginal tax rates, you get the tough questions about pot.
00:17:44.000I believe we have feminist bullshit on the drinking scale.
00:17:46.000Yeah, that's right, we do have feminist bullshit on the drinking scale.
00:17:48.000But if I can, I want to go back before 2016, because can we all just let our hair down here for a minute?
00:20:19.000It's like, well, they were hemorrhaging... I don't have the numbers in front of me.
00:20:21.000They were hemorrhaging $800 million a year, and then when I came in, they were only hemorrhaging $400 million a year, so some of us would call that a net gain.
00:23:29.000I have some, some prep and we'll, uh, and Maddie, always, uh, sing out here because I'm not hearing from you when, if, uh, sign ups and when we're going to bring those up as screen grabs.
00:24:09.000People who have already paid their student debt and are entering the workforce.
00:24:13.000Or maybe they still have some student debt and they're entering the workforce.
00:24:16.000But I guarantee you the people who worked their way through college and didn't rack up the kind of student debt that would be forgivable under her plan, because I think you have to be making under $100,000 a year, this is simply punishing good behavior.
00:24:27.000What about people who racked up student debt, paid it off themselves, became lawyers, became doctors, became anesthesiologists, became nurse practitioners?
00:24:35.000They should be paying off student loans to people who make $40,000, $20,000, $30,000 a year because they decided to intern at Slate?
00:24:43.000Or what about people who did what I did, where at 18 I didn't know what I wanted to do for the rest of my life, so I didn't go to a $10,000, $20,000 a year college.
00:24:53.000I went to community college, I went to a local school.
00:24:57.000It is remarkable to me that we just act as though community colleges don't exist.
00:24:59.000And by the way, there are vocational schools.
00:25:01.000This is something no one else was talking about, and let's bring this up as an overlay, Matty.
00:25:04.000We have more available jobs than ever in the United States history.
00:25:09.000Since the Bureau of Labor Statistics has been keeping track of jobs on record, we have the highest job surplus in United States history.
00:25:16.000I mean, there are more freely available jobs right now that have not been filled.
00:25:30.000First off, I don't like this assumption that everyone needs to go to college, and I don't like this assumption, which her proposal basically makes, that all degrees are equal.
00:25:49.000I'm sorry, but I think an anesthesiologist should be making more, and the degree is worth more, than someone who's a public school teacher for the first grade.
00:25:55.000And I know we're supposed to say that teachers, it's the most important job in the United States.
00:25:58.000I don't know, I think the person who's bringing me right near death, and then backing it up a couple of millimeters, that's someone who I might want to be tossing some extra loose change.
00:26:49.000I would like to spend more time on this because this is the only thing that delineates me from other candidates and or makes me even remotely interesting.
00:26:55.000story. I would like to spend more time on this because this is the only thing that delineates
00:27:02.000me from other candidates and or makes me even remotely interesting and it's only going to
00:27:06.000last about a week. So please let me stay in impeachment. It is the thing I get that it's
00:27:16.000a good talking point for them but the only way impeachment works is if like the people
00:27:22.000are behind it. The only reason why they were behind Bill Clinton getting impeached was
00:27:27.000because of the oral sex element because they could actually like you know.
00:27:30.000Understood that, as opposed to perjury.
00:27:33.000Now that they did away with the Russian collusion, and they hear you all, we're going to push impeachment, even though they think they may have them on obscurity.
00:27:39.000Well, they're actually, they're losing independence more than any different demographic group.
00:27:43.000If you search independence Russian collusion, you'll see actually they've lost a lot of ground with independent voters in Russian collusion.
00:29:09.000Part three is when the federal government starts to investigate part one and part two.
00:29:18.000Donald Trump took repeated steps aggressively to try to halt the investigation, derail the investigation, push the investigation somewhere else.
00:29:29.000He whined on Twitter that you guys were accusing him of collusion and that this investigation was a political witch hunt because it turned out to be a political witch hunt.
00:29:39.000It's like someone come... Picture this, a police officer coming to your house saying, hey, I would like to search you out.
00:30:12.000And then they have to fuddle around and look for the search warrant.
00:30:14.000They go, hold on a second, you made me look for the search warrant, and they find out that it's the guy next door who was dealing drugs.
00:30:18.000You had nothing to do with dealing drugs.
00:30:20.000And then they say, but even though you have a completely clean record, you didn't commit any of the crimes we accuse you of, but you did obstruct us by asking for the search warrant and make me fumble through my pocket.
00:30:30.000How do you obstruct justice to a crime you never committed?
00:30:35.000Obstruction requires you... And by the way, there was no actual obstruction.
00:30:38.000This is also something that's important to me.
00:32:40.000And then told the White House counsel to write a letter saying that Donald Trump had not told him to go fire Mueller.
00:32:48.000And then to say, why on earth would you take notes about what I said to you?
00:32:53.000The lawyers I deal with never put anything in writing.
00:32:57.000There's so little in this report that she's going, and can you picture there's a president who's not used to a lawyer taking notes and he said, why are you taking notes?
00:33:08.000Oh, okay, well that would be really relevant.
00:33:51.000I grew up in a family that wasn't political.
00:33:54.000I grew up out in Oklahoma, and to this day, I couldn't tell you how my parents were registered, or my grandparents, or much of anybody else.
00:34:33.000In 2028, they're going to be saying, this wasn't the way it was when Donald Trump was in office, when we were all getting along with each other.
00:34:40.000I remember when there used to be respectable Republicans like Jared Kushner and not Mitt Romney Jr.
00:34:49.000IV, who is clearly a grand dragon in the KKK.
00:34:53.000That's what you're going to see in the year 2036.
00:35:25.000And by the way, that's not an adjusted number as you saw with President Barack Obama because labor force participation was very low.
00:35:33.000We have record high labor force participation rates.
00:35:35.000We have more people who've entered the workforce than, as I talked about earlier, Since the Bureau of Labor has been keeping these statistics, and we have record job surpluses, and the markets have rallied to unprecedented degrees.
00:35:47.000If you believe it is worse now than ever before, please do not open a history book up to 1942.
00:35:56.000And by the way, fewer layoffs than before.
00:36:11.000But I think a lot of it also has to do with the cultural thing, where like, you know, a lot of people these days, they have higher expectations of what they're owed.
00:37:05.000You mean like a dropping retiree per worker ratio and an average life expectancy that used to be 65 when Social Security was created and now it's 78 years old?
00:37:14.000per worker ratio and an average life expectancy that used to be 65 when
00:37:18.000Social Security was created now it's 78 years old. Talking about those? Is that what you're talking about?
00:37:22.000That's why we're not going to get it even though we're paying into it?
00:37:25.000And by the way, the rate of return is about 2%, as opposed to if you invested it privately, you'd get a 10% rate of return, doubling your money every 10 years.
