{{"Lester Holt" -> "Good evening, everyone. I'm Lester Holt, and welcome to the first Democratic debate to the 2020 race for president.\nSAVANNAH", "Savannah Guthrie" -> "Hi, I'm Savannah Guthrie. And tonight, it's our first chance to see these candidates go head to head on stage together.\nWe'll be joined in our questioning time by our colleagues, Jose Diaz-Balart, Chuck Todd, and Rachel Maddow.", "Lester Holt" -> "Voters are trying to nail down where the candidates stand on the issues, what sets them apart, and which of these presidential hopefuls has what it takes.", "Savannah Guthrie" -> "Well, now it's time to find out.", "ANNOUNCER" -> "Tonight, round one. New Jersey Senator Cory Booker. Former Housing Secretary Julian Castro. New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio. Former Maryland Congressman John Delaney. Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard. Washington Governor Jay Inslee. Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar. Former Texas Congressman Beto O'Rourke. Ohio Congressman Tim Ryan. And Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren.\nFrom NBC News, \"Decision 2020,\" the Democratic candidates debate, live from the Adrienne Arsht Performing Arts Center in Miami, Florida.", "Lester Holt" -> "And good evening again, everyone. Welcome to the candidates and to our audience here in Miami here in the Arts Center and all across the country. Tonight we're going to take on many of the most pressing issues of the moment, including immigration, the situation unfolding at our border, and the treatment of migrant children.", "Savannah Guthrie" -> "And we're going to talk about the tensions with Iran, climate change, and of course, we'll talk about the economy, those kitchen table issues so many Americans face every day.", "Jose Diaz-Balart" -> "And some quick rules of the road. Before we begin, 20 candidates qualified for this first debate. We'll hear from 10 tonight and 10 more tomorrow. The breakdown for each was selected at random. The candidates will have 60 seconds to answer and 30 seconds for any follow-ups.", "Lester Holt" -> "Because of this large field, not every person will be able to comment on every topic, but over the course of the next two hours, we will hear from everyone. We'd also like to ask the audience to keep the reactions to a minimum. We are not going to be shy about making sure the candidates stick to time tonight.", "Savannah Guthrie" -> "All right. So with that business out of the way, we want to get to it. And we'll start this evening with Senator Elizabeth Warren.\nSenator, good evening to you.\nELIZABETH", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "Thank you. Good to be here.", "Savannah Guthrie" -> "You have many plans -- free college, free child care, government health care, cancellation of student debt, new taxes, new regulations, the breakup of major corporations. But this comes at a time when 71 percent of Americans say the economy is doing well, including 60 percent of Democrats. What do you say to those who worry this kind of significant change could be risky to the economy?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "So I think of it this way. Who is this economy really working for? It's doing great for a thinner and thinner slice at the top. It's doing great for giant drug companies. It's just not doing great for people who are trying to get a prescription filled.\nIt's doing great for people who want to invest in private prisons, just not for the African-Americans and Latinx whose families are torn apart, whose lives are destroyed, and whose communities are ruined.\nIt's doing great for giant oil companies that want to drill everywhere, just not for the rest of us who are watching climate change bear down upon us.\nWhen you've got a government, when you've got an economy that does great for those with money and isn't doing great for everyone else, that is corruption, pure and simple. We need to call it out. We need to attack it head on. And we need to make structural change in our government, in our economy, and in our country.", "Savannah Guthrie" -> "Senator Klobuchar, you've called programs like free college something you might do if you were, quote, \"a magic genie.\" To be blunt, are the government programs and benefits that some of your rivals are offering giving your voters, people, a false sense of what's actually achievable?\nAMY", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "Well, first, the economy. We know that not everyone is sharing in this prosperity. And Donald Trump just sits in the White House and gloats about what's going on, when you have so many people that are having trouble affording college and having trouble affording their premiums.\nSo I do get concerned about paying for college for rich kids. I do. But I think my plan is a good one. And my plan would be to, first of all, make community college free and make sure that everyone else besides that top percentile gets help with their education.\nMy own dad and my sister got their first degrees with community college. There's many paths to success, as well as certifications.\nSecondly, I'd used Pell grants. I'd double them from $6,000 to $12,000 a year and expand it to the number of families that get covered, to families that make up to $100,000.\nAnd then the third thing I would do is make it easier for students to pay off their student loans. Because I can tell you this: If billionaires can pay off their yachts, students should be able to pay off their student loans.", "Savannah Guthrie" -> "That's time, thank you. Congressman O'Rourke, what we've just been discussing and talking about is how much fundamental change to the economy is desirable and how much is actually doable. In that vein, some Democrats want a marginal individual tax rate of 70 percent on the very highest earners, those making more than $10 million a year. Would you support that? And if not, what would your top individual rate be?\nBETO", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "This economy has got to work for everyone. And right now, we know that it isn't. And it's going to take all of us coming together to make sure that it does.", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "Right now, we have a system that favors those who can pay for access and outcomes. That's how you explain an economy that is rigged to corporations and to the very wealthiest. A $2 trillion tax cut that favored corporations while they were sitting on record piles of cash and the very wealthiest in this country at a time of historic wealth inequality.\nA new democracy that is revived because we've returned power to the people, no PACs, no gerrymandering, automatic and same-day voter registration to bring in more voters, and a new Voting Rights Act to get rid of the barriers that are in place now...", "Savannah Guthrie" -> "Congressman O'Rourke\[Ellipsis]", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "That's how we each have a voice in our democracy and make this economy work for everybody.", "Savannah Guthrie" -> "Congressman, that's time, sir. I'll give you 10 seconds to answer if you want to answer the direct question. Would you support a 70 percent individual marginal tax rate? Yes, no, or pass?", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "I would support a tax rate and a tax code that is fair to everyone. Tax capital at the same right...", "Savannah Guthrie" -> "Seventy percent?", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "... that you -- you tax ordinary income. Take that corporate tax rate up to 28 percent. You would generate the revenues...", "Savannah Guthrie" -> "OK, that's time.", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "... you need to pay for the programs we're talking about.", "Savannah Guthrie" -> "That's time. Thank you. Senator Booker, there is a debate in this party right now about the role of corporations, as you know. Senator Warren in particular put out a plan to break up tech companies like Facebook, Amazon, and Google. You've said we should not, quote, \"be running around pointing at companies and breaking them up without any kind of process.\" Why do you disagree?\nCORY", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "I don't think I disagree. I think we have a serious problem in our country with corporate consolidation. And you see the evidence of that in how dignity is being stripped from labor, and we have people that work full-time jobs and still can't make a living wage.\nWe see that because consumer prices are being raised by pharmaceutical companies that often have monopolistic holds on drugs. And you see that by just the fact that this is actually an economy that's hurting small businesses and not allowing them to compete.\nOne of the most aggressive bills in the Senate to deal with corporate consolidation is mine about corporate consolidation in the ag sector. So I feel very strongly about the need to check the corporate consolidation and let the free market work.\nAnd I'll tell you this. I live in a low-income black and brown community. I see every single day that this economy is not working for average Americans. The indicators that are being used, from GDP to Wall Street's rankings, is not helping people in my community. It is about time that we have an economy that works for everybody, not just the wealthiest in our nation.", "Savannah Guthrie" -> "But quickly, Senator Booker, you did say that you didn't think it was right to name names, to name companies and single them out, as Senator Warren has. Briefly, why is that?", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "Well, again, I will single out companies like Halliburton or Amazon that pay nothing in taxes and our need to change that. And when it comes to antitrust law, what I will do is, number one, appoint judges that will enforce it, number two, have a DOJ and a Federal Trade Commission that will go through the processes necessary to check this kind of corporate concentration.\nAt the end of the day, we have too much of a problem with corporate power growing. We see that with everything from Citizens United and the way they're trying to influence Washington. It's about time that we have a president that fights for the people in this country...", "Savannah Guthrie" -> "That's time, sir.", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "We need to have someone that's a champion for them.", "Savannah Guthrie" -> "Thank you, Senator. Senator Warren, I mentioned you...", "Savannah Guthrie" -> "Are you picking winners and losers?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "So the way I understand this, it's there is way too much consolidation now in giant industries in this country. That hurts workers. It hurts small businesses. It hurts independent farmers. It hurts our economy overall.\nAnd it helps constrict real innovation and growth in this economy.\nNow, look, we've had the laws out there for a long time to be able to fight back. What's been missing is courage, courage in Washington to take on the giants. That's part of the corruption in this system.\nIt has been far too long that the monopolies have been making the campaign contributions, have been funding the super PACs, have been out there making sure that their influence is heard and felt in every single decision that gets made in Washington. Where I want to start this is I want to return government to the people, and that means calling out the names of the monopolists and saying I have the courage to go after them.", "Savannah Guthrie" -> "Thank you.", "Lester Holt" -> "Secretary Castro, the next question is for you. Democrats have been talking about the pay gap for decades. What would you do to ensure that women are paid fairly in this country?\nJULI\[CapitalAAcute]N", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "Thank you very much for that question, Lester. You know, I grew up with a mother who raised my brother, Joaquin, and me as a single parent. And I know what it's like to struggle. I know what it's like to rent a home and to worry about whether you're going to be able to pay the rent at the first of the month and to see a mom work very, very hard and know that moms across this country are getting paid less simply because they're women.\nI would do several things, starting with something we should have done a long time ago, which is to pass the Equal Rights Amendment finally in this country.\nAnd also pursue legislation so that women are paid equal pay for equal work in this country. It's past time that we did that. And, you know, we have to do this. If we want to be the most prosperous nation in the 21st century, we need to make sure that women are paid what they deserve.", "Lester Holt" -> "All right, thank you. I want to put the same question to Congresswoman Gabbard. Your thoughts on equal pay?\nTULSI", Entity["Person", "TulsiGabbard::839d6"] -> "First of all, let's recognize the situation we're in, that the American people deserve a president who will put your interests ahead of the rich and powerful. That's not what we have right now.\nI enlisted in the Army National Guard after the Al Qaida terror attacks on 9/11 so I could go after those who had attacked us on that day. I still serve as a major. I served over 16 years, deployed twice to the Middle East, and in Congress served on the Foreign Affairs and Armed Services Affairs for over six years.\nI know the importance of our national security, as well as the terribly high cost of war. And for too long, our leaders have failed us, taking us from one regime change war to the next, leading us into a new cold war and arms race, costing us trillions of our hard-earned taxpayer dollars and countless lives.\nThis insanity must end. As president, I will take your hard-earned taxpayer dollars and instead invest those dollars into serving your needs, things like health care, a green economy, good-paying jobs, protecting our environment, and so much more.", "Jose Diaz-Balart" -> "Mayor De Blasio, good evening. You're the mayor of the biggest city in the United States, but it's also one of the cities in the country with the greatest gap between the wealthy and the poor. How would you address income inequality?\nBILL", Entity["Person", "BillDeBlasio::5777v"] -> "Well, we've been addressing income inequality in New York City by raising wages, by raising benefits, by putting money back in the hands of working people, $15 minimum wage, paid sick days, pre-K for all, things that are making a huge difference in working people's lives.\nBut let me tell you, what we're hearing here already in the first round of questions is that battle for the heart and soul of our party. I want to make it clear. This is supposed to be the party of working people. Yes, we're supposed to be for a 70 percent tax rate on the wealthy. Yes, we're supposed to be for free college, free public college, for our young people. We are supposed to break up big corporations when they're not serving our democracy.\nThis Democratic Party has to be strong and bold and progressive. And in New York, we've proven that we can do something very different, we can put money back in the hands of working people. And let me tell you, every time you talk about investing in people and their communities, you hear folks say there's not enough money. What I say to them every single time is, there's plenty of money in this world, there's plenty of money in this country. It's just in the wrong hands. Democrats have to fix that.", "Jose Diaz-Balart" -> "Congressman Delaney, do you agree?\nJOHN", Entity["Person", "JohnDelaney::2752x"] -> "I think we have to do real things to help American workers and the American people. Right? This is the issue that all of us hear on the campaign trail. We need to make sure everyone has a living wage. And I've called for a doubling of the earned income tax credit, raising the minimum wage, and creating paid family leave. That will create a situation where people actually have a living wage. That gets right to workers.\nThen we've got to fix our public education system. It's not delivering the results our kids needs, nor is college and post high school career and technical training programs doing that. You know, I'm very different than everyone else here on the stage. Prior to being in Congress, I was an entrepreneur. I started two businesses. I created thousands of jobs. I spent my whole career helping small- to mid-sized businesses all over the country, 5,000 of them I supported. The Obama administration gave me an award for lending to disadvantaged communities.\nI know how to create jobs. We need a short-term strategy which is to put money in the pockets of workers with the earned income tax credit, raising the minimum wage, and creating family leave, and then we need to have a long-term strategy to make sure this country is competitive and we're creating jobs everywhere in this country.", "Jose Diaz-Balart" -> "Thank you. Governor Inslee, how would you address income inequality?\nJAY", Entity["Person", "JayInslee::pt86r"] -> "Well, I'm a little bit surprised. I think plans are great, but I'm a governor. And we've got to realize the people who brought us the weekend, unions, need -- are going to bring us a long overdue raise in America.\nAnd I'm proud of standing up for unions. I've got a plan to reinvigorate collective bargaining so we can increase wages finally. I marched with the SEIU folks. It is not right that the CEO of McDonald's makes 2,100 times more than the people slinging cash at McDonald's.\nAnd the next thing I'll do is put people to work in the jobs of the present and the future. Look it, Donald Trump is simply wrong. He says wind turbines cause cancer. We know they cause jobs. And we know that we can put millions of people to work in the clean energy jobs of the future.\nIBEW members, machinists, we're doing it in my state today. And then we can do what America always does: lead the world and invent the future and put people to work. That's what we're going to do...", "Jose Diaz-Balart" -> "So, Congressman Ryan, President Trump, and you just referred to him, promise of manufacturing jobs were all coming back to places like your home state of Ohio. Can you make that same promise?\nTIM", Entity["Person", "TimRyan::zz9nd"] -> "Yes, I believe you can, but, first, let's say the president came, he said don't sell your house to people in Youngstown, Ohio. And then his administration just in the last two years, we lost $4,000 -- 4,000 jobs at a General Motors facility. That rippled throughout our community. General Motors got a tax cut. General Motors got a bailout. And then they have the audacity to move a new car that they're going to produce to Mexico.\nI've had family members that have to unbolt a machine from the factory floor, put it in a box, and ship it to China. My area where I come from in northeast Ohio, this issue we're talking about here, it's been going on 40 years. This is not a new phenomenon in the United States of America.\nThe bottom 60 percent haven't seen a raise since 1980. Meanwhile, the top 1 percent control 90 percent of the wealth. We need an industrial policy saying we're going to dominate building electric vehicles, there's going to be 30 million made in the next 10 years. I want half of them made in the United States. I want to dominate the solar industry...", "Jose Diaz-Balart" -> "Thank you.", Entity["Person", "TimRyan::zz9nd"] -> "... and manufacture those here in the United States.", "Jose Diaz-Balart" -> "Senator Warren, are they coming back? Are these jobs coming back?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "So we've had an industrial policy in the United States for decades now, and it's basically been let giant corporations do whatever they want to do. Giant corporations have exactly one loyalty, and that is to profits. And if they can save a nickel by moving a job to Mexico or to Asia or to Canada, they're going to do it.\nSo here's what I propose for an industrial policy. Start with a place where there's a real need. There's going to be a worldwide need for green technology, ways to clean up the air, ways to clean up the water. And we can be the ones to provide that. We need to go tenfold in our research and development on green energy going forward.\nAnd then we need to say any corporation can come and use that research. They can make all kinds of products from it, but they have to be manufactured right here in the United States of America.\nAnd then we have to double down and sell it around the world. There's a $23 trillion market coming for green products. We should be the leaders and the owners, and we should have that 1.2 million manufacturing jobs here in America.", "Jose Diaz-Balart" -> "Thank you.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "We can do this.", "Lester Holt" -> "All right. We're going to turn to the issue of health care right now and really try to understand where there may or may not be daylight between you. Many people watching at home have health insurance coverage through their employer. Who here would abolish their private health insurance in favor of a government-run plan? Just a show of hands, start off with.\nAll right, well, Senator Klobuchar, let me put the question to you. You're one of the Democrats who wants to keep private insurance in addition to a government health care plan. Why is an incremental approach in your view better than a sweeping overhaul?", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "Well, I think it's a bold approach. It's something that Barack Obama wanted to do when we were working on the Affordable Care Act. And that is a public option. I am just simply concerned about kicking half of America off of their health insurance in four years, which is exactly what this bill says. So let me go on beyond that. There is a much bigger issue in addition to that, and that is pharmaceuticals. The president literally went on TV, on Fox, and said that people's heads would spin when they see how much he would bring down pharmaceutical prices. Instead, 2,500 drugs have gone up in double-digits since he came into office. Instead, he gave $100 billion in giveaways to the pharma companies.\nFor the rest of us, for the rest of America, that's what we call at home all foam and no beer. We got nothing out of it.\nAnd so my proposal is to do something about pharma, to take them on, to allow negotiation under Medicare, to bring in less expensive drugs from other countries. And pharma thinks they own Washington? Well, they don't own me.", "Lester Holt" -> "Your time is up. Thank you. Senator Warren, you signed on to Bernie Sanders' Medicare for all plan. It would put essentially everybody on Medicare and then eliminate private plans that offer similar coverage. Is that the plan or path that you would pursue as president?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "So, yes. I'm with Bernie on Medicare for all. And let me tell you why.\nI spent a big chunk of my life studying why families go broke. And one of the number-one reasons is the cost of health care, medical bills. And that's not just for people who don't have insurance. It's for people who have insurance.\nLook at the business model of an insurance company. It's to bring in as many dollars as they can in premiums and to pay out as few dollars as possible for your health care. That leaves families with rising premiums, rising copays, and fighting with insurance companies to try to get the health care that their doctors say that they and their children need. Medicare for all solves that problem.\nAnd I understand. There are a lot of politicians who say, oh, it's just not possible, we just can't do it, have a lot of political reasons for this. What they're really telling you is they just won't fight for it. Well, health care is a basic human right, and I will fight for basic human rights...", "Lester Holt" -> "Congressman O'Rourke, when you ran for Senate, you also praised a bill that would replace private insurance. This year, you're saying you're no longer sure. Can you explain why?", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "My goal is to ensure that every American is well enough to live to their full potential because they have health care. In Laredo, Texas, I met a young man, 27 years old, told me that he'd been to a doctor once in his life. And on that visit, he was told he had diabetes, he was told he had glaucoma, and he was told untreated -- because he doesn't have health care -- he'll be dead before the age of 40.\nSo getting to guaranteed, high-quality, universal health care as quickly and surely as possible has to be our goal. The ability to afford your prescriptions and go to a primary care provider, to be -- the ability to see a mental health care provider. In Texas, the single largest provider of mental health care services is the county jail system today. And health care also has to mean that every woman can make her own decisions about her own body and has access to the care that makes that possible.\nOur plan says that if you're uninsured, we enroll you in Medicare. If you're insufficiently insured, you can't afford your premiums, we enroll you in Medicare. But if you're a member of a union that negotiated for a health care plan that you like because it works for you and your family, you're able to keep it.", "Lester Holt" -> "Your time is up.", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "We preserve choice by making sure everybody has care.", "Lester Holt" -> "Your time is up, Congressman, but I do want to ask a follow-up on this. Just to be very clear -- I'll give you 10 seconds -- would you replace private insurance?", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "No. I think the choice is fundamental to our ability to get everybody cared for...", Entity["Person", "BillDeBlasio::5777v"] -> "Wait, wait, wait. Congressman O'Rourke, Congressman O'Rourke, private insurance is not working for tens of millions of Americans when you talk about the co-pays, the deductibles, the premiums, the out of pocket expenses. It's not working. How can you defend a system that's not working?", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "That's right. So for those for whom it's not working, they can choose Medicare. For the...", Entity["Person", "BillDeBlasio::5777v"] -> "Congressman...", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "... who I listen to...", Entity["Person", "BillDeBlasio::5777v"] -> "... you've got to start by acknowledging the system is not working for people.", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "... they're able to keep them.", Entity["Person", "BillDeBlasio::5777v"] -> "Why are you defending private insurance to begin with?", Entity["Person", "JohnDelaney::2752x"] -> "... 100 million Americans say they like their private health insurance, by the way. It should be noted that 100 million Americans -- I mean, I think we should be the party that keeps what's working and fixes what's broken.\nI mean, doesn't that make sense? I mean, we should give everyone in this country health care as a basic human right for free, full stop. But we should also give them the option to buy private insurance. Why do we have to stand for taking away something from people? And also it's bad policy. If you go to every hospital in this country and you ask them one question, which is how would it have been for you last year if every one of your bills were paid at the Medicare rate? Every single hospital administrator said they would close.\nAnd the Medicare for all bill requires payments to stay at current Medicare rates. So to some extent, we're supporting a bill that will have every hospital closing. I mean, my dad was a union electrician, right? I actually grew up in a working-class family. He loved the health care that the IBEW gave him. And I just always think about my dad in anything I would do from a policy perspective. He'd look at me and he'd say, good job, John, for getting health care for every American. But why are you taking my health care away?", "Lester Holt" -> "I've let this -- I've let this play out a little bit because I'm fascinated to hear the daylight between you. Congresswoman Gabbard, why don't you weigh in here?", Entity["Person", "TulsiGabbard::839d6"] -> "I think we're talking about this in the wrong way. You're talking about one bill over another bill. Really, what we're talking about is our objective, making sure that every single sick American in this country is able to get the health care that they need.\nI believe Medicare for all is the way to do that. I also think that employers will recognize how much money will be saved by supporting a Medicare for all program, a program that will reduce the administrative costs, reduce the bureaucratic costs, and make sure that everyone gets that quality health care that they need.\nI also think that...", "Lester Holt" -> "Senator...", Entity["Person", "TulsiGabbard::839d6"] -> "... if you -- if you look at other countries in the world who have universal health care, every one of them has some form of a role of private insurance, so I think that's what we've got to look at, taking the best of these ideas, but making sure unequivocally that no sick American goes without getting the care that they need, regardless of how much or little money they have in their pocket.", "Lester Holt" -> "Congresswoman, Congresswoman, thanks.", "Lester Holt" -> "Let me turn to Senator Booker on this. Senator Booker, explain to me where you are. This is hugely important to people. So tell us where you are.", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "I absolutely will. First of all, we're talking about this as a health care issue, but in communities like mine, low-income communities, it's an education issue, because kids who don't have health care are not going to succeed in school. It is an issue for jobs and employment, because people who do not have good health care do not succeed at work. It's even a retirement issue, because in my community, African-Americans have a lower life expectancy because of poorer health care.\nAnd so where I stand is very clear. Health care -- it's not just a human right, it should be an American right. And I believe the best way to get there is Medicare for all. But I have an urgency about this. When I am president of the United States, I'm not going to wait. We have to do the things immediately that are going to provide better care. And on this debate, I'm sorry. There are too many people profiteering off of the pain of people in America, from pharmaceutical companies to insurers.\nLiterally, the overhead for insurances that they charge is 15 percent, while Medicare's overhead is only at 2 percent. We can do this better. And every single day, I will be fighting to give people more access and more affordable costs until we get to my goal...", "Lester Holt" -> "Your time is up, Senator.", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "... which is every American having health care.", "Lester Holt" -> "Time is up, Senator. I want to...", "Lester Holt" -> "I want to move back, if I can, to Congresswoman Gabbard...", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "... point, though, and that is that the insurance companies last year alone sucked $23 billion in profits out of the health care system, $23 billion. And that doesn't count the money that was paid to executives, the money that was spent lobbying Washington.\nWe have a giant industry that wants our health care system to stay the way it is, because it's not working for families, but it's sure as heck working for them.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "It's time for us to make families come first.", Entity["Person", "JayInslee::pt86r"] -> "It should not be an option in the United States of America for any insurance company to deny a woman coverage for their exercise of their right of choice.\nAnd I am the only candidate here who has passed a law protecting a woman's right of reproductive health in health insurance, and I'm the only candidate who has passed a public option. And I respect everybody's goals and plans here, but we do have one candidate that's actually advanced the ball. And we've got to have access for everyone. I've done it as a public option.", "Lester Holt" -> "Your time...", "Lester Holt" -> "Senator Klobuchar, I want to get you...\nUNKNOWN: That's a false claim.", "Lester Holt" -> "I am fascinated by this. Senator -- Senator Klobuchar?", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "I just want to say, there's three women up here that have fought pretty hard for a woman's right to choose. I'll start with that.\nAnd then I just want to make very clear, I think we share the goal of universal health care. And the idea I put out there, the public option, which the governor was just talking about, this idea is that you use Medicare or Medicaid without any insurance companies involved, you can do it either way. And the estimates are 13 million people would see a reduction in their premiums, 12 more million people would get covered.\nSo I think it is a beginning and the way you start and the way you move to universal health care.", "Lester Holt" -> "Secretary Castro, this one is for you. All of you on stage support a woman's right to an abortion. You all support some version of a government health care option. Would your plan cover abortion, Mr. Secretary?", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "Yes, it would. I don't believe only in reproductive freedom, I believe in reproductive justice.\nAnd, you know, what that means is that just because a woman -- or let's also not forget someone in the trans community, a trans female, is poor, doesn't mean they shouldn't have the right to exercise that right to choose. And so I absolutely would cover the right to have an abortion. More than that, everybody in this crowd and watching at home knows that in our country today, a person's right to choose is under assault in places like Missouri, in Alabama, in Georgia. I would appoint judges to the federal bench that understand the precedent of Roe v. Wade and will respect it and in addition to that, make sure that we fight hard as we transition our health care system to one where everybody can get and exercise that right.", "Lester Holt" -> "Senator Warren, would you put limits on -- any limits on abortion?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "I would make certain that every woman has access to the full range of reproductive health care services, and that includes birth control, it includes abortion, it includes everything for a woman.\nAnd I want to add on that. It's not enough for us to expect the courts to protect us. Forty-seven years ago, Roe v. Wade was decided, and we've all looked to the courts all that time, as state after state has undermined Roe, has put in exceptions, has come right up to the edge of taking away protections...", "Lester Holt" -> "Your time is up, Senator.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "We now have an America where most people support Roe v. Wade. We need to make that a federal law.", "Lester Holt" -> "Senator, thank you. Jose?", "Jose Diaz-Balart" -> "Lester, thank you. Senator Booker, I want to kind of come back on a discussion we were having about health and the opioid crisis. You represent a state where 14 of the 20 largest pharmaceutical companies are based. Should pharmaceutical companies that manufacture these drugs be held criminally liable for what they do?", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "They should absolutely be held criminally liable, because they are liable and responsible. This is one of the reasons why well before I was running for president I said I would not take contributions from pharma companies, not take contributions from corporate PACs, or pharma executives, because they are part of this problem.\nAnd this opioid addiction in our country, we in cities like mine have been seeing how we've tried to arrest our way out of addiction for too long. It is time that we have a national urgency to deal with this problem and make the solutions that are working to actually be the law of our land and make the pharmaceutical companies that are responsible help to pay for that.", "Jose Diaz-Balart" -> "Congressman O'Rourke, how would you deal with it?", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "Tonight in this country, you have 2.3 million of our fellow Americans behind bars. It's the largest prison population on the face of the planet. Many are there for nonviolent drug crimes, including possession of marijuana, at a time that more than half the states have legalized it or decriminalized it.\nAnd yet despite what Purdue Pharma has done, their connection to the opioid crisis and the overdose deaths that we're seeing throughout this country, they've been able to act with complete impunity and pay no consequences, not a single night in jail.\nUnless there's accountability and justice, this crisis will continue. In my administration, we will hold them to account. We will make sure that they pay a price, and we will help those who've been victims of this malfeasance in this country get them treatment and long-term care.", "Lester Holt" -> "I know immigration is on a lot of your minds here. And I want to talk about it. We're going to talk about it in a moment. We need to take a break. We'll be back with more from Miami after this.", "Jose Diaz-Balart" -> "We want to turn to an issue that has been in the news, especially this week. There are undocumented children being held alone in detention, even as close as Homestead, Florida, right here, less than 30 miles from where we are tonight. Fathers and mothers and children are dying while trying to enter the United States of America.\nWe saw that image today that broke our hearts, and they had names. Oscar Martinez and his 23-month-old daughter, Valeria, died trying to cross the river to ask for asylum in this country. Last month, more than 130,000 migrants were apprehended at the southern border.\nSecretary Castro, if you were president today, hoy, what would you specifically do?", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "Thank you very much, Jose. I'm very proud that in April I became the first candidate to put forward a comprehensive immigration plan. And we saw those images, watching that image of Oscar and his daughter, Valeria, is heartbreaking. It should also piss us all off.\nIf I were president today -- and it should spur us to action. If I were president today, I would sign an executive order that would get rid of Trump's zero-tolerance policy, the remain in Mexico policy, and the metering policy -- this metering policy is basically what prompted Oscar and Valeria to make that risky swim across the river. They had been playing games with people who are coming and trying to seek asylum at our ports of entry. Oscar and Valeria went to a port of entry, and then they were denied the ability to make an asylum claim, so they got frustrated and they tried to cross the river, and they died because of that.", "Jose Diaz-Balart" -> "On day one. Sorry, I'm just going to ask...", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "On day one, I would do that executive order that would address metering. And then I would follow that up in my first 100 days with immigration reform that would honor asylum claims, that would put undocumented immigrants, as long as they haven't committed a serious crime, on a pathway to citizenship.\nAnd then we'd get to the root cause of the issue, which is we need a Marshall Plan for Honduras and Guatemala and El Salvador so that people can find safety and opportunity at home instead of coming to the United States to seek it.", "Jose Diaz-Balart" -> "Senator Booker, what would you do on day one? And this is a situation that the next president will inherit.", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "Yes. On day one, I will make sure that, number one, we end the ICE policies and the Customs and Border Policies that are violating the human rights. When people come to this country, they do not leave their human rights at the border.\nNumber two... I will make sure that we reinstate DACA, that we reinstate pathways to citizenship for DACA recipients, and to make sure that people that are here on temporary protective status can stay and remain here.\nAnd then, finally, we need to make sure that we address the issues that made Oscar and Valeria come in the first place, by making major investments in the Northern Triangle, not like this president is doing, by ripping away the resources we need to actually solve this problem. We cannot surrender our values and think that we're going to get border security. We actually will lose security and our values. We must fight for both.", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "... if I might -- if I might, very briefly, and this is an important point. You know, my plan -- and I'm glad to see that Senator Booker, Senator Warren, and Governor Inslee agree with me on this. My plan also includes getting rid of Section 1325 of the Immigration and Nationality Act, to go back to the way we used to treat this when somebody comes across the border, not to criminalize desperation, to treat that as a civil violation. And here's why it's important. We see all of this horrendous family separation. They use that law, Section 1325, to justify under the law separating little children from their families.\n(UNKNOWN): Thank you.\n(UNKNOWN): Jose...", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "And so I want to challenge every single candidate on this stage to support the repeal of Section 1325.", "Jose Diaz-Balart" -> "Thirty seconds.", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "As my friend here said, I agree with him on that issue, but folks should understand that the separation of children from families doesn't just go on at our border. It happens in our communities, as ICE are ripping away parents from their American children, spouses and the like, and are creating fear in cities all across this country where parents are afraid to even drop their kids off to school or go to work. We must end those policies, as well.", Entity["Person", "BillDeBlasio::5777v"] -> "We have to change the discussion about in this country...", "Jose Diaz-Balart" -> "Mayor?", Entity["Person", "BillDeBlasio::5777v"] -> "... because look at the bottom line here. Those tragic -- that tragic photo of those -- that parent, that child -- and I'm saying this as a father. Every American should feel that in their heart, every American should say that is not America, those are not our values.\nBut we have to get under the skin of why we have this crisis in our system, because we're not being honest about the division that's been fomented in this country. The way that American citizens have been told that immigrants somehow created their misery and their pain and their challenges, for all the American citizens out there who feel you're falling behind or feel the American dream is not working for you, the immigrants didn't do that to you. The big corporations did that to you. The 1 percent did that to you. We need to be the party of working people, and that includes a party of immigrants. But first we have to tell working people in America who are hurting that we're going to be on their side every single time against those big corporation who created this mess to begin with. And remind people we're all in this together.\nIf we don't change that debate, that politics that's holding us back, we won't get all these reforms people are talking about. That's what we need to do as Democrats.", "Jose Diaz-Balart" -> "If I could, I'm sorry. What would you do, Congressman, day one at the White House??", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "We would not turn back Valeria and her father, Oscar. We would accept them into this country and follow our own asylum laws. We would not build walls. We would not put kids in cages. In fact, we would spare no expense to reunite the families that have been separated already... and we would not criminally prosecute any family who is fleeing violence and persecution...", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "... repeal of Section 1325.", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "We would make sure...", "Jose Diaz-Balart" -> "Secretary, let him finish. And I will give you... But let him finish. Let him finish.", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "We would not detain any family fleeing violence, in fact, fleeing the deadliest countries on the face of the planet today. We would implement a family case management program so they could be cared for in the community at a fraction of the cost. And then we would rewrite our immigration laws in our own image, free Dreamers forever from any fear of deportation by making them U.S. citizens here in this country, invest in solutions in Central America, work with regional stakeholders so there's no reason to make that 2,000 mile journey to this country.", "Jose Diaz-Balart" -> "Thank you. Secretary, I'll give you 30 seconds.", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "Let's be very clear. The reason that they're separating these little children from their families is that they're using Section 1325 of that act which criminalizes coming across the border to incarcerate the parents and then separate them.\nSome of us on this stage have called to end that section, to terminate it. Some, like Congressman O'Rourke, have not. And I want to challenge all of the candidate to do that.", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "I just think it's a mistake, Beto. I think it's a mistake. And I think that -- that if you truly want to change the system, that we've got to repeal that section. If not...", "Jose Diaz-Balart" -> "Thank you.", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "... then it might as well be the same policy.", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "Let me respond to this very briefly. As a member of a Congress, I helped to introduce legislation that would ensure that we don't criminalize those who are seeking asylum and refuge in this country.", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "I'm not talking about -- I'm not talking about the ones that are seeking asylum.", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "If you're fleeing -- if you're fleeing desperation, then I want to make sure...", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "I'm talking about -- I'm talking about everybody else.", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "... I want to make sure you are treated with respect.", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "I'm still talking about everybody else.", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "But you're looking at just one small part of this. I'm talking about a comprehensive rewrite of our immigration laws.", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "That's not true.", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "And if you do that, I don't think it's asking too much for people to follow our laws when they come to this country.", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "That's actually not true. I'm talking about millions of folks -- a lot of folks that are coming are not seeking asylum. A lot of them are undocumented immigrants, right? And you said recently that the reason you didn't want to repeal Section 1325 was because you were concerned about human trafficking and drug trafficking.\nBut let me tell you what: Section 18, title 18 of the U.S. code, title 21 and title 22, already cover human trafficking.\nI think that you should do your homework on this issue. If you did your homework on this issue, you would know that we should repeal this section.", "Jose Diaz-Balart" -> "This is an issue that we should and could be talking about for a long time, and we will for a long time.", Entity["Person", "JohnDelaney::2752x"] -> "Can we talk about the conditions about why people are coming here?", "Jose Diaz-Balart" -> "Let's -- Lester -- Lester -- I'm sorry, Savannah -- I know, it's just -- we could go on.", Entity["Person", "JohnDelaney::2752x"] -> "But rather than talk about specific provisions, we really have to talk about why these people are coming to our country...", "Savannah Guthrie" -> "You'll get your chance.", Entity["Person", "JohnDelaney::2752x"] -> "... and what we're going to do to actually make a difference in these countries.", "Savannah Guthrie" -> "Congressman, you'll get your chance. Let's continue the discussion.\nSenator Klobuchar...", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "Yes.", "Savannah Guthrie" -> "Let's talk about what Secretary Castro just said. He wants to no longer have it be a crime to illegally cross the border. Do you support that? Do you think it should be a civil offense only? And if so, do you worry about potentially incentivizing people to come here?", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "Immigrants, they do not diminish America. They are America. And I am happy to look at his proposal. But I do think you want to make sure that you have provisions in place that allow you to go after traffickers and allow you to go after people who are violating the law.\nWhat I really think we need to step back and talk about is the economic imperative here. And that is that 70 of our Fortune 500 companies are headed by people that came from other countries. Twenty-five percent of our U.S. Nobel laureates were born in other countries.\nWe have a situation right now where we need workers in our fields and in our factories. We need them to start small businesses. We need their ideas.\nAnd this president has literally gone backwards at a time when our economy needs immigrants. And so my proposal is to look at that 2013 bill that passed the Senate with Republican support, to upgrade that bill, to make it as good as possible and get it done. It brings the debt down by $158 billion.", "Savannah Guthrie" -> "Senator...", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "It gives a path for citizenship for citizen -- for people who can become citizens. And it will be so much better for our economy in America.", "Savannah Guthrie" -> "Senator, that's time. Thank you. Congressman Ryan, same question. Should it be a crime to illegally cross the border? Or should it be a civil offense only?", Entity["Person", "TimRyan::zz9nd"] -> "Well, I agree with Secretary Castro. I think there are other provisions in the law that will allow you to prosecute people for coming over here if they're deal in drugs and other things. That's already established in the law. So there's no need to repeat it.\nAnd I think it's abhorrent -- we're talking about this father who got killed with his daughter, and the issues here -- the way these kids are being treated. If you go to Guantanamo Bay, there are terrorists that are held that get better health care than those kids that have tried to cross the border in the United States. That needs to stop. And I think the president should immediately ask doctors and nurses to go immediately down to the border and start taking care of these kids. What kind of country are we running here where we have a president of the United States who's so focused on hate and fear and division? And what has happened now, the end result is now we've got kids literally laying in their own snot, with three-week-old diapers that haven't been changed.\nWe've got to tell this president that is not a sign of strength, Mr. President. That is a sign of weakness.", "Savannah Guthrie" -> "Senator Booker -- a lot of people -- they asked the question, if you're president on day one, what will you do with the fact that you will have families here? There's been a lot of talk about what you'll do in the first 100 days about legislation. What will you actually do with these families? How will you care for them? Will they be detained or will they not be?", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "Well, this is a related and brief point, because what we're talking -- what Secretary Castro and I are talking about is that we have the power to better deal with this problem through the civil process than the criminal process.\nI have been to some of the largest private prisons, which are repugnant to me that people are profiting off incarceration, and their immigration lockups. Our country has made so many mistakes by criminalizing things, whether it's immigration, whether it's mental illness, whether it's addiction. We know that this is not the way to deal with problems. There is a humane way that affirms human rights and human dignity and actually solves this problem.\nDonald Trump isn't solving this problem. We've seen under his leadership a surge at our border. We solve this problem by making investments in the Northern Triangle to stop the reasons why people are being driven here in the first place, and we make sure we use our resources to provide health care to affirm the values and human dignity of the people that come here, because we cannot sacrifice our values, our ideals as a nation for border security. We can have both by doing this the right way.", "Savannah Guthrie" -> "All right, Senator, thank you. Let me go to Governor Inslee on this. What would you do on day one? Same question I just asked Cory Booker. I have yet to hear an answer from anyone on this stage.", Entity["Person", "JayInslee::pt86r"] -> "There is no reason...", "Savannah Guthrie" -> "What will you do with the families that will be here?", Entity["Person", "JayInslee::pt86r"] -> "There is no reason for the detention and separation of these children. They should be released, pending their hearings, and they should have a hearing and the law should be followed. That's what should happen.\nAnd we should do what we're doing in Washington state. I'm proud that we've passed a law that prevents local law enforcement from being turned into mini-ICE agents.\nI'm proud to have been the first governor to stand up against Donald Trump's heinous Muslim ban. I'm proud to be a person who's not only talked about Dreamers, but being one of the first to make sure that they get a college education, so that they can realize their dreams. These are some of the most inspirational people in our state.\nAnd I'll leave you with this thought, if you want to know what I think. Donald Trump the other day tried to threaten me -- he thought it was a threat -- to tell me that he would send refugees into Washington state if we passed a law that I passed. And I told him that's not a threat at all. We welcome refugees into our state. We recognize diversity as a strength. This is how we've built America. That tradition is going to continue if I'm president of the United States.", "Lester Holt" -> "We're going to switch to another topic now. We've got a lot to get to. Let's...", Entity["Person", "JohnDelaney::2752x"] -> "My grandfather was actually separated from his family when he came to this country.", "Lester Holt" -> "We're going to -- we're going to talk about Iran right now, because we're working against the clock. Tankers have been attacked. A U.S. drone has been shot down. There have been disturbing threats issued by both the U.S. and Iranian leadership.\nI'd like if you can, just for a moment, to put aside how you think we may have gotten here, but what I want to know is, how do you dial it back? So a show of hands. Who as president would sign on to the 2015 nuclear deal as it was originally negotiated? That's every -- well, Senator Booker, why not?", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "May I address that? First and foremost, it was a mistake to pull out of that deal. And one of the reasons why we're seeing this hostility now is because Donald Trump is marching us to a far more dangerous situation. Literally, he took us out of a deal that gave us transparency into their nuclear program and pushed back a nuclear breakout 10, 20 years. And now we see Iran threatening to go further and who are pulled -- being pulled further and further into this crisis.\nWe need to renegotiate and get back into a deal, but I'm not going to have a primary platform to say unilaterally I'm going to rejoin that deal. Because when I'm president of the United States, I'm going to do the best I can to secure this country and that region and make sure that if I have an opportunity to leverage a better deal, I'm going to do it.", "Lester Holt" -> "All right, Senator Klobuchar, I'd like to ask you to answer that question, because you've said -- you've said you would negotiate yourself back into the Iranian agreement. Can you argue that that nuclear pact as it was ratified was a good deal?\n(UNKNOWN): Yes, it was.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "It was imperfect, but it was a good deal for that moment. I would have worked to get longer sunset periods, and that's something we could negotiate, to get back in the deal.\nBut the point is, Donald Trump told us when he got out of it that he was going to give us a better deal. Those were his words. And now we are a month away from the Iranians, who claim now that they're going blow the caps on enriching uranium. And the Iranians have told us this.\nAnd so that's where we are now. He has made us less safe than we were when he became president. So what I would do is negotiate us back into that agreement, is stand with our allies, and not give unlimited leverage to China and Russia, which is what he has done.\nAnd then, finally, I would make sure that if there is any possibility of a conflict -- and we're having this debate in Congress right now -- that he comes to Congress for an authorization of military force. I would do that.\nAnd this president is literally every single day 10 minutes away from going to war, one tweet away from going to war. And I don't think we should conduct foreign policy in our bathrobe at 5:00 in the morning, which is what he does.", "Lester Holt" -> "Congresswoman Gabbard, Congresswoman Gabbard, you've said you would sign back on to the 2015 deal. Would you -- would you insist, though, that it address Iran's support for Hezbollah?", Entity["Person", "TulsiGabbard::839d6"] -> "Let's deal with the situation where we are, where this president and his chickenhawk cabinet have led us to the brink of war with Iran.\nI served in the war in Iraq at the height of the war in 2005, a war that took over 4,000 of my brothers and sisters in uniforms' lives. The American people need to understand that this war with Iran would be far more devastating, far more costly than anything that we ever saw in Iraq. It would take many more lives. It would exacerbate the refugee crisis. And it wouldn't be just contained within Iran. This would turn into a regional war. This is why it's so important that every one of us, every single American, stand up and say no war with Iran. We need to get back into the Iran nuclear agreement, and we need to negotiate how we can improve it.\nIt was an imperfect deal. There are issues, like their missile development, that needs to be addressed. We can do both simultaneously to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon and preventing us from going to war.", "Lester Holt" -> "Your time is up. And this is a very quick follow-up. But what would your red line be that would -- for military action against Iran?", Entity["Person", "TulsiGabbard::839d6"] -> "Look, obviously, if there was an attack against the American -- our troops, then there would have to be a response. But my point is -- and it's important for us to recognize this -- is Donald Trump and his cabinet, Mike Pompeo, John Bolton, and others -- are creating a situation that just a spark would light off a war with Iran, which is incredibly dangerous. That's why we need to de-escalate tensions. Trump needs to get back into the Iran nuclear deal and swallow his pride, put the American people first.", Entity["Person", "BillDeBlasio::5777v"] -> "Hey, but wait a minute...", "Savannah Guthrie" -> "... we will have much more -- Mayor De Blasio, we'll have more. The commercial is coming, when we'll continue our questioning next with Chuck Todd, Rachel Maddow. Stick around. We'll have a lot more with some very anxious candidates, just ahead.", "Lester Holt" -> "And welcome back, everyone, to the first Democratic presidential debate from the Arsht Center in Miami.", "Savannah Guthrie" -> "And as we continue the questioning, time to get more members of our team in the mix.", "Jose Diaz-Balart" -> "So right now, let's turn it over to Chuck Todd and Rachel Maddow. Take it away.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "All right. We're going to start by recapping the rules. Twenty candidates qualified for this first Democratic debate. We're going to hear from 10 tonight, 10 more tomorrow. The breakdown for each night was selected at random. Now, the candidates will have 60 seconds to answer, 30 seconds for a follow-up if necessary, and we will be ruthless, if necessary.", "Chuck Todd" -> "We can do that. By the way, hi, Rachel.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Hi, Chuck.", "Chuck Todd" -> "How are you doing?", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Good.", "Chuck Todd" -> "And we've got a lot of ground to cover. We're going to be talking about guns and climate here up top. A whole lot more in this hour. Obviously, because of the size of the field, not every person will be able to weigh in on everything, but over the course of this next hour, we will hear from everyone, I promise, everybody.", "Chuck Todd" -> "And to begin with, we're going to go with guns, and, Senator Warren, I want to start with you. We are less than 50 miles from Parkland, Florida, where 17 people were killed in a school shooting last year and where there has been significant activism on gun violence ever since. Many of you are calling for a restoration of an assault weapons ban, but even if implemented, there will still be hundreds of millions of guns in this country. Should there be a role for the federal government?\n(UNKNOWN): Their mikes are on.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Everybody's mikes are on. I think we have a -- I heard that, too. That's OK. I think we had a little mike issue in the back.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Control room, we've got...", "Chuck Todd" -> "We had the -- I think we heard -- yeah, we have the audience audio. All right. So the question is simply this. We're from -- I apologize you guys didn't get to hear this, the first part of the question. Obviously, we're not far from Parkland, Florida. Gun activism has become a big part of high school life up there in Broward County.\nMany of you are calling for tighter gun restrictions. Some of you are calling for the restoration of the assault weapons ban. But even if it's put in place, there are still going to be perhaps hundreds of millions of guns still on the streets. Is there a role for the federal government in order to -- to play in order to get these guns off the streets?", "Rachel Maddow" -> "What's happening?", "Chuck Todd" -> "We are hearing our colleague's audio. If the control room could turn off the mikes...", "Chuck Todd" -> "Yeah, if the control room could turn off the mikes of our previous moderators, we will...", "Rachel Maddow" -> "You know, we've prepared for everything.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Guess what, guys? We are going to take a quick break. We're going to get this technical situation fixed. We will be right back.", "Chuck Todd" -> "We believe we have the technical difficulties fixed.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Never say that.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Never say never. But we will march forward here and I will lean forward here a little bit.\nSenator Warren, we're going to get to the gun question here. In Parkland, Florida, it's just north of here in Broward County. As you know, it has created a lot of teenage activism on the gun issue. It has inspired a lot of you to come out with more robust plans to deal with guns, including assault weapons ban, but even if you're able to implement that, what do you do about the hundreds of millions of guns already out there? And does the federal government have to play a role in dealing with it?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "So, in this period of time that I have been running for president, I've had more than 100 town halls. I've taken more than 2,000 unfiltered questions. And the single hardest questions I've gotten, I got one from a little boy and I got one from a little girl, and that is to say, when you're president, how are you going to keep us safe?\nThat's our responsibility as adults. Seven children will die today from gun violence, children and teenagers. And they won't just die in mass shootings. They'll die on sidewalks, they'll die in playgrounds, they'll die in people's backyards.\nGun violence is a national health emergency in this country. And we need to treat it like that.\nSo what can we do? We can do the things that are sensible. We can do the universal background checks. We can ban the weapons of war. But we can also double down on the research and find out what really works, where it is that we can make the differences at the margins that will keep our children safe. We need to treat this like the virus that's killing our children.", "Chuck Todd" -> "OK, thank you, Senator Warren. You didn't address -- do you think the federal government needs to go and figure out a way to get the guns that are already out there?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "What I think we need to do is we need to treat it like a serious research problem, which we have not done. You know, guns in the hands of a collector who's had them for decades, who's never fired them, who takes safety seriously, that's very different from guns that are sold and turned over quickly.\nWe can't treat this as an across-the-board problem. We have to treat it like a public health emergency. That means bring data to bear and it means make real change in this country, whether it's politically popular or not.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Thank you, Senator. Senator Booker, you have a program...", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "We need to fight for our children.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Senator Booker, you have a federal government buyback program in your plan. How is that going to work?", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "Well, first of all, I want to say, my colleague and I both have been hearing this on the campaign trail. But what's even worse is I hear gunshots in my neighborhood. I think I'm the only one -- I hope I'm the only one on this panel here that had seven people shot in their neighborhood just last week. Someone I knew, Shahad Smith, was killed with an assault rifle at the top of my block last year.\nFor millions of Americans, this is not a policy issue. This is an urgency. And for those that have not been directly affected, they're tired of living in country where their kids go to school to learn about reading, writing, and arithmetic, and how to deal with an active shooter in their school.\nThis is something that I'm tired of. And I'm tired of hearing people all, they have to offer is thoughts and prayers.\nIn my faith, people say faith without works is dead. So we will find a way. But the reason we have a problem right now is we've let the corporate gun lobby frame this debate. It is time that we have bold actions and a bold agenda. I will get that done as president of the United States because this is not about policy. This is personal.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Thank you, Senator Booker.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Secretary Castro, I'd like to talk to you about something that Senator Booker just mentioned there, the idea of active shooter drills in schools, as school shootings seem like an almost everyday or every week occurrence now. They don't make a complete news cycle anymore, no matter the death toll.\nAs parents are so afraid as their kids go off to school that their kids will be caught up in something like this, next to nothing has changed in federal law that might affect the prevalence of school shootings. Is this a problem that is going to continue to get worse over our lifetimes? Or is there something that you would do as president that you really think would turn it around?", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "You know, Rachel, I am the dad of a 10-year-old girl, Carina, who's here tonight. And the worst thing is knowing that your child might be worried about what could happen at school, a place that's supposed to be safe.\nThe answer to your question is no. We don't have to accept that. And I believe that, on January 20, 2021, at 12:01 p.m., we're going to have a Democratic president, a Democratic House, and a Democratic Senate.\nAnd the activists of Parkland, folks from Moms Demand who have risen up across the United States and inspired so many people... you know, we may not have seen yet legislative action, but we're getting closer. The House took a vote. In the Senate, the question often is, if the decision is between 60 votes, a filibuster, or passing commonsense gun reform, I'm going to choose commonsense gun reform. So I believe that we're going to be able to get that done in 2021.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Secretary Castro, thank you.", Entity["Person", "TimRyan::zz9nd"] -> "Rachel, I have something to add to this briefly, because...", "Rachel Maddow" -> "We'll give you -- it'll be 30 seconds for a follow-up on that question -- on that answer from Secretary Castro. Congressman Ryan?", Entity["Person", "TimRyan::zz9nd"] -> "You're talking about in the schools. These kids are traumatized. I support all the gun reforms here. We need to start dealing with the trauma that our kids have. We need trauma-based care in every school. We need social and emotional learning in every school.\nNinety percent of the shooters who do school shootings come from the school they're in, and 73 percent of them feel shamed, traumatized, or bullied. We need to make sure that these kids feel connected to the school. That means a mental health counselor in every single school in the United States. We need to start playing offense. If our kids are so traumatized that they're getting a gun and going into our schools, we're doing something wrong, too, and we need reform around trauma-based care.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Thank you, Congressman Ryan.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Congressman O'Rourke, you're a Texan who's campaigned -- you campaigned all over the state in 2018 in the most conservative parts there. What do you tell a gun owner who may agree with you on everything else, OK, but says, you know what, the Democrats, if I vote for them in there, they're going to take my gun away, and even though I agree with you on all these other issues -- how do you have that conversation?", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "Here's how we have that conversation in Texas. I shared with them what I learned from those students who survived the Santa Fe high school shooting, a young student named Bree. Her friend, Marcel, who survived another shooting, the mother of a victim who lost her life, Rhonda Hart, they talked about universal background checks, where you close every loophole. We know that they save lives.\nWe talked about ending the sales of assault weapons into our communities. Those weapons of war were designed to kill people as effectively and as efficiently as possible. They should belong on the battlefield and not in our communities.\nRed flag laws, so if someone poses a danger to themselves or to someone else, they're stopped before it's too late. And what I found in each one of those 254 counties is that Democrats and independents and Republicans, gun-owners and non-gun-owners alike, agreed. But this effort must be led by the young people that you referenced at the beginning of this issue. Those students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas led the charge here in Florida, and they've been able to change those laws. They're making our democracy work, ensuring that our values and our interests and our priorities are reflected in the laws that we pass.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Thank you, Congressman O'Rourke.\nHang on. Let me give 30 seconds, Senator Klobuchar, the iron range. I'm curious. Gun confiscation, right? If the government is buying back, how do you not have that conversation?", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "Well, that's not confiscation. You could give them the offer to buy back their gun.\nBut I'll say this. I look at these proposals and I say, does this hurt my Uncle Dick and his deer stand, coming from a proud hunting and fishing state? These proposals don't do that. When I was a prosecutor, I supported the assault weapons ban. When I was in the Senate, I saw those moms from Sandy Hook come and try to advocate for change, and we all failed. And then now these Parkland kids from Florida, they started literally a national shift.\nYou know why? It's just like with gay marriage. When kids talked to their parents and their grandparents, they say I don't understand why we can't put these sensible things in place, they listen. And if we get bested by a bunch of 17-year-olds...", "Chuck Todd" -> "All right, Senator, thank you.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "... it's the best thing that ever happened. We need to get...", "Chuck Todd" -> "Senator, thank you. Senator, thank you.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Senator Booker, let me go to you on another matter actually.", "Chuck Todd" -> "We've got to...", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Senator Mitch McConnell says that his most consequential achievement as Senate majority leader was preventing President Obama from filling a Supreme Court seat. Having served with Republicans on the Judiciary Committee, do you believe they would confirm your court nominees?", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "I'm going to use 20 of my seconds just to say there's one thing we don't all agree with when it comes to guns, and I think it's common sense, and over 70 percent of Americans agree with me. If you need a license to drive a car, you should need a license to buy and own a firearm.\nAnd not everybody in this field agrees with that. But in states like Connecticut that did that, they saw 40 percent drops in gun violence and 15 percent drops in suicides. We need to start having bold agendas on guns.\nWhen it comes to the Supreme Court, very clearly, we -- I agree with my friend, Secretary Castro. We are going to get to 50 votes in the Senate. This is a team sport. Whoever is our nominee needs to campaign in places like South Carolina, because we can elect Jamie Harrison. They need to campaign in places like Iowa, because we can win a Senate seat there.\nThis is about getting us back to having 50 votes in the Senate and more so that we cannot only balance the Supreme Court, but start to pass an aggressive agenda that, frankly, isn't so aggressive, because most of America agrees with the policy objectives of our party.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Mayor De Blasio...", Entity["Person", "JohnDelaney::2752x"] -> "Rachel, we have to actually...", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Congressman Delaney, you'll have some time in a moment on this issue.", Entity["Person", "JohnDelaney::2752x"] -> "This issue is related...", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Congressman Delaney, I'll give you some time in a moment. Mayor De Blasio, as an executive in the largest city in this country, you are used to saying what you want to have happen and having it happen. If you nominate a Supreme Court nominee as president of the United States and Mitch McConnell is still Senate majority leader, what makes you believe that he would allow you to make a nominee?", Entity["Person", "BillDeBlasio::5777v"] -> "Rachel, I am chief executive of the nation's largest city, and I also wanted to just say something quick on the gun issue and come to your question.\nLook, I run the largest police force in America, too, and if we're going to stop these shootings, we want to get these guns off the street, we have to have a very different relationship between our police and our community.\nI also want to say there's something that sets me apart from all my colleagues running in this race, and that is, for the last 21 years, I have been raising a black son in America. And I have had to have very, very serious talks with my son, Dante, about how to protect himself on the streets of our city and all over this country, including how to deal with the fact that he has to take special caution because there have been too many tragedies between our young men and our police, too, as we saw recently in Indiana.\nSo we need to have a different conversation in this country about guns, but also a different conversation about policing that brings policing community together. We've done that in New York City and we've driven down crime while we've done it. But to your question about Mitch McConnell, there is a political solution that we have to come to grips with. If the Democratic Party would stop acting like the party of the elites and be the party of working people again, and go into states, including red states, to convince people we're on their side, we can put pressure on their senators to actually have to vote for the nominees that are put forward...", "Rachel Maddow" -> "That's time.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Senator Warren -- I'm going to get you -- I will get you 30 seconds, I promise. Let me get -- let me get this question. We're trying. I know you guys -- we've got other issues we're trying to get to, including a big one coming up in a minute. But, Senator Warren, I want to continue on the Mitch McConnell thing, because you have a lot of ambitious plans.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "I do.", "Chuck Todd" -> "You have a plan for that. OK. We talked about the Supreme Court. Do you have a plan to deal with Mitch McConnell if you don't beat him in the Senate, if he's still sitting there as the Senate majority leader? It's very plausible you be elected president with a Republican Senate. Do you have a plan to deal with Mitch McConnell?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "I do.\nWe are democracy. And the way a democracy is supposed to work is the will of the people matters. Now, we have for far too long have had a Congress in Washington that has just completely dismissed what people care about across this country.\nThey have made this country work much better than for those who can make giant contributions, made it work better for those who hire armies of lobbyists and lawyers, and not made it work for the people.\nWell, here's how I see this happening. Number one, sure, I want to see us get a Democratic majority in the Senate. But short of a Democratic majority in the Senate, you better understand the fight still goes on. It starts in the White House, and it means that everybody we energize in 2020 stays on the frontlines come January 2021. We have to push from the outside, have leadership from the inside, and make this Congress reflect the will of the people.", "Chuck Todd" -> "I'm going to get to -- I'm going to get a couple of you in here.\nI'm going to get a couple of you in here. Thirty seconds, Congressman Delaney, you seem to believe you can do everything in a bipartisan manner. Mitch McConnell doesn't operate that way. He operates differently. Why do you think he is going to conform to your style?", Entity["Person", "JohnDelaney::2752x"] -> "I think we need to get things done. That's why I believe we need to operate in a bipartisan manner.\nListen, I will sign into law bills that come to the White House that are passed on a party-line basis, absolutely. But all the big transformative things we've ever done in this country's history have happened when huge majorities of the American people get behind them, which is why we need real solutions, not impossible promises.\nWe need to put forth ideas that work, whether it's on health care, creating universal health care so that every American gets health care, but not running on making private insurance illegal.\nThe gun issue is related. The gun safety issue is related, because I can't tell you how many times I've been with folks in Western Maryland, and they've said to me, you know, Democrats don't do anything for us, Republicans don't do anything for us. You fight all the time, so they vote on that single issue.", "Chuck Todd" -> "OK.", Entity["Person", "JohnDelaney::2752x"] -> "If we become the party of getting things done for the American people, with real solutions and not impossible promises, we'll be able to get all these things done.", "Chuck Todd" -> "I promised...", "Chuck Todd" -> "Senator Booker, 30 seconds. You -- how do you deal with Mitch? You've been in the Senate. You can't get bills on the floor right now with Mitch McConnell. Presidents can't do it. Is President Booker going to get his bills on the floor with Senator McConnell?", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "You know, when I got to the United States Senate, going back to what De Blasio said, as an African-American man in an African-American-dominated community, I knew one of the biggest issue was criminal justice reform, from police accountability to dealing with the fact that we have a nation that has more African-Americans under criminal supervision than all the slaves in 1850.\nAnd when I got to the Senate, people told me we could not get a comprehensive criminal justice reform bill done. As my colleagues in the Senate know, I fought on that bill from the day I got to the Senate, built coalitions across the aisle, and today we passed the First Step Act.\nIt's not as far as I want to go, but thousands of people will be liberated. I have gotten -- I have taken on tough problems people said we cannot achieve, and I've been able to get things accomplished.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Thank you, Senator Booker. Rachel has got the next question.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "We are going to -- hold on. Governor, you're going to be happy with where we go.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Just give us a second.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Governor Inslee, the next question is to you. You got me?", Entity["Person", "JayInslee::pt86r"] -> "Rachel.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "You have staked your candidacy on the issue of climate change. It is first, second, and third priority for you. You've said it's all the issues.\nLet's get specific. We're here in Miami, which is already experiencing serious flooding on sunny days as a result of sea level rise. Parts of Miami Beach and the Keys could be underwater in our lifetimes. Does your plan save Miami?", Entity["Person", "JayInslee::pt86r"] -> "Yes, first by taking away the filibuster from Mitch McConnell, to start with. We have to do that.\nLook it, look it, we are the first generation to feel the sting of climate change, and we are the last that can do something it. Our towns are burning. Our fields are flooding. Miami is inundated.\nAnd we have to understand, this is a climate crisis, an emergencythis is our last chance in the administration, next one, to do something about it. And we need to do what I've done in my state. We've passed a 100 percent clean electrical grid bill. We now have a vision statement. And my plan has been called the gold standard of putting people to work.\nBut the most important thing on this, in the biggest decision for the American public is, who is going to make this the first priority? And I am the candidate and the only one who's saying this has to be the top priority of the United States, the organizing principle to mobilize the United States, so that we can do what we've always done, lead the world and invent the future and put 8 million people to work. That's what we're going to do.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Governor Inslee, thank you.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Congressman O'Rourke, you also put out a big climate change plan from your campaign. You want some big changes in a pretty short period of time, including switching to renewable energy, pushing to replace gas-powered cars in favor of electric ones. What's your message to a voter who supports the overall goal of what you're trying to do, but suddenly feels as if government's telling them how to live and ordering them how to live? What is that balance like?", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "I think you've got to bring everybody in to the decisions and the solutions to the challenges that we face. That's why we're traveling everywhere, listening to everyone.\nWe were in Pacific Junction, a town that had never meaningly flooded before, just up against the Missouri River in Iowa. And every home in that community had flooded. There were farms just outside of Pacific Junction that were effectively lakes, those farmers already underwater in debt, their markets closed to them by a trade war under this administration, and now they don't know what to do.\nWe in our administration are going fund resiliency in those communities, in Miami, in Houston, Texas, those places that are on the front lines of climate change today. We're going to mobilize $5 trillion in this economy over the next 10 years. We're going to free ourselves from a dependence on fossil fuels, and we're going to put farmers and ranchers in the driver's seat, renewable and sustainable agriculture, to make sure that we capture more carbon out of the air and keep more of it in the soil, paying farmers for the environmental services that they want to provide.\nIf all of us does all that we can, then we're going to be able to keep this planet from warming another 2 degrees Celsius, and ensure that we match what this country can do and live up to our promise and our potential.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Thirty seconds, Secretary Castro, does -- who pays for the mitigation to -- to climate, whether it's building sea walls, for people that are perhaps living in places that they shouldn't be living? Is this a federal government issue that needs to do that? Do they have to move these people? What do you do about that, where maybe they're building a place someplace that isn't safe? Who pays to build that house? And how much should the government be bailing them out?", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "Well, I don't think that that represents the vast majority of the issue. In fact, you know, my first visit after I announced my candidacy wasn't to Iowa or New Hampshire. It was to San Juan, Puerto Rico.\nBecause people should know that if I'm elected president, everybody will count. And, you know, I'm one of the few candidates in this race with executive experience, with a track record of getting things done. When I was mayor of San Antonio, we moved our local public utility, we began to shift it from coal-fired plants to solar and other renewables, and also created more than 800 jobs doing that.\nAnd when I was HUD secretary, we worked on the National Disaster Resilience Competition to invest in communities that were trying to rebuild from natural disasters in a sustainable way. That's the way that we're going to help make sure that we're all safer in the years to come and that we combat climate change.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Thank you.", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "And if I'm elected president, the first thing that I would do, like Senator Klobuchar also has said, is sign an executive order recommitting us to the Paris Climate Accord so that we lead again...", "Chuck Todd" -> "All right. Congressman Ryan, I got a full question for you here, which is simply this. There are -- a lot of the climate plans include pricing carbon, taxing carbon in some way. This type of proposal has been tried in a few places, whether it's Washington state where voters voted it down, you've had the Yellow Vest Movement, we had in Australia one party get rejected out of fear of the cost of climate change sort of being put on the backs of the consumer. If pricing carbon is just politically impossible, how do we pay for climate mitigation?", Entity["Person", "TimRyan::zz9nd"] -> "Well, there is a variety of different ways to pay. We talked about different ways of raising revenue. And I think we've got to build our way out of this and grow our way out of this.\nBut let me just talk real quick to the previous question about real politics. We could talk about climate, we could talk about guns, we could talk about all of these issues that we all care about.\nWe have a perception problem with the Democratic Party. We are not connecting to the working class people in the very states that I represent in Ohio, in the industrial Midwest. We've lost all connection. We have got to change the center of gravity of the Democratic Party from being coastal and elital -- elitist and Ivy League, which is the perception, to somebody from the forgotten communities that have been left behind for the last 30 years, to get those workers back on our side so we can say we're going to build electric vehicles, we're going to build solar panels.\nBut if you want to beat Mitch McConnell, this better be a working-class party. If you want to go into Kentucky and take his rear end out, and if you want to take Lindsey Graham out, you've got to have a blue collar party that can go into the textile communities in South Carolina. So all I'm saying here...", "Chuck Todd" -> "Thank you, Congressman Ryan.", Entity["Person", "TimRyan::zz9nd"] -> "All I'm saying here...", "Chuck Todd" -> "Thank you, Congressman Ryan.", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "So, Chuck, Chuck...", Entity["Person", "TimRyan::zz9nd"] -> "All I'm saying is here, if we don't address that fundamental problem with our connection to workers -- white, black, brown, gay, straight -- working-class people...", "Chuck Todd" -> "Thank you, Congressman.", Entity["Person", "TimRyan::zz9nd"] -> "... none of this is going to get done, Chuck.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Thank you very much.\n(UNKNOWN): Chuck...", "Chuck Todd" -> "I want to you -- we're going to keep moving. Congressman Delaney, I'm going to get to you...", Entity["Person", "JohnDelaney::2752x"] -> "This is -- I introduced the only bipartisan carbon tax bill...", "Chuck Todd" -> "Thirty seconds -- all right, 30 seconds, go.", Entity["Person", "JohnDelaney::2752x"] -> "This is really important. All the economists agree that a carbon pricing mechanism works. You just have to do it right. You can't put a price on carbon, raise energy prices, and not give the money back to the American people.\nMy proposal, which is put a price on carbon, give a dividend back to the American people. It goes out one pocket, back in the other.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Thank you, Congressman.", Entity["Person", "JohnDelaney::2752x"] -> "I can get that passed my first year as president with a coalition of every Democrat in the Congress and the Republicans who live in coastal states.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Thank you. Congressman, thank you.", Entity["Person", "JohnDelaney::2752x"] -> "Because Republicans in Florida, they actually care about this issue.", "Chuck Todd" -> "OK. Thank you very much.", Entity["Person", "JohnDelaney::2752x"] -> "This has got to be our way forward if we're actually serious about this issue.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Thank you.\nCongresswoman Gabbard, we're going to move here. One of the first things you did after launching your campaign was to issue an apology to the LGBT community about your past stances and statements on gay rights. After the Trump administration's rollbacks of civil rights protections for many in that community, why should voters in that community or voters that care about this issue in general trust you now?", Entity["Person", "TulsiGabbard::839d6"] -> "Let me say that there is no one in our government at any level who has the right to tell any American who they should be allowed to love or who they should be allowed to marry.\nMy record in Congress for over six years shows my commitment to fighting for LGBTQ equality. I serve on the Equality Caucus and recently voted for passage of the Equality Act.\nMaybe many people in this country can relate to the fact that I grew up in a socially conservative home, held views when I was very young that I no longer hold today.\nI've served with LGBTQ servicemembers, both in training and deployed downrange. I know that they would give their life for me and I would give my life for them. It is this commitment that I'll carry through as president of the United States, recognizing that there are still people who are facing discrimination in the workplace, still people who are unable to find a home for their families. It is this kind of discrimination that we need to address.", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "But it's not enough.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Thank you, Congresswoman Gabbard.", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "It's not enough. If I can add to this, it's very important.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Thirty seconds, Senator.", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "It's not enough. Look, civil rights is someplace to begin, but in the African American civil rights community, another place to focus on was to stop the lynching of African-Americans.\nWe do not talk enough about trans Americans, especially African-American trans Americans... and the incredibly high rates of murder right now. We don't talk enough about how many children, about 30 percent of LGBTQ kids, who do not go to school because of fear. It's not enough just to be on the Equality Act. I'm an original co-sponsor. We need to have a president that will fight to protect LGBTQ Americans every single day from violence in America.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Senator Klobuchar, let me put this to you. On the issue of civil rights, for decades -- on the civil rights and demographics, honestly, and politics, for decades, the Democratic Party has counted on African-American voter turnout as step one to winning elections on a national level. Democrats are counting on the Latino community now and in the future in the same way. What have you done for black and Latino voters that should enthuse them about going to the polls for you if you're your party's nominee?", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "My life and my career and my work in the Senate has been about economic opportunity. And to me, this means better childcare for everyone in this country. And when you want an economy that works, you need to have retirement that works, you need to have public schools that work. And you also need to make sure that those communities are able to get those jobs of the future, the STEM jobs.\nIn fact, Donald Trump, one of the first bills that he signed of the 34 he signed where I was the lead Democrat -- OK, that's a first up here -- was one that was about that, making sure minority community members could share in those jobs.\nSo to me, this is about a few things. It's about an African-American woman that goes to a hospital in New Orleans, says her hands are swollen, and then doctor ignores her and her baby dies. It's about the fact that African-American women make 61 cents for every dollar a white man makes.\nSo in short, we need, one -- and I will do this in my first 100 days as president -- we will work to make sure everyone can vote at this table, everyone can vote in this country...", "Rachel Maddow" -> "That's time, Senator.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "... and we will also go to the next step of criminal justice reform. Senator Booker and I worked on that First Step Act, but we should go to the second step act, which is to help all our communities across our country.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Senator, thank you very much. Thirty-second follow-up to you, Secretary Castro. This is a 70 percent Latino city here in Miami. You are the only Latino Democrat who is running here this year in the presidential race.\nIs that enough of an answer, what Senator Klobuchar is describing there, an economic justice agenda? Is that enough to mobilize Latino voters to stand with the Democratic Party in a big way?", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "Well, I also think that we have to recognize racial and social justice. And, you know, I was in Charleston not too long ago, and I remembered that Dylann Roof went to the Mother Emanuel AME church, and he murdered nine people who were worshipping, and then he was apprehended by police without incident.\nWell, but what about Eric Garner and Tamir Rice and Laquan McDonald and Sandra Bland and Pamela Turner and Antonio Arce? I'm proud that I'm the only candidate so far that has put forward legislation that would reform our policing system in America and make sure that no matter what the color of your skin is, that you're treated the same, including Latinos who are mistreated too oftentimes by police.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Secretary Castro, thank you.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Let me go over to Lester Holt, who's got a question, I believe a viewer question.", "Lester Holt" -> "And I'm over here, Chuck. Thanks. We asked voters from across the country to submit their questions to the candidates. Let me read one now. This comes from John in New York who submitted this question.\nHe asks, does the United States have a responsibility to protect in the case of genocide or crimes against humanity? Do we have a responsibility to intervene to protect people threatened by their governments even when atrocities do not affect American core interests? I would like to direct that question to Congressman O'Rourke.", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "John, appreciate the question. The answer is yes, but that action should always be undertaken with allies and partners and friends. When the United States presents a united front, we have a much better chance of achieving our foreign policy aims and preventing the kind of genocide to which you refer, the kind of genocide that we saw in Rwanda, the kind of genocide we want to stop going forward. But unfortunately, under this administration, President Trump has alienated our allies and our friends and our alliances. He's diminished our standing in the world and he's made us weaker as a country, less able to confront challenges, whether it's Iran or North Korea or Vladimir Putin in Russia, who attacked and invaded our democracy in 2016, and who President Trump has offered another invitation to do the same.\nHe's embraced strongmen and dictators at the expense of the great democracies. As president, I will make sure that we live our values in our foreign policy. I will ensure that we strengthen those alliances and partnerships and friendships and meet any challenge that we face together. That makes America stronger.", Entity["Person", "BillDeBlasio::5777v"] -> "But what about the War Powers Act?", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Congressman O'Rourke, thank you.", Entity["Person", "BillDeBlasio::5777v"] -> "What about the War Powers Act being a part of that equation? With deep respect to the congressman, look, we've learned painful lessons as Americans that we've gone to war without congressional authorization.\nAnd look, this is very personal for me. I know the cost of war. My dad served in the Pacific in World War II in the U.S. Army, Battle of Okinawa, had half his leg blown off, and he came home with scars, both physical and emotional, and he did not recover. He spiraled downward and he ultimately took his own life. And that battle didn't kill him, but that war did.\nAnd, look, even in the humanitarian crisis -- and I think we should be ready, Congressman, to intervene, God forbid there is genocide -- but not without congressional approval. Democrats and Republicans both in the Congress have not challenged presidents and have let them get away with running the military without that congressional approval. We learned a lesson in Vietnam we seem to have forgotten, that decisions have to be made by the United States Congress...", "Rachel Maddow" -> "I'm going to pick up -- I want to pick up this point, and I want to put this to Congressman Ryan. Today the Taliban claimed responsibility for killing two American servicemembers in Afghanistan. Leaders as disparate as President Obama and President Trump have both said that they want to end U.S. involvement in Afghanistan, but it isn't over for America. Why isn't it over? Why can't presidents of very different parties and very different temperaments get us out of there? And how could you?", Entity["Person", "TimRyan::zz9nd"] -> "I appreciate that question. So I've been in Congress 17 years. And 12 of those years I've sat on the Armed Services Committee, the Defense Appropriations Committee or the Armed Services Committee.\nAnd the lesson that I've learned over the years is that you have to stay engaged in these situations. Nobody likes it. It's long. It's tedious. But right now, we have -- so I would say we must be engaged in this. We must have our State Department engaged. We must have our military engaged to the extent they need to be.\nBut the reality of it is, this president doesn't even have people appointed in the State Department to deal with these things, whether we're talking about Central America, whether we're talking about Iran, whether we're talking about Afghanistan. We've got to be completely engaged.\nAnd here's why, because these flare-ups distract us from the real problems in the country. If we're getting drones shot down for $130 million, because the president is distracted, that's $130 million that we could be spending in places like Youngstown, Ohio, or Flint, Michigan, or rebuilding -- or rebuilding...", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Congresswoman Gabbard, I'm going to give you 30 seconds, actually, to jump off what he said. He described engagement as the problem.", Entity["Person", "TulsiGabbard::839d6"] -> "Is that what you will tell -- is that what you will tell the parents of those two soldiers who were just killed in Afghanistan? Well, we just have to be engaged? As a soldier, I will tell you, that answer is unacceptable.\nWe have to bring our troops home from Afghanistan. We are in a place in Afghanistan where we have lost so many lives. We've spent so much money. Money that's coming out of every one of our pockets, money that should be going into communities here at home, meeting the needs of the people here at home.\nWe are no better off in Afghanistan today than we were when this war began. This is why it's so important to have a president and commander-in-chief who knows the cost of war and who's ready to do the job on day one. I am ready to do that job when I walk into the Oval Office.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Listen, I'm going to go down the line -- I'm going to go down -- I'm going to go down -- I'm going to go down the line here. You know what, you felt -- you felt like she was rebutting you. Get 30 seconds, go.", Entity["Person", "TimRyan::zz9nd"] -> "Thank you. You're a very good man. I appreciate that.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Fair enough. I hear what you're saying. She invoked your name.", Entity["Person", "TimRyan::zz9nd"] -> "I would just say, I don't want to be engaged. I wish we were spending this money in places that I've represented that have been completely forgotten and we were rebuilding. But the reality of it is, if the United States isn't engaged, the Taliban will grow. And they will have bigger, bolder terrorist acts. We have got to have some presence there...", Entity["Person", "TulsiGabbard::839d6"] -> "The Taliban was there long before we came in. They're going to be there long before we leave.", Entity["Person", "TimRyan::zz9nd"] -> "And they were -- yeah, exactly. Well, we were.", Entity["Person", "TulsiGabbard::839d6"] -> "We cannot keep U.S. troops deployed to Afghanistan thinking that we're going to somehow squash this Taliban that's been there, that every other country that's tried has failed.", Entity["Person", "TimRyan::zz9nd"] -> "I didn't say -- I didn't say squash them. I didn't say squash them. When we weren't in there, they started flying planes into our buildings. So I'm just saying right now we have an obligation...", Entity["Person", "TulsiGabbard::839d6"] -> "The Taliban didn't attack us on 9/11. Al Qaida did.", Entity["Person", "TimRyan::zz9nd"] -> "Well, I -- I understand...", Entity["Person", "TulsiGabbard::839d6"] -> "Al Qaida attacked us on 9/11. That's why I and so many other people joined the military, to go after Al Qaida, not the Taliban.", Entity["Person", "TimRyan::zz9nd"] -> "I understand that. The Taliban...", "Chuck Todd" -> "Go ahead, Congressman. Finish up, 10 seconds.", Entity["Person", "TimRyan::zz9nd"] -> "The Taliban was protecting those people who were plotting against us. All I'm saying is, if we want to go into elections, and we want to say that we've got to withdraw from the world, that's what President Trump is saying. We can't. I would love for us to.", Entity["Person", "TulsiGabbard::839d6"] -> "You know who's protecting Al Qaida right now? It's Saudi Arabia.", "Chuck Todd" -> "I want to go down the line here, finish up foreign policy. It's a simple question. What is our -- what is the biggest threat -- what is -- who is the geopolitical threat to the United States? Just give me a one-word answer, Congressman Delaney.", Entity["Person", "JohnDelaney::2752x"] -> "Could you repeat the question?", "Chuck Todd" -> "Greatest geopolitical threat to the United States right now. Congressman Delaney?", Entity["Person", "JohnDelaney::2752x"] -> "Well, the biggest geopolitical challenge is China. But the biggest geopolitical threat remains nuclear weapons.", "Chuck Todd" -> "OK.", Entity["Person", "JohnDelaney::2752x"] -> "Right, so those are -- you know, those are different questions.", "Chuck Todd" -> "I got you. Totally get it. Go ahead. Governor Inslee?", Entity["Person", "JayInslee::pt86r"] -> "The biggest threat to the security of the United States is Donald Trump. And there's no question about it.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Congresswoman Gabbard?", Entity["Person", "TulsiGabbard::839d6"] -> "The greatest...", "Chuck Todd" -> "Greatest geopolitical threat.", Entity["Person", "TulsiGabbard::839d6"] -> "The greatest threat that we face is the fact that we're in a greater risk of nuclear war today than ever before in history.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Senator Klobuchar?", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "Two threats, economic threat, China, but our major threat right now is what's going in the Mideast with Iran, if we don't get...", "Chuck Todd" -> "OK, try to keep it at one -- slimmer than what we've been going here. One or two words.", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "Our existential threat is climate change. We have to confront it before it's too late.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Senator Warren?", Entity["Person", "JayInslee::pt86r"] -> "Climate change.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Yeah. Senator Booker?", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "Nuclear proliferation and climate change.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Secretary Castro?", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "China and climate change.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Congressman Ryan?", Entity["Person", "TimRyan::zz9nd"] -> "China, without a question. They're wiping us around the world economically.", "Chuck Todd" -> "And Mr. Mayor?", Entity["Person", "BillDeBlasio::5777v"] -> "Russia, because they're trying to undermine our democracy and they've been doing a pretty damn good job of it, and we need to stop them.", "Chuck Todd" -> "All right. Well, thank you for that wide variety of answers, and I mean that. No, I mean that in -- that's what this debate is about. This is the best part of a debate like this.\nCongressman O'Rourke, Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report outlines multiple instances of potential criminal behavior by President Trump. House Speaker Pelosi has publicly and privately resisted any move toward impeachment in the House. If the House chooses not to impeach, as president, would you do anything to address the potential crimes that were outlined in Mr. Mueller's report?", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "Yes, and I'll tell you why.", "Chuck Todd" -> "How, by the way? If the answer is yes.\nOne of the most powerful pieces of art in the United States Capitol is the Trumbull painting of General George Washington resigning his commission to the Continental Congress, at the height of his power, submitting to the rule of law and the will of people. That has withstood the test of time for the last 243 years.\nIf we set another precedent now that a candidate who invited the participation of a foreign power, a president who sought to obstruct the investigation into the invasion of our democracy, if we allow him to get away with this with complete impunity, then we will have set a new standard, and that is that some people, because of the position of power and public trust that they hold, are above the law. And we cannot allow that to stand.\nSo we must begin impeachment now so that we have the facts and the truth and we follow them as far as they go and as high up as they reach and we save this democracy. And if we've not been able to do that in this year or the year that follows, and under my administration, our Department of Justice will pursue these facts and ensure that there are consequences, there is accountability, and there is justice. It's the only way that we save this country.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Thank you, Congressman O'Rourke.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Congressman Delaney, because of the accountability issues that Congressman O'Rourke was just describing there and the real political landscape in which Nancy Pelosi is saying that impeachment will not be pursued in the House, it raises the prospect -- and the Mueller Report raises the prospect that President Trump could be prosecuted for some of those potential crimes down the line. No U.S. president has ever been prosecuted for crimes after leaving office. Do you believe that President Trump could or should be the first?", Entity["Person", "JohnDelaney::2752x"] -> "I guess there's always a first.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Should he be?", Entity["Person", "JohnDelaney::2752x"] -> "I don't think anyone is above the law. I don't think anyone is above the law, including a president. I support Speaker Pelosi's decisions that she is making in the House of Representatives right now as speaker. I think she knows more about the decision as to whether to impeach the president than any of the 2020 candidates combined.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Conceded. On the issue of prosecution...", Entity["Person", "JohnDelaney::2752x"] -> "So -- but I do think -- I do think the -- no one is above the law, and this president, who is lawless, should not be above the law. But I will tell you, Rachel, the one thing when you're out doing as much campaigning as I've done, 400 events, all 99 counties in Iowa, this is not the number-one issue the American people ask us about.\nIt's not. They want to know what we're going to do for health care, how we're going to lower pharmaceutical prices, how we're going to build infrastructure, what we're going to do to create jobs in their communities.\nYou know, last year in our country, 80 percent of the money for start-up businesses went to 50 counties in this country.\nThere's over 3,000 counties in this country. That's what they care about. They care about what's going on in the public schools. They care about what's going on with jobs in their communities, with their pay, with their health care, with infrastructure. These are the issues, these kind of kitchen-table, pocket-book issues...", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Understood.", Entity["Person", "JohnDelaney::2752x"] -> "... are actually what most Americans care about. They never ask about the Mueller Report.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Congressman, thank you. Your time is up.", Entity["Person", "JohnDelaney::2752x"] -> "They never ask about it. They want to know how we're going to solve these problems.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Your time's...", "Chuck Todd" -> "Here's the thing. I still -- Senator...", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "... but if we let the Republicans run our elections and if do not do something about Russian interference in the election and we let Mitch McConnell stop all the backup paper ballots, then we're not going to get what we want to do.", "Chuck Todd" -> "I've got to sneak in -- we blew through a break, which was good news, to give you more time, so I got to sneak one in now. More of this debate. It's picking up here. It continues right after this.", "Lester Holt" -> "We are back from Miami, and it's time now for closing statements. Each candidate has 45 seconds. We want to begin with former Congressman Delaney.", Entity["Person", "JohnDelaney::2752x"] -> "Closing now?", "Lester Holt" -> "Closing, 45 seconds. We could make -- we could go on.", Entity["Person", "JohnDelaney::2752x"] -> "Together we are on a mission. We're on a mission to find the America that's been lost, lost through infighting, lost through inaction. We're so much better than this. We're a country that used to do things. We saved the world. We created the American dream for millions of people like myself, the grandson of immigrants, the son of a union electrician who went on to become a successful business leader and create thousands of jobs.\nBut we did these things with real solutions, not with impossible promises. And those are the roots that we have to get back to. I'm running for president to solve these problems, to build infrastructure, to fix our broken health care system, to invest in communities that have been left behind, to improve public education.", "Lester Holt" -> "Your...", Entity["Person", "JohnDelaney::2752x"] -> "I just don't want to be your president to be your president.", "Lester Holt" -> "Congressman, your 45 seconds is over.", Entity["Person", "JohnDelaney::2752x"] -> "I want to be your president to do the job.", "Lester Holt" -> "Thank you, sir.", Entity["Person", "JohnDelaney::2752x"] -> "This is not about me. This is about getting America working again.", "Lester Holt" -> "Thank you.", "Savannah Guthrie" -> "Mayor De Blasio. Mayor, your closing statement.", Entity["Person", "BillDeBlasio::5777v"] -> "It matters. It matters in this fight for the heart and soul of our party that we nominate a candidate who has seen the face of poverty and didn't just talk about it, but gave people $15 minimum wage.\nIt matters that we nominate a candidate who saw the destruction wrought by a broken health care system and gave people universal health care. It matters that we choose someone who saw the wasted potential of our children denied pre-K and gave it to every single one of them for free.\nThese things really matter. And these are the things that I've done in New York and I want to do the same for this whole country, because putting working people first, it matters. We need to be that party again. Let's work together. With your help, we can put working people first again in America.", "Savannah Guthrie" -> "Thank you, Mayor De Blasio. Right on time.", "Jose Diaz-Balart" -> "Governor Inslee, 45 seconds.", Entity["Person", "JayInslee::pt86r"] -> "(OFF-MIKE) grandchildren, we love them all. And when I was thinking about whether to run for president, I made a decision. I decided that on my last day on Earth, I wanted to look them in the eye and tell them I did everything humanly possible to protect them from the ravages of the climate crisis.\nAnd I know to a moral certainty, if we do not have the next president who commits to this as the top priority, it won't get done. And I am the only candidate -- frankly, I'm surprised. I'm the only candidate who's made this commitment to make it the top priority.\nIf you join me in that recognition of how important this is, we can have a unified national mission. We can save ourselves. We can save our children. We can save our grandchildren. And we can save literally the life on this planet. This is our moment.", "Jose Diaz-Balart" -> "Governor, thank you.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Congressman Ryan, your 45 seconds.", Entity["Person", "TimRyan::zz9nd"] -> "There's nothing worse than not being heard. Nothing worse than not being seen. And I know that because I've represented for 17 years in Congress a forgotten community.\nThey've tried to divide us, who's white, who's black, who's gay, who's straight, who's a man, who's a woman. And they ran away with all the gold because they divided the working class. It's time for us to come together.\nI don't know how you feel, but I'm ready to play some offense. I come from the middle of industrial America, but these problems are all over our country. There's a tent city in L.A. There's homeless people and people around our country who can't afford a home. It's time for us to get back on track. The teacher in Texas, the nurse in New Hampshire, the waitress in Wisconsin, all of us coming together, playing offense with an agenda that lifts everybody up.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Thank you, Congressman.", Entity["Person", "TimRyan::zz9nd"] -> "I will only promise you one thing. When I walk into that Oval Office every morning, you will not be forgotten.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Thank you, Congressman.", Entity["Person", "TimRyan::zz9nd"] -> "Your voice will be heard. Thank you.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Congresswoman Gabbard, you have 45 seconds for your closing.", Entity["Person", "TulsiGabbard::839d6"] -> "Our nation was founded on the principles of service above self, people who fled kings, who literally prospered on the backs and the sacrifices of people, coming here to this country, instead putting in place a government that is of, by, and for the people.\nBut that's not what we have. Instead, we have a government that is of, by, and for the rich and powerful. This must end. As president, our White House -- our White House will be a beacon of light, providing hope and opportunity, ushering in a new century where every single person will be able to get the health care they need, where we will have clean air to breathe and clean water to drink, where we will have good-paying jobs and a new green economy. Join me in ushering in this new century with peace, prosperity, opportunity, and justice for all.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Congresswoman, thank you.", "Lester Holt" -> "Secretary Castro, you have 45 seconds, sir.", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "Me llamo Julian Castro, y estoy postolando por presidente de los Estados Unidos.\nThe very fact that I can say that tonight shows the progress that we have made in this country. Like many of you, I know the promise of America. My grandmother came here when she was 7 years old as an immigrant from Mexico, and just two generations later, one of her grandsons is serving in the United States Congress and the other one is running for president of the United States. If I'm elected president, I will work hard every single day so that you and your family can get good health care, your child can get a good education, and that you can have good job opportunities, whether you live in a big city or a small town. And on January 20, 2021, we'll say adios to Donald Trump.", "Savannah Guthrie" -> "Senator Klobuchar, the floor is yours.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "Three things to know about me. First, I listen to people and that's how I get things done. That is my focus. I have a track record of passing over 100 bills where I'm the lead Democrat. And that is because I listened and I acted. And I think that's important in a president. Everything else just melts away.\nSecondly, I'm someone that can win and beat Donald trump. I have won every place, every race, and every time. I have won in the reddest of districts, ones that Donald Trump won by over 20 points. I can win in states like Wisconsin and Iowa and in Michigan.\nAnd finally, yeah, I am not the establishment party candidate. I've got respect, but I'm not that person. I am the one that doesn't have a political machine, that doesn't come from money. And I don't make all the promises that everyone up here makes.\nBut I can promise you this. I am going to govern with integrity. I'm going toI'm going to govern for you.", "Savannah Guthrie" -> "Thank you, Senator.", "Jose Diaz-Balart" -> "(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "Gracias. Fifty years ago this month, my family moved into the town I grew up in because after being denied a house because of the color of their skin, it was activists, mostly white activists, that stood up and fought for them. That's the best of who we are as America and why when I got out of law school, I moved into the inner city of Newark to fight as a tenant lawyer for other people's rights.\nI've taken on bullies and beat them. I've taken on tough fights and we've won. And we win those fights not by showing the worst of who we are, by rising to who's best.\nDonald Trump wants us to fight him on his turf and his terms. We will beat him, I will beat him by calling this country to a sense of common purpose again. This is a referendum on him and getting rid of him, but it's also a referendum on us, who we are, and who we must be to each other.\nIt's time we win this election. And the way I'll govern is by showing the best of who we are because that's what this country needs and deserves.", "Jose Diaz-Balart" -> "Senator, thank you.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Congressman O'Rourke, 45 seconds.\nOur daughter, Molly, turned 11 this week. I'm on this stage for her, for children across this country, including some her same age who've been separated from their parents and are sleeping on concrete floors under aluminum blankets tonight.\nIf we're going to be there for them, if we're going to confront the challenges that we face, we can't return to the same old approach. We're going to need a new kind of politics, one directed by the urgency of the next generation, those climate activists, who are fighting not just for their future but for everyone's, those students marching not just for their lives but for all of ours.\nWe'll need a movement like the one that we led in Texas. It renewed our democracy by bringing everyone in and writing nobody off. That's how we beat Donald Trump. That's how we bring this great country together again. Join us. This is our moment. And the generations that follow are counting on us to meet it.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Thank you, Congressman.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Senator Warren, you have 45 seconds for the final, final statement of the evening.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "Thank you. It's a great honor to be here. Never in a million years did I think I would stand on a stage like this. I was born and raised in Oklahoma. I have three older brothers. They all joined the military.\nI had a dream growing up. And my dream was to be a public school teacher. By the time I graduated from high school, my family -- my family didn't have the money for a college application, much less a chance for me to go to college.\nBut I got my chance. It was a $50 a semester commuter college. That was a little slice of government that created some opportunity for a girl. And it opened my life.\nI am in this fight because I believe that we can make our government, we can make our economy, we can make our country work not just for those at the top. We can make it work for everyone. And I promise you this: I will fight for you as hard as I fight for my own family.", "Savannah Guthrie" -> "We would like to thank all of the candidates who participated with us tonight. And that will do it for night one of this two-night event. And guess what? We've got 10 more candidates tomorrow night.", "Lester Holt" -> "Good evening, I'm Lester Holt, and welcome to night two of the first Democratic debate in the 2020 race of president.\nSAVANNAH", "Savannah Guthrie" -> "Good evening, I'm Savannah Guthrie. Last night we heard from ten candidates and now 10 more take the stage.", "Lester Holt" -> "And again tonight, we'll be joined in the questioning by our colleagues, Jose Diaz-Balart, Chuck Todd, and Rachel Maddow.", "Savannah Guthrie" -> "The candidates are in position, so let's get started.", "ANNOUNCER" -> "Tonight, round two, Colorado Senator Michael Bennet. Former Vice President Joe Biden. South Bend Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg. New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand. California Senator Kamala Harris. Former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. California Congressman Eric Swalwell. Author Marianne Williamson. And former tech executive Andrew Yang.\nFrom NBC News, \"Decision 2020,\" the Democratic candidates debate, live from the Adrienne Arsht Performing Arts Center in Miami, Florida.", "Lester Holt" -> "And good evening. Once again, welcome to the candidates and our spirited audience here tonight in the Arsht Center and across America tonight. We continue the spirited debate about the future of the country, how to tackle our most pressing problems, and getting to the heart of the biggest issues in this Democratic primary.", "Savannah Guthrie" -> "Tonight, we're going to talk about health care, immigration. We're also going to dive into the economy, jobs, climate change, as well.\nJOSE", "Jose Diaz-Balart" -> "As the quick rules of the road, before we begin -- and they may sound familiar -- 20 candidates qualified for this first debate. As we said, we heard from 10 last night, and we'll hear from 10 more tonight. The breakdown for each night was selected at random. The candidates will have 60 seconds to answer, 30 seconds for any follow-ups.", "Lester Holt" -> "And because of the large field of candidates, not every person is going to be able to weigh in on every topic, but over the course of the next two hours, we will hear from everyone.", "Savannah Guthrie" -> "And we love our audience, but we'd like to ask them to keep their reactions to a minimum. And we're not going to hold back making sure the candidates stick to time. So, with that business taken care of, let's get to it. And we're going to start today with Senator Sanders. Good evening to you.\nYou've called for big, new government benefits, like universal health care and free college. In a recent interview, you said you suspected that Americans would be, quote, \"delighted\" to pay more taxes for things like that. My question to you is, will taxes go up for the middle class in a Sanders administration? And if so, how do you sell that to voters?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Well, you're quite right. We have a new vision for America. And at a time when we have three people in this country owning more wealth than the bottom half of America, while 500,000 people are sleeping out on the streets today, we think it is time for change, real change.\nAnd by that, I mean that health care in my view is a human right. And we have got to pass a Medicare for all, single-payer system.Under that system, by the way, vast majority of the people in this country will be paying significantly less for health care than they are right now.\nI believe that education is the future for this country. And that is why I believe that we must make public colleges and universities tuition-free and eliminate student debt. And we do that by placing a tax on Wall Street.Every proposal that I have brought forth is fully paid for.", "Savannah Guthrie" -> "Senator Sanders, I'll give you 10 seconds just to ask the -- answer the very direct question. Will you raise taxes for the middle class in a Sanders administration?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "People who have health care under Medicare for all will have no premiums, no deductibles, no copayments, no out-of-pocket expenses. Yes, they will pay more in taxes, but less in health care for what they get.", "Savannah Guthrie" -> "Thank you, Senator.", "Savannah Guthrie" -> "Senator Bennet, we're going to get to everybody, I promise.", Entity["Person", "MichaelBennet::6ggfg"] -> "No, I'd like to say something.", "Savannah Guthrie" -> "But let me just -- Senator Biden -- promise everybody's going to get in here, promise. Vice President Biden, Senator Sanders, as you know, has been calling for a revolution. Recently in remarks to a group of wealthy donors, as you were speaking about problem of income inequality in this country, you said we shouldn't, quote, \"demonize the rich.\" You said, \"Nobody has to be punished. No one's standard of living would change. Nothing would fundamentally change.\" What did you mean by that?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "What I meant by that is, look, Donald Trump thinks Wall Street built America.\nOrdinary, middle-class Americans built America. My dad used to have an expression. He said, Joe, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It's about your dignity. It's about respect. It's being able to look your kid in the eye and say everything is going to be OK.\nToo many people who are at the middle class and poor have had the bottom fall out under this proposal. What I'm saying is that we've got to be straight-forward. We have to make sure we understand that to return dignity to the middle class, they have to have insurance that is covered and they can afford it. They have to make sure that we have a situation where there's continuing education and they're able to pay for it. And they have to make sure that they're able to breathe air that is clean and they have water that they can drink.\nLook, Donald Trump has put us in a horrible situation. We do have enormous income inequality. And the one thing I agree on is we can make massive cuts in the $1.6 trillion in tax loopholes out there, and I would be going about eliminating Donald Trump's tax cut for the wealthy.", "Savannah Guthrie" -> "Vice President Biden, thank you. Senator Harris... There's is a lot of talk in this primary about new government benefits, such as student loan cancellation, free college, health care, and more. Do you think that Democrats have a responsibility to explain how they will pay for every proposal they make along those lines?", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "Well, let me tell you something. I hear that question, but where was that question when the Republicans and Donald Trump passed a tax bill that benefits the top 1 percent and the biggest corporations in this country? Contributing at least $1 trillion to the debt of America, which middle-class families will pay for one way or another.\nWorking families need support and need to be lifted up. And frankly, this economy is not working for working people. For too long, the rules have been written in the favor of the people who have the most and not in favor of the people who work the most, which I why I am proposing that we change the tax code, so for every family that is making less than $100,000 a year, they will receive a tax credit that they can collect up to $500 a month, which will make all the difference between those families being able to get through the end of the month with dignity and with support or not.\nAnd on day one, I will repeal that tax bill that benefits the top 1 percent and the biggest corporations of America.", "Savannah Guthrie" -> "Senator Harris, thank you.\nGovernor Hickenlooper, let me get you in on this. You've warned that Democrats will lose in 2020 if they \"embrace socialism,\" as you put it. You were booed at the California Democratic convention when you said that. Only one candidate on this stage, Senator Sanders, identifies himself as a democratic socialist. What are the policies or positions of your opponents that you think are veering towards \"socialism\"?", Entity["Person", "JohnHickenlooper::g3625"] -> "Well, I think that the bottom line is, if we don't clearly define that we are not socialists, the Republicans are going to come at us every way they can and call us socialists.\nAnd if you look at the Green New Deal, which I admire the sense of urgency and how important it is to do climate change -- I'm a scientist -- but we can't promise every American a government job. If we want to get universal health care coverage, I believe that health care is a right and not a privilege, but you can't expect to eliminate private insurance for 180 million people, many of whom don't want to give it up.\nIn Colorado, we brought businesses and nonprofits together, and we got near universal health care coverage. We were the first state in America to bring the environmental community and the oil and gas industry to address -- aggressively address methane emissions. And we were also the first place to expand reproductive rights on a scale basis, and we reduced teen pregnancy by 54 percent.\nWe've done the big progressive things that people said couldn't be done. I've done what pretty much everyone else up here is still talking about doing.", "Savannah Guthrie" -> "Governor, thank you.\nSenator Sanders, I'll give you a chance to... ... to weigh in here. What is your response to those who say nominating a \"socialist\" would re-elect Donald Trump?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Well, I think the responses that the polls -- last poll I saw had us 10 points ahead of Donald Trump because the American people understand that Trump is a phony, that Trump is a pathological liar and a racist, and that he lied to the American people during his campaign.\nHe said he was going to stand up for working families. Well, President Trump, you're not standing up for working families when you try to throw 32 million people off their health care that they have and that 83 percent of your tax benefits go to the top 1 percent. That's how we beat Trump: We expose him for the fraud that he is.", "Savannah Guthrie" -> "Senator Gillibrand, 30 seconds.", Entity["Person", "KirstenGillibrand::trt5h"] -> "I disagree with both their perspectives. The debate we're having in our party right now is confusing, because the truth is there's a big difference between capitalism on the one hand and greed on the other. And so all the things that we're trying to change is when companies care more about profits when they do about people.\nSo if you're talking about ending gun violence, it's the greed of the NRA and the gun manufacturers that make any progress impossible. It's the greed of the insurance companies and the drug companies, when we want to try to get health care as a right and not a privilege.", "Savannah Guthrie" -> "Senator Gillibrand...", Entity["Person", "KirstenGillibrand::trt5h"] -> "So there need not be disagreement in the party because, in truth, we want healthy capitalism.", "Savannah Guthrie" -> "Senator, thank you.", Entity["Person", "KirstenGillibrand::trt5h"] -> "We don't want corrupted capitalism.", "Savannah Guthrie" -> "Thank you. I want to be fair to all the candidates. Thank you. Senator Bennet, you have said, quote, \"It's possible to write policy proposals that have no basis in reality. You might as well call them candy. Were you referring to any candidate or proposal in particular when you said that?", Entity["Person", "MichaelBennet::6ggfg"] -> "Was that directed to me?", "Savannah Guthrie" -> "Yes, that was your quote.", Entity["Person", "MichaelBennet::6ggfg"] -> "That sounded like me. Thank you.", "Savannah Guthrie" -> "It was you.", Entity["Person", "MichaelBennet::6ggfg"] -> "I appreciate it. Well, look, first of all, I agree completely with Bernie about what the fundamental challenge we're facing as a country is, 40 years of no economic growth for 90 percent of the American people; 160,000 families in the top .1 percent have the same wealth as the bottom 90 percent; and we've got the worst income inequality that we've had in 100 years.\nWhere I disagree is on his solution of Medicare for all. You know, I -- I have proposed getting to universal health care, which we need to do. It is a right. Health care is a right. We need to get to universal health care. I believe the way to do that is by finishing the work we started with Obamacare and creating a public option that every family and every person in America can make a choice for their family about whether they want a public option, which for them would be like having Medicare for all, or whether they want to keep their private insurance.\nI believe we will get there much more quickly if we do that.", "Savannah Guthrie" -> "But wait...", Entity["Person", "MichaelBennet::6ggfg"] -> "Bernie... Bernie -- if I could just finish, Bernie mentioned that -- the taxes that we would have to pay. Because of those taxes, Vermont rejected Medicare for all.", "Savannah Guthrie" -> "Senator...", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Hold on.", Entity["Person", "KirstenGillibrand::trt5h"] -> "In Bernie's bill -- in Bernie's bill, I wrote...", "Savannah Guthrie" -> "Senator, please, we are going to talk about health care at length, Senator, but for the moment, my colleague...\n(UNKNOWN): Thank you very much.", "Savannah Guthrie" -> "... wants to continue the questions on the economy.", Entity["Person", "KirstenGillibrand::trt5h"] -> "I wrote the part in Senator Sanders' bill -- I wrote the part in Senator Sanders' bill that is the transition, which merges what the two senators said.\n(UNKNOWN): Senator...", Entity["Person", "KirstenGillibrand::trt5h"] -> "Because the truth is, if you have a buy-in, over a four or five-year period, you move us to single-payer more quickly.", "Jose Diaz-Balart" -> "Senator, we will get to this.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "I just...", "Jose Diaz-Balart" -> "Before we do, I want to say hello and good evening, Buenas Noches, to Mayor Pete Buttigieg.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "Buenas Noches. Gracias(ph).", "Jose Diaz-Balart" -> "(UNTRANSLATED) (ph). Many of your colleagues on stage support free college. You do not. Why not?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "Sure. So college affordability is personal for us. Chasten and I have six-figure student debt. I believe in reducing student debt. It's logical to me that, if you can refinance your house, you ought to be able to refinance your student debt. I also believe in free college for low and middle-income students for whom cost could be a barrier.I just don't believe it makes sense to ask working-class families to subsidize even the children of billionaires. I think the children of the wealthiest Americans can pay at least a little bit of tuition. And while I want tuition costs to go down, I don't think we can buy down every last penny for them.\nNow, there's something else that doesn't get talked about in the college affordability debate. Yes, it needs to be more affordable in this country to go to college. It also needs to be more affordable in this country to not go to college. You should be able to live well, afford rent, be generous... ... to your church and Little League, whether you went to college or not.", Entity["Person", "AndrewYang::f7w42"] -> "Jose, I've got $100,000 in student loan debt myself.", "Jose Diaz-Balart" -> "Let me get to you in...", Entity["Person", "EricSwalwell::8n78c"] -> "You can't count on the people who have been in government for the last 30 years, who were around when this problem was created, to be the ones to solve it. It's going to be the next generation, the 40 million of us who can't start a family, can't take a good idea and start a business and can't buy our first home. This is the generation that's going to be able to solve student loan debt. This generation is ready to lead.", "Jose Diaz-Balart" -> "Mr. Yang, your -- your signature policy is to give every adult in the United States $1,000 a month, no questions asked.", Entity["Person", "AndrewYang::f7w42"] -> "That's right.", "Jose Diaz-Balart" -> "I think that's like $3.2 trillion a year. How would do you that?", Entity["Person", "AndrewYang::f7w42"] -> "I'm sorry?", "Jose Diaz-Balart" -> "How would you do that.", Entity["Person", "AndrewYang::f7w42"] -> "Oh, so it's difficult to do if you have companies like Amazon, trillion-dollar tech companies, paying literally zero in taxes while they're closing 30 percent of our stores. Now, we need to put the American people in position to benefit from all these innovations in other parts of the economy. And if we had a value-added tax at even half the European level, it would generate over $800 billion in new revenue, which combined with the money in our hands, it would be the trickle-up economy, from our people, families and communities up. We would spend the money and it would circulate through our regional economies and neighborhoods, creating millions of jobs, making our families stronger and healthier. We'd save money on things like incarceration, homelessness services, emergency room health care, and just the value gains from having a stronger, healthier, mentally healthier population would increase GDP by $700 billion.\nThis is the move that we have to make, particularly as technology is now automating away millions of American jobs, it's why Donald Trump is our president today that we automated away 4 million manufacturing jobs in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, and we are about to do the same thing to millions of retail jobs, call center jobs, fast food jobs, truck-driving jobs and other jobs through the economy.", "Jose Diaz-Balart" -> "So, Mr. Yang, if I get to understand a little bit better, Sir, you are saying $1,000 a month for everyone over 18, but a value-added tax so you can spend that $1,000 on value-added tax?", Entity["Person", "AndrewYang::f7w42"] -> "Well, the value-added tax would end up -- you still would be increasing the buying power of the bottom 94 percent of Americans. You have to spend a lot of money for a mild value-added tax to eat up $12,000 a year per individual. So for the average family with two or three adults, it would be $24-36,000 a year.", "Jose Diaz-Balart" -> "OK. Congressman Swalwell, I want to talk a little bit about what Mr. Yang is talking about, and you just actually mentioned, that many Americans are worried about things like self-driving cars, robots, drones, artificial intelligence will cost them their jobs. What would you do to help people get the skills they need to adapt to this new world?", Entity["Person", "EricSwalwell::8n78c"] -> "We must always be a county where technology creates more jobs than it displaces. And I have seen the anxiety across America where the manufacturing floors go from 1,000 to 100 to one. So we have to modernize our schools, value the teachers who prepare our kids, wipe the student debt from any teacher that goes into a community that needs it, invest in America's communities especially where places where the best exports are people who move away to get skills. But, Jose, I was 6 years old when a presidential candidate came to the California Democratic Convention and said it's time to pass the torch to a new generation of Americans. That candidate was then-Senator Joe Biden. Joe Biden was right when he said it was time to pass the torch to a new generation of Americans 32 years ago. He is still right today.If we are going to solve the issues of automation, pass the torch. If we are going to solve the issues of climate chaos, pass the torch. If we're going to solve the issue of student loan debt, pass the torch. If we're going to end gun violence for families who are fearful of sending their kids to school, pass the torch.", "Jose Diaz-Balart" -> "Vice President, would you like to sing a torch song?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "I would. I'm still holding on to that torch. I want to make it clear to you, look, the fact of the matter is what we have to do is make sure that everybody is prepared better to go on to educate -- for an education. The fact is that that's why I propose us focusing on schools that are in distress.\nThat's why I think we should triple the amount of money we spend for Title I schools. That's why I think we should have universal pre-K. That's why I think every single person who graduates from high school, 65 out of 100 now need something beyond high school and we should provide for them to be able to get that education.\nThat's why there should be free community college, cutting in half the cost of college. That's why we should be in a position where we do not have anyone have to pay back a student debt when they get out if they are making less than $25,000 a year. Their debt is frozen, no interest payment until they get beyond that.\nWe can't put people in a position where they aren't able to go on and move on. And so, folks, there is a lot we can do, but we have to make continuing education available for everyone so that everyone can compete in the 21st Century. We are not doing that now.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "As the youngest guy on the stage, I feel like I probably ought to contribute to the generational...", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "As part of Joe's generation, let me respond.", Entity["Person", "KirstenGillibrand::trt5h"] -> "Before we move on from education...", "Jose Diaz-Balart" -> "Please, please. Senator Sanders. And then I'll let...", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "It's not generational. The issue is, who has the guts to take on Wall Street, to take on the fossil fuel industry, to take on the big money interests who have unbelievable influence over the economic and political life of this country?", "Jose Diaz-Balart" -> "Senator Harris -- Senator Harris, I'm so sorry. We will allow all of you to speak. Senator Harris.", "Jose Diaz-Balart" -> "Senator Harris -- please, we will let you all speak. Senator Harris.", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "Hey, guys, you know what? America does not want to witness a food fight, they want to know how we are going to put food on their table.", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "So on that point, part of the issue that is at play in America today, and we have all been traveling around the country, I certainly have, I'm meeting people who are working two and three jobs. You know, this president walks around talking about and flouting his great economy, right, my great economy, my great economy.\nYou ask him, well, how are you measuring this greatness of this economy of yours? And he talks about the stock market. Well, that's fine if you own stocks. So many families in America do not. You ask him, how are you measuring the greatness of this economy of yours? And they point to the jobless numbers and the unemployment numbers.\nWell, yeah, people in America are working. They're working two and three jobs.\nSo when we talk about jobs, let's be really clear. In our America, no one should have to work more than one job to have a roof over their head and food on the table.", "Jose Diaz-Balart" -> "Thank you very much, Senator.", "Lester Holt" -> "Yes, you have all -- you've all expressed an interest in talking about health care. So let's talk about health care.\n(UNKNOWN): I'd like to say something, if I might.", "Lester Holt" -> "And this is going to be a show of hands question. We asked a question about health care last night that spurred a lot of discussion, as you know. We're going to do it again now. Many people watching at home have health insurance through their employer. Who here would abolish their private health insurance in favorite of a government-run plan?\nAll right. Kristin Gillibrand, Senator Gillibrand?", Entity["Person", "KirstenGillibrand::trt5h"] -> "Yeah, so now it's my turn.", Entity["Person", "MichaelBennet::6ggfg"] -> "Good.", Entity["Person", "KirstenGillibrand::trt5h"] -> "So this is a very important issue. So the plan that Senator Sanders and I and others support, Medicare for all, is how you get to single payer. But it has a buy-in transition period, which is really important.\nIn 2005, when I ran for Congress in a 2-to-1 Republican district, I actually ran on Medicare for all, and I won that 2-to-1 Republican district twice. And the way I formulated it was simple. Anyone who doesn't have access to insurance they like, they could buy it at a percentage of income they could afford.\nSo that's what we put in to the transition period for our Medicare for all plan. I believe we need to get to universal health care as a right and not a privilege to single payer. The quickest way you get there is you create competition with the insurers. God bless the insurers, if they want to compete, they can certainly try, but they've never put people over their profits, and I doubt they ever will.\nSo what will happen is people will choose Medicare, you will transition, we will get to Medicare for all, and then your step to single-payer is so short, I would make it an earned benefit, just like Social Security, so that you buy in your whole life, it is always there for you, and it's permanent and it's universal.", "Lester Holt" -> "Senator, your time is up. I want to put that same question to Mayor Buttigieg.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "Yeah, we've talked -- look, everybody who says Medicare for all, every person in politics who allows that phrase to escape their lips has a responsibility to explain how you're actually supposed to get from here to there.Now, here's how I would do it. It's very similar. I would call it Medicare for all who want it. You take something like Medicare, a flavor of that, you make it available on the exchanges, people can buy in. And then if people like us are right, that that will be not only a more inclusive plan, but a more efficient plan than any of the corporate answers out there, then it will be a very natural glide path to the single-payer environment.\nBut let's remember, even in countries that have outright socialized medicine, like England, even there, there's still a private sector. That's fine. It's just that for our primary care, we can't be relying on the tender mercies of the corporate system.\nThis one is very personal for me. I started out this year dealing with the terminal illness of my father. I make decisions for a living, and nothing could have prepared me for the kind of decisions our family faced.\nBut the thing we had going for us was that we never had to make those decisions based on whether it was going to bankrupt our family, because of Medicare. And I want every family to have that same freedom to do what is medically right, not live in financial fear.", "Lester Holt" -> "Your time is complete. Vice President Biden, I want to put the question to you. You were an architect -- one of the architects of Obamacare. So where do we go from here?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Well, look, this is very personal to me. When my wife and daughter were killed in an automobile accident, my two boys were very, very badly injured. I couldn't imagine what it would be like if I'd not had adequate health care available to me.\nAnd then, when my son came home from Iraq after a year, he was diagnosed with terminal cancer, and he was given months to live. I can't fathom what would have happened if, in fact, they said, by the way, the last six months of your life, you're on your own. We're cutting off. You've used up your time.\nThe fact of the matter is that the quickest, fastest way to do it is build on Obamacare, to build on what we did.And, secondly -- secondly, to make sure that everyone does have an option. Everyone, whether they have private insurance or employer insurance and no insurance, they, in fact, can buy in, in the exchange to a Medicare-like plan. And the way to do that -- we can do it quickly.\nLook, urgency matters. There's people right now facing what I faced, and what we faced, without any of the help I had. We must move now. I'm against any Democrat who opposes...", "Lester Holt" -> "Vice president Biden...", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "... and takes down Obamacare and any Republican who wants to get rid of Obamacare.", "Lester Holt" -> "Let me turn to Senator Sanders. Senator Sanders, you have basically -- you basically want to scrap the private health insurance system as we know it and replace it with a government-run plan. None of the states that have tried something like that, California, Vermont, New York has struggled with it, have been successful. If politicians can't make it work in those states, how would you implement it on a national level? How does this work?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Lester, I find it hard to believe that every other major country on Earth, including my neighbor 50 miles north of me, Canada, somehow has figured out a way to provide health care to every man, woman, and child, and in most cases, they're spending 50 percent per capita what we are spending.Let's be clear. Let us be very clear. The function of health care today from the insurance and drug company perspective is not to provide quality care to all in a cost-effective way. The function of the health care system today is to make billions in profits for the insurance companies. And last year, if you can believe it, while we pay the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs -- and I will lower prescription drugs prices in half in this country -- top 10 companies made $69 billion in profit. They will spend hundreds of millions of dollars lying to the American people, telling us why we cannot have a Medicare for all single-payer program.", "Lester Holt" -> "Senator, Senator, I just have -- I just have to follow up there. How do you implement it on a national level?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "I'm sorry?", "Lester Holt" -> "How do you implement it on a national level?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "OK.", "Lester Holt" -> "Given the fact that it's not succeeded and other states have tried?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "I will tell you how we'll do it. We'll do it the way real change has always taken place, whether it was the labor movement, the civil rights movement, or the women's movement. We will have Medicare for all when tens of millions of people are prepared to stand up and tell the insurance companies and the drug companies that their day is gone, that health care is a human right, not something to make huge profits off of.", "Lester Holt" -> "Thank you. All right, Ms. Williamson... Ms. Williamson, this is a question for you.", "Lester Holt" -> "Excuse me. Excuse me. I'm addressing the question to Ms. Williamson. We've been talking a lot about access to health insurance. But for many Americans, their most pressing concern is the high cost of health care. How would you lower the cost of prescription drugs?", Entity["Person", "MarianneWilliamson::5ffrg"] -> "Well, first of all, the government should never have made the deal with big pharma that they couldn't negotiate. That was just part of the regular corruption by which multinational corporations have their way with us.\nYou know, I want to say that while I agree with -- and I'm with Senator Bennet and others, but I agree with almost everything here -- I'll tell you one thing, it's really nice if we've got all these plans, but if you think we're going to beat Donald Trump by just having all these plans, you've got another thing coming, because he didn't win by saying he had a plan. He won by simply saying make America great again.\nWe've got to get deeper than just these superficial fixes, as important as they are. Even if we're just talking about the superficial fixes, ladies and gentlemen, we don't have a health care system in the United States. We have a sickness care system in the United States. We just wait until somebody gets sick, and then we talk about who's going pay for the treatment and how they're going to be treated.What we need to talk about is why so many Americans have unnecessary chronic illnesses, so many more compared to other countries. And that gets back into not just the health -- the big pharma, not just health insurance companies, it has to do with chemical policies, it has to do with environmental policies...", "Lester Holt" -> "All right, Ms. Williamson, your time is expired.", Entity["Person", "MarianneWilliamson::5ffrg"] -> "It has to do with food policies.It has to do with drug policies. It has to do with environment policies.", "Lester Holt" -> "Senator Bennet, a question for you. You want to keep the system that we have in place with Obamacare and build on it. You mentioned that a moment ago. Is that enough to get us to universal coverage?", Entity["Person", "MichaelBennet::6ggfg"] -> "I believe that will get us the quickest way there. And I thought the vice president was very moving about this and Mayor Pete, as well.\nI had prostate cancer recently, as you may know, and it's why I was a little late getting in the race. The same week, my kid had her appendectomy. And I feel very strongly that families ought to be able to have this choice. I think that's what the American people want.\nI believe it will get us there quickly. There are millions of people in America that do not have health insurance today because they can't. They're too wealthy. Wealthy? They make too much money to be on Medicaid. They can't afford health insurance. When Senator Sanders says that Canada is single payer, there are 35 million people in Canada. There are 330 million people in the United States, easily the number of people on a public option that -- it could easily be 35 million. And for them, it would be Medicare for all, as Mayor Buttigieg says. But for others that want to keep it, they should be able to keep it. And I think that will be the fastest way to get where we need to go.", Entity["Person", "MichaelBennet::6ggfg"] -> "Also, I will say -- Bernie is a very honest person. He has said over and over again, unlike others that have supported this legislation, over and over again, that this will ban, make illegal all insurance except cosmetic, except insurance for -- I guess that's for plastic surgery. Everything else is banned under the Medicare for all proposal...", "Lester Holt" -> "Let's go a little longer, but...", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "I'd like to add a point here.", "Lester Holt" -> "But I want -- but obviously, Senator Sanders, you get a response.", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "I'd like to add a point here.", "Lester Holt" -> "Senator Sanders, just respond to that.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Just very briefly, you know, Mike, Medicare is the most popular...", Entity["Person", "MichaelBennet::6ggfg"] -> "I agree.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "... health insurance program in the country. People don't like their private insurance companies. They like their doctors and hospitals. Under our plan people go to go to any doctor they want, any hospital they want. We will substantially lower the cost of health care in this country because we'll stop the greed of the insurance companies.", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "... on this issue we have to think about how this affects real people.", "Lester Holt" -> "Senator Harris.", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "And the reality of how this affects real people is captured in a story that many of us heard and I will paraphrase. There is, any night in America, a parent who has seen that their child has a temperature that is out of control, calls 911, what should I do? And they say, take the child to the Emergency Room. And so they get in their car and they drive and they are sitting in the parking lot outside of the Emergency Room looking at those sliding glass doors while they have the hand on the forehead of their child, knowing that if they walk through those sliding glass doors, even though they have insurance, they will be out a 5,000 deductible, $5,000 deductible when they walk through those doors. That's what insurance companies are doing in America today.", "Savannah Guthrie" -> "We are going to continue this discussion. I wanted to...", "Savannah Guthrie" -> "Candidates, please. Candidates, please.", Entity["Person", "EricSwalwell::8n78c"] -> "I'm one of those parents. I was just in the emergency room. And I'm telling you...\n(UNKNOWN): Congressman, thank you.", Entity["Person", "EricSwalwell::8n78c"] -> "... we fight health insurance companies every single week.\n(UNKNOWN): Thank you.", Entity["Person", "EricSwalwell::8n78c"] -> "We stand in line and pay expensive prescription drugs. We have to have a health care guarantee. If you are sick, you're seen. And in America, you never go broke because of it.", "Savannah Guthrie" -> "OK. A lot of you have been talking tonight about these government health care plans that you have proposed in one form or another. This is a show of hands question, and hold them up for a moment so people can see. Raise your hand if your government plan would provide coverage for undocumented immigrants. OK. Let me start with you, Mayor Buttigieg, why? Mayor Buttigieg, why?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "Because our country is healthier when everybody is healthier. And, remember, we are talking about something people are given a chance to buy into, in the same way that there are undocumented immigrants in my community who pay, they pay sales taxes, they pay property taxes, directly or indirectly. This is not about a handout. This is an insurance program. And we do ourselves no favors by having 11 million undocumented people in our country be unable to access health care. But, of course, the real problem is we shouldn't have 11 million undocumented people with no pathway to citizenship. It makes no sense. And the American people... The American people agree on what to do. This is a crazy thing. If leadership consists of forming a consensus around a divisive issue, this White House has divided us around a consensus issue. The American people want a pathway to citizenship, they want protections for DREAMers. We need to clean up the lawful immigration system, like how my father immigrated to this country. And as part of a compromise, we can do whatever common-sense measures are needed at the border, but Washington can't deliver on something the American people want. What does that tell you about the system we are living in? It tells you it needs profound structural reform.", "Savannah Guthrie" -> "Mayor, thank you. Vice President Biden, I believe you said that your health care plan would not cover undocumented immigrants. Could you explain your position?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "I'm sorry, I beg your pardon?", "Savannah Guthrie" -> "I believe at the show of hands you did not raise your hand. Did you raise your hand?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "No, I did.", "Savannah Guthrie" -> "OK. Sorry, sorry. So you said that they would be covered under your plan, which is different than Obamacare.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Yes. But here's the thing...", "Savannah Guthrie" -> "Can you explain that change?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Yes. You cannot let, as the mayor said, you cannot let people who are sick, no matter where they come from, no matter what their status, go uncovered. You can't do that. It's just going to be taken care of, period. You have to. It's the humane thing to do. But here's the deal, the deal is that he's right about three things. Number one, they in fact contribute to the well-being of the country but they also, for example, they've increased the lifespan of Social Security because they have a job, they're paying a Social Security tax. That's what they're doing. It has increased the lifespan. They would do the same thing in terms of reducing the overall cost of health care by them being able to be treated and not wait until they are in extremis. The other thing is, folks, look, we can deal with these insurance companies. We can deal with the insurance companies by, number one, putting insurance executives in jail for their misleading advertising, what they're doing on opioids, what they're doing paying doctors to prescribe. We could be doing this by making sure everyone who is on Medicare that the government should be able to negotiate the price for whatever the drug costs are. We can do this by making sure that we're in a position that we in fact allow people. Time's up?", "Lester Holt" -> "Hold off a minute, we need to take a short break here. We have a lot more we need to talk to all of you about. So stick with us. We're just getting started. We'll be back with more from Miami right after this.", "Lester Holt" -> "Welcome back from Miami.Jose is going to lead off the questioning in this round.", "Jose Diaz-Balart" -> "Thank you very much.\nSenator Harris, last month more than 130,000 migrants were apprehended at the southern border. Many of them are being detained, including small children, in private detention centers in Florida and throughout our country. Most of the candidates on this stage say the conditions at these facilities are abhorrent.\nOn January 20th, 2021, if you are president, what specifically would you do with the thousands of people who try to reach the United States every day and want a better life through asylum?", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "Immediately on January 20th of 2021, I will, first of all -- we cannot forget our DACA recipients, and so I'm going to start there. I will immediately, by executive action, reinstate DACA status and DACA protection to those young people.I will further extend protection for deferral of deportation for their parents and for veterans, who we have so many who are undocumented and have served our country and fought for our democracy.I will also immediately put in place a meaningful process for reviewing the cases for asylum. I will release children from cages. I will get rid... ... of the private detention centers. And I will ensure that this microphone that the president of the United States holds in her hand is used in a way... ... that is about reflecting the values of our country and not about locking children up, separating them from their parents. And I have to just say that we have to think about this issue in terms of real people. A mother who pays a coyote to transport her child through their country of origin, through the entire country of Mexico, facing unknown peril, to come here -- why would that mother do that?\nI will tell you. Because she has decided for that child to remain where they are is worse. But what does Donald Trump do? He says, \"Go back to where you came from.\" That is not reflective of our America and our values, and it's got to end.", "Jose Diaz-Balart" -> "Governor Hickenlooper... Governor Hickenlooper... Governor Hickenlooper, day one, if you are...", Entity["Person", "MarianneWilliamson::5ffrg"] -> "Another thing, I...", "Jose Diaz-Balart" -> "Day one, at the White House, how do you respond?", Entity["Person", "MarianneWilliamson::5ffrg"] -> "... deal with these -- with these children?", "Jose Diaz-Balart" -> "I -- let me get to you in just a second.", Entity["Person", "MarianneWilliamson::5ffrg"] -> "I'm sorry.", "Jose Diaz-Balart" -> "Governor, day one, thousands of men, women and children cross the border, asking for asylum, for a better life. What do you do? One -- day one, hour one?", Entity["Person", "JohnHickenlooper::g3625"] -> "Well, certainly the images we have seen this week just compound the emotional impact that the world is judging us by. If you'd ever told me any time in my life that this country would sanction federal agents to take children from the arms of their parents, put them in cages, actually put them up for adoption -- in Colorado, we call that kidnapping -- I would have told you... I would have told you it was unbelievable. And the first thing we have to do is recognize the humanitarian crisis on the border for what it is. We make sure that there are the sufficient facilities in place so that women and children are not separated from their families, that children are with their families.\nWe have to make sure that ICE is completely reformed and they begin looking at their job in a humanitarian way, where they're addressing the whole needs of the people that they are engaged with along the border, and we have to make sure ultimately that we provide not just shelter, but food, clothing, and access to medical care.", "Jose Diaz-Balart" -> "Ms. Williamson?", Entity["Person", "MarianneWilliamson::5ffrg"] -> "Yes. What Donald Trump has done to these children -- and it's not just in Colorado -- Governor, you're right, it is kidnapping, and it's extremely important for us to realize that. If you forcibly take a child from their parents' arms, you are kidnapping them.\nAnd if you take a lot of children and you put them in a detainment center, that's inflicting chronic trauma upon them. That's called child abuse. This is collective child abuse.And when this is crime -- both of those things are a crime. And if your government does it, that doesn't make it less of a crime. These are state-sponsored crimes.", "Jose Diaz-Balart" -> "Congressman...", Entity["Person", "MarianneWilliamson::5ffrg"] -> "And what President -- and what President Trump has done is not only attack these children, not only demonize these immigrants, he is attacking a basic principle of America's moral core. We open our hearts to the stranger.