00:37:30.000Or even if it's a fixed income portfolio, where we want to do it with low risk, you're going to get 5.
00:38:10.000Okay, let me hear her talk about Social Security.
00:38:12.000That we're not going to make any more changes to Social Security, not going to increase the revenue stream, not going to change the pieces, and we've been locked there.
00:38:19.000And the consequence is, every year that goes by, we get the system just a little further out of whack.
00:38:25.000And by the way, if you're talking about a plan where people were promised that they wouldn't be paying more into it, where they're talking about that it would be consistent for all beneficiaries, and then you require more people to join in to pay off previous beneficiaries, or You require them to pay a higher amount than people who previously paid into the system?
00:38:44.000The only reason it's not called a Ponzi scheme when it's Social Security is because the government is doing it.
00:38:49.000There is no way that Social Security, as it stands now, can continue to be financially solvent, especially in the wake of the baby boom generation.
00:39:29.000So that, particularly women who had lower earnings for so many years, especially in the first years, that they were working, get better support in their later years.
00:39:39.000But at this moment, there's no political will to come together.
00:39:43.000There's no one who's willing to drive this.
00:39:45.000By the way, lower earners benefit disproportionately from social security.
00:39:51.000The guy who's making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year can invest it in his own portfolio.
00:39:55.000This is one thing that people don't understand.
00:39:59.000This idea that women who've earned less, what are you talking about?
00:40:02.000They're not getting any social security, is that what she's saying?
00:40:04.000By the way, if you look at social security when it started, actually, initially, I believe, I think it was until either 48 or 50, the only people eligible for social security were people who had enough years of income earned on the books, because they didn't believe that you should benefit from a social welfare system if you didn't actually contribute to it.
00:40:21.000So this idea that everyone should get it, that's not how it started.
00:40:25.000That's not how it was pitched to the American people.
00:40:27.000In particular, I know that you have experienced President Trump's name-calling and bullying firsthand.
00:40:33.000And given the success that he's had with these tactics in the past, I was wondering how you
00:40:37.000propose to counter them if you were to become the Democratic nominee.
00:40:40.000By logging off Twitter, they disappear.
00:40:42.000In particular, are you worried that he might be able to caricature you to general election voters before you've had a chance to make your candidacy heard?
00:42:57.000And then I found a commuter college that cost $50 a semester.
00:43:04.000And for a price that I could pay for on a part-time waitressing job, I had a chance to get a four-year diploma and become a special needs teacher.
00:44:10.000They're almost all in the United States.
00:44:12.000It's remarkable to me, not only for the privilege, you just talked about how you were working as a part-time waitress at a diner, and there was a black kid there with a Harvard Letterman's jacket!
00:44:24.000This is what I've talked about before.
00:44:27.000Socialism, and she is a socialist, they want you to be hopeless.
00:44:32.000They want you to believe that right now, when it's as good as it's ever been in modern American history, that the deck is stacked against you and there is no hope for you.
00:44:41.000People are hopeless because you're making them hopeless, not because Donald Trump calls you Pocahontas.
00:44:48.000Donald Trump may name-call, Donald Trump may be inarticulate, but you know how he won?
00:44:52.000He won not only because he resonated with American working class voters as the Democratic Party has not, but he also believes that the United States is the greatest country in the world.
00:46:48.000Alright, listen, we're gonna go to a commercial break, and actually, you know what, you guys can read out the, uh, let's read out the Twitter, uh, Twitter sign-ups for Mug Club, then go to a quick commercial break, and we'll be back with more, because I have got to, uh, uh, tinkle before we get to Bernie Sanders, because I think I'm gonna piss myself laughing and die here on this chair.
00:54:58.000The only person who did that before was the Born Alive Protection Act.
00:55:00.000There was something that happened in the Illinois State Senate where babies were being thrown into the wastebaskets and Barack Obama voted against protections for those babies.
00:55:08.000One of the few times he didn't vote present.
00:55:09.000It literally is one of the only things he voted for.
00:55:25.000All I can do is influence these young minds right in front of me who have no one else to listen to and force them, but it's fine, I have no influence.
00:55:31.000And if they don't give me the answer I want to hear, I can fail them.
00:55:35.000But not before I drink myself some good ol' frosty suds!
00:55:39.000Nothing I love more, kids, than after a hard day of brack!
00:55:43.000Baking, college professing, drinking a good old bottle of suds.
00:55:57.000And he said, no, I'm not going to let this crisis pass and not come away with a consumer agency that makes sure that families never get cheated again.
00:56:07.000I will always be grateful to the president for that.
00:56:10.000Senator Elizabeth Warren up next, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.
00:56:26.000A lot of hunched shoulders, just curled over.
00:56:30.000A lot of angry defensiveness about his recent millionaire status.
00:56:35.000A lot of do as I say, not as I do type of deal.
00:56:41.000A lot of ignoring his past sexual harassment scandals within his own campaign.
00:56:46.000I think there's going to be a lot of gloss over that.
00:56:47.000Going to be fair, not from Bernie himself.
00:56:49.000Not from Bernie himself, no, just the people he's on.
00:56:51.000But remember, back when he was interviewed about this in January, he told Anderson Cooper, I was busy running around trying to run the show.
00:56:59.000That was his excuse about what was happening on his own watch.
00:57:03.000Just remember that if you're out there thinking about this is the guy who's going to save America.
01:01:47.000It's like Rick Moranis had sex with a gayer, younger Rick Moranis.
01:01:47.000It's like Rick Moranis had sex with a gayer, younger Rick Moranis.
01:01:52.000This is actually really valuable because he's the only one who pulls back the curtain and is saying that, yes, Medicare for All would eliminate private insurance.
01:01:58.000Everyone's trying to say, no, no, you'll have a choice.
01:02:01.000for an end to private health insurance companies.
01:02:03.000How do you plan to phase out these private insurance companies for your new Medicare for all insurance?
01:02:09.000This is actually really valuable because he's the only one who pulls back the curtain and is saying that,
01:02:13.000yes, Medicare for all would eliminate private insurance.
01:02:15.000Because everyone starts saying, no, no, you'll have a choice.
01:03:07.000Well, why don't you use a litmus test?
01:03:08.000Weight times, your survival rates, your mortality rates from life-threatening diseases.
01:03:13.000Why don't you look at medical innovation?
01:03:15.000You talk about us paying so much for prescription drugs.
01:03:17.000Well, how many drugs are we getting from Nicaragua?
01:03:19.000How many drugs are we getting from Canada?
01:03:21.000How many drugs are we getting from Germany?
01:03:23.000It's like when you bitch about the fact that we pay more on national defense than the number 1 through 5 or 1 through 10 nations combined, and then you complain when Donald Trump says, hey, you better start paying your fair share to NATO.