\nThis is extremely important. And it's also important for all of us. Remember, and I have great respect for everyone who is on this stage. But we're going to talk about what to do about health care? Well, where have you been, guys? Because it's not just a matter of a plan. And I haven't heard anybody on this stage who has talked about American foreign policy in Latin America and how we might have in the last few decades contributed to...", "Jose Diaz-Balart" -> "Senator Gillibrand, what would you do as president, with a reality?", Entity["Person", "KirstenGillibrand::trt5h"] -> "Well, one of the worst things about President Trump that he's done to this country is he's torn apart the moral fabric of who we are. When he started separating children at the border from their parents, the fact that seven children have died in his custody, the fact that dozens of children have been separated from their parents and they have no plan to reunite them. So I would do a few things. First, I would fight for comprehensive immigration reform with a pathway to citizenship. Second, I would reform how we treat asylum-seekers at the border. I would have a community-based treatment center, where we're doing it within the communities, where asylum-seekers are given lawyers, where there's real immigration judges, not employees of the attorney general, but appointed for life, and have a community-based system. I would fund border security.\nBut the worst thing President Trump has done is he's diverted the funds away from cross-border terrorism, cross-border human trafficking, drug trafficking, and gun trafficking, and he's given that money to the for-profit prisons. I would not be spending money in for-profit prisons to lock up children and asylum-seekers.", "Jose Diaz-Balart" -> "We had a very spirited debate on this stage last night on the topic of decriminalization of the border. If you'd be so kind, raise your hand if you think it should be a civil offense rather than a crime to cross the border without documentation? Can we keep the hands up so we could see them?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "Let's remember, that's not just a theoretical exercise. That criminalization, that is the basis for family separation. You do away with that, it's no longer possible. Of course it wouldn't be possible anyway in my presidency, because it is dead wrong.\nWe've got to talk about one other thing, because the Republican Party likes to cloak itself in the language of religion. Now, our party doesn't talk about that as much, largely for a very good reason, which was, we are committed to the separation of church and state and we stand for people of any religion and people of no religion. But we should call out hypocrisy when we see it. And for a party that associates itself with Christianity, to say that it is OK to suggest that God would smile on the division of families at the hands of federal agents, that God would condone putting children in cages has lost all claim to ever use religious language again.", "Jose Diaz-Balart" -> "Vice President -- Mr. Vice President, I don't know if you raised your hand or were just asking to speak, but would you decriminalize crossing the border without documents?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "The first thing -- the first thing I would do is unite families. I'd surge immediately billions of dollars' worth of help to the region immediately.\nLook, I talk about foreign policy. I'm the guy that got a bipartisan agreement at the very end of the campaign, at the very end of our term, to spend $740 million to deal with the problem, and that was to go to the root cause of why people are leaving in the first place. It was working.\nWe saw, as you know, a net decrease in the number of children who were coming. The crisis was abated. And along came this president, and he said -- he immediately discontinued that.\nWe all talk about these things. I did it. I did it.Seven hundred and forty -- now look, second thing. Second thing we have to do. The law now requires the reuniting of those families. We would reunite those families, period. And if not, we'd put those children in a circumstance where they were safe until we could find their parents. And lastly, the idea that he's in court with his Justice Department saying children in cages do not need a bed, do not need a blanket, do not need a toothbrush, that is outrageous.", "Jose Diaz-Balart" -> "Vice President -- Vice President...", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "And we'll stop it.", "Jose Diaz-Balart" -> "... the Obama-Biden administration was -- the Obama-Biden administration deported more than 3 million Americans. My question to you is, if an individual is living in the United States of America without documents, and that is his only offense, should that person be deported?\n(UNKNOWN): No.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Depending if they committed a major crime, they should be deported. And the president was left in a -- President Obama I think did a heck of a job. To compare him to what this guy is doing is absolutely I find immoral.But the fact is that, look, we should not be locking people up. We should be making sure we change the circumstance, as we did, why they would leave in the first place. And those who come seeking asylum, we should immediately have the capacity to absorb them, keep them safe until they can be heard.", "Jose Diaz-Balart" -> "Fifteen seconds, if you could, if you wish to answer. Should someone who is here without documents, and that is his only offense, should that person be deported?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "That person should not be the focus of deportation. We should fundamentally change the way we deal with things.", "Jose Diaz-Balart" -> "Senator...\n(UNKNOWN): I think it's important...", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "I want to suggest that I agree with a lot of what Kamala just said. And that is, on day one, we take out our executive order pen and we rescind every damn thing on this issue that Trump has done.Number two, number two, picking up on the point that Joe made, we've got to look at the root causes. And you have a situation where Honduras, among other things, is a failing state. Massive corruption. You've got gangs who are telling families that if a 10-year-old does not join that gang, that family is going to be killed.\nWhat we have got to do on day one is invite the presidents and the leadership of Central America and Mexico together. This is a hemispheric problem that we have got to address.", "Jose Diaz-Balart" -> "Thank you. Congressman Swalwell, what do you do?", Entity["Person", "EricSwalwell::8n78c"] -> "Day one?", "Jose Diaz-Balart" -> "No, if someone is here without documents, and that is their only offense, is that person to be deported?", Entity["Person", "EricSwalwell::8n78c"] -> "No. That person can be a part of this great American experience.\n(UNKNOWN): Exactly.", Entity["Person", "EricSwalwell::8n78c"] -> "That person can contribute. My congressional district is one of the most diverse in America, and we see the benefits when people contribute and they become a part of the community and they're not in the shadow economy. Day one for me, families are reunited. This president, though, for immigrants, there's nothing he will not do to separate a family, cage a child, or erase their existence by weaponizing the census. And there is nothing that we cannot do in the courts and that I will not do as president to reverse that and to make sure that families always belong together.", "Jose Diaz-Balart" -> "Senator Harris?", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "Well, thank you. I will say -- no, absolutely not, they should not be deported. And I actually -- this was one of the very few issues with which I disagreed with the administration, with whom I always had a great relationship and a great deal of respect.\nBut on the secure communities issue, I was attorney general of California. I led the second-largest Department of Justice in the United States, second only to the United States Department of Justice, in a state of 40 million people.\nAnd on this issue, I disagreed with my president, because the policy was to allow deportation of people who by ICE's own definition were non-criminals. So as attorney general, and the chief law officer of the state of California, I issued a directive to the sheriffs of my state that they did not have to comply with detainers, and instead should make decisions based on the best interests of public safety of their community.\nBecause what I saw -- and I was tracking it every day -- I was tracking it and saw that parents, people who had not committed a crime, even by ICE's own definition, were being deported.\nAnd -- but I have to add a point here. The problem with this kind of policy -- and I know it as a prosecutor. I want a rape victim to be able to run in the middle of -- to run in the middle of the street and wave down a police officer and report the crime against her. I want anybody who has been the victim of any real crime...", "Jose Diaz-Balart" -> "Senator, Senator...", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "... to be able to do that and not be afraid that if they do that, they will be deported, because the abuser will tell them it is they who is the criminal.It is wrong. It is wrong.", "Lester Holt" -> "We're going to turn -- we're going to turn to the issue of trade now, if we can. Last night, we asked the candidates on this stage to name the greatest geopolitical threat facing the U.S. Four of them mentioned China. U.S. businesses say China steals our intellectual property and party leaders on both sides accuse China of manipulating their currency to keep the cost of goods artificially low.\nI want to ask this to Senator Bennet, to start off with. How would you stand up to China?", Entity["Person", "MichaelBennet::6ggfg"] -> "Well, I think that, first of all, the biggest -- the biggest threat to our national security right now is Russia, not China. And, second, on China, we've got -- because of what they've done with our election.\nIn China, I think the president has been right to push back on China, but has done it in completely the wrong way. We should mobilize the entire rest of the world, who all have a shared interest in pushing back on China's mercantilist trade policies, and I think we can do that.\nI'd like to answer the other question before this, as well.", "Lester Holt" -> "You have the time...", Entity["Person", "MichaelBennet::6ggfg"] -> "When I -- when I -- when I see these kids at the border, I see my mom, because I know she sees herself, because she was separated from her parents for years during the Holocaust in Poland. And for Donald Trump to be doing what he's doing to children and their families at the border -- I say this as somebody who wrote the immigration bill in 2013 that created a pathway to citizenship for 11 million people in this country -- that had the most progressive Dream Act that's ever been conceived, much less passed, and got 68 votes in the Senate -- that had $46 billion of border security in it that was sophisticated, 21st century border security, not a medieval wall...", "Lester Holt" -> "Senator, your time is expired.", Entity["Person", "MichaelBennet::6ggfg"] -> "... and the president has turned the border of the United States into a symbol of nativist hostility...", "Lester Holt" -> "Senator, thank you...", Entity["Person", "MichaelBennet::6ggfg"] -> "... that the whole world is looking at, when what we should be represented by is the Statue of Liberty, which has brought my parents to this country to begin with. We need to make a change.", "Lester Holt" -> "Mr. Yang, let me bring you in on this, on the issue of China. You have expressed a lot of concerns about technology and taking jobs. Are you worried about China? And if so, how would you stand up against it?", Entity["Person", "AndrewYang::f7w42"] -> "Well, I just want to agree that I think Russia is our greatest geopolitical threat, because they have been hacking our democracy successfully and they've been laughing their asses off about it for the last couple of years. So we should focus on that before we start worrying about other threats.\nNow, China, they do pirate our intellectual property. It's a massive problem. But the tariffs and the trade war are just punishing businesses and producers and workers on both sides.\nI met with a farmer in Iowa who said he spent six years building up a buying relationship in China that's now disappeared and gone forever. And the beneficiaries have not been American workers or people in China. It's been Southeast Asia and other producer that have then stepped into the void. So we need to crack down on Chinese malfeasance in the trade relationship, but the tariffs and the trade war are the wrong way to go.", "Lester Holt" -> "All right, Mayor Buttigieg...", "Lester Holt" -> "How would you -- how would you stand up against China?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "I mean, first of all, we've got to recognize that the China challenge really is a serious one. This is not something to dismiss or wave away. And if you look at what China is doing, they're using technology for the perfection of dictatorship.\nBut their fundamental economic model isn't going to change because of some tariffs. I live in the industrial Midwest. Folks who aren't in the shadow of a factory are somewhere near a soy field where I live. And manufacturers, and especially soy farmers, are hurting.\nTariffs are taxes. And Americans are going to pay on average $800 more a year because of these tariffs. Meanwhile, China is investing so that they could soon be able to run circles around us in artificial intelligence. And this president is fixated on the China relationship as if all that mattered was the export balance on dishwashers. We've got a much bigger issue on our hands.\nBut at a moment when their authoritarian model is being held up as an alternative to ours because ours looks so chaotic compared to theirs right now because of our internal divisions, the biggest thing we've got to do is invest in our own domestic competitiveness. If we disinvest...", "Lester Holt" -> "All right, Mayor, thank you.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "... in our own infrastructure, education, we are never going to be able to compete. And if we really want to be an alternative, a democratic alternative, we actually have to demonstrate that we care about democratic values at home and around the world.", "Lester Holt" -> "Thank you for your answer.", "Savannah Guthrie" -> "We've got a good debate so far. We're going to take a quick break here, candidates. When we come back, the questioning continues with our colleagues. Chuck Todd, Rachel Maddow will be here. Much more with our candidates straight ahead.", "Lester Holt" -> "Welcome back to the Democratic Presidential Debate from the Arsht Center in Miami.", "Savannah Guthrie" -> "As we continue the questioning, we want to bring in more members of our team.", "Jose Diaz-Balart" -> "So let's turn it over to Chuck Todd and Rachel Maddow.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Well, Rachel, I had a dream that we have done this before.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "No.", "Chuck Todd" -> "No.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "No.", "Chuck Todd" -> "No. Didn't happen.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "This is definitely the first time.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Definitely first time. Thank you, Lester, Savannah, and Jose. Let's quickly recap the rules one more time. Twenty candidates qualified for this first debate. We've heard from 10 of them from last night. We're hearing from 10 more tonight. The breakdown for each night was selected at random. The candidates will have 60 seconds to answer direct questions, 30 seconds for follow-ups, if necessary.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Because of this large field of candidates, not every person will be able comment on everything, but the less audience reaction there is, the more time they will all get. Over the course of the next hour we will hear from all of these candidates, but we are going to begin this hour with Mayor Buttigieg. In the last five years, civil rights activists in our country have led a national debate over race and the criminal justice system. Your community of South Bend, Indiana, has recently been in uproar over an officer-involved shooting. The police force in South Bend is now 6 percent black in a city that is 26 percent black. Why has that not improved over your two terms as mayor?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "Because I couldn't get it done. My community is in anguish right now because of an officer-involved shooting, a black man, Eric Logan, killed by a white officer. And I'm not allowed to take sides until the investigation comes back. The officer said he was attacked with a knife, but he didn't have his body camera on. It's a mess. And we're hurting.\nAnd I could walk you through all of the things that we have done as a community, all of the steps that we took, from bias training to de-escalation, but it didn't save the life of Eric Logan. And when I look into his mother's eyes, I have to face the fact that nothing that I say will bring him back.\nThis is an issue that is facing our community and so many communities around the country. And until we move policing out from the shadow of systemic racism, whatever this particular incident teaches us, we will be left with the bigger problem of the fact that there is a wall of mistrust put up one racist act at a time, not just from what's happened in the past, but from what's happening around the country in the present. It threatens the well-being of every community.\nAnd I am determined to bring about a day when a white person driving a vehicle and a black person driving a vehicle, when they see a police officer approaching, feels the exact same thing...", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Mr. Mayor...", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "... a feeling not of fear but of safety. I am determined to bring that day about.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Thank you, Mr. Mayor.", Entity["Person", "JohnHickenlooper::g3625"] -> "Mayor Buttigieg -- Mayor Buttigieg, if I could...", Entity["Person", "JohnHickenlooper::g3625"] -> "... if I could have one question, just because I think...", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Governor, I'll give you 30 seconds.", Entity["Person", "JohnHickenlooper::g3625"] -> "I think that the question they're asking in South Bend and I think across the country is why has it taken so long?\nWe had a shooting when I first became mayor, 10 years before Ferguson. And the community came together and we created an Office of the Independent Monitor, a Civilian Oversight Commission, and we diversified the police force in two years. We actually did de-escalation training.\nI think the real question that America should be asking is why, five years after Ferguson, every city doesn't have this level of police accountability.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Governor Hickenlooper, thank you.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "I've got to respond to that. Look, we have taken so many steps toward police accountability that, you know, the FOP just denounced me for too much accountability. We're obviously not there yet, and I accept responsibility for that because I'm in charge.", Entity["Person", "EricSwalwell::8n78c"] -> "If the camera wasn't on and that was the policy, you should fire the chief.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "So under Indiana law, this will be investigated and there will be accountability for the officer involved.", Entity["Person", "EricSwalwell::8n78c"] -> "But you're the mayor. You should fire the chief -- if that's the policy and someone died.", Entity["Person", "MarianneWilliamson::5ffrg"] -> "All of these issues are extremely important, but they are specifics; they are symptoms. And the underlying cause has to do with deep, deep, deep realms of racial injustice, both in our criminal justice system and in our economic system. And the Democratic Party should be on the side of reparations for slavery for this very reason. I do not believe... I do not believe that the average American is a racist, but the average American is woefully undereducated about the history of race in the United States.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Ms. Williamson, thank you very much...", "Chuck Todd" -> "Vice President Biden -- I'm going to -- we're going to get to you...", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "As the only black person on this stage, I would like to speak...", "Chuck Todd" -> "I...", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "... on the issue of race.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Senator Harris...", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "And so what I will say...", "Rachel Maddow" -> "If I could preface this, we will give you 30 seconds, because we're going to come back to you on this again in just a moment. But go for 30 seconds.", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "OK. So on the issue of race, I couldn't agree more that this is an issue that is still not being talked about truthfully and honestly. I -- there is not a black man I know, be he a relative, a friend or a coworker, who has not been the subject of some form of profiling or discrimination.\nGrowing up, my sister and I had to deal with the neighbor who told us her parents couldn't play with us because she -- because we were black. And I will say also that -- that, in this campaign, we have also heard -- and I'm going to now direct this at Vice President Biden, I do not believe you are a racist, and I agree with you when you commit yourself to the importance of finding common ground.\nBut I also believe, and it's personal -- and I was actually very -- it was hurtful to hear you talk about the reputations of two United States senators who built their reputations and career on the segregation of race in this country. And it was not only that, but you also worked with them to oppose busing.\nAnd, you know, there was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools, and she was bussed to school every day. And that little girl was me.\nSo I will tell you that, on this subject, it cannot be an intellectual debate among Democrats. We have to take it seriously. We have to act swiftly. As attorney general of California, I was very proud to put in place a requirement that all my special agents would wear body cameras and keep those cameras on.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Senator Harris, thank you. Vice President Biden, you have been invoked. We're going to give you a chance to respond.Vice President Biden?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "It's a mischaracterization of my position across the board. I did not praise racists. That is not true, number one. Number two, if we want to have this campaign litigated on who supports civil rights and whether I did or not, I'm happy to do that.\nI was a public defender. I didn't become a prosecutor. I came out and I left a good law firm to become a public defender, when, in fact -- when, in fact... ... when, in fact, my city was in flames because of the assassination of Dr. King, number one.\nNumber two, as the U.S. -- excuse me, as the vice president of the United States, I worked with a man who, in fact, we worked very hard to see to it we dealt with these issues in a major, major way.\nThe fact is that, in terms of bussing, the bussing, I never -- you would have been able to go to school the same exact way because it was a local decision made by your city council. That's fine. That's one of the things I argued for, that we should not be -- we should be breaking down these lines.\nBut so the bottom line here is, look, everything I have done in my career, I ran because of civil rights, I continue to think we have to make fundamental changes in civil rights, and those civil rights, by the way, include not just only African-Americans, but the LGBT community.", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "But, Vice President Biden, do you agree today -- do you agree today that you were wrong to oppose bussing in America then? Do you agree?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "I did not oppose bussing in America. What I opposed is bussing ordered by the Department of Education. That's what I opposed. I did not oppose...", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "Well, there was a failure of states to integrate public schools in America. I was part of the second class to integrate Berkeley, California, public schools almost two decades after Brown v. Board of Education.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Because your city council made that decision. It was a local decision.", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "So that's where the federal government must step in.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "The federal government...", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "That's why we have the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act. That's why we need to pass the Equality Act. That's why we need to pass the ERA, because there are moments in history where states fail to preserve the civil rights of all people.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "I've supported the ERA from the very beginning when I ran for...", "Chuck Todd" -> "Vice President Biden, 30 seconds, because I want to bring other people into this.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "I supported the ERA from the very beginning. I'm the guy that extended the Voting Rights Act for 25 years. We got to the place where we got 98 out of 98 votes in the United States Senate doing it. I've also argued very strongly that we, in fact, deal with the notion of denying people access to the ballot box. I agree that everybody, once they, in fact -- anyway, my time is up. I'm sorry.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Thank you, Vice President.", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "All of these things have to do...", "Chuck Todd" -> "Senator Sanders, Senator Sanders, I'm going to go to you on this. You said on the day you launched your campaign that voters should focus on what people stand for, not a candidate's race or age or sexual orientation.\nMany Democrats are very excited by the diversity of this field on this stage and on last night's stage and the perspective that diversity brings to this contest and to these issues.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Absolutely.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Are you telling Democratic voters that diversity shouldn't matter when they make this decision?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "No, absolutely not. Unlike the Republican Party, we encourage diversity, we believe in diversity. That's what America is about.\nBut in addition to diversity, in terms of having more women, more people from the LGBT community, we also have to do something else. And that is, we have to ask ourselves a simple question, in that how come today the worker in the middle of our economy is making no more money than he or she made 45 years ago, and that in the last 30 years, the top 1 percent has seen a $21 trillion increase in their wealth?\nWe need a party that is diverse, but we need a party that has the guts to stand up to the powerful special interests who have so much power over the economic and political life of this country.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Senator Gillibrand, I want to give you 30 seconds on this.", Entity["Person", "KirstenGillibrand::trt5h"] -> "Well, first of all, where Bernie left off, we've heard a lot of good ideas on this stage tonight and a lot of plans, but the truth is, until you go to the root of the corruption, the money in politics, the fact that Washington is run by the special interests, you are never going to solve any of these problems.\nI have the most comprehensive approach, that experts agree is the most transformative plan to actually take on political corruption, to get money out of politics through publicly funded elections, to have clean elections. If we do that and get money out of politics, we can guarantee health care as a right, not a privilege, we can deal with institutional racism, we can take on income inequality, and we can take on the corporate corruption that runs Washington.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "And the first constitutional amendment to do that was introduced by me when I was young senator.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Thank you, Vice President. We want to shift topics here. Senator Bennet, the next question is for you.\nOn the issue of partisan gridlock, President Obama promised in 2012 that after his reelection, Republicans would want to work with Democrats, fever would break. That did not happen. Now Vice President Biden is saying the same thing, that if he is elected in 2020, both parties will want to work together.\nShould voters believe that somehow if there is a Democratic president in 2021 that gridlock is going to magically disappear?", Entity["Person", "MichaelBennet::6ggfg"] -> "Gridlock will not magically disappear as long as Mitch McConnell is there, first.Second, second, second, that's why it is so important for us to win not just the presidency, to have somebody that can run in all 50 states, but to win the Senate, as well. And that's why we have to propose policies that can be supported, like Medicare act, so that we can build a broad coalition of Americans to overcome broken Washington, D.C. I agree with what Senator Gillibrand was saying. I share a lot of her views. We need to end gerrymandering in Washington. We need to end political gerrymandering in Washington.The court today said they couldn't do anything about it. We need to overturn Citizens United. The court was the one that gave us Citizens United. And the attack on voting rights in Shelby v. Holder is something we need to deal with.\nAll of those things has happened since Vice President Biden was in the Senate. And we face structural problems that we have to overcome with a broad coalition. It's the only way we can do it. We need to root out the corruption in Washington, expand people's right to get to the polls, and I think then we can succeed.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Time's up. Vice President Biden, 30 seconds. What -- it does sound as if you haven't seen what's been happening in the United States Senate over the last 12 years. It didn't happen. Why?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "I have seen what happened. Just since we were vice president, we needed three votes to pass an $800 billion Recovery Act that kept us from going into depression. I got three votes changed.\nWe needed to be able to keep the government from shutting down and going bankrupt. I got Mitch McConnell to raise taxes $600 billion by raising the top rate. And as recently as after president got elected, I was able to put together a coalition of the Cures Act to have billions of dollars go into cancer research, bipartisan.\nBut sometimes you can't do that. Sometimes you just have to go out and beat them. I went into 20 states, over 60 candidates, and guess what? We beat them, and we won back the Senate.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Thank you.", Entity["Person", "MichaelBennet::6ggfg"] -> "Chuck, the problem with what the vice president...", "Chuck Todd" -> "Go ahead, 30 seconds.", Entity["Person", "MichaelBennet::6ggfg"] -> "The problem with what...", "Chuck Todd" -> "Yeah, 30 seconds. Go ahead.", Entity["Person", "MichaelBennet::6ggfg"] -> "Sometimes you do have to beat them, but -- but the deal that he talked about with Mitch McConnell was a complete victory for the Tea Party. It extended the Bush tax cuts permanently. The Democratic Party had been running against that for 10 years.\nWe lost that economic argument, because that deal extended almost all those Bush tax cuts permanently and put in place the mindless cuts that we still are dealing with today that are called the sequester. That was a great deal for Mitch McConnell.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Oh, come on.", Entity["Person", "MichaelBennet::6ggfg"] -> "It was a terrible deal for America.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Thank you, Senator. Thank you, Senator Bennet.", Entity["Person", "KirstenGillibrand::trt5h"] -> "And you heard...", "Chuck Todd" -> "Go ahead, 30 seconds.", Entity["Person", "KirstenGillibrand::trt5h"] -> "You heard from the Republicans that the reason why the Trump tax cut had to be passed is because they had to pay back their donors. You heard it. They actually said those words. So the corruption in Washington is real, and it is something that makes every one of the plans we've heard about over the last several months impossible.\nAnd I have the most comprehensive approach to do it with clean elections, publicly funded elections, so we restore the power of our democracy into the hands of the voters, not into the Koch brothers.\nWe were talking about issues. Imagine -- we're in Florida -- imagine the Parkland kids having as much power in our democracy as the Koch brothers or the NRA.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Thank you. Thank you, Senator Gillibrand.", Entity["Person", "KirstenGillibrand::trt5h"] -> "Imagine their voices carrying farther and wider than anyone else because their voice is needed.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Senator Gillibrand, I'm trying to get everybody in here.", Entity["Person", "KirstenGillibrand::trt5h"] -> "And as president, it's the first thing I'm going to do...", "Chuck Todd" -> "Thank you.", Entity["Person", "KirstenGillibrand::trt5h"] -> "... because nothing else is possible, whether it's education or health care or ending institutional racism.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Thank you very much.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Senator Sanders, I'd like to put a different question to you. Roe v. Wade has been the law of the land since 1973. Now that there is a conservative majority on the Supreme Court, several Republican-controlled states have passed laws to severely restrict or even ban abortion. One of those laws could very well make it to the Supreme Court during your presidency, if you're elected president. What is your plan if Roe is struck down in the court while you're president?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Well, my plan, as somebody who believes for a start that a woman's right to control her own body is a constitutional right, that government and politicians should not infringe on that right, we will do everything we can to defend Roe versus Wade. Second of all, let me make a -- let me make a promise here. You ask about litmus tests. My litmus test is I will never appoint any, nominate any justice to the Supreme Court unless that justice is 100 percent clear he or she will defend Roe v. Wade. Third of all... I do not believe in packing the court. We got a terrible 5-4 majority conservative court right now. But I do believe that constitutionally we have the power to rotate judges to other courts. And that brings in new blood into the Supreme Court and a majority, I hope, that will understand that a woman has the right to control her own body and the corporations cannot run the United States of America.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Hold on, I'm going to give you 10 additional seconds because the question was...", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "I'm sorry?", "Rachel Maddow" -> "... what if the court has already overturned Roe and Roe is gone? All of the things you've just described would be to try to preserve Roe. If Roe is gone, what could you do as president to preserve abortion rights?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "We will pass -- well, first of all, let me tell you this. It didn't come up here, but let's face this, Medicare for All guarantees every woman in this country the right to have an abortion if she wants it.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "KirstenGillibrand::trt5h"] -> "And can I address this for a second? And I want to talk directly, directly to America's women and to the men who love them. Women's reproductive rights are under assault by President Trump and the Republican Party. Thirty states are trying to overturn Roe v. Wade right now. And it is mind-boggling to me that we are debating this on this stage in 2019 among Democrats whether women should have access to reproductive rights. I think we have to stop playing defense and start playing offense. But let me tell you one thing about politics, because it goes to the corruption and the deal-making. When the door is closed and negotiations are made, there are conversations about women's rights and compromises have been made on our backs. That's how we got to Hyde, that's how the Hyde Amendment was created, a compromise by leaders of both parties. Then we have the ACA. During the ACA negotiation, I had to fight like heck with other women to make sure that contraception wasn't sold down the river, or abortion services. And so what we need to know is imagine this one question. When we beat President Trump and Mitch McConnell walks into the Oval Office, God forbid, to do negotiations, who do you want when that door closes to be sitting behind that desk, to fight for women's rights? I have been the fiercest advocate for women's reproductive freedom for over a decade. And I promise you as president when that door closes, I will guarantee women's reproductive freedom no matter what.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Senator, thank you.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Thank you. We are moving to climate. We are moving to climate, guys. Senator Harris, I'm addressing you first on this. You live in a state that has been hit by drought, wildfires, flooding. Climate change is a major concern for voters in your state, that's pretty obvious, obviously this state as well. Last night voters heard many of the candidates weigh in on their proposals. Explain specifically what yours is.", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "Well, first of all, I don't even call it climate change. It's a climate crisis. It represents an existential threat to us as a species. And the fact that we have a president of the United States who has embraced science fiction over science fact will be to our collective peril. I visited, while the embers were smoldering, the wildfires in California. I spoke with firefighters who were in the midst of fighting a fire while their own homes were burning. And on this issue it is a critical issue that is about what we must do to confront what is immediate and before us right now. That is why I support a Green New Deal. It is why I believe on day one and as president will re-enter us in the Paris Agreement, because we have to take these issues seriously. And, frankly, we have a president of the United States, we talked about, you asked before what is the greatest national security threat to the United States? It's Donald Trump. And I'm going to tell you why. And I'm going to tell you why. Because I agree, climate change represents an existential threat. He denies the science. You want to talk about North Korea, a real threat in terms of nuclear arsenal, but what does he do? He embraces Kim Jong-un, a dictator, for the sake of a photo op. Putin. You want to talk about Russia? He takes the word of the Russian president over the word of the American intelligence community when it comes to a threat to our democracy and our elections. These are the issues that are before us, Chuck.", "Chuck Todd" -> "I hear you. Thank you, Senator Harris. Mayor Buttigieg, in your climate plan, if you are elected president, in your first term, how is this going to help farmers impacted by climate change in the Midwest?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "Well, the reality is we need to begin adapting right away, but we also can't skip a beat on preventing climate change from getting even worse. It's why we need aggressive and ambitious measures. It's why we need to do a carbon tax and dividend. But I would propose we do it in a way that is rebated out to the American people in a progressive fashion so that most Americans are made more than whole.\nThis isn't theoretical for us in South Bend, either. Parts of California are on fire. Right here in Florida, they're talking about sea level rise. Well, in Indiana I had to activate the emergency operations center of our city twice in less than two years. The first time was a 1,000-year flood and the next time was a 500-year flood.\nThis is not just happening on the Arctic ice caps; this is happening in the middle of the country. And we've got to be dramatically more aggressive moving forward.\nNow, here's what very few people talk about. First of all, rural America can be part of the solution instead of being told they're part of the problem. With the right kind of soil management and other kind of investments, rural America could be a huge part of how we get this done.\nAnd secondly, we've got to look to the leadership of local communities, you know, those networks of mayors in cities from around the world...", "Chuck Todd" -> "I'm trying to stick with the time as best we can.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "... not even waiting for our national governments to catch up. We should have a Pittsburgh summit where we bring them together, as well as rejoining the Paris...", "Chuck Todd" -> "Thank you, Mayor Buttigieg.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "I want to bring Governor Hickenlooper into this for a moment. Governor, you have said that oil and gas companies should be a part of the solution on climate change. Lots of your colleagues on stage tonight have talked about moving away from fossil fuels entirely. Can oil and gas companies be real partners in this fight?", Entity["Person", "JohnHickenlooper::g3625"] -> "Well, I share the sense of urgency. I'm -- I'm a scientist, so I -- I recognize that, within 10 or 12 years of actually, you know, suffering irreversible damage, but, you know, guaranteeing everybody a government job is not going to get us there. Socialism, in that sense, is not the solution. We have to look at what really will make a difference.\nIn Colorado, we're closing a couple of coal plants, replacing it with wind, solar and batteries and the monthly bills go down. We've gone on -- we're building a network for electric vehicles. We are working with the oil and gas industry and we've created the first methane regulations in the country.\nMethane is 25 times worse than C02. And then we've got to get to that last part. I mean, the industrial -- heavy industry, we haven't seen the plans yet. If you look at the real problem, C02, the worst polluters in CO2 is China, is the United States, and then it's concrete and its exhalation. And beyond that, I think we've got to recognize that only by bringing people together, businesses, nonprofits -- and we can't demonize every business. We've got to bring them together to be part of this thing. Because ultimately, if we're not able to do that...", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Governor...", Entity["Person", "JohnHickenlooper::g3625"] -> "... we will be doomed to failure. We have no way of doing this without bringing everyone together.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Thank you. Vice President Biden... ... on the issue of how you do this, Democrats are arguing robustly among themselves about what's the best way to tackle climate change. But if we're honest, many Republicans, including the president, are still not sure if they believe it is even a serious problem.\nSo are there significant ways you can cut carbon emissions if you have to do it with no support from Congress?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "The answer is yes. Number one, in our administration, we built the largest wind farm in the world, the largest solar energy facility in the world. We drove down the price, competitive price of both of those renewable energy -- renewable sources.\nI would immediately insist that we in fact build 500,000 recharging stations throughout the United States of America, working with governors, mayors and others, so that we can go to a full electric vehicle future by the year 2020 -- by the year 2030.\nI would make sure that we invested $400 million in new science and technology, to be the exporter not only of the green economy, but economy that can create millions of jobs. But I would immediately join the Paris Climate Accord. I would up the ante in that accord, which it calls for, because we make up 15 percent of the problem; 85 percent of the world makes up the rest. And so we have to have someone who knows how to corral the rest of the world, bring them together and get something done, like we did in our administration.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Senator Sanders... ... I want to give you 30 seconds to follow-up, but I'm going to hold to you 30.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Look, the old ways are no longer relevant. The scientists tell us we have 12 years before there is irreparable damage to this planet. This is a global issue. What the president of the United States should do is not deny the reality of climate change but tell the rest of the world that, instead of spending a trillion and a half dollars on weapons of destruction, let us get together for the common enemy, and that is to transform the world's energy system away from fossil fuel to energy efficiency and sustainable energy. The future of the planet rests on us doing that.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Thank you, Senator.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Before we go -- hang on...", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Before we leave this topic...", Entity["Person", "EricSwalwell::8n78c"] -> "Here's the solution. Pass the torch. Pass the torch to the generation that's going to feel the effects of climate change.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "No, take on the fossil fuels, and that's the solution.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Before we leave this topic, here's something you all want to weigh in on.", Entity["Person", "KirstenGillibrand::trt5h"] -> "... to the Republican Party.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Just -- just...", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Hold one moment.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Just trust us on this. We're going to...", Entity["Person", "MarianneWilliamson::5ffrg"] -> "The fact that somebody has a younger body doesn't mean you don't have old ideas. John Kennedy -- John Kennedy... did not say -- John Kennedy did not say -- I have a plan to get a man to the moon and so we're going to do it and I think we can all work and maybe we can get a man on the moon. John Kennedy said, by the end of this decade, we are going to put a man on the moon.\nBecause John Kennedy was back in the day when politics included the people and included imagination and included great dreams and included great plans.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Ms. Williamson...", "Chuck Todd" -> "Thank you, Ms. Williamson.", Entity["Person", "MarianneWilliamson::5ffrg"] -> "And I have had a career not making the political plans, but I have had a career harnessing the inspiration and the motivation and the excitement of people, masses of people.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Thank you, Ms. Williamson.", Entity["Person", "MarianneWilliamson::5ffrg"] -> "When we know that when we say...", "Chuck Todd" -> "Thank you.", Entity["Person", "MarianneWilliamson::5ffrg"] -> "... we are going to turn from a dirty economy to a clean economy, we're going to have a Green New Deal, we're going to create millions of jobs, we're going to do this within the next 12 years, because I'm not interested in just winning the next election. We are interested in our grandchildren.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Thank you, Ms. Williamson.", Entity["Person", "MarianneWilliamson::5ffrg"] -> "Then it will happen.", "Chuck Todd" -> "All right. We got to sneak in a break in a minute, but before we go, I'm going to go down the line here and I'm asking you please for one or two words only. All right, please.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Really.", "Chuck Todd" -> "President Obama in his first year wanted to address both health care and climate. And he could only get one signature issue accomplished; it was, obviously, health care. He didn't get to do climate change. You may only get one shot, and your first issue that you're going to push, you get one shot that it may be the only thing you get passed, what is that first issue for your presidency.\nEric Swalwell, you're first.", Entity["Person", "EricSwalwell::8n78c"] -> "For Parkland, for Orlando, for every community affected by gun violence, ending gun violence.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Senator Bennet?", Entity["Person", "MichaelBennet::6ggfg"] -> "Climate change and the lack of economic mobility Bernie talks about.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Senator Gillibrand?", Entity["Person", "KirstenGillibrand::trt5h"] -> "Passing a family bill of rights that includes a national paid leave plan, universal pre-K, affordable daycare, and making sure that women and families can thrive in the workplace no matter who they are.", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "Oh, I like that.", "Chuck Todd" -> "That was pretty good. Senator Harris?", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "... so, passing a middle-class and working families tax cut...", "Chuck Todd" -> "That's one.", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "... DACA, guns, and...", "Chuck Todd" -> "I've given you credit for the first thing you said, the tax cuts.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Senator Sanders, first thing?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Chuck, the premise that there's only one or two issues out there...", "Chuck Todd" -> "I'm not saying there isn't one or two.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "This country faces enormous crises.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Senator Sanders...", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "We need a political revolution. People have got to stand up and take on the special interests. We can transform this country.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Vice President Biden, your first issue, Mr. Vice President?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "I think you're so underestimating what Barack Obama did. He's the first man to bring together the entire world, 196 nations, to commit to deal with climate change, immediately.So I don't buy that. But the first thing I would do is make sure that we defeat Donald Trump, period.", "Chuck Todd" -> "OK, Mayor Buttigieg, your first priority, your first issue as president that you are going to block and tackle.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "We've got to fix our democracy before it's too late. Get that right, climate, immigration, taxes, and every other issue gets better.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Mr. Yang?", Entity["Person", "AndrewYang::f7w42"] -> "I would pass a $1,000 freedom dividend for every American adult starting at age 18, which would speed us up on climate change, because if you get the boot off of people's throats, they'll focus on climate change much more clearly.", "Chuck Todd" -> "OK. Governor Hickenlooper?", Entity["Person", "JohnHickenlooper::g3625"] -> "I would do a collaborative approach to climate change and I would pronounce it well before the election to make sure we don't reelect the worst president in American history.", "Chuck Todd" -> "And Ms. Williamson, the last word.", Entity["Person", "MarianneWilliamson::5ffrg"] -> "My first call is to the prime minister of New Zealand, who said that her goal is to make New Zealand the place where it's the best place in the world for a child to grow up, and I would tell her, girlfriend, you are so wrong, because the United States of America is going to be the best place in the world for a child to grow up.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Thank you.", Entity["Person", "MarianneWilliamson::5ffrg"] -> "We are going to have...", "Chuck Todd" -> "You guys were close with the short -- at least it was shorter responses.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "No, they weren't. Not at all.", "Chuck Todd" -> "All right. C-minus.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "We're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back with these candidates right after this.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Welcome back to the Democratic candidates' debate in Miami. We're going to continue the questioning now with Lester in the audience. We are? We are -- a second are going to have a question from Lester in the audience. But that was just a fake-out.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Let's go to -- we're going to go to the issue of guns. And...", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Congressman Swalwell, among this field of candidates, you have a unique position on gun reform. You're proposing that the government should buy back every assault weapon in America and it should be mandatory. How do you envision that working, especially in states where gun rights are a strong flash point?", Entity["Person", "EricSwalwell::8n78c"] -> "Keep your pistols, keep your rifles, keep your shotguns, but we can take the most dangerous weapons from the most dangerous people. We have the NRA on the ropes, because of the moms, because of the Brady Group, because of Giffords, because of March for our Lives.But I'm the only candidate on this stage calling for a ban and buyback of every single assault weapon in America. I have seen the plans of the other candidates here. They would all leave 15 million assault weapons in our communities. They wouldn't do a single thing to save a single life in Parkland.\nI will approach this issue as a prosecutor. I'll approach it as the only person on this stage who has voted and passed background checks. But also as a parent, of a generation who sends our children to school where we look at what they're wearing so we can remember it in case we have to identify them later. A generation who has seen thousands of black children killed in our streets. And a generation who goes to the theater and we actually look where the fire exits are. We don't have to live this way. We must must be a country who loves our children more than we love our guns.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Senator Sanders, a Vermont newspaper recently released portions of an interview you gave in 2013 in which you said: \"My own view on guns is, everything being equal, states should make those decisions.\"", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "No.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Has your thinking changed since then? Do you now think there is a federal role to play?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "No, that's a mischaracterization of my thinking.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "It's a quote of you.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Look, we have a gun...", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "We have a gun crisis right now, 40,000 people a year are getting killed. In 1988, Rachel, when it wasn't popular, I ran on a platform of banning assault weapons and in fact lost that race for Congress. I have a D-minus voting record from the NRA. And I believe that what we need is comprehensive gun legislation that, among other things, provides universal background, we end the gun show loophole, we end the strawman provision, and I believed in 1988 and I believe today.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Assault weapons are weapons from the military and that they should not be on the streets of America.", Entity["Person", "EricSwalwell::8n78c"] -> "Your plan leaves them on the streets. You leave 15 million on the streets.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "We ban the sale -- we ban the sale and distribution...", Entity["Person", "EricSwalwell::8n78c"] -> "Will you buy them back?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "... and that's what I've believed for many years.", Entity["Person", "EricSwalwell::8n78c"] -> "Will you buy them back?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "If people want to buy -- if the government wants to do that and people want to bring them back, yes.", Entity["Person", "EricSwalwell::8n78c"] -> "You are going to be the government, will you buy them back?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Yes.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Senator Harris, we're going to give you 30 seconds.", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "Thank you. I think your idea is a great one, Congressman Swalwell. And I'll say that there are a lot of great ideas. The problem is Congress has not had the courage to act which is why when elected president of the United States, I will give the United States Congress 100 days to pull their act together, bring all these good ideas together, and put a bill on my desk for signature. And if they do not, I will take executive action and I will put in place... ... the most comprehensive background check policy we've had. I will require the ATF to take the licenses of gun dealers who violate the law. And I will ban by executive order the importation of assault weapons. Because I'm going to tell you, as a prosecutor, I have seen more autopsy photographs than I care to tell you. I have hugged more mothers who are the mothers of homicide victims. And I have attended more police officer funerals. It is enough. It is enough. There have been plenty of good ideas from members of the United States Congress. There has been no action. As president, I will take action.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Mayor Buttigieg, I want to bring you in on this, Sir. A lot of discussions about assault rifles that are often shorthanded as military-style weapons. You are the only person on this stage tonight with military experience as a veteran of the Afghanistan War. Will military families -- does that inform your thinking on this view? Do you believe that military families or America's veterans will at large have a different take on this than the other Americans who we have been talking about and who Congressman Swalwell is appealing to with his buyback program?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "Yes, of course, because we trained on some of these kinds of weapons. Look, every part of my life experience informs this, being the mayor of a city where the worst part of the job is dealing with violence. We lose as many as were lost at Parkland every two or three years in my city alone. And this is tearing communities apart. If more guns made us safer, we would be the safest country on earth. It doesn't work that way. And common-sense measures like universal background checks can't seem to get delivered by Washington, even when most Republicans, let alone most Americans, agree it's the right thing to do. And as somebody who trained on weapons of war, I can tell you that there are weapons that have absolutely no place in American cities or neighborhoods in peacetime, ever.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Vice President Biden, 30 seconds.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "A real 30 seconds?", "Rachel Maddow" -> "A real 30 seconds.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "OK. I'm the only person that has beaten the NRA nationally. I'm the guy that got the Brady Bill passed, the background checks, number one. Number two, we increased that background check when -- during the Obama-Biden administration. I'm also the only guy that got assault weapons banned, banned, and the number of clips in a gun banned. And so, folks, look, and I would buy back those weapons. We already started talking about that. We tried to get it done. I think it can be done. And it should be demanded that we do it. And that's a good expenditure of money. And, lastly, we should have smart guns. No gun should be able to be sold unless your biometric measure could pull that trigger. It's within our right to do that. We can do that. Our enemy is the gun manufacturers, not the NRA, the gun manufacturers.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Mr. Vice President...", Entity["Person", "EricSwalwell::8n78c"] -> "But the NRA is taking orders from the gun manufacturers, that's the problem.", "Chuck Todd" -> "All right. Lester Holt has our next question. Lester, take it away.", "Lester Holt" -> "All right, Chuck. This is a question from our viewers. We put some -- the suggestions that -- asked maybe they could share some. Here's one that came from Kathleenfrom Canby, Oregon, who writes many fear the current administration has inflicted irrevocable harm on our governing institutions and norms and the process on our reputation abroad. The question is, what do you see as important early steps in reversing the damage done? And we'll put this one to Senator Bennet.", Entity["Person", "MichaelBennet::6ggfg"] -> "Thank you very much. What an excellent question. First of all, we have to restore our democracy at home. The rest of the world is looking for us for leadership. We have a president who doesn't believe in the rule of law, he doesn't believe in freedom of the press, he doesn't believe in an independent judiciary. He believes in the corruption that he's brought to Washington, D.C. And that is what we have to change, and that's why everybody is up here tonight, and I appreciate the fact that they're up here for that reason.\nSecond, we've got to -- we've got to restore the relationships that he's destroyed with our allies, not just in Europe. He flew to the G20 last night and attacked Japan, Germany, and a third ally of ours without saying anything about North Korea or Russia.\nAnd when you've got a situation where you have a president who says something happened in the Straits of Hormuz and the whole world doesn't know whether to believe it or not, that is a huge problem when it comes to the national security of the United States of America. And we need to change that.", "Chuck Todd" -> "This is a perfect time -- thank you, Senator. This is a perfect time for me to do another one of these down the line. And this is what this question is, which is, you're going to have to -- you're likely going to have to reset a relationship between America and another country or entity if you become president because of some -- perhaps because of some relationship that you just mentioned about President Trump. What is the first relationship you would like to reset as president? I'm going to go down the line, and I'll start with Ms. Williamson.", Entity["Person", "MarianneWilliamson::5ffrg"] -> "Well, one of my first phone calls would be to call the European leaders and say we're back...", "Chuck Todd" -> "Thank you.", Entity["Person", "MarianneWilliamson::5ffrg"] -> "... because I totally understand how important it is that the United States be part of the Western alliance.", "Chuck Todd" -> "OK, I want -- I'm trying to get one or two words here. I hear you. Governor Hickenlooper?", Entity["Person", "JohnHickenlooper::g3625"] -> "You know, I talk about constant engagement. And I think the first person -- the first country I would go to...", "Chuck Todd" -> "Yeah.", Entity["Person", "JohnHickenlooper::g3625"] -> "... and I understand they've been cheating and stealing andwould be China...", "Chuck Todd" -> "OK.", Entity["Person", "JohnHickenlooper::g3625"] -> "... because if we're going to do -- deal with public health pandemics, if we're doing to deal with...", "Chuck Todd" -> "Thank you.", Entity["Person", "JohnHickenlooper::g3625"] -> "... all the challenges of the globe, we've got to have relationships with everyone.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Mr. Yang, we're trying to squeeze in a couple more things before we go to another break. Mr. Yang?", Entity["Person", "AndrewYang::f7w42"] -> "China. We need cooperate with them on climate change, AI, and other issues, North Korea.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Thanks for the quickness. Mayor Buttigieg?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "We have no idea which of our most important allies he will have pissed off worse between now and then. What we know is that our relationship with the entire world needs to change.And it starts by modelling American values at home.", "Chuck Todd" -> "OK. Mr. Vice President, I'm trying to be quick.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "We know NATO will fall apart if he is elected four more years. It's the single most consequential alliance in the history of the United States.", "Chuck Todd" -> "OK. Senator Sanders?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "It's not one country. I think it is rebuilding trust in the United Nations and understand that we can solve...", "Chuck Todd" -> "OK, got it.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "... conflicts without war, but with diplomacy.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Senator Harris?", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "All the members of the NATO alliance.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Senator Gillibrand?", Entity["Person", "KirstenGillibrand::trt5h"] -> "President Trump is hell-bent on starting a war with Iran. My first act...", "Chuck Todd" -> "Right.", Entity["Person", "KirstenGillibrand::trt5h"] -> "... will be to engage Iran to stabilize the Middle East and make sure we do not start an unwanted, never-ending war.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Thank you. Senator Bennet, quickly.", Entity["Person", "MichaelBennet::6ggfg"] -> "Our European allies and every Latin American country that's willing to have a conversation about how to deal with the refugee crisis.", "Chuck Todd" -> "OK. And Congressman Swalwell?", Entity["Person", "EricSwalwell::8n78c"] -> "My first act in foreign policy, we're breaking up with Russia and making up with NATO.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Thank you all. Thank you all. We have one...", Entity["Person", "MichaelBennet::6ggfg"] -> "That's a good plan.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "... last question for Vice President Biden tonight. You made your decades of experience in foreign policy a pillar of your campaign, but when the time came to say yes or no on one of the most consequential foreign policy decisions of the last century, you voted for the Iraq war. You have since said you regret that vote. But why should voters trust your judgment when it comes to making a decision about taking the country to war the next time?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Because once we -- once Bush abused that power, what happened was, we got elected after that. I made sure -- the president turned to me and said, Joe, get our combat troops out of Iraq. I was responsible for getting 150,000 combat troops out of Iraq, and my son was one of them.\nI also think we should not have combat troops in Afghanistan. It's long overdue. It should end.And, thirdly, I believe that you're not going to find anybody who has pulled together more of our alliances to deal with what is the real stateless threat out there. We cannot go it alone in terms of dealing with terrorism.\nSo I would eliminate the act that allowed us to go into war, and not -- the AUMF, and make sure that it could only be used for what its intent was, and that is to go after terrorists, but never do it alone. That's why we have to repair our alliances. We put together 65 countries to make sure we dealt with ISIS in Iraq and other places. That's what I would do. That's what I have done. And I know how to do it.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Senator Sanders, 30 seconds.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "One of the differences -- one of the differences that Joe and I have in our record is Joe voted for that war, I helped lead the opposition to that war, which was a total disaster. Second of all, I helped lead the effort for the first time to utilize the War Powers Act to get the United States out of the Saudi-led intervention in Yemen, which is the most horrific humanitarian disaster on Earth. And thirdly, let me be very clear. I will do everything I can to prevent a war with Iran, which would be far worse than disastrous war with Iraq.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Senator Sanders, thank you.", "Chuck Todd" -> "All right, guys.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "... American people.", "Chuck Todd" -> "We got -- good news is, you get more time to talk, but I have to sneak in one more break.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "We'll be right back.", "Chuck Todd" -> "We'll be right back with more debate.", "Lester Holt" -> "We are back from Miami. Now, each candidate will have a final chance to make their case to the voters, 45 seconds each. We begin with Congressman Swalwell.", Entity["Person", "EricSwalwell::8n78c"] -> "We can't be a forward-looking party if we look to the past for our leadership. I'm a congressman, but also a father of a 2-year-old and an infant. When I'm not changing diapers, I'm changing Washington. Most of the time, the diapers smell better.\nI went to Congress at 31, and I found a Washington that doesn't work for people like you and me. It's made of the rich and the disconnected. I was the first in my family to go to college and have student loan debt.\nAnd so I have led the effort to elect the next generation of members of Congress, and we have a moment to seize. This is a can-do generation. This is the generation that will end climate chaos. This is the generation that will solve student loan debt. And this is the generation that will say enough is enough and end gun violence. This generation demands bold solutions. That's why I'm running for president.", "Lester Holt" -> "Congressman, thank you.", "Savannah Guthrie" -> "Ms. Williamson, 45 seconds for your closing.", Entity["Person", "MarianneWilliamson::5ffrg"] -> "I'm sorry we haven't talked more tonight about how we're going to beat Donald Trump. I have an idea about Donald Trump. Donald Trump is not going to be beaten just by insider politics talk. He's not going to be beaten just somebody who has plans.\nHe's going to be beaten by somebody who has an idea what this man has done. This man has reached into the psyche of the American people and he has harnessed fear for political purposes. So, Mr. President, if you're listening, I want you to hear me, please. You have harnessed fear for political purposes and only love can cast that out.\nSo I, sir, I have a feeling you know what you're doing. I'm going to harness love for political purposes. I will meet you on that field. And, sir, love will win.", "Savannah Guthrie" -> "Ms. Williamson, thank you.", "Jose Diaz-Balart" -> "Senator Bennet?", Entity["Person", "MichaelBennet::6ggfg"] -> "Thank you. Thank you. My mom and her parents came to the United States to rebuild their shattered lives, in the only country that they could. Three hundred years before that, my parents' family came searching religious freedom here.\nThe ability for one generation to do better than the next is now severely at risk in the United States, especially among children living in poverty like the ones I used to work for in the Denver public schools. That's why I'm running for president.\nI've had two tough races in Colorado, but by bringing people together, not by making empty promises. And I believe we need to build a broad coalition of Americans to beat Donald Trump, end the corruption in Washington, and build a new era of American democracy and American opportunity.\nThis is going to be hard to do, but it's what our parents would have expected, it's what our kids deserve. I hope you join me in this effort. Thank you.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Senator.", "Jose Diaz-Balart" -> "Thank you.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Governor Hickenlooper?", Entity["Person", "JohnHickenlooper::g3625"] -> "I'm a small-business owner who brought that same scrappy spirit to big Colorado, one of the most progressive states in America. We expanded reproductive health to reduce teenage abortion by 64 percent. We were the first state to legalize marijuana, and we transformed our justice system in the process.\nWe passed universal background checks in a purple state. We got to near universal health care coverage. We attacked climate change with the toughest methane regulations in the country. And for the last three years, we've been the number-one economy in America.\nYou don't need big government to do big things. I know that because I'm the one person up here who's actually done the big progressive things everyone else is talking about. If we turn towards socialism, we run the risk of helping to re-elect the worst president in American history.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Thank you, Governor.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Senator Gillibrand, you have the floor for 45 seconds.", Entity["Person", "KirstenGillibrand::trt5h"] -> "Women in America -- women in America are on fire. We've marched, we've organized, we've run for office, and we've won. But our rights are under attack like never before by President Trump and the Republicans who want to repeal Roe v. Wade, which is why I went to the front lines in Georgia to fight for them.\nAs president, I will take on the fights that no one else will. I stood up to the Pentagon and repealed \"don't ask/don't tell.\" I've stood up to the banks and voted against the bailout twice. I've stood up to Trump more than any other senator in the U.S. Senate. And I have the most comprehensive approach for getting money out of politics with publicly funded elections to deal with political corruption.\nNow is not the time to play it safe. Now is not the time to be afraid of firsts. We need a president who will take on the big challenges, even if she stands alone. Join me in fighting for this.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Senator Gillibrand, thank you.", "Lester Holt" -> "Mr. Yang, you have 45 seconds for your closing.", Entity["Person", "AndrewYang::f7w42"] -> "First, I want to thank everyone who put me on this stage tonight. I am proof that our democracy still works.\nDemocrats and Americans around the country have one question for their nominee, and that is, who can beat Donald Trump in 2020? That is the right question. And the right candidate to beat Donald Trump will be solving the problems that got Donald Trump elected, and we'll have a vision of a trickle-up economy that is already drawing thousands of disaffected Trump voters, conservatives, independents, and libertarians, as well as Democrats and progressives. I am that candidate. I can build a much broader coalition to beat Donald Trump. It is not left; it is not right. It is forward. And that is where I'll take the country in 2020.", "Lester Holt" -> "Mr. Yang, thank you.", "Savannah Guthrie" -> "Senator Harris, Senator Harris, the floor is yours.", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "Thank you. Well, I just want to leave you with a couple of things. One, we need a nominee who has the ability to prosecute the case against four more years of Donald Trump, and I will do that.\nSecond, this election is about you. This is about your hopes and your dreams and your fears and what wakes you up at 3 o'clock in the morning. And that's why I have what I call a 3 a.m. agenda that is about everything from what we need to do to deliver health care to how you will be able to pay the bills by the end of the month.\nAnd when I think about what our country needs, I promise you, I will be a president who leads with a sense of dignity, with honesty, speaking the truth, and giving the American family all that they need to get through the end of the month in a way that allows them to prosper. So I hope to earn your support, and please join us at kamalaharris.org.", "Savannah Guthrie" -> "Senator, thank you.", "Jose Diaz-Balart" -> "Mayor Buttigieg, 45 seconds.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "Nothing about politics is theoretical for me. I've had the experience of writing a letter to my family, putting it in an envelope marked \"just in case,\" and leaving it where they would know where to find it in case I didn't come back from Afghanistan. I've experienced being in a marriage that exists by the grace of a single vote on the U.S. Supreme Court. And I have the experience of guiding a community where the per capita income was below $20,000 when I took office into a brighter future. I'm running because the decisions we make in the next three or four years are going to decide how the next 30 or 40 go. And when I get to the current age of the current president in the year 2055, I want to be able to look back on these years and say my generation delivered climate solutions, racial equality, and an end to endless war. Help me deliver that new generation to Washington before it's too late.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Thank you. Senator Sanders, 45 seconds, the floor is yours.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "I suspect people all over the country who are watching this debate are saying, these are good people, they have great ideas. But how come nothing really changes? How come for the last 45 years wages have been stagnant for the middle class? How come we have the highest rate of childhood poverty? How come 45 million people still have student debt? How come three people own more wealth than the bottom half of America? And here is the answer, nothing will change unless we have the guts to take on Wall Street, the insurance industry, the pharmaceutical industry, the military-industrial complex, and the fossil fuel industry. If we don't have the guts to take them on, we'll continue to have plans, we'll continue to have talk, and the rich will get richer, and everybody else will be struggling.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Thank you, Senator.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "And lastly, we'll hear from Vice President Biden. Sir, you have 45 seconds.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Thank you very much. I'm ready to lead this country because I think it's important we restore the soul of this nation. This president has ripped it out. It's the only president in our history who has equated racists and white supremacists with ordinary and decent people. He's the only president who has, in fact, engaged and embraced dictators and thumbed their nose at our allies. I'm, secondly, running for president because I think we have to restore the backbone of America, the poor and hardworking middle class people. You can't do that without replacing them with the dignity they once had. Last thing, we've got to unite the United States of America, as much as anybody says we can't. If we do, there's not a single thing the American people can't do. This is the United States of America. We can do anything if we're together, together. So God bless you all and may God protect our troops.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Vice President Biden, thank you.", "Savannah Guthrie" -> "We want to thank our candidates. We've had two nights of spirited debate on a range of issues. Twenty candidates in all. We want to thank all of the candidates, last night and tonight.", "Chuck Todd" -> "Seriously, it takes guts to run and stick your neck out like this. To you guys and to the 10 last night, thanks for having the guts to do it.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "I would also like to thank the audience for completely ignoring our suggestion not to react. You made it a lot more fun.", "Jose Diaz-Balart" -> "Also thanks to the Democratic National Committee, and the Florida Democratic Party.", "Lester Holt" -> "And, of course, thank you to everyone at the Adrienne Arsht Center for hosting us here, and our terrific audience, as Chuck mentioned.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Terrific."}, {"Jake Tapper" -> "Welcome back to the CNN Democratic presidential debate candidates. We\[CloseCurlyQuote]re about to begin opening statements. But first, a review of the ground rules that your campaigns agreed to earlier this month to ensure a fair debate. As moderators, we will attempt to guide the discussion.\n\nYou will each receive one minute to answer questions, 30 seconds for responses and rebuttals and 15 additional seconds if a moderator asks for a clarification. The timing lights will remind you of these limits. Please respect that and please refrain from interrupting your fellow candidates during their allotted time. A candidate infringing on another candidate's time will have his or her time reduced.\nWe also want to ask our audience inside the historic Fox Theater to remain silent when the candidates are actively debating. The candidates need to be able to hear the questions and hear one another.", "Dana Bash" -> "Time, now, for opening statements. You'll each receive one minute.\n\nGovernor Steve Bullock, please begin.", Entity["Person", "SteveBullock::3p7yn"] -> "Thanks, Dana,\n\nI come from a state where a lot of people voted for Donald Trump. Let's not kid ourselves. He will be hard to beat. Yet watching that last debate, folks seemed more concerned about scoring points or outdoing each other with wish-list economics, than making sure Americans know we hear their voices and will help their lives.\nLook, I'm a pro-choice, pro-union, populist Democrat who won three elections in a red state. Not by compromising our values, but by getting stuff done. That's how we win back the places we lost: showing up, listening, focusing on the challenges of everyday Americans.\nThat farmer getting hit right now by Trump's trade wars, that teacher working a second job, just to afford her insulin. They can't wait for a revolution. Their problems are in the here and now.\n\nI\[CloseCurlyQuote]m a progressive, emphasis on progress, and I\[CloseCurlyQuote]m running for president to get stuff done for all those Americans Washington has left behind.", "Dana Bash" -> "Marianne Williamson?", Entity["Person", "MarianneWilliamson::5ffrg"] -> "Thank you.\n\nIn 1776 our founders brought forth on this planet an extraordinary new possibility. It was the idea that people, no matter who they were, would simply have the possibility of thriving. We have not ever totally actualized this ideal. But at the times when we have done best, we have tried. And when forces have opposed them, generations of Americans have risen up and pushed back against those forces.\nWe did that with abolition and with women's suffrage and with civil rights. And now it is time for a generation of Americans to rise up again, for an amoral economic system has turned short-term profits for huge multi-national corporations into a false god. And this new false god takes precedence over the safety and the health and the well-being of we the American people and the people of the world and the planet on which we live.\nConventional politics will not solve this problem because conventional politics is part of the problem. We the American people must rise up and do what we do best and create a new possibility, say no to what we don't want and yes to what we know can be true.\n\nI'm Marianne Williamson, and that's why I'm running for president.", "Dana Bash" -> "Congressman John Delaney?", Entity["Person", "JohnDelaney::2752x"] -> "Folks, we have a choice. We can go down the road that Senator Sanders and Senator Warren want to take us, which is with bad policies like Medicare for all, free everything and impossible promises that will turn off independent voters and get Trump re-elected. That\[CloseCurlyQuote]s what happened with McGovern. That\[CloseCurlyQuote]s what happened with Mondale. That\[CloseCurlyQuote]s what happened with Dukakis. Or we can nominate someone with new ideas to create universal health care for every American with choice, someone who wants to unify our country and grow the economy and create jobs everywhere. And then we win the White House.\nI'm the product of the American dream. I believe in it. I'm the grandson of immigrants, the son of a construction worker. My wife April and I have four amazing daughters. I was the youngest CEO in the history of the New York Stock Exchange, created thousands of jobs and then served in Congress. That's the type of background -- and my platform is about real solutions, not impossible promises, that can beat Trump and govern. Thank you.", "Dana Bash" -> "Congressman Tim Ryan?", Entity["Person", "TimRyan::zz9nd"] -> "America is great, but not everyone can access America's greatness. The systems that were built to lift us up are now suffocating the American people. The economic system that used to create $30, $40, $50 an hour jobs that you can have a good, solid middle-class living now force us to have two or three jobs just to get by.\n\nMost families, when they go to sit at the kitchen table to do their bills, they get a pit in the middle of their stomach. We deserve better. And the political system is broken, too, because the entire conversation is about left or right, where are you at on the political system? And I'm here to say this isn't about left or right. This is about new and better. And it's not about reforming old systems. It's about building new systems.\nAnd tonight, I will offer solutions that are bold, that are realistic and that are a clean break from the past.", "Dana Bash" -> "Governor John Hickenlooper?", Entity["Person", "JohnHickenlooper::g3625"] -> "Last year Democrats flipped 40 Republican seats in the House, and not one of those 40 Democrats supported the policies of our front-runners at center stage.\n\nNow, I share their progressive values, but I'm a little more pragmatic. I was out of work for two whole years until I started what became the largest brew pub in America. And I learned the small -- small business lessons of how to provide service and teamwork and became a top mayor, and as governor of Colorado created the number one economy in the country.\nWe also expanded health care and reproductive rights. We attacked climate change head-on. We beat the NRA. We did not build massive government expansions.\nNow, some will promise a bill tonight or a plan for tonight. What we focused on was making sure that we got people together to get things done, to provide solutions to problems, to make sure that we -- that we worked together and created jobs. That's how we're going to beat Donald Trump. That's how we're going to win Michigan and the country.", "Dana Bash" -> "Senator Amy Klobuchar?", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "Let's get real. Tonight we debate, but ultimately, we have to beat Donald Trump. My background, it's a little different than his. I stand before you today as a granddaughter of an iron ore miner, as a daughter of a union teacher and a newspaper man, as the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate from the state of Minnesota and a candidate for president of the United States.\nThat's because we come from a country of shared dreams, and I have had it with the racist attacks. I have had it with a president that says one thing on TV that has your back and then you get home and you see those charges for prescription drugs and cable and college.\n\nYou're going to hear a lot of promises up here, but I'm going to tell you this. Yes, I have bold ideas, but they are grounded in reality. And, yes, I will make some simple promises. I can win this. I'm from the Midwest. And I have won every race, every place, every time. And I will govern with integrity, the integrity worthy of the extraordinary people of this nation.", "Dana Bash" -> "Congressman Beto O'Rourke?", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "I'm running for president because I believe that America discovers its greatness at its moments of greatest need. This moment will define us forever, and I believe that in this test America will be redeemed.\n\nIn the face of cruelty and fear from a lawless president, we will choose to be the nation that stands up for the human rights of everyone, for the rule of law for everyone, and a democracy that serves everyone. Whatever our differences, we know that, before we are anything else, we are Americans first, and we will ensure that each one of us is well enough and educated enough and paid enough to realize our full potential.\n\nWe will meet these challenges here at home, and we will lead the world in those that we face abroad, successfully confronting endless war and climate change. At this moment of truth, let us pursue our national promise and make a more perfect union of everyone, by everyone, and for everyone.", "Dana Bash" -> "Mayor Pete Buttigieg?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "I'm running for president because our country is running out of time. It is even bigger than the emergency of the Trump presidency. Ask yourself how somebody like Donald Trump ever gets within cheating distance of the Oval Office in the first place.\n\nIt doesn't happen unless America is already in a crisis -- an economy that's not working for everyone, endless war, climate change. We have lived this in my industrial Midwestern hometown. My generation has lived this as long as we have been alive.\n\nAnd it\[CloseCurlyQuote]s only accelerating. Science tells us we have 12 years before we reach the horizon of catastrophe when it comes to our climate. By 2030, the average house in this country will cost half a million bucks and a women\[CloseCurlyQuote]s right to choose may not even exist.\n\nWe are not going to be able to meet this moment by recycling the same arguments, policies, and politicians that have dominated Washington for as long as I have been alive. We've got to summon the courage to walk away from the past and do something different. This is our shot. That is why I'm running for president.", "Dana Bash" -> "Senator Elizabeth Warren?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "Donald Trump disgraces the office of president every single day. And anyone on this stage tonight or tomorrow night would be a far better president. I promise, no matter who our candidate is, I will work my heart out to beat Donald Trump and to elect a Democratic Congress.\n\nBut our problems didn't start with Donald Trump. Donald Trump is part of a corrupt, rigged system that has helped the wealthy and the well-connected and kicked dirt in the faces of everyone else.\n\nWe're not going to solve the urgent problems that we face with small ideas and spinelessness. We're going to solve them by being the Democratic Party of big structural change. We need to be the party that fights for our democracy and our economy to work for everyone.\n\nYou know, I know what's broken in this country, I know how to fix it, and I will fight to make it happen.", "Dana Bash" -> "Senator Bernie Sanders?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Tonight in America, as we speak, 87 million Americans are uninsured or underinsured, but the health care industry made $100 billion in profits last year.\n\nTonight, as we speak, right now, 500,000 Americans are sleeping out on the street, and yet companies like Amazon that made billions in profits did not pay one nickel in federal income tax.\n\nTonight, half of the American people are living paycheck to paycheck, and yet 49 percent of all new income goes to the top 1 percent.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Tonight, the fossil fuel industry continues to receive hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies and tax breaks while they destroy this planet. We have got to take on Trump\[CloseCurlyQuote]s racism, his sexism, xenophobia and come together in an unprecedented grassroots movement, to not only defeat Trump but to transform our economy and our government.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Senator Sanders.\n\nLet's start the debate with the number-one issue for Democratic voters, health care. And Senator Sanders, let's start with you. You support Medicare for all, which would eventually take private health insurance away from more than 150 million Americans, in exchange for government-sponsored health care for everyone.\n\nCongressman Delaney just referred to it as bad policy. And previously, he has called the idea \"political suicide that will just get President Trump re-elected.\" What do you say to Congressman Delaney?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "You're wrong.\nRight now, we have a dysfunctional health care system: 87 million uninsured or underinsured, $500,000 -- 500,000 Americans every year, going bankrupt because of medical bills, 30,000 people dying while the health care industry makes tens of billions of dollars in profit.\n\nFive minutes away from me and John is a country, it's called Canada. They guarantee health care to every man, woman and child as a human right. They spend half of what we spend. And by the way, when you end up in a hospital in Canada, you come out with no bill at all. Health care is a human right, not a privilege. I believe that, I will fight for that.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Senator Sanders.\n\nCongressman Delaney?", Entity["Person", "JohnDelaney::2752x"] -> "Well, I'm right about this. We can create a universal health care system to give everyone basic health care for free, and I have a proposal to do it. But we don't have to go around and be the party of subtraction, and telling half the country, who has private health insurance, that their health insurance is illegal.\n\nMy dad, the union electrician, loved the health care he got from the IBEW. He would never want someone to take that away. Half of Medicare beneficiaries now have Medicare Advantage, which is private insurance, or supplemental plans. It's also bad policy. It'll underfund the industry, many hospitals will close...", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Congressman.", Entity["Person", "JohnDelaney::2752x"] -> "... and it's bad policy.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Senator Sanders, I want to -- I...", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "My name was also mentioned in this.", "Jake Tapper" -> "We're going to come to you in one second, but let me go to Senator Sanders right now.\n\nSenator Sanders?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "The fact of the matter is, tens of millions of people lose their health insurance every single year when they change jobs or their employer changes that insurance. If you want stability in the health care system, if you want a system which gives you freedom of choice with regard to a doctor or a hospital, which is a system which will not bankrupt you, the answer is to get rid of the profiteering of the drug companies...", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "... and the insurance companies, move to Medicare for all.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Congressman Delaney?", Entity["Person", "JohnDelaney::2752x"] -> "But now he\[CloseCurlyQuote]s talking about a different issue. What I\[CloseCurlyQuote]m talking about is really simple. We should deal with the tragedy of the uninsured and give everyone health care as a right. But why do we got to be the party of taking something away from people?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "No. No one is the party...", "Jake Tapper" -> "Hold on one second, Senator.", Entity["Person", "JohnDelaney::2752x"] -> "That's what they're running on. They're running on...", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "No.", Entity["Person", "JohnDelaney::2752x"] -> "... telling half the country that your health insurance is illegal. It says it right in the bill.", "Jake Tapper" -> "All right, thank you.", Entity["Person", "JohnDelaney::2752x"] -> "We don't have to do that. We can give everyone health care...", "Jake Tapper" -> "OK.", Entity["Person", "JohnDelaney::2752x"] -> "... and allow people to have choice. That's the American way.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Congressman.\n\nSenator Warren?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "So, look. Let's -- let's be clear about this. We are the Democrats. We are not about trying to take away health care from anyone. That's what the Republicans are trying to do.\nAnd we should stop using Republican talking points in order to talk with each other about how to best provide that health care.\n\nNow, I want to have a chance to tell the story about my friend Ady Barkan. Ady is 35 years old. He has a wife, Rachael, he has a cute little boy named Carl. He also has ALS and it's killing him. Ady has health insurance, good health insurance...", "Jake Tapper" -> "Senator?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "... and it's not nearly enough.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Senator? I want to -- I'm coming right...", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "No, this is important.", "Jake Tapper" -> "... I'm staying with you, I'm staying with you. But you exceeded your time. So let me just stay with you on Medicare for all.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "All right.", "Jake Tapper" -> "At the last debate, you said you\[CloseCurlyQuote]re, quote, \[OpenCurlyDoubleQuote]with Bernie on Medicare for all.\[CloseCurlyDoubleQuote] Now, Senator Sanders has said that people in the middle class will pay more in taxes to help pay for Medicare for all, though that will be offset by the elimination of insurance premiums and other costs. Are you also, quote, \[OpenCurlyDoubleQuote]with Bernie\[CloseCurlyDoubleQuote] on Medicare for all when it comes to raising taxes on middle-class Americans to pay for it?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "So giant corporations and billionaires are going to pay more. Middle-class families are going to pay less out of pocket for their health care. And I'd like to finish talking about Ady, the guy who has ALS...", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "This isn\[CloseCurlyQuote]t funny. This is somebody who has health insurance and is dying. And every month, he has about $9,000 in medical bills that his insurance company won\[CloseCurlyQuote]t cover. His wife, Rachael, is on the phone for hours and hours and hours, begging the insurance company, \[OpenCurlyDoubleQuote]Please cover what the doctors say he needs.\[CloseCurlyDoubleQuote]\n\nHe talks about what it's like to go online with thousands of other people to beg friends, family, and strangers for money so he can cover his medical expenses.\n\nThe basic profit model of an insurance company is taking as much money as you can in premiums and pay out as little as possible in health care coverage. That is not working for Americans...", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "... across this country...", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "Medicare for All will fix that, and that's why I'll fight for it.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Senator. Just a point of clarification...\n... in 15 extra seconds, would you raise taxes on the middle class to pay for Medicare for All, offset, obviously, by the elimination of insurance premiums, yes or no?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "Costs will go up for billionaires and go up for corporations. For middle-class families, costs -- total costs -- will go down.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Governor Bullock, I want to bring you in. You do not support Medicare for All. How do you respond to Senator Warren?", Entity["Person", "SteveBullock::3p7yn"] -> "No, health care is so personal to all of us. Never forget when my 12-year-old son had a heart attack within 24 hours of his life. Had to be life-flighted to Salt Lake City. But because we had good insurance, he's here with me tonight.\n\nAt the end of the day, I'm not going to support any plan that rips away quality health care from individuals. This is an example of wish list economics. It used to be just Republicans who wanted to repeal and replace. Now many Democrats do, as well. We can get there with a public option, negotiating drug prices, ending...", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Governor Bullock.\n\nI want to bring in Mayor Buttigieg. On the topic of whether or not the middle class should pay higher taxes in exchange for guaranteed health care and the elimination of insurance premiums, how do you respond, Mayor?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "So we don't have to stand up here speculating about whether the public option will be better or a Medicare for All environment will be better than the corporate options. We can put it to the test.\n\nThat's the concept of my Medicare for All Who Want It proposal. That way, if people like me are right that the public alternative is going to be not only more comprehensive, but more affordable than any of the corporate options around there, we'll see Americans walk away from the corporate options into that Medicare option, and it will become Medicare for All without us having to kick anybody off their insurance.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Just 15 seconds on the clarification. You are willing to raise taxes on middle-class Americans in order to have universal coverage with the disappearance of insurance premiums, yes or no?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "I think you can buy into it. That's the idea of Medicare for All Who Want It. Look, this is a distinction without a difference, whether you're paying the same money in the form of taxes or premiums. Look, in this country, if you have health coverage -- if you don't have health coverage, you're paying too much for care, and if you do have health coverage, you're paying too much for care.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Mayor Buttigieg. I want to bring in Congressman O'Rourke on the topic of whether the middle class should pay higher taxes in exchange for universal coverage and the elimination of insurance premiums. What's your response?", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "The answer is no. The middle class will not pay more in taxes in order to ensure that every American is guaranteed world-class health care. I think we're being offered a false choice, some who want to improve the Affordable Care Act at the margins, others who want a Medicare for All program that will force people off of private insurance, I have a better path.\n\nMedicare for America. Everyone who is uninsured is enrolled in Medicare tomorrow. Those who are insufficiently insured are enrolled...", "Jake Tapper" -> "Congressman...", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "... in Medicare...", "Jake Tapper" -> "Just a 15 seconds...", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "And those who have employer-sponsored insurance...", "Jake Tapper" -> "Who is offering -- who is offering a false choice here?", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "Jake, this is important.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Who's offering a false choice here?\n\nO\[CloseCurlyQuote]ROURKE: You have some. Governor Bullock, who\[CloseCurlyQuote]s said that we will improve the Affordable Care Act at the margins with a public option. You have others to my right who are talking about taking away people\[CloseCurlyQuote]s choice for the private insurance they have or members of unions. I was listening to Dee Taylor in Nevada...", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Congressman. Governor Bullock...", "Jake Tapper" -> "... he just said you're offering a false choice, sir.", Entity["Person", "SteveBullock::3p7yn"] -> "Congressman, not at all. You know, it took us decades and false starts to get the Affordable Care Act. So let's actually build on it. A public option, allowing anyone to buy in.\n\nYou know, we pay more for prescription drugs than any place actually in the world. We got nothing to show for it. Negotiate prescription drug prices. End surprise medical billing. That's the way that we can get there without disrupting the lives of 160 million people that like their employer-sponsored health insurance.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Congressman O\[CloseCurlyQuote]Rourke, you can respond. Congressman O\[CloseCurlyQuote]Rourke, you can respond.", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "Every estimate that I've seen of expanding ACA even through a public option still leaves millions of people uninsured and also means that people are not guaranteed the health care that they need, as the example that Senator Warren showed us.\n\nOur plan ensures that everyone is enrolled in Medicare or can keep their employer-sponsored insurance. When we listen to the American people -- and this is what they want us to do -- they want everyone covered, but they want to be able to maintain choice...", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Congressman.", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "... and our plan does that.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Congressman. I want to bring in Senator Klobuchar.\n\nSenator Warren at the beginning of the night said that Democrats cannot bring -- cannot win the White House with small ideas and spinelessness. In the last debate, she said the politicians who are not supporting Medicare for All simply lack the will to fight for it. You do not support Medicare for All. Is Senator Warren correct? Do you just not lack the will to fight for it?", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "That is incorrect. I just have a better way to do this. And in one of my first debates, Jake, I was called a street fighter from the iron range by my opponent. And when she said it, I said thank you.\n\nSo this is what I think we need to get done. We need the public option. That's what Barack Obama wanted, and it would bring health care costs down for everyone.\n\nAnd by the way, I just don't buy this. I've heard some of these candidates say that it's somehow not moral if you -- not moral to not have that public option. Well, Senator Sanders was actually on a public option bill last year, and that was, Bernie, the Medicaid public option bill that Senator Schatz introduced.\n\nClearly, this is the easiest way to move forward quickly, and I want to get things done. People can't wait. I've got my friend, Nicole, out there whose son was actually died trying to ration his insulin as a restaurant manager. And he died because he didn't have enough money to pay for it.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Senator...", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Jake.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "And Bernie and I have worked on pharmaceutical issues together.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "We can get less expensive drugs.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Senator Sanders -- I'm going to go to Senator Sanders, then Senator Warren, because you both were mentioned. Senator Sanders?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "As the author -- as the author of the Medicare bill, let me clear up one thing. As people talk about having insurance, there are millions of people who have insurance, they can't go to the doctor, and when they come out of the hospital, they go bankrupt. All right?\nWhat I am talking about and others up here are talking about is no deductibles and no co-payments. And, Jake, your question is a Republican talking point. At the end of the day...\nAnd by the way -- and by the way -- by the way -- the health care industry will be advertising tonight on this program.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Senator. Senator Warren, it's your turn.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Oh, can I complete that, please?", "Jake Tapper" -> "Your time is up. Thirty seconds.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "They will be advertising tonight with that talking point.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Senator Warren?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "So we have to think of this in terms of the big frame. What's the problem in Washington? It works great for the wealthy. It works great for those who can hire armies of lobbyists and lawyers. And it keeps working great for the insurance companies and the drug companies.\n\nWhat it's going to take is real courage to fight back against them. These insurance companies do not have a God-given right to make $23 billion in profits and suck it out of our health care system.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "They do not have a God-given right...", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "On page eight of the bill it says...", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "... to put...", "Jake Tapper" -> "I want to let Congressman Delaney in.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Senator. If we could all just stick to the rules of the time, that would be great. Congressman Delaney?", Entity["Person", "JohnDelaney::2752x"] -> "So I was -- I'm the only one on this stage who actually has experience in the health care business. And with all due respect, I don't think my colleagues understand the business. We have the public option, which is great.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "It's not a business!", Entity["Person", "JohnDelaney::2752x"] -> "The public option is great, but it doesn't go far enough. It doesn't go far enough. I'm proposing universal health care, where everyone gets health care as a basic human right for free, but they have choices. My plan, BetterCare, is fully paid for without raising middle class tax options. So when we think about this debate...", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Congressman.", Entity["Person", "JohnDelaney::2752x"] -> "There's Medicare for All, which is extreme...", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Congressman.", Entity["Person", "JohnDelaney::2752x"] -> "I was interrupted.", "Jake Tapper" -> "I want to bring in -- I want to bring in Governor Hickenlooper. Governor Hickenlooper, I'd like to hear what you say about Senator Warren's suggestion that those people on the stage who are not in favor of Medicare for All lack the political will to fight for it.", Entity["Person", "JohnHickenlooper::g3625"] -> "Well, obviously, I disagree with that as much as I respect both of the senators to my right. You know, it comes down to that question of Americans being used to being able to make choices, to have the right to make a decision. And I think proposing a public option that allows some form of Medicare that maybe is a combination of Medicare Advantage and Medicare, but people choose it, and if enough people choose it, it expands, the quality improves, the cost comes down, more people choose it, eventually, in 15 years, you could get there, but it would be an evolution, not a revolution.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Governor. Senator Warren?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "You know...\n\n(UNKNOWN): Jake?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "... we have tried this experiment with the insurance companies. And what they've done is they've sucked billions of dollars out of our health care system. And they force people to have to fight to try to get the health care coverage that their doctors and nurses say that they need.\n\nWhy does everybody -- why does every doctor, why does every hospital have to fill out so many complicated forms? It's because it gives insurance companies a chance to say no and to push that cost back on the patients.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Senator Warren.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "That's what we have to fight.", "Jake Tapper" -> "I want to bring in Marianne Williamson. Ms. Williamson, how do you respond to the criticism from Senator Warren that you\[CloseCurlyQuote]re not willing to fight for Medicare for All?", Entity["Person", "MarianneWilliamson::5ffrg"] -> "I don't know if Senator Warren said that about me specifically. I admire very much what Senator Warren has said and what Bernie has said.\n\nBut I have to say, I have -- I'm normally way over there with Bernie and Elizabeth on this one. I hear the others. And I have some concern about that, as well. And I do have concern about what the Republicans would say. And that's not just a Republican talking point. I do have concern that it will be difficult. I have concern that it will make it harder to win, and I have a concern that it'll make it harder to govern. Because if that's our big fight, then --", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you Ms. Williamson.", Entity["Person", "MarianneWilliamson::5ffrg"] -> "The Republicans will so shut us down on everything else.", "Jake Tapper" -> "I want to bring in Mayor Buttigieg -- Mayor Buttigieg, your response?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "It is time to stop worrying about what the Republicans will say. Look, if --\nIf it's true that if we embrace a far-left agenda they're going to say we're a bunch of crazy socialists. If we embrace a conservative agenda, you know what they're going to do? They're going to say we're a bunch of crazy socialists.\n\nSo let's just stand up for the right policy, go out there and defend it. That's the policy I'm putting forward, not because I think it's the right triangulation between Republicans here and Democrats there -- because I think it's the right answer for people like my mother-in-law who is here -- whose life was saved by the ACA, but who is still far too vulnerable to the fact that the insurance industry does not care about her --", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you Mayor Buttigieg, Senator Sanders your response?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Let's be clear what this debate is about. Nobody can defend the dysfunctionality of the current system. What we are taking on is the fact that over the last 20 years the drug companies and the insurance companies have spent $4.5 billion of your health insurance money on lobbying and campaign contributions.\n\nThat is why when I went to Canada the other day, people paid one-tenth the price in Canada for insulin that they're paying in the United States --", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you Senator. I want to bring in Congressman Tim Ryan, Congressman Ryan your response?", Entity["Person", "TimRyan::zz9nd"] -> "So here we are in Detroit, home of the United Auto workers. We have all our union friends here tonight. This plan that's being offered by Senator Warren and Senator Sanders will tell those Union members who gave away wages in order to get good healthcare that they're going to lose their healthcare because Washington's going to come in and tell them they got a better plan.\n\nThis is the left and right thing -- new and better is this, move Medicare down to 50. Allow people to buy-in, Kaiser Permanente said that if they -- those 60 million people do that, they will see --", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you Congressman.", Entity["Person", "TimRyan::zz9nd"] -> "A 40 percent reduction --", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you Congressman.", Entity["Person", "TimRyan::zz9nd"] -> "In their healthcare cost, let businesses buy-in, Jake --", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you Congressman. So Senator, let's talk about that. If Medicare for all is enacted, there are more than 600,000 union members here in Michigan who would be forced to give up their private healthcare plans.\n\nNow, I understand that it would provide universal coverage -- but, can you guarantee those union members that the benefits under Medicare for all will be as good as the benefits that they're representatives -- their union reps fought hard to negotiate?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Well two things, they will be better because Medicare for all is comprehensive -- it covers all healthcare needs. For senior citizens it will finally include dental care, hearing aids and eyeglasses.", Entity["Person", "TimRyan::zz9nd"] -> "But you don't know that -- you don't know that, Bernie.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Second of all --", "Jake Tapper" -> "I'll come to you in a second, Congressman.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "I do know it, I wrote the damn bill. And second of all, second of all -- many of our union brothers and sisters, nobody more pro-union than me up here, are now paying high deductibles and copayments when we do Medicare for all, instead of having the company putting money in to healthcare, they can get decent wage increases, which they're not getting today.", "Jake Tapper" -> "I want to bring in Congressman Ryan to respond to what Senator Sanders just said.", Entity["Person", "TimRyan::zz9nd"] -> "I mean, Senator Sanders does not know all of the union contracts in the United States. I'm trying to explain that these union members are losing their jobs, their wages have been stagnant, the world is crumbling around them -- the only thing they have is possibly really good healthcare.\n\nAnd the Democratic message is going to be, we're going to go in and the only thing you have left we're going to take it and we're going to do better. I do not think that's a recipe for success for us, it's bad policy and it's certainly bad politics.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Congressman Delaney.", Entity["Person", "JohnDelaney::2752x"] -> "So the bill that Senator Sanders drafted, by definition will lower quality in healthcare, because it says specifically that the rates will be the same as current Medicare rates. And the data is clear, Medicare does not cover the cost of healthcare, it covers 80 percent of the costs of healthcare in this country.\n\nAnd private insurance covers 120 percent, so if you start underpaying all the healthcare providers, you're going to create a two tier market where wealthy people buy their healthcare with cash, and the people who are forced -- like my dad, the union electrician --", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you Congressman.", Entity["Person", "JohnDelaney::2752x"] -> "Will have that healthcare plan taken away from him --", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you Congressman --", Entity["Person", "JohnDelaney::2752x"] -> "They will be forced into an underfunded system.", "Jake Tapper" -> "I want to give Senator Sanders -- I want to give Senator Sanders a chance to respond.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "On the Medicare for all, the hospitals will save substantial sums of money because they're not going to be spending a fortune doing billing and the other bureaucratic things that they have to do today.\n\nSecond of all --", Entity["Person", "JohnDelaney::2752x"] -> "I've done the math, it doesn't add up.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Maybe you did that and made money off of healthcare, but our job is to run a nonprofit healthcare system. Furthermore -- furthermore, when we say $500 billion a year by ending all of the incredible complexities that are driving every American crazy trying to deal with the health insurance companies --", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you Senator.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Hospitals will be better off than they are today.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Congressman Delaney, I want to let you have a chance to respond.", Entity["Person", "JohnDelaney::2752x"] -> "Listen, his math is wrong. That's all I'm saying -- that his math is wrong, it's been well-documented that if all the bills were paid at Medicare rate, which is specifically -- I think it's in section 1,200 of their bill, then many hospitals in this country would close.\n\nI've been going around rural America, and I ask rural hospital administrators one question, \"If all your bills were paid at the Medicare rate last year, what would happen?\"\n\nAnd they all look at me and say, \"We would close.\"\n\nBut the question is, why do we have to be so extreme? Why can't we just give everyone health care as a right, and allow them to have choice?", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you, Congressman.", Entity["Person", "JohnDelaney::2752x"] -> "I'm starting to think this is not about health care...", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you, Congressman...", Entity["Person", "JohnDelaney::2752x"] -> "This is an anti-private-sector...", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you Congressman. We're going to move on.", Entity["Person", "JohnDelaney::2752x"] -> "... strategy.", "Dana Bash" -> "We're going to move on to the issue of immigration now. There is...\n... widespread agreement on this stage on the need for immigration reform, a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, including dreamers. But there are some areas of disagreement.\n\nMayor Buttigieg, you're in favor of getting rid of the law that makes it a crime to come across the U.S. border illegally. Why won't that just encourage more illegal immigration?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "When I am president, illegally crossing the border will still be illegal. We can argue over the finer points of which parts of this ought to be handled by civil law and which parts ought to be handled by criminal law. But we've got a crisis on our hands. And it's not just a crisis of immigration; it's a crisis of cruelty and incompetence that has created a humanitarian disaster on our southern border. It is a stain on the United States of America.\n\nAmericans want comprehensive immigration reform. And frankly, we've been talking about the same framework for my entire adult lifetime, protections for DREAMers; making sure that -- that we have a pathway to citizenship for the undocumented; cleaning up lawful immigration.\n\nWe know what to do. We know that border security can be part of that package and we can still be a nation of laws. The problem is we haven't had the will to get it done in Washington. And now we have a president who could fix it in a month, because there is that bipartisan agreement, but he needs it to be a crisis rather than an achievement. That will end on my watch.", "Dana Bash" -> "But just a point of clarification, you did raise your hand in the last debate. You do want to decriminalize crossing the border illegally?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "So in my view, if fraud is involved, then that's suitable for the criminal statute. If not, then it should be handled under civil law. But these show of hands are exactly what is wrong with the way that this race is being covered.", "Dana Bash" -> "Well, we're not -- we're not doing that here.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "And we appreciate that.", "Dana Bash" -> "Congressman -- thank you. Congressman...\n... O'Rourke, you live near the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso. You disagree with Mayor Buttigieg on decriminalizing the border crossings. Please respond.", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "I do, because, in my administration, after we have waived citizenship fees for green card holders, more than 9 million of our fellow Americans; freed DREAMers from any fear of deportation; and stopped criminally prosecuting families and children for seeking asylum and refuge; end for-profit detention in this country; and then assist...\n... those countries in Central America so that no family ever has to make that 2,000-mile journey, than I expect that people who come here follow our laws, and we reserve the right to criminally prosecute them if they do not.", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you, Congressman.\n\nSenator Warren, you say the provision making illegal border crossings a crime is totally unnecessary. Please respond.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "So the problem is that, right now, the criminalization statute is what gives Donald Trump the ability to take children away from their parents. It's what gives him the ability to lock up people at our borders.\n\nWe need to continue to have border security, and we can do that, but what we can't do is not live our values. I've been down to the border. I have seen the mothers. I have seen the cages of babies. We must be a country that every day lives our values. And that means we cannot...", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you, Senator Warren.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "... make it a crime...", "Dana Bash" -> "Just to clarify...", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "... when someone...", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you, Senator. Just to clarify, would you decriminalize...", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "Yes.", "Dana Bash" -> "... illegal border crossings?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "The point is not about criminalization. That has given Donald Trump the tool to break families apart.", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "We need...", "Dana Bash" -> "Governor Hickenlooper, your response?", Entity["Person", "JohnHickenlooper::g3625"] -> "I agree that we need secure borders. There's no question about that. And the frustration with what's going on in Washington is they're kicking the ball back and forth. Secure the borders, make sure whatever law we have doesn't allow children to be snatched from their parents and put in cages. How hard can that be?\n\nWe've got -- I don't know -- on the two debate nights, we've got 170 years of Washington experience. Somehow it seems like that should be fairly fixable.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "Well, and one way to fix it is to decriminalize. That's the whole point. What we're...\n... looking for here is a way to take away the tool that Donald Trump has used...", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you, Senator Warren.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "... to break up families.", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you, Senator Warren. Senator Klobuchar, your response?", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "I would say there is the will to change this in Congress. What's missing is the right person in the White House. I believe that immigrants don't diminish America; they are America. And if you want to do something...\n... about border security, you first of all change the rules so people can seek asylum in those Northern Triangle countries.\n\nThen, you pass the bill. And what the bill will do is, it will greatly reduce the deficit and give us some money for border security and for border processing the cases. And most of all, it will allow for a path to citizenship.\n\nBecause this is not just about the border...", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "... Donald Trump wants to use these people as political pawns, when we have people...", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you, Senator Klobuchar.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "... all over our country that simply want to work...", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "... and obey the law.", "Dana Bash" -> "Senator Sanders, you want to provide undocumented immigrants free health care and free college. Why won't this drive even more people to come to the U.S. illegally?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Because we\[CloseCurlyQuote]ll have strong border protections. But the main point I want to make is that what Trump is doing through his racism and his xenophobia, is demonizing a group of people. And as president, I will end that demonization.\n\nIf a mother and a child walk thousands of miles on a dangerous path, in my view, they are not criminals.\nThey are people fleeing violence. And I think the main thing that we\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve got to do -- among many others, and Beto made this point -- we\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve got to ask ourselves, \[OpenCurlyDoubleQuote]Why are people walking 2,000 miles to a strange country where they don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t know the language?\[CloseCurlyDoubleQuote]\n\nSo what we will do, the first week we are in the White House, is bring the entire hemisphere together to talk about how we rebuild Honduras...", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank...", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "... Guatemala and El Salvador so people do not have to flee their own countries.", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you, Senator.\n\nGovernor Bullock, about two-thirds of Democratic voters and many of your rivals here for the nomination, support giving health insurance to undocumented immigrants. You haven't gone that far. Why not?", Entity["Person", "SteveBullock::3p7yn"] -> "Look, I think this is the part of the discussion that shows how often these debates are detached from people's lives. We've got 100,000 people showing up at the border right now. If we decriminalize entry, if we give health care to everyone, we'll have multiples of that. Don't take my word, that was President Obama's Homeland Security secretary that said that.\n\nThe biggest problem right now that we have with immigration, it's Donald Trump. He's using immigration to not only rip apart families, but rip apart this country. We can actually get to the point where we have safe borders, where we have a path to citizenship, where we have opportunities for Dreamers.\n\nAnd you don't have to decriminalize everything. What you have to do is have a president in there with the judgment and the decency to treat someone that comes to the border like one of our own.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "You know, I just wanted to...", "Dana Bash" -> "Senator...", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "... add on this...", "Dana Bash" -> "... he just said your plan in unrealistic. How do you respond?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "You know, I think that what we have to do, is we have to be an America that is clear about what we want to do with immigration. We need to expand legal immigration. We need to create a path for citizenship, not just for Dreamers but for grandmas and for people who have been working here in the farms and for students who have overstayed their visas...\n... we need to fix the crisis at the border. And a big part of how we do that, is we do not play into Donald Trump's hands.", Entity["Person", "SteveBullock::3p7yn"] -> "But...", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "He wants to stir up the crisis at the border because that's his overall message. It's -- if there's anything wrong in your life, blame them.", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you, Senator Warren.\n\nGovernor Bullock, your response?", Entity["Person", "SteveBullock::3p7yn"] -> "But you are playing into Donald Trump's hands. The challenge isn't that it's a criminal offense to cross the border. The challenge is that Donald Trump is president, and using this to rip families apart.\n\nA sane immigration system needs a sane leader. And we can do that without decriminalizing and providing health care for everyone.\n\nAnd it's not me saying that, that's Obama's Homeland Security secretary...", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "No.", Entity["Person", "SteveBullock::3p7yn"] -> "... that said you'll cause further problems at the border, not making it better.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "What -- what you're saying is ignore the law. Laws matter. And it matters if we say our law is that we will lock people up who come here, seeking refuge, who come here, seeking asylum, that is not a crime. And as Americans, what we need to do is have a sane system that keeps us safe at the border, but does not criminalize the activity...", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you, Senator Warren.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "... of a mother fleeing here for safety.", Entity["Person", "SteveBullock::3p7yn"] -> "Dana, I must correct the record", "Dana Bash" -> "Congressman Ryan, are Senator Sanders\[CloseCurlyQuote] proposals going to incentivize undocumented immigrants to come into this country illegally?", Entity["Person", "TimRyan::zz9nd"] -> "Yes. And right now, if you want to come into the country, you should at least ring the doorbell. We have asylum laws. I saw the kids up in Grand Rapids, not far from here. It is shameful what's happening. But Donald Trump is doing it.\n\nAnd even if you decriminalize, which we should not do, you still have statutory authority. The president could still use his authority to separate families. So we've got to get rid of Donald Trump. But you don't decriminalize people just walking into the United States. If they're seeking asylum, of course, we want to welcome them. We're a strong enough country to be able to welcome them.\n\nAnd as far as the healthcare goes, undocumented people can buy healthcare too. I mean everyone else in America is paying for their healthcare. I think - I don't think it's a stretch for us to ask undocumented people in the country to also pay for healthcare.", "Dana Bash" -> "Senator Sanders, your response?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Well, I have two things. A sane immigration policy moves the comprehensive immigration reform. It moves to a humane border policy, and which, by the way, we have enough administrative judges, so that we don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t have incredible backlogs that we have right now.\n\nBut to your answer your question, I happen to believe that when I talk about healthcare as a human right that applies to all people in this country, and under a Medicare for All single payer system, we could afford to do that.", "Dana Bash" -> "Senator Sanders, thank you. And Ms. Williamson, your response?", Entity["Person", "MarianneWilliamson::5ffrg"] -> "Everything that we're talking about here tonight is what's wrong with American politics, and the Democratic Party needs to understand that we should be the party that talks, not just about symptoms, but also about causes. When it - when we're talking about healthcare, we need to talk about more than just the healthcare plan.\n\nWe need to realize, we have a sickness care rather than a healthcare system. We need to be the party talking about why so many of our chemical policies and our food policies and our agricultural policies and our environment policies and even our economic policies are leading to people sick to begin with.", "Don Lemon" -> "Thank you --", Entity["Person", "MarianneWilliamson::5ffrg"] -> "That's what the democratic -- but I want to say more --", "Don Lemon" -> "Thank you, Ms. Williamson.", Entity["Person", "MarianneWilliamson::5ffrg"] -> "-- about. OK.", "Don Lemon" -> "Thank you, Ms. Williamson.", Entity["Person", "MarianneWilliamson::5ffrg"] -> "I hope you\[CloseCurlyQuote]ll come back to me this time.", "Don Lemon" -> "Go ahead. Thank you, Ms. Williamson. Let\[CloseCurlyQuote]s turn now to the issue of gun violence. There were three large-scale shootings this past week in America, at a park in Brooklyn, on the streets on Philadelphia and one that left three dead and 12 injured at a food festival in Gilroy, California. Governor - excuse me, Mayor Buttigieg, other than offering words of comfort, what\[CloseCurlyQuote]re you specially going to do to stop this epidemic of gun violence?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "Well, this epidemic of gun violence has hit my community too, far too many times. It\[CloseCurlyQuote]s the worst part of being there, getting the phone call, consoling, grieving parents. And we have a mass shooting\[CloseCurlyQuote]s worth of killings everyday in this country. What we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re doing hasn\[CloseCurlyQuote]t worked because we haven\[CloseCurlyQuote]t had a system in Washington capable of delivering what the American people have told us they want.\n\nEighty, 90 percent of Republicans want universal background checks, not to mention the common sense solutions like red flag laws that disarmed domestic abusers and flag mental health risks and an end to assault weapons, things like what I carried overseas in uniform, that have no business in American neighbors in peace time, let alone anywhere near a school.\n\nI was at an event a few days ago, and a 13-year-old asked me what we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re going to do about school safety, and then began shaking and then began crying. And we can talk about these policies, but we already know the policies. I only thing I could think of, looking into the eyes of this child, is we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re supposed to be dealing with this so you don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t have to. High school is hard enough, without having to worry about whether you\[CloseCurlyQuote]re going to get shot.", "Don Lemon" -> "Thank you.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "And when 90 percent of Americans want something to happen --", "Don Lemon" -> "Thank you, Mayor.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "-- and Washington --", "Don Lemon" -> "Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Mayor. Governor Hickenlooper, your response please?", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "I disagree - I disagree with his diagnosis of the problem.", "Don Lemon" -> "Please standby, Senator.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "OK.", "Don Lemon" -> "Please stick to the rules. We'll get to you - we'll come to you in a just a minute. Governor Hickenlooper, please respond.", Entity["Person", "JohnHickenlooper::g3625"] -> "Well, this is the fundamental nonsense of government, another thing - another place where, despite our best efforts, we can't seem to make any progress. You know, when I went to the - to the movie theater in Aurora in 2012, and saw that footage of what happened at that crime scene, I'll never forget it.\n\nAnd we decided, you know, that we were going to go out and take on the NRA, and we passed as a purple state. We passed universal background checks. We limited magazine capacity. We did the basic work that for whatever reason doesn't seem to be able to get done in Washington.", "Don Lemon" -> "Thank you, Governor. Senator Klobuchar, please respond.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "Yes, this isn\[CloseCurlyQuote]t just about a system, or it\[CloseCurlyQuote]s not just about words. This is about the NRA. I sat across from the president of the United States after Parkland, because I\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve been a leader on these issues and have the will to close to a boyfriend loophole.\n\nAnd I watched and wrote down when, nine times, he said he wanted universal background checks. The next day, he goes and he meets with the NRA, and he folds. As your president, I will not fold. I will make sure that we get universal background checks passed, the assault weapon ban, that we do something about magazines, and that we understand when 6 little - little 6-year-old boy died, Stephen Romero, when his dad said he\[CloseCurlyQuote]s only 6 years old, all I can -", "Don Lemon" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "- say is he's 6 years old.", "Don Lemon" -> "Mayor Buttigieg, please respond.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "We have to remember that.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "This is the exact same conversation we\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve been having since - since I was in high school. I was a junior when the Columbine shooting happened. I was part of the first generation that saw routine school shootings. We have now produced the second school shooting generation in this country. We better not allow there to be a third. Something is broken if it is even possible for the same debate around the same solutions that we all know are the right thing to do. They won\[CloseCurlyQuote]t prevent every incident. They won\[CloseCurlyQuote]t save every life. But we know what to do, and it has not happened.", "Don Lemon" -> "Thank you, Mayor. Senator Klobuchar, please respond.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "Yes. What is broken is a political system that allows the NRA and other large, big money to come in and make things not happen when the majority of people are for. The people are with us now.\n\nAfter Parkland, those students just didn\[CloseCurlyQuote]t march. They talked to their dads and their grandpas and the hunters in their family, and they said there must be a better way. Then we elected people in the House of Representatives. And guess what? It changed, and they passed universal background checks. And now that bill is sitting on Mitch McConnell\[CloseCurlyQuote]s doorstep because of the money and the power of the NRA. As president, I will take them on.", "Don Lemon" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "This is not about systems and words.", "Don Lemon" -> "Thank you, Senator Klobuchar.\nGovernor Bullock, how can Democrats trust you to be the leader on this fight for gun safety when you only changed your position to call for an assault weapons ban last summer?", Entity["Person", "SteveBullock::3p7yn"] -> "You know, like 40 percent of American households, I\[CloseCurlyQuote]m a gun-owner. I hunt. Like far too many people in America, I\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve been personally impacted by gun violence. Had an 11-year-old nephew, Jeremy, shot and killed on a playground.\n\nWe need to start looking at this as a public health issue, not a political issue. I agree with Senator Klobuchar. It is the NRA. And it's not just gun violence. It's when we talked about climate, when we talk about prescription drug costs, Washington, D.C., is captured by dark money, the Koch brothers, and others.\n\nThat's been the fight of my career. Kicking the Koch brothers out of Montana, taking the first case after Citizens United up to the Supreme Court, making it so that elections are about people. That's the way we're actually going to make a change on this, Don, is by changing that system. And most of the things that folks are talking about on this stage we're not going to address until we kick dark money and the post-Citizens United corporate spending out of these elections.", "Don Lemon" -> "Congressman O'Rourke, your response?", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "How else can we explain that we lose nearly 40,000 people in this country to gun violence, a number that no other country comes even close to, that we know what all the solutions are, and yet nothing has changed? It is because, in this country, money buys influence, access, and, increasingly, outcomes.\n\nThe Centers for Disease Control prevented from actually studying the issue in the first place. As president, we will make sure that we ban political action committee contributions to any member of Congress or any candidate for federal office. We will listen to people, not PACs, people, not corporations, people, not special interests.", "Don Lemon" -> "Congressman, thank you very much.\n\nSenator Sanders, you said this in 2013, just months after the Sandy Hook massacre, and I quote here: \"If you pass the strongest gun control legislation tomorrow, I don't think it will have a profound effect on the tragedies we have seen.\" Do you still agree with that statement today?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "I think we have got to do -- I think what I meant is what President Obama said, in that nobody up here is going to tell you that we have a magical solution to the crisis.\n\nNow, I come from one of the most rural states in America. I have a D-minus voting record from the NRA. And as president I suspect it will be an F record. What I believe we have got to do is have the guts to finally take on the NRA.\n\nYou asked me about my record. Back in 1988, coming from a state that had no gun control, I called for the ban of the sale and distribution of assault weapons. I lost that election. I will do everything I can not only to take on the NRA, but to expand and create universal background checks, do away with the strawman provision, do away with the gun show loophole, and do away with the loopholes that now exist for gun manufacturers who are selling large amounts of weapons into communities that are going to gangs.", "Don Lemon" -> "Yeah. Mayor Buttigieg, your response.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "Still the conversation that we've been having for the last 20 years. Of course we need to get money out of politics. But when I propose the actual structural democratic reforms that might make a difference, end the Electoral College, amend the Constitution, if necessary, to clear up Citizens United, have D.C. actually be a state, and depoliticize the Supreme Court with structural reform, people look at me funny, as if this country were incapable of structural reform.\n\nDoes anybody really think we're going to overtake Citizens United without constitutional action? This is a country that once changed its Constitution so you couldn't drink and then changed it back because we changed our minds about that.", "Don Lemon" -> "Thank you. Thank you, Mayor.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "And you're telling me we can't reform our democracy in our time?", "Don Lemon" -> "Thank you, Mayor.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "We have to or we'll be having the same argument 20 years from now.", "Don Lemon" -> "Please respond, Governor Bullock.", Entity["Person", "SteveBullock::3p7yn"] -> "You can make changes. Even in Montana, with a two-thirds Republican legislature, we passed a law that said, if you're going to spend money in our elections, I don't care if you call yourselves Americans for America for America, you're going to have to disclose every one of those dollars in the last 90 days.\n\nI'll never forget running for re-election in 2016. Even we stopped the Koch brothers from spending it that time. If we can kick the Koch brothers out of Montana, we can do it in D.C., we can do it everywhere.\n\nAnd we're also taking steps, additional steps that we've taken -- I passed an executive order. If you're even going to contract with the state...", "Don Lemon" -> "Governor Bullock, thank you very much.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "I'd like to have a chance on this.", "Don Lemon" -> "Ms. Williamson, how do you respond to this issue of gun safety?", Entity["Person", "MarianneWilliamson::5ffrg"] -> "The issue of gun safety, of course, is that the NRA has us in a chokehold, but so do the pharmaceutical companies, so do the health insurance companies, so do the fossil fuel companies, and so do the defense contractors, and none of this will change until we either pass a constitutional amendment or pass legislation that establishes public funding for federal campaigns.\n\nBut for politicians, including my fellow candidates, who themselves have taken tens of thousands -- and in some cases, hundreds of thousands -- of dollars from these same corporate donors to think that they now have the moral authority to say we're going to take them on, I don't think the Democratic Party should be surprised that so many Americans believe yada, yada, yada.\nIt is time for us to start over with people who have not taken donations from any of those corporations and can say with real moral authority: That is over. We are going to establish public funding for federal campaigns. That's what we need to stand up to.\n\nWe need to have a constitutional amendment. We need to have -- we need to have legislation to do it.", "Don Lemon" -> "Thank you.", Entity["Person", "MarianneWilliamson::5ffrg"] -> "And until we do it, it's just the same old, same old.", "Don Lemon" -> "Thank you. Thank you, Ms. Williamson. The debate will be right back right after this short break.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Presidential Debate, we are live from Detroit, Michigan. In poll after poll Democratic voters say that they want a candidate who can beat President Trump, more than they want a candidate who agrees with them on major issues.\n\nGovernor Hickenlooper, you ran a Facebook ad that warned \"socialism is not the answer.\" The ad also said, \"don't let extremes give Trump four more years,\" are you saying that Senator Sanders is too extreme to beat President Trump?", Entity["Person", "JohnHickenlooper::g3625"] -> "I'm saying the policies of -- this notion that you're going to take private insurance away from 180 million Americans who, many of them don't want to give -- many of them do want to get rid of it, but some don't -- many don't.\n\nOr you're going to -- the Green New Deal make sure that every American's guaranteed a government job if they want, that is a disaster at the ballot box, you might as well FedEx the election to Donald Trump.\n\nI think we've got to focus on where Donald Trump is failing, you know, the world malpractice, and this is interesting -- I always thought it was doctors or lawyers, it's -- you know negligent, improper, illegal professional activity for doctors, lawyers or public officials, Google it, check it out.\n\nDonald Trump is malpractice personified, we've got to point that out. Why is it soybean farmers in Iowa need 10 good years to get back to where they were 2 years ago? Where's the small manufacturing jobs that are supposed to come back?\n\nWhy are we lurching from one international crisis to another? All things that he promised American voters, we've got to focus on that -- and the economy, and jobs, and training, so that we can promise a future for America that everybody wants to invest it.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you Governor. Senator Sanders you are a proud Democratic-Socialist, how do you respond to Governor Hickenlooper?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Well the truth is that every credible poll that I have seen has me beating Donald Trump -- including the battleground states of Michigan, where I won the Democratic primary -- Wisconsin where I won the Democratic primary, and Pennsylvania.\n\nAnd the reason we are going to defeat Trump, and beat him badly is that he is a fraud and a phony and we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re going to expose him for what he is. The American people want to have a minimum wage which is a living wage, $15 an hour. I\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve helped lead that effort.\n\nThe American people want to pay reasonable prices for prescription drugs, not the highest prices in the world --", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "I've helped lead the effort for that as well.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you Senator. Governor Hickenlooper, I want to bring you back to respond?", Entity["Person", "JohnHickenlooper::g3625"] -> "So again, I think if we're going to force Americans to make these radical changes, they're not going to go along -- throw your hands up --", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "All right --", Entity["Person", "JohnHickenlooper::g3625"] -> "Oh-ho, I can do it. But you haven\[CloseCurlyQuote]t implemented the plans, us governors and mayors are the ones, we have to pick up all the pieces when suddenly the government\[CloseCurlyQuote]s supposed to take over all these responsibilities, and there\[CloseCurlyQuote]s no preparation, the details aren\[CloseCurlyQuote]t worked. You can\[CloseCurlyQuote]t just spring a plan on the world and expect it to succeed --", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "John --", "Jake Tapper" -> "Senator Sanders?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "John, I was a mayor and I helped transform my city -- I have some practical experience. Second of all, interestingly enough today is the anniversary of Medicare -- 54 years ago under Linda Johnson of the Democratic Congress they started a new program after one year 19 million elderly people in it.\n\nPlease don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t tell me that in a four year period we cannot go from 65 down to 55, to 45, to 35 -- this is not radical. This is what virtually every other country on Earth runs --", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you Senator.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "We are the odd dog out.", "Jake Tapper" -> "I want to bring in -- I want to bring in Congressman Ryan. You're from the state of Ohio, it's a state that voted twice for Obama and then went to President Trump in 2016, please respond to Senator Sanders.", Entity["Person", "TimRyan::zz9nd"] -> "Well I would just say Hillary Clinton was winning in the polls too, to take a snapshot in the polls today and apply it 16 months from now or whenever it is, I don't think is accurate.\n\nNow in this discussion already tonight we've talked about taking private health insurance away from union members in the industrial Midwest, we've talked about decriminalizing the border, and we've talked about giving free healthcare to undocumented workers when so many Americans are struggling to pay for their healthcare.\n\nI quite frankly don't think that that is an agenda that we can move forward on and win. We've got to talk about the working class issues, the people that take a shower after work, who haven't had a raise in 30 years --", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you -- thank you Congressman --", Entity["Person", "TimRyan::zz9nd"] -> "If we focus on that, we'll win the election.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you Congressman, I want to bring Congressman O'Rourke, your response, sir?", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "Bernie was talking about some of the battleground states in which we compete -- there is a new battleground state, Texas and it has 38 electoral college votes. And the way that we put it in play was by going to each one of those 254 counties. No matter how red or rural, we did not write you off. No matter how blue, or urban -- we did not take you for granted.\n\nAnd we didn't trim our sails, either. We had the courage of our convictions, talking about universal health care, comprehensive immigration reform, and confronting the challenge of climate before it is too late. We brought everyone in...", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you.", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "... and now we have a chance to beat Donald Trump with Texas.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Congressman. I want to bring in Governor Bullock. We're talking about whether Democrats are moving too far to the left to win the White House. President Trump won your home state of Montana by 20 points. How do you respond, sir?", Entity["Person", "SteveBullock::3p7yn"] -> "Yeah, as the only one of the field of 37 that actually won a Trump state -- 25 percent to 30 percent of my voters voted for Donald Trump -- I know that we do have to win back some of those places we lost and get those Trump voters back if we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re ever going to win.\n\nBut this isn't just a choice between the left and the center. It's not a choice just between sort of these wish list economics or thinking that we have to sacrifice our values to actually win. What folks want is a fair shot. The way I won, the way we can win is to actually focus on the economy and the democracy aren't working for most people.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Governor.", Entity["Person", "SteveBullock::3p7yn"] -> "That's how I win. That's how we can take back the office.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Governor. Senator Warren, you make it a point to say that you're a capitalist. Is that your way of convincing voters that you might be a safer choice than Senator Sanders?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "No. It is my way of talking about I know how to fight and I know how to win. I took on giant banks, and I beat them. I took on Wall Street, and CEOs, and their lobbyists, and their lawyers, and I beat them. I took on a popular Republican incumbent senator, and I beat him.\n\nI remember when people said Barack Obama couldn't get elected. Shoot, I remember when people said Donald Trump couldn't get elected. But here's where we are.\n\nI get it. There is a lot at stake, and people are scared. But we can't choose a candidate we don't believe in just because we're too scared to do anything else. And we can't ask other people to vote for a candidate we don't believe in.\n\nDemocrats win when we figure out what is right and we get out there and fight for it. I am not afraid. And for Democrats to win, you can't be afraid, either.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Congressman Delaney, your response?", Entity["Person", "JohnDelaney::2752x"] -> "So -- so I think Democrats win when we run on real solutions, not impossible promises, when we run on things that are workable, not fairy tale economics.\n\nLook at the story of Detroit, this amazing city that we're in. This city is turning around because the government and the private sector are working well together. That has to be our model going forward. We need to encourage collaboration between the government, the private sector, and the nonprofit sector, and focus on those kitchen table, pocketbook issues that matter to hard-working Americans: building infrastructure, creating jobs, improving their pay...", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Congressman.", Entity["Person", "JohnDelaney::2752x"] -> "... creating universal health care, and lowering drug prices.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Congressman. Senator Warren?", Entity["Person", "JohnDelaney::2752x"] -> "We can do it.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "You know, I don't understand why anybody goes to all the trouble of running for president of the United States just to talk about what we really can't do and shouldn't fight for.\nI don't get it.\nOur biggest problem in Washington is corruption. It is giant corporations that have taken our government and that are holding it by the throat. And we need to have the courage to fight back against that. And until we're ready to do that, it's just more of the same.\n\nWell, I'm ready to get in this fight. I'm ready to win this fight.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Senator. Congressman Delaney?", Entity["Person", "JohnDelaney::2752x"] -> "When we created Social Security, we didn't say pensions were illegal, right? We can have big ideas to transform the lives. I mean, I started two companies and took them public before I was 40. I'm as big of a dreamer and an entrepreneur as anyone.\n\nBut I also believe we need to have solutions that are workable. Can you imagine if we tried to start Social Security now but said private pensions are illegal? That's the equivalent of what Senator Sanders and Senator Warren are proposing with health care. That's not a big idea. That's an idea that's dead on arrival. That will never happen. So why don't we actually talk about things, big ideas that we can get done? The stakes are too high.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Congressman. Senator Warren?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "So, look, he talks...", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "He just mentioned my name.", "Jake Tapper" -> "We'll come to you right after that.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Senator Warren?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "He talks about solutions that are workable. We have tried the solution of Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance. And what have the private insurance companies done? They've sucked billions of dollars out of our health care system. They've made everybody fill out dozens and dozens of forms. Why? Not because they're trying to track your health care. They just want one more excuse to say no. Insurance companies do not have a God-given right to suck money out of our health care system.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "And 2020 is our chance to stop it.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Senator. Senator Sanders?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Detroit was mentioned. And I'm delighted that Detroit is rebounding. But let us understand, Detroit was nearly destroyed because of awful trade policy which allowed corporations to throw workers in this community out on the streets as they moved to low-wage countries.\n\nTo win this election, and to defeat Donald Trump -- which, by the way, in my view, is not going to be easy -- we need to have a campaign of energy and excitement and of vision. We need to bring millions of young people into the political process in a way that we have never seen by, among other things, making public colleges...", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "... and universities tuition-free and canceling student debt.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Senator. Thank you, Senator.\nI want to bring in -- I want to bring in Senator Klobuchar. At the beginning of the night, you said you're going to hear a lot of promises on the stage. And previously you have said, when asked about your primary opponents, quote, \"A lot of people are making promises, and I'm not going to make promises just to get elected.\" Who on this stage is making promises just to get elected?", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "Everyone wants to get elected. But my point is this: I think when we have a guy in the White House that has now told over 10,000 lies, that we'd better be very straightforward with the American people.\n\nAnd, no, do I think that we are going to end up voting for a plan that kicks half of America off of their current insurance in four years? No, I don't think we're going to do that. I think there is a better way to get what we all want to see, which is lower costs for health care.\n\nDo I think that we're going to vote to give free college to the wealthiest kids? No, I don't think we're going to do that. So that's what I'm talking about.\n\nBut what I don't like about this argument right now, what I don't like about it at all, is that we are more worried about winning an argument than winning an election.\nAnd I think how we win an election is to bring everyone with us. And, yes, I have won in a state every single time statewide. I have won those congressional districts that Donald Trump won by over 20 points. He just targeted Minnesota last week. And I have done it by getting out there and talking to people, by knowing rural issues and farm issues...", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Senator Klobuchar.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "... and bringing metro people with me in the state that had the highest voter turnout in the country.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Senator Klobuchar. Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "That's what we want.", "Jake Tapper" -> "I want to bring in Congressman O'Rourke. Congressman O'Rourke, please respond.", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "You know, I think a big part of leadership and showing our commitment to the American people is delivering on our commitments. As a member of Congress, when I learned that the El Paso V.A. had the worst wait times for mental health care in the country, meaning that care delayed functionally became care denied, and was related to the suicide epidemic, we made it our priority and we turned around the V.A. in El Paso.\n\nWe took that lesson nationally and I worked with Republican and Democratic colleagues to expand medical health care to veterans, and we got it signed into law by the one person with whom I agree on almost nothing -- Donald Trump -- to show that, at the end of the day, we will put the American people first...", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you.", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "... before party, before any other concern.", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you, Congressman O'Rourke.\n\nWe've been asking voters to weigh in on what they'd most like to hear Democrats debate. Among the topics they told us they're most interested in, the climate crisis.\n\nCongressman Delaney, I\[CloseCurlyQuote]ll start with you. You say the Green New Deal is about as realistic as Trump saying Mexico is going to pay for the wall. But scientists say we need essentially to eliminate fossil fuel pollution by 2050 to avoid the most catastrophic consequences. Why isn\[CloseCurlyQuote]t this sweeping plan to fight the climate crisis realistic?", Entity["Person", "JohnDelaney::2752x"] -> "Well, first of all, because it ties its progress to other things that are completely unrelated to climate, like universal health care, guaranteed government jobs, and universal basic income. So that only makes it harder to do.\n\nMy plan, which gets us to net zero by 2050, which we absolutely have to do for our kids and our grandkids, will get us there. I put a price on carbon, take all the money, give it back to the American people in a dividend. That was introduced by me on a bipartisan basis. It's the only significant bipartisan climate bill in the Congress.\n\nI\[CloseCurlyQuote]m going to increase the Department of Energy research budget by fivefold, because we fundamentally have to innovate our way out of this problem. I\[CloseCurlyQuote]m going to create a market for something called direct air capture, which are machines that actually take carbon out of the atmosphere, because I don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t think we\[CloseCurlyQuote]ll get to net zero by 2050 unless we have those things. I\[CloseCurlyQuote]m going to increase investment in renewables and I\[CloseCurlyQuote]m going to create something called the Climate Corps.\n\nThat is a plan that's realistic. It's a bet on the U.S. private innovation economy and creates the incentives to get us to net zero by 2050 for our kids.", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you. Thank you, Congressman. Senator Warren, you\[CloseCurlyQuote]re a cosponsor of the Green New Deal. Your response to Congressman Delaney?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "So, climate crisis is the existential crisis for our world. It puts every living thing on this planet at risk. I have a plan for a green industrial policy that takes advantage of the fact that we do what we do best, and that is innovate and create.\n\nSo I've proposed putting $2 trillion in so we do the research. We then say anyone in the world can use it, so long as you build it right here in America. That will produce about 1.2 million manufacturing jobs right here in Michigan, right here in Ohio, right here in the industrial Midwest.\n\nAnd the second thing we will do is we will then sell those products all around the world. Right now, for every $1 the United States...", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "... spends trying to market around the world...", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you, Senator Warren.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "... China is spending $100.", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you, Senator Warren.\n\nGovernor Hickenlooper, you take issue with the green new deal. Please respond.", Entity["Person", "JohnHickenlooper::g3625"] -> "Well, I think the guarantee for a public job for everyone who wants one is a classic part of the problem. It's a distraction.\n\nI share the urgency of everyone up here. We have to recognize -- I mean, everyone's got good ideas. What we do in this country is no better than just a best practice, right? It's what we do here is a best practice and a template, but it's got to be done all over the world.\n\nSo we\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve got to be building bridges right now with people like China, who were cheating on international agreements and stealing intellectual property. We need to work on that, but not with a tariff system. We need every country working together if we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re going to really deal with climate change in a realistic way.", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you. Senator Warren, your response?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "Look, I put a real policy on the table to create 1.2 million new jobs in green manufacturing. There's going to be a $23 trillion worldwide market for this. This could revitalize huge cities across this country. And no one wants to talk about it. What you want to do instead is find the Republican talking point of a made-up piece of some other part and say, \"Oh, we don't really have to do anything.\"\n\nThat\[CloseCurlyQuote]s the problem we\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve got in Washington right now.\nIt continues to be a Washington that works great for oil companies, just not for people worried about climate change.", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you, Senator Warren. Congressman Ryan, we are here in Michigan, where there are about 180,000 workers in auto manufacturing. Your state of Ohio has around 96,000 workers in that industry.\n\nSenator Sanders is co-sponsoring a bill that would eliminate new gas-powered car sales by 2040. Given the number of auto manufacturing workers in your state, how concerned are you about Senator Sanders' plan?", Entity["Person", "TimRyan::zz9nd"] -> "Well, if we get our act together, we won't have to worry about it. I -- my plan is to create a chief manufacturing officer so we could actually start making things in the United States again, that would pull the government, the Department of Energy, Department of Transportation, work with the private sector, work with investors, emerging tech companies, to dominate the electric vehicle market.\n\nChina dominates it now, 50 percent to 60 percent. I want us to dominate the battery market, make those here in the United States and cut the workers in on the deal. The charging stations, solar panels, same thing; China dominates 60 percent of the solar panel market.\n\nSo this person will work in the White House, report directly to me, and we're going to start making things again.\n\nBut you cannot get there on climate unless we talk about agriculture. We need to convert our industrial agriculture system over to a sustainable and regenerative agriculture system...", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "I agree.", Entity["Person", "TimRyan::zz9nd"] -> "... that actually sequesters carbon...\n... into the soil. And you can go ask -- you can go ask Gabe Brown and Allen Williams, who actually make money off of regenerative agriculture. So we can move away...\n... from all the subsidies that we're giving the farmers. They haven't made a profit in five years. And we could start getting good food into our schools and into our communities. And that's going to drive health care down. That's another part of the health care conversation...", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you.", Entity["Person", "TimRyan::zz9nd"] -> "... that we didn't even have. How do we start talking about health...", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you, Congressman Ryan.", Entity["Person", "TimRyan::zz9nd"] -> "... instead of just disease care?", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you. Senator Sanders, your response?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "I get a little bit tired of Democrats afraid of big ideas. Republicans are not afraid of big ideas. They could give $1 trillion in tax breaks to billionaires and profitable corporations. They could bail out the crooks on Wall Street. So please don't tell me that we cannot take on the fossil fuel industry. And nothing happens unless we do that.\nHere is the bottom line. We've got to ask ourselves a simple question, \"What do you do with an industry that knowingly, for billions of dollars in short-term profits, is destroying this planet?\" I say that is criminal activity that cannot be allowed to continue.", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you, Senator Sanders.\nCongressman, your response?", Entity["Person", "TimRyan::zz9nd"] -> "Well, I would just say -- I didn't say we couldn't get there until 2040, Bernie. You don't have to yell. I mean, all I'm saying is...\nAll I'm saying is we have to invent our way out of this thing. And if we're waiting for 2040 for a ban to come in on gasoline vehicles, we're screwed. So we better get busy now. And that's why I'm saying get a chief manufacturing officer, align the environmental incentives with the financial incentives, and make sure that people can actually make money off of the new technologies that are moving forward.\n\nAnd then here's what I'll do as president...", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you, Congressman.", Entity["Person", "TimRyan::zz9nd"] -> "... cut the worker in on the deal. Make sure these are union jobs. And I will double union membership to make sure these new jobs pay what the old fossil fuel jobs pay.", "Dana Bash" -> "Senator Sanders, your response?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "On this issue, my friends, there is no choice. We have got to be super aggressive if we love our children and if we want to leave them a planet that is healthy and is habitable, so I don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t disagree with Tim. What that means is we got to, A, take on the fossil fuel industry, B, it means we have to transform our energy system away from fossil fuel to energy efficiency and sustainable energy, at a hell of a lot of good union jobs, as we do that. We got to transform our transportation ...", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you, Senator ...", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "... system, and we have to lead the world ...", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you, Senator Sanders.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "... because this is not just an American issue.", "Dana Bash" -> "Governor Bullock, your response?", Entity["Person", "SteveBullock::3p7yn"] -> "You know, all of us agree that we have address climate change. No one on this stage is talking about it. The Republicans won\[CloseCurlyQuote]t even acknowledge that climate change is real, Dana, and that\[CloseCurlyQuote]s because of the corrupting influence and money. That has been the fight of my career.\n\nAnd second of which, as we transition to this clean energy economy, you\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve got to recognize, there are folks that have spent their whole life powering our country, and far too often, Democrats sound like they\[CloseCurlyQuote]re part of the problem. We got to make sure to aid in those transition as we get to a carbon neutral world, which I think we can do by 2020.", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you, Governor. Just to clarify, who is part of the problem?", Entity["Person", "SteveBullock::3p7yn"] -> "Who - oh, no, I - I think Democrats often, when they're saying, oh, these fossil fuel industries, these workers, those coal miner workers. Look, the world's changing. We got to make a change, but I think Democrats often sound like the people that, as Congressman Ryan would say, shower at the end of the day, that they're part of the problem. And far too many communities are being left behind, as we make this transition.", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you.", Entity["Person", "SteveBullock::3p7yn"] -> "Look, we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re having this discussion, and we can talk about competing plans...", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you, Governor. I want to give Senator Sanders a chance to respond.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Look, Steve, there ain't nobody in the Congress who's more strongly pro-worker than I am. So when I talk about taking on the fossil fuel industry, what I am also talking about is a just transition. All right. We can create what the Green New Deal is about. It's a bold idea. We can create millions of good-paying jobs. We can rebuild communities in rural America that have been devastated. So we are not anti-worker. We are going to provide and make sure that those workers have a transition, new jobs, healthcare and education.", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "SteveBullock::3p7yn"] -> "And look ...", "Dana Bash" -> "Governor Bullock, your response?", Entity["Person", "SteveBullock::3p7yn"] -> "And look, Bernie, I was a union side labor lawyer. I fought day after day, and I know - but we've set this is a false choice far too often. Are we going to actually address climate change? Fire seasons are 80 days longer in the west now. Or are we going to give people a better shot at a better life?\n\nYou can do both, but let's actually have the scientists drive this. Let's not just talk about plans that are written for press releases that will go nowhere else if we can't get a Republican to acknowledge ...", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you, Governor.", Entity["Person", "SteveBullock::3p7yn"] -> "... that the climate's changing.", "Dana Bash" -> "Congressman O'Rourke, your response?", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "I've listen to the sciences on this, and they're very clear. We don't have more than 10 years to get this right, and we won't meet that challenge with half-steps or half-measures or only half the country. We've got to bring everyone in. The people of Detroit and those that I listened to in Flint last week, they want the challenge. They want those jobs. They want to create the future for this country and the world.\n\nThose community college students that I met in Tucumcari, New Mexico understand that wind and solar jobs are the fastest-growing jobs in the country. And those farmers in Iowa say pay me for the environmental services of planting cover crops and keeping more land in conservation easements. That's how we meet the challenge. We do it with everyone in this country. We bring everyone in to the solution.", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you, Congressman. Mayor Buttigieg, your response?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "We have all put out highly similar visions on climate. It is all theoretical. We will deal with climate, if and only if we win the presidency, if and only if we beat Donald Trump. Nominate me, and you get to see the president of the United States stand next to an American war veteran and explain why he chose to pretend to be disabled when it was chance to serve.\n\nNominate me, and we will have a different conversation with American voters about why the president of the United States thinks you're a sucker, when the problem in your life is your paycheck is not going up nearly as fast as the cost of housing or the cost of education ...", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "... or the cost of prescription drugs. And he has done nothing about it except ...", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you, Mayor Buttigieg.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "... the tax cuts for the corporations.", "Dana Bash" -> "Hi, Senator Klobuchar. I want to ask you about something that CNN heard from a Michigan Democratic primary voter, but we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re reaching out and getting their questions.\n\nKimber from Birmingham, Michigan has this question, \[OpenCurlyDoubleQuote]what is your plan to address infrastructure, including the water issue so another Flint, Michigan does not happen again?\[CloseCurlyDoubleQuote]", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "Thank you Dana, and I was just in Flint. And they are still drinking bottled water in that town and that is outrageous. So my plan, and I am the first one that came out with an infrastructure plan and I did that because this is a bread and butter issue. It's a bread and butter issue for people that are caught in traffic jams.\n\nI think the Governor here in Michigan smartly ran on the slogan, \[OpenCurlyDoubleQuote]fix the damn roads,\[CloseCurlyDoubleQuote] and it is an issue for union jobs. And so I think what we need to do is not have a president that\[CloseCurlyQuote]s promised he was going to do that on election night, if anyone remembers. And then he hasn\[CloseCurlyQuote]t followed through -- he has done nothing, he blew up a meeting at the White House.\n\nI would put $1 trillion in to this, and I would pay for it by first of all changing the capital gains rate by doing something when it comes to that regressive tax bill that left everyone behind, but really made his Mar-a-Lago friends richer as he promised.\n\nAnd I would take that money and put it in to rural broadband and green infrastructure so you won't have what you just saw in Detroit with the Jefferson Chalmers neighborhood, the African neighborhood -- that was African-American neighborhood that was most-hit when you had those recent rainstorms.\n\nAnd I truly believe that if we're going to move on infrastructure --", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you --", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "And climate change, you need a voice from the Heartlands.", "Dana Bash" -> "Is this -- thank you Senator Klobuchar, Ms. Williamson, what's your response on the Flint water crisis?", Entity["Person", "MarianneWilliamson::5ffrg"] -> "My response on the Flint water crisis is that Flint is just the tip of the iceberg. I was recently in Denmark, South Carolina where it is -- there is a lot of talk about it being the next Flint.\n\nWe have an administration that has gutted the Clean Water Act. We have communities, particularly communities of color and disadvantaged communities all over this country who are suffering from environmental injustice.\n\nI assure you, I lived Grosse Pointe -- what happened in Flint would not have happened in Grosse Pointe. This is part of the dark underbelly of American society. The racism, the bigotry, and the entire conversation that we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re having here tonight -- if you think any of this wonkiness is going to deal with this dark psychic force of the collectivized hatred that this president is bringing up in this country, then I\[CloseCurlyQuote]m afraid that the Democrats are going to see some very dark days.\n\nWe need to say it like it is, it's bigger than Flint -- it's all over this country, it's particularly people of color -- it's particularly people who do not have the money to fight back. And if the Democrats don't start saying it, then why would those people feel that they're there for us and if those people don't feel it, they won't vote for us, and Donald Trump will win.", "Don Lemon" -> "Thank you very much Ms. Williamson.", Entity["Person", "MarianneWilliamson::5ffrg"] -> "Thank you.", "Don Lemon" -> "We want to turn now to the issue of race in America. Congressman O'Rourke, President Trump is pursuing a reelection strategy based in part, on racial division. How do you convince primary voters that you'd be the best nominee to take on President Trump and heal the racial divide in America?", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "We'll call his racism out for what it is, and also talk about its consequences. It doesn't just offend our sensibilities to hear him say \"send her back,\" about a member of Congress, because she's a woman color, because she's a Muslim-American doesn't just offend our sensibilities when he calls Mexican immigrants \"rapists and criminals,\" or seeks to ban all Muslims from the shores of a country that's comprised of people from the world over, from every tradition of faith.\n\nIt is also changing this country. Hate crimes are in the rise -- every single one of the last three years, on the day that he signed his executive order attempting to ban Muslim travel, the mosque in Victoria, Texas was burned to the ground.\n\nSo we must not only stand up against Donald Trump and defeat him in this next election, but we must also ensure that we don't just tolerate or respect our differences, but we embrace them. That's what we've learned in El Passo, Texas -- my hometown. One of the safest cities in the United States of America, not despite, but because it's a city of immigrants and asylum seekers, and refugees.\n\nWe will show that our diversity --", "Don Lemon" -> "Thank you.", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "Is our strength in my administration.", "Don Lemon" -> "Congressman O'Rourke, thank you very much. Governor Hickenlooper, why are you the best nominee to heal the racial divide in America, please respond.", Entity["Person", "JohnHickenlooper::g3625"] -> "Well the core value behind this entire country's history is working towards a more perfect union, that all people are created equal. And we've fallen far away from that. I think the job is incumbent on any one of us to make the convincing case that we can deliver an urban agenda that represents progress in schools.\n\nIn Colorado when I was Mayor we got universal pre-K for every kid in the urban city. We did major police reform 10 years before Ferguson -- why is it now that five years after Ferguson we still don't have anything?\n\nHow do we get affordable housing? We created a scholarship fund for every kid -- you've got to deliver a vision like that for the whole country.", "Don Lemon" -> "Thank you Governor. Senator Warren, I\[CloseCurlyQuote]m coming to you now. Last week the FBI Director Christopher Wray said that the majority of domestic terrorism cases this year have been motivated by white supremacy. In fact, the alleged shooter in this weekend\[CloseCurlyQuote]s attack in Gilroy, California referenced a well-known white supremacist book on social media. How are you going to combat the rise of white supremacy?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "We need to call out white supremacy for what it is: domestic terrorism. And it poses a threat to the United States of America.\nWe live in a country now where the president is advancing environmental racism, economic racism, criminal justice racism, health care racism. The way we do better is to fight back and show something better.\n\nSo I have a plan, for example, on education that says we have to build a better education system for all our kids, but we've got to acknowledge what's happened on race. So my plan has universal, tuition-free college for all of our kids, but also increases the Pell Grants and levels the playing field by putting $50 billion into historically black colleges and universities.\nIt cancels student loan debt for 95 percent of the kids with student loan debt and helps close the black-white wealth gap in America.", "Don Lemon" -> "Thank you, Senator, very much.\n\nMayor Buttigieg, you have been criticized for your handling of racial issues in your home city of South Bend, from diversity in the police force to housing policy. Given your record, how can you convince African-Americans that you should be the Democratic nominee?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "As an urban mayor serving a diverse community, the racial divide lives within me. I'm not saying that I became mayor and racism or crime or poverty ended on my watch.\n\nBut in our city, we have come together repeatedly to tackle challenges, like the fact that far too many people were not getting the help they needed in their housing and so we directed it to a historically underinvested African-American neighborhood.\n\nRight now, in the wake of a police-involved shooting, our community is moving from hurting to healing by making sure that the community can participate in things like revising the use of force policy and making sure there are community voices on the board of safety that handles police matters.\n\nI've proposed a Douglass plan to tackle this issue nationally, because mayors have hit the limits of what you can do unless there is national action.\n\nSystemic racism has touched every part of American life, from housing to health to homeownership. If you walk into an emergency room and you are black, your reports of pain will be taken less seriously. If you apply for a job and you are black, you are less likely to be called just because of the name on the resume.\n\nIt's why I've proposed that we do everything from investing in historically red-lined neighborhoods...", "Don Lemon" -> "Mayor...", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "... to build black wealth in homeownership...", "Don Lemon" -> "Thank you, Mayor.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "... to supporting entrepreneurship for black Americans.", "Don Lemon" -> "Thank you very much.\nSenator Klobuchar, what do you say to those Trump voters who prioritize the economy over the president's bigotry?", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "Well, first of all, there are people that voted for Donald Trump before that aren't racist; they just wanted a better shake in the economy. And so I would appeal to them.\n\nBut I don't think anyone can justify what this president is doing. Little kids literally woke up this weekend, turned on the TV, and saw their president calling their city, the town of Baltimore, nothing more than a home for rats. And I can tell you, as your president, that will stop.\n\nThe second thing I would say is that economic opportunity means economic opportunity for everyone in this country. I know that because I have lived it. And that means when we put out there better childcare and better education, and we pay teachers more, and we make sure there's a decent retirement system in place, yes, we help the African-American community and we must, because they have been the ones that have been most hurt by what we've seen in the last decades, but we help everyone.\n\nSo what I say to the people in my rural parts of my state, just like I say to them in the city and bring them together, is that economic opportunity must be there for everyone.", "Don Lemon" -> "Senator Klobuchar, thank you very much.\n\nCongressman O'Rourke, please respond.", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "I want to acknowledge something that we're all touching on, which is the very foundation of this country, the wealth that we have built, the way we became the greatest country on the face of the planet was literally on the backs of those who were kidnapped and brought here by force.\nThe legacy of slavery and segregation and Jim Crow and suppression is alive and well in every aspect of the economy and in the country.\n\nToday, as president, I will sign into law a new Voting Rights Act. I will focus on education, address health care disparities, but I will also sign into law Sheila Jackson Lee's reparations bill so that we can have the national conversation we've waited too long in this country to have.", "Don Lemon" -> "Thank you, Congressman O'Rourke. Speaking of reparations, Ms. Williamson, many of your opponents support a commission to study the issue of reparations for slavery. But you are calling for up to $500 billion in financial assistance. What makes you qualified to determine how much is owed in reparations?", Entity["Person", "MarianneWilliamson::5ffrg"] -> "Well, first of all, it's not $500 billion in financial assistance. It's $500 billion, $200 billion to $500 billion payment of a debt that is owed. That is what reparations is.\nWe need some deep truth-telling when it comes. We don't need another commission to look at evidence. I appreciate what Congressman O'Rourke has said. It is time for us to simply realize that this country will not heal.\n\nAll that a country is, is a collection of people. People heal when there's some deep truth-telling. We need to recognize that when it comes to the economic gap between blacks and whites in America, it does come from a great injustice that has never been dealt with.\nThat great injustice has had to do with the fact that there was 250 years of slavery followed by another hundred years of domestic terrorism.\n\nWhat makes me qualified to say $200 billion to $500 billion? I\[CloseCurlyQuote]ll tell you what makes me qualified. If you did the math of the 40 acres and a mule, given that there was 4 million to 5 million slaves at the end of the Civil War, four to five -- and they were all promised 40 acres and a mule for every family of four, if you did the math today, it would be trillions of dollars. And I believe that anything less than $100 billion is an insult.\n\nAnd I believe that $200 billion to $500 billion is politically feasible today, because so many Americans realize there is an injustice that continues to form a toxicity underneath the surface, an emotional turbulence that only reparations will heal.", "Don Lemon" -> "Thank you very much.\nSenator Sanders -- Senator Sanders, you don't think cash payments are the best way to address this issue, but according to a new Gallup poll, 73 percent of African-Americans are in favor of cash payments to black Americans who are descendants of slaves. How do you respond to them?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Well, I respond to that by saying that I am supportive of Jim Clyburn's legislation, which is called 10-20-30. And what that understands is that as a result of slavery, and segregation, and the institutional racism we see now in health care, in education, in financial services, we are going to have to focus big time on rebuilding distressed communities in America, including African-American communities.\n\nIn terms of education, I also have a plan. It's called the Thurgood Marshall Plan. And it would focus on ending the growth of segregated schools in America. It would triple funding for Title I schools. It would make sure that teachers in this country earned at least $60,000 a year.", "Don Lemon" -> "Senator Sanders, thank you very much. The debate continues right after this short break.", "Don Lemon" -> "Welcome back to the CNN Democratic presidential debate, live from Detroit.\n\nLet's turn now to the economy.\n\nCongressman Ryan, President Trump's tariffs have boosted the U.S. steel industry but hurt auto manufacturers like those here in Michigan, which could drive up the cost of cars. As president, would you continue President Trump's steel tariffs?", Entity["Person", "TimRyan::zz9nd"] -> "Look, I think President Trump was onto something when he talked about China. China has been abusing the economic system for a long time. They steal intellectual property. They subsidize goods coming into this country. They've displaced steel workers, auto workers, across the board, eroded our manufacturing. And we basically transferred our wealth of our middle class either up to the top 1 percent or to China for them to build their military.\n\nSo I think we need some targeted response against China. But you know how you beat China? You out-compete 'em. And that's why I'd put a chief manufacturing officer in place to make sure that we rebuild the manufacturing base.\n\nWe've got to fill these factories that -- in Detroit, in Youngstown, that used to make cars and steel. We've got to fill them with workers who are making electric vehicles, batteries, charging stations, make sure they're making solar panels.\n\nAs I said earlier, China dominates 60 percent of the solar panel market. They dominate 50 percent to 60 percent of the electric vehicle market. We're going to make 10 million electric vehicle somewhere in the world in the next 10 years. I want them made in the United States. That's why I have a chief manufacturing officer that will sit in the White House and help drive this agenda.", "Don Lemon" -> "Congressman, thank you. Just as a point of clarification, as president, would you consider President Trump's steel tariffs, yes or no?", Entity["Person", "TimRyan::zz9nd"] -> "Well, I would have to re-evaluate. I think some of them are effective. But he's bungled the whole thing, obviously. He has -- see, here's the problem with President Trump. He has a tactical move -- one of many -- he has a tactical move. What's the grand strategy for the United States? China has 100-year plan, a 50-year plan, a 30-year plan, a 20-year plan. We live in a 24-hour news cycle. That spells disaster for our economy and disaster for our global politics.", "Don Lemon" -> "Thank you, Congressman. Congressman Delaney, your response?", Entity["Person", "JohnDelaney::2752x"] -> "So, listen. This is what I don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t understand. President Trump wants to build physical walls and beats up on immigrants. Most of the folks running for president want to build economic walls to free trade and beat up on President Obama. I\[CloseCurlyQuote]m the only one running for president who actually supports the Trans-Pacific Partnership. President Obama was right about that. We should be getting back in that.\n\nSenator Warren just issued a trade plan...", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "You bet I did.", Entity["Person", "JohnDelaney::2752x"] -> "... that would prevent the United States from trading with its allies. We can't go and -- we can't isolate ourselves from the world. We have to engage...", "Don Lemon" -> "Thank you.", Entity["Person", "JohnDelaney::2752x"] -> "... with fair, rules-based trade.", "Don Lemon" -> "Thank you, Congressman Delaney. Senator Warren, please respond.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "You know, for decades, we have had a trade policy that has been written by giant multi-national corporations to help giant multi-national corporations. They have no loyalty to America. They have no patriotism. If they can save a nickel by moving a job to Mexico, they'll do it in a heartbeat. If they can continue a polluting plant by moving it to Vietnam, they'll do it in a heartbeat.\n\nI have put out a new comprehensive plan that says we're not going to do it that way. We're going to negotiate our deals with unions at the table, with small businesses at the table, with small farmers at the table, with environmentalists at the table, with human rights activists at the table. And then, we're going to use the fact that everybody in the world wants to get to America's markets. They want to sell to you...", Entity["Person", "JohnDelaney::2752x"] -> "That was the TPP.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "I'll finish.", "Don Lemon" -> "Congressman Delaney...", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "... is everyone wants to get to America's markets.", "Don Lemon" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "No. So the question is...", "Don Lemon" -> "Senator, thank you. Please abide by the rules.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "... how we need to raise our standards.", "Don Lemon" -> "Congressman Delaney, it's your turn. Thank you, Senator. Congressman Delaney?", Entity["Person", "JohnDelaney::2752x"] -> "So that was the Trans-Pacific Partnership. I think President Obama was right. He did include environmental standards. He did include labor standards. We would be in an entirely different position with China if we had entered the Trans-Pacific Partnership.\n\nWe can't isolate ourselves from the world. We can't isolate ourselves from Asia. Senator Warren's plan, basically, that she put out, we would not be able to trade with the United Kingdom.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "No, what this is about...", Entity["Person", "JohnDelaney::2752x"] -> "We would not be able to trade with the E.U. It is so extreme that it will isolate...", "Don Lemon" -> "Thank you, Congressman Delaney. Thank you, Congressman.", Entity["Person", "JohnDelaney::2752x"] -> "... the American economy from the world.", "Don Lemon" -> "Senator? Senator Warren. Senator Warren.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "I was...", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "I think he said...", "Don Lemon" -> "Senator Sanders, please let Senator Warren respond.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Oh, I'm sorry.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "What the congressman is describing as extreme is having deals that are negotiated by American workers for American workers. American workers want those jobs, and we can build the trade deals that do it.\n\nPeople want access to our markets all around the world. Then the answer is, let's make them raise their standards. Make them pay workers more. Let their workers unionize. Raise their environmental standards before they come to us and say they want to be able to sell their products.\n\nRight now, the whole game is working for the big multinationals. It's just not working for the people here in the United States, and we can change that.", "Don Lemon" -> "Senator, thank you very much. Congressman O'Rourke, your response?", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "You know, the question was about tariffs. And they're a huge mistake. They constitute the largest tax increase on the American consumer, hitting the middle class and the working poor especially hard, and farmers in Iowa and across the country are bearing the brunt of the consequences.\n\nWhen have we ever gone to war, including a trade war, without allies and friends and partners? As president, we will hold China accountable, but we will bring our allies and friends, like the European Union, to bear, and we'll also negotiate trade deals that favor farmers and American workers and protect human rights and the environment and labor, not just here in the United States...", "Don Lemon" -> "Congressman O'Rourke, thank you so much. Senator Sanders, please respond to Congressman O'Rourke.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "I'd like to respond to this.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Yeah, OK. You're looking, I believe, at the only member of Congress who not only voted against these disastrous trade agreements, NAFTA, PNTR with China, which cost us over 4 million jobs, but also helped lead the effort against these agreements.\n\nNow, Elizabeth is absolutely right. If anybody here thinks that corporate America gives one damn about the average American worker, you're mistaken. If they can save five cents by going to China, Mexico, or Vietnam, or anyplace else, that's exactly what they will do.\n\nAs president, let me tell you what I will do. These guys line up at the federal trough. They want military contracts. They want all kinds of contracts. Well, under my administration, you ain't going to get those contracts if you're throwing American workers out on the street.", "Don Lemon" -> "Senator Sanders, thank you very much. Governor Hickenlooper, your response?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "I'd like a chance to respond.", Entity["Person", "JohnHickenlooper::g3625"] -> "So -- so I think -- again, I think Congressman Delaney has got a point here. And there is a way of looking at trade that is therapeutic.\n\nThe bottom line is, you talk to any economist, there is not a single example in history where a trade war had a winner. Trade wars are for losers. And the bottom line is we've got to recognize, let's negotiate a better trade deal. But you're not going to win against China in a trade war when they've got 25 percent of our total debt.\n\nAnd step back and look it. Here's Trump gives a giant tax cut and at the same time -- so we're paying in tariffs about $800 to $1,200 per household and then we give this incredible tax cut to the rich. Essentially what's happening is now he's transferred that tax obligation onto the middle class. That's what's outrageous. But tariffs are not the solution.", "Don Lemon" -> "Governor, thank you. Senator Warren?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "Anyone who thinks that these trade deals are mostly about tariffs just doesn\[CloseCurlyQuote]t understand what\[CloseCurlyQuote]s going on. Look at the new NAFTA 2.0. What\[CloseCurlyQuote]s the central feature? It\[CloseCurlyQuote]s to help pharmaceutical companies get longer periods of exclusivity so they can charge Canadians, Americans, and Mexicans more money and make more profits.\n\nThat's what trade deals have become. They have become a way for giant multinationals to change the regulatory environment so they can suck more profits out for themselves and to leave the American people behind. We have to have the courage to fight back against that corruption.", "Don Lemon" -> "Senator, thank you. Governor Bullock, your response?", Entity["Person", "SteveBullock::3p7yn"] -> "You know, a farmer in Rippy said to me, every time that Trump tweets, we lose hundreds of thousands of dollars. If Montana had to eat all the wheat that we produce, every Montanan would have to eat 40 loaves of bread a day.\n\nBut by the same token, what we have is -- I actually agree with Senator Warren on this in part. Corporations can move capital easy. Workers can't move. So going forward, we need to make sure that our trade deals actually are protecting -- thinking about the workers. They can't be the stepchild. But the way to do it, with this blunt instrument of tariffs that the president is doing, that's not how we get a fair deal for farmers anywhere or the manufacturers here in Detroit.", "Don Lemon" -> "Governor, thank you very much.\nMayor -- standby, please. Standby, please. Please abide by the rules. Mayor Buttigieg, on Thursday of this week, a GM plant in Michigan will stop production, the latest auto plant to cease operations in the industrial Midwest. This comes as part of the company's modernization plans, which will eventually result in 6,000 hourly workers losing their jobs or being reassigned to other plants.\n\nWhat is your plan for retraining workers whose jobs are at risk?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "Well, this happened in my community 20 years before I was born. And when I was growing up, we were still picking up the pieces. Empty factories, empty houses, poverty. I know exactly what happens to a community when these closures take place. And there will be more.\n\nIt's why we actually need to put the interests of workers first. Of course we need to do retraining. We're doing it now in South Bend. We should continue to do it. But this is so much bigger than a trade fight. This is about a moment when the economy is changing before our eyes.\n\nThere are people in the gig economy who go through more jobs in a week than my parents went through in their lifetime. It's why I've proposed that we allow gig workers to unionize, because a gig is a job and a worker is a worker.", "Don Lemon" -> "Thank you, Mayor.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "We have to respond to all of these changes. And, you know, in addition to confronting tech, in addition to supporting workers by double unionization, as I propose to do, some of this is low-tech, too, like the minimum wage is just too low. And so-called conservative Christian senators right now in the Senate are blocking a bill to raise the minimum wage, when scripture says that whoever oppresses the poor taunts their maker.", "Don Lemon" -> "Mayor, thank you very much.\n\nCongressman Delaney, I'm coming to you now. Your estimated net worth is more than $65 million. That would make you subject to Senator Warren's proposed wealth tax on the assets of the richest 75,000 homes, households, or so, in the United States. Do you think Senator Warren's wealth tax is a fair way to fund child care and education?", Entity["Person", "JohnDelaney::2752x"] -> "I think wealthy Americans have to pay more. Listen, I grew up in a blue-collar family. First in my family to go to college. Became a successful entrepreneur. Created thousands of jobs. Supported thousands of entrepreneurs all around this country. And I've done well financially. I think I should pay more in tax. I think wealthy Americans should pay more in tax. But we have to have a real solution.\n\nThe real solution is to raise the capital gains rates. There is no reason why people who invest for a living should pay less than people who work for a living. That\[CloseCurlyQuote]s ridiculous. It\[CloseCurlyQuote]s the biggest loophole in our tax code.\nWe act like wealthy individuals are endangered species and if we don't raise -- if we raise their taxes, they won't invest. That's crazy. That's how we get more revenues from wealthy individuals, we roll back the Trump tax cuts to wealthy individuals.\n\nI think the wealth tax will be fought in court forever. It's arguably unconstitutional. And the countries that have had it have largely abandoned it because it's impossible to implement. But here again, real solutions, not impossible promises.", "Don Lemon" -> "Congressman, thank you very much.", Entity["Person", "JohnDelaney::2752x"] -> "Raise the capital gains tax. Roll back the taxes on wealthy Americans.", "Don Lemon" -> "Thank you, Congressman.", Entity["Person", "JohnDelaney::2752x"] -> "That we can do in our first few months as president.", "Don Lemon" -> "Senator Warren, please respond.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "So I have proposed a wealth tax. It's now time to do that. It's time to tax the top one tenth of one percent of fortunes in this country. Your first $50 million, you can keep free and clear. But your 50 millionth and first dollar, you got to pitch in two cents. Two cents.\n\nWhat can America do with two cents? We can provide universal childcare from zero to five. We can provide universal pre-K for every 3-year-old and 4-year-old. We can raise the wages of every childcare worker and preschool teacher in this country. We can provide universal tuition-free college. We can expand Pell. We can put $50 billion into our historically black colleges and universities. And we can cancel student loan debt for 95 percent of the people who have it and start to close the wealth gap in America.\n\nIt tells you how badly broken this economy is...", "Don Lemon" -> "Senator, thank you very much. Congressman Delaney...", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "... that two cents from the wealthiest in this country...", "Don Lemon" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "... would let us invest in the rest of America.", "Don Lemon" -> "Senator, please. Congressman, please respond.", Entity["Person", "JohnDelaney::2752x"] -> "This is not about whether wealthy -- this is not about whether wealthy Americans should pay more. I think we're all in agreement on that. It's a question of, do you have a real solution to make it happen?\n\nWe can raise the capital gains rate to match the ordinary income. You know the last president to do that was actually Ronald Reagan. We can do that in our first year. I've called for that to be done (inaudible). I've called for the expansion of universal pre-K so that every American has pre-K. And I do it through a -- through an additional tax on high net worth individuals.", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you.\n\nBut we don't need to come up with new taxes that are arguably unconstitutional...", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you, Congressman Delaney.", Entity["Person", "JohnDelaney::2752x"] -> "... will be fought in court for years.", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you, Congressman. I want to turn to the issue of student debt.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "This is...", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Can I just respond to that?", "Dana Bash" -> "I'm going to turn to the issue of student debt now. Mayor Buttigieg, you've talked about how you and your husband are...\n... paying down six figures of student loan debt. Under Senator Sanders' proposal to cancel all student loan debt, yours would immediately be wiped away. Why wouldn't you support that?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "That would be great for us. And then the next day, there would be a student loan program and people would be out taking student loans wondering they weren't -- why they weren't lucky enough in timing to get theirs wiped away completely, too.\n\nWe can have debt-free college for low and middle-income students by expanding Pell Grants and compelling states to pick up more of the burden. And on the back end, for those of us who do have a lot of debt, we can make it more affordable and we can expand a public service loan forgiveness program, which is an excellent program that is almost impossible to actually get access to right now.\n\nWe can take these steps and have an approach that is actually fair. If we want to start wiping away student debt, here's where I would start. I would start with the for-profit colleges that took advantage of people, especially veterans, by the way. The moment I redeployed, my Facebook add feed started filling with ads from these for-profit colleges. Under President Obama, they were held accountable for whether they delivered results. President Trump, under a secretary of education who regrettably is from this state, did away with those rules. There's no accountability.\n\nOn my watch, those colleges that turned the Department of Education into a predatory lender, that's where we would begin when it came to getting rid of loans.", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you, Mayor Buttigieg.\n\nSenator Sanders, you want to forgive all student loan debt. Your response?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Matter of fact, I do. But before I get into that, the major issue that we don't talk about in Congress; you don't talk about in the media, is the massive level of income and wealth inequality in America.\n\nYou\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve got three people who own more wealth than the bottom 90 percent. You have a top 1 percent that owns more wealth than the bottom 92 percent. Forty-nine percent of all new income goes to the top 1 percent. Companies like Amazon and billionaires out there do not pay one nickel in federal income tax. And we\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve got 500,000 people sleeping out on the street.\n\nWhat we need is a political revolution that tells these billionaires and corporate America that they are Americans; they'll participate in our society, but they have got to start paying their fair share of taxes, period.", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you, Senator Sanders. Ms. Williamson?", Entity["Person", "MarianneWilliamson::5ffrg"] -> "I'd like to respond.", "Dana Bash" -> "You are proposing to make college free for all qualified students. Should the government pay for children from wealthier families to go to college?", Entity["Person", "MarianneWilliamson::5ffrg"] -> "I think that all domestic and international policy should be based on the idea that anything we do to help people thrive is a stimulation to our economy. That\[CloseCurlyQuote]s how you stimulate your economy. So if a few people take advantage, but there are four or five people who were going to take the money that they then have in the bank -- when you look at this $1.5 trillion college debt -- this is why I agree with Bernie, or I would be -- OK, why don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t we swap it? We had a $2 trillion tax cut, where 83 cents of every dollar goes to the very, very richest among us, that does not stimulate the economy.\n\nIf we get rid of this college debt, think of all the young people who will have the discretionary spending; they'll be able to start their business. The best thing you could do to stimulate the U.S. economy is to get rid of this debt.\nThis is not just about a plan to to do it. It\[CloseCurlyQuote]s about a philosophy of governing. And I\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve heard some people here tonight, I almost wonder why you\[CloseCurlyQuote]re Democrats. You seem to think there\[CloseCurlyQuote]s something wrong about using...\n... about using the instruments of government to help people. That is what government should do. It should -- all policies should help people thrive. That is how we will have peace...", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you.", Entity["Person", "MarianneWilliamson::5ffrg"] -> "... and that is how we will have prosperity.", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you, Ms. Williamson. Congressman O'Rourke, you don't support free four-year college. Your response to Ms. Williamson?", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "I support free two-year college, earn that associate's degree, realize your full potential, debt-free four-year college. But unlike some of the other candidates on the stage, that's not just for tuition. That is room and books and board, the full cost of being able to better yourself so that you can better this country, and then for that schoolteacher who, in many places like Texas, is working a second or a third job, full forgiveness for her outstanding student loan debt, forgiveness for that person willing to work at the V.A. and serve our former service members.\n\nAnd we do not do that at the expense of unions. We elevate them as well and make it easier to join an apprenticeship to learn a skill or a trade that you can command for the rest of your life.", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you. Thank you, Congressman. Senator Klobuchar, your response?", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "I want to make it easier for kids to go to college. And I think we do it by focusing our resources on the people that need it most. And my problem with some of these plans is they literally would pay for wealthy kids, for Wall Street kids to go to college. There's no difference. It says everyone is free.\n\nI don't think that makes sense. And I'm very concerned if we do things like that, the debt we're going to pass on to the next generation and the next generation. So what I would do about student loan debt is that I would allow people to refinance it at a better rate and I would make sure that we improve those student loan repayment programs for our teachers and expand them so that you literally -- over 5, 10 years -- can get it paid for if you go into occupations where we don't have enough workers.\n\nI think we need to mesh what we were just talking about with the economy with our education policy.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Senator. Thank you, Senator. I want to turn to foreign policy now.\n\nSenator Sanders, President Trump has argued that the United States cannot continue to be the, quote, \"policeman of the world.\" You said the exact same thing on a debate stage in 2016. If voters are hearing the same message from you and President Trump on the issue of military intervention, how should they expect that you will be any different from him?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Trump is a pathological liar. I tell the truth.\nWe have been in Afghanistan I think 18 years, in Iraq 16 or 17 years. We have spent $5 trillion on the war on terror. And there are probably more terrorists out there now than before it began. We're going to spend -- the Congress passed -- and I will not vote for -- a $715 billion military budget, more than the 10 next countries combined.\n\nWhat we need is a foreign policy that focuses on diplomacy, ending conflicts by people sitting at a table, not by killing each other. As president of the United States, I will go to the United Nations and not denigrate it, not attack the U.N., but bring countries together in the Middle East and all over the world to come to terms with their differences and solve those problems peacefully.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "The United States cannot be the policeman of the world.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Senator. Governor Hickenlooper, how do you respond to Senator Sanders' vision for America's role in the world?", Entity["Person", "JohnHickenlooper::g3625"] -> "Well, we share the recognition of the incredible costs. People don't realize that half the soldiers that fought in Iraq and Afghanistan were National Guard. And so I went and sent them off on their deployments, big, you know, noisy hangers, but I also mourned with their families when they didn't come back.\n\nWe are able now to -- I call it constant engagement. But we should have an international diplomatic approach where we're talking to everybody, because if we're going to deal with climate change and cyber security and nuclear proliferation, we've got to be talking to everybody. And tariff wars don't work.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Governor.", Entity["Person", "JohnHickenlooper::g3625"] -> "They're for losers.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Governor.\n\nI want to go to Congressman Ryan and I want to turn to the subject of North Korea, which just hours ago launched two short-range ballistic missiles for the second time in less than a week. Congressman, you've said that you would not meet with North Korea dictator Kim Jong-un unless you were at least close to a deal. Now, Senator Klobuchar says that she would, quote, \"always be willing to meet with leaders to discuss policies.\" Is that view wrong?", Entity["Person", "TimRyan::zz9nd"] -> "Yeah, I think so. I love Amy Klobuchar, but I think she's wrong on this one. I don't think presidents of the United States meet with dictators.\n\nWe saw what just happened with President Trump. He goes to the demilitarized zone with the leader of North Korea, gives him a huge photo op, gives him global credibility, because the most powerful person in the world is sitting there meeting with him, and weeks later, he\[CloseCurlyQuote]s lobbing more missiles. That doesn\[CloseCurlyQuote]t make any sense.\n\nWe've got to demilitarize our foreign policy. We've got to make sure that we are engaging these countries all the time. This is very difficult work. I've been in Congress 17 years. I've sat on the Defense Appropriations Committee. I've sat on the Armed Services Committee. This is long, tedious work, much of it done outside of the eye of the TV camera.\n\nAnd as president, you've got to monitor that and be very disciplined every day. Don't go give a dictator a huge win. Sit down and do your job.\n\nAnd the same thing with what's happening in Central America. He's cutting the State Department budget, Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador, where the migrants are coming from.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Congressman.", Entity["Person", "TimRyan::zz9nd"] -> "Go fix the problem at its source and use diplomacy to do it.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Senator Klobuchar, your response?", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "I think we agree. I just think you have to leave open the possibility of meeting with anyone at any place. What I don't like is how this president has handled it. You've heard of the Truman doctrine, the Monroe doctrine. He's done the go-it-alone doctrine with the rest of the world.\n\nHe's taking us out of the climate change agreement, out of the Iran nuclear agreement, out of the Russian nuclear agreement, and I don't agree with that.\n\nAnd when he was just with Vladimir Putin at the G20, when he was asked about invading our democracy, he made a joke. Hundreds of thousands of Americans have lost their lives on the battlefield to protect our democracy and our right to vote.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "Four little girls in Birmingham, Alabama, lost their life in a church at the height of the civil rights amendment.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "So I do believe you meet with people, but you'd better have an agenda...", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "... and you better put our interests of our country first, not the Russians'.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Senator Klobuchar.\n\nMayor Buttigieg, you served in Afghanistan where just yesterday two U.S. servicemembers were killed. There are currently about 14,000 U.S. servicemembers in Afghanistan. You've said, quote, \"One thing everybody can agree on is that we're getting out of Afghanistan.\" Will you withdraw all U.S. servicemembers by the end of your first year in office?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "We will withdraw. We have to.", "Jake Tapper" -> "In your first year?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "Yes. Look, around the world, we will do whatever it takes to keep America safe. But I thought I was one of the last troops leaving Afghanistan when I thought I was turning out the lights years ago.\n\nEvery time I see news about somebody being killed in Afghanistan, I think about what it was like to hear an explosion over there and wonder whether it was somebody that I served with, somebody that I knew, a friend, roommate, colleague.\n\nWe're pretty close to the day when we will wake up to the news of a casualty in Afghanistan who was not born on 9/11.\n\nI was sent into that war by a congressional authorization, as well as a president. And we need to talk not only about the need for a president committed to ending endless war, but the fact that Congress has been asleep at the switch.\n\nAnd on my watch, I will propose that any authorization for the use of military force have a three-year sunset and have to be renewed, because if men and women in the military have the courage to go serve, members of Congress ought to have to summon the courage to vote on whether they ought to be there.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Mayor.\nI want to bring in Congressman O'Rourke. Congressman O'Rourke, responding -- returning, rather, to the question of whether you would withdraw all U.S. servicemembers from Afghanistan during your first year in office as president, how do you respond, sir?", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "I would in my first term in office. Agree that there is nothing about perpetuating this war, already in its 18th year, that will make it any better. We've satisfied the reasons for our involvement in Afghanistan in the first place. And it's time to bring those servicemembers back home from Afghanistan, but also from Iraq, also from Yemen, and Somalia, and Libya, and Syria.\n\nThere is no reason for us to be at war all over the world tonight. As president, I will end those wars, and we will not start new wars. We will not send more U.S. servicemembers overseas to sacrifice their lives and to take the lives of others in our name. We can resolve these challenges peacefully and diplomatically.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Congressman. Thank you, Congressman.\n\nGovernor Hickenlooper, you disagree. You've said that you're open to keeping some servicemembers in Afghanistan beyond your first term.", Entity["Person", "JohnHickenlooper::g3625"] -> "I look at it as a...", "Jake Tapper" -> "Please respond.", Entity["Person", "JohnHickenlooper::g3625"] -> "... humanitarian issue. And with all due respect, you're looking at the condition of women...", Entity["Person", "MarianneWilliamson::5ffrg"] -> "Thank you.", Entity["Person", "JohnHickenlooper::g3625"] -> "... if we completely pull our troops out of there, you're going to see a humanitarian disaster that will startle and frighten every man, woman, and child in this country. And I don't think -- I mean, we have troops in over 400 different locations around the world. Most of them are small, they're peacekeeping, they're not greatly at risk.\n\nWe\[CloseCurlyQuote]re going to have to be in Afghanistan. Look at the progress that\[CloseCurlyQuote]s happened in that country. We\[CloseCurlyQuote]re going to turn our backs and walk away from people that have risked their lives to help us and build a different future for Afghanistan and that part of the world?", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Governor. Thank you, Governor.\n\nSenator Warren, you want to make it U.S. policy that the U.S. will never use a nuclear weapon unless another country uses one first. Now, President Obama reportedly considered that policy, but ultimately decided against it. Why should the U.S. tie its own hands with that policy?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "Because it makes the world safer. The United States is not going to use nuclear weapons preemptively, and we need to say so to the entire world. It reduces the likelihood that someone miscalculates, someone misunderstands.\n\nOur first responsibility is to keep ourselves safe. And what's happening right now with Donald Trump is they keep expanding the different ways that we have nuclear weapons, the different ways that they could be used puts us all at risk.\n\nYou know, we talk about what\[CloseCurlyQuote]s happening around the world. I have three older brothers who served in the military. I see that they would do anything. Our military is the best on Earth. But we should not be asking our military to take on jobs that do not have a military solution. We need to use our diplomatic tools, our economic tools, and if we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re going to send someone into war, we better have a plan for how we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re going to get them out on the other end.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Senator.\n\nGovernor Bullock, your response to Senator Warren's proposal to the U.S. never use a nuclear weapon first?", Entity["Person", "SteveBullock::3p7yn"] -> "I wouldn't want to take that off the table. I think America's strength -- we have to be able to say that. Look, never, I hope, certainly in my term or anyone else, would we really even get close to pulling that trigger.\n\nBut by the same token, America's strength -- and, look, this president has made America first as America alone. Our allies no longer trust us. Our adversaries are with us. But going from the position of strength, we should be negotiating down so there aren't nuclear weapons. But drawing those lines in the sand, at this point I wouldn't do.", "Don Lemon" -> "Thank you, Governor. Senator Warren. your response?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "Look, we don't expand trust around the world by saying, \"You know, we might be the first ones to use a nuclear weapon.\" That puts the entire world at risk and puts us at risk, right in the middle of this. At a time when Donald Trump is pulling out of our nuclear negotiations, expanding the opportunities for nuclear proliferation around the world, has pulled us out of the deal in Iran, and Iran is now working on its nuclear weapon, the world gets closer and closer to nuclear warfare.", Entity["Person", "SteveBullock::3p7yn"] -> "Senator, that...", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "We have to have an announced policy that is one the entire world can live with. We need to make that clear. We will respond if someone else does, but not first.", "Don Lemon" -> "Governor Bullock, please respond.", Entity["Person", "SteveBullock::3p7yn"] -> "Part, I agree with. But by the same token, like, we need to get back to nuclear proliferation.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "Why?", Entity["Person", "SteveBullock::3p7yn"] -> "But when you have folks -- de-proliferation, reducing it. But at the same time, when you actually have Korea; when you have others, I don't want to turn around and say, \"Well, Detroit has to be gone before we would ever use that.\" When so many crazy folks are getting closer to having a nuclear weapon, I don't want them to think I could strike this country and I and we as the United States of America wouldn't do a thing.\n\nPart of the strength really is the ability to deter.", "Don Lemon" -> "Governor Bullock...", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "So...", "Don Lemon" -> "Governor, thank you very much.\n\nMoving on now...", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Could I add something to that...", "Don Lemon" -> "Senator, please -- moving on now. As you know, to serve as president of the United States -- all of you know this -- you have to be at least 35 years old.\n\nSo Mayor Buttigieg, you just qualified. You're 37, the youngest candidate in this field. Standing next to you is the oldest candidate, Bernie Sanders, at age 77. Should voters take into consideration age when choosing a presidential candidate?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "I don't care how old you are. I care about your vision. But I do think it matters that we have a new generation of leaders stepping up around the world, leaders like the...\nI actually think it's good that the prime minister of New Zealand's gotten a lot of attention in Democratic debates. She's masterful. She is younger than I would be when I take office.\n\nThis is the kind of trend America might be leading, instead of following, but only if it's actually backed by the right vision. And we can have great presidents at any age. What I will say is we need the kind of vision that's going to win. We cannot have a vision that amounts to back to normal. Because the only reason we got this president is that normal didn't work. We have to be ready to take on this president and, by the way, something that hasn't been talked about as much tonight, take on his enablers in Congress.\n\nYou know, when...\n... when David Duke -- when David Duke ran for Congress -- ran for governor, the Republican Party, 20 years ago, ran away from him. Today they are supporting naked racism in the White House, or at best silent about it. And if you are watching this at home and you are a Republican member of Congress, consider the fact that, when the sun sets on your career and they are writing your story, of all the good and bad things you did in your life, the thing you will be remembered for is whether, in this moment, with this president, you found the courage to stand up to him or you continued to put party over country.", "Don Lemon" -> "Thank you, Mayor.\n\nSenator Sanders, as the senior statesman of the group, please respond to Mayor Buttigieg.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Well, Pete is right. It's a question of vision. That's what it is, whether you're young, whether you're old, whether you're in between. And my vision, among other things, says that if we're going to fight for health care, we don't take money from the drug companies or the insurance companies.\n\nAnd I have asked all of the candidates who are running to say they will not accept money from those entities who, in my view, are going to war against the American people in terms of health care. That's a new vision.\n\nA new vision says that we must cancel completely student debt because the younger generation in this country today, for the first time in modern American history, will have a lower standard of living than their parents.", "Don Lemon" -> "Thank you, Senator Sanders.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "I'd like to respond on that, too.", "Don Lemon" -> "The debate continues right after this -- please.", "Don Lemon" -> "Thank you. The debate continues right after this short break.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Welcome back to the CNN Democratic presidential debates. We have covered a lot of ground tonight. Now it is time for closing statements. You will each receive one minute.\n\nGovernor Bullock, we're going to begin with you.", Entity["Person", "SteveBullock::3p7yn"] -> "Thanks, Jake.\n\nI was raised in a single-parent household, at times paycheck to paycheck. Only knew there was a governor's house in town because I delivered newspapers to it, so I've made it about four blocks in life. Worked my way through college, paid my way through law school.\n\nBut, you know, I had a chance to actually go from delivering newspapers to the governor's house as a kid to now raising our three kids in it. We got to recognize for far too many people now in America that shot no longer exists. And for far too many in this country, it never has.\n\nI'm running for president to beat Donald Trump, win back the places we lost, and make sure that Americans know that where Washington has left them behind in the economy, in the political system, I'll be there.\n\nThis isn't a choice just between center and left or about -- we don't have to choose between what we don't want and what we can't afford. Folks want a different way. They want to believe the economy and our democracy can work for us. That's why I'm running for president.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you. Ms. Williamson?", Entity["Person", "MarianneWilliamson::5ffrg"] -> "Yes, our problem is not just that we need to defeat Donald Trump. We need a plan to solve institutionalized hatred, collectivized hatred, and white nationalism.\n\nAnd in order to do that, we need more than political insider game and wonkiness and intellectual argument. Those things will not defeat Donald Trump. We need some radical truth-telling, not just to talk about health care, but talk about why are we so sick all the time. We need to have a serious conversation about race and what is truly owed.\n\nEven on the subject of foreign policy, it's all about symptoms and not about cause. We need to talk about the fact that the United States has sacrificed our moral leadership. The fact that countries see us, not only domestically but internationally, with policies that simply support our corporate overlords. The fact that our national defense agenda is driven more by short-term profits for defense contractors than by genuine peace-building.\n\nThere's some corruption that is so deep, ladies and gentlemen. And until the Democratic Party is ready to speak to the deeper corruption, knowing that we ourselves sometimes because of our own corporate donations have participated, than I'm afraid those who vote for Trump will continue to vote for Trump and those who might not like Donald Trump will continue to stay home.\n\nI want a politics that goes much deeper. I want a politics that speaks to the heart, because the only way to fight -- you keep talking about how we're going to fight Donald Trump. You can't fight dog whistles. You have to override them.\n\nAnd the only way you can override them is with new voices, voices of energy that only come from the fact that America has been willing to live up to our own mistakes, atone for our mistakes, make amends for our own mistakes, love each other, love our democracy, love future generations, something emotional and psychological that will not be -- be emerging from anything on this stage. It will emerge from something I'm the one who's qualified to bring forth.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Congressman Delaney?", Entity["Person", "JohnDelaney::2752x"] -> "Thank you, Jake.\n\nJohn F. Kennedy famously said we should not seek the Republican answer, we should not seek the Democratic answer, we should seek the right answer. He was right when he said it and he's right today, as well.\n\nDonald Trump is the symptom of a disease. And the disease is divisiveness. And I'm the only one on the stage talking about curing that disease, which -- with big ideas like national service, by focusing on actually solving problems.\n\nIf we work together, we can fix health care and build infrastructure. We can invest in not just technology, but people and entrepreneurs, whether they be in Storm Lake, Iowa, or Detroit, Michigan, or Baltimore, Maryland. We can fight climate change and reimagine our education system. But we have to do it with real solutions, not impossible promises.\n\nIsn't it time we had a president who was a leader in both the private sector and in government, to lead us into the future? I promise, as president, I will restore vision, unity, and leadership, and decency to this country. And that's why I'm running for president.\n\nThank you.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Congressman Ryan?", Entity["Person", "TimRyan::zz9nd"] -> "So in a few minutes, all of the pundits are going to be looking at this debate and saying, well, who captured the left lane and who captured the center lane and who captured the moderate lane?\n\nI hope tonight at some level I captured your imagination, your imagination about what this country could be like if we united, if we put together real policy that weren't left or right, but new and better. That's how we win the future. It's new and better.\n\nA new and better economy, a new and better education system, a new and better health care system that focuses on prevention, an education system that focuses on the trauma of our kids.\n\nThere's not going to be a savior. Not going to be a superstar that's going to fix all this. It's going to be you and me. It's going to be us. That's how we fix this country, you and I coming together to do big things, to imagine the new country that we want by coming together, not left or right. New and better.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Governor Hickenlooper?", Entity["Person", "JohnHickenlooper::g3625"] -> "Thank you. And what a night. I've loved it.\n\nI'd like to ask every American to imagine that you are facing life-threatening surgery tomorrow. Would you choose a doctor who had a track record of proven success, who'd actually done the work, or someone who had just talked about it? That's the question we're facing in this primary.\n\nI've actually got a track record as small-business owner, as a mayor, and as a governor. We expanded health care in Colorado. We got near universal coverage. We fought climate change directly. We beat the NRA. And for the last three years, we've been the number-one economy in the country. We can wrap all that out.\n\nI'm as progressive as anybody up on this stage, but I'm also pragmatic. And I've done the things that most of these other people are just talking about. And I know I can get results. And I can lead the people of this country towards a stronger, a healthier, and a more secure future, and defeat Donald Trump and return this country to its glory.\n\nThank you.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Senator Klobuchar?", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "Well, thank you, Detroit. To win, we have to listen to people. And out there today is Casey Jo's mom. Casey Jo was a champion high school swimmer from a small town. She got sick, went to the emergency room, and got hooked on opioids. The last thing that she said to her mom was, \"Mama, it's not my fault.\" And she died.\n\nA lot of Americans say the same thing every day. And that is what I will stand up for and what I will stand up against are companies like those pharma companies that got her hooked on those opioids and didn't tell the doctors or the patients what was going to happen.\n\nWe need someone that has people's back. We also need someone that can win. And I have won in these red districts. I win in the Midwest. I can win in states like Wisconsin and Michigan and Iowa.\n\nI also will do my job without fear or favor, just like I did as a prosecutor, and get through the gridlock like I've done as a senator, where I've passed over 100 bills where I've been the lead Democrat.\n\nAnd last, yes, I will govern with integrity. We have a president where people turn off their TV when they see him. Not me. I will make you proud as your president.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Congressman O'Rourke?", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "We are as divided and polarized as a country as we have ever been. And right now we have a president who uses fear to try to drive us further apart. To meet this challenge, we have to have hope in one another and a faith in a future of the country that includes everyone.\n\nMy whole life, I've been including people in the success of this country, starting a small business with high-value, high-wage, high-skilled jobs in the third poorest urban county in America, serving on City Council and holding town hall meetings every single week to remind myself who it is that I serve at the end of the day, and in Congress, being in the minority but working with Democrats and Republicans alike to deliver for my constituents and this country.\n\nAnd then in Texas, this last year, traveling to every county, not writing anybody off, not taking anyone for granted, and at the end of the day, winning more votes than any Democrat had in the history of the state, winning independents for the first time in decades, and winning nearly half-a-million Republicans, and those 38 Electoral College votes in Texas are now in play and I can win them.\n\nThat is how we defeat Donald Trump in November of 2020 and how we bring this divided country together again in January of 2021. Thank you.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Mayor Buttigieg?", Entity["Person", "SteveBullock::3p7yn"] -> "There's good news and bad news. I'm going to start with the bad news. Our country is in trouble. GDP is going up and life expectancy is going down. Think about what that means. And it's only getting tougher.\n\nBy 2030, we will have passed the point of no return on climate, there are going to be 130 million more guns on our streets. I'll be in my forties then. If you have kids, think about how old they will be then.\n\nBut here's the good news: It's not too late. We can tell our kids that before we ran out of time, just before we ran out of time, in 2020, we did what it took to deliver a climate that we didn't have to wonder if it could support us, to deliver a society where race has no bearing on your health or your wealth or your relationship with law enforcement, that we did what it took to deliver an economy where a rising tide actually does lift all boats.\n\nWe can do this, if and only if we are ready to walk away from what hasn't worked with bold action and win, not only defeat this president, but defeat his congressional allies with a defeat so big that it reunites the Republican Party with its conscience as well as bringing Democrats to office.\n\nJoin me, and let's make it happen.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Senator Warren?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "From the time I was 7 years old, I had a dream. I wanted to be a public schoolteacher. But my daddy ended up as janitor. And by the time I graduated from high school, my family didn't have the money to send me off to college. My big chance was what was then a commuter college that cost $50 a semester.\n\nFor me, what this election is all about is opportunity. Every budget, every policy that we talk about is about who's going to get opportunity. Is it going to go to the billionaires? Or is it going to go to our kids?\n\nRight now, for decades, we have had a government that has been on the side of the rich and the powerful. It has been on the side of the wealthy. And that means it has not been on the side of everyone else, not on the side of people living on our Native American reservations, people living in inner cities, people living in small farms, and small communities across this country.\n\nHow do we beat it? We beat it by being the party of big, structural change. Give people a reason to show up and vote. And we beat it by building a grassroots movement across this country, not showing up behind closed doors with millionaires, but actually building it person by person across this country, with small-dollar donations, with volunteers, with people who show up and say, \"I have a stake in this democracy.\"\n\nI will not only beat Donald Trump in 2020, I'll start to make real change come 2021.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Senator Sanders?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "As somebody who grew up in family that lived in a rent-controlled apartment in Brooklyn, New York, and lived paycheck to paycheck, I'm running for president not just to defeat the most dangerous president in the history of this country, a guy who's a racist and a sexist and a homophobe. I'm running to transform this country and to stand with the working class of America, which for the last 45 years has been decimated.\n\nTwo days ago, I had a remarkable experience which should tell you everything you need to know about what's going on in America. I took 15 people with diabetes from Detroit a few miles into Canada, and we bought insulin for one-tenth the price being charged by the crooks who run the pharmaceutical industry in America today.\nBut it's not just the price-fixing and the corruption and the greed of the pharmaceutical industry. It's what's going on in the fossil fuel industry. It's what's going on in Wall Street. It's what's going on with the prison industrial complex.\nWe need a mass political movement. Please go to berniesanders.com . Become one of our million volunteers. Stand up and take on the greed and corruption of the ruling class of this country. Let\[CloseCurlyQuote]s create a government and an economy that works for all of us, not just the 1 percent.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Welcome back to the CNN Democratic presidential debate. Candidates, we're about to begin opening statements. But first, a quick review of the ground rules that your campaigns agreed to earlier this month to try to ensure a fair debate.\n\nAs moderators, we will attempt to guide the discussion. You will each receive one minute to answer questions, 30 seconds for responses and rebuttals, and 15 additional seconds if a moderator asks for a clarification. The timing lights will remind you of these limits. Please respect them, and please refrain from interrupting other candidates during their allotted time. A candidate infringing on another candidate's time will have his or her time reduced.\n\nWe, again, remind our audience inside the Fox Theatre to try to remain silent when candidates are actively debating. The candidates need to be able to properly hear the questions and each other.", "Dana Bash" -> "Let's start with opening statements. You will each receive one minute. Mayor Bill de Blasio, please begin.", Entity["Person", "BillDeBlasio::5777v"] -> "To the working people of America, tonight I bring you a message of hope. We can make change in this country. I know from personal experience it can be done.\n\nWhen I became the mayor of the nation's largest city, I set us on a path of bold change. They said it couldn't be done, but we gave pre-K to every child for free. We got rid of stop-and-frisk and we lowered crime. We raised the minimum wage to $15 an hour. Yes, it can be done.\n\nNow, tonight we have to get to the heart and soul of who we are as Democrats. There are good people on this stage, but there are real differences.\n\nJoe Biden told wealthy donors that nothing fundamentally would change if he were president. Kamala Harris said she's not trying to restructure society. Well, I am.\n\nFor 40 years, working people have taken it on the chin in this country. For 40 years, the rich have gotten richer and they've paid less and less in taxes. It cannot go on this way. When I'm president, we will even up the score and we will tax the hell out of the wealthy to make this a fairer country and to make sure it's a country that puts working people first.\n\nPROTESTOR:", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you, Mayor de Blasio. Senator Michael Bennet?", Entity["Person", "MichaelBennet::6ggfg"] -> "Thank you. Last week, I saw one of those Trump signs that says, \[OpenCurlyDoubleQuote]America, love it or leave it.\[CloseCurlyDoubleQuote] And it was on the outside of a church.\n\nI love America. And I know we can make it better.\n\nBefore coming to the Senate I ranschool district where most of the kids live in poverty. Those kids have exactly the same hopes that I had.\n\n\nTheir parents have exactly the same hopes for them that my parents had for me, and that Susan and I have for our three children. But for the last three years, we've been consumed by a president who frankly doesn't give a damn about your kids or mine. Mr. President; kids belong in classrooms, not cages.\nAnd they deserve something better than a bully in the White House. Let's end this three ringed circus in Washington and make \[LongDash] and let's make this election about reclaiming our future for our kids and our democracy. Empty promises won't beat Donald Trump, I can.", "Dana Bash" -> "Governor Jay Inslee.", Entity["Person", "JayInslee::pt86r"] -> "Good evening. I'm Jay Inslee. I am running for president because the people in this room and the democrats watching tonight are the last best hope for humanity on this planet.\n\nIf \[LongDash] if we make defeating the climate crisis the top priority of the United States, we will have a fighting chance to save ourselves and our children's future. It has to be our top priority. My plan is one of national mobilization, quickly bringing 100 percent clean energy to Americans, creating 8 million good union jobs.\n\n\nThis is a big, bold, ambitious plan for clean energy for a big bold ambitious nation. Middle ground approaches are not enough. We must confront the fossil fuel industry. I've been working on this for 25 years.\n\nAnd now we know this, we are at tipping point and whether we shrink from this challenge or rise to it is the vital question of our time. We democrats believe we can still do big things in this nation. We can defeat the climate crisis. Let's get to work.", "Dana Bash" -> "Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.", Entity["Person", "KirstenGillibrand::trt5h"] -> "My grandmother taught me that nothing's impossible. She spent two generations organizing women in Upstate New York. My mother taught me nothing's impossible. She was one of only three women in her law school class and worked with gay couples for basic rights.\n\nIf you want to get something done, just tell me it's impossible. As a freshman senator I was told you couldn't repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell. Even members of my own party told me it wasn't convenient. When are civil rights ever convenient?\n\n\nWe stood up to the Pentagon and we got it done. Not impossible. 10 years ago I was told you couldn\[CloseCurlyQuote]t pass health care for our 9/11 first responders, those heroes who raced up the towers when others were coming down.\n\nEven when Congress turned its back on them, we kept fighting. Just last week we made the 9/11 health bill permanent.\nBeating Donald Trump definitely not impossible. We need a nominee who will take on the big fights and win. We need a nominee who doesn't know the meaning of impossible.", "Dana Bash" -> "Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard.", Entity["Person", "TulsiGabbard::839d6"] -> "I love our country. It's why I enlisted after 9/11, why I've served as a soldier for over 16 years, deployed twice to the Middle East, and serve in Congress now for almost seven years.\n\nI know what patriotism is and I've known many great patriots throughout my life. And let me tell you this, Donald Trump is not behaving like a patriot. As president I will bring this spirit of real patriotism to the White House, serving the interest of all Americans, not just the rich and powerful.\n\n\nI\[CloseCurlyQuote]ll fight for our rights and freedoms of all Americans, upholding these principles in our constitution upon which our country was founded, fighting for justice and equality for all. Fighting for every single American regardless of race or religion as we strive towards that more perfect union.\n\nAnd as president I'll bring this unifying spirit of love for country and the soldier's values of service above self to the White House, truly leading a government of by and for the people.", "Dana Bash" -> "Secretary Julian Castro.", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "Thank you, Dana, and good evening.\n\nYou know, just a few days ago we were reminded and inspired by our fellow Americans in Puerto that public service is not fundamentally about any of us; it's about you and your family.\n\nI want you to know that, if I'm elected president, that I will work hard every single day so that you and your family can have good health care when you need it, so that your children and grandchildren can get a good education so that they can reach their dreams and that you can have good job opportunities, whether you live here in a big city like Detroit or in a small town in our country.\n\n\nI know we have a wonderful, special nation but that too many people are struggling. And I know what that's like, too. You know, I grew up with a single mom in a poor neighborhood. But like many of you, I don't want to make America anything again. I don't want us to go backward. We're not going back to the past. We're not going back where we came from. We're going to move forward. We're going to make America better than it's ever been in the years to come. Let's do that together.", "Dana Bash" -> "Andrew Yang?", Entity["Person", "AndrewYang::f7w42"] -> "If you've heard anything about me and my campaign, you've heard that someone is running for president who wants to give every American $1,000 a month. I know this may sound like a gimmick, but this is a deeply American idea, from Thomas Paine to Martin Luther King to today.\n\nLet me tell you why we need to do it and how we pay for it. Why do we need to do it? We already automated away millions of manufacturing jobs, and chances are your job can be next. If you don't believe me, just ask an auto worker here in Detroit.\n\n\nHow do we pay for it? Raise your hand in the crowd if you've seen stores closing where you live. It is not just you. Amazon is closing 30 percent of America's stores and malls and paying zero in taxes while doing it. We need to do the opposite of much of what we're doing right now, and the opposite of Donald Trump is an Asian man who likes math.\nSo let me share the math. A thousand dollars a month for every adult would be $461 million every month, right here in Detroit alone. The automation of our jobs is the central challenge facing us today. It is why Donald Trump is our president, and any politician not addressing it is failing the American people.", "Dana Bash" -> "Senator Cory Booker?", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "Thank you, Dana.\n\nLast week the president of the United States attacked an American city, calling it \"a disgusting, rat-infested rodent mess.\"", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "We need a nation that understands that this tired old language, the...", "Don Lemon" -> "Stand by, Senator.", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "I will stand by.", "Don Lemon" -> "Please stand by.", "Don Lemon" -> "Please, continue, Senator.", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "Thank you very much.\n\nDonald Trump, from Charleston to Baltimore to even the border, is using the tired, old language of demagogues, of fear-mongers, of racists, to try to divide our country against itself. We know who Donald Trump is, but in this election, the question is who are we as a people?\n\nWe have serious problems in America. We have deep wounds and seriously deeply rooted challenges. We desperately need to heal as a nation and move forward. Because we know in this country that our fates are united, that we have a common destiny. The call of this election is the call to unite in common cause and common purpose. That's how we will beat Donald Trump. That's how I will beat Donald Trump. And as your president, that's how I will govern and move us forward together.\nDemocratic presidential candidates pose before the start of the second night of the Democratic debate.Democratic presidential candidates pose before the start of the second night of the Democratic debate.", "Dana Bash" -> "Senator Kamala Harris?", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "This is an inflection moment in the history of our country. I think we all know that. This is a moment in time that is requiring us each as individuals and collectively to look in a mirror and ask a question, that question being \"Who are we?\"\n\nAnd I think most of us know that part of the answer to that question is we are better than this. So this then becomes a moment that we must fight for the best of who we are. And fight, of course, we will.\n\nAnd this is not a new fight for us as Americans. We have always been prepared to fight for our ideals. We have always been a nation that fights for the best of who we are.\n\nAnd I'll tell you, I come from fighters. My parents met when they were active in the civil rights movement. My sister, Maya, and I joke we grew up surrounded by a bunch of adults who spent full time marching and shouting about this thing called justice.\n\nAnd I am prepared to march with you, to fight with you for the best of who we are and to successfully prosecute the case of four more years of Donald Trump, and against him.", "Dana Bash" -> "Vice President Joe Biden.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Tonight, I think Democrats are expecting some engagement here. And I expect we'll get it.\n\nI'm running for president to restore the soul of this country. You know, we have a president, as everybody has acknowledged here, every day is ripping at the social fabric of this country, but no one man has the capacity to rip that apart. It's too strong. We're too good.\n\nJust look at this stage, made up of very diverse people from diverse backgrounds, went on to be mayors, senators, governors, congresswomen, members of the cabinet, and, yes, even a vice president.\n\nMr. President, this is America. And we are stronger and great because of this diversity, Mr. President, not in spite of it, Mr. President.\nSo, Mr. President, let's get something straight: We love it. We are not leaving it. We are here to stay. And we're certainly not going to leave it to you.", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you, Vice President Biden. I want to start the debate with one of the top priorities for Democratic voters, and that is health care.\n\nSenator Harris, this week you released a new health care plan which would preserve private insurance and take 10 years to phase in. Vice President Biden\[CloseCurlyQuote]s campaign calls your plan, quote, \[OpenCurlyDoubleQuote]a have-it-every-which-way approach\[CloseCurlyDoubleQuote] and says it\[CloseCurlyQuote]s just part of a confusing pattern of equivocating about your health care stance. What do you say to that?", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "Well, they're probably confused because they've not read it. But the reality is that I have been spending time in this campaign listening to American families, listening to experts, listening to health care providers, and what I came away with is a very clear understanding that I needed to create a plan that was responsive to the needs of the American people, responsive to their needs understanding that insurance companies have been jacking up the prices for far too long, that American families have to be held down by deductibles and co-pays and premiums that can cause them bankruptcy.\n\nI listened to the American families who said four years is just not enough to transition into this new plan, so I devised a plan where it's going to be 10 years of a transition.\n\nI listened to American families who said I want an option that will be under your Medicare system that allows a private plan. So I designed a plan where, yes, responsive to the needs of American families, there will be a public plan, under my plan for Medicare, and a private plan, under my plan for Medicare.\n\nBecause the bottom line is this: We must agree that access to health care must be a right and not just a privilege of those who can afford it. And in America today, far too many people -- in fact, 30 million people -- are going without access to health care.", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you, Senator. Thank you, Senator Harris. Vice President Biden, your response.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Well, my response is that the senator has had several plans so far. And any time someone tells you you're going to get something good in 10 years, you should wonder why it takes 10 years.\n\nIf you noticed, there is no talk about the fact that the plan in 10 years will cost $3 trillion. You will lose your employer-based insurance. And in fact, you know, this is the single most important issue facing the public. And to be very blunt and to be very straightforward, you can't beat President Trump with double-talk on this plan.", "Dana Bash" -> "Your response, Senator Harris?", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "Absolutely. Unfortunately, Vice President Biden, you're just simply inaccurate in what you're describing. The reality is that our plan will bring health care to all Americans under a Medicare for All system.\n\nOur plan will allow people to start signing up on the first day. Babies will be born into our plan, and right now, 4 million babies almost are born every day in America -- or every year in America. Under our plan, we will ensure that everyone has access to health care.\n\nYour plan, by contrast, leaves out almost 10 million Americans. So I think that you should really think about what you're saying, but be reflective and understand that the people of America want access to health care and do not want cost to be their barrier to getting it.", "Dana Bash" -> "Senator Harris, thank you. Vice President Biden, your response?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "The plan, no matter how you cut it, costs $3 trillion when it is, in fact, employed, number one. Ten years from now, after two terms of the senator being president, after her time.\n\nSecondly, it will require middle-class taxes to go up, not down. Thirdly, it will eliminate employer-based insurance. And fourthly, what happens in the meantime?", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "I'd like to respond. First of all, the cost of doing nothing is far too expensive. Second, we are now paying $3 trillion a year for health care in America. Over the next 10 years, it's probably going to be $6 trillion. We must act.\n\nMy plan is about immediately allowing people to sign up and get into coverage. Right now in America, we have seniors, who every day -- millions of seniors are going into the Medicare system and they are getting full coverage and the kind of coverage they need. All people should have access to health care. And costs should not be their barrier.", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you, Senator Harris.\n\nMayor de Blasio, let's bring you in here. What's your response?", Entity["Person", "BillDeBlasio::5777v"] -> "Thank you. I don't know what the vice president and the senator are talking about. The folks I talk to about health insurance say that their health insurance isn't working for them.\n\nThere\[CloseCurlyQuote]s tens of millions of Americans who don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t even have health insurance, tens of millions more who have health insurance they can barely make work because of the co-pays, the deductibles, the premiums, the out-of-pocket expenses.\n\nThere's this mythology that somehow all of these folks are in love with their insurance in America. What I hear from union members and from hard-working, middle-class people is they wish they had better insurance and they're angry at private insurance companies that skim all the profits off the top and make it impossible for everyday people to get coverage like mental care...", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you, Mr. Mayor.", Entity["Person", "BillDeBlasio::5777v"] -> "... dental care, the things that would be full coverage for all Americans.", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you, Mr. Mayor.\n\nVice President Biden, you just heard Mayor de Blasio. He said in the past that Democrats who wanted to keep the private insurance industry are defending a health care system that is not working. What's your response?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "My response is, Obamacare is working. The way to build this and get to it immediately is to build on Obamacare. Go back and do -- take back all the things that Trump took away, provide a public option, meaning every single person in America would be able to buy into that option if they didn't like their employer plan, or if they're on Medicaid, they'd automatically be in the plan.\n\nIt would take place immediately. It would move quickly. And it would insure the vast, vast, vast majority of Americans.\n\nIn the meantime, what happens? Did anybody tell you how much their plans cost? My plan costs $750 billion. That\[CloseCurlyQuote]s what it costs. Not $30 trillion.", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you, Mr. Vice President. Senator Gillibrand, you support Medicare for All. How do you feel about Senator Harris continuing to call her health proposal Medicare for All, when it includes a far more significant role for private insurance than the bill you co-sponsored?", Entity["Person", "KirstenGillibrand::trt5h"] -> "I think for the viewers in the audience right now, they're at risk of losing the forest through the trees, because the truth is, health care in America should be a right.\n\nWhen I was a young mother and had Theo as an infant, he had an allergic reaction to eggs and his whole body turned red and puffy. I had to rush him to the emergency room. My heart is palpitating because I'm worried that his throat will close. I am not worried about not having an insurance card or a credit card in my wallet. I know whatever they're going to prescribe, whether it's an EpiPen or an inhaler, I can afford it.\n\nThe truth about health care in America today is people can't afford it. They cannot afford -- and the insurance companies for these plans that rely on insurance companies, I'm sorry, they're for-profit companies. They have an obligation to their shareholders. They pay their CEO millions of dollars. They have to have quarterly profits.\n\nThey have fat in the system that's real and it should be going to health care. So let's not lose the forest for the trees.\n\nAnd last, let's not forget what the Republicans are doing, because the truth is, the Republicans and Trump, their whole goal is to take away your health care.", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you.", Entity["Person", "KirstenGillibrand::trt5h"] -> "To make it harder for you to afford it, even if you have pre-existing conditions.", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you, Senator Gillibrand. Senator Harris, your response?", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "In response to Senator Biden about the Affordable Care Act, it is important that you understand that our Medicare for All plan has actually by the architect of the Obama Affordable Care Act been described as one of the most effective ways to bring health care to all. Kathleen Sebelius has endorsed our plan as being something that will get us to where we need to go.\n\nIn terms of the point that Senator Gillibrand is raising, I couldn't agree more. Senator Biden, your plan will keep and allow insurance companies to remain with status quo, doing business as usual, and that's going to be about jacking up co-pays, jacking up deductibles...", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "It will still be the situation that people going to an emergency room...", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you, Senator Harris. Vice President Biden, your response?", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "... have to come out $5,000.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "My plan makes a limit of co-pay to be $1,000, because we further support the -- the ability to buy into the Obamacare plan.\n\nSecondly, the idea that this is somehow a bad idea, no one has to keep their private insurance, but they - if they like their insurance, they should be able to keep it. Nothing is demanded in my plan that there be private insurance.\n\nIt says, if the 160 million who have it say they like their employer insurance, they should have a right to have it. If they don't, they can buy into the Biden plan, which is Obamacare with -", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you, Mr. Vice President. Thank you. Senator Booker, let me bring you in here. You say you support Medicare for All. You also say you are not going to pull private health insurance from more than 150 million Americans in exchange for a government plan, but that's what Medicare for All would do.\n\nSo how do you square that?", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "Well, first of all, let me just say, that the person that's enjoying this debate most right now is Donald Trump, as we pit Democrats against each other, while he is working right now to take away Americans' healthcare. There is a court case working through the system that's going to gut the Affordable Care Act and actually gut protections on preexisting conditions.\n\nAnd so, I was raised by two civil rights parents who told me, always keep your eyes on the prize. And that is that in the United States of America, every Democrat should stand with the belief that everyone should have access to healthcare, that it's a human right. And how we get there, it has to be to end this broken system, because we are on our way, just a handful of years of literally spending 20 percent of our economy, one out of every $5 spent on healthcare.\n\nAnd we spend more than every other nation, on everything from MRIs to insulin drugs, multiple mores than other countries - multiple more than other countries. And so, do you want to know what I'm going to do? I'm going to work to get us to a point where Medicare for All - where everyone is covered.\n\nBut this pitting against progressives against moderates, saying one is unrealistic and the other doesn't care enough, that to me is dividing our party and demoralizing us in face of the real enemy here. And I'm -", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "- going to keep fighting for that.", "Dana Bash" -> "Congressman Gabbard, what's your response?", Entity["Person", "TulsiGabbard::839d6"] -> "The reality is right now, we don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t have a healthcare system. We have a sick care system, and there are far too many people in this country who are sick and unable to get the care that they need because they cannot afford it. So the core of this problem is the fact that big insurance companies and big pharmaceutical companies who\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve been profiting off the backs of sick people have had a seat at the table, writing this legislation.\n\nNow, Kamala Harris just talked about Kathleen Sebelius who helped write her bill. This just pointed to the fatal flaw in her proposal. Sebelius works for Medicare Advantage, a private insurance company who will stand to profit under her plan. If we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re seeking to really reform our healthcare system, we\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve got to shut out big insurance and big pharma out of the drafting process so they cannot continue to profit off the backs of the sick people in this country who are searching and in desperate need of care.", "Dana Bash" -> "Senior Harris, your response?", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "Well, unfortunately, Representative Gabbard got it wrong. Kathleen Sebelius did not write my plan; she endorsed it as being one of the plans that is the best to get us to a place where everyone is going to have access to healthcare in America. And when we talk about this again, I'm going to back to Vice President Biden, because your plan does not cover everyone in America.\n\nBy your staffs and your own definition, 10 million people - as many as 10 million people will not have access to healthcare. And in 2019 in America, for a Democrat to be running for president with a plan that does not cover everyone, I think is without excuse. Our plan covers everyone -", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "- and gives people choice", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you, Senator. Vice President Biden, your response?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "My plan does - will cover everyone, number one. Number two, the fact is that my plan also calls for controlling drug prices. The biopharma is now where things are going to go. It\[CloseCurlyQuote]s no longer chemicals. It\[CloseCurlyQuote]s about all these breakthroughs that we have, with the whole - excuse me, immune system.\n\nAnd what we have to do now is we have to have a form that sits in HHS and says, as you develop a drug, you got to come to us and decide what you can sell it for. We will set the price. And secondly, it says that you cannot raise that price beyond the cost of inflation from this point on.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Mr. Vice President. I want to bring in Senator Bennet. Last night, on this stage, one of your democratic rivals suggested that running on Medicare for All would get Donald Trump reelected.", Entity["Person", "MichaelBennet::6ggfg"] -> "I agree that it makes it much more likely. Unlike others on this stage, I've been crystal clear of where I've been for a decade, through two tough races in Colorado. I believe we should finish the job we started with the Affordable Care Act with a public option that gives everybody in this audience the chance to pick for their family, whether they want private insurance or public insurance.\n\nIt requires the drug companies to be negotiated with by Medicare and it provides competition. That is totally different from the plan that Senator Warren and Senator Sanders and Senator Harris have proposed, which would make illegal employer based health insurance in this country and massively raise taxes on the middle class to the tune of $30 trillion.\n\nAs Joe Biden said, we don't need to do that. It doesn't make sense for us to take away insurance from half the people in this room and -- and put huge taxes on almost everybody in this room when we pass a public option, trust the American people to make the right decision, and have universal healthcare in this country in two years, not 10 years.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Senator. Secretary Castro, I want to bring you in ...", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "I -- I need to respond.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Your response. I'll come to you right after Secretary Castro. Secretary Castro.", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "Well, I know that this is something very personal for all Americans. You know I grew up with a grandmother that had diabetes and I watched as her condition got worse and worse. That whole time she had Medicare.\n\nI want to strengthen Medicare for the people who are on it and then expand it to anybody who wants it. I also believe thought that if somebody has a private health insurance plan that is strong that they want to hold on to that they should be able to do that.\n\nWhat I don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t believe is that the profit motive of big pharma or big insurance companies should ever determine, in our great nation, whether somebody gets healthcare or not.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Secretary Castro. Senator Harris, Senator Bennet had suggested that you support banning employer based health insurance. Is that true?", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "Well first of all, with all due respect to my friend, Michael Bennet, my plan does not offer anything that is illegal. What it does is it separates the employer from healthcare, meaning that where you work will not be a -- where -- the kind of healthcare you get will not be a function of where you work.\n\nI have me met so many Americans who stick to a job that they do not like, where they are not prospering simply because they need the healthcare that that employer provides. It\[CloseCurlyQuote]s time that we separate employers from the kind of healthcare people get and under my plan; we do that as it relates to the insurance and the pharmaceutical companies ....", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "Who will not be called in and who will not be taken to task by Senator Biden or Senator Bennet's plan ...", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "We will do that.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Senator Bennet, I want to bring you back.", Entity["Person", "MichaelBennet::6ggfg"] -> "Senator Harris is my friend as well, but I have to say if we can't admit -- if we can't admit tonight what's in the plan, which is banning employer based insurance, we're not going to be able to admit that when Donald Trump is accusing democrats of doing that as well.\n\nWe need to be honest about what's in this plan. It bans employer based insurance and taxes the middle class to the tune of $30 trillion. Do you know how much that is? That is 70 percent of what the government will collect in taxes over the next 10 years.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "MichaelBennet::6ggfg"] -> "We don't need to do that.\nWe can have a public option to have universal healthcare in this country.", "Jake Tapper" -> "I do want to bring in Senator Harris because he just suggested you were not being honest.", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "He -- we cannot keep with the republican talking points on this. You got to stop. The reality is that - what -- under my Medicare for All plan, yes, employers are not going to be able to dictate the kind of healthcare that their employees get. They will be able to make that decision.\n\nPrivate insurance companies and private carriers, if they comply by our rules and play by our rules, will be able to offer those employees healthcare coverage under a private Medicare plan or they can have the option of a public Medicare plan. But it is misleading to suggest that employees want what their employer is offering only. They want choice and my plan gives that to them.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank. Thank you, Senator. Governor Inslee, I want to bring you in. You recently signed a public option into law, which allows Washington State residents to purchase a state backed plan if they want to.\n\nBut this may only save families in Washington State as little as 5 percent off premiums. Is 5 percent really the kind of relief that the American people need?", Entity["Person", "JayInslee::pt86r"] -> "No, we need universal coverage. And I'm proud of our state that has done less squabbling and actually getting things done. And I am proud that we are the first state to offer a publically sanctioned offer of healthcare to our citizens.\n\nI'm also proud that we didn't stop there. We're also the first state that has taken care of our elders, our seniors. We have a looming retirement wave coming up. I'm proud that our state -- our state has made them eligible to retire in dignity.\n\nI'm also proud of this and I think we need to talk more about this as democrats, it is time to give people adequate mental healthcare in this country. And we are -- we are ...\nWe are having -- we\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve had some success in integrating mental health with physical health. There\[CloseCurlyQuote]s no reason we should distinguish between your physiological and your mental health.\n\nAnd the last thing we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re doing, I think it\[CloseCurlyQuote]s very instructive for the nation. We know we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re being eaten alive by pharmaceutical cost. We have had one of, if not the most, innovative way to drive down pharmaceuticals for life saving medications in the United States.\n\nWe have had one of, if not the most innovative way to drive down pharmaceuticals for life-saving medications in the United States. That\[CloseCurlyQuote]s a record of Washington state I\[CloseCurlyQuote]d like to take to Washington, D.C.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you. Thank you, Governor Inslee.\n\nMr. Yang, I want to bring you in. You support a Medicare for All system. How do you respond to Governor Inslee?", Entity["Person", "AndrewYang::f7w42"] -> "Well, I just want to share a story. When I told my wife I was running for president, you know the first question she asked me? What are we going to do about our health care?\n\nThat's a true story, and it's not just us. Democrats are talking about health care in the wrong way. As someone who's run a business, I can tell you flat out our current health care system makes it harder to hire, it makes it harder to treat people well and give them benefits and treat them as full-time employees, it makes it harder to switch jobs, as Senator Harris just said, and it's certainly a lot harder to start a business.\n\nIf we say, look, we're going to get health care off the backs of businesses and families, then watch American entrepreneurship recover and bloom. That's the argument we should be making to the American people.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Mr. Yang.\n\nMayor de Blasio?", Entity["Person", "BillDeBlasio::5777v"] -> "Yeah, I don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t understand why Democrats on this stage are fearmongering about universal health care. It makes no sense. Ask the American people, they are sick of what the pharmaceutical companies are doing to them. Ask them what they feel about the health insurance companies. They feel it\[CloseCurlyQuote]s holding back their families because they can\[CloseCurlyQuote]t get the coverage they need. They get a lot of noes. They don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t get a lot of help from health insurance companies.\n\nWhy are we not going to be the party that does something bold, that says we don't need to be dependent on private insurance? We can have a system that actually covers everyone. You know what? Donald Trump won this state of Michigan by saying he was going to disrupt the status quo. How about we be the party that's going to disrupt the status quo for working people?", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you. Mr. Mayor, just a 15-second point of clarification. Who are you talking about? Who's fearmongering?", Entity["Person", "BillDeBlasio::5777v"] -> "Certainly, with all due respect to Senator Bennet, what he's saying is absolutely inaccurate about taxes. Americans right now are paying so much money for their health care, ask people about the reality of premiums, deductibles, co-pays, out-of-pocket expenses.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you.", Entity["Person", "BillDeBlasio::5777v"] -> "That's worse than any tax, and people are paying that right now.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Mr. Mayor.\n\nSenator Bennet?", Entity["Person", "MichaelBennet::6ggfg"] -> "This -- this is -- this has nothing to do with Republican talking points or the pharmaceutical industry. This has to do with having faith in the American people that they can make the right decisions for their families and they can choose a public option.\n\nBernie Sanders, who said last night he wrote the damn bill, and he did, just like I wrote the damn public option bill, is the guy who says it will cost $32 trillion and that we're going to have to raise those taxes to pay for it. He says that. Republicans don't say it. Don't try to district from the truth.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Senator Bennet.", Entity["Person", "MichaelBennet::6ggfg"] -> "You can't hide from the truth.", "Jake Tapper" -> "I want to let Mayor de Blasio -- and then I'm going to come to you, Vice President Biden.", Entity["Person", "MichaelBennet::6ggfg"] -> "We need to be for universal health care.", Entity["Person", "BillDeBlasio::5777v"] -> "Senator, if we as Democrats say we're done with private insurance, has only hurt the American people in so many ways, we're going to give them something that works for their family's full coverage that they can depend on. If we say that, then there's an election. The American people get to decide.\n\nThe ultimate choice, Senator, is an election, and this should be the party that stands for universal health care and says we're not going to accept anything less. Right now, in America, so many people don't have the health care they need. That is a fact. Tens of millions of people, including middle class people.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Mr. Mayor.", Entity["Person", "BillDeBlasio::5777v"] -> "Give them a chance to make that decision through an election.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Mr. Mayor.\n\nVice President Biden, your response, sir?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "This is not a Republican talking point. The Republicans are trying to kill Obamacare. Obamacare took care of 20 million people right off the bat, 100 million people with pre-existing conditions. And in fact, what we got is a public option that, in fact, would allow anybody to buy in.\n\nNo one has to keep their private insurance. They can buy into this plan. And they can buy into it with $1,000 deductible and never have to pay more than 8.5 percent of their income when they do it. And if they don't have any money, they'll get in free. So this idea is a bunch of malarkey, what we're talking about here.\nThe fact of the matter is -- the fact of the matter is that there will be a deductible. It will be a deductible on their paycheck. Bernie acknowledges it. Bernie acknowledges it. Thirty trillion dollars has to ultimately be paid. And I don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t know what math you do in New York, I don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t know what math you do in California, but I tell ya, that\[CloseCurlyQuote]s a lot of money, and there will be a deductible. The deductible will be out of your paycheck, because that\[CloseCurlyQuote]s what will be required.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Senator Harris, I want to bring you in here. Your response?", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "Yeah, let\[CloseCurlyQuote]s talk about math. Let\[CloseCurlyQuote]s talk about math. Let\[CloseCurlyQuote]s talk about the fact that the pharmaceutical companies and the insurance companies last year alone profited $72 billion, and that is on the backs of American families.\n\nAnd under your plan, status quo, you do nothing to hold the insurance companies to task for what they have been doing to American families. In America today, diabetes patients, one in four cannot afford their insulin. In America today...", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "... for those people who have overdosed from an opioid, there is a syringe that costs $4,000 that will save their life.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "It is immoral. It is untenable.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "And it must change with Medicare for All.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Your time is up, Senator. Vice President Biden, your response?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Real quick. I have the only plan that limits the ability of insurance companies to charge unreasonable prices, flat out, number one.\n\nNumber two, we should put some of these insurance executives who totally oppose my plan in jail for of the $9 billion opioids they sell out there.\nThey are misrepresenting to the American people what needs to be done.\n\nAnd, lastly, here's the deal. The deal is, let's figure out how this works. We immediately are able to cover everybody who wants to get off of their insurance plan they don't like, no matter what one it is, and buy into a Medicare option. And they can buy the gold plan, and they're not going to have to pay -- anyway...", "Don Lemon" -> "Thank you, Mr. Vice President. Thank you.\n\nLet's move now to immigration, please. Secretary Castro, you think it should no longer be a crime to cross the U.S. border illegally. President Obama's homeland security secretary, Jeh Johnson, whom you served with, says that is a public declaration that the border is, quote, \"effectively open to all.\" How is he wrong?", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "Thank you for that question. You know, if you elect me president, you're not electing me to follow. You're electing me to lead. And open borders is a right-wing talking point, and frankly I'm disappointed that some folks, including some folks on this stage, have taken the bait.\n\nThe only way that we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re going to guarantee that we don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t have family separations in this country again is to repeal Section 1325 of the Immigration Nationality Act. That is the law that this president, this administration is using to incarcerate migrant parents and then physically separate them from their children.\n\nMy immigration plan would also make sure that we put undocumented immigrants who haven't committed a serious crime on a pathway to citizenship, that we do a 21st century Marshall Plan with Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala, so that we can get to the root of this challenge so people can find safety and opportunity at home instead of having to come to the United States. That's how we can be smarter, more effective, and more humane when it comes to immigration policy.", "Don Lemon" -> "Thank you, Secretary Castro.\nSenator Bennet, what's your response?", Entity["Person", "MichaelBennet::6ggfg"] -> "I disagree that we should decriminalize our border. This is personal for me. My mom is an immigrant, and she was separated from her parents during the Holocaust in Poland.\n\nAnd for those reasons, I was part of the Gang of Eight that wrote -- I wrote the immigration bill in 2013 with John McCain that passed the Senate with 68 votes, that gave a pathway to citizenship for the 11 million undocumented people that are here, that would pass the most progressive DREAM Act that had ever been conceived, much less passed on the floor of the Senate, and had $46 billion of border security. Every single Democrat voted for that bill...", "Don Lemon" -> "Senator...", Entity["Person", "MichaelBennet::6ggfg"] -> "... and a lot of Republicans. That should be our position.", "Don Lemon" -> "Thank you. Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "MichaelBennet::6ggfg"] -> "That is our position as Democrats.", "Don Lemon" -> "Senator Harris, you have indicated that you don't think it should be a criminal offense punishable by jail to cross the U.S. border illegally. How do you respond to Senator Bennet?", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "Well, again, with all due respect, you know, I -- after the last debate, for example, I went to a place in Florida called Homestead, and there is a private detention facility being paid for by your taxpayer dollars, a private detention facility that currently houses 2,700 children.\n\nAnd by the way, there were members of us -- Julian was there, members of Congress, they would not let us enter the place, members of the United States Congress. So I walked down the road, I climbed a ladder, and I looked over the fence. And I'm going to tell you what I saw. I saw children lined up single file based on gender being walked into barracks. The policies of this administration have been facilitated by laws on the books...", "Don Lemon" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "... that allow them to be incarcerated as though they've committed crimes.", "Don Lemon" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "These children have not committed crimes...", "Don Lemon" -> "Thank you, Senator Harris.", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "... and should be not treated like criminals.", "Don Lemon" -> "Senator Bennet, what's your response?", Entity["Person", "MichaelBennet::6ggfg"] -> "I think this is one in the end that we agree with. There\[CloseCurlyQuote]s not a single person on this stage if we were president would ever separate a child from their parents at the border. And that is what this...\nThat is what this administration has done in the American people's name. They have turned our border into a symbol of nativist hostility. The symbol of this country before Donald Trump was president was the Statue of Liberty. That should be the symbol of the United States of America, not Donald Trump's words.", "Don Lemon" -> "Thank you, Senator Bennet.\n\nSenator Gillibrand, I want to bring you in. What's your response?", Entity["Person", "KirstenGillibrand::trt5h"] -> "So I think when you talk about whether this should be a crime, you have to remember who we're talking about. When I was at the Texas border, I visited with women who had fled violence. A woman from El Salvador owned a small business, gangs came to her and said if you don't give us all your money, we're going to kill your family. That's why she fled.\n\nAnother woman was raped.\n\nThat's why she fled.\n\nSo this is who we're talking about -- and they're not criminals. So I believe that we should have a civil violation. No president before President Trump enforced the law in the way he has enforced it. Because he's using it as the crutch to lock up women and children, to separate mothers and babies, to put them behind bars.\n\nSo I don't think we should have a law on the books that can be so misused. It should be a civil violation and we should make sure that we treat people humanely.", "Don Lemon" -> "Thank you, Senator.\nVice President Biden, in the first two years of the Obama administration, nearly 800,000 immigrants were deported, far more than during President Trump's first two years. Would the higher deportation rates resume if you were president?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Absolutely not, number one. Number two, everything landed on the president's desk but locusts. I found that Julian -- excuse me -- the secretary, we sat together in many meetings. I never heard him talk about any of this when he was the secretary.", "Don Lemon" -> "Please be respectful. Please be respectful in the crowd.", "Don Lemon" -> "Please continue, Mr. Vice President.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "The fact is -- the fact is...", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "I don't know if you can hear. I can hear. But anyway...", "Don Lemon" -> "We can hear fine, Mr. Vice President.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "OK.", "Don Lemon" -> "Please continue, if you will.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "The fact is what the senator from New York talked about is seeking asylum. That woman, the women she spoke to are entitled to asylum. That is not crossing the border illegally. What we should do is flood the zone to make sure we have people to make those decisions quickly.\n\nWith regard to -- with regard to the secretary's point, I already proposed and passed...\n... $750 million for Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, to be able to change the circumstance why people fled in the first place.\n\nIn addition to that, we're in a circumstance where if in fact you say you can just cross the border, what do you say to all those people around the world who in fact want the same thing to come to the United States and make their case, that they don't -- that they have to wait in line. The fact of the matter is, you should be able to -- if you cross the border illegally, you should be able to be sent back. It's a crime. It's a crime, and it's not one that in fact...", "Don Lemon" -> "Thank -- thank you, Mr. Vice President. Secretary Castro, please, your response?", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "Yeah, first of all, Mr. Vice President, it looks like one of us has learned the lessons of the past and one of us hasn't.\nLet me begin by telling you -- let me just start out by answering that question. My immigration plan would also fix the broken legal immigration system, because we do have a problem with that.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "I agree.", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "Secondly, the only way that we're going to guarantee that these kinds of family separations don't happen in the future is that we need to repeal this law. There's still going to be consequences if somebody crosses the border. It's a civil action. Also, we have 654 miles of fencing. We have thousands of personnel at the border. We have planes; we have boats; we have helicopters; we have security cameras...", "Don Lemon" -> "Secretary Castro, thank you.", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "What we need are politicians that actually...", "Don Lemon" -> "Your time is up.", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "... have some guts on this issue.", "Don Lemon" -> "Thank you, Secretary.\nMr. Vice President, please, your response?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "I have guts enough to say his plan doesn't make sense. Here's the deal. The fact of the matter is that, in fact, when people cross the border illegally, it is illegal to do it unless they're seeking asylum. People should have to get in line. That's the problem. And the only reason this particular part of the law is being abused is because of Donald Trump. We should defeat Donald Trump and end this practice.", "Don Lemon" -> "Thank you. Congresswoman Gabbard, what's your response?", Entity["Person", "TulsiGabbard::839d6"] -> "Our hearts break when we see those children at these detention facilities who've been separated from their parents, when we see human beings crowded into cages in abhorrent, inhumane conditions. This is about leadership and understanding that we can and should have both secure borders as well as humane immigration policies.\n\nWe will have to stop separating children from their parents, make it so that it\[CloseCurlyQuote]s easier for people to seek asylum in this country, make sure that we are securing our borders and making it so that people are able to use our legal immigration system by reforming those laws.", "Don Lemon" -> "Mr. Yang, your response?", Entity["Person", "AndrewYang::f7w42"] -> "I'm the son of immigrants myself. My father immigrated here as a graduate student and generated over 65 U.S. patents for G.E. and IBM. I think that's a pretty good deal for the United States. That's the immigration story we need to be telling.\n\nWe can\[CloseCurlyQuote]t always be focusing on some of the -- the -- the distressed stories. And if you go to a factory here in Michigan, you will not find wall-to-wall immigrants; you will find wall-to-wall robots and machines. Immigrants are being scapegoated for issues they have nothing to do with in our economy.", "Don Lemon" -> "Thank you, Mr. Yang. Senator Booker you have a plan that would, quote, \"virtually eliminate immigration detention.\" Does that mean that the roughly 55,000 migrants currently in detention would be released into the United States?", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "Well, first of all, I just want to say, again, tonight, we are playing into Republican hands who have a very different view, and they're trying to divide us against each other. I'm listening to the language of my colleagues. No, Mr. Vice President, we are not going to just let people cross the border. An unlawful crossing is an unlawful crossing, if you do it in the civil courts, or if you do in the criminal courts.\n\nBut the criminal courts is what is giving Donald Trump the ability to truly violate the human rights of people coming to our country, who no one surrenders their human rights. And so, doing it through the civil courts means that you won't need these awful detention facilities that I have been to; seeing children sleeping on pavement, people being put in cages, nursing mothers, small children.\n\nThis is not necessary. We have seen, using the civil system, piloted programs that have 100 percent compliance with the civil courts, where people are evaluated. If they have no justifiable reason to be here, they are returned. If they are, like the people I met in Juarez, who were survivors of sexual assault, who we wouldn't even let come and present for asylum. We are butchering our values -", "Don Lemon" -> "Senator -", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "- and making ourselves less safe.", "Don Lemon" -> "Senator Booker, thank you very much. Mr. Vice President, your response?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "I agree with the Senator. The asylum process is a real process, and this president is ruining it. It has nothing to do with that section of law. That's what he's doing, number one. Number two, we should in fact - and we had proposed and we tried to get passed in our administration, I proposed, significantly increasing the number of legal immigrants who are able to come.\n\nThis country can tolerate a heck of a lot more people. And the reason we're the country we are is we've been able to cherry pick from the best of every culture. Immigrants built this country. That's why we're so special. It took courage. It took resilience. It took absolutely confidence for them to come. And we should be encouraging these people.", "Don Lemon" -> "Thank you.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "And by the way, anybody that crosses the stage with a - with a - with a PhD, you should get a green card for seven years. We should keep them here.", "Don Lemon" -> "Thank you. Thank you very much, Mr. Vice President. Governor Inslee, what's your response?", Entity["Person", "JayInslee::pt86r"] -> "I think we're missing two central statements we need to make. Number one, we can no longer allow a white nationalist to be in the White House, number one.\nAnd number two - number two, we have to make America what it's always been, a place of refuge. We got to boost the number of people we accept. I'm proud of being the first governor saying send us your Syrian refugees. I'm proud to have been the first governor to stand up against Donald Trump's Muslim ban. I'm proud to have sued him 21 times and beat him 21 times in a row. I'm ready for November 2020.", "Don Lemon" -> "Go ahead. Mayor de Blasio, please your response?", Entity["Person", "BillDeBlasio::5777v"] -> "Two points. One, it's all kind of charade because there's 11 million people here, and everyone, in theory, has broken the law, but they're part of our communities now. They're part of our economy. They're our neighbors. Why are we even discussing on one level whether it's a civil penalty or a criminal penalty, when it's an American reality?\n\nAnd what we need is comprehensive immigration, once and for all, to fix it. Second, Vice President Biden, I didn't hear your response when the issue came up of all those deportations. You were vice president of the United States. I didn't hear whether you tried to stop them or not, using your power, your influence in the White House. Do you think it was a good idea, or do you think it was something that needed to be stopped?", "Don Lemon" -> "Mr. Vice President -", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "The president came along, and he's the guy that came up with the idea the first time ever, dealing with the dreamers. He put that in the law. He had talked about a comprehensive plan which he put on the - laid before the Congress, saying that we should find a pathway to citizenship for people. He said we should up the number of people that we're able to bring in to this country.\n\nLastly, he also pointed out that we should go to the source of the problem and fix it where people were leaving in the first place. So he did - to compare him to Donald Trump, I think is absolutely bizarre.", "Don Lemon" -> "Thank you very much, Mr. Vice President. Congresswoman Gabbard, you are a co-sponsor of the College for All Act which would make public colleges and universities free for all Americans. One of the authors of that plan, Senator Sanders, believes college should be tuition-free for undocumented immigrants as well. Do you?", Entity["Person", "TulsiGabbard::839d6"] -> "I don't. I think it's important for us to fix our legal immigration system and look at the millions of undocumented immigrants in this country who have been suffering as they've been living in the shadows.\n\nAnd instead of putting a band-aid on this problem, fix our legal immigration system to provide them with that pathway to legal residency or citizenships, that they are no longer treated as second-class citizens in this country. We've got to look at the challenge that people all across the country are facing, under crushing student debt.\n\nThis is something that is impacting my generation in a huge way and I believe that it is our generation that has the bold, creative solutions to be able to solve it. This is about promise for our future and we've got to make those kinds of investments.", "Don Lemon" -> "Thank you, Congresswoman. Mayor de Blasio, what's your response?", Entity["Person", "BillDeBlasio::5777v"] -> "Yes, I -- I agree with the congress member but I don't hear an answer from the vice president. I'm confused. I asked the vice president point blank, did he use his power to stop those deportations. He went right around the question.\n\nMr. Vice President, you want to be president of the United States, you need to be able to answer the tough questions. I guarantee you if you're debating Donald Trump he's not going to let you off the hook. So did you say those deportations were a good idea or did you go to the president and say this is a mistake, we shouldn't do it. Which one?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "I was vice president. I am not the president. I keep my recommendation to him in private. Unlike you I can expect you would go ahead and say whatever was said privately with him. That is not what I do.\n\nWhat I do say to you is he moved to fundamentally change the system. That's what he did. That's who did. But much more has to be done. Much more has to be done.", Entity["Person", "BillDeBlasio::5777v"] -> "I still don't hear an answer.", "Don Lemon" -> "Senator Booker, please respond.", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "Well, a couple of things. First of all, Mr. Vice President, you can't have it both ways. You invoke President Obama more than anybody in this campaign. You can't do it when it's convenient and then dodge it when it's not.\n\nAnd the second thing that this really irks me because I heard the vice president say that if you got a PhD., you can come right into this country. Well that\[CloseCurlyQuote]s playing into what the republicans want, to pit some immigrants against other immigrants.\n\nFrom are from shithole countries and some are from worthy countries. We need to reform this whole immigration system and begin to be the country that says everyone has worth and dignity and this should be a country that honors for everyone.\nDon't let the republicans divide this party against itself.", "Don Lemon" -> "Senator, thank you. Mr. Vice President, your response.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "The fact is that's what I said about this country. We are a country of immigrants. All of us. All of us. Some here came against their will; others came because they in fact thought they could fundamentally change their lives. And they did.that\[CloseCurlyQuote]s what we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re talking about. That\[CloseCurlyQuote]s what made us great. And the fact of the matter is, I think the president of the United States, Barack Obama, went out of his way to try to change the system and he got pushed back significantly.", "Don Lemon" -> "Senator Gillibrand, what's your response?", Entity["Person", "KirstenGillibrand::trt5h"] -> "Again, President Trump, under his administration seven children died in his custody. In -- under his administration families have been torn apart. This party is talking about real ideas for the future. We\[CloseCurlyQuote]re talking about what we will do to change America.\n\nBut we must not forget about our values. We used to believe in this country you should treat others the way you want to be treated. We used to believe in this country we should care about the least among us. Let's remind the American people who we are, why we are democrats, and why we're running for president.", "Don Lemon" -> "Senator Gillibrand, thank you very much. The debate will be right back right after this short break.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Welcome back to the CNN Democratic presidential debate. We are live from Detroit.\n\nI want to turn now to criminal justice. Mr. Vice President, Senator Booker called your new criminal justice reform plan, quote, \"an inadequate solution to what is a raging crisis in our country,\" unquote. Why is Senator Booker wrong?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Well, I don't -- I think he is wrong. I think we should work together. He has a similar plan. I think that we should change the way we look at prisons.\n\nRight now, we're in a situation where, when someone is convicted of a drug crime, they end up going to jail and to prison. They should be going to rehabilitation. They shouldn't be going to prison. When in prison, they should be learning to read and write and not just sit in there and learn how to be better criminals.\n\nAnd when they get out of prison, they should be in a situation where they have access to everything they would have had before, including Pell grants for education, including making sure that they're able to have housing, public housing, including they have all the opportunities that were available to them because we want them to become better citizens.\n\nThat's the essence of what my plan, in detail, lays out. I'm happy to discuss it more in detail if the senator would want to. And so I -- you know, I look -- anyway, that's what I think my plan -- I know what my plan does, and I think it's not dissimilar to what the senator said we should be working together on getting things done.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Senator Booker, your response?", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "Well, my response is that this is a crisis in our country because we have treated issues of race and poverty, mental health and addiction with locking people up and not lifting them up.\n\nAnd...\n... Mr. Vice President has said that, since the 1970s, every major crime bill -- every crime bill, major and minor, has had his name on it. And, Sir, those are your words, not -- not mine. And this is one of those instances where the house was set on fire and you claimed responsibility for those laws. And you can't just now come out with a plan to put out that fire. We have got to have far more bold action on criminal justice reform, like having true...", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "... marijuana justice, which means that we legalize it on a federal level...", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Senator Booker.", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "... and reinvest the profits in communities that have been...", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Senator Booker.", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "... disproportionately targeted by marijuana enforcement.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Vice President Biden, I want to give you a chance to respond.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "The fact is that the bills that the president -- that, excuse me, the future president here -- that...\n... that the senator is talking about are bills that were passed years ago and they were passed overwhelming. Since 2007, I, for example, tried to get the crack-powder-cocaine totally -- disparity totally eliminated.\n\nIn 2007 you became mayor and you had a police department that was -- you went out and you hired Rudy Giuliani's guy; you -- and engaged in stop-and-frisk. You had 75 percent of those stops reviewed as illegal. You found yourself in a situation where three times as many African-American kids were caught in that chain and caught up. The Justice Department came after you for saying you were -- you were engaging in behavior that was inappropriate, and then in fact nothing happened, the entire time you were mayor.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you. Senator Booker, you want to respond?", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "Well, first of all, I\[CloseCurlyQuote]m grateful that he endorsed my presidency already. But I\[CloseCurlyQuote]ll tell you this, it\[CloseCurlyQuote]s no secret that I inherited a criminal -- a police department with massive problems and decades-long challenges. But the head of the ACLU has already said -- the head of the New Jersey ACLU -- that I put forth national standard-setting accountability.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "That's...", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "Mr. Vice President -- Mr. Vice President, I didn't interrupt you. Please show me that respect, sir.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "I'm sorry", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "We have a system right now that's broken. And if you want to compare records -- and, frankly, I'm shocked that you do...\n... I am happy to do that. Because all the problems that he is talking about, that he created, I actually led the bill that got passed into law that reverses the damage that your bills that you were, frankly -- to correct you, Mr. Vice President -- you were bragging, calling it the Biden crime bill, up until 2015.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Senator. Vice President Biden?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Number one, the bill he talks about is a bill that in my -- our administration, we passed. We passed that bill that you added onto. That's the bill, in fact, you passed.\n\nAnd the fact of the matter is, secondly, there was nothing done for the entire eight years he was mayor, there was nothing done to deal with the police department that was corrupt. Why did you announce on the first day a zero tolerance policy of stop and frisk and hire Rudy Giuliani's guy in 2007, when I was trying to get rid of the crack cocaine disparity?", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "Mr. Vice President, there's a saying in my community, you're dipping into the Kool-Aid and you don't even know the flavor. You need to come to the city of Newark and see the reforms that we put in place. The New Jersey head of the ACLU has said that I embraced reforms not just in action, but in deeds.\n\nSir, you are trying to shift the view from what you created. There are people right now in prison for life for drug offenses because you stood up and used that \[OpenCurlyDoubleQuote]tough on crime\[CloseCurlyDoubleQuote] phony rhetoric that got a lot of people elected but destroyed communities like mine. This isn\[CloseCurlyQuote]t about the past, sir. This is about the present right now. I believe in redemption.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "I'm happy you evolved.", "Jake Tapper" -> "I want to bring in Secretary...", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "But you've offered no redemption to the people in prison right now for life.", "Jake Tapper" -> "I want to bring in Secretary Castro. Your response, sir?", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "Yeah, I agree with Senator Booker -- I agree with Senator Booker that a lot of what Vice President helped author in '94 was a mistake. And he has flip-flopped on these things. And that's clear.\n\nBut let me say, when we talk about criminal justice reform, there are a lot of things that we can talk about -- sentencing reform, cash bail reform, investing in public defenders, diversion programs. I'm proud that I'm the only candidate that has put forward a police reform plan, because we have a police system that is broken and we need to fix it.\n\nAnd whether it's the case of someone like Tamir Rice or Michael Brown or Eric Garner, where the Trump Justice Department just decided not to pursue challenges...\n... we need to ensure we have a national use of force standard and that we end qualified immunity for police officers so that we can hold them accountable for using excessive force.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Secretary Castro.", "Jake Tapper" -> "I want to bring in -- I want to bring in Governor Inslee. Governor Inslee, your response?", Entity["Person", "JayInslee::pt86r"] -> "Let me suggest that people come out to the state of Washington and see what criminal justice reform looks like, our effort to reduce racial disparity.\n\nI'm proud that I was the first governor to offer pardons to thousands of people with drug crimes. Now we're vacating more, tens of thousands. We've eliminated the death penalty.\n\nAnd importantly, we've done this: When people come out of the legal system and they've done their responsibility to the citizens, we need to make sure they can get a job. We have banned the box so that people can actually get a job when they come out.\nAnd I've got to argue with my friend, Secretary Castro. We haven't just put forward a plan. We have adopted probably one of the best police accountability measures and trainer police officers and de-escalation techniques so we have less violence...", "Jake Tapper" -> "Secretary -- Secretary Castro, your response to Governor Inslee?", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "Well, that it's much more than that, because what we see -- and this was a good example, the other day, of the Department of Justice not going after Officer Pantaleo that -- Officer Pantaleo used a chokehold that was prohibited by NYPD. He did that for seven seconds. Eleven different times Eric Garner said that he couldn't breathe. He knew what he was doing, that he was killing Eric Garner, and yet he has not been brought to justice. That police officer should be off the street.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Mayor de Blasio? Mayor de Blasio, why is that police officer still on the force, the one who killed Eric Garner? Please respond.", Entity["Person", "BillDeBlasio::5777v"] -> "Well, let me tell you. I know the Garner family. They've gone through extraordinary pain. They are waiting for justice and are going to get justice. There's finally going to be justice. I have confidence in that, in the next 30 days, in New York.\n\nYou know why? Because for the first time, we are not waiting on the federal Justice Department, which told the city of New York that we could not proceed because the Justice Department was pursuing their prosecution. And years went by, and a lot of the pain accrued.\n\nAnd in the meantime, what I'm working on is making sure -- and I have for five years -- there will never be another tragedy, there will never be another Eric Garner, because we're changing fundamentally how we police.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Mayor.", Entity["Person", "BillDeBlasio::5777v"] -> "But there's one last point I have to say about the Justice Department. The vice president for two-and-a-half of those years, Mr. Vice President, tell us, what did you do to try and spur on the Justice Department to act in the Garner case?", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Mayor de Blasio.\n\nVice President Biden, you can respond to that.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "We did a lot. Number one, we made sure we reduced the federal prison population by 38,000 people, number one.\n\nNumber two, we, in fact, insisted that we change the rules that police engage in. They had to have -- we provided for body cameras. We made sure -- there were a lot of things that were changed in the process, but 38,000 people in the federal system were released under the system.\n\nAnd so the fact is that there's a lot we've done. But here's the deal. The fact is that we're talking about things that occurred a long, long time ago. And now, all of a sudden, you know -- I find it fascinating. Everybody is talking about how terrible I am on these issues. Barack Obama knew exactly who I was. He had 10 lawyers do a background check on everything about me on civil rights and civil liberties, and he chose me, and he said it was the best decision he made. I'll take his judgment.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Mr. Vice President.", Entity["Person", "AndrewYang::f7w42"] -> "May I, please?", "Jake Tapper" -> "Mr. Yang, your response?", Entity["Person", "AndrewYang::f7w42"] -> "I speak for just about everyone watching when I say I would trust anyone on this stage much more than I would trust our current president on matters of criminal justice.\nWe cannot tear each other down. We have to focus on beating Donald Trump in 2020.\n\nI want to share a story that a prison guard, a corrections officer in New Hampshire said to me. He said, we should pay people to stay out of jail, because we spend so much when they're behind bars. Right now, we think we're saving money, we just end up spending the money in much more dark and punitive ways. We should put money directly into people's hands, certainly when they come out of prison, but before they go into prison.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Mr. Yang.\nI want to bring in Senator Gillibrand. You heard earlier Mayor de Blasio respond to Secretary Castro on the question of why the police officer who killed Eric Garner is still on the NYPD. Was that response adequate? Please respond.", Entity["Person", "KirstenGillibrand::trt5h"] -> "No. He should be fired. He should be fired now.\nI sat -- I sat down with Eric Garner's mother. And I can tell you, when you've lost your son, when he begged for breath, when you know because you have a video, when you know he said \"I can't breathe\" so many times, over and over again, when you know he used an illegal chokehold, that person should be fired. And as -- if I was -- if I was the mayor, I would fire him.\n\nBut as president, I would make sure that we had a full investigation, that the report would be made public. And if I wasn't satisfied, we would have a consent decree.", "Jake Tapper" -> "I want to bring in Senator Harris now.\nSenator Harris, you have also been quite critical of Vice President Biden's policies on race, specifically on the issues of busing in the 1970s, having benefitted from busing when you were a young child. Vice President Biden says that your current position on busing, you're opposed to federally mandated busing, that that position is the same as his position. Is he right?", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "That is simply false. And let's be very clear about this. When Vice President Biden was in the United States Senate, working with segregationists to oppose busing, which was the vehicle by which we would integrate America's public schools, had I been in the United States Senate at that time, I would have been completely on the other side of the aisle.\n\nAnd let's be clear about this. Had those segregationists their way, I would not be a member of the United States Senate, Cory Booker would not be a member of the United States Senate, and Barack Obama would not have been in the position to nominate him to the title he now holds.\nAnd so, on that issue, we could not be more apart, which is that the vice president has still failed to acknowledge that it was wrong to take the position that he took at that time.\n\nNow, I would like to also talk about this conversation about Eric Garner, because I, too, met with his mother. And one of the things that we've got to be clear about is that this president of the United States, Donald Trump, while he has been in office, has quietly been allowing the United States Department of Justice to shut down consent decrees, to stop pattern and practice investigations.\n\nOn that case, we also know that the...", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "... Civil Rights Division -- this is important. The Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice said charges should have been filed, but this United States Department of Justice usurped -- and I believe it is because that president did not want those charges to go forward. And they overrode a decision by the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "Under my administration, the Civil Rights Division...", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "... will rein and there will be independent investigations.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Vice President Biden, Vice President Biden, I want to give you a chance to respond to what Senator Harris just said.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "When Senator Harris was attorney general for eight years in the state of California, there were two of the most segregated school districts in the country, in Los Angeles and in San Francisco.\n\nAnd she did not -- I didn't see a single solitary time she brought a case against them to desegregate them. Secondly, she also was in a situation where she had a police department when she was there that in fact was abusing people's right.\n\nAnd the fact was that she in fact was told by her own people that her own staff that she should do something about and disclose to defense attorney's like me that you in fact have been -- the police officer did something that did not give you information of whatyour -- your client. She didn't do that. She never did it. And so what happened.\n\nAlong came a federal judge and said enough, enough. And he freed 1,000 of these people. If you doubt me, google 1,000 prisoners freed, Kamala Harris.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Vice President Biden. Senator Harris, your response.", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "That is -- is simply not true. And as attorney general of California where I ran the second largest Department of Justice in the United States, second only to the United States Department of Justice, I am proud of the work we did.\n\nWork that has received national recognition for what has been the important work of reforming a criminal justice system and cleaning up the consequences of the bills that you passed when you were in the United States Senate for decades.\n\nIt was the work of creating the -- one of the first in the nation initiatives around reentering former offenders and getting them jobs and counseling.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "I did the work as attorney general of putting body cameras on special agents in the state of California.", "Jake Tapper" -> "I want to bring in Congresswoman ....", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "And I'm proud of that work.", "Jake Tapper" -> "I want to bring in Congresswoman Gabbard. Congresswoman Gabbard, you took issue with Senator Harris confronting Vice President Biden at the last debate. You called it a quote, false accusation that Joe Biden is a racist. What's your response?", Entity["Person", "TulsiGabbard::839d6"] -> "I want to bring the conversation back to the broken criminal justice system that is disproportionately negatively impacting black and brown people all across this country today. Now Senator Harris says she's proud of her record as a prosecutor and that she'll be a prosecutor president.\n\nBut I'm deeply concerned about this record. There are too many examples to cite but she put over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations and then laughed about it when she was asked if she ever smoked marijuana.\nShe blocked evidence -- she blocked evidence that would have freed an innocent man from death row until the courts forced her to do so. She kept people in prison beyond their sentences to use them as cheap labor for the state of California.\nAnd she fought to keep ...", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Congresswoman.", Entity["Person", "TulsiGabbard::839d6"] -> "Bail system in place that impacts poor people in the worst kind of way.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Congresswoman. Senator Harris, your response?", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "As the elected attorney general of California, I did the work of significantly reforming the criminal justice system of a state of 40 million people, which became a national model for the work that needs to be done.\n\nAnd I am proud of that work. And I am proud of making a decision to not just give fancy speeches or be in a legislative body and give speeches on the floor, but actually doing the work of being in the position to use the power that I had to reform a system that is badly in need of reform.\n\nThat is why we created initiatives that were about reentering former offenders and getting them counseling.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you.", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "It is why and because I know that criminal justice system is so broken ...", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "That I am an advocate for what we need to do to not only decriminalize, but legalize marijuana in the United States.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Senator. Your time is up. I want to -- I want to bring Congresswoman Gabbard back in. Your response, please.", Entity["Person", "TulsiGabbard::839d6"] -> "The bottom line is, Senator Harris, when you were in a position to make a difference and an impact in these people's lives, you did not. And worse yet, in the case of those who were on death row, innocent people, you actually blocked evidence from being revealed that would have freed them until you were forced to do so.\nThere is no excuse for that and the people who suffered under your reign as prosecutor owe -- you owe them an apology.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Senator Harris?", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "My entire career I have been opposed -- personally opposed to the death penalty and that has never changed. And I dare anybody who is in a position to make that decision, to face the people I have faced to say I will not seek the death penalty. That is my background, that is my work.\n\nI am proud of it. I think you can judge people by when they are under fire and it's not about some fancy opinion on a stage but when they're in the position to actually make a decision, what do they do.\n\nWhen I was in the position of having to decide whether or not to seek a death penalty on cases I prosecuted, I made a very difficult decision that was not popular to not seek the death penalty. History shows that and I am proud of those decisions.", "Don Lemon" -> "Senator Harris, thank you very much. Senator Bennet, a question for you. Why are you the best candidate to heal the racial divide that exists in this country today, which has been stoked by the president's racist rhetoric?", Entity["Person", "MichaelBennet::6ggfg"] -> "Yes. First of all, the president\[CloseCurlyQuote]s racist rhetoric should be enough grounds for everybody in this country to vote him out of office.\n\nThat one thing alone should be enough.\nSecond, Don, I want to answer your question by tagging on the conversation we were just having. This is the fourth debate that we have had and the second time that we have been debating what people did 50 years ago with busing...\n... when our schools are as segregated today as they were 50 years ago.\nWe need a conversation about what's happening now. And when there's a group of kids in this country that don't get preschool through no fault of their own and another group does, equal is not equal. And we've got a group of K-12 schools that are good because families can spend a million bucks, and you've got the Detroit public schools that are as segregated as they were. Equal is not equal.\nAnd let me tell you something else, Don. I believe you can draw a straight line from slavery through Jim Crow through the banking and the redlining to the mass incarceration that we were talking about on this stage a few minutes ago. But you know what other line I can draw? Eighty-eight percent of the people in our prisons dropped out of high school. Let's fix our school system and maybe we can fix the prison pipeline that we have.", "Don Lemon" -> "Thank you, Senator Bennet.\nGovernor Inslee, what's your response?\nGovernor Inslee, please respond.", Entity["Person", "JayInslee::pt86r"] -> "You know, I approach this question with humility because I have not experienced what many Americans have. I've never been a black teenager pulled over in a white neighborhood. I've never been a woman talked over in a meeting. I've never been an LGBTQ member subject to a slur. And so I have believed I have an added responsibility, a double responsibility, to deal with racial disparity. And we've talked on the way we do it, including ending -- ending the school to prison pipeline in my state.\n\nBut I want to say this. And this is a common error that every single senator on this stage, as much as I respect them all -- they all have an enormous error which is going to prevent our party from making any progressive progress in the United States, and it is this. We are all going to work like the dickens to get more Democrats elected to the Senate, right? We are going to do that.\nAnd I hope we're going to succeed. But if we get a majority in the U.S. Senate, because of the position of these senators, not a damn thing is going to get done. And I'll tell you why. With all their good intentions -- and I know they're very sincere and passionate and I respect them enormously -- but because they embraced this antediluvinalsuper-majority thing called the filibuster, Mitch McConnell is going to run the U.S. Senate even if we take a majority.", "Don Lemon" -> "Thank you.", Entity["Person", "JayInslee::pt86r"] -> "We've got to get rid of the filibuster so we can govern the United States.", "Don Lemon" -> "Mister...", "Don Lemon" -> "Mr. Yang, why are you the best candidate to heal the racial divide in America -- your response?", Entity["Person", "AndrewYang::f7w42"] -> "I spent seven years running a non-profit that helped create thousands of jobs, including hundreds right here in Detroit, as well as Baltimore, Cleveland, New Orleans. And I saw that the racial disparities are much, much worse than I had ever imagined.\n\nThey're even worse still. A study just came out that projected the average African-American median net worth will be zero by 2053. So you have to ask yourself, how is that possible? It's possible because we're in the midst of the greatest economic transformation in our history. Artificial intelligence is coming. It's going to displace hundreds of thousands of call center workers, truck drivers -- the most common job in 29 states, including this one.\n\nAnd you know who suffers most in a natural disaster? It's people of color, people who have lower levels of capital and education and resources. So what are we going to do about it? We should just go back to the writings of Martin Luther King, who in 1967, his book \"Chaos or Community\", said \"We need a guaranteed minimum income in the United States of America.\" That is the most effective way for us to address racial inequality in a genuine way and give every American a chance in the 21st Century economy.", "Don Lemon" -> "Mr. Yang, thank you very much.\n\nSecretary Castro, after the president's racist tweets attacking Baltimore and Congressman Elijah Cummings, the mayor of Baltimore slammed the tweets and said to the president -- and I quote here -- \"Help us. Send the resources that we need to rebuild America.\"\n\nSo what would you do for Baltimore and other cities that need help?", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "First of all, the president is a racist, and that was just one more example of it.\nWe know that, whether it's Baltimore or cities like Detroit, they have -- they're tremendously rich in history and culture and also in possibility. Here's what I would do if I'm president. Number one, I would invest in tremendous educational opportunity; invest in universal pre-K for three and four-year-olds; invest in improving K-12 education and also making higher education available to everyone through tuition-free public state universities, community colleges and job training and certification programs. I would follow-up on the work that I did at HUD. We passed the most sweeping rule to further desegregate our communities in the United States.\n\nThis Trump administration set that back. I would put that back in order. I would also invest in housing that is affordable, because folks know that the rent is going through the roof. And we need to make sure that you don't have to get out of West Baltimore, or Inner City Detroit, or the west side of San Antonio, or anywhere, if you want to reach your American dream. I want you to be able to accomplish it in your great neighborhood where you are.", "Don Lemon" -> "Thank you, Secretary Castro. Senator Gillibrand, what's your response?", Entity["Person", "KirstenGillibrand::trt5h"] -> "So I don't believe that it's the responsibility of Cory and Kamala to be the only voice that takes on these issues of institutional racism, systemic racism in our country. I think as a white woman of privilege, who is a U.S. senator, running for president of the United States, it is also my responsibility to lift up those voices that aren't being listened to.