01:03:32.000That's because we're covering this for everybody else.
01:03:35.000We invent the drugs, we innovate, and we have a system that has better measurable health outcomes than any of these other countries.
01:03:42.000Instead, he goes to the one stat right now out there, if you're watching.
01:03:46.000Google infant mortality rate across nations.
01:03:49.000You will see it is not something that even those in the far left agree can do.
01:03:54.000I happen to believe from the bottom of my heart, and I've believed this for my whole adult life, that healthcare is a human right, not a privilege, and the best way to go forward in my view is through Medicare for all.
01:04:07.000Did you hear me when I said human rights?!
01:05:35.000From Bernie's own website, he says that he wants to re-enfranchise the right to vote to the 1 in 13 African Americans who have had their vote taken away by felony conviction, paid their debt to society, and deserve to have their rights restored.
01:05:50.000I'm actually curious about the rest of the people who are felons, but apparently it will only apply to African Americans, the 1 in 13.
01:06:05.000I don't think that if, let's say, for some reason, at some point, you got caught with a bag of cocaine, or crack, or meth, I know they're going to say it's racist if you don't say crack, I don't necessarily think you should lose your right to vote for all time.
01:06:14.000But I do think if you're a violent felon, or if you're a sex offender, and again, that's a different degree of felony, You shouldn't have a say in the laws that we create if you're going to blatantly disregard them in a way that harms other citizens.
01:06:25.000I mean, whether you call it a social contract, whether you look at just the utilitarian, practical aspect of giving someone like that the right to vote again.
01:06:33.000Granted, it's going to be a small minority, but in any particular place, I'm really thinking of Californians.
01:06:38.000I mean, they're going to have the largest problem with this if that right to vote is re-established.
01:06:44.000Won't really change the voting block a whole bunch, though.
01:06:48.000California went from blue to really blue!
01:07:54.000He's talking about people who are in prison for violent crimes who should vote while they're in prison.
01:07:58.000Here's the thing, I actually think it's an interesting conversation to entertain if they've paid their debt to society and it is not one that directly involved inflicting harm on somebody else.
01:08:07.000And I know that all crimes inflict harm on somebody else because you're a burden on the taxpayer, but it's different from a violent crime or sexual assault or something like that.
01:09:01.000Less than ever before, by the way, thanks to President Donald Trump.
01:09:03.000Isn't it crazy that with, and I don't mean a white guy, Donald Trump is, aside from I get the obvious orange jokes, practically translucent.
01:09:10.000I mean, I would love to see him dancing at a wedding.
01:09:13.000You'd be the guy you'd pick out the dance floor, like, that's the dad dance!
01:09:15.000That being said, under the whitest president possibly ever, That blacks have it better than under the smooth-talking half-black guy.
01:11:37.000Not only do we have 3.9% last I checked on employment, not only do we have highest job force participation rate that we've had in decades, not only do we have the biggest job surplus that we've had since we've been keeping record of these statistics, but we also have fewer firings and layoffs.
01:11:50.000How does that make sense when you talk about the big corporations?
01:11:56.000Just don't forget that when Bernie sold his best-selling book and made millions of dollars, it was from a non-corporation.
01:14:16.000This idea that, this is what they just talked about, if it's a corporation that brings in $2 billion in gross revenue, but they spend $2.1 billion, or they're still running at a deficit, you should be familiar with that term, Bernie, because they've been doing this for a long time and investing all of their money into, let's say, I don't know, inventory for the next year, you see with marketing, with Amazon, it took a very, very long time for them to become profitable at all.
01:15:51.000...stress is off my family. That is a great... Two percent.
01:15:54.000And I have spent my entire life and hopefully will conclude my political life in the White
01:16:00.000House trying to make sure that every person in this country does not have to deal with
01:16:05.000the stress of whether they can afford to pay the electric bill, whether they're gonna have
01:16:09.000health care, whether they can send their kids to child care.
01:16:12.000So that is the difference that I've learned. You know what? Wait, is child care now a...
01:16:16.000Human right? ...child care. They were talking about that.
01:16:17.000Even though all the studies show that they want to put a cap on child care costs that
01:16:22.000people can put. And studies have actually shown...
01:16:24.000Actually from my home province of Quebec, I think it's actually in the prep sheet document, if you type in Quebec Maddie, that they're actually harmful to children because people use them when you remove those caps, they basically use it to raise their children and they have very bad, they have significantly negative outcomes for children who are in these basically public childcare facilities.
01:16:38.000that you have changed your mind about recently?
01:16:45.000I've been consistent for... Nah, just kidding.
01:16:50.000I think I am paying more attention right now to foreign policy.
01:16:55.000And I think I was rightfully criticized the last time I ran that I didn't pay as much attention as I might.
01:17:02.000And I think, you know, the economic issues, whether or not people have healthcare, whether they have decent paying jobs, whether we deal with climate change, are enormously important.
01:18:11.000The way these other countries pay for all this.
01:18:13.000And by the way, we still have the highest median income of anywhere in the world outside of Luxembourg.
01:18:16.000How do they pay for all this when they talk about how we pay more for drugs in other countries?
01:18:20.000It's because we effectively, ironically, we're subsidizing it, not to the tune of the government, but our private sector, our taxpayers, our consumers end up subsidizing it.
01:18:45.000It's not just about the actual powder, the actual substance that goes into the drug.
01:18:49.000And then these other countries have government subsidized prescriptions, like we had in Quebec.
01:18:54.000And by the way, it took a long time in Quebec, where I was raised, for us to have Uh, any kind of $7 generics.
01:18:59.000Because we don't have the same kind of laws.
01:19:01.000So, again, the American, the power of the American consumer benefits the entire global economy just like the power of the American military benefits all global safety.
01:19:14.000And they can't say it because they don't believe that the United States is the greatest country in the world.
01:19:58.000We have the best economy in the world right now.
01:20:00.000We have the most powerful military might that the world has ever seen.
01:20:03.000And by the way, we do what you guys bitch about in nation building, which is a costly endeavor, not profitable, because it's the opposite of an empire.
01:21:12.000It's too bad we were wrong for two years straight.
01:21:14.000Yeah, I mean, look at the history of America since Bretton Woods.
01:21:17.000We had an option at that point, right after World War II, to go in the empire building business.
01:21:21.000Everyone said, everyone even thought, Germany thought, Russia thought, America's going to establish an American empire.
01:21:28.000And when you look at what actually happened after Bretton Woods, and the investment that went into Central Europe to a former power, and look at all the amazing things that are coming out of war-torn Germany.
01:21:38.000Look at all the amazing things that are coming out of other European nations that benefited from American might.
01:21:43.000Not just American power that came in and took over or did anything like that.
01:21:49.000We made a deliberate decision to be able to empower these nations and now we're essentially saying take it all away.