\n\nAnd I can talk to those white women in the suburbs that voted for Trump and explain to them what white privilege actually is, that when their son is walking down a street with a bag of M&Ms in his pocket, wearing a hoodie, his whiteness is what protects him from not being shot.\nWhen his - when her - when their child has a car that breaks down, and he knocks on someone's door for help, and the door opens, and the help is given, it's his whiteness that protects him from being shot. That is what white privilege in America is today. And so, my responsibility's to only lift up those stories, but explain to communities across America, like I did in Youngstown, Ohio, to a young mother, that this is all of our responsibilities, and that together we can make our community stronger.", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you, Senator Gillibrand.\nLet's now turn to the issue of the climate crisis. The United Nations says the world needs to cut all carbon emissions by 2050 or risk facing disastrous consequences. Governor Inslee, many of your fellow democratic candidates say that climate change is the biggest existential threat facing the country. You, though, are calling it the number one priority in your campaign. What do you know that the others don't?", Entity["Person", "JayInslee::pt86r"] -> "Well, I know the firsthand terrific impact of climate change on Americans across the country already. The family who I saw, with their aluminum home now, just a pile of molten aluminum, they lost everything in the paradise of fires; the non-profit in Davenport that was washed away in the floods. We have to act now.\n\nLook, climate change is not a singular issue, it is all the issue that we Democrats care about. It is health. It is national security. It is our economy. And we know this; middle ground solutions, like the vice president has proposed, or sort of middling average-sized things, are not going to save us.\n\nToo little, too late is too dangerous. And we have to have a bold plan, and mine has been called the \"gold standard.\" Now, we also need to embed environmental justice. I was in zip code 48217 in the Detroit neighborhood the other day, right next to an oil refinery, where the kids have asthma and they have cancer clusters. And after talking to these folks, I believe this -", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you -", Entity["Person", "JayInslee::pt86r"] -> "I believe this; it doesn't matter what your zip code is -", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you, Governor.", Entity["Person", "JayInslee::pt86r"] -> "- it doesn't matter what your color is, you ought to have clear -", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you, Governor.", Entity["Person", "JayInslee::pt86r"] -> "- air and clear water in America. That's what I believe.", "Dana Bash" -> "Vice President Biden, I'd like to get you to respond.\nGovernor Inslee just said that your plan is middling.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "There is no middle ground about my plan. The fact of the matter is I call for the immediate action to be taken. First of all, one of the things that - we're responsible for 15 percent of all the pollution in the country. He's right about how it affects people and it affects neighborhoods, particularly poor neighborhoods\n\nBut h\[CloseCurlyQuote]s the deal; in area, there\[CloseCurlyQuote]s also another piece. Eighty-five percent of it is something I helped negotiate; and that is the Paris Climate Accord. I would immediately rejoin that Paris Accord. I would make sure that we up the ante which it calls for. I would be able to bring those leaders together who I know I - I convene them in the White House, like we did in nuclear summit, and I would raise the standard.", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you, Mr. Vice President", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "I also invested $400 billion -", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you, sir.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "- in research for new alternatives to deal with climate change.", "Dana Bash" -> "Mr. Yang, your response?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "And that's bigger than any other person.", Entity["Person", "AndrewYang::f7w42"] -> "The important number in Vice President Biden's remarks just now is that he United States was only 15 percent of global emissions. We like to act as if we're 100 percent, but the truth is even if we were to curb our emissions dramatically, the earth is still going to get warmer.\n\nAnd we can see it around it us this summer. The last four years have been the four warmest years in recorded history. This is going to be a tough truth, but we are too late. We are 10 years too late. We need to do everything we can to start moving the climate in the right direction, but we also need to start moving our people to higher ground.\n\nAnd the best way to do that is to put economic resources into your hands so you can protect yourself and your families.", Entity["Person", "JayInslee::pt86r"] -> "I was challenged by the vice president.", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "JayInslee::pt86r"] -> "May I be heard on this for a moment?", "Dana Bash" -> "Go ahead, Governor.", Entity["Person", "JayInslee::pt86r"] -> "Thank you very much. Look, we have -- these deadlines are set by science. Mr. Vice President, your argument is not with me, it's with science. And unfortunately, your plan is just too late. The science tells us we have to get off coal in 10 years. Your plan does not do that. We have to have off of fossil fuels in our electrical grid in 15. Your plan simply does not do that.\n\nI've heard you say that we need a realistic plan. Here's what I believe...", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "No, I didn't say that.", Entity["Person", "JayInslee::pt86r"] -> "Here's what I believe. I believe that survival is realistic, and that's the kind of plan we need. And that's the kind I have.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "My plan calls for 500,000 charging stations around the country so by 2030 we're all electric vehicles. My plan calls for making sure that we have $400 billion invested in technologies to learn how to contain what we're doing, creating 10 million new jobs.\n\nWe will double offshore wind. We will end any subsidies for coal or any other fossil fuel. But we have to also engage the world while we're doing it. We have to walk and chew gum at the same time.", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you, Mr. Vice President. Just to clarify, would there be any place for fossil fuels, including coal and fracking, in a Biden administration?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "No, we would -- we would work it out. We would make sure it's eliminated and no more subsidies for either one of those, either -- any fossil fuel.", Entity["Person", "JayInslee::pt86r"] -> "We can't...", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you, sir.", Entity["Person", "JayInslee::pt86r"] -> "We cannot work it out. We cannot work this out. The time is up. Our house is on fire. We have to stop using coal in 10 years, and we need a president to do it or it won't get done. Get off coal. Save this country and the planet. That's what I'm for.", "Dana Bash" -> "Senator Harris, your response?", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "I mean, I have to agree with Governor Inslee. And I'm going to just paraphrase one of your great sayings, Governor, which is we currently have a president in the White House who obviously does not understand the science. He's been pushing science fiction instead of science fact. The guy thinks that wind turbines cause cancer, but what in fact they cause is jobs.\n\nAnd the reality is that I would take any Democrat on this stage over the current president of the United States, who is rolling it back to our collective peril. We must have and adopt a Green New Deal. On day one as president...", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you.", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "... I would re-enter us in the Paris agreement.", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "And put in place so we would be carbon neutral by 2030.", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you, Senator. I want to talk about that with Senator Gillibrand. You're a co-sponsor of the Green New Deal, which includes the guarantee of a job with medical leave, paid vacations, and retirement security for everyone in America. Explain how that's realistic.", Entity["Person", "KirstenGillibrand::trt5h"] -> "So the first thing that I'm going to do when I'm president is I'm going to Clorox the Oval Office.\nThe second thing I'm going to do is I will reengage on global climate change. And I will not only sign the Paris global climate accords, but I will lead a worldwide conversation about the urgency of this crisis.\n\nThe greatest threat to humanity is global climate change. I visited a family in Iowa who -- water spewed into her home, Fran Parr, it tossed her refrigerator upend, all the furniture was broken, all the dishes were broken, and mud was everywhere. That is the impact of severe weather right now on families' lives.\n\nAnd so the truth is, we need a robust solution. When John F. Kennedy said I want to put a man on the moon in the next 10 years, not because it's easy, but because it's hard, he knew it was going to be a measure of our innovation, our success, our ability to galvanize worldwide competition.\n\nHe wanted to have a space race with Russia. Why not have a green energy race with China? Why not have clean air and clean water for all Americans?\nWhy not rebuild our infrastructure? Why not actually invest in the green jobs? That's what the Green New Deal is about.", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you.", Entity["Person", "KirstenGillibrand::trt5h"] -> "Not only will I pass it, but I will put a price on carbon to make market forces help us.", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you, Senator. Congresswoman Gabbard, you are not a cosponsor of the Green New Deal. Please respond.", Entity["Person", "TulsiGabbard::839d6"] -> "Well, first of all, this is personal. If you can imagine, I grew up in Hawaii, which is the most remote island chain in the world. So for us growing up there, protecting our environment was not a political issue, it's a way of life. It's part of our culture. It's part of who we are.\n\nThis is why, as a member of Congress, long before there was ever a Green New Deal, I introduced the most ambitious climate change legislation ever in Congress called the Off Fossil Fuels Act. That actually laid out an actionable plan to take us from where we are today to transition off of fossil fuels and invest in green renewable energy, invest in workforce training, invest in the kinds of infrastructure that we need to deal with the problems and the challenges that climate is posing to us today.", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you, Congresswoman.\n\nSenator Booker, what's your response? Is the job guarantee in the Green New Deal realistic?", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "I just want to take, first of all, a step back and say that I agree wholeheartedly with Governor Inslee. It's one of the reasons why Greenpeace ranks me and him at the top of this entire field of the candidates on climate.", Entity["Person", "JayInslee::pt86r"] -> "Second, Cory. Second, but close. You're just close.", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "I'm -- hey, hey. I want to say very clearly -- thank you, man. Thank you. I'll try harder.\n\nLook, the reason why is because, first of all, this problem didn't start yesterday. Science didn't become a reality yesterday. This has been going on for years. There was another president that would not join an international accord. Then it was the Kyoto accords. I was mayor then.\n\nAnd I stood up in national leadership joining with other mayors to say climate change is not a separate issue. It must be the issue and the lens with which we view every issue. Nobody should get applause for rejoining the Paris climate accords. That is kindergarten. We have to go to far advances and make sure that everything from our trade deals, everything from the billions of dollars we spend to foreign aid, everything must be sublimated to the challenge and the crisis that is existential, which is dealing with the climate threat.\n\nAnd, yes, the majority of this problem is outside the United States, but the only way we're going to deal with this is if the United States leads.", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you. Thank you, Senator.\nMayor de Blasio, your administration has come under fire after hundreds of children living in New York City public housing tested positive for elevated levels of lead. As you know, we're not far from Flint, Michigan, where residents are still dealing with the consequences of having lead in their drinking water.\nHow can you assure the people of Flint and across the nation that you are the right person to handle such a problem?", Entity["Person", "BillDeBlasio::5777v"] -> "We have a huge problem, and it's decades old in New York. But here's what we've done about it. We've declared the eradication of all lead, literally ending the notion of lead poisoning once and all as the goal of our administration, and we're doing something about it.\n\nLead poisoning has gone down 90 percent since 2005, and we're going to literally bring it down to zero, because we're going to go into every place, buildings, schools, public housing, and take out that lead, remediate that lead once and for all, and that needs to be done all over this country.\n\nNow, the federal government used to not take any responsibility for our public housing. For decades they've been disinvesting in the public housing that was supposed to be a federal responsibility. That's part of why we have this lead crisis to begin with.\n\nBut I'll tell you what you do when you're actually in charge of something. I'm in charge of the largest city in this nation. You do not accept the status quo. You fix it. And so we are going into every one of those apartments to make sure those children and those families are safe, and then we are going to eradicate that lead once and for all. And there should be a federal mandate to do the same for Flint, for Detroit, for every place in this country.", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you, Mr. Mayor.", Entity["Person", "BillDeBlasio::5777v"] -> "It can be done.", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you, Mr. Mayor.\n\nSecretary Castro, why are you the right candidate to solve this problem? Please respond.", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "Well, because people don't have to wonder what I would do; I've actually done it. I was secretary of housing and urban development when Flint had its water crisis. I went to Flint. We did what we could to help folks get water filters.\n\nAnd then we didn't stop there. We improved the standard of how we deal with elevated blood lead levels in children. A lot of Americans don't know that this is still a major problem out there. I was back in Flint about six weeks ago, and I released a plan to invest $50 billion so that we remove lead as a major public health threat. We need to do it. We can do it. And I will do it if I'm president.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Secretary Castro.\n\n(UNKNOWN): May I get in on this?", "Jake Tapper" -> "Donald Trump won independents here in Michigan by 16 percentage points, which was critical to Donald Trump winning the state's 16 electoral votes. Now there is a big debate within the Democratic Party here and around the country about the best way the Democrats can win back Michigan.\n\nVice President Biden, last night on this stage, Senator Elizabeth Warren said, quote, \"We're not going to solve the urgent problems that we face with small ideas and spinelessness. We're going to solve them by being the Democratic Party of big, structural change.\"\n\nWhat do you say to progressives who worry that your proposals are not ambitious enough to energize the progressive wing of your party, which you will need to beat Donald Trump?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Because we did it. I was asked to manage an $87 billion plan that would be spent in a total of 18 months that revived this state and many others, because -- and it kept us out of a depression, with 0.2% of waste or fraud.\n\nSecondly, I was part of the organization -- and within our administration -- that pushed bailing General Motors out, saving tens of thousands of jobs here in this state.\nNumber three, number three, I also was asked, as the mayor of Detroit can tell you, by the president of the United States to help Detroit get out of bankruptcy and get back on its feet. I spent better part of two years out here working to make sure that it did exactly that.\n\nWe invested significantly in this city when transportation, only -- anyway, the point is we've made significant investment in this state. I expect in this city -- I suspect that's why the mayor endorsed me.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Vice President Biden. Senator Gillibrand, what's your response?", Entity["Person", "KirstenGillibrand::trt5h"] -> "To the people of Michigan, I know exactly how I'd beat President Trump. I've already done it. I took a bus tour to talk about Trump's broken promises here in Michigan. He promised no bad trade deals.\n\nNot only did he not have bad trade deals, he started a trade war with China and he just signed on to another bad trade agreement with NAFTA 2.0, give away to drug companies in Mexico.\n\nI took the bus to Michigan, to Ohio, and to Pennsylvania telling people that he has broken his promises to them. I lifted up their voices, I listened to their concerns and I offered real solutions. And I've done this before. My first House district I ran in was a two to one republican district. I won it twice and I haven't lost an election since.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you.", Entity["Person", "KirstenGillibrand::trt5h"] -> "And I haven't lost an election since. So I can bring people together in red, purple, and blue areas. But more than that, I can get things done.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Senator Gillibrand. Mr. Yang, in poll after poll democratic voters are saying that having a nominee who can beat President Trump is more important to them than having a nominee who agrees with them on major issues. And right now, according to polls, they say the candidate who has the best chance of doing that, of beating President Trump is Vice President Biden. Why are they wrong?", Entity["Person", "AndrewYang::f7w42"] -> "Well, I'm building a coalition of disaffected Trump voters, independents, libertarians, and conservatives, as well as democrats and progressives. I believe I'm the candidate best suited to beat Donald Trump and as for how to win in Michigan and Ohio and Pennsylvania, the problem is that so many people feel like the economy has left them behind.\n\nWhat we have to do is we have to say look, there's record high GDP in stock market prices, you know what else they're at record high is? Suicides, drug overdoses, depression, anxiety. It's gotten so bad that American life expectancy had declined for the last three years.\n\nAnd I like to talk about my wife who is at home with our two boys right now, one of whom is autistic. What is her work count at in today's economy. Zero and we know that's the opposite of the truth. We know that her work is amongst the most challenging and vital.\n\nThe way we win this election as we redefine economic progress to include all the things that matter to the people in Michigan and all of us like our own heath, our well being, our mental health, our clean air and clean water, how are kids are doing.\n\nIf we change the measurements for the 21st century economy to revolve around our own well being then we will win this election.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Mr. Yang. Congresswoman Gabbard, your response?", Entity["Person", "TulsiGabbard::839d6"] -> "Donald Trump won this election because far too many people in this country felt like they'd been left behind by both political parties, by self serving politicians on both sides who are more interested in partisan politics than they are in actually fighting for the people.\n\nI'm speaking the truth to people all across this country about the fact that people in Flint, Michigan are still being left behind, still being poisoned by the water in their system because every single month we are spending $4 billion on a continuing war in Afghanistan, $4 billion every single month rather than ending that war, bringing our troops home, and using those precious resources into serving the needs of the people here in this country. People, communities ...", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Congresswoman.", Entity["Person", "TulsiGabbard::839d6"] -> "That's the kind of leadership that I'll bring.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Congresswoman. Senator Booker, your response.", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "I -- I'm grateful -- I'm grateful. Jake look, this is one of those times where we're not staring at the truth and calling it out. And -- and this is a case for the Democratic Party, the truth will set us free.\n\nWe lost the state of Michigan because everybody from republicans to Russians were targeting the suppression of African American voters.\nWe need to say that. If the African American vote in this state had been like it was four years earlier, we would have won the state of Michigan. We need to have a campaign that is ready for what's coming. And all out of salt especially on the most valuable voter group in our -- in fact, the highest performing voter group in our coalition, which is black women.\nAnd so I will be a person that tries to fight against voter suppression and to activate and engage the kind of voters and coalitions who are going to win states like Michigan and Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you. Senator Harris?", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "First of all, Donald Trump came in making a whole lot of promises to working people that he did not keep. He said he was going to help farmers. He said he was going to help auto workers.\n\nFarmers are now looking at bankruptcy, soy beans rotting in bills. Auto workers we expect perhaps hundreds of thousands will be out of jobs by the end of the year. Jerome Powell just dropped the interest rates and he admitted why.\n\nBecause of this so called trade policy that this president has that has been nothing more than the Trump trade tax that has resulted in American families spending as much as $1.4 billion more on everything from shampoo to washing machines. He betrayed the American people, he betrayed American families, and he will lose this election because folks are clear ...", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you.", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "-- that he has done nothing except try to beat people down instead of lift people up. And that's what we want in the next president of the United States.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Senator Harris.\nThe debate is back, right after this short break.\nWe're back with the CNN Democratic presidential debate. We want to turn now to the economy.\n\nSecretary Castro, this is for you. Wage growth is up. Stocks are rising. Unemployment is near historic lows, including for Latinos and African-Americans. You have all outlined plans, but you in particular, that could end up raising taxes. How can you guarantee that won't hurt the economy?", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "Well, first of all, there are a lot of Americans right now that are hurting. Just go and ask the folks that just received notice that they're getting laid off by General Motors, or ask the many folks who are sleeping on the streets in big cities and small towns across the United States, or ask fast food workers that I joined a couple of weeks ago that are working for minimum wage and can't provide for their families or pay the rent.\n\nSo the idea that America is doing just fine is wrong. Not only that, this president always likes to take credit, like he did this. We have now had about 105 straight months of positive job growth, the longest streak in American history.\n\nOver 80 months of that was due to President Barack Obama. Thank you, Barack Obama. Thank you, Barack Obama.\nSo, you know, I believe that we need to invest in what will ensure that Americans can prosper in the years to come, making sure they have the knowledge and skills to compete in the 21st century economy, ensuring that they can afford the rent where they live and that they have health care so that they don't have to worry about going homeless because they can't afford a medical procedure.", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you, Secretary Castro.\n\nI want to turn now to a question about trade and for Congresswoman Gabbard. Many saw the Trans-Pacific Partnership issue as something that would be a critical tool to deal with the rise of China. You were against it. How would you ensure that the United States is able to remain competitive against China on the world stage?", Entity["Person", "TulsiGabbard::839d6"] -> "By pushing for fair trade, not trade deals that give away the sovereignty of the American people and our country, that give away American jobs, and that threaten our environment. These are the three main issues with that massive trade deal, the Trans-Pacific Partnership.\n\nI think the central one was the fact that it gave away our sovereignty to a panel of international corporations whose rulings would supersede any domestic law that we would pass, either a federal law or a state or a local law. This is extremely dangerous and goes against the very values that we have as a country.\n\nWhat to speak of the fact that it would have a negative impact on domestic jobs and that it lacked clear protections for our environment. These are the things that we have to keep at the forefront as we look to enact fair trade deals with other countries to make sure that we continue to be a thriving part of our global economy.", "Dana Bash" -> "So to be clear, Congresswoman, would you keep President Trump's tariffs on China in place?", Entity["Person", "TulsiGabbard::839d6"] -> "I would not, because the approach that President Trump has taken has been extremely volatile without any clear strategic plan, and it has a ravaging and devastating effect on our domestic manufacturers, on our farmers, who are already struggling and now failing to see the light of day because of the plan that Trump has taken.", "Dana Bash" -> "Vice President Biden, would you rejoin the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which, of course, President Trump withdrew from? Please respond.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "I'd renegotiate. We make up 25 percent of the world's economy. In order -- either China is going to write the rules of the road for the 21st century on trade or we are. We have to join with the 40 percent of the world that we had with us, and this time make sure that there's no one sitting at that table doing the deal unless environmentalists are there and labor is there.\n\nAnd to make sure we equip our workers first to compete by investing in them now, in the things that make them more competitive. That's what we have to do. Otherwise, they are going to write the rules of the road. We must have the rest of the world join us to keep them in check from abusing.", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you. Thank you. Vice President Biden, just to be clear, would you or would you not rejoin the TPP, yes or no?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "I would not rejoin the TPP as it was initially put forward. I would insist that we renegotiate pieces of that with the Pacific nations that we had in South America and North America, so that we could bring them together to hold China accountable for the rules of us setting the rules of the road as to how trade should be conducted. Otherwise, they're going to do exactly what they're doing, fill the vacuum and run the -- and run the table.", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you, sir. Mayor de Blasio, you also oppose the deal. Please respond.", Entity["Person", "BillDeBlasio::5777v"] -> "Yeah, and I just want to ask this question of all the candidates, but particularly of Vice President Biden. President Trump is trying to sell NAFTA 2.0. He's got a new name for it. It's just as dangerous as the old NAFTA. It's going to take away American jobs like the old NAFTA, like it did to Michigan. And we cannot have Democrats be party to a new NAFTA.\n\nSo, Vice President, I believe you're the only person on the stage who voted for the original NAFTA. Are you ready to say here and now that you will oppose a new NAFTA and that what you will believe in, which is a lot of us hope for, is trade treaties that empower organized labor across the boundaries of the world and give working people power again, not just multinational corporations.", "Dana Bash" -> "Mr. Vice President?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Yes.", "Dana Bash" -> "Your response? Your response, sir?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Yes.", "Dana Bash" -> "That's it?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "No, he said, would I insist that labor be engaged?\nThe answer is yes.", Entity["Person", "BillDeBlasio::5777v"] -> "I consider that a victory.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Well, I love your affection for me. You spend a lot of time with me.", Entity["Person", "BillDeBlasio::5777v"] -> "You know what? We believe in redemption, Joe. We believe in redemption in this party.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Well, I tell you what, I hope you're part of it.", "Dana Bash" -> "OK, I'm going to ask a question of Senator Bennet now. Senator, CNN reached out to Michigan Democratic primary voters for their most pressing question. Farris from Flint, Michigan, has this question: \"Here in Detroit, our economy has seen firsthand how technology and automation can displace workers and create uncertainty around human job security. How would you balance these disruptions created by technology with the beneficial impact of technology on our economy?", Entity["Person", "MichaelBennet::6ggfg"] -> "Dana, this goes to the last question you asked, as well, which is, how are we going to remain competitive? It's not just about trade, which we were talking about earlier. It's about whether we're going to invest in this country anymore.\n\nSince 2001, we have cut $5 trillion worth of taxes. Almost all of that has gone to the wealthiest people in America. We have made the income inequality worse, not better, through the policies of the federal government. We've spent $5.6 trillion in the Middle East. That's $12 trillion or $13 trillion that from the point of view of driving the economy in Michigan, or anywhere else in America, we might as well just have lit that money on fire. We've got to stop doing that.\n\nAnd we need to invest in America again. For the money that we've spent that I just described, we could have fixed every road and bridge in this country. We could have fixed every airport that needs to be fixed. We could have fixed not just Flint, but every water system in this country.", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you.", Entity["Person", "MichaelBennet::6ggfg"] -> "We could have made Social Security solvent for my children.", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "MichaelBennet::6ggfg"] -> "But we did none of it because of self-serving politicians in Washington, D.C., who voted for deals that were good for them but not for Michigan or the American people.", "Dana Bash" -> "Senator Bennet, thank you very much. Your time is up, sir.", Entity["Person", "MichaelBennet::6ggfg"] -> "Thank you.", "Dana Bash" -> "Mr. Yang, Mr. Yang, women on average earn 80 cents, about 80 cents for every dollar earned by men. Senator Harris wants to fine companies that don't close their gender pay gaps. As an entrepreneur, do you think a stiff fine will change how companies pay their female employees?", Entity["Person", "AndrewYang::f7w42"] -> "I have seen firsthand the inequities in the business world where women are concerned, particularly in start-ups and entrepreneurship. We have to do more at every step. And if you're a woman entrepreneur, the obstacles start not just at home, but then when you seek a mentor or an investor, often they don't look like you and they might not think your idea is the right one.\n\nIn order to give women a leg up, what we have to do is we have to think about women in every situation, including the ones who are in exploitive and abusive jobs and relationships around the country. I'm talking about the waitress who's getting harassed by her boss at the diner who might have a business idea, but right now is stuck where she is.\n\nWhat we have to do is we have to give women the economic freedom to be able to improve their own situations and start businesses, and the best way to do this is by putting a dividend of $1,000 a month into their hands.\nIt would be a game-changer for women around the country, because we know that women do more of the unrecognized and uncompensated work in our society. It will not change unless we change it. And I say that's just what we do.", "Dana Bash" -> "Senator Harris, your response?", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "I think that's support of my proposal, which is this. Since 1963, when we passed the Equal Pay Act, we have been talking about the fact women are not paid equally for equal work. Fast forward to the year of our lord 2019, and women are paid 80 cents on the dollar, black women 61 cents, Native American woman 58 cents, Latinas 53 cents.\n\nI'm done with the conversation. So, yes, I am proposing in order to deal with this, one, I'm going to require corporations to post on their website whether they are paying women equally for equal work. Two, they will be fined for every 1 percent differential between what they're paying men and women, they will be fined 1 percent of their previous year's profit. That will get everybody's attention.", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "Time for action.", "Dana Bash" -> "Senator Gillibrand, what's your response? Will fining companies help solve the problem?", Entity["Person", "KirstenGillibrand::trt5h"] -> "I think we have to have a broader conversation about whether we value women and whether we want to make sure women have every opportunity in the workplace.\n\nAnd I want to address Vice President Biden directly. When the Senate was debating middle-class affordability for childcare, he wrote an op-ed. He voted against it, the only vote, but what he wrote in an op-ed was that he believed that women working outside the home would, quote, \"create the deterioration of family.\" He also said that women who were working outside the home were, quote, \"avoiding responsibility.\"\n\nAnd I just need to understand as a woman who's worked my entire career as the primary wage earner, as the primary caregiver, in fact, the second -- my second son, Henry, is here, and I had him when I was a member of Congress.\n\nSo under Vice President Biden's analysis, am I serving in Congress resulting in the deterioration of the family, because I had access to quality affordable day care? I just want to know what he meant when he said that.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "That was a long time ago, and here\[CloseCurlyQuote]s what it was about. It would have given people making today $100,000 a year a tax break for childcare. I did not want that. I wanted the childcare to go to people making less than $100,000. And that\[CloseCurlyQuote]s what it was about.\n\nAs a single father who in fact raised three children for five years by myself, I have some idea what it cost.\n\nI support making sure that every single solitary person needing childcare get an $8,000 tax credit now. That would put 700,000 women back to work, increase the GDP by almost 8/10 of 1 percent. It's the right thing to do if we can give tax breaks to corporations for these things, why can't we do it this way?", Entity["Person", "KirstenGillibrand::trt5h"] -> "But Mr. Vice President, you didn't answer my question. What did you mean when you said when a woman works outside the home it's resulting in quote, the deterioration of family ...", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "No, what I ...", Entity["Person", "KirstenGillibrand::trt5h"] -> "And that we are voiding -- these are quotes. It was the title of the op-ed and that just causes concern for me because we know America's women are working. 4 out of 10 moms have to work. They're the primary or sole wagers. They actually have to put food on the table.\n\n8 out of 10 moms are working today. Most women have to work to provide for their kids. Many women want to be working to provide for their communities and to help people.", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you, Senator. Let the vice president respond now, thank you.", Entity["Person", "KirstenGillibrand::trt5h"] -> "So either you don't believe it today or what did you mean when you said it then?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "The very beginning my deceased wife worked when we had children. My present wife has worked all the way through raising our children. The fact of the matter is the situation is one that I don't know what's happened.\n\nI wrote the Violence against Women Act. Lilly Ledbetter. I was deeply involved in making sure the equal pay amendments. I was deeply involved on all these things. I came up with the it's on us proposal to see to it that women were treated more decently on college campuses.\n\nYou came to Syracuse University with me and said it was wonderful. I'm passionate about the concern making sure women are treated equally. I don't know what's happened except that you're now running for president.", Entity["Person", "KirstenGillibrand::trt5h"] -> "So I understand -- Mr. Vice President -- Mr. Vice President, I respect you deeply. I respect you deeply but those words are very specific. You said women working outside the home would lead to the deterioration of family.\n\nMy grandmother worked outside the home. My -- my mother worked outside the home. And -- and ....", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you, Senator", Entity["Person", "KirstenGillibrand::trt5h"] -> "(CROSSTALK)\n\nI want to bring Senator Harris into this conversation.", Entity["Person", "KirstenGillibrand::trt5h"] -> "Either he no longer believes it -- I mean I just think he needs to ...", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "I never believed it.", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you. Senator Harris, please respond.", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "Well, I just -- listen, I mean talk about now running for president, you change your position on the Hyde Amendment, Vice President, where you mad a decision for years to withhold resources to poor women to have access to reproductive healthcare and including women who were the victims of rape and incest.\n\nDo you now say that you have evolved and you regret that? Because you have only, since you've been running for president this time, said that you had -- you in some way would take that back or you didn't agree with the decision that you made over many, many years.\n\nAnd this directly impacted so many women in our country and I personally prosecuted rape cases and child molestation cases; and the experience that those women have, those children have and that they would then be denied the resources ...", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you, Senator. Let the Vice President ...", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "I think is -- is unacceptable.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "The fact is that the senator knows that that's not position. Everybody on this stage has been in the Congress and the Senate or House has voted for the Hyde Amendment at some point.\n\nThe Hyde Amendment in the past was available because there was other access for those kinds of services provided privately. But once I wrote the legislation, making sure that every single woman would in fact be have an opportunity to have healthcare paid for by the federal government, everyone that -- that could no longer stand.\n\nI support a woman's right to choose. I support it's a constitutional right. I've supported it and I will continue to support it and I will, in fact, move as president to see to it that the Congress legislates that that is the laws as well.", "Dana Bash" -> "Thank you -- thank you, Mr. Vice President. Governor Inslee, your response.", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "Well why did it take you so long to change your position in the Hyde Amendment. Why did it take so long until you were running for president to change your position on the Hyde?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Because there was not full federal funding for all reproductive services prior to this point.", "Dana Bash" -> "OK. Thank you. Governor Inslee, your response?", Entity["Person", "JayInslee::pt86r"] -> "I -- I would suggest we need to broaden our discussion. I would suggest we need to think about a bigger scandal in America, which is that in professions and careers where women have been more than the majority, they have been almost always under paid.\n\nAnd that is why this year I'm proud to be the governor who won the largest pay increase for our educators in the United States. And I believe that that is long, long overdue. I think it is true for nursing staff as well. And I'm glad that we've now passed in measures. And I'm glad that we've increased our union membership 10 percent ...", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Governor.", Entity["Person", "JayInslee::pt86r"] -> "So unions can stand up for women as well.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Governor Inslee. I want to turn to foreign policy, if we can. Senator Booker, there are about 14,000 U.S. services members in Afghanistan right now. If elected, will they still be in Afghanistan by the end of your first year in office?", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "Well, first of all, I want to say very clearly that I will not do foreign policy by tweet as Donald Trump seems to do all the time. A guy that literally tweets out that we're pulling our troops out before his generals even know about it is creating a dangerous situation for our troops in places like Afghanistan.\n\nAnd so I will bring our troops home and I will bring them home as quickly as possible, but I will not set during a campaign an artificial deadline. I will make sure we do it, we do it expeditiously, we do it safely, to not create a vacuum that's ultimately going to destabilize the Middle East and perhaps create the environment for terrorism and for extremism to threaten our nation.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Congresswoman Gabbard, you're the only veteran on this stage. Please respond.", Entity["Person", "TulsiGabbard::839d6"] -> "This is real in a way that's very difficult to convey in words. I was deployed to Iraq in 2005 during the height of the war where I served in a field medical unit where every single day I saw the high cost of war. Just this past week, two more of our soldiers were killed in Afghanistan.\n\nMy cousin is deployed to Afghanistan right now. Nearly 300 of our Hawaii National Guard soldiers are deployed to Afghanistan, 14,000 servicemembers are deployed there. This is not about arbitrary deadlines. This is about leadership, the leadership I will bring to do the right thing to bring our troops home, within the first year in office, because they shouldn't have been there this long.\n\nFor too long, we've had leaders who have been arbitrating foreign policy from ivory towers in Washington without any idea about the cost and the consequence, the toll that it takes on our servicemembers, on their families. We have to do the right thing, end these wasteful regime change wars, and bring our troops home.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you. Thank you, Congresswoman.\n\nMr. Yang, Iran has now breached the terms of the 2015 nuclear deal after President Trump withdrew the U.S. from the deal, and that puts Iran closer to building a nuclear weapon, the ability to do so, at the very least. You've said if Iran violates the agreement, the U.S. would need to respond, quote, \"very strongly.\" So how would a President Yang respond right now?", Entity["Person", "AndrewYang::f7w42"] -> "I would move to de-escalate tensions in Iran, because they're responding to the fact that we pulled out of this agreement. And it wasn't just us and Iran. There were many other world powers that were part of that multinational agreement. We'd have to try and reenter that agreement, renegotiate the timelines, because the timelines now don't make as much sense.\n\nBut I've signed a pledge to end the forever wars. Right now, our strength abroad reflects our strength at home. What's happened, really? We've fallen apart at home, so we elected Donald Trump, and now we have this erratic and unpredictable relationship with even our longstanding partners and allies.\n\nWhat we have to do is we have to start investing those resources to solve the problems right here at home. We've spent trillions of dollars and lost thousands of American lives in conflicts that have had unclear benefits. We've been in a constant state of war for 18 years. This is not what the American people want. I would bring the troops home, I would de-escalate tensions with Iran, and I would start investing our resources in our own communities.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Governor Inslee, your response?", Entity["Person", "JayInslee::pt86r"] -> "Well, I think that these are matters of great and often difficult judgment. And there is no sort of primer for presidents to read. We have to determine whether a potential president has adequate judgment in these decisions.\n\nI was only one of two members on this panel today who were called to make a judgment about the Iraq war. I was a relatively new member of Congress, and I made the right judgment, because it was obvious to me that George Bush was fanning the flames of war.\n\nNow we face similar situations where we recognize we have a president who would be willing to beat the drums of war. We need a president who can stand up against the drums of war and make rational decisions. That was the right vote, and I believe it.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you. Thank you, Governor. Vice President Biden, he was obviously suggesting that you made the wrong decision and had bad judgment when you voted to go to war in Iraq as a U.S. senator.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "I did make a bad judgment, trusting the president saying he was only doing this to get inspectors in and get the U.N. to agree to put inspectors in. From the moment \"shock and awe\" started, from that moment, I was opposed to the effort, and I was outspoken as much as anyone at all in the Congress and the administration.\n\nSecondly, I was asked by the president in the first meeting we had on Iraq, he turned and said, Joe, get our combat troops out, in front of the entire national security team. One of the proudest moment of my life was to stand there in Al-Faw Palace and tell everyone that we're coming -- all our combat troops are coming home.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "I opposed the surge in Afghanistan, this long overdue -- we should have not, in fact, gone into Afghanistan the way...", "Jake Tapper" -> "Thank you, Mr. Vice President. I want to bring in...", Entity["Person", "JayInslee::pt86r"] -> "Mr. Vice President -- I'd like to comment.", "Jake Tapper" -> "I would like to bring in the person on the stage who served in Iraq, Governor -- I'm sorry, Congresswoman Gabbard. Your response to what Vice President Biden just said.", Entity["Person", "TulsiGabbard::839d6"] -> "We were all lied to. This is the betrayal. This is the betrayal to the American people, to me, to my fellow servicemembers. We were all lied to, told that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, was working with Al Qaida, and that this posed a threat to the American people.\n\nSo I enlisted after 9/11 to protect our country, to go after those who attacked us on that fateful day, who took the lives of thousands of Americans.\n\nThe problem is that this current president is continuing to betray us. We were supposed to be going after Al Qaida. But over years now, not only have we not gone after Al Qaida, who is stronger today than they were in 9/11, our president is supporting Al Qaida.", "Don Lemon" -> "Thank you, Congresswoman.", Entity["Person", "BillDeBlasio::5777v"] -> "We didn't talk about Iran.", "Don Lemon" -> "Let's talk about -- thank you, please.", Entity["Person", "BillDeBlasio::5777v"] -> "We didn't talk about Iran.", "Don Lemon" -> "Please.", Entity["Person", "BillDeBlasio::5777v"] -> "We're on the march to war in Iran right now, and we blew by it.", "Don Lemon" -> "Please, Mayor. The rules -- please follow the rules.", Entity["Person", "BillDeBlasio::5777v"] -> "I respect the rules, but we have to stop this march to war in Iran.", "Don Lemon" -> "Mayor, thank you very much. We're going on...", Entity["Person", "BillDeBlasio::5777v"] -> "And the Democratic Party has to stand up for it.", "Don Lemon" -> "... and we're going to talk about another subject. Mayor, thank you very much. I appreciate that.\n\nLet's talk about now the former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's appearance in front of Congress last week. When asked whether or not the president could be charged with a crime after leaving office, his answer was yes.\n\nSenator Harris, you have criticized President Trump for interfering with the Justice Department, and just last month you said if you were elected president, your Justice Department would, quote, \"have no choice and should go forward with obstruction of justice charges against former President Trump.\" Why is it OK for you to advocate for the Justice Department to prosecute somebody, but President Trump, not him?", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "Well, I would never direct the Department of Justice to do whatever it believes it should do. But, listen, look, we all watched his testimony. I've read the report. There are 10 clear incidents of obstruction of justice by this president, and he needs to be held accountable. I have seen people go to prison for far less.\nAnd the reality of it is that we have a person in the White House right now who has been shielded by a memo in the United States Department of Justice that says a sitting president cannot be indicted. I believe the American people are right to say there should be consequence and accountability for everyone and no one is above the law, including the president of the United States.", "Don Lemon" -> "Senator Booker, your response?", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "My response is exactly that. I've read the report. I've read the redacted versions of the report. We have something that is astonishing going on in the United States of the America. We have a president that is not acting like the leader of the free world. He's acting like an authoritarian against the actual Constitution that he swore an oath to uphold.\n\nAnd so this is a difference with a lot of us on this debate stage. I believe that we in the United States Congress should start impeachment proceedings immediately. And I'll tell you this...\nDebbie Stabenow now has joined my call for starting impeachment proceedings, because he is now stonewalling Congress, not allowing -- subjecting himself to the checks and balances. We swore an oath to uphold the Constitution. The politics of this be dammed. When we look back in history at what happened when a president of the United States started acting more like an authoritarian leader than the leader of the free world, the question is, is what will we have done? And I believe the Congress should do its job.", "Don Lemon" -> "Senator Booker, thank you very much. Secretary Castro, what's your response?", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "Well, I agree. I was the first of the candidates to call on Congress to begin impeachment proceedings. There are 10 different incidents that Robert Mueller has pointed out where this president either obstructed justice or attempted to obstruct justice. And I believe that they should go forward with impeachment proceedings.\n\nAs to the question of what my Department of Justice would do, I agree with those who say that a president should not direct an attorney general specifically to prosecute or not prosecute. However, I believe that the evidence is plain and clear and that if it gets that far, that you're likely to see a prosecution of Donald Trump.", "Don Lemon" -> "Thank you, Secretary.\n\nMayor de Blasio, I'm going to bring you in. What's your response?", Entity["Person", "BillDeBlasio::5777v"] -> "I think it's obvious at this point in our history that the president has committed the crimes worthy of impeachment. But I want to caution my fellow Democrats. While we move in every way we can for impeachment, we have to remember at the same time the American people are out there looking for us to do something for them in their lives. And what they see when they turn on the TV or go online is just talk about impeachment.\n\nWe need more talk about working people and their lives. For example, are we really ready -- and I ask people on this stage this question -- are we ready to make sure that the wealthy pay their fair share in taxes? That's something every American wants to know about. That's something they want answers to right now.\n\nSo, yeah, move for impeachment, but don't forget to do the people's business and to stand up for working people, because that's how we're actually going to beat Donald Trump. The best impeachment is beating him in the election of 2020.", "Don Lemon" -> "Mayor, thank you very much. Senator Bennet, how do you respond to this conversation?", Entity["Person", "MichaelBennet::6ggfg"] -> "I think, look, as we go forward here, we need to recognize a very practical reality, which is that we are four months -- we've got the August recess. Then we are four months away from the Iowa Caucuses. And I just want to make sure whatever we do doesn't end up with an acquittal by Mitch McConnell in the Senate, which it surely would. And then President Trump would be running saying that he had been acquitted by the United States Congress.\n\nI believe we have a moral obligation to beat Donald Trump.\nHe has to be a single-term president. And we can't do anything that plays into our -- his hands. We were talking earlier about -- about climate up here. It's so important. Donald Trump should be the last climate denier that's ever in the White House.", "Don Lemon" -> "Senator Bennet, thank you very much. Secretary Castro, please respond.", Entity["Person", "MichaelBennet::6ggfg"] -> "But we need to be smart about how we're running or we're going to give him a second term. We can't do it.", "Don Lemon" -> "Secretary, please, your turn.", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "Well, let me first say that I really do believe that we can walk and chew gum at the same time. All of us have a vision for the future of the country that we're articulating to the American people. We're going to continue to do that. We have an election coming up.\n\nAt the same time, Senator, you know, I think that too many folks in the Senate and in the Congress have been spooked by 1998. I believe that the times are different. And in fact, I think that folks are making a mistake by not pursuing impeachment. The Mueller Report clearly details that he deserves it.\n\nAnd what's going to happen in the fall of next year, of 2020, if they don't impeach him, is he's going to say, \"You see? You see? The Democrats didn't go after me on impeachment, and you know why? Because I didn't do anything wrong.\"\nThese folks that always investigate me, they're always trying to go after me. When it came down to it, they didn't go after me there because I didn't do anything wrong.\"\n\nConversely, if Mitch McConnell is the one that lets him off the hook, we're going to be able to say...", "Don Lemon" -> "Secretary...", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "\"Well, sure, they impeached him in the House, but his friend, Mitch McConnell, Moscow Mitch, let him off the hook.\"", "Don Lemon" -> "Senator Bennet, please respond.", Entity["Person", "MichaelBennet::6ggfg"] -> "I -- I don't disagree with that. You just said it better than I did. We have to walk and chew gum at the same time. It is incredibly unusual for members of Congress to be able to do that. And I'm glad that Secretary Castro has the ambition...", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "Well, my brother can. He's here tonight.", Entity["Person", "MichaelBennet::6ggfg"] -> "Ah, that's what I was going to say. It's your brother that's given you that good feeling about the Congress.\nThat's what we should do.", "Don Lemon" -> "Thank you, Senator. Thank you, gentlemen.\n\nThe debate continues, right after this.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Welcome back to the CNN Democratic presidential debate. It is time now for closing statements. You will each receive one minute. Mayor de Blasio, let's begin with you.", Entity["Person", "BillDeBlasio::5777v"] -> "Thank you. For the last three years, we\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve watched Donald Trump pit working people against each other, black versus white, citizen versus immigrant. And why? So that the wealthy and the powerful he represents can hold the American dream hostage from everyone else.\n\nWe can't let them get away with it. If we're going to beat Donald Trump, this has to be a party that stands for something. This has to be the party of labor unions. This has to be the party of universal healthcare. This has to be the party that's not afraid to say out loud we're going to tax the hell out of the wealthy.\n\nAnd when we do that, Donald Trump right on cue will call us socialists. Well, here's what I'll say to him. Donald, you're the real socialist. The problem is, it's socialism for the rich. We, here in this country, we don't have to take that anymore. We can fight back.\n\nIf you agree that we can stand up to Donald Trump and we can stand up to the wealthy, then go to taxthehell.com and join us, so we can build a country that puts working people first.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Senator Bennet?", Entity["Person", "MichaelBennet::6ggfg"] -> "Thank you. Thank you very much.\n\nWhat I want to say to all of you tonight is, we have been here before as a country. We have faced challenges that we've -- we actually even forget some of us tonight how hard the people fought, how hard they worked, how hard they organized, the votes they had to take, the people they had to get to the polls to make this country more democratic, more fair, and more free.\n\nAnd now we have a person in the White House who has no appreciation of that history, who doesn't believe in the rule of law, who doesn't believe in the independence of the judiciary, who doesn't believe that climate change is real.\n\nI think that we have an incredible opportunity in front of us, all of us, to come together just as our parents and grandparents did before them, and face challenges even harder than the ones that we face, but the only way we're going to be able to do it is to put the divisive politics of Donald Trump behind us and the divisive politics of the last 10 years behind us.\n\nWe need to come together united against a broken Washington, make Donald Trump a one-term president, and begin to govern this country again for our kids and our grandkids who cannot do it for themselves. We have to do it for them.\n\nPlease join me at michaelbennet.com. Thanks for being here tonight.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Governor Inslee?", Entity["Person", "JayInslee::pt86r"] -> "For decades, we have kicked the can down the road on climate change. And now under Donald Trump, we face a looming catastrophe. But it is not too late. We have one last chance. And when you have one chance in life, you take it.\n\nThink about this: Literally the survival of humanity on this planet and civilization as we know it is in the hands of the next president. And we have to have a leader who will do what is necessary to save us. And that includes making this the top priority of the next presidency.\n\nAnd I alone on this panel am making a commitment that this will be the organizing principle of my administration not the first day, but every day. And if you share my view of the urgency of this matter, I hope you'll join me, because we are up against powerful special fossil fuel interests. And it is time to stand up on our legs and confront the fossil fuel special interests. Because that is our salvation, what it depends upon.\n\nSo I hope you will consider going to jayinslee.com and joining this effort. And I will close with this: I am confident and optimistic tonight, even in the face of this difficulty, because I know we can build a clean energy economy, I know we can save our children and our grandchildren. I know that we can defeat climate change and we will defeat Donald Trump.\n\nThis is our moral responsibility. And we will fulfill it. Thank you very much.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Senator Gillibrand?", Entity["Person", "KirstenGillibrand::trt5h"] -> "Donald trump has really torn apart the moral fabric of this country, dividing us on every racial line, every religious line, every socioeconomic line he can find.\n\nI'm running for president because I want to help people, and I actually have the experience and the ability to do that. I've brought Congress together and actually made a difference in people's lives.\n\nI also know how to beat Donald Trump. He has broken his promises to the American people. I've taken this fight directly to his backyard in Michigan and Ohio and in Pennsylvania, and I'll go to all the places in this country. I will fight for your family. It doesn't matter who you are, it doesn't matter where you live, it doesn't matter who you love. Because that's my responsibility.\n\nAnd I've done this before. I started out in a 2-to-1 Republican district. I won it twice. I've never lost an election since. And I not only bring people together electorally, but also legislatively. I get things done.\n\nSo we need a president who's not afraid of the big challenges, of the big fights. There is no false choice. We don't need a liberal or progressive with big ideas or we don't need a moderate who can win back Trump-Obama voters. You need someone who can do both. And that's who I am.\n\nPlease go to kirstengillibrand.com so I can make the next debate stage.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Congresswoman Gabbard?", Entity["Person", "TulsiGabbard::839d6"] -> "Thank you.\n\nNow, Donald Trump and warmongering politicians in Washington have failed us. They continue to escalate tensions with other nuclear-armed countries like Russia and China and North Korea, starting a new Cold War, pushing us closer and closer to the brink of nuclear catastrophe.\n\nNow, as we stand here tonight, there are thousands of nuclear missiles pointed at us. And if we were to get an attack right here tonight, we would have 30 minutes, 30 minutes before we were hit. And you would receive an alert like the one we received in Hawaii last year that would say, \"Incoming missile. Seek immediate shelter. This is not a drill. Seek immediate shelter. This is not a drill.\"\n\nAnd you would see as we did, as my loved ones in Hawaii did, there is no shelter. This is the warmonger's hoax. There is no shelter. It's all a lie.\n\nAs president, I will end this insanity, because it doesn't have to be this way. I will end these wasteful regime change wars, work to end this new Cold War through the use of diplomacy to de-escalate these tensions and take the trillions of dollars that we've been wasting on these wars and on these weapons and redirect those resources into serving the needs of our people right here at home, things like health care for all, making sure everyone in this country has clean water to drink and clean air to breathe, investing in education, investing in our infrastructure.\n\nThe needs are great. As your president, I will put your interests above all else.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Secretary Castro?", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "Well, first of all, let me say thank you to you, Jake, Dana, and to Don, and to everybody here and to those watching.\n\nYou know, this election is all about what kind of nation we're going to become. You and I, we stand on the shoulders of folks who have made beds and made sacrifices, people that fought in wars and fought discrimination, folks that picked crops and stood in picket lines, and they helped build the wonderful nation that we live in today.\n\nDonald Trump has not been bashful in his cruelty. And I\[CloseCurlyQuote]m not going to be bashful in my common sense and compassion. I believe that we need leadership that understands that we need to move forward as one nation, with one destiny.\n\nOur destiny in the years to come is to be the smartest, the healthiest, the fairest and the most prosperous nation on Earth.", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "If you want to help me build that America for the future, I hope you\[CloseCurlyQuote]ll go to juliancastro.com. And on January 20th, 2021, we\[CloseCurlyQuote]ll say together, \[OpenCurlyDoubleQuote]Adios to Donald Trump.\[CloseCurlyDoubleQuote]", "Jake Tapper" -> "Mr. Yang?", Entity["Person", "AndrewYang::f7w42"] -> "You know what the talking heads couldn't stop talking about after the last debate? It's not the fact that I'm somehow number four on the stage in national polling. It was the fact that I wasn't wearing a tie. Instead of talking about automation and our future, including the fact that we automated away 4 million manufacturing jobs, hundreds of thousands right here in Michigan, we're up here with makeup on our faces and our rehearsed attack lines, playing roles in this reality TV show.\n\nIt's one reason why we elected a reality TV star as our president.\nWe need to be laser-focused on solving the real challenges of today, like the fact that the most common jobs in America may not exist in a decade, or that most Americans cannot pay their bills. My flagship proposal, the freedom dividend, would put $1,000 a month into the hands of every American adult. It would be a game-changer for millions of American families.\n\nIf you care more about your family and your kids than my neckwear, enter your zip code at yang2020.com and see what $1,000 a month would mean to your community. I have done the math. It\[CloseCurlyQuote]s not left; it\[CloseCurlyQuote]s not right. It\[CloseCurlyQuote]s forward. And that is how we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re going to beat Donald Trump in 2020.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Senator Booker?", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "Thank you. First, I just want to give a lot of thanks to the city of Detroit. They're hosting us today, and one of the reasons I respect this city is because it has the kind of defiant love that I find in many American cities, including the city of Newark. And Detroit is turning around and Newark is turning around because we let no one divide us, no one demean or degrade us or underestimate or worth. We pulled together and fought for common purpose and common cause.\n\nThat's the history of this city. My mom is sitting there who was born in the city of Detroit, born to a guy...\n... that was a UAW worker, my grandfather, who pulled his family out of poverty in the Depression. My grandmother joined him. She was really entrepreneurial, opened a pool hall and a laundromat right here in this city.\n\nThat is the American dream. And so many of us have stories like that. But the dream of this country is under threat right now. While, my mom's generation, 80 -- 95% of baby boomers did better than their parents. It's now just a coin toss for millennials. We have a real crisis in our country, and the crisis is Donald Trump, but not only Donald Trump.\n\nI have a frustration that sometimes people are saying the only thing they want is to beat Donald Trump. Well, that is the floor and not the ceiling. The way we beat Donald Trump is not just focusing on him. He wants to take all the oxygen out of the room. It's when we start focusing on each other and understanding that our common bonds and our common purpose to address our common pain is what has saved us before. It's what's going to save us now. That is the kind of leader that I am going to be as president of the United States, not just uniting the Democratic Party but making sure that we put more \"indivisible\" back into this one nation under God.\n\nAnd if you believe like I do, please go to corybooker.com and join the mission.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Senator Harris?", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "So in my background as attorney general of California, I took on the big banks who preyed on the homeowners, many of whom lost their homes and will never be able to buy another. I've taken on the for-profit colleges who preyed on students, put them out of business. I've preyed on transnational criminal organizations that have preyed on women and children.\n\nAnd I will tell you, we have a predator living in the White House.\nAnd I'm going to tell you something. Donald Trump has predatory nature and predatory instincts. And the thing about predators is this. By their very nature, they prey on people they perceive to be weak. They prey on people they perceive to be vulnerable. They prey on people who are in need of help, often desperate for help. And predators are cowards.\n\nWhat we need is someone who is going to be on that debate stage with Donald Trump and defeat him by being able to prosecute the case against four more years. And let me tell you, we\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve got a long rap sheet. We\[CloseCurlyQuote]re looking at someone who passed a tax bill benefiting the top 1 percent and the biggest corporations in this country when he said he would help working families. We\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve got a person who has put babies in cages and separated children from their parents. We have someone who passed a so-called trade policy that was trade policy by tweet and has resulted in a tax on American families.\n\nSo we must defeat him and then, in turning the page, write the next chapter for our country. And that has to be written in a way that recognizes what wakes people up at 3:00 in the morning. And that is my agenda, the 3:00 a.m. agenda that is focused on giving folks the jobs they need, getting their children the education they need, making sure they have the health care they need and the future they deserve.\n\nSo please join me at kamalaharris.org. And I thank you for your time.", "Jake Tapper" -> "Vice President Biden?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Thank you. Thank you very much. And thank you, Mr. Mayor, for Detroit hosting this.\n\nLook, I've said it many times, and I think everyone agrees with this. We're in a battle for the soul of America. This is the most consequential election anyone of you, no matter how old or young you are, has ever, ever participated in. Four more years of Donald Trump will go down as an aberration -- hard to overcome the damage he's done, but we can overcome it. Eight more years of Donald Trump will change America in a fundamental way. The America we know will no longer exist.\n\nEverybody knows who Donald Trump is. We have to let him know who we are. We choose science over fiction. We choose hope over fear. We choose unity over division. And we choose -- we choose the idea that we can as Americans, when we act together, do anything. This is the United States of America. When we've acted together, we have never, never, never been unable to overcome whatever the problem was.\n\nIf you agree with me, go to joe30330 and help me in this fight. Thank you very much."}, {Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "Good evening, y bienvenidos a Texas. Welcome to Texas.\nIt\[CloseCurlyQuote]s great to be here at TSU, home of the Tigers. You know, on Jan. 20, 2021, at 12:01 p.m., we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re going to have a Democratic president, a Democratic House, and a Democratic Senate.\nThere will be life after Donald Trump. But the truth is that our problems didn\[CloseCurlyQuote]t start just with Donald Trump, and we won\[CloseCurlyQuote]t solve them by embracing old ideas. We need a bold vision: universal pre-K and universal health care, unleashing millions of new jobs in the clean energy economy, a tax system that rewards people who have to work for a living.\n\n\nBut first, we have to win. And that means exciting a young, diverse coalition of Americans who are ready for a bold future. That\[CloseCurlyQuote]s what Kennedy did, it\[CloseCurlyQuote]s what Carter did, it\[CloseCurlyQuote]s what Clinton did, it\[CloseCurlyQuote]s what Barack Obama did, and it\[CloseCurlyQuote]s what I can do in this race. Get back Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania, Florida, Georgia, and Arizona, and finally turn Texas blue and say goodbye to Donald Trump.\nABC ANCHOR GEORGE", "George Stephanopoulos" -> "Senator Klobuchar?\n\nSEN. AMY", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "Good evening, Texas Southern. I believe that what unites us up here, the 10 of us, is much stronger than what divides us. And I think that\[CloseCurlyQuote]s true of our country, too.\n\nNow, I may not be the loudest person up here, but I think we've already got that in the White House.\nHouston, we have a problem. This \[LongDash] we have a guy there that is literally running our country like a game show. He would rather lie than lead. I think we need something different.\n\nI am someone that tells the truth. I don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t make promises that I can\[CloseCurlyQuote]t keep. I have people\[CloseCurlyQuote]s back. And I believe that to win, you bring people with you and that is how you govern, as well.\n\nSo, you\[CloseCurlyQuote]re going to hear a lot of ideas up here. Some will be great. But if you see that some of them seem a little off-track, I\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve got a better way. If you feel stuck in the middle of the extremes in our politics and you are tired of the noise and the nonsense, you\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve got a home with me, because I don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t want to be the president for half of America. I want to be the president for all of America.", "George Stephanopoulos" -> "Congressman Beto O'Rourke?\n\nO\[CloseCurlyQuote]ROURKE: It\[CloseCurlyQuote]s an honor to be on this debate stage. It is wonderful to be back in Texas, in Houston, back here at TSU.\n\nOn Aug. 3, in El Paso, Texas, two things became crystal clear for me, and I think produced a turning point for this country. The first is just how dangerous Donald Trump is, the cost and the consequence of his presidency.\n\nA racism and violence that had long been a part of America was welcomed out into the open and directed to my hometown of El Paso, Texas, where 22 people were killed, dozens more grievously injured by a man carrying a weapon he should never have been able to buy in the first place, inspired to kill by our president.\n\nThe second is how insufficient our politics is to meet the threat that we have right now. The bitterness, the pettiness, the smallness of the moment, the incentives to attack one another and try to make differences without distinctions, mountains out of mole hills, we have to be bigger. We have to see clearly, we have to speak honestly, and we have to act decisively. That's what I want to do for you as president of the United States. Thank you.", "George Stephanopoulos" -> "Senator Cory Booker?", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "It was over 20 years ago that I was a law student and moved to inner-city Newark, New Jersey, to serve as a tenants rights lawyer to try to address the challenges in my community. And I was sobered by them \[LongDash] the gun violence, the substandard housing.\n\nBut it was my greatest mentor, a woman named Ms. Virginia Jones, who challenged me. She said, \[OpenCurlyDoubleQuote]Boy, if all you see in this neighborhood is problems, that\[CloseCurlyQuote]s all there\[CloseCurlyQuote]s ever going to be. But if you\[CloseCurlyQuote]re stubborn and defiant and can put forth a vision that can unify people, then we can make transformative change.\[CloseCurlyDoubleQuote] She was a church woman that said, \[OpenCurlyDoubleQuote]Without vision, the people will perish.\[CloseCurlyDoubleQuote]\n\nWell, that\[CloseCurlyQuote]s exactly what we did. We created extraordinary unity in our community, and we did things that other people think \[LongDash] thought was impossible.\n\nThat\[CloseCurlyQuote]s the story of America. At our best, we unify, we find common cause and common purpose. The differences among us Democrats on the stage are not as great as the urgency for us to unite as a party, not just to beat Donald Trump, but to unite America in common cause and common purpose. That\[CloseCurlyQuote]s why I\[CloseCurlyQuote]m running for president, and that\[CloseCurlyQuote]s how I will lead this nation.", "George Stephanopoulos" -> "Entrepreneur Andrew Yang?", Entity["Person", "AndrewYang::f7w42"] -> "In America today, everything revolves around the almighty dollar \[LongDash] our schools, our hospitals, our media, even our government. It\[CloseCurlyQuote]s why we don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t trust our institutions anymore. We have to get our country working for us again, instead of the other way around. We have to see ourselves as the owners and shareholders of this democracy rather than inputs into a giant machine.\nWhen you donate money to a presidential campaign, what happens? The politician spends the money on TV ads and consultants and you hope it works out. It\[CloseCurlyQuote]s time to trust ourselves more than our politicians.\n\nThat\[CloseCurlyQuote]s why I\[CloseCurlyQuote]m going to do something unprecedented tonight. My campaign will now give a freedom dividend of $1,000 a month for an entire year to 10 American families, someone watching this at home right now. If you believe that you can solve your own problems better than any politician, go to yang2020.com and tell us how $1,000 a month will help you do just that. This is how we will get our country working for us again, the American people.", "George Stephanopoulos" -> "Mayor Pete Buttigieg?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "It\[CloseCurlyQuote]s original, I\[CloseCurlyQuote]ll give you that.\n\nThe American people are divided and doubtful at the very moment we need to rise to some of the greatest challenges we\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve ever seen. As a mayor of an industrial city coming back from the brink, as a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, I know what\[CloseCurlyQuote]s at stake in our national leadership.\n\nWe keep sending politicians to Washington asking them to fight for us, but then when they get there, they seem more interested in the part about fighting than the part about us. Good politics is supposed to be not about the day-to-day fights of the politicians, but about the day-to-day lives of Americans.\n\nWe just marked the anniversary of 9/11. All day today, I\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve been thinking about Sept. 12, the way it felt when for a moment we came together as a country. Imagine if we had been able to sustain that unity. Imagine what would be possible right now with ideas that are bold enough to meet the challenges of our time, but big enough, as well, that they could unify the American people. That\[CloseCurlyQuote]s what presidential leadership can do. That\[CloseCurlyQuote]s what the presidency is for. And that is why I\[CloseCurlyQuote]m asking for your vote.", "George Stephanopoulos" -> "Senator Kamala Harris?", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "Thank you. It\[CloseCurlyQuote]s great to be back at TSU.\n\nSo I plan on spending tonight talking with you about my plans to address the problems that keep you up at night. But first, I have a few words for Donald Trump, who we all know is watching.\nSo, President Trump, you\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve spent the last two-and-a-half years full time trying to sow hate and division among us, and that is why we\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve gotten nothing done. You have used hate, intimidation, fear, and over 12,000 lies as a way to distract from your failed policies and your broken promises. The only reason you\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve not been indicted is because there was a memo in the Department of Justice that says a sitting president cannot be charged with a crime.\n\nBut here\[CloseCurlyQuote]s what you don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t get: What you don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t get you is that the American people are so much better than this. And we know that the vast majority of us have so much more in common than what separates us, regardless of our race, where we live, or the party with which we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re registered to vote. And I plan on focusing on our common issues, our common hopes and desires, and in that way, unifying our country, winning this election, and turning the page for America.\n\nAnd now, President Trump, you can go back to watching Fox News.", "George Stephanopoulos" -> "Senator Bernie Sanders? Senator Sanders?\n\nSEN. BERNIE", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Let me be blunt and tell you what you don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t hear much about in Congress or in the media, and that is, it goes without saying that we must and will defeat Trump, the most dangerous president in the history of this country.\nBut we must do more. We must do more. We have got to recognize that this country is moving into an oligarchic form of society where a handful of billionaires control the economic and political life of this country. And as president, I am prepared to take them on.\n\nYes, we will raise the minimum wage to a living wage. Yes, we will finally make sure that every American has health care as a human right, not a privilege. And, yes, we will address the catastrophic crisis of climate change and transform our energy system away from fossil fuel.", "George Stephanopoulos" -> "Senator Elizabeth Warren?\n\nSEN. ELIZABETH", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "So, I was born and raised in Oklahoma, but I\[CloseCurlyQuote]m sure glad to be in Texas tonight.\nAll three of my brothers served in military bases here in Texas. That was their ticket to the middle class. Me, I got my big opportunity about a half-mile down the road from here at the University of Houston, back when it cost $50 a semester.\nFor a price that I could pay for, on a part-time waitressing job, I got to finish my four-year degree and I became a special-needs teacher. And after law school, my first big job was back here in Houston.\n\nBy then, I had two little kids, and when child care nearly brought me down, my Aunt Bee moved in and saved us all.\n\nThe paths to America\[CloseCurlyQuote]s middle class have gotten a lot smaller and a lot narrower. Today, service members are preyed upon by predatory lenders. Students are crushed by debt. And families cannot afford child care.\nI know what\[CloseCurlyQuote]s broken. I know how to fix it. And I\[CloseCurlyQuote]m going to lead the fight to get it done.", "George Stephanopoulos" -> "Vice President Joe Biden.\n\nJOE", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "You know, when President Kennedy announced the moon shot, he used a phrase that sticks with me my whole life. He said, we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re doing it because we refuse to postpone. Well, I refuse to postpone one more minute spending billions of dollars on curing cancer, Alzheimer\[CloseCurlyQuote]s, and other diseases which, if we invest in them, we can find cures.\n\nI refuse to postpone giving single child in America, no matter their Zip code, pre-K all the way through high school and beyond. I refuse to postpone any longer taking on climate change and leading the world in taking on climate change.\n\nLook, this is the United States of America. There has never been a single solitary time when we\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve set our mind to something we\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve been unable to do it. We\[CloseCurlyQuote]re walking around with our heads down like woe is me. We\[CloseCurlyQuote]re the best-equipped nation in the world to take this on. It\[CloseCurlyQuote]s no longer time to postpone. We should get moving. There\[CloseCurlyQuote]s enormous, enormous opportunities once we get rid of Donald Trump.\nDemocratic presidential candidates debate in Houston.Democratic presidential candidates debate in Houston.", "George Stephanopoulos" -> "Candidates, thank you. Several of you said you are more united than divided, and that is certainly true. All of you agree on one big thing, the goal of defeating President Trump, driving the country in a new direction. But out on the campaign trail, you have outlined big differences over how far to go and how fast to go.\n\nAnd, Vice President Biden, the differences between you and the senators on either side of you tonight strike at the heart of this primary debate. Both senators Warren and Sanders want to replace Obamacare with Medicare-for-all. You want to build on Obamacare, not scrap it. They propose spending far more than you to combat climate change and tackle student loan debt. And they would raise more in taxes than you to pay for their programs.\n\nAre Sens. Warren and Sanders pushing too far beyond where Democrats want to go and where the country needs to go?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "That will be for the voters to decide that question. Let me tell you what I think. I think we should have a debate on health care. I think \[LongDash] I know that the senator says she\[CloseCurlyQuote]s for Bernie, well, I\[CloseCurlyQuote]m for Barack. I think the Obamacare worked. I think the way we add to it, replace everything that has been cut, add a public option, guarantee that everyone will be able to have affordable insurance, number one.\n\nNumber two, I think we should be in a position of taking a look at what costs are. My plan for health care costs a lot of money. It costs $740 billion. It doesn\[CloseCurlyQuote]t cost $30 trillion, $3.4 trillion a year, it turns out, is twice what the entire federal budget is. That\[CloseCurlyQuote]s before \[LongDash] exists now, without interest on the debt. How are we going to pay for it? I want to hear that tonight how that\[CloseCurlyQuote]s happened.\n\nThus far, my distinguished friend, the senator on my left, has not indicated how she pays for it. And the senator has, in fact, come forward and said how he\[CloseCurlyQuote]s going to pay for it, but it gets him about halfway there. There\[CloseCurlyQuote]s a lot of other things that need to be done.\n\nI have a bold plan to deal with making sure we triple the money for at-risk schools that are Title I schools, from 15 to $45 billion a year. But I go down the line and these are things we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re talking about, I lay out how I can pay for it, how I can get it done, and why it\[CloseCurlyQuote]s better.", "George Stephanopoulos" -> "Sen. Warren, let me take that to you, particularly on what Sen. Biden was saying there about health care. He has actually praised Bernie Sanders for being candid about his health care plan, that senator \[LongDash] says that Sanders has been candid about the fact that middle class taxes are going to go up and most of private insurance is going to be eliminated. Will you make that same admission?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "So, let\[CloseCurlyQuote]s be clear about health care. And let\[CloseCurlyQuote]s actually start where vice president did. We all owe a huge debt to President Obama, who fundamentally transformed health care in America and committed this country to health care for every human being.\nAnd now the question is, how best can we improve on it? And I believe the best way we can do that is we make sure that everybody gets covered by health care at the lowest possible cost. How do we pay for it? We pay for it, those at the very top, the richest individuals and the biggest corporations, are going to pay more. And middle-class families are going to pay less. That\[CloseCurlyQuote]s how this is going to work.", "George Stephanopoulos" -> "Direct question. You said middle-class families are going to pay less. But will middle-class taxes go up to pay for the program? I know you believe that the deductibles and the premiums will go down. Will middle-class taxes go up? Will private insurance be eliminated?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "Look, what families have to deal with is cost, total cost. That\[CloseCurlyQuote]s what they have to deal with. And understand, families are paying for their health care today. Families pay every time an insurance company says, \[OpenCurlyDoubleQuote]Sorry, you can\[CloseCurlyQuote]t see that specialist.\[CloseCurlyDoubleQuote] Every time an insurance company says, \[OpenCurlyDoubleQuote]Sorry, that doctor is out of network. Sorry, we are not covering that prescription.\n\nFamilies are paying every time they don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t get a prescription filled because they can\[CloseCurlyQuote]t pay for it. They don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t have a lump checked out because they can\[CloseCurlyQuote]t afford the co-pay. What we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re talking about here is what\[CloseCurlyQuote]s going to happen in families\[CloseCurlyQuote] pockets, what\[CloseCurlyQuote]s going to happen in their budgets.\n\nAnd the answer is on Medicare-for-all, costs are going to go up for wealthier individuals and costs are going to go up for giant corporations. But for hard-working families across this country, costs are going to go down and that\[CloseCurlyQuote]s how it should work under Medicare-for-all in our health care system.", "George Stephanopoulos" -> "Sen. Sanders, you were invoked by the vice president, also take on that question about taxes.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Well, Joe said that Medicare-for-all would cost over $30 trillion.\n\nThat's right, Joe.\n\nStatus quo over 10 years will be $50 trillion. Every study done shows that Medicare-for-all is the most cost-effective approach to providing health care to every man, woman, and child in this country. I, who wrote the damn bill, if I may say so...\n... intend to eliminate all out-of-pocket expenses, all deductibles, all co-payments. Nobody in America will pay more than $200 a year for prescription drugs, because we're going to stand up to the greed and corruption and price-fixing of the pharmaceutical industry.\nWe need \[LongDash] we need a health-care system that guarantees health care to all people as every other major country does, not a system which provides $100 billion a year in profit for the drug companies and the insurance companies.\n\nAnd I\[CloseCurlyQuote]ll tell you how absurd the system is tonight on ABC, the health-care industry will be advertising, telling you how bad Medicare-for-all is, because they want to protect their profits. That is absurd.", "George Stephanopoulos" -> "Vice president Biden...", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "If I could respond, George.", "George Stephanopoulos" -> "You get a response and then we're going to broaden out the discussion.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Okay, number one, my health care plan does significantly cut the costs of \[LongDash] the largest out-of-pocket payment you\[CloseCurlyQuote]ll pay is $1,000. You\[CloseCurlyQuote]ll be able to get into a \[LongDash] anyone who can\[CloseCurlyQuote]t afford it gets automatically enrolled in the Medicare-type option we have, et cetera.\n\nBut guess what? Of the 160 million people who like their health care now, they can keep it. If they don't like it, they can leave. Number one.\n\nNumber two, the fact of the matter is, we're in a situation where, if you notice, he hasn't answered the question. This is about candor, honesty, big ideas. Let's have a big idea. The tax of 2 percent that the senator is talking about, that raises about $3 billion. Guess what? That leaves you $28 billion short.\n\nThe senator said before, it\[CloseCurlyQuote]s going to cost you in your pay \[LongDash] there will be a deductible, in your paycheck. You\[CloseCurlyQuote]re going to \[LongDash] the middle class person, someone making 60 grand with three kids, they\[CloseCurlyQuote]re going to end up paying $5,000 more. They\[CloseCurlyQuote]re going to end up paying 4 percent more on their income tax. That\[CloseCurlyQuote]s a reality. Now, it\[CloseCurlyQuote]s not a bad idea if you like it. I don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t like it.", "George Stephanopoulos" -> "Okay, now I want everybody to keep to the time, but you did invoke both senators. I have to get responses from them...", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Sure, no, that's good.", "George Stephanopoulos" -> "... and then we will broaden it out.\n\nSenator Warren, you go first.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "So, let's be clear, I've actually never met anybody who likes their health insurance company.\nI've met people who like their doctors. I've met people who like their nurses. I've met people who like their pharmacists. I've met people who like their physical therapists. What they want is access to health care. And we just need to be clear about what Medicare-for-all is all about.\n\nInstead of paying premiums into insurance companies and then having insurance companies build their profits by saying no to coverage, we're going to do this by saying, everyone is covered by Medicare-for-all, every health care provider is covered. And the only question here in terms of difference is where to send the bill?", "George Stephanopoulos" -> "Senator Sanders.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Let us be clear, Joe, in the United States of America, we are spending twice as much per capita on health care as the Canadians or any other major country on earth.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "This is America.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Yes, but Americans don't want to pay twice as much as other countries. And they guarantee health care to all people. Under my Medicare-for-all proposal, when you don't pay out-of-pocket and you don't pay premiums, maybe you've run into people who love their premiums, I haven't.\n\nWhat people want is cost-effective health care, Medicare-for-all will save the average American substantial sums of money on his or her health care bill.", "George Stephanopoulos" -> "Senator Klobuchar, you said in your opening statement you don't \[LongDash] you want to represent the people stuck in the middle of the extremes. Who represents the extreme on this stage?", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "I think you know that I don't agree with some of these proposals up here, George, so I'm talking about...", "George Stephanopoulos" -> "Which ones?", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "If I could \[LongDash] if I could respond to some of the proposals from my friends. First of all, Senator Sanders and I have worked valiantly to bring down the cost of pharmaceuticals. That was a Klobuchar-Sanders Amendment to allow for drugs to come in from less expensive countries like Canada.\n\nWe have worked to bring down the cost by fighting to allow 43 million seniors, that's a bill I lead, to negotiate for better prices under Medicare. I figure that's a lot of seniors and they should be allowed to get a better price.\n\nBut when it comes to our health care and when it comes to our premiums, I go with the doctor's creed, which is, do no harm. And while Bernie wrote the bill, I read the bill. And on page eight \[LongDash] on page eight of the bill, it says that we will no longer have private insurance as we know it. And that means that 149 million Americans will no longer be able to have their current insurance.\n\nThat's in four years. I don't think that's a bold idea, I think it's a bad idea. And what I favor is something that what Barack Obama wanted to do from the very beginning. And that is a public option. A non-profit choice that would bring down the cost of insurance, cover 12 million more people, and bring down the prices for 13 million more people. That is a bold idea.", "George Stephanopoulos" -> "Senator Warren, page eight of the bill, she says, 149 people will lose their health insurance.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "I'm sorry.", "George Stephanopoulos" -> "She said, page eight of the bill, 149 million people will lose their health insurance.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "Current health insurance.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "One hundred forty-nine million.", "George Stephanopoulos" -> "Million, excuse me.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "So let's be clear about this. People will have access to all of their doctors, all of their nurses, their community hospitals, their rural hospitals. Doctors won't have to hire people to fill out crazy forms. They won't have to spend time on the phone arguing with insurance companies. People who have sick family members won't have to get into these battles.\n\nWhat this is about is making sure that we have the most efficient way possible to pay for health care for everyone in this country. Insurance companies last year sucked $23 billion in profits out of the system. How did they make that money? Every one of those $23 billion was made by an insurance company saying no to your health care coverage.", "George Stephanopoulos" -> "Mayor Buttigieg?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "The problem, Senator Sanders, with that damn bill that you wrote, and that Senator Warren backs, is that it doesn't trust the American people. I trust you to choose what makes the most sense for you. Not my way or the highway.\n\nNow look, I think we do have to go far beyond tinkering with the ACA. I propose Medicare-for-all who want it. We take a version of Medicare, we make it available for the American people, and if we're right, as progressives, that that public alternative is better, then the American people will figure that out for themselves. I trust the American people to make the right choice for them. Why don't you?", "George Stephanopoulos" -> "Senator Sanders, 45 seconds.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "George, you talked about, was it 150 million people on private insurance? Fifty million of those people lose their private insurance every year when they quit their jobs or they go unemployed or their employer changes their insurance policy. Medicare-for-all is comprehensive health care. Covers all basic needs, including home health care.\n\nIt allows you to go to any doctor you want, which many private insurance company programs do not. So, if you want comprehensive health care, freedom of choice regarding doctor or hospital, no more than $200 a year for prescription drugs, taking on the drug companies and the insurance companies, moving to Medicare-for-all is the way to go.", "George Stephanopoulos" -> "Senator Harris, you startled out co-sponsoring Senator Sanders's bill, you now say you're uncomfortable with it. Why?", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "I want to give credit first to Barack Obama for really bringing us this far. We would not be here if he hadn't the courage, the talent, or the will to see us this far.\n\nI want to give credit to Bernie. Take credit, Bernie. You know, you brought us this far on Medicare-for-all. I support Medicare-for-all, I always have, but I wanted to make the plan better, which I did.\n\nWhich is about offering people choice, not taking that from them.\n\nSo, under my Medicare-for-all plan, people have the choice of a private plan or a public plan, because that's what people want. And I agree, we shouldn't take choice from people.\n\nBut here's the thing. Everybody on this stage, I do believe, is well intentioned and wants that all Americans have coverage and recognizes that right now 30 million Americans don't have coverage. But at least five people have talked, some repeatedly on this subject, and not once have we talked about Donald Trump.\n\nSo let's talk about the fact that Donald Trump came into office and spent almost the entire first year of his term trying to get rid of the Affordable Care Act. We all fought against it. And then the late, great John McCain, at that moment at about 2 o'clock in the morning, killed his attempt to take health care from millions of people in this country.\nFast forward to today, and what is happening? Donald Trump's Department of Justice is trying to get rid of the Affordable Care Act. Donald Trump's administration is trying to get rid of the ban that we placed on denying people who have pre-existing conditions coverage. Donald Trump is trying to say that our kids up to the age of 26 can no longer be on our plans.\n\nAnd frankly, I think this discussion has given the American public a headache. What they want to know is that they're going to have health care and cost will not be a barrier to getting it. But let's focus on the end goal. If we don't get Donald Trump out of office, he's going to get rid of all of it.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "George, 15 seconds? Fifteen seconds?", "George Stephanopoulos" -> "Let me get to Congressman O'Rourke and then bring you \[LongDash] go ahead, Mr. Vice President.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Fifteen seconds. Look, everybody says we want an option. The option I'm proposing is Medicare-for-all \[LongDash] Medicare for choice. If you want Medicare, if you lose the job from your insurance \[LongDash] from your employer, you automatically can buy into this. You don't have \[LongDash] no pre-existing condition can stop you from buying in. You get covered, period.\n\nAnd if you notice, nobody's yet said how much it's going to cost the taxpayer. I hear this large savings, the president thinks \[LongDash] my friend from Vermont thinks that the employer's going to give you back if you negotiated as a union all these years, got a cut in wages because you got insurance. They're going to give back that money to the employee?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "As a matter of fact, they will in our bill.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Well, let me tell you something. For a socialist, you've got \[LongDash] for a socialist, you've got a lot more confidence in corporate America than I do.", "George Stephanopoulos" -> "Senator Sanders?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Okay, one minute, George?", "George Stephanopoulos" -> "Go ahead.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "All right. Two points. You got to defend the fact that today not only do we have 87 million people uninsured and underinsured, you got to defend the fact that 500,000 Americans are going bankrupt. You know why they're going bankrupt? Because they suffered a terrible disease \[LongDash] cancer or heart disease.\n\nUnder my legislation, people will not go into financial ruin because they suffered with a diagnosis of cancer. And our program is the only one that does that.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "I know a lot about cancer, let me tell you something. It's personal to me. Let me tell you something. Every single person who is diagnosed with cancer or any other disease can automatically become part of this plan. They will not go bankrupt because of that. They will not go bankrupt because of that. They can join immediately.\n\nAnd we're talking four, six, eight, ten years, depending on who you talk about, before we get to Medicare-for-all. Come on. I've been there. You've been there. You know what it's like. People need help now, hope now, and do something now.", "George Stephanopoulos" -> "Congressman O'Rourke?", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "Yeah. Thank you. Listen, I'm grateful that we all agree about the urgency of this challenge and the fact that Donald Trump is undermining the limited protections that we have right now.\n\nBut I also think we're being offered a false choice between those who propose an all-or-nothing gambit, forcing tens of millions off of insurance that they like, that works for them, to force them onto Medicare, and others who want to, as the vice president does, incrementally improve what we have, which will still leave many, maybe millions uninsured and uncared for.\n\nIn a state like Texas, where the largest provider of mental health care services is the county jail system, we've got to do better. In my proposal, Medicare for America, says everyone who's uninsured will be enrolled in Medicare. Everyone who's insufficiently insured, cannot afford it, can move over to Medicare. And those, like members of unions who've fought for the health care plans that work for them and their families, are able to keep them. This is the best possible path forward.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "You just described my plan.", "George Stephanopoulos" -> "This is \[LongDash] health care is the top issue for everyone in the country. I want to make sure everyone gets one minute to respond. So, Secretary Castro, Andrew Yang, and then Senator Booker, you will get a minute.", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "Thank you. And, you know, I also want to recognize the work that Bernie has done on this. And, of course, we owe a debt of gratitude to President Barack Obama. Of course, I also worked for President Obama, Vice President Biden, and I know that the problem with your plan is that it leaves 10 million people uncovered.\n\nNow, on the last debate stage in Detroit, you said that wasn\[CloseCurlyQuote]t true, when Senator Harris brought that up. There was a fact check of that, and they said that was true.\n\nYou know, I grew up with a grandmother who had type 2 diabetes, and I watched her condition get worse and worse. But that whole time, she had Medicare. I want every single American family to have a strong Medicare plan available.\n\nIf they choose to hold on to strong, solid private health insurance, I believe they should be able to do. But the difference between what I support and what you support, Vice President Biden, is that you require them to opt in and I would not require them to opt in. They would automatically be enrolled. They wouldn't have a buy in.\n\nThat's a big difference, because Barack Obama's vision was not to leave 10 million people uncovered. He wanted every single person in this country covered. My plan would do that. Your plan would not.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "They do not have to buy in. They do not have to buy in.", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "You just said that. You just said that two minutes ago. You just two minutes ago that they would have to buy in.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Do not have to buy in if you can't afford it.", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "You said they would have to buy in.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Your grandmother would not have to buy in. If she qualifies for Medicaid, she would automatically be enrolled.", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "Are you forgetting what you said two minutes ago? Are you forgetting already what you said just two minutes ago? I mean, I can't believe that you said two minutes ago that they had to buy in and now you're saying they don't have to buy in. You're forgetting that.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "I said anyone like your grandmother who has no money.", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "I mean, look, look, we need a health care system...", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "She \[LongDash] you're automatically enrolled.", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "It automatically enrolls people regardless of whether they choose to opt in or not. If you lose your job, for instance, his health care plan would not automatically enroll you. You would have to opt in. My health care plan would. That's a big difference. I'm fulfilling the legacy of Barack Obama, and you're not.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "That'll be a surprise to him.", "George Stephanopoulos" -> "Andrew Yang?", Entity["Person", "AndrewYang::f7w42"] -> "Come on, guys.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "This is why presidential debates are becoming unwatchable.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "Yeah.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "This reminds everybody of what they cannot stand about Washington, scoring points against each other, poking at each other, and telling each other that \[LongDash] my plan, your plan. Look, we all have different visions for what is better...", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "Yeah, that's called the Democratic primary election, Pete. That's called an election.\nThat's an election. You know? This is what we're here for. It's an election.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "Yes, but a house \[LongDash] a house divided cannot stand. And that is not how we're going to win this.", Entity["Person", "AndrewYang::f7w42"] -> "Look, everyone, we know we're on the same team here. We know we're on the same team. We all have a better vision for health care than our current president.\n\nAnd I believe we're talking about this the wrong way. As someone who has run a business, I know that our current health care system makes it harder to hire people, makes it harder to give them benefits and treat them as full-time employees. You instead pretend their contractors. It's harder to change jobs. It's certainly harder to start a business.\n\nThe pitch we have to make to the American people is, we will get the health care weight off of your backs and then unleash the hopes and dreams of the American people.", "George Stephanopoulos" -> "Senator Booker...", Entity["Person", "AndrewYang::f7w42"] -> "Now, I am Asian, so I know a lot of doctors, and they tell me that they spend a lot of time on paperwork, avoiding being sued, and navigating the insurance bureaucracy. We have to change the incentives so instead of revenue and activity, people are focused on our health in the health care system.\n\nAnd the Cleveland Clinic, where they're paid not based upon how many procedures they prescribe \[LongDash] shocker \[LongDash] they prescribe fewer procedures, and patient health stays the same or improves. That is the pitch to the American people.", "George Stephanopoulos" -> "Senator Booker, close out this discussion.", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "Thank you very much. Look, there are a lot of people watching at home right now, listening to us that are afraid because they are in crisis. They don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t have health insurance. Their health insurance doesn\[CloseCurlyQuote]t go far enough. They can\[CloseCurlyQuote]t afford their prescription drugs.\n\nLook, I'm clear in what I believe. I believe in Medicare-for-all. I believe it's the best way to rationalize the system. But dear God, I know every one of my colleagues on this stage is in favor of universal health coverage and comes at this with the best of intentions.\n\nAnd I'll tell you, there is an urgency right now in this nation. Everybody feels it. And as a person who has an ideal, I know we cannot sacrifice progress on the altar of purity, because people in my community, they need help right now. They have high blood pressure right now. They have unaffordable insulin right now.\n\nAnd this must be a moment where we as Democrats can begin to show that we cannot only stake and stand our ground, but find common ground, because we've got one shot to make Donald Trump a one-term president.\nAnd we cannot lose it by the way we talk about each other or demonize and degrade each other. We can walk and chew gum at the same time. If I am the leader, I will work towards the ideal of health insurance, health coverage being a right for all Americans. But every single day, I'll join with other Democrats to make progress happen in our nation for the people that are struggling and suffering today.", "George Stephanopoulos" -> "Candidates, thank you. Linsey Davis?", "Linsey Davis" -> "Thanks, George. Since we're here at an HBCU, I'd like to start with young black voters. Several recent polls indicate their number-one concern is racism. This campus, this state, and this nation are still raw from that racially motivated attack on Latinos in El Paso.\n\nNow, we know that the racial divide started long before President Trump and President Obama, but each of you on this stage has said that President Trump has made that divide worse. Congressman O'Rourke, coming to you first, why are you the most qualified candidate to address this divide?", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "You know, I called this out in no uncertain terms on August 3rd and every day since then. And I was talking about it long before then, as well.\n\nRacism in America is endemic. It is foundational. We can mark the creation of this country not at the Fourth of July, 1776, but August 20, 1619, when the first kidnapped African...\n... was brought to this country against his will and in bondage and as a slave built the greatness and the success and the wealth that neither he nor his descendants would ever be able to fully participate in and enjoy.\n\nWe have to be able to answer this challenge. And it is found in our education system, where in Texas, a 5-year-old child in kindergarten is five times as likely to be disciplined or suspended or expelled based on the color of their skin.\nIn our health care system, where there's a maternal mortality crisis three times as deadly for women of color, or the fact that there's 10 times the wealth in white America than there is in black America.\n\nI'm going to follow Sheila Jackson Lee's lead and sign into law a reparations bill that will allow us to address this at its foundation.\nBut we will also call out the fact that we have a white supremacist in the White House and he poses a mortal threat to people of color all across this country.", "Linsey Davis" -> "Secretary Castro, 45 seconds to respond.", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "Look, you know, I want to commend Beto for how well he has spoken to the passion and the frustration and the sadness after what happened in his hometown of El Paso. He's done a great job with that.\n\nLook, a few weeks ago, a shooter drove 10 miles inspired by this \[LongDash] 10 hours inspired by this president to kill people who look like me and people who look like my family. White supremacy is a growing threat to this country, and we have to root it out.\n\nI'm proud that I put forward a plan to disarm hate. I'm also proud that I was the first to put forward a police reform plan, because we're not going to have any more Laquan McDonalds or Eric Garners or Michael Browns or Pamela Turners or Walter Scotts or Sandra Bland, here from the Houston area. We need to root out racism, and I believe that we can do that, because that doesn't represent the vast majority of Americans who do have a good heart. They also need a leader to match that, and I will be a president that matches that.", "Linsey Davis" -> "Senator Booker, you have said, quote, \"The real question isn't who is or isn't a racist. It's who is going to do something about it.\" Senator, what do you plan to do about it?", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "Well, first and foremost, I want to hit that point, because we know Donald Trump\[CloseCurlyQuote]s a racist, but there is no red badge of courage for calling him that. Racism exists. The question isn\[CloseCurlyQuote]t who isn\[CloseCurlyQuote]t a racist. It\[CloseCurlyQuote]s who is and isn\[CloseCurlyQuote]t doing something about racism.\n\nAnd this is not just an issue that started yesterday. It's not just an issue that we hear a president that can't condemn white supremacy. We have systemic racism that is eroding our nation from health care to the criminal justice system. And it's nice to go all the way back to slavery, but dear God, we have a criminal justice system that is so racially biased, we have more African-Americans under criminal supervision today than all the slaves in 1850.\n\nWe have to come at this issue attacking systemic racism, having the courage to call it out, and having a plan to do something about it. If I am president of the United States, we will create an office in the White House to deal with the problem of white supremacy and hate crimes.\nAnd we will make sure that systemic racism is dealt with in substantive plans, from criminal justice reform to the disparities in health care to even one that we don't talk about enough, which is the racism that we see in environmental injustice in communities of color all around this country.", "Linsey Davis" -> "Mayor Buttigieg, you've been struggling with issues around race in your own community. You've also said that anyone who votes to re-elect President Trump is, at best, looking the other way on racism. Does that sort of talk alienate voters and potentially deepen divisions in our country?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "I believe what\[CloseCurlyQuote]s deepened divisions in the country is the conduct of this president, and we have a chance to change all of that.\n\nLook, systemic racism preceded this president, and even when we defeat him, it will be with us. That's why we need a systemic approach to dismantle it. It's \[LongDash] it's not enough to just take a racist policy, replace it with a neutral one and expect things will just get better on their own. Harms compound. In the same way that a dollar saved compounds, so does a dollar stolen.\n\nAnd we know that the generational theft of the descendants of slaves is part of why everything from housing to education to health to employment basically puts us in two different countries.\n\nI have proposed the most comprehensive vision to tackle systemic racism in every one of these areas, marshaling as many resources as went into the Marshall plan that rebuilt Europe, but this time, a Douglass plan that we invest right here at home, to make sure that we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re not only dealing with things like the over-incarceration of black Americans, but also black solutions, entrepreneurship, raising to 25 percent...\n... the target for the federal government to do business with minority-owned businesses, investing in HBCUs that are training and educating the next generation of entrepreneurs.\nWe can and must do that. But that means transcending this framework that pits us against each other, that pits a single black mother of three against a displaced auto worker. Because when I \[LongDash] where I come from, a lot of times that displaced auto worker is a single black mother of three. We've got to say that...\n... and bring people together.", "Linsey Davis" -> "Also a concern for people of color is criminal justice reform.\n\nSenator Harris, you released your plan for that just this week. And it does contradict some of your prior positions. Among them, you used to oppose the legalization of marijuana; now you don't. You used to oppose outside investigations of police shootings; now you don't. You've said that you changed on these and other things because you were, quote, \"swimming against the current, and thankfully the currents have changed.\"\n\nBut when you had the power, why didn\[CloseCurlyQuote]t you try to effect change then?", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "So, there have been \[LongDash] there have been \[LongDash] I'm glad you asked me this question, and there have been many distortions of my record.\n\nLet me be very clear. I made a decision to become a prosecutor for two reasons. One, I've always wanted to protect people and keep them safe. And second, I was born knowing about how this criminal justice system in America has worked in a way that has been informed by racial bias. And I could tell you extensively about the experiences I and my family members have personally had. But I made a decision that, if I was going to have the ability to reform the system, I would try to do it from the inside.\n\nAnd so I took on the position that allowed me, without asking permission, to create one of the first in the nation initiatives that was a model and became a national model around people who were arrested for drugs and getting them jobs.\n\nI created one of the first in the nation requirements that a state law enforcement agency would have to wear cameras and keep them on full-time.\n\nI created one of the first in the nation trainings for a police officer on the issue of racial bias and the need to reform the system.\n\nWas I able to get enough done? Absolutely not. But my plan has been described by activists as being a bold and comprehensive plan that is about ending mass incarceration, about taking the profit out of the criminal justice system. I plan on shutting down for-profit prisons on day one.\nIt will be about what we need to do to hold law enforcement, including prosecutors, accountable.\n\nAnd finally, my plan is about making sure that, in America's criminal justice system, we de-incarcerate women and children, that we end solitary confinement and that we work on keeping families intact.\n\nAnd as president of the United States, knowing the system from the inside, I will have the ability to be an effective leader and get this job complete.", "Linsey Davis" -> "Thank you, Senator Harris.\nSenator Klobuchar, during your eight years as a prosecutor in Minnesota, there were dozens of incidents where black men were killed by police. Critics say that too often you sided with police in these cases.\n\nThe ACLU's legal director in Minnesota has said that you showed no interest in racial justice. Do you wish now that you had done more?", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "That's not my record.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "We are here at a historically black college. And I think of an alum of that college, Barbara Jordan, and something that she once said. She said, \"What the people want is simple; they want a country as good as its promise.\"\n\nAnd that same can be said of the criminal justice system. So when I was there, the way we handled these police shootings, I actually took a stand to make sure outside investigators handled them. I took on our major police chief in Minneapolis.\n\nBut in the prosecutor's office, they were handled with a grand jury. That's how they were all handled across our state. I now believe it is better for accountability if the prosecutor handles them and makes those decisions herself.\n\nThat aside, I am proud of the work our staff did, 400 people in our office. The cases that came to us, the African-American community that came to us, they said there was no justice for their little kids.\n\nThere was a kid named Byron Phillips that was shot on his front porch. No one had bothered to figure out who did it. When I came into that office, we worked with the community groups; we put up billboards; we found the shooter and we put him in jail. We did the same for the killer of a little girl named Tyesha Edwards who was doing her homework at her kitchen table and was shot through the window.\n\nWhat changes did we make? Go after white-collar crimes in a big way, diversity the office in a big way, work with the Innocence Project to make sure we do much better with eyewitness ID.\n\nAnd as a senator and as your president, I will make sure that we don't just do the First Step Act when it comes to criminal sentencing, that we move to the Second Step Act, which means the 90 percent of people that are incarcerated in local and state jails, let's reduce those sentences for nonviolent offenders and let's get them jobs and let them vote when they get out of prison.", "Linsey Davis" -> "Thank you, Senator Klobuchar.\n\nYou all believe that the war on drugs has put too many Americans behind bars.\n\nVice President Biden, you have a plan to release many nonviolent drug offenders from prison. Senator Booker says that your plan is not ambitious enough. Your response?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Well, first of all, let me say that, when I came back from law school, I had a job with a great \[LongDash] a big-time law firm. I left and became a public defender because my state was under siege when Dr. King was assassinated. We were occupied by the National Guard for 10 months.\n\nI've been involved from the beginning. As a young congressman \[LongDash] as a young councilman, I introduced legislation to try to keep them from putting a sewer plant in a poor neighborhood. I made sure that we dealt with redlining; banks should have to lend where they operate, et cetera.\n\nThe fact of the matter is that what's happened is that we're in a situation now where there are so many people who are in jail and shouldn't be in jail. The whole means by which this should change is the whole model has to change. We should be talking about rehabilitation.\n\nNobody should be in jail for a nonviolent crime. As \[LongDash] when we were in the White House, we released 36,000 people from the federal prison system. Nobody should be in jail for a drug problem. They should be going directly to a rehabilitation. We build more rehabilitation centers, not prisons.\nWe \[LongDash] I'm the guy that put in the drug courts to divert people from the criminal justice system. And so we have to change the whole way we look at this. When we put people in prison, we have to equip them that when they get out \[LongDash] nobody who got in prison for marijuana, for example, immediately upon being released \[LongDash] they shouldn't be in there; that should be a misdemeanor. They should be out and their record should be expunged. Every single right should be returned.\n\nWhen you finish your term in prison, you should be able not only to vote but have access to Pell grants, have access to be able to get housing...\n... have access to be able to move along the way. I've laid out a detailed plan along those lines. And the fact is, we've learned so much more more...", "Linsey Davis" -> "Thank you, Mr. Vice President.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Thank you.", "Linsey Davis" -> "Senator Booker, 45 seconds to respond.", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "Our criminal justice system is so savagely broken. There\[CloseCurlyQuote]s no difference in America between blacks, whites and Latinos for using drugs or dealing drugs. But if you are African-American, you are almost four times more likely to be arrested and incarcerated, destroying your lives.\n\nAnd so much of this comes down to privilege. We have a criminal justice system that Brian Stephenson says treats you better if you\[CloseCurlyQuote]re rich and guilty than if you\[CloseCurlyQuote]re poor and innocent.\n\nAnd so I have challenged this whole field. We can specifically and demonstrably now show that there are 17,000 people unjustly incarcerated in America, and all of us should come forward and say, when we are president of the United States; when I am president of the United States, we will release them.\n\nAnd let me be specific. I joined together and led in the United States Senate the only major bipartisan bill to pass under this president, for criminal justice reform, that has already led to thousands of people coming out of jail.\n\nIf 87 members of the United States Senate says that these sentences are way too long, and we changed it, but we didn't make it retroactive, we could literally point to the people that are in jail unjustly right now.\n\nEveryone on this stage should say that we are going to give clemency to these 17,000 people. And I challenge you. Don't just say a big statement; back it up with details of the people in prison right now looking for one of the most sacrosanct ideals of this nation, which is liberty and freedom. We need to reform this system and we must do it now. Every day we wait is too long.", "Linsey Davis" -> "Thank you, Senator Booker.\nDavid?", "David Muir" -> "Thank you, Linsey.\n\nI want to turn to the deadly mass shootings here in this country. And of course we are all mindful tonight of where we stand. We are here in Texas tonight, where 29 people have lost their lives in just the last month alone, El Paso, which we've discussed; in Odessa. And I know there are survivors from El Paso right here in the hall tonight.\n\nVice President Biden, I do want to direct this to you, because we all remember Sandy Hook. Twenty-six people died in that school, 20 of them children. Those first graders would be in eighth grade today.", "David Muir" -> "At the time, there was a groundswell in this country to get something done. President Obama asked you to lead the push for gun control.\n\nYou have often pointed to your ability to reach across the aisle to get things done, but four months after Sandy Hook, a measure to require expanded background checks died on the Senate floor.\n\nIf you couldn't get it done after Sandy Hook, why should voters give you another chance?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Because I got it done before. I'm the only one up here that's ever beat the NRA \[LongDash]only one ever to beat the NRA nationally. I'm the guy that brought the Brady bill into \[LongDash] into focus and became law.\n\nAnd so that's number one. Number two, after Sandy Hook, a number of things happened. It went from a cause to a movement. Look what's happened now. Mothers \[LongDash] the organization \[LongDash] mothers against violence \[LongDash] gun violence. We've seen what's happened again. Now we have all these young people marching on Washington, making sure that things are going to change.\n\nThere has been a sea change. Those proposals I put forward for the president had over 50 percent of gun \[LongDash] of gun \[LongDash] of members of the NRA supporting them, and overwhelmingly the rest of the people supporting them. Now the numbers are much higher, because they realize what I've been saying and we've all been saying is correct.\n\nOver 90% of the American people think we have to get assault weapons off the street \[LongDash] period. And we have to get buy-backs and get them out of their basements.\nSo the point is, things have changed. And things have changed a lot. And now what's happening is \[LongDash] and, by the way, the way Beto handled \[LongDash] excuse me for saying Beto. What the congressman...", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "That's all right. Beto's good.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "The way he handled what happened in his hometown is meaningful, to look in the eyes of those people, to see those kids...\n... to understand those parents, you understand the heartache.\n\n(UNKNOWN): But this is the problem.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "We are ready to do this.", "David Muir" -> "Mr. Vice President...\n\n(UNKNOWN): This is the problem.", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "Thank you.", "David Muir" -> "... you did bring up assault weapons here.\nYou did bring up assault weapons here, and many of you on this stage have talked about executive order.\n\nSenator Harris, you have said that you would take executive action on guns within your first 100 days...", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "Correct.", "David Muir" -> "... including banning imports of AR-15 assault weapons.", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "That's right.", "David Muir" -> "President Obama, after Sandy Hook, more than 23 executive actions, and yet here we all are today.\n\nIn recent days former Vice President Biden has said about executive orders, \"Some really talented people are seeking the nomination. They said 'I'm going to issue an executive order.'\" Biden saying, \"There's no constitutional authority to issue that executive order when they say 'I'm going to eliminate assault weapons,'\" saying, \"you can't do it by executive order any more than Trump can do things when he says he can do it by executive order.\"\n\nDoes the vice president have a point there?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Some things you can. Many things you can't.", "David Muir" -> "Let's let the senator answer.", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "Well, I mean, I would just say, hey, Joe, instead of saying, no, we can't, let's say yes, we can.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Let's be constitutional. We've got a Constitution.", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "And yes, we can, because I'll tell you something. The way that I think about this is, I've seen more autopsy photographs than I care to tell you. I have attended more police officer funerals than I care to tell you. I have hugged more mothers of homicide victims than I care to tell you.\n\nAnd the idea that we would wait for this Congress, which has just done nothing, to act, is just \[LongDash] it is overlooking the fact that every day in America, our babies are going to school to have drills, elementary, middle and high school students, where they are learning about how they have to hide in a closet or crouch in a corner if there is a mass shooter roaming the hallways of their school.\n\nI was talking about this at one of my town halls, and \[LongDash] and this child who was eight years old, probably, came up to me \[LongDash] it was like it was a secret between the two of us, and he tugged on my jacket and he said, \"I had to have one of those drills.\"\n\nIt is traumatizing our children. El Paso \[LongDash] and, Beto, God love you for standing so courageously in the midst of that tragedy. You know, people asked me...\n... in El Paso \[LongDash] they said, you know, because I have a long-standing record on this issue. They said, \"Well, do you think Trump is responsible for what happened?\"\n\nAnd I said, \"Well, look, I mean, obviously, he didn't pull the trigger, but he's certainly been tweeting out the ammunition.\"", "David Muir" -> "Senator Harris, thank you.\n\nVice President Biden, do you still stand by what you said on an executive order?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "No, what I said was \[LongDash] the question \[LongDash] speak to constitutional scholars. If in fact we could say, \"By the way, you can't own the following weapons, period; they cannot be sold anymore\" \[LongDash] check with constitutional scholars. Now, you can say...", "David Muir" -> "Mr. Vice President, thank you.\n\nCongressman O'Rourke, I want to get to you on this.", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "John, could I tell you what you could do in 100 days?", "David Muir" -> "I'm going to \[LongDash] I'm going to work down the row here. But I do want to come to Congressman O'Rourke, because I know this is personal to you. El Paso is your hometown. Some on this stage have suggested a voluntary buy-back for guns in this country.\n\nYou've gone further. You've said, quote, \"Americans who own AR-15s and AK-47s will have to sell them to the government, all of them.\" You know that critics call this confiscation. Are you proposing taking away their guns? And how would this work?", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "I am, if it's a weapon that was designed to kill people on a battlefield...\nIf the high impact, high velocity round, when it hits your body, shreds everything inside of your body, because it was designed to do that, so that you would bleed to death on a battlefield and not be able to get up and kill one of our soldiers.\n\nWhen we see that being used against children, and in Odessa, I met the mother of a 15-year-old girl who was shot by an AR-15, and that mother watched her bleed to death over the course of an hour because so many other people were shot by that AR-15 in Odessa and Midland, there weren't enough ambulances to get to them in time, hell, yes, we're going to take your AR-15, your AK-47.\nWe're not going to allow it to be used against our fellow Americans anymore.", "David Muir" -> "Congressman, thank you.", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "And I want to say this. I'm listening to the people of this country. The day after I proposed doing that, I went to a gun show in Conway, Arkansas, to meet with those who were selling AR-15s and AK-47s and those who were buying those weapons. And you might be surprised, there was some common ground there, folks who said, I would willingly give that up, cut it to pieces, I don't need this weapon to hunt, to defend myself. It is a weapon of war.\n\nSo, let's do the right thing, but let's bring everyone in America into the conversation, Republicans, Democrats, gun-owners, and non-gun owners alike.\n\n(UNKNOWN): May I make a point?", "David Muir" -> "Congressman, thank you. I want to bring in Senator Klobuchar on this, because you've often talked about your uncle and the proud hunters back home in Minnesota. So I wanted to get your response to Congressman O'Rourke tonight. Where do you stand on mandatory gun buybacks?", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "I so appreciate what the congressman's been doing. And I want to remind people here that what unites us is so much bigger than what divides us.\n\nEveryone up here favors an assault weapon ban. Everyone up here favors magazine limitations, which, by the way, would have made a huge difference if that was in place in El Paso, in that store, where all those ordinary people showed such extraordinary courage. And certainly in Dayton, Ohio, where in 30 seconds, one man guns down innocent people. The cops got there in one minute, and it still wasn't enough to save those people. That's what unites us.\n\nYou know what else unites us? And I'll tell you this. What unites us is that right now, on Mitch McConnell's desk, are three bills \[LongDash] universal background checks, closing the Charleston loophole, and passing my bill to make sure that domestic abusers don't get AK-47s.", "David Muir" -> "Senator Klobuchar?", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "So if we want to get something done \[LongDash] and I personally think we should start with a voluntary buyback program. That's what I think, David. But I want to finish this, because if you want action now, if you want action now, we got to send a message to Mitch McConnell. We can't wait until one of us gets in the White House. We have to pass those bills right now to get this done.", "David Muir" -> "Senator Klobuchar...", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "Because we cannot spare another innocent life.", "David Muir" -> "Thank you. Thank you.\n\nI want to turn to Senator Booker, because you have said just this week about guns and about the candidates on this stage, that the differences do matter. Those were your words.\n\nYou have argued, if you need a license to drive a car in this country, you should have a license to buy a gun. Gun-owners would not only have to pass a background check, they would have to obtain a federal license to buy a gun. This would require, as you know, Congress to pass legislation.\n\nIf Democrats can't get universal background checks, how would you get this done? And can you name one Republican colleague of yours in the Senate right now who would be onboard with this idea?", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "So, background checks and gun licensing, these are agreed to by overwhelmingly the majority of Americans. Eighty-three percent of Americans agree with licensing. This is the issue.\n\nLook, I grew up in the suburbs. It was about 20 years ago that I came out of my home when I moved to inner city Newark, New Jersey, and witnessed the aftermath of a shooting. It's one of the reasons why shooting after shooting after shooting in neighborhoods like mine for decades, this has been a crisis for me. It's why I was the first person to come out for gun licensing. And I'm happy that people like Beto O'Rourke are showing such courage now and coming forward and also now supporting licensing.\n\nBut this is what I'm sorry about. I'm sorry that it had to take issues coming to my neighborhood or personally affecting Beto to suddenly make us demand change. This is a crisis of empathy in our nation. We are never going to solve this crisis if we have to wait for it to personally affect us or our neighborhood or our community before we demand action.\n\nYou want to know how we get this done? We get this done by having a more courageous empathy, where people don't wait for this hell to visit upon their communities. They stand up and understand the truth of what King said, that injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.\n\nI will lead change on this issue, because I have seen what the carnage creates in communities like mine, because we forget, national shootings, these mass shootings are tragedies, but the majority of the homicide victims come from neighborhoods like mine. Nobody has ascended to the White House that will bring more personal passion on this issue. I will fight this and bring a fight to the NRA and the corporate gun lobby like they have never seen before.", "David Muir" -> "Senator Booker, thank you. A quick follow-up, though, because Americans watching tonight know the reality of Congress in Washington. I asked do you have a Republican colleague in the Senate who would be onboard with this idea to get this done?", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "You know, if that was the attitude when Strom Thurmond had the longest filibuster ever on civil rights, if it was this idea that we can\[CloseCurlyQuote]t get it done because of the situation in the Senate, I\[CloseCurlyQuote]m looking to lead a movement. The number-one reason why governments are formed is to protect the citizenry.\n\nThink about this. We have had more people die due to gun violence in my lifetime than every single war in this country combined, from the Revolutionary War until now. This is not a side issue to me. It is a central issue to me.\n\nThat is the kind of fight \[LongDash] because the majority of homicide victims \[LongDash] we have a mass shooting every single day in communities like mine. We must awaken a more courageous empathy in this country so that we stand together and fight together and overwhelm those Republicans who are not even representing their constituency. Because the majority of Americans, the majority of gun-owners agree with me, not the corporate gun lobby. It is time for a movement on this issue, and I will lead it.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Go beat them.", "David Muir" -> "Senator Booker, thank you. Senator Warren, I want to come to you next, because you have actually said in recent days that there are things you can get done with Republicans in the Senate. What can you get done on gun control?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "So let\[CloseCurlyQuote]s start by framing the problem the right way. We have a gun violence problem in this country. The mass shootings are terrible, but they get all the headlines. Children die every day on streets, in neighborhoods, on playgrounds. People die from violence, from suicide and domestic abuse. We have a gun violence problem in this country.\n\nAnd we agree on many steps we could take to fix it. My view on this is, we're going to \[LongDash] it's not going to be one and done on this. We're going to do it, and we're going to have to do it again, and we're going to have to come back some more until we cut the number of gun deaths in this country significantly.\n\nBut here's the deal. The question we need to ask is, when we've got this much support across the country, 90 percent of Americans want to see us do \[LongDash] I like registration \[LongDash] want to see us do background checks, want to get assault weapons off the streets, why doesn't it happen? And the answer is corruption, pure and simple.\nWe have a Congress that is beholden to the gun industry. And unless we're willing to address that head-on and roll back the filibuster, we're not going to get anything done on guns. I was in the United States Senate when 54 senators said let's do background checks, let's get rid of assault weapons, and with 54 senators, it failed because of the filibuster.\n\nUntil we attack the systemic problems, we can't get gun reform in this country. We've got to go straight against the industry and we've got to change Congress, so it doesn't just work for the wealthy and well-connected, so it works for the people.", "David Muir" -> "Senator Warren, thank you. You bring up eliminating the filibuster, which means you would need simply a simple majority in a Republican Senate to get something done. I want to turn to Senator Sanders on this, because you've said before of this, if Donald Trump supports ending the filibuster, which he's talked about himself, you should be nervous. Would you support ending the filibuster?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "No. But what I would support, absolutely, is passing major legislation, the gun legislation the people here are talking about, Medicare-for-all, climate change legislation that saves the planet. I will not wait for 60 votes to make that happen, and you can do it in a variety of ways. You can do that through budget reconciliation law. You have a vice president who will, in fact, tell the Senate what is appropriate and what is not, what is in order and what is not.\n\nBut I want to get back to a point that Elizabeth made and that, in fact, in terms of gun issues, picking up on Cory and Beto and everybody else, what we are looking at is a corrupt political system, and that means whether it is the drug companies or the insurance companies or the fossil fuel industry determining what's happening in Washington or, in this case, you've got an NRA which has intimidated the president of the United States and the Republican leadership.\nI am proud \[LongDash] I am proud that, year after year, I had an \"F\" rating from the NRA. And as president, I will not be intimidated by the NRA.", "David Muir" -> "Senator Sanders, thank you.", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "May I respond...", "Jorge Ramos" -> "We've been hearing a lot about what's been happening here in Texas. Only a few weeks ago, the deadliest massacre of Latinos, Latinos, in modern U.S. history happened in this state, in El Paso. So the fear among Latinos \[LongDash] and you know this \[LongDash] is very real.\n\nSo let me start with an issue that is causing a lot of division in this country: immigration. Vice President Biden, as a presidential candidate, in 2008, you supported the border wall, saying, \"Unlike most Democrats, I voted for 700 miles of fence.\" This is what you said.\n\nThen you served as vice president in an administration that deported 3 million people, the most ever in U.S. history. Did you do anything to prevent those deportations? I mean, you've been asked this question before and refused to answer, so let me try once again. Are you prepared to say tonight that you and President Obama made a mistake about deportations? Why should Latinos trust you?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "What Latinos should look at is \[LongDash] comparing this president to the president we have is outrageous, number one. We didn't lock people up in cages. We didn't separate families. We didn't do all of those things, number one.\n\nNumber two \[LongDash] number two, by the time \[LongDash] this is a president who came along with the DACA program. No one had ever done that before. This is the president that sent legislation to the desk saying he wants to find a pathway for the 11 million undocumented in the United States of America. This is a president who's done a great deal. So I'm proud to have served with him.\n\nWhat I would do as president is several more things, because things have changed. I would, in fact, make sure that there is \[LongDash] we immediately surge to the border. All those people who are seeking asylum, they deserve to be heard. That's who we are. We're a nation who says, if you want to flee, and you're freeing oppression, you should come.\n\nI would change the order that the president just changed, saying women who were being beaten and abused could no longer claim that as a reason for asylum.\n\nAnd by the way, retrospectively, you know, the 25th anniversary of the Violence Against Women Act is up. The Republican Congress has not reauthorized it. Let's put pressure on them to pass the Violence Against Women Act. Nowback...", "Jorge Ramos" -> "Yeah, but you didn't answer the question.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Well, I did answer the question.", "Jorge Ramos" -> "No, did you make a mistake with those deportations?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "The president did the best thing that was able to be done at the time.", "Jorge Ramos" -> "How about you?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "I'm the vice president of the United States.", "Jorge Ramos" -> "Secretary Castro, would you want to respond to Vice President Biden?", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "I mean, look...", "Jorge Ramos" -> "And let me put this in context, because your party controlled the White House and Congress in 2009 and didn't pass immigration reform, and this broke a promise made by President Barack Obama to Latinos. So why should voters trust Democrats now? I mean, now it is even more difficult, as you know, because you need Republican votes in the Senate. So are you willing, for instance, to give up DACA or give up a path to citizenship or even agree to build a wall in order to legalize 10.5 million undocumented immigrants?", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "Jorge, thank you very much for that question. And, look, I agree that Barack Obama was very different from Donald Trump. Donald Trump has a dark heart when it comes to immigrants. He built his whole political career so far on scapegoating and fearmongering and otherizing migrants, and that's very different from Barack Obama.\n\nBut my problem with Vice President Biden \[LongDash] and Cory pointed this out last time \[LongDash] is every time something good about Barack Obama comes up, he says, oh, I was there, I was there, I was there, that's me, too, and then every time somebody questions part of the administration that we were both part of, he says, well, that was the president. I mean, he wants to take credit for Obama's work, but not have to answer to any questions. I mean...", "Jorge Ramos" -> "Vice President Biden, you have \[LongDash] you have 45 seconds.", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "Let me just say...", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "That's not what I said.", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "Let me just say...", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "That's not what I said.", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "Jorge, let me just say that I would \[LongDash] I was the first candidate in early April to put forward an immigration plan. You know why? Because I'm not afraid of Donald Trump on this issue. I'm not going to back pedal. I'm not going to pretend like I don't have my own vision for immigration.\n\nSo we're not going to give up DACA. We're not going to give up protections for anybody. I believe that on January 20, 2021, we're going to have a Democratic president, we're going to throw out Mitch McConnell and John Cornyn and have a Democratic Senate, and a Democratic House, and we're going to pass immigration reform within the first 100 days.", "Jorge Ramos" -> "Vice President, 45 seconds.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "I did not say I don't \[LongDash] I stand with Barack Obama all eight years, good, bad and indifferent. That's where I stand. I did not say I did not stand with him.", "Jorge Ramos" -> "Okay, Senator Warren, hundreds of children have been separated from their parents at the border. And recently, in Mississippi, we saw the largest immigration raid in a decade.\n\nYou want ICE, the agency in charge of rounding up undocumented immigrants.\n\nSo how would you deal with the millions of immigrants who arrive legally but overstay their visas? And how would you stop hundreds of thousands of Central Americans who want to migrate to the U.S.?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "Well, I start with a statement of principles, and that is, in this country, immigration does not make us weaker, immigration makes us stronger.\nI want to see us expand legal immigration and create a pathway to citizenship for our DREAMers, but also for their grandparents, and for their cousins, for people who have overstayed student visas, and for people who came here to work in the fields. I want to have a system that is a path to citizenship that is fair and achievable.\n\nDown at the border, we've got to rework this entirely. A system right now that cannot tell the difference in the threat posed by a terrorist, a criminal, and a 12-year-old girl is not a system that is keeping us safer, and it is not serving our values.", "Jorge Ramos" -> "Mr. Yang...", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "We need \[LongDash] I want to add one more part on this, because I think we have to look at all the pieces. Why do we have a crisis at the border? In no small part because we have withdrawn help from people in Central America who are suffering.\nWe need to restore that help. We need to help establish and re-establish the rule of law so that people don't feel like they have to flee for their lives. We have a crisis that Donald Trump has created and hopes to profit from politically. We have to have the courage to stand up and fight back.", "Jorge Ramos" -> "Mr. Yang? It is true that in the last few years we have seen the most severe anti-immigrant measures, from putting kids in cages to limiting asylum for people fleeing gangs and domestic violence. But it is also true about 1 million immigrants enter the U.S. legally every year. So, are you willing to raise the number of legal immigrants from 1 million to 2 million per year? And should there be a merit system, as President Trump wants?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "So, yes \[LongDash] oh, I'm sorry. Did you me or...", Entity["Person", "AndrewYang::f7w42"] -> "It was me.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "Oh, he said it. Okay. Sorry.", Entity["Person", "AndrewYang::f7w42"] -> "My \[LongDash] my father grew up on a peanut farm in Asia with no floor and now his son is running for president. That is the immigration story that we have...\n... to be able to share with the American people.\n\nIf you look at our history, almost half of Fortune 500 companies were founded by either immigrants or children of immigrants. And rates of business formation are much higher in immigrant communities. We have to say to the American people, immigrants are positive for our economic and social dynamism, and I would return the level of legal immigration to the point it was under the Obama-Biden administration.\n\nI think we have to compete for talent and I am the opposite of Donald Trump in many ways. He says, build a wall. I'm going to say to immigrants, come to America, because if you come here, your son our daughter can run for president. The water is great. And this is where you want to build a company, build a family, and build a life.\n\nThis country has been a magnet for human capital for generations. If we lose that, we lose something integral to our continued success. And that is where I would lead as president.", "Jorge Ramos" -> "(SPEAKING SPANISH)", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "Gracias.", "Jorge Ramos" -> "(INAUDIBLE) Pete, eight out of 10 Latinos in Texas for another mass shooter targeting them. This is according to a new Univision poll. President Trump has called Mexican immigrants rapists and killers, tried to ban Muslims from entering the country separated children from their parents.\n\nHe supporters have chanted, build a wall and send her back. Do you think that people who support President Trump and his immigration policies are racist?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "Anyone who supports this is supporting racism.\nThe only people, though, who actually buy into this president\[CloseCurlyQuote]s hateful rhetoric around immigrants are people who don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t know any. We have an opportunity to build an American majority around immigration reform. In my community, a group of conservative Republicans rallied around an individual, a beloved local individual who was deported when he went into ICE to try to get his paperwork sorted out, because they never thought it would happen to him.\n\nIn some of the most conservative, rural areas of Iowa, I have seen communities that embraced immigration grow. And that's why part of my plan for revitalizing the economies of rural America includes community renewal visas that would allow cities and towns and counties that are hurting not only for jobs but for population to embrace immigration as we have in my city.\n\nYou know, the only reason that South Bend is growing right now, after years of shrinking, is immigration. It's one of the reasons we acted, not waiting for Washington, to create city-issued municipal IDs, so that people, regardless of immigration status in our city, had the opportunity to have the benefits of identification.\n\nWe have an opportunity to actually get something done. But we cannot allow this continue to be the same debate with the same arguments and the same clever lines often among the same people since the last real reform happened in the 1980s. We have to actually engage the American majority around the opportunities for not just growth in small communities, but our values. Values of welcome, values of faith that all argue for us to manage this humanely and in a way that marries our values with our laws.", "Jorge Ramos" -> "(SPEAKING SPANISH)\n\nIn an interview eight months ago, you were asked to asked what to do with the so-called \"over-stayers,\" people who come with a visa and then stay. And you said, I don't know. Do you have an answer now?", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "I do. And if you read the rest of that article in The Washington Post, I talked about harmonizing our entry/exit system with Mexico in the same way that we do with Canada. I think that could help us to keep a handle on visa over-stays.\n\nBut I think the larger question that we're trying to get at is, how do we rewrite this country's immigration laws in our own image? In the image of Houston, Texas, the most diverse city in the United States of America.\nIn the image of El Paso, Texas, one of the safest cities in the United States of America. Safe, not despite the fact that we are a city of immigrants, safe because we are a city of immigrants.\nI will lead an effort to make sure that we rewrite our immigration laws in that way. Never cage another child. Make sure that there is accountability and justice for the seven lives lost under our care and our custody, but also face the fact that Democrats and Republicans alike voted to build a wall that has produced thousands of deaths of people trying to cross to join family or to work a job.\n\nThat we have been part of deporting people, hundreds of thousands just in the Obama administration alone, who posed no threat to this country, breaking up their families. Democrats have to get off the back foot, we have to lead on this issue, because we know it is right.\n\nLegalize America, begin with those more than 1 million DREAMers, make them U.S. citizens right now in this, their true home country...\n... and extend that to their parents, their sisters and their brothers, and ensure that we have a legal, safe, orderly system to come to this country and add to our greatness here.", "Jorge Ramos" -> "Thank you. George.", "George Stephanopoulos" -> "Jorge, thank you.\n\nWe're going to take a quick break. When we come back, national security, foreign policy, homeland security, the impact on American jobs and U.S. troops.", "ANNOUNCER" -> "Live from Texas Southern University in Houston, the \"Democratic Debate.\"", "George Stephanopoulos" -> "Welcome back. We want to turn now to national security and the foreign policy issue that has such a direct impact here at home. The U.S. relationship with China, trade, and President Trump's tariffs. We received more than 100 questions from viewers wanting to know how all of you are going to handle these tariffs.\n\nAnd, Mr. Yang, let me begin with you. Would you repeal the tariffs on your first day in office? And if so, would you risk losing leverage in our trade relationship with China?", Entity["Person", "AndrewYang::f7w42"] -> "I would not repeal the tariffs on day one, but I would let the Chinese know that we need to hammer out a deal, because right now, the tariffs are pummeling producers and farmers in Iowa who have absolutely nothing to do with the imbalances that we have with China.\n\nA CEO friend of mine was in China recently and he said that he saw pirated U.S. intellectual property on worker workstations to the tune of thousands of dollars per head. And he said, one, how can my workers compete against that? And, two, think about all the lost revenue to American companies.\n\nSo, the imbalances are real. But we have to let the Chinese know that we recognize that President Trump has pursued an arbitrary and haphazard trade policy that has had victims on both sides.\n\nSo, no to repealing the tariffs immediately, but yes to making sure we come to a deal that addresses the concerns of American companies and American producers.", "George Stephanopoulos" -> "Mayor Pete, let me take that question \[LongDash] let me take that question to you, because you've seen President Trump's tweets. He says what's going to happen here is the Chinese are just going to wait him out so that they can get a Democrat who they can take advantage of.\n\nHow do you think about China? We've seen President Trump call President Xi both an enemy and a friend.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "Well, the president clearly has no strategy.\n\nYou know, when I first got into this race, I remember President Trump scoffed and said he'd like to see me making a deal with Xi Jinping. I'd like to see him making a deal with Xi Jinping.\nIs it just me, or was that supposed to happen in, like, April? It's one more example of a commitment not made. When that happens on the international stage, people take note, not just our competitors, our adversaries, but also our allies take note of the inability of the United States to keep its word or follow through on its plans. And when that happens, there are serious consequences.\n\nWe saw it at the G7. The leaders of some of the greatest powers and economies of the world sitting to talk about one of the greatest challenges in the world, climate change, and there was literally an empty chair where American leadership could have been.\n\nThe problem is, this is a moment when American leadership is needed more than ever, whether it's in Hong Kong, where those protesters for democracy need to know that they have a friend in the United States, or anywhere around the world where increasingly we see dictators throwing their weight around. The world needs America, but it can't be just any America.", "George Stephanopoulos" -> "Would you repeal the tariffs?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "I would have a strategy that would include the tariffs as leverage, but it's not about the tariffs. Look, what's going on right now is a president who has reduced the entire China challenge into a question of tariffs, when what we know is that the tariffs are coming down on us more than anybody else and there's a lack of a bigger strategy.", "George Stephanopoulos" -> "Senator Klobuchar, you've actually supported the tariffs on steel.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "What we've got right now, though, George, it's not a focused tariff on steel. What he has done here, he has assessed these tariffs on our allies. He has put us in the middle of this trade war and he is treating our farmers and our workers like poker chips in one of his bankrupt casinos. And if we are not careful, he is going to bankrupt this country.\n\nOne forecast recently says that it has already cost us 300,000 jobs, all right? There is soybeans that are mounting up in bins all over the Midwest, in my state of Minnesota and in Iowa.\n\nSo what I think we need to do is to go back to the negotiating table \[LongDash] that's what I would do. I wouldn't have put all these tariffs in place. And I wouldn't have had a trade policy where on August 1st he announces he's going to have tariffs on $300 billion of goods, on August 13th, he cuts it in half, a week later, he says he's going to reduce taxes, the day after that, he says he's going to do it.\n\nThe leaders of the world are watching this, and it undermines our strength as a nation. And, yes, we want fair trade, but we must work with the rest of the world. And he has made a mockery of focused trade policy, which I think means enforcement, like we've done in northern Minnesota, passing bills, getting President Obama to do more on that, so that our workers can benefit, so we are importing, exporting goods and making sure that it's a competitive policy where our goal is that we are making things, inventing things, and exporting to the world. He is defeating that goal.", "George Stephanopoulos" -> "Secretary Castro, you actually, in one of the previous debates, identified China as the most serious national security threat to our country. I want to pick up on what Senator Klobuchar was saying. She said she would go back to the negotiating table. The question is, what do you do for leverage? Where do you get it?", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "Well, look, I agree with those who have said that this erratic, haphazard trade war is hurting American families. As Senator Klobuchar said, 300,000 American jobs. It's estimated that it's cost $600 to the average American family. Just a couple of days ago, 60 percent of Americans said that they believe that we're in for a recession next year.\n\nSo when I become president, I would immediately begin to negotiate with China to ratchet down that trade war. We have leverage there. I also believe, though, that we need to return to a leader when it comes to things like human rights.\n\nWe have millions of Uighurs, for instance, in China that right now are being imprisoned and mistreated.\nAnd in North Korea, this president is elevating a dictator. We need to stop that. We need to return to ensuring that America leads again on human rights. When it comes to this trade war, I would immediately begin ratcheting that trade war down. We have leverage in that discussion.", "George Stephanopoulos" -> "Senator Warren, let me bring you in on this conversation. President Obama signed the Trans-Pacific Partnership. In part, it was designed to rein in China, to bring China into some kind of regulation. What do you think he got wrong?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "So our trade policy in America has been broken for decades, and it has been broken because it works for giant multinational corporations and not for much of anyone else. These are giant corporations that, shoot, if they can save a nickel by moving a job to a foreign country, they'll do it in a heartbeat.\n\nAnd yet for decades now, who's been whispering in the ears of our trade negotiators? Who has shaped our trade policy? It's been the giant corporations. It's been their lobbyists and their executives.\n\nThe way we change our trade policy in America is, first, the procedures. Who sits at the table? I want to negotiate trade with unions at the table. I want to negotiate it with small farmers at the table. I want to negotiate it with environmentalists at the table. I want to negotiate with human rights activists at the table.\n\nAnd you asked the question about leverage. If I can just respond to that one, the leverage, are you kidding? Everybody wants access to the American market. That means that we have the capacity to say right here in America, you want to come sell goods to American consumers? Then you got to raise your standards. You've got to raise your labor standards. You've got to raise your environmental standards...\n... so our companies can compete on a level playing field. We can use trade not to undermine American workers and not to undermine American farms and not to undermine small businesses in this country. We can use trade to help build a stronger economy.", "George Stephanopoulos" -> "Senator Harris, how would your trade policy differ from President Obama's?", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "Well, first of all, I have no criticism of that more than just looking at where we are now, which is we've got a guy in the White House who has been erratic on trade policy. He conducts trade policy by tweet, frankly born out of his fragile ego. It has resulted in farmers in Iowa with soybeans rotting in bins, looking at bankruptcy.