01:22:21.000...say on this stage earlier, you know, there is no political inconvenience exception to the United States Constitution.
01:22:29.000Her argument was, if any other human being in this country had done what's documented in the Mueller report, they would be arrested and put in jail.
01:22:38.000And she's obviously referencing this president.
01:22:41.000Do you agree that it is time for impeachment proceedings?
01:23:24.000To be someone who says, I didn't do it, that would mean every single person who's ever hired a lawyer or pleaded not guilty was obstructing justice.
01:23:32.000Yeah, I mean, that's not how it works.
01:23:33.000Like, you've got to meet the elements, and when you don't meet the elements, you get the Mueller Report.
01:23:37.000Well, he did send out some angry tweets.
01:23:39.000So let's just say someone like, let's say a police officer with a search warrant came into my house, and I flipped him the bird and called their mother a whore.
01:23:46.000Would even that, that's obviously more extreme than anything Donald Trump would do, but would that even be considered obstruction?
01:24:58.000What Mueller said is that was an open question.
01:25:00.000And that is something that the House of Representatives in the Senate should take a very... And the AG and the Deputy AG said no obstruction.
01:25:08.000Well, but I would rather have an objective investigation done by the House.
01:27:00.000There's so much bullshit in this answer.
01:27:01.000First off, where he's talking about the top, the new income made 49% goes to the top 1%.
01:27:05.000Okay, let's talk about income inequality while we're talking about this, even though my problem is with poverty, not inequality.
01:27:10.000And you won't hear Bernie Sanders talk about poverty because no system has pulled more people out of poverty than the free enterprise system, capitalist system, certainly not even socialist utopias, including non-socialist utopias like Denmark or Sweden, who, by the way, those citizens American Swedes, American Danes, American Danes have it better than Danes in Denmark.
01:27:25.00070-something percent of Americans will be in the top 20% in their lifetime.
01:27:29.000Over 50% will be in the top 10% of earners in their lifetime.
01:27:34.000Class is transient here in the United States.
01:27:36.000That's what people need to understand here.
01:27:38.000When he talks about a corrupt political system, what could possibly be more corrupt than a system that allows people in positions of government to become multi-millionaires while everyone else has to play by different rules?
01:27:48.000He was saying something else that I wanted to address.
01:27:49.000What else did he say there that was really pissing me off?
01:28:35.000This just shows you that Bernie Sanders has no idea as to what a fundamental human right is.
01:28:40.000A human right, okay by the way, is something constitutionally, which he has no concept of, it's pretty clear, is not granted to you by government.
01:28:47.000Otherwise, any commodity, goods or service, could be a right.
01:28:50.000Just like in Germany, they declared the internet to be a human right.
01:28:53.000No, human rights are inalienable rights that are given to you by God, and they are simply recognized by government.
01:28:58.000Things like freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of religion, the freedom to self-protection, the second amendment.
01:29:07.000And by the way, you know how else you know that he doesn't understand the concept of human rights?
01:29:11.000The only way you forfeit basic human rights, which are given to you by God as a birthright, is when you irreparably harm someone else, like in the incident of a violent crime or some kind of a serious sex offense.
01:29:24.000And by the way, he doesn't think those people should forfeit those rights to vote and elect him your next president while they are currently serving in a maximum security prison.
01:29:33.000So rights, health care, college, free income, free you name it, and you don't lose those
01:29:39.000rights even if you rape and assault your next door 14 year old neighbor.
01:31:23.000Even Cuba has better health care than the United States because they're going by polls.
01:31:27.000They're not going by objective parameters like mortality.
01:31:29.000And I'm not saying infant mortality rates, but overall mortality rates.
01:31:33.000Looking at life-threatening diseases or looking at needing cutting-edge new experimental healthcare technology, your best chance of surviving a serious disease is living in the United States.
01:31:47.000Whether you're black, white, rich, or poor, you have a better chance making it here with some kind of a life-threatening disease, ailment, or incident than anywhere else.
01:33:03.000Using their standards, you know, because they assume anyone who's racist or wants to commit genocide is right-wing, which of course is actually not a part of the conservative platform, but using their standard.
01:33:12.000He's trying to talk about right-wing Netanyahu.
01:33:14.000If you're going to talk about people who are racist, people who simply want to slaughter people because of their creed or ethnicity, lineage, I put Hamas up there.
01:34:06.000With mass shootings becoming more rampant in this country, what is your stance on putting armed guards or heightened police presence inside of schools?
01:34:15.000I'm against it, but let me also... Unless they are convicted felons.
01:34:21.000Then we should furlough them to the nearest grade school!
01:34:23.000We need a lot of young people to get involved in criminal justice and to help us transform a criminal justice system that is not working right now.
01:34:30.000broken right now. And one component, Nicholas, and I'm really delighted to hear that you're
01:35:56.000And I'm delighted to see, not only that state after state are legalizing marijuana, criminalizing marijuana, but also seeing some communities... Wait, what?
01:36:06.000It's not true, this idea that people...
01:36:10.000Okay, in Texas, which is not legalized marijuana, you've seen those billboards for the pot lawyer with a big old pot leaf?
01:36:17.000It reduces serious possessions down to misdemeanors that are less than a traffic ticket.
01:37:17.000That is so polarized. What will you do as president to reach across the aisle to compromise with the GOP?
01:37:22.000Well, uh, I have destroyed them throughout my political career
01:37:27.000In fact, it may surprise some people that there were some years when I was in the U.S.
01:37:32.000House of Representatives that I passed more amendments in a given year than any other congressman precisely because I reached across the aisle and found common ground with Republicans who agreed with me on a particular issue.
01:37:46.000I mentioned a moment ago that I was very proud.
01:38:21.000I'm on a bunch of press release mailing lists, and my inbox all the time is, like, Republican Senator working with these Democrats on probably about 80% of the bills.
01:38:31.000It's just, you know, there are a couple issues we have some disagreements on.
01:38:55.000And of course, send us your screenshot of you joining up at Mug Club.
01:38:58.000I'm wondering why I keep answering my phone, because so far this year you've made me watch the Oscars, and Amy Schumer's special, and now CNN for two hours.
01:39:29.000We have some very specific ideas to do that.
01:39:31.000To cut prescription drug costs in this country in half so that the American people are not paying any more than people around the world are paying.
01:39:44.000It cannot be done because other countries rely on us to innovate, create the drugs, bring them to market so that they can subsidize them through the government and their citizens pay less.
01:39:55.000That's what happened in Canada where I was raised.
01:40:00.000We cannot reduce the costs of pharmaceuticals in the United States to that of other countries because we are the ones who bear the costs and bring it to market.
01:40:09.000It can't be done, and if it were even attempted to be implemented, you would watch these pharmaceutical companies.
01:40:15.000By the way, we love to vilify until we have some kind of a serious disease.