\n\nWhen we look at this issue, my trade policy, under a Harris administration, is always going to be about saying, we need to export American products, not American jobs. And to do that, we have to have a meaningful trade policy.\n\nI am not a protectionist Democrat. Look, we need to sell our stuff. And that means we need to sell it to people overseas. That means we need trade policies that allow that to happen.\n\nYou asked earlier about China. It's a complicated relationship. We have to hold China accountable. They steal our products, including our intellectual property. They dump substandard products into our economy. They need to be held accountable.\n\nWe also need to partner with China on climate and the crisis that that presents. We need to partner with China on the issue of North Korea. I am on \[LongDash] and I think the only person on this stage \[LongDash] the Senate Intelligence Committee and the Senate Homeland Security Committee. We need a partner on the issue of North Korea.\n\nBut the bottom line is this. Donald Trump in office on trade policy, you know, he reminds me of that guy in \"The Wizard of Oz,\" you know, when you pull back the curtain, it's a really small dude?", "George Stephanopoulos" -> "Okay. I\[CloseCurlyQuote]m not even going to take the bait, Senator Harris. But I am going to take...", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "Oh, George, it wasn't about you.", "George Stephanopoulos" -> "I'm going to take this to Senator Sanders right now.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Well, there is a reason \[LongDash] there is a reason why, in the last 45 years, the average American today, despite an explosion of technology and worker productivity, is not making a penny more than he or she made 45 years ago. And one of the reasons is that, for decades, we have had disastrous trade policies.\n\nI got to say to my good friend, Joe Biden, Joe and I strongly disagree on trade. I helped lead the opposition to NAFTA and PNTR, which cost this country over 4 million good-paying jobs.\nAnd what happened is people who had those jobs ended up getting other jobs making 50 percent of what they made in manufacturing.\n\nSo Trump, obviously, hasn't a clue. Trump thinks that trade policy is a tweet at 3 o'clock in the morning. What we have got to do is develop a trade policy that represents workers, represents the farmers in the Midwest and elsewhere, who are losing billions right now because of Trump's policy, a trade policy which understands that if a company shuts down in America and goes abroad, and then thinks they're going to get online to get a lucrative federal contract, under Bernie Sanders, they got another guess coming.", "George Stephanopoulos" -> "Vice President Biden, he invoked your name.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Yeah, well, look, we're either going to make policy or China's going to make the rules of the road. We make up 25 percent of the world economy. We need another 25 percent to join us.\n\nAnd I think Elizabeth \[LongDash] Senator Warren is correct. At the table has to be labor and at the table have to be environmentalists. The fact of the matter is, China \[LongDash] the problem isn't the trade deficit, the problem is they're stealing our intellectual property. The problem is they're violating the WTO. They're dumping steel on us. That's a different issue than whether or not they're dumping agricultural products on us.\n\nIn addition to that, we're in a position where, if we don't set the rules, we, in fact, are going to find ourselves with China setting the rules. And that's why you need to organize the world to take on China, to stop the corrupt practices that are underway.", "George Stephanopoulos" -> "Senator Booker, close out this round.", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "Sure. There\[CloseCurlyQuote]s one point we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re really missing on the stage right now, which is the fact that Donald Trump\[CloseCurlyQuote]s America first policy is actually an America isolated, an America alone policy.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Exactly right.", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "From trade to battling China to the global crisis of climate change, the challenges in the Middle East, he is pulling us away from our allies, out of the Iran deal, out of the Paris climate accords.\n\nAnd on trade, he's deciding to take on China, while at the same time taking on tariff battles with all of our allies. You literally have him using a national security waiver to put tariffs on Canada. Now, look, I'm the only person on this stage that finds Trudeau's hair very menacing, but they are not a national security threat.\nWe cannot go up against China alone. This is a president that has a better relationship with dictators, like Duterte and Putin, than he does with Merkel and Macron. We are the strongest nation on the planet Earth, and our strength is multiplied and magnified when we stand with our allies in common cause and common purpose. That's how we beat China. That's how we beat climate change on the planet Earth, and that's how American values are the ones that lead on issues of trade and workers' rights.", "George Stephanopoulos" -> "David?", "David Muir" -> "George, thank you. I want to turn now to our troops overseas and to America's longest war in Afghanistan. U.S. talks with the Taliban are dead, according to the president. Secret talks at Camp David have been canceled before they could happen. Many of you have weighed in on that already, so I want to move past that tonight to what all of you have promised on the campaign trail.\n\nMany of you on this stage have said you'd bring the troops home in your first term. Others have said in your first year. Senator Warren, we all know the presidency is much different from the campaign trail. President Obama wanted to bring the troops home. President Trump promised to bring the troops home. And you have said of Afghanistan, let's help them reach a peace settlement. It is time to bring our troops home, in your words, starting right now. Would you keep that promise to bring the troops home starting right now with no deal with the Taliban?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "Yes. And I'll tell you why. What we're doing right now in Afghanistan is not helping the safety and security of the United States. It is not helping the safety and security of the world. It is not helping the safety and security of Afghanistan. We need to bring our troops home.\n\nAnd then we need to make a big shift. We cannot ask our military to keep solving problems that cannot be solved militarily.\nWe're not going to bomb our way to a solution in Afghanistan. We need to treat the problem of terrorism as a worldwide problem, and that means we need to be working with all of our allies, our European allies, our Canadian allies, our Asian allies, our allies in Africa and in South America. We need to work together to root out terrorism.\n\nIt means using all of our tools. It means economic investment. It means expanding our diplomatic efforts instead of hollowing out the State Department and deliberately making it so we have no eyes and ears in many of these countries. We need a foreign policy that is about our security and about leading on our values.", "George Stephanopoulos" -> "Senator Warren, a quick follow on that, because top U.S. leaders, military leaders on the ground in Afghanistan told me you can't do it without a deal with the Taliban. You just said you would, you would bring them home. What if they told you that? Would you listen to their advice?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "I was in Afghanistan with John McCain two years ago this past summer. I think it may have been Senator McCain's last trip before he was sick. And I talked to people \[LongDash] we did \[LongDash] we talked to military leaders, American and local leaders, we talked to people on the ground and asked the question, the same one I ask on the Senate Armed Services Committee every time one of the generals comes through: Show me what winning looks like. Tell me what it looks like.\n\nAnd what you hear is a lot of, \"Uh,\" because no one can describe it. And the reason no one can describe it is because the problems in Afghanistan are not problems that can be solved by a military.\n\nI have three older brothers who all served in the military. I understand firsthand the kind of commitment they have made. They will do anything we ask them to do. But we cannot ask them to solve problems that they alone cannot solve.\n\nWe need to work with the rest of the world. We need to use our economic tools. We need to use our diplomatic tools. We need to build with our allies. And we need to make the whole world safer, not keep troops bombing in Afghanistan.", "David Muir" -> "Senator Warren, thank you.\nI do want to stay on this, and I want to turn to Mayor Buttigieg, because you're the only veteran on this stage. You served in Afghanistan. We heard in recent days from General Joseph Dunford, the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who said in recent days, \"I'm not going to use the word withdrawal right now. It's our judgment the Afghans need support to deal with the level of violence.\" If he's not even using the word withdrawal, would you put your promise to bring troops home in the first year on hold to follow the advice?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "You know, I served under General Dunford, way under General Dunford, in Afghanistan.\nAnd today, September 12, 2019, means that today you could be 18 years old, old enough to serve, and had not been alive on 9/11. We have got to put an end to endless war.\n\nAnd the way we do it is see to it that that country will never again be used for an attack against our homeland, and that does not require an open-ended commitment of ground troops.\n\nLet me say something else, because if there's one thing we've learned about Afghanistan, from Afghanistan, it's that the best way not to be caught up in endless war is to avoid starting one in the first place.\nAnd so when I am president, an authorization for the use of military force will have a built-in three-year sunset. Congress will be required to vote and a president will be required to go to Congress to seek an authorization. Because if our troops can summon the courage to go overseas, the least our members of Congress should be able to do is summon the courage to take a vote on whether they ought to be there.\nBy the way, we also have a president right now who seems to treat troops as props, or worse, tools for his own enrichment. We saw what's going on with flights apparently being routed through Scotland just so people can stay at his hotels?\n\nI'll tell you, as a military officer, the very first thing that goes through your mind, the first time you ever make eye contact with somebody that you are responsible for in uniform, is do not let these men and women down. This president is doing exactly that. I will not.", "David Muir" -> "Mayor Buttigieg, thank you.\n\nI want to turn to Vice President Biden, because the concerns about any possible vacuum being created in Afghanistan, if you pulled the U.S. troops out, has been heightened by what we've seen in recent days on the ground in Iraq.\n\nWhen you were vice president, President Obama turned to you to bring the troops home from Iraq. You have said on the campaign trail, quote, \"I made sure the president turned to me and said, Joe, get our combat troops out of Iraq.\" There was a major drawdown of U.S. troops, and then ISIS seized by some estimates 40 percent of the territory in Iraq. You then had to send thousands of troops back in. Was it wrong to pull out of Iraq that quickly? And did the move actually help ISIS take hold?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "No, it wasn't wrong to pull out. But I want to answer your Afghanistan question. I've been in and out of Afghanistan, not with a gun, and I admire my friend for his service. But I've been out of Afghanistan I think more than anybody on this \[LongDash] and it's an open secret, you reported a long time ago, George, that I was opposed to the surge in Afghanistan.\n\nThe whole purpose of going to Afghanistan was to not have a counterinsurgency, meaning that we're going to put that country together. It cannot be put together. Let me say it again. It will not be put together. It's three different countries. Pakistan owns the three counties \[LongDash] the three provinces in the east. They're not any part of \[LongDash] the Haqqanis run it. I will go on and on.\n\nBut here's the point. The point is that it's a counterterrorism strategy. We can prevent the United States from being the victim of terror coming out of Afghanistan by providing for bases \[LongDash] insist the Pakistanis provide bases for us to air lift from and to move against what we know.\n\nWe don't need those troops there. I would bring them home. And Joe Dunford's a fine guy, but this has been an internal argument we've had for eight years.\n\nWith regard to \[LongDash] with regard to Iraq, the fact of the matter is that, you know, I should have never voted to give Bush the authority to go in and do what he said he was going to do. The AUMF was designed, he said, to go in and get the Security Council to vote 15-0 to allow inspectors to go in to determine whether or not anything was being done with chemical weapons or nuclear weapons. And when that happened, he went ahead and went anyway without any of that proof.\n\nI said something that was not meant the way I said it.\n\nI said \[LongDash] from that point on \[LongDash] what I was argued against in the beginning, once he started to put the troops in, was that in fact we were doing it the wrong way; there was no plan; we should not be engaged; we didn't have the people with us; we didn't have our \[LongDash] we didn't have allies with us, et cetera.\n\nAnd it was later, when we came into office, that Barack turned \[LongDash] the president turned to me and said, \"Joe\" \[LongDash] when they said we've got a plan to get out, he turned to the whole security and said, \"Joe will organize this. Get the troops home.\"\n\nMy son spent a year in Iraq, and I understand. It made \[LongDash] and we were right to get the combat troops out. The big mistake that was made, which we predicted, was that you would not have a circumstance where the Shia and the Kurds would work together to keep ISIS from coming \[LongDash] from moving in.", "David Muir" -> "Mr. Vice President, thank you.\n\nI want to turn to Senator Sanders on this. Because the concern over Afghanistan is very similar to what we saw in Iraq when the troops came out. ISIS filled that vacuum.\n\nWhat do you make of people out there who are worried that if we pull out U.S. troops too quickly from Afghanistan, it will create safe haven all over again, like the plotters of 9/11?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "David, let me answer that, but let me just comment on something that the vice president said.\n\nYou talked about the big mistake in Iraq and the surge. The truth is, the big mistake, the huge mistake, and one of the big differences between you and me, I never believed what Cheney and Bush said about Iraq...", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "You're right.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "I voted against the war in Iraq\n... and helped lead the opposition. And it's sad to say \[LongDash] I mean, I, kind of, you know, had the feeling that there would be massive destabilization in that area if we went into that war.\n\nAs the former chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs, I want to pick up on what Pete said. We cannot express our gratitude to all of the men and women who have put their lives on the line to defend them \[LongDash] defend us, who have responded to the call of duty. But I think, also, I am the only person up here to have voted against all three of Trump's military budgets.\nI don't think we have to spend $750 billion a year on the military when we don't even know who our enemy is.\nI think that what we have got to do is bring this world together \[LongDash] bring it together on climate change, bring it together in fighting against terrorism. And make it clear that we as a planet, as a global community, will work together to help countries around the world rebuild their struggling economies and do everything that we can to rid the world of terrorism. But dropping bomb on Afghanistan and Iraq was not the way to do it.", "David Muir" -> "Senator Sanders, thank you.\nI want to take this to Mr. Yang. You share the stage, as you know, when when we talk about troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, with the vice president, who was in the Situation Room, with senators who were on the Senate Armed Services, the Foreign Relations Committees, with an Afghanistan veteran who is on the stage tonight.\n\nAs you share the stage with these candidates, what makes you the most qualified on this stage to be commander in chief?", Entity["Person", "AndrewYang::f7w42"] -> "I've signed a pledge to end the forever wars. We've been in a state of continuous armed conflict for 18 years, which is not what the American people want. We have to start owning what we can and can't do. We're not very good at rebuilding countries.\n\nAnd if you want proof, all you have to do is look within our own country of Puerto Rico.\nWe've spent trillions of dollars to unclear benefits, lost thousands of lives \[LongDash] and thank you, Pete, for your service. And the goal has to be to rebuild the relationships that have made America strong for decades.\n\nI would lead our armed forces with restraint and judgment. What the American people want is simply a president who has the right values and point of view and they can trust to make the right decisions when it comes to putting our young men and women into harm's way. And that's what I would do as president.", "David Muir" -> "Mr. Yang, thank you.\nJorge?", "Jorge Ramos" -> "Thank you very much.\nYou haven\[CloseCurlyQuote]t been asked about Latin America in the previous debates, so let\[CloseCurlyQuote]s begin. Senator Sanders, one country where many immigrants are arriving from is Venezuela. A recent U.N. fact-finding mission found that thousands have been disappeared, tortured and killed by government forces in Venezuela.\n\nYou admit that Venezuela does not have free elections, but still you refuse to call Nicolas Maduro a dictator \[LongDash] a dictator. Can you explain why?\n\nAnd what are the main differences between your kind of socialism and the one being imposed in Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Well, first of all, let me be very clear. Anybody who does what Maduro does is a vicious tyrant. What we need now is international and regional cooperation for free elections in Venezuela so that the people of that country can make \[LongDash] can create their own future.\n\nIn terms of democratic socialism, to equate what goes on in Venezuela with what I believe is extremely unfair. I'll tell you what I believe in terms of democratic socialism. I agree with goes on in Canada and in Scandinavia, guaranteeing health care to all people as a human right.\nI believe that the United States should not be the only major country on earth not to provide paid family and medical leave.\nI believe that every worker in this country deserves a living wage and that we expand the trade union movement.\nI happen to believe also that what, to me, democratic socialism means, is we deal with an issue we do not discuss enough, Jorge \[LongDash] it's not in the media and not in Congress. You've got three people in America owning more wealth than the bottom half of this country. You've got a handful of billionaires controlling what goes on in Wall Street, the insurance companies and in the media.\n\nMaybe, just maybe, what we should be doing is creating an economy...", "Jorge Ramos" -> "Thank you.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "... that works for all of us, not 1 percent. That's my understanding of democratic socialism.", "Jorge Ramos" -> "Secretary, you wanted to say a quick response \[LongDash] 45 seconds?", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "Sure, thank you, Jorge. I'll call Maduro a dictator, because he is a dictator.\nAnd what we need to do is to, along with our allies, make sure that the Venezuelan people get the assistance that they need, that we continue to pressure Venezuela so that they'll have free and fair elections, and also, here in the United States, offer temporary protected status, TPS, to Venezuelans.\nThat is something that the Trump administration has failed to do. For all of his big talk about supporting the Venezuelan-American community, he has failed. I will not.\n\nI also believe that we need to do things like a 21st century Marshall plan for Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala...\n... so that people can find safety and opportunity at home instead of having to make the dangerous journey to the United States. And under my administration, we're going to put renewed focus on Latin America. It makes sense. They're our neighbors and we have a lot of things in common. It also makes sense that, because we have a country like China that is going around the world to places like Africa and Latin America, making their own relationships, strengthening those, the United States needs to strengthen its partnerships in Latin America immediately.", "Jorge Ramos" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "And I will", "Jorge Ramos" -> "Senator Booker, let me ask you about Brazil. After the recent fires in the Amazon, some experts suggested that eating less meat is one way to help the environment. You are a vegan since 2014. That's obviously a personal choice, but President Trump and Brazil's President Bolsonaro are concerned that climate change regulations could affect economic growth.\n\nSo should more Americans, including those here in Texas, and in Iowa...\n... follow your diet?", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "Um, you know, first of all, I want to say no. Actually, I want to translate that into Spanish. No.\nLook, on \[LongDash] let's just be clear. The factory farming going on that's assaulting this corporate consolidation of the agricultural industry, one of the reasons why I have a bill to put a moratorium on this kind of corporate consolidation is because this factory farming is destroying and hurting our environment. And you see independent family farmers being pushed out of business because of the kind of incentives we are giving that don't line up with our values. That's what I'm calling for.\nBut I want to \[LongDash] I want to switch, because we don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t have \[LongDash] a crowded debate stage, we were talking about Afghanistan and Iraq. It annoys me that we had a conversation about our troops overseas and we didn\[CloseCurlyQuote]t say one word about veterans in our country.\nWe have a shameful reality in America that we send people off to war and they often come home with invisible wounds, hurts and harms. They're disproportionately homeless. You hear stories about women waiting for months for gynecological care through the VA. It is very important that, as we \[LongDash] as a country, understand that we are not going to solve every problem with this outrageous increased militarism, that we also make sure that we stand up for the people that stood for us.\n\nWe end our national anthem with \"home of the brave.\" It's about time we make this a better home for our bravest.\nCongressman O'Rourke, Hurricane Harvey hit this town two years ago. And not only is the Amazon burning, Greenland is melting at a record pace. The last five years have been the hottest ever recorded. And we have a viewer's question about this.\n\nWhat meaningful action will you take to reverse the effect of climate change? And can we count on you to follow through if your donors are against it?", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "Yes, we will follow through, regardless of the political consequences or who it offends, because this is the very future of our planet and our ability for our children and grandchildren to be able to survive on it.\n\nWe will make sure that we get to net zero greenhouse gas emissions no later than the year 2050. That we are halfway there by 2030. That we mobilize $5 trillion over the next 10 years to do that. That we invest here in Houston, Texas, with pre-disaster mitigation grants to protect those communities that are vulnerable to flooding given the fact that this town has seen three 500-year floods in just five years, you'd like to think you're good for 1,500 years, but you're not. They're coming faster and larger and more devastating than ever.\n\nWe're also going to make sure that we free ourselves from a dependence on fossil fuels and embrace renewable wind and solar energy technology, as well as the high-paying, high-skill, high-wage jobs that come along with that. And that we're going to pay farmers for the environmental services they want to provide. Planting cover crops, keeping more land under conservation, using no-till farming, regenerative agriculture can pull carbon out of the air and can drive it and sequester it into the soil.\n\nThat's the way that we're going to meet this challenge and we're going to bring everyone into the solution.", "Jorge Ramos" -> "Many of you want to comment. Let's see if we can go very fast. Senator Klobuchar?", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "Thank you.\n\nThis is the existential crisis of our time. It's \[LongDash] you know that movie \"The Day after Tomorrow\"? It's today. We have seen a warming in our world like never before. We're seeing flooding in the Midwest, flooding in Houston, fires in the West. And I think having someone leading the ticket from the Midwest will allow us to talk about this in a different way and get it done.\n\nOn day one, I will get us back into the international climate change agreement. On day two, I will bring back the clean power rules that President Obama had worked on. On day three, I will bring back the gas mileage standards. You can do all that without Congress, which is good.\n\nOn day four, five, and six I will, working with Congress and mayors and business people all over the country, introduce sweeping legislation to get at that 2050 goal. And on day seven, you're supposed to rest, but I won't. This is what we need to do if we're going to get at climate change. We have to take this on as a crisis that's happening right now.", "Jorge Ramos" -> "Senator Warren, should American foreign policy be based around the principle of climate change?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "Yes. We need to work on every front on climate change. It is the threat to every living thing on this planet and we are running out of time. Every time the scientists go back, they say, we have less and less time than we thought we had.\n\nBut that means we've got to use all the tools. One of the tools we need to use are our regulatory tools. I have proposed following Governor Inslee, that we, by 2028, cut all carbon emissions from new buildings. By 2030, carbon emissions from cars. And by 2035, all carbon emissions from the manufacture of electricity. That alone, those three, will cut our emissions here in the United States by 70 percent.\n\nWe can do this. We also need to help around the world to clean, but understand this one more time. Why doesn't it happen? As long as Washington is paying more attention to money than it is to our future, we can't make the changes we need to make. We have to attack the corruption head-on so that we can save our planet.", "Jorge Ramos" -> "Sen. Harris, 45 seconds.", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "When I think about this issue, it really is through the lens of my baby nieces who are one-and-a-half and 3 years old. When I look at what is going to be the world if we do nothing, when they turn 20, I am really scared. And when I\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve been in the United States Senate for now the last two-and-a-half years and I look at our counterparts, the Republicans in the United States Senate, they must be looking at their children and then when they look at the mirror, I don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t know what they see, but it\[CloseCurlyQuote]s a lack of courage.\n\nAnd this is an issue that, yes, it represents a existential threat. It is also something that we can do something about. This is a problem that was created by human behaviors. And we can change our behaviors in a way that saves our planet. I've seen it happen in California.\n\nI took on \[LongDash] as the attorney general of California, I ran the second-largest department of justice in the United States, second only to the United States Department of Justice. I took on the big oil companies and we saw progress. If any of you have been to Los Angeles, 20 years ago, you'll remember, that sky was brown. You go there now, the sky is blue and you know why? Because leaders decided to lead and we took on these big fossil fuel companies.\n\nWe have some of the most important and strongest laws in the country and we made a difference. And my point being, I've done it before and I will lead as president on this issue because we have no time, the clock is ticking, but we need courage, and we need courageous leadership. We can get this done.", "Jorge Ramos" -> "Mr. Yang?", Entity["Person", "AndrewYang::f7w42"] -> "So, to follow up on what Elizabeth said, why are we losing to the fossil fuel companies?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "Yes.", Entity["Person", "AndrewYang::f7w42"] -> "Why are we losing to the gun lobby and the NRA? And is answer is this, we all know, everyone on this stage knows that our government has been overrun by money and corporate interests. Now, everyone here has a plan to try to curb those corporate interests, but we have to face facts. Money finds a way.\n\nMoney will find its way back in. So, what is the answer? The answer is to wash the money out with people-powered money.\nMy proposal is that we give every American 100 \"Democracy Dollars\" that you can only give to candidates and causes that you like. This would wash out the lobbyist cash by a factor of eight to one. That is the only way we will win. And as someone running for president, I'll tell you, there's the people on one side and the money on the other, the only way for us to win is if we bring them together.", "Jorge Ramos" -> "Thank you, Mr. Yang.\n\nLinsey.", "Linsey Davis" -> "I'd like to have an academic discussion now about education.\n\nMr. Yang, we'll stay with you. Here in Houston, the school district is facing yet another year of spending cuts. Like schools across the country, the system faces many challenges. One of them, thousands of students are leaving traditional public schools and going to charter schools.\n\nYou're the most vocal proponent on this stage for charter schools. You have said that Democrats who want to limit them are, quote, \"just jumping into bed with teachers unions and doing kids a disservice.\" Why isn't taxpayer money better spent on fixing traditional public schools?", Entity["Person", "AndrewYang::f7w42"] -> "Let me be clear, I am pro-good school. I've got a kid, one of my little boys just started public school last week and I was not there because I was running for president.\nSo, we need to pay teachers more, because the data clearly shows that a good teacher is worth his or her weight in gold.\nWe need to lighten up the emphasis on standardized tests, which do not measure anything fundamental about our character or human worth.\nBut here's the big one. The data clearly shows that 65 to 70 percent of our students outcomes are determined outside of the school. We're talking about time spent at home with the parents, words read to them when they're young, stress levels in the house, income, type of neighborhood.\n\nWe're putting money into schools, and educators know this, we're saying you're 100 percent responsible for educating your kids but you can only control 30 percent. They all know this. The answer is to put money directly into the families and neighborhoods to give our kids a chance to learn and our teachers a chance to teach.", "Linsey Davis" -> "Mayor Buttigieg, 45 seconds to respond.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "Step one is appoint a secretary of education who actually believes in public education.\nI believe in public education. And in order to strengthen it, some things are very complex, for preparing for a future where knowledge is at your fingertips, but we have got to teach more to do with critical thinking and social and emotional learning. Some of it is extremely simple, we have just got to pay teachers more. And we have got to lift up the teaching profession.\n\nI always think of a story from South Bend of friends who hosted exchange students from Japan. They had a student one year who wanted to be a teacher. And they kept in touch with her when she went back to Japan and to college. She took the exam to try to become a teacher in a society that really regards teachers and compensates teachers well. And she came up just short.\n\nSo, you know what she did? Since she was academically good but couldn't quite make the cut to be a teacher, she had a fall-back plan, she became a doctor. That is how seriously some countries treat the teaching profession. If we want to get the results that we expect for our children, we have to support and compensate the teaching profession. Respect teachers the way we do soldiers and pay them more like the way we do doctors.", "Linsey Davis" -> "Sen. Warren, to use Mr. Yang\[CloseCurlyQuote]s term, are you just jumping into bed with teachers unions?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "You know, I think I'm the only person on this stage who has been a public school teacher.\nI had wanted to be a public school teacher since I was in second grade. And let's be clear in all the ways we talk about this, money for public schools should stay in public schools, not go anywhere else.\nI've already made my commitment. I will \[LongDash] we will have a secretary of education who has been a public school teacher.\nI think this is ultimately about our values. I have proposed a two-cent wealth tax on the top one-tenth of one percent in this country. That would give us enough money to start with our babies by providing universal child care for every baby age zero to five, universal pre-K for every three-year-old and four-year-old in this country...", "Linsey Davis" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "... raise the wages of every child-care worker and preschool teacher in this country, cancel student loan debt for 95 percent of the folks who\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve got it...", "Linsey Davis" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "... and strengthen our unions. This is how we build an America that reflects our values, not just where the money comes from with the billionaires and corporate executives.", "Linsey Davis" -> "Sen. Harris, 45 seconds to respond.", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "My first-grade teacher, Mrs. Frances Wilson, God rest her soul, attended my law school graduation. I think most of us would say that we are not where we are without the teachers who believed in us.\n\nI have offered in this campaign a proposal to deal with this, which will be the first in the nation, federal investment, in closing the teacher pay gap, which is $13,500 a year. Because right now, in our public schools, our teachers, 94 percent of them are coming out of their own pocket to help pay for school supplies. And that is wrong.\n\nI also want to talk about where we are here at TSU, and what it means in terms of HBCUs. I have, as part of my proposal that we will put $2 trillion into investing in our HBCUs for teachers, because...\nBecause \[LongDash] because, one, as a proud graduate of a historically black college and university, I will say \[LongDash] I will say that it is our HBCUs that disproportionately produce teachers and those who serve in these may professions, but also...", "Linsey Davis" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "But this is a critical point, if a black child has a black teacher before the end of third grade, they're 13 percent more likely to go to college.\nIf that child has had two black teachers before the end of third grade, they're 32 percent more likely to go to college. So, when we talk about investing in our public education system, it is at the source of so much. When we fix it, that will fix so many other things. We must invest in the potential of our children...", "Linsey Davis" -> "Thank you, Senator.\n\nSen. Sanders, 45 seconds.", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "... and I strongly believe you can judge a society based on how it treats its children. And we are failing on this issue.", "Linsey Davis" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Guess what?\nYou're guessing, all right, here's the answer. We are the wealthiest country in the history of the world. And yet, we have the highest child poverty rate of almost any country on earth. We have teachers in this country who are leaving education because they can't work two or three jobs to support themselves.\n\nWhich is why, under my legislation, we'll move to see that every teacher in America makings at least $60,000 a year.\nWhat we will also do is not only have universal pre-K, we will make public colleges and universities and HBCUs debt-free. And what we will always also do, because this is an incredible burden on millions and millions of young people who did nothing wrong except try to get the education they need, we are going to cancel all student debt in this country.", "Linsey Davis" -> "Thank you, Senator. Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "And we are going to do that by imposing a tax on Wall Street speculation.", "Linsey Davis" -> "Thank you, Senator.\n\nMr. Vice president, I want to come to you and talk to you about inequality in schools and race. In a conversation about how to deal with segregation in schools back in 1975, you told a reporter, \"I don't feel responsible for the sins of my father and grandfather, I feel responsible for what the situation is today, for the sins of my own generation, and I'll be damned if I feel responsible to pay for what happened 300 years ago.\"\n\nYou said that some 40 years ago. But as you stand here tonight, what responsibility do you think that Americans need to take to repair the legacy of slavery in our country?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Well, they have to deal with the \[LongDash] look, there's institutional segregation in this country. And from the time I got involved, I started dealing with that. Red-lining banks, making sure that we are in a position where \[LongDash] look, you talk about education. I propose that what we take is those very poor schools, the Title I schools, triple the amount of money we spend from 15 to $45 billion a year. Give every single teacher a raise, the equal raise to getting out \[LongDash] the $60,000 level.\n\nNumber two, make sure that we bring in to help the teachers deal with the problems that come from home. The problems that come from home, we need \[LongDash] we have one school psychologist for every 1,500 kids in America today. It\[CloseCurlyQuote]s crazy.\n\nThe teachers are \[LongDash] I'm married to a teacher. My deceased wife is a teacher. They have every problem coming to them. We have \[LongDash] make sure that every single child does, in fact, have 3-, 4-, and 5-year-olds go to school. School. Not daycare. School. We bring social workers in to homes and parents to help them deal with how to raise their children.\n\nIt's not want they don't want to help. They don't \[LongDash] they don't know quite what to do. Play the radio, make sure the television \[LongDash] excuse me, make sure you have the record player on at night, the \[LongDash] the \[LongDash] make sure that kids hear words. A kid coming from a very poor school \[LongDash] a very poor background will hear 4 million words fewer spoken by the time they get there.", "Linsey Davis" -> "Thank you, Mr. Vice President.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "There\[CloseCurlyQuote]s so much we \[LongDash] no, I\[CloseCurlyQuote]m going to go like the rest of them do, twice over, okay?\nBecause here's the deal. The deal is that we've got this a little backwards. And by the way, in Venezuela, we should be allowing people to come here from Venezuela. I know Maduro. I've confronted Maduro.\n\nNumber two, you talk about the need to do something in Latin America. I'm the guy that came up with $740 million to see to it those three countries, in fact, changed their system so people don't have to chance to leave. You're all acting like we just discovered this yesterday. Thank you very much.", "Linsey Davis" -> "Thank you very much.\n\nSecretary Castro?", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "Thank you very much. Well, that's \[LongDash] that's quite a lot.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "(OFF-MIKE)", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "But, you know \[LongDash] I grew up in one of those neighborhoods that folks have talked about and a neighborhood that was grappling with the legacy of segregation. In fact, in two public school districts that were involved in a 1973 Supreme Court case challenging how Texas financed its schools.\n\nAnd I know that today our schools are segregated because our neighborhoods are segregated. Now, I have an education plan, like a lot of folks up here, that would pay teachers more, that would recruit diverse ranks of teachers, that would invest in our public schools, but I also believe that we have to connect the dots to uplift the quality of life to invest in housing opportunity, to invest in job opportunity, to invest in community schools that offer resources like parents able to go back and get their GED, and health care opportunities, and those things that truly ensure that the entire family can prosper.\n\nThose are the types of things that we need to do, in addition to lifting up our public schools. You asked a second ago about charter schools. Look, it is a myth that charter schools are better than public schools. They're not.", "Linsey Davis" -> "Thank you, Secretary.", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "And so while I'm not categorically against charter schools, I would require more transparency and accountability from them than is required right now.", "Linsey Davis" -> "Senator Booker, coming to you now. It was 65 years ago this year that the Supreme Court outlawed racial segregation in public schools. Yet for millions of students of color today, segregation remains a reality.\n\nNonwhite districts typically receive $2,200 less per student than those in white districts. This means older books, less access to computers, and often worse outcomes. What is your plan to address segregation? And I'm not just talking about the achievement gap, but I'm talking about the opportunity gap in education.", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "So, I\[CloseCurlyQuote]m hearing a lot of conversations on the stage that \[LongDash] and the way we talk about communities of color. Look, I live in a black and brown community below the poverty line. I\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve lived in public housing projects almost for a decade and saw the anguish of parents who are just so deeply frustrated that they don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t have a school that serves their genius.\n\nI think I'm the only person on the stage \[LongDash] even though I had no formal authority as mayor to run a school system \[LongDash] I stepped up and took responsibility for our schools, and we produced results. A lot of folks here are talking about raising teacher salary. We actually did it in Newark, New Jersey.\n\nAnd we didn't stop there. Yeah, we closed poor-performing charter schools, but, dagnabbit, we expanded high-performing charter schools. We were a city that said we need to find local solutions that work for our community. The results speak for themselves. We're now the number-one city in America for Beat the Odds schools, from high poverty to high performance.\n\nStrategies like investing in our children work. And I'll tell you this. I am tired of us thinking about these problems isolated, disconnected from other issues.\n\nThat's why my friend, Secretary Castro, is 100 percent right. We are in the reality we are right now because, Mr. Vice President, of overtly racist policies, not 400 years ago, just in my lifetime, that were red-lining communities, disinvesting in communities, and more than just that, my kids are not only struggling with racial segregation and housing and the challenges of underfunded schools, but they're also struggling with environmental injustice.\n\nIf you've talked to someone who's a parent of a child has had permanent brain damage because of lead, you'll know this is a national problem, because there's over 3,000 jurisdictions in America where children have more than twice the blood lead levels of Flint, Michigan.", "Linsey Davis" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "And so if I\[CloseCurlyQuote]m president of the United States, it is a holistic solution to education, from raising teacher salary, fully funded special education, but combating the issues of poverty, combating the issues of racial segregation, combating the issues of a criminal justice system...", "Linsey Davis" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "... that takes parents away from their kids, and dealing with environmental justice as a major pillar of any climate policy.", "George Stephanopoulos" -> "Thank you, Linsey. One final question coming up. We'll be right back.", "George Stephanopoulos" -> "And we are now back now for a final round of questions. One question for each candidate. We're going to go in reverse order from the opening statement.\n\nAnd, candidates, the question is on the quality of resilience. No president can succeed without resilience. Every president confronts crises, defeats, and mistakes. So I want to ask each of you, what's the most significant professional setback you've had to face? How did you recover from it? And what did you learn from it?\n\nVice President Biden?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "I \[LongDash] I never counted any professional setback like I have as a serious setback. There's things that are important. Things that are unimportant.\n\nPROTESTERS:", "George Stephanopoulos" -> "We're going to clear the protesters now. Just one minute.\n\nSenator Biden, we'll start the clock again.\n\nPROTESTERS:", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "I'm sorry.", "George Stephanopoulos" -> "We're sorry. Go ahead.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "There's setbacks, and there's setbacks. And I think the most critical setback that can occur to anyone is to lose \[LongDash] well, my dad had an expression. He said, Joey, it's not a question of succeeding, whether you get knocked down, it's how quickly you get up. And he said, you never explain and never complain. And then he would go on to say that the only obligation that really matters, the most important thing, is family.\n\nAnd so I was raised to believe that that was the center of everything, family, and could be judged on based how you treatment your family and how you went from there. And I \[LongDash] it took \[LongDash] you know, Kierkegaard said faith sees best in the dark. Right after I got elected, my wife and daughter were killed in an automobile accident, and my two sons were badly injured. And I just had been elected, not sworn in. And I lost my faith for a while. I came back.\n\nAnd then later, when my son Beau came home from Iraq and \[LongDash] with a terminal disease, and a year later, year-and-a-half later, losing him was like losing part of my soul.\n\nBut the fact is that I learned that the way you deal with it is you deal with finding purpose, purpose in what you do. And that's why I hope \[LongDash] I hope he's proud of me today, because he wanted to make sure I didn't run for president, but I stayed engaged, because when you get hit badly, whether you're losing a job or you're raising a family like my dad, where you have to make that longest walk up the stairs to tell your kid you can't live here anymore, Dad lost his job, you know, we've all been through that, in some form or another.\n\nAnd it just takes \[LongDash] it just \[LongDash] for me, the way I've dealt with it is finding purpose. And my purpose is to do what I've always tried to do and stay engaged in public policy. And \[LongDash] but there's a lot of people been through a lot worse than I have who get up every single morning, put their feet one foot in front of another, without the help I had. There are real heroes out there. Some real heroes.", "George Stephanopoulos" -> "Thank you, Mr. Vice President. Senator Warren?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "I mentioned earlier, I've known what I wanted to be since second grade. I wanted to be a public school teacher. And I invested early. I used to line my dollies up and teach school. I had a reputation for being tough but fair.\nBy the time I graduated from high school, my family didn't have money for a college application, much less to send me off to four years at a university. And my story, like a lot of stories, has a lot of twists and turns. Got a scholarship, and then at 19, I got married, dropped out of school, took a minimum wage job, thought my dream was over.\n\nI got a chance down the road at the University of Houston. And I made it as a special needs teacher. I still remember that first year as a special needs teacher. I could tell you what those babies looked like. I had 4- to 6-year-olds.\n\nBut at the end of that first year, I was visibly pregnant. And back in the day, that meant that the principal said to me \[LongDash] wished me luck and hired someone else for the job.\n\nSo, there I am, I'm at home, I got a baby, I can't have a job. What am I going to do? Here's resilience. I said, I'll go to law school. And the consequence was \[LongDash] I practiced law for about 45 minutes and then went back to my first love, which was teaching.\n\nBut it let me get into fights. It gave me new tools. And the reason I'm standing here today is because I got back up, I fought back. I know what's broken. I want to be in the fight to fix it in America. That's why I'm here.", "George Stephanopoulos" -> "Thank you, Senator.\nSenator Sanders?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Resilience, to me, means growing up in a rent-controlled apartment in Brooklyn, New York, the son of an immigrant who came to this country without a nickel in his pocket.\n\nProfessional resilience means to me, George, running for U.S. Senate in Vermont and getting 1 percent of the vote, running for governor and getting 2 percent of the vote, finally becoming mayor of Burlington, Vermont, with a 10-vote margin.\n\nWhat resilience means to me is that throughout my political career, I have taken on virtually every powerful special interest in this country, whether it is Wall Street, whether it is the insurance industry, whether it is the pharmaceutical industry whose corruption and greed is killing people today, whether it is a military industrial complex or a prison industrial complex.\n\nAnd I feel confident that given a lifelong record of taking on powerful special interests, of standing up for the working families of this country, that I will be able to take on the greed and corruption of the corporate elite and create a government and an economy that work for all of us, not just the 1 percent.", "George Stephanopoulos" -> "Thank you, Senator Sanders.\n\nSenator Harris?", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "You know, every office I've run for, whether it be district attorney or attorney general, I was told each time, it can't be done. They said nobody like you has done it before, nobody's ready for you. When I ran for D.A., I won and became the first black woman elected D.A. in a state of 40 million people, in San Francisco.\n\nWhen I ran for attorney general of California, I was elected \[LongDash] because I didn't listen. And I was the only black elected \[LongDash] woman black elected attorney general in the state \[LongDash] in the country.\n\nAnd each time, people would say, it's not your time, it's not your turn, it's going to be too difficult, they're not ready for you, and I didn't listen. And a part of it probably comes from the fact that I was raised by a mother who said many things that were life lessons for me, including don't you let anybody ever tell you who you are. You tell them who you are.\nAnd when I look around the town halls that we do in this race for president of the United States, and I look at the \[LongDash] the meetings that we do and the community meetings, and I see these little girls and boys, sometimes even brought by their fathers, and they bring them to me and I talk to them during these events, and they smile and they're full of joy, and their fathers tell them, see, don't you ever listen and let anybody ever tell you what you can or cannot be. You have to believe in what can be unburdened by what has been.", "George Stephanopoulos" -> "Senator Harris, thank you very much.\n\nMayor Buttigieg?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "You know, as a military officer serving under \"don't ask/don't tell,\" and as an elected official in the state of Indiana when Mike Pence was governor, at a certain point, when it came to professional setbacks, I had to wonder whether just acknowledging who I was, was going to be the ultimate career-ending professional setback.\n\nI came back from the deployment and realized that you only get to live one life.\n\nAnd I was not interested in not knowing what it was like to be in love any longer, so I just came out. I had no idea what kind of professional setback it would be, especially because inconveniently it was an election year in my socially conservative community.\n\nWhat happened was that, when I trusted voters to judge me based on the job that I did for them, they decided to trust me and re-elected me with 80 percent of the vote. And what I learned was that trust can be reciprocated and that part of how you can win and deserve to win is to know what's worth more to you than winning.\n\nAnd I think that's what we need in the presidency right now. We have to know what we are about. And this election is not about any of us up here. It is not about this president, even though it's hard to talk of anything else some days.\n\nIt's about the people who trust us with their lives, a kid wondering if we're actually going to make their schools safe when they've learned active shooter drills before they've learned to read, a generation wondering we will actually get the job done on climate change. And if we hold to that, then it doesn't matter what happens to each of us professionally. Together, we will win a better era for our country.", "George Stephanopoulos" -> "Mayor Buttigieg, thank you.\nMr. Yang?", Entity["Person", "AndrewYang::f7w42"] -> "I was an unhappy lawyer for five whole months and I left to start a business. And I'm going to share with you all one of the secrets to entrepreneurship. If you want to start something, tell everyone you know you're going to do it. And then you don't have a choice. You put your heart and soul into that. And even though I did that, my company flopped, had its mini-rise and maximum fall.\n\nI lost investors, hundreds of thousands of dollars, still owed $100,000 in school debt. My parents still told people I was a lawyer. It was a little easier.\n\nSo I remember lying on my floor looking up wondering, how did it come to this? Eventually, I picked myself back up. I kept working in small growth companies for another 10 years and eventually had some success.\n\nThen after I did have some success, I still remembered how hard it was, how isolating it was, how it feels like your friends no longer want to spend time with you. And so I spent seven years starting and running a nonprofit that helped train young entrepreneurs around the country, including Sean Nguyen, who\[CloseCurlyQuote]s here in the audience tonight, who left his gilded Wall Street job to become a food entrepreneur in San Antonio. Sean, I hope I made the process a little bit easier for you than it was for me.\n\nBut the goal of my campaign is to make this an economy that allows us to live our human values and aspirations.", "George Stephanopoulos" -> "Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Yang.\nSenator Booker?", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "So my biggest professional setback is embarrassing because a lot of folks know about it. I, with a bunch of tenant leaders in Newark, New Jersey, in 2002 took on the political machine and, boy, did they fight back. I had tires on my car slashed. Our campaign offices were broken into. My phones were tapped. It became a spectacle. And we lost that election.\n\nAnd here's a bit of advice to everybody. If you're going to have a spectacular failure, have a documentary team there to capture it, because it made for an Oscar-nominated documentary called \"Street Fight.\" But then, unfortunately, another setback. It lost in the Oscars to a movie called \"March of the Dagnab Penguins,\" for crying out loud.\nThe people in my community, living in the projects, told me, don't give up on the people and the people won't give up on you. Create bigger and bolder coalitions, and you're going to win. And you know what? We came back four years later and won the largest lopsided victory in our city's history.\n\nBut more than that, the lesson was there. We didn't give up. We were taking on America's toughest problems, from crime to poverty, and we transformed our city, creating tens of thousands of new jobs, the biggest economic expansion in our city, and as I said before, turned around our school system.\n\nThere's more work to do, but I haven't given up on the people. I still live in that community. But this is a big lesson. My staff and my friends and my community told me, if you want to go fast, you may have won the mayor's race, but that's not what life is about. There's an old African saying that says, if you want to go fast, go alone. But if you want to go far, go together.\n\nThe lesson I learned of resilience is to trust people, because the power of the people is always greater than the people in power. And the test of America right now is not a referendum on Donald Trump, it's a referendum on us and who we are and who we're going to be together. We need to use this moment in history to unite in common cause and common purpose, and then there's nothing we can't do together as a nation.", "George Stephanopoulos" -> "Senator Booker, thank you.\n\nCongressman O'Rourke?", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "Thank you, George. Everything that I've learned about resilience I've learned from my hometown of El Paso, Texas. In the face of this act of terror that was directed at our community, in large part by the president of the United States, that killed 22 people and injured many more, we were not defeated by that, nor were we defined by that.\n\nThe very thing that drew that killer to us is the very thing that helps us set the example for the rest of this country. We don't see our differences as disqualifying or dangerous. We see them as foundational to our success, to our strength, and to our security, and to our safety.\n\nYesterday, I was visiting with one of those victims. He's the head coach of the Fusion. This is a girls soccer team of 10- and 11-year-old girls. His name is Luis. He was shot in the legs multiple times. He was shot in the side multiple times. He's still healing from his wounds in the hospital, but from his hospital bed, he's still trying to coach the Fusion girls soccer team.\n\nMemo, his co-coach, is still fighting for his life right now at Del Sol Hospital. Those two men, Jessica and Marcella, their wives, they exemplify resilience to me. And when we end this scourge of gun violence in this country, when we finally confront the racism that exists in America, when we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re defined not by our fears, but instead by our aspirations and our ambitions, it will be, in large part, I think, thanks to the example that El Paso has set.", "George Stephanopoulos" -> "Congressman, thank you.\n\nSenator Klobuchar?", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "Thank you. My challenges and resilience have brought me up here. I grew up with a dad who struggled with alcoholism his whole life. And after his third DWI, he had a choice between jail and treatment. He chose treatment, with his faith, with his friends, with our family. And in his words, he was pursued by grace. And that made me interested in public service, because I feel like everyone should have that same right, to be pursued by grace.\n\nI then got married. My husband's out there somewhere, hopefully smiling, and our daughter. When our daughter was born, I had this expectation, we're going to have this perfect, perfect birth, and she was really sick, and she couldn't swallow. And she was in and out of hospitals for a year-and-a-half.\n\nBut when she was born, they had a rule in place that you got kicked out of the hospital in 24 hours. She was in intensive care, and I was kicked out. And I thought, this could never happen to any other mom again.\n\nSo I went to the legislature, our state legislator, not an elected official, a mom, and I advocated for one of the first laws in the country guaranteeing new moms and their babies a 48-hour hospital stay. And when they tried to delay the implementation of that law, I brought six pregnant friends to the conference committee so they outnumbered the lobbyists 2 to 1. And when they said, when should it take place, they all raised their hands and said now.\n\nThat is what motivated me to go into public service. And when I got to that gridlock of Washington, D.C., I got to work and pass over 100 bills, and I know a lot of my friends here from the left, but remember, I am from the middle of the country. And I believe, if we're going to get things done, that we have to have someone leading the ticket with grit, someone who's going to not just change the policies, but change the tone in the country, and someone who believes in America and believes it from their heart because of where they came from, that everyone should have that same opportunity.", "George Stephanopoulos" -> "Senator, thank you.\n\nSecretary Castro?", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "And thank you, George, to Jorge, to Linsey, and to David, and to all of y\[CloseCurlyQuote]all for tuning in tonight. In many ways, I shouldn\[CloseCurlyQuote]t be here on this stage. You know, Castro is my mother\[CloseCurlyQuote]s name and was my grandmother\[CloseCurlyQuote]s name before her. I grew up in a single-parent household on the west side of San Antonio, going to the public schools. Eventually, my brother, Joaquin, and I became the first in our family to become professionals.\n\nAnd when I got home, I took a job at the biggest law firm in town. I was making $100,000 a year in the year 2000. A few months later, I got elected to the San Antonio City Council. And the city council at the time was only paying $1,040 a year, so everybody had another job. And my job was at the law firm.\n\nWell, a few months after I got elected, the law firm got a client and the client wanted those of us on the city council to vote for a land deal. The land deal was that they wanted to build a golf course over our water supply, because we relied on an underground aquifer. I didn't think the environmental protection plan was strong enough, so I wanted to vote against it and my constituents wanted me to vote against it.\n\nBut under the ethics rules for lawyers in Texas \[LongDash] because believe it or not, lawyers have ethics rules \[LongDash] you can't just go against the interest of a client. So I was stuck.\n\nOn the one hand, I wanted to do the right thing. On the other hand, my livelihood, my student loans, my new house payment, my car payment, depended on me shutting up, being conflicted out.\n\nSo, one day, I walked into my law firm and I quit my job. And then I went and I voted against that land deal on the city council.\nAnd, you know, it was the first test that I had, and I think back to that, because oftentimes we think of politics and you think of politics as dirty or corrupting. I wondered, before I went in it, whether it was change who I was. And I was proud that when that first test came that I stood up for the people that I was there to represent, and not for big special interests.\n\nThere's nobody that gets tested more in a position of public trust than the president of the United States. This president has failed that test. But I want you to know that if you elect me president, I won't. I won't serve anybody except you and your family. And together, we can create an American that's better than ever. Thank you very much."}, {"Anderson Cooper" -> "And live from Otterbein University, just north of Columbus, Ohio, this is the CNN-New York Times Democratic presidential debate.\nWe want to welcome our viewers in the United States and watching around the world, watching us on CNN, CNN International, CNN En Espanol, Cnn.com , thenewyorktimes.com , CNN\[CloseCurlyQuote]s Facebook page, and listening on the Westwood One radio network, SiriusXM satellite radio, NPR, and the American Forces Network.\n\nI'm Anderson Cooper moderating tonight's debate, along with CNN's Erin Burnett and New York Times national editor Mark Lacey. We are in Ohio tonight, because it's one of the most critical battleground states. Ohio has backed all but two presidential winners in every election since 1896.", "Erin Burnett" -> "The top 12 Democratic presidential candidates are at their positions behind the podiums. This is a record number of candidates for a presidential primary debate, so to accommodate the large group, there are no opening statements tonight.", "Marc Lacey" -> "Before we begin, a reminder of the ground rules. You'll each receive 75 seconds to answer questions, 45 seconds for responses and rebuttals, and 15 seconds for clarifications. Please refrain from interrupting your fellow candidates, as that will count against your time.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "And we remind our audience here in the Rike Center at Otterbein to be respectful so the candidates can hear the questions and each other. All right, let's begin.\n\nSince the last debate, House Democrats have officially launched an impeachment inquiry against President Trump, which all the candidates on this stage support. Senator Warren, I want to start with you. You have said that there's already enough evidence for President Trump to be impeached and removed from office. But the question is, with the election only one year away, why shouldn't it be the voters who determine the president's fate?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "Because sometimes there are issues that are bigger than politics. And I think that's the case with this impeachment inquiry.\n\nWhen I made the decision to run for president, I certainly didn't think it was going to be about impeachment. But when the Mueller report came out, I read it, all 442 pages. And when I got to the end, I realized that Mueller had shown, too, a fare-thee-well, that this president had obstructed justice and done it repeatedly. And so at that moment, I called for opening an impeachment inquiry.\n\nNow, that didn't happen. And look what happened as a result. Donald Trump broke the law again in the summer, broke it again this fall. You know, we took a constitutional oath, and that is that no one is above the law, and that includes the president of the United States.\nImpeachment is the way that we establish that this man will not be permitted to break the law over and over without consequences. This is about Donald Trump, but, understand, it's about the next president and the next president and the next president and the future of this country. The impeachment must go forward.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Thank you, Senator Warren. You\[CloseCurlyQuote]re all going to get in on this, by the way. Senator Sanders, do Democrats have any chance but to impeach President Trump? Please respond.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "No, they don't. In my judgment, Trump is the most corrupt president in the history of this country. It's not just that he obstructed justice with the Mueller Report. I think that the House will find him guilty of \[LongDash] worthy of impeachment because of the emoluments clause. This is a president who is enriching himself while using the Oval Office to do that, and that is outrageous.\nAnd I think in terms of the recent Ukrainian incident, the idea that we have a president of the United States who is prepared to hold back national security money to one of our allies in order to get dirt on a presidential candidate is beyond comprehension. So I look forward, by the way, not only to a speedy and expeditious impeachment process, but Mitch McConnell has got to do the right thing and allow a free and fair trial in the Senate.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Vice President Biden, during the Clinton impeachment proceedings, you said, and I quote, \[OpenCurlyDoubleQuote]The American people don't think that they've made a mistake by electing Bill Clinton, and we in Congress had better be very careful before we upset their decision.\[CloseCurlyDoubleQuote] With the country now split, have Democrats been careful enough in pursuing the impeachment of President Trump?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Yes, they have. I said from the beginning that if, in fact, Trump continued to stonewall what the Congress is entitled to know about his background, what he did, all the accusations in the Mueller Report, if they did that, they would have no choice \[LongDash] no choice \[LongDash] but to begin an impeachment proceeding, which gives them more power to seek more information.\nThis president \[LongDash] and I agree with Bernie, Senator Sanders \[LongDash] is the most corrupt president in modern history and I think all of our history. And the fact is that this president of the United States has gone so far as to say, since this latest event, that, in fact, he will not cooperate in any way at all, will not list any witnesses, will not provide any information, will not do anything to cooperate with the impeachment. They have no choice but to move.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Senator Harris, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said that members of Congress have to be, in her words, fair to the president and give him a chance to exonerate himself. You've already said that based on everything you've seen, you would vote to remove him from office. Is that being fair to the president?", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "Well, it's just being observant, because he has committed crimes in plain sight. I mean, it's shocking, but he told us who he was. Maya Angelou told us years ago, listen to somebody when they tell you who they are the first time.\nDuring that election, Donald Trump told us he could shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue and get away with it. And he has consistently since he won been selling out the American people. He's been selling out working people. He's been selling out our values. He's been selling out national security. And on this issue with Ukraine, he has been selling out our democracy.\nOur framers imagined this moment, a moment where we would have a corrupt president. And our framers then rightly designed our system of democracy to say there will be checks and balances. This is one of those moments. And so Congress must act.\n\nBut the reality of it is that I don't really think this impeachment process is going to take very long, because as a former prosecutor, I know a confession when I see it. And he did it in plain sight. He has given us the evidence. And he tried to cover it up, putting it in that special server. And there's been a clear consciousness of guilt. This will not take very long. Donald Trump needs to be held accountable. He is, indeed, the most corrupt and unpatriotic president we have ever had.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Senator Booker, you have said that President Trump's, quote, \[OpenCurlyDoubleQuote]moral vandalism\[CloseCurlyDoubleQuote] disqualifies him from being president. Can you be fair in an impeachment trial? Please respond.", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "So, first of all, we must be fair. We are talking about ongoing proceedings to remove a sitting president for office. This has got to be about patriotism and not partisanship.\n\nLook, I share the same sense of urgency of everybody on this stage. I understand the outrage that we all feel. But we have to conduct this process in a way that is honorable, that brings our country together, doesn't rip us apart.\n\nAnybody who has criticisms about a process that is making all the facts bare before the American public, that works to build consensus, that's what this nation needs, in what is a moral moment and not a political one. So I swore an oath to do my job as a senator, do my duty. This president has violated his. I will do mine.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Thank you, Senator Booker.\n\nSenator Klobuchar, you have \[LongDash] what do you say to those who fear that impeachment is a distraction from issues that impact people's day-to-day lives, health care, the economy, and could backfire on Democrats?", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "We can do two things at once. That's our job. We have a constitutional duty to pursue this impeachment, but we also can stand up for America, because this president has not been putting America in front of his own personal interests.\n\nHe has not been standing up for the workers of Ohio. He\[CloseCurlyQuote]s not been standing up for the farmers in Iowa. And I take this even a step further. You know, when he made that call to the head of Ukraine, he\[CloseCurlyQuote]s digging up dirt on an opponent. That\[CloseCurlyQuote]s illegal conduct. That\[CloseCurlyQuote]s what he was doing. He didn\[CloseCurlyQuote]t talk to him about the Russian invasion. He talked to him about that.\n\nSo I'm still waiting to find out from him how making that call to the head of Ukraine and trying to get him involved in interfering in our election makes America great again. I'd like to hear from him about how leaving the Kurds for slaughter, our allies for slaughter, where Russia then steps in to protect them, how that makes America great again. And I would like to hear from him about how coddling up to Vladimir Putin makes America great again.\n\nIt doesn't make America great again. It makes Russia great again. And that is what this president has done. So whether it is workers' issues, whether it is farmers' issues, he has put his own private interests \[Ellipsis]", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Thank you.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "\[Ellipsis] and I will not do that.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Thank you. Secretary Castro, is impeachment a distraction?", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "Not at all. We can walk and chew gun at the same time. And all of us are out there every single day talking about what we're going to do to make sure that more people cross a graduation stage, that more families have great health care, that more folks are put to work in places like Ohio, where Donald Trump has broken his promises, because Ohio, Michigan, and Pennsylvania actually in the latest jobs data have lost jobs, not gained them.\n\nNot only that, what we have to recognize is that not only did the Mueller Report point out 10 different instances where the president obstructed justice or tried to, and he made that call to President Zelensky of the Ukraine, but he is in ongoingly \[LongDash] in an ongoing way violating his oath of office and abusing his power.\n\nWe have to impeach this president. And the majority of Americans not only support impeachment, they support removal. He should be removed.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Mayer Buttigieg, you have said that impeachment should be bipartisan. There's been, obviously, very little Republican support to date, yet Democrats are proceeding. Is that a mistake?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "Well, it's a mistake on the part of Republicans, who enable the president whose actions are as offensive to their own supposed values as they are to the values that we all share.\n\nLook, the president has left the Congress with no choice. And this is not just about holding the president accountable, for not just the things emerging in these investigations, but actions that he has confessed to on television. It\[CloseCurlyQuote]s also about the presidency itself, because a president 10 years or 100 years from now will look back at this moment and draw the conclusion either that no one is above the law or that a president can get away with anything.\n\nBut everyone on this stage, by definition, is competing to be a president for after the Trump presidency. Remember, one way or the other, this presidency is going to come to an end. I want you to picture what it's going to be like, what it's actually going to feel like in this country the first day the sun comes up after Donald Trump has been president.\n\nIt starts out feeling like a happy thought; this particular brand of chaos and corruption will be over. But really think about where we'll be: vulnerable, even more torn apart by politics than we are right now. And these big issues from the economy to climate change have not taken a vacation during the impeachment process.\n\nI'm running to be the president who can turn the page and unify a dangerously polarized country while tackling those issues that are going to be just as urgent then as they are now.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Congresswoman Gabbard, you're the only sitting House member on this stage. How do you respond?", Entity["Person", "TulsiGabbard::839d6"] -> "If impeachment is driven by these hyperpartisan interests, it will only further divide an already terribly divided country. Unfortunately, this is what we're already seen play out as calls for impeachment really began shortly after Trump won his election. And as unhappy as that may make us as Democrats, he won that election in 2016.\n\nThe serious issues that have been raised around this phone call that he had with the president of Ukraine and many other things that transpired around that are what caused me to support the inquiry in the House. And I think that it should continue to play its course out, to gather all the information, provide that to the American people, recognizing that that is the only way forward.\n\nIf the House votes to impeach, the Senate does not vote to remove Donald Trump, he walks out and he feels exonerated, further deepening the divides in this country that we cannot afford.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Thank you, Congresswoman.\n\nMr. Steyer, you've been calling for impeachment for two years. Does there need to be bipartisan support?", Entity["Person", "TomSteyer::b5k62"] -> "Well, Anderson, this is my first time on this stage, so I just want to start by reminding everybody that every candidate here is more decent, more coherent, and more patriotic than the criminal in the White House.\nBut I also want to point out that Anderson's right. Two years ago, I started the Need to Impeach movement, because I knew there was something desperately wrong at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, that we did have the most corrupt president in the country, and that only the voice and the will of the American people would drag Washington to see it as a matter of right and wrong, not of political expediency. So, in fact, impeaching and removing this president is something that the American people are demanding. They're the voice that counts, and that's who I went to, the American people.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Mr. Yang, do you think there's already enough evidence out there to impeach the president? Please respond.", Entity["Person", "AndrewYang::f7w42"] -> "I support impeachment, but we shouldn't have any illusions that impeaching Donald Trump will, one, be successful or, two, erase the problems that got him elected in 2016. We're standing in the great state of Ohio, the ultimate purple state, the ultimate bellwether state.\n\nWhy did Donald Trump win your state by eight points? Because we got rid of 300,000 manufacturing jobs in your towns. And we are not stopping there. How many of you have noticed stores closing where you work and live here in Ohio? Raise your hands.\n\nIt's not just you. Amazon alone is closing 30 percent of America's stores and malls, soaking up $20 billion in business while paying zero in taxes. These are the problems that got Donald Trump elected, the fourth industrial revolution. And that is going to accelerate and grow more serious regardless of who is in the Oval Office.\n\nThe fact is, Donald Trump, when we're talking about him, we are losing. We need to present a new vision, and that even includes talking about impeaching Donald Trump.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Congressman O'Rourke, on impeachment, please respond.", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "You know, I think about everyone who's ever served this country in uniform. We have two examples here on this stage tonight in Mayor Buttigieg and Congresswoman Gabbard, those who have willingly sacrificed their lives to defend this country and our Constitution. We are the inheritors of their service and their sacrifice.\n\nAnd we have a responsibility to be fearless in the face of this president's criminality and his lawlessness. The fact that as a candidate for the highest office in the land, he invited the participation, the invasion of a foreign power in our democracy. As president, he lied to investigators, obstructed justice, fired James Comey, head of the FBI, tried to fire Mueller, head of the investigation, then invited President Zelensky to involve himself in our politics, as well as China, in exchange for favorable trade terms in an upcoming trade deal.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Thank you, Congressman.", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "If we do not hold him to account, if there is not justice, not only have we failed this moment, our Constitution and our country, but we have failed everyone who has sacrificed and laid their lives down on the line.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Thank you.", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "And we cannot do that.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Thank you, Congressman. The impeachment inquiry is centered on President Trump's attempts to get political dirt from Ukraine on Vice President Biden and his son, Hunter. Mr. Vice President, President Trump has falsely accused your son of doing something wrong while serving on a company board in Ukraine. I want to point out there's no evidence of wrongdoing by either one of you.\n\nHaving said that, on Sunday, you announced that if you're president, no one in your family or associated with you will be involved in any foreign businesses. My question is, if it's not okay for a president's family to be involved in foreign businesses, why was it okay for your son when you were vice president? Vice President Biden?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Look, my son did nothing wrong. I did nothing wrong. I carried out the policy of the United States government in rooting out corruption in Ukraine. And that's what we should be focusing on.\n\nAnd what I wanted to make a point about \[LongDash] and my son's statement speaks for itself. He spoke about it today. My son's statement speaks for itself. What I think is important is we focus on why it's so important to remove this man from office.\n\nOn the \[LongDash] look, the fact that George Washington worried on the first time he spoke after being elected president that what we had to worry about is foreign interference in our elections, it was the greatest threat to America. This president on three occasions \[LongDash] three occasions \[LongDash] has invited foreign governments and heads of government to get engaged in trying to alter our elections. The fact is that it is outrageous.\n\nRudy Giuliani, the president, and his thugs have already proven that they, in fact, are flat lying. What we have to do now is focus on Donald Trump. He doesn't want me to be the candidate. He's going after me because he knows, if I get the nomination, I will beat him like a drum.\n\n(UNKNOWN): Anderson \[LongDash] Anderson \[Ellipsis]", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Hold on, sorry, just to follow up. Mr. Vice President, as you said, your son, Hunter, today gave an interview, admitted that he made a mistake and showed poor judgement by serving on that board in Ukraine. Did you make a mistake by letting him? You were the point person on Ukraine at the time. You can answer.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Look, my son's statement speaks for itself. I did my job. I never discussed a single thing with my son about anything having do with Ukraine. No one has indicated I have. We've always kept everything separate. Even when my son was the attorney general of the state of Delaware, we never discussed anything, so there would be no potential conflict.\n\nMy son made a judgment. I'm proud of the judgement he made. I'm proud of what he had to say. And let's focus on this. The fact of the matter is that this is about Trump's corruption. That's what we should be focusing on.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Senator Sanders, your response?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Let me make a point. I think that it is absolutely imperative we go forward with impeachment. I hope that he is impeached. But I think what would be a disaster, if the American people believe that all we were doing is taking on Trump and we're forgetting that 87 million Americans are uninsured or underinsured. We're forgetting about the existential threat of climate change. We are forgetting about the fact that half of our people are living paycheck to paycheck. So what we have got to do is end this corruption, set a precedent for future history that says presidents like this cannot behave this way.\n\nBut we cannot and must not turn our backs on the pain of the working class of this country.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Senator Sanders, thank you. Mark?", "Marc Lacey" -> "We want to move now to the economy.\n\n(UNKNOWN): May I get in, please?", "Marc Lacey" -> "You've proposed some sweeping plans...", "Marc Lacey" -> "... free public college...\n(UNKNOWN): It is wrong to move on.", "Marc Lacey" -> "Thank you. We're going to -- Senator Warren.\n\n(UNKNOWN): It is wrong to move on.", "Marc Lacey" -> "Senator Warren, we've proposed -- you've proposed some sweeping plans, free public college, free universal childcare, eliminating most Americans' college debt. And you've said how you're going to pay for those plans. But you have not specified how you're going to pay for the most expensive plan, Medicare for all. Will you raise taxes on the middle class to pay for it, yes or no?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "So I have made clear what my principles are here, and that is costs will go up for the wealthy and for big corporations, and for hard-working middle-class families, costs will go down. You know, the way I see this is, I have been out all around this country. I've done 140 town halls now, been to 27 states and Puerto Rico. Shoot, I've done 70,000 selfies, which must be the new measure of democracy.\n\nAnd this gives people a chance to come up and talk to me directly. So I have talked with the family, the mom and dad whose daughter's been diagnosed with cancer. I have talked to the young woman whose mother has just been diagnosed with diabetes. I've talked to the young man who has MS.\n\nAnd here's the thing about all of them. They all had great health insurance right at the beginning. But then they found out when they really needed it, when the costs went up, that the insurance company pulled the rug out from underneath them and they were left with nothing.\n\nLook, the way I see this, it is hard enough to get a diagnosis that your child has cancer, to think about the changes in your family if your mom has diabetes, or what it means for your life going forward if you've been diagnosed with MS. But what you shouldn't have to worry about is how you're going to pay for your health care after that.", "Marc Lacey" -> "Senator Warren, to be clear, Senator Sanders acknowledges he's going to raise taxes on the middle class to pay for Medicare for all. You've endorsed his plan. Should you acknowledge it, too?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "So the way I see this, it is about what kinds of costs middle-class families are going to face. So let me be clear on this. Costs will go up for the wealthy. They will go up for big corporations. And for middle-class families, they will go down. I will not sign a bill into law that does not lower costs for middle-class families.", "Marc Lacey" -> "Mayor Buttigieg, you say Senator Warren has been, quote, \"evasive\" about how she's going to pay for Medicare for all. What's your response?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "Well, we heard it tonight, a yes or no question that didn't get a yes or no answer. Look, this is why people here in the Midwest are so frustrated with Washington in general and Capitol Hill in particular. Your signature, Senator, is to have a plan for everything. Except this.\n\nNo plan has been laid out to explain how a multi-trillion-dollar hole in this Medicare for all plan that Senator Warren is putting forward is supposed to get filled in. And the thing is, we really can deliver health care for every American and move forward with the boldest, biggest transformation since the inception of Medicare itself.\n\nBut the way to do it without a giant multi-trillion-dollar hole and without having to avoid a yes-or-no question is Medicare for all who want it. We take a version of Medicare. We let you access it if you want to. And if you prefer to stay on your private plan, you can do that, too. That is what most Americans want, Medicare for all who want it, trusting you to make the right decision for your health care and for your family. And it can be delivered without an increase on the middle-class taxes.", "Marc Lacey" -> "Thank you, Mayor. Senator, your response?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "So, let's be clear. Whenever someone hears the term Medicare for all who want it, understand what that really means. It's Medicare for all who can afford it. And that's the problem we've got.\n\nMedicare for all is the gold standard. It is the way we get health care coverage for every single American, including the family whose child has been diagnosed with cancer, including the person who's just gotten an MS diagnosis. That's how we make sure that everyone gets health care.\n\nWe can pay for this. I've laid out the basic principles. Costs are going to go up for the wealthy. They're going to go up for big corporations. They will not go up for middle-class families. And I will not sign a bill into law that raises their costs, because costs are what people care about.\n\nI've been studying this, you know, for the biggest part of my life...", "Marc Lacey" -> "Thank you, Senator. Can the -- can the...", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "... why people go bankrupt.", "Marc Lacey" -> "... mayor respond?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "Sure.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "I don't think the American people are wrong when they say that what they want is a choice. And the choice of Medicare for all who want it, which is affordable for everyone, because we make sure that the subsidies are in place, allows you to get that health care. It's just better than Medicare for all whether you want it or not.\n\nAnd I don't understand why you believe the only way to deliver affordable coverage to everybody is to obliterate private plans, kicking 150 million Americans off of their insurance in four short years, when we could achieve that same big, bold goal -- and once again, we have a president -- we're competing to be president for the day after Trump. Our country will be horrifyingly polarized, even more than now, after everything we've been through, after everything we are about to go through, this country will be even more divided. Why unnecessarily divide this country over health care when there's a better way to deliver coverage for all?", "Marc Lacey" -> "Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. Senator Sanders?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "I'd like to be able to respond...", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Well, as somebody who wrote the damn bill, as I said, let's be clear. Under the Medicare for all bill that I wrote, premiums are gone. Co-payments are gone. Deductibles are gone. All out-of-pocket expenses are gone. We're going to do better than the Canadians do, and that is what they have managed to do.\n\nAt the end of the day, the overwhelming majority of people will save money on their health care bills. But I do think it is appropriate to acknowledge that taxes will go up. They're going to go up significantly for the wealthy. And for virtually everybody, the tax increase they pay will be substantially less -- substantially less than what they were paying for premiums and out-of-pocket expansions.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "Well, at least that's a straightforward answer, but there's a better way.", "Marc Lacey" -> "Senator Warren, will you acknowledge what the senator just said about taxes going up?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "So my view on this, and what I have committed to, is costs will go down for hardworking, middle-class families. I will not embrace a plan like Medicare for all who can afford it that will leave behind millions of people who cannot. And I will not embrace a plan that says people have great insurance right up until you get the diagnosis and the insurance company says, \"Sorry, we're not covering your expensive cancer treatments, we're not covering your expensive treatments for MS.\"", "Marc Lacey" -> "Thank you, Senator. Senator Klobuchar...", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "\"We're not covering what you need.\"", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "At least Bernie's being honest here and saying how he's going to pay for this and that taxes are going to go up. And I'm sorry, Elizabeth, but you have not said that, and I think we owe it to the American people to tell them where we're going to send the invoice.\n\nI believe the best and boldest idea here is to not trash Obamacare but to do exactly what Barack Obama wanted to do from the beginning and that\[CloseCurlyQuote]s have a public option that would bring down the cost of the premium and expand the number of people covered and take on the pharmaceutical companies. That is what we should be doing instead of kicking 149 million people off their insurance in our years.\n\nAnd I\[CloseCurlyQuote]m tired of hearing, whenever I say these things, oh, it\[CloseCurlyQuote]s Republican talking points. You are making Republican talking points right now in this room by coming out for a plan that\[CloseCurlyQuote]s going to do that. I think there is a better way that is bold, that will cover more people, and it\[CloseCurlyQuote]s the one we should get behind.", "Marc Lacey" -> "Senator Warren?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "You know, I didn\[CloseCurlyQuote]t spend most of my time in Washington. I spent most of my time studying one basic question, and that is why hardworking people go broke. And one of the principal reasons for that is the cost of health care.\n\nAnd back when I was studying it, two out of every three families that ended up in bankruptcy after a serious medical problem had health insurance. The problem we've got right now is the overall cost of health care. And, look, you can try to spin this any way you want. I've spent my entire life on working on how America's middle class has been hollowed out and how we fight back. I've put out nearly 50 plans on how we can fight back and how we can rebuild an America that works. And a part is that is we have got to stop...", "Marc Lacey" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "... Americans from going bankrupt over health care costs.", "Marc Lacey" -> "Senator Klobuchar, do you want to respond?", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "Yes, I do. And I appreciate Elizabeth\[CloseCurlyQuote]s work. But, again, the difference between a plan and a pipe dream is something that you can actually get done. And we can get this public option done. And we can take on the pharmaceutical companies and bring down the prices.\n\nBut what really bothers me about this discussion, which we've had so many times, is that we don't talk about the things that I'm hearing about from regular Americans. That is long-term care. We are seeing -- I once called it a silver tsunami. The aging -- and then someone told me that was too negative, so I call it the silver surge -- the aging of the population.\n\nWe need to make easier to get long-term care insurance and strengthen Medicaid. In this state, the state of Ohio, that has been hit by the opioid epidemic, we need to take on those pharma companies and make them pay for the addictions that they have caused and the people that they have killed.", "Marc Lacey" -> "Thank you. Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "Those are the issues that I hear about when I'm in Toledo.", "Marc Lacey" -> "Thank you, Senator. Vice President Biden...", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "I'd like to be...", "Marc Lacey" -> "Let me -- let me bring you in here, Vice President, for your response. Are Senators Warren and Sanders being realistic about the difficulty of enacting their plans?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "First of all, the plan we're hearing discussed is the Biden plan, the one I built forward. Build on Obamacare, add a public option. We can go into that. I can talk about that if you'd like.\n\nBut here's the deal. On the single most important thing facing the American public, I think it's awfully important to be straightforward with them. The plan is going to cost at least $30 trillion over 10 years. That is more on a yearly basis than the entire federal budget.\n\nAnd we talk about how we're going to pay for it. The study recently came out showing that, in fact, it will reduce costs. But for people making between $50,000 and $75,000 a year, their taxes are going to go up about $5,000, because the fact is they'll pay more in new taxes, 7.4 percent plus, or 5 percent, plus a 4 percent income tax. If you're making -- if a fireman and a schoolteacher are making $100,000 a year, their taxes are going to go up about $10,000. That is more than they will possibly save on this health care plan. We have a plan put forward that will work.", "Marc Lacey" -> "Senator Sanders, do you want to respond to -- we were coming to you.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "I get a little bit tired -- I must say -- of people defending a system which is dysfunctional, which is cruel, 87 million uninsured, 30,000 people dying every single year, 500,000 people going bankrupt for one reason, they came down with cancer.\n\nI will tell you what the issue is here. The issue is whether the Democratic Party has the guts to stand up to the health care industry, which made $100 billion in profit, whether we have the guts to stand up to the corrupt, price-fixing pharmaceutical industry, which is charging us the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs.\nAnd if we don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t have the guts to do that, if all we can do is take their money, we should be ashamed of ourselves.", "Marc Lacey" -> "Thank you, Senator Sanders.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "We can stand up to them.", "Marc Lacey" -> "Senator Harris, your response?", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "This is the sixth debate we have had in this presidential cycle and not nearly one word, with all of these discussions about health care, on women's access to reproductive health care, which is under full-on attack in America today.\nAnd it's outrageous. There are states that have passed laws that will virtually prevent women from having access to reproductive health care. And it is not an exaggeration to say women will die, poor women, women of color will die, because these Republican legislatures in these various states who are out of touch with America are telling women what to do with our bodies.\n\nWomen are the majority of the population in this country. People need to keep their hands off of women's bodies and let women make the decisions about their own lives.", "Marc Lacey" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "And let's talk about that.", "Marc Lacey" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "That is a significant health care issue in America today.", "Marc Lacey" -> "Thank you, Senator.", "Erin Burnett" -> "I want to turn now to jobs. According to a recent study, about a quarter of American jobs could be lost to automation in just the next 10 years. Ohio is one of the states likely to be hardest hit.\n\nSenator Sanders, you say your federal jobs guarantee is part of the answer to the threat from automation, but tens of millions of Americans could end up losing their jobs. Are you promising that you will have a job for every single one of those Americans?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Damn right we will. And I'll tell you why. If you look at what goes on in America today, we have an infrastructure which is collapsing. We could put 15 million people to work rebuilding our roads, our bridges, our water systems, our wastewater plants, airports, et cetera.\n\nFurthermore -- and I hope we will discuss it at length tonight -- this planet faces the greatest threat in its history from climate change. And the Green New Deal that I have advocated will create up to 20 million jobs as we move away from fossil fuel to energy efficiency and sustainable energy.\n\nWe need workers to do childcare. We need workers, great teachers to come in to school systems which don't have the teachers that we need right now. We need more doctors. We need more dentists. We need more carpenters. We need more sheet metal workers. And when we talk about making public colleges and universities tuition fee and cancelling student debt, we're going to give those people the opportunity to get those good jobs.", "Erin Burnett" -> "Senator Sanders, thank you. Mr. Yang, your main solution to job loss from automation is a universal basic income. Why is giving people $1,000 a month better than Sanders' plan to guaranteeing them a job?", Entity["Person", "AndrewYang::f7w42"] -> "I am for the spirit of a federal jobs guarantee, but you have to look at how it would actually materialize in practice. What are the jobs? Who manages you? What if you don't like your job? What if you're not good at your job?\n\nThe fact is, most Americans do not want to work for the federal government. And saying that that is the vision of the economy of the 21st century to me is not a vision that most Americans would embrace.\n\nAlso, Senator Sanders, the description of a federal jobs guarantee does not take into account the work of people like my wife, who's at home with our two boys, one of whom is autistic. We have a freedom dividend of $1,000 a month. It actually recognizes the work that is happening in our families and our communities. It helps all Americans transition.\n\nBecause the fact is -- and you know this in Ohio -- if you rely upon the federal government to target its resources, you wind up with failed retraining programs and jobs that no one wants. When we put the money into our hands, we can build a trickle-up economy from our people, our families, and our communities up. It will enable us to do the kind of work that we want to do. This is the sort of positive vision in response to the fourth industrial revolution that we have to embrace as a party.", "Erin Burnett" -> "Senator Booker, a federal jobs guarantee or $1,000 a month, are those the best solutions there? Please respond.", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "Well, first of all, I'm happy to get in finally. And I just want to say, as a great -- as a great New Jersian, Yogi Berra, said, \"I am having deja vu all over again.\"\n\nI'm having deja vu all over again, first of all, because I saw this play in 2016's election. We are literally using Donald Trump's lies. And the second issue we cover on this stage is elevating a lie and attacking a statesman. That was so offensive. He should not have to defend ourselves. And the only person sitting at home that was enjoying that was Donald Trump seeing that we're distracting from his malfeasance and selling out of his office.\nAnd I'm having deja vu all over again. And I'm having deja vu all over again because we have another health care debate, and we're not talking about the clear and existential threat in America that we're in a state that has had two Planned Parenthoods close. We are seeing all over this country women's reproductive rights under attack. And God bless Kamala, but you know what? Women should not be the only ones taking up this cause and this fight.\nAnd men...", "Erin Burnett" -> "Thank you.", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "It is not just because women are our daughters and our friends and our wives. It's because women are people. And people deserve to control their own bodies.", "Erin Burnett" -> "Senator, thank you. We are going to get to that issue later on tonight.\n\nSenator Warren, you wrote that blaming job loss on automation is, quote, \"a good story, except it's not really true.\" So should workers here in Ohio not be worried about losing their jobs to automation?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "So the data show that we have had a lot of problems with losing jobs, but the principal reason has been bad trade policy. The principal reason has been a bunch of corporations, giant multinational corporations who've been calling the shots on trade, giant multinational corporations that have no loyalty to America. They have no loyalty to American workers. They have no loyalty to American consumers. They have no loyalty to American communities. They are loyal only to their own bottom line.\n\nI have a plan to fix that, and it's accountable capitalism. It says, you want to have one of the giant corporations in America? Then, by golly, 40 percent of your board of directors should be elected by your employees. That will make a difference when a corporation decides, gee, we could save a nickel by moving a job to Mexico, when there are people on the board in the boardroom saying, no, do you know what that does to our company, do you know what that does to our community, to what it does to our workers?\n\nWe also need to make it easier to join a union and give unions more power when they negotiate.\nWe need to restructure strength in this economy, and that\[CloseCurlyQuote]s where it starts.", "Erin Burnett" -> "Thank you, Senator.\n\nSecretary Castro, what's your response to Senator Warren's claim that automation is a good story, except it's not really true?", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "Well, I think -- I think what folks have said is that that is only part of the issue, right? You know, I believe that we need to address communities that are being impacted by automation. I'm even willing to pilot something like UBI and to see how that would work.\n\nBut I think we need to focus on making sure that we spark job opportunity for people across this country. As I mentioned earlier, here in Ohio, in the latest job data, Ohio is losing jobs under Donald Trump. He has broken his promises to Ohio and the industrial Midwest. I would invest in infrastructure to put people back to work. I would invest in a Green New Deal to unleash millions of new jobs in a clean energy economy.\n\nI was in Newton, Iowa, a few weeks ago and I visited a place called TPI. Newton, Iowa, had a Maytag washing machine manufacturing facility, and then it closed down. TPI manufactures wind turbines. They're putting hundreds of people to work at decent-paying jobs and creating a better future for those families.\n\nOn top of that, let me just say this. We need to support working families. We need to invest in things like...", "Erin Burnett" -> "Thank you, Mr. Secretary.", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "... universal childcare, so that people can afford childcare instead of having to pay 20 percent of their income for it.", Entity["Person", "AndrewYang::f7w42"] -> "Senator Warren, I just need -- I just need to address this.", "Erin Burnett" -> "Go ahead, Mr. Yang.", Entity["Person", "AndrewYang::f7w42"] -> "Senator Warren, I've been talking to Americans around the country about automation. And they're smart. They see what's happening around them. Their Main Street stores are closing. They see a self-serve kiosk in every McDonalds, every grocery store, every CVS. Driving a truck is the most common job in 29 states, including this one; 3.5 million truck drivers in this country. And my friends in California are piloting self-driving trucks.\n\nWhat is that going to mean for the 3.5 million truckers or the 7 million Americans who work in truck stops, motels, and diners that rely upon the truckers getting out and having a meal? Saying this is a rules problem is ignoring the reality that Americans see around us every single day.", "Erin Burnett" -> "Senator Warren, respond, please.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "So I understand that what we're all looking for is how we strengthen America's middle class. And actually, I think the thing closest to the universal basic income is Social Security. It's one of the reasons that I've put forward a plan to extend the solvency of Social Security by decades and add $200 to the payment of every person who receives Social Security right now and every person who receives disability insurance right now.\n\nThat $200 a month will lift nearly 5 million families out of poverty. And it will sure loosen up the budget for a whole lot more. It also has a provision for your wife, for those who stay home to do caregiving for children or for seniors, and creates an opportunity for them to get credit on their Social Security.", "Erin Burnett" -> "Thank you.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "So after a lifetime of hard work, people are entitled to retire with dignity.", "Erin Burnett" -> "Thank you, Senator Warren.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "I see this as an important question about just -- I want to understand the data on this.", "Erin Burnett" -> "Senator, thank you very much.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "And I want to make sure we're responding to make this work.", "Erin Burnett" -> "Your time is up.", "Erin Burnett" -> "I want to give Congresswoman Gabbard a chance to respond.", Entity["Person", "TulsiGabbard::839d6"] -> "Thank you. You know, really what this is about is getting to the heart of the fear that is well founded. As people look to this automation revolution, they look to uncertainty. They don't know how this is going to affect their jobs and their everyday lives.\n\nAnd I agree with my friend, Andrew Yang. I think universal basic income is a good idea to help provide that security so that people can have the freedom to make the kinds of choices that they want to see.\n\nThis has to do with bad trade deals that we've seen in the past that have also driven fear towards people losing the way that they provide for their families. Really what we need to do is look at how we can best serve the interests of the American people. I do not believe a federal jobs guarantee is the way to do that. The value that someone feels in themselves and their own lives is not defined by the job that they have but is intrinsic to who we all are as Americans, whatever we choose to do with our lives, and we can't forget that.", "Erin Burnett" -> "Thank you very much.", "Marc Lacey" -> "One of the industries most at risk from a changing economy is the auto industry. General Motors used to be the largest employer in Ohio. Now it's 72nd. Today, thousands of GM workers here in Ohio and across the country are on strike. All of you on the stage have voiced support for these workers.\n\nSenator Booker, one of the latest impasses in negotiations involves bringing jobs back from Mexico. As president, how would you convince GM to return production to the United States?", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "Well, first of all, the one point I wanted to make about the UBI conversation -- and I hope that my friend, Andrew Yang, will come out for this -- doing more for workers than UBI would actually be just raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour. It would put more money in people's pockets than giving them $1,000 a month.\n\nWe have to start putting the dignity back in work. And, number one, you start having trade deals, not like this thing that the president is trying to push through Congress right now that gives pharmaceutical companies and other corporations benefits and doesn\[CloseCurlyQuote]t put workers at the center of every trade deal.\n\nWe must make sure we are not giving corporate tax incentives for people to move jobs out of our country, but start to put the worker at the center of that and make sure that they have the resources to succeed.\n\nBut it's more than that. I stood with these workers because we're seeing this trend all over our country. I stood with unions because, right now, unions in America are under attack. As union membership has gone down, we have seen a stratification of wealth and income in this country.\n\nSo the other thing that I'll do as president of the United States is begin to fight again to see union strength in this country spread, to make sure we have sectoral bargaining so that unions from the auto workers all the way to fast food workers can ensure that we improve workers' conditions and make sure that every American has a living wage in this country.", "Marc Lacey" -> "Thank you, Senator.\n\nCongressman O'Rourke, same question for you. How would you convince GM to bring production back to the United States from Mexico?", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "I've met with these members of the UAW who are striking outside of facilities in Cincinnati, in Lordstown, Ohio, which has just been devastated, decimated by GM and their malfeasance, paying effectively zero in taxes last year. The people of Ohio investing tens of millions of dollars in the infrastructure around there.\n\nWhat they want is a shot. And they want fairness in how we treat workers in this country, which they are not receiving today. Part of the way to do that is through our trade deals, making sure that if we trade with Mexico, Mexican workers are allowed to join unions, which they are effectively unable to do today. Not only is that bad for the Mexican worker, it puts the American worker at a competitive disadvantage.\n\nIf we complement that with investment in world-class pre-K through 12 public education, get behind our world-class public school educators, if we make sure that cost is not an object to be able to attend college, and if we elevate the role of unions in this country, and create more than 5 million apprenticeships over the next eight years, we will make sure that every single American has a shot.\n\nThey don't want a handout. They don't want a job guarantee. They just want a shot. And as president, I will give them that shot.", "Marc Lacey" -> "Thank you, Congressman.", "Erin Burnett" -> "Income inequality is growing in the United States at an alarming rate. The top 1 percent now own more of this nation\[CloseCurlyQuote]s wealth than the bottom 90 percent combined. Senator Sanders, when you introduced your wealth tax, which would tax the assets of the wealthiest Americans, you said, quoting you, Senator, \[OpenCurlyDoubleQuote]Billionaires should not exist.\[CloseCurlyDoubleQuote] Is the goal of your plan to tax billionaires out of existence?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "When you have a half-a-million Americans sleeping out on the street today, when you have 87 people -- 87 million people uninsured or underinsured, when you\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve got hundreds of thousands of kids who cannot afford to go to college, and millions struggling with the oppressive burden of student debt, and then you also have three people owning more wealth than the bottom half of American society, that is a moral and economic outrage.\n\nAnd the truth is, we cannot afford to continue this level of income and wealth inequality. And we cannot afford a billionaire class, whose greed and corruption has been at war with the working families of this country for 45 years.\n\nSo if you're asking me do I think we should demand that the wealthy start paying -- the wealthiest, top 0.1 percent, start paying their fair share of taxes so we can create a nation and a government that works for all of us? Yes, that's exactly what I believe.", "Erin Burnett" -> "Thank you, Senator.\nMr. Steyer, you are the lone billionaire on this stage. What's your plan for closing the income gap?", Entity["Person", "TomSteyer::b5k62"] -> "Well, first of all, let me say this. Senator Sanders is right. There have been 40 years where corporations have bought this government, and those 40 years have meant a 40-year attack on the rights of working people and specifically on organized labor. And the results are as shameful as Senator Sanders says, both in terms of assets and in terms of income. It's absolutely wrong. It's absolutely undemocratic and unfair.\n\nI was one of the first people on this stage to propose a wealth tax. I would undo every Republican tax cut for rich people and major corporations. But there's something else going on here that is absolutely shameful, and that's the way the money gets split up in terms of earnings.\n\nAs a result of taking away the rights of working people and organized labor, people haven't had a raise -- 90 percent of Americans have not had a raise for 40 years. If you took the minimum wage from 1980 and just adjusted it for inflation, you get $11 bucks. It's $7.25. If you included the productivity gains of American workers, it would be over $20 bucks.\n\nThere's something wrong here, and that is that the corporations have bought our government. Our government has failed. That's why I'm running for president, because we're not going to get any of the policies that everybody on this stage wants -- health care, education, Green New Deal, or a living wage...", "Erin Burnett" -> "Thank you, Mr. Steyer.", Entity["Person", "TomSteyer::b5k62"] -> "... unless we break the power of these corporations.", "Erin Burnett" -> "Thank you, Mr. Steyer.\nVice President Biden, you have warned against demonizing rich people. Do you believe that Senator Sanders and Senator Warren's wealth tax plans do that?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "No, look, demonizing wealth -- what I talked about is how you get things done. And the way to get things done is take a look at the tax code right now. The idea -- we have to start rewarding work, not just wealth. I would eliminate the capital gains tax -- I would raise the capital gains tax to the highest rate, of 39.5 percent.\n\nI would double it, because guess what? Why in God's name should someone who's clipping coupons in the stock market make -- in fact, pay a lower tax rate than someone who, in fact, is -- like I said -- the -- a schoolteacher and a firefighter? It's ridiculous. And they pay a lower tax.\n\nSecondly, the idea that we, in fact, engage in this notion that there are -- there\[CloseCurlyQuote]s $1,640,000,000,000 in tax loopholes. You can\[CloseCurlyQuote]t justify a minimum $600 billion of that. We could eliminate it all. I could go into detail had I the time.\n\nSecondly -- I mean, thirdly, what we need to do is we need to go out and make it clear to the American people that we are going to -- we are going to raise taxes on the wealthy. We're going to reduce tax burdens on those who are not.\n\nAnd this is one of the reasons why these debates are kind of crazy, because everybody tries to squeeze everything into every answer that is given. The fact is, everybody's right about the fact that the fourth industrial revolution is costing jobs. It is. The fact is also corporate greed is they're going back and not investing in our employees, they're reinvesting and buying back their stock.", "Erin Burnett" -> "Thank you, Mr. Vice President.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "See, I'm doing the same thing.", "Erin Burnett" -> "Thank you, Mr. Vice President.\nSenator Warren, your response.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "So I think this is about our values as a country. Show me your budget, show me your tax plans, and we'll know what your values are.\n\nAnd right now in America, the top 0.1 percent have so much wealth -- understand this -- that if we put a 2 cent tax on their 50 millionth and first dollar, and on every dollar after that, we would have enough money to provide universal childcare for every baby in this country, age zero to five, universal pre-K for every child, raise the wages of every childcare worker and preschool teacher in America, provide for universal tuition-free college, put $50 billion into historically black colleges and universities...", "Erin Burnett" -> "Thank you, Senator Warren.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "... and cancel -- no, let me finish, please, and cancel student loan debt for 95 percent of the people who have it. My question is not why do Bernie and I support a wealth tax. It's why is it does everyone else on this stage think it is more important to protect billionaires than it is to invest in an entire generation of Americans?", "Erin Burnett" -> "Thank you, Senator Warren.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "No one is supporting billionaires.", "Erin Burnett" -> "Mayor Buttigieg? Mayor Buttigieg, your response?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "I'm all for a wealth tax. I'm all for just about everything that was just mentioned in these answers. Let me tell, though, how this looks from the industrial Midwest where I live.\n\nWashington politicians, congressmen and senators, saying all the right things, offering the most elegant policy prescriptions, and nothing changes. I didn't even realize it was unusual to have empty factories that I would see out the windows of my dad's Chevy Cavalier when he drove me to school, I didn't know that wasn't every city until I went away to college. Now I drive my own Chevy. It's a Chevy Cruze. It used to be built right in Lordstown, which is now one more symbol of the broken promises that this president has made to workers.\n\nBut why did workers take a chance on this president in the first place? It's because it felt like nobody was willing to actually do anything. And while he's unquestionably made it dramatically worse, this is time to realize that we're paying attention to the wrong things. We're paying attention...", "Erin Burnett" -> "Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Mayor Buttigieg.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "... to who sounded better on a debate stage or in a committee hearing...", "Erin Burnett" -> "Senator Klobuchar -- Senator Klobuchar...", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "This is what it's going to take to get something done.", "Erin Burnett" -> "Will a wealth tax -- will a wealth tax work?", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "It could work. I am open to it. But I want to give a reality check here to Elizabeth, because no one on this stage wants to protect billionaires. Not even the billionaire wants to protect billionaires.\nWe just have different approaches. Your idea is not the only idea. And when I look at this, I think about Donald Trump, the guy that after that tax bill passed went to Mar-a-Lago, got together with his cronies, and said, guess what, you guys all got a lot richer. That was the one time in his presidency he told the truth.\n\nSo we have different ways -- I would repeal significant portions of that tax bill that help the rich, including what he did with the corporate tax rate, including what he did on international taxation. You add it all up, you got a lot of money that, one, helps pay for that childcare, protects that dignity of work, makes sure we have decent retirement, and makes sure that our kids can go to good schools.", "Erin Burnett" -> "Thank you. Senator...", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "It is not one idea that rules here.", "Erin Burnett" -> "Thank you, Senator Klobuchar. Senator Warren, please respond.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "So understand, taxing income is not going to get you where you need to be the way taxing wealth does, that the rich are not like you and me. The really, really billionaires are making their money off their accumulated wealth, and it just keeps growing. We need a wealth tax in order to make investments in the next generation.\n\nLook, I understand that this is hard, but I think as Democrats we are going to succeed when we dream big and fight hard, not when we dream small and quit before we get started.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "I would like to respond to that.", "Erin Burnett" -> "Senator Klobuchar, respond, please.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "You know, I think simply because you have different ideas doesn't mean you're fighting for regular people. I wouldn't even be up on this stage if it wasn't for unions and the dignity of work. If my grandpa didn't have unions protecting him in those mines, he wouldn't have survived. If my mom didn't have unions as a teacher, she wouldn't have been able to make the wages she made when my parents got divorced.\n\nSo just because we have different ideas, and get to the same place in terms of beating Donald Trump and taking this on, we are in Ohio. We can win Ohio in the presidency, but only if we unite, if we unite around ideals and don't go fighting against each other and instead take the fight to him.", "Erin Burnett" -> "Thank you, Senator.\n\nSenator Harris, you want to give working families a tax credit of up to $6,000 a year to help close the income gap.", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "Right.", "Erin Burnett" -> "Is that a better solution than a wealth tax?", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "Well, here's how I think about it. When I was growing up, my mother raised my sister and me. We would often come home from school before she came home from work. She'd come home, she'd cook dinner, and at some point we'd go to bed, and she'd sit up at the kitchen table trying to figure out how to make it all work.\n\nAnd when I think about where we are right now in 2020, I do believe justice is on the ballot. It's on the ballot in terms of impeachment, it's on the ballot in terms of economic justice, health justice, and so many other issues.\n\nSo when I think about this issue, I'm thinking about that dad who tonight is going to be sitting at his kitchen table, after everyone's gone to sleep, and sitting there with his cup of tea or coffee trying to figure out how it's going to make -- how he's going to make it work. And he's probably sitting there deciding that on that minimum wage job that does not pay enough for him to meet the bills at the end of the month, he's going to have to start driving an Uber. And what does that mean? That means that with those two jobs, he's going to miss his kids' soccer games.\n\nThat's the reality for Americans today, which is why, yes, when I get elected and pass this bill, which will give the American family who makes less than $100,000 a year a tax credit of up to $6,000 a year that they can take home at up to $500 a month, that's going to make a real difference in that man's life. And don't tell him that's not a big deal...", "Erin Burnett" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "... when he's trying to get through to the end of the month.", "Erin Burnett" -> "Mr. Yang, your response. Would you impose a wealth tax?", Entity["Person", "AndrewYang::f7w42"] -> "Senator Warren is 100 percent right that we're in the midst of the most extreme winner-take-all economy in history. And a wealth tax makes a lot of sense in principle. The problem is that it's been tried in Germany, France, Denmark, Sweden, and all those countries ended up repealing it, because it had massive implementation problems and did not generate the revenue that they'd projected.\n\nIf we can't learn from the failed experiences of other countries, what can we learn from? We should not be looking to other countries' mistakes. Instead, we should look at what Germany, France, Denmark, and Sweden still have, which is a value-added tax. If we give the American people a tiny slice of every Amazon sale, every Google search, every robot truck mile, every Facebook ad, we can generate hundreds of billions of dollars and then put it into our hands, because we know best how to use it.", "Erin Burnett" -> "Thank you. Thank you.\n\nCongressman O'Rourke, do you think a wealth tax is the best way to address income inequality? Your response.", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "I think it's part of the solution. But I think we need to be focused on lifting people up. And sometimes I think that Senator Warren is more focused on being punitive and pitting some part of the country against the other instead of lifting people up and making sure that this country comes together around those solutions.\n\nI think of a woman that I met in Las Vegas, Nevada. She's working four jobs, raising her child with disabilities, and any American with disabilities knows just how hard it is to make it and get by in this country already. Some of those jobs working for some of these corporations, she wants to know how we are going to help her, how we're going to make sure that her child has the care that she needs, that we strengthen protections for those with disabilities, that she just has to work one job because it pays a living wage.\n\nAnd Senator Warren said show me your budget, show me your tax plan, and you'll show me your values. She has yet to describe her tax plan and whether or not that person I met would see a tax increase. Under my administration, if you make less than $250,000 a year as a family, you will not see a tax increase. That family needs to know that.", "Erin Burnett" -> "Thank you, Congressman.\n\n(UNKNOWN): Erin, let me say...", "Erin Burnett" -> "I want to give Senator Warren a chance to respond.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "So I'm really shocked at the notion that anyone thinks I'm punitive. Look, I don't have a beef with billionaires. My problem is you made a fortune in America, you had a great idea, you got out there and worked for it, good for you. But you built that fortune in America. I guarantee you built it in part using workers all of us helped pay to educate. You built it in part getting your goods to markets on roads and bridges all of us helped pay for. You built it at least in part protected by police and firefighters all of us help pay the salaries for.\n\nAnd all I'm saying is, you make it to the top, the top 0.1 percent, then pitch in two cents so every other kid in America has a chance to make it.", "Erin Burnett" -> "Senator, thank you.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "That's what this is about.", "Erin Burnett" -> "Senator Castro, your response?", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "There's no argument there. I just want to make sure that we're lifting up those families who are working and need help through an expanded earned income tax credit or child tax credit...", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "But that is...", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "... which we will do in my administration.", "Erin Burnett" -> "Go ahead, Senator.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "That is the point. This is universal childcare for every baby in this country, early educational opportunities for every child, universal pre-K no matter where you live for every 3-year-old and 4-year-old.", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "But in addition to that, will they see a tax increase?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "Raising the wages -- no, raising the wages of every childcare worker and preschool teacher in this country. This is about universal college, about investment in our HBCUs, about making sure that we get rid of the student loan debt burden that is crushing...", "Erin Burnett" -> "Thank you, Senator...", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "... I just want to know if working families are going to see a tax increase.", "Erin Burnett" -> "I want to get Secretary Castro in here, please, Congressman. Go ahead, Secretary.", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "Thanks a lot, Erin. And you see that everybody has their own plans. And let me just say that the way that I view this is born out of my own experience.\n\nI grew up like I bet a lot folks in this room grew up and folks that are watching on TV. I grew up with my twin brother, Joaquin, in a single-parent household where my mom was working hard to support us and also her mom, my grandmother. And we knew what it was like to wonder whether we were going to be able to pay the rent at the first of the month or sometimes have the electricity turned off.\n\nAnd when I was a kid, to look at the grocery list that seemed to get shorter and shorter, and that's what's happening to a lot of families these days. I was in Las Vegas a few months ago, and I visited people who were homeless, who are living in storm drainage tunnels under the Las Vegas strip in the shadow of hotels and casinos that are worth hundreds of millions of dollars, where people from around the world are spending so much money on vacations.\n\nWe can do better than that. I believe that wealth and equality tax, as I've proposed, is part of the answer, but also I've proposed an inheritance tax, raising the top marginal tax rate...", "Erin Burnett" -> "Thank you, Secretary.", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "... and investing in things like universal childcare and affordable housing.", "Erin Burnett" -> "All right. Senator Booker, please respond.", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "Well, first of all, I just want to be respond by -- you know, we've got one shot to make Donald Trump a one-term president. And how we talk about each other in this debate actually really matters.\n\nI've had the privilege of working with or being friends with everybody on this stage, and tearing each other down because we have a different plan to me is unacceptable. I have seen this script before.\nIt didn't work in 2016, and it will be a disaster for us in 2020. And so I have a different plan than Elizabeth Warren. I have a different plan than many people on this stage. And it involves, again, fair taxes for the richest. We have a lot of work to do there. But we've had 20 years of presidential debates, and we have never talked about the violence in America of child poverty.\n\nWe have got to begin to talk more eloquently and persuasively and urgently about doing the things not just to make sure fair taxes are paid by people on the top, but that we deal with the moral obscenity of having the highest levels of child poverty in the industrial world.\n\nMy plan will focus on that, and these are some of the issues we should be talking about, not defining ourselves just by what we're against, but we need to win this election by talking about who and what we are for.", "Erin Burnett" -> "Thank you, Senator Booker.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "We've got to take a quick break. We've got to take a quick break right now. The CNN-New York Times debate live from Otterbein University in Ohio will be right back after this.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "And welcome back to the CNN-New York Times Democratic presidential debate live from Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio.\n\nI want to turn now to foreign policy. President Trump ordered the withdrawal of all American forces from northern Syria, abandoning America's long-time Kurdish allies. As a result, Turkey has now evaded Syria, ISIS detainees have escaped, and the Kurds have announced a new deal with the government in Damascus, a victory for Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, and Russia, and Iran.\n\nVice President Biden, we know you would not have withdrawn troops from northern Syria in this way, but that is already in process. So would you send American troops back into northern Syria to prevent an ISIS resurgence and protect our Kurdish allies?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "I would not have withdrawn the troops and I would not have withdrawn the additional thousand troops who are in Iraq, which are in retreat now, being fired on by Assad's people. And the president of the United States saying, if those ISIS folks escape from the prisons they're in, they'll only go to Europe and won't affect us.\n\nIt has been the most shameful thing that any president has done in modern history -- excuse me, in terms of foreign policy. And the fact of the matter is, I've never seen a time -- and I've spent thousands of hours in the Situation Room, I've spent many hours on the ground in those very places, in Syria and in Iraq, and guess what? Our commanders across the board, former and present, are ashamed of what's happening here.\n\nWhat I would do is I would be making it real clear to Assad that, in fact, where he's going to have a problem -- because Turkey is the real problem here. And I would be having a real lockdown conversation with Erdogan and letting him know that he's going to pay a heavy price for what he has done now. Pay that price.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Just to clarify, Mr. Vice President, would you want American troops back in northern Syria?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "I would want those thousand troops to be protected by air cover, those thousand troops that are being -- having to withdraw under fire, make it clear that they're not going anywhere, and have them protected, and work my way back toward what, in fact, needs to be done, protecting those Kurds. They lost their lives. This is shameful, shameful what this man has done.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Congresswoman Gabbard, last week you said that American troops should get out of Syria now. You don't agree with how the president handled the withdrawal. What would you have done differently? How would you have pulled out troops without the bloodshed we're seeing now?", Entity["Person", "TulsiGabbard::839d6"] -> "Well, first of all, we've got to understand the reality of the situation there, which is that the slaughter of the Kurds being done by Turkey is yet another negative consequence of the regime change war that we've been waging in Syria.\n\nDonald Trump has the blood of the Kurds on his hand, but so do many of the politicians in our country from both parties who have supported this ongoing regime change war in Syria that started in 2011, along with many in the mainstream media, who have been championing and cheerleading this regime change war.\n\nNot only that, but the New York Times and CNN have also smeared veterans like myself for calling for an end to this regime change war. Just two days ago, the New York Times put out an article saying that I'm a Russian asset and an Assad apologist and all these different smears. This morning, a CNN commentator said on national television that I'm an asset of Russia. Completely despicable.\n\nAs president, I will end these regime change wars by doing two things -- ending the draconian sanctions that are really a modern-day siege the likes of which we are seeing Saudi Arabia wage against Yemen, that have caused tens of thousands of Syrian civilians to die and to starve, and I would make sure that we stop supporting terrorists like Al Qaida in Syria who have been the ground force in this ongoing regime change war.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Thank you.", Entity["Person", "TulsiGabbard::839d6"] -> "I'd like to ask Senator Warren if she would join me in calling for an end to this regime change war in Syria, finally.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "So, look, I think that we ought to get out of the Middle East. I don't think we should have troops in the Middle East. But we have to do it the right way, the smart way.\n\nWhat this president has done is that he has sucked up to dictators, he has made impulsive decisions that often his own team doesn't understand, he has cut and run on our allies, and he has enriched himself at the expense of the United States of America. In Syria, he has created a bigger-than-ever humanitarian crisis. He has helped ISIS get another foothold, a new lease on life.\n\nI sit on the Armed Services Committee. I talk with our military leaders about this.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "I was in Iraq and went through the neighborhoods that ISIS destroyed.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Thank you.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "We need to get out, but we need to do this through a negotiated solution. There is no military solution in this region.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Thank you, Senator. Mayor Buttigieg, Mayor Buttigieg, like many of your fellow candidates on the stage, you've been calling for an end to endless wars. What's your response on Syria?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "Well, respectfully, Congresswoman, I think that is dead wrong. The slaughter going on in Syria is not a consequence of American presence. It's a consequence of a withdrawal and a betrayal by this president of American allies and American values.\n\nLook, I didn't think we should have gone to Iraq in the first place. I think we need to get out of Afghanistan. But it's also the case that a small number of specialized, special operations forces and intelligence capabilities were the only thing that stood between that part of Syria and what we're seeing now, which is the beginning of a genocide and the resurgence of ISIS.\n\nMeanwhile, soldiers in the field are reporting that for the first time they feel ashamed -- ashamed -- of what their country has done. We saw the spectacle, the horrifying sight of a woman with the lifeless body of her child in her arms asking, what the hell happened to American leadership?\n\nAnd when I was deployed, I knew one of the things keeping me safe was the fact that the flag on my shoulder represented a country known to keep its word. And our allies knew it and our enemies knew it.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Thank you, Mayor.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "You take that away, you are taking away what makes America America.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Thank you, Mayor.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "It makes our troops and the world a much more dangerous place.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Congresswoman Gabbard, your response?", Entity["Person", "TulsiGabbard::839d6"] -> "Yeah, absolutely. So, really, what you're saying, Mayor Pete, is that you would continue to support having U.S. troops in Syria for an indefinite period of time to continue this regime change war that has caused so many refugees to flee Syria, that you would continue to have our country involved in a war that has undermined our national security, you would continue this policy of the U.S. actually providing arms in support to terrorist groups in Syria, like Al Qaida, HTS, al-Nusra and others, because they are the ones who have been the ground force in this regime change war? That's really what you're saying?", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Mayor Pete -- Mayor Buttigieg?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "No, you can embrace -- or you can put an end to endless war without embracing Donald Trump's policy, as you're doing.", Entity["Person", "TulsiGabbard::839d6"] -> "Will you end the regime change war, is the question.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "What we are doing...", Entity["Person", "TulsiGabbard::839d6"] -> "What is an endless war if it's not a regime change war?", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Allow him to respond. Please allow him to respond.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "What we are doing -- or what we were doing in Syria was keeping our word. Part of what makes it possible for the United States to get people to put their lives on the line to back us up is the idea that we will back them up, too.\n\nWhen I was deployed, not just the Afghan National Army forces, but the janitors put their lives on the line just by working with U.S. forces. I would have a hard time today looking an Afghan civilian or soldier in the eye after what just happened over there. And it is undermining the honor of our soldiers. You take away the honor of our soldiers, you might as well go after their body armor next.\n\nThis president has betrayed American values. Our credibility has been tattered.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Thank you.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "I will restore U.S. credibility before it is finally too late.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Senator Sanders, is Turkey still a U.S. ally? Should they remain in NATO?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "I'm sorry. Say that again?", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Is Turkey still a U.S. ally? Should they remain in NATO?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "No, Turkey is not a U.S. ally when they invade another country and engage in mass slaughter.\n\nThe crisis here, as I think Joe said and Pete said, is when you begin to betray people, in terms of the Kurds, 11,000 of them died fighting ISIS, 20,000 were wounded. And the United States said, \[OpenCurlyDoubleQuote]We\[CloseCurlyQuote]re with you, we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re standing with you.\[CloseCurlyDoubleQuote] And then suddenly, one day after a phone call with Erdogan, announced by tweet, Trump reverses that policy.\n\nNow, you tell me what country in the world will trust the word of the president of the United States. In other words, what he has done is wreck our ability to do foreign policy, to do military policy, because nobody in the world will believe this pathological liar.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "But this is really important, because what this president has done shows that American leadership shapes the behavior of our allies, or sometimes allies, too. Remember, the problem right now is not just that -- with our competitors. And, for example a place like China, the people of Hong Kong rise up for democracy and don't get a peep of support from the president. It's just not the behavior of adversaries like Russia.\n\nBut our one-time allies, like Saudi Arabia, which the CIA just concluded was responsible, as we all knew, for murdering and dismembering an American resident and journalist.\n\nAnd Turkey, which was an American ally. That's the point. We had leverage. But when we abandon the international stage, when we think our only choices are between endless war or total isolation, the consequence is the disappearance of U.S. leadership...", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Thank you, Mayor.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "... from the world stage.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Senator...", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "And that makes this entire world a more dangerous place.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Senator Klobuchar, should Turkey remain in NATO? Your response?", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "We need to work with our allies, to work with Turkey and bring them out. This is an outrageous thing that happened here. And I think we need to talk about this not only in terms of the horror of what happened here with Turkey, but the fact that our president blew it and now he's too proud to say it.\n\nAnd what do we do now? We continue that humanitarian aid, but then we work with our allies to say come back, Turkey, and stop this, because what Mayor Pete has just said is true. Think about our other allies, Israel. How do they feel right now? Donald Trump is not true to his word when they are a beacon of democracy in the Mideast.\n\nThink about our allies in Europe when he pulls out of the Iranian agreement and gives them holding the bag and gives the power to China and Russia.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "Think about the nuclear agreement with Russia that he precipitously pulled out of. This is part of a pattern. It's not an isolated incident.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Thank you, Senator.\n\nSenator Harris, given that the U.S. abandoned our Kurdish allies, what would you do as president to convince the rest of the world that we can still be trusted?", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "That's a great question, Anderson, because the commander-in-chief of the United States of America has as one of her greatest priorities and responsibilities to concern herself with the security of our nation and homeland.\n\nI serve on the Senate Intelligence Committee. I have over a period of time received classified information about the threats to our security and hot spots around the world.\n\nWhat has happened in Syria is yet again Donald Trump selling folks out. And in this case, he sold out the Kurds, who, yes, fought with us and thousands died in our fight against ISIS.\n\nAnd let's be clear. What Donald Trump has done, because of that phone call with Erdogan, is basically giving 10,000 ISIS fighters a \"get out of jail free\" card. And you know who the winner is in this? There are four: Russia, Iran, Assad, and ISIS.\n\nThis is a crisis of Donald Trump\[CloseCurlyQuote]s making. And it is on a long list of crises of Donald Trump\[CloseCurlyQuote]s making. And that\[CloseCurlyQuote]s why dude got to go. And when I am commander-in-chief, we will stop this madness.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Secretary Castro, your response.", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "Well, I mean, you asked the question of, how are we going to get people to trust us again? The first thing is we got to boot Donald Trump out of the Oval Office so that people will trust us again.\n\nYou know, I also want people to think -- the folks this week that saw those images of ISIS prisoners running free to think about how absurd it is that this president is caging kids on the border and effectively letting ISIS prisoners run free.\nHe has made a tremendous mistake, a total disaster there in Syria. And just to connect the dots for a second, if you're Kim Jong-un, for instance, why in the world would you believe anything that this president says to contain your nuclear weapons program, when he tore up an Iran nuclear agreement that we just signed four years ago, which was the strongest agreement to contain Iran's nuclear weapons program, and now he's abandoned the very people that we gave our word to?\n\nI would make sure that we work with our allies to pressure Syria to stop the aggression, and I support efforts at stronger sanctions than this president has announced.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Thank you, Mr. Secretary.", "Marc Lacey" -> "Senator Booker, the American intelligence community says that Russia is trying to capitalize on the power vacuums around the world as we're seeing right now in northern Syria. What specifically would you do as president to check Vladimir Putin's power on the world stage?", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "So, first of all, understand that this president is turning the moral leadership of this country into a dumpster fire. We literally have great generals like Mattis who said on the world stage, the United States of America, there can be no better friend than the United States of America and no better -- no greater enemy than the United States of America. This president has turned that upside down and now is doing things to undermine our critical alliances and partner with Russia.\n\nAnd so clearly, to your question, number one, we cannot allow the Russians to continue to grow in influence by abandoning the world stage. We cannot allow Russia to not only interfere in the democracies of the Ukraine, and Latvia, and Lithuania, but even not calling them out for their efforts to interfere in this democracy are unacceptable.\n\nRussia and Putin understand strength, and this president time and time again is showing moral weakness. He makes promises to the American people that he's going to protect this nation. Well, instead of doing something to defeat ISIS, he's now given them a foothold again.\n\nThis is an American president that even right now is lying to the American public and saying he's bringing our troops home, at the same time he's increasing troop presence with the Saudis, while they're involved in an unjust war that is killing tens of thousands of children in Yemen.\n\nThis president is making us less safe. He is partnering more with Putin than he is with Merkel and Macron. And as president of the United States, I will stop this and restore American integrity abroad.", "Marc Lacey" -> "Thank you, Senator. Vice President?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "I think I maybe -- it doesn't make me any better or worse, but maybe the only person who spent extensive time alone with Putin, as well as with Erdogan. And Erdogan understands that -- you talk about should he stay in or out of NATO -- he understands if he's out of NATO, he's in real trouble.\n\nBut the fact of the matter is, we have been unwilling in this administration, because we have an erratic, crazy president who knows not a damn thing about foreign policy and operates out of fear for his own re-election.\nThink what's happened. The fact of the matter is, you have Russia influencing and trying to break up NATO. What does the president do? He says, \"I believe Vladimir Putin. I believe Vladimir Putin. I don't believe our intelligence community.\"", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "You're suggesting I'm Vladimir Putin here.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "No, no, I'm not. No, I'm not. I'm not.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "I know.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "But here -- look, but here's the deal. Think what that did. He turns around and he questions whether or not he'll keep the sacred commitment of Article 5 for the NATO members. If he is re-elected, I promise you, there will be no NATO. Our security will be vastly underrated, under -- we will be in real trouble.\n\nAnd with regard to regime change in Syria, that has not been the policy we change the regime. It has been to make sure that the regime did not wipe out hundreds of thousands of innocent people between there and the Iraqi border.\n\nAnd lastly, and I apologize for going on, but lastly, what is happening in Iraq is going to -- I mean, excuse me, in Afghanistan, as well as all the way over to Syria, we have ISIS that's going to come here. They are going to, in fact, damage the United States of America. That's why we got involved in the first place and not ceded the whole area to Assad and to the Russians.", "Marc Lacey" -> "Thank you, Mr. Vice President.\n\nCongressman O'Rourke, Senate Democrats put out a report last year on Russia's hostile actions around the world. They suggest the next president could fight back by publicly revealing what the U.S. knows about Putin's corruption and work with allies to freeze his bank accounts. Would you take either of those actions, even in the face of possible retaliation?", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "Yes. We must be unafraid in ensuring that we hold Russia accountable for invading the world's greatest democracy and being able to do it thanks to Donald Trump functionally with impunity so far, so much so that they are invading this democracy right now as we speak, still at the invitation of this president. So if there are not consequences, we will continue to see this problem going forward.\n\nBut in addition, y ademas, to answer the previous question that you asked, how do we stand up to Russia on the global stage, we do that by renewing our alliances and our friendships. That is what makes America stronger. There isn't enough money in this country, there aren't enough servicemembers as brave and courageous as they are to do everything that we want to accomplish militarily around the world.\n\nAnd the Kurds are case in point. In fact, because we turned our backs on them, those Kurds who fought for us in Syria, helped to defeat ISIS not just for themselves, but for the United States of America, it makes it more likely that we will have to send another generation of servicemembers to fight those battles there.\n\nAnd then lastly, as General Mattis, who was invoked earlier, has said, we have two powers, one of intimidation and one of inspiration. We need to now focus on that latter power and make sure that we invest in diplomacy and our State Department and peacefully and non-violently resolving our foreign policy goals not on the backs of 18-, and 19-, and 20-year-olds any more, but making sure that our diplomats are invested in, have the focus necessary by this next president to make that they can accomplish those goals for this country and for the world.", "Marc Lacey" -> "Thank you, Congressman. Thank you, Congressman.\n\nMr. Steyer, would you publicly reveal what the U.S. knows about Putin's corruption or work to freeze his bank accounts? Please respond.", Entity["Person", "TomSteyer::b5k62"] -> "Absolutely. As far as I'm concerned, Mr. Trump's America first program, which involves having no plans, having no process, and having no partners, has proved to be a disaster in Syria, it's proved to be a disaster in terms of our response to Russia's attacking our democracy, and more than that, when we look at the problems around the world, the idea that the United States is going to act unilaterally against a country without the support of our traditional allies makes absolutely no sense.\n\nLet's go to the most important international problem that we're facing, which no one has brought up, which is climate. We can't solve the climate crisis in the United States by ourselves. It's an international crisis. I've been working on it for 10 years, taking on the corporations. But we have to work with our allies and our frenemies around the world.\n\nSo if you look at what Mr. Trump is doing, of course he's been bought by the oil and gas companies. But any problem that we're going to do, but specifically climate, we're going to have to lead the world morally, we're going to have to lead it technologically, financially, and commercially.\n\nThis is the proof that this kind of America first, go-it-alone, trust nobody and be untrustworthy is the worst idea I have ever heard and I would change it on day one in every single light.", "Marc Lacey" -> "Mr. Yang, your response to Putin and Russia.", Entity["Person", "AndrewYang::f7w42"] -> "Of course. We have to look at the chain of events. How did we get here? The fact is, we were falling apart at home, so we voted in Donald Trump, and he's now led us down this dangerous path with erratic and unreliable foreign policy.\n\nWe have to let Russia know, look, we get it. We've tampered with other elections, you've tampered with our elections. And now it has to stop. And if it does not stop, we will take this as an act of hostility against the American people. I believe most Americans would support me on this.\n\nBut Russian hacking of our democracy is an illustration of the 21st century threats. Artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, climate change, loose nuclear material, military drones, and non-state actors, these are the threats that are going to require our administration to catch up in terms of technology.\n\nWe all know we are decades behind the curve on technology. We saw when Mark Zuckerberg testified at Congress the nature of the questioning. As commander-in-chief, I will help pull us forward...", "Marc Lacey" -> "Thank you.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "I want to respond to Mr. Yang.", Entity["Person", "AndrewYang::f7w42"] -> "... and that's going to be the responsibility of the next president.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "I want to respond to Mr. Yang. I don't see a moral equivalency between our country and Russia. Vladimir Putin is someone who has shot down planes over Ukraine, who has poisoned his opponent, and we have not talked about what we need to do to protect ourselves from Russia invading our election.\n\nThis wasn't meddling. That's what I do when I call my daughter on a Saturday night and ask her what she's doing. Sorry.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "This was much more serious than that. This was actually invading our election. So to protect ourselves in 2020, what we need, one, backup paper ballots in every single state. That is a bill that I need, and we need to stop Mitch McConnell from stopping that from happening.\n\nAnd then we need to stop the social media companies from running paid political ads, including ones last time in rubles, without having to say where those ads came from and who paid for them. That's the Honest Ads Act. That's a bipartisan bill that I lead. And we can't wait...", "Marc Lacey" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "... to become president to get that done. We need to get it done now.", "Marc Lacey" -> "Thank you, Senator.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "We want to turn back to domestic issues and the epidemic of gun violence in this country. We're less than 100 miles from Dayton, Ohio, where two months ago a gunman killed nine people using an AR-15-style weapon with a high-capacity magazine.\n\nCongressman O'Rourke, in the last debate, you said, quote, \"Hell yes, we're going to take your AR-15, your AK-47,\" but when you were asked how you'd enforce a mandatory buyback, you said police wouldn't be going door to door. So how exactly are you going to force people to give up their weapons? You don't even know who has those weapons.", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "Look, we're going to make sure that the priority is saving the lives of our fellow Americans. I think almost everyone on this stage agrees that it's not right and as president would seek to ban the sale of AR-15s and AK-47s.\n\nThose are weapons of war. They were designed to kill people effectively, efficiently on a battlefield. You mentioned the massacre in Dayton. Nine people killed in under 40 seconds. In El Paso, Texas, 22 were killed in under three minutes. And the list goes on throughout the country.\n\nSo if the logic begins with those weapons being too dangerous to sell, then it must continue by acknowledging, with 16 million AR-15s and AK-47s out there, they are also too dangerous to own. Every single one of them is a potential instrument of terror.\n\nJust ask Hispanics in Texas. Univision surveyed them. More than 80 percent feared that they would be a victim of a mass terror attack like the one in El Paso that was targeted at Mexican Americans and immigrants, inspired in part by this president's racism and hatred that he's directed at communities like mine in El Paso.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Congressman...", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "So I expect my fellow Americans to follow the law, the same way that we enforce any provision, any law that we have right now.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "OK.", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "We don't go door to door to do anything in this country to enforce the law. I expect Republicans, Democrats, gun-owners, non-gun-owners alike to respect and follow the law.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Congressman, let me follow up. Just to follow up, your expectations aside, your website says you will fine people who don't give up their weapons. That doesn't take those weapons off the street. So to be clear, exactly how are you going to take away weapons from people who do not want to give them up and you don't know where they are?", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "If someone does not turn in an AR-15 or an AK-47, one of these weapons of war, or brings it out in public and brandishes it in an attempt to intimidate, as we saw when we were at Kent State recently, then that weapon will be taken from them. If they persist, they will be other consequences from law enforcement.\n\nBut the expectation is that Americans will follow the law. I believe in this country. I believe in my fellow Americans. I believe that they will do the right thing.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Thank you. Mayor Buttigieg, just yesterday, you referred to mandatory buybacks as confiscation and said that Congressman O'Rourke has been picking a fight to try to stay relevant. Your response on guns?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "Look, Congressman, you just made it clear that you don't know how this is actually going to take weapons off the streets. If you can develop the plan further, I think we can have a debate about it. But we can't wait. People are dying in the streets right now.\n\nWe can't wait for universal background checks that we finally have a shot to actually get through. We can't wait to ban the sale of new weapons and high-capacity magazines so we don't wind up with millions more of these things on the street. We can't wait for red flag laws that are going to disarm domestic abusers and prevent suicides, which are not being talked about nearly enough as a huge part of the gun violence epidemic in this country. We cannot wait for purity tests. We have to just get something done.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Congressman O'Rourke, your response.", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "This is not a purity test. This is a country that loses 40,000 of our fellow Americans every year to gun violence. This is a crisis. We've got to do something about it.\n\nAnd those challenges that you described are not mutually exclusive to the challenges that I'm describing. I want to make sure we have universal background checks and red flag laws and that we end the sale of these weapons of war, but to use the analogy of health care, it would be as though we said, look, we're for primary care, but let's not talk about mental health care because that's a bridge too far. People need that primary care now, so let's save that for another day.\n\nNo, let's decide what we are going to believe in, what we're going to achieve. And then let's bring this country together in order to do that. Listening to my fellow Americans, to those moms who demand action, to those students who march for our lives, who, in fact, came up with this extraordinary bold peace plan...", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Thank you, Congressman.", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "... that calls for mandatory buybacks, let's follow their inspiration and lead and not be limited by the polls and the consultants and the focus groups. Let's do what's right...", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Mayor Buttigieg, your response? Mayor Buttigieg?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "The problem isn't the polls. The problems is the policy. And I don't need lessons from you on courage, political or personal. Everyone on this stage is determined to get something done. Everyone on this stage recognizes, or at least I thought we did, that the problem is not other Democrats who don't agree with your particular idea of how to handle this.\n\nThe problem is the National Rifle Association and their enablers in Congress, and we should be united in taking the fight to them.", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "That's a mischaracterization. Anderson, I've got to answer this. Never took you or anyone else on who disagrees with me on this issue. But when you, Mayor Buttigieg, described this policy as a shiny object, I don't care what that meant to me or my candidacy, but to those who have survived gun violence, those who've lost a loved one to an AR-15, an AK-47, marched for our lives, formed in the courage of students willing to stand up to the NRA and conventional politics and poll-tested politicians, that was a slap in the fact to every single one of those groups and every single survivor of a mass casualty assault with an AR-15 and an AK-47.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Thank you.", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "We must buy them back.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Congressman...", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "What we owe to those survivors is to actually deliver a solution. I'm glad you offered up that analogy to health care, because this is really important. We are at the cusp of building a new American majority to actually do things that congressmen and senators have been talking about with almost no impact for my entire adult life.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Thank you, Mayor.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "No, this is really important, OK? On guns, we are this close to an assault weapons ban. That would be huge. And we're going to get wrapped around the axle in a debate over whether it's \"hell, yes, we're going to take your guns\"? We have an opportunity...", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Thank you, Mayor. Your time is up.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "... to deliver health care to everybody, and some on this stage are saying it doesn't count unless we obliterate...", "Anderson Cooper" -> "I want to give somebody -- I want to give other -- I want to give other candidates a chance. Senator Booker, what's your response to Mayor Buttigieg?", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "Well, look, I again, worry about how we talk to each other and about each other and what this last week has shown. There was a young man in my neighborhood, I watched him grow up. I lived in some high-rise projects with him named Shahad, and he was murdered on my block last year with an assault rifle.\n\nI'm living with a sense of urgency on this problem, because when I go home to my community, like millions of Americans, we live in communities where these weapons, where these gun shots are real every single day.\n\nAnd I know where the American public is. This is not about leadership. This is why when I talk about things like gun licensing and point out the differences between us, I'm not attacking people or their character or their courage on these issues. We all have courage.\n\nBut it\[CloseCurlyQuote]s frustrating that when the American people, 77 percent of Americans agree on licensing, we don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t need leadership right now. We just need folks that are going to stand up and follow where the people already are, because there are millions of Americans where this is a daily nightmare, where we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re surrendering our freedoms...", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Thank you.", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "... to fear in this country. This is the first time in American history, this fall, where we have sent our children to school, the strongest nation on the Planet Earth, and said to them, \"We can't protect you\"...", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "... \"so in school, we're going to teach you how to hide.\" There are more duck-and-cover drills and shelter-in-place drills in America now than fire drills.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "If I'm president of the United States, I will bring an urgency to this issue and make sure that we end the scourge of mass violence in our country.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Senator Klobuchar -- Senator Klobuchar, Senator Warren -- Senator Warren supports a voluntary -- excuse me, Senator Klobuchar, you support a voluntary buyback, if I'm correct, right. What is wrong with a mandatory buyback? Your response.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "I just keep thinking of how close we are to finally getting something done on this. I'm looking at the mayor of Dayton. I met one of the survivors from that shooting, 30 seconds, nine people killed.\n\nThe public is with us on this in a big way. The majority of Trump voters want to see universal background checks right now. The majority of hunters want to see us move forward with gun safety legislation. There are three bills right now on Mitch McConnell's desk, the background check bill, my bill to close the boyfriend loophole so domestic abusers don't get guns, the bill to make it easier for police to vet people before they get a gun. That's what we should be focusing on.\n\nAnd I just don't want to screw this up. When I'm president, I do want to bring in an assault weapon ban and I do want to put a limitation on magazines so what happened in Dayton, Ohio, will never happen again. But let's not mess this up with this fight.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Senator Warren, you support a voluntary gun buyback of assault-style weapons, as well. Why not a mandatory one?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "So, look, I want to get what works done. I want to use the method we used, for example, with machine guns. We registered them, we put in a huge penalty if you didn't register them, and a huge tax on them, and then let people turn them in, and it got machine guns out of the hands of people.\n\nBut the problem here that we need to focus on is, first, how widespread gun violence is. As you\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve rightly identified, it\[CloseCurlyQuote]s not just about mass shootings. It\[CloseCurlyQuote]s what happens in neighborhoods all across this country. It is about suicide, and it is about domestic violence.\n\nThis is not going to be a one and done, that we do one thing or two things or three things and then we're done. We have to reduce gun violence overall. And the question we have to ask is, why hasn't it happened?\n\nYou say we're so close. We have been so close. I stood in the United States Senate in 2013...", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Thank you.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "... when 54 senators voted in favor of gun legislation and it didn't pass because of the filibuster.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Thank you, Senator. Senator...", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "We have got to attack the corruption and repeal the filibuster or the gun industry will always have a veto over what happens.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Senator Harris? Senator Harris, you disagree with Senator Warren. You think the buyback should be mandatory. Please respond.", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "Five million assault weapons are on the streets of America today. During the course of this debate, eight people will die from gun violence. The leading cause of death of young black men in America is gun violence, more than the top other six reasons total.\n\nThis is a serious matter. I have personally hugged more mothers of homicide victims than I care to tell you. I have looked at more autopsy photographs than I care to tell you. I have attended more police officer funerals than I care to tell you. I'm done. And we need action.\n\nAnd Congress has had years to act and failed because they do not have the courage. When I'm elected, I'll give them 100 days to pull their act together, put a bill on my desk for signature, and if they don't, I will take executive action and put in place a comprehensive background check requirement and ban the importation of assault weapons into our country because it is time to act.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Senator Biden -- Vice President Biden, your response.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "I'm the only one on this stage who has taken on the NRA and beat them, and beat them twice. We were able to get assault weapons off the streets and not be able to be sold for 10 years. Recent studies show that mass violence went down when that occurred.\n\nThe way to deal with those guns and those AR-15s and assault weapons that are on the street -- or not on the street, that people own, is to do what we did with the National Firearms Act as it related to machine guns. You must register that weapon. You must register it. When you register it, the likelihood of it being used diminishes exponentially.\n\nI'm the only one that got -- got -- moved the -- to make sure that we could not have a magazine that had more than 10 rounds in it. I've done this. I know how to get it done. If you really want to get it done, go after the gun manufacturers and take back the exemption they have of not being able to be sued. That would change it.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Thank you, Mr. Vice President.\n\nSecretary Castro, the vast majority of homicides committed with a gun in this country are from handguns, not assault-style weapons. What's your plan to prevent those deaths?", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "Thank you very much for the question. You know, I grew up in neighborhoods where it wasn't uncommon to hear gunshots at night. And I can remember ducking into the back seat of a car when I was a freshman in high school, across the street from my school, my public school, because folks were shooting at each other.\n\nYou know, in the neighborhoods -- let me answer this question about voluntary versus mandatory. There are two problems I have with mandatory buybacks. Number one, folks can't define it. And if you're not going door to door, then it's not really mandatory.\n\nBut also, in the places that I grew up in, we weren't exactly looking for another reason for cops to come banging on the door. And you all saw a couple days ago what happened to Atatiana Jefferson in Fort Worth. A cop showed up at 2:00 in the morning at her house when she was playing video games with her nephew. He didn't even announced himself. And within four seconds, he shot her and killed her through her home window. She was in her own home.\n\nAnd so I am not going to give these police officers another reason to go door to door in certain communities, because police violence is also gun violence, and we need to address that.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Secretary Castro, thank you.", "Marc Lacey" -> "Turning to another key issue here in Ohio and around the country, the opioid epidemic, Senator Klobuchar, CNN reached out to Ohio Democratic voters for their most pressing questions. Brie, a teacher in Proctorville, asks, in rural Ohio, the opioid epidemic has affected our communities and schools. I have many high school students who have lost one or both parents to heroin. Teachers are on the front lines daily, witnessing these tragedies. How will you tackle this problem in general, but specifically what will you offer people in rural communities where rehabilitation is not easily accessed and access to jobs is difficult?", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "Well, I want to thank her for this question. This is something that should never have happened to begin with. I remember, when I was a prosecutor, these were not the kind of cases that were coming in our door. And it's gotten worse and worse. And we now know why.\n\nAs the evidence is coming out of those lawsuits, probably one of the most horrible things that I saw was the e-mail from one of the pharma executives that actually said, \"Keep pumping them out. They're eating them like Doritos.\"\n\nSo my first answer to that question, and which is included in my plan, is that the people that should pay for this, that should pay for the treatment, are the very people that got people hooked and killed them in the first place. And that is the people that are manufacturing these opioids. That's the first way.\n\nAnd you can, with a 2 cents per milligram tax, bring in the money, plus with the federal master settlement, to help rural areas where they're so isolated, and also in urban areas, where it's, by the way, not just opiates. There are still mental health issues and crack cocaine issues.\n\nThis is personal for me. My dad, he struggled with alcoholism his whole life. And by his third DWI, they said to him, the prosecutor, you've got to face jail or you got to go to treatment. He picked treatment, and he was pursued by grace. And he has been sober ever since. And now he's 91 and in assisted living, and he said to me last year, it's hard to get a drink around here, anyway. But he still has an AA group that visits him there.\n\nAnd so for me, I believe that everyone in this country, including the people in rural America, have that same right to be pursued by grace.", "Marc Lacey" -> "Thank you, Senator. Mr. Steyer, how would you address the opioid epidemic that exists here in Ohio and around the country? Please respond.", Entity["Person", "TomSteyer::b5k62"] -> "Well, I think this is one of the most heartbreaking experiences that America has had, 72,000 people died of opioid overdoses last year, and that's not only a tragedy for them, it's a tragedy for their family and their communities.\n\nAnd so I think we have to treat this as a health citizens. We have to move the resources and the support there to try and help people.\n\nBut I think that Senator Klobuchar makes a good point. The reason I'm running for president is that we have a broken government. And we have a broken government because corporations have bought it. And every single one of these conversations is about that broken government. It's about drug companies buying the government and getting what they want. It's about the gun manufacturers buying the government and get what we want.\n\nWe need to break the corporate stranglehold on our government. I've put forward actual structural changes, including term limits, a natural referendum, the end to the idea that corporations are people and have the rights of American citizens politically, and make it a lot easier to vote\n\nThese corporations have taken over our government. And 72,000 deaths...", "Marc Lacey" -> "Thank you, Mr. Steyer.", Entity["Person", "TomSteyer::b5k62"] -> "... last year are the tragic result.", "Marc Lacey" -> "Thank you, Mr. Steyer. Mr. Yang, you want to decriminalize the possession and use of small amounts of opioids, including heroin. How would that solve the crisis?", Entity["Person", "AndrewYang::f7w42"] -> "That's exactly right. And we have to recognize this is a disease of capitalism run amok. There was a point when there were more opiate prescriptions in the state of Ohio than human beings in the state of Ohio. And for some reason, the federal government thought that was appropriate.\n\nThey ended up levying a $600 million fine against Purdue Pharma, which sounds like a lot of money, until you realize that company made $30 billion. They got a 2 percent fine, and they killed tens of thousands of Americans, eight an hour.\n\nSo if the government turned a blind eye to this company spreading a plague among its people, then the least we can do is put the resources to work in our community so our people have a fighting chance to get well, even though this is not a money problem. We all know this is a human problem.\n\nAnd part of helping people get the treatment that they need is to let them know that they're not going to be referred to a prison cell. They will be referred to treatment and counseling. I talked to an EMT in New Hampshire, and he said he saves the same addicts over and over again, because the fact is, after you save someone who's OD'ing, you just bring them back to their house and they OD again the following week.\n\nSo we need to decriminalize opiates for personal use. We have to let the country know this is not a personal failing. This was a systemic government failing. And then we need to open up safe consumption and safe injection sites around the country, because they save lives.", "Marc Lacey" -> "Thank you, Mr. Yang. Congressman O'Rourke, is decriminalizing opioids part of the solution? Please respond.", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "Yes, it is, for many of the reasons that Mr. Yang just described. And also just from some personal experiences I've had as a member of Congress where constituents of mine have come forward, in some cases publicly, at a town hall meeting to describe their addictions.\n\nI remember a veteran telling me that he bought heroin off the street because he was originally prescribed an opioid at the V.A. Now, imagine if that veteran, instead of being prescribe an opioid, had been prescribed marijuana because we made that legal in America, ensured the V.A....", Entity["Person", "AndrewYang::f7w42"] -> "Yes, preach, Beto.", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "... could prescribe it, expunge the arrest records for those who've been arrested for possession, and make sure that he was not prescribed something to which he would become addicted.\n\nI also want to agree with Senator Klobuchar. Until we hold those responsible accountable for their actions, Purdue Pharma, Johnson & Johnson, we're going to continue to have this problem going on again. So that veteran that I met, and anyone with drug addiction today, is not a problem for the criminal justice system.", "Marc Lacey" -> "Thank you.", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "They're an opportunity for our public health system in America.", "Marc Lacey" -> "Thank you, Congressman. Senator Harris, you want to hold the drug manufacturers that fueled the crisis accountable. Are you in favor of sending those drug company executives to jail?", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "I am. And I will tell you, as a former prosecutor, I do think of this as being a matter of justice and accountability, because they are nothing more than some high-level dope dealers. They have been engaged...\nAnd I've seen it happen before. I've taken on the pharmaceutical companies when I was attorney general of California and led the second largest Department of Justice. I've seen what they do.\n\nThe biggest pharmaceutical companies, the eight biggest pharmaceutical companies and insurance companies last year profited $72 billion on the backs of people like the families that we are talking about that have been overwhelmed by this crisis, which is a public health epidemic.\n\nAnd they knew what they were doing. They were marketing false advertising. They knew what they were pushing in communities and states like Ohio, without any concern about the repercussions because they were profiting and making big bucks. And, yes, they should be held accountable. This is a matter of justice.\n\nAnd so as president of the United States, I would ensure that the United States Department of Justice, understand that you want to deal with who is really a criminal? Let's end mass incarceration and end that failed war on drugs, and let's go after these pharmaceutical companies for what they've been doing to destroy our country and states like Ohio.", "Marc Lacey" -> "Thank you, Senator. Secretary Castro, are you in favor of sending those drug company executives to prison? Please respond.", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "Yes, I am. They need to be held accountable, not only financially, but also with criminal penalties. And, you know, you can draw a straight line between making sure that we hold executives accountable, whether it's these drug manufacturers or Wall Street executives that should have been held accountable a decade-and-a-half ago.", "Marc Lacey" -> "Thank you.", "Erin Burnett" -> "Now to the issue of candidates and their health. Senator Sanders, I want to start with you. We're moving on, Senator. I'm sorry.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "I'm healthy. I'm feeling great, but I would like to respond to that question.", "Erin Burnett" -> "I want to -- I want start by saying...", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "And Senator Sanders is in favor of medical marijuana. I want to make sure that's clear, as well.", "Erin Burnett" -> "Senator Sanders, this debate does mark your...", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "I do. I'm not on it tonight.", "Erin Burnett" -> "This debate -- this debate, sir, does mark your return to the campaign trail. Go ahead and finish your point and then I'll ask my question, Senator.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "I'm more than happy to answer your question, but I wanted to pick up on what Kamala and Cory and others have said. Let's take a deep breath. Take a look at this opioid epidemic.\n\nYou have executives, CEOs of major pharmaceutical companies, making tens of millions of dollars a year. And in this particular case with the opioids, they knew that they were selling a product to communities all over this country which were addicting people and killing them. And last year, the top 10 drug companies made $69 billion in profit.\n\nThis is what unfettered capitalism is doing to this country. And it's not just the drug companies. Right now, the CEOs in the fossil fuel industry know full well that their product is destroying this world. And they continue to make huge profits.", "Erin Burnett" -> "Senator...", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "That is why we need a political revolution...", "Erin Burnett" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "... that says enough is enough to this behavior.", "Erin Burnett" -> "Senator, we are all very glad you're feeling well...", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Thank you.", "Erin Burnett" -> "... as you just said. But there is a question on a lot of people's minds, and I want to address it tonight. You're 78 years old, and you just had a heart attack. How do you reassure Democratic voters that you're up to the stress of the presidency?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Well, let me invite you all to a major rally we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re having in Queens, New York, berniesanders.com . We\[CloseCurlyQuote]re going to have a special guest at that event. And we are going to be mounting a vigorous campaign all over this country. That is how I think I can reassure the American people.\n\nBut let me take this moment, if I might, to thank so many people from all over this country, including many of my colleagues up here, for their love, for their prayers, for their well wishes. And I just want to thank you from the bottom of my heart. And I'm so happy to be back here with you this evening.", "Erin Burnett" -> "Vice President Biden, if you're elected, you will turn 80 during your first term. Last month, former President Jimmy Carter said he could not have undertaken the duties of the presidency at 80 years old. Why are you so sure that you can?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Because I've watched it. I know what the job is. I've been engaged.\n\nLook, one of the reasons I'm running is because of my age and my experience. With it comes wisdom. We need someone to take office this time around who on day one can stand on the world stage, command the respect of world leaders, from Putin to our allies, and know exactly what has to be done to get this country back on track.\n\nIt is required now more than any time in any of our lifetimes to have someone who has that capacity on day one. That's one of the reasons why I decided to run, why I decided to run this time, because I know what has to be done. I've done it before. I've been there when we pulled the nation out of the worst financial recession in history. I've been there, and I've got so many pieces of legislation passed, including the Affordable Care Act, as well as making sure that we had the Recovery Act, which kept us from going into a depression.\n\nI know what has to be done. I will not need any on-the-job training the day I take office. And I will release my medical records, as I have 21 years of my tax records, which no one else on this stage has done, so that you can have full transparency as to my health and what I am doing.", "Erin Burnett" -> "Just to be clear, Mr. Vice President, when will you release those records?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Before the first vote.", "Erin Burnett" -> "Before Iowa?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Yes.", "Erin Burnett" -> "Not by the end of this year?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Well, before Iowa. I mean, look, I've released them before. I released 55 pages of my -- I'm the only guy that's released anything up here.", "Erin Burnett" -> "Senator Warren, like Senator Sanders and Vice President Biden, if you win the presidency, you would be the oldest president ever inaugurated in a first term. You would be 71. Forty percent of Democratic primary voters say they think a candidate under the age of 70 is more likely to defeat President Trump. What do you say to them?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "Well, I say, I will out-work, out-organize, and outlast anyone, and that includes Donald Trump, Mike Pence, or whoever the Republicans get stuck with.\nLook, the way I see this, the way we're going to win is by addressing head-on what millions of Americans know in their bones, and that is that the wealthy and the well-connected have captured our democracy, and they're making it work for themselves and leaving everyone else behind.\n\nAnd political pundits and Washington insiders and, shoot, people in our own party don't want to admit that. They think that running some kind of vague campaign that nibbles around the edges of big problems in this country is a winning strategy. They are wrong.\n\nIf all Democrats can promise is after Donald Trump it will be business as usual, then we will lose. Democrats win when we call out what's broken and we show how to fix it. Democrats will win when we fight for the things that touch people's lives, things like childcare and health care and housing costs. Democrats will win when we give people a reason to get in the fight.", "Erin Burnett" -> "Thank you, Senator Warren.\n\nCongresswoman Gabbard, you're 38 years old, and you would be the youngest president if elected. Should age matter when choosing a president?", Entity["Person", "TulsiGabbard::839d6"] -> "I'm glad you asked, because I was going to say it's not fair to ask these three about their health and their fitness to serve as president but not every other one of us. I am grateful to have been trained very well by the Army and do my best to stay in shape.\n\nBut here's the real question I believe you should be asking is: Who is fit to serve as our commander-in-chief? This is the most important responsibility that the president has. What Donald Trump has been doing in Syria and what we have just seen with him, inviting Turkey to come in and slaughter the Kurds, show what an unfit president looks like. It highlights how critical it is that we have a president and commander-in-chief who is ready on day one, bringing experience and understanding in foreign policy and national security.\n\nBringing the experience that I have, both serving in Congress now for nearly seven years, serving on the Foreign Affairs Committee, serving on the Armed Services Committee, subcommittees related to terrorism and upcoming threats, serving on the Homeland Security Committee, the experience that I have as a soldier, serving for over 16 years in the Army National Guard, deploying twice to the Middle East, being able to serve in different capacities, joint training exercises, training the Kuwait National Guard.\n\nI understand the importance of our national security. I am prepared to do this job, to fulfill this responsibility as commander-in-chief on day one.", "Erin Burnett" -> "Thank you, Congresswoman.", Entity["Person", "TulsiGabbard::839d6"] -> "I'd like to ask our other candidates this question. I'd like to start with Senator Warren...", "Erin Burnett" -> "Sorry, Congressman, I'm sorry.", Entity["Person", "TulsiGabbard::839d6"] -> "... what her experience and background is to serve as commander-in-chief.", "Erin Burnett" -> "I'm sorry, thank you. We're going to take another break now. The CNN-New York Times debate live from Otterbein University here in Ohio will be back in just a few moments.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "And welcome back to the CNN-New York Times Democratic presidential debate. Mark Lacey from the New York Times starts off our questioning. Mark?", "Marc Lacey" -> "Thank you. Let's turn to the growing concerns over the power of big tech companies. Mr. Yang, Senator Warren is calling for companies like Facebook, Amazon, and Google to be broken up. Is she right? Does that need to happen?", Entity["Person", "AndrewYang::f7w42"] -> "As usual, Senator Warren is 100 percent right in diagnosing the problem. There are absolutely excesses in technology and in some cases having them divest parts of their business is the right move.\n\nBut we also have to be realistic that competition doesn't solve all the problems. It's not like any of us wants to use the fourth best navigation app. That would be like cruel and unusual punishment. There is a reason why no one is using Bing today. Sorry, Microsoft. It's true.\n\nSo it's not like breaking up these big tech companies will revive Main Street businesses around the country. And as the parent of two young children, I'm particularly concerned about screen use and its effect on our children. Studies clearly show that we're seeing record levels of anxiety and depression coincident with smartphone adoption and social media use.\n\nBreaking up the tech companies does nothing to make our kids healthier. What we have to do is we have to hone in on the specific problems we're trying to solve and use 21st century solutions for 21st century problems. Using a 20th century antitrust framework will not work. We need new solutions and a new toolkit.", "Marc Lacey" -> "Thank you. Senator Warren, is Mr. Yang wrong? Your response, please.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "Look, I'm not willing to give up and let a handful of monopolists dominate our economy and our democracy. It's time to fight back. Think about it this way. When you talk about how it works in competition, about 8 percent, 9 percent of all retail sales happen at bricks and sticks stores, happen at Walmart. About 49 percent of all sales online happen in one place: that's Amazon.\n\nIt collects information from every little business, and then Amazon does something else. It runs the platform, gets all the information, and then goes into competition with those little businesses. Look, you get to be the umpire in the baseball game, or you get to have a team, but you don't get to do both at the same time. We need to enforce our antitrust laws, break up these giant companies that are dominating, big tech, big pharma, big oil, all of them.", "Marc Lacey" -> "Thank you, Senator.\n\nMr. Steyer, your response?", Entity["Person", "TomSteyer::b5k62"] -> "Look, I agree with Senator Warren that, in fact, monopolies have to be dealt with. They either have to be broken up or regulated, and that's part of it.\n\nBut we have to understand that Mr. Trump is going to be running on the economy. He's going to be saying he's the person who can make it grow. I started a business from scratch -- one room, no employers -- and built a multi-billion-dollar international business. We're going to have to show the American people that we don't just know how to tax and have programs to break up companies but also talk about prosperity, talk about investing in the American people, talk about harnessing the innovation and competition of the American private sector.\n\nIn fact, if we want to beat Mr. Trump, I think somebody who can go toe to toe with him and show him to be a fraud and a failure as a businessperson, and a fraud and a failure as a steward of the American economy is going to be necessary. He is one. His tax plan's a failure. His trade war is a failure. I would love to take him on as a real businessman and show that, in fact, he's failed the American people, and he has to go.", "Marc Lacey" -> "Thank you, Mr. Steyer.\n\nSenator Booker, how do you respond? Would a President Booker break up big tech companies like Facebook and Amazon?", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "Anybody that does not think that we have a massive crisis in our democracy with the way these tech companies are being used, not just in terms of anti-competitive practices, but also to undermine our democracy -- we have seen it in the '16 election practices being used that have not been corrected now. We need regulation and reform.\n\nAnd antitrust, I mean Robert Bork right now is laughing in his sleep. We have a reality in this country where antitrust, from pharma to farms, is causing trouble, and we have to deal with this. As president of the United States, I will put people in place that enforce antitrust laws.\n\nAnd I want to say one last thing, and I feel qualified to say this as the vegan on the stage. Going back to the fact that we -- it's rich to me that we asked three people about their health when looking at this stage we know that the most unhealthy person running for the presidency in 2020 is Donald Trump.", "Marc Lacey" -> "Thank you, Senator.\n\nCongressman O'Rourke, you say you're not sure if it's appropriate for a president to designate which companies should be broken up. So what's the proper level of oversight here?", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "Yeah, we need to set very tough, very clear, transparent rules of the road, the kind of rules that we do not have today, that allow these social media platforms, where we, the people, have become the product, to abuse that public trust, and to do so at extraordinary profits.\n\nRight now, we treat them functionally as a utility, when, in reality, they're more akin to a publisher. They curate the content that we see. Our pictures and personal information that they share with others, we would allow no publisher to do what Facebook is doing, to publish that ad that Senator Warren has rightfully called out, that CNN has refused to air because it is untrue and tells lies about the vice president, treat them like the publisher that they are. That's what I will do as president.\n\nAnd we will be unafraid to break up big businesses if we have to do that, but I don't think it is the role of a president or a candidate for the presidency to specifically call out which companies will be broken up. That's something that Donald Trump has done, in part because he sees enemies in the press and wants to diminish their power. It's not something that we should do.\n\nSo tough rules of the road, protect your personal information, privacy, and data, and be fearless in the face of these tech giants.", "Marc Lacey" -> "Senator Sanders, your response?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "When we talk about a rigged economy, it's not just the grotesque level of income and wealth inequality. It is also the fact that in sector after sector, whether it is Wall Street, where you have six banks that have assets equivalent to half of the GDP of the United States, whether it is media, where you have 10 media companies that control about 90 percent of what the American people see, hear, or read, whether it is agribusiness, where we see merger after merger which is resulting in the decline of family-based farming in this country, we need a president who has the guts to appoint an attorney general who will take on these huge monopolies, protect small business, and protect consumers by ending the price fixing that we see every day.", "Marc Lacey" -> "Thank you, Senator. Thank you, Senator.\n\nSenator Harris, to you, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says that splitting up big tech companies will make election interference more likely because the companies won't be able to work together to fight it. Could breaking up these companies make the spread of disinformation worse?", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "No, I don't agree with that at all. And serving on the Senate Intelligence Committee, working with Amy Klobuchar on what we need to do to upgrade the elections infrastructure, knowing that Russia needs to be held accountable for the fact that they interfered in the election of the president of the United States and will attempt to do it again, that's -- that's a ridiculous argument he's making.\n\nBut I do want to also say this. What we're talking about is a grave injustice, when rules apply to some but not equally to all, and in particular when the rules that apply to the powerless don't apply to the powerful.\n\nAnd so, Senator Warren, I just want to say that I was surprised to hear that you did not agree with me that on this subject of what should be the rules around corporate responsibility for these big tech companies, when I called on Twitter to suspend Donald Trump's account, that you did not agree, and I would urge you to join me.\n\nBecause here we have Donald Trump, who has 65 million Twitter followers and is using that platform as the president of the United States to openly intimidate witnesses, to threaten witnesses, to obstruct justice, and he and his account should be taken down.\n\nWe saw in El Paso that that shooter in his manifesto was informed by how Donald Trump uses that platform, and this is a matter of corporate responsibility. Twitter should be held accountable and shut down that site. It is a matter of safety and corporate accountability.", "Marc Lacey" -> "Thank you. Senator Warren, you can respond.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "So, look, I don't just want to push Donald Trump off Twitter. I want to push him out of the White House. That's our job.", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "Well, join me -- join me in saying that his Twitter account should be shut down.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "But let's figure -- no. Let's figure out...", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "No?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "... why it is that we have had laws on the books for antitrust for over a century, and yet for decades now, we've all called on how the big drug companies are calling the shots in Washington, big ag, how the gun industry, big tech -- you know, we really need to address the elephant in the room, and that is how campaigns are financed.", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "You can't say you're for corporate responsibility if it doesn't apply to everyone.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "I announced this morning -- I announced this morning that I'm not going to take any money from big tech executives, from Wall Street executives. We've already agreed, Bernie and I, we're not taking any money from big pharma executives.\n\nYou can't go behind closed doors and take the money of these executives and then turn around and expect that these are the people who are actually finally going to enforce the laws. We need campaign finance rules and practices...", "Marc Lacey" -> "Thank you, Senator Warren. Senator Harris?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "... that support us all.", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "You -- it does not represent a system of justice to say that the rules will apply differently to different people. This is a matter, you are saying, of holding big tech accountable.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "Yes.", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "Holding big tech accountable because they have an outsized influence on people's perceptions about issues, and they actually influence behaviors. We all have to agree this is their power. It is immense.", "Marc Lacey" -> "Senator Klobuchar, let me bring you in here.", "Marc Lacey" -> "Your response?", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "I'm not finished. I'm not finished.", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "And so what I am saying is that it seems to me that you would be able to join me in saying the rule has to apply to Twitter the same way it does to Facebook.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "Look, I think all of the rules should apply across the board. I don't have a problem with that.", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "So you will join me in saying Twitter should shut down that account?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "What I do have a problem with is that if we're going to talk seriously about breaking up big tech, then we should ask if people are taking money from the big tech executives. If we're going to talk seriously about breaking up big drug companies, we should ask if people are financing their campaigns by taking money from big drug executives. If we are going to talk about Wall Street and having some serious regulation over Wall Street, we should ask if people are funding their campaigns by taking money from those executives.", "Marc Lacey" -> "Thank you, Senator. Senator Klobuchar, let's bring you in here.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "I would like to have a different take on this. I was in the private sector for 14 years, represented companies that were fighting to get into the telecom markets. I had a life before government.\n\nAnd what I saw was when we got more competition there, the prices went down in a big way in the long distance market. Well, right now we have another gilded age going on, and I am the lead Democrat on the Antitrust Committee. I have the lead legislation, which means, one, changing the standard so we can do a better job of doing just what we've been talking about here, is breaking down some of this consolidation, and also making sure that the enforcers have the resources to take them on because they're so overwhelmed.\n\nBut the issue here is this. Start talking about this as a pro-competition issue. This used to be a Republican and Democratic issue, because America, our founding fathers, actually wanted to have less consolidation. We were a place of entrepreneurship. We are seeing a startup slump in this country.", "Marc Lacey" -> "Thank you, Senator. Secretary Castro, would you like to weigh in?", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "And this means everything from tech on down.", "Marc Lacey" -> "Please respond.", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "Yeah, I think that we're on the right track in terms of updating how we look at monopolistic practices and setting, as Congressman O'Rourke said, rules for the road that match the challenges that we face today.\n\nAnd, you know, whether that's Amazon that is leveraging its size I think to help put small businesses out of business, and then at the same time shortchanging a lot of its workers, not paying them as they should, not giving them the benefits that they should, or it's a number of other companies, big tech companies. We need to take a stronger stance when it comes to cracking down on monopolistic trade practices, and that's what I would do as president.", "Marc Lacey" -> "Thank you, Mr. Secretary.", Entity["Person", "AndrewYang::f7w42"] -> "The best way we can fight back -- the best way we can fight back against big tech companies is to say our data is our property. Right now, our data is worth more than oil. How many of you remember getting your data check in the mail? It got lost. It went to Facebook, Amazon, Google. If we say this is our property and we share in the gains, that's the best way we can balance the scales against the big tech companies.", "Erin Burnett" -> "Thank you, Mr. Yang.", Entity["Person", "TulsiGabbard::839d6"] -> "There's a bigger issue here...", "Erin Burnett" -> "Turning to women's reproductive rights, Ohio is now one of several states that has banned abortions after as early as six weeks of pregnancy. Many women don't even know they're pregnant at that time. The Ohio law, like many others, is being challenged in the courts and has not yet taken effect. Senator Harris, if states prevail on restricting abortion, what's your plan to stop them?", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "My plan is as -- as follows. For any state that passes a law that violates the Constitution, and in particular Roe v. Wade, our Department of Justice will review that law to determine if it is compliant with Roe v. Wade and the Constitution, and if it is not, that law will not go into effect. That's called pre-clearance.\n\nBecause the reality is that while we still have -- as I said earlier -- these state legislators who are outdated and out of touch, mostly men who are telling women what to do with their bodies, then there needs to be accountability and consequence.\nBut, you know, I'll go further. You may have seen it. I questioned Brett Kavanaugh when I was a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and asked him as a nominee to serve on the United States Supreme Court, could he think of any law that tells a man what to do with his body? And the answer was, uh, uh, no.\n\nThe reality of it is, this is still a fundamental issue of justice for women in America. Women have been given the responsibility to perpetuate the human species. Our bodies were created to do that. And it does not give any other person the right to tell a woman what to do with that body. It is her body. It is her right. It is her decision.", "Erin Burnett" -> "Senator Harris, thank you.\n\nSenator Klobuchar, what would you do to stop states from prevailing? Your response?", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "I would codify Roe v. Wade and make it the law of the land. But what I want to do right now is just say, what if Donald Trump was standing up here on the debate stage with me? You know what I would say to him? I said, you knew -- you said you wanted to do this in your race for president. You actually said that you wanted to put women in jail. Then you tried to dial it back, and you said you wanted to put doctors in jail.\n\nThat is exactly what the Alabama law is. It put doctors in jail for 99 years. You, Donald Trump, are not on the side of women. You are not on the side of people of this country, when over 75 percent of people want to keep Roe v. Wade on the book, when over 90 percent of people want to make sure we have available contraception. You defunded Planned Parenthood. I would fund it again.", "Erin Burnett" -> "Senator, thank you.\n\nSenator Booker, if states prevail on restricting abortion, how would you stop them? Please respond.", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "Well, first of all, let's be clear about these laws we see from Alabama to Ohio. They're not just attacks on one of the most sacrosanct ideals in our country -- liberty, the ability to control your own body -- but they're particularly another example of people trying to punish, trying to penalize, trying to criminalize poverty, because this is disproportionately affecting low-income women in this country, people in rural areas in this country. It is an assault on the most fundamental ideal that human beings should control their own body.\n\nAnd so the way as president of the United States I'm going to deal with this is, first of all, elevating it like we have with other national crises to a White House-level position. And I will create the Office of Reproductive Freedom and Reproductive Rights in the White House and make sure that we begin to fight back on a systematic attempt that's gone on for decades to undermine Roe v. Wade.\n\nI will fight to codify it, and I will also make sure that we fight as this country to repeal the Hyde amendment, so that we are leading the Planet Earth in defending the global assault we see on women right now.", "Erin Burnett" -> "Thank you, Senator.\n\nCongresswoman Gabbard, your response?", Entity["Person", "TulsiGabbard::839d6"] -> "This is often one of the most difficult decisions that a woman will ever have to make, and it's unfortunate to see how in this country it has for so long been used as a divisive political weapon.\n\nI agree with Hillary Clinton on one thing, disagree with her on many others, but when she said abortion should be safe, legal, and rare, I think she's correct. We see how the consequences of laws that you're referring to can often lead to a dangerous place, as we've seen them as they're passed in other countries, where a woman who has a miscarriage past that six weeks could be imprisoned because abortion would be illegal at that point.\n\nI do, however, think that there should be some restrictions in place. I support codifying Roe v. Wade while making sure that, during the third trimester, abortion is not an option unless the life or severe health consequences of a woman are at risk.", "Erin Burnett" -> "Thank you very much.\n\nThe Supreme Court is currently made up of five Republican-appointed justices and four appointed by Democrats. The court just announced it will hear arguments in a case challenging some abortion rights.\n\nVice President Biden, the Constitution does not specify the number of justices that serve on the Supreme Court. If Roe v. Wade is overturned on your watch and you can't pass legislation in Congress, would you seek to add justices to the Supreme Court to protect women's reproductive rights?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "I would not get into court packing. We had three justices. Next time around, we lose control, they add three justices. We begin to lose any credibility the court has at all.\n\nI want to point out that the justices I've supported, when I defeated Robert Bork -- and I say when I defeated Robert Bork, I made sure we guaranteed a woman's right to choose for the better part of a generation. I would make sure that we move and insist that we pass, we codify Roe v. Wade.\n\nThe public is already there. Things have changed. And I would go out and I would campaign against those people in the state of Ohio, Alabama, et cetera, who in fact are throwing up this barrier. Reproductive rights are a constitutional right. And, in fact, every woman should have that right.\n\nAnd so I would not pack the court. What I would do is make sure that the people that I recommended for the court, from Ruth Bader Ginsburg to Elena Kagan, who used to work for me, to others, that they, in fact, support the right of privacy, on which the entire notion of a woman's right to choose is based. And that's what I would do. No one would get on the court.\n\nAnd by the way, if, in fact, at the end of this -- beginning next year, if, in fact, one of the justices steps down, God forbid, in fact, I would make sure that we would do exactly what McConnell did last time out. We would not allow any hearing to be held for a new justice.", "Erin Burnett" -> "Thank you, Mr. Vice President.\n\nMayor Buttigieg, you have discussed expanding the court from 9 to 15 justices. What's your response to the vice president?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "That's right. When I proposed reforming the Supreme Court, some folks said that was too bold to even contemplate. Now, I'm not talking about packing the court just with people who agree with me, although I certainly will appoint people who share my values, for example, the idea that women's reproductive freedom is an American right.\n\nWhat I'm talking about is reforms that will depoliticize the court. We can't go on like this, where every single time there is a vacancy, we have this apocalyptic ideological firefight over what to do next.\n\nNow, one way to fix this would be to have a 15-member court where five of the members can only be appointed by unanimous agreement of the other 10. Smarter legal minds than mine are discussing this in the Yale Law Journal and how this could be done without a constitutional amendment. But the point is that not everybody arrives on a partisan basis.\n\nThere are other reforms that we could consider, from term limits -- don't forget, justices used to just retire like everybody else -- to a rotation off the appellate bench.", "Erin Burnett" -> "Thank you.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "I'm not wedded to a particular solution, but I am committed to establishing a commission on day one...", "Erin Burnett" -> "Thank you, Mayor Buttigieg.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "... that will propose reforms to depoliticize the Supreme Court, because we can't go on like this.", "Erin Burnett" -> "Thank you very much, Mayor Buttigieg. Secretary Castro, he's talking about making the court bigger. Your response? Is it a good idea?", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "I don't think it is. I wouldn't pack the court. You know, I think the plan that Mayor Pete mentioned is an interesting one, but I actually believe, if we were selecting from one of those things, that the smarter move might be to look at term limits or having people cycle off from the appellate courts so that you would have a replenishment of perspective.\n\nI would also make sure that I appoint as president people who respect the precedent of Roe v. Wade, that we codify Roe v. Wade, and that we do away with things like the Hyde amendment, because you shouldn't only be able to have reproductive freedom if you have money. We have to think about people who do not, people who are poor. And we have to concern ourselves not only with reproductive freedom, but also reproductive justice and invest in the ability of every woman to be able to make a choice and to be able to have her health care needs met.", "Erin Burnett" -> "Senator Warren, would you consider adding more justices to the Supreme Court to protect Roe v. Wade? Your response?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "I think there are a number of options. I think, as Mayor Buttigieg said, there are many different ways. People are talking about different options, and I think we may have to talk about them.\n\nBut on Roe v. Wade, can we just pause for a minute here? I lived in an America where abortion was illegal, and rich women still got abortions, because they could travel, they could go to places where it was legal.\n\nWhat we're talking about now is that the people who are denied access to abortion are the poor, are the young, are 14-year-olds who were molested by a family member. And we now have support across this country. Three out of four Americans believe in the rule of Roe v. Wade. When you've got three out of four Americans supporting it, we should be able to get that passed through Congress.", "Erin Burnett" -> "Senator, thank you.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "We should not leave this to the Supreme Court. We should do it through democracy, because we can.", "Erin Burnett" -> "Thank you very much, Senator.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "As some of you have indicated, the differences between all of you on this stage are tiny compared to the differences between you and President Trump. There are, however, fundamental differences between many of you on this stage.\n\nVice President Biden, just on either side of you, Senator Warren is calling for big structural change. Senator Sanders is calling for a political revolution. Will their visions attract the kind of voters that the Democrats need to beat Donald Trump?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Well, I think their vision is attracting a lot of people, and I think a lot of what they have to say is really important. But, you know, Senator Warren said we can't be running any vague campaigns. We've got to level with people. We've got to level with people and tell them exactly what we're going to do, how we're going to get it done, and if you can get it done.\n\nI'm going to say something that is probably going to offend some people here, but I'm the only one on this stage that has gotten anything really big done, from the Violence Against Women Act to making sure that we pass the Affordable Care Act to being in a position where we, in fact, took almost a $90 billion act that kept us from going into a depression, making us -- putting us in a position where I was able to end roe -- excuse me, able to end the issue of gun sales in terms of assault weapons.\n\nAnd so the question is, who is best prepared? We all have good ideas. The question is, who is going to be able to get it done? How can you get it done? And I'm not suggesting they can't, but I'm suggesting that that's what we should look at. And part of that requires you not being vague. Tell people what it's going to cost, how you're going to do it, and why you're going to do it. That's the way to get it done. Presidents are supposed to be able to persuade.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Just to clarify, Vice President, who are you saying is being vague?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Well, the senator said -- she's being vague on the issue of -- actually, both are being vague on the issue of Medicare for all. No, look, here's the deal. Come on. It costs $30 trillion. Guess what? That's over $3 trillion -- it's more than the entire federal budget -- let me finish, OK?", "Anderson Cooper" -> "You'll both get in.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "If you eliminated the entire Pentagon, every single thing, plane, ship, troop, the buildings, everything, satellites, it would get you -- it would pay for a total of four months. Four months. Where do you get the rest? Where does it come from?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Two things. Let me explain in two ways.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Senator Sanders, respond.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Joe, you talked about working with Republicans and getting things done. But you know what you also got done? And I say this as a good friend. You got the disastrous war in Iraq done. You got a bankruptcy bill, which is hurting middle-class families all over this country. You got trade agreements, like NAFTA and PNTR, with China done, which have cost us 4 million jobs.\n\nNow, let's get to Medicare for all. Let's be honest. We spend twice as much per person as do the people of any other major country on Earth. And the answer is, if we have the guts that I would like to see the Democratic Party have that guts, to stand up to the drug companies and the insurance companies and tell them that the function of health care is to guarantee care to all people, not to make $100 billion in profit.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "If we stood together, we could create the greatest health care system in the world.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Vice President Biden, you can respond, and then Senator Warren.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "We can do that without Medicare for all. We can do that by adding a public option.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "No.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "We can.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "No, you can't.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "And we can afford to do it.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "You've got to take on the greed and the profiteering of the health care industry.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "By the way, the greed and...", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Let him respond. Mr. Vice President?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "The greed and profiteering of those insurance companies, they are as much against my bill as they are anybody else. They were strongly against Obamacare. They know it cost them. And it's going to take away the right of people to choose, the 160 million people out there who've negotiated their health insurance, and they want to keep it. They should have a right to keep it.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Senator Warren, your response?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "So you started this question with how you got something done. You know, following the financial crash of 2008, I had an idea for a consumer agency that would keep giant banks from cheating people. And all of the Washington insiders and strategic geniuses said, don't even try, because you will never get it passed.\n\nAnd sure enough, the big banks fought us. The Republicans fought us. Some of the Democrats fought us. But we got that agency passed into law. It has now forced big banks to return more than $12 billion directly to people they cheated.\n\nI served in the Obama administration. I know what we can do by executive authority, and I will use it. In Congress, on the first day, I will pass my anti-corruption bill, which will beat back the influence of money...", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "... and repeal the filibuster. And the third, we want to get something done in America, we have to get out there and fight...", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "... for the things that touch people's lives.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Mayor...", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "I agree. Let me -- she referenced me. I agreed with the great job she did, and I went on the floor and got you votes. I got votes for that bill. I convinced people to vote for it. So let's get those things straight, too.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Senator Warren, do you want to respond?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "I am deeply grateful to President Obama, who fought so hard to make sure that agency was passed into law, and I am deeply grateful to every single person who fought for it and who helped pass it into law. But understand...", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "You did a hell of a job in your job.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "Thank you.\nBut understand this. It was a dream big, fight hard. People told me, go for something little, go for something small, go for something that the big corporations will be able to accept.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "I said, no, let's go for an agency that will make structural change in our economy.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Senator, thank you.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "And President Obama said, I will fight for that, and he sometimes had to fight against people in his own administration. We have...", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Not me.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "We have to be willing to make good, big, structural change.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Mayor Buttigieg, which is the right vision for a Democrat to beat Donald Trump? That's the essential question.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "If I had a buck for every argument that I've witnessed like this, I could pay for college for everybody. We need to move past what has been consuming this whole political space for as long as I've been alive.\n\nWe're being offered a false choice. I don't agree with the vice president that Trump is an aberration. I don't agree that there's any such thing as back to normal. Because here in the industrial Midwest, definitely where I live, normal didn't work. That's part of how we got here. That's part of how a guy like Donald Trump managed to get within cheating distance of the Oval Office in the first place.\n\nBut I also don't agree with Senator Warren that the only way forward is infinite partisan combat. Yes, we have to fight -- absolutely, we have to fight for the big changes at hand, but it's going to take more than fighting. Once again, I want to take you back to that day after Trump has stopped being president. Think about what the president can do to unify a new American majority for some of the boldest things we've attempted in my lifetime -- Medicare for all who want it, actually getting something done on immigration for the first time since the '80s, an assault weapons ban, which would be a huge deal, making college free for low- and middle-income students.\n\nYet there are some here on this stage who say it doesn't count unless we go even further, free college for low- and middle-income students isn't good enough unless we're also paying for the children of billionaires. Immigration reform isn't enough unless we also decriminalize border crossings. We have an opportunity to do the biggest things we've done...", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Thank you, Mayor.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "... in my lifetime...", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Senator?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "I did not say back to normal.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Thank you, Mayor. Senator Klobuchar? Senator Klobuchar?", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "Thank you. You know, this isn't a flyover part of the country to me. The heartland is where I live. And I want to win those states that we lost last time, and I have bold ideas to get us there. And I think just because they're different than Elizabeth's doesn't mean they're bold.\n\nBut we can't get any of this done on climate change or immigration reform unless they win. And what I have done is win and the only one up here, time and time again, the reddest of red districts, Michele Bachmann's, I -- I won that district three times, rural districts that border Iowa and North and South Dakota. And I do it by going not just where it's comfortable but where it's uncomfortable.\n\nAnd that is why I have been in Pennsylvania and in Michigan and in Wisconsin and all over Ohio and in Iowa, because I think we need to build a blue Democratic wall around those states and make Donald Trump pay for it.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Thank you. Senator Warren, she referenced you, so you can respond.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "Now, people who are struggling to pay health care are fighting today. People who are getting crushed by student loans are in a fight today. People who are getting stopped by the police or paid less because of the color of their skin are in a fight today.\n\nAnd anyone who doesn't understand that Americans are already in these fights is not someone who is likely to win them. For me, this is about knowing what's broken, knowing how to fix it, and, yes, I'm willing to get out there and fight for it.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Senator Sanders...", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "There's a missing people, and that is...", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Senator Sanders, why is your approach more likely to beat President Trump?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "I'll tell you why.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Please respond.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "And here's the radical reason why. It's what the American people want.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "Yes.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "All right, the American people do not want tax breaks for billionaires. They want the rich to start paying their fair share of taxes. A poll came out yesterday, 71 percent of Democrats support Medicare for all. The people of this country understand that we've got to make public colleges and universities tuition-free. And more and more Americans, including Republicans, understand we need bold action if we're going to save this planet for our children and our grandchildren.\n\nThe way you win an election in this time in history is not the same old, same old. You have to inspire people. You have to excite people. You've got to bring working people and young people and poor people into the political process...", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Thank you. Thank you.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "... because they know you stand for them, not corporate America.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Congressman O'Rourke, is political revolution what the American people want? Your response.", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "There was some talk about getting big things done. When I was first elected to Congress, I found that El Paso, Texas, had the worst wait times in the country to see a mental health care provider at the V.A. I don't know how sensational or exciting that was to everyone in the country or even most people in El Paso, but it was important to those veterans who I serve.\n\nSo we set about turning around the V.A., hiring up the psychiatrists and psychologists and therapists to take care of those women and men who had put their lives on the line for this country. And we were able to do that, and we took what we learned, and we applied it to a national law as a member of the minority working with Republicans and Democrats alike to expand mental health care access for veterans nationally.\n\nAnd then in Texas, one of what was thought to be the reddest states in the country, going to every single county...", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Thank you, Congressman.", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "... talking about this progressive agenda, and winning more votes than any Democrat has ever won, that's the way that we defeat Donald Trump in November of 2020.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Congressman O'Rourke, thank you. We have to take a quick break. The CNN-New York Times debate live from Ohio will continue right after this.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "We are back with the CNN-New York Times Democratic presidential debate. We have time for one more question that we would like all of you to weigh in on.\n\nLast week, Ellen DeGeneres was criticized after she and former President George W. Bush were seen laughing together at a football game. Ellen defended their friendship, saying, we're all different and I think that we've forgotten that that's OK that we're all different.\n\nSo in that spirit, we'd like you to tell us about a friendship that you've had that would surprise us and what impact it's had on you and your beliefs.\n\nSecretary Castro, let's begin with you.", Entity["Person", "JulianCastro::623f8"] -> "Well, first of all, thank you to Marc, thank you, Anderson, and thank you, Erin, and CNN, and New York Times and everybody who is here tonight.\n\nYou know, some of the most interesting friendships that I've had have been with people different from me, either people older than me that had a lot to teach me, or people who grew up very different from me. Also, teachers, as I was growing up, people that had a life experience that when I was growing up was beyond mine.\n\nAnd sometimes also -- and this goes to the heart of your question, I think -- people who thought differently from me, folks that I considered and have considered friends, and I think that there's a value to that. I think that that should be reflected more in our public life.\n\nI also believe, to just speak about the incident last week with Ellen and George W. Bush, I completely understood what she was saying about being kind to others. I believe that we should be more kind to other folks.\n\nI also believe that we should hold people to account for what they've done, especially public servants who have a record of having done something or not done something. And I think that we can do both of those things. I think that we can be kind to people and also hold them accountable for their actions.\n\nAnd there are people, whether it's our former president, George W. Bush, or others that should be held accountable. Just as we should be kind, we shouldn't be made to feel shameful about holding people accountable for what they've done.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Congresswoman Gabbard?", Entity["Person", "TulsiGabbard::839d6"] -> "Thank you. You know, where I come from in Hawaii, many of you know, we greet each other with \"aloha.\" It's not a word that means hello and goodbye. It actually means something much more powerful than that. It means I come to you with respect and a recognition that we're all connected, we're all brothers and sisters, we're all God's children.\n\nSo I've developed friendships that some people may be surprised about within the Washington circles, especially, with Republicans, like Trey Gowdy, for example. He and I disagree a lot and very strongly on a lot of political issues. We've developed a friendship that's based on respect. And he's been there for me during some personally challenging times.\n\nThe challenge before us today is that our country is very divided. Donald Trump must be defeated. But we must do more than just defeat Donald Trump. We need to deliver a win for the American people. We must stand united as Americans, remembering that we are all brothers and sisters, that we are all connected. This is the kind of leadership that I seek to bring as president, inspired by the example of presidents like Abraham Lincoln, who talked about how we should have malice for none and charity for all.\n\nWhen I look out at our country, I don't see deplorables, I see fellow Americans, people who I treat with respect, even when we disagree and when we disagree strongly. I will work to restore a White House that represents light and compassion and respect for every American regardless of race, religion, orientation, gender, or political affiliation.\n\nSo I want to ask everyone to join me. Join me in bringing about this government of, by, and for the people that serves all the people of this country. You can visit my website, tulsi2020.com , for more information.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Thank you, Congresswoman.\n\nSenator Klobuchar?", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "For me, it's John McCain, and I miss him every day. I traveled all over the world with him. And he would sometimes, when we were seated with world leaders, and they would look away from me, he'd say, \"Senator Klobuchar is the lead Democrat on this trip, and she will go next.\"\n\nAnd I still remember being there at his ranch. John and I went to visit him and Cindy when he was dying. And he pointed to some words in his book, because he could hardly talk. And the words says this: \"There is nothing more liberating in life than fighting for a cause larger than yourself.\"\n\nThat's what we're doing right now. And while we have had major debates about policy, we have to remember that what unites us is so much bigger than what divides us. And we have to remember that our job is to not just change policy, but to change the tone in our politics, to look up from our phones, to look at each other, to start talking to each other, because the way we win -- and not just win the presidency, but take back the U.S. Senate -- is by winning big.\n\nAnd the way we win big is with that fired up Democratic base that's out there today, but it is also about bringing in independents and moderate Republicans. I can lead this. And I ask you to join me because I've done it before and I will do it again, amyklobuchar.com . Join our team. Thank you.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Senator, thank you very much.\nMr. Steyer, tell us about your most surprising friendship.", Entity["Person", "TomSteyer::b5k62"] -> "So I'm friends with a woman from Denmark, South Carolina, named Deanna Berry, who's fighting for clean water and environmental justice in her community. She's a different gender. She's a different race. She's from a different part of the country. But she reminds me of my parents in terms of her courage and her optimism and her honor.\n\nMy mother was a schoolteacher in the New York Public Schools and in the Brooklyn House of Detention. My father was the first generation in his family to go to college. My grandfather was a plumber. He interrupted his law degree to go into the Navy in World War II and he ended up prosecuting the Nazis at Nuremberg. And when I asked him what that experience meant, he said, when you see something wrong in your society, you fight it from the first day and every single day after.\n\nAnd that's why I started the Need to Impeach movement two years ago, because there was something terribly wrong at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. And over 10 years ago, I saw that there was a terrible threat to the safety and health of every American in terms of the climate crisis. And I've been fighting those companies with the help of the American people ever since successfully, and that's why I'm running for the president, because our government has failed, it's been bought by corporations, and it's absolutely essential to return power to the people.\n\nI have been doing exactly what my parents taught me to do, which is to take on the biggest problems in America directly and fight for them every single day.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Thank you, Mr. Steyer.\nCongressman O'Rourke?", Entity["Person", "BetoORourke::qm2yd"] -> "I've always tried to bring people in to the solutions that we have to our common challenges, regardless of the differences. I did that as a small-business owner more than 20 years ago, making sure that we could get a small tech company off the ground in El Paso, Texas.\n\nDid it as a member of the City Council, where I saw my colleagues not as Republicans or Democrats, but my fellow El Pasoans who had a responsibility to deliver for our community.\n\nAs a member of Congress, I remember being in San Antonio. I was visiting the V.A. there, March of 2017. Found that my flight had been snowed in, in Washington, D.C. I happened to be in the elevator with a Republican member of Congress, Will Hurd. And on a whim, I said, do you want to just rent a car and drive from San Antonio to Washington?\n\nAnd he called my bluff. We got in that Chevy Impala, last car on the lot. It was spring break. Drove 1,600 miles across the country. Live streamed the conversation, a Republican and a Democrat finding out what we had in common.\n\nBy the end of that trip, not only had we formed a friendship, but we had formed trust. We worked with each other on each other's bills. I got Will to work with me on an immigration bill, showing party leaders from either side that Republicans and Democrats could work together on an otherwise contentious issue.\n\nAnd then across Texas, I mentioned winning more votes than any Democrat. We won independents and Republicans in record numbers, as well. I will bring people in and together to face the common challenges that we have and to make sure that America rises to this opportunity.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Senator Booker, tell us about your most surprising friendship.", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "Well, look, I have so many, I don't even know where to count. I was the mayor of a large city with a Republican governor. He and I had to form a friendship, even though I can write a dissertation on our disagreements. When I got to the United States Senate, I went there with the purpose of making friendships across the aisle.\n\nI go to Bible study in Chairman Inhofe's office. He and I pass legislation together to help homeless and foster kids. I went out to try to invite every one of my Republican colleagues to dinner. And let me again say, finding a dinner at a restaurant, agreeing on one with Ted Cruz was a very difficult thing. I'm a vegan, and he's a meat-eating Texan.\n\nBut I'll tell you this right now, this is the moment in America that this is our test. The spirit of our country, I believe in the values of rugged individualism and self-reliance, but think about our history. Rugged individualism didn't get us to the Moon. It didn't beat the Nazis. It didn't map the human genome. It didn't beat Jim Crow. Everything we did in this country big.\n\nAnd, Vice President, we have done so many big things. The fact that there's an openly gay man, a black woman, all of us on the stage are because we in the past are all inheritors of a legacy of common struggle and common purpose.\n\nThis election is not a referendum on one guy in one office. It's a referendum on who we are and who we must be to each other. The next leader is going to have to be one amongst us Democrats that can unite us all, not throw elbows at other Democrats that are unfair, because the preparation is being the leader that can revive civic of grace in our country, teach us a more courageous empathy, and remind America that patriotism is love of country, and you cannot love your country unless you love your fellow countrymen and women.\n\nAnd love is not sentimentality. It's not anemic. Love is struggle. Love is sacrifice. Love is the words of our founders who said at the end of the Declaration of Independence that if we're ever going to make it as a nation, we must mutually pledge to each other...", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Thank you.", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "... our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor. I am running for president to restore that sacred honor.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Thank you.", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "And if you believe in that like I do, please join me by going to corybooker.com . Thank you.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Thank you, Senator. Mr. Yang?", Entity["Person", "AndrewYang::f7w42"] -> "First, I want to thank all the voters tuned in at home. And if you don't feel like you answered your -- you got your question answered tonight, it's understandable. There are 12 of us.\n\nI'm going to be answering voter questions for 10 straight hours this Friday. My web site, yang2020.com . And if you ask your question tonight, there's a better chance I'll get to it.\n\nMy surprising friendship, it's been so much fun running for president, because I've gotten to meet so many Americans I never would have gotten to meet otherwise. The friendship that sticks out for me is a guy named Fred, who's an avid Trump supporter, a trucker. He let me ride in his truck for hours. He spent some time in jail. I heard about his experiences trying to get other people off of drugs.\n\nAnd I'm happy to say that, after our ride together, he actually said that he would move from Donald Trump to my campaign, which was a thrill for me. And we remained in touch ever since.\n\nThe truth is that what happened to the 4 million manufacturing workers here in Ohio and Michigan and Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and Iowa did not care about our political party. The fourth industrial revolution is now migrating from manufacturing workers to retail, call centers, transportation, as well as to white-collar workers like attorneys, pharmacists, and radiologists. It does not care about our party.\n\nDonald Trump had a set of solutions in 2016. What did he say? He said we're going to build a wall, we're going to turn the clock back, we're going to bring the old jobs back. America, we have to do the opposite of all of these things. We have to turn the clock forward. We have to accelerate our economy and society as quickly as possible. We have to evolve in the way we think about ourselves and our work and our value. It is not left. It is not right. It is forward. And that is where we must take the country in 2020.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Mr. Yang, thank you very much. Senator Harris?", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "Thank you. Probably Rand Paul. He and I -- actually, I invited him to join me on a bill to end the money bail system in the United States. He and I agree on almost nothing, but we agree on that. And after we joined forces, he said to me, \"Kamala, you know, Appalachia loves this.\" And it really made the point that the vast majority of us have so much more in common than what separates us.\n\nAnd I guess that's why I'm running. I do believe that to beat Donald Trump, but also to heal our country, we need a leader who has the ability to unify our country and see that the vast majority of us have so much more in common than what separates us.\n\nAnd I'll tell you, my mother was 19 when she left India alone. And she wanted to travel to learn science because her mission in life was to cure cancer. And so she arrived in California. She got -- you know, she was supposed to have an arranged marriage, but she got involved in the civil rights movement, she met my father, and that produced my sister and me. They got married. But when I was five, that marriage ended.\n\nBut my mother convinced us that we could do anything. And so I became the first woman attorney general of California, the second black woman elected to the United States Senate, and I will tell you, that's part of why I'm running, because Donald Trump, if he had his way, my story would not be possible. And I am running to make sure that that dream, the American dream, American values, American ideas will always hold true.\n\nAnd so that's what is at stake in this election. And I believe I am uniquely able to see the commonalities among us and to speak the story of the American dream and the need to reclaim it.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Thank you, Senator Harris. Mayor Buttigieg?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "Well, I think about the friendships that I formed in the military, people who were radically different from me, different generation, different race, definitely different politics. And we learned to trust each other with our lives.\n\nWhen they got into my vehicle and when we went outside the wire, they didn't care if I was going home to a boyfriend or a girlfriend, they didn't care what country my dad immigrated from and whether he was documented or not. We just learned to trust each other.\n\nIn fact, the fact that I want every American to have that experience without having to go to war to get there is one of the reasons why I believe national service is so important. I guess I\[CloseCurlyQuote]ll follow in the pattern tonight and point out you can go to peteforamerica.com and read all about it.\n\nIt's also about building a sense of belonging in this country, because I think that's what friendship and that's what service can create. And I think we have a crisis of belonging in this country that is helping to explain so many of our problems, from our politics being what it is to the fact that people are self-medicating and we're seeing a rise in the deaths from despair.\n\nI believe only the president can build a sense of belonging and purpose for the entire country. The purpose of the presidency is not the glorification of the president. It is the unification of the American people. And I'm asking for your vote to be that president, when the dust clears over the rubble of our norms and institutions at the end of the Trump presidency, pick up the pieces and guide us toward a better future.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Mr. Mayor, thank you. Senator Sanders?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "When I was chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs, I tried to get through the most comprehensive piece of veterans legislation in modern American history. And I failed. I only had two Republicans to vote with me in the Senate. So we had to go back to the drawing board.\n\nAnd I worked with John McCain. I certainly did not get in that legislation working with McCain all that I wanted. But it turned out that we were able to pass a very, very significant piece of legislation, including $5 billion more for the Veterans Administration.\n\nMore recently, I worked with a very conservative Republican from Utah, Mike Lee. And Mike understood, although he and I disagree on everything, that the U.S. involvement in the Saudi-led war in Yemen was a catastrophic disaster for the people of Yemen. And for the first time in 45 years, we were able to get the War Powers Act utilized and get U.S. -- get the votes to get the U.S. troops out of that area.\n\nBut I think, at the end of day, what I appreciate is that we have got to end the hatred that Trump is fostering on our people, the divisiveness, trying to divide us up by the color of our skin or where we were born or our sexual orientation or our religion.\n\nAnd there is no job that I would undertake with more passion than bringing our people together around an agenda that works for every man, woman, and child in this country rather than the corporate elite and the 1 percent. A progressive agenda that stands for all is the way that we transform this country.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Senator Sanders, thank you. Senator Warren?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "You ask about a surprising friend. For me, it would be Charles Fried. Twenty-seven years ago, when I was under consideration for a job, he was someone who had been George Bush, the first, solicitor general, a deeply principled Republican.\n\nAnd we didn't agree on much. I was far more liberal than he was. But he also was willing to listen to my work about what's happening to America's middle class. And Charles engaged with it over and over and ultimately is the person who made sure I got the job.\n\nYou know, I grew up out in Oklahoma. I have three elder brothers. They all served in the military. Two of the three are still Republicans. I love all three of my brothers. And there are a lot of things that we're divided on, but there are core things that we believe in together.\n\nWe want to see all of our children get a good start in life. We don't want to see any of our friends or neighbors not get covered by health care. We're willing to get out there for the things we believe in.\n\nLook, people across this country, whether they're Democrats, independents, or Republicans, they know what's broken. They know that we have an America that's working better and better and better for a thinner and thinner and thinner slice at the top and leaving everyone else behind.\n\nPeople across this country, regardless of party, are ready to say no more, we want an America that works for everyone. 2020 is our moment in history. It is a deep honor to be here, to be in this fight.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Thank you.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "I know what's broken. I know how to fix it. And we are building a grassroots movement to get it done that includes everyone.", "Anderson Cooper" -> "Thank you, Senator Warren. Vice President Biden?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "This is reassuring in the fact that we're all acknowledging that we have to reach across the aisle, get things done. No other way to get anything done in this country.\n\nThe two people maybe would surprise you the most were -- he's been mentioned twice, but John McCain. John McCain worked for me when he worked in the Navy, and he was -- he was my assigned to me to travel around the world. We became close friends. He became very close friends with my wife, Jill. Visited our home. He was there with his children.\n\nAnd on his death bed, he asked me to do his eulogy. John, I would say to John, \"John, you didn't see a war you never wanted to fight.\" And he'd say, \"You didn't see a problem you never wanted to solve.\" But he was a great man of principle. He was honorable. He was honorable.\n\nAnd one of the things -- that's the reason why I'm running. We have to restore the soul of this country. That's why I'm doing this. In fact, this president has ripped the soul out of this country, divided us in ways that are absolutely outrageous. A liar, he cheats, he does not do anything to promote people generally.\n\nSecondly, we have to rebuild the middle class. The only way we're going to do that is to be able to reach across the aisle. My dad used to say a job is about a lot more than a paycheck, Joey. It's about your dignity. We have to restore people's dignity.\n\nAnd lastly, we have to unite the country, because, folks, it's time we stopped walking around with our heads down. We are better positioned than any country in the world to own the 21st century. So for god's sake, get up. Get up and remember, there is the United States of America. There's nothing, nothing we're unable to do when we decide we're going to do it. Nothing at all. Period."}, {"ANNOUNCER" -> "The MSNBC-Washington Post Democratic presidential debate, live from Atlanta, Georgia, and the Tyler Perry Studios. Here is Rachel Maddow.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Hello, and welcome to the MSNBC-Washington Post Democratic candidates debate. At least some of us are very, very happy to be here tonight. I\[CloseCurlyQuote]m Rachel Maddow here in Atlanta, Georgia, tonight with my fellow moderators. Andrea Mitchell is NBC news foreign affairs correspondent and the host of \[OpenCurlyDoubleQuote]Andrea Mitchell Reports\[CloseCurlyDoubleQuote] on MSNBC. Ashley Parker is White House reporter for the Washington Post. And Kristen Welker is NBC News White House correspondent.", "Andrea Mitchell" -> "We'll be covering a wide range of topics tonight, including national security, race, and climate. Each candidate will have one minute and 15 seconds to answer our questions and 45 seconds if we need to follow up. And we ask the audience to respect the candidates and please don't interrupt.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "There's 10 candidates here tonight. No time to waste. Let's get right to it.\nWe're in the middle of the fourth presidential impeachment proceedings in our nation's history. Ambassador Gordon Sondland delivered testimony today in the House impeachment inquiry that buttressed the case that President Trump withheld military aid to Ukraine and a White House meeting with President Zelensky because he wanted the Ukrainian president to announce investigations that would benefit President Trump politically.\n\nSenator Warren, you have said already that you've seen enough to convict the president and remove him from office. You and four of your colleagues on this stage tonight who are also U.S. senators may soon have to take that vote. Will you try to convince your Republican colleagues in the Senate to vote the same way? And if so, how?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "Of course I will. And the obvious answer is to say, first, read the Mueller report, all 442 pages of it, that showed how the president tried to obstruct justice, and when Congress failed to act at that moment, and that the president felt free to break the law again and again and again. And that's what's happened with Ukraine.\nWe have to establish the principle: no one is above the law. We have a constitutional responsibility, and we need to meet it.\n\nBut I want to add one more part based on today's testimony, and that is, how did Ambassador Sondland get there? You know, this is not a man who had any qualifications, except one: He wrote a check for a million dollars. And that tells us about what's happening in Washington, the corruption, how money buys its way into Washington.\nYou know, I raised this months ago about the whole notion that donors think they're going to get ambassadorships on the other side. And I've taken a pledge. Anyone who wants to give me a big donation, don't ask to be an ambassador, because I'm not going to have that happen.\n\nI asked everyone who's running for president to join me in that and not a single person has so far. I hope what we saw today during the testimony means lots of people will sign on and say we are not going to give away these ambassador posts to the highest bidder.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Senator Warren, thank you.\n\nSenator Klobuchar, you've said that you support the impeachment inquiry but you want to wait for a Senate trial to hear the evidence and make a decision about convicting the president. After the bombshell testimony of Ambassador Sondland today, has that view changed for you?", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "I have made it very clear that this is impeachable conduct and I've called for an impeachment proceeding. I just believe our job as jurors is to look at each count and make a decision.\n\nBut let me make very clear that what this impeachment proceeding about is really our democracy at stake. This is a president that not only with regard to his conduct with Ukraine, but every step of the way puts his own private interests, his own partisan interests, his own political interests in front of our country's interest, and this is wrong.\nThis is a pattern with this man. And it goes to everything from how he has betrayed our farmers and our workers to what he has done with foreign affairs, leaving the Kurds for slaughter, sucking up to Vladimir Putin every minute of the day. That is what this guy does.\nAnd I think it is very, very important that we have a president that's going to put our country first. I was thinking about this when I was at the Carter Presidential Museum. And on the wall are etched the words of Walter Mondale when he looked back at their four years, not perfect. And he said this: We told the truth, we obeyed the law, we kept the peace. We told the truth, we obeyed the law, we kept the peace. That is the minimum that we should expect in a president of the United States.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Senator, thank you.\n\nSenator Sanders, I'd like to go to you. Americans are watching these impeachment hearings. At the same time, they're also focused on their more immediate, daily economic and family concerns. How central should the president's conduct uncovered by this impeachment inquiry be to any Democratic nominee's campaign for president? How central would it be to yours?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Well, Rachel, sadly, we have a president who is not only a pathological liar, he is likely the most corrupt president in the modern history of America. But we cannot simply be consumed by Donald Trump, because if we are, you know what? We're going to lose the election.\n\nRight now, you've got 87 million people who have no health insurance or are underinsured. We're facing the great existential crisis of our time in terms of climate change. You've got 500,000 people sleeping out on the street and you've got 18 million people paying half of their limited incomes for housing.\n\nWhat the American people understand is that the Congress can walk and chew bubblegum at the same time. In other words, we can deal with Trump's corruption, but we also have to stand up for the working families of this country. We also have to stand up to the fact that our political system is corrupt, dominated by a handful of billionaires, and that our economy is rigged with three people owning more wealth than the bottom half of America. We can do it all when we rally the American people in the cause of justice.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Mayor Buttigieg, let me put the same question to you. How central should the president's conduct uncovered by the impeachment inquiry be to a Democratic nominee's campaign? How central would it be to yours?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "Well, the constitutional process of impeachment should be beyond politics. And it is not a part of the campaign. But the president's conduct is. The impeachable conduct that we have seen in the abuse of power that we're learning more about in the investigations -- but just to be clear, the president's already confessed to it on television. But that's just part of what we've seen.\n\nUnder normal circumstances, a president would leave office after something that was revealed recently that barely got any attention at all, which was the president had to confess in writing, in court, to illegally diverting charitable contributions that were supposed to go to veterans. We are absolutely going to confront this president for his wrongdoing, but we're also each running to be the president who will lead this country after the Trump presidency comes to an end one way or the other.\nI'm running to be the president for that day the sun comes up and the Trump presidency is behind us, which will be a tender moment in the life of this country. And we are going to have to unify a nation that will be as divided as ever and, while doing it, address big issues that didn't take a vacation for the impeachment process or for the Trump presidency as a whole: a climate approaching the point of no return, the fact we've still got to act on health care, kids learning active shooter drills before they learn to read, and an economy where even when the Dow Jones is looking good, far too many Americans have to fight like hell just to hold on to what they've got.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Mr. Mayor.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "Those are the crises that will be awaiting the next president and will be at the heart of our campaign.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Mr. Mayor, thank you. Andrea?", "Andrea Mitchell" -> "Vice President Biden, you've suggested in your campaign that if you defeat President Trump, Republicans will start working with Democrats again. But right now, Republicans in Congress, including some of whom you've worked with for decades, are demanding investigations not only of you but also of your son. How would you get those same Republicans to work with you?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Well, look, the next president of the United States is going to have to do two things. Defeat Donald Trump, that's number one. And, number two, going to have to be able make be -- be able to go into states like Georgia and North Carolina and other places and get a Senate majority. That's what I'll do.\n\nYou have to ask yourself up here, who is most likely to be able to win the nomination in the first place, to win the presidency in the first place? And, secondly, who is most likely to increase the number of people who are Democrats in the House and in the Senate?\n\nAnd by the way, I learned something about these impeachment trials. I learned, number one, that Donald Trump doesn't want me to be the nominee. That's pretty clear. He held up aid to make sure that -- while at the same time innocent people in the Donbas are getting killed by Russian soldiers.\n\nSecondly, I found out that Vladimir Putin doesn't want me to be president. So I -- I've learned a lot about these things early on from these hearings that -- that are being held. But the bottom line is, I think we have to ask ourselves the honest question: Who is most likely to do what needs to be done, produce a Democratic majority in the United States Senate, maintain the House, and beat Trump?", "Andrea Mitchell" -> "Senator Harris, your thoughts about that?", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "Well, first of all, we have a criminal living in the White House. And there is no question that in 2020 the biggest issue before us, until we get to that tender moment, is justice is on the ballot.\n\nAnd what we saw today is Ambassador Sondland by his own words told us that everyone was in the loop. That means it is a criminal enterprise engaged in by the president, from what we heard today, the vice president, the secretary of state, and the chief of staff.\n\nAnd so this not only points to the corrupt nature of this administration and the need for these impeachment proceedings to go forward, but it also points to another issue, and back to the question that you asked earlier, which is, what does this mean for the American people?\n\nBecause what it means, when I watch this, is that there are clearly two different set of rules for two different groups of people in America: the powerful people who with their arrogance think they can get away with this and then everybody else.\n\nBecause here's the thing. For those working people who are working two or three jobs, if they don't pay that credit card by the end of the month, they get a penalty. For the people who don't pay their rent, they get evicted. For the people who shoplift, they go to jail. We need the same set of rules for everybody. And part of the reason I'm running for president is to say that we have to bring justice back to America for all people, and not just for some.", "Andrea Mitchell" -> "Thank you, Senator.\n\nSenator Warren, you have cast yourself as a fighter. If you were elected, though, you would be walking into an existing fight, a country that is already very divided over the Trump presidency, among other things. Do you see that divide as permanent? Or do you need to bring the country together if you become president to achieve your goals?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "So I think the way we achieve our goals and bring our country together is we talk about the things that unite us, and that is that we want to build an America that works for the people, not one that just works for rich folks.\n\nYou know, I have proposed a two cent wealth tax. That is a tax for everybody who has more than $50 billion in assets, your first $50 billion is free and clear. But your 50 billionth and first dollar, you've got to pitch in 2 cents. And when you hit a billion dollars, you've got to pinch in a few pennies more.\n\nHere's the thing. Doing a wealth tax is not about punishing anyone. It's about saying, you built something great in this country? Good for you. But you did it using workers all of us helped pay to educate. You did it using -- you're getting your goods on roads and bridges all of us helped pay for. You did it protected by police and firefighters all of us helped pay the salaries for.\n\nSo when you make it big, when you make it really big, when you make it top one tenth of one percent big, pitch in two cents so everybody else gets a chance to make it.\n\nAnd here's the thing. That's something that Democrats care about, independents care about, and Republicans care about, because regardless of party affiliation, people understand across this country, our government is working better and better for the billionaires, for the rich, for the well-connected, and worse and worse for everyone else. We come together when we acknowledge that and say we're going to make real change.", "Andrea Mitchell" -> "Thank you, Senator. Thank you.\n\nSenator Booker, do you agree with that strategy?", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "Well, first of all, I think we all agree that we need to bring in a lot more revenue in this country. We actually have a real problem with the tax rates, tax loopholes, tax cheats. And I don't agree with the wealth tax, the way that Elizabeth Warren puts it, but I agree that we need to raise the estate tax. We need to tax capital gains as ordinary income. Real strategies will increase revenue.\n\nBut here's the challenge. We as Democrats need to fight for a just taxation system. But as I travel around the country, we Democrats also have to talk about how to grow wealth, as well.\n\nWhen I stood in church recently and asked folks in a black church how many people here want to be entrepreneurs, half the church raised their hands. If we as a country don't start -- if we as a party don't start talking not just about how to tax wealth, but how to give more people opportunities to create wealth, to grow businesses, to have their American dream -- because, yeah, we need to raise the minimum wage to a living wage, $15 an hour.\n\nBut the people in communities I frequent, they're not -- aspiration for their lives is not just to have those fair wages. They want to have an economy that provides not just equalities in wealth, but they want to have equalities in opportunity. And that's what our party has to be about, as well.", "Andrea Mitchell" -> "Senator Warren, you wanted to respond?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "Sure. So let me just tell you what we can do with that two cent wealth tax. Two cents on the top one-tenth of one percent in this country, and we can provide universal child care for every baby in this country ages zero to five. That is transformative.\n\nWe can provide universal pre-K for every 3-year-old and 4-year-old in America. We can stop exploiting the women, largely black and brown women, who do this work. And we can raise the wages of every childcare worker and pre-schoolteacher in America.\n\nWe can put $800 billion new federal dollars into all of our public schools. We can make college tuition-free for every kid. We can put $50 billion into historically black colleges and universities. And we can cancel student loan debt for 95 percent of the folks who've got it. Two cent wealth tax and we can invest in an entire generation's future.", "Andrea Mitchell" -> "All right. Let me let Senator Booker respond.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "Sure.", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "You know, again, I agree with the need to do all of those things. We're all united in wanting to see universal preschool. And I'll fight for that. We're all united in wanting to fund HBCUs. Heck, I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for two parents that went to HBCUs.\n\nBut the tax the way we're putting it forward right now, the wealth tax, I'm sorry, it's cumbersome. It's been tried by other nations. It's hard to evaluate. We can get the same amount of revenue through just taxation.\n\nBut, again, we as Democrats have got to start talking not just about how we tax from a stage, but how we grow wealth in this country amongst those disadvantaged communities that are not seeing it. Look at VC dollars in this country. Seventy-five percent of them go to three metropolitan areas. There is worth in the inner city. There is value in our rural areas.\n\nIf I am president of the United States, we're going to have a fair, just taxation where millionaires and billionaires pay their fair share, but, dear God, we're going to have pathways to prosperity for more Americans. We're going to see a change in what we see right now. Small businesses, new startups are going down in this country.", "Andrea Mitchell" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "We need to give more new entrepreneurs access to wealth.", "Andrea Mitchell" -> "Senator Warren, briefly, just your last thoughts on this.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "So I just -- the idea behind what is fair, today, the 99 percent in America are on track to pay about 7.2 percent of their total wealth in taxes.", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "I'm not disagreeing with that.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "The top one-tenth of one percent that I want to say pay two cents more, they'll pay 3.2 percent in America. I'm tired of freeloading billionaires. I think it's time that we ask those at the very top to pay more so that every single one of our children gets a real...", "Andrea Mitchell" -> "... Senator Booker, Senator Warren...", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "Everybody's tired of corporations getting away with paying zero taxes.", "Andrea Mitchell" -> "Thank you.", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "I'm not disagreeing with that.", "Andrea Mitchell" -> "Thank you very much, Senator Warren. Thank you.\n\nMayor Buttigieg, you have said, quote, \"I will never allow us to get so wrapped up in the fighting that we start to think fighting is the point.\" The Republican Party never stopped fighting President Obama in his eight years in office. So what would you do that President Obama didn't do to change that?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "Well, as President Obama commented recently, we are now in a different reality than we were even 12 years ago. And to me, the extraordinary potential of the moment we're in right now is that there is an American majority that stands ready to tackle big issues that didn't exist in the same way even a few years ago.\n\nEven on issues where Democrats have been on defense, like immigration and guns, we have a majority to do the right thing, if we can galvanize, not polarize that majority. For example, on health care, the reason I insist on Medicare for all who want it as the strategy to deliver on that goal we share of universal health care is that that is something that as a governing strategy we can unify the American people around, creating a version of Medicare, making it available to anybody who wants it, but without the divisive step of ordering people onto it whether they want to or not.\n\nAnd I believe that commanding people to accept that option, whether we wait three years, as Senator Warren has proposed, or whether you do it right out of the gate, is not the right approach to unify the American people around a very, very big transformation that we now have an opportunity to deliver.", "Andrea Mitchell" -> "Thank you, Mr. Mayor.\n\nKristen Welker?", "Kristen Welker" -> "Let's talk about Medicare for all. Senator Warren, you are running on Medicare for all. Democrats have been winning elections even in red states with a very different message on health care: protecting Obamacare. Democrats are divided on this issue. What do you say to voters who are worried that your position on Medicare for all could cost you critical votes in the general election?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "So I look out and I see tens of millions of Americans who are struggling to pay their medical bills, 37 million people who decided not to have a prescription filled because they just can't afford it, people who didn't take the tests the doctor recommended because they just can't afford it.\n\nSo here is my plan. Let's bring as many people in and get as much help to the American people as we can as fast as we can. On day one as president, I will do -- bring down the cost of prescription drugs on things like insulin and EpiPens. That's going to save tens of millions, hundreds of millions of dollars for people. I'm going to defend the Affordable Care Act from the sabotage of the Trump administration.\n\nAnd in the first 100 days, I want to bring in 135 million people into Medicare for all at no cost to them. Everybody under the age of 18, everybody who has a family of four income less than $50,000. I want to lower the age of Medicare to 50 and expand Medicare coverage to include vision and dental and long-term care.\n\nAnd then in the third year, when people have had a chance to feel it and taste it and live with it, we're going to vote and we're going to want Medicare for all.", "Kristen Welker" -> "Thank you, Senator.\n\nSenator Sanders, let me bring you into this conversation and ask you the question...", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Thank you. I wrote the damn bill.", "Kristen Welker" -> "I want to ask you the question this way, Senator Sanders. You described your campaign, including your plans for Medicare for all, as a political revolution.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Yes.", "Kristen Welker" -> "President Obama explicitly said the country is, quote, \"less revolutionary than it is interested in improvement. The average American doesn't think we have to completely tear down the system and remake it,\" end quote. Is President Obama wrong?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "No, he's right. We don't have to tear down the system, but we do have to do what the American people want. And the American people understand today that the current health care system is not only cruel, it is dysfunctional.\n\nNow, you tell me how we have a system in which we spend twice as much as do the people of any other country, and yet we've got 87 million uninsured, underinsured. In some cases, we pay 10 times more for prescription drugs as do the people of Canada or other countries. Five hundred thousand people go bankrupt because of medically related issues. They come down with cancer, and that's a reason to go bankrupt?\n\nNow, some of the people up here think that we should not take on the insurance industry, we should not take on the pharmaceutical industry. But you know what? If you think back to FDR and if you think back to JFK and Harry Truman and Barack Obama, as a matter of fact, people have been talking about health care for all. Well, you know what? I think now is the time.\n\nAnd in the first week of my administration, we will introduce Medicare for all. Medicare for all, that means no deductibles, no co-payments, no out-of-pocket expenses. That's where we've got to go.", "Kristen Welker" -> "Thank you, Senator Sanders. Vice President Biden?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "You know, we can do this without charging people -- raising $30 trillion, $40 trillion. The fact is that right now the vast majority of Democrats do not support Medicare for all.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Not true.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "It couldn't pass the United States Senate right now with Democrats. It couldn't pass the House. Nancy Pelosi is one of those people who doesn't think it makes sense.\n\nWe should build on Obamacare, provide the plan I put forward before anybody in here, adding a Medicare option in that plan, and not make people choose. Allow people to choose, I should say. If you go the route of my two friends on my right and my left, you have to give up your private insurance. A hundred and sixty million people like their private insurance. And if they don't like it, they can buy into a Medicare-like proposal in my plan. Drug prices go down, premiums go down across the board.\n\nBut here's the deal, they get to choose. I trust the American people to make a judgment what they believe is in their interest and not demand of them what the insurance companies -- they want no -- no competition. And my friends say you have to only go Medicare for all.", "Kristen Welker" -> "Vice President Biden, thank you.\n\nAshley?", "Ashley Parker" -> "Congresswoman Gabbard, you have criticized Hillary Clinton as the, quote, \"personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party.\" What is the rot you see in the Democratic Party?", Entity["Person", "TulsiGabbard::839d6"] -> "That our Democratic Party, unfortunately, is not the party that is of, by, and for the people. It is a party that has been and continues to be influenced by the foreign policy establishment in Washington, represented by Hillary Clinton and others' foreign policy, by the military industrial complex, and other greedy corporate interests.\n\nI'm running for president to be the Democratic nominee that rebuilds our Democratic Party, takes it out of their hands, and truly puts it in the hands of the people of this country. A party that actually hears the voices of Americans who are struggling all across this country and puts it in the hands of veterans and fellow Americans who are calling for an end to this ongoing Bush-Clinton-Trump foreign policy doctrine of regime change wars, overthrowing dictators in other countries, needlessly sending my brothers and sisters in uniform into harm's way to fight in wars that actually undermine our national security and have cost us thousands of American lives.\n\nThese are wars that have cost us as American taxpayers trillions of dollars since 9/11 alone, dollars that have come out of our pockets, out of our hospitals, out of our schools, out of our infrastructure needs. As president, I will end this foreign policy, end these regime change wars, work to end this new cold war and arms race, and instead invest our hard-earned taxpayer dollars actually into serving the needs of the American people right here at home.", "Ashley Parker" -> "Thank you, Congresswoman.\n\nSenator Harris, any response?", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "Oh, sure.\nI think that it's unfortunate that we have someone on this stage who is attempting to be the Democratic nominee for president of the United States, who during the Obama administration spent four years full time on Fox News criticizing President Obama...", Entity["Person", "TulsiGabbard::839d6"] -> "That's ridiculous, Senator Harris. That's ridiculous.", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "... who has spent full time -- who has spent full time criticizing people on this stage as affiliated with the Democratic Party, when Donald Trump was elected, not even sworn in, buddied up to Steve Bannon to get a meeting with Donald Trump in the Trump Tower, fails to call a war criminal by what he is as a war criminal, and then spends full time during the course of this campaign, again, criticizing the Democratic Party.\n\nWhat we need on the stage in November is someone who has the ability to win. And by that, we need someone on that stage who has the ability to go toe-to-toe with Donald Trump and someone who has the ability to rebuild the Obama coalition and bring the party and the nation together. I believe I am that candidate.", "Ashley Parker" -> "Thank you, Senator.\nCongresswoman Gabbard, I'll give you a chance to respond.", Entity["Person", "TulsiGabbard::839d6"] -> "What Senator Harris is doing is unfortunately continuing to traffic in lies and smears and innuendos because she cannot challenge the substance of the argument that I'm making, the leadership and the change that I'm seeking to bring in our foreign policy, which only makes me guess that she will as president continue the status quo, continue the Bush-Clinton-Trump foreign policy of regime change wars, which is deeply destructive.\n\nThis is personal to me because I served in Iraq. I left my seat in the state legislature in Hawaii, volunteered to deploy to Iraq where I served in the medical unit where every single day I saw the terribly high human cost of war. I take very seriously the responsibility that the president has to serve as commander-in-chief, to lead our armed forces, and to make sure always -- no, I'm not going to put party interests first. I will put the interests of the American people above all else.", "Ashley Parker" -> "Thank you, Congresswoman. I want to -- I want to briefly give Senator Harris a final second to respond.", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "I believe that what our nation needs right now is a nominee who can speak to all people. I've spent my entire career standing mostly in a courtroom speaking five words: Kamala Harris for the people. And it was about all the people, regardless of their race, regardless of their gender, regardless of where they lived geographically, regardless of the party with which they're registered to vote or the language their grandmother speaks.\n\nWe need someone on this debate stage in November who has the ability to unify the country and to win the election. And I believe, again, I am that candidate.", "Ashley Parker" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "Thank you.", "Ashley Parker" -> "Mr. Steyer, you have denounced the special interests that pour hundreds of millions of dollars into the political process to influence it. But, in fact, you have spent over $300 million of your own money in support of your political goals. How do you respond to critics who see you as the embodiment of a special interest?", Entity["Person", "TomSteyer::b5k62"] -> "What I've done over the last decade is to put together coalitions of ordinary American citizens to take on unchecked corporate power. We have a broken government in Washington, D.C. It's been purchased by corporations. Over the last decade, with the help of the American people, we have taken on and beaten the oil companies, we have taken on and beaten the tobacco companies, we have taken on and beaten utilities, we've taken on and beaten the drug companies.\n\nI\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve also built one of the largest grassroots organizations in the United States. Last year, NextGen America did the largest youth voter mobilization in American history, also, in partnership with seven national unions, knocked on 15 million doors in 2016 and 10 million in 2018.\n\nWhat I've done is to try to push power down to the America people, to take power away from the corporations who've bought our government. And I'm talking now about structural reform in Washington, D.C.\n\nTerm limits. If you want bold change in the United States, you're going to have to have new and different people in charge. I'm the only person on this stage who will talk about term limits. Vice President Biden won't. Senator Sanders won't. Even Mayor Pete Buttigieg will not talk about term limits and structural change. I would let the American people pass laws themselves through direct democracy. It's time to push the power back to the people and away from D.C.", "Ashley Parker" -> "Thank you, Mr. Steyer. Mr. Steyer, thank you. Senator Klobuchar, a brief response.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "Well, I just -- I'm someone that doesn't come from money, and I appreciate the work of Mr. Steyer. But right now, we have a system that's not fair, and it's not just fair for money. And so I would do is start a constitutional amendment and pass it to overturn Citizens United. That's what we should do, so that we stop this dark money and outside money from coming into our politics.\n\nI have led the way on voting. And I can tell you right now, one solution that would make a huge difference in this state would be to allow every kid in the country to register to vote when they turn 18. If we had a system like this, and we did something about gerrymandering, and we stopped the voting purges, and we did something significant about making sure we don't have money in politics from the outside, Stacey Abrams would be governor of this state right now.", "Ashley Parker" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "And that's what should happen. So while I appreciate his work, I am someone that doesn't come from money. I see my husband out there. My first Senate race, I literally called everyone I knew and I set what is still an all-time Senate record. I raised $17,000 from ex-boyfriends.\nAnd I'd like to point out, it is not an expanding base.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "So I don't just think this with my head. I feel it in my heart.", "Ashley Parker" -> "Thank you. Thank you, Senator Klobuchar.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "Since I was named, I'd like to have time...", "Ashley Parker" -> "Mr. Yang, I want to bring you in. Mr. Yang -- Mr. Yang, you've made a virtue of your outsider status. You've never served in military or in government. What has prepared you to respond to a terrorist attack or a major disaster?", Entity["Person", "AndrewYang::f7w42"] -> "Well, first, I just want to stick up for Tom. We have a broken campaign finance system, but Tom has been spending his own money fighting climate change. You can't knock someone for having money and spending it in the right way, my opinion.", Entity["Person", "TomSteyer::b5k62"] -> "Thanks, Andrew.", Entity["Person", "AndrewYang::f7w42"] -> "No problem.\nAs commander-in-chief, I think we need to be focused on the real threats of the 21st century. And what are those threats? Climate change, artificial intelligence, loose nuclear material, military drones, and non-state actors.\n\nAnd if you look up, we're in the process of potentially losing the AI arms race to China right now, because they have more access to more data than we do, and their government is putting billions of dollars to work subsidizing the development of AI in a way that we are not.\n\nWe are 24 years behind on technology. And I can say that with authority, because we got rid of the Office of Technology Assessment in 1995. Think about that timing. I guess they thought they'd invented everything.\n\nThe next commander-in-chief has to be focused on the true threats of tomorrow. And that's what I will bring to the table as commander-in-chief.", "Ashley Parker" -> "Thank you, Mr. Yang.\n\nAndrea?", "Andrea Mitchell" -> "Mayor Buttigieg, let's talk about your record as a candidate. You were elected mayor in a Democratic city receiving just under 11,000 votes. And in your only statewide race, you lost by 25 points. Why should Democrats take the risk of betting on you?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "Because I have the right experience to take on Donald Trump. I get that it's not traditional establishment Washington experience, but I would argue we need something very different right now.\n\nIn order to defeat this president, we need somebody who can go toe-to-toe who actually comes from the kinds of communities that he's been appealing to. I don't talk a big game about helping the working class while helicoptering between golf courses with my name on them. I don't even golf.\nAs a matter of fact, I never thought I'd be on a Forbes magazine list, but they did one of all the candidates by wealth, and I am literally the least wealthy person on this stage.\n\nI also wore the uniform of this country and know what is at stake in the decisions that are made in the Oval Office and in the Situation Room. And I know how to bring people together to get things done. I know that from the perspective of Washington, what goes on in my city might look small, but frankly, where we live, the infighting on Capitol Hill is what looks small. The usual way of doing business in Washington is what looks small.\n\nAnd I believe we need to send somebody in who has a different kind of experience, the experience on the ground, solving problems, working side by side with neighbors on some of the toughest issues that come up in government, recognizing what is required of executive leadership, and bringing that to Washington so that Washington can start looking a little more like our best-run communities in the heartland before the other way around starts to happen.", "Andrea Mitchell" -> "Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Mayor.\n\nSenator Klobuchar, you've said this of Mayor Buttigieg, quote, \"Of the women on the stage, do I think that we would be standing on that stage if we had the experience he had? No, I don't. Maybe we're held to a different standard.\" Senator, what did you mean by that?", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "First of all, I've made very clear I think that Pete is qualified to be up on this stage, and I am honored to be standing next to him. But what I said was true. Women are held to a higher standard. Otherwise, we could play a game called name your favorite woman president, which we can't do, because it has all been men.\nAnd including all vice presidents being men. And I think any working woman out there, any woman that's at home knows exactly what I mean. We have to work harder, and that's a fact.\n\nBut I want to dispel one thing, because for so long why has this been happening? I don't think you have to be the tallest person on this stage to be president. I don't think you have to be the skinniest person. I don't think you have the loudest voice on this stage. I don't think that means that you will be the one that should be president. I think what matters is if you're smart, if you're competent, and if you get things done.\n\nI am the one that has passed over a hundred bills as the lead Democrat in that gridlock of Washington in Congress on this stage. I think you've got to win. And I am the one, Mr. Vice President, that has been able to win every red and purple congressional district as a lead on a ticket every time. I govern both with my head and my heart. And if you think a woman can't beat Donald Trump, Nancy Pelosi does it every single day.", "Andrea Mitchell" -> "Mr. Vice President, Mr. Vice President, just a quick response?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "I think a woman is qualified to be president, and there's no reason why -- if you think the woman is the most qualified person now, you should vote for them. The reason why I think I should be president and be the nominee is, number one, I have brought people together my entire career. In the United States Senate, I've passed more major legislation than everybody on this stage combined, from the Violence Against Women Act to making sure we have the chemical weapons treaty to dealing with Milosevic, the whole range of things that I've been engaged in my whole career.\n\nI've done it. I've brought people together. I'm always told by everybody around here things have changed, you can't do that anymore. If we can't -- I thought the question was initially asked of the senator, how do you unify this country? We have to unify this country. I have done it. I have done it repeatedly.\n\nAnd lastly, to be commander-in-chief, there's no time for on-the-job training. I've spent more time in the Situation Room, more time abroad, more time than anybody up here. I know every major world leader. They know me, and they know when I speak, if I'm the president of the United States, who we're for, who we're against, and what we'll do, and we'll keep our word.", "Andrea Mitchell" -> "Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Vice President.\n\nAshley?", "Ashley Parker" -> "Senator Booker, one of the defining characters of the Trump presidency is that the American people hear from him directly all the time about everything, on Twitter and just about everywhere else. Setting aside your views of his tone, is that unfiltered communication something you as president would continue? Is this one of the norms broken by President Trump that needed to change?", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "So, look, this president has broken norms, as you've said. He used his platforms to demean, degrade, and divide this country in ways that are repugnant and appalling. But the next president, whoever they are, is going to have to be someone who can heal and bring this nation together, this whole nation.\n\nSo, absolutely, in that office I will do whatever it takes to make sure we bring this country together. But it's not for a Kumbaya moment. We are a nation that achieves great things when we stand together and work together and fight together. So, absolutely.\n\nWhen I was mayor of the largest city in my state -- and this is where I agree with Mayor Pete -- mayoral experience is very important. And I happen to be the other Rhodes Scholar mayor on this stage.\nAnd what I learned there is that you have to be an executive that can heal. In my city, we have racial divides, we have geographic divides that go from wealth to people that are struggling. The success of my city was because we brought us all together and did things that other people said couldn't be done.\n\nWhen I am president of the United States, my campaign from the very beginning has not changed. My charge is to see a nation right now which has so much common pain, to channel that back into a sense of common purpose. And I will do whatever it takes, bringing creativity to that office like has never been seen before.", "Ashley Parker" -> "Thank you, Senator.\n\nRachel?", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Chants of \"Lock Her Up\" are still heard at President Trump's rallies today. Now some opponents of the president are turning the same slogan against him. They've chanted \"Lock Him Up\" at a recent World Series game in Washington and at a Veterans Day event in New York and, Senator Sanders, at at least two of your campaign events recently. Senator, should Democrats discourage this? Or are you OK with it?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Well, I think the people of this country are catching on to the degree that this president thinks he is above the law. And what the American people are saying: Nobody is above the law. And I think what the American people are also saying is, in fact, that if this president did break the law, he should be prosecuted like any other individual who breaks the law.\n\nBut at the end of the day, what we need to do is to bring our people together not just in opposition to Trump. The initial question I think that you wrote -- that somebody raised here was that we are a divided nation. You know what? I kind of reject that.\n\nI think when you talk about the pain of working families in this country, majority of the American people want to raise the minimum wage to a living wage. When you talk about the climate crisis, the overwhelming majority of the American people know that it is real, they know we have to take on the fossil fuel industry, they know we have to transform our energy system away from fossil fuel to energy sufficiency and sustainable energy.\n\nEven on issues like guns, the American people are coming together to end the horrific level of gun violence. So I believe, yeah, we've got to deal with Trump, but we also have to have an agenda that brings our people together so that the wealth and income doesn't just go to the people on top but to all of us.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Vice President Biden, let me ask you to pick up on the issue that Senator Sanders just raised about no one being above the law. When President Ford pardoned President Nixon, he said it was to heal the country. Would you support a potential criminal investigation into President Trump after he leaves office, even if you thought it might further inflame the country's divisions?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Look, I would not direct my Justice Department like this president does. I'd let them make their independent judgment. I would not dictate who should be prosecuted or who should be exonerated. That's not the role of the president of the United States. It's the attorney general of the United States, not the president's attorney, private attorney.\n\nAnd so I would -- whatever was determined by the attorney general I supported, that I appointed, let them make an independent judgment. If that was the judgment that he violated the law and he should be, in fact, criminally prosecuted, then so be it. But I would not direct it.\n\nAnd I don't think it's a good idea that we mock -- that we model ourselves after Trump and say lock him up. Look, we have to bring this country together. Let's start talking civilly to people and treating -- you know, the next president starts tweeting should -- anyway.\nLook, it's just -- look, it's about civility. We have to restore the soul of this country. And that's not who we are, that's not who we've been, that's not who we should be. Follow the law, let the Justice Department make the judgment as to whether or not someone should be prosecuted, period.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Senator Sanders, let me ask you briefly to respond to that, the difference of opinion there with Vice President Biden.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Well, I think Joe is right. I think that it is the function of the attorney general. But what I am of the opinion is that the American people now do believe, and the more they see these impeachment hearings on television, they do believe that we have a president who thinks he's above the law. We have a president who has engaged in corruption. We have a president who has obstructed justice and, in my view, somebody who's violated the emoluments clause.\n\nI think Joe is right, that is the function of an independent Department of Justice. But my inclination is that the American people do believe that this president is in violation of the law.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Can I respond very quickly?", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Briefly, Senator.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Distinction, should he be impeached and should he be thrown out of office? That's one question. He's very close to -- he's indicted himself. Number two, after he's thrown out of office or after he's defeated, should he be then prosecuted? Should he be prosecuted for a criminal offense while he was president? That's a judgment to be made by an attorney general.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Mr. Vice President, thank you.\n\nAshley?", "Ashley Parker" -> "We now focus on an issue facing many Americans, childcare and paid family leave. Here in Georgia, the average price of infant daycare can be as much as $8,500 per child per year. That's more than instate tuition at a four-year public college in Georgia. Mr. Yang, what would you do as president to ease that financial burden?", Entity["Person", "AndrewYang::f7w42"] -> "There are only two countries in the world that don't have paid family leave for new moms, the United States of America and Papua New Guinea. That is the entire list. And we need to get off this list as soon as possible.\nI would pass paid family leave as one of the first things we do. I have two kids myself who are four and seven, one of whom is autistic and has special needs, and it's breaking families' backs. We need to start supporting our kids and families from the beginning, because by the time they're showing up to pre-K and kindergarten, in many cases, they're already years behind.\n\nStudies have shown that two-thirds of our kids' educational outcomes are determined by what's happening to them at home. This is stress levels, number of words read to them as children, type of neighborhood, whether a parent has time to spend with them.\n\nSo we need to have a freedom dividend in place from day one, $1,000 a month for every American adult, which would put in many cases $2,000 a month into families' pockets, so that they can either pay for childcare or if they want stay home with the child. We should not be pushing everyone to leave the home and go to the workforce. Many parents see that tradeoff and say if they leave the home and work, they're going to be spending all the money on childcare anyway. In many cases, it would be better if the parent stays home with the child.", "Ashley Parker" -> "Thank you, Mr. Yang.\nSticking with this topic, no parent in the United States is federally guaranteed a single day of paid leave when they have a new baby. A number of you on stage tonight have plans to address this. Senator Harris, you're one of the candidates proposing legislation to guarantee up to six months of paid family leave. And Senator Klobuchar, you're one of the candidates proposing up to three months. I want to hear from both of you on this, starting with you, Senator Klobuchar. Why three months?", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "I've looked at this economically, and I want to make sure that we help people. Because as just pointed out, we are way behind the curve, our country is, when it comes to providing paid family leave and childcare. We must do this and we will do this if we have the right person heading up the ticket so we can win big.\n\nBut what I have done with all of my plans is I have shown how I'm going to pay for them meticulously. I think that is really, really important when we have a president in the White House right now one who has told over 10,000 lies.\n\nSo when you look at my website, at amyklobuchar.com , you will see my plans and you're also going to see how I'm going to pay for it. And I think that is so important, because this president is literally increasing the debt, treating our farmers and workers like poker chips in a bankrupt casino, and really putting this country in a worst financial situation every single day.\n\nSo, yes, my plan is three months. I think that's good. I'd love to do more. As I've said before, I'd love to staple free diplomas under people's chairs. I just am not going to go for things -- and this is not -- I'm talking about Senator Harris' plan here, but I'm talking about some of the other ideas that have been out here. I am not going to go for things just because they sound good on a bumper sticker and then throw in a free car.\n\nI think that we have an obligation -- we have an obligation as a party to be, yes, fiscally responsible, yes, think big, but make sure we have people's backs and are honest with them about what we can pay for. And that is everything from sending rich kids to college for free, which I don't support, to kicking 149 million off their health insurance -- current health insurance in four years.", "Ashley Parker" -> "Thank you, Senator. Thank you.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "I just think we have to be smart about how we do this.", "Ashley Parker" -> "Thank you, Senator. And, Senator Harris, why six months? And also, how would you pay for that?", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "Sure. And, everybody, please visit my website, kamalaharris.org , for the details on everything I talk about. Six months, so part of how I believe we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re going to win this election is, it is going to be because we are focused on the future, we are focused on the challenges that are presented today and not trying to bring back yesterday to solve tomorrow.\n\nSo on paid family leave, it is no longer the case in America that people are having children in their 20s. People are having children in their 30s, often in their 40s, which means that these families and parents are often raising young children and taking care of their parents, which requires a lot of work, from traveling back and forth to a hospital to daycare to all of the activities that are required, much less the health care needs that are required.\n\nAnd what we are seeing in America today is the burden principally falls on women to do that work. And many women are having to make a very difficult choice whether they're going to leave a profession for which they have a passion to care for their family, or whether they are going to give up a paycheck that is part of what that family relies on. So six months paid family leave is meant to and is designed to adjust to the reality of women's lives today.\n\nThe reality also is that women are not paid equal for equal work in America. We passed the Equal Pay Act in 1963, but fast forward to the year of our lord 2019, and women are paid 80 cents on the dollar, black women 61 cents, Native American women 58 cents, Latinas 53 cents.", "Ashley Parker" -> "Thank you.", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "So my policy is about -- there's a whole collection of the work that I am doing that is focused on women and working women in America and the inequities and, therefore, the injustice that women in America are facing that needs to be resolved and addressed.", "Ashley Parker" -> "Thank you, Senator.\n\nKristen?", "Kristen Welker" -> "Mr. Steyer, millions of working Americans are finding that housing has become unaffordable, especially in metropolitan areas. It is particularly acute in your home state of California, in places like Los Angeles and San Francisco. Why are you the best person to fix this problem?", Entity["Person", "TomSteyer::b5k62"] -> "When you look at inequality in the United States of America, you have to start with housing. Where you put your head at night determines so many things about your life. It determines where your kids go to school. It determines the air you breathe, where you shop, how long it takes you to get to work.\n\nWhat we've seen in California is, as a result of policy, we have millions too few housing units. And that affects everybody in California. It starts with a homeless crisis that goes all through the state, but it also includes skyrocketing rents which affect every single working person in the state of California.\n\nI understand exactly what needs to be done here, which is we need to change policy and we need to apply resources here to make sure that we build literally millions of new units.\n\nBut the other thing that's going to be true about building these units is, we're going to have to build them in a way that's sustainable, that, in fact, how we build units, where people live has a dramatic impact on climate and on sustainability.\n\nSo we are going to have to direct dollars, we're going to have to change policy and make sure that the localities and municipalities who have worked very hard to make sure that there are no new housing units built in their towns, that they have to change that and we're going to have force it, and then we're going to have to direct federal dollars to make sure that those units are affordable so that working people can live in places and not be spending 50 percent of their income on rent.", "Kristen Welker" -> "Thank you, Mr. Steyer. Thank you, Mr. Steyer. Senator Warren, I see your hand raised.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "Yes. Think of it this way. Our housing problem in America is a problem on the supply side, and that means that the federal government stopped building new housing a long time ago, affordable housing.\n\nAlso, private developers, they've gone up to McMansions. They're not building the little two bedroom, one bath house that I grew up in, garage converted to be a bedroom for my three brothers.\n\nSo I've got a plan for 3.2 million new housing units in America. Those are housing units for working families, for the working poor, for the poor poor, for seniors who want to age in place, for people with disabilities, for people who are coming back from being incarcerated. It's about tenants' rights.\n\nBut there's one more piece. Housing is how we build wealth in America. The federal government has subsidized the purchase of housing for decades for white people and has said for black people you're cut out of the deal. That was known as red-lining.\n\nWhen I built a housing plan, it's not only a housing plan about building new units. It's a housing plan about addressing what is wrong about government-sponsored discrimination, how we need to address it, and we need to say we're going to reverse it.", "Kristen Welker" -> "Thank you, Senator. Thank you, Senator. Senator Booker?", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "I'm so grateful, again, as a mayor who was a mayor during a recession, who was a mayor during a housing crisis, who started my career as a tenants' rights lawyer, these are all good points, but we're not talking about something that is going on all over America, which is gentrification and low-income families being moved further and further out, often compounding racial segregation.\n\nAnd so all these things we need to put more federal dollars in it, but we've got to start empowering people. We use our tax code to move wealth up, the mortgage interest deduction. My plan is very simple. If you're a renter who pays more than a third of your income in rent, then you will get a refundable tax credit between the amount you're paying and the area median rent. That empowers people in the same way we empower homeowners.\n\nAnd what that does is it actually slashes poverty, 10 million people out. And by the way, for those people who are facing eviction, it is about time that the only people when they show up in rentals court that have a lawyer is not the landlord, it is also low-income families struggling to stay in their homes.", "Kristen Welker" -> "Thank you, Senator.\n\nRachel?", "Rachel Maddow" -> "We're going to take a quick break, but we'll be right back with these candidates from the MSNBC-Washington Post Democratic candidates debate in Atlanta, Georgia. Stay with us.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Welcome back to the MSNBC-Washington Post Democratic candidates debate. Let's get right back into it.\n\nAmerican farmers are struggling under the effects of President Trump's trade war with China. The Trump administration's payments to farmers to offset those losses already have a price tag that is more than double what was spent on the Obama administration's auto bailout.\n\nMayor Buttigieg, would you continue those farm subsidies?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "We shouldn't have to pay farmers to take the edge off of a trade war that shouldn't have been started in the first place. I will support farmers, but not long ago, I was in Boone, Iowa, a guy came up to me, he said I got my Trump bailout check, but I would have rather spent that money on conservation.\n\nBy the way, this isn't even making farmers whole. If you're in soybeans, for example, you're getting killed. And it's not just what this president has done with the trade war. In a lot of parts of the country, the worst thing is these so-called small refinery waivers, which are killing those who are involved in ethanol.\n\nLook, I don't think this president cares one bit about farmers. He keeps asking them to take one for the team, but more and more I'm talking to people in rural America who see that they're not going to benefit from business as usual under this president.\n\nI believe that so many of the solutions lie with American farmers, but we have to stand up for them, not just with direct subsidies and support, but with making sure we do something about the consolidation, the monopolies that leave farmers with fewer places to purchase supplies from and fewer places to sell their product to.\n\nAnd American farming should be one of the key pillars of how we combat climate change. I believe that the quest for the carbon negative farm could be as big a symbol of dealing with climate change as the electric car in this country. And it's an important part of how we make sure that we get a message out around dealing with climate change that recruits everybody to be part of the solution, including conservative communities where a lot of people have been made to feel that admitting climate science would mean acknowledging they're part of the problem.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Mr. Mayor, I'm sorry to interrupt, but I need you to answer the question. Would you continue those subsidies or not?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "Yes, but we won't need them because we're going to fix the trade war.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Thank you, sir.\n\nThe U.N. recently reported that what was once called climate change is now a climate crisis, with drastic results already being felt. Climate is also an issue important to our audience. We received thousands of questions from our viewers, and many of them were about climate.\n\nCalista from Minneapolis writes this. Leading the world in resolving the climate crisis will be a multi-decade project, spanning far beyond even a two-term presidency. If you are elected president, how would you ensure that there is secure leadership and bipartisan support to continue this project?\n\nCongresswoman Gabbard?", Entity["Person", "TulsiGabbard::839d6"] -> "This is an issue that impacts all of us as Americans and people all over the world. This is not a Democrat issue or a Republican issue. This is about the environmental threats that each and every one of us face. These are the kinds of conversations that we're having in our town hall meetings and house parties in different parts of the country where we have Democrats, Republicans, libertarians, and independents coming together, saying, hey, we are all concerned about making sure that we have clean water to drink for our families, that we have clean air to breathe, that we're able to raise our kids in a community that's safe.\n\nIt is the hyper-partisanship in Washington, unfortunately, that has created this gridlock that has stood in the way of the kinds of progress that I would bring about as president, transitioning our country off of fossil fuels and ending the nearly $30 billion in subsidies that we as taxpayers are currently giving to the fossil fuel industry, instead investing in a green renewable energy economy that leads us into the 21st century with good-paying jobs, a sustainable economy, investing in infrastructure, and transitioning our agriculture -- that is a great contributor to the environmental threats we face -- towards an agriculture system that focuses on local and regional production of food, healthy food that will actually feed the health and well-being of our people, leading as a -- as a leader in the world to make the global change necessary to address these threats.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Thank you. Thank you, Congresswoman. I want to bring in Mr. Steyer on this. You've made climate change a central point of your political career. To this issue of making change -- changes that last, making changes that are permanent, could you address that, sir?", Entity["Person", "TomSteyer::b5k62"] -> "Rachel, I'm the only person on this stage who will say that climate is the number-one priority for me. Vice President Biden won't say it. Senator Warren won't say it. It's a state of emergency, and I would declare a state of emergency on day one. I would use the emergency powers of the presidency.\n\nI know that we have to do this. I've spent a decade fighting and beating oil companies, stopping pipelines, stopping fossil fuel plants, ensuring clean energy across the country. I know that we have to do this. I also know that we can do this.\n\nI would make this the number-one priority of my foreign policy, as well. We can do this and create literally millions of good-paying union jobs across this country. I would make sure that my climate policy was led by environmental justice and members of the communities where this society has chosen to put our air and water pollution, which are low-income black and brown communities. And when we ask, how are we going to pull this country together, how about this: We take on the biggest challenge in history, we save the world, and we do it together. Do you think that would pull America together? I do.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Quickly, Vice President Biden, you were name-checked there. I'd like to give you a chance to respond.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Yeah, I was. I think it is the existential threat to humanity. It's the number-one issue. And I might add, I don't really need a kind of a lecture from -- from my friend. While I was passing the first climate change bill and that PolitiFact said was a game-changer, while I managed the $90 billion recovery plan, investing more money in infrastructure that related to clean energy than any time we've ever done it, my friend was introducing more coal mines and produced more coal around the world, according to the press, than all of Great Britain produces.\n\nNow, he's -- I welcome him back into the fold here, and he's been there for a long while. But the idea that we talk about where we started and how we are, let's get this straight. I think it is the existential threat of all time.", Entity["Person", "TomSteyer::b5k62"] -> "Can I respond to that, Rachel?", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Thank you, Mr. Vice President. You may respond, Mr. Steyer.", Entity["Person", "TomSteyer::b5k62"] -> "Look, I came to the conclusion over 10 years ago that climate was the absolute problem of our society and it was the unintended consequence of our whole country being based on fossil fuels. Everybody in this room has lived in an economy based on fossil fuels. And we all have to come to the same conclusion that I came to over a decade ago.\n\nIf we're waiting for Congress to pass one of the bills -- and I know everybody on this stage cares about this. But Congress has never passed an important climate bill ever. This is a problem which continues to get worse. That's why I'm saying it's a state of emergency. That's why I'm saying it's priority one. If it isn't priority one, it's not going to get done.\n\nAnd this is something where we absolutely have to address it upfront. We have to make it the most important thing. And we can use it to rebuild and reimagine what the United States is. We can be the moral leaders of the world again, while we clean up our air and water and create millions of good-paying jobs.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Senator Sanders, I'm going to ask you to jump in here.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "I was also named in that.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Tom, you stated...", "Rachel Maddow" -> "You were.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "You talked about the need to make climate change a national emergency. I've introduced legislation to just do that.\n\nNow, I disagree with the thrust of the original question, because your question has said, what are we going to do in decades? We don't have decades. What the scientists are telling us, if we don't get our act together within the next eight or nine years, we're talking about cities all over the world, major cities going underwater, we're talking about increased drought, talking about increased extreme weather disturbances.\n\nThe United Nations is telling us that in the years to come there are going to be hundreds of millions of climate refugees causing national security issues all over the world.\n\nWhat we have got to do tonight, and I will do as president, is to tell the fossil fuel industry that their short-term profits are not more important than the future of this planet. And by the way, the fossil fuel industry is probably criminally liable, because they have lied and lied and lied when they had the evidence that their carbon products were destroying the planet, and maybe we should think about prosecuting them, as well.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Thank you, Senator Sanders.\nAndrea?", "Andrea Mitchell" -> "President Trump has dramatically changed America's approach to our adversaries by holding summits with Kim Jong Un, getting out of the Iran nuclear deal, and at times embracing Vladimir Putin and other strongmen. So let's talk about what kind of commander-in-chief you would be.\n\nSenator Harris, North Korea is now threatening to cancel any future summits if President Trump does not make concessions on nuclear weapons. If you were commander-in-chief, would you make concessions to Kim Jong-un in order to keep those talks going?", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "With all due deference to the fact that this is presidential debate, Donald Trump got punked. He was -- he has conducted foreign policy since day one born out of a very fragile ego that fails to understand that one of the most important responsibilities of the commander-in-chief is to concern herself with the security of our nation and homeland.\nAnd to do it in a way that understands that part of the strength of who we are as a nation -- and therefore, an extension of our ability to be secure -- is not only that we have a vibrant military, but that when we walk in any room around the globe, we are respected because we keep to our word, we are consistent, we speak truth, and we are loyal.\n\nWhat Donald Trump has done from pulling out of the Paris agreement to pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal to consistently turning a back on people who have stood with us in difficult times, including most recently the Kurds, points out that Donald Trump is the greatest threat to the national security of our nation at this moment.", "Andrea Mitchell" -> "But would you make concessions to North Korea to keep talks...", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "Not at this point. There are no concessions to be made. They -- he has traded a photo-op for nothing. He has abandoned the -- by shutting down the operations with South Korea for the last year-and-a-half, so those operations, which should be -- and those exercises, which should be active, because they are in our best national security, the relationship that we have with Japan, he has in every way compromised our ability to have any influence on slowing down or at least having a check and balance on North Korea's nuclear program.", "Andrea Mitchell" -> "Thank you, Senator.\n\nMr. Vice President, President Trump inherited the North Korea problem from past presidents, over decades. What would a President Biden do that President Obama didn't do in eight years?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Well, first of all, I'd go back in making sure we had the alliances we had before since he became president. He has absolutely ostracized us from South Korea. He has given North Korea everything they wanted, creating the legitimacy by having a meeting with Kim Jong-un, who's a thug -- although he points out that I'm a rabid dog who needs to be beaten with a stick, very recently was his comment.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "But other than that, you like him.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Other than that, I like him.\nAnd in Japan and Australia, and being a Pacific power, and putting pressure on China in order -- for them to make sure that it is a non -- it is a nuclear-free peninsula. And the way we do that is, we make clear to China, which I have done personally with -- with the president of China, and that is we're going to move up our defenses, we're going to continue to make sure we increase our relationship with South Korea, and if they view that as a threat, it's an easy thing to respond to. They, in fact, can, in fact, put pressure on North Korea.\n\nBut the fact is that we're in a position where he has done this across the world. He's embraced thugs. Look what Putin is doing in Europe. Putin is -- his whole effort is to break up NATO, to increase his power. Look what he's done to -- and so this guy has no idea what he's doing. He has no notion how to go about it. And we need a commander-in-chief who when he stands everybody knows what he or she is talking about.", "Andrea Mitchell" -> "Thank you, Mr. Vice President.\n\nTwo more U.S. soldiers were killed today in Afghanistan tragically in America's longest war. Senator Sanders, you've long said you wanted to bring the troops back home from Afghanistan. Would you cut a deal with the Taliban to end the war, even if it means the collapse of the Afghan government that America has long supported?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Well, let me just say this. One of the big differences between the vice president and myself is he supported the terrible war in Iraq and I helped lead the opposition against it. And not only that, I voted against the very first Gulf War, as well.\n\nAnd I think we need a foreign policy which understands who our enemies are, that we don't have to spend ten -- more than -- more money on the military than the next 10 nations combined.\n\nBut to answer your question, yeah, I think it is time after spending many trillions of dollars on these endless wars, which have resulted in more dislocation and mass migrations and pain in that region, it is time to bring our troops home.\n\nBut unlike Trump, I will not do it through a tweet at 3 o'clock in the morning. I will do it working with the international community. And if it's necessary to negotiate with the Taliban, of course we will do that. But at the end of the day, we have to rethink the entire war on terror, which has caused so much pain and lost so many lives, not only for our own men and women in the armed forces, but for people in that region, as well.", "Andrea Mitchell" -> "Thank you, Senator.\n\nAshley?", "Ashley Parker" -> "Thank you. Mr. Yang, if you win the 2020 election, what would you say in your first call with Russian President Vladimir Putin?", Entity["Person", "AndrewYang::f7w42"] -> "Well, first, I'd say I'm sorry I beat your guy.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "It's a sorry, not sorry.", Entity["Person", "AndrewYang::f7w42"] -> "Or not sorry.\nAnd, second, I would say the days of meddling in American elections are over and we will take any undermining of our democratic processes as an act of hostility and aggression. The American people would back me on this. We know that they've found an underbelly and they've been clawing at it, and it's made it so that we can't even trust our own democracy.\n\nThe third thing I would say is that we're going to live up to our international commitments. We're going to recommit to our partnerships and alliances, including NATO. And it was James Mattis that said that the more you invest in diplomats and diplomacy, the less you have to spend on ammunition.\n\nThat has to be the path forward to help build an international consensus not just against Russia, but also to build a coalition that will help us put pressure on China, in terms of their treatment of their ethnic minorities, and what's going on in Hong Kong.\n\nI want to propose a new world data organization, like a WTO for data, because right now, unfortunately, we're living in a world where data is the new oil and we don't have our arms around it. These are the ways that we'll actually get Russia to the table and make it so they have to join the international community and stop resisting appeals to the world order.", "Ashley Parker" -> "Thank you, Mr. Yang.\nRachel?", "Rachel Maddow" -> "On the issue of China, Senator Booker, China is now using force against demonstrators in Hong Kong where millions have taken to the streets advocating for democratic reforms. Many of the demonstrators are asking the United States for help. If you were president, would the U.S. help their movement, and how?", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "Well, first of all, this is president who seems to want to go up against China in a trade war by pulling away from our allies and, in fact, attacking them, as well. We used a national security waiver to put tariffs on Canada. And so at the very time that China is breaking international rules, is practicing unfair practices, stealing technology, forcing technology transfer, and violating human rights, this nation is pulling away from critical allies we would need to show strength against China.\n\nThere's a larger battle going on, on the planet Earth right now between totalitarian, dictatorial countries and free democracies. And we see the scorecard under this president not looking so good, with China actually shifting more towards an authoritarian government, with its leader now getting rid of even his -- getting rid of term limits.\n\nAnd so I believe we need a much stronger policy, one that's not led, as President Trump seems to want to do, in a transactional way, but one that's led by American values. So, yes, we will call China out for its human rights violations.\n\nBut not only that, we will stop engaging in things that violate American rights. Because it is a human rights violation when people at our border, children are thrown in cages. It's a human right violations without coming to the United States Congress for an authorization for the use of military force for us to refuel Saudi jets to bomb Yemeni children. It is about time that this country is led by someone who will say the values of freedom and democracy are what we are going to lead with and begin to check China, check Putin, and the other folks that are trying to undermine American values and democratic values around the globe.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Thank you, Senator. Andrea?", "Andrea Mitchell" -> "Mr. Vice President, the CIA has concluded that the leader of Saudi Arabia directed the murder of U.S.-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The State Department also says the Saudi government is responsible for executing nonviolent offenders and for torture. President Trump has not punished senior Saudi leaders. Would you?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Yes, and I said it at the time. Khashoggi was, in fact, murdered and dismembered, and I believe on the order of the crown prince. And I would make it very clear we were not going to, in fact, sell more weapons to them, we were going to, in fact, make them pay the price and make them, in fact, the pariah that they are. There's very little social redeeming value of the -- in the present government in Saudi Arabia.