01:40:17.000Think about the last time you were seriously sick.
01:40:21.000You said, give me the industrial heavy-duty shit, right?
01:40:23.000We love to vilify them until we actually need them.
01:40:26.000Those pharmaceutical companies will leave so fast if they believe that it's not going to be worth their while to invest in a new innovative drug.
01:40:35.000You know what is a good example of that?
01:40:49.000They say it's for people who are treatment resistant in depression.
01:40:53.000This is one of the most promising drugs that's come along.
01:40:55.000I think, if I'm not mistaken, I don't know, you can maybe research this.
01:40:59.000Matty, I don't have the numbers in front of me, but I was reading an article on this.
01:41:02.000I want to say in 30 years, there really haven't been any revolutionary sort of new products in the antidepressant market.
01:41:07.000And I know before people get into the whole antidepressant pharmaceutical, let's just assume for a second that depression is a thing for people.
01:41:13.000This is a new drug right now that, of course, it would be incredibly difficult to bring a lot of these drugs to market when it comes to other countries.
01:41:21.000I mean, there's no question that This policy could last for, let's call it, the next drug cycle.
01:41:27.000Because once you decide that you're going to kill the golden goose, which is what this is, you're going to chop them up and you're going to say, pharmaceutical profits go down the tubes.
01:41:40.000But the generic companies aren't the ones that are doing the research.
01:41:43.000And so ultimately, you're going to get five years, maybe you even get ten years down the road of having really, really, really cheap drugs.
01:41:50.000But you're only going to have cheap drugs of the ones that exist now.
01:42:03.000What you would have said then is there would have been a finite life at which the ability to innovate again would have ended because you would have no one else to fund it.
01:42:11.000Because no one else has the collective power to do this other than corporations.
01:42:15.000Are corporations sometimes guilty of doing things wrong?
01:43:34.000So what it does is it disperses shock among the teeth.
01:43:36.000A lot of people think it's like padding, it's like punching a pillow.
01:43:39.000What happens is if you hit someone on a mouth guard, it's almost impossible for you to knock out teeth because that rubber disperses the shock across all of your teeth.
01:43:45.000So it mitigates the damage from all that vibrational force, all that kinetic energy from going to one tooth.
01:43:53.000It's this idea that human beings are inherently flawed and so we put a mouth guard on it so that if somebody makes a mistake, it isn't happening at the hands of one giant centralized power that can screw everybody.
01:44:05.000Amazon, right now, if we found out was a part of one of the biggest scandals, couldn't be as damaging to the American public as the federal government if it were the scope that Bernie Sanders wanted.
01:44:16.000Okay, let's hear what this guy has to say.
01:46:39.000I like how he describes higher education as a crime, but that he doesn't want to punish people.
01:46:44.000It's not any kind of nuance other than that.
01:46:48.000But you do want to punish people for being fiscally responsible who paid their way through college.
01:46:53.000You want to punish them if they're making over $100,000 a year because, let's say Bill, they went to law school or medical school because you should pay for somebody who has a feminist studies degree.
01:48:26.000Andrew Breitbart, who they accused of being a racist, he came to prominence with the Tea Party, and back then so was Michelle Malkin, because they were complaining about the Wall Street bailout.
01:48:36.000Conservatives have never been pro-Wall Street bailout.
01:48:39.000As much as I hate the phrase red pilling, that was basically what the bailout was.
01:48:45.000A lot of people who are normally conservatives became conservatives because, wait a second, this is crap.
01:48:49.000Hold on a second, what just happened with her?
01:48:53.000I've got to tell you that a number of years ago I introduced the most sweeping legislation to combat climate change in the history of this country.
01:49:31.000Go back and read the climate predictions.
01:49:33.000We have it actually at lottowithbrenner.com.
01:49:35.000I think you can go read the top five climate predictions that didn't come true.
01:49:38.000By the way, not only An Inconvenient Truth, afterwards there was the Leonardo DiCaprio film with the polar bears, which was another prediction.
01:49:52.000By the way, you did away with all nuclear power in your home state of Vermont, and your carbon emissions went up, just like Germany moving to renewables, in comparison to France, who I think it's, what, 70-something percent is nuclear energy?
01:50:13.000Here's one thing no one wants to talk about nuclear energy.
01:50:31.000And by the way, it's not profitable to recycle.
01:50:34.000Even the biggest proponents of solar panels understand that it's actually cheaper to get new materials.
01:50:37.000Just like right now we have a problem with recycling because China isn't buying the crap that we're trying to sell them anymore to recycle.
01:50:43.000To recycle glass, for example, glass bottles, do you realize for that to be cost effective?
01:50:49.000Recycling glass has to be cheaper than sand.
01:50:53.000Okay, so now let's talk about solar panels.
01:50:57.000There are all kinds of rare precious metals, not to mention the kinds of batteries, which, by the way, Bill Gates invested over $1 billion in solar and wind and said, we don't have anything close to resembling the kind of battery capacities or capabilities that we need right now to be able to store long-term solar or wind energy.
01:52:05.000And you have to have backups for solar and wind.
01:52:07.000This is what they don't want to tell you.
01:52:08.000You have to have backups for solar and wind, which actually completely eradicate species, completely require clear-cutting of entire forests to work, and they're inefficient.
01:52:18.000But people... I'm sorry, you were going to say something.
01:52:20.000I was just gonna make fun of Bernie some more.
01:52:23.000No, but actually to build on to that point, I'm gonna again turn to Bernie's platform from his own website.
01:52:30.000I just want anyone who's out there listening who works in coal, natural gas, or crude oil, and who may have a co-worker or a family member who says, no no Bernie's not out here to destroy my livelihood, to remember the last bullet point under his environmental plank.
01:52:46.000End exports of coal, natural gas, and crude oil.
01:52:51.000End the ability of the United States to make money off of its own minerals, off of its own industries.
01:53:20.000Their carbon emissions are going up because they need a backup to it.
01:53:24.000People have this ill-conceived notion Because I, by the way, I'm building, I'm putting solar panels into our small lake cottage because I like the idea of being self-sustaining.
01:53:34.000But people have this idea that it's like a home solar panel kit that you can store into a lithium battery.
01:53:43.000The truth is, if you look at battery technology, yes, it accelerated very rapidly, and it's plateaued for a very long time.
01:53:51.000Whereas you look at the capabilities of what we have with nuclear reactors, and you look at nuclear fusion, or you look at even the way we can recycle it, To recycle nuclear waste, it's unbelievable.
01:53:59.000There have been far more advances in that than there have been in battery technology as it relates to storing solar or wind recently.
01:54:06.000Do you realize that if you use nuclear energy for the rest of your life, you, personally, you could fit the waste from half-Asian lawyer Bill Richmond in a Coke can?
01:54:27.000You could store all nuclear waste from the history of American nuclear energy use, all of it, from the history of the United States, in one football field, 50 feet high, in a concrete building.
01:54:41.000There's far more waste for solar or wind.
01:54:42.000I'm not saying that we shouldn't look at new energy sources, but they take energy sources off the table because of political expediency.
01:54:50.000The reason they don't want to talk about nuclear is because this idea of renewables, as they put it, it would be dead.
01:54:56.000It would be dead if people actually understood the economics of nuclear energy.
02:01:34.000By the way, let everyone know on social media because the notifications did not go out, which is why half-Asian lawyer Bill Richman is here.
02:02:41.000out. All right. What's Kamala got? What might be the end result? But that doesn't mean the process...
02:02:45.000Oh impeachment. That's right, Drink. All right. Thank you Senator. Let's talk about it because a lot...
02:02:50.000She was looking for an applause break.
02:02:52.000I can always tell as a comedian, when you're looking on the face, she's looking for an applause break and she's not rescued by the audience.
02:03:02.000She's actually one of the candidates I'm most interested in, only because from what I've been hearing, she has the... Hold on, I do need to hear the question.
02:03:14.000Two days ago was the 20th anniversary of the Columbine Massacre, but still, two decades later, no major gun control legislation has been passed.
02:03:21.000So my question is, as president, how will you go about keeping us safe and keeping guns out of the hands of those who should not have them?
02:03:54.000Like, all right, we're supposed to hold the NRA accountable.
02:03:56.000We're supposed to hold the gun manufacturers accountable.
02:03:58.000What about the government employees that are messing up the background checks in the first place that are causing people to get the guns that are shooting the kids?
02:04:04.000Bernie Sanders just pops out from the wings like, MAKE SURE THAT SON OF A BITCH CAN VOTE FROM HIS SINGLE CELL!
02:04:13.000...who have failed to have the courage to reject a false choice...
02:04:18.000Do you think Kamala was back there listening when Bernie said, definitely don't put armed guards in schools because that's what's gonna help.
02:04:25.000I came here to drink beer to listen to the Bernie impersonation.
02:05:06.000And you know this, the assault weapons ban, it didn't do anything.
02:05:10.000Well, I mean, when you look at the statistics about what's actually being done with firearms, what are actually being used by law enforcement versus what's being used in crimes, the types of guns that are being illegally used versus those that are actually Rightfully obtained.
02:05:25.000It's such a small percentage of guns that are actually legally obtained that would fall under the definition of assault rifle that are being used in these kinds of crimes.
02:05:33.000And when you look at all the different... Actually, I need to clarify.
02:05:36.000They don't say assault rifle is a military term.
02:05:38.000Assault weapon is a made-up term for True, true.
02:05:41.000But I love to hear how they mix them up all the time.
02:05:45.000And that's ultimately the issue is go ahead and enforce the laws that are actually on the books and let's see what happens.
02:05:51.000As opposed to saying we've got to go ahead and do new things.
02:05:53.000What she won't mention is 20 years ago in Columbine they weren't using weapons that would have otherwise qualified under the assault weapons ban.
02:06:03.000Didn't one of them have a 9mm carbine?
02:06:31.000This is one that you're not supposed to say.
02:06:33.000Because they'll obviously say this when we talk about the left being unpatriotic or they'll talk about Donald Trump sort of talking down to his voter base.
02:06:42.000Nearly all questions asked by the Democratic have been selfish prick questions.
02:06:46.000Sorry, they've been the kinds of questions that an asshole asks.
02:06:49.000Just picture yourself at a dinner table, okay?
02:06:52.000And you have all of your family members there and you have your head of household.
02:07:44.000If you make healthcare free, and all of a sudden you just classify pot as a drug for everything from hangover all the way to pancreatic cancer, well... I've got a headache right now.
02:07:54.000Because getting barbecued is a human right.
02:08:00.000Does anyone notice how much easier these questions are for Kamala than... I mean, I feel like they were actually fairly... I definitely think they were harder on Bernie than Warren or Kamala.
02:08:10.000But also, like, Bernie... Cuomo was actually harder on Bernie.
02:08:14.000Lemon and Anderson Cooper were just like, oh, you go girl.
02:08:17.000So what I would be requiring is that there be a robust process by which income-based repayment would be the norm.
02:08:27.000And finally, let's look at the fact that for all of you and anybody who has applied for financial aid, that is an awful process.
02:10:00.000But, you know, there's, I mean, there's a fair amount of costs, but never in a million years was there ever the thought in my mind that somehow this would be forgiven.
02:10:07.000I mean that at some point someone was going to come along with a magic wand and tell me that the debt that I signed my name on was just going to go poof.
02:10:15.000And let me ask you this, if you knew that the debt was going to be forgiven, Would you have maybe gone into a different field that you didn't know was guaranteed as profitable as, let's say, law or medicine?
02:10:39.000I mean, human nature is I mean, that's the concept of house money.
02:10:46.000And when you make everything house money, you're asking humans to somehow go against their nature.
02:10:51.000And that's what the whole platform is here.
02:10:53.000I've looked at all of their websites, and I haven't seen any one of them where they talk about free tuition, saying it only applies to, let's say, STEM fields, vocational colleges, or degrees that are clear.
02:11:03.000Basically, there should be some kind of delineation.
02:11:16.000I think you should do away with... I know you mentioned that you have scholarships, and some people right now, I can already see them going, Stephen's lawyer just proved the need for... No.
02:11:22.000If we didn't have scholarships or grants, overall cost of education would be lower, but you're not going to not take it when it's on the table.
02:11:41.000I mean, I believe in the ability of an institution to say if they want to encourage certain students to apply, I went to one school over scholarship versus another.
02:11:48.000I mean, I had other schools who offered me full rides that I turned down because I wanted to go to what I perceived to be a better institution.
02:11:54.000I think we're going to do this as a new segment.
02:11:57.000The Green New Deal actually kind of inspired it, it was only five pages, but we're going to do five-point solutions to major problems.
02:12:04.000Things like healthcare, things like education.
02:12:07.000This is one thing, obviously we haven't worked it out yet, but I do think that we should do away with all, we're talking about Pell Grants, student aid, scholarships, outside of serious academic or athletic scholarships, do away with it.
02:12:17.000And it seems to me that particularly in certain locations or STEM fields, law, Okay, make a complete tax deduction.
02:12:39.000Alright, if we make that price $50,000 a year, you can get yourself a Pell Grant, this school will get more money.
02:12:44.000We need to do away with all that that causes hyperinflation, and let's just look at the idea of making all higher education completely tax deductible.
02:12:52.000The other thing, I mean, you're talking about an actual reform, or if you're gonna reform something, you have to stop doing what you're doing now and do something different.
02:13:00.000With the Democrats, you aid college students and their idea of reform, I'm just gonna give you more money.