\n\nAnd I would also, as pointed out, I would end -- end subsidies that we have, end the sale of material to the Saudis where they're going in and murdering children, and they're murdering innocent people. And so they have to be held accountable.\n\nAnd with regard to China, we should -- look, unless we make it clear that we stand for human rights, we should be going to the United Nations seeking condemnation of China, what they're doing with the million Uighurs that are there, essentially in concentration camps in the west. We should be vocally, vocally speaking out about the violation of the commitment they made to Hong Kong. We have to speak out and speak loudly about violations of human rights.", "Andrea Mitchell" -> "Senator Klobuchar, just to follow up, would you go against the Saudis, even though that would potentially help Iran, their adversaries?", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "We need a new foreign policy in this country, and that means renewing our relationships with our allies. It means rejoining international agreements. And it means reasserting our American values.\n\nAnd so when the president did not stand up the way he should have to that killing and that dismemberment of a journalist with an American newspaper, that sent a signal to all dictators across the country that -- across the world that that was OK, and that's wrong.\n\nAnd I want to add a few things to what my colleagues have said, first of all, the question about Russia. When we look at international agreements, we must start negotiating back with Russia, which has been a horrible player on the international scene, but the president precipitously got out of the nuclear agreement with Russia and we must start negotiating, even though they were cheating, for the good of this world. And we must also start the negotiations for the New START Treaty.\n\nAnd when it comes to China, we need someone that sees the long term, like I do, just like the Chinese do, because we have a president that literally makes decisions based on his next tweet, and they are in it for the long game.", "Andrea Mitchell" -> "Senator Sanders?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "I think I may have been the first person up here to make it clear that Saudi Arabia not only murdered Khashoggi, but this is a brutal dictatorship which does everything it can to crush democracy, treats women as third-class citizens. And when we rethink our American foreign policy, what we have got to know is that Saudi Arabia is not a reliable ally.\n\nWe have got to bring Iran and Saudi Arabia together in a room under American leadership and say we are sick and tired of us spending huge amounts of money and human resources because of your conflicts.\n\nAnd by the way, the same thing goes with Israel and the Palestinians. It is no longer good enough for us simply to be pro-Israel. I am pro-Israel. But we must treat the Palestinian people as well with the respect and dignity that they deserve.\nWhat is going on in Gaza right now, where youth unemployment is 70 percent or 80 percent, is unsustainable. So we need to be rethinking who our allies are around the world, work with the United Nations, and not continue to support brutal dictatorships.", "Andrea Mitchell" -> "Thank you, Senator. Rachel?", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Senator Warren, only about 1 percent of Americans serve in the United States military right now. Should that number be higher?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "Yes, I think it should be. You know, all three of my brothers served in the military. One was career military. The other two also served. I think it's an important part of who we are as Americans. And I think the notion of shared service is important.\n\nIt's how we help bring our nation together. It's how people learn to work together from different regions, people who grew up differently. It's also about how families share that sacrifice.\n\nI remember what it was like when I was a little girl. My brother, my oldest brother, who served five-and-a-half years off and on in combat in Vietnam, what it was like for my mother every day to check the mailbox, had we heard from Don Reed? How is he doing? And if there was a letter, she was brighter than the day. And if there wasn't, she would say, well, maybe tomorrow.\n\nThis is about building for our entire nation. And I believe we should do that. I also believe we should have other service opportunities in this country. So, for example, what I want to do is for our federal lands, I want to bring in 10,000 people who want to be able to serve in our federal lands to be able to help rebuild our national forests and national parks as a way to express both their public service and their commitment to fighting back against climate change. We can do this as a nation.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Thank you, Senator. In President Trump's first two years in office, the Pentagon budget ballooned. Mayor Buttigieg, would you cut military spending? Or would you keep it on the same upward trajectory?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "We need to re-prioritize our budget as a whole and our military spending in particular. It's not just how much, although we certainly need to look at the runaway growth in military spending. It's also where.\n\nRight now, we are spending a fraction of the attention and resources on things like the artificial intelligence research that China is doing right now. If we fall behind on artificial intelligence, the most expensive ships that the United States is building just turned into bigger targets.\n\nWe do not have a 21st century security strategy coming from this president. After all, he's relying on 17th century security technologies, like a moat full of alligators or a big wall.\nThere is no concept of strategic planning for how civilian, diplomatic, and military security work needs to take place for the future.", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "Can I respond?", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Mayor Buttigieg, thank you.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "Could I respond on this?", "Kristen Welker" -> "Coming up, we will have much more from the candidates. We're going to take a quick break, just a moment. Stay with us.", "Kristen Welker" -> "Welcome back, everyone, to the fifth Democratic debate. Let's move now to the issue of race in America. FBI Director Christopher Wray recently told Congress, quote, \"The majority of the domestic terrorism cases that we've investigated are motivated by white supremacist violence.\"\n\nCongresswoman Gabbard, to you. As president, would you direct the federal government to do something about this problem that it is not currently doing?", Entity["Person", "TulsiGabbard::839d6"] -> "Yes, I would. We have seen for far too long the kind of racial bigotry, divisiveness, and attacks that unfortunately have taken the lives of our fellow Americans. Leadership starts at the top. It\[CloseCurlyQuote]s important that we set the record straight and correct the racial injustices that exist in a very institutional way in our country, beginning with things that have to do with our criminal justice system, where predominantly the failed war on drugs that has been continuing to be waged in this country has disproportionately impacted people of color and people in poverty.\n\nThis is something that I'll do as president and commander-in-chief, is to overhaul our criminal justice system, working in a bipartisan way to do things like end the failed war on drugs, end the money bail system, enact the kinds of prison reforms and sentencing reforms that we need to see that will correct the failures of the past.\n\nThe most important thing here is that we recognize that we have to treat each other with respect, all of us as fellow Americans, regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, gender, orientation, and our politics. That kind of leadership starts at the top. As president, I will usher in a 21st century White House that actually represents the interests of all Americans, first and foremost.", "Kristen Welker" -> "Congresswoman Gabbard, thank you for that.\n\nMr. Yang, what would you do about the issue of white supremacist violence?", Entity["Person", "AndrewYang::f7w42"] -> "Well, first, we have to designate white supremacist terrorism as domestic terrorism so that the Department of Justice can properly measure it.\nI talked to an anti-hate activist named Christian Picciolini who told me about how he was radicalized over a 10-year period. He said he was a lonely 14-year-old and that he was reached out to by a hate group and he wound up joining it for a decade. Now he's out and he's helping convert people out of those hate groups and back into the rest of society.\n\nBut what he told me was that if anyone had reached out to him when he was that hurt, broken 14-year-old boy, he would have gone with them. He said if it had been a coach, I would have gone with him, if it had been a mentor or a teacher, I would have gone with them, but instead it was a hate group.\n\nSo what we have to do is we have to get into the roots of our communities and create paths forward for men in particular who right now are falling through the cracks. And when you look at gun violence in this country, 96 percent-plus of the shooters we're talking about are young boys and young men. We have to as a country start finding ways to turn our boys into healthy, strong young men who do not hate, but instead feel like they have paths forward in today's economy.", "Kristen Welker" -> "Mr. Yang, thank you for that.\n\nVice President Biden, the \"Me, Too\" movement has forced a cultural reckoning around the issue of sexual violence and harassment against women in America. Are there specific actions that you would take early in your administration to address this problem?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Yes. And by the way, it's one of the reasons -- the first thing I would do is make sure we pass the Violence Against Women Act reauthorization, which I wrote. The fact -- I didn't write the reauthorization. I wrote the original act.\n\nThe fact is that what happens now is that we, in fact, have to fundamentally change the culture, the culture of how women are treated. That's why as vice president -- and when I asked the president, I could start the movement on the college campuses to say it's on us. It's everyone's responsibility.\n\nWe do not spend nearly enough time dealing with -- I was stunned when I did a virtual town meeting that told me 30,000 people were on the call, young people between 15 and 25, and found out I said, what do you need -- what do you need to make you safer on college campuses and on your schools? You know what they said? Get men involved, engage the rest of the community.\n\nAnd that's when we started this movement on the college campuses to fundamentally change the culture. No man has a right to raise a hand to a woman in anger, other than in self-defense, and that's -- rarely ever occurs. And so we have to just change the culture, period, and keep punching at it and punching at it and punching at it. It will be a big -- no, I really mean it. It's a gigantic issue. And we have to make it clear from the top, from the president on down, that we will not tolerate it. We will not tolerate this culture.", "Kristen Welker" -> "Mr. Vice President, thank you.\n\nSenator Harris, this week, you criticized Mayor Pete Buttigieg's outreach to African-American voters. You said, quote, \"The Democratic nominee has got to be someone who has the experience of connecting with all of who we are, as the diversity of the American people,\" end quote. What exactly prompted you to say that, Senator Harris?", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "Well, I was asked a question that related to a stock photograph that his campaign published. But, listen, I think that it really speaks to a larger issue, and I'll speak to the larger issue. I believe that the mayor has made apologies for that.\n\nThe larger issue is that for too long I think candidates have taken for granted constituencies that have been the backbone of the Democratic Party and have overlooked those constituencies and have -- you know, they show up when it's, you know, close to election time and show up in a black church and want to get the vote, but just haven't been there before.\n\nI mean, you know, the -- there are plenty of people who applauded black women for the success of the 2018 election, applauded black women for the election of a senator from Alabama. But, you know, at some point, folks get tired of just saying, oh, you know, thank me for showing up and -- and say, well, show up for me.\n\nBecause when black women...\nWhen black women are three to four times more likely to die in connection with childbirth in America, when the sons of black women will die because of gun violence more than any other cause of death, when black women make 61 cents on the dollar as compared to all women, who tragically make 80 cents on the dollar, the question has to be, where you been? And what are you going to do? And do you understand who the people are?\nAnd I'm running for president because I believe that we have to have leadership in this country who has worked with and have the experience of working with all folks. And we've got to re-create the Obama coalition to win. And that means about women, that's people of color, that's our LGBTQ community, that's working people, that's our labor unions. But that is how we are going to win this election, and I intend to win.", "Kristen Welker" -> "Senator Harris, thank you.\n\nMayor Buttigieg, your response to that.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "My response is, I completely agree. And I welcome the challenge of connecting with black voters in America who don't yet know me.\n\nAnd before I share what's in my plans, let me talk about what's in my heart and why this is so important. As mayor of a city that is racially diverse and largely low income, for eight years, I have lived and breathed the successes and struggles of a community where far too many people live with the consequences of racial inequity that has built-up over centuries but been compounded by policies and decisions from within living memory.\n\nI care about this because my faith teaches me that salvation has to do with how I make myself useful to those who have been excluded, marginalized, and cast aside and oppressed in society.\n\nAnd I care about this because, while I do not have the experience of ever having been discriminated against because of the color of my skin, I do have the experience of sometimes feeling like a stranger in my own country, turning on the news and seeing my own rights come up for debate, and seeing my rights expanded by a coalition of people like me and people not at all like me, working side by side, shoulder to shoulder, making it possible for me to be standing here. Wearing this wedding ring in a way that couldn't have happened two elections ago lets me know just how deep my obligation is to help those whose rights are on the line every day, even if they are nothing like me in their experience.", "Kristen Welker" -> "Mayor Buttigieg, thank you very much.\nSenator Harris, quick response?", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "Look, there's a lot at stake in this election, and I've said it many times, I think justice is on the ballot in 2020. And it's about economic justice. It's about justice for children. It's about justice for our teachers. I could go on down the list.\n\nAnd so the issue really is not what is the fight. The issue has to be, how are we going to win? And to win, we have to build a coalition and rebuild the Obama coalition. I keep referring to that because that's the last time we won.\n\nAnd the way that that election looked and what that coalition looked like was it was about having a leader who had worked in many communities, knows those communities, and has the ability to bring people together. And everyone is going to have to be judged on their experience and, therefore, ability to bring folks together around our commonalities, of which I believe there are many.", "Kristen Welker" -> "Thank you, Senator.\n\nSenator Warren, quickly?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "So I think it is really important that we actually talk about what we're willing to get in the fight for. And I just want to give one example around this. Senator Harris rightly raised the question of economic justice.\n\nLet me give a specific example, and that is student loan debt. Right now in America, African-Americans are more likely to borrow money to go to college, borrow more money while they're in college, and have a harder time paying that debt off after they get out. Today in America, a new study came out, 20 years out, whites who borrowed money, 94 percent of them have paid off their student loan debt, 5 percent of African-Americans have paid it off.\n\nI believe that means everyone on this stage should be embracing student loan debt forgiveness. It will help close the black-white wealth gap. Let's do something tangible and real to make change in this country.", "Kristen Welker" -> "Senator Warren, thank you. Ashley?", "Ashley Parker" -> "Senator Warren, back to you. You've said that the border wall that President Trump has proposed is, quote, \"a monument to hate and division.\" Would you ask taxpayers to pay to take down any part of the wall on the nation's southern border?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "If there are parts of the wall that are not useful in our defense, of course we should do it. The real point here is that we need to stop this manmade crisis at the border.\n\nTrump is the one who has created this crisis, and he has done it in no small part by helping destabilize the governments even further in Central America. He has withdrawn aid. That means that families have to flee for their lives, have to flee for any economic opportunity.\n\nYou know, when I found out that our government was actually taking away children from their families, I went down to the border. I went down there immediately. I was in McAllen, Texas, and I just hope everyone remembers what this looks like. There's like a giant Amazon warehouse filled with cages of women, cages of men, and cages of little girls and little boys.\n\nI spoke to a woman who was in the cage of nursing mothers, and she told me she'd given a drink to a police officer and that the word had come down from the gangs that she was helping the police. She knew what that meant. She wrapped up her baby and she ran for the border.\n\nWe need to treat the people who come here with dignity and with respect. A great nation does not separate children from their families. We need to live our values at the border every single day.", "Ashley Parker" -> "Thank you, Senator.\n\nSenator Booker, a quick response.", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "Look, I want to be quick on this because I'd like to get back to something I wasn't included in, is...", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "So would we all.", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "Absolutely, if this is not effective, we see people cutting holes in this wall, his wall, the way he brags about it, it's just wrong. We need to have policies that respect dignity, keep us safe and strong.\n\nI wanted to return back to this issue of black voters. I have a lifetime of experience with black voters; I've been one since I was 18.\nNobody on this stage should need a focus group to hear from African-American voters. Black voters are pissed off, and they're worried. They're pissed off because the only time our issues seem to be really paid attention to by politicians is when people are looking for their vote. And they're worried because the Democratic Party, we don't want to see people miss this opportunity and lose because we are nominating someone that doesn't -- isn't trusted, doesn't have authentic connection.\n\nAnd so that\[CloseCurlyQuote]s what\[CloseCurlyQuote]s on the ballot. And issues do matter. I have a lot of respect for the vice president. He has sworn me into my office as a hero. This week, I hear him literally say that I don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t think we should legalize marijuana. I thought you might have been high when you said it.\nAnd let me tell you, because -- because marijuana -- marijuana -- marijuana in our country is already legal for privileged people. And it's -- the war on drugs has been a war on black and brown people.\nAnd so let me just -- let me just say this. With more African-Americans under criminal supervision in America than all the slaves since 1850, do not roll up into communities and not talk directly to issues that are going to relate to the liberation of children, because there are people in Congress right now that admit to smoking marijuana, while there are people -- our kids are in jail right now for those drug crimes.\nAnd so these are the kind of issues that mean a lot to our community. And if we don't have somebody authentically -- we lost the last election. Let me just give you this data example.", "Ashley Parker" -> "Quickly. Quickly, please.", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "We lost in Wisconsin because of a massive diminution -- a lot of reasons, but there was a massive diminution in the African-American vote. We need to have someone that can inspire, as Kamala said, to inspire African-Americans to the polls in record numbers.", "Ashley Parker" -> "Thank you, Senator Booker. Vice President Biden, you can respond to that.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "I'll be very brief. Number one, I think we should decriminalize marijuana, period. And I think everyone -- anyone who has a record should be let out of jail, their records expunged, be completely zeroed out.\n\nBut I do think it makes sense, based on data, that we should study what the long-term effects are for the use of marijuana. That's all it is. Number one, everybody gets out, record expunged.\n\nSecondly, I'm -- you know, I'm part of that Obama coalition. I come out of a black community, in terms of my support. If you notice, I have more people supporting me in the black community that have announced for me because they know me, they know who I am. Three former chairs of the black caucus, the only African-American woman that's ever been elected to the United States Senate, a whole range of people...", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "No, that's not true.", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "That's not true.", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "The other one is here.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "No, I said the first. I said the first African-American woman. The first African-American woman.\nSo my point is -- my point is that one of the reasons I was picked to be vice president was because of my relationship, longstanding relationship with the black community. I was part of that coalition.", "Ashley Parker" -> "Thank you. Kristen?", "Kristen Welker" -> "And we do have to take another quick break, but we are going to hear much more from the candidates when we come right back here in Atlanta, Georgia. Stay with us.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Welcome back to the MSNBC-Washington Post Democratic candidates debate. Many states, including right here where we are tonight in Georgia, have passed laws that severely limit or outright ban abortion. Right now, Roe v. Wade protects a woman's right to abortion nationwide. But if Roe gets overturned and abortion access disappears in some states, would you intervene as president to try to bring that access back?\n\nSenator Klobuchar?", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "Well, of course. We should codify Roe v. Wade into law. That is what we should do.\nAnd this president indicated early on what he was going to do, and he's done it. When he was running for office, he literally said women should go to jail. Then he dialed it back and said doctors should go to jail. So no surprise that we're seeing these kinds of laws in Georgia, in Alabama, where his allies are passing these bills.\n\nAnd what we have to remember is that the people are with us. And I predict this will be a big election -- issue in the general election. And I just can't wait to stand across from Donald Trump and say this to him. You know what? The people are with us. Over 70 percent of the people support Roe v. Wade. Over 90 percent of the people support funding for Planned Parenthood and making sure that women can get the health care they need.\nHe is off the track on this, and he will hear from the women of America, and this is how we're going to win this election.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Just this weekend, Louisiana re-elected a Democratic governor, John Bel Edwards. He has signed one of the country's toughest laws restricting abortion. Is there room in the Democratic Party for someone like him, someone who can win in a deep red state but who does not support abortion rights?\n\nSenator Warren?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "Look, I believe that abortion rights are human rights. I believe that they are also economic rights. And protecting the right of a woman to be able to make decisions about her own body is fundamentally what we do and what we stand for as a Democratic Party.\n\nUnderstand this. When someone makes abortion illegal in America, rich women will still get abortions. It's just going to fall hard on poor women. It's going to fall hard on girls, women who don't even know that they're pregnant because they have been molested by an uncle. I want to be an America where everybody has a chance.\n\nAnd I know it can be a hard decision for people. But here's the thing. When it comes down to that decision, a woman should be able to call on her mother, she should be able to call on her partner, she should be able to call on her priest or her rabbi. But the one entity that should not be in the middle of that decision is the government.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Senator Warren, I'm going to push you on this a little bit for a specific answer to the question. Governor John Bel Edwards in Louisiana is an anti-abortion governor who has signed abortion restrictions in Louisiana. Is there room for him in the Democratic Party with those politics?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "I have made clear what I think the Democratic Party stands for. I'm not here to try to drive anyone out of this party. I'm not here to try to build fences. But I am here to say, this is what I will fight for as president of the United States. The women of America can count on that.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Senator Warren, thank you. Senator Sanders, I'll give you 30 seconds.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Let me just -- Amy mentioned that women feel strongly on it. Well, let me just tell you that if there's ever a time in American history where the men of this country must stand with the women, this is the moment.\nAnd I get very tired, very tired of hearing the hypocrisy from conservatives who say get the government off our backs, we want small government. Well, if you want to get the government out of the backs of the American people, then understand that it is women who control their own bodies, not politicians.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Senator Sanders, thank you.", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "This is a voting issue.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Senator Booker?", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "This is a voting issue. This is a voter suppression issue. Right here in this great state of Georgia, it was the voter suppression, particularly of African-American communities, that prevented us from having a Governor Stacey Abrams right now.\nAnd that is, when you have undemocratic means, when you suppress people's votes to get elected, those are the very people you're going to come after when you're in office. And this bill, opposed by over 70 percent -- the heartbeat bill here -- opposed by over 70 percent of Georgians, is the result from voter suppression. This gets back to the issue about making sure we are fighting every single day, that whoever is the nominee, they can overcome the attempts to suppress the votes, particularly of low-income and minority voters, and particularly in the black community, like we saw here in Georgia.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Senator Booker, thank you.\n\nAnd to that point, individual states, as you all know, set their own rules for voting and for elections. Depending on where you live, you may be required to show ID or not. You might have a lot of days for early voting or fewer days or none. You might have a polling place in walking distance or you might have to drive or take a bus to the edge of town.\n\nWith that in mind, our next question comes from Jenna in Maryland, who asks, what will you do at the executive level to ensure that every American has equal access to the ballot box?\n\nMayor Buttigieg?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "Well, we need federal leadership to establish voting rights for the 21st century, because this affects every other issue that we care about. Now, the House of Representatives passed a pro-democracy, anti-corruption bill, which is one of many good bills to die in Mitch McConnell's hands in the United States Senate.\n\nWe know that with the White House in the right hands, we can make, for example, Election Day a federal holiday. We can use carrots and sticks to induce states to do the right thing with automatic voter registration, same-day voter registration, making it easier for people to vote and, in particular, recognizing that we cannot allow the kind of racially motivated or partisan voter suppression or gerrymandering that often dictates the outcome of elections before the voting even begins.\n\nRight now, we have politicians picking out their voters, rather than the other way around. That compounding with what is being done to restrict the right to vote means that our democracy is not worthy of the name.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "I just -- I want to add this...", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "And while these process issues are not always fashionable, we must act to reform our democracy itself, including when it comes to choosing our presidency...", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Senator Klobuchar...", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "... like we do in every other election, giving it to the person who got the most votes.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "I want to point out...", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "I agree with what the mayor has just said, but this is a good example where he has said the right words, but I actually have the experience and of leading 11 of the bills that are in that House-passed bill you just referred to.\n\nAnd I think this kind of experience matters. I have been devoted to this from the time that I've got to the Senate. And I think having that experience, knowing how you can get things done, leading the bills to take the social media companies to task, a bipartisan bill to say, yeah, you have to say where these ads come from and how they're paid for, and stop the unbelievable practice where we still have 11 states that don't have backup paper ballots. That is my bipartisan bill. And I am so close to getting it done. And the way I get it done is if I'm president.\n\nBut just like I have won statewide and mayor, I have all appreciation for your good work as a local official, and you did not when you tried, I also have actually done this work. I think experience should matter.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Mayor Buttigieg, I'll let you respond to that.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "So, first of all, Washington experience is not the only experience that matters. There's more than 100 years of Washington experience on this stage, and where are we right now as a country?\n\nI have the experience of bringing people together to get something done. I have the experience of being commanded into a war zone by an American president. I have the experience of knowing what is at stake as the decisions made in those big white buildings come into our lives, our homes, our families, our workplaces, and our marriages. And I would submit that this is the kind of experience we need, not just to go to Washington, but to change it before it is too late.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Mr. Mayor, thank you. Congresswoman Gabbard, on the original question of voting rights, please.", Entity["Person", "TulsiGabbard::839d6"] -> "Thank you. I mean, voting rights are essential for our democracy. Securing our elections is essential for our democracy. I've introduced legislation called the Securing Americas Elections Act that mandates paper ballots to make sure that every single voter's voice is heard.\n\nBut I want to get back to Pete Buttigieg and his comments about experience. Pete, you'll agree that the service that we both have provided to our country as veterans by itself does not qualify us to serve as commander-in-chief. I think the most recent example of your inexperience in national security and foreign policy came from your recent careless statement about how you as president would be willing to send our troops to Mexico to fight the cartels.\n\nAs commander-in-chief, leader of our armed forces, I bring extensive experience, serving for seven years in Congress, on the Foreign Affairs Committee, on the Armed Services Committee, on the Homeland Security Committee, meeting with leaders of countries around the world, working with military commanders of different commands...", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Congresswoman, thank you.", Entity["Person", "TulsiGabbard::839d6"] -> "... dealing with high-level national security briefings, understanding what's necessary, the preparation that I've gotten to walk in on day one to serve as commander-in-chief.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Congresswoman, thank you. Mr. Mayor, I'll allow you to respond.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "So I've got to respond to that. I know that it's par for the course in Washington to take remarks out of context, but that is outlandish even by the standards of today's politics.", Entity["Person", "TulsiGabbard::839d6"] -> "Are you saying that you didn't say that?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "I was talking about U.S.-Mexico cooperation. We've been doing security cooperation with Mexico for years, with law enforcement cooperation and a military relationship that could continue to be developed with training relationships, for example. Do you seriously think anybody on this stage is proposing invading Mexico?", Entity["Person", "TulsiGabbard::839d6"] -> "That's not what I said. That's not what I said.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "I'm talking about building up -- I'm talking about building up alliances. And if your question is about experience, let's also talk about judgment. One of the foreign leaders you mentioned meeting was Bashar al-Assad. I have in my experience, such as it is, whether you think it counts or not since it wasn't accumulated in Washington, enough judgment that I would not have sat down with a murderous dictator like that.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Congresswoman Gabbard, let me allow you to respond.", Entity["Person", "TulsiGabbard::839d6"] -> "Thank you. You were asked directly whether you would send our troops to Mexico to fight cartels and your answer was yes. The fact-checkers can check this out.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "No.", Entity["Person", "TulsiGabbard::839d6"] -> "But your point about judgment is absolutely correct. Our commander-in-chief does need to have good judgment. And what you've just pointed out is that you would lack the courage to meet with both adversaries and friends to ensure the peace and national security of our nation. I take the example of those leaders who have come before us, leaders like JFK, who met with Khrushchev, like Roosevelt, who met with Stalin.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "Like Donald Trump who met with Kim.", Entity["Person", "TulsiGabbard::839d6"] -> "Like Reagan, who met -- like Reagan, who met and worked with Gorbachev. These issues of national security are incredibly important. I will meet with and do what is necessary to make sure that no more of our brothers and sisters in uniform are needlessly sent into harm's way fighting regime change wars that undermine our national security. I'll bring real leadership and experience to the White House.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Congresswoman Gabbard...", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "I've got to respond to this. This is a direct...", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Senator Sanders, I'm going to have you respond.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "To your original point, the American people understand that the political system we have today is corrupt. And it is not just voter suppression, which cost the Democratic Party a governorship here in this state, not just denying black people and people of color the right to vote, but we also have a system through Citizens United which allows billionaires to buy elections.\n\nSo what we need to do, simple and straightforward, in every state in this country through the federal government, if you are 18, you have a right to vote, end of discussion.\nWe have to overturn Citizens United. We need to move toward public funding of elections.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "On this last point, Mr. Steyer.", Entity["Person", "TomSteyer::b5k62"] -> "I agree exactly with what Bernie said, but I want to talk about how we're going to win in 2020. I don't mean to change the subject, but I think it's sort of important that the Democratic Party not only beat Donald Trump in 2020 but have a sweeping victory across the country. And what that's going to mean is turnout.\n\nIn the United States of America, the Democratic Party keeps talking about trying to persuade a few people who are Republicans to like us, when up to half the people don't vote at all because they think neither party tells the truth, no one deals with my issues, the system is broken, why would we vote?\n\nBut what we've found at NextGen America is that is the start of a conversation about why votes are so important. And if you look at 2018 and flipping the House, what really happened was Democratic voting went up by three-quarters. In the 38 congressional districts where NextGen America was turning out young people, the turnout went up by more than 100 percent, more than double.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Thank you, Mr. Steyer.", Entity["Person", "TomSteyer::b5k62"] -> "So for us to win, for everybody on this stage, for whoever's the candidate, to have a Senate that's Democratic, for us to have the sweeping victory that we absolutely...", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Mr. Steyer, thank you.", Entity["Person", "TomSteyer::b5k62"] -> "... are going to have next year, it's a turnout question. We're going to have to tell the truth and we're going to have organize across this country.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Thank you very much.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Exactly right. That's exactly right.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "It is time -- at this point, it is well past time, if I'm honest, to start closing statements. And we are going to start tonight with Senator Booker. The floor is yours.", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "Thank you, Rachel. It's an honor to be here tonight.\n\nI have not yet qualified for the December stage and need your help to do that. If you believe in my voice and that I should be up here, please go to corybooker.com . Please help.\n\nI had a closing statement prepared, but I saw in the audience during the break a man named John Lewis. And perhaps it's interesting and important for me to mention why I'm so grateful to him.\n\nI've been calling in this whole election for our need to fight and fight the right way, by bringing people together to create transformative change, not just beat Donald Trump. That's the floor. We need to go to the ceiling. We need to go to the mountaintop.\n\nI am literally here on this stage right now because 50 years ago there was a lawyer on a couch who changed his life, changed his mind to get up and start representing families, one of them mine, who were discriminated against. The house I grew up in is because of that lawyer's activity.\n\nWhen I asked him why, why he did what he did, he told me that on March 7, 1965, he was watching a movie called \"Judgment at Nuremberg\" on TV and they interrupted that movie to show a bridge in Alabama called the Edmund Pettus Bridge. And there he saw John Lewis and other marchers who were beaten viciously by Alabama state troopers.\n\nWe all owe a debt that we cannot repay. We all drink deeply from wells of freedom and liberty that we did not dig. This is the moment in America where we need a leader that can inspire us to get up and fight again, that we have truly a moral moment in America, like it was back in 1965.\n\nIf you give me a chance to lead, I will cause what John Lewis says is good trouble. I will challenge us. I will ask more from you than any other president has ever asked before, because we...", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "CoryBooker::97bj8"] -> "... need to mobilize a new American movement. Keep me on this stage. Keep me on this race. It is time we fight and fight together. Please go to corybooker.com .", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Senator Booker, thank you very much.", "Andrea Mitchell" -> "Mr. Steyer, your closing statement.", Entity["Person", "TomSteyer::b5k62"] -> "Last time I was on this stage, I started by saying that everybody here is more patriotic and more competent than the criminal in the White House. And I stand by that statement.\n\nBut I'm different from everybody else on this stage. I know that the government in Washington, D.C., is broken. I know that it's been purchased by corporations. And I've spent a decade putting together coalitions of ordinary American citizens to beat those corporations.\n\nI'm the only one on this stage who's willing to talk about structural change in Washington itself, term limits, that if we're going to make bold changes, we're going to need new and different people in charge. I'm the only person on this stage who spent decades building an international business. Whoever of us is the Democratic nominee is going to have to face Mr. Trump or the Republican and talk about the economy, talk about growth, understand that we can make Mr. Trump what he is, a fraud and a failure, on the economy, which is his strong point.\n\nI'm the only person on this stage who will say that climate is my first priority, that it's our biggest challenge, but it's our biggest opportunity to recreate this country.\n\nIf you want to beat Mr. Trump, if you want to break the corporate stranglehold on this government, if you want to pass all of the progressive policies that everyone on this stage wants, I'm the person who can do it.", "Andrea Mitchell" -> "Thank you, Mr. Steyer.", Entity["Person", "TomSteyer::b5k62"] -> "I have spent a decade trusting the American people...", "Andrea Mitchell" -> "Thank -- thank -- thank you, Mr. Steyer.", Entity["Person", "TomSteyer::b5k62"] -> "I'm asking you to trust me.", "Andrea Mitchell" -> "Thank you.", "Ashley Parker" -> "Congresswoman Gabbard, go ahead.", Entity["Person", "TulsiGabbard::839d6"] -> "My personal commitment to you, to all of my fellow Americans, is to treat you with respect and compassion, something that we in Hawaii called aloha. Every single person deserves to be treated with respect, regardless of race, religion, or gender, or even your politics. Inclusion, unity, respect, aloha, these will be the operating principles for my administration.\n\nNow, Dr. Martin Luther King visited Hawaii first back in 1959, where he expressed his appreciation for what we call the aloha spirit. He said we look to you for inspiration as a bold example for what you have already succeeded in the areas of racial harmony and racial justice, where we are still struggling to achieve in other sections of the country. He later went on to say, as I looked out at the various faces and various colors mingled together like the waters of the sea, I see only one face, the face of the future.\n\nWorking side by side, let's defeat the divisiveness of Donald Trump, come together and usher in a 21st century of racial harmony, of racial justice, peace, inclusion, and true equality, working side by side. Let's make Dr. King's dream our reality.", "Ashley Parker" -> "Thank you, Congresswoman.", "Kristen Welker" -> "Mr. Yang, your turn.", Entity["Person", "AndrewYang::f7w42"] -> "I'm here with my wife, Evelyn, tonight. We have two young boys, Christopher and Damian. How many of you all are parents like us here in the room?\n\nSo if you're a parent, you've had this thought. Maybe you've been afraid to express it. And it is this: Our kids are not all right. They're not all right because we're leaving them a future that is far darker than the lives that we have led as their parents.\n\nWe are going through the greatest economic transformation in our country's history, the fourth industrial revolution, and it is pushing more and more of our people to the side. We talk as if Donald Trump is the cause of all of our problems. He is not. He is a symptom. And we need to cure the disease.\n\nNow, my first move was not to run for president of the United States, because I am not insane.\nMy first move was to go to D.C., talk to our leaders and say technology is ripping us apart, immigrants are being scapegoated, our kids are being left behind, and the American dream that my parents came here to find is dying before our eyes. And the people in Washington, D.C., had nothing for this. They don't want to touch it. They don't want to talk about an issue they don't think they have a solution for.\n\nI'm not running for president because I fantasized about being president. I'm running for president because, like many of you here in this room tonight, I'm a parent and a patriot and I have seen the future that we're leaving for our kids, and it is not something I'm willing to accept.\n\nWe need to create a new way forward for our people. If you want to join us in rewriting the rules of the 21st century economy, go to yang2020.com and make it so that we can look our kids in the eyes and say to them, and believe it: Your country loves you, your country values you, and you will be all right.", "Kristen Welker" -> "Thank you, Mr. Yang.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Senator Klobuchar?", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "The nation was riveted this week by the testimony in Washington. One of the people we heard from yesterday was Lieutenant Colonel Vindman. And what he said was -- as he spoke to his immigrant father and he said, in this country, you can tell the truth and it's going to be fine. It reminded me of Army counsel years and years ago in the McCarthy hearing, someone from Iowa, actually, Mr. Welch, who said, \"Have you no sense of decency, sir?\"\n\nI want us to remember that this election is, yes, an economic check on this president, and I have bold ideas that we can do to go forward as a country to make college more affordable and bring down the costs of health care, yes.\n\nBut this is also a patriotism check, a value check, a decency check. And when you look at the people that turned out in Kentucky and turned out in Virginia, people turned out that didn't vote in 2016, African-Americans are turning out like we didn't see before. But we also -- and they must be with us, and we must get our fired-up Democratic base with us.\n\nBut we also, let's get those independents and moderate Republicans who cannot stomach this guy anymore. This is how we build a coalition, so we don't just beat Donald Trump. We bring the U.S. Senate to some sense. We send Mitch McConnell packing. This is how we win.\n\nSo if you want to join us -- and remember that this won't be for me a personal victory, it will be a national victory, of someone that wins in red districts and suburban, purple districts, and bright blue districts every single time. If you want to join us and if you believe that our work doesn't end on Election Day, but begins on Inauguration Day, join us, amyklobuchar.com .", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Senator Klobuchar, thank you.", "Andrea Mitchell" -> "Senator Harris?", Entity["Person", "KamalaHarris::8d5w3"] -> "So, we're in a fight. This is a fight for our rule of law, for our democracy, and for our system of justice. And it's a fight we need to win.\n\nAnd to fight this fight, I believe we have to have the ability to not only have a nominee who can go toe to toe with Donald Trump -- and I have taken on Jeff Sessions, I've taken on Bill Barr, I have taken on Brett Kavanaugh. I know I have the ability to do that.\n\nWe also need someone who can unify the party and the country and who has the experience of having done that. I've done that work. I believe we need someone who has the ability to speak to all the people regardless of their race, their gender, their party affiliation, where they live geographically or the language their grandmother speaks.\n\nMy entire career has been spent having one client and one client only: the people. I have never represented a corporation. I've never represented a special interest. And in this election, justice and the various injustices people are facing regardless of where they live or their race or gender are very much on the ballot, from economic justice to reproductive justice to health care justice to educational justice.\n\nAnd I truly believe that when we overcome these injustices, we will then unlock the potential of the American people and the promise of America, and that's the America I believe in. That's the America I see. And that is why I'm running for president.", "Andrea Mitchell" -> "Thank you, Senator Harris.", "Ashley Parker" -> "Mayor Buttigieg, go ahead.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "Well, first of all, I want to remark that we're in the city of Atlanta, a city where a great local leader, Maynard Jackson, helped create the black middle class that Atlanta is known by, by ensuring that taxpayer dollars were spent in a way that reflected the need to expand opportunity to those who were excluded.\n\nAnd just as local leaders have shown great leadership, we need to use the powers of the presidency on challenges like this, expanding opportunity and expanding a sense of belonging to those who have been excluded in this country.\n\nI'm not only running to defeat Donald Trump. I am running to prepare for the day that begins when Donald Trump has left office, to launch the era that must come after Trump. That era must be characterized not by exclusion, but by belonging. And so must our campaign.\n\nI am inviting progressives who have agreed on these issues we've been talking about tonight all along, moderates who are ready to be part of this coalition, and a lot of future former Republicans, who I know are watching this, disgusted by what is happening in their own party and in this country. I want you to know that everybody is welcome in this movement that we're building and everybody is welcome in this future that we must create.\n\nI hope you go to peteforamerica.com , join this effort, and help us create a better era for the American people beginning in November 2020.", "Ashley Parker" -> "Thank you.", "Kristen Welker" -> "Senator Sanders?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Thank you. Let me say a word about myself, unusual as it may seem.\nI am the son of an immigrant, young man of 17 who came to this country without a nickel in his pocket. I have some sense of the immigrant experience. I will stand with the 11 million undocumented immigrants in this country.\n\nAt the age of 21, as a member of a civil rights group at the University of Chicago, I was arrested, spent the night in jail, and I have been committed to the fight against all forms of discrimination -- racial discrimination, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, and religious bigotry. I will lead an administration that will look like America, will end the divisiveness brought by Trump, and bring us together.\n\nDuring this campaign, I am proud to say that I have received more campaign contributions than any candidate at this point in an election in American history, over 4 million contributions, averaging $18 apiece.\nIf you want to be part of a movement that is not only going to beat Trump, but transform America, that doesn\[CloseCurlyQuote]t have a super PAC, doesn\[CloseCurlyQuote]t do fundraisers at wealthy people\[CloseCurlyQuote]s homes, please join us at berniesanders.com . Thank you.", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Senator Warren, the floor is yours.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "So, thank you. You know, I've listened to this debate tonight and I hear a lot of really good ideas. But I take a look at the issues we've talked about. We've talked about climate change. We've talked about defense spending. We've talked about private health insurance. We should have talked about gun violence.\n\nWhat do these issues have in common? Well, first, they touch people all over this country in their everyday lives. And what is the second thing they have in common? We know what we need to do. We have a lot of good ideas for how to fix it, and the majority of Americans are with us on it, and yet we don't make change. Why not?\n\nBecause of corruption. Because we have a government that works better for big drug companies than it does for people trying to fill a prescription. It works better for a giant defense industry than it does for everyone who worries about the money that goes into arms instead of into our public schools. We have a government that works for those at the top and not for anyone else.\n\nI have the biggest anti-corruption plan since Watergate. It involves ending lobbying as we know it, blocking the revolving door between industry and Washington, making everyone who runs for federal office put their tax returns online.\nWe have to have the courage not to make just individual changes, not to fight for little pieces. We want to make real progress on climate. Then we have to start by attacking the corruption that gives the oil industry and other fossil fuel industries a stranglehold over this country.\n\nI am so grateful to be here and I am grateful to an America that gave the daughter of a janitor a chance to become a public school teacher, a chance to become a college professor, a chance to become a United States senator...", "Rachel Maddow" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "... and a chance to become candidate for president of the United States. Thank you.", "Andrea Mitchell" -> "Vice President Biden, your closing statement.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "I assume we're only talking about the corruption of the federal government. We weren't talking about Barack Obama and his spotless administration who made so much progress.\n\nBut one thing we haven't talked about here today, we haven't talked -- we talked about everything, but we haven't talked about the one thing I think is most consequential.\n\nYou know, the American people have an enormous opportunity. There's an incredible -- incredible -- I've never been more optimistic about our prospects in my entire career, and I got elected when I was a 29-year-old kid to the United States Senate.\n\nFolks, we are in a position where we have -- we're the wealthiest nation in the world, our workers are more productive than workers around the world, three times as productive as workers in Asia. We have more great research universities that the people own than all the rest of the world combined. We're in a position where we've led not by the example of our power, but by the power of our example.\n\nI'm so tired of everybody walking around like woe is me, what are we going to do? Let's remember, this is the United States of America. There has never, ever, ever been a time when we have set our mind to do something we've been unable to do it. Never. Never, never.\n\nSo it's time to remember, get up, let's take back this country and lead the world again. It's within our power to do it. Get up and take it back."}, {"ANNOUNCER" -> "This is the PBS \"NewsHour\" \"Politico\" Democratic Debate.\n\nNow, live from Los Angeles, Judy Woodruff.", "Judy Woodruff" -> "Welcome back.\n\nA quick reminder to have rules for this debate. Each candidate has one minute and 15 seconds to answer direct questions from the moderators, and 45 seconds to answer rebuttal and follow-up questions.\nTonight's podium order on the stage was determined by an average of recent polls.\nAnd let's begin.\n\nTo the candidates -- last night, at this hour, the House of Representatives voted for only the third time in American history to impeach a president. Every one of you was in favor of this action. But unlike 1974 and President Nixon, congressional Democrats have, so far, not convinced a strong majority of Americans to support impeachment of President Trump.\n\nWhy do you think that is, and what can you say or do differently in the coming weeks to persuade more Americans that this is the right thing to do?\n\nI want to ask all of you to respond, but to begin with Vice President Biden.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "You know, Judy, it was a constitutional necessity for the House to act as it did. And, you know, Trump's response to suggest that only half of the American people want to see him thrown out of office now, I find, is dumbing down the presidency beyond what I even thought he would do. You know, is it any wonder that if you look at the international polling that's been done, that the Chinese leader is rated above American -- the American president or that Vladimir Putin congratulated him saying, stand fast and, in fact, it was a mistake to impeach him.\nYou know, we need to restore the integrity of the presidency, the office of the presidency, and it's about time we get that underway. My job and I think the job of all of us up here is to, in fact -- well, that's not true, some are going to actually be voting in the Senate -- but my job is just to go out and make the case why he doesn't deserve to be president of the United States for another four years.", "Judy Woodruff" -> "Senator Sanders, why do you think more people are not in support of impeachment and what else can you do?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Well, Judy, what I would say is that we have a president who is a pathological liar. We have a president who is running the most corrupt administration in the modern history of this country, and we have a president who is a fraud, because during his campaign, he told working people one thing, and he ended up doing something else.\nI believe, and I will personally be doing this in the coming weeks and months, is making the case that we have a president ho has sold out the working families of this country, who wants to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid after he promised he would not do that, and who has documentedly lied thousands of times since he is president.\n\nAnd the case is to be made is -- yes, certainly, I disagree with Trump on virtually all of his policies, but what conservatives, I think, understand is that we cannot have a president with that temperament who is dishonoring the presidency of the United States.", "Judy Woodruff" -> "Senator Warren, why do you think --", "Judy Woodruff" -> "-- why do you think more Americans don't agree that this is the right thing to do? And what more can you say?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "So, I see this as a constitutional moment. Last night, the president was impeached, and everyone now in the Senate who has taken a constitutional oath to uphold our Constitution -- and that doesn't mean loyalty to an individual, it doesn't mean loyalty to a political party, it means loyalty to our country -- and that vote will play out over the next several weeks.\nBut the way I see this is we've now seen the impact of corruption, and that's what's clearly on the stage in 2020, is how we are going to run against the most corrupt president in living history.\nYou know, this president has made corruption originally his argument that he would drain the swamp, and, yet, he came to Washington, broke that promise, and has done everything he can for the wealthy and the well-connected, from tax breaks to ambassadorships.\n\nWe have to prosecute the case against him, and that means we need a candidate for president who can draw the sharpest distinction between the corruption of the Trump administration and a Democrat who is willing to get out and fight not for the wealthy and well-connected but to fight for everyone else. That's why I'm in this race.", "Judy Woodruff" -> "Senator Klobuchar -- Senator Klobuchar, what argument can you make to persuade more Americans this is the right thing?", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "Let me make the case to the American people. As a wise judge said, the president is not king in America, the law is king. And what James Madison once said when he was speaking out at the Constitutional Convention -- and, by the way, I think he's a pretty good size for a president, he was five-foot-four.\nAnd what he said, he said the reason that we have these impeachment articles in the Constitution, that the provisions are in there, is because he feared that a president would betray the trust of the American people for a foreign power. That is what happened here.\n\nWatergate -- this is a global Watergate. In the case of Watergate, a paranoid president facing election looked for dirt on a political opponent. He did it by getting people to break in. This president did it by calling a foreign leader to look for dirt on a political opponent.\nAnd I would make this case: as we face this trial in the Senate, if the president claims that he is so innocent, then why doesn't he have all the presidents men testify? Richard Nixon had his top people testify.\nWe should be hearing from Mulvaney, who is the one under oath. Witnesses have said that Mulvaney is the one that said, OK, we're going to withhold this aid to a fledgling democracy to get dirt on a political opponent.\n\nWe should hear from Bolton who told his own staff to go see a lawyer after they met with the president. That is the case.\n\nIf President Trump thinks he should not be impeached, he should not be scared to put forward his own witnesses.", "Judy Woodruff" -> "Mayor Buttigieg --", "Judy Woodruff" -> "Mayor Buttigieg, what additional argument can you make to the American people?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "At the end of the day, this is beyond public opinions. This is beyond polls. This is beyond politics.\nThe president left the House with no choice, and I think a lot of us are watching this process, watching Washington go through the motions, and not expecting much but a foregone conclusion when it gets to the Senate.\n\nWe cannot give in to that sense of helplessness, because that's what they want. They want us to be taken in by that cynicism to where we give up on the process altogether. Meanwhile, their allies are laughing all the way to the bank, as we see policies that let giant corporations -- some of which made billions in profits, pay not just zero, but as we've recently learned negative taxes -- all the while they block policies that would actually boost wages for working Americans.\n\nHere's the good news: it's up to us. No matter what happens in the Senate, it is up to us in 2020. This is our chance to refuse to be taken in by the helplessness, to refuse and reject the cynicism.\nThat is what this presidential election is about. It is what my campaign is about: our opportunity in 2020, no matter what happens in Washington, as a country, to change the course of this nation for the better.", "Judy Woodruff" -> "Mr. Yang, what more --", Entity["Person", "AndrewYang::f7w42"] -> "I'm over here.\n\nWOODDRUFF: Mr. Yang, what more can you sayto the American people?", Entity["Person", "AndrewYang::f7w42"] -> "Judy --", "Judy Woodruff" -> "I'm sorry, Mr. Steyer. I'm sorry.", Entity["Person", "TomSteyer::b5k62"] -> "Well, let me remind everyone that I'm the person who started the Need to Impeach Movement over two years ago because I --", Entity["Person", "TomSteyer::b5k62"] -> "-- because I believe what counts here is actually the American people's opinion. Over eight and a half million signed that petition and dragged Washington into the idea that, actually, the most corrupt president in American history -- it's not a question of political expediency, it's not a question of political tactics, it's a question of right and wrong.\n\nSo, now, when we look at what's going on, I actually agree with Senator Klobuchar. The question here is, if we want the American people to understand what's going on, we need to have the administration officials testify on TV so we can judge.\n\nThe court that counts here is the court of public opinion. The American people deserve to see the truth of these administration officials testifying under oath so we can make up our mind. If we want Republican senators to do the right thing, we need their constituents to see the truth on TV and tell them, get rid of this guy or we'll get rid of you.\n\nThat's what I believe in. I'm a believer in the grassroots as an outsider, getting the American people's voice to count. That's who I trust and that's who I trust now.", "Judy Woodruff" -> "Mr. Yang?", Entity["Person", "AndrewYang::f7w42"] -> "It's clear why Americans can't agree on impeachment, we're getting news from different sources, and it's making it hard for us even to agree on basic facts. Congressional approval rating, last I checked, was something like 17 percent, and Americans don't trust the media networks to tell them the truth.\n\nThe media networks didn't do us any favors by missing a reason why Donald Trump became our president in the first place. If your turn on cable network news today, you would think he's our president because of some combination of Russia, racism, Facebook, Hillary Clinton, and emails all mixed together.\n\nBut Americans around the country know different. We blasted away 4 million manufacturing jobs that were primarily based in Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Missouri. I just left Iowa -- we blasted 40,000 manufacturing jobs there.\n\nThe more we act like Donald Trump is the cause of all our problems, the more Americans lose trust that we can actually see what's going on in our communities and solve those problems.\n\nWhat we have to do is we have to stop being obsessed over impeachment, which, unfortunately, strikes many Americans like a ball game where you know what the score is going to be, and actually start digging in and solving the problems that got Donald Trump elected in the first place. We have to take every opportunity to present a new positive vision for the country, a new way forward to help beat him in 2020 because, make no mistake, he'll be there at the ballot box for us to defeat.", "Judy Woodruff" -> "Thank you, Mr. Yang.", "Judy Woodruff" -> "Let's turn now to an issue that is on the minds of all Americans, and that is the economy.\n\nSenator Sanders, today, the House of Representatives voted for a new bipartisan trade agreement among the United States, Canada and Mexico. It was supported by union-friendly leaders like Speaker Nancy Pelosi and big labor groups like the AFL-CIO. They say it is going to be a big job creator.\n\nSenator, my question is, will you support this deal? And, if not, why not?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Judy, you're talking to somebody who, unlike some of my colleagues here, voted against NAFTA, voted against PNTR with China -- two agreements that cost us over 4 million decent-paying jobs.\n\nNow, I don't agree with the -- your statement that people think this is going to be a great job creator. This is a modest improvement over what we have right now. It would allow, hopefully, Mexican workers to organize into unions, independent unions and be able to negotiate decent contracts.\n\nBut at the end of the day, in my view, it is not going to stop outsourcing. It is not going to stop corporations from moving to Mexico, where manufacturing workers make less than $2 an hour.\n\nWhat we need is a trade policy that stands up for workers, stands up for farmers. And, by the way, the word \"climate change,\" to the best of my knowledge, is not discussed in this new NAFTA agreement at all, which is an outrage. So, no, I will not be voting for this agreement, although it makes some modest improvements.", "Judy Woodruff" -> "Senator Klobuchar?", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "I have a different view. I'll go with my friend, Sherrod Brown, who has voted against every trade agreement that's come in front of him, and he's voting for this, and I am, too.\n\nAnd the reason I am voting for it is that I believe that we have a change with this agreement. I would not have voted for the agreement that President Trump put forward, but we've got better labor standards, better environmental standards, and a better deal when it comes to the pharmaceutical provision, which I also opposed.\n\nNinety-five percent of our customers are outside of our borders. And we have to make sure that we have trade agreements that are more fair, because if we can encourage work made in America, every time you hold something in your hand that says \"Made in America,\" it is the ingenuity of our workers, it is the quality of a product, it is equality of our workers, and it is the hopes and dreams of the American people.\n\nI think this agreement -- while Senator Sanders is correct, there are some issues with it -- is much better than the one originally proposed. And for those farmers in the Midwest and for those people that have been hurt by the fact that we will not have a trade segment with Mexico and with Canada and the United States, I think that this is a much better deal.", "Judy Woodruff" -> "All right, we can pull some of your -- I see some other hands up. I want to move to the next question, and you can bring in, I think, your points with this.\n\nThis one I'm going to initially address to Vice President Biden, and that is the overall U.S. economy right now looks strong. The unemployment rate is at historic lows. Unemployment among African-Americans is down. The markets are booming. Wages, while not growing as much as many would like, they're still doing about as well as they were in the Obama-Biden era.\n\nMy question to you, Mr. Vice President, is what is your argument to the voter watching this debate tonight who may not like everything President Trump does but they really like this economy and they don't know why they should make a change.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Well, I don't think they really do like the economy. Go back and talk to the old neighborhoods and middle-class neighborhoods you grew up in. The middle class is getting killed. The middle class is getting crushed. And the working class has no way up as a consequence of that.\n\nYou have, for example, farmers in the Midwest, 40 percent of them couldn't pay their bills last year. You have most Americans, if they received a bill for $400 or more, they'd have to sell something or borrow the money.\n\nThe middle class is not as behind the eight ball. We have to make sure that they have an even shot. We have to eliminate a significant number of these god-awful tax cuts that were given to the very wealthy. We have to invest in education. We have to invest in health care. We have to invest in those things that make a difference in the lives of middle-class people so they can maintain their standard of living.\n\nThat's not being done. And the idea that we're growing -- we're not growing. The wealthy, very wealthy are growing. Ordinary people are not growing. They are not happy with where they are. And that's why we must change this presidency now.", "Judy Woodruff" -> "Mayor Buttigieg, is that your -- is that your assessment?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "Yes. Where I live, folks aren't measuring the economy by how the Dow Jones is looking. They're measuring the economy by how they're doing. When you're doing the bills at the end of the month at your kitchen table, and you find that even if your wages have gone up, it's not nearly going as fast as the cost of health and housing.\n\nThis economy is not working for most of us, for the middle class, and -- I know you're only ever supposed to say middle class and not poor in politics, but we've got to talk about poverty in this country. There is not one county in the United States of America where someone working full-time at the minimum wage can afford a two-bedroom apartment. In most places, not even a one-bedroom apartment.\n\nThe biggest problem in our economy is simple: People are not getting paid enough. That is not the result of some mysterious cosmic force. It's the result of bad policy. And we've got to change it by raising wages and empowering workers.", "Judy Woodruff" -> "Mr. Yang? Mr. Yang?", Entity["Person", "AndrewYang::f7w42"] -> "GDP and corporate profits are at record highs in America today. Also at record highs? Depression, financial insecurity, student loan debt.\nEven suicides and drug overdoses. It has gotten so bad that our life expectancy as a country has declined for the last three years because suicides and drug overdoses have overtaken vehicle deaths for the first time in American history.\n\nThe fact is, this unemployment rate and GDP have very little relationship with people's lived experience on the ground. If you're a recent college graduate, you have a 40 percent chance of doing a job that doesn't require a college degree. That doesn't show up in the headline unemployment rate, nor does all of the families that are working two or three jobs to get by.", "Judy Woodruff" -> "Senator Warren, you have your hand up.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "I do.", "Judy Woodruff" -> "And I have a question for you.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "Well, I want to answer this question.", "Judy Woodruff" -> "Go ahead. Go ahead.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "Because here's the problem. I'm proud to stand on a stage with Democrats who understand that a rise in GDP, rise in corporate profits is not being felt by millions of families across this country. I'm proud to stand on a stage with people who see that America's middle class is being hollowed out and that working families and poor people are being left behind.\n\nWhat we need to talk about, though, is why that has happened. And the answer is we've got a government that works great for those with money and doesn't work for much of anyone else. We have a government that works great for giant drug companies, just not for someone trying to fill a prescription. Works great for people who want to make money on private prisons and private detention centers at our border, just not for the people whose lives are torn apart.\n\nWorks great for giant oil companies that want to drill everywhere, but not for the rest of us who see climate change bearing down upon us.\nAnd when you see a government that works great for the wealthy and the well-connected and for no one else, that is corruption, pure and simple. And we need to call it out for what it is.", "Judy Woodruff" -> "I want -- I want, Senator Sanders, if you would, a brief response, and then I have another question.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Look, here's the response. Trump goes around saying the economy is doing great. Do you know what real inflation accounted for wages went up last year? 1.1 percent. That ain't great.\n\nTonight, while three people own more wealth than the bottom half of America, 500,000 Americans, including 30,000 veterans, are sleeping out on the streets. Today in America, we have the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country on Earth, more income and wealth inequality than since the 1920s. We need an economy that works for working families, not just the 1 percent. That is what our campaign is about.", "Judy Woodruff" -> "Senator Warren, I have a question for you. Every candidate on the stage has proposed tax increases on the wealthy. But you have especially ambitious plans that, apart from health care, would hike taxes an additional $8 trillion over the decade, the biggest tax increase since World War II. How do you answer top economists who say taxes of this magnitude would stifle growth and investment?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "Oh, they're just wrong.\nLet's start with a wealth tax. The idea of a two-cent tax on the great fortunes in this country, $50 million and above. For two cents, what can we do? We can invest in the rest of America. We can provide universal childcare, early childhood education for every baby in this country, age 0 to 5, universal pre-K for every 3-year-old and 4-year-old, and raise the wages of every childcare worker and preschool teacher.\n\nWe can do even more for our public schools, for college graduates. We can cancel student loan debt. But think about the economic impact of that. You leave two cents with the billionaires, they're not eating more pizzas, they're not buying more cars. We invest that 2 percent in early childhood education and childcare, that means those babies get top-notch care. It means their mamas can finish their education. It means their mamas and their daddies can take on real jobs, harder jobs, longer hours.", "Judy Woodruff" -> "And...", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "We can increase productivity in this country. And we can start building this economy from the ground up. That's how we build it in small towns. That's how we build it in rural America. And that's how we built it in urban America. An economy that works, not for Wall Street, but that works for Main Street.", "Judy Woodruff" -> "Brief answers -- brief responses from Mr. Steyer and Mr. Buttigieg.", Entity["Person", "TomSteyer::b5k62"] -> "So let me say that I agree with Senator Warren in much of what she says. I've been for a wealth tax for over a year. I'm in favor of undoing all the tax breaks for rich people and big corporations that this administration has put through.\nAnd in addition, I've talked about equilibrating the taxes on passive investment income, which would allow us to cut taxes for 95 percent of Americans by 10 percent.\n\nBut there's something else going on here that I think is really important, and that's this. We know Mr. Trump is going to run on the economy. I built a business over 30 years from scratch. We're going to have to take him on, on the economy in terms of growth, as well as economic justice. We're going to have to be able to talk about growth, prosperity across the board for everyone in America.\n\nMy experience building a business, understanding how to make that happen, means I can go toe-to-toe with Mr. Trump and take him down on the economy and expose him as a fraud and a failure. And I think that's different from the other people on this stage. I think we need a different, unconventional way of attacking a different, unconventional president who actually went after the best-prepared candidate in American history and beat her.", "Judy Woodruff" -> "Mayor Buttigieg?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "We\[CloseCurlyQuote]re also being -- right now, I think we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re being offered a false choice that you either have to go all the way to the extreme or it\[CloseCurlyQuote]s business as usual. Yes, we must deliver big ideas and, yes, taxes on wealthy individuals and on corporations are going to have to go up.\n\nWe can also be smart about the promises we're making, make sure they're promises that we can keep without the kind of taxation that economists tell us could hurt the economy.\n\nIt's why, for example, I've proposed that we make college free for 80 percent of Americans. But it doesn't have to be free for the top. If you're in that top 10 percent, how about you pay your own tuition and we save those dollars for something else that we could spend them on that would make a big difference, whether it's infrastructure, childcare, housing, health?\n\nOn issue after issue, we've got to break out of the Washington mindset that measures the bigness of an idea by how many trillions of dollars it adds to the budget or the boldness of an idea by how many fellow Americans it can antagonize.", "Judy Woodruff" -> "We're going to take a short break and we'll be right back in two minutes with questions from my fellow moderators.", "ANNOUNCER" -> "Live from Los Angeles, the PBS NewsHour/Politico Democratic...", "ANNOUNCER" -> "Live from Los Angeles, the PBS NewsHour/Politico Democratic debate continues. Once again, Judy Woodruff.", "Judy Woodruff" -> "Welcome back to the PBS NewsHour/Politico Democratic presidential debate. The next question is from Tim Alberta of Politico.", "Tim Alberta" -> "Thanks, Judy. Candidates, good evening. We're going to talk about climate now. Senator Klobuchar, many scientists say that even if the U.S. reduced its carbon footprint to zero by the year 2050, the damage will have been done, that climate change will have made certain places in the U.S. unlivable.\n\nSo knowing this, would you support a new federal program to subsidize the relocation of American families and businesses away from places like Miami or Paradise, California, perhaps, Davenport, Iowa, because we know these places are going to be hit time and time again?", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "Well, I don't -- I very much hope we're not going to have to relocate entire cities, but we will probably have to relocate some individual residents.\n\nAnd the problem right now is that this climate change is an existential crisis. And you are seeing it here in California with the fires that you just had. You saw it in Northern California, as was mentioned with Paradise. And the most moving video from that to me was the 30-second video of that dad driving his little girl through the lapping fires with his neighborhood burning behind him and singing to her to calm her down.\n\nWe cannot wait to act. There is an Ojibway saying that great leaders make decisions not for this generation, but seven generations from now. This president doesn't keep his decisions for seven minutes.\nSo what I think we need to do, get back into the international climate change agreement. I will do that on day one. On day two, bring back the clean power rules. On day three, the gas mileage standards. I see the governor of California, who's been working so hard to get those done, defied every step of the way by the Trump administration. And then introduce sweeping legislation to put a price on carbon and build a fridge to the next century, which means we must upgrade our buildings and our building standards.", "Tim Alberta" -> "Thank you, Senator Klobuchar.\n\nMr. Steyer, would you support such a new federal program, again, to help subsidize the relocation of these families?", Entity["Person", "TomSteyer::b5k62"] -> "Look, I am hoping that we, in fact, will do what I'm suggesting, which is declare a state of emergency on day one of my presidency. I have made this -- I believe I'm the only person here who will say unequivocally this is my number-one priority.\n\nI know that we have to deal with this crisis. I know that we have to deal with it from the standpoint of environmental justice. I've been working on this for more than a decade. I've taken on oil companies and beaten them on environmental laws. I've pushed clean energy across this country. I've prevented pipelines and I've prevented fossil fuel plants.\n\nBut what I know is this: Not only can we clear up the air and water in the black and brown communities where our pollution is concentrated, this is also the opportunity to create literally millions of middle-class union jobs, well-paid, across the United States of America.\n\nOur biggest crisis is our biggest opportunity. And if we don't declare a state of emergency on day one, I don't understand how we go to the people around the world to lead the coalition that has to happen and that only America can lead.\n\nLook, this is a generational question. I have a lot of respect for the people on this stage. I know everybody is worried about this. But, for instance, I would call on Mayor Buttigieg to prioritize this higher because the people in his generation understand that this is a crisis that we have to go on right now, but it's also...", "Tim Alberta" -> "Thank you, Mr. Steyer.", Entity["Person", "TomSteyer::b5k62"] -> "... the greatest opportunity to rebuild and reinvent America.", "Tim Alberta" -> "Thank you, Mr. Steyer. Mr. Buttigieg, 45 seconds to respond.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "Well, I've made clear that this will be a topic of day one action. And this is not theoretical for me. I live in one of those river cities that you're talking about. Not only that, I live right by the river. My neighborhood flooded in the second of two once in a millennium floods that we had in two years. Do the math on that. So I know what's at stake.\n\nAnd it's why I insist that we act with a carbon tax and dividend with massive increases in renewable research, on renewable energy, energy storage, and carbon storage. But bigger than that, we have to summon the energies of the entire country to deal with this.\n\nI've seen politicians in Washington saying the right thing about climate change as long as I've been alive, all these plans we have to get carbon neutral by 2050. And I think most or all of us have one. Their impact is multiplied by zero unless something actually gets done.", "Tim Alberta" -> "We'd like to switch...", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "And that is why I want to make sure that our vision for climate includes people from the autoworker down the block from me in South Bend to a farmer a few minutes away so that they understand that we are asking, recruiting them to be part of the solution, not beating them over the head and telling them they're part of the problem.", "Tim Alberta" -> "Thank you, Mr. Mayor. We'd like to switch gears slightly.\n\nVice President Biden, I'd like to ask you. Three consecutive American presidents have enjoyed stints of explosive economic growth due to a boom in oil and natural gas production. As president, would you be willing to sacrifice some of that growth, even knowing potentially that it could displace thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of blue-collar workers in the interest of transitioning to that greener economy?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "The answer is yes. The answer is yes, because the opportunity -- the opportunity for those workers to transition to high-paying jobs, as Tom said, is real. We're the only country in the world that's ever taken great, great crises and turned them into enormous opportunities.\n\nI've met with the union leaders. For example, we should, in fact, be making that -- making sure right now that every new building built is energy contained, that it doesn't leak energy, that, in fact -- we should be providing tax credits for people to be able to make their homes turn to solar power, where -- there's all kinds of folks out here, right here in California, who are now on the verge of having batteries that are about the size of the top of this podium that you can store energy when, in fact, the wind isn't blowing and the sun isn't shining.\n\nWe have enormous opportunities. For example, you talk about, would we relocate people who, in fact, were in a position where they lost their home? We have to not rebuild to the standard that existed before when we talk about when we come in and help people. We have to rebuild with the standard that exists today.\n\nFor example, we shouldn't build another new highway in America that doesn't have charging stations on it. We have an opportunity to put 550,000 charging stations so that we own the electrical vehicle market, creating millions of jobs for people installing them, as well as making sure that we own the electric vehicle market. There are so many things we can do, and we have to make sure we explain it to those people who are displaced, that their skills are going to be needed for the new opportunities.", "Tim Alberta" -> "Thank you, Vice President Biden.\nSenator Sanders?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Tim, in all due respect, your question misses the mark. It is not an issue of relocating people in towns. The issue now is whether we save the planet for our children and our grandchildren.\nThe issue, as you should know, what the scientists are telling us is they have underestimated the threat and severity of climate change. You're talking about the Paris agreement, that's fine. Ain't enough. We have got to -- and I've introduced legislation to do this -- declare a national emergency.\n\nThe United States has got to lead the world. And maybe, just maybe, instead of spending $1.8 trillion a year globally on weapons of destruction, maybe an American president, i.e. Bernie Sanders, can lead the world, instead of spending money to kill each other, maybe we pool our resources and fight our common enemy, which is climate change.", "Tim Alberta" -> "Thank you, Senator Sanders. Thank you, Senator Sanders.\nSenator Warren, a new question to you, Senator Warren. Many of our Western allies rely heavily on nuclear energy because it's efficient, affordable, and virtually carbon-free. And many climate experts believe that it's impossible to realize your goal of net zero emissions by the year 2050 without utilizing nuclear energy. So can you have it both ways on this issue?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "So I see right now is we've got to get the carbon -- we've got to stop putting more carbon into the air. We've got to get the carbon out of the air and out of the water. And that means that we need to keep some of our nuclear in place.\n\nI will not build more nuclear. I want to put the energy, literally, and the money and the resources behind clean energy and by increasing by tenfold what we put into science, what we put into research and development. We need to do what we do best, and that is innovate our way out of this problem and be a world leader.\n\nBut understand, the biggest climate problem we face is the politicians in Washington who keep saying the right thing but continue to take money from the oil industry, continue to bow down to the lobbyists, to the lawyers, to the think-tanks, to the bought-and-paid-for experts.\n\nAmerica understands that we've got to make change and we're running out of time, that climate change threatens every living thing on this planet. But getting Congress to act, you know, they just don't want to hear it. And if we don't attack the corruption first, if we don't attack the corruption head-on, then we're not going to be able to make the changes we need to make on climate, on gun safety, on drug pricing, on all of the big problems that face us.", "Tim Alberta" -> "Thank you.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "We need a Washington that doesn't just work for the rich and the powerful. We need one that works for our families.", "Tim Alberta" -> "Thank you, Senator.\n\nSenator Klobuchar, and then I would like to bring in Mr. Yang and Mr. Steyer for follow-ups.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "Yeah, I want to add to what Elizabeth said. So the way we tackle corruption is by winning big in this election. And the way we take on climate change in a big way is by, yes, talking about what's happening on the coasts, as I just did, but also talking about what's happening in the Midwest, where I'm from. It's not flyover country to me. I live there.\n\nAnd what we are seeing there is unprecedented flooding. We're seeing an increase, 50 percent increase in homeowners insurance over the last few years. And when we make these changes, we have to make clear to people that when we put a price on carbon, that that money is going to come back to those areas where people are going to be hurt, where jobs are going to change, and to make them whole with their energy bills.\n\nWhen you make the case like that, you bring in the Midwestern votes. You win big. And I think the best way to do it is by putting someone at the top of the ticket who is from the Midwest.", "Tim Alberta" -> "Mr. Yang, Mr. Yang, 45 seconds, on the issue of nuclear energy.", Entity["Person", "AndrewYang::f7w42"] -> "Well, first, we should obviously be paying to relocate Americans away from places that are hit by climate change. We're already doing it. We relocated a town in Louisiana that became uninhabitable because the sea levels rose. And we know that town is not alone. That's playing out in coastal areas around the country.\n\nThe question is, do you leave that town on its own to fend for itself? Or do you come together as a country and say, we need to protect our people from climate change?\n\nPart of my plan is literally called \"move people to higher ground,\" because that's what we need to do. And that's literal and figurative. Here in California, it's forest fires and forest management.\n\nOn nuclear power, I agree with the research. We need to have everything on the table in a crisis situation, which this is. Other countries have had success with nuclear power. And the next generation thorium reactors have a wealth of potential. Thorium is not radioactive the way uranium is. It doesn't last as long. And you can't make a weapon out of it. If we're going to innovate our way out of this, as...", "Tim Alberta" -> "Thank you, Mr. Yang.", Entity["Person", "AndrewYang::f7w42"] -> "... Elizabeth is saying, then we have to have nuclear on the table.", "Tim Alberta" -> "Thank you, Mr. Yang. The last word climate to you, Mr. Steyer.", Entity["Person", "TomSteyer::b5k62"] -> "Look, the point about nuclear power is, it's not at the stage in the United States where it's competitive on price. It has a lot of risks to it in terms of disasters. And we have no ability to store the toxins that come out of it and last 100,000 years.\n\nWe actually have the technology that we need. It's called wind and solar and batteries. So, in fact, what we need to do, we can do. We've got to stop taking a look at this as something that we can't do, because we can do this, and we can do it in a way that creates, rebuilds this country on an accelerated basis, creates millions of union jobs, and we come at it from the standpoint of environmental justice.\n\nThis is our greatest opportunity to reinvent this country, to actually take on the biggest challenge in history and succeed together. You want to pull the country together with all this partisanship? Let's take on the biggest challenge in history and succeed together as a nation. That's what pulls people together.", "Tim Alberta" -> "Thank you, Mr. Steyer. Amna?", "Amna Nawaz" -> "Thanks, Tim.\n\nVice President Biden, you've been reassuring voters that things will return to normal once President Trump leaves office, that Republicans will have what you call an epiphany and come to the table to work with a Biden administration. But given everything that you have seen from current Republicans, what evidence is there that things will change?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Look, I didn't say return to normal. Normal's not enough. Normal -- in fact, we have to move beyond normal, whether it's health care, the environment, whatever it is. We have to build on what we had started in our administration, and that's been interrupted very badly, number one.\n\nNumber two, with Trump out of the way, it's not going to change things in a fundamental way. But what it will do is it will mean that we're in a position where he's not going to be able to intimidate the base, his base is not going to be able to intimidate those half a dozen Republicans we may need in other things.\n\nI refuse to accept the notion, as some on this stage do, that we can never, never get to a place where we have cooperation again. If that's the case, we're dead as a country. We need to be able to reach a consensus. And if anyone has reason to be angry with the Republicans and not want to cooperate it's me, the way they've attacked me, my son, and my family. I have no -- no -- no love.\nBut the fact is, we have to -- we have to be able to get things done. And when we can't convince them, we go out and beat them like we did in the 2018 election in red states and in purple states.", "Amna Nawaz" -> "Thank you, Mr. Biden.\n\nMr. Yang, I want to switch topics to you, Mr. Yang, a new question. The Democratic Party relies on black, Hispanic, and Asian voters, but you are the only candidate of color on the stage tonight, and the entire field remains overwhelmingly white. What message do you think this sends to voters of color?", Entity["Person", "AndrewYang::f7w42"] -> "It's both an honor and disappointment to be the lone candidate of color on the stage tonight. I miss Kamala, I miss Cory, though I think Cory will be back.\nI grew up the son of immigrants, and I had many racial epithets used against me as a kid. But black and Latinos have something much more powerful working against them than words. They have numbers. The average net worth of a black household is only 10 percent that of a white household. For Latinos, it's 12 percent. If you're a black woman, you're 320 percent more likely to die from complications in childbirth.\n\nThese are the numbers that define race in our country. And the question is, why am I the lone candidate of color on this stage? Fewer than 5 percent of Americans donate to political campaigns. You know what you need to donate to political campaigns? Disposable income.\nThe way that we fix it -- the way we fix this is we take Martin Luther King's message of a guaranteed minimum income, a freedom dividend of $1,000 a month for all Americans. I guarantee, if we had a freedom dividend of $1,000 a month, I would not be the only candidate of color on this stage tonight.", "Amna Nawaz" -> "Thank you, Mr. Yang.\n\nSenator Sanders, I do want to put the same question to you, Senator Sanders. What message do you think...", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "I will answer that question, but I wanted to get back to the issue of climate change for a moment, because I do believe this is the existential issue.", "Amna Nawaz" -> "Senator, with all respect, this question is about race. Can you answer the question as it was asked?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "I certainly can. Because people of color, in fact, are going to be the people suffering most if we do not deal with climate change.\nAnd by the way, we have an obligation up here, if there are not any of our African-American brothers and sisters up here, to speak about an economy in which African-Americans are exploited, where black women die three times at higher rates than white women, where we have a criminal justice system which is racist and broken, disproportionately made up of African-Americans and Latinos and Native Americans who are in jail.\n\nSo we need an economy that focuses on the needs of oppressed, exploited people, and that is the African-American community.", "Amna Nawaz" -> "Thank you, Senator.\n\nYamiche?", "Yamiche Alcindor" -> "Thank you, Amna.\n\nSenator Klobuchar, here in California, people who identify as Hispanic, black, Asian, or multiracial represent a majority of the population, outnumbering white residents. The United States is expected to be majority nonwhite within a generation. What do you say to white Americans who are uncomfortable with the idea of becoming a racial minority, even if you don't share their concerns?", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "I say this is America. You're looking at it. And we are not going to be able to succeed in the world if we do not invite everyone to be part of our economy.\n\nOur Constitution says that we strive for a more perfect union. Well, that's what we are doing right now. And to me, that means, one, that everyone can vote, and that includes our communities of color. This action that's been taken by this president and his people and his governors all over the country is wrong. They have made it harder for African-Americans to vote, as one court said, discriminated with surgical precision.\n\nWhat would I do? As one of the leaders on voting in the U.S. Senate, one, stop the purging. As Stacey Abrams said, you know, you do not stop having your right to assemble if you don't go to a meeting for a year. Because you don't go to a church or a synagogue or a mosque for three months, you don't lose your right to worship. You shouldn't lose your right to vote.\nI would pass as president my bill to register every kid in this country when they turn 18 to vote. That would make all of these discriminatory actions in these states go away. And I would stop the gerrymandering, in addition to the agenda of economic opportunity, because as Martin Luther King said, what good is it to integrate a lunch counter if you can't afford a hamburger?", "Yamiche Alcindor" -> "Thank you, Senator. Let's now turn to the issue of foreign policy and the Middle East. Senator Sanders, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo recently declared that the United States believes Israeli settlements in the West Bank do not violate international law. That broke decades-long U.S. precedent. How would you respond to Israeli expansion of settlements? Would you link that to foreign aid to Israel?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Israel has -- and I say this as somebody who lived in Israel as a kid, proudly Jewish -- Israel has the right not only to exist, but to exist in peace and security.\n\nBut what -- but what U.S. foreign policy must be about is not just being pro-Israel. We must be pro-Palestinian, as well.\nAnd whether, in my view -- we must understand that right now in Israel we have leadership under Netanyahu, who has recently, as you know, been indicted for bribery, who, in my view, is a racist -- what we need is a level playing field in terms of the Middle East, which addresses the terrible crisis in Gaza, where 60 percent or 70 percent of the young people are unemployed.\n\nSo what my foreign policy will be about is human rights, is democracy, is bringing people together in a peaceful way, trying to negotiate agreements, not endless wars with trillions of dollars of expenses.", "Yamiche Alcindor" -> "Thank you, Senator.\n\nMayor Buttigieg?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "What we are seeing in the Middle East and around the world are the consequences of this president's failure, this president's refusal to lead. It's particularly disturbing in the case of Israel because he has infused domestic politics, making U.S. foreign policy choices in order to effectively interfere in Israeli domestic politics, acting as though that somehow makes him pro-Israel and pro-Jewish, while welcoming white nationalists into the White House.\n\nBut it's not only in the Middle East that we see the consequences of the disappearance of U.S. leadership. We see among our allies and among our adversaries case after case where the world is making plans on what to do, ignoring the United States, because we're no longer considered reliable.\n\nIt's not just the mockery at a cocktail party on the sidelines of a conference. It's the looks on the faces of the leaders at the U.N. as they looked at the United States president with a mixture of contempt and pity.\n\nAs an American, I never again want to see the American president looked at that way by the leaders of the world. The world needs America right now. But it can't be just any America. It has to be one that is actually living up to the values that make us who we are: supporting peace, supporting democracy, supporting human rights, and supporting stability around the world.", "Yamiche Alcindor" -> "Thank you, Mayor Buttigieg.\n\nSenator Warren, President Obama pledged to close the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay but could not. Forty prisoners remain there. Last year, U.S. taxpayers paid $540 million to keep Guantanamo open. Would you pledge to finally close the detention facility? And if elected, how will you do it?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "Yes. It is time to close this detention facility. It not only costs us money, it is an international embarrassment.\n\nWe have to be an America that lives our values every single day. We can't be an America that stands up and asks people to fight alongside us, as we did with the Kurds in fighting ISIS, and then turn around in the blink of a tweet and say that we're turning our backs on the people who stood beside us. After that, who wants to be an ally of the United States?\n\nWe have to be an America that understands the difference and recognizes the difference between our allies, the people who will work alongside us, and the dictators who would do us harm.\n\nAnd we need to treat our allies better than we treat the dictators. That needs to be our job as an America.\nWe have -- we have the finest military on Earth. All three of my brothers served. And we have people on this stage who have served, and I am deeply grateful for that. Our military is strong and important, but we need to be an America that relies on our State Department, that relies on diplomacy, that relies on our economic power and that relies on working together with the rest of the world to build a world that is sustainable environmentally and economically for everyone.", "Yamiche Alcindor" -> "Thank you. Thank you, Senator Warren.\n\nVice President Biden, why couldn't you close Guantanamo Bay? Why couldn't the Obama administration close Guantanamo Bay?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "We attempted to close Guantanamo Bay, but you have to have congressional authority to do it. They've kept it open. And the fact is that we, in fact, think it's greatest -- it is an advertisement for creating terror.\n\nLook, what we have done around the world in terms of keeping Guantanamo open or what Trump has done by no longer being an honest broker in Israel, there's no solution for Israel other than a two-state solution. It does not exist. It's not possible to have a Jewish state in the Middle East without there being a two-state solution.\n\nAnd he has played to all the same fears and all the prejudices that exist in this country and in Israel. Bibi Netanyahu and I know one another well. He knows that I think what he's doing is outrageous.\n\nWhat we do is, we have to put pressure constantly on the Israelis to move to a two-state solution, not withdraw physical aid from them in terms of their security.\n\nAnd lastly, I think that...", "Yamiche Alcindor" -> "Thank you, Vice President Biden.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "... Senator Warren is correct. We have led by not the example of our power, but the power of our example. And the example we're demonstrating now is horrible. It's hurting us badly.", "Yamiche Alcindor" -> "Thank you, Vice President Biden. Judy?", "Judy Woodruff" -> "I want to turn to another part of the world, and that's China. Mayor Buttigieg, you have said that you think China presents more of a challenge than do your fellow candidates believe. The U.S. clearly wants China's cooperation on human rights, on climate change, on North Korea, on terrorism. And yet Americans are appalled by China's record on human rights, including the detention of over a million Muslim Uighurs. Should the U.S., is my question, do more than protest and issue sanctions? Should the U.S., for example, boycott the 2022 Beijing Olympics?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "I think that any tool ought to be on the table, especially diplomatic, economic, and social tools, like what you're describing.\n\nLook, for the president to let it be known that his silence, whether it's on the rounding up of Muslim Uighurs in Xinjiang, putting them into camps, or the aspirations of the people of Hong Kong for democracy, for him to let China know that his silence can be purchased is trashing American values.\n\nThe reality is that there's a lot more to the relationship with China than who's selling more dishwashers. Yes, we need a much smarter trade policy. We also have to acknowledge what's going on over there: the use of technology for the perfection of dictatorship.\n\nThat is going to require a stronger than ever response from the U.S. in defense of democracy. But when folks out there standing up for democracy hear not a peep from the president of the United States, what message is that sending to the Chinese Communist Party?\n\nThe message I will send is that if they perpetrate a repeat of anything like Tiananmen Square, when it comes to Hong Kong, they will be isolated from the free world, and we will lead that isolation diplomatically and economically.", "Judy Woodruff" -> "Mr. Steyer, many Americans have been moved in the last months by the protests of the people of Hong Kong. It is Chinese territory, but what could you, would you do as president if the Chinese government moved in militarily?", Entity["Person", "TomSteyer::b5k62"] -> "Look, there is a temptation, particularly for this president, to try and answer that on a bilateral -- in a bilateral way. The way the United States should be reacting in Hong Kong is by gathering our coalition of democracy- and freedom-loving partners and allies to push back.\n\nIn fact, when we're making moral statements around the world, it should not be us threatening and trying to be the world's policeman. It should be us leading on a value-driven basis with the other people who share our values and want to change the world.\n\nWe actually can't isolate ourselves from China. In fact, we have to work with them as a frenemy. People who disturb us, who we disagree with, but who, in effect, we are linked to in a world that is ever getting closer. And, in fact, if we are going to treat climate as the threat that it is, we are going to have to partner with the Chinese. They are going to have to come along with us. They're going to have to trust us. And together we're going to have to solve this problem.", "Judy Woodruff" -> "Thank you, Mr. Steyer.", Entity["Person", "TomSteyer::b5k62"] -> "So the ability to say what's off the table -- we need a good relationship with them and we're going to have to work with them going forward under all circumstances.", "Judy Woodruff" -> "Thank you, Mr. Steyer.\n\nVice President Biden, on China, we now know that China is engaged in an unprecedented military build-up. They have just launched a new aircraft carrier. There are new signs of their disturbing espionage campaign here inside the United States. There are a number of disturbing signs from the Chinese.\n\nNational security scholars have long warned about the historical precedent that when there's a ruling power and a rising power, there's likely to be a war. Is the U.S. on a collision course with China?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "It\[CloseCurlyQuote]s not...", "Judy Woodruff" -> "What steps could you take as president?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "It\[CloseCurlyQuote]s on a collision course with China, but not for war. What we have to make clear is that we, in fact, are not going to abide by what they\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve done. A million Uighurs, as you pointed out, Muslims, are in concentration camps. That\[CloseCurlyQuote]s where they are right now. They\[CloseCurlyQuote]re being abused. They\[CloseCurlyQuote]re in concentration camps.\n\nAnd what we started in our administration that Trump stopped, we should be moving 60 percent of our sea power to that area of the world to let, in fact, the Chinese understand that they're not going to go any further. We are going to be there to protect other folks.\n\nSecondly, we, in fact, should make sure that we begin to rebuild our alliances, which Trump has demolished, with Japan and South Korea, Australia and all -- and Indonesia. We, in fact, need to have allies who understand that we're going to stop the Chinese from their actions.\n\nWe should be going to the U.N. immediately and sought sanctions against them in the United Nations for what they did. We have to be firm. We don't have to go to war. But we have to make it clear, this is as far as you go, China.\n\nAnd in terms of their military build-up, it's real. But it would take them about 17 years to build up to where we are. We're not looking for a war. But we've got to make clear, we are a Pacific power and we are not going to back away.", "Judy Woodruff" -> "Mr. Yang and then Senator Klobuchar.", Entity["Person", "AndrewYang::f7w42"] -> "I have family in Hong Kong. I spent four months there and seeing what's happening on the streets. It's shocking. They banned face masks in Hong Kong. Why? Because they have AI technology that now is using facial recognition to identify protesters if they so much as do anything on the street so they can follow up with them and detain them later.\n\nThis is the rivalry that we have to win where China is concerned. They're in the process of leapfrogging us in AI because they have more data than we do and their government is subsidizing it to the tune of tens of billions of dollars.\n\nI have sat with our leading technologists and they say they cannot match the Chinese resources. China just produced its first major smartphone that does not have Google apps and it is now trying to export its technology to the rest of the world.\n\nWhat we have to do is build an international coalition to set technology standards, and then you can bring the Chinese to the table in a very real way, because this is their top priority, and this is where we need to outcompete them and win.", "Judy Woodruff" -> "Senator Klobuchar?", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "When it comes to foreign policy, I think we need to keep our promises and keep our threats. And this president has done neither. In a country like China, their leaders, they watch that and they know. He has stood with dictators over innocents. He has stood with tyrants over free leaders. He does it all the time.\n\nAnd I have a little different take than some of my colleagues when it comes to what happened at that conference with NATO. Yeah, they were making fun of them, some of the foreign leaders. I've heard senators make more fun of other senators than that.\n\nThe point of it was that he couldn't even tolerate it. He is so thin-skinned that he walked. He quit.\n\nAmerica doesn't quit. So if we want to send a message to the Chinese, we stand with our allies. We stand with them firmly. We have a very clear and coherent foreign policy when it comes to human rights.\n\nCheck out my website, amyklobuchar.com . I have the five R's of our foreign policy, about reasserting our values, rejoining international agreements, like the Iranian nuclear agreement. But it all comes down to one R: returning to sanity.", "Judy Woodruff" -> "Mayor Buttigieg, and then we're going to take a break.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "I'm actually not worried about the president's bad sense of humor when it comes to being made fun of. I'm worried about the fact that he is echoing the vocabulary of dictators around the world.\n\nWhen the American president refers to unfavorable press coverage as the product of the \"enemy of the people,\" democracy around the world gets weaker. Freedom of the press not just here at home but around the world gets weaker. It's one more reminder of what is at stake, not just here at home, but for world history in the imperative that we win this election.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "Could I respond?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "This is our chance.", "Judy Woodruff" -> "Very brief. Very brief.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "OK. I just want to make very clear, Mayor, that the freedom of the press is deep in my heart. My dad was a newspaperman. And I am the one that asked every attorney general candidate we've had under Donald Trump, both of whom I opposed, about their respect for the First Amendment. And they have refused, they have refused to follow the rules that Attorney General Holder put in place when it came to protecting our journalists.\n\nThey would not commit that they wouldn't put a journalist in jail for doing their job. So this is not just talking points to me. This is the real world. And I think that experience that I will bring to the White House, with protecting the First Amendment, is worth more than any talking points.", "Judy Woodruff" -> "We are going to take a short break, and we will be -- we'll be right back with more questions.", "Judy Woodruff" -> "Welcome back to the PBS NewsHour-Politico Democratic presidential debate. I'm Judy Woodruff, joined by my PBS NewsHour colleagues, Amna Nawaz and Yamiche Alcindor, by Tim Alberta of Politico.\n\nNow let's turn to the next question from Tim.", "Tim Alberta" -> "Thank you, Judy. Candidates, let's make things interesting. Former President Obama said this week when asked who should be running countries that if women were in charge, you'd see a significant improvement on just about everything.\nHe also said, quote, \"If you look at the world and look at the problems, it's usually old people, usually old men, not getting out of the way.\"\nSenator Sanders, you are the oldest candidate on stage this evening.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "And I'm white, as well. Yes.", "Tim Alberta" -> "How do you respond to what the former president had to say?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Well, I got a lot of respect for Barack Obama. I think I disagree with him on this one. Maybe a little self-serving, but I do disagree.\n\nHere is the issue. The issue is where power resides in America, and it's not white or black or male or female. We are living in a nation increasingly becoming an oligarchy, where you have a handful of billionaires who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying elections and politicians.\n\nYou have more income and wealth inequality today than at any time since the 1920s. We are the only major country on Earth not to guarantee health care for all people, which is why we need Medicare for all.\n\nWe are facing an existential crisis of climate change. The issue is not old or young, male or female. The issue is working people standing up, taking on the billionaire class, and creating a government and economy that works for all, not just the 1 percent.", "Tim Alberta" -> "Thank you, Senator Sanders.\n\nVice President Biden, I'm going to guess that President Obama did not clear that remark through your campaign ahead of time.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "And I'm going to guess...", "Tim Alberta" -> "What do you say to it?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "And I'm going to guess he wasn't talking about me, either.\n\nMORE\n\nXXX about me, either.", "Tim Alberta" -> "OK.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Number one. Look, I'm running -- I'm running because I've been around, on my experience. With experience hopefully comes judgment and a little bit of wisdom. The fact is that we're in a position now, the next president of the United States is going to inherit two things, an economy that is out of kilter and a domestic policy that needs to be -- where we have to unite America. And a foreign policy that requires somebody to be able to on day one stand up, look out, the entire world know who that person is, know what they stand for, and know they know them.\n\nAnd that's what -- that's the reason I'm running. I have more experience in doing that than anybody on this stage.", "Tim Alberta" -> "Just to follow up, Vice President Biden, if elected, if elected you would turn 82 at the end of your first term. You'd be the oldest president in American history.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "More like Winston Churchill.", "Tim Alberta" -> "Are you willing -- are you willing to commit -- American history.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Oh, American history.", "Tim Alberta" -> "Yes. Are you...", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "I was joking. That was a joke.", "Tim Alberta" -> "OK.\nAppreciate it.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Politico doesn't have much of a sense of humor.", "Tim Alberta" -> "Oh, we've got a great sense of humor. They wouldn't have put me on stage otherwise. Are you willing to commit tonight to running for a second term if you're elected next November?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "No, I'm not willing to commit one way or another. Here's the deal. I'm not even elected one term yet, and let's see where we are. Let's see what happens.\nBut it's a nice thought.", "Tim Alberta" -> "Senator Klobuchar, you had your hand raised.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "Thank you for asking a woman this question. I think...\nFirst of all, we have not had enough women in our government. When I was on Trevor Noah's show once, I explained how in the history of the Senate, there was something like 2,000 men and only 50 women in the whole history. And he said if a nightclub had numbers that bad, they would shut it down.\nHowever, it is not just about numbers. It's about what you get done. And that is my argument. If you look at the poll -- the state that knows me best, and that is the state of Minnesota, it showed in the state that Hillary had her lowest margin of victory, it showed that I'd beat Donald Trump by 18 points. I beat him with men more than anyone on this stage.\n\nSo I think what matters in this election is, can you bring in those rural and suburban areas, particularly in the Midwest? And number two, what will you do when you get there? And I am someone that has passed over 100 bills, with men and women, with Republicans and with Democrats, including changing the sexual harassment laws for the United States Congress, a bill I led so taxpayers are no longer going to have to pay for people that harass other people.", "Tim Alberta" -> "Senator Warren...", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "I have passed a law for drug shortages. I have done work in our rural areas. I think that's what most matters to people. I would be so proud to be the first woman president. But mostly I want to be a president that gets things done and improves people's lives.", "Tim Alberta" -> "Thank you, Senator Klobuchar.\nSenator Warren, you would be the oldest president ever inaugurated. I'd like you to weigh in, as well.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "I'd also be the youngest woman ever inaugurated.\nI believe that President Obama was talking about who has power in America, whose voices get heard. I believe he's talking about women and people of color and trans people and people whose voices just so often get shoved out.\n\nAnd for me, the best way to understand that is to look at how people are running their campaigns in 2020. You know, I made the decision when I decided to run not to do business as usual. And now I'm proud to have been in 100,000 selfies. That's 100,000 hugs and handshakes and stories, stories from people who are struggling with student loan debt, stories from people who can't pay their medical bills, stories from people who can't find childcare.\n\nNow, most of the people on this stage run a traditional campaign. And that means going back and forth from coast to coast to rich people and people who can put up $5,000 bucks or more in order to have a picture taken, in order to have a conversation, and in order maybe to be considered to be an ambassador.", "Tim Alberta" -> "Thank you, Senator Warren.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "Those selfies -- no, I want to finish this. Those selfies cost nobody anything. And I get it. In a democracy, we all have a lot of different points of view. And everybody gets one vote.\n\nBut here's the thing. People who can put down $5,000 to have a picture taken don't have the same priorities as people who are struggling with student loan debt or who are struggling to pay off medical debt.\n\nI want -- I'm running a campaign where people whose voices get heard. We can't have...", "Tim Alberta" -> "Thank you, Senator Warren. We're...", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "We can't have people who can put down $5,000 for a check drown out the voices of everyone else.", "Tim Alberta" -> "Thank you, Senator Warren.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "They don't in my campaign, and they won't in my White House.", "Tim Alberta" -> "Mayor Buttigieg -- Mayor Buttigieg, you had your hand raised.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "Well, can't help but feel that might have been directed at me. And here is the thing. We're in the fight of our lives right now. Donald Trump and his allies have made it abundantly clear that they will stop at nothing, not even foreign interference to hold onto power. They've already put together more than $300 million.\n\nThis is our chance. This is our only chance to defeat Donald Trump. And we shouldn't try to do it with one hand tied behind our back.\n\nThe way we're going to win is to bring everybody to our side in this fight. If that means that you're a grad student digging deep to go online to peteforamerica.com and chip in $10 bucks, that's great. And if you can drop $1,000 without blinking, that's great, too. We need everybody's help in this fight. I'm not going to turn away anyone who wants to help us defeat Donald Trump.\n\nWe need Democrats who've been with us all along, yes, but we also need independents worried about the direction of the country. If you're a Republican disgusted with what's going on in your own party, we're not going to agree on everything, but we need you in this fight, and I will welcome you to our side.", "Tim Alberta" -> "Thank you, Mr. Mayor.\nSenator Warren, 45 seconds to respond.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "So the mayor just recently had a fundraiser that was held in a wine cave full of crystals and served $900-a-bottle wine. Think about who comes to that. He had promised that every fundraiser he would do would be open door, but this one was closed door. We made the decision many years ago that rich people in smoke-filled rooms would not pick the next president of the United States.\nBillionaires in wine caves should not pick the next president of the United States.", "Tim Alberta" -> "Mr. Mayor, your response?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "You know, according to Forbes magazine, I am literally the only person on this stage who is not a millionaire or a billionaire.\nSo if -- this is important. This is the problem with issuing purity tests you cannot yourself pass.\nIf I pledge -- if I pledge never to be in the company of a progressive Democratic donor, I couldn't be up here. Senator, your net worth is 100 times mine. Now, supposing that you went home feeling the holiday spirit -- I know this isn't likely, but stay with me -- and decided to go onto peteforamerica.com and gave the maximum allowable by law, $2,800, would that pollute my campaign because it came from a wealthy person? No, I would be glad to have that support. We need the support from everybody who is committed to helping us defeat Donald Trump.", "Tim Alberta" -> "We would like to bring everyone, but obviously, Senator Warren, would like to give you a chance to respond.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "I do not sell access to my time. I don't do call time with millionaires and billionaires.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "Hold on a second. Sorry, as of when, Senator?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "I don't meet -- I don't meet behind closed doors with big dollar donors. And, look, I have taken one that ought to be an easy step for everyone here. I've said to anyone who wants to donate to me, if you want to donate to me, that's fine, but don't come around later expecting to be named ambassador, because that's what goes on in these high-dollar fundraisers.\n\nI said no, and I asked everybody on this stage to join me. This ought to be an easy step. And here's the problem. If you can't stand up and take the steps that are relatively easy, can't stand up to the wealthy and well connected when it's relatively easy when you're a candidate, then how can the American people believe you're going to stand up to the wealthy and well-connected when you're president and it's really hard?", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "Judy -- Judy...", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "Senator, Senator, I've got to respond.", "Tim Alberta" -> "Mr. Mayor, we're going to give you one more chance to respond.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "First of all, if you can't say no to a donor, then you have no business running for office in the first place. But also, Senator, your presidential campaign right now as we speak is funded in part by money you transferred, having raised it at those exact same big-ticket fundraisers you now denounce. Did it corrupt you, Senator? Of course not.\n\nSo to denounce the same kind of fundraising guidelines that President Obama went by, that Speaker Pelosi goes by, that you yourself went by until not long ago, in order to build the Democratic Party and build a campaign ready for the fight of our lives, these purity tests shrink the stakes of the most important election...", "Tim Alberta" -> "We'd like to bring everyone in. We'd like to bring everyone in.", "Tim Alberta" -> "But, Senator Klobuchar, had your hand up first. We'd like to call on you.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "I did not come here to listen to this argument. I came here to make a case for progress. And I have never even been to a wine cave. I've been to the wind cave in South Dakota, which I suggest you go to.\n\nSo what is making a case for progress about? That is what unites us up here instead of what divides us, which is campaign finance reform. That means passing a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United. It means making the first bill we pass when I am president will be H.R. 1, which is the ethics reform passed in the House, which is currently sitting on Mitch McConnell's desk, along with 400 bills. And if you don't think we can get this done, well, we can, but only if we win this election big.", "Tim Alberta" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "Not by arguing with each other, but by finding what unites us and getting this done.\nI came to make a case for progress.", "Tim Alberta" -> "Thank you, Senator Klobuchar. Senator Sanders?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "I am -- I am rather proud, maybe, I don't know, the only candidate up here that doesn't have any billionaire contributions. But you know what I do have? We have received more contributions from more individuals than any candidate in the history of the United States of America at this point in an election, averaging $18 a piece.\n\nNow, there's a real competition going on up here. My good friend, Joe, and he is a good friend, he's received contributions from 44 billionaires. Pete, on the other hand, he's trailing, Pete. You only got 39 billionaires contributing. So, Pete, we look forward to you. I know you're an energetic guy and a competitive guy to see if you can take on Joe on that issue.\n\nBut what is not -- what is not a laughing matter, my friends, this is why three people own more wealth than the bottom half. This is why Amazon and other major corporations pay zero in federal taxes. We need to get money out of politics. We should run our campaigns on that basis.", "Tim Alberta" -> "Thank you, Senator.\nVice President Biden, 45 seconds to respond.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "My average contributions is $43, number one. That's number one.\n\nNumber two, the idea that the senator suggested, that I am in the pocket of billionaires, when, in fact, they oppose everything that I have ever done and continue to do, I have made sure from the very beginning every one of my fundraisers is open to the press, every single solitary one. Not one single time, period.\n\nAnd I have made sure that you know exactly where all the -- and the largest contribution I have accepted is $2,800, which is allowed under law. And I'm the first person to introduce the constitutional amendment to make sure that there is no -- all public funding of elections. End all private funding.\n\nAnd we all should take a commitment, make a commitment to that right now on this stage. In the meantime, you got to fund a campaign, and we, in fact, have funded a campaign, average contribution $43.", "Tim Alberta" -> "Thank you, Vice President. Mr. Steyer, I would like to bring you in.", Entity["Person", "TomSteyer::b5k62"] -> "Listen, I am running because this government is broken, because it's purchased by corporations. And I've spent 10 years fighting those corporations and beating them and building grassroots organizations to push power down to the people. That's what I've been doing for a decade.\n\nBut let me say this. There's someone who is loving this conversation, and his name is Donald Trump.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "That's right.", Entity["Person", "TomSteyer::b5k62"] -> "We know how he's going to run. He's told us last week he looked at a group of Americans and said, \"I don't like you. You don't like me. It doesn't matter. You're going to support me because the Democrats will destroy the economy in 15 minutes.\"\n\nWe need to go after this guy. He's a different breed of cat, and we need to beat him. And we need to talk about prosperity. And I spent 25 years building a business. We're going to have to take him on, on the economy, not have these kinds of conversations and tear each other down, but actually go after...", "Tim Alberta" -> "Thank you, Mr. Steyer.", Entity["Person", "TomSteyer::b5k62"] -> "... this corrupt president and beat him on the economy where he thinks he's king and where, in fact, he's a fraud and a failure.", "Tim Alberta" -> "Thank you, Mr. Steyer. We're going to end it there.\nAmna?", "Amna Nawaz" -> "Thanks, Tim. I want to turn now to an issue that's been in the headlines quite a bit, and that is immigration. Mr. Yang, we have a question here from a professor right here at Loyola, Marymount. There are nearly 200,000 DACA recipients, so-called Dreamers, in the state of California, more than any other state, including several students right here at LMU. If you win and you reinstate DACA through executive action, another president could just overturn it again. So will you move on a permanent legislative fix for Dreamers in your first 100 days, if elected?", Entity["Person", "AndrewYang::f7w42"] -> "Of course I would. I'm the son of immigrants myself, and I know that Dreamers are essentially Americans in everything but this legal classification.\nI just want to return to this conversation, because I think it's core. Our country is deeply misogynist, and most all of us know that. Money and men are tied together. That's where I thought Elizabeth was taking the conversation.\n\nThe fact is, strong societies would elect more female leaders. Strong men treat women well for the same reasons.\nI'm on the record saying that you need both strong men and female leaders in government, because the fact is, if you get too many men alone and leave us alone for a while, we kind of become morons.\nSo it's related to our campaign finance rules, because right now the fact is we operate in a fundamentally anti-woman marketplace. And that includes the marketplace for politicians. If we were to put 100 democracy dollars into the hands of every American voter, instead of 5 percent contributing, you'd see that rate skyrocket to 50 percent or 60 percent, and you'd have many, many more women who would run for office because they don't have to go shake the money tree in the wine cave.", "Amna Nawaz" -> "Thank you, Mr. Yang. I do...", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "Could I address...", "Amna Nawaz" -> "I'd like to follow up. The question, again, Mr. Yang, was about Dreamers.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "Could I address immigration reform?", "Amna Nawaz" -> "You pledged to move -- you pledged to move on a permanent legislative fix in your first 100 days. Dreamers say that they are frustrated by Democrats' failure to prioritize their status in deal after deal. So why should Dreamers trust Democrats now?", Entity["Person", "AndrewYang::f7w42"] -> "I believe everyone on this stage would do the right thing by Dreamers in the first 100 days. I would make it a top priority. I'm the son of immigrants myself. The fact is, almost half of Fortune 500 companies were started by an immigrant or children of immigrants. Immigrants make our country stronger and more dynamic.\nAnd immigrants are being scapegoated for issues they have absolutely nothing to do with. If you go to the factory in Michigan, it's not wall-to-wall immigrants. It's wall-to-wall robot arms and machines. We have to send the opposite message of this administration.\n\nAnd as your president, I think I could send a very clear message, where if you are considering immigrating to this country and I am the president, you would realize my son or daughter can become president of the United States. That's the opposite of the current administration, and that's the message I would love to send to the world.", "Amna Nawaz" -> "Thank you, Mr. Yang.\nSenator Sanders, a related question to you.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Donald Trump...", "Amna Nawaz" -> "Actually, Senator Sanders -- Senator Sanders, I have a new question for you. You can respond to Mr. Yang's comments, as well.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "I can't respond to the immigration question?", "Amna Nawaz" -> "This is related, sir. But there are estimated to be as many as 12 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S., more than 2 million right here in California. If you have a chance to forge a bipartisan immigration reform plan, would you insist on a path to citizenship for all 12 million or just a segment of that population?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "This is what I would do. Day one, executive order, restore the legal status of 1.8 million young people in the DACA program.\nDay one, we change border policy so that federal agents will never snatch babies from the arms of their mothers.\nDay one, day one, we introduce bipartisan legislation, which will, in fact, be comprehensive, which will result in a path toward citizenship for all of the 11 million who are undocumented. That is what the people of our country want.\nTrump thinks mistakenly that he is going to win re-election by dividing us up. We are going to win this election by bringing our people together -- black and white and Latino, Native American, Asian American. That's what this campaign is about. That's what America must be about.", "Amna Nawaz" -> "Senator Klobuchar, you had your hand up.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "Thank you. I started my day-to-day with a group of immigrants who were there talking to me about housing. And I thought about this president and what he's done. He has used our immigrants as political pawns. Every single day, he tries to draw a wedge. I will be a different president.\n\nMy view on this comes from experience. When I got to the Senate, Senator Kennedy asked me to be one of the two new senators that was in the group to work on the immigration reform package. We got so close to passing that. I voted for it. Not everyone did. But most of the Democrats did.\n\nThen I was on the Judiciary Committee when President Obama was president. And we worked very hard on that immigration reform. We actually passed that with Republican votes.\n\nThen I was in the small group that worked on the compromise on the Dreamers that would have solved that problem. We didn't get that done because this president gut-punched us.", "Amna Nawaz" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "I will take my views. I will take this experience. I will get this done because immigrants don't diminish America. They are America.", "Amna Nawaz" -> "Thank you, Senator. Mr. Steyer, briefly, your response?", Entity["Person", "TomSteyer::b5k62"] -> "Listen, I think it's important to note that this president is not against immigration. He's against immigration by nonwhite people.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "Yes.", Entity["Person", "TomSteyer::b5k62"] -> "This is his attempt to divide us, as Senator Sanders said, on race. And that's what he's been doing since the very first day he started running for president. He's been vilifying non-white people. He's been trying to inflame his base and scare them that if, in fact, white people lose control of this country, that they're going to lose control of their lives.\n\nAnd as somebody who lives in a majority-minority state, which is California, what he's doing is so wrong on so many different levels.\n\nI agree with Senator Sanders. We have to reframe this argument completely. We have to go back to the idea that every American is worth being a full human being on every right. This is a racial argument by a racist president who's trying to divide us and who's vilifying people. It's absolutely wrong. And it's led him to break the laws of humanity in our name.", "Amna Nawaz" -> "Thank you, Mr. Steyer.\nMayor Buttigieg, a new question to you, Mr. Mayor. You said last month that the U.S. owes compensation to children separated from their families at the southern border. The consensus among child welfare experts is that those thousands of children will likely suffer lifelong trauma as a result of that separation. Are you committing as president to financial compensation for those thousands of children?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "Yes, and they should have a fast track to citizenship, because what the United States did under this president to them was wrong. We have a moral obligation to make right what was broken.\n\nAnd on the larger issue of immigration, my understanding of this issue isn't theoretical. It's not something I formed in committee rooms in Washington. It begins with the fact that my household, my family, came from abroad. My father immigrated to this country and became a U.S. citizen.\n\nIt comes from the fact that I'm the mayor of a city where neighborhoods that were left for dying are now coming back to life, largely because of the contributions mainly of Latino immigrants. And I've seen those same neighborhoods shut down, families huddling in church, panicking just because of the rumor of an ICE raid. That did not make our country safer.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "Could I respond?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "I had to look into the eyes of an 8-year-old boy whose father was deported, even though he had nothing so much as a traffic ticket against his name, and try to think of something to tell that boy because I couldn't tell him what he most wanted to hear, which is just that he was going to have his dad back. How could harming that young man possibly make America safer?", "Amna Nawaz" -> "Mr. Mayor, just...", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "When I am president, based on those experiences, I will make sure that this is a country of laws and of values. And that means not only ending these unspeakable, cruel practices at the border, but finally and truly fixing the immigration system that has needed a full overhaul since the 1980s.", "Amna Nawaz" -> "Mr. Mayor...", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "We cannot wait 4 years, 10 years. We cannot wait anymore to do something about this.", "Amna Nawaz" -> "Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Just to follow up...\n... since you do support compensation for those families, should the U.S. also compensate descendants of enslaved people? Do you support reparations for African-Americans?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "I support H.R. 40, which is the bill that has been proposed in Congress to establish a commission to look at reparations. But we shouldn't wait for that commission to do its work to do things that are reparative.\n\nRemember, we're not talking about a gift to anybody. We're talking about mending what was broken. We're talking about the generational theft of the wealth of generations of African-Americans. And just crossing out a racist policy and replacing it with a neutral one is not enough to deliver equality.\n\nHarms compound, just like a dollar saved in its value compounds over time. So does the value of a dollars stolen. And that is why the United States must act immediately with investments in minority-owned businesses, with investments in health equity, with investments in HBCUs, and on the longer term look at reparations so that we can mend what has been broken.", "Amna Nawaz" -> "Vice President Biden, do you support reparations?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Look, let me -- since I haven't spoken on this, I've got a chance. Number one, the reason we're the country we are is because of immigration. We've been able to cherry pick the best from every single continent.\n\nThe people who come here have determination, resilience. They are ready to stand up and work like the devil. We have 24 out of every 100 children in our schools today is Hispanic. The idea that we are going to walk away and not provide every opportunity for them is not only stupid and immoral, but it's bad for America.\n\nThey are the future of America and we should invest in them. Everybody will benefit from it, every single American. And you should get used to it. This is a nation of immigrants. That's who we are. That's why we're who we are. That's what makes us different. And we should invest in them.", "Amna Nawaz" -> "Thank you, Mr. Biden. Senator Klobuchar, you had your hand up.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "Well, I was -- I was harkening back. I made my case on immigration to what the mayor said about Washington.\n\nSo I look at this a different way. When we were in the last debate, Mayor, you basically mocked the hundred years of experience on the stage. And what do I see on this stage? I see Elizabeth's work starting the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and helping 29 million people.\nI see the vice president's work in getting $2 billion for his cancer moon shot. I see Senator Sanders' work -- working to get the veterans bill passed across the aisle. And I see what I've done, which is to negotiate three farm bills and be someone that actually had major provisions put in those bills.\n\nSo while you can dismiss committee hearings, I think this experience works. And I have not denigrated your experience as a local official. I have been one.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "You know -- I'm sorry.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "I just think you should respect our experience when you look at how you evaluate someone who can get things done.", "Amna Nawaz" -> "Thank you, Senator.\n\nMr. Mayor, I'll give you a chance to respond.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "You actually did denigrate my experience, Senator, and it was before the break, and I was going to let it go, because we got bigger fish to fry here. But you implied that my...", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "Oh, I don't think we have bigger fish to fry than picking a president of the United States.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "You're right. And before the break, you seemed to imply that my relationship to the First Amendment was a talking point, as if anyone up here has any more or less commitment to the Constitution than anybody else up here.\n\nLet me tell you about my relationship to the First Amendment. It is part of the Constitution that I raised my right hand and swore to defend with my life. That is my experience. And it may not be the same as yours, but it counts, Senator. It counts.", "Amna Nawaz" -> "Thank you, Mr. Mayor.\n\nSenator Klobuchar, you have 45 seconds to respond.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "I have been -- I certainly respect your military experience. That's not what this is about. This is about choosing a president.\n\nAnd I know my view of this is I know you ran to be chair of the Democratic National Committee. That's not something that I wanted to do. I want to be president of the United States. And the point is, we should have someone heading up this ticket that has actually won and been able to show that they can gather the support that you talk about of moderate Republicans and independents, as well as a fired-up Democratic base, and not just done it once, I have done it three times.\n\nI think winning matters. I think a track record of getting things done matters. And I also think showing our party that we can actually bring people with us, have a wider tent, have a bigger coalition, and, yes, longer coattails, that matters.", "Amna Nawaz" -> "Thank you, Senator. Yamiche?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Excuse me.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "I got to respond to that. I got to respond to that. Senator, I know that, if you just go by vote totals, maybe what goes on in my city seems small to you. If you want to talk about the capacity to win, try putting together a coalition to bring you back to office with 80 percent of the vote as a gay dude in Mike Pence's Indiana.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "Again, I would -- Mayor, if you -- if you had won in Indiana, that would be one thing. You tried and you lost by 20 points. I'm sorry. That's just the math.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Let's talk about how we -- excuse me. Let's talk about how we win an election, which is something everybody here wants to do, in terms of defeating the most dangerous president in American history. So let me tell you how you win it: You have the largest voter turnout in the history of America.\nAnd you don't have -- you don't have the largest voter turnout unless you create energy and excitement. And you don't create energy and excitement unless you are prepared to take on the people who own America and are prepared to speak to the people who are working in America.\n\nWe need a progressive agenda -- Medicare for all, raising the minimum wage to a living wage, leading the world in combatting climate change, making public colleges and universities available to all...", "Yamiche Alcindor" -> "Thank you. Thank you, Senator Sanders.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "... because we have free tuition, and canceling all student debt in this country.", "Yamiche Alcindor" -> "Thank you, Senator Sanders.\nI'd like to turn to a new subject, and that is, of course, education. Senator Warren, you've proposed free public college tuition and student loan forgiveness for most families. Why should wealthy families be able to send their kids to public college for free? Why not concentrate that government help on those most in need?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "So, as I've talked about before, I have a two cent wealth tax proposed for millionaires and billionaires, and that gives us enough money to invest in all of our babies, age 0 to 5, to put an historic $800 billion investment in public schools K through 12, and that will permit us to offer technical school, two-year college, four-year college for every single person who wants an education, cancel student loan debt for 50 -- put a $50 billion investment in our historically black colleges and universities, and cancel student loan debt for 43 million Americans.\n\nLook, this is about money, but this is also about values. We need to make an investment in our future, and the best way to do that is let's invest in the public education of our children. That starts when you're babies and it goes long after high school.\n\nWe want to have families. I meet families every day in the selfie lines who talk about what it means to be crushed by student loan debt. That's why I have a proposal popular among Democrats, popular among Republicans, popular among independents, to ask those at the top to pay a little more so somebody can get rid of that student loan debt so they can make an investment in themselves, start a small business, buy a car, create a future for themselves and for this country.", "Yamiche Alcindor" -> "Thank you, Senator. I see some hands, but I want to go to Mayor Buttigieg.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "Can I respond?", "Yamiche Alcindor" -> "Mayor Buttigieg, your plan offers free or discounted public college only to families making up to $150,000 a year. Do you think Senator Warren's plan offers free college to too many families?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "I do think that if you're in that lucky top 10 percent -- I still wish you well, don't get me wrong. I just want you to go ahead and pay your own tuition.\n\nNow, we can still have public service loan forgiveness for those who go into lower income fields to deal with that. But if you're in that top 10 percent, I think you're going to be for the most part OK.\n\nAnd there is a very real choice on where every one of these tax dollars goes. So I very much agree with Senator Warren on raising more tax revenue from millionaires and billionaires. I just don't agree on the part about spending it on millionaires and billionaires when it comes to their college tuition.", "Yamiche Alcindor" -> "Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Mayor Buttigieg.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "So -- no, wait, wait, wait.", "Yamiche Alcindor" -> "I want to...", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "No. He mentioned me by name.", "Yamiche Alcindor" -> "I'm going to let -- I'm going to let you respond, Senator Warren. Go ahead.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "He mentioned me by name. Look, the mayor wants billionaires to pay one tuition for their own kids. I want a billionaire to pay enough to cover tuition for all of our kids, because that's how we build a future.\n\nThe other part is we've got to deal with student loan debt. And right now, most of the people on this stage are nibbling around the edges of a huge student loan debt burden that disproportionally affects people of color. African-Americans are more likely to have to borrow money to go to school, more likely to borrow more money while they're in school, and have a harder time paying it off.\n\nWe want to make an investment in the future? Then open up education for all of our kids. That's how we build a future.", "Yamiche Alcindor" -> "Thank you, Senator. Senator Sanders?", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "Could I respond after Bernie?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "We believe -- I believe in the concept of universality. And one of the crises in America today is people are sick and tired of filling out forms. So you're not eligible for the program today because you're at $150,000, but you lost your job, are you eligible? You get a better job, you're eligible.\n\nI think what we have to do is what we do with Social Security, what we do with public education. Donald Trump's kids can go to a public school. They should be able to go to a public school.\n\nWhat we need right now is a revolution in education. We have got to end this dysfunctional childcare system and make sure that every working-class person in this country can find high-quality, affordable childcare. We need to make public colleges and universities tuition-free. And by taxing billionaires and by taxing Wall Street, we will cancel all student debt in this country.", "Yamiche Alcindor" -> "Thank you, Senator Sanders.\n\nTim?", "Tim Alberta" -> "Switching gears here, Mr. Steyer, earlier this year in Iowa, I met a father, Bill Stumpf, and his son, Kyle, in Dubuque. Kyle is a remarkable young adult with significant disabilities. And though he's been employed for about five years at a local pizza parlor, the future is very uncertain for his family.\n\nBill worries that there aren't enough jobs, living facilities, social programs designed to meet the needs of his son. So I'm wonderful, as president, are there specific steps that you would take to help people like Kyle become more integrated into the workforce and into their local communities?", Entity["Person", "TomSteyer::b5k62"] -> "Look, the United States has made a commitment to treat everybody equally. And that means supporting people with disabilities, both in terms of education and later when they're part of the workforce. That means bringing the resources to bear to make sure that we're treating them fairly, in school and after school, to try and integrate them fully and to make them have as full a life as possible.\n\nThe question we've got here across the board is, can we afford to do the kinds of things that Senator Sanders and Senator Warren are pushing? And the answer is yes, that, in fact, what we need to do is to undo the tax breaks that have been given for two generations to rich Americans and big corporations.\n\nLast year, the top 400 corporations paid an 11 percent tax. That is absolutely ludicrous.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "Could I answer the question?", Entity["Person", "TomSteyer::b5k62"] -> "So the answer on disabilities is a question of focus and money, as so many of these questions are. We have a country where the government is broken because corporations have bought it, they're getting their way, and for us to get back to government of, by, and for the people that serves Americans, including Americans with disabilities, we're going to have to take that back.", "Tim Alberta" -> "Mr. Yang, I didn't hear a specific answer from Mr. Steyer. Can you outline specific steps that the government should take to help integrate these young people into the workforce and into their local communities?", Entity["Person", "AndrewYang::f7w42"] -> "I would love it. I have a son with special needs. And to me, special needs is the new normal in this country. How many of you all have a family member or a friend or a neighbor with special needs or autism?\nAs you look around, most hands went up. The fact is right now, we have to do more for Kyle. Special needs children are going to become special needs adults in many cases. And here's the challenge. We go to employers and say, hey, this special needs person can be a contributor in your workplace, which may be correct, but that's not the point.\n\nWe have to stop confusing economic value and human value. We have to be able to say to our kids and Kyle that you have intrinsic value because you're an American and you're a human being.\n\nWe're going to put a freedom dividend of $1,000 a month in everyone's hands, which is going to help families around the country adapt. And then we're going to take this burden off of the communities and off of the schools who do not have the resources to support kids like my son and make it a federal priority, not a local one, so we're not robbing Peter to pay Paul.", "Tim Alberta" -> "Thank you, Mr. Yang. We have to move on. Judy?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "No, no, no. No, no, no. Come on.", "Tim Alberta" -> "Senator Warren, 45 seconds to you, please.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "So I was a special education teacher. And I loved that work, because it gave me a chance to work straight out with people to recognize the worth of every human being. I had 4- to 6-year-olds who were in special ed.\n\nAnd what do we need to do? That's why I have a plan, as a special ed teacher, to fully fund IDEA, so every child with disabilities will get the full education they need.\n\nMy housing plan is about investing in more housing across this country, in rural America, in urban America, in small town America, but it's also about making sure that people who want to live independently, people who have disabilities, will have housing available to them.\n\nI make a part of my jobs bill that we are going to make sure -- as president, I will make sure that the people who want to bid on federal contracts are treating people with disabilities fairly and paying them fairly.\n\nYou've got to go at it at every part of what we do, because as a nation, this is truly a measure of who we are. We believe in treating these, the least of thy brethren, as people of value. And that is how we make a better America.", "Tim Alberta" -> "Thank you, Senator Warren. Thank you, Senator Warren.\n\nJudy?", "Judy Woodruff" -> "I know we have a lot of hands up. We have so many important topics to discuss.\n\nI want to come to you, Senator Klobuchar, on a question of the judges. President Trump has appointed, as we know, two Supreme Court justices. But he's also had confirmed nearly 200 federal judges, most of whom are young and can shape American law for decades to come.\n\nSome of them you voted for in the Senate, including one who just yesterday joined a ruling to strike down a key part of the Affordable Care Act. Would President Trump's appointees -- my question is -- make it harder for you as president, for any of you on this stage to enact your agenda?", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "Of course. And I want to make it clear that I have opposed many, many judges. And I think everyone will remember what happened at the Kavanaugh hearing when that nominee went after me. I stood my ground and he had to apologize.\nSo I have been very strong on these judges. As for the judge you just referred to, there was actually -- the judge that wrote the opinion was a judge that went through the Senate unanimously, with support by Senator Sanders, with support by President Obama, with support by then-Senator Kennedy.\n\nSo I think it is very important, when we look at these judges, to acknowledge that there are some of these judges that you think are going to be OK and they aren't.\n\nBut what would I do as president? I would appoint judges that are in the vein of people like Elena Kagan and Justice Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor, and let's not forget the notorious RBG. That's what I would do.\nAnd if you look at my record as a lawyer and a member of the Judiciary Committee, look at the judges that I recommended to President Obama, people like Mimi Wright, who is a superstar, and Susan Richard Nelson. Look who I've put in as the first openly gay marshal in the history of the United States. I did that because I knew they were qualified people to take those jobs.\n\nAnd you need to do it not only with the right judges and have that know-how, but you also have to do it right away. That is one thing that we all learned from when President Obama was in, and that was that he was dealing with an economic crisis and it was hard to do it right away, but we have to immediately start putting judges on the bench to fill vacancies so that we can reverse the horrific nature of these Trump judges.", "Judy Woodruff" -> "A follow-up to Mayor Buttigieg. Beyond a pledge not to overturn Roe v. Wade, which I believe all of you have said would be part of your decision-making in choosing a nominee to the court, are there other litmus tests that you would apply in choosing federal judges?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "The Supreme Court is very personal for me, because my household, my marriage exists by the grace of a single vote on that body. And, yes, it is critical that we have justices who understand that American freedom includes reproductive rights and reproductive freedom.\n\nBut that's not all. I expect an understanding that voting rights are human rights. I expect an understanding that equality is required of us all. And I expect a level of respect for the rule of law that prevents this body from coming to be viewed as just one more partisan battlefield, which is why I will not only appoint judges and justices who reflect this worldview, but also begin moving to reform the body itself, as our country has done at least half a dozen times in its history, so that it is not one more political battlefield every single time a vacancy comes up.", "Judy Woodruff" -> "Yamiche?", "Yamiche Alcindor" -> "Senator Sanders, at least 22 transgender people were killed in the United States this year, move of them transgender women of color. Each of you has said you would push for the passage of the Equality Act, a comprehensive LGBTQ civil rights bill. But if elected, what more would you do to stop violence against transgender people?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "We need moral leadership in the White House. We need a president who will do everything humanly possible to end all forms of discrimination against the transgender community, against the African-American community, against the Latino community, and against all minorities in this country.\n\nBut above and beyond providing the moral leadership of trying to bring our people together, what we also need for the transgender community is to make sure that health care is available to every person in this country, regardless of their sexual orientation or their needs.\n\nAnd that is why I strongly support and have helped lead the effort for a Medicare for all single-payer program, which will provide comprehensive health care to all people, including certainly the transgender community.", "Yamiche Alcindor" -> "Thank you, Senator Sanders. Senator Warren?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "The transgender community has been marginalized in every way possible. And one thing that the president of the United States can do is lift up attention, lift up their voices, lift up their lives.\n\nHere's a promise I make. I will go to the Rose Garden once every year to read the names of transgender women, of people of color, who have been killed in the past year. I will make sure that we read their names so that as a nation we are forced to address the particular vulnerability on homelessness. I will change the rules now that put people in prison based on their birth sex identification rather than their current identification. I will do everything I can to make sure that we are an America that leaves no one behind.", "Yamiche Alcindor" -> "Thank you, Senator Warren. Amna?", "Amna Nawaz" -> "Vice President Biden, let's turn now to Afghanistan. Confidential documents published last week by the Washington Post revealed that for years senior U.S. officials misled the public about the war in Afghanistan. As vice president...", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Afghanistan, you said?", "Amna Nawaz" -> "Yes, sir, Afghanistan. As vice president, what did you know about the state of the war? And do you believe that you were honest with the American people about it?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "The reason I can speak to this -- it's well-known, if any of you followed it, my view on Afghanistan -- I was sent by the president before we got sworn in to Afghanistan to come back with a report. I said there was no comprehensive policy available. And then I got in a big fight for a long time with the Pentagon because I strongly opposed the nation-building notion we set about.\n\nRebuilding that country as a whole nation is beyond our capacity. I argued from the very beginning that we should have a policy that was based on an antiterrorism policy with a very small footprint that, in fact, only had special forces to deal with potential threats from that territory to the United States of America.\n\nThe first thing I would do as president of the United States of America is to make sure that we brought all combat troops home, entered into a negotiation with the Taliban. But I would leave behind special forces in small numbers to be able to deal with the potential threat unless we got a real good negotiation accomplished to deal with terrorism.\n\nThat's been my position from the beginning. That's why I think Secretary Gates and some members of the Pentagon weren't happy with me.", "Amna Nawaz" -> "Mr. Biden, the question was about your time in the White House, though.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "I'm talking about the White House.", "Amna Nawaz" -> "In that Washington Post report, there's a senior national security official who said that there was constant pressure from the Obama White House to produce figures showing the troop surge was working, and I'm quoting from the report here, \"despite hard evidence to the contrary.\" What do you say to that?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Since 2009, go back and look. I was on the opposite side of that with the Pentagon. The only reason I can speak to it now is because it's been published. It's been published thoroughly. I'm the guy from the beginning who argued that it was a big, big mistake to surge forces to Afghanistan, period. We should not have done it. And I argued against it constantly.", "Amna Nawaz" -> "Senator Sanders, you had your hand up.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Well, in all due respect to my -- Joe, Joe, you're also the guy who helped lead us into the disastrous war in Iraq. What we need to do is, I think, rethink -- and the Washington Post piece was very educational -- what we need to rethink is the entire war on terror.\n\nWe have lost thousands of our own men and women, brave soldiers. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people have been killed abroad or forced to leave their countries. It is time right now that we bring this world together to try to end these endless wars and address the root causes which are causing these wars.", "Amna Nawaz" -> "Senator Sanders, you do often point to your vote against the war in Iraq as evidence of your judgment on foreign policy, but you did vote for the war in Afghanistan. And as recently as 2015, you said you supported a continued U.S. troop presence there. Was that support a mistake?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Well, only one person, my good friend, Barbara Lee, was right on that issue. She was the only person in the House to vote against the war in Afghanistan. She was right. I was wrong. So was everybody else in the House.\n\nBut to answer your question, I don't think you do what Trump does and make foreign policy decisions based on a tweet at 3 a.m. in the morning or desert your long-time allies like the Kurds. I think you work with the international community. You remove all troops over a period of time, a short period of time, within one year.", "Amna Nawaz" -> "Thank you, Senator. Mayor Buttigieg, you served in this war, but I want to ask about your decision-making if you were elected commander-in-chief. You have pledged to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan within your first year as president, but the Taliban today control or contest more than half the country.\n\nSo should you as president still withdraw all those U.S. troops if the country could once again become a haven for terrorists?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "We're going to leave one way or the other. The question is to make sure we do it well and not poorly. And of course, that has to respond to the conditions on the ground and the need for a political settlement.\n\nBut, you know, the other day, I was reunited with somebody that I'd served with over there. And the thing we were marveling at is how long it's been since we left. I thought I was one of the last troops turning out the lights when I left years ago, and we're still there.\n\nThere may need to be some kind of limited special operations and intelligence capacity, the exact same kind of thing, by the way, that we actually had in Syria holding the line before the president yanked it out, leading to the road to chaos.\n\nBut what we know is that we cannot go on with these endless wars. And I'm glad that the name of Barbara Lee was mentioned, not only because of what she's talked about years ago. I believe that we had no choice but to go to Afghanistan after 9/11. But right now, she is one of the leaders of the effort to repeal and replace the authorization for the use of military force and the folks that I served with deserve that. They deserve the clarity of members of Congress being able to summon the courage to take an up-or-down vote on whether they ought to be there in the first place.\n\nAnd when I am president, any time, if I am forced to deploy troops into war, any time we seek an authorization, it will have a three-year sunset, so that if there really does have to be a conversation about extending it, it has to be brought to Congress, brought to the American people, and those members of Congress have to take that tough up-or-down vote.", "Amna Nawaz" -> "Thank you, Mr. Mayor.\n\nTim?", "Tim Alberta" -> "Thanks, Amna.\n\nMoving to health care, an issue that voters tell us every day is still the number-one priority for them, Senator Sanders, you've spent plenty of time discussing and defending the merits of your Medicare for all plan. But the reality is that if Republicans retain control of the U.S. Senate or even if Democrats win back a narrow Senate majority, your plan as constituted probably would not have the votes to pass Congress.\n\nSo the question, Senator, is, if Congress rejects your plan and the American people are looking to you for leadership on this issue, are there smaller specific measures that you would take immediately to expand coverage and decrease costs as president?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Well, Tim, at a time when we're spending twice as much per capita on health care as any other nation, when 87 million people are uninsured or underinsured, when 30,000 people are dying each year because they don't get to a doctor when they should, and when a half a million people are going bankrupt because of the dysfunctional and cruel system that we currently have, you know what? I think we will pass a Medicare for all single-payer system, and I will introduce that legislation in my first week in office.\n\nNow, to answer your question, I think when we go out to the American people and tell them that right now we have got to take on the greed and corruption of the pharmaceutical industry, for example, which in some cases charges us 10 times more for the same exact drug as is charged in this country, when the American people understand that Medicare for all expands Medicare to cover home health care, dental care, eyeglasses, and hearing aids, and does it at a cost far, far lower than what some of my opponents are talking about, you know what? We're going to have the American people behind us. We will have Congress behind us.", "Tim Alberta" -> "Thank you, Senator Sanders.\n\nVice President Biden, I'd like to bring you in. You spent an awful lot of time 10 years ago trying to pass a bill far less ambitious than what Senator Sanders is talking about here. Is he being realistic?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "I don't think it is realistic, but let me explain why. I introduced a plan to build on Obamacare. Remind everybody, 20 million people got insurance who didn't have it before. All people with pre-existing conditions were able to be covered. I could go on. We didn't get all that we wanted.\n\nBut now that it's been exposed, that taking it away has such dire consequences, I've added to the Obamacare plan the Biden initiative, which is a public option, Medicare if you want to have Medicare, reducing significantly the price of drugs, deductibles, et cetera, by -- made by underwriting the plan to a tune of about $750 billion, and making sure that we're able to cover everyone who is, in fact, able to be covered. Put your hand down for a second, Bernie, OK?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Just waving to you, Joe.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "I know. I know.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Saying hello.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "I know. So, look, it covers everybody. It's realistic. And most importantly, it lets you choose what you want. Here you have 160 million people who negotiated their health care plans with their employer, like many of you have. You may or may not like it. If you don't like it, you can move into the public option that I propose in my plan. But if you like it, you shouldn't have -- you shouldn't have Washington dictating to you, you cannot keep the plan you have.", "Tim Alberta" -> "Thank you, Vice President Biden.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "That's a...", "Tim Alberta" -> "Senator Sanders, 45 seconds to respond.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Under Joe's plan, essentially we retain the status quo.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "That's not true.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "It is exactly true.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "No, that's not right.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "And but -- thank you. And, by the way, Joe, under your plan, you know, you asked me how are we going to pay for it? Under your plan, I'll tell you how we're paying for it right now. The average worker in America, their family makes $60,000 a year. That family is now paying $12,000 a year for health care, 20 percent of their income. Under Medicare for all, that family will be paying $1,200 a year, because we're eliminating the profiteering of the drug companies and the insurance companies and ending this byzantine and complex administration of thousands of separate health care plans.", "Tim Alberta" -> "Senator Klobuchar, I'm going to come to you...", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "My name was mentioned.", "Tim Alberta" -> "I'm going to come to you, but 45 seconds...", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "I'm the only guy that's not interrupted.", "Tim Alberta" -> "Forty-five seconds for Vice President Biden.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "I'm the only guy that's not interrupted here, all right? And I'm going to interrupt now. It costs $30 trillion. Let's get that straight, $30 trillion over 10 years. Some say it costs $20 trillion. Some say it costs $40 trillion.\n\nThe idea that you're going to be able to save that person making $60,000 a year on Medicare for all is absolutely preposterous. Sixteen percent of the American public is on Medicare now and everybody has a tax taken out of their paycheck now. Tell me, you're going to add 84 percent more and there's not going to be higher taxes? At least before he was honest about it.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Joe...", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "It's going to increase personal taxes. There are going to be...", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "That's right, we are going to increase personal taxes. But we're eliminating premiums, we're eliminating co-payments, we're eliminating deductibles, we're eliminating all out-of-pocket expenses, and no family in America will spend more than $200 a year on prescription drugs.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "OK.", "Tim Alberta" -> "Senator Klobuchar...", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "... our plan will save the average worker...", "Tim Alberta" -> "Senator Klobuchar, we'd like to hear from -- we'd like to hear from you...", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "Whoa, guys, hey.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "It's the first time I did this.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "OK, that's true. I'll say this. First of all, Bernie, I promise, when I am your president, I will get our pharmaceutical bills done. And we have worked together on this time and time again. And I agree with you on that.\n\nBut where I disagree is, I just don't think anyone has a monopoly on bold ideas. I think you can be progressive and practical at the same time. That is why I favor a public option, which is a nonprofit option, to bring the cost down. And, yes, it does bring the costs down immediately for 13 million people, and then we'll expand coverage to 12 million people.\n\nBut here's the political problem. This fight that you guys are having isn't real. Your fight, Bernie, is not with me or with Vice President Biden. It is with all those -- bunch of those new House members, not every one by any means, that got elected in that last election in the Democratic Party. It is with the new governor, Democratic governor of Kentucky, that wants to build on Obamacare.\n\nAnd the way I look at it, if you want to bridge -- build -- if you want cross a river over some troubled waters, you build a bridge, you don't blow one up. And I think that we should build on the Affordable Care Act.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "She mentioned my name...", "Tim Alberta" -> "Thank you, Senator Klobuchar. Senator Warren, we would like to bring you in.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Excuse me. She mentioned -- she took my name in vain.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "Oh.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "She hurt my feelings. I am crushed. Can I respond?", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "I would never do that to you. I would never, never, never.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "My fight, Amy...", "Tim Alberta" -> "All right. Forty-five seconds, Senator Sanders.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "All right. My fight, Amy, is not with the governor of Kentucky. My fight and all of our fights must be with the greed and corruption of the pharmaceutical industry, with the greed and corruption of the insurance industry. These guys last year made $100 billion in profit and tens of millions of Americans cannot afford to go to a doctor tonight.\n\nThe day has got to come -- and Joe is not talking about it, Amy is not talking about it -- the day has got to come, and I will bring that day about, when we finally say to the drug companies and the insurance companies, the function of health care is to provide it for all of our people in a cost-effective way, not to make massive profits for the drug companies and the insurance companies.", "Tim Alberta" -> "Thank you, Senator Sanders. Senator Warren...", "Tim Alberta" -> "We'd like -- we'd like to bring you into this discussion. The same question to you that I posed to Senator Sanders, if Congress rejects a Medicare for all proposal and you're the president, are there smaller specific measures that you could pursue with bipartisan support to decrease costs and expand coverage?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "So this is about costs. It's about costs on middle-class families. Last year, 36 million Americans didn't have a prescription filled because they couldn't afford it. And those are people with health insurance, as well. People who can't do the co-pays, people who can't do the deductibles, people who find out that the drug is not covered.\n\nSo here's how I approach this. I want to do the most good I can for the most people as quickly as possible. On day one, I'm going to attack the prices on commonly used drugs, like EpiPens and insulin, and bring down those prices. The president can do that -- I love saying this -- all by herself. And I will do it. That's going to save families hundreds of millions of dollars.\n\nAnd then in the first 100 days, because I found a way to pay for full health care coverage for everyone without raising taxes on middle-class families...", "Tim Alberta" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "... I'm going to make available to people for a full health care coverage for 135 million people. It will be at no cost at all. And they can opt into that system.", "Tim Alberta" -> "Thank you, Senator Warren.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "For others, it will be at a low cost. We have got to start moving and move fast.", "Tim Alberta" -> "We do have to move on.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "We can do that -- we can do that on 50 votes.", "Tim Alberta" -> "Thank you, Senator. Judy?", "Judy Woodruff" -> "We are coming to the end of our time. A lot of hands up, we apologize for that.\n\nBut in the spirit of the season, I'd like to ask each one of you, is there someone else among these candidates that you would -- you have two options, one, a candidate from whom you would ask forgiveness for something maybe that was said tonight or another time, or -- or a candidate to whom you would like to give a gift. And I'm going to start with you, Mr. Yang.", Entity["Person", "AndrewYang::f7w42"] -> "Wow.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "We can do a labor action and just all go on strike on this one, Andrew.", Entity["Person", "AndrewYang::f7w42"] -> "I don't think I have much to ask forgiveness for. You all can correct me on this. In terms of a gift, Elizabeth has done me the honor of starting to read my book.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "Yes.", Entity["Person", "AndrewYang::f7w42"] -> "I would love to give each of you a copy of my book.\nIt's about how we're going through the greatest economic transformation in our country's history, the fourth industrial revolution. It is grinding up our communities. And D.C. is out to lunch on this. Our media organizations are not covering it adequately. I wrote a book on it, and if you like data, this book is for you. This goes for the people at home, too, if you like data and books.", "Judy Woodruff" -> "Mayor Buttigieg. Mayor Buttigieg, ask forgiveness or give a gift?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "Well, first of all, I love data and books, so I think we should all be excited about this. And come to think of it, I should probably send my book around more, too. Look...", Entity["Person", "AndrewYang::f7w42"] -> "Your publisher will thank you.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "I think all of us will want the same thing at the end of the day. We know what a gift it would be to the future and to the country for literally anybody up here to become president of the United States compared to what we've got.\nAnd we've got to remember, there are I don't know how many now -- we're up to 25 something have run for president in the Democratic president. The moment we've got a nominee, the 24 who aren't that nominee are going to have to rally around the one who does. Let's make sure there's not too much to ask forgiveness for by the time that day comes.", "Judy Woodruff" -> "Senator Warren?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "I will ask for forgiveness. I know that sometimes I get really worked up, and sometimes I get a little hot. I don't really mean to.\n\nWhat happens is, when you do 100,000 selfies with people...\n... you hear enough stories about people who are really down to their last moments. You know, I met someone just last week in Nevada who said that he has diabetes and that he has access to a prescription because he's a veteran. But his sister has diabetes and his daughter has diabetes, and they simply can't afford insulin. So the three of them spend all of their time figuring out how to stretch one insulin prescription among three people.\n\nWhen I think about what we could do if we get a majority in the House, a majority in the Senate, and get back the White House, we could make this country work for people like that man. And that's why I'm in this fight.", "Judy Woodruff" -> "Vice President Biden?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "I think everyone up here on this stage, and those who are not on this stage who've run, we owe them, because they're all pushing for the exact same thing. You're not the only one that does selfies, Senator. I've done thousands of them, thousands of them. And the crew that follows me can tell you, there's not one line I go through that I don't have at least a half a dozen people come up and hug me and say, can you help me? I just lost my daughter 10 days ago. Can you help me? Tell me I'm going to be OK. Can you help me? I just lost -- and they go and lay out their problems.\n\nMy wife and I have a call list of somewhere between 20 and 100 people that we call at least every week or every month to tell them, I'm here. I give them my private phone number. They keep in touch with me.\n\nThe little kid who says, I can't talk, what do I do? I have scores of these young women and men who I keep in contact with. And the reason I would give everyone here a gift is because they want to do something like I do of making their lives better, because there's a lot of people who are hurting very, very, very badly.", "Judy Woodruff" -> "Senator Sanders, forgiveness or a gift?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Well, I can give out any one of four books that I wrote.\nBut I think the gift that all of us need to give to the American people is a very, very different vision of the reality of the Trump administration. And the vision that we need to bring forth is to create a government and a nation based on love and compassion, not greed and hatred.\nWe need a vision which says that in our great country, all of our people should be able to earn a decent standard of living, have health care, have the ability to send their kids to college, regardless of their income. So we need a new vision which brings our people together around an agenda that works for all, not the Trump vision of dividing us up to benefit the billionaire class. That's my vision.", "Judy Woodruff" -> "Senator Klobuchar?", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "Well, I would ask for forgiveness any time any of you get mad at me. I can be blunt. But I am doing this because I think it is so important to pick the right candidate here. I do.\n\nI think when you see what's going on around the country, yes, it's the economic check that Elizabeth and Bernie have so well pointed out on this stage, but there's something else going on here, and it is a decency check. It is a values check. It is a patriotism check.\n\nWhen you see people -- and we've all had this happen -- that come to our meetings and say, you know, yeah, I voted for Donald Trump, but I don't want to do it again, because I want my kids to be able to watch the president on TV and not mute the TV.\n\nWe have to remember as Democrats, and if I get worked up about this, it's because I believe it so much in my heart, that we have to bring people with us and not shut them out. That is the gift we can give America in this election.", "Judy Woodruff" -> "Mr. Steyer?", Entity["Person", "TomSteyer::b5k62"] -> "So, look, this is the holiday season. And what I'm hearing from every single one of these candidates is that they've gone around the United States and what they've seen from this administration and what they've seen from the Republican Party is cruelty towards the people of the United States for money.\n\nSo when I think about the gift that I'd like to give -- and I've seen that, too. I mean, I think it starts with cruelty when children are born and it goes right through life into pre-K, education, health care, a living wage. There is cruelty to working people, there is cruelty to seniors.\n\nAnd so the gift that I would like to give everyone on this stage, which was the original question, is the gift of teamwork. Because the question up here is, how are we together going to change this framework? How are we together going to beat this corrupt and criminal president? How are we going to stand up for the people of the United States together, not by tearing each other down, but by supporting each other and by realizing that what we stand for is the true value of America? And as a team, that's how we're going to do it. And as Americans, we're going to come together to stand up for the original values -- freedom, equality, justice, teamwork.", "Judy Woodruff" -> "That -- we are going to take a very short break. That does conclude our questions tonight here at Loyola Marymount University. We'll be back in just two minutes to hear the candidates' closing statements.", "Judy Woodruff" -> "Welcome back to the PBS NewsHour Democratic debate with Politico. And now it's time for closing statements. Each have 60 seconds, beginning with Mr. Steyer.", Entity["Person", "TomSteyer::b5k62"] -> "I'm different from everybody else on this stage, and here's why. I'm running because corporations have bought our government and we need to return power to the people. And for the last 10 years, that's exactly what I've been doing, taking on unchecked corporate power.\n\nThat's why I'm for term limits, because if we're going to have bold change, then we need new people in charge and new ideas. I'm the only person on this stage who's built a large, multibillion-dollar international business. I know how to grow prosperity. I can take on Mr. Trump on the economy and beat him.\n\nI'm the only one on this stage who said climate is my number-one priority. It's a crisis we have to deal with, but it's also our greatest opportunity to create millions of good-paying union jobs across the country and clean up the air and water in the black and brown communities where it's so essential.\n\nSo if you want to break the corporate stranglehold, beat Mr. Trump on the economy, and solve our climate crisis, I can deliver. And I'm asking for your vote.", "Judy Woodruff" -> "Mr. Yang. I'm sorry. My apology for interrupting.\nMr. Yang?", Entity["Person", "AndrewYang::f7w42"] -> "I know what you're thinking, America. How am I still on this stage with them?\nOur campaign is growing all the time because we are laser-focused on solving the real problems that got Donald Trump elected in the first place. I spent seven years helping create thousands of jobs in Detroit, Baltimore, New Orleans, and other cities, serving as an ambassador of entrepreneurship under President Obama, and I saw firsthand what many of you already know. Our country is falling apart.\n\nOur senior citizens are working until the day they die. Our kids are addicted to smartphones or drugs. We're seeing record high levels of depression and suicides, overdoses. Our companies are recording record profits while our people are literally dying younger.\n\nOur way of life is changing faster than ever, and the simple fact is this. Our politicians in D.C. succeed whether we the people succeed or fail. Washington, D.C., today is the richest city in our country. What do they produce? Bad decisions?\nWe need to get the money out of D.C. and into your hands, the hands of the American people. Join us at yang2020.com and help us rewrite the rules of the 21st century economy to work for us.", "Judy Woodruff" -> "Thank you. Senator Klobuchar?", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "We have had quite a debate tonight, but I want to debate Donald Trump. This primary comes down to some simple questions. Who has the best ideas, the best experience? Mostly, who can beat Donald Trump, and how will she do it?\n\nSo Donald Trump built his fortune on, over time, over $413 million that he got from his dad. My grandpa, he was an iron ore miner, a union member, who worked 1,500 feet underground, and he saved money in a coffee can in the basement to send my dad to a community college. That's my family trust.\n\nAnd I figure if you are given opportunity, you don't go into the world with a sense of entitlement. You go into it with a sense of obligation, an obligation to lift people up instead of hoarding what you have for yourself.\n\nOur politics right now, because of Donald Trump, are toxic. We need a leader who can bring people together and who can win that way. So if you are tired of the extremes in our politics and the noise and the nonsense, you have a home with me. If you want a bigger tent and a wider coalition and longer coattails, join me. We will win at amyklobuchar.com .", "Judy Woodruff" -> "Thank you.\nMayor Buttigieg?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "So the nominee is going to have to do two things: defeat Donald Trump and unite the country as president. It's a tall order. And in order to do it, we're going to need a nominee and a president who can respond to the crisis of belonging that is gripping our nation today. That means building up a politics that is defined not by who we exclude, not by who we reject, but by how many people we can call to this side.\n\nI have seen so many people capable of forming that multiracial, multigenerational coalition. And I am seeing more and more people who maybe have not felt welcome in the Democratic Party before but belong here now because they're definitely not on board with what's going on in the Trump White House.\n\nI am asking you to join me, to vote for me, to caucus for me, and to help us build that future defined not by exclusion, but by belonging.", "Judy Woodruff" -> "Senator Warren?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "Did you call my name?\n\nThis is a dark moment in America, and yet I come here tonight with a heart filled with hope. All three of my brothers served in the military. They're all retired. They're all back in Oklahoma. One is a Democrat. Two are Republicans. But you know what unites my three brothers? Amazon. They are furious that Amazon reported $10 billion in profits and paid zero in taxes.\n\nMy brothers are part of why America is ready to root out corruption and fight back. And that gives us a base to work from. America is ready for a two cent wealth tax. It's supported by Republicans, Democrats, and independents. And it lets us invest in all of our children.\n\nAmerica is ready to expand Social Security payments and disability payments by $200 a month. And we can do it. You know, someone asked what this would mean. You just give somebody $200 a month, they asked me this in a town hall. And a lady who wanted it said, you know what it will mean to me? It will mean I can get a prescription filled and I can still buy toilet paper the same week. That's where Americans are right now.\n\nI am not working for millionaires and billionaires. I'm here to work for the tens of millions of people across this country who are ready to build an America that won't just work for those at the top, but that will work for everyone.", "Judy Woodruff" -> "Thank you, Senator.\nSenator Sanders?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "For 45 years, Americans have been listening to great speeches. And at the end of the day, the average American worker is not making a nickel more than he or she did in real wages over those 45 years.\n\nThe truth is that real change always takes place -- real change -- always takes place from the bottom on up, never from the top on down. And that is why in this campaign I am so proud that we have over a million volunteers. We have some of the strongest grassroots organizations. We have raised more individual contributions than any candidate in American history.\n\nPlease join the political revolution at berniesanders.com . Let's defeat Trump. Let's transform this country. Thank you.", "Judy Woodruff" -> "And finally, Vice President Biden.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "I want to thank everyone listening seven days out from Christmas. Thank you very much.\n\nLook, we all have big progressive plans. And the question is, who can deliver on those plans? And it seems to me, we have to ask ourselves three questions straight up and honestly. Who has the best chance, the most likely chance of defeating Donald Trump? Who is the one who's most likely to do that?\n\nNumber two, who can help elect Democrats to the United States Senate in states like North Carolina and Georgia and Arizona and other states?\n\nAnd thirdly, who can deliver legislatively? That requires you to look at our records. I have a significant record of getting significant things done, from Violence Against Women Act to the chemical weapons treaty, in foreign and domestic policy alike.\n\nAnd so I think asking those questions, I believe, as you would expect, that I'm the most qualified to answer those three questions. But most of all, we've got to level with the American people. Don't play games with them. Tell them the truth and be authentic.\n\nGod bless you all, and may you have a great, great holiday season. And thank you guys for doing this, as well."}, {"Wolf Blitzer" -> "All right, so let\[CloseCurlyQuote]s begin right now. Just this month, the United States and Iran were on the brink of war, which has reignited the debate over America\[CloseCurlyQuote]s role in the world and which of you is best prepared to be commander-in-chief. So let\[CloseCurlyQuote]s have the debate right now. Senator Sanders, why are you best prepared \[LongDash] the best prepared person on this stage to be commander-in-chief?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "When the Congress was debating whether or not we go into a war in Iraq, invade Iraq, I got up on the floor of the House and I said that would be a disaster, it would lead to unprecedented levels of chaos in the region. And I\[CloseCurlyQuote]d not only voted against the wall, I help lead the effort against that wall. Just last year, I helped for the first time in the modern history of this country, pass a War Powers Act Resolution, working with a conservative Republican, Mike Lee of Utah, which said that the war in Yemen, led by Saudi Arabia was unconstitutional because Congress had not authorized it.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "We got a majority vote in the Senate. We got a majority vote in the House. Unfortunately, Bush vetoed that and that horrific war continues. I am able to work with Republicans. I am able to bring people together, to try to create a world where we solve conflicts over the negotiating table, not through military efforts.", "Wolf Blitzer" -> "Vice President Biden, you talk a lot about your experience, but some of your competitors have taken issue with that experience, questioning your judgment in voting to authorize the Iraq war. Why are you the best prepared person in this stage to be Commander in Chief?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "I said 13 years ago, it was a mistake to give the President the authority to go to war, if in fact he couldn\[CloseCurlyQuote]t get inspectors into Iraq to stop what thought to be the attempt to get a nuclear weapon. It was a mistake and I acknowledged that. But the man who also argued against that war, Barack Obama picked me to be his Vice President and once we were elected President, and Vice President, he turned to me and asked me to end that war. I know what it\[CloseCurlyQuote]s like to send a son or daughter and like our colleague has gone to war in Afghanistan, my son for a year in Iraq and that\[CloseCurlyQuote]s why I do it very, very reluctantly.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "That\[CloseCurlyQuote]s why I led the effort as you know, Wolf against surging tens of thousands of troops into Afghanistan. We should not send anyone anywhere unless the overwhelming vital interest of United States are at stake. They were not at stake there. They were not at stake in Iraq and it was a mistaken vote. But I think my record overall on every other thing we\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve done has been\[Ellipsis] I\[CloseCurlyQuote]m prepared to compare it to anybody\[CloseCurlyQuote]s on this stage.", "Wolf Blitzer" -> "Senator Sanders, you have been attacking Vice President Biden\[CloseCurlyQuote]s vote on the Iraq war, but you recently acknowledged that your vote to authorize the war in Afghanistan was also a mistake. So you\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve both acknowledged mistakes. Why should the American people trust your judgment more?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Well, it\[CloseCurlyQuote]s a little bit of a difference on that particular vote, every single member of the House, including myself voted for it, only Barbara Lee voted against it. But what I understood from right away in terms of the war in Iraq, the difference here is that the war in Iraq turned out to be the worst foreign policy blunder in the modern history of this country. As Joe well knows, we lost 4,500 brave troops, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis died.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "We have spent trillions of dollars on that endless war, money which should go into healthcare and education and infrastructure in this country. Joe and I listened to what Dick Cheney and George Bush and Rumsfeld had to say. I thought they were lying. I didn\[CloseCurlyQuote]t believe them for a moment, I took to the floor I did everything I could to prevent that war. Joe saw it differently.", "Wolf Blitzer" -> "Vice President Biden.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "I was asked to bring 156,000 troops home from that war, which I did. I led that effort. It was a mistake to trust that they weren\[CloseCurlyQuote]t going to go to war. They said they were not going to go to war. They said they were just going to get inspectors in. The world, in fact voted to send inspectors in and they still went to war. From that point on, I was in the position of making the case that it was a big, big mistake and from that point on, I moved to bring those troops home.", "Wolf Blitzer" -> "Senator Klobuchar, you\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve publicly questioned Mayor Buttigieg\[CloseCurlyQuote]s experience when it comes to being Commander in Chief. Why is your time as a US Senator more valuable than his time as a US Naval intelligence officer in Afghanistan and as mayor?", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "Thank you Wolf, and I\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve been very clear that I respect the mayor\[CloseCurlyQuote]s experience very much in the military. I just have different experience. I\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve been in the US Senate for over 12 years and I think what you want in a President is someone who has dealt with these life and death issues and who has made decisions. I will look at my position on the Iraq war first. I wasn\[CloseCurlyQuote]t in the Senate for that vote, but I opposed that war from the very beginning. In my first campaign for Senate, I ran against a Republican who ran ads against me on it, but I stood my ground. When I got to the Senate, I pushed to bring our troops home.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "Then I have dealt with every issue from Afghanistan, to keeping our troops with good healthcare, after what we saw with Walter Reed and being part of an effort to improve the situation for our troops in a very big way with their education and with their jobs and also with their healthcare. I think right now what we should be talking about though, Wolfe, is what is happening right now with Donald Trump. Donald Trump is taking us pell-mell toward another war. We have a very important resolution.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "We just found out today the four Republicans are joining Democrats to go to him and say, \[OpenCurlyDoubleQuote]You must have an authorization of military force if you\[CloseCurlyQuote]re going to go to war with Iran.\[CloseCurlyDoubleQuote] That is so important because we have a situation where he got us out of the Iranian nuclear agreement, something I on for a significant period of time. As President, I will get us back into that agreement. I will take an oath to protect and defend our constitution and I will mean it.", "Wolf Blitzer" -> "Thank you, Senator Klobuchar. We are going to continue talking about who\[CloseCurlyQuote]s best prepared to be Commander in Chief Mayor Buttigieg.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "Well, I bring a different perspective. There are enlisted people that I served with, barely old enough to remember those votes on the authorization after 9-11, on the war in Iraq, and there are people now old enough to enlist who were not alive for some of those debates. The next President is going to be confronted with national security challenges, different in scope and in kind from anything we\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve seen before.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "Not just conventional military challenges, not just stateless terrorism, but cybersecurity challenges, climate security challenges, foreign interference in our elections. It\[CloseCurlyQuote]s going to take a view to the future, as well as the readiness, to learn from the lessons of the past and for me, those lessons of the past are personal.", "Wolf Blitzer" -> "Senator Warren and our new CNN Des Moines Register poll, almost a third of your supporters say your ability to lead the military is more of a weakness than a strength of yours. Why are you best prepared to be Commander in Chief?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "I believe the principal job of the Commander in Chief is to keep America safe and I think that\[CloseCurlyQuote]s about judgment. I think it starts with knowing our military. I sit on the Senate Armed Services Committee. I work with our generals, with our military leaders, with our intelligence, but I also visit our troops. I visit our troops around the world. I\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve been to Afghanistan, to Iraq, to Jordan, to South Korea. I\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve been to lots of places to talk with our troops. And I fight for our troops to make sure that they get their pay, that they get the housing and medical benefits that they\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve been promised, that they don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t get cheated by giant financial institutions.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "I have three brothers who are in the military and I know how much our military families sacrifice, but I also know that we have to think about our defense in very different ways. We have to think about cyber. We have to think about climate. We also have to think about how we spend money. We have a problem with a revolving door in Washington, between the defense industry and the Department of Defense and the Pentagon. That is corruption, pure and simple. We need to block that revolving door and we need to cut our defense budget. We need to depend on all of our tools, diplomatic, economic, working with our allies and not let the defense industry call the shots.", "Wolf Blitzer" -> "Mr. Steyer, you worked in finance for decades and have never held elected office. Why should voters believe you have the experience or judgment to serve as Commander in Chief?", Entity["Person", "TomSteyer::b5k62"] -> "I worked internationally around the world for decades. I traveled, I met with governments, I met with business, and I understand how America interacts with other countries. And you asked what is the reason that the experience really counts? And to me, I believe that Senator Warren made a great point. It isn\[CloseCurlyQuote]t so much about experience, it\[CloseCurlyQuote]s about judgment. If you\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve been listening to this, what we are hearing is 20 years of mistakes by the American government in the Middle East, of failure, of mistakes. So the real question is judgment.", Entity["Person", "TomSteyer::b5k62"] -> "And if you look who had the judgment, it was a State Senator from Illinois with no experience named Barack Obama who opposed the war. It is a Congress woman, Barbara Lee from Oakland, California, who stood up against the original vote, who was the only person in Congress. So I would say to you this, an outside perspective looking at this and actually dealing with the problems as they are is what we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re looking for now. I agree with Senator Warren, we are spending dramatically too much money on defense. The money that we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re spending there, we could spend in the other parts of the budget and it\[CloseCurlyQuote]s time for someone from the outside to have a strategic view about what we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re trying to do and how to do it.", "Wolf Blitzer" -> "Senator Sanders, in the wake of the Iran crisis, Iran, Ayatollah Khamenei has again called for all US troops to be pulled out of the Middle East, something you\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve called for as well. Yet when American troops last left Iraq, ISIS emerged and spread terror across the Middle East and indeed around the world. How would you prevent that from happening again?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Okay, let me tell you, but before I tell you that, let me tell you something else. And that is, and I don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t know if my colleagues here will agree with me or not, maybe they will. But what we have to face as a nation is that the two great foreign policy disasters of our lifetimes are the war in Vietnam and the war in Iraq, both of those wars were based on lies. And right now what I fear very much is we have a President who is lying again and could drag us into a war that is even worse than the war in Iraq.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "To answer your question, what we need to do is have an international coalition. We cannot keep acting unilaterally. As you know, the nuclear deal with Iran was worked on with a number of our allies. We have got to undo what Trump did, bring that coalition together and make sure that Iran never gets a nuclear weapon.", "Wolf Blitzer" -> "Vice President Biden.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "I was part of that deal to get the nuclear agreement with Iran, bringing together the rest of the world and including some of the folks who aren\[CloseCurlyQuote]t friendly to us and it was working. It was working, it was being held tightly. There was no movement on the part of the Iranian government to get closer to a nuclear weapon. And look what\[CloseCurlyQuote]s happened, he went ahead and it was predictable from the day he pulled out of the agreement, Trump, what exactly would happened. We\[CloseCurlyQuote]re now isolated. We\[CloseCurlyQuote]re in a situation where our allies in Europe are making a comparison between the United States and Iran, saying both ought to stand down, making a moral equivalence. We have lost our standing in the region, we have lost the support of our allies. The next President has to be able to pull those folks back together, re-establish our alliances and insist that Iran go back into the agreement, which I believe with the pressure applied as we put on before we can get done.", "Wolf Blitzer" -> "So just to be clear, Vice President Biden, would you leave troops in the Middle East or would you pull them out?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "I would leave troops in the Middle East in terms of patrolling the Gulf, where we are now, small numbers of troops. And I think it\[CloseCurlyQuote]s a mistake to pull out the small number of troops that are there now to deal with ISIS. What\[CloseCurlyQuote]s happened is, now that he\[CloseCurlyQuote]s gone ahead, the President and started this whole process moving, what\[CloseCurlyQuote]s happening? ISIS is going to reconstitute itself. We\[CloseCurlyQuote]re in a position where we have to pull our forces out. Americans have to leave the entire region and quite frank, I think he\[CloseCurlyQuote]s flat out lied about saying the reason he made the strike was because our embassies were about to be bombed.", "Wolf Blitzer" -> "Senator Klobuchar, what\[CloseCurlyQuote]s your response?", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "I would leave some troops there, but not in the level that Donald Trump is taking us right now. Afghanistan, I have long wanted to bring our troops home, I would do that. Some would remain for counter terrorism and training. In Syria, I would not have removed 150 troops from the border with Turkey. I think that was a mistake. I think it made our allies and many others much more vulnerable to ISIS. And then when it comes to Iraq, right now I would leave our troops there despite the mess that has been created by Donald Trump.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "At the briefing we had last week, I was the only person on this stage that asked a question of both the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of State. And I asked them about imminent threat, but I also ask them what their alternatives were and they gave very vague, vague answers. I asked them where is the surge of diplomacy that we would be seeing if I was President? And I asked them where they were going to leave the Iraqi people? Time and time again, you see that this President puts his own interest, his private interests in front of our countries. I would put our country\[CloseCurlyQuote]s interests first as Commander in Chief.", "Wolf Blitzer" -> "So Senator Warren, leave combat troops, at least some combat troops in the Middle East or bring them home?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "No, I think we need to get our combat troops out. You know, we have to stop this mindset that we can do everything with combat troops. Our military is the finest military on earth and they will take any sacrifice we ask them to take, but we should stop asking our military to solve problems that cannot be solved militarily. Our keeping combat troops there is not helping. We need to work with our allies. We need to use our economic tools. We need to use our diplomatic tools.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "Now look, I understand there are people on this stage when it comes to Afghanistan, for example, who talk about five more years, 10 more years. Shoot Lindsay Graham talks about leaving troops there for a hundred more years. No one has a solution and an end point. We need to get our combat troops out. They are not helping create more safety for the United States or the region.", "Wolf Blitzer" -> "Vice President Biden is Senator Warren right?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Well, I\[CloseCurlyQuote]ll tell you what. There\[CloseCurlyQuote]s a difference between combat troops and leaving special forces in a position. I was part of the coalition that put together 68 countries to deal with stateless terror, as well as failed States, not us alone, 68 other countries. That\[CloseCurlyQuote]s how we were able to defeat and end the caliphate for ISIS. They\[CloseCurlyQuote]ll come back if we do not deal with them and we do not have someone who can bring together the rest of the world to go with us, with small numbers of special forces we have, to organize the effort to take them down.", "Wolf Blitzer" -> "Mayor Buttigieg, you served in Afghanistan, who\[CloseCurlyQuote]s right?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "If we can continue to remain engaged without having an endless commitment of ground troops. But what\[CloseCurlyQuote]s going on right now is the President\[CloseCurlyQuote]s actually sending more. The very President who said he was going to end endless war, who pretended to have been against the war in Iraq all along. But we know that\[CloseCurlyQuote]s not true. Now has more troops going into the Middle East. And whenever I see that happen, I think about the day we shipped out and the time that was set aside for saying goodbye to family members.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "I remember walking with a friend of mine, another Lieutenant I trained with as we walked away and his one and a half year old boy was toddling after him not understanding why his father wasn\[CloseCurlyQuote]t turning back to scoop him up. And it took all the strength he had, not to turn around and look at his boy one more time. That is happening by the thousands right now, as we see so many more troops sent into harm\[CloseCurlyQuote]s way. And my perspective is to ensure that that will never happen when there is an alternative as Commander in Chief.", "Wolf Blitzer" -> "Senator Sanders.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Wolf, in America today, our infrastructure is crumbling. Half of our people are living paycheck to paycheck. 87 million people have no healthcare or are under insured. You got 500,000 people sleeping out on the streets tonight. The American people are sick and tired of endless wars, which have cost us trillions of dollars. Our job is to rebuild the United Nations, rebuild the State department, make sure that we have the capability of bringing the world together to resolve international conflict diplomatically and stop the endless wars that we have experienced.", "Wolf Blitzer" -> "We\[CloseCurlyQuote]re going to get to everyone, but Vice President Biden. You criticized President Trump\[CloseCurlyQuote]s decision to kill the Iranian General Soleimani, without first going to Congress. Are there any circumstances other than a direct attack on the United States where you would take military action without congressional approval?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "I ran the first time as a 29 year old kid against the war in Vietnam, on the grounds that only way they can take a nation to war, is with the informed consent of the American people. The informed consent of the American people. And with regard to this idea that we can walk away and not have any troops anywhere, excluding special forces, there\[CloseCurlyQuote]s no way you negotiate or been able to negotiate with terrorists. You have to be able to form coalitions, to be able to defeat them or contain them.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "If you don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t, we end up being the world\[CloseCurlyQuote]s policeman again. They\[CloseCurlyQuote]re going to come to us, they\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve come to us before, they\[CloseCurlyQuote]ll come to us again. So that\[CloseCurlyQuote]s a fundamental difference than negotiating with other countries, it\[CloseCurlyQuote]s fundamentally a requirement that we use our special forces in small numbers to coordinate with other countries to bring together coalitions.", "Wolf Blitzer" -> "Mr Vice President, just to be clear, the Obama-Biden administration did not ask Congress for permission multiple times when it took military action. So wouldn\[CloseCurlyQuote]t the Biden doctrine be different?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "No, there was the authorization for the use of military force that was passed by the United States Congress House and Senate and signed by the President. That was the authority, does not give authority to go into Iran, it gave authority to deal with these other issues.", "Wolf Blitzer" -> "Mayor Buttigieg.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "That authorization needs to be replaced.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Exactly. We tried that.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "When we lost troops in [inaudible 00:19:21], there were members of Congress who admitted they didn\[CloseCurlyQuote]t even know we had troops there. And it was all pursuant to an authorization that was passed to deal with Al Qaeda and 9-11. And often Congress has been all too happy to leave aside its role. Now thanks to Democrats in Congress, that\[CloseCurlyQuote]s changing. But the reality is year after year, Congress didn\[CloseCurlyQuote]t want to touch this either because it was so politically difficult. Fundamental truth is, if our troops can summon the courage to go overseas into harm\[CloseCurlyQuote]s way, often on deployment after deployment, then we\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve got to make sure that Congress has the courage to take tough up or down votes on whether they ought to be there. And when I am President, anytime, which I hope will never happen, but anytime I\[CloseCurlyQuote]m compelled to use force, I seek that authorization. We will have a three year sunset, so that the American people are included not only in the decision about whether to send troops but whether to continue.", "Wolf Blitzer" -> "Thank you. We\[CloseCurlyQuote]re going to get to everyone, but Senator Warren, what about you? Are there any circumstances other than a direct attack on the United States where you would take military action without congressional approval?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "Well imminent threat, but we need an authorization for the use of military force before we take this nation into combat. That is what the constitution provides and that\[CloseCurlyQuote]s what as Commander in Chief, I will do. But I just want to be clear, everyone on this stage talks about nobody wants endless war, but the question is when and how do you plan to get out of it? On Senate Armed Services Committee, we have one general after another in Afghanistan who comes in and says, \[OpenCurlyDoubleQuote]You know, we\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve just turned the corner and now it\[CloseCurlyQuote]s all going to be different.\[CloseCurlyDoubleQuote]", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "And then what happens? It\[CloseCurlyQuote]s all the same for another year. Someone new comes in and we\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve just turned the corner. We\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve turned the corners so many times we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re going in circles in these regions. This has got to stop. It\[CloseCurlyQuote]s not enough to say, \[OpenCurlyDoubleQuote]Someday we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re going to get out.\[CloseCurlyDoubleQuote] No one on the ground. None of our military can describe what the conditions are for getting out. It\[CloseCurlyQuote]s time to get our combat troops home.", "Wolf Blitzer" -> "Mr. Steyer, would a President\[CloseCurlyQuote]s Steyer use military force as a deterrent? And if not, under what circumstances would you take military action?", Entity["Person", "TomSteyer::b5k62"] -> "I would take military action to protect the lives and safety of American citizens. But what we can see in the Middle East and what this conversation shows, is that there is no real strategy that we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re trying to accomplish in what we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re doing in the Middle East. Obviously Mr. Trump has no strategy. He is going from crisis to crisis from escalation to escalation. But if you look further over the last 20 years including in the war in Afghanistan, we know from the Washington Post that in fact there was no strategy, there was just a series of tactical decisions that made no sense.", Entity["Person", "TomSteyer::b5k62"] -> "So we really have to ask ourselves in the Middle East, what are we trying to accomplish? I agree with Vice President Biden, to do it we should definitely be doing it in coalition with other countries. And I want to point out that as we do that we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re confronted by this issue which everyone is talking about. But at the same time there\[CloseCurlyQuote]s a gigantic climate issue in Australia, which also requires the same kind of value driven coalition building, that we actually should be using in the Middle East. We need to ask ourselves, how are we going to provide a world that is safer for Americans, where we can prosper more? And every single thing we do should follow into that strategy and it\[CloseCurlyQuote]s just not happening in Washington DC.", "Abby Phillip" -> "Mayor Buttigieg, another critical issue you\[CloseCurlyQuote]d face as President is the threat of nuclear weapons. Last week, President Trump said, \[OpenCurlyDoubleQuote]As long as I am President of the United States, Iran will never be allowed to have a nuclear weapon.\[CloseCurlyDoubleQuote] Would a President Buttigieg make that same promise?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "Ensuring that Iran does not develop nuclear weapons, will of course be a priority because it\[CloseCurlyQuote]s such an important part of keeping America safe. But unfortunately, President Trump has made it much harder for the next President to achieve that goal. By gutting the Iran nuclear deal, one that by the way, the Trump administration itself admitted was working, certified that it was preventing progress toward a nuclear Iran. By gutting that they have made the region more dangerous and set off the chain of events that we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re now dealing with as it escalates even closer to the brink of outright war. Now- [crosstalk 00:23:46] Yes?", "Abby Phillip" -> "Continue.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "In order to get that done, we\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve got to work with our partners. The Iran nuclear deal, the technical term for it was the JCPOA, that first letter J stood for joint. We can\[CloseCurlyQuote]t do this alone. Even less so now after everything that has happened, which is why it will be so critically important to engage leaders, including a lot of new leaders emerging around the world and ensure that we have the alliances we need to meet what I believe is not just an American goal, but a widely shared goal around the world, to ensure that Iran does not become a nuclear armed country.", "Abby Phillip" -> "Mayor Buttigieg to be clear, would you allow Iran to become a nuclear power? Yes or no?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "No. Our security depends on ensuring that Iran does not become nuclear. And by the way, we\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve got a lot other challenges with nuclear proliferation around the world. Despite this President\[CloseCurlyQuote]s coziness with Vladimir Putin, we actually seem to be further away from being able to work with Russia on things like the renewal of START. We\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve got to move toward less, not more nuclear danger, whether it is from States, from stateless potential terrorist actors or anywhere else around the world.", "Abby Phillip" -> "Thank you Mayor Buttigieg. Senator Klobuchar, if you become President, it\[CloseCurlyQuote]s very possible there won\[CloseCurlyQuote]t be an Iran nuclear deal for the United States to rejoin. Given that, how would you prevent Iran from gaining a nuclear weapon?", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "I would start negotiations again and I won\[CloseCurlyQuote]t take that as a given, given that our European partners are still trying to hold the agreement together. My issue is that because of the actions of Donald Trump, we are in a situation where they are now starting, Iran is starting to enrich uranium again, in violation of the original agreement. So what I would do is negotiate, I would bring people together just as President Obama did years ago, and I think that we can get this done. But you have to have a President that sees this as a number one goal. And an answer to the original question you asked the mayor, I would not allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon. And then you have to get an agreement in place.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "I think there are changes you can make to the agreement, better sunsets and changes to the inspections, but overall that is what we should do. And I am the one person on this debate stage, on the first night of the very first debate, when we were asked what we saw as the biggest threat to our world, I said China on the economy, but I said Iran because of Donald Trump. Because I feared that exactly what happened would happen, enrichment of uranium, escalation of tensions, leaving frayed relations with our allies. We can bring them back, understanding this is a terrorist regime that we cannot allow to have a nuclear weapon.", "Abby Phillip" -> "Vice President Biden, I want to ask you about North Korea. President Trump has met with Kim Jong-un three times. President Obama once said he would meet with North Korea without any preconditions. Would you meet with North Korea without any preconditions?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "No, not now. I wouldn\[CloseCurlyQuote]t meet with him without any preconditions. Look, we gave him everything he\[CloseCurlyQuote]s looking for. Legitimacy, the President showed up, met with him, gave him legitimacy, weakened the sanctions we have against them. I would be putting what I did as Vice President. I\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve met with Xi Jinping more than anyone else. I would be putting pressure on China to put pressure on Korea, to cease and desist from their nuclear power, make their efforts to deal with nuclear weapons. I would move forward as we did before and you reported it extensively Wolf, about moving forward the whole notion of defense against nuclear weapons.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "And when China said to me, when Xi Jinping said to me, \[OpenCurlyDoubleQuote]That\[CloseCurlyQuote]s a threat to us.\[CloseCurlyDoubleQuote] I said, \[OpenCurlyDoubleQuote]We\[CloseCurlyQuote]re going to move and protect our interests unless you get involved and protect it.\[CloseCurlyDoubleQuote] I would re-ignite the relationship between Japan and South Korea and I would put enormous pressure on China because it\[CloseCurlyQuote]s also in their interest for them to put pressure on North Korea to cease and desist. But I would not meet with absent preconditions. I would not meet with the \[OpenCurlyDoubleQuote]Supreme leader\[CloseCurlyDoubleQuote] who said, \[OpenCurlyDoubleQuote]Joe Biden is a rabid dog. He should be beaten to death with a stick.\[CloseCurlyDoubleQuote] I count that.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Other than that, you like him.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Other than that I like him and he got a love letter from Trump right after that.", "Abby Phillip" -> "Mr. Steyer, would you meet with North Korea without any preconditions?", Entity["Person", "TomSteyer::b5k62"] -> "No. It\[CloseCurlyQuote]s very clear that if we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re going to do something with North Korea, we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re going to have to do it in concert with our allies. That meeting with him without preconditions is not going anywhere, that the staff can meet to try and see how far we can get. But this is a classic situation where the United States idea of going it alone makes no sense. And when you are talking about Iran, let\[CloseCurlyQuote]s face it, Iran is under great pressure economically. So every single discussion we\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve had about Iran has had to do with military power and America versus Iran. Whereas in fact what worked with President Obama was an Alliance of our allies and us, putting economic pressure on them for them to give up their military tactic. That to me is called strategy, having a goal to make America safer by looking more broadly than just us as the policemen of the world-", "Abby Phillip" -> "Thank you Mr. Steyer.", Entity["Person", "TomSteyer::b5k62"] -> "\[Ellipsis] Spending money.", "Brianne Pfannenstiel" -> "Let\[CloseCurlyQuote]s stay with the theme of America\[CloseCurlyQuote]s role in the world and talk about trade. Tomorrow, President Trump is expected to sign phase one of a trade agreement with China and the Senate will likely soon approve a new trade deal with Mexico and Canada, Iowa\[CloseCurlyQuote]s largest trading partners. Senator Sanders, you have said that new deal, the USMCA, \[CloseCurlyDoubleQuote] Makes some modest improvements,\[CloseCurlyDoubleQuote] yet you\[CloseCurlyQuote]re going to vote against it. Aren\[CloseCurlyQuote]t modest improvements better than no improvements for the farmers and manufacturers who have been devastated here in Iowa?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "The answer is we could do much better than a Trump led trade deal. This deal, and I think the proponents of it acknowledge, will result in the continuation of the loss of hundreds of thousands of good paying jobs, as a result of outsourcing. The heart and soul of our disaster trade agreements and I\[CloseCurlyQuote]m the guy who voted against NAFTA and against permanent normal trade relations with China, is that we have forced American workers to compete against people in Mexico, in China, elsewhere, who earn starvation wages, a dollar or $2 an hour.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Second of all, every major environmental organization has said no to this new trade agreement because it does not even have the phrase climate change in it. And given the fact that climate change is right now the greatest threat facing this planet, I will not vote for a trade agreement that does not incorporate very, very strong principles to significantly lower fossil fuel emissions in the world.", "Brianne Pfannenstiel" -> "But Senator Sanders, to be clear, the AFL-CIO supports this deal. Are you unwilling to compromise?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "The AFL-CIO does, the machinists union does not. And every environmental organization in this country, including the sunrise organization who are supporting my candidacy, opposes it. So I happen to believe, and I hope we will talk about climate change in a moment. If we do not get our act together in terms of climate change, the planet that we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re going to be leaving our kids and our grandchildren will be increasingly unlivable and uninhabitable.", "Brianne Pfannenstiel" -> "We\[CloseCurlyQuote]re going to get to climate change but I\[CloseCurlyQuote]d like to stay on trade. Senator Warren.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Well they are the same in this issue.", "Brianne Pfannenstiel" -> "Senator Warren, you support the USMCA, why is Senator Sanders wrong?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "I do. I wasn\[CloseCurlyQuote]t here, I haven\[CloseCurlyQuote]t been in Congress long enough to have voted against NAFTA, but I led the fight against the trade deal with Asia and the trade deal with Europe because I didn\[CloseCurlyQuote]t think it was in the interest of the American people, the American workers or environmental interests. But we have farmers here in Iowa who are hurting and they are hurting because of Donald Trump\[CloseCurlyQuote]s initiated trade wars. We have workers who are hurting because the agreements that have already been cut, really don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t have enforcement on workers rights.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "This new trade deal is a modest improvement, Senator Sanders himself has said so. It will give some relief to our farmers, it will give some relief to our workers. I believe we accept that relief, we try to help the people who need help and we get up the next day and fight for a better trade deal. We need a coherent trade policy. We need a policy that actually helps our workers, our farmers. We need them at the table, not just a trade policy written for big international companies. I\[CloseCurlyQuote]m ready to have that fight but let\[CloseCurlyQuote]s help the people who need help right now.", "Brianne Pfannenstiel" -> "Thank you. Senator Sanders, can you please respond to Senator Warren?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Well, I think that it is not so easy to put together new trade legislation. If this is passed, I think it will set us back a number of years. Senator Warren is right, in saying we need to bring the stakeholders to the table, that is the family farmers here in Iowa and in Vermont and around the country. That is the environmental community, that\[Ellipsis]", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "In Vermont and around the country, that is the environmental community. That is the workers. Bottom line here is I am sick and tired of trade agreements negotiated by the CEOs of large corporations.", "Brianne Pfannenstiel" -> "Senator Klobuchar, I\[CloseCurlyQuote]d like to bring you in here.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "Brianne, I want to hit reality here. I serve on the agriculture committee, and I will never forget going to Crawfordsville here in Iowa, and thank you for bringing up Iowa, Brianne, since that is where we are. I went to this plant, and there was one worker left in that plant. That plant had been shut down because of Donald Trump\[CloseCurlyQuote]s trade policies and because of what he had done to those workers, with giving secret waivers to oil companies and ruining the renewable fuel standard.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "That worker brought out a coat rack of uniforms, and he said, \[OpenCurlyDoubleQuote]These are my friends. They don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t work here anymore.\[CloseCurlyDoubleQuote] Their names were embroidered on those uniforms, Derek, Mark, Salvador, and that guy started to cry.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "These are real people hurt by Donald Trump\[CloseCurlyQuote]s trade war. So what we should do, and I support the USMCA. I am glad that these improvements were made that are supported by people like Richard Trumka and Sherrod Brown, on labor and environment, on pharma, the sweetheart deal, because I think we need a big trading block with North America to take on China. The way you are stronger than China is with your allies.", "Brianne Pfannenstiel" -> "Senator Klobuchar, your time is up. Mayor Buttigieg, do you support the USMCA? Yes or no?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "Yes, it has been improved. It is not perfect, but when you sit down with the people who are most impacted, they share just how much harm has been done to them by things like the trade war and just how much we can benefit, American consumers and workers and farmers, by making sure we have the right kind of labor and enforceability, as Democrats ensured we got in this USMCA.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "But let\[CloseCurlyQuote]s acknowledge why there is such fear and frustration. In my part of the country, in the industrial Midwest, I remember when they came around in the \[CloseCurlyQuote]90s, selling trade deals, telling us, \[OpenCurlyDoubleQuote]Don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t worry about your slice of the pie. The pie will get so much bigger that everyone will be better off,\[CloseCurlyDoubleQuote] and that promise was broken. The part about the pie getting bigger happened. It\[CloseCurlyQuote]s just that the part about it getting to most people where I live did not.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "That is why there was such frustration. The sense that these decisions in board rooms and in committee rooms in Washington are being made not based on what\[CloseCurlyQuote]s best for us, but based on their own game.", "Brianne Pfannenstiel" -> "Thank you, Mayor Buttigieg. Vice President Biden, Senator Sanders has said Donald Trump will, quote, eat your lunch for voting yes on what he calls terrible trade agreements. When it comes to trade, why are you the best candidate to take on President Trump?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "There\[CloseCurlyQuote]ll be no trade agreements signed in my administration without environmentalist and labor at the table, and there will be no trade agreement until we invest more in American workers. We should be putting our money and our effort and our time in preparing America workers to compete in the 21st century on the high- tech side, dealing with artificial intelligence. We should be focusing on equipping American workers to do that.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "By the way, the idea \[Ellipsis] I don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t know that there\[CloseCurlyQuote]s any trade agreement that the senator would ever think made any sense, but the problem is that 95% of the customers are out there. So we\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve got to figure out how we begin to write the rules of the road, not China.", "Brianne Pfannenstiel" -> "Senator Sanders?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Joe and I have a fundamental disagreement, in case you haven\[CloseCurlyQuote]t noticed, and that is NAFTA, PNTR with China, other trade agreements were written for one reason alone, and that is to increase the profits of large multinational corporations. The end result of those two, just PNTR with China, Joe, and NAFTA cost us some 4 million jobs as part of the race to the bottom.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "I am sick and tired and will not tolerate, and we will use the power of the federal contracting system. If a corporation in America wants to shut down in Iowa or Vermont or any place else and then they think they\[CloseCurlyQuote]re going to get online for a generous federal contract, they\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve got another thing going. We need some corporate responsibility here, and we need to protect good-paying jobs in America, not see them go to China, Mexico, Vietnam.", "Brianne Pfannenstiel" -> "Mr. Vice President, what\[CloseCurlyQuote]s your response?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "We need corporate responsibility, and I agree with that completely. But we also need to have enforcement mechanisms in the agreements we made, enforceable agreements. That\[CloseCurlyQuote]s one of the things that has been improved with the trade agreement with Mexico, and that\[CloseCurlyQuote]s what we should be doing in any agreement we have.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "But let\[CloseCurlyQuote]s get back to the basics here. If we don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t set the rules of the road by going out to our partners, instead of poking our finger in the eye of all our friends and allies. We make up 25% of the world\[CloseCurlyQuote]s economy. We\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve got to bring the other 25% of our allies along with us to set the rules of the road so China cannot continue to abuse their power by stealing an actual are stealing our intellectual property and doing all the other things using their corporate state system to our significant disadvantage.", "Brianne Pfannenstiel" -> "Senator Warren?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "Our problem is not just that we need corporate responsibility. It\[CloseCurlyQuote]s been the structure of how these trade deals have been negotiated. The United States has had a strategy for decades, and that strategy has been to have government trade negotiators, a small number, and then surround them with giant multinational corporation lobbyists and corporate executives who whisper in the ears of our negotiators and then get deals cut that are great for the giant multinational corporations, not good for America, not good for American workers, not good for the environment.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "We need a different approach to trade, and it starts by calling out the corruption of these giant corporations that have cut our trade deals. Everybody wants to get to the American market, and we need to put some standards in place. You want to be able to sell your goods here, then you\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve got to meet some environmental standards. You\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve got to meet labor standards.", "Brianne Pfannenstiel" -> "Thank you, Senator Warren.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "We need a coherent approach.", "Brianne Pfannenstiel" -> "I\[CloseCurlyQuote]d like to bring in Mr. Steyer here. Mr Steyer, even though farmers and manufacturers here in Iowa and around the country could see some relief from the China deal, they\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve been crushed by the current administration\[CloseCurlyQuote]s trade war. What will you do as President to help them get back on their feet?", Entity["Person", "TomSteyer::b5k62"] -> "Look. On the first day, I would undo Mr. Trump\[CloseCurlyQuote]s tariffs. On the first day, I would get rid of his waivers that Senator Klobuchar was referring to, to oil refiners not having to use corn-based ethanol.", Entity["Person", "TomSteyer::b5k62"] -> "In fact, these trade deals have been exactly what Senator Sanders and Warren have been saying, which is that they\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve been designed to grow the American GDP for the corporations of America, not for the working people of America, and not to protect the climate.", Entity["Person", "TomSteyer::b5k62"] -> "So let me say this. I\[CloseCurlyQuote]m the only person on this stage who says climate is my number one priority. I would not sign this deal, because if climate is your number one priority, you can\[CloseCurlyQuote]t sign a deal, even if it\[CloseCurlyQuote]s marginally better for working people, until climate is also taken into consideration.", Entity["Person", "TomSteyer::b5k62"] -> "Look. I\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve got four kids between the ages of 26 and 31. I cannot allow this country to go down the path of climate destruction. Everybody in their generation knows it. Frankly, Mayor Buttigieg, you\[CloseCurlyQuote]re their generation. I\[CloseCurlyQuote]d think you would be standing up more. Look. That\[CloseCurlyQuote]s why I\[CloseCurlyQuote]m standing up for it. We cannot put climate on the backseat all the time and say, \[OpenCurlyDoubleQuote]We\[CloseCurlyQuote]re going to sign this one more deal. We\[CloseCurlyQuote]re going to do one more thing without putting climate first.\[CloseCurlyDoubleQuote] That\[CloseCurlyQuote]s why it\[CloseCurlyQuote]s my number one priority. We can do it in a way that makes us richer, but we have to do it.", "Brianne Pfannenstiel" -> "Mayor Buttigieg, your response?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "Well, that\[CloseCurlyQuote]s right. This issue\[CloseCurlyQuote]s personal for me. That\[CloseCurlyQuote]s why we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re going to tackle climate from day one. It\[CloseCurlyQuote]s why we\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve got to make sure that we have better answers than we do today.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "Now, what I\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve noticed is pretty much all of us propose that we move on from fossil fuels by the middle of the century, starting with actions that we take right now. The question is how are we going to make sure any of this actually gets done? Because people have been saying the right things in these debates for literally decades.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "The other day in Winterset, there was a kid at one of my events. Raised his hand, and he pointed out that he expects to be here in his nineties, in the year 2100. He will sit in judgment over what we do, not just what we on this stage do, anyone old enough to vote right now, whether we actually put together the national project it will require to meet our climate goals, to act aggressively, not just rejoining the Paris Climate Accord. That\[CloseCurlyQuote]s table stakes, but to actually move on from the fossil-dependent economy we live in today.", "Abby Phillip" -> "Let\[CloseCurlyQuote]s now turn to an issue that\[CloseCurlyQuote]s come up in the last 48 hours, Senator Sanders. Seen and reported yesterday that \[Ellipsis] Senator Sanders, Senator Warren confirmed in a statement that in 2018, you told her that you did not believe that a woman could win the election. Why did you say that?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Well, as a matter of fact, I didn\[CloseCurlyQuote]t say it, and I don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t want to waste a whole lot of time on this, because this is what Donald Trump and maybe some of the media want. Anybody that knows me knows that it\[CloseCurlyQuote]s in comprehensible that I would think that a woman could not be President of the United States. Go to YouTube today. There\[CloseCurlyQuote]s a video of me 30 years ago, talking about how a woman could become President of the United States.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "In 2015, I deferred, in fact, to Senate Warren. There was a movement to draft Senator Warren to run for President, and you know what? I stayed back. Senator Warren decided not to run, and I did run afterwards.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by three million votes. How could anybody in a million years not believe that a woman could become President of the United States? Let me be very clear. If any of the women on this stage or any of the men on this stage win the nomination \[Ellipsis] I hope that\[CloseCurlyQuote]s not the case. I hope it\[CloseCurlyQuote]s me. But if they do, I will do everything in my power to make sure that they are elected in order to defeat the most dangerous President in the history of our country.", "Abby Phillip" -> "So Senator Sanders, Senator Sanders, I do want to be clear here. You\[CloseCurlyQuote]re saying that you never told Senator Warren that a woman could not win the election?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "That is correct.", "Abby Phillip" -> "Senator Warren, what did you think when Senator Sanders told you a woman could not win the election?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "I disagreed. Bernie is my friend, and I am not here to try to fight with Bernie. But look. This question about whether or not a woman can be President has been raised, and it\[CloseCurlyQuote]s time for us to attack it head-on. I think the best way to talk about who can win is by looking at people\[CloseCurlyQuote]s winning record.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "So can a woman beat Donald Trump? Look at the men on this stage. Collectively, they have lost ten elections. The only people on this stage who have won every single election that they\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve been in are the women. The only person on this stage who has beaten an incumbent Republican anytime in the past 30 years is me, and here\[CloseCurlyQuote]s what I know. The real danger that we face as Democrats is picking a candidate who can\[CloseCurlyQuote]t pull our party together or someone who takes for granted big parts of the Democratic constituency.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "We need a candidate who will excite all parts of the Democratic Party, bring everyone in, and give everyone a Democrat to believe in. That\[CloseCurlyQuote]s my plan, and that is why I\[CloseCurlyQuote]m going to win.", "Abby Phillip" -> "Senator Klobuchar, what do you say \[Ellipsis]", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "Thank you, Elizabeth.", "Abby Phillip" -> "Senator Klobuchar, what do you say \[Ellipsis]", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "I would like to \[Ellipsis]", "Abby Phillip" -> "Senator Klobuchar, let me finish my question.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "Oh, okay.", "Abby Phillip" -> "What do you say to people who \[Ellipsis]", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "I thought it was such an open end. I wasn\[CloseCurlyQuote]t at the meeting, so I can\[CloseCurlyQuote]t comment, but I was going to say \[Ellipsis]", "Abby Phillip" -> "What do you say to people who say that a woman can\[CloseCurlyQuote]t win this election?", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "I hear that. People have said it. That\[CloseCurlyQuote]s why I\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve addressed it from this stage. I point out that you don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t have to be the tallest person in the room. James Madison was five foot four. You don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t have to be the skinniest person in the room. You don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t have to be the loudest person. You have to be competent.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "When you look at the facts, Michigan has a woman governor right now, and she beat a Republican, Gretchen Whitmer. Kansas has a woman governor right now, and she beat Kris Kobach. Her name is \[Ellipsis] I\[CloseCurlyQuote]m very proud to know her, and her name is Governor Kelly. Thank you.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "Third, I would add to this you have to be competent to win, and you have to know what you\[CloseCurlyQuote]re doing. When you look at what I have done, I have won every race, every place, every time. I have one in the reddest of districts. I have won in the suburban areas, in the rural areas. I have brought people with me. That is why I have the most endorsements of current Iowa legislators and former Iowa legislators in this race \[Ellipsis]", "Abby Phillip" -> "Thank you.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "\[Ellipsis] because I know I bring people with me.", "Abby Phillip" -> "Thank you, Senator Klobuchar.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "Finally, every single person that I have beaten, my Republican opponents, have gotten out of politics for good. I think that sounds pretty good. I think that sounds pretty good with the guy we have in the White House right now.", "Abby Phillip" -> "Senator Sanders, you can respond.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Well, just to set the record straight, I defeated an incumbent Republican running for Congress.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "When?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "1990. That\[CloseCurlyQuote]s how I won. Beat a Republican Congressman. Number two, of course \[Ellipsis]", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "30 years ago.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "\[Ellipsis] I don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t think there\[CloseCurlyQuote]s any debate on \[Ellipsis]", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "Wasn\[CloseCurlyQuote]t that 30 years ago?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "I beat an incumbent Republican Congressman.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "I said I was the only one who has beaten an incumbent Republican in 30 years.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Well, 30 years ago is 1990, as a matter of fact. But I don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t know that that\[CloseCurlyQuote]s the major issue of the day. I think what the major issue of the day is \[Ellipsis] Does anybody in their right mind thing that a woman cannot be elected President? That\[CloseCurlyQuote]s enough. Nobody believes that. Hillary Clinton got 3 million votes, more votes than Trump. So who believes that a woman can\[CloseCurlyQuote]t win? Of course a woman can win.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "But the real question is how do we beat Trump? The only way we beat Trump is by a campaign of energy and excitement and a campaign that has, by far, the largest voter turnout in the history of this country.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "I believe that our campaign has the strongest grassroots movement.", "Abby Phillip" -> "Thank you.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "We are endorsed by many grassroots organizations.", "Abby Phillip" -> "Senator Warren? Senator Warren, I want to give you the final word.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "So I do think it\[CloseCurlyQuote]s the right question, how do we beat Trump? Here\[CloseCurlyQuote]s the thing. Since Donald Trump was elected, women candidates have outperformed men candidates in competitive races. In 2018, we took back the House. We took back state houses because of women candidates and women voters.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "Look. Don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t deny that the question is there. Back in the 1960s, people asked, \[OpenCurlyDoubleQuote]Could a Catholic win?\[CloseCurlyDoubleQuote] Back in 2008, people asked if an African American could win. Both times, the Democratic Party stepped up and said yes, got behind their candidate, and we changed America. That\[CloseCurlyQuote]s who we are.", "Abby Phillip" -> "Vice President Biden? Vice president Biden, go ahead.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "I agree women can win, and I\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve went in and campaigned for 27 of them, this last in 2018 the best group I\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve ever campaigned for in terms of competence. But the real issue is who can bring the whole party together and represent all elements of the party, African Americans, brown, black, women, men, gay, straight? The fact of the matter is that I would argue that, in terms of endorsements around the country, endorsements wherever we go, I am the one who has the broadest coalition of anyone running up here in this race.", "Abby Phillip" -> "All right, we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re going to take a short break now. The CNN Democratic Presidential Debate, live from Drake University, will be right back. Let\[CloseCurlyQuote]s turn to healthcare, the top issue for Iowa Democrats. Donald Trump is trying to repeal Obamacare, including the protections for preexisting conditions. We all know that each of you vigorously opposes that. Still, there are some questions about what each of you would do.", "Abby Phillip" -> "Senator Sanders, you\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve consistently refused to say exactly how much your Medicare for All plan is going to cost. Don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t voters deserve to see the price tag before you send them a bill that could cost tens of trillions of dollars?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Well, what I will tell you is Medicare for All, which will guarantee comprehensive healthcare to every man, woman, and child, will cost substantially less than the status quo. Medicare for All will end the absurdity of the United States paying, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs and healthcare in general.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "While we have 87 million uninsured and underinsured and while 30,000 people die each year, on the Medicare for All, one of the provisions we have to pay for it is a 4% tax on income, exempting the first $29,000. So the average family in America that today makes $60,000 would pay $1,200 a year, compared to that family paying $12,000 a year. We save money, comprehensive healthcare, because we take on the greed and the profiteering and the administrative nightmare that currently exist in our dysfunctional system.", "Abby Phillip" -> "Vice President Biden, does Senator Sanders owe voters a price tag on his healthcare plan?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "I think we need to be candid with voters. I think we have to tell them what we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re going to do and what it\[CloseCurlyQuote]s going to cost, and a 4% tax on income over $24,000 doesn\[CloseCurlyQuote]t even come close to paying for between 30 and some estimates as high as $40 trillion over ten years. That\[CloseCurlyQuote]s doubling the entire federal budget per year.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "There\[CloseCurlyQuote]s a way to do that. The way to do that is to take Obamacare, re-instate, rebuild it, provide a public option, allow Medicare for those folks who want it, and, in fact, make sure that we, in the process, reduce the costs of drug prices, reduce the cost of being able to buy into the \[Ellipsis] subsidize it further, and make it available to everyone. Here\[CloseCurlyQuote]s the deal. That costs a lot of money that cost $740 billion over ten years. I lay out how I pay for that.", "Abby Phillip" -> "Senator Sanders?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Well, first of all, what Joe forgets to say is when you leave the current system as it is, what you are talking about, all workers paying, on average, 20% of their incomes for healthcare, that is insane. You\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve got 500,000 people going bankrupt because they cannot pay their medical bills. We\[CloseCurlyQuote]re spending twice as much per capita on healthcare as do the people of any other country.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Look. We\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve talked about healthcare for all in this country for over 100 years. Now is the time to take on the greed and corruption of the healthcare industry, of the drug companies, and finally provide healthcare to all through a Medicare for All single payer program. It won\[CloseCurlyQuote]t be easy, but that is what we have to do.", "Abby Phillip" -> "Vice President Biden?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "You can do it without Medicare for All. You can get the same place.", "Abby Phillip" -> "Senator Klobuchar, your response?", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "Yeah. Senator Sanders and I have worked together on pharmaceuticals for a long, long time, and we agree on this. But what I don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t agree with is his position on healthcare. This debate isn\[CloseCurlyQuote]t real. I was in Vegas the other day, and someone said, \[OpenCurlyDoubleQuote]Don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t put your chips on a number on the wheel that isn\[CloseCurlyQuote]t even on the wheel.\[CloseCurlyDoubleQuote] That\[CloseCurlyQuote]s the problem.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "Over two thirds of the Democrats in the US Senate are not on the bill that you and Senator Warren are on. You have numerous governors that are Democratic that don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t support this. You have numerous House members that put Nancy Pelosi in a speaker.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "The answer is a nonprofit public option. The answer is the real debate we should be having is how do we make it easier for people to get coverage for addiction and mental health. I have a plan for that, and then, finally, what should we do about long-term care, the elephant that doesn\[CloseCurlyQuote]t even fit in this room? We need to make it easier for people to get long-term care insurance. We need to make it easier for them to pay for their premiums.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "My own dad, I know when his long-term care insurance ends, and then we have some savings for him. He\[CloseCurlyQuote]s in assisted living. He got married three times, whole nother story. So there isn\[CloseCurlyQuote]t much there. But then we go to Medicaid, and I\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve already talked to Catholic elder care. They\[CloseCurlyQuote]re willing to take him in.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "Our story is better than so many other families. We have to make it easier for long-term care.", "Abby Phillip" -> "Thank you. Thank you, Senator Klobuchar.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "It\[CloseCurlyQuote]s not just for senators. It\[CloseCurlyQuote]s also for the sandwich generation \[Ellipsis]", "Abby Phillip" -> "Thank you, Senator Klobuchar.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "\[Ellipsis] people trying to help their parents.", "Abby Phillip" -> "Senator Warren?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "So we need to start with what\[CloseCurlyQuote]s happening in America. People are suffering. I\[CloseCurlyQuote]ll just pick one. 36 million people last year went to the doctor, got a prescription. This is what they needed to get well, and they couldn\[CloseCurlyQuote]t afford to have the prescription filled. They looked at it and said, \[OpenCurlyDoubleQuote]It\[CloseCurlyQuote]s either groceries or this prescription.\[CloseCurlyDoubleQuote]", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "My approach to this is we\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve got to get as much help to as many people as quickly as possible. I have worked out a plan where we can do that without raising taxes on middle class families by one thin dime.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "What I can do are the things that I can do as President on the first day. We can cut the cost of prescription drugs. I\[CloseCurlyQuote]ll use the power that\[CloseCurlyQuote]s already given to the President to reduce the cost of insulin and EpiPens and HIV/AIDS drugs. Let\[CloseCurlyQuote]s get some relief to those families, and I will defend the Affordable Care Act.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "I\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve got a plan to expand healthcare. But let\[CloseCurlyQuote]s keep in mind, when we come to a general election, we Democrats may argue among each other about the best way to do healthcare, but we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re going to be up against a Republican incumbent who has cut healthcare for millions of people and is still trying to do that. I\[CloseCurlyQuote]ll take our side of the argument any day. We\[CloseCurlyQuote]re going to beat him on this.", "Abby Phillip" -> "Thank you. Thank you, Senator Warren. Vice President Biden?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "The [inaudible 01:00:41] my layout does, in fact, limit drug costs. It allows all the drug companies to \[Ellipsis] Excuse me, it allows Medicare to negotiate with drug companies for the price. It\[CloseCurlyQuote]s sets a system whereby you cannot raise the price of a drug beyond the cost of medical inflation. By the way, there\[CloseCurlyQuote]s mental health parity that I call for in the Obamacare expanded with the Biden option.", "Abby Phillip" -> "Mr. Steyer?", Entity["Person", "TomSteyer::b5k62"] -> "Look. We\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve had this conversation on this stage so many times. Everybody on this stage believes that affordable healthcare is a right for every single American. Everybody on this stage knows that Americans are paying twice as much for healthcare as any other advanced country in the world. It makes no sense, and the government has to step in.", Entity["Person", "TomSteyer::b5k62"] -> "I do happen to agree with vice President Biden that we should move and develop the Affordable Care Act with a public option, but the real question is this. This is not a new problem. Why do we keep having this conversation? We have a broken government. It has been bought by corporations that include the drug companies, the insurance companies, and the private hospitals.", Entity["Person", "TomSteyer::b5k62"] -> "That\[CloseCurlyQuote]s what I\[CloseCurlyQuote]m talking about. How do we get back government of, by, and for the people? How do we actually break the corporate stranglehold on our government so that we can get any of these things passed?", "Abby Phillip" -> "Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Steyer. Thank you, Mr. Steyer. Senator Sanders, your campaign proposals would double federal spending over the next decade, an unprecedented level of spending not seen since World War II. How would you keep your plans from bankrupting the country?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "No, our plan wouldn\[CloseCurlyQuote]t bankrupt the country. In fact, it would much improve the wellbeing of working class families and the middle class. Let us be clear what Medicare for all does. It ends all premiums. It ends all copayments. It ends the absurdity of deductibles. It ends out-of-pocket expenses. It takes on the pharmaceutical industry, which, in some cases, charges us ten times more for the same prescription drugs sold abroad as sold here.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "What we will do through a Medicare for All single payer program is substantially lower the cost of healthcare for employers and workers, because we end the hundred billion dollars a year that the healthcare industry makes and the $500 billion a year we spend an the administrative nightmare of dealing with thousands of separate insurance plans.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Healthcare is a human right. Every other major country on Earth is guaranteeing healthcare for all. The time is long overdue for us to do the same.", "Abby Phillip" -> "Senator Klobuchar?", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "Again, I think it is much better to build on the Affordable Care Act, and if you want to be practical and progressive at the same time and have a plan and not a pipe dream, you have to show how you\[CloseCurlyQuote]re going to pay for it.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "I would also note, practically, that the Affordable Care Act right now is ten points more popular than the President of the United States. So I think the answer is to build on it, and yes, I think you should show how you\[CloseCurlyQuote]re going to pay for things, Bernie. I do. This President is [inaudible 01:03:57] people out. They\[CloseCurlyQuote]re like poker chips in one of his bankrupt casinos.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "The way he is adding to our debt, I am the one person up here who has on her website, in her plan, a plan to actually start taking on the deficit by taking part of that money from that corporate tax cut that they put in there and putting it in a fund to pay back the deficit.", "Abby Phillip" -> "Thank you. Thank you, Senator Klobuchar.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "I have shown how I\[CloseCurlyQuote]m going to pay for every single plan, capital gains that\[CloseCurlyQuote]s going to the personal level \[Ellipsis]", "Abby Phillip" -> "Thank you, Senator Klobuchar.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "\[Ellipsis] getting rid of the oil giveaways \[Ellipsis]", "Abby Phillip" -> "Let\[CloseCurlyQuote]s move on.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "\[Ellipsis] doing something about the hedge fund loophole. You can go through, and you can get the money to pay for things.", "Abby Phillip" -> "Senator Klobuchar, your time is up. Let\[CloseCurlyQuote]s move on to the next question. Mayor Buttigieg, you\[CloseCurlyQuote]re selling your plan as Medicare for all who want it. Yet your plan would automatically enroll uninsured Americans into a public option, even if they don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t want it, and force them to pay for it. How is that truth in advertising?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "Well, it\[CloseCurlyQuote]s making sure that there is no such thing as an uninsured American. Look. The individual mandate was an important part of the ACA, because the system doesn\[CloseCurlyQuote]t work if there are free riders.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "What I\[CloseCurlyQuote]m offering is a choice. You don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t have to be in my plan if there\[CloseCurlyQuote]s another plan that you would rather keep, and there\[CloseCurlyQuote]s no need to kick Americans off the plans that they want in order to deliver healthcare for all. My plan is paid for. Look. Our party should no longer hesitate to talk about the issue of the debt and the deficit. We\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve got a dramatically better track record on it than Republicans do. In my lifetime, it\[CloseCurlyQuote]s almost invariably Republican Presidents who have added to the deficit. $1 trillion under this President.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "It\[CloseCurlyQuote]s why everything I\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve put forward, from Medicare for all who want it to the historic investments we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re going to make an infrastructure to dealing with climate change is fully paid for. What comes to healthcare, you can do it in two moves. Of course, my plan costs $1.5 trillion over a decade. No small sum, but not the 20, 30, 40 that we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re hearing about from the others.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "All I\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve got to do is two things. Both of them are common sense. Allow Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices, and roll back the Trump corporate tax cuts that went to corporations.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "Roll back the Trump corporate tax cuts that went to corporations and the wealthy that didn\[CloseCurlyQuote]t even need it.", "Abby Phillip" -> "Senator Warren.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "So I started this by talking about 36 million Americans including Americans with insurance who just can\[CloseCurlyQuote]t even afford to have a prescription filled. We all talk about plans, healthcare plans that we have, and these plans are paid for. The problem is that plans like the mayor\[CloseCurlyQuote]s and like the vice president\[CloseCurlyQuote]s is that they are an improvement. They are an improvement over where we are right now. Not going to be enough to cover prescriptions for 36 million people who can\[CloseCurlyQuote]t afford to get them filled. What we need to do is make the commitment that we know where the money comes from. We can ask those at the very top, the top 1% to pay a little more. Those giant corporations like Chevron and Amazon who paid nothing in taxes. We can have them pay, and we can go after the corporate tax cheats. And when we do that, we have enough money to provide healthcare for all our people.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "Tax cheats. And when we do that, we have enough money to provide healthcare for all our people. Yes, we build on the Affordable Care Act, but where we end up is we offer healthcare to all of our people, and we can offer it at no cost or low cost to all of them.", "Abby Phillip" -> "Mayor Buttigieg.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "It\[CloseCurlyQuote]s just not true that the plan I\[CloseCurlyQuote]m proposing is small. We\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve got to move past a Washington mentality that suggests that the bigness of plans only consists of how many trillions of dollars they put through the treasury, that the boldness of a plan only consists of how many Americans it can alienate. This would be a game changer. This would be the biggest thing we\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve done to American healthcare in a half century.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "Let\[CloseCurlyQuote]s measure the effects of our plans based on what they would do in our everyday lives and yes, we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re taking on costs on prescription drugs, we\[CloseCurlyQuote]ll have an out-of-pocket cap. Even if you don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t get the subsidies that would make it free, a $250 monthly cap and here\[CloseCurlyQuote]s why it\[CloseCurlyQuote]s got to be monthly. You ever been in that situation or known somebody who finds that they\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve got to defer a procedure or delay filling a prescription to try to have it happen in the right month because of when your out-of-pocket cap hits? It makes no sense medically because most of us don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t experience the economy on an annual basis. Our bills don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t come in every year. They come in every month. Same with our paychecks, biweekly or monthly. That\[CloseCurlyQuote]s why we set this up in a way to solve the problem without running up 20, 30 $40 trillion bills.", "Abby Phillip" -> "Senator Warren, your response.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "Look, the numbers that the mayor\[CloseCurlyQuote]s offering just don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t add up. The average family in America last year paid $12,000 in some combination of deductibles and copays, and uncovered expenses and fees. You can\[CloseCurlyQuote]t cover that with the kind of money that the mayor is talking about. The way we have to approach this is we\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve got to build this and we\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve got to build the alliances to make this happen. I can bring down the cost of prescription drugs like insulin and take hundreds of millions of dollars out of the system immediately in costs. We can get help to families, but we have to be willing to work together.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "We can let people experience what healthcare is like when it\[CloseCurlyQuote]s you and your doctor, your mental health professional, your nurse practitioner with no insurance companies standing in the middle. [crosstalk 01:09:12] When people try it and use it, then.", "Abby Phillip" -> "Thank you, Senator Warren. Senator Klobuchar?", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "Senator Warren, you acknowledged that Medicare for all, that you couldn\[CloseCurlyQuote]t get there right away. You got on the bill that said on page eight, which is why I didn\[CloseCurlyQuote]t get on it, that you would kick 149 million Americans off their current health insurance. Then a few months ago, you said, \[OpenCurlyDoubleQuote]No, you\[CloseCurlyQuote]re going to wait a while to get there.\[CloseCurlyDoubleQuote] And I think that was some acknowledgement that maybe what we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re talking about is true. And I don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t buy that it\[CloseCurlyQuote]s not enough. It is a big, big step to say to people making $100,000 a year that, \[OpenCurlyDoubleQuote]Your premiums will be cut in half.\[CloseCurlyDoubleQuote] Which is what the nonprofit public option will do. And if you talk, mayor Buttigieg, about Medicare and having negotiation, I actually have led that bill for years. I have 34 co-sponsors. As president, I can get it done. That would allow Medicare to finally negotiate and lift the ban that big pharma got into law that says they can\[CloseCurlyQuote]t negotiate for better prices for our seniors. I will it done.", "Abby Phillip" -> "Senator Sanders, coming to you now. CNN reached out to Iowa Democratic voters for their most pressing questions. Edward from here in Des Moines writes, \[OpenCurlyDoubleQuote]Des Moines is an insurance town. What happens to all the health insurance industry here if there is Medicare for all? What happens to all the jobs and the livelihoods of the people that live in insurance towns like Des Moines?\[CloseCurlyDoubleQuote]", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "We build into our Medicare for all program a transition fund of many, many billions of dollars that will provide for up to five years income and healthcare and job training for those people. But here is the issue, Tom Steyer made the point a moment ago. We are now spending twice as much per person on healthcare as do the people of any other country. That is insane. In some cases, 10 times more for prescription drugs. Why is that? Why is that? And the answer is the greed and corruption of the drug companies and the insurance companies. And if we want to do what every other major country on Earth does and guarantee people healthcare as a human right, not a privilege, you know what we have to do? We are finally going to have to stand up to the healthcare industry-", Entity["Person", "TomSteyer::b5k62"] -> "Can I respond to this?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "And end hundreds of billions of dollars of waste and profiteering.", "Abby Phillip" -> "Mr. Steyer.", Entity["Person", "TomSteyer::b5k62"] -> "I just want to emphasize what Senator Sanders said. This is not a complicated problem. Between what Senator Warren and Senator Sanders said, it\[CloseCurlyQuote]s clear. There are two problems. We\[CloseCurlyQuote]re spending way too much because corporations own the system, and we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re not negotiating against those corporations and we\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve given tax cuts to the richest Americans and the biggest corporations for decades. That\[CloseCurlyQuote]s all this is. We have corporations who are having their way with the American people and people are suffering. Senator Warren is right. This is cruelty for money. In order to break this, we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re going to have to break the corporate stranglehold and solve both the tax and the negotiating problem. That\[CloseCurlyQuote]s why I\[CloseCurlyQuote]m for term limits. We need to redo Washington DC [crosstalk 01:12:27] and actually take back the government from the corporations who bought it.", "Abby Phillip" -> "Thank you, Mr. Steyer. Vice President Biden?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "I would argue that the biggest breakthrough in recent time was us being able to do in our administration what five Democratic presidents couldn\[CloseCurlyQuote]t get done, and that is pass Obamacare. It was a big deal. Secondly, I would argue that the way you control drug prices is you limit what they can charge for those prices, you don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t have to pay the price. Limit what they can charge. If in fact they charge more than we set the price for, in fact, people can import from abroad assuming that it is safe. We in fact\[Ellipsis] It\[CloseCurlyQuote]s only yellow. Okay? And we can in fact do all of this and still provide people the option to stay the roughly 150 to 160 million Americans who like the negotiated plan they have with their employers, if they don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t like it or the employer gets rid of it, they can buy into a Medicare plan in the Biden plan.", "Wolf Blitzer" -> "Let\[CloseCurlyQuote]s talk a little bit more about prescription drugs right now. Prescription drug prices in 2018, Americans spent $335 billion on prescription drugs alone. That\[CloseCurlyQuote]s about $60 billion more than they paid a decade ago. Senator Warren, you\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve called for the creation of a government-run drug manufacturer that would step in if there is a drug shortage or a price spike. Why does it make sense for the government to manufacture drugs, especially when public trust in government is near historic lows?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "So, let\[CloseCurlyQuote]s do this both ways. What I also have said is I\[CloseCurlyQuote]m just going to use the power that is available, and I will do what a president can do all by herself on the very first day, and that is lower the prices of certain prescription drugs. I will lower the price of insulin. We already have the legal authority with the president to do that. President just hasn\[CloseCurlyQuote]t picked up and used it. I will lower the price of EpiPens, of HIV/AIDS drugs. That\[CloseCurlyQuote]s going to bring a lot of relief to a lot of families immediately, but you know there are a whole lot of drugs, about 90% of drugs that are not under patent. They\[CloseCurlyQuote]re generic drugs, but the drug industry has figured out how to manipulate this industry to keep jerking the prices up and up and up. So my view is let\[CloseCurlyQuote]s give them a little competition.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "The government lets contracts for all kinds of things. They let contracts to build buildings, they let contracts to build military weapons. Let\[CloseCurlyQuote]s let the contracts out, put the contracts out so that we can put more generic drugs out there and drive down those prices. This is a way to make markets work, not to try to move away from the market. You don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t have to even use price controls. The whole idea behind it is get some competition out there so the price of these drugs that are no longer under patent drops where it should be.", "Wolf Blitzer" -> "Senator Klobuchar, do you believe the government should be manufacturing drugs?", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "I am open to looking at it, but I would try these things first. Number one, I mentioned the Medicare negotiation. Number two, I have a plan, 137 things I\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve found that a president can do herself in the first 100 days without Congress that are legal, and one of those things is that you can start bringing in less expensive drugs from other countries. Bernie and I had an amendment on this. We got 14 Republican votes on it. It was at midnight. They might\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve not known what they were voting for, but we got that. I now have an actual bill with Senator Grassley that does that, and I have a bill to get at what Elizabeth was talking about, which is to stop generics from taking money from big pharmaceuticals to keep their products off the market. The issue here is that there are two pharma lobbyists for every member of Congress.", "Brianne Pfannenstiel" -> "Thank you, Senator.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "They think they own Washington. They don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t own me. And as president, I will get this done.", "Brianne Pfannenstiel" -> "Thank you, Senator Klobuchar. We\[CloseCurlyQuote]re going to turn now to childcare, a huge expense for many new families and a problem that\[CloseCurlyQuote]s especially acute in rural Iowa. We have another question from an Iowa Democratic voter. Mayor, Buttigieg, this is for you. Tiffany from Clive writes, \[OpenCurlyDoubleQuote]As a young mom, I had to quit a job I love because childcare costs were taking up two thirds of my income. Many families don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t have the option of quitting a job because that little bit of income is needed. That leads to families using whatever care they can find, and sometimes the results are deadly as we\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve seen in Iowa over the last few years. How will you prioritize accessing quality affordable childcare in your first 100 days in office?\[CloseCurlyDoubleQuote]", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "It makes no sense for childcare to cost two thirds of somebody\[CloseCurlyQuote]s income. We\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve got to drive it to 7% or below, and zero for those families who are living in poverty. But this is happening to folks at every level of the income spectrum. I meet professionals who sometimes say that they\[CloseCurlyQuote]re working in order to be able to afford childcare in order to be able to be working. It makes no sense and it must change and we shouldn\[CloseCurlyQuote]t be afraid to put federal dollars into making that a reality. Subsidizing childcare and making sure that we are building up a workforce of people who are paid at a decent level to offer early childhood education as well as childcare at large. We can do that and until we do this will be one of the biggest drivers of the gender pay gap because when somebody\[CloseCurlyQuote]s like the the voter asking the question has to step out of the workforce because of that reason, she is at a disadvantage when she comes back in, and that can affect her pay for the rest of her career.", "Brianne Pfannenstiel" -> "Senator Warren, your education plan includes tuition-free public college for all, but you impose an income limit for free childcare. Why do your plans cover everyone for public college, but not childcare and early learning?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "No, actually my plan is universal childcare for everyone. It just has some people adding a small payment, but understand this about the plan. I\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve been there. You know, I remember when I was a young mom, I had two little kids and I had my first real university teaching job. It was hard work. I was excited, but it was childcare that nearly brought me down. We went through one childcare after another and it just didn\[CloseCurlyQuote]t work.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "If I hadn\[CloseCurlyQuote]t been saved by my Aunt Bee, I was ready to quit my job. And I think about how many women of my generation just got knocked off the track and never got back on. How many of my daughter\[CloseCurlyQuote]s generation get knocked off the track and don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t get back on. How many mamas and daddies today are getting knocked off the track and never get back on.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "I have a two-cent wealth tax so that we can cover childcare for all of our children and provide universal pre-K for every three-year-old and four-year-old in America, and stop exploiting the people who do this valuable work, largely black and brown women. We can raise the wages of every childcare worker and preschool teacher in America. That\[CloseCurlyQuote]s an investment in our babies. That\[CloseCurlyQuote]s an investment in their mamas and their daddies and it\[CloseCurlyQuote]s an investment in our teachers and in our economy.", "Brianne Pfannenstiel" -> "Senator Sanders, will your universal-", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "It\[CloseCurlyQuote]s what we need to do.", "Brianne Pfannenstiel" -> "Child care program be free for everyone regardless of income?", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Yeah. Let me just pick up on this childcare thing. Every psychologist in the world knows zero through four are the most important years of human life, intellectually and emotionally, and yet our current childcare system is an embarrassment. It is unaffordable. Childcare workers are making wages lower than McDonald\[CloseCurlyQuote]s workers. We need to fundamentally change priorities in America. We should not be one of the few countries that does not have universal, high quality, affordable childcare. We should not be one of the only major countries not to guarantee healthcare to all people as a human right. We should not be spending more than the 10 next countries on the military, hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies for the fossil fuel industry. Tax breaks for billionaires, and then to tell the moms and dads in this country, \[OpenCurlyDoubleQuote]We cannot have [crosstalk 01:20:36] high-quality, affordable childcare.\[CloseCurlyDoubleQuote] That is wrong.", "Brianne Pfannenstiel" -> "Vice President Biden, infant care is more expensive than in-state public college tuition in more than half the country. Do you support free universal infant care?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "There should be free, universal infant care, but here\[CloseCurlyQuote]s the deal. I was a single parent too when my wife and daughter were killed. My two boys I had to raise. I was a young Senator. I just hadn\[CloseCurlyQuote]t been sworn in yet, and I was making $42,000 a year. I commuted every single solitary day to Wilmington, Delaware over 500 miles a day. Excuse me, 250 miles a day because I could not afford, but for my family, childcare. It was beyond my reach to be able to do it and that\[CloseCurlyQuote]s why there\[CloseCurlyQuote]s several things we do.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "When I tripled the amount of money for title one schools, every child three, four and five-years-old will in fact have full schooling. They\[CloseCurlyQuote]ll go to school and after school programs, which will release some of the burden. Secondly, I think we should have an $8,000 tax credit, which would put 7 million women back to work. They could afford to go to work and still care for their children as an $8,000 tax credit. I also believe that we should, in fact, for people who in fact are not able to afford any of the infant care to be able to get that care. But Bernie\[CloseCurlyQuote]s right. We have to raise the salaries of the people who are doing the care, and I provide for that as well. My time is up. I know, but I\[CloseCurlyQuote]m not going to go over like everybody.", "Brianne Pfannenstiel" -> "Mayor Buttigieg, higher education is another huge expense for families. You oppose free public college for all because you don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t want to make it \[OpenCurlyDoubleQuote]free for the kids of millionaires\[CloseCurlyDoubleQuote]. But lots of public services are available to the kids of rich people like libraries and public schools. Why do you draw the line at public colleges and universities?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "Well, it\[CloseCurlyQuote]s simple. We expect and hope for everyone to get through 12th grade. It\[CloseCurlyQuote]s not the same for college. Now again, I don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t want cost ever to be a barrier to somebody seeking to attend college, and under my plan it won\[CloseCurlyQuote]t be. Matter of fact, for the first 80% of Americans by income, it is free at public colleges, but if you\[CloseCurlyQuote]re in that top income bracket, don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t get me wrong, I still wish you well. I hope you succeed when you go to college. I just need you to go ahead and pay that tuition because we could be using those dollars for something else.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "There is a very real choice about what we do with every single taxpayer dollar that we raise. And we need to be using that to support everybody, whether you go to college or not, making sure that Americans can thrive, investing in infrastructure and something that hasn\[CloseCurlyQuote]t come up very much tonight, but deserves a lot of attention. Poverty, you know, the Poor People\[CloseCurlyQuote]s Campaign is marching on Iowa right now, calling on us to talk about this issue more. They are driven by their faith. I think, because even though in politics we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re supposed to talk middle-class, they know there\[CloseCurlyQuote]s no scripture that says, \[OpenCurlyDoubleQuote]As you\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve done under the middle-class, so you\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve done unto me.\[CloseCurlyDoubleQuote]", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "We got to be making sure that we target our tax dollars, where they will make the biggest difference. And I don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t think subsidizing the children of millionaires and billionaires to pay absolutely zero in tuition of public colleges is the best use of those scarce [crosstalk 01:23:52] taxpayer dollars.", "Brianne Pfannenstiel" -> "Senator Warren.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "So look, the way I think we need to do this is we need a wealth tax in America. We need to ask people with fortunes above $50 million to pay more, and that means that the lowliest millionaire that I would tax under this wealth tax would be paying about $19 million in the first year in taxes. If he wants to send his kid to public university, then I\[CloseCurlyQuote]m okay with that because what we really need to talk about is the bigger economic picture here. We need to be willing to put a wealth tax in place to ask those giant corporations that are not paying to pay because that\[CloseCurlyQuote]s how we build an economy and for those who want to talk about it, bring down the national debt. You do universal child care, and you got a lot of mamas who can go to work. A lot of mamas who can finish their education. We make that investment in universal college. We\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve got [crosstalk 01:24:44] people who would finish an education.", "Brianne Pfannenstiel" -> "Thank you, Senator. Senator Klobuchar.", "Abby Phillip" -> "Yeah. You know, I [crosstalk 01:24:47] appreciate your thoughts, Elizabeth, but I want to step back. I actually think that some of our colleagues who want free college for all aren\[CloseCurlyQuote]t actually thinking big enough. I think what we have to look at is how we connect our education system with our economy. Where are our job openings, and what do we need? We are going to have over a million openings for home healthcare workers that we don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t know how to fill in the next 10 years. We are going to have open 100,000 jobs for nursing assistants. We, as my union friends know, we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re going to have over 70,000 openings for electricians. We\[CloseCurlyQuote]re not going to have a shortage of MBAs. We\[CloseCurlyQuote]re going to have a shortage of plumbers. So, when we look at that, then we step back. Where should our money go? It should go into K-12 it should go into free one and two-year degrees like my dad got like my sister got. [crosstalk 01:25:37] And then we double the Pell grants because we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re going to need four-year degrees so the money goes where it should go instead of two rich kids going to college.", "Brianne Pfannenstiel" -> "Mr. Steyer, as a billionaire, should your children have been entitled to free public college?", Entity["Person", "TomSteyer::b5k62"] -> "No. And let me say this, I was one of the people who talked about a wealth tax, almost a year-and-a-half ago. I believe that the income inequality in this country is unbearable, unjust and unsupportable, and the redistribution of wealth to the richest Americans from everyone else has to end. And I proposed a wealth tax almost a year-and-a-half ago to start to address it and to raise some of the money that we need. But I want to go beyond this and go back to this question about education because we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re talking a lot about college.", Entity["Person", "TomSteyer::b5k62"] -> "But in fact, if you talk about the Poor People\[CloseCurlyQuote]s Campaign, you have to realize that for the youngest kids, they are getting an education that\[CloseCurlyQuote]s relative to the taxes in their neighborhoods. We need to redistribute money so every kid has a chance. So we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re not legislating inequality for the next generation. And so, we actually invest in every single kid, specifically poor kids, specifically black kids, specifically brown kids. We need to start using the money dramatically more for that.", "Wolf Blitzer" -> "We\[CloseCurlyQuote]ll be back with more from CNN\[CloseCurlyQuote]s Democratic Presidential Debate live from Des Moines, Iowa.", "Wolf Blitzer" -> "\[Ellipsis] Senate, launching the third trial of a US president. The Republican-led Senate has signaled that it is likely to acquit him, Vice President Biden, if you\[CloseCurlyQuote]re the nominee, is it going to be harder to run against President Trump if he\[CloseCurlyQuote]s been acquitted and able to claim vindication, especially after what he said about your family?", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "It\[CloseCurlyQuote]s irrelevant. There\[CloseCurlyQuote]s no choice but for Nancy Pelosi and the House to move. He has in fact committed impeachable offenses. Whether the Senate makes that judgment or not is for them to decide, and by the way, I\[CloseCurlyQuote]m told that I say we have to unite the country. It\[CloseCurlyQuote]s going to be harder after this trial. It may be, but look, you know, I understand how these guys are, this Republican party. They\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve gone after, Savage, my surviving son. Gone after me, told lies that your networks and others won\[CloseCurlyQuote]t even carry on television because they\[CloseCurlyQuote]re flat out lies, and I did my job. The question is whether or not he did his job. And he hasn\[CloseCurlyQuote]t done his job, and so it doesn\[CloseCurlyQuote]t really matter whether or not he\[CloseCurlyQuote]s going after me, I\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve got to be in a position that I think of the American people. I can\[CloseCurlyQuote]t hold a grudge. I have to be able to not only fight, but also heal, and as president of the United States, that\[CloseCurlyQuote]s what I will attempt to do, not withstanding that we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re going to be more division after he\[CloseCurlyQuote]s defeated by me this next time.", "Wolf Blitzer" -> "Senator Klobuchar, going to be a juror in the trial in the Senate that\[CloseCurlyQuote]s about to start. Do you worry President Trump will be emboldened by acquittal?", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "No. We have a constitutional duty to perform here. And when I look at what the issue is, it\[CloseCurlyQuote]s whether or not we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re going to be able to have witnesses. We\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve asked for only four people as witnesses, and if our Republican colleagues won\[CloseCurlyQuote]t allow those witnesses, they may as well give the president a crown and a scepter. They may as well make him king. And last time I checked, our country was founded on this idea that we didn\[CloseCurlyQuote]t want to be ruled by a king.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "And I think the best way to think about this trial and what we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re facing in this election is a story of a man from Primghar, Iowa. His name was Joseph Welch. He came from humble beginnings, a son of immigrants. He became the army counsel, and he was the one that went to the Joseph McCarthy hearings. And when McCarthy was blacklisting people and going after people because of their political beliefs or supposed political beliefs, there was only one man. Everyone that was afraid, they\[CloseCurlyQuote]re afraid of being blacklisted. Joseph Welch, he stood up and looked at McCarthy and said, \[OpenCurlyDoubleQuote]Have you no sense of decency, sir? Have you no sense of decency?\[CloseCurlyDoubleQuote]", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "This is a decency check on our government. This is a patriotism check. Not only is this trial that-", "Wolf Blitzer" -> "Thank you.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "But also this election, and no matter if you agree with everyone here on the stage, I say this to [crosstalk 01:34:52] Americans, you know this is a decency check on this president.", "Wolf Blitzer" -> "Mr. Steyer, you\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve spent millions and millions of dollars telling the American people that President Trump deserves to be impeached. Will it have been worth it if he\[CloseCurlyQuote]s been impeached but not removed from office?", Entity["Person", "TomSteyer::b5k62"] -> "Well Wolf, actually what I\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve done is to organize a petition drive of eight-and-a-half million Americans to sign and say this president deserves to be impeached and removed from office. And those eight-and-a-half million people have called their Congress people, have emailed their Congress people and have actually dragged Washington DC to see that in fact, this is a question of right and wrong and not of political expediency.", Entity["Person", "TomSteyer::b5k62"] -> "So, if you ask me whether standing up for what\[CloseCurlyQuote]s right in America, standing up for the American people and our safety, standing up for the constitution, whether doing that and trying to bring the truth in front of the American people in televised hearings so we can decide what the truth is for ourselves, if you think that that isn\[CloseCurlyQuote]t worth it, then you don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t share the idea that I do about what America\[CloseCurlyQuote]s about. Standing up for what\[CloseCurlyQuote]s right is always worth it, Wolf, and I will never back down from that.", "Wolf Blitzer" -> "Senator Warren, a Senate trial is expected to keep you in Washington in the weeks leading up to the Iowa caucuses here. How big of a problem is that for you as you\[CloseCurlyQuote]re making your closing pitch to voters here?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "Look, some things are more important than politics. I took an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States of America. It says that no one is above the law that includes the president of the United States. If we have an impeachment trial, I will be there because it is my responsibility. But understand this, what that impeachment trial is going to show once again to the American people, and something we should all be talking about, is the corruption of this administration. That\[CloseCurlyQuote]s what lies at the heart of it. It is about Donald Trump putting Donald Trump first, not the American people, not the interests of the United States of America, not even in helping Ukraine defend against Russia. It is about him helping himself. That is what we need to do to win this election. We need to draw that distinction and show that as Democrats, we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re not going to be the people who are just out for the big corporations, people who want to help themselves, that we are going to be the party that is willing to fight on the side of the people. That\[CloseCurlyQuote]s why we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re here.", "Brianne Pfannenstiel" -> "Let\[CloseCurlyQuote]s turn now to the climate crisis. Here in Iowa, parts of the state remain underwater after record-breaking flooding began last spring, racking up an estimated $2 billion in damages. Today, many Iowans are still displaced from their homes. Mayor Buttigieg, you\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve talked about helping people move from areas at high risk of flooding, but what do you do about farms and factories that simply can\[CloseCurlyQuote]t be moved?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "That\[CloseCurlyQuote]s why we have to fight climate change with such urgency. Climate change has come to America from coast to coast. We\[CloseCurlyQuote]re seeing it in Iowa. We\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve seen it in historic floods in my community. I had to activate our emergency operation center for a once in a [inaudible 01:38:04] flood. Then two years later, had to do the same thing. In Australia there are literally tornadoes made of fire taking place. This is no longer theoretical. This is no longer off in the future. We have got to act, yes to adapt, to make sure our communities are more resilient, to make sure our economy is ready for the consequences that are going to happen one way or the other. But we also have to ensure that we don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t allow this to get any worse. And if we get it right, farmers will be a huge part of the solution. We need to reach out to the very people who have sometimes been made to feel that accepting climate science would be a defeat for them. Whether we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re talking about farmers, or industrial workers in my community, and make clear that we need to enlist them-", "Brianne Pfannenstiel" -> "But Mayor Buttigieg-", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "In the national project to do something about this.", "Brianne Pfannenstiel" -> "So, clarify. What do you do about farms and factories that cannot be relocated?", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "We are going to have to use federal funds to make sure that we are supporting those whose li-", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "\[Ellipsis]. Funds to make sure that we are supporting those whose lives will inevitably be impacted further by the increased severity and the increased frequency. And by the way, that is happening to farms, that is happening to factories and that disproportionally happens to black and brown Americans, which is why equity and environmental justice have to be at the core of our climate plan going forward.", "Brianne Pfannenstiel" -> "Thank you, Mayor Buttigieg. Mr Steyer, what\[CloseCurlyQuote]s your response?", Entity["Person", "TomSteyer::b5k62"] -> "Look, what you\[CloseCurlyQuote]re talking about is what\[CloseCurlyQuote]s called managed retreat. It\[CloseCurlyQuote]s basically saying, we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re going to have to move things because this crisis is out of control and it\[CloseCurlyQuote]s unbelievably expensive. And of course, we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re going to come to the rescue of Americans who are in trouble. But this is why climate is my number one priority. And I\[CloseCurlyQuote]m still shocked that I\[CloseCurlyQuote]m the only person on this stage who will say this. I would declare a state of emergency on day one on climate. I would do it from the standpoint of environmental justice and make sure we go to the black and brown communities where you can\[CloseCurlyQuote]t breathe the air or drink the water that comes out of the tap safely. But I also know this, we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re going to create millions of good paying union jobs across this country. It\[CloseCurlyQuote]s going to be the biggest job program in American history.", Entity["Person", "TomSteyer::b5k62"] -> "So I know we have to do it, I know we can do it and I know that we can to do it in a way that makes us healthier, that makes us better paid and is more just. But the truth of the matter is, we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re going to have to do it and we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re going to have to make the whole world come along with us and it\[CloseCurlyQuote]s going to have to be priority one.", "Brianne Pfannenstiel" -> "Mr. Steyer, to clarify, you say you\[CloseCurlyQuote]re the climate change candidate, but you made your $1.6 billion in part by investing in coal, oil, and gas. So are you the right messenger on this topic?", Entity["Person", "TomSteyer::b5k62"] -> "I absolutely am. Look, we invested in every part of the economy and over 10 years ago I realized that there was something going on that had to do with fossil fuels, that we had to change. So I divested from fossil fuels. I took the giving pledge to give most of my money away while I\[CloseCurlyQuote]m alive. And for 12 years, I\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve been fighting the climate crisis. I\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve beat oil companies in terms of clean air laws. I\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve stopped fossil fuel plants in Oxnard, California. I fought the Keystone Pipeline. I have a history of over a decade of leading the climate fight successfully-", "Brianne Pfannenstiel" -> "Thank you Mr. Steyer.", Entity["Person", "TomSteyer::b5k62"] -> "So actually, yes, I am the person here who has the chops and the history that says I\[CloseCurlyQuote]ll make it priority one because I\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve been doing it for a long time.", "Brianne Pfannenstiel" -> "Thank you. Mr Steyer. Senator Warren, President Trump is rolling back major environmental rules to allow pipelines and other major infrastructure projects to be built without strict environmental review. Will you restore those protections and in a way that the next president can\[CloseCurlyQuote]t overturn?", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "Yes. Climate change threatens every living thing on this planet and the urgency of the moment cannot be overstated. I will do everything a president can do all by herself on the first day. I will roll back the environmental changes that Donald Trump is putting in place. I will stop all new drilling and mining on federal lands and offshore drilling. That\[CloseCurlyQuote]ll help us get in the right directions. I\[CloseCurlyQuote]ll bring in the farmers. Farmers can be part of the climate solution. We should see this though for the problem it is. Mr. Steyer talks about it being problem number one. Understand this, we have known about this climate crisis for decades. Back in the 1990s, we were calling it global warming, but we knew what it was. Democrats and Republicans back then were working together because no one wanted a problem.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "But you know what happened? The industry came in and said, we can make big money if we keep them divided and make no change. Priority number one has to be taking back our government from the corruption. That is the only way we will make progress on climate, on gun safety, on healthcare, on all of the issues-", "Brianne Pfannenstiel" -> "Thank Senator Warren.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "That matter to us.", "Brianne Pfannenstiel" -> "Senator Klobuchar, some of your competitors on this stage have called for an all out ban on fracking, you haven\[CloseCurlyQuote]t, why not?", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "Well, first of all, I would note that I have a 100% rating from the League of Conservation Voters and that is because I have stood tall on every issue that we have talked about up here, when it comes to this administration, this Trump administration, trying to reverse environmental protections. I think it is going to lead to so many problems and one thing that hasn\[CloseCurlyQuote]t been raised by the way is the rules on methane, which is actually one of the most environmentally dangerous hazards that they have recently embarked on. And I would bring those rules back as well as a number of other ones.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "When it comes to the issue of fracking, I actually see natural gas as a transition fuel. It\[CloseCurlyQuote]s a transition fuel to where we get to carbon neutral. Nearly every one of us has a plan that is very similar and that is to get to carbon neutral by 2045 to 2050. To get to by 2030 do a 45% reduction. And I want to add one thing that no one\[CloseCurlyQuote]s really answered. When we do this, we have to make sure that we make people whole and when we put a tax on carbon, which we will do, either through CAP and trade or through a renewable electricity standard or through a fee on carbon.", "Brianne Pfannenstiel" -> "Thank you Senator Klobuchar-", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "Then we have to make sure the money goes back to the people that will be hurt by it. [crosstalk 01:44:17] To help with their energy bills and to bring jobs to areas that will lose jobs.", "Brianne Pfannenstiel" -> "Senator Sanders.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Thank you. Let\[CloseCurlyQuote]s be clear, if we as a nation do not transform our energy system away from fossil fuel, not by 2050, not by 2040, but unless we lead the world right now, not easy stuff, the planet we are leaving our kids will be uninhabitable and unhealthy. We are seeing Australia burning. We saw California burning. The drought here in Iowa is going to make it harder for farmers to produce the food that we need. This is of course a national crisis. I\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve introduced legislation to indicate it\[CloseCurlyQuote]s an actual crisis. We have got to take on the fossil fuel industry and all of their lies and tell them that their short term profits are not more important than the future of this planet. That\[CloseCurlyQuote]s what the Green New Deal does. That\[CloseCurlyQuote]s what my legislation does and that is what we have to do.", "Brianne Pfannenstiel" -> "Vice President Biden, your response.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "My response is back in 1986, I introduced the first climate change bill and check Politifacts, they said it was a game changer. I\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve been fighting this for a long time. I headed up the Recovery Act, which put more money into moving away from fossil fuels to solar and wind energy than ever has occurred in the history of America. Look, what we have to do is we have to act right away and the way we act right away is immediately. If I\[CloseCurlyQuote]m elected president, I\[CloseCurlyQuote]ll reinstate all the mileage standards that existed in our administration, which were taken down, that\[CloseCurlyQuote]s 12 billion gallons of gasoline, barrels of gasoline to be saved immediately. And with regard to those folks who in fact are going to be victimized by what\[CloseCurlyQuote]s already happened. We should be investing in infrastructure that raises roads, makes sure that we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re in a position where we have \[Ellipsis] every new highway build is a green highway. [inaudible 01:46:18] 550,000 charging stations.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "We can create, and this is where I agree with Tom, we can create millions of good paying jobs. We\[CloseCurlyQuote]re the only country in the world that\[CloseCurlyQuote]s ever take great crisis and turn it into a great opportunity. And one of the ways to do it is with farmers here in Iowa, by making them the first group in the world to get to net-zero emissions by paying them for planting and absorbing carbon in their fields right away. There\[CloseCurlyQuote]s more to say, but I know-", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "The black voters who know me best are supporting me. That\[CloseCurlyQuote]s why I have the most support in South Bend. It\[CloseCurlyQuote]s why among elected black officials in my community, who have gotten into this race, by far most of them are supporting me. And now nationally, I am proud that my campaign has co-chaired by a member of the Congressional Black Caucus and to have support right here in Iowa from some of the most recognizable black elected leaders. From Mayor Hart of Waterloo to former Representative Berry in Black Hawk County. Now, the biggest mistake we could make is to take black votes for granted and I never will. The reason I have the support I do is not because any voter thinks that I\[CloseCurlyQuote]m perfect. It\[CloseCurlyQuote]s because of the work that we have done facing some of the toughest issues that communities can.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "Not from the luxury of a of a debate or a television panel or a committee room, but on the ground. Issues from poverty to justice in policing. And I\[CloseCurlyQuote]m proud to say we\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve been nationally recognized for our work as a race informed city on delivering greater economic justice. That we have reduced use of force by leading the region in transparency around the use of force in policing. Of course, there is a much longer way to go, in my community and around the country. But I will be a president whose personal commitment is to continue doing this work.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "Nope, not at all. And that is because the campaign that we are going to run will expose the fraudulency of who Donald Trump is. Donald Trump is corrupt. He is a pathological liar and he is a fraud. Now when Trump talks about socialism, what he talks about is giving hundreds of billions of dollars in tax breaks and subsidies to the fossil fuel industry. Donald Trump as a businessman, received $800 million in tax breaks and subsidies to build luxury housing. My democratic socialism says healthcare is a human right. We\[CloseCurlyQuote]re going to raise the minimum wage to 15 bucks an hour. We\[CloseCurlyQuote]re going to make public colleges and universities tuition free. We\[CloseCurlyQuote]re going to have a Green New Deal and create up to $20 million, saving the planet for our children and our grandchildren. We are going to take on the greed and corruption of the pharmaceutical industry and the insurance company. That is what democratic socialism is about and that will win this election.", Entity["Person", "TomSteyer::b5k62"] -> "Look, we know how Donald Trump is going to run for president. He\[CloseCurlyQuote]s going to run on the economy. He\[CloseCurlyQuote]s already told Americans last month in Florida, you don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t like me and I don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t like you, but you\[CloseCurlyQuote]re all going to vote for me because the Democrats are going to destroy the economy in 15 minutes if they get in control. So let\[CloseCurlyQuote]s be clear, I started a business by myself in one room. I didn\[CloseCurlyQuote]t inherit a penny from my parents. I spent 30 years building that business into a multi-billion dollar international business. Then I walked away from it and took the giving pledge and started organizing coalitions of ordinary Americans to take on unchecked corporate power. But whoever is going to beat Mr. Trump is going to have to beat him on the economy and I have the experience and the expertise to show that he\[CloseCurlyQuote]s a [inaudible 01:50:58] and a fraud. Look, Mayor Pete has three years as an analyst at McKinsey. I have 30 years of international business experience, I can beat Trump on the economy. We\[CloseCurlyQuote]re going to have to beat him on the economy and I look forward to taking him down in the fall on the debate stage.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "You demoted me, I was actually an associate but that\[CloseCurlyQuote]s okay. It was not the biggest part of my career, but I am ready to take on this president on the economy because I am from the exact kind of industrial Midwestern community that he pretends to speak to and has proven to turn his back on and guided that community through a historic transformation. When at the beginning of the decade I took office, we were described as a dying city. I\[CloseCurlyQuote]m ready to take on Donald Trump because when he gets to the tough talk and the chest thumping, he\[CloseCurlyQuote]ll have to stand next to an American war veteran and explain how he pretended bone spurs made him ineligible to serve.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "And if and if he keeps trying to use religion \[Ellipsis] If a guy like Donald Trump keeps trying to use religion to somehow recruit Christianity into the G.O.P., I will be standing there not afraid to talk about a different way to answer the call of faith and insist that God does not belong to a political party. I am ready to take on this president on every front.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "Our voters, actually all Americans have seen now a number of years of a guy that has, I think, told over 15,000 lies. He is someone that literally has a rap sheet of divisive rhetoric. And I think what Americans want is something different. I am going to be able to stand across from him on that debate stage and say to my friends in Iowa, the Midwest is not flyover country for me, I live here. I\[CloseCurlyQuote]m going to be able to look at him and say, you\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve treated these workers and farmers like poker chips. For me, these are my friends and these are my neighbors. I\[CloseCurlyQuote]m going to be able to look at him and say, you know what? You got $413 million over the course of your career, that\[CloseCurlyQuote]s how you built your fortune.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "And what I\[CloseCurlyQuote]m going to say is this, my grandpa worked 1500 feet underground in the iron ore mines, saved money in a coffee can in the basement to send my dad to a two year community college. That\[CloseCurlyQuote]s my family trust. And when you have been given an opportunity like that, you go into the world, not with the sense of entitlement, Donald Trump, but with a sense of obligation.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "So I was born and raised in Oklahoma. I have three older brothers who are all retired, who are all back there still. And two of my three brothers are Republicans. And sure, there are a lot of things we disagree on and we can take to our corners and do the Democratic, Republican talking points. But the truth is there\[CloseCurlyQuote]s a whole lot we agree on. You know, my brothers just furious over Chevron and Eli Lilly and Amazon, that are giant corporations make billions of dollars in taxes \[Ellipsis] make billions of dollars in profits and pay nothing in taxes. My brother said, \[OpenCurlyDoubleQuote]I don\[CloseCurlyQuote]t get this. I have to pay my taxes. Somebody has to keep the roads paved and the schools open and pay for our defense.\[CloseCurlyDoubleQuote]", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "They understand that we have an America right now that\[CloseCurlyQuote]s working great for those at the top. It\[CloseCurlyQuote]s just not working for anyone else. We have a chance to unite, unite as Democrats, but also with independents and Republicans, who are sick of living in a country that\[CloseCurlyQuote]s working great for the politicians that are taking the money. It\[CloseCurlyQuote]s working great for the lobbyists. It\[CloseCurlyQuote]s working great for the corporate executives. It\[CloseCurlyQuote]s just not working for everyone else. I\[CloseCurlyQuote]m building the grassroots movement, leading the fight. We\[CloseCurlyQuote]re going to make this America work for everyone else. That is how we\[CloseCurlyQuote]re going to beat Donald Trump.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "I am prepared for that. Look, I\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve been the object of his affection now more than anybody else on this stage. I\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve taken all the hits he can deliver and I\[CloseCurlyQuote]m getting better in the polls, my going up. And by the way, I have overwhelming support from the African American community, overwhelming more than everybody else in this operation, number one. Number two, working class people, where I come from in Pennsylvania and the places I come from in Delaware, I have great support. I have support across the board and I\[CloseCurlyQuote]m not worried about taking on Donald Trump at all. And with regard to the economy, I can hardly wait to have that debate with him. Where I come from, the neighborhoods I come from, they\[CloseCurlyQuote]re in real trouble, working class people and middle class people. When the middle class does well, working class has a way up and the wealthy do well. But what\[CloseCurlyQuote]s happening now? They\[CloseCurlyQuote]re being clobbered, they\[CloseCurlyQuote]re being killed.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "They now have a situation where if they \[Ellipsis] the vast majority believe their children will never reach the stage that they\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve reached an economic security. I love that debate because the American public is getting clobbered. The wealthy are the only ones doing well, period. I\[CloseCurlyQuote]m looking forward to the economic debate.", "Wolf Blitzer" -> "We\[CloseCurlyQuote]ll be right back with more from CNN\[CloseCurlyQuote]s Democratic presidential debate, live from Des Moines, Iowa. Stay right here.", "Wolf Blitzer" -> "\[Ellipsis]. Iowa. Time now for closing statements, you each have one minute. Senator Klobuchar, let\[CloseCurlyQuote]s begin with you.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "Donald Trump thinks this is all about him. I think it\[CloseCurlyQuote]s about you. It\[CloseCurlyQuote]s not about his resorts or his tweets or even his ego. It is about your healthcare. It is about your schools. It is about your lives and your future. So if you want to do something about racial justice and immigration reform and climate change and gun safety, we need a candidate who is actually going to bring people with her. I have won every race, every place, every time. I have gotten the highest voter turnout in the country when I\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve led the ticket. I have passed more bills as the lead Democrat than anyone who\[CloseCurlyQuote]s in Congress that\[CloseCurlyQuote]s running for president. I believe that we need a president that\[CloseCurlyQuote]s going to look out for you. It is easy to hurl insults. It is easy to draw lines in the sand and sketch out grand ideological sketches that will never see the light of day.", Entity["Person", "AmyKlobuchar::3j99m"] -> "What is hard is bringing people together and finding common ground instead of scorched earth. What is hard is the work of governing. So if you are tired of the extremes in our politics and the noise and the nonsense, you have a home with me. Join me at amyklobuchar.com.", "Wolf Blitzer" -> "Mr. Steyer.", Entity["Person", "TomSteyer::b5k62"] -> "I know that Iowans are going to caucus within three weeks and I want to tell you how I feel about the American people. Look, I played team sports my entire life. The bond between teammates is deep and emotional and full of love and as far as I\[CloseCurlyQuote]m concerned, the American people are my teammates. And if there\[CloseCurlyQuote]s one thing I will not permit, it is someone to run down the field and kick my teammate in the face. And that is exactly what I\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve seen over the last seven years traveling around this country, seeing these Republicans led by Mr. Trump, basically kicking the American people in the face. I am prepared to take on Mr. Trump on the debate stage and take him down on the economy. But I am asking for your support because I know that if I\[CloseCurlyQuote]m going to be a good teammate to you and give you absolutely everything without any compromise, I need the support of you on caucus night so I can turn around and together we can take back this country and together we can save the world.", "Wolf Blitzer" -> "Mayor Buttigieg.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "This is our moment. This is our one shot to defeat Donald Trump and to do it by such a big margin that we send Trumpism into the dustbin of history too. Well, we cannot take the risk with so much on the line of trying to confront this president with the same Washington mindset and political warfare that led us to this point. If you are watching this at home and you were exhausted by the spectacle of division and dysfunction, I\[CloseCurlyQuote]m asking you to join me to help turn the page on our politics. You\[CloseCurlyQuote]re seeing the President boast about the Dow Jones wondering whether any of that will ever get to your kitchen table. Join me if you\[CloseCurlyQuote]re a voter of color feeling taken for granted by politics as usual. Join me if you\[CloseCurlyQuote]re used to voting for the other party, but right now cannot look your kids in the eye and explain this president to them, join me.", Entity["Person", "PeteButtigieg::3393d"] -> "We have a chance to change all of this if we can summon the courage to break from the past. That is why I am running for president. It is why I\[CloseCurlyQuote]m asking you to caucus for me on February 3rd and I hope that you will go to peteforamerica.com and join me in this effort.", "Wolf Blitzer" -> "Senator Warren.", Entity["Person", "ElizabethWarren::grw6x"] -> "So, much is broken in this country. I sat here in the break and just made notes about many of the things we didn\[CloseCurlyQuote]t get to talk about tonight. How the disability community is struggling for true equality, how gun violence and active shooter drills worry every mother in this country. How children are living in poverty and seeing their life chances shrink. How trans women, particularly trans women of color are at risk. Black infant mortality, climate change that particularly hits black and brown communities. People who are being crushed by student loan debt, farmers who are barely holding on, people struggling with mental illness. And yet I come here tonight with a heart filled with hope and it\[CloseCurlyQuote]s filled with hope because I see this as our moment in history, our moment when no one is left on the sidelines. Our moment when we understand that it comes to us to decide the future of this country. Our moment when we build the movement to make real change, hope and courage. That is how I will make you proud every day as your nominee and as the first woman president of the United States of America.", "Wolf Blitzer" -> "Senator Sanders.", Entity["Person", "BernieSanders::j3q6k"] -> "It\[CloseCurlyQuote]s been a good debate, but we haven\[CloseCurlyQuote]t asked the major question. The major question is how does it happen in the richest country in the history of the world that half of our people are living paycheck to paycheck, trying to get by, $9, $10 bucks an hour? How does it happen that when the top one percent owns more wealth than the bottom 92%, half a million people are sleeping out on the streets tonight? How does it happen in this great country we are the only major nation not to guarantee healthcare to all. How does that happen that we have a child care system which is dysfunctional, a criminal justice system which is broken and racist, an immigration system that needs reform. This is the moment when we have got to think big, not small. This is the moment where we have got to have the courage to take on the one percent, take on the greed and corruption of the corporate elite and create an economy and create a government that works for all of us, not just the one percent. Thank you.", "Wolf Blitzer" -> "Vice President Biden.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "Character is on the ballot this time around. The American character is on the ballot. Not what Donald Trump is spewing out, the hate, the xenophobia, the racism. That\[CloseCurlyQuote]s not who we are as a nation. Everyone in this country is entitled to be treated with respect and dignity. Every single solitary person has to have in a position that may in fact we treat them with decency. It\[CloseCurlyQuote]s about fundamental, basic decency. We in the United States of America can put up with \[Ellipsis] we can overcome four years of Donald Trump, but eight years of Donald Trump will be an absolute disaster and fundamentally change this nation. We have to restore America\[CloseCurlyQuote]s soul. As I\[CloseCurlyQuote]ve said from the moment I announced, it is in jeopardy under this President of the United States. We lead the world when we lead by example, not by our power.", Entity["Person", "JosephBiden::9g8qp"] -> "We in fact have to regain the respect of the world in order to be able to change things. Ladies and gentlemen, we are in a position right now we have to remember who we are. This is the United States of America. There\[CloseCurlyQuote]s not a single thing beyond our capacity to do if we do it together, let\[CloseCurlyQuote]s go do it.", "Wolf Blitzer" -> "Candidates, thank you very, very much. That concludes the first Democratic presidential debate of 2020. The Iowa caucuses are only 20 days away. Tune into CNN for continuing coverage of this presidential election. Anderson Cooper and Chris Cuomo pickup our coverage right now.\n\nOther Related Transcripts\n\n \nTranscript: Key Moments in January 29 Impeachment Trial Q&A Session\n\[Bullet] 36 mins ago"}}