02:13:24.000Because you shouldn't have to pay money for your health care.
02:13:27.000That's created a magical land of chocolate rivers and midgets on tricycles where Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren spin
02:13:35.000recycled trash into golden yarn and insulin shots.
02:13:40.000I don't understand this idea that you don't have to pay money for your drugs.
02:13:43.000The barrier to entry shouldn't be if you're able to pay for innovative health care that has costs Pharmaceutical companies are caretaking billions of dollars to create and invest in?
02:13:56.000The barrier to entry should just be me!
02:14:03.000If the buried entry isn't a cost analysis, what is it?
02:16:08.000Can we just take a moment to appreciate that earlier you gave a trap, but I said, hey, good-looking girl, she's a conservative, and the one guy who said, hey, he looks normal.
02:16:20.000The only two people who, if they were knocking door-to-door, you would let into your house were conservatives.
02:16:29.000By the way, if Ken Bone showed up, I would just lose my shit right now.
02:16:33.000I think you would literally have to drop the microphone and just end the livestream.
02:16:40.000Earlier I was looking at Bernie's website, and I'll say this for him, it's really easy to find his position on the points.
02:16:49.000I've been browsing around on Kamala's website and you can't find anything that lists what her actual positions are on anything.
02:17:11.000To be fair though, if you have actual possessions on your website, you should fire all of your consultants.
02:17:17.000Across the board, people are being impacted by this.
02:17:19.000Let's also look at the fact that we have, in so many states, great work that is happening that is actually contributing to the economy around an investment in renewable energy.
02:17:29.000Like the Bureau of Labor Statistics came out with a list last year of the top 20 jobs that are going to see the greatest amount of growth in our country over the next 10 years.
02:17:38.000Number one and number two, installation and maintenance of wind turbines and solar panels.
02:17:44.000Let's look at it in the context of what we know to be true about water.
02:17:46.000Water is a precious and diminishing resource on our planet.
02:17:49.000Would you look at what's happening around shifting populations around the globe?
02:17:52.000here is more pilgrims they don't understand they talk about unemployment
02:17:56.000if they just Bernie mentioned this in the Donald in the Fox News Town Hall you
02:18:01.000know unemployment was going down under Obama and that well hold a second
02:18:05.000We're not just talking about overall unemployment numbers when you fund the numbers and you include government jobs, shovel-ready jobs, and you don't include people who've left, effectively, the workforce looking for a job.
02:18:17.000No, we don't care if you're talking about things like Solyndra or you're talking about federally subsidizing losing technologies or unprofitable technologies.
02:19:03.000And the solution will be because we change our behaviors without much requirement of change to lifestyle, and it will be urgent in terms of the work we need to do and the approach we need to have, but we can see success.
02:20:49.000The whole place looks like a big poop!
02:20:51.000He's like, I'll take a picture one day of all the... Alright, go get yourself one more... We're gonna make it through one more commercial break, and then I'm calling it quits.
02:22:25.000A lot of people, when people come up and say they're fans, and I go, oh, they go, oh, I love your feminist film festival, or oh, I love the undercover.
02:22:33.000You're just watching the biggest videos.
02:22:35.000What allows us to also do a stream of something like this, which is very important.
02:22:40.000You know, people talk about this where you only cover things that are good for ratings.
02:22:43.000There probably couldn't... I couldn't name anything that would be worse for a conservative's program's ratings than four hours or three hours of a CNN town hall live stream.
02:23:33.000But they told us, remember YouTube, they sent us a letter saying that if you upload more than three pieces of content in a 24 hour period, you won't be notified.
02:23:41.000We have screen grabs that show us that the Young Turks, and a lot of us are subscribed to them, notifications left and right three times a day.
02:23:48.000And we're not uploading more than one piece of content per day.
02:23:54.000When you're out there tweeting, let's make sure, when you're out there tweeting, if you got them before and you're not getting them now, just let us know.
02:25:24.000You're right, though, that when you look at the numbers and you look at the quotas, I mean, the number of lawsuits have been going on about this very issue.
02:25:43.000Okay, let's hear right now what she's answered.
02:25:44.000It's to overlook the facts of history.
02:25:47.000Is it just me, or is it amazing that every single major Democratic candidate supports reparations?
02:25:53.000Isn't this just some crazy fringe idea?
02:25:56.000Come on now, that's a little bit nutty.
02:25:57.000You're a 14-year-old named Skyler, named Vanessa Chambers, and you actually have benefited from affirmative action, all these government programs, and more public funding to education.
02:26:09.000Now they're just going like, yes, reparations.
02:26:11.000We need to talk about how to best implement it.
02:26:14.000Well, what I think it is, is because, I mean, Democrats are smart enough to hide these things.
02:26:18.000I think they view Donald Trump as an easy win because of whatever polls, pick a reason.
02:26:25.000But because of that, they figured this is the one time where we could run as us and say like, well, yeah, say this is what we campaigned on and you elected us and they're counting on an easy victory.
02:26:36.000I think they're making a huge mistake.
02:26:38.000There are real factors that can be associated with trauma, and when you are talking about the years and years and years of trauma that we're experiencing because of slavery, because of Jim Crow, and because of all that we've seen in terms of institutional and legal discrimination and racism, this is very real, and it needs to be studied, and we need to look at exactly how the response should be.
02:27:01.000Let's just say, hypothetically speaking, everything she said is accurate.
02:27:05.000My family didn't come to this country until the 1900s and never left New York.
02:27:08.000So we were never here when they were slaves.
02:27:11.000We never lived in a state or participated in anything with Jim Crow.
02:27:29.000If Latinos don't pay, if Asians don't pay, if, uh, I know, obviously I repeat myself, if Indian Americans don't pay, if Persian Americans don't pay, Is it only white Americans?
02:27:39.000And then do you say only white Americans who clearly come from lineages that have owned slaves?
02:27:43.000And then it should only apply to black Americans who are direct descendants of slaves.
02:27:47.000This is what it just doesn't function unless you're talking about a bogus social justice agenda.
02:28:18.000So one of the things that Kamala did say in a recent interview was that, in her mind, one version of reparations is going to be mental health treatment for African Americans.
02:29:43.000I know she said the N word and stuff, but the truth is if you look at they say y'all and all their expressions, white southerners have a lot more in common culturally with a lot of black, a lot of northern black Americans.
02:29:55.000then people understand and a big part of that is food.
02:29:58.000White Southerners eat catfish a lot. Listen, I've lived in Michigan. Okay, if you went into the inner
02:30:04.000city, there's a place that I used to go to, it's called Alibaba. It had half Indian food and half soul
02:30:35.000There are populations that have problems.
02:30:39.000I mean, there's obesity and it cuts across demographics, but to be able to say that every single instance of current heart disease amongst an entire demographic is due to something that happened 200 years ago is a problem.
02:30:54.000If you legalize the sex industry, how will you protect sex workers?
02:34:45.000How about if someone attempts to kill them and they survive, you just have to provide them with the same kind of healthcare that you think is a human right to everybody else?
02:35:01.000Now we're getting into great territory.
02:35:02.000Oh, so if it's a college dropout who's 24 years old who did a degree in underwater basket weaving, we're supposed to pay for her, but if it's a baby who survives a botched abortion, leave it in a wastebasket to die?
02:35:53.000Yeah, we're getting in trouble because a lot of the kids were skipping school.
02:35:59.000Like, hashtag not all black people, but they get mad at her for that.
02:36:03.000It's kind of like we talked about with crack laws.
02:36:06.000This was pushed by a lot of black mothers in their communities because they thought crack was actually destroying their own communities.
02:36:11.000This idea that crack disproportionately targets black Americans, by the way, meth also disproportionately targets white Americans, this was initially requested by the black community because they saw it destroying their neighborhoods.
02:36:22.000Here's the thing, with the truancy issue, I believe she was probably trying, that's an instance where she was probably going out trying to do the right thing.
02:36:29.000And now everyone's playing politics with it because, unfortunately, some black parents were affected negatively because their kids were skipping school.
02:36:36.000But it's not even the parents who are pushing it, I think it's like the kids who don't read history because it's not taught anymore.
02:36:41.000No, I think there was, if I'm not mistaken, there was something going on with black parents because of the transition.
02:36:48.000Well, no, I mean, the reason why it's an issue today is because of college students pushing it because they know nothing about the history.
02:36:55.000You know, here's one thing I find to be ironic.
02:37:35.000She recently talks about the kind of first signs of regret about this project, but I actually think it reveals the practical realities of enforcing existing laws.
02:37:45.000She was out there enforcing the laws that actually exist to try and better America.
02:37:49.000To try and create a change in how these kids were going about their view of school.
02:37:55.000And trying to get them to be in school and to say, there are consequences with the problems you have.
02:37:59.000But now, even Democratic strategists are saying, it's kind of hard to be a progressive prosecutor Enforcing the laws is counterintuitive with being a democratic candidate in this election.
02:38:11.000And by the way, it's not like she was prosecuting people for a baggie of weed.
02:38:41.000But people who are convicted in prison, like the Boston Marathon bomber, on death row, people who are convicted of sexual assault, they should be able to vote?
02:38:50.000I think we should have that conversation.
02:41:39.000So, like, this week will you have a song on My My Hey Hey about Kamala Harris?
02:41:44.000I don't know, but now we have Van Jones going into prison.
02:41:47.000And I usually, I don't like this because I feel like this could be a sitcom where he accidentally gets, like, Ernest goes to jail and they don't let him leave.
02:42:34.000The main reason I never bothered with Game of Thrones is because everyone has a Game of Thrones part and they're like, alright, there's no way this is not going to suck.
02:43:01.000There was a while when cable channels first started doing TV shows where as long as they had boobs and cursing, it was considered a good show.
02:44:10.000The other part of it is understanding that in this inflection moment, there are very powerful voices in our country right now that are trying to sow hate and division among us.
02:44:49.000It's in one page of a multi, I think, hundred page document on a website that could be misconstrued as supporting therapy for homosexuals.
02:45:01.000And he's openly come out and said he did not support conversion therapy.
02:45:05.000Here's the funny thing about that, because prior to ButtGig thinking that he's running against Mike Pence and not Trump?
02:45:12.000He never wrote a word about him in his biography.
02:45:14.000Right, but... He didn't have any disagreements.
02:45:17.000Mike Pence treated him with the utmost respect.
02:45:19.000You can look through a laundry list of quotes where ButtGig was talking about how Mike Pence and him were able to work together, and only now does he have a problem.
02:45:26.000Well, right, because a couple weeks ago, the think pieces started to come out that ButtGig isn't gay enough.
02:45:32.000Because... Well, no, seriously... His name is ButtGig.
02:45:35.000I know, it's just funny coming from his mouth.
02:45:40.000Well, no, because basically, like, you know, he's only sexually attracted to the same sex and married to one of them, he doesn't march in parades or get angry and do protests.
02:45:48.000And ever since those thing pieces started to come out, he started running against Mike Pence for president, even though he's supposed to be running against Donald Trump.
02:45:56.000He needs a rainbow suit, that's what he needs.
02:47:45.000This is because there's a huge problem right now within the Democratic Party about whether
02:47:57.000or not they should go for their normal policy.
02:48:01.000The normal view is if we just win enough rural white voters like we've traditionally done, we'll be able to succeed in an election.
02:48:08.000But here a lot of them have kind of gone Full minority.
02:48:11.000They've said, you know what, let's just ignore the white voters, and that's what she's talking about here.
02:48:15.000The guy in the Midwest is quote-unquote a white guy, right?
02:48:19.000Because again, you know, if you're going to have reparations, you're going to have to define what white means or who the people are going to pay, or you're just going to have to admittedly make a bunch of people pay who didn't have anything to do with it.
02:48:28.000But that's what they're talking about when they talk about codes, is who are the people that they're now going to ignore, and that's what she's talking about.
02:48:36.000The thing is, people act as though Donald Trump completely changed the electoral map.
02:52:11.000You know, I really think someone should bring a lawsuit against CNN for not adequately representing all the other letters of the alphabet.
02:52:19.000They had other questions that had three or four lines.
02:52:22.000Why could they add the other letters here?
02:52:24.000Ladies and gentlemen, if you are out there, and it's probably no one I'm actually talking to right now, really offended by the lack of letters, writes your local senator.
02:52:33.000Do you realize that I actually had people complain when we did the Feminist Film Festival?
02:53:10.000But going back to your question about, like, you know, if felons should vote, what if the felon, you know, attacked a member of the LGBTQAI, whatever we're calling them, I wonder what Bernie Sanders would think of that.
02:53:56.000I guarantee you he smelled Kamala Harris.
02:54:00.000The past couple of years have seen young people getting involved in politics and activism, organizing around issues such as gun control and climate change.
02:54:52.000I think one of the downsides of the way that our system is currently constructed, but thanks to CNN for doing this town hall with students, is that if people don't vote or they don't write checks, they don't get hurt.
02:55:04.000Do you know why you have to pay an additional fee until you're 25 to rent a car?
02:55:09.000Because the brain is not fully developed, particularly this portion of the brain that takes into account risk-taking.
02:55:14.000I think we should just consistently make it one age across the board.
02:55:17.000That's why I have to pay an extra $19.99 when I go to frickin' Hertz.
02:55:21.000But I can elect the next leader of the free world.
02:55:25.000By the way, I think drinking, voting, guns, cars, I think we